Through the palace of the king of subjugation

"Who is presumptuous, in the middle of the night, dare to bully the third Miss Zhou family?"

There was no human form outside the hall, but the voice came first, and everyone in front of the hall trembled, and even Zhou Muyun's crying stopped abruptly.

"presumptuous--"

Zhou Zheling made a long tail, making her most powerful voice these days, her eyes scanned around in despair, and then closed silently.

She took a deep breath and continued, "Who—"

"How dare you break into Ai's Yannian Palace at night?"

"The imperial grandmother has been ill for a long time. It is because the grandson has been busy with the affairs of the previous court and was delayed. I haven't seen you for a long time, and the imperial grandmother can't even hear the voice of the grandson." Li Yu stood on the outside of the screen and saluted, the smile on the corner of his mouth was incomprehensible , "It's the grandson who is unfilial."

"Heh--hahaha--" Zhou Zheling looked up to the sky and laughed, only to be interrupted by a violent cough after a while, "The emperor has been waiting for so long anyway, and I don't mind mourning this old woman for a while."

She raised her hand and instructed the servants in the inner room, "Change clothes."

Shangning's robes follow the Daning style, and the empress dowager's robes are in Zhuli, leaving nothing to the outside; white jade is worn on both sides, and the Xuan group is double big ribbons; jewelry is decorated with twelve trees and two temples; it is solemn and complicated, and it is only at the time of the national ceremonies. Take it.

Zhou Zheling was lingering on the sick bed. The clothes had been pressed at the bottom of the box for too long, and she was in poor health. Although there were three or five people waiting to change, the long changing process still made her out of breath.

Li Yu was extremely patient, playing with a yellow ginkgo leaf that he picked up at random by the side of the road just now.

With Zhou Muyun's support, Zhou Zheling stepped out of the outer room, looked at the hall filled with a dozen guards, and only paused for a while, before taking his usual seat in front of the hall with eyes wide open.

"Useless things!" She sat down and glared at the servants beside her, "Why do you all work on errands? The emperor came and no one communicated with you. Is the late night the reason for your laziness?"

"Hurry up—" She pointed to the outside of the hall, "Give Ai's family a few garbage outside the door and send them to Yongxiang to clean the bucket!"

Li Yu was still playing with the leaves in his hands with his head down. Zhou Zheling had been out for so long, not to mention saluting, he never even raised his eyes.

"Grandma, don't be too busy." His tone and voice seemed to be as relaxed as gossiping with his elders, "That group of useless waste is too annoying, and my grandson has already taken care of it for you."

"You—" Zhou Zheling regained his composure in his words after being shocked for a moment, "What did the emperor do to them?" ?"

"Now there is blood outside the Yannian Hall—" His eyes are stern and cruel, but his smile is innocent, "It's exactly the same as when you killed Cuizhu."

"Emperor..." Zhou Zheling's aura had collapsed by three points just now, he sat up straight with the armrest of the armchair, and said as calmly as possible: "What exactly do you want to do?"

"The emperor's grandmother also said that I am the emperor, have you forgotten how you taught me?" Li Yu pouted playfully, "For so many years, those pug dogs outside the door are always barking at me. Can you bear it?"

"It's just a few dogs. The emperor doesn't like it. Just order someone to take care of it. Just don't get your hands dirty." Zhou Zheling also lowered his eyes, "You know, that's not what the Ai family asked."

"Look at my memory—" Li Yusha slapped his forehead seriously, "The grandson hasn't seen the emperor's grandmother for a long time, and he chatted with her when he was happy, but forgot about the business."

"Grandson came uninvited at night, disturbed the emperor's grandmother's sleep, and did not apologize to the emperor's grandmother, but I hope you will not blame me." Li Yu said to apologize, but his body did not move, he only made a perfunctory gesture skip.

Zhou Zheling looked at Li Yu coldly, and said expressionlessly, "The emperor speaks seriously."

"Since Grandmother has a large number, then naturally she won't refuse—" Li Yu smiled, "Let me take that Phoenix Seal away."

This was a completely expected answer, but Zhou Zheling's arms holding the handle were still trembling, "The emperor—"

"Do you know what you're talking about?"

"Why does the imperial grandmother ask me this question every time?" Li Yu looked impatiently, "You think I don't know, so why don't you answer it for me?"

"You are—" Zhou Zheling slapped the armrest of the armchair, and shouted, "Forcing the palace!"

"The emperor's grandmother is serious." Li Yu's eyes were as usual, and his voice was calm, "Isn't forcing the palace to force the emperor to abdicate? I am sitting properly, but I am here to get my things back."

"Heh—" Zhou Zheling sneered, "Feng Yinlai is a symbol of the empress taking charge of the harem. Now the emperor is in charge and has not established an empress, so why is it yours?"

"Do you still remember the emperor's grandmother accusing me of believing in male favorites in front of the Tai Chi Hall?" Li Yu looked as if it was a matter of course, and he was probably angry with a white gull, "Since you are a 'male favorite', this 'favorite' is a must." .”

"I have promised him the posthumous position, and I want to use this phoenix seal as a betrothal gift, to show my sincerity."

"You!" Zhou Zheling was so angry that he spoke out, and after a violent cough, he squeezed out two words from between his teeth, "Long, Tang!"

"Since my father, hasn't the Li family always been affectionate—" Li Yu smiled lightly at Zhou Zheling's accusation, "I thought the Empress Dowager should have gotten used to it long ago."

"He's a man! You—" Zhou Zheling bowed and covered his chest, staring at Li Yu resentfully, "How dare you?"

Li Yu also lowered his waist, and looked at Zhou Zheling at the same level, his eyes seemed to hold blades, "Since you brought the matter of 'male favorite' to the table in front of the Taiji Hall, and since you said the word 'Qingjun's side'——"

"There is nothing in this world that I dare not do."

"Whoever wants the life of my wife, I must take the first step and take that person's life."

"Does the emperor think he has a chance to win?" Zhou Zheling smirked slightly, "The real commander of the imperial guards is the son-in-law of Ai's elder brother."

"Then the Empress Dowager might as well go out and see for herself—" Li Yu stood up, waved his hand, and pointed in the direction of the palace gate, "Look at what's outside the palace!"

"you--"

"Ouch—look at my memory—" Li Yu didn't give Zhou Zheling a chance to speak, he interrupted: "I forgot that the emperor's grandmother is ill."

"Then how about—"

"Send someone to go? Or trouble the third lady to go?"

"Why don't you all go, there are grandchildren in the hall waiting for the emperor's grandmother."

"you--"

This time Li Yu didn't interrupt again, he leaned back in the armchair and looked at Zhou Zheling coldly, unable to speak in the severe choking.

"I know what the Empress Dowager wants to say." After a long time, he continued: "I'm not afraid of your people going out to deliver messages, because—"

As he spoke, he snapped his fingers, and a dozen "imperial guards" in front of the hall moved in response, and tore off the coat of the imperial guards on his body, revealing the armor of the garrison waiting for the city inside.

"In such a huge palace, no one has this ability!"

Zhou Zheling was shocked. In the silence in front of the hall, there was a sudden "plop" beside her.

"Aunt, aunt..." Zhou Muyun raised his hand, covered his terrified crying, and sobbed softly: "Father wrote back earlier, saying that there are more than [-] people in the camp outside the city...all, all of them are waiting for the city to garrison ...Unified service system..."

Hearing this, Zhou Zheling turned her head to look at Li Yu's calm and indifferent face again, her eyes tearing open.

She panted desperately, suddenly felt a heat in her throat, and her eyes went dark.

The people in the hall rushed up to support the fainted Zhou Zheling. Li Yu took out a brocade handkerchief expressionlessly, wiped off a little blood splashed on the back of his hand, then got up, and threw the brocade handkerchief into the Yannian Hall. In the burning charcoal basin.

The charcoal basin was originally burning with smokeless and odorless silver bone charcoal, but now it fell into a square of silk fabric, and a puff of white smoke rose.

Li Yu felt a little choking, and raised his hand to cover his mouth and nose in disgust before leaving.

"Tell the imperial doctor." He told the guards beside the door: "I'll take care of the empress dowager. If she dies, come and see her."

*****

It was late at night, and when Li Yu led people to push open the door of Guangming Palace's bedroom, Xiao Yao collapsed to the ground in an instant, and the dagger that was trembling in his hand fell to the ground with a clang.

"Your Majesty—" He completely lost his dignity, knelt down and cried loudly, "Slave... this slave is really afraid..."

It was no longer Li Yu who pushed the door back to this bedroom.

Li Yu put all his eggs in one basket and narrowly escaped death on this journey.

He only had a few thousand people at hand. Although the smoke from the campsite could create the illusion of thousands of people, anyone who took a close look would be betrayed.

Thousands of people can create the illusion of thousands of people cooking smoke, but they can't create the scene of thousands of people holding torches and slashing swords at the palace late at night. Whenever Zhou Zheling went out to check the palace just now, his previous efforts might be wasted.

"It's all right." He squatted down and patted Xiao Yao's shoulder as a comfort, "It's all over."

But it wasn't until then that he realized that his hands were shaking too.

"Your Majesty..." Xiao Yao sobbed, trembling all over, "Are you...really, really not afraid?"

Li Yu lowered his head and smiled wryly, because he was also afraid.

Twelve years ago, that was the first time he met Zhou Muyun, who was two years older than him. He didn't know at that time that, in terms of seniority, he himself would call that young lady "Auntie", let alone that this girl would be He will be appointed "Queen" in the future.

At that time, he had just seen Xiaobai hanged in front of him, and when he returned to the palace, he saw the so-called "pure blood" Persian cat. It was going crazy to rush to the Yannian Palace, and even Madam Su couldn't hold it back.

On the path outside Yannian Hall, they met Zhou Muyun who was also crying.

He was only seven years old that year, and Zhou Muyun was nine years old.

Before Zhou Muyun was taken into the palace, her father told her that she must be obedient, that the hope and fate of the whole family depended on her alone.

But she was only nine years old, and she was often homesick. At that time, she would cry in front of Zhou Zheling.

But soon, she will never again, because she knows that Zhou Zheling doesn't like——

The first thing her aunt taught her after she entered the palace was that emotions cannot be shown.

Li Yu now doesn't quite remember how he found the crying sound, and how he found Zhou Muyun who was hiding behind a tree and secretly wiping his tears. He only remembered what Zhou Muyun said to him at that time——

"My father told me that the dead can be mourned and remembered in our hearts, but in the end we still have to live for the living."

"Little Bai is pitiful, isn't this kitten not pitiful?"

"If you rush to Yannian Palace now, Xiaobai will not come back to life, but what will this kitten do in the future?"

Zhou Muyun reached out and touched the chin of the Persian cat in Li Yu's arms, "What's wrong with it?"

"If you don't like it, just give it to me."

"Just like you, I am alone in the palace. I will take good care of it if I have it as my companion."

Seven and nine years old were both innocent ages. In the same year, Li Yu and Zhou Muyun became Zhou Zheling's pawns in playing tricks and manipulating the government. They were puppets and tools.

But they all have to live.

Live well for those who care.

They are also considered a pair of childhood sweethearts, but they failed to have any affair between men and women, because they are more like comrades in arms who once stood side by side in a lonely trench.

One night, there was a woman who covered her face with a hood, walked at night with a lantern, and knocked on the gate of Guangming Palace.

"The crimes of the Zhou family are too numerous to record." Li Yu said in a deep voice that night: "Even if you are willing to help, it is impossible for me to pardon the entire Zhou family."

"Your Majesty." The woman took off her hood and saluted, "Do you know why my father named me Muyun?"

"Even as the head of the Zhou family, he still yearns for the unrestrained half-wisps of clouds that come and go freely in the sky."

"Not everyone is born to be attached to the position of authority. Your Majesty should know better than anyone else that there is nothing that can be done about some people being placed in that position."

"That's my father's deepest expectation for Mu Yun."

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