Great Zhou Empress

Before Yuan Hanzhang disappeared, she did some weird things.

For example, she promoted her clan brother Yuan Jiegang to a rank of nobility, and gave part of her assets as a gift to her niece Yuan Jin.She promoted Li Jing from the Military Aircraft Department, and specially called Li Jing's family members to the palace to have a chat.At the same time, she also gave Xue Zhijing a kit, saying that it was a New Year's gift, so that she could take it out again when the New Year came.It is said that Yuan Jin and Li Jing were given a copy of this kit.

But because she is the empress dowager, she should not be questioned, but only guessed.

Thinking about it now, it really seems weird.

Xue Zhijing didn't know about Yuan Hanzhang's disappearance until he went to work at the airport that morning.

The Military Aircraft Division was set up within the scope of Miyagi, and the Military Aircraft Division lived in the palace when they walked. At least they hadn't returned to their homes outside the palace for several days.

As soon as Xue Zhijing entered the courtyard gate of the military plane, he saw the maids serving Yuan Hanzhang rushing over. She happened to bump into them. She said that when they went to wait for Yuan Hanzhang to get up in the morning, they found that Yuan Hanzhang was not in the house.It was a bit strange at the beginning, everyone searched around the palace, but found no one, and the maids asked each other, but they all said they didn't know.

Later, they searched around and went to the imperial study room, and found that Yuan Hanzhang was not there, so they panicked and hurried to the military aircraft department to find Zhou Guogong.

After Yuan Hanzhang was infected with the plague last time, Xue Zhijing became extremely sensitive. She immediately had people block the palace gates to prevent anyone from entering or leaving. Then she took Li Jing with her to Yuan Hanzhang's bedroom.

When we arrived at the bedroom, there were all the palace ladies who were extremely flustered.

Most of the maids in this batch were newly replaced after the Yuan Hanzhang plague incident last time. Some of the previous batch got sick, and some were thoroughly investigated. They have never experienced such a thing.

How could the Empress Dowager be lost?

Seeing Zhou Guogong Xue Zhijing coming, everyone immediately regarded her as the savior.

What should I do?

Xue Zhijing carefully asked everyone, when did they find out that Yuan Hanzhang had disappeared, when was the last time they saw her, and who was keeping watch last night.

"The few of us were the last to see the Empress Dowager. Last night around Xu time, we prepared hot water and pajamas for the Empress Dowager to wash and waited for her to settle down."

"Your Majesty doesn't allow us to keep watch at night. Every night, Miss Ayila, the head of the Sitian Zao Office, takes care of your Majesty."

"Yes, we all went to bed at night."

Xue Zhijing asked coldly, "Even if only Ayila is taking care of indoors, what about the tea room? Outdoors? Is there no one there?"

Everyone shook their heads, and someone repeated, "Recently, the empress doesn't let us keep vigil."

As he said that, Xue Zhijing suddenly remembered that Ayila was gone too.

"Where is Ayla, has any of you seen her?"

"I haven't seen it."

"Did she disappear with the empress?"

"The last one who can see the empress is only Ayila."

Seeing that everyone couldn't say anything, Xue Zhijing had no choice but to bring Li Jing and all the maids to continue searching in the palace to see if he could find any information.

They searched the entire bedroom and found that all of Yuan Hanzhang's clothes were there, and it could even be said that she didn't seem to be wearing her clothes.Xue Zhijing felt strange when he heard the news, no clothes?How could it be possible, or she had premeditated and wore other clothes.

In addition, all her other items are there, even the most important jade seal.

It was as if she didn't want her current identity and disappeared out of thin air.

Xue Zhijing asked people to call the guards at the gate of the palace last night to ask.

The four palace gates asked three of them, and they all said there was no abnormality. Only a few eunuchs at one palace gate said that Ayila went out last night.

"Ayila? When? By herself or with someone else?" Xue Zhijing asked.

"Probably after the time of Haishi, Aunt Ayila was sitting in a carriage and said that she was going to do something for the mother and go out of the palace. But because Aunt Ayila is a celebrity around the Empress Dowager, we don't have her carriage. Did not check."

That's it.

Then, Xue Zhijing hurriedly asked the guards at the gate of the city to enter the palace to inquire.

She was very suspicious. Last night, Ayila and Yuan Hanzhang left together, but she didn't know whether Yuan Hanzhang was active or passive, and what was the reason?Are they coming back?

If she didn't know about Ayila's feelings for Yuan Hanzhang, she would have died of anxiety.

But now she was too anxious.

Xue Zhijing pondered, there is a high probability that Yuan Hanzhang left on his own initiative, but there was never any clue. If she wanted to leave the palace or something, she could go out generously as long as she gave orders. Is it necessary to be so secretive? ?

She is now the most honorable person in the entire Dacheng Dynasty, and no one will stop her from doing what she wants to do.

Unless, what she is going to do is something that cannot be known.

What will happen?

Before the guards guarding the city gate came, Yuan Jin came to the gate of the palace. She was stopped at the gate of the palace, and it was Xue Zhijing who let her in.

As soon as Yuan Jin entered the palace, he felt that the atmosphere was not right, and he didn't know what happened when he asked people.

She was also led all the way to Yuan Hanzhang's bedroom, and as soon as she entered, she saw Xue Zhijing sitting at the head of the living room with a face fixed, the tea on the table seemed to be cold.

"You're here." Xue Zhijing looked a little unhappy.

"Xiao Jing, what's the matter?" Yuan Jin felt strange, "Why did you lock the palace door, where is your empress?"

Xue Zhijing sighed, "The empress is gone."

"Disappeared? What do you mean?" Yuan Jin's voice gradually rose, and she took a breath. Many bad things suddenly came to her mind. After all, she also grew up in the imperial court and heard those stories since she was a child. It's not for nothing, not to mention that Yuan Hanzhang is still an aunt in her clan.

She approached Xue Zhijing with big strides, and asked loudly, "What do you mean by missing?"

Xue Zhijing raised his head and said to her, "As soon as I entered the palace today, I heard the report from the maids in the empress's bedroom, saying that the empress was missing. Together with them, I searched the entire palace, the imperial study room and other palace rooms, but found nothing. The trace of the empress, all the items of the empress, including all her clothes. I have asked people to search the entire palace, but it is unlikely to find the empress. I have already asked the eunuch at the gate of the palace. Ayila once left the palace in a carriage and has not returned yet. I have asked someone to call the guards at the gate of the city to come over and ask questions. The reason why the gate of the palace was closed was because I did not want this matter to spread, and now the empress does not know why disappear, I can't take the risk."

Yuan Jin seemed to be digesting what Xue Zhijing said,

But after digesting it for a while, she said coldly, "Xue Zhijing, I don't think the empress disappeared for no reason at all, but you hid the empress."

"Me?" Xue Zhijing looked astonished, "Yuan Jin, why did I hide my mother?"

Yuan Jin snorted coldly, "Why do you know it yourself! Say that the empress has disappeared, and then ask those scholars to give you a third persuasion, so you can directly ascend the throne and become emperor, right?"

Yuan Jin is indeed a real person, with the character of a general, he can say what he has.But she didn't think about it, if Xue Zhijing really did this, wouldn't her life be in danger every minute if she said so?

Xue Zhijing was so angry that her chest heaved rapidly, but she also knew that Yuan Jin was justified in being so suspicious.

After all, she is the one who benefits the most.

But Xue Zhijing can't let Yuan Jin guess here, she must unite with Yuan Jin so that they can find the empress together, or know where the empress has gone, so that they can discuss countermeasures.

If the empress has something important to do and she comes back soon, then it's easy to say anything.

If so, did she really disappear on purpose?

But why did she disappear on purpose?

Can't figure it out.

Yuan Jin paced in the hall, pointing at Xue Zhijing's nose and scolding, "The throne is so attractive, isn't it, the empress is kind to you, if the empress didn't bring you by your side when you were young, would you be where you are today? When you came back from the Liao Kingdom, did your mother ask you a question? Have you ever suspected that you are a spy of the Liao Kingdom? I will still give you a lot of power, and now you will repay your kindness with revenge. Are you worthy of the conscience of heaven and earth?"

Xue Zhijing's brain is hurting, Yuan Jin is her closest friend, so how can she not make her feel uncomfortable.

"Yuanjin, what reason do I have to be unfavorable to the empress? The empress hopes that I will be the adoptive mother of the little emperor and regent as the empress dowager. She will take care of her life. I said I should think about it. Under such circumstances, I have Why is it necessary to make the empress disappear? What good does it do me to be missing? It makes you doubt me."

"Oh! Maybe you guys had a fight last night?"

"Yuan Jin, with this skill, why don't we look for places where the empress might go, maybe she has something to do."

Li Jing, who had been silent by the side, came to persuade at this time, "Both of you, please calm down, it is important to find your mother."

Yuan Jin yelled at Li Jing, "Li Jing, how can you tell me to calm down? You've already taken refuge in Xue Zhijing."

Li Jing said calmly, "Yuan Jin, the three of us grew up together, and we all recognize each other's character. I don't believe that Xiao Jing would do anything to hurt your empress, even though she is the Duke of Zhou now."

Now that we've talked about this, Yuan Jin can't say anything more.

Finally, the guards guarding the gate came in last night, and Xue Zhijing and others met them at the military plane.

At present, the news of Yuan Hanzhang's disappearance is blocked.The only people who knew about it were Xue Zhijing, Li Jing, Yuan Jin, and the maids who served personally in Yuan Hanzhang's palace.

At this time, the news will be blocked even more tightly, and all the maids will be banned.

At this time, Xue Zhijing asked the guards guarding the gate, but did not mention Yuan Hanzhang, but asked if he saw a masked woman leaving the city after Haishi last night?

There are many guards guarding the gate, distributed at different gates of the city. Several of them said that they had indeed seen a masked woman driving out of the city after the time of Haishi.

Because most of the time, women will not go out at night, let alone drive. This kind of rough work is usually done by men, so they have a lot of memories.

After finding an excuse to explain their inquiry and sending the gate guards away, several people talked about it together.

Xue Zhijing said, "I suspect that the empress went out of the city with Ayila. Anyway, let's chase Ayila first."

Yuan Jin was a little irritable, "Don't try to blame others, if you have something to do with Ayila, you can't get rid of it."

Xue Zhijing said to her, "Then, how about asking General Yuan to lead his troops to chase after Ayila? If the empress is with her, why do you ask the empress yourself?"

Li Jing said, "The top priority now is to find Ayila. After she leaves the city, there may be two roads, land and water. We need people to search along the way. It's best to send horses to post stations everywhere, in the name of catching thieves." , Said that Zhou Guogong’s family lost something.”

Yuan Jin said, "Okay, then I'll go to recruit troops quickly, Zhou Guogong, you can go with me too."

The tone of his speech was obviously distrustful of Zhijing Xue.

Xue Zhijing was really angry and melancholy, how did he get to the current position, but his friends lost their trust.

Suddenly, Li Jing seemed to have thought of something, she was indeed the most prudent among them, "Some time ago, the empress once came to me alone and gave me a kit, saying it was a New Year's gift for me, so that I could have a gift in the New Year's Eve." Then open it again."

Speaking of this moment, both Yuan Jin and Xue Zhijing were taken aback for a moment.

"I have a kit too."

"I have a kit too."

The three of them immediately felt that there must be something wrong with this kit, and it might contain the reason why Yuan Hanzhang disappeared.

The three of them went home quickly, and took the kit to look at together.

The three of them returned home as quickly as possible, fetched the kit, and reunited at Yuan Hanzhang's bedroom.

The kits of the three of them were all in the same shape. They felt that there seemed to be thick paper inside. The three of them opened it together and found that it was indeed a letter.

Looking at the calligraphy, it is undoubtedly written by Yuan Hanzhang himself.

The three looked at each other, and each of them saw the solemnity in each other's eyes.

Since Yuan Hanzhang had written the letter a long time ago, maybe what happened today was really planned.

The three hurriedly looked at it, not wanting that the letters were in order, and the combination of the letters of the three was Yuan Hanzhang's entire letter.

In other words, these three people must be together to see the whole picture.

No one should be suspected.

Summarizing the content of Yuan Hanzhang’s letter, the general meaning is as follows:

Yuan Hanzhang felt that she had spent most of her life in the palace and devoted her most brilliant time to the entire Dacheng Dynasty. Now, she was tired, she wanted to rest, and wanted to see the country she had guarded for most of her life What is it like.Let's see if these thousands of miles of mountains and rivers are as beautiful as those described in the documents presented from various places.

As for this country, please leave it to Xue Zhijing, and everyone will treat her as Yuan Hanzhang who has left this world, and they can hold a funeral for her.She wants to live in this world with a brand new identity, maybe she will come back to take a look after a while, if Xue Zhijing doesn't manage the country well, she will be angry.

Yuan Jin is her good niece, I hope she can assist Xue Zhijing to achieve martial arts and martial arts, and at the same time, pass on the merits of their Yuan family. All the assets of the Yuan family are managed by her. If there is something you don't understand, please ask. Xue Zhijing, manage well, don't lose everything to her, otherwise the ancestors of the Yuan family will be angry underground in the future.

Li Jing is a good child and a good seedling of the prime minister. Before she left the house, she had already communicated with her parents. Li Jing is the daughter of the Dacheng Dynasty. She will dedicate her life to this country, and they are not allowed to give She arranges marriages at will.

As for why she disappeared suddenly, she said that this was a test for Xue Zhijing, and she hoped that she could pass this test safely.

After reading the letter, the three of them were a little silent.

"What should I do? Xiaojing, talk." Yuan Jin said anxiously.

Xue Zhijing's face was also a little dignified, but this letter dispelled her worries about Yuan Hanzhang's safety.