Through the palace of the king of subjugation

Yannian Hall, as Zhou Zheling's sleeping hall, has always been strictly guarded, especially tonight.

She was leaning against the beauty, and Zhou Muyun who was sitting beside her was gently stroking the top of her hair; there was only one old lady waiting in the hall, who was still standing outside the screen.

There were a few knocks on the door, very lightly.

The old nanny outside the screen walked up to Zhou Zheling lightly, and Zhou Zheling spoke first while bowing to salute.

"Coming?" She closed her eyelids, and her serious and hoarse voice was a little tired.

The old nanny stopped saluting, and replied respectfully and briefly: "Yes."

Hearing this, Zhou Muyun got up, and stood aside politely. Seeing Zhou Zheling stretching out his hand, he hurriedly stepped forward to help him up.

The man in black outside the door was ushered into Yannian Hall by the old mother. He knelt down on one knee without saying a word, staring straight at the 氍毹 in front of his knee which was less than an inch square.

"Checked?" Zhou Zheling had already stood up and sat upright, but his eyes were still closed.

"Yes." The man in black nodded.

Zhou Zheling opened his eyes, glanced at the man in black, and said calmly, "Didn't find out?"

"Slave is incompetent." The man in black touched the ground with his head, "I owe the empress dowager entrustment."

"Well, let's go down." Zhou Zheling didn't seem to be surprised by the answer, and then turned around and told the old woman beside him, "You are tired, so you go down too."

After everyone went down, Zhou Muyun bowed his head and blessed Fushen and said, "Auntie is tired, Muyun will take care of Auntie to rest early."

Sitting in front of the bronze mirror, Zhou Zheling took off the pearls and emeralds, and untied her hair, revealing the gray hair hidden inside; Zhou Muyun held the grate and combed her hair carefully.

"I've been tired all day today." Zhou Zheling patted Zhou Muyun's busy hands, "You can go and rest too."

"The imperial doctor said—" Zhou Muyun's hands paused a little, "comb your hair more at night, so you can sleep better."

"You are a good boy." Zhou Zheling turned his head to look at Zhou Muyun, "It's a pity that the imperial physician is incompetent, and this method is not very useful."

Zhou Muyun lowered his eyes, "Aunt is very worried, it's not good for me to sleep well."

"Then tell me—" Zhou Zheling took Zhou Muyun's hand, and led him to sit beside him, "Why can't Aijia sleep at night?"

Zhou Muyun sat down obediently, with his head bowed, "Your Majesty is young, and my aunt is worried about Ning Sheji."

"Young?" Zhou Zheling nodded, but his tone was noncommittal, "The emperor is seventeen."

Li Yu was seventeen, so she couldn't sleep.

"Your Majesty is filial and respects my aunt very much." Zhou Muyun spoke every word perfectly, just like her.

"Really, why do you see that?" Zhou Zheling's eyelids drooped feebly, showing her aging and exhaustion, but the momentum in her words was undeniable, "When the late emperor was here, he also looked at filial piety and courtesy."

"The first emperor grew up beside his mother and concubine, maybe he wasn't close to his aunt—" Zhou Muyun paused, realizing that he had made a slip of the tongue.

Although Li Yu didn't have a mother, he was not really close to Zhou Zheling.

Zhou Muyun changed the subject, "The last time Muyun delivered a message for my aunt, His Majesty had no objection."

The last time the rumor was spread, the night when the white gull appeared, and what happened that night may not be known to others, but the uncle and nephew in the Yannian Hall knew it.

Zhou Zheling controlled everything in Guangming Palace. Before the imperial guards went to escort him, Xiner would report to Yannian Palace first, and waited for Yannian Palace to speak before he dared to take any action.Zhou Muyun almost went to Guangming Palace with the imperial guards, intercepting Li Yu's imperial order.

Of course Zhou Zheling didn't know who Bai Gu was, and she didn't care.

What she wanted was Li Yu's attitude.

Asking an emperor to accept an "assassin" to stay by his side grandly, such a request seems absurd and deceptive; Zhou Zheling wanted to use this method to make Li Yu show his surrender to him.

Li Yu kept refusing to be the queen, which annoyed Zhou Zheling a lot; the white gull was originally just a pawn she used to test whether Li Yu could continue to be under her control, so insignificant that she never looked at it directly.

But in today's Jiacheng Palace, she had to see it.

It doesn't matter how good the white gull is. The important thing is that the white gull seems to be used by Li Yu.

So, could Li Yu's obedient obedience be just a play he and Bai Ou played for himself?Just like his short-lived father.

Zhou Zheling still doesn't care about Bai Ou, a small chess piece, but she needs to find out whether the person holding the chess piece is her or someone else; but Bai Ou's background is too clean...

Of course Bai Gu's background is clean.

Zhou Zheling did not find any information.

The white gull was too clean, so in Zhou Zheling's eyes, Li Yu began to look less innocent.

No matter how much Zhou Zheling can cover the sky with one hand, according to the Shang Ning ancestor system, Li Yuruoguan will always be in charge at the latest, and if he finds out that everything is out of control by then, it will be too late.

"If the emperor can disagree with the future, he has no objection—" Zhou Zheling let out a breath slowly, "Aijia can really sleep peacefully." "Muyun is useless, so His Majesty will not be happy. "Zhou Muyun stood up, bent his knees, and knelt at Zhou Zheling's feet. His usually calm expression and voice changed slightly, "If, if it's about seniority, Your Majesty will call Muyun aunt, Perhaps His Majesty is concerned...Mu Yun is too useless to help my aunt continue the glory of the Zhou family, but the Zhou family still has many good daughters..."

"Ridiculous!" Zhou Zheling interrupted Zhou Muyun's words sharply, "The late emperor was not born to Ai's family, what relationship do you have with the emperor!"

Li Yu's father married Zhou Zheling's elder brother's daughter as his queen, and Zhou Muyun was the younger daughter of Zhou Zheling's fifth younger brother; she was the cousin of Li Yu's nominal mother; she was indeed Li Yu's aunt.

But in fact, there is indeed no blood relative.

"Muyun, do you know why your uncle can't be the head of the Zhou family?" Zhou Zheling bowed and gently helped Zhou Muyun up, "And why, these years will be replaced by your father?"

Zhou Muyun stood up, shook his head respectfully, his voice trembling: "Muyun is dull."

"Heh—" Zhou Zheling seemed to hear the tremor in Zhou Muyun's words, and chuckled, "You girl, you're so smart!"

"A man from the Zhou family is useless! If my Zhou family can produce a courtier who is as talented and won the sacred heart as Chen Zhen, why do we need two women to spend so much time here late at night?"

"Men can't support the sky of the Zhou family, so we have to carry the lintel of the Zhou family."

Zhou Zheling couldn't have said this more clearly.

The first queen gained power, so the head of the Zhou family is the father of the first queen, and now Zhou Muyun is Zhou Zheling's satisfied new queen, so now the head of the Zhou family has also changed to Zhou Muyun's father.

The men of the Zhou family are useless, and the honor and disgrace of the Zhou family are all tied to the women.

Zhou Muyun was powerless to refute, so he could only kneel on the ground obediently and listen to Zhou Zheling's words.

"The late empress is useless, she couldn't give birth to a son for the late emperor, and an unknown goblin took advantage of the loophole. Your Majesty grew up in Yongxiang, just like the late emperor, and it is really difficult to get close to Ai's family."

"Do you think that the Ai family loves to control the government by nature and doesn't want to take care of themselves?" Zhou Zheling said as he took Zhou Muyun's hand and helped him up, "Muyun, the Ai family is almost sixty, how long can I live?" God? The Ai family also wants to live a clean life..."

"But the former empress did not live up to her expectations and went with the first emperor; if the Ai family also fell, and there were no successors, it would not be as simple as being unable to continue the glory of the Zhou family. The Zhou family is the largest family in Shangning. If the emperor is in charge , and my Zhou family is in a weak state..."

"Your father has been the head of the Zhou family for a long time..." Zhou Zheling took Zhou Muyun's hand and nodded, "Who do you think has clean hands who can make it this far? Can't escape!"

Zhou Zheling watched Zhou Muyun's shoulders tremble slightly in his last sentence, and smiled with satisfaction, "The men in the Zhou family are useless, none of your uncles and brothers can help your father; Muyun, you He's a good boy, he only has you."

"But—" Zhou Muyun still lowered his eyes, "Your Majesty doesn't like Muyun."

"He didn't dare." Zhou Zheling suppressed his smile, not angry, "You were carefully selected by the Ai family from so many daughters of the Zhou family. You have been with the Ai family since you were a child. Every inch of your body is Made in the mold of a queen."

In Zhou Zheling's eyes, the first empress was weak and incompetent. She had never dared to tell her such a big matter as consummating the marriage with Li Yu's father. After the first emperor became seriously ill, she was caught off guard.

So she kept thinking about cultivating a qualified new queen.

Zhou Muyun entered the palace at the age of nine, and was always by her side for ten years, and she was trained/taught by her personally.

If it is said that Bai Ou spent half of his life following his heart and mind, embracing freedom while resisting dogma and restraint, then Zhou Muyun is his counterexample.

Zhou Muyun grew up in the frame, even a smile or a sigh was caught by the invisible ruler, and that ruler was the standard example of a queen in Zhou Zheling's mind.

"But now His Majesty's every move is under the watchful eyes of my aunt..." Zhou Muyun replied cautiously, "I don't know what else Muyun can do for my aunt?"

"Really? Then tell Aijia, how did the emperor manage to create a white gull under Aijia's nose?" Zhou Zheling got up and walked to her bed; she sat down on the side of the bed and patted The edge of the bed beside her, "Look, there are always places that Aijia can't see."

Zhou Zheling's meaning couldn't be clearer, even the emperor's couch, she has to watch.

However, how could the side of the emperor's couch allow others to sleep soundly so easily?

"Before the emperor takes power, give him a son." After Zhou Zheling said this, he didn't say any more.

Before Li Yu came to power, he gave birth to the crown prince. If Li Yu was as uncontrollable as his short-lived father after he came to power, then the Shangning Dynasty would give birth to a new emperor——

A new emperor who truly bleeds Zhou's blood.

On this day, the Empress Dowager had her birthday; the envoys from Beiyin entered the palace;

On this day, too many people are destined to be unable to sleep at night, not only in the Yannian Hall, but also in another inconspicuous corner of the palace.

"Your Majesty, it's not me who doesn't spare them now, it's you, let me go, okay?" Bai Ou was stopped by Li Yu and sued, "What time is it? I'm going back to sleep..."

"……what?"

Seeing a little doubt flashing in Li Yu's big eyes, Bai Ou knew that he had said something wrong, so he repeated it patiently, "Your Majesty, it's getting late."

"You really...won't tell the Empress Dowager what you saw tonight?"

Won't!Won't! !Won't! ! !

Bai Gu really felt that his patience was exhausted, he had already answered this question eighteen thousand times tonight.

He really wanted to ask Li Yu, do I have the face of a gossiping woman?Just that free?

Well, it's quite free...

But he's really not interested in gossip.

It's just that everyone in the whole palace regards him as Zhou Zheling's man, and he doesn't know how to convince Li Yu that he didn't come to stare at the emperor under Zhou Zheling's order.

Even if it is, what kind of crime is it for the emperor to meet an old nanny at night?If the emperor likes it, he can call people into Guangming Palace to serve him, so what's the big deal?

How many royal secrets are there? Baiou has no interest, and has nothing to do with him. He doesn't like to spread gossip, and he doesn't just ask around; Inside the courtyard wall.

No one can trap the freest gull in the world.

If he didn't want to fool the little emperor in front of him, Bai Gu thought, not only would he not be able to sleep today, but he might not be able to sleep well in the future... besides...

Coax the little emperor well, escape is easier!

"Your Majesty, not only will I not tell the Empress Dowager what happened tonight—" he pretended to be mysterious, "I can also tell you the Empress Dowager's secret."

According to historical records, this winter, Li Yuhui, the empress of Shangning, issued an edict to seal Zhou Muyun as empress, but the grand ceremony has not been held since then; according to Bai Ou's recent observations, although I don't know why Li Yu doesn't like this Zhou Muyun, at least I can be sure. This queen was forced by Zhou Zheling to the little emperor.

Since he was lucky, he wanted to gamble again.

"Soon, the Empress Dowager will ask Your Majesty to order Zhou Muyun as Empress. Instead of focusing on Bai Ou, Your Majesty should think about how to deal with the Empress Dowager and her old man." "You—" Li Yu's eyes widened Unbelievable.

The white gull just looked at the past with its head down, the young man's mood was either surprised or happy, and it was always much more suitable than the expression of freezing to death before.

The moonlight is very bright tonight, gilding those big eyes——

It's still pretty.

"Your Majesty doesn't believe it?" Bai Gu smiled, "Then make another bet with Bai Gu?"

Li Yu looked back at Su Momo who looked anxious behind her.

There are only four people here now, so he can't say anything; Madam Su is old, and together with Xiao Yao, he can't be the opponent of Bai Gu; after all, he has seen Bai Gu's weird skills during the day.

He has begged and begged, and now he seems to have no choice but to agree.

He gritted his teeth and said, "This time, what do you want to bet with me?"

"Old rules——" Bai Gu said the word "rules" on his lips, but he had actually forgotten what it was in his heart. He folded his hands and leaned against the palace wall in an irregular manner, "If Bai Gu's words are wrong, Let Your Majesty dispose of it."

For some reason, Li Yu always felt that he could see a kind of unusual self-confidence on Bai Gu's face, which seemed to be an ability that everyone around him could believe in; but he didn't understand why Bai Gu had to repeat it over and over again. , Help him again and again.

Even if Bai Ou wasn't from Zhou Zheling, he wasn't from Li Yu either.

He grew up in this deep palace, and he knew very well that people in this world, whether it be a high-ranking emperor or a humble slave, all have their own value in the eyes of others.

So what exactly does this white gull want?

"If you're right—" Li Yu tilted his head and stared at the white gull stubbornly, "What do you want?"

I just want to go back to sleep and take a quick run next time...

Naturally, Baiou couldn't say this clearly. He looked at the fine moonlight in Li Yu's big eyes, and suddenly became curious, wanting to take a closer look at the childish things in those big eyes just now. Over, probably called "dependence" thing.

Unfortunately, I can't find it.

"Well...if I'm right..." He shrugged casually, "Your Majesty, please tell me who 'Xiaobai' is."