Cining Palace
Yun Chaoxi walked in gracefully and bowed to the Queen Mother who was leaning on the soft couch. "Aunt, I heard that aunt has something to do with Xi'er?"
The Queen Mother slowly raised her eyes, said "Hmm", and gracefully stretched out a hand covered with cinnamon. Aunt Gui beside her quickly stepped forward to catch her, and helped her sit up.
"You should sit down too!" The Queen Mother glanced at Yun Chaoxi, frowned and sighed.
Seeing her like this, Yun Chaoxi looked puzzled, brushed his skirt, sat on the soft pear wood chair opposite, and couldn't help but ask: "Aunt, what are you worrying about?"
"Hey~" There was another long sigh, and the Queen Mother hesitated for a while before speaking in a deep voice: "The Ai family suspects that the Emperor is controlled by Concubine Ying."
"What?" Yun Chaoxi was startled and stood up suddenly.
"Don't get excited! Let Aijia finish his words first!"
The Queen Mother raised her hand towards her, motioned her to sit down, pursed her lips, and then said: "This is just the suspicion of the Ai family. Think about it, isn't the emperor just sick? But it's not like Longyin Palace is not good. Let anyone in? Whether it’s the ministers or you concubines in the harem, you don’t even want a maid, just the imperial concubine. Don’t you think it’s strange? Also, why did the emperor vomit blood like that earlier? I haven’t heard of it. What hidden illness does the emperor have? How could he be like this at such a young age? Unless he was poisoned or something. In addition, all these imperial edicts were issued by Concubine Ying. She said they were dictated by the emperor. Who knows if they were her own words? All kinds of doubts make the Ai family have to think about that!"
After a pause, she continued, "Although the Ai family feels a little uncomfortable because the fourth child is sitting on the throne of the seventh child, after all, he is also a member of the Leng family, and we cannot let the Leng family fall on the river. In the hands of others, what do you think?"
After saying that, there was another long sigh.
Although she said it was just her suspicion, everything she said was really thought-provoking, and to the ears of Yun Chaoxi, who was already straightforward, it was even more like the truth.
Yun Chaoxi's face turned pale, and he couldn't sit still. He stood up and walked out, "That's okay, I'll go to Longyin Palace to have a look!"
The Queen Mother anxiously called out "Xi'er, Xi'er" twice from behind. When she saw her leaving the Cining Palace without looking back, she slowly raised the corners of her lips, raised her eyebrows lightly, and smiled sinisterly in her eyes.
"Mother Gui, please have people guard outside Longyin Palace. If there is any movement, report it to the Ai family immediately!"
"yes!"
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Longyin Palace
Yun Chaoxi walked to the door of the main hall and was about to push the door open when he was stopped by two guards at the door. "Your Majesty, the Emperor has decreed that no one is allowed to enter! Please forgive me!"
"Anyone?" Yun Chaoxi sneered, "Then why is Concubine Ying in there?"
"Concubine Ying is appointed by the Emperor, no one else but her!"
"Really? Okay then!" Yun Chaoxi thought for a moment, turned around and walked back. When the two guards relaxed their vigilance, she suddenly turned back, opened the door and rushed in. When the two guards reacted, she Having entered the main hall, he closed and bolted the door, and separated the two guards from the door.
Yun Chaoxi rushed into the inner hall in one breath, shouting "Your Majesty, Your Majesty..."
Linglong, who was sitting at the table in the inner hall and was reading a book, was startled. He frowned and looked at her with some displeasure, and said coldly: "Why did you come in? The emperor has issued an imperial edict that no one can come in. Don't you know?"
"I know!" Yun Chaoxi sneered, "I just came to confirm whether the emperor is safe?"
With that said, she ran to the dragon couch, where a man dressed in bright yellow was sleeping with his face facing inward, motionless.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!" She pushed his back gently, and when he didn't respond, she forcefully grabbed his arm and prepared to turn him over.
The man suddenly turned around, and Yun Chaoxi saw the man's face clearly, and was shocked to see that it was actually the guard commander Ye Feng.
She opened her mouth and was about to shout when she suddenly felt a heavy weight on her neck, her vision went dark, and she fainted.
Ye Feng slowly put away his palm, frowned and looked at Linglong, "What should I do now? I just knocked her out, she will wake up sooner or later."
Linglong's eyebrows were slightly raised, and she walked over slowly, looked down at the woman lying on the carpet, and pursed her lips, "There is no other way. I will give her some medicine to make her sleepy later, and then let her sleep in the dragon's room." Yin Gong, please sleep for a few days!"
After saying that, he walked to the desk and sat down, looking at the flickering candlelight in the palace lantern and sighing, "I just hope that the emperor will be safe and come back soon!"
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Cining Palace
"As the Queen Mother expected, Yun Zhaoyi has not been seen since entering Longyin Palace!" Aunt Gui stepped over the threshold and walked in, smiling sinisterly, showing her yellow teeth.
"Yes!" The Queen Mother nodded and looked at the hourglass on the table in the distance, "How long has she been in there?"
"About two hours!"
"It seems that the fourth child is not in the palace after all!"
The Queen Mother slowly narrowed her eyes, her eyes filled with gloom, "Send the news to Yi'er and tell him that the Emperor is not in the palace."
"yes!"
"By the way, who is the official responsible for secretly investigating the sale and purchase of horses in the capital this time?"
"I heard that he is Prime Minister Han. The emperor has not long since ascended the throne, and many of his ministers in the court are old ministers. Therefore, he can be regarded as someone whom the emperor trusts."
"Is it him?" The corners of the Queen Mother's lips raised slightly, "Let him come to Cining Palace tomorrow!"
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Xiangyang Racecourse
When the first ray of morning light shone down, Mo Shuang slowly opened his eyes.
"woke up?"
The low-mellow and pleasant voice belongs to Leng Qisu.
Mo Shuang was startled. She didn't expect that he was beside her, and she suddenly realized that she was lying in his arms, with his green shirt covering her body.
Did they sleep outside last night
Lower your eyes and take a look, it’s not that haystack!
She remembered that the night was quiet and cool, he played music and she sang, and they talked a lot. Later, he held her tightly in his arms.
Her face couldn't help but blush, she quickly sat up and handed him the green shirt, not daring to raise her eyes to look at him, "Thank you, Fourth Master, last night... last night..."
What did she want to say.
She doesn't even know.
"What happened last night?" Ignoring her embarrassment, he seemed to deliberately want to quarrel with her, looking at her for a moment, with a half-smile in his dark eyes.
"Last night we..."
"Hey, what are you doing there? Come down and work!" A fierce supervisor under the haystack interrupted her and ordered the two of them.
"You all need to feed the horses you are responsible for first. Later, those horses will have to be trimmed and sent out at night!"
Trimming horse hair? send out? Or at night
The two looked at each other, nodded tacitly, jumped down from the haystack, and smiled flatteringly at the supervisor: "Okay, okay, we'll go right away!"
After feeding the horses and having a simple breakfast, they and the other horse owners drove the horses they were responsible for to the training ground. They heard from the supervisor that while walking the horses, someone was trimming the horses.
Leng Qisu and Mo Shuang each led a horse and circled around the training ground with everyone. From time to time, they glanced at the two men on the sidelines who were trimming the hair of other horses with large scissors.
A horse was finally trimmed. Mo Shuang only glanced at it before his breathing became stagnant and his heartbeat skipped a beat.
It turns out that the so-called trimming of horse hair is just a pretense, and the real purpose is to mark each horse.
She noticed that the mane on the horse's butt was trimmed into the shape of a half-open and half-closed wing.
This mark was all too familiar to her.
Blue Wing Door!
Sure enough, these are indeed related to the Blue Wing Sect. Since they are related to the Blue Wing Sect, they must also be related to Leng Qiyi.
Did Leng Qisu see it
She turned her head slightly and looked at the man next to her. She saw that his face was calm, but she didn't mean anything.
"Fourth Master, have you noticed that the trimmed horse's butt looks like a special pattern?" She whispered next to him.
(End of chapter)