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

a few days ago.

"I'm going to tell you something now, and you can't tell anyone."

Bai Yu nodded blankly.

Yan Xun told him, "The box Princess Zhaoning gave me contained a letter. She said she wanted to tell me the truth about the Zhaowu Rebellion."

Bai Yu's eyes widened, "What does this mean?"

Yan Xun held his arm, and said calmly, "King Zhaowu is not only colluding with the commander of the imperial army, but also someone else."

"Who?"

"The Queen Mother."

Bai Yu gasped and trembled in shock, "Mother, Empress Dowager?!"

Yan Xun nodded, and said: "At the beginning, I thought it was strange. When I heard about this, I rushed to rescue him. I had no choice but to kill King Zhaowu to save the emperor, but the queen mother forced the emperor to commit crimes to me. How can this be true? Tong? The only explanation is that the queen mother is also involved in this, and she is so angry because I ruined her good deed."

Bai Yu had been quiet for a long time before reluctantly accepting this fact. He had known the Queen Mother's methods were vicious, but he never thought that she was a woman who would kill her own son.This must be such a hard heart, such a cold blood.

"But isn't Princess Zhaoning very close to the Queen Mother? Why did she suddenly tell you this?" Bai Yu asked.

Yan Xun paused when he heard the words, looked at Bai Yu's expression, and explained cautiously: "She has the edict drawn up by the Queen Mother when King Zhaowu rebelled. This is the most powerful evidence. She told me that as long as I am willing to marry She, she gave me the imperial edict and came forward to testify against the queen mother."

"You promised her?!"

"I didn't! No!" Yan Xun hurriedly said, "Don't worry, I didn't promise her. That's impossible."

Bai Yu breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Then what are you going to do now? Tell Brother Huang directly?"

Yan Xun shook his head and said: "No. The emperor has never liked the eldest princess Zhaoning very much. She only has the queen mother as a backer. If we have no evidence and tell the emperor directly, the eldest princess Zhaoning will definitely not admit it. Torn faces with the Queen Mother."

Bai Yu was a little bit dumbfounded, "This eldest princess is worthy of being in the same line as the Queen Mother. At first, in order to curry favor with the Queen Mother and seek power and status, she stood by while her own brother died, and was obsessed with you, the enemy who killed her brother. Now, in order to marry you , and intends to throw out the queen mother who gave her power as a bargaining chip to threaten you. Really..."

He thought for a long time, but couldn't find a suitable word.

Yan Xundao: "Nowadays, on the occasion of the emperor's birthday, envoys from all over the world are sending envoys to propose marriage, and Da Zhou is the only unmarried princess. She is so desperate that she actually came up with such a way."

Bai Yu said angrily: "If a man uses some means to force a woman to marry him, then he is a bully who robs the women of the people! The reverse is also the same! Why is she so annoying!"

Yan Xun laughed at his cuteness, hugged him and said, "Didn't I say yes? You know, I won't be coerced by anyone—except you."

Bai Yu rolled her eyes, raised her eyes to look at Yan Xun, and suddenly smiled, "Okay, then I will threaten you now, you must expose the Queen Mother's crimes, and you can't let the emperor be kept in the dark."

"I can't just sit and watch the emperor being kept in the dark. But this matter is not easy to handle, we have to think of a way out."

The night is very quiet, the palaces and pavilions are covered with a layer of black veil, everything is quietly, dormant in the dark night, as if waiting for something to break the deep emptiness and make everything wake up and sprout.A ray of moonlight passed by the window leisurely, bringing a ray of inspiration to Bai Yu's clever little head.

"Perhaps..." Bai Yu pondered, "Perhaps Princess Zhaoning can take out the edict and testify against the Empress Dowager!"

"Do you have an idea?" Yan Xun asked.

"Her marriage, the key lies in her marriage!" Bai Yu looked up at him, her eyes sparkling, "She will definitely be sent to get married, this is the meaning of Brother Huang, the only thing that can change everything now is Empress Dowager. As long as we can think of a way to make the Empress Dowager never speak to the emperor for her, then what will happen to her? With Princess Zhaoning's temperament, she has always been domineering and domineering. Everything is only for her own benefit - she has already planned to throw the queen mother out in order to force you to marry her! Once the queen mother refuses to intercede for her, she will definitely make a fuss, how can the queen mother tolerate her? In this way, they will definitely Tearing her face! She knew that the marriage was irreversible, and she had a complete quarrel with the Queen Mother. That coercion was useless to her, and if she married far away and got married, she would no longer have to curry favor with the Queen Mother. Report on the Empress Dowager for revenge!"

After Yan Xun listened quietly, he quickly said, "I have a way to make the Queen Mother not plead for her."

"any solution?"

"Although Cen Xuan was blamed for all the crimes in Liangzhou before, anyone with a discerning eye knows that his aunt is behind Cen Xuan. The emperor just couldn't blame the empress dowager because of the relationship between mother and child. Later, she said that it was always an untouchable big heart disease, no matter how confident she was, she would never be willing to have anything to do with this matter again. Now Cen Xuan has been put on death row, and Qin Ran has also been punished, but there is still one person It can be used as an article."

Bai Yu thought for a while, and soon understood, "Shen Gonghou!"

"That's right. Marquis Shen Gong is the cousin of Fang Huai, governor of Liangzhou. He made things difficult for Qin Ran just to avenge his nephew. If something happens to Marquis Shen Gong now, it will be like revisiting the old affairs of Liangzhou. The Empress Dowager will definitely avoid it in fear. What we have to do is to connect me with Marquis Shen Gong so that the Empress Dowager can shut up and watch Princess Zhaoning's marriage."

"How do you connect with Marquis Shen Gong?"

Yan Xun's eyes sank, with a cool smile on his face, "It just so happens that I also want to deal with this beast. I might as well sneak into the Hou's mansion and kill him."

"No!" Bai Yu immediately said, "This crime is too great, and it's the Emperor's Brother's Longevity Day, and envoys from all over the world will come to congratulate you. If you do something like this, how can you get down if the Emperor doesn't punish you severely? Besides, if you really killed Shen Gonghou, it would be your fault, so how could Princess Zhaoning get into a fight with the Queen Mother over this?"

"Then... I killed Shen Gonghou, but I didn't plead guilty, and insisted that the queen mother framed me." Yan Xun said, "It's not like she hasn't done this before, and many people will believe it."

Bai Yu pondered for a moment, then said: "Even so, you still need a scapegoat. When the time comes to investigate, how did the Queen Mother frame you? Who arranged who did what? Why did you do it? One by one, There has to be a way to make you retreat."

"The queen mother's most powerful subordinate is cinnabar. Her martial arts are strong and ruthless, so the queen mother will naturally entrust her to do such a thing. Then, there is still a need for someone who can cooperate with cinnabar. For example, if you take something from me, Put it next to Shen Gonghou's body to 'frame' me."

Bai Yu pursed her lips, and a candidate appeared in her mind.But for various reasons, he didn't make a sound for a while.

Yan Xun saw his thoughts at a glance and asked, "Who are you thinking of?"

Bai Yu hesitated and said, "Your younger brother... Yan Zun."

Yan Xun was stunned.

Bai Yu sighed, and said the secret hidden in his heart, "You still remember that masked man in black. After you captured Liangzhou, Zhu Sha fled in a hurry. He didn't have enough people around him at that time, so he took Zhu Sha's Go and tell Yan Zun that he is going to kill Zhu Sha to avenge me and my master. But he didn’t, and for some reason, he let Zhu Sha go. The man in black later told me about it.”

"Then, he must have reached some kind of deal with Zhu Sha, so Zhu Sha was able to save his life."

Bai Yu nodded and said, "Yes, it must be like this. So I think, if he becomes Zhu Sha's 'internal response', it wouldn't be wronged him completely. But, he is your younger brother after all, and he was very kind to me before. I'm still a little unbearable."

Yan Xundao: "He is my younger brother, but he doesn't regard me as an elder brother. He treats you well because he has plans for you. Besides, if he really likes you, how could he let Zhu Sha go, how could he go against your wishes , trying to use that method to take you away? What he likes is not you, but owning you, robbing you from me, and even hurting you for it. "

Bai Yu didn't speak, feeling a little sad.He only thought how good it would be if Yan Zun hadn't thought about him. This series of right and wrong might not have happened.

"He has done many things in secret that we don't know about. We should warn him before he makes a big mistake."

After struggling for a long time, Bai Yu finally said, "But, you must intercede for him when the time comes, and you cannot let him lose his life."

Yan Xun nodded and said: "That's natural, even for the sake of my parents, I can't let him die. It's just that he can no longer be the servant of the Ministry of Punishment."

Bai Yu said: "In this way, you can achieve multiple goals at one stroke, but the steps are closely linked, and you can't make mistakes in any one step."

"So I need your help." Yan Xun held his hand and asked him, "Can you do it well?"

Bai Yu nodded and said solemnly, "I can."

Yan Xun was half relieved and half emotional, and said with a smile: "The little brat has grown up."

Bai Yu feigned anger and kicked him.

"After the plan starts, I may be demoted or imprisoned. No matter what, you must be calm. There are three things you have to do. First, prove that I did not kill Shen Gonghou. Let everyone know that you are investigating the truth; second, you have to let Princess Zhaoning know that I was framed by the Queen Mother, and let her blame everything on the Queen Mother; third, you have to let Yan Zun know You are suspicious of him, so that the show can be real, and he and the people behind him will not think that all this is our scheme, so they will relax their vigilance. Remember?"

"Remember. I will do a good job, don't worry." Bai Yu thought for a while, and then said, "But, will this be too cruel to Princess Zhaoning?"

Yan Xun comforted him and said: "She knew these things a long time ago, but she has been hiding them all the time. She has done a lot of immoral things for the queen mother, and now she wants to use coercive edicts to threaten me. Whose fault is this? Besides, her marriage is the emperor's. I never said that I would marry her. We forced her to report on the Queen Mother for the sake of the emperor and the government. So, you don't have to worry about it."

"...We are good and bad." Bai Yu said, "You are even worse."

Yan Xun grabbed his waist, lifted him up and put him on the table, "Say it again?"