White Hedge Dream

Chapter 276 Steady

After Zhang Ze finished speaking, the hall seemed to freeze for a moment.

Bai Ying chuckled: "This is the first time Zhongcheng has praised my appearance."

Zhang Ze said: "The reason why the empress is the empress is not because of her appearance, so there is no need to praise this." He smiled again and looked at Bai Ying, "But the empress is dressed up today and her bearing is extraordinary."

Bai Ying smiled and said: "Yes, people rely on clothes, just like gold. I am already a noble concubine, so I should dress up." After saying that, he seemed to think of something, and looked at Zhang Ze angrily, "I was interrupted by Zhong Cheng and I forgot to say it. Big deal."

Zhang Ze looked at her.

"Princess Chu is my sister, Bai Li." Bai Ying said.

Zhang Ze asked in a deep voice: "Do you arrest people directly, or do you wait for Your Majesty to speak?"

Bai Ying looked at him and was a little surprised: "Zhong Cheng is not surprised at all?"

Zhang Ze did not avoid her gaze: "Empress, I have already told you that your sister is definitely still alive." At this point, he pondered again, "But it is indeed a surprise to become the Princess of Chu, but..."

He immediately shook his head again.

"Zhou Jingyun has been acting strangely since his wife's death, and even got into contact with the King of Chu. Therefore, it is not surprising that your sister appears next to the King of Chu."

"In addition, it can also be confirmed that the King of Chu and the remnants of Empress Chiang are in cahoots."

When he said this, he looked at Bai Ying and smiled.

"Empress, it's time to get rid of King Chu."

Bai Ying kept looking at him. When she heard this, she shook her head: "Don't be reckless."

Zhang Ze frowned: "Your Majesty, this opportunity cannot be missed. King Chu has now offended Princess Jinyu. As long as we take action, King Chu will be dead this time. As for your sister, I will personally watch her head fall to the ground this time. "

"You underestimate her." Bai Ying said, "This monster can't die so easily, and it will definitely drag me down before it dies. The child is in her hands."

Zhang Ze asked: "That child? The little princess?" After saying that, he smiled and said, "No one believes it without any evidence."

Bai Ying shook her head: "No, she can make people distinguish between true and false, so you can't underestimate her." After saying this, she looked at Zhang Ze, "So if you don't arrest her, I will convince her."

"Persuade?" Zhang Ze was puzzled.

"Yes, what good does she gain from harming me?" Bai Ying said, looking at Zhang Ze with twinkling eyes, "What will she gain if I die? She is now the Princess of Chu, and I am the noble concubine. As long as we sisters are of the same mind, All the wealth in this world belongs to us!”

Zhang Ze looked at her.

"Empress, does she agree?" he asked.

"I don't care whether she agrees or not, I just want to stabilize her." Bai Ying whispered, taking a deep breath, "She came back from the dead, and I have my daughter in hand, but she didn't reveal it directly to the world. She came to see me, and it seemed like she was threatening me, but it also proved that she knew there was nothing she could do to me, and she also wanted to stabilize me."

At this she smiled coldly.

"Then I will cry to her, get angry with her, and show her that there is nothing I can do."

"I was terrified and terrified. I couldn't kill her, I could only beg her."

Speaking of which, what comes to mind?

"This is not enough. I want to see the King of Chu. I bow to him. I express my willingness to help him and listen to his orders. All I want is to keep my current glory and wealth."

Zhang Ze looked at Bai Ying and understood that it was still the same method of pretending to be pitiful in front of the emperor.

"The King of Chu can cooperate with the remnants of Empress Chiang, so he probably won't mind if Duo Niang Niang helps." He said with a smile, "In this case, the King of Chu will also control Bai Li for the empress, and will not harm the empress for the time being."

Bai Ying looked at him and asked with a smile: "Really? Isn't it better to do this than to break up with them?" She gently supported her imperial concubine's dress and said, "I put on this dress, and I can't reach my current position." It’s easy to get rid of them, but you can’t let them taint me.”

Zhang Ze nodded slowly: "It's okay." He immediately warned, "But this is not a long-term solution. We still need to take action as soon as possible. The least threatening thing in the world is the dead."

Bai Ying agreed: "I know, but you must be absolutely sure before taking action. My sister has survived several times and even climbed up to Zhou Jingyun and Li Yu."

From the crown prince to the prince, every step is getting higher and higher.

Bai Ying clenched the hands in front of her.

"I suffered a lot step by step to get the wealth I have today, but she got it so easily. I really underestimated her. Her ability is greater than I imagined."

"So, proceed with caution this time."

Zhang Ze leaned over and said, "I will listen to your Majesty's arrangements."

Bai Ying's eyes fell on him and her voice was slow: "Then I'll have to keep an eye on the King of Chu, Zhongcheng, to collect more personal and material evidence of the remnants of Empress Chiang, and I'll hit him with one strike."

Zhang Ze answered yes again and while leaving, he heard Bai Ying calling Wang Degui.

"Prepare some gifts and send them to Prince Chu's Mansion."

"And I will write a letter and you hand it to the King of Chu."

Wang Degui responded, Zhang Ze took another look at the two people talking in the hall, stepped out, withdrew his gaze and strode away.

Bai Ying sat in front of the throne, quickly wrote the letter and handed it to Wang Degui.

"Your Majesty, you have also handed over the handle to the King of Chu." Wang Degui said with uneasiness as he looked at the letter.

Bai Ying laughed at herself: "There is no more excuse for this." After saying that, she waved her hand and said, "Go ahead."

Wang Degui responded, but as soon as he turned around, he was called out by Bai Ying again.

".One more thing."

Wang Degui hurriedly stepped forward and said, "My Majesty, please give me your instructions."

Bai Ying looked at him and said slowly: "After you come back from the palace, go and see if Zhang Zhongcheng is in the Board of Supervisors."

Wang Degui's expression changed for a moment, and he immediately responded yes.

The imperial concubine's reward was delivered to the Prince of Chu's palace with great fanfare.

Mrs. Dongyang Hou heard a moment of silence.

"Mother won't comment on other people's daughters-in-law this time?" Zhou Jingyun said with a smile.

Mrs. Dongyang Hou glared at him: "That's her sister." She pressed her forehead as she spoke, with a complicated look on her face, "The sisters have recognized each other, so that's good."

OK? Not necessarily. Zhou Jingyun lowered his eyes and then stood up.

"I have something to go out for." He said, turned around and left.

Mrs. Dongyang Hou looked at the figure who disappeared in the blink of an eye and snorted disdainfully: "If you have anything to do, just say go and see someone else's wife."

When Zhou Jingyun arrived at Prince Chu's Mansion, dusk had already fallen. When he saw him dismounting, the concierge of Prince Chu's Mansion did not stop him at all, and an attendant took him directly into the back house.

"Have you eaten?"

Bai Li stood on the corridor with his daughter in his arms, looking back at Li Yu who had followed him out.

"We're just about to eat."

Hearing the word "we", a smile appeared on Li Yu's face: "Yes, the Crown Prince, he happens to have dinner with us."

Zhou Jingyun looked at the two people standing side by side in the corridor, leaned over and saluted: "Thank you, King Chu, Princess Chu."

"You don't need so many etiquette in this courtyard." Bai Li said to Zhou Jingyun as he walked into the room, "We are all our own people here, and we are not afraid of being discovered."

Li Yu smiled and nodded: "Yes, Your Majesty, please feel free to do so."

Zhou Jingyun had already held his daughter in his arms, who had been waving her hands since he appeared, and said with a smile: "It's better to be cautious."

"You know you are worried about us entering the palace, right?" Bai Li said, smiling and pointing to the gold and silver silks and satins displayed in the room, "Everything went well."

Zhou Jingyun nodded: "I know." He paused and glanced at Li Yu, "I just met Zhang Ze."

Zhang Ze?

Bai Li and Li Yu looked at each other.

"He warned that although Concubine Bai cared about the family ties between the sisters and let Bai Li go," Zhou Jingyun said slowly, "but he will keep an eye on us."

Bai Li was about to say something, but stopped and said, "He already guessed it when I faked my death before. He also threatened you, so what can I do?"

Zhou Jingyun said: "He must be lying when he says that Concubine Bai cares about family ties. Don't believe it." Bai Li nodded with a smile: "I know, I don't believe it."

Li Yu seemed to have thought of something: "Just now Concubine Bai sent me a letter and kept it in the secret room in the garden. I'll go see what she said."

Bai Li smiled and said, "No matter what you say, just don't believe it."

Li Yu smiled and said, "I know. I went to see it and tell you about it. It just so happened that the Crown Prince was here too." He looked at Zhou Jingyun again, "The Crown Prince will sit down and have something to eat first. I'll be back as soon as I go."

After that, he walked out.

Listen to Zhou Jingyun salute behind and say thank you.

Seeing him walking out of the yard, Cai Songnian hurriedly greeted him: "Your Highness, what's the matter?"

Li Yu said: "Look at the letter from Concubine Bai." As he spoke, he walked slowly towards the garden.

Cai Songnian followed him and asked confusedly: "Didn't His Highness say you don't need to read it earlier? It was all nonsense."

Why are you suddenly going to see it again?

Li Yu lowered his eyes and said in a calm voice: "I'm going to see the nonsense, so that people don't have to talk nonsense."

Zhang Ze would not say such nonsense when he met Zhou Jingyun. It must be something Zhou Jingyun didn't want him to know.

If you don't want him to listen, why should he listen?

He didn't care what Zhang Ze said.

In the face of what he wants to do, anything anyone says is nonsense.

"What did Zhang Ze say to you?"

After Li Yu left, Bai Li looked at Zhou Jingyun and asked.

Zhang Ze currently regards her as Empress Chiang and will not warn her.

She also understood Zhou Jingyun's concerns. If she wanted to say that Zhang Ze was obedient to her, she would have to mention Empress Chiang again.

For Li Yu, Empress Chiang was a very taboo existence after all, so it was better not to mention it.

"It's indeed a warning, don't trust Bai Ying." Zhou Jingyun said, briefly describing what Zhang Ze said to Bai Ying, "She just wants to stabilize you, not really admit her mistake, and won't embarrass you again in the future."

Bai Li smiled: "I know, of course my sister won't treat me sincerely."

Tell Zhou Jingyun what Bai Ying said when they met.

Zhou Jingyun frowned: "How can you be so shameless and confuse right and wrong? All of this is her own choice. Even if your mother is here, she will do the same."

He was not worried that Bai Ying's words about sharing wealth and glory would affect Bai Li. He was only worried that Bai Ying would sting Bai Li with her mother's death, which was too despicable and vicious.

Bai Li smiled at him: "Don't worry, I'm fine. Those words were nothing to me. I didn't even hear what she said at the time. I was sitting there watching my daughter play. When I went to see her, it was already It was enough to scare her."

Her eyes looked towards the rewards displayed in the room.

She had been hiding here and there before, and it was difficult for her to even enter the imperial city, let alone let Bai Ying see her.

Now, Bai Ying could and had to look at her carefully.

When Bai Ying faced her, the more she talked and thought, the more she reflected on herself.

Hold on? She couldn't hold herself steady.

The night wind blew by, the lamp shadow swayed, and Bai Ying, who was sitting on the recliner, suddenly sat up.

"Who's there?" she said, looking at a corner of the hall.

As he spoke, the shadows in the corner of the palace shook, and a palace maid climbed out timidly on her knees: "Your Majesty, my servant is wiping the floor."

She said and kowtowed repeatedly.

"I disturbed the queen."

Bai Ying held the Sanqing Bell in her waist and watched the maid kowtow. A chamberlain walked over, raised his hand and slapped the maid in the face, "Idiot, who told you to speak out."

The palace maid shed tears, but she did not dare to make a sound, and continued to kowtow with a red face and forehead.

It did not disappear, and the Sanqing bell did not ring.

Bai Ying's tense body relaxed: "Okay, don't wipe it at night, just wipe it again tomorrow morning."

The chamberlain glared at the palace maid and shouted in a low voice, "Get out of here."

The palace maid hurriedly stood up and hurriedly retreated.

Bai Ying slowly sat back.

"That's how you were at home, and it's still like this now."

There was a voice coming from the side.

Bai Ying sat upright suddenly, looked to the other side, and saw Bai Li sitting aside and pouting.

"I am cowardly and I scare myself, so I have to blame others."

Bai Ying stood up and pointed at her: "You-"

With a pop, the person in front of him knelt down. He was a chamberlain, with a horrified look on his face: "Mother, slave, slave, I didn't say anything-"

how? Bai Ying stretched out her hand and pressed her heart, looking around uneasily. Did she see it wrong? Is she dreaming?

Bai Ying raised her hand and hit herself in the face.

There was a crisp sound of applause in the hall, mixed with footsteps and exclamations of "Empress—"

The lights in the palace became brighter. Bai Ying felt the burning pain on her cheeks. She looked at her hands. The maid next to her was panicking.

"Mother, what's wrong with you?"

Not a dream.

Is that because she is being blinded? Because I saw Baili during the day, so—

She knew what Baili was capable of, but this was the imperial palace, and she... No, she was no longer pregnant and had no heir to protect her.

Sanqing bell, she also has Sanqing bell.

Bai Ying pulled off the Sanqing Bell and held it in her hand.

"Empress, what's wrong with you?" Wang Degui's voice came from outside.

Bai Ying looked at him and saw him walking in quickly with a worried look on his face. The shadow behind him shook and Bai Li appeared again.

"What can happen to her? She has thoughts every day and dreams at night, and she blames me!" She snorted, lifting the child in her arms, "Nanny, look, your mother is such a bad person, with such a mother , so shameful.”

Bai Ying let out a scream and shook the Sanqing Bell desperately.

Why doesn't it ring?

Why doesn't it ring?

It's not broken!

Seeing Wang Degui getting closer and closer and Bai Li and the child behind him, Bai Ying slammed Sanqing Ling over.

With a muffled sound, the Sanqing Bell hit the pillar, fell down and rolled on the ground, and the bell fell from inside.

The crisp ringtone rang out from the palace in front, penetrating the boundary between black and dim, making the swing hanging in the dream sway gently.

Bai Li sat on it, held the rope, and stopped the swing.

There was a swing next to her, and a woman was sitting on it, swinging harder, her skirt flying, and rubies on her bare ankles sparkling.

"A broken bell has taken so long," she said.

Bai Li looked at the imperial city in front of him. One part of the imperial city shrouded in darkness was becoming lively.

"Yes, a broken bell is also very annoying." She said softly, looking away from the Hanliang Palace where the lights were getting brighter, and looking at a part of the imperial city that was dim and difficult to see clearly even in a dream.

There is another one, a broken bell.