The King of Liang, the feudal lords outside the town, and the generals inside

The carriage stopped in front of the side gate of the palace, and Bai Yu led Wanwan out of the carriage, "The carriage cannot enter the palace anymore, we have to change the sedan chair."

Wan Wan pouted at the porter waiting at the side, pulled Bai Yu's sleeve and shook her head.

Bai Yu understood, "You don't want to sit in a sedan chair? Then let's walk."

Wan Wan nodded, and followed Bai Yu into the palace.Everything in the palace is fresh and gorgeous, and the little girl naturally likes it. It is also interesting to look at it, and it is also interesting to look at it. I can study the patterns carved on the floor tiles for a long time.

Walking through the corridor, you gradually approach the Imperial Garden, and you can reach the Emperor's Chongming Hall after passing the Imperial Garden.There are even more fun things in the imperial garden. Wan Wan stumbled over a few white cranes raised in the pond and ran over excitedly.Bai Yu couldn't bear to urge her, so he just watched with a smile, and told his servants to follow her and not let her fall.

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a pale blue figure, and when he took a closer look, Bai Yu hurriedly bowed and saluted, "I've seen the emperor's wife."

The queen nodded, and said gently: "We are all a family, King Liang doesn't need to be too polite."

She is a queen, but she wears the simplest hair bun, the hairpin earrings are all made of silver, and the light blue dress has no pattern at all.Not long after the imperial concubine passed away, as the empress and the elder sister of the imperial concubine, she did not need and could not wear filial piety.Such a simple and low-key, presumably only for the sake of my sister.

The queen looked in Wan Wan's direction, and said to Bai Yu: "It seems that the little girl will play for a while, if King Liang doesn't mind, I have something to say to King Liang."

Bai Yu nodded, and sat down at the stone table not far away with the queen. The queen signaled the maid to wait at a distance, and Bai Yu also winked at Qiu Ye, who immediately backed away.

There was a decent smile on the corner of the queen's mouth, but her eyes were barren, "This palace is now haggard and sloppy, it really makes King Liang laugh."

Bai Yu secretly sighed in his heart, and said: "The sister-in-law of the emperor and the imperial concubine are deeply in love with each other, which is really rare."

The queen quietly pulled up her sleeves, hiding a drop of tears, "Ben Gong has always been dreaming these days, dreaming that when I was a child, Xin'er followed me all day long, yelling 'Sister, Sister', holding Ben Gong's hand to ask for help. Ben Gong plays with her. She gets something delicious and fun, and always wants to give it to Ben Gong. If it is bigger, it will be her most beautiful jewelry and clothes. Whenever Ben Gong praises her, she insists on Ben Gong Accept it, and I can't refuse it anyway. Speaking of which, this elder sister, Ben Gong, has done very little for her."

The queen paused at this point, trying to suppress the grief and hatred surging in her heart, slowly took a breath and said: "Ben Gong's younger sister is gone for nothing, she can no longer be called Ben Gong 'sister', no longer Watching the third prince grow up together with Bengong... Bengong really hates it."

Bai Yu faintly felt that the Empress did not just want to complain to him, so she tentatively said: "I heard that the imperial concubine is due to dystocia..."

"No!" The queen's eyes turned red instantly, and she bit her lower lip, "She was murdered! The midwife Wen, the imperial physician, and several servants of the Compassionate Ning Palace were all executed by the emperor. But they counted What? It's just a poor pawn being used by others, the real culprit is still alive and well, why isn't she dead!"

Bai Yu's heart skipped a beat, she was faintly startled.The queen's words clearly made it clear that she was cursing the queen mother.

The queen was silent for a while, looked at Bai Yu and said: "I said this to King Liang, because I know that King Liang feels the same pain in my heart. King Liang also had close relatives in her hands, and she almost died several times. It should be Understand what it means to be irreconcilable."

Bai Yu's heart was beating profusely, every time it beat, it was painful.He clenched his fists secretly, his nails were deeply embedded in his flesh, "Yes, we hate each other, we cannot share the sky."

"The empress dowager is the emperor's mother, and I can't bear to demand anything from the emperor. He also has his own embarrassments and heartaches." The empress said, with tears in her eyes, "so if one day, the king of Liang wants to do something, I will do my best. I will do my best to help you even if you die.”

Bai Yu's astonishment flashed away, and a smile gradually appeared on his face, "My brother understands, thank you, sister-in-law first."

The queen gritted her teeth and said: "In the two days after Xin'er's death, I was only sad, but after recovering from these days, I felt that something was wrong. Since she was a month old, she has been raising her baby in Fangfei Palace, rarely Going out, how could she be in the Compassion Palace when she gave birth? At that time, she was in severe pain, and I went in to accompany her. She told Ben Gong that she wanted Ben Gong to save her. At that time, I only thought that she was in too much pain, but now that I think about it , she is really asking Ben Gong for help! Ben Gong is really stupid, why didn't she understand at that time!"

Bai Yu only heard from the emperor that the Empress Dowager ordered the concubine to be force-fed with a lot of oxytocin, but she didn't know the details.He wondered: "Then what about the maids serving the imperial concubine? They should follow the imperial concubine every step of the way."

The queen shook her head, "That's the second strange thing. Xin'er has two personal servants who were married from Weiyan, one named Xinyan and the other named Huanyan. I wanted to ask What happened before their concubine gave birth, how could they be in the Palace of Compassion and Peace. But they all disappeared after the concubine died. "

Bai Yu took a deep breath.The queen mother really refused to give them any excuses, Xin Yan and Huan Yan must have been silenced.

The queen obviously guessed the same way, "So I ordered people to go to the mass grave outside the palace to see if they could find the bodies of Xin Yan and Huan Yan, but they couldn't find them either."

Bai Yu sighed, gritted his teeth and said, "You're a treacherous and cunning man."

"I always have a doubt in my heart. The Queen Mother has never liked Xin'er, and Xin'er also doesn't like the Queen Mother. She is pregnant with a child, so she must be keeping her distance from the Queen Mother. She will not meet if she can't meet, but suddenly she is in the Palace of Compassion. She was in labor, and she was born prematurely. Previously, the imperial physician checked the pulse every day and reported to me that Xin'er's fetal sign was stable, and there was no sign of premature labor. Taking a step back, if she was born prematurely due to physical reasons, why did she happen to be in the Palace of Compassion? Medium? If she was stimulated by something, then..."

The queen's thinking is very clear, "I always feel that the queen mother should not forcefully bring Xin'er to the Palace of Compassion, and then use some means to make her give birth prematurely. It would be too stupid to do so, and Xin'er would not be so stupid. Obediently follow her to the Palace of Compassion and Peace, after all if she doesn't want to go, how can there be no trouble along the way? When there is trouble, the whole palace will know."

"Then what the emperor's wife means is that the imperial concubine went to the Palace of Compassionate Peace voluntarily. She was still a good person at that time, and the queen mother didn't want to harm her at first. Maybe something happened to the imperial concubine in the palace of compassion. Temporary idea..."

"Yes." The queen nodded, "She doesn't like Xin'er anymore, but the child in Xin'er's womb belongs to the emperor and her own grandson. I thought, she probably wouldn't have planned to hurt Xin'er in this way. Son, because if she hurts the dragon fetus, it will not be the result she wants to see. So what she did at that time was more like a moment of necessity."

Bai Yu pondered and said: "Just now, the imperial concubine said that the imperial concubine had asked the imperial concubine for help, so the imperial concubine knew in her heart that the queen mother was going to kill her. In this way, something serious must have happened at that time, and the queen mother immediately wanted to kill her— —Because the Empress Dowager must never allow this matter to be revealed by the imperial concubine. So even in front of the emperor's brother and his wife, the empress dowager must act so blatantly."

The pain in her heart was surging, the queen calmed down, and said slowly: "If the queen mother just wants to kill Xin'er to relieve her anger, after Xin'er gave birth safely, she clearly has thousands of ways to keep her face, and she will not kill herself at all. Involved in it. But she chose to use this publicity method to make everyone know that Xin'er died in her palace inexplicably. This is very different from her usual style, which really makes people suspicious."

Bai Yu focused silently for a moment, then his eyes flashed, "The Empress Dowager is not taking revenge, but silencing! It's silencing out of desperation!"

With a soft "click", the queen lowered her head subconsciously, and broke two nails on her palm.She said: "I still have a doubt. I begged the queen mother on my knees and said to her, 'The queen mother also experienced the pain of giving birth in October, how can she bear to let my sister suffer like this'." After saying this Afterwards, the Empress Dowager's face became very strange, and I couldn't tell what was wrong, but I just felt that something had jumped in front of me at that moment, but I couldn't see it clearly."...

After a long talk with the queen, I had had enough fun at night, so I hid behind the rockery not far away and looked over here.

Before leaving, the queen suddenly said again: "By the way, once I took the child to greet the queen mother, and heard Cen An talking to the queen mother inside, they seemed to be saying that some wells in the minister's mansion..."

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Princess Zhaoning stumbled towards the Palace of Compassion and Ning.The delicate embroidered shoes got in the way when she ran, but she kicked them away and ran with only white socks.A large group of court ladies and eunuchs chased after her to call the princess, but Princess Zhaoning ignored her and ran away crying.

She ran into the Palace of Compassion and Ning with tears in her eyes, and she ran into a mess, and finally knelt down in front of the queen mother, "Mother! Mother! The emperor wants to marry my son to Yeluo! My son doesn't want to marry, but my son likes it!" Yan Xun, I don’t want to marry someone else! Empress Mother, go talk to Brother Huang, he will definitely obey Empress Mother!”

The queen mother looked at her, and said gently: "Silly boy, Yan Xun is no longer a general. How can a mere general who conquers the west be worthy of you? Ye Luo has not yet established a queen. If you marry him, you will be a queen. What's wrong with that?" of?"

"No! I don't care whether Yan Xun is a great general or not, I just like him!" Princess Zhaoning's face paled with tears, "I really like him..."

The Empress Dowager's expression turned cold immediately, "Zhao Ning, don't mess around. The marriage has already been settled, and your imperial brother's words can't be changed."

Princess Zhaoning opened her mouth halfway, trying to say something, but she was so choked up that she couldn't make a sound.Looking out from the twinkling tears, the Queen Mother's face looked familiar yet strange.

After a long time, Princess Zhaoning burst into a heart-piercing cry, "Why! Why didn't the queen mother let the emperor marry him before the envoy Ye Luo came to propose marriage!"

"The Ai family has said that Yan Xun is no longer what it used to be. If you marry him, how desolate it will be now! The Ai family is for your own good!"

Princess Zhaoning couldn't bear it any longer, looked up at the Queen Mother, and asked desperately, "If it wasn't for the Queen Mother, how could Yan Xun be demoted!"