Dongyin

?A series of accidents made people unclear about the southeast, north, east, and west. Under the calm, the strange tide was undercurrent, and the entire Qi Palace was unaware of it.

The news of Su Jiali's death did not cause much disturbance in the court, except for sighs and sighs, all the officials were silent.The same is true for Duan Hong, but she has been introspecting day and night, and after calculations, she still doesn't know where to blame for her mistakes.If it was wrong to say that she pardoned Wei Ming, and that it was wrong to be entangled with Bai Yan, it would be better to say that it was wrong for Duan Chun to make her king.

The ending is already doomed...

Thinking of this, Duan Hong let out a long sigh, and looked out the long window. The dusk was misty, and it was another day.

Seeing her come back to life, the servant girl who was on the side hurriedly brought up the remaining medium-warm tea.Duan Hong lightly lifted the top of the blue and white cup, and immediately the fragrance overflowed, and the tea was crystal clear.Duan Hong paused suddenly as if he remembered something, looked up at the colored paper and gold belt floating outside the door, and asked, "Is it almost New Year's Eve?"

"Return to Your Majesty" the maid hurriedly replied, "It's less than half a month."

It seems that the seven days of mourning for Su Jiali's death have passed, and it feels like a solid gold brick has sunk in my heart, and I feel very uncomfortable.Duan Hong raised his hand and drank the tea in one gulp.

Fang put down the teacup, and the maid said hesitantly, "Your Majesty... just now someone came from outside and said that the princess is waiting for you to go back in Wensi Palace."

"When did it happen?" Duan Hong glanced at her, and then said, "Let's go after dinner."

"..." The servant girl was speechless, she was silent for a while, and then said, "The father-in-law said that the princess's complexion is not very good, please hurry over..."

Before the words finished, Duan Hong slapped the table and stared at her coldly. The maid was so frightened that her legs trembled and she hurriedly knelt down.Only then did Duan Hong coldly say, "Don't make the princess long and the princess short all day long, I have the final say in this palace!" Now there are rumors everywhere, saying that this important event in the court was Bai Yan's idea.

The maid didn't dare to speak anymore.Duan Hong stayed in the study until dusk before returning to Wensi Hall.It gets dark early in winter, and it's time to light the lamps at that time, but apart from a few wall lamps, there is not even a heater in the hall.

The whole room was groggy, and the maids in the room saw her coming in, and retreated out tactfully.The door was closed lightly, Duan Hong was surprised, Fang concentrated on looking inside, and there was a figure imprinted on the curtain vaguely.

"Yan'er..." Duan Hong called out, but no one answered.She lit a candle on the wall lamp, held it in, and then opened the bead curtain, and couldn't help taking another breath.There were several feet of linen cloth on the table, Bai Yan was sitting in front of the table in a plain suit, embroidering something with her head down, the thread in her hand was thicker than a needle.

Duan Hong was inexplicably flustered, "Yan'er, what are you doing, why don't you light the lamp?"

Bai Yan paused with one hand, but did not answer.

A strange feeling came to his heart, Duan Hong stood there dumbfounded, full of doubts in his heart.The whole room was extremely quiet, except for the sound of sleeves rubbing against each other, there was nothing. The scene was so strange that Duan Hong vaguely felt that something was about to happen. She stood there and listened quietly as if she was facing an enemy. , I didn't want to shake my hand, the candle's tears dripped on my hand, and I felt pain instinctively.

There was a slight turmoil in the atmosphere in the room.

"Hiroko"

Bai Yan's tone was like a sigh of great disappointment, Duan Hong was shocked and looked at her.But Bai Yan suddenly stopped talking, the two looked at each other, and there was silence again, after a while, she looked up the horizontal table, "Go and bring that wooden box over here for me."

Duan Hong was taken aback, followed her gaze, and saw a square wooden box on top.what is that?Duan Hong walked over suspiciously, and gently picked up the wooden box. The weight...all the ominousness in his intuition came from this box, could it be...

Time does not allow her to think too much, the moment the wooden box was placed on the table, Bai Yan said, "Open it."

Duan Hong was taken aback again, and looked at her uncertainly, then opened the wooden box hesitantly, the first thing he saw was a head of withered blue hair.Duan Hong screamed, and quickly pushed down the cover. This is... a name quickly flashed across his mind, Wei Ming! "What... what's going on?" She looked at Bai Yan in shock.

"What's going on?" Bai Yan's mood began to fluctuate, she fixed her eyes on Duan Hong, and said word by word, "What's going on, shouldn't I ask you?"

Hearing this, Duan Hong was startled, looked back at her in disbelief, and asked in surprise, "What do you mean?"

Bai Yan's eyes were already crystal clear, but she held back her tenacity, and said, "This is your idea? Did you change your mind later, didn't you?"

"How could it be?" Feeling helpless to argue, Duan Hongqiang calmed himself down, and said sadly, "The Prime Minister has already committed suicide because of this incident."

Seeing that she refused to admit it, Bai Yan didn't seem to intend to argue with her, so she turned her head away and calmed down a little, "Come out."

Is there anyone in this room?

A figure came out from the corner, and Duan Hong recognized it at a glance. It was the eunuch who was going to announce the decree.Is he the one who brought back Wei Ming's head? Is he the one who wronged her?Duan Hong was startled and angry, but still unable to resist the doubts in her heart, she stared at the eunuch coldly, wishing to see through him.

The eunuch kept his head down all the time, he knelt down in front of the two of them and saluted in a muffled voice, "I bow to Your Majesty, Princess Mingyan."

"Tell me what you know."

"Slave dare not"

"Just tell me!" Duan Hong said angrily. She was betrayed only once or twice, and there was no one who could pretend in front of her.

"...Yes" the eunuch raised his eyes and glanced at Duan Hong, who was full of anger, and hesitated for a while and said, "I don't know. After reading the imperial decree, Lord Hou really said that His Majesty wanted to take the head of King Wei Xiangshang... "

"What did you say?!" Duan Hong's eyes changed.

The eunuch trembled in fright, and hurriedly said, "If your Majesty doesn't believe it... you can send someone to the army to investigate... Even if this slave is so courageous, I dare not lie to Your Majesty."

"Really?" Duan Hong clenched his fists, as if holding back his anger, "Get out and die."

"Your Majesty?!" The eunuch's voice changed.

Duan Hong seemed unable to bear it any longer, he kicked the eunuch on the head, and squeezed out a word between his teeth, "Get lost!"

"Your Majesty..." The eunuch was kicked to the ground, not even daring to care about the smell of blood in his mouth, so he crawled over to tear Duan Hong's robe.Duan Hong kicked again and shouted, "Come on!"

At last the house was quiet again.

"Is that enough?" At this time, Bai Yan who had been silent all this time said lightly.

Duan Hong was taken aback, looked at her, and said helplessly, "Yan'er, I don't have one."

"When you say that, are you referring to the Marquis of Jin'an for deceiving the Lord?" Bai Yan said, "Being the Lord is a capital offense."

"I..." Duan Hong hesitated to speak.Since Wei Ming's head is here, Yu'er must have disobeyed the imperial decree, so why did he do this? Is he... wanting to rebel?

Seeing that she was speechless, Bai Yan smiled miserably and said, "Are you admitting it?"

"I didn't!" Duan Hongbie didn't say anything, just biting these three words, not letting go.

The two remained in a stalemate for a quarter of an hour, until Li Zhuo came in to urge dinner.Bai Yan suddenly asked him, "How long have you been with the Holy One?"

"Back to the princess," Li Zhuo hurriedly said, "Your Majesty brought this servant back from outside the palace, and it has been more than half a year."

As soon as Duan Hong heard Bai Yan's question, he knew that she intended to ask Li Zhuo a question, so he let go of his thoughts and listened to the two of them.Sure enough, Bai Yan continued to ask, "I heard that His Majesty treats you very well and takes you by his side all the time, right?"

"The servant is His Majesty's personal eunuch, this is his duty."

"That's good," Bai Yan said, "Do you know about His Majesty pardoning King Wei?"

"...Slaves know a little bit"

"The corpse of King Wei was brought back to the palace today. Is this the Marquis of Jin'an's rebellion, or His Majesty's idea?"

"This..." Li Zhuo stopped talking suddenly, he looked up at Duan Hong.

Duan Hong said, "It's okay, tell me what you know."

"Yes." Li Zhuo lowered his head again, but said, "It is... His Majesty's idea."

……

With a blow to the head, Duan Hong was stunned.Bai Yan's eyes dimmed, her heart was disheartened, she was speechless for a moment, and the room was as dead silent.

She was plotted against, a thought came to mind, Duan Hong finally realized it, but when he realized it, he was not as shocked as when he saw Wei Ming's head, nor was he as angry as when the eunuch sent an order to wrong her. It's just heartbreaking.She seemed to be in a daze for a long time, then she turned her head to look at the bowed little eunuch with lowered eyebrows, and said, "Let's go."

Li Zhuo's expression was a little strange, he paused for a while, and finally retreated without saying anything.

This answer was obviously something that neither of them wanted to face. Bai Yan believed in it, but Duan Hong couldn't argue with it.After a long silence, Bai Yan said, "I'll ask you one last time, is it your idea?" Seeing that Duan Hong didn't answer, she said with some expectation, "Hong'er, I'm just like you, the most unbearable thing is cheating. How she wished that Duan Hong could admit it and say something sincere to her, because then she could at least find an excuse to forgive her.

"...I didn't," Duan Hong murmured, and her answer was still these three words.

The tears that had been suppressed all the time, for some reason, could not be held back at this moment. Bai Yanhe Lei looked at her, and said for a while, "Then let us all go to peace together."

Although Duan Hong's mind was in chaos and she was surprised a lot that day, she still looked at Bai Yan quickly, "What are you talking about?"

She heard it obviously, Bai Yan burst into tears and said nothing, turned her back and was about to leave.

Duan Hong grabbed her tightly and watched her closely.

"Hong'er, I don't know how to treat you anymore, just let me go." Before the words were finished, there was another line of tears. Although her heart was pierced by a knife, Bai Yan slowly pulled her hand away. Too many people, too many consequences, but family hatred and national hatred can't be eliminated, maybe it would be better to separate.

Duan Hong couldn't say a word, or this series of blows had made her feel like a dream, and she was like a puppet, watching her drifting away until she disappeared.Her vision was blurred, and then became clear again, the surroundings suddenly became very dazzling, she looked around blankly, "Where's Yan'er?"

"The princess is gone." Lian'er who came after him said distressedly, "Your Majesty, it's time for dinner."

Yan'er is gone...she is gone...Duan Hong seemed impatient as if she had just realized it, she walked outside anxiously, muttering, "Where did she go, no, I'm going to find her..."

"The princess left the palace half an hour ago." Lian'er stopped her and said, "Your Majesty, you have to go to court tomorrow."

"Morning, what morning?" Duan Hong suddenly felt ridiculous. She looked at all this with strange eyes, but felt extremely cold—isn't this the cage that eats people in the dream? "I don't want to stay here anymore, I will I want to find her, I want to abdicate, get out of the way, I want to abdicate..."

Once an idea is created, no one can stop it.Duan Hong almost stumbled all the way to the study and ordered someone to fetch the decree. The officer in the study thought there was something important and hurried to fetch the jade shaft.Duan Hong stood before the case, and began to write without even grinding the ink.

Duan Hong didn't pay attention to an announcement from outside the door, but a familiar voice "Your Majesty" came from the front of the case a moment later.

It's Yang Zhen.Duan Hong was indifferent.

"The Marquis of Jin'an is rebellious"

Duan Hong's expression remained unchanged, but his hand suddenly loosened, and the ink pen fell down, dirtying the holy book.

"His Majesty……"

"I see." Someone let out a long sigh in his heart.Duan Hong lowered his head for a long time, and finally raised his eyes to look at him, extremely calm, "I haven't seen you these days, are you resenting me?"

"...I dare not"

Duan Hong was speechless, silent for a moment, and said, "I feel very guilty about the prime minister's matter."

"The past is over," Yang Zhen sighed, "The Marquis of Jin'an will lead his army to Linzi within seven days. Does Your Majesty have any countermeasures?"

……

"With the current situation, it is very difficult to keep the position of His Majesty's Great Treasure." Yang Zhen said again, "Fortunately, the concubine moved out of the palace not long ago. As a matter of authority, Your Majesty might as well temporarily stay in the Princess Mansion of Haozhou. The concubine is kind to you. Perhaps it will save the Eucharist."