I am a ruler in troubled times

After Hongqin withdrew with Lu Yun, the Queen Mother immediately distanced herself from Emperor Xiao, and looked at Emperor Xiao without fear, her extremely calm gaze was full of contempt, as if she was looking at a sudden bird. Grumpy wild cat.

Emperor Xiao came to the Anning Palace in a rage, and found that the Empress Dowager did not panic and cry for mercy as he expected, but instead mocked him with the word 'Xiaoxing', and was so angry that her hands were shaking.

"Bitch! How dare you act so recklessly?" Emperor Xiao shouted with red eyes.

A stern look flashed in the Queen Mother's eyes, but a smile appeared on her face, "What's the meaning of this, Your Majesty? Even if you're unhappy, you shouldn't have come to me. There are so many in the harem..."

Emperor Xiao violently swung his sword, and the sharp blade almost touched the tip of the Empress Dowager's nose and fell, completely cutting off the golden hairpin on the Empress Dowager's head, and at the same time completely loosened the neatly combed hair of the Empress Dowager.

The Queen Mother never expected that Emperor Xiao would really dare to do something to her.

She stared straight at the sword in Emperor Xiaodi's hand, and stayed there for a long time, before her legs became weak and she fell to the ground, ignoring the tingling pain of her scalp, staring blankly at the deformed golden sword on the ground. Hairpins and golden hairpins entangled with black hair.

Seeing the Queen Mother's distraught appearance at last, Emperor Xiao's eyes flashed with joy.

He threw the dagger in his hand to the Queen Mother's side, stretched out his hand and pinched the Queen Mother's chin fiercely, forcing the Queen Mother to look up at him, and said through gritted teeth, "Didn't I warn you not to do anything to Song Peiyu. How dare you design The wild beasts in the hunting grounds rioted and mobilized the Teng Snake Guard without me, do you know how much trouble you caused me?"

After hearing Song Peiyu's name, the Empress Dowager's unfocused eyes gradually recovered. These aging eyes were still full of vivid colors, and the hatred in them almost overflowed from the eye sockets.

"This is what you promised me!" The hands that were painted with perfect Koudan grabbed Emperor Xiao's wrist, and the fingernails were almost embedded in Emperor Xiao's flesh, "It was you who promised me that you would definitely uproot the Song family. I will help you ascend to the throne. Since you broke your promise, don't blame me for doing it yourself!"

Emperor Xiao suffered pain in his hand, he shook off the Queen Mother's hand vigorously, and raised his hand to hit the Queen Mother's face.

The queen mother was not afraid at all, and even raised her face, "What? Now that you are on the throne, you don't need me anymore, so you want to break the promise you made back then?"

If Emperor Xiao dared to slap him, she would dare to let the whole world know that Emperor Xiao was not filial.

When the palm was about to touch the Empress Dowager's face, Emperor Xiao temporarily changed his posture and changed to grabbing the Empress Dowager's collar, "Do you really think that I dare not kill you?"

Because of Emperor Xiao's strength, the faces of both sides were infinitely close, and they could even feel each other's breathing.

The Empress Dowager suddenly spat on Emperor Xiao's face, "You are not afraid that you will kill your father and seize the throne, even the scandal of father and concubine will be known all over the world, so just kill me."

The Empress Dowager's words were like icy water poured on Emperor Xiao's body, not only turning the anger in Emperor Xiao's heart into fear, but also successfully calling back Emperor Xiao's rationality.

Emperor Xiao didn't regret killing his father and seizing the throne, nor did he regret finding the empress dowager back then, but he regretted that when he first came to the throne, he clearly wanted to completely solve the empress dowager to avoid future troubles, but was tricked by this bitch.

The queen mother immediately noticed the stagnation on Emperor Xiao's face, she proudly raised the corners of her mouth, stretched out her hands to wrap around Emperor Xiao's neck, and whispered in Emperor Xiao's ear, "Let the Ai family think about it, you have slept with your father since you ascended the throne." How many concubines, first Chen Meiren, then Wan Zhaoyi...even Aijia, when His Majesty remembers a 'mother queen' when he was on the bed, how come he doesn't recognize him when he gets out of bed?"

Emperor Xiao tightly closed his eyes.

The queen mother's words were like sharp knives, mercilessly cutting all the reasons he found for himself.

At the beginning, Chen Meiren was indeed the queen mother plotting against him.

But then...

Being pushed away by Emperor Xiao again, the queen mother couldn't even bring up the idea of ​​getting angry.

'Stupid son' hasn't made any progress in the past ten years, she didn't even have time to laugh, why should she be angry?

If Emperor Xiao was not stupid enough, how could she still be honored and honored after the death of Emperor Qing, so that she could live till now?

Emperor Xiao looked down at the Empress Dowager, "In these years, apart from the fact that the Song family suddenly left Luoyang with your family, what else are you dissatisfied with? I have never cared about you disturbing the wind and rain in the harem."

"I don't believe you don't know how much those old people from the previous dynasty attached importance to Zhao Guo's envoys. I can't wait to hang Jianwei and Song Jinyu on the city wall to dry. I can bear Chong Yi and Song Peiyu. Don't you just Can't you think about it for me?"

In the end, Emperor Xiao's tone changed from angry to puzzled and sad.

The Empress Dowager lowered her eyes, instead of being moved, she was full of sarcasm.

If it weren't for Emperor Xiao's uselessness, letting the Song family sneak away back then, nothing would happen today.

Of course she knew the attitude of those old people from the previous court towards Zhao Guo, and she also knew that this useless stupid thing in front of her had no way to suppress Zhao Guo anymore.

If she doesn't do something to Song Peiyu now, she won't have a chance in the future.

In the eyes of the Empress Dowager, Emperor Xiao was already dying.

She stopped arguing with Emperor Xiao, not because she was afraid of Emperor Xiao, but because she felt that she was wasting her time even arguing with Emperor Xiao.

Emperor Xiao also noticed the empress dowager's silence.

But he took the initiative to soften his attitude, and what he wanted was not the Queen Mother's silence but the Queen Mother's guarantee.

Guaranteed not to act against the envoys of Zhao State without authorization.

Emperor Xiao took a breath calmly, squatted halfway in front of the Empress Dowager, reached out to touch the big red mark on the Empress Dowager's face, "Lian'er, we..."

The Queen Mother clapped Emperor Xiao's hand away without hesitation.

She didn't want to waste any more time with Emperor Xiao, but Emperor Xiao insisted on disgusting her, "Your Majesty, you don't have to embarrass yourself to make such a gesture, you just said that the Ai family refused to think about you, did you think about the Ai family? "

A look of joy flashed in Emperor Xiao's eyes very quickly.

He thought that the empress dowager's willingness to pay attention to him was a sign of softening her attitude.

As an emperor with a harem of three thousand, he took it for granted that when a woman complained to him, she was begging for his favor, but in a special way.

"Why didn't I think about you?" Emperor Xiao said without thinking, "If I didn't think about you, would I never be a successor? Would..."

The Empress Dowager immediately interrupted Emperor Xiao, "Then you selected carefully, and chose a prince whose biological mother wished to destroy the Ai family's bones and ashes to be the crown prince."

"Oh." The sarcasm at the corner of the queen mother's mouth was undisguised, "I know why you chose the fifth prince as the crown prince, and why you chose the concubine Xian as the successor. You want the concubine Xian to kill Aijia for you."

The affection on Emperor Xiao's face froze instantly.

The Empress Dowager guessed exactly what he was thinking.

After the first few years of confusion and obsession, or since the Song family moved away the queen mother and started going crazy, Emperor Xiao always wanted to kill the queen mother.

As long as the queen mother is still alive, especially the queen mother who is becoming more and more extreme, the things he has done may be announced at any time.

But the Empress Dowager was too sensitive, and when she found out that he had murderous intentions, she told him clearly that she not only had evidence that he had killed his father, but also evidence that he had forcibly defiled his father and concubine.

If something happened to her, the evidence would be known immediately.

Only then did Emperor Xiao realize that he was terribly wrong.

The queen mother is not a weak woman who has no brains and can only be rude, and can only live by relying on her father and emperor.It's a woman who wears a harmless appearance, but actually has a heart like a snake.

Emperor Xiao knew very well how deadly the evidence in the Empress Dowager's hands was to him, so he could only retreat again and again. Both the Teng Snake Order and the Fortune Pig Order were given to the Queen Mother.

The Empress Dowager has been messing with the wind and rain and doing evil in his harem all these years, and Emperor Xiao can see it clearly.

I have to say that after being forced by the Queen Mother to take out the Teng Snake Order and the Fortune Pig Order, he found that the Queen Mother's attention was only briefly on the camp in the suburbs of Beijing, and then she turned her attention to the harem. Emperor Xiao was deeply moved. relieved.

He even felt self-satisfied and secretly happy because of this.

The queen mother must have feelings for him, so after he stopped stepping into the peace palace, she began to embarrass his concubines and children in the harem.

This made Emperor Xiao's heart soften uncontrollably.

After all, the queen mother helped him win the throne after all, so what if he let the queen mother live a more carefree life?

It is precisely because of the respective concessions of the Empress Dowager and Emperor Xiao that for so many years, Emperor Xiao and the Empress Dowager have been able to maintain a balance without violating the river.

It was not until he decided to establish a crown prince that Emperor Xiao once again thought of dealing with the empress dowager.

No matter how soft-hearted he is to the queen mother, the bottom line he can accept is to let the queen mother act presumptuously under his nose.

Emperor Xiao would never allow him to die, but the queen mother still acted recklessly.

Who knows what scandals the Queen Mother would do without him pressing her down.

Therefore, Emperor Xiao chose the fifth prince as the crown prince, because the mother of the fifth prince, Concubine Xian, hated the Queen Mother deeply.

When he dies and the fifth prince inherits the throne, Concubine Xian will never allow the Queen Mother to be the Empress Dowager in a grand manner.

When Emperor Xiao planned these things, he only felt that he had not missed anything.

At this time, the Empress Dowager unceremoniously dismantled him, but Emperor Xiao felt ashamed and annoyed at being stripped naked in public.

He finally realized that what he had been thinking all along was wrong.

What "one night couple hundred days of grace" is all his wishful thinking.

The annoyance this brought to him was even more irritating than finding out that the queen mother was planning a wild animal riot in the royal hunting ground behind his back, and arbitrarily mobilizing the Teng Snake Guards to attack Zhao's envoys, and explaining in a few words the reason why he chose the fifth prince as the prince. God is angry.

After being annoyed to the extreme, Emperor Xiao became more and more sober.

He has already charged the queen mother with the crime of rioting wild animals in the royal hunting ground and mobilizing the Teng Snake Guards to attack Zhao Guo's envoys.

It is to prevent the empress dowager from thinking that if she is not successful, she will make others feel bad if she is exposed instead.Recklessly, he took out all the evidence that had threatened him for many years, and dragged him into the water as well.

Now that he has paid so much to cover the Queen Mother's mouth, it is even more impossible to fall short.

After his birthday is over and the envoys from various countries have left, he will settle accounts with this poisonous woman.

Emperor Xiao took a deep breath, stretched out his hand expressionlessly, "Teng Snake Order and Fu Zhu Order."

He didn't want to say a word with this poisonous woman.

Seeing that Emperor Xiao's gaze had returned to clarity, the Queen Mother also breathed a sigh of relief.

It is indeed a relief to be able to avoid entanglement with idiots.

She stood up from the ground, Shi Shiran sat on the rocking chair beside her, her voice was extremely slow, and every word was very clear, "Aren't the Teng Snake Token and Fuzhu Token the things you promised me to protect me? Could it be that you, as an emperor, can still go back on your word?"

Emperor Xiao raised the corners of his mouth, but the smile didn't reach his eyes, "You return the Snake Order and the Pig Fortune Order now, and I will give you the Snake Order and the Pig Fortune Order after the envoys of Zhao Guo leave. "

The Queen Mother lay on the rocking chair with her eyes closed, let alone answering, she didn't even open her eyelids, as if she completely forgot that there was another person in the room.

Emperor Xiao walked to the side of the rocking chair, looked down at the Empress Dowager, his eyes stayed on the Empress Dowager's fragile neck for an extra long time.

The fingers on his side opened and closed several times, and the last five fingers were clenched tightly into fists behind his back. When he spoke again, the voice that had just calmed down not long ago already showed obvious impatience.

"If you refuse to hand over the Teng Snake Order and the Fu Zhu Order to me, I will immediately order the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Rites to remake the Twelve Orders of the Camp in the suburbs of Beijing."

The Empress Dowager had to open her eyes in a 'swish', and her speech was more than twice as fast as that of Emperor Xiao, "The Twelve Orders of Daying in the suburbs of Beijing are things handed down from the ancestors."

Emperor Xiao snorted, "I am the emperor, I have the final say. I haven't found the imperial father's jade seal so far. Looking at the entire court, who else will mention the imperial father's jade seal?"

The Empress Dowager closed her eyes to conceal the strange color in them.

After closing his eyes this time, the Empress Dowager's expression was far less calm than before, and Emperor Xiao could see the entanglement on the Empress Dowager's face when he lowered his head.

It wasn't until Emperor Xiao lost his patience completely, turned around and walked towards the door, that the Queen Mother suddenly sat up, "Are you really willing to return the Snake Token and the Pig Token to me?"

Emperor Xiao stopped with his back to the Queen Mother, his face was full of indifference, but his tone softened, "When did I not do what I promised you?"

The empress dowager who was looking down at the pattern on her clothes flashed ridicule in her eyes.

That's too much, it's impossible to count.

There was hesitation on the queen mother's face, and after a while, when she felt that Emperor Xiao was looking back at her, she pursed her lips, "Okay."

The Empress Dowager got up and walked to the inside of Ba Bu's bed, took out a small wooden box from the dark compartment under the bed, and walked slowly towards Emperor Xiao.

Emperor Xiao stood on the spot with his hands behind his back, his eyes suddenly began to drift left and right, as if he just realized that the layout of the Empress Dowager's room was good, and wanted to observe carefully.

No matter how his eyes turned, the corner of his eye was always focused on the small wooden box in the Queen Mother's hand.

The queen mother stopped in front of Emperor Xiao, and when she handed out the wooden box with both hands, the hesitation on her face became more and more serious.

Seeing Emperor Xiao's hand coming to pick up the wooden box, the queen mother suddenly withdrew her hand and wanted to hide the wooden box behind her back, even the belly of her fingers turned bright red because of too much force.

It's a pity that the Empress Dowager's strength cannot be compared to Emperor Xiao's, and Emperor Xiao is still exhausted.

After Emperor Xiao got the wooden box, he couldn't wait to open the lid.

The bottom of the box is covered with a layer of golden yellow satin, and there are two metal plates fixed on the satin by thin invisible silk threads.

It was the Teng Snake Order and the Fu Pig Order that Emperor Xiao personally handed over to the Queen Mother back then.

Emperor Xiao tore the metal sign and the bright yellow satin out of the box and put it in his arms, then threw the empty box on the ground.

Feel the corners of the chest through the clothes.The first smile from the heart after arriving at Anning Palace finally appeared on Emperor Xiao's face.

"Lian'er, I still have something to tell you."

Emperor Xiao walked back to the Empress Dowager, and was about to grab the Empress Dowager's waist.

The Empress Dowager took two steps back, her no longer young face was covered with frost.

Seeing the wrinkles on the Empress Dowager's face clearly, Emperor Xiao stopped, with an invisible dislike flashing in his eyes, and even speaking in a more serious voice than before.

"Empress Mother, I still have something to report." Emperor Xiao said sternly.

The Empress Dowager, however, sensed the malice in Emperor Xiao's calm tone far beyond that when he was in a state of anger. She looked at Emperor Xiao vigilantly, "Your Majesty just said it."

"I want to come to my mother to hear that the wild animal riot in the hunting ground and the blocking of the Teng Snake Guard did not cause any casualties to the envoys of the State of Zhao, but the envoys of the State of Zhao were frightened and fled to a place far away from Luoyang to set up camp."

Emperor Xiao stared closely at the Empress Dowager's eyes, and his speech became faster and faster, "In order to let Zhao Guo's envoys return to Luoyang with peace of mind, after discussing with many adults, I will read out two imperial decrees in the morning court today."

When Emperor Xiao said, "No envoys from the State of Zhao were injured or injured", the Empress Dowager's face showed unconcealable anger and embarrassment, which was much more emotional than when Emperor Xiao was slashing her with a sword.

Knowing that Emperor Xiao had bad intentions, the Empress Dowager followed Emperor Xiao's words and asked, "What imperial decree?"

Emperor Xiao easily discovered the mood swings that the Empress Dowager had no time to hide.

He showed a satisfied smile, and would rather disgust himself than the Queen Mother, "The first imperial decree, the National Assembly of Yan will hand over the fifteen towns on the border of Zhaoyan to the State of Zhao."

Surprise appeared in the queen mother's eyes, she did not expect that Yan State would cede fifteen towns to Zhao State without any losses from Zhao State's envoy team.

After the surprise, the queen mother didn't feel any guilt or worry, but there was a mocking arc on the corner of her mouth that was fleeting.

The cession of land and compensation is something that only happens when a war is defeated.

The appearance of Yan Guo eagerly kneeling in front of Zhao Guo is simply ridiculous.

Emperor Xiao, who was always paying attention to the changes in the Empress Dowager's expression, immediately caught the empress dowager's surprise emotion, and the anger that had just subsided was burning again.

He bit the soft flesh on the side of his face, used the pain to stay rational, looked at the queen mother with more focused eyes, and even spoke in a gentle and gentle tone like whispers between lovers, "The second imperial decree, I vindicate Song Liangci , and posthumously named Song Liangci the King of Huaining County."

The Empress Dowager's eyes widened suddenly, and she went straight to Emperor Xiao, firmly grasping Emperor Xiao's front lapel, "Which Song Liangci?"

Emperor Xiao seemed to hear something particularly funny, and let out a hearty and clear laugh, "Which other Song Liang Ci can it be, of course it is the Song Liang Ci that you hate to the bone."

"Impossible!" The Empress Dowager's voice was so sharp that it cracked, but it fit her face better than the girlish clear voice before.

Emperor Xiao finally saw the reaction he had imagined in the Queen Mother, and he was in a good mood immediately, and even his original low laughter became more and more vigorous.

Emperor Xiao's undisguised gloating made the Queen Mother's reaction even more frenzied. She stood on tiptoe and concentrated almost all her strength on her hands, "You lied to me!"

"You lied to me, didn't you?" The Queen Mother suddenly let go of the hand that was holding Emperor Xiao's lapel, and covered Emperor Xiao's mouth instead, and scratched Emperor Xiao's face with Koudan-painted nails, "How could you treat me like this? !"

After so many years, she always believed that the person who killed her son was Song Liangci.

He continued to be relentless towards the Song family, and even shot at Song Peiyu, but he wanted Song Liangci to die and there would be no peace.

When her son cut off the incense, Song Liangci was about to cut off the incense too.

She wants to let Song Liang say goodbye to his successor, and he will not even be able to adopt him!

With the title of county king, Song Liangci will enter the Taimiao.

Even if the Song family is cut off, Yan Guo will bring along the officials of the Taimiao during the annual sacrifice.

Emperor Xiao knew her hatred and determination, and he rehabilitated Song Liangci and made him king of the county...

Do you want to force her to death?

Why do you have to confront her!

At a certain moment, the empress dowager's hatred for Song Liangci was perfectly transferred to Emperor Xiao.

Emperor Xiao felt the pain, so violently he pushed the Empress Dowager to the ground, stretched out his fingers and carefully stroked the painful place on the side of his face.

The light red bloodshot hangs on the light yellow finger, you may not be able to see it unless you look carefully, but Emperor Xiao's heart beats so fast with anger.

Emperor Xiao looked murderously at the Empress Dowager who had fallen to the ground.

The queen mother let out a hoarse wail of pain, and beat the ground with both hands to vent her emotions. At least five of the nine fingernails were broken. The bright red blood and the gorgeous Kodan have long been indistinguishable from each other.

The queen mother, who was unmoved even in the face of Emperor Xiao's sword-wielding threat, no longer saw her calmness, and looked no different from a crazy woman.

The redness in Emperor Xiao's eyes was no less than that of the Empress Dowager.

He took a few steps back and distanced himself from the Queen Mother before he spoke bitterly, "If Zhao Guo hadn't seized the evidence of the Beast Riot and Teng Snake Guard's assassination of Zhao Guo's envoys, do you think I would be willing to issue such an imperial edict?"

It's a pity that the queen mother has completely fallen into her own world, and Emperor Xiao couldn't judge whether the queen mother listened to his words from the almost unchanged crazy reaction of the queen mother.

"No wonder the Empress Dowager is so happy." Taking advantage of the Empress Dowager's lack of time to pay attention to him, Emperor Xiao said something to improve his mood, "This can also be regarded as the imperial edict that the Empress Mother personally requested for Zhao Guo."

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Before Emperor Xiao could say a few words, the Empress Dowager fell to the ground because she couldn't bear the over-excited emotions, and the wailing in her mouth turned into sobs of unknown meaning.

Emperor Xiao's eyes moved from the queen mother to the dagger on the ground, a look of eagerness to try flashed in his eyes, and he moved slowly.

From the moment the Queen Mother's wailing was heard inside the house, there were fewer and fewer people outside the Queen Mother's bedroom, and finally only Hong Qin and Lan Yu who had just rushed over were left.

Lan Yu was running around in a hurry outside, and suddenly grabbed Hong Qin's arm, "What's going on? Why did Your Majesty suddenly come to Anning Palace to make such a big fuss!"

"I don't know either." Hong Qin endured the pain in her arm, and answered Lan Yu in a good-tempered manner.

Lan Yu was dissatisfied, and opened her mouth to continue questioning, "But..."

Hongqin raised her finger and put it near her mouth, seeing that Lan Yu stopped talking, she pointed to the bedroom.

Lan Yu froze in place, with various emotions flashing in her eyes, she threw off Hong Qin's arm resentfully, turned her head and stared at the empress dowager's bedroom without blinking.

Just when Lan Yu's patience was exhausted again, and she wanted to trouble Hong Qin again, the door of the dormitory was suddenly pushed open from inside, and Emperor Xiao came out from inside with his hands behind his back. Qin passed by.

Lan Yu didn't see the madness of Emperor Xiao just now, and before the sound of Emperor Xiao's footsteps completely disappeared, she couldn't wait to get up from the ground and ran towards the open door of the Queen Mother's bedroom.

Hongqin deliberately waited a little longer, but didn't hear Emperor Xiao's footsteps stop, so she also carried her skirt and ran into the bedroom after Lan Yu.

Lan Yu, who entered the bedroom first, was sitting on the ground half hugging the twitching queen mother.

There were so many tears on her face as if she had just been washed by rain, and even the hand holding the medicine bottle couldn't stop shaking.

Seeing this, Hongqin immediately went to find warm water, then snatched the medicine bottle from Lan Yu's hand, melted the pills in the warm water, and carefully fed it to the Queen Mother with a spoon.

After feeding half a cup of the thick bitter medicine soup to the queen mother, Hongqin turned her head and said to Lan Yu in a gentle voice, "Let's move the queen mother to the bed first, and you can tidy up the queen mother, and I will clean up the clothes." Go down to the room and let the palace servants come in to serve you."

Lan Yu nodded while sobbing, Hong Qin gave an order, and she acted with a face full of absent-mindedness and fear.

The Empress Dowager's twitching time was much longer than the last time, and she even passed out in the middle and completely lost consciousness.

It wasn't until the next day that the Queen Mother woke up after being in a coma for a day and a night. Even her eyes were much more blurred than before. She turned her head to look at Hong Qin who was guarding beside her, "How long have I been asleep?"

"If you go back to your mother, it's already the afternoon of the next day." Hongqin lowered her eyelashes, and felt the boiling anger on the queen mother since she opened her eyes.

"Yesterday, the emperor told the Ai family that he issued two imperial decrees in yesterday's court meeting... hiss." While speaking, the queen mother unconsciously pressed the bed under her body, touched her bandaged fingers, and gasped for pain Take a breath.

Hongqin didn't care about the queen mother's fingers at the first moment, but knelt on the ground silently, looking down at the pattern on her waist intently.

The queen mother didn't care about her fingers either. After seeing Hongqin's reaction, she closed her eyes silently, and transparent teardrops silently slid down the corners of her eyes.

That edict is real, not a dream.

Emperor Xiao really decreed to rehabilitate Song Liangci, and also posthumously named Song Liangci the king of Huaining County.

After a long time, the Queen Mother's hoarse voice sounded again on the bed, "Where is Lu Yun?"

Hongqin held the handkerchief and pressed it on her face, said in a muffled voice, "Sister Luyun has gone."

The queen mother stood up and looked at Hongqin with deep eyes, "You come"

Hongqin walked close to the queen mother on her knees, and looked up at the queen mother with obedience and worry in her eyes, which was exactly the same as when Hongqin refused to leave yesterday when Emperor Xiao suddenly rushed over and wanted to cut people with his sword.

The queen mother suddenly lost the mood to talk nonsense. She looked at the wooden table facing the Babu bed, and said to Hongqin, "press the ring on my hand into the depression on the back of the wooden table, and you will come out with the token inside." Gong, knock on the door of the penultimate household in Nongyun Hutong, saying that they are people from the water town to visit relatives."

Hongqin took the ring thrown by the queen mother, and carefully remembered the queen mother's words in her heart.

Seeing that Hongqin is well-behaved and serious, the Queen Mother's speech speed is getting faster and faster.

In the past, it was Lu Yun who contacted her natal family for her, but now that Lu Yun is gone, she should use Lan Yu, but the Queen Mother despised Lan Yu for being impulsive and irritable, and was afraid that Lan Yu would spoil her important affairs.

In addition to asking Hongqin to go to several places and call the door in different ways, the queen mother also asked Hongqin to spread the news of her illness, and sent letters to certain mansions, asking the wife in charge to enter the palace to pay her respects.

Hongqin kept in her heart every name given by the queen mother, except for those who often communicated with the Anning Palace, such as Princess Showa, and the wife who had never been in contact with the Anning Palace.

As soon as she returned to Qingshan Palace, Song Peiyu knew everything that happened in Anning Palace.

Song Peiyu had long guessed that the Queen Mother was the culprit for the wild animal riot in the royal hunting ground and the assassination of Teng Snake Guard.

In the absence of bloody enmity, Emperor Xiao would not have used the trick of injuring the enemy eight hundred and doubling his own damage against him and Chong Yi.

On the contrary, it was the Queen Mother who hated him deeply, held onto Emperor Xiao's handle, and was looking for a good substitute for Emperor Xiao, so it was very reasonable to use such a strategy of killing two birds with one stone.

As for the chaotic relationship between Emperor Xiao and the Empress Dowager, Song Peiyu can only say that he followed that old saying.

The dragon begets the dragon, the phoenix begets the phoenix, and the child of the mouse will make a hole.

I don't know if Emperor Qing had expected that when he was struggling with Princess Zhaohe, his harem concubines would be 'inherited' by his son after his death.

Chong Yi has always regarded the trip to the Yan Kingdom as a pleasure, and he doesn’t care about the affairs of the Yan Kingdom. After hearing about the Anning Palace, he suddenly became more interested in the Yan Palace, and even found someone to tell him the story of the Yan Kingdom’s royal family. .

Although none of them are as exciting as Emperor Qing and Princess Zhaohe, Emperor Xiao and the Queen Mother, they are more bizarre than a storybook to pass the time.

When Song Peiyu is free, he also listens to stories with Chong Yi, and with the list of more and more names in his hand, he can often get very good results.

When there was only half a month left before Emperor Xiao's birthday, most of the envoys sent by the countries that were willing to accept Yan's invitation arrived in Yan, and they lived in the Qingshan Palace that had been simply repaired one after another.

Among them, Chu State and Xiliang did not want to go to the invitation of Yan State, but changed their minds after receiving the letter from Emperor Yonghe.

The envoy of Chu State is an old acquaintance of Song Peiyu and Chong Yi, King Xiang of Chu State.

The envoy of Xiliang was the king of Liang himself.

Not long after King Liang arrived in Xianyang, he set off from Xianyang and went straight to Yan State. During this period, he traveled almost day and night, and only stayed in Mo County on the border of Zhao Yan for three days.

Yanzhou and Qingzhou, as the old neighbors of Yan State, also sent envoys, and they came earlier than King Xiang and King Liang who came from afar.

Only the envoys of Li Guo and Chen Guo have not yet arrived.

Song Peiyu already knew that Li Guo temporarily changed his mind and would not send envoys to Yan Guo again.

Emperor Li had passed away half a month ago, and the entire Li country was in chaos, which was not inferior to the chaos in the Wei country when the old Emperor Wei died.

After the death of the old Emperor Wei, Wei Guo changed his emperor every three or two days.

In the current state of Li, since the death of Emperor Li, no emperor has been elected.

The aristocratic families are still confronting each other, and no one can persuade the other.

Anyway, the power is in the hands of the aristocratic family, and the Li country will continue to operate without the emperor, so let the princes observe mourning for three months before deciding who will inherit the throne.

At this critical juncture, all the energies of Li Guo's aristocratic family were put on the domestic throne, and no one wanted to distract themselves from socializing with Yan Guo.

As for Chen's envoy...

Not only Song Peiyu is very concerned about the Chen Guo envoy who has not yet arrived, but Chong Yi cares more about the Chen Guo envoy who has not arrived than Song Peiyu.

The specific performance is that Chong Yi specially asked Laifu to find unmarked darts, and even sharpened the new darts twice.

When Xue Lin dared to come to Yan Country, Chong Yi dared to kill Xue Lin as if he had killed 'Xue Lin'.

After waiting for another five days, Chen Guo's envoys also arrived late and arrived at the Qingshan Palace. Chong Yi and Song Peiyu still couldn't wait for Xue Lin.

Because of Xue Lin's sudden illness, the envoys of Chen Guo changed from Xue Lin to lead the team by Xue Lin's cousin, Nanyang County King.

On the day when Chen Guo's envoy moved into Qingshan Palace, the whole Qingshan Palace was extremely lively.

There is no other reason, there are many people.

Chong Yi stood openly on the roof of the palace where the envoys of the Zhao State stayed and looked in the direction of the envoys of the Chen State. He concluded with just one glance, "Two thousand and five hundred people."

Song Peiyu took the folding fan given to him by the king of Liang, lightly smashed it on the palm of his hand, and said with a smile, "At the beginning, His Highness brought only 600 people, but the Yan State pushed back three times, and wanted His Highness to send all five hundred cavalry back to Zhao State. But now they agree Let Chen's envoys bring five times as many Chen troops as Zhao's cavalry into the territory of Yan, which shows the filial piety of Emperor Yan to the Queen Mother."

King Xiang and King Liang who were also standing on the roof looked at each other, feeling that Song Peiyu's expression at this time was very subtle, but they couldn't tell what was wrong.

On the second day after Chen Guo's envoys also lived in the Qingshan Palace, Luoyang's Xiaodi Emperor also lived in the Qingshan Palace with the front and rear palaces.

At this time, there were still three days left before Emperor Xiao's birthday.

The number of Yan officials in the Qingshan Palace suddenly increased, and Song Peiyu also became busy. Every day, countless posts were sent to the palace where Zhao Guo's envoys temporarily lived, inviting Song Peiyu to various gatherings.

For such posts, Song Peiyu never refused to come, and every time at the banquet, he would repeat what he had said to King Xiang and King Liang on the day when Chen Guo's envoys moved into Qingshan Palace.

"Emperor Yan's filial piety to the Queen Mother is commendable. '

Most people were embarrassed after listening to Song Peiyu's words, but it was because of the different treatment of Yan Guo's envoys from Zhao Guo and Chen Guo's envoys in Song Peiyu's words.

Only a very small number of people will show thoughtful expressions after listening to Song Peiyu's words.

The day before Emperor Xiao's birthday, Song Peiyu went to a banquet in response to Wu's invitation, and said exactly the same thing at the banquet.

After drinking for three rounds, Song Peiyu left with the excuse that tomorrow is Emperor Xiao's birthday, and he wanted to go back and make preparations early.

After Song Peiyu left, Wu Jinfei was helped by his eldest grandson to the garden to let off the alcohol, and asked his eldest grandson who was about the same age as Song Peiyu, "What do you think of Song Peiyu?"

Wu Lekang pondered for a while, regret flashed across his brows, "To spend the whole day in business and haggling with businessmen, you have the demeanor of losing a family."

Wu Jinfei stroked his beard and smiled, motioning for Wu Lekang to continue.

"In the past few days, I have always heard people say that he complained to everyone that the prince of Zhao Guo only brought 600 people, but the king of Chen Guo Nanyang County brought 500 people..." Wu Lekang shook his head.

Wu Lekang could understand Song Peiyu's displeasure, but he couldn't understand Song Peiyu's behavior of complaining to everyone.

The big man suffered a loss, so he retaliated, complaining everywhere like a gossip who has nothing to do in the back house, what's the matter?

Are you afraid that others will not know that you are incompetent?

Even if Song Peiyu clings to the queen mother's natal family, Chen Guo, and refuses to let go because of her old enmity with the queen mother, it will only appear that Song Peiyu is not only calculating but also has a heart.

Who doesn't know that Song Shigang had the upper hand in the confrontation with the Queen Mother.

Wang Shengsheng of Huaining County was so angry with the queen mother that she was bedridden.

In the case of gaining the upper hand, he still pursues the trivial matters.

It is the true character of a businessman who does not let go of even small profits, which is vividly reflected.

If Song Peiyu was holding on to something that could kill the Queen Mother, Wu Lekang would instead think highly of Song Peiyu.

Surprise flashed in Wu Jinfei's eyes, "Isn't Song Peiyu talking about this for the first time?"

Wu Lekang was speechless.

Because Wu Jinfei has been praising Soong Peiyu in various ways in front of him, and even specially asked him to keep in touch with Soong Yupei more.

Out of some unspeakable emotions, Wu Lekang has been secretly paying attention to Song Peiyu since he came to Qingshan Palace.

The result was a big disappointment.

Maybe Song Peiyu is an excellent businessman who can single-handedly create the legend of Odd Goods City, and can keep repeating this legend.

But it's just a businessman.

Wu Jinfei did not immediately change his view of Song Peiyu because of Wu Lekang's one-sided words.

He carefully recalled Song Peiyu's expression and tone when he said about Chen Guo's envoy, the wrinkles between his brows became more and more deep, and he suddenly said, "Who is going to greet Zhao Guo's envoy and Chen Guo's envoy?"

Wu Lekang was stunned, he didn't expect Wu Jinfei to think about this matter carefully, but his words were quicker than his brains, "It's all Chen Yanzhou, the eldest grandson of Princess Zhaohe, who went to greet him in person."

Wu Jinfei narrowed his eyes, thinking about this matter carefully.

Princess Zhaohe was originally just an inconspicuous concubine, until Emperor Qing came to the throne, the titles of the sisters were Qinghe, Anyang and other place names, and only the humble Princess Showa received the title of "Showa" with a good meaning.

It was only this humble concubine who came into the courtiers' sight.

Wu Jinfei remembers very clearly that when Princess Showa first decided on the title, many colleagues wrote a letter against her, including her friend Song Liangci.

However, Emperor Qing was extremely stubborn in this matter, insisting on resisting the pressure of his ministers, and gave away the title of Princess Showa.

From then on, it was Princess Showa's glorious half-life, which weighed down all her half-sisters.

Although many people think that Princess Zhaohe won the favor of Emperor Qing because of the glory of the noble concubine, because the noble concubine from Chen Guo