She cried so sadly, how could Li Hai question her!
"Okay, okay!" Li Hai wiped away the tears on her face with his cold fingers, and hugged her distressedly, "Don't cry, I forgive you."
Zi Yan's delicate body trembled slightly, she raised her face excitedly, her eyes flashed with joy, "Your Majesty, is what you said true? Don't you blame me?"
"No wonder, I see you are so haggard, and my heart hurts." Li Hai grabbed Zi Yan's hand and placed it on his chest, "Touch and see, my heart is almost broken!"
Ziyan laughed through tears, "Then, my lord, can I move out of the cold palace?" If I can move out of the cold palace, the first thing Ziyan thinks of is to kill the eunuchs guarding the cold palace!
Li Hai showed hesitation on his face, "This..."
Zi Yan had just seen hope, but suddenly felt hopeless again, "What's wrong? Isn't it just a matter of one sentence for the emperor to let me out? In Dajing Kingdom, in the palace, who else has more power than you? Your majesty, you don't want me Serving you tonight?"
Ziyan understands the relationship between men and women deeply, and Li Hai wants to spend the night with her, so why doesn't he want Ziyan to be by his side? But there is still Rong Changan between him and Ziyan.
Last time Rong Changan asked Li Hai to release Ziyan, but he refused; now that he suddenly released Ziyan, Rong Changan must have something to say.
Li Hai hugged Ziyan from behind, loving him very much, "Ziyan, I will move you out of the Leng Palace first and live in the Tong Palace. When the time is right, I will help you back to the position of noble concubine. what do you think?"
The living conditions in Tonggong are better, but they are still very cold. After hearing this, Zi Yan immediately understood Li Hai's meaning. He didn't want Rong Changan to know that he had released himself.
"Your Majesty, are you so afraid of Rong Chang'an?"
Li Hai had an ugly look on his face, "It's not because I'm afraid."
"What's that?" Ziyan stared straight at Li Hai with her awl-like eyes. She hated Li Hai, and even more hated Rong Chang'an.
"You'll understand later."
Ziyan still wanted to argue for himself, but Eunuch Liu next to him interrupted: "Concubine Ziyan, since the emperor promised to let you sit back as a concubine, you can trust the emperor! Stay here, the old servant will go to see the noble concubine from time to time, and bring you some necessities of life."
Since Eunuch Liu persuaded her not to talk anymore, Zi Yan had no choice but to shut up, her high mood fell down again, she pouted and muttered: "Well, I will follow the emperor's arrangement! But the emperor, you can't let Zi Yan Forget it, remember to visit me often, and when the time comes, immediately take me out of Tong Palace."
Li Hai comforted Zi Yan for a while before letting Eunuch Liu bring her back to the Queen Mother's birthday banquet. When Rong Changan saw her coming back, there was a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, that smile had a hint of complacency and demonstration.
Rong Chang'an pondered: Zi Yan must have gone to find Li Hai, otherwise, he would look depressed when he went, but he would be so happy when he came back! She must have gotten some kind of promise from Li Hai.
"Zi Yan, you have been going to change clothes for so long, did you leave me here and ignore me?" The queen mother complained with some dissatisfaction.
Ziyan hurriedly rubbed the empress dowager's shoulder obediently, and replied with a smile: "Empress dowager, I met a few concubines when I changed clothes just now, everyone chatted and laughed for a while, so I came late, the empress dowager atones!"
The two of them were talking, as if they were the only ones present and Rong Changan did not exist. Rong Chang'an also knew what was going on, he dusted off his clothes, wiped his lips, got up and said: "It's getting late, Chang'an should go back to Fengming Palace too! Empress Dowager, farewell!"
Zi Yan rushed in front of the Queen Mother and said bluntly, "No!"
It was clearly an order to chase away guests, Rong Chang'an gave him a cold smile.
Back at Fengming Palace, Chuntao happened to be back too. Rong Changan then asked where the eunuch had gone. There was doubt in Chuntao's eyes.
"I followed the eunuch for a long time, but the eunuch didn't go to the Empress Dowager's ancestral grave, but went to another place."
Rong Changan was about to swallow a sip of tea, but when he heard Chuntao's words, he was very interested, and the rim of the teacup rested on his vermilion lips.
"Where did he go?"
Chuntao frowned, "The eunuch went to Mr. Bai's house, then went to Mr. Lin's house, and then came back again. The queen mother clearly said that he should go to the grave, but why didn't she go? Queen, are you surprised?" strangeness?"
Rong Changan's expression was suddenly stern, and his starry eyes suddenly became deep, just like when she asked Chun Tao to follow the eunuch earlier. She put down her teacup, stood up and took a few steps.
"It seems that she is going to make a move! It could be half a month earlier, or a month at most."
Chuntao didn't understand what Rong Changan was talking to himself, her eyebrows were twisted together like two strands of rope, "Queen, what are you doing?"
"It seems that the Great Jing Kingdom is about to suffer a catastrophe." Rong Changan looked out of the palace, two painful crow's feet wrinkled at the corners of his eyes. She seemed to have seen the scene of the people being displaced, their lives devastated, gold and iron horses, bloodshed and killing.
"Queen, what are you talking about?" Chuntao asked anxiously.
"It's nothing." Rong Changan suddenly sat down again, picked up the tea just now and drank it.
"Queen, if you don't tell me, it will scare me to death!"
Rong Changan looked at Ziyan, and said meaningfully: "It's best not to know about these things. If you know, you'll be upset instead. Okay, you go down, I want to be alone."
It was inconvenient for Chuntao to ask Rong Changan again, so she had to leave.
If Rong Chang'an's guess is correct, the eunuchs who went out just now reported to the Bai family and the Lin family. The army that relies on Li Hai's orders is not their opponent at all.
In the feudal towns outside, there are several who are directly under the orders of the Lin family. The Lin family sent them to inform the feudal towns that it would take half a month before and after the feudal towns sent troops into the capital, so just now Rong Changan said that it would be half a month earlier. And there is nothing else that can prevent the feudal town from entering Beijing, except for the 100,000 troops of the Northern Army camp.
The camp of the Northern Army was under the orders of Rong Chang'an, without Rong Chang'an's orders, Li Hai could not mobilize even with the imperial decree and Shang Fang's sword.
This time, which side should she stand on
Rong Chang'an can escape to Beiying for refuge and watch Li Hai's country collapse. This is also the opportunity for her to avenge her past life; but if her relatives are allowed to lead the feudal towns to invade the country, thousands of Li people will be killed , Can she just watch those people die in the flames of war
Moreover, if Yan Li knew that Rong Changan had the ability to prevent this war, but did not act, Yan Li would never forgive her. She promised Yan Li that she would put state affairs and people's life and death first!
Tossing and turning unable to fall asleep, Rong Changan called Chuntao to go to the Royal Garden for a night tour with candles. Sitting on the Qianqiu, looking at the tranquility of the spring, the palace leaking at night forever, Rong Changan asked Chuntao, "If there is such a person who, for his own selfish desires, disregards the life and death of the people and causes the country to be destroyed, do you think such a person is hateful?"
Chuntao blurted out without thinking, "Of course it's hateful! Because he died so many people alone, if he is not hateable, then there will be no more hateful person in this world!"
"But, did this person really do this out of deep hatred?" Rong Changan tried to defend himself.
Chun Tao said: "Even if there is a deep hatred, he should seek revenge on that enemy himself. Why did he kill so many people!"
Rong Changan sighed and was silent for a while, "Maybe you are right! Selfishness is always abominable, no matter what the reason is, it cannot be an excuse to kill others."
"Queen, why did you suddenly ask this question?"
Rong Changan twitched the corners of his mouth, and said with a wry smile: "I read a few historical stories today, and asked when I remembered them. It's nothing!"
As he said that, suddenly a dozen lights floated past the east end of the Imperial Garden, and those people carrying lanterns carried boxes and cages, which were nothing but clothes and jewelry.
"Who are they? In the middle of the night, where are they going?"
Chuntao looked at the direction they were going, "That direction is to Tong Palace, I don't know who will move there."