This shadow guard, you are enlightened

The war is related to the safety of the whole Ranying, and the military supplies cannot be delayed. In the end, all the soldiers and horses and supplies were rushed out of Luan City at the beginning of the twelfth lunar month according to Xing Chenmu's intention, but because they brought a large amount of supplies and the imperial physician and others went with them, the marching speed Slow, counting the days, it will take years to arrive at the Zhenbei Army camp.

In previous years, Luancheng would welcome the first snow almost in the winter months, but this year, for some reason, until the middle of the twelfth lunar month, the snow had not yet fallen, but the weather was a bit colder than before.

After the morning court, the Qintian Supervisor was going to the Mizuo, and it was reported that he watched the stars at night and noticed a strange phenomenon in the sky, fearing that there would be changes in the palace.

"It's nonsense, it's just that the first snow is late, is this an ominous omen?" Xing Chenmu looked at the Zhezi and chuckled, ordered someone to light the brazier, and threw the Zhezi directly in front of Gongsun Jing and Ning Jie Into the brazier, "No one is allowed to disclose half a word about this matter."

The two immediately lowered their eyes and said, "I dare not."

Xing Chenmu asked them to leave first, and specifically called out several shadow guards who had been guarding the hall for the past few days, and said: "Don't mention this matter to Zhuo Ying when you go back."

"Yes."

Xing Chenmu thought for a while and then ordered: "Go and ask Yan Qing to come in."

Yan Qing quickly entered the palace, Xing Chenmu asked: "How is the progress with that Xiaoying recently?"

Xiaoying was the court lady Ning Jie hooked up with and wanted to meet him.

"Returning to the Holy One, this servant has already responded to Ningshang Palace according to your wishes, and... also started to contact Xiaoying as much as possible, but she didn't ask about anything related to you."

"Well, they are more cautious than I thought." Xing Chenmu picked up the celadon pen on the table and played with it, and after a long while, he smashed the thing to the ground without warning.

Yan Qing shivered in fright, before he understood what was going on, Xing Chenmu had already overturned all the utensils on the table.

"Your Majesty, calm down, slave, this slave deserves to die, this slave deserves to die." Yan Qing knelt on the ground, really not understanding what he said wrongly, which made Xing Chenmu so furious.

"It has nothing to do with you, you get up first." Xing Chenmu showed no sign of anger on his face, he walked out from the main seat and walked around to Yan Qing, "When you met Xiaoying today, you made a distressed look. If you ask, you can say, I don’t know why I lost my temper in the Xuanming Palace this morning.”

"Yes..." Yan Qing looked at the mess and wiped the cold sweat from his brow, "My lord, do you need someone to clean up these things?"

"You find a few court ladies with good hands and feet, clean up and replace the broken items with new ones, don't tell Zhuo Ying about this."

Yan Qing only felt that Xing Chenmu had become more and more moody recently, and he didn't dare to be half-sloppy, so he bowed and said, "Your slave will do it now."

Xing Chenmu said again: "After the arrangement is made, you don't have to come to Xuanming Palace to serve for the time being, and I will go to your mother's place with me in the afternoon."

"Yes."

Yan Qing withdrew from the hall, Xing Chenmu got up a little restlessly and walked to the window.

This year's snow did fall late, Qin Tianjian's book was an unintentional help to him, but the two old foxes, Ning Yuan and Chen Si, were too calm, and the matter between Yan Qing and the palace lady didn't make any progress. What people gave to Xing Chenxiu had to wait until the next year to be delivered.

Not to mention that Xing Chenxiu won't use it lightly if it wasn't for an emergency.

Xing Chenmu didn't like this feeling of passive waiting very much. They had waited for too long, so long that he almost exhausted his patience, but he had already done everything he could, and the rest could only wait and see what happened.

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In the afternoon, Xing Chenmu went to Zhengquan Palace to greet him routinely, and the queen mother inevitably asked about the concubine again.

"Mu'er, originally Aijia thought that the person you said was your sweetheart was Liu Shanggong. Aijia saw that she was careful and thoughtful, and liked her. Why did you agree to let someone go out of the palace to get married?"

Xing Chenmu remembered Zhuo Ying's misunderstanding that day, and couldn't help laughing: "Mother, the person my son said was not her."

"It's really not her?" The queen mother was like an ordinary mother who was afraid that her son would be hurt by love. She carefully scrutinized Xing Chenmu's expression, and when she saw that she was not sad at all, she breathed a sigh of relief and said, "But the Ai family asked Nanny in charge, among the Shang Palaces who have been in the palace for four years, Liu Shanggong has the most contact with you, and your age is also suitable. The other people are either already old enough to leave the palace, or have no chance to talk to you at all. .”

"Mother, why do you still inquire about these things?" Xing Chenmu was helpless.

"Oh, the Ai family doesn't want to inquire, isn't it because you don't want to tell the Ai family?" The queen mother glared at him, thought for a while and then probed, "It's not the palace, is it an ordinary palace lady? Ordinary palace ladies are fine, you and Aijia, tell me who it is, Aijia promises not to object."

The Queen Mother asked this question because she really had no idea, she still has some doubts, whether the person Xing Chenmu said really existed, or was it just an excuse made up by the other party to prevaricate her.

"It's not a court lady either. Don't ask, Queen Mother, you will naturally know when the time comes."

"Aren't you a court lady or an ordinary court lady? Are you really trying to deceive the Ai family? Apart from them, how can there be other women in this palace?" The Queen Mother said dissatisfiedly, "Mu'er, do you still want to see a high-ranking eunuch?"

Xing Chenmu had just taken a sip of tea, when he heard the words, he was choked and coughed hastily.

Although Yan Qing was also a little frightened, she immediately stepped forward and handed over the handkerchief, and the servants in Zhengquan Palace were also so frightened that they immediately surrounded her.

The queen mother didn't expect that her own words would cause such a reaction, so she got up and walked behind Xing Chenmu to relieve him with some distress: "Be careful, how old you are, you still choke on your saliva."

After Xing Chenmu coughed, he waved his hands to make all the waiters in the room back out.

After the vermilion wooden door was closed again, he considered his words carefully and asked carefully: "Mother, which eunuch Ruo Erchen really likes, what do you think?"

The Empress Dowager's face turned completely pale: "Mu'er, you really..."

The more the Empress Dowager thought about it, the more she felt it was possible. Xing Chen Muming said that she was not a maid, so in this huge palace, isn't it the eunuch who has the most contact with him?What's more, according to his statement, this person will inevitably cause criticism from the court. Although the maids are not as good as the nobles, but with her own precedent, the important ministers should not dare to discuss more.

In fact, counting up several dynasties, there was a similar secret history in the palace. The emperor who had 3000 beauties in the harem, for some reason, actually fell in love with a handsome young eunuch and raised him in the deep palace. middle.

The insiders in the palace kept taboo about this, fearing that they would bring about their own deaths, and the eunuch would have to pamper him for a while, but the emperor soon got tired of it, and after the enthusiasm subsided, he was afraid of damaging his reputation, so he simply ordered a glass of poisoned wine and gave him a cup of poisoned wine. The other party died.

This matter was only passed on after the ancestor passed away.

Before Xing Chenmu had time to explain, the queen mother said solemnly: "Mu'er... If you are really a eunuch, you can just raise him in secret, but you can't be so foolish as to put someone on the stage to pamper you."

"The queen mother once said that the queen mother would support no matter who the sons and ministers look at, why did she change her words now?" Xing Chenmu swallowed back all the words he had originally explained, and asked with a frown, "Is the eunuch not a human anymore?"

"How can this be the same!" No matter how good-tempered the queen mother is, she is a little angry at the moment, but she still remembers that the person in front of her is not only her son, but also the lord of a country.

She raised her teacup and took a sip of tea, suppressed her anger, and tried to persuade her as patiently as possible: "A eunuch is a man and an eunuch, not to mention that he can't have children, and a person who has been cleansed can't live long, so how long can he stay with you? If you really like it, you can keep it in your own room and serve it. No one dares to say anything after closing the door, and it will not be passed on to the court, and you will get tired of it in the future..."

"Mother's queen!" Xing Chenmu interrupted her, and said with a dark expression, "Because you can't give birth to an heir, you don't need to give a title, right? It will be hidden in the deep palace forever, and the world will not know it. Is it possible that the son will continue to be a queen? Concubine Na, to be a good emperor in the eyes of the world?"

"This..." The Empress Dowager leaned back in the chair slumped, with a pale face, unable to say a word.

Before today, she really believed that no matter what kind of woman Xing Chenmu's lover is, as long as her son likes it, she is willing to accept it.

Since Xing Chenmu became the crown prince, she has watched him become more and more mature, more stable, more and more like his father, like a qualified emperor, but no one knows better than her mother, Xing Chenmu does not unhappy.

Xing Chenmu told her that she has someone in mind and has identified him. Although she is worried, she is more at ease. At least there is one person that Xing Chenmu can take care of. If they really like each other and spend this life together, it will be a beautiful thing.

But she never expected that what Xing Chenmu fell in love with was...

The queen mother suddenly burst into tears: "Mu'er, what do you want Aijia to do? Ah? Even if Aijia is not the queen mother, even if you are not the emperor, as an ordinary mother, how could she accept her son marrying an eunuch?" Is it? Now you will be crowned, not a child, Aijia knows that nothing Aijia says today can influence your thoughts, you may feel that Aijia is cruel and selfish now, but besides thinking of other ideas for you, Aijia What else can the family do?"

"Queen, I'm sorry, my son is not, my son is just..." Xing Chenmu came back to his senses, took a handkerchief to wipe the tears for the queen mother in a panic, and didn't know where to start.

It was true that he fell in love with a man, and he was destined to be unable to have any more children. The only thing that could be explained was that the man was not a eunuch.

The author has something to say: The queen mother wants to provoke more, we Zhuo Ying can give birth to steamed buns and knock them hard~