As long as there is a chance to go out, Zi Yan can agree to anything.
After making up and dressing up, Ziyan followed Eunuch Liu to Fengzao Palace.
In Fengzao Palace, the Empress Dowager, Rong Chang'an, and Li Hai didn't have much communication.
"Queen Mother, I have someone build a huge temple for you in Huairenli. Now the project is nearing completion. After the completion, I will go out with the Queen Mother for a walk."
Li Hai was just talking, and didn't really want the Queen Mother to leave the palace.
The queen mother twitched the corners of her mouth and showed a meaningless smile on her face, "The emperor has taken care of me!"
Li Hai just replied, "That's what it should be."
The Queen Mother thought about it, and suddenly her face froze, as if she just remembered something.
"Your Majesty, today is my birthday. In previous years, on birthdays, I would always go to my natal family's ancestral grave to burn incense and lay down three animals. But this year, I am too weak to walk. I want to send someone out to go to the ancestral grave for me." Let’s go up and down, can you?”
Li Hai was afraid that the Queen Mother would escape, and colluded with his relatives to rebel. Since the queen mother does not go out, he is nothing to be afraid of.
"Since it is the usual practice in previous years, the queen mother should choose a eunuch!"
The Empress Dowager smiled, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your permission!"
The queen mother prepared three sacrifices and asked an eunuch to take it out of the palace, "Go to the ancestral grave for me and tell me the reason why I can't go. I hope my ancestors can forgive me."
"Yes, little one, let's go out now!"
The eunuch took the order and let the two soldiers follow out of Fengzao Palace.
Rong Changan looked at the Queen Mother, and said as if joking: "Queen Mother, it's really rare to go out to pay homage to the ancestors this big night! It's rare!"
A trace of astonishment flashed across the Empress Dowager's eyes, but she quickly regained her composure.
"When will I go out to pay respects? That's my business. Is the queen too strict?" The queen mother's words revealed anger.
Rong Changan smiled, "Queen Mother, I just asked casually." After finishing speaking, Rong Changan stood up and arched his body for the Queen Mother and Li Hai, "Queen Mother, Your Majesty, I'm going out to change clothes, excuse me."
Changing clothes is a way of urinating, but Rong Changan took Chuntao to the outside of Fengzao Palace.
"Empress, don't you want to change your clothes? Why did you go outside the palace to change?" There was also some irony in the Queen Mother's words.
Rong Changan arched his waist again, and said apologetically, "I have a habit of going back to my own palace to change clothes. This unrefined thing made the empress dowager and the emperor laugh."
Li Hai thought that Rong Changan was afraid of seeing Ziyan, so he wanted to avoid it. He probably wouldn't come back once Rong Changan left.
"Empress, you have to come back quickly! The Empress Dowager's birthday can't be ignored. I want to invite the Empress to dance swords in front of the Empress Dowager for fun."
Rong Chang'an heard the dissatisfaction in Li Hai's words, and just smiled slightly, "Since the emperor said so, then I will go back as soon as I go, and I will definitely not let the queen mother and the emperor wait."
Rong Changan took Chuntao but did not go to Fengming Palace, but to the back door of the palace city.
"Queen, where are you going?" Chun Tao asked while following Rong Chang'an.
Two people, a lantern, walked by the tall red wall, and the long corridor echoed with their hurried footsteps.
Rong Chang'an's face was a little dignified, and he didn't answer Chuntao's question, but his footsteps became tighter. Pass through the back garden and come under an ancient pine tree. In front of you is the back door Jingyangmen.
The eunuch ordered by the queen mother just now was walking outside the door. The eunuch's face was very serious, and the two soldiers around him walked in a hurry, as if there was something urgent, not like going to the Empress Dowager's ancestral grave.
"Chuntao, can you do me a favor?" The light of the lantern turned into two deep lights in Rong Changan's cold eyes.
Chuntao felt Rong Changan's feeling that the enemy was approaching, but she didn't understand why Rong Changan felt this way.
"You are the master, and I am a servant. It is only natural to do things for you. Why do you need a word of please! It is a shame. Queen, please tell me what is the matter?"
Rong Changan pointed to the eunuch who was walking in a hurry, "Go and follow this eunuch, see where he went, and then come back and tell me."
Chuntao looked blank, "Didn't the Empress Dowager just say that she wanted this eunuch to go to her ancestral grave..."
Rong Changan raised his hand, and with this movement, he firmly denied Chuntao's innocence.
"It's not that simple! At the banquet just now, I saw murderous intent in the Queen Mother's eyes."
"Murderous?" Chuntao froze for a moment when she heard the word, "Why... how can the Queen Mother have murderous looks? Who does she want to kill?"
Who else but Li Hai! If Rong Chang'an guessed correctly, the eunuch must have gone to inform his relatives. Li Hai was confused for a moment, and actually released the eunuchs next to the queen mother, the consequences were disastrous.
"Naturally kill the person she wants to kill." Rong Changan especially told Chuntao, "You must be secretive, and you must not let the eunuch know that someone is following, otherwise, you will be very dangerous."
If the eunuch finds out that someone is following him, he will definitely kill Chuntao, so he will not be kind to a girl, even if this girl is the girl next to Rong Changan.
Chuntao felt that the matter was important, her heart was pounding, she nodded, "Okay, Queen, I will definitely take care of it."
After Chuntao went out, Rong Changan returned to Fengzao Palace, at this time Ziyan just arrived.
When the enemies met, they were extremely jealous, and when they saw Rong Changan walking in from the door, Zi Yan's star eyes flashed with fire, and her two thin and red lips twitched twice.
However, she hugged the Queen Mother's arm deliberately dotingly, and said coquettishly: "Queen Mother, Ziyan hasn't come to visit the Queen Mother for a long time, and she still hopes that the Queen Mother will make amends! In fact, Ziyan has been delayed by some things these days. If I can come, I will definitely come. here."
The queen mother naturally knew that Ziyan had been thrown into the cold palace, but Li Hai didn't let her speak out.
"Zi Yan, you have been haggard a lot recently. You see your eyes sunken in, like a hole. Are you sick?" The queen mother asked this deliberately, seeing Li Hai's expression, I was ashamed of him for a while.
Hearing her aunt's question, Ziyan felt sad and wanted to cry, but she was afraid of being discovered by the queen mother, so she had to hold back her tears and put her face on the queen mother's arm.
"Recently, Ziyan is really feeling a little uncomfortable. She can't eat well or sleep well. That's why she's so thin and haggard. Don't worry about it, the Queen Mother."
The empress dowager stared at Li Hai slightly, "Your Majesty, Zi Yan is your favorite imperial concubine. Didn't you choose an imperial physician for her? Where's the imperial physician?"
These words were naturally scolded by Li Hai. Li Hai had already prepared in his heart, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth to resolve his embarrassment.
"Queen Mother, I was negligent, and I will treat Zi Yan well in the future."
The Empress Dowager showed dissatisfaction in her eyes, "Your Majesty, you did not say what you are doing to Ziyan, you have to do it. I am just such a cousin, you can't let her be hurt by others."
Sharp eyes shot at Rong Chang'an, but Rong Chang'an didn't care. The Empress Dowager was blaming Rong Chang'an, which caused Zi Yan to be sidelined.