I am a ruler in troubled times

As someone who knew the location of Emperor Qing's edict, of course Eunuch Xiang also came to Luoyang.

Eunuch Xiang did not follow the team of Zhao Guo's envoys, but came to Luoyang quietly with Zhao Guo's caravan, half a month earlier than Song Peiyu and Chong Yi.

Xiang Yun, who had regained his full beard, came to Qingshan Palace with ten cavalry.

With Eunuch Xiang's precise location, Chong Yi was able to find Emperor Qing's last edict so quickly, it's... normal?

Song Peiyu stared blankly for a while, turned her head expressionlessly, and focused her gaze on the top of Chong Yi's dark head, and continued the gentle movements of her hands that had just stopped.

Chong Yi could feel that Song Peiyu was still in a daze.

He leaned over and pulled the black cloth off the rectangular wooden box, and only put the wooden box on his lap.

With Chong Yi's legs for comparison, Song Peiyu discovered that this wooden box is very big. It was also because there were many things on the table and the wooden box was not small, so half of the wooden box was hanging outside the table.

As the wooden box was opened, there were several small wooden boxes inside, and between the small wooden boxes there was a fine cloth that was randomly balled up as a filler to prevent the small wooden boxes from bumping.

When packing up her luggage yesterday, Song Peiyu happened to see Jin Bao put the same half piece of cloth into the box.

Compared with the unpretentious rectangular wooden box under the black cloth.

The slightly older small wooden boxes all have unusually exquisite patterns, and some gemstones are even dotted in certain positions of the patterns.

Chongyi not only found the edict of Emperor Qing that Xiang Gonggong mentioned, and the jade seal commonly used by Emperor Qing, but also found three blank imperial edicts by the way.

After seeing the four imperial scrolls and jade seals placed side by side, Song Peiyu grabbed Chong Yi's hand and put it on the semi-dry and semi-wet sweat towel, and immediately went to check the imperial scrolls and jade seals.

Song Peiyu went to check Yuxi first.

Before he set off from Xianyang, he talked with Song Jinyu and Eunuch Xiang several times in detail, and he had already kept every detail of the Qing Emperor's jade seal in his heart.

No need to find Eunuch Xiang to identify it, Song Peiyu can be sure that the jade seal in his hand is the Qing Emperor's jade seal.

Then there are four imperial decree scrolls placed side by side.

There is no difference in the material of the brocade sewn on the outside of the imperial decree, the pattern on the brocade, including the material of the jade scroll used in the imperial decree.

This was the highest imperial decree during Emperor Qing's reign.

No matter whether it is the former dynasty or the rear palace, only the changes of the second rank or above can use this regulatory edict.

Chong Yi, who was messing with his hair, saw Song Peiyu comparing the imperial decrees, so he told Song Peiyu how he discovered the other three imperial edicts except for Emperor Qing's last edict.

The process for Chong Yi to obtain the imperial edict of Emperor Qing went smoothly beyond expectations.

The Qingshan Palace has been abandoned for many years. According to Eunuch Xiang, it was because Emperor Xiao forced his father to death to usurp the throne, so he dared not set foot in the Qingshan Palace with the same year and name as Emperor Qing because of a guilty conscience.

Emperor Xiao would agree to use the Qingshan Palace, but he was forced to do so.

The significance of his birthday this year is different from previous years. He also sent invitations to all countries, inviting all countries to participate in his birthday and the next celebration of the canonization of the crown prince.

The Luoyang Imperial Palace was left over from the previous dynasty, and it was much smaller than the old palace in Xianyang.

If there are many envoys from other countries, there will be no space to arrange guards, otherwise there will be a dilemma of densely packed heads.

In contrast, the Qingshan Palace, as the new palace built by Emperor Qing's father to proclaim himself emperor, was far larger than the Luoyang Palace, and it was indeed a better choice.

After the courtiers kept writing letters, Emperor Xiao finally agreed to open the Qingshan Palace.

The Qingshan Palace, which has been abandoned for many years, cannot be inhabited until it is repaired.

Now the Qingshan Palace has not been completely repaired, and the entire Qingshan Palace has only Zhao Guo's envoys, and it is the time when the guards are weakest.

In addition to guarding the Qingshan Palace, the three thousand guards who were temporarily transferred, there are only court ladies and eunuchs in the palace.

For Chong Yi, no matter where he goes, it is like entering a no-man's land.

Neither the imperial edict nor the jade seal was in Emperor Qing's bedroom in the Qingshan Palace, but in the palace that Emperor Qing had prepared for his father, Sixing Hall.

According to Eunuch Xiang's description, Chong Yi found the institutions on the back of the Duobao Pavilion in the study and in the wall of the bedroom, and easily obtained the edict and jade seal.

After getting the imperial edict and jade seal, Chong Yi looked at the sky and felt that it took too little time, and he couldn't see Song Peiyu when he returned to his residence, so he took a stroll in the palace specially reserved for his father by Emperor Qing.

Unexpectedly, there will be a surprise.

Chong Yi found behind the tablet of Emperor Qing's father, a secret compartment that Xiang Gonggong had not mentioned, and found three blank imperial edicts.

Song Peiyu listened to Chong Yi's words, carefully compared the four imperial edicts, her heart beat faster and faster, suddenly turned around and threw herself on Chong Yi, holding Chong Yi's face and kissed him hard.

These three blank imperial edicts were the highest regulatory edicts during Emperor Qing's reign.

With these three blank imperial edicts and the Qing Emperor's jade seal, the handwriting is the easiest to imitate.

They can completely forge three more copies of Emperor Qing's will.

Song Peiyu just wanted to kiss Chongyi to show his excitement.

Just as she was about to kiss him and throw it away, she went to study the imperial edict passed on by Emperor Qing to the sixth prince, only to find that his arms that he couldn't break free were wrapped around his waist, and the touch on his lips became even softer.

Song Peiyu managed to maintain her final calmness under the storm, "Sheng, Zhihe, Yuxi...don't..."

Then Song Peiyu was moved from the bed to the bed.

No matter where they go, they use bedding brought out from Xianyang.

As soon as she lay on the bed, Song Peiyu smelled the familiar light fragrance, and the only remaining Qingming disappeared. In a daze, she seemed to hear Chong Yi asking him, "Is it okay now?"

Song Peiyu didn't remember whether he answered this sentence at all.

Just remember the confusion at feeling the unusual touch.

Chong Yi, who was only wearing a pair of obscene trousers, where did he get the plaster?

For the next seven days, Luoyang seemed to have forgotten that there were Zhao Guo's envoys in Qingshan Palace. The elders of the country also disappeared completely.

Not only did Chong Yi not feel unhappy about being neglected, nor did he feel aggrieved by being placed in the same position, but he felt that these days in Qingshan Palace were the most relaxing days for him in recent years. I wish I could live in Qingshan Palace until my thirties, and then return to Xianyang.

Song Peiyu also felt that she ate and slept in Qingshan Palace, woke up after sleeping, and coughed when she woke up...

In short, life is very comfortable, and the itchy flesh on the stomach has increased.

On the morning of the eighth day after arriving at the Qingshan Palace, Song Peiyu and Chong Yi got up on the spur of the moment and were planning to find a good place to have a barbecue, when they heard a report that King Gong of Yan Kingdom came to see Chong Yi and Song Peiyu.

Prince Gong just didn't know whether to call it the lucky or unlucky sixth prince of Emperor Qing.

Song Peiyu had carefully studied the edict left by Emperor Qing, and copied the content of the edict, and asked someone to show it to Eunuch Xiang.

I specifically asked Eunuch Xiang, what is the difference between this edict passed on to the sixth prince and the one passed on to the fourth prince that had been destroyed by Emperor Xiao.

Eunuch Xiang directly wrote down another will that was destroyed many years ago.

Except for the prince's line number and name, there is almost no difference.

It can be seen that in Emperor Qing's eyes, the fourth and sixth princes are really only brothers.

Chong Yi stared at Lai Fu with his head down, "No see"

Song Peiyu held Chong Yi's shoulder with one hand, covered Chong Yi's mouth with the other hand, and said to Lai Fu, "Prince Gong, please wait a moment, and I will go on my way."

They all wore dirty muslin clothes because they wanted to cook their own barbecue.

It's really rude to go to see Prince Gong like this.

Laifu pursed his lips, looked up at Chong Yi who was covering his mouth, and saw that Chong Yi didn't intend to struggle, so he turned and left the room, but he didn't know that although he restrained his smile, Chong Yi still found him smiling .

After Lai Fu walked away completely, Chong Yi lowered his eyelids and looked at Song Peiyu, "He's a joke!

Obviously there was no special tone in this sentence, and Chong Yi's expression did not change because of it, but Song Peiyu felt that he seemed to hear Chong Yi's grievance.

Song Peiyu showed a helpless smile, leaned her neck up to Chongyi's ear, and whispered something.

Before he finished speaking, the back of his ear quietly turned bright red.

Chong Yi's eyes flashed extremely quickly, and he took the initiative to get the fancy clothes that Eunuch An had prepared for them in advance.

When Prince Gong rushed to Qingshan Palace under the order of Emperor Xiao, he expected that he would be embarrassed.

He didn't want to take on this job that was destined to be a bad person inside and out, but he knew very well in his heart that he had no choice at all.

Since Emperor Xiao came to the throne, the two people he hated the most are General Jianwei and Song Jinyu.

One shortly after Emperor Xiao came to the throne, he openly resisted the decree, pointed at Emperor Xiao's nose and cursed, not only betrayed the country of Yan, but also split the land of the country of Yan, and forcibly took Youzhou from Emperor Xiao.

Let Emperor Xiao become an emperor who lost his country when he ascended the throne, and he still cannot hold his head up in front of many veteran officials and aristocratic families.

One, when Emperor Xiao was about to mobilize the power of the whole country to quell the rebellion of General Jianwei, suddenly the whole family ran from Luoyang to Xianyang to join General Jianwei under the eyes of Emperor Xiao.

It was precisely because of the actions of the Song family that many aristocratic families who originally planned to support Emperor Xiao's encirclement and suppression of General Jianwei suddenly became ambiguous.

As long as these aristocratic families are allowed to really contribute money and efforts, they will find countless excuses to shirk.

Until now, Emperor Xiao still firmly believed that he was not as powerful as Emperor Qing among the courtiers, and that it was the fault of the two traitors, General Jianwei and Song Jinyu, that he could not get the courtiers to order and prohibit him.

Therefore, when General Jianwei first proclaimed himself emperor, although Yan State, like Zhao State, could no longer bear the huge loss caused by successive years of war, Emperor Xiao still resisted all opinions and sent more troops to the Zhao-Yan border every year.

It was not until after the fiasco in Zengzhen that Yan State fell silent.

However, the State of Zhao set up a strange goods city in the unintentional area to crazily collect money, took down the State of Wei, and turned it into a Wei County, and even the State of Chu rushed to form an alliance with the State of Zhao, and Shuangliang sent out his sons one after another Go to show goodwill to Zhao Guo...

Yan State was at an absolute disadvantage in the confrontation with Zhao State.

In other words, the country of Yan could no longer pose a threat to the country of Zhao, but the threat that the country of Zhao posed to the country of Yan was getting bigger and bigger.

Regardless of the reality or the opinions of the veterans in the court, Emperor Xiao had no choice but to smash his teeth and swallow his blood. He forcibly endured his hatred for General Jianwei and Song Jinyu, and took the initiative to show his favor to Zhao Guo.

Deep down in Emperor Xiao's heart, his hatred for General Jianwei and Song Jinyu has not diminished at all, and even forced to restrain himself due to reality, the hatred in Emperor Xiao's heart has become more and more intense.

With such thoughts in mind, how could Emperor Xiao look pleasing to Prince Zhao and Song Peiyu?

King Gong knew what it meant that Emperor Xiao specially asked him to receive Prince Zhao and Song Peiyu.

Emperor Xiao not only wanted Prince Zhao and Song Peiyu to suffer in Yan, but also did not want to bear the anger of many veterans of Zhao and Yan after the attack on Prince Zhao and Song Peiyu.

So he handed over this hot job to him.

Prince Zhao is the only surviving child of Zhao Guoyong and Emperor Zhao, and even the only male in Zhao's royal family for a long time. His reputation of pride has long spread throughout the countries.

Just looking at the ostentation of Prince Zhao's coming to Yan for a banquet, one can guess that Prince Zhao must not be a person who can swallow his anger.

Prince Gong knew very well that he had no right to embarrass Prince Zhao.

Does Emperor Xiao understand this?

No, Emperor Xiao understood very well.

It is because he understands too well that he entrusts him with an impossible errand.

It doesn't matter if he can't make Emperor Xiao fulfill his wish, it just gave Emperor Xiao an excuse to continue humiliating him, and he can use him to vent the anger that he failed to vent on Prince Zhao and Song Peiyu.

Emperor Xiao not only wanted Yan to form an alliance with Zhao, but also reminded Emperor Yonghe that he was an old minister of Yan, and took the initiative to give way to Yan, so that Yan could be in a dominant position.

When Prince Gong understood Emperor Xiao's hint, he almost couldn't resist spitting on Emperor Xiao's face, and asked Emperor Xiao to look in the mirror to see if he was worthy.

Fortunately, Prince Gong has not completely lost his mind.

Not long after he was proclaimed prince by Emperor Xiao, he recognized the reality from his title and Emperor Xiao's capricious attitude.

Emperor Xiao happily gave him the title of prince, not because he is so generous that he has forgotten the filth of the two of them, but because he wanted to quickly quell all kinds of gossip after he ascended the throne.

He is the son of Emperor Daxing, and it is an old practice to be named a prince.

The title of "Gong" has fully demonstrated Emperor Xiao's meanness.

Isn't this just to let him be reminded every time he hears his title, to be respectful to Emperor Xiao?

Emperor Xiao wanted to cover up the sudden death of the fourth elder brother's family by being fake and generous to him.

The more he understood Emperor Xiao's mind, the more cautious Prince Gong would be, and he dared not take half a step wrong.

The first time Song Peiyu saw Prince Gong, she saw deep gloom in Prince Gong's eyebrows.

Chong Yi nodded to Prince Gong as a greeting, and raised his chin to signal Prince Gong to sit beside him, with an attitude as if he completely regarded himself as the master of this place.

In contrast, Song Peiyu's attitude is much more humble.

He took the initiative to bow to King Gong, and took out a carved wooden box from his cuff, opened it and handed it to King Gong, saying that it was a gift from Chong Yi to King Gong.

Inside the wooden box is a palm-sized glazed ornament. The seven colors are naturally arranged and blended together. Colorful glass.

Therefore, the price of colorful colored glaze has always remained high, ranking first among all colored glazes, and there is still a price but no market.

Although Chongyi's attitude was arrogant, the colorful colored glaze that Song Peiyu brought out was just right for King Gong to step up.

After quickly weighing the pros and cons in his mind, Prince Gong chose to take the wooden box from Song Peiyu's hand.

He is not a fool, the alliance between Yan and Zhao has become a big trend, even Emperor Xiao dare not confront the veterans openly, how could he take the initiative to trouble the envoys of Zhao, and let Emperor Xiao have an excuse to destroy the Yan-Zhao alliance The charges were pinned on him.

Prince Gong had made up his mind a long time ago, he would come to Qingshan Palace every day according to Emperor Xiao's request, but he would not fulfill Emperor Xiao's instructions.

The big deal is a fine, anyway, he has already owed the court ten years of salary, and he is not afraid to owe more.

Chong Yi doesn't like to talk.

Prince Gong also fell silent from time to time.

After trying to find a topic for several times, Song Peiyu found that Prince Gong was absent-minded, so she also held the teacup to appreciate the tea leaves stretching inside.

The huge flower hall was suddenly eerily quiet.

The sun began to sink to the west, and after the light shining into the flower hall was completely dimmed, Prince Gong came back to his senses as if waking up from a dream, cheered up and talked a lot of useless nonsense with Chong Yi.

Chong Yi has always been unwilling to pay attention to people who talk nonsense with him, he just responded casually with 'um' and 'ah', and even directly picked up the tea cup, expressing to Prince Gong that 'if it's okay, you can go'.

However, Prince Gong turned a blind eye to Chong Yi's act of bringing tea to see off guests, and groaned for a long time, until the sky completely darkened, and then slowly bid farewell to Chong Yi.

Song Peiyu yawned while drinking tea while raising her sleeves, and took the initiative to see Prince Gong out.

The two walked one after the other on the Qingshi Road, and Song Peiyu said without warning, "Your Majesty knows that His Majesty specially asked people from the Song family to come here, saying that he wanted to resolve the misunderstanding with the Song family. What kind of misunderstanding did he want to solve?" ?”

Prince Gong stopped and looked sideways at Song Peiyu.

He really does know.

It wasn't that Emperor Xiao wanted to clear up the misunderstanding with the Song family, but the elders of Yan State hoped that the Song family could move a family back to Luoyang.

Seeing Prince Gong's hesitation, Song Peiyu took out another piece of colored glaze from his sleeve and handed it to Prince Gong.

A strong unhappiness flashed across Prince Gong's face, he stretched out his hand to brush Song Peiyu's hand away, and asked, "What do you mean?"

Think of him as a court lady and eunuch who can be bought at will with money?

The colorful colored glaze in Song Peiyu's hand was thrown out along the strength of Prince Gong, and fell to a rockery not far away and shattered into several pieces.

He lowered his eyelids to hide the surprise in his eyes, and said in a low voice, "Why should the prince be angry?"

Prince Gong snorted coldly, strode away, and never gave Song Peiyu a chance to say another word.

Jin Bao picked up the colorful glass that was broken into several pieces on the ground and put it into the wooden box that had been cracked.

This piece of colorful glass is different from the one just now. It has the special mark of the Odd Goods City on it, and it can be exchanged for 10 taels of silver at any merchant who has dealings with the Odd Goods City.

It's a pity that Prince Gong destroyed the colorful colored glaze before he understood the use of it.

Song Peiyu glanced at the fragments of colorful colored glass that Jin Bao had collected, and felt that Prince Gong's dignity was like this piece of colorful colored glass that had been shattered, ridiculously fragile.

The majestic prince of the Yan Kingdom rushed to compete with the court ladies and eunuchs, he was really promising.

Brainless and heartless, even worse than Chen Yanzhou.

I don't know if I am ambitious...

If you don't even have ambition, it will be completely useless, and you don't have to consider handing over the edict left by Emperor Feng Qing to Prince Gong.

Handing it over to the Queen Mother is more effective than handing it over to Prince Gong.

The next day, at the same time, Song Peiyu saw Prince Gong again.

It was still yesterday's process. After the three greeted each other, they sat in their seats and took time like boiled eagles.

In the silence, Eunuch An suddenly came in from the door, and the two guards behind him carried a big wooden box and placed it gently beside Chong Yi.

Prince Gong's gaze was completely attracted by the person carrying the box, and he stared straight at the big box that made the veins pop up in the hands of the two guards, secretly wary of what Zhao Guo was going to do.

Song Peiyu saw all the changes in Prince Gong's expression.

Emperor Qing must have liked Prince Gong very much back then, so he would consider passing the throne to Prince Gong.

The box was opened, and inside were all wooden boxes that fell neatly together.

Prince Gong suddenly thought of the two pieces of colored glaze that Song Peiyu took out yesterday, when they were first taken out, they were all packed in this kind of wooden box.

Thinking of a certain possibility, not only did Prince Gong stare straight, but his breathing also became heavy.

Chong Yi lazily took out a wooden box and opened it. It was indeed colorful glass, but it was not the waist pendant or bracelet that Prince Gong imagined, but a nine-link ring.

Eunuch An noticed Prince Gong's earnest gaze, and said to Prince Gong with a smile, "My lord also likes to play Jiulianhuan?"

Prince Gong suddenly came back to his senses, only to realize his gaffe, but he refused to admit that he thought that such a big box was filled with multicolored colored glaze, and that's why he lost his composure.

He weighed quickly in his mind, nodded stiffly, and acknowledged Eunuch An's words.

Eunuch An turned around, took out a wooden box from the big box, opened it, and handed it to Prince Gong with both hands, "Then you play together too."

Inside the wooden box is also a nine-link ring of colorful colored glaze.

The degree of complexity and delicacy is comparable to the nine-link ring of colorful colored glaze that Chong Yi is playing with.

Song Peiyu leaned on the cushion that Jin Bao placed behind him, and suddenly felt a lot of comfort in her sore waist. She picked up the teacup and waited for Prince Gong's reaction with great interest.

Seeing Prince Gong stretch out his hand stiffly and take out the Jiulianhuan from the wooden box to play with, Song Peiyu's eyes flashed with deep disappointment.

It's just that Chong Yi is here, even Prince Gong dare not refute.

Mingming was full of displeasure and had no interest in Jiu Lianhuan, but he forcibly endured it.

It's really bullying.

Song Peiyu couldn't see any hope of fighting against Emperor Xiao in Prince Gong's body.

He even suspected that even if Emperor Qing's edict was handed over to Prince Gong, Prince Gong might bring the edict into the coffin.

You have to find an ally for Prince Gong.

Prince Gong fiddled with the Jiulianhuan in his hand twice absently, feeling more and more uncomfortable.

He felt that giving him the nine-series old eunuch was showing off the extravagant life of Prince Zhao to him.

Even the Nine Links are made of colorful colored glaze that has a price but no market.

Such a complicated nine chains can't be solved for seven or eight days. Even if everyone here can play with one, only three are enough.

They also specially asked someone to lift such a big box up.

Could it be that apart from the Jiulianhuan in the hands of him and Prince Zhao, the other wooden boxes are all empty?

Just as this idea came to Prince Gong's mind, he suddenly heard a crisp sound.

Hearing the sound, he saw that there was a forearm-long wooden barrel under Chong Yi's feet, and at this moment, the wooden barrel was filled with various colorful glazed nine-linked parts.

Based on the distance between Prince Gong and the wooden barrel, not only can it be seen that the nine-link ring of colorful glaze has been completely untied, but it is also easy to find that there are obvious cracks on the surface of the nine-link ring of colorful glaze thrown into the barrel by Chong Yi. crack.

was broken.

Without hesitation, Chong Yi took out the second wooden box from the big box by his side, which was a colorful glazed nine-link box with a different style from the previous one.

One afternoon passed, and Chong Yi smashed half a box of colorful glazed nine rings, without any distress on his face.

On the contrary, the expression on Prince Gong's face changed from distressed to bewildered, and he looked at Yi Jie Jiu Lianhuan with dull eyes for the whole afternoon, not even noticing that Song Peiyu had exited the flower hall several times.

After the sky darkened, Prince Gong offered to resign again.

Chong Yi glanced at Song Peiyu who was secretly gesturing at him, and finally gave Prince Gong a serious look, "I just want to make a deal with you, can you stay and discuss it in detail?"

Prince Gong didn't expect Chong Yi to say that suddenly, he sat on the spot for a long time, countless thoughts flashed through his mind, after all he decided to stay temporarily and listen to what Prince Zhao wanted to say to him.

If he could replace Emperor Xiao and establish a good relationship with the Prince Zhao, would the elders in the court pay more attention to him and would be willing to rescue him when Emperor Xiao oppressed him again?

Song Peiyu took the initiative to approach Prince Gong with a piece of paper full of handwriting, "Does your lord remember Ruixiang's father-in-law?"

Prince Gong nodded, "That's the eunuch next to the emperor, how could this king not remember."

"Ten years ago, I had the honor to meet Grandpa Ruixiang." Song Peiyu's words stopped right here, waiting for Prince Gong's reaction.

It is Song Peiyu's last chance to let Chong Yi take the initiative to keep Prince Gong.

Whenever Song Peiyu was not satisfied with Prince Gong's reaction, Prince Gong would lose the qualification to know the existence of Emperor Qing's edict from him.

Prince Gong counted the time in his mind.

Ten years ago, the prince of Zhao Guo was assassinated and disappeared, Zhao Guoyong and the emperor were furious, causing a commotion.

But Eunuch Ruixiang should have been buried with his father 18 years ago. How could he be met by Song Peiyu and Prince Zhao?

Prince Gong immediately remembered the many strange things that happened when Emperor Qing passed away.

Is it...

Prince Gong swallowed hard, and lowered his head in pain.

He could guess what Song Peiyu said, maybe he got the evidence from Ruixiang's father-in-law that Emperor Xiao's throne was wrong, but he didn't dare to let Song Peiyu continue.

When Song Peiyu told him about this matter, it was definitely not out of good intentions, but definitely because she wanted to trouble Emperor Xiao.

Prince Gong was afraid that if he knew about this, he would become the first cannon fodder to die.

It's like the fourth brother who suddenly died suddenly.

Song Peiyu looked away from the painful Prince Gong, and turned to look at Chong Yi, with obvious helplessness flashing in his eyes.

He turned out to be wrong to blame Prince Gong.

Prince Gong is not brainless, but too timid.

Obviously he can figure out many reasons, but he naively thinks that as long as he doesn't take the initiative to step on the pit, he can escape the big pit in front of him.

After a long time, Prince Gong said hoarsely, "What did Mr. Ruixiang say?"

Song Peiyu twitched the corner of her mouth, most of the interest in her eyes had disappeared, "Eunuch Ruixiang said that the late emperor left a will to be transferred to the sixth prince, which is you."

Prince Gong looked at Song Peiyu blankly, "What did you say?"

The smile on Song Peiyu's face became more sincere, "Dongdan Ruixiang father-in-law told Xiqian that the first emperor left a will before his death, and he wanted to pass on the throne to you."

"You were not supposed to be Prince Gong, but the new emperor of Yan Kingdom."

Instead of recovering from Song Peiyu's words, Prince Gong's eyes became more and more dazed.

Wasn't the imperial edict left by the father in those days passed on to the fourth brother?

It was the Empress Dowager and Emperor Xiao who, taking advantage of taking care of their father, first destroyed the true edict, and then bribed his father's palace servants, insisting that his father's edict before his death was to pass on the throne to Emperor Xiao.

That's why after Emperor Xiao ascended the throne, he would take the fourth brother to be the first to have the surgery.

The person chosen by the emperor back then was actually him.

It turned out to be him!

After confirming that the confusion in Prince Gong's eyes had faded away, and that it was excitement rather than fear and retreat, Song Peiyu continued, "Eunuch Ruixiang said that after the late emperor quietly told him the location of the will, he was murdered by the noble concubine and Emperor Xiao. The imperial concubine and Emperor Xiao have never found that edict, and the late emperor's jade seal was also put together with that edict."

"Where is it?!" Prince Gong suddenly jumped up from the chair, reaching out to grab Song Peiyu's shoulder.

Chong Yi floated to Song Peiyu's side like a gust of wind, and firmly held Prince Gong's hand.

However, Prince Gong didn't seem to feel the sharp pain in his hand, he didn't even struggle, and still stared at Song Peiyu closely.

Song Peiyu raised half of her eyebrows and realized that she was wrong again.

Prince Gong was indeed timid, but he would be easily aroused by the throne and lose his only advantage.

He doesn't even have the most basic sense, let alone talk about whether he is smart or not.

"My lord, I'm going to live in the mountain ash! I heard that I'm the king.

Prince Gong was pushed on the shoulder by Chong Yi, stepped back several times, almost fell to the ground.

Prince Gong, who was not very good-tempered, was not annoyed by it. Before his body could stand still, he turned his scorching gaze to Chong Yi, "What do you want?"

Feeling the trajectory of the fingers on his back, Chong Yi said slowly, "The fate of Emperor Xiao and the Empress Dowager."

"You guys!" Prince Gong said immediately.

Song Peiyu came out from behind and slowly shook her head, "There is no evidence for what you say, how can you guarantee that you will keep your promise after you get the will and jade seal?"

"What do you think?" Prince Gong didn't give himself the slightest chance to react.

Song Peiyu could feel the impatience and recklessness of Prince Kung, and really lost the desire to continue communicating with Prince Kung, so she told Prince Kung frankly his request.

He asked Prince Gong to leave a letter of guarantee, promising to kill the Queen Mother and Emperor Xiao for them, and then sign the pledge.

After receiving the letter of guarantee signed by Prince Gong, Song Peiyu immediately handed over the paper full of handwriting to Prince Gong.

It was a map drawn by Xiang Gonggong, which marked the location of Emperor Qing's edict and jade seal.

Watching Prince Gong's vigorous back completely disappear, Song Peiyu sighed and leaned his body lazily on Chong Yi, "How many days do you think he will get the last edict and imperial edict?"

Chong Yi's eyes darkened, and he became energetic all of a sudden, "Bet?"

Song Peiyu had no objection, "What are you betting on?"

Chong Yi lowered his head and whispered next to Song Peiyu's ear, "If you win, try the fifth page of the book you sent me. If you win, try the seventh page."

There were only ten pages in the book, and the only pages they hadn't tried were the fifth and seventh.

As soon as Chong Yi said the specific page number, a specific picture would appear in Song Peiyu's mind.

He likes this kind of bet that can't be considered a loss if you lose or win.

As for his justifiable refusal to try those two pages of twisted poses...

If you don't try, how do you know you can't do it?

Song Peiyu felt that with the skill of his secret talks with Wu Jinfei, Chong Yi could find Emperor Qing's imperial edict and jade seal in an unfamiliar place just by following the instructions to his father-in-law, and he could also send three blank imperial edicts.

Prince Gong was already very familiar with the Qingshan Palace, and he had a clearer map mark, so he could find the edict and jade seal within a day at most.

Chong Yi gambled for two days.

Neither of them guessed right, so they had to admit defeat and tried the poses in the two pictures on the third and fifth days respectively.

On the sixth day, Prince Gong, who still came to Qingshan Palace every day to "boil the eagle" with Chong Yi and Song Peiyu, returned to the flower hall with uncontrollable excitement after going out to change.

It took six days for Prince Gong to get the imperial edict and jade seal from Emperor Qing.

As early as when Prince Gong first sent people to visit Sixing Hall, the Queen Mother of Yan knew about Prince Gong's abnormal behavior.

The person who told the Empress Dowager Yan about this matter was Hong Qin, an up-and-coming female officer next to the Empress Dowager Yan just now.

The reason why the Empress Dowager valued Hongqin so much was because Hongqin's ability to inquire about news and talk to others far surpassed anyone in her palace.

When Emperor Xiao first came to the throne, he also had a period of filial piety with the empress dowager's mother and loving son, and was even willing to resist the dissuasion of the elders in the court, and insisted on forcing the Song family to death.

After the Song family fled to Youzhou and the empress dowager went to Emperor Xiao's bedroom to make a fuss, Emperor Xiao's attitude towards the empress was not as good as before.

Although he is still willing to give the Empress Dowager the respect she deserves, that's all.

As the state of Zhao became more and more prosperous and powerful, it could even be regarded as far surpassing the state of Yan, and there were more and more concubines and heirs in the harem of Emperor Xiao, and the queen mother became more and more like a mascot.

Before she got married, the queen mother was the jewel in the palm of Chen Huang. After she got married, she respected and favored the two dynasties. How could she tolerate the gradual decline of her status.

With the handle of Emperor Xiao in her hands, and being the nominal mother of those women in the harem, she easily made most of the women and children in Emperor Qing's harem only follow her face.Even the few people who are not afraid of her will not take the initiative to provoke her

Only power can give her a sense of peace of mind.

Hongqin is someone who can help her defend her power.

That's why the Queen Mother likes Hongqin.

At the beginning, the queen mother didn't take the news from Hongqin's inquiry to heart.

What kind of storm can Prince Gong cause?

Most likely, the family's money is not enough, and they want to take advantage of the convenience of going to Qingshan Palace to receive Zhao Guo's envoys every day, and go to Sixing Palace to steal some things for turnover.

It was a good idea, Emperor Qing respected his father the most, and there are indeed many good things in the Sixing Palace.

You idiot, if you have the brains to take advantage of your position, why don't you make things difficult for Song Peiyu to curry favor with her?

As long as Song Peiyu can hang herself, and she can casually reveal something between her fingers, Prince Gong's mansion will be able to live comfortably.

Six days later, Hongqin came in from the outside suddenly with a look of haste, and after kicking out the other female officials and maids in the house, she didn't speak immediately, but fell to the ground, and grabbed the Queen Mother's hand with trembling hands, opening her mouth was impossible to hide Panic, "Ma'am"

The queen mother dodged Hongqin's hand, and patted on top of Hongqin's head angrily, "If you have something to say, talk about the worthless thing, can the sky still fall?"

Hongqin took a deep breath, and said in an urgent and quick voice, "It's the people from Prince Gong's mansion who sent the news that Prince Gong was very emotional after returning to the mansion today, and immediately asked people to call all the staff to the study, 呙Yu Ying deliberately listened for a while by the window, and heard..."

Hongqin's voice was so low that even the queen mother who was right in front of her could hardly hear her clearly.

"I heard it said 'the last emperor's imperial edict', 'the first emperor's jade seal', 'just around the corner'."

After hearing Hongqin's words, the calmness on the Queen Mother's face suddenly froze. She grabbed Hongqin's collar violently, and her fingernails broke and oozes blood, and she didn't even care about it. "What else, what else did they say?"

Hongqin seemed to be stunned by the Queen Mother's reaction, she didn't come back to her senses until she was slapped, and tears flowed from her eyes immediately, "I don't know, the eavesdroppers are afraid of being discovered, so they didn't dare to stay for long."

The Queen Mother stretched out her hand to cover Hongqin's body again, this time instead of hitting her face, she slapped Hongqin's thin back, making a dull sound.

"waste"

I don't know if it's Hong Qin or someone from Prince Gong's Mansion.

Hongqin kowtowed on the ground, begging for mercy for a while, before realizing that she had a second message to tell the Queen Mother.

"Niang Niang" Hongqin raised her face timidly with her bluish forehead on her face, "Sister in the small kitchen went shopping outside the palace today, and at night she came to Dongqian and said that she saw a Ruixiang who was the same as the late emperor today. The father-in-law looks exactly the same, even the position of the scar on the neck is the same as the seven stars on the neck of the father-in-law Ruixiang."