Outside the cold palace, a group of guards stood guard.

It is said that the emperor wanted to trap the imperial concubine.

The imperial concubine cannot leave the cold palace, and outsiders cannot enter.

This morning, the guards have already blocked two groups of people, one group is the nuns of Yongning Palace, and the other group is Dan Ning's people.

These two groups of people are all in the name of being good for the emperor and concubine. In fact, there are some malicious thoughts in their hearts. The guards know it well and drive them away mercilessly. Only then was it quiet.

At noon, a person who caused headaches for the guards came.

"I'm the queen-to-be! How dare you stop me?"

Yan Yourou put her hands on her hips, showing off her prestige with this title.

Neither did the guards stop him, nor did he take out the emperor's order to block him, so he had to go to the cold palace to ask for instructions.

Yun Ziji was loosening the soil for the withered magnolia tree in the yard, when he heard that Yan Rou was coming again, he asked the guards not to stop him.

Yan Yourou stepped into the courtyard of Lenggong Palace, expecting to see desolation and depression everywhere.

But I saw that the small palace was cleaned cleanly. There was no unpleasant smell in the air, but the fragrance of flowers and plants. Vibrant florets instead.

The inner hall is spacious and bright. Although the furniture in sight is not gorgeous, it is brand new and clean. The rotten chairs and crooked tables covered in cobwebs that Yan Yourou imagined are not there!

Yun Ziji, who is in the cold palace, still has the leisure to water the trees and soil.

Yan Yourou: "It's turned upside down outside, do you still have this leisurely mood?"

"Even if the sky is falling, I don't need to stand up."

Yun Ziji took the water from Shan Wu and poured it into the loose soil.

He hoped that the magnolia tree could be brought back to life.

After pouring the water, Yun Ziji put down his sleeves, glanced at Yan Yourou, and was startled.

"Why are your eyes so red and swollen?"

Yan Yourou curled her lips, and tears came as soon as she said it: "I had a fight with my brother and ran away from home."

Yun Ziji: "...what's wrong? "

I told him that the Queen Mother is not a good person, but he didn't believe me. He scolded me for not knowing what to do, and said that I was ungrateful. I was so angry that I ran away from home. I wanted to come to Weiyang Palace to look for you, but you were fine, and you were thrown into the cold palace! You didn't live up to it at all." !"

Yan Yourou became more and more sad as she spoke, tears fell violently.

Yun Ziji was a little at a loss. He rubbed his hands that had touched the dirt on the clothes on his waist, and then took a clean handkerchief and handed it over: "Don't cry, your brother may have some difficulties."

" What are the difficulties! He never scolded me since he was a child, and now he doesn't even want me as a younger sister for the sake of fame and wealth! Yun Ziji, do you think everyone is as lucky as you to have two such good brothers? Is it?"

Yun Ziji: "...but my second brother is in jail now!"

To comfort others, as long as he is worse than her.

Sure enough, Yan Yourou stopped crying immediately: "It's true that you are more miserable."

Yun Ziji: "..."

Yan Yourou took the handkerchief, wiped away her tears, sat at the small table in the yard, saw the rough pastries on the table, and said in a muffled voice, "Why do you eat such things?

" But she picked up another piece of ugly mung bean cake and gave it to her mouth—she was so sad that she didn't have any water or rice all morning, she was really hungry.

As soon as the pastry entered the mouth, Yan Yourou was stunned.

This mung bean cake looks ugly and rough, but it is sweet, soft and glutinous, delicious, and it is not inferior to Weiyang Palace's chef's craftsmanship!

I couldn't stop after eating a piece, so I picked up the red bean cake and sweet-scented osmanthus cake to my mouth.

These pastries, just looking at the appearance, are almost unappetizing, but once you taste such a bite, you can't stop at all!

Shan Zhu Shan Wu thought: It is really hard for a royal chef to make delicious pastries ugly to deceive people's eyes and ears.

Seeing her eating like a wolf, Yun Ziji poured her a cup of tea for fear that she would choke.

Yan Yourou picked up the tea and poured it into her mouth.

I thought they were some ordinary tea leaves, so I didn't need to taste them carefully at all, but the aroma and taste of the entrance were clearly the eight imperial imperial teas of one or two thousand gold!

Yan Yourou was shocked: "How can the food in the cold palace be so good?! I want Zhan Love to relegate me to the cold palace too! Being a queen is better than living in the cold palace!" Yun Ziji was amused by Yan Yourou's bold words

.

At this time, there was another commotion at the gate of the palace.

"His Royal Highness, you cannot go in."

The guard's voice reached Yun Ziji's ears.

When Yun Ziji got up, he saw Zhanyao standing at the gate of the palace.

"Come in."

With the permission of the imperial concubine, the guards let Zhan Yao enter the palace.

Zhan Yao, like Yan Yourou, thought that Yun Ziji was suffering from the cold in the cold palace, so he came here to see it.

Compared to Yan Yourou who ate cakes empty-handed, the servant next to Zhanyao was holding two three-layered food boxes. After opening the food boxes, they were full of hot and high-quality dishes, and there was also a ginseng and fish soup.

Yun Ziji: "..."

The chopsticks that Zhan Yao handed to Yun Ziji were silver chopsticks that can detect poison: "Don't worry, I won't poison the dishes."

Yun Ziji was puzzled "What is your lord doing?"

"Let's take it as the little king repaying the emperor's concubine for the three meals a day at Dali Temple." Zhan Yao smiled warmly: "By the way, I just came back from Dali Temple. Brother is fine in the prison, he told me that he is used to it."

"Ahem!" Yan Yourou almost choked on the tea—how funny this is!

"The imperial concubine's handling of the matter of the Duanlan clan was indeed too extreme." Zhan Yao's tone did not mean to criticize, "But if Zhan Qiu gets angry again, it is impossible to use this matter to severely punish the Yun family. Wei, it's not Xidi, there is no reason to abandon the Yun family for the sake of a few Xidi people, Zhan Love is angry now, when he understands the pros and cons of this, he will naturally forgive the Yun family." "If he insists on going his own way

. "Zhanyao said firmly, "I will save you."

Yun Ziji: "..."

He felt Zhanyao's purest sincerity and kindness, perhaps these kindnesses originated from Zhanyao's kindness to his second brother. I like it, but no matter what, at the moment when outsiders think that the Yun family is down and out and want to avoid it, King Qi is still the one who comes to help.

Just like during the most difficult half a year for the Yun family, King Qi was also the only one who clearly wanted to keep Yun Feihan.

Compared with Zhan Qiao who grew up in the hurt and beating, Zhan Yao was so well protected that he was too naive and didn't realize that all the changes at the moment were aimed at his mother's situation.

Yun Ziji actually felt that she was a little cruel.

He even started to take pity on Zhan Yao, but now, it was clear that Zhan Yao was taking pity on the Yun family.

"Two days later is Zhanqi's birthday banquet, and I will intercede for the imperial concubine at the banquet."

Yun Ziji moved: "Then there will be His Royal Highness King Lao Qi."

Zhan Yao smiled: "I still have to go to see the queen mother." It is not appropriate to stay here any longer, so I will leave first."

Yun Ziji watched Zhan Yao leave, he and Zhan Loi both regarded the Yan family as an enemy, but at this moment he hoped that the Empress Dowager Yan would stop here, because her greed would definitely It will destroy everything that Zhan Yao has now.

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"Your Majesty, that one has already been sent to the cold palace."

Yueyin stood beside the Queen Mother and said this matter with a smile.

Yan claimed that she had been ill for half a year, but she was really bedridden for only two months, and she pretended to be sick for the next four months.

In the past four months, she has worked hard to plan, and finally got the current situation.

"Your Majesty is really clever in using the Duanlan people to create a divorce. This servant thought that the two of them are as solid as glue, but I didn't expect that they would be ruthless so soon." The Queen Mother propped up her upper body, lying on the beauty's couch, closing her eyes and dozing off: "

Duanlan The mother clan that Ming An had protected before his death was wiped out overnight by Yun Ziji, how could you embarrass the emperor? It is right to turn around, even if you turn against each other because of this matter, it is not uncommon."

Yueyin: "The emperor turned his anger on the Yun family. The entire family of the Yun family, except for Yun Feichi on the border, have been demoted to common people. The power of the imperial army in Yun Feihan's hands has also fallen into Yan Ying's hands. Now the imperial army inside and outside the imperial city They are all at Yan Ying's disposal."

Because Yan Ying was on the border, she had repeatedly made military achievements and was reused. In the case of military pay half a year ago, Yan Ying skillfully stayed out of the matter. Now that the Yun family has fallen, Zhan Qiao can only reuse Yan Ying.

"My maidservant also heard that Yan Yourou was driven out of the house by Yan Ying because of her wrong words.

" Naturally, he should repay the kindness of knowing you."

"The emperor's birthday will be in a few days, you ask Yan Ying to prepare and surprise the emperor."

Yueyin said with a smile: "Don't worry, empress, Weiyang Palace collapsed. , the resistance inside and outside the palace has been reduced a lot, and everything that should be arranged has been arranged."

At this time, the little eunuch came in and said, "Your Majesty, Prince Qi is here."

Yan opened her eyes, sat up and settled down. arrange clothes.

Zhan Yao stepped into Yongning Palace, and after greeting his mother, Yan Shi pulled her to sit beside her.

"My mother's complexion has improved a lot recently." Zhan Yao looked at his mother and said, "What's the matter with calling your son here today?" Yan Shi screened away the idlers, and Yue Yin went to the inner hall to fetch an imperial

decree .

Just looking at the style of the imperial decree, Zhan Yao recognized that it was not the decree made by Zhan Qiao.

"This is your father's second will."

The Queen Mother handed over the imperial edict to Zhan Yao.

The Holy Order unfolded before Zhanyao's eyes, and the content on it made Zhanyao's face change suddenly.

"Your father planned to pass on the throne to you. Zhan Qiao is just a fake, and you are the orthodox emperor of Beiwei." Also

sent to Zhan Yao was a dragon jade seal carved in black jade.

"This ink seal can mobilize 100,000 soldiers and horses in Qizhou City. Your father designated Qizhou as your fief at the beginning because Qizhou is close to the capital. Sending troops from Qizhou can use the geographical advantage to directly encircle the capital and instigate a palace change. Let you get twice the result with half the effort."

Yan Shi held Zhan Yao's hand: "This decree should have been announced to the world after Zhan Qiao pacified Xidi, but now he is getting more and more disreputable, and even killed Yan Lun, the queen mother. I don't want to wait any longer, for the birthday banquet two days later, the Queen Mother wants you to take this imperial decree and this ink seal to make things right." The ink seal is too heavy, and

Zhan Yao doesn't want to hold it in the palm of his hand.

"My queen, Xidi is still making trouble. You want me to usurp the throne at this time? Beiwei will be destroyed due to internal and external troubles! What's more, I am not good at fighting Xidi. If I become the throne, who will suppress Xidi? "

Dongdan Kingdom has promised that after you become emperor, you will send troops to attack Xidi together with Beiwei. Even if there is no Zhanqi, we will win this battle!" Zhan Yao noticed something: "Why are you so sure?

" Dongdan will help us, Queen Mother, did you make any deal with them!?" "You don't have to

worry about it, you just need to follow the road that Queen Mother paved for you step by step!"

Zhan Yao: "I want to know

Seeing how stubborn he is, Yan could only say: "If Dongdan helps Beiwei subdue Xidi, after that, we will cut off six cities on the eastern border of Beiwei as a thank you." "Are you crazy? The twelve cities of

Xizhou Have you forgotten the shame?! You actually agreed to trade the land?!"

Zhan Yao couldn't believe his ears, and he didn't want to believe that these silly words came from his queen mother.

"I'm not crazy! I'm all for Beiwei, for the orthodoxy of the royal family! This bastard, Zhan, is from Sidi, and sooner or later he will assimilate the entire Beiwei into Sidi! This is what your father told me Yes!"

"I only know that Zhan Qiao really led Beiwei to win the battle and regain the lost ground, at least until I surrender to Xidi, I will never take his throne!

" The Queen Mother slapped her.

"You unfilial son, do you want to watch your mother live in the shadow of that bastard every day? He killed my own brother in front of me! One day he will kill me too!" The queen mother said

again Regretting that she shouldn't have hit Zhanyao, she hugged Zhanyao, almost begging:

"Good Yao, can you save your mother? Only when you sit on the throne can your mother feel at ease. After your father dies, your mother will be there for you." And live! You are considerate of the empress, kill Zhanqi, and kill Zhanqi for me!"