After the banquet ended, Yan Lirong and Changan returned to the palace first. Chu Fei'er was arranged in Fengfei Palace. Chu Lin raised his chin with a smile, and walked down the Huae Tower triumphantly, but he didn't want someone to step on his heel.
"Who, you don't have long eyes..." Chu Lin turned around and was about to scold, but saw Zi Yan behind him looking at him with a smile.
If it wasn't for Zi Yan just now, he wouldn't be able to be the Minister of Rites.
Chu Lin quickly saluted Ziyan: "I have seen the noble concubine Ziyan."
Zi Yan smiled and said: "Master Chu has soared into the sky today. From a squire, he became a servant of the Ministry of Rites all at once, and there will be many more when he is promoted to a noble in the future! Congratulations, congratulations!"
Chu Lin accompanied him with a smiling face: "If it wasn't for the help from the noble concubine, I would not be able to be the servant of the Ministry of Rites. This kindness and virtue will never be forgotten by Chu Lin."
Ziyan looked back and forth, lowered her voice and said: "Originally, Master Chu's title can be more expensive, and the official rank can be higher, alas! Just because of the queen's words, what a pity, what a pity!"
A hint of sullenness flashed across Chu Lin's face, but he immediately returned to his smiling face: "The Queen and the Emperor are in charge of the Dajing Kingdom, and they will do whatever they say, so how can we make unreasonable comments!"
There was a mysterious ripple on Zi Yan's face: "Master Chu, could it be that the queen has some kind of quarrel with you, so that she rejects you so much?"
Chu Lin was taken aback: "No! Fei'er was the one who persuaded the emperor to send her into the palace. How could she have prejudice against me and reject me?"
Zi Yan said: "If not, she has no reason to reject you as King Jin?"
Chu Linpi smiled, "The queen has her own plans! I am now a Marquis of Guannei, and I am already satisfied. Why do I want to be Jinwang!"
Behind Chu Lin's hypocritical appearance, what Zi Yan saw was endless greed.
"Lord Chu, it's inconvenient to talk here. Can we go to the side hall and we can have a good talk. With Fei'er's appearance, within two years, she must be the queen. With her daughter being the queen, Master Chu is extremely rich."
Ziyan's words scratched Chu Lin's itchy spot, and she and Ziyan came to a side hall.
Zi Yan closed the palace door, and the candlelight was dim, illuminating her face in a gloomy manner. She smiled into a crescent moon, and said softly and kindly:
"Does Master Chu know why Empress Rong proposed to send your daughter to the palace?"
Ziyan asked Chu Lin to sit down, and Ziyan sat beside him. Chu Lin leaned over and asked:
"Please tell the concubine clearly."
Ziyan said: "Concubine Zixuan has just become pregnant, the emperor loves her more and more day by day, the empress is naturally jealous. But she can't conceive a child..."
Chu Lin was taken aback: "The queen can't conceive a child?"
Zi Yan put her index finger on the mouth of the sandalwood, and said softly: "You and I know about this matter, but don't spread it, lest the queen know it, and you and I can't bear it."
Chu Lin quickly said: "I will never say anything, the noble concubine can rest assured."
Zi Yan smiled: "I believe you. If I don't believe you, I won't tell you. Concubine Zixuan has a child, but Queen Rong has no children. She must try to squeeze out Concubine Zixuan. But she alone It's impossible. So, when she saw Fei'er, young and beautiful, she wanted to use Fei'er to deal with Zixuan."
Chu Lin thought for a while: "According to what you said, the queen should be nice to Fei'er?"
Zi Yan sighed and shook her head: "Do you think she is really good to Fei'er? She is just using Fei'er. When Zi Xuan is brought down, she will deal with Fei'er in reverse. So, even if she takes Fei'er She brought her into the palace, but she was afraid that you, father and daughter, would harm her in the future, so she tried her best to prevent you from becoming King Jin just now in the Huae Tower."
Chu Lin was worried and afraid, sweat hung on his eyebrows, shining brightly under the candle light. He took out a handkerchief and wiped it.
"Then... what should I do after that day?"
Zi Yan picked out a candle, and under the candlelight, she smiled charmingly and dreamily.
"As long as the two of us work together and form a tight bond, no matter how powerful she is, Rong Changan, she will not dare to do anything to you. I think Mr. Chu's Saturn is bright, and he will soon be promoted to a noble. If there is a chance, I will be in the emperor's place." What do you think of calmly promoting you as Admiral of the Nine Gates and letting you take charge of the garrison of the capital?"
Although the rank of the nine admirals is the same as that of the minister of the Ministry of Rites, he is in charge of the defense of the capital, and the power can be imagined.
Chu Lin grinned and said, "If I can become the admiral of the Nine Gates, I must honor the imperial concubine well."
Zi Yan bowed her body: "In the future, I will be the one who respects you and Fei'er. Fei'er is smart and good at dancing. If Rong Chang'an is deposed, then she is the best candidate. If Fei'er is the queen, you will be the queen." Father, besides you, who else would dare to take up the position of General!"
After hearing Ziyan's words, Chu Lin raised his chin subconsciously, his face was full of radiance, and his eyes shone brighter than candlelight. He couldn't help holding Zi Yan's hand, his voice was trembling with excitement:
"Then the future of Fei'er and I depends on Concubine Ziyan."
Chu Lin's hands were skinny and cold, Zi Yan was suddenly caught by him too, startled, her face paled, and she almost didn't cry out.
Chu Lin consciously lost his composure and showed embarrassment: "I'm sorry, I... I was excited at the moment."
Zi Yan twitched her lips: "It's okay. If you have something to discuss with me in the future, you can send someone to the Jiao Palace first. If it is convenient, I will let you come over."
I thought to myself: This old guy is so daring, he dared to touch my hand! If it wasn't for the fact that he still has value to use, I would have sued him to Yan Li long ago.
Chu Lin said: "Everything is ordered by Concubine Ziyan."
The two blew out the candles, Ziyan returned to Jiaogong, and Chu Lin temporarily lived in Chu Feier's Fengfei Palace.
Before Chu Lin went to bed, he went to Chu Fei'er's room and closed the door.
"Fei'er, the emperor gave me a mansion, and I'm going to move out tomorrow. You yourself are in the palace, and you know a little bit about personnel, so you have to be tactful. You must not offend anyone, especially Queen Rong, do you know that? "
Then she repeated Zi Yan's words, and Chu Fei'er was skeptical: "If it wasn't for the queen, we father and daughter are still a pair of caged birds in the villa, how could she be jealous of me!"
Chu Lin pointed at Chu Fei'er's eyebrows and nodded a little: "People's hearts are far away, do you know what she really thinks? Anyway, you have to remember what I said, otherwise not only you will be unlucky, but I will also be implicated."
Then, Chu Lin explained in detail how to treat people in the palace and how to serve the emperor. After getting deeper, he left and went back to his room to rest.
Because Zixuan is pregnant with a child, she can no longer drink alcohol, so she did not attend the banquet at Huaelou tonight. Yan Li came over to look at her, then went back to Yong'an Palace.
After a day's driving, Zixuan was also tired. Lan'er helped her to bed, but she fell asleep after a cup of tea. Lan'er was afraid that the too bright would affect her sleep, so she blew out the candles, got off the tent, and went outside. A palace lady came to change shifts, and Lan'er went back to her room to sleep.
Zixuan slept for a while, and then heard the sound of wind hitting the window and door. The window was blown open, gusts of cool wind poured in, chilling the bones.
"Lan'er, Lan'er!" Zi Xuan called out twice, but Lan'er did not come over.
She got up by herself, put on a dress, and went to the window to close it. The wind was howling, blowing fallen leaves and sand, rolling them all over the ground. Zixuan was thinking in her stomach, it was summer, and it was not autumn yet, why did this gust of cold wind blow
Just as he was about to close the window, he faintly heard a shrill voice blowing along the wind.
"Give me my life! Give me my life!"
One after another, shrill and mournful.
Zixuan's hairs stood on end! In a hurry, I wanted to close the window, but it seemed that the window was blocked by something, and it couldn't be closed tightly.
Zixuan opened it again to look, but saw a woman with disheveled hair and wet body standing outside the window, stretching out a hand like a dead branch, trying to strangle Zixuan's throat, while shouting:
"Give me back my life, you vicious woman!"
Zixuan stared, fell on the bed, and screamed: "Someone is here, there is a ghost!"