"What's the clue?" Yunshang asked immediately.
"There have been rumors that His Majesty was assassinated while watching lanterns by the lake..."
Yun Shang's eyes were full of doubts, but this rumor was completely within their expectations, and it was not a clue.
Just as he was thinking about it, he heard the secret guard continue: "Rumors say that when His Majesty was assassinated, he was accompanied by a woman. The two of them looked very close, but that woman was not the empress."
Yun Shang and Luo Qingyan looked at each other, and they both frowned.
When the hidden guard came back to report after inquiring about the news, he did mention that the fake Luo Qingyan was assassinated while accompanying a woman to buy a lamp.
But at that time, they were attracted by the news of Luo Qingyan's assassination, and they didn't notice the woman at all. They just subconsciously believed in their hearts that since someone pretended to be Luo Qingyan, the person next to Luo Qingyan must be pretending she is gone.
Hearing such news suddenly, a daze appeared in my heart, and soon realized that the developments they predicted before were probably all wrong.
"Someone said convincingly that the woman next to His Majesty, whom he had seen before, was the princess of Youyue Kingdom who came to our Xia Kingdom recently as an envoy. They also said that they heard that the envoys of Youyue Kingdom and Yihai Kingdom brought the princess, It is just to make peace with our Xia Kingdom, so it seems that His Majesty probably has a crush on the princess of Youyue Kingdom, and our Xia Kingdom's harem probably needs an extra concubine."
"As soon as this rumor came out, the people immediately aroused a lot of discussion. They all said that there is only the empress in the harem of your majesty, and they thought that the empress had a deep relationship. But now it seems that it is probably because your majesty has not met anyone he likes."
"Some people also say that the current empress is Princess Ning, and if the princess of Youyue is accepted as a concubine, then the two empresses in His Majesty's harem will be princesses of foreign countries."
"Others said that as soon as today's incident happened, everyone knew that His Majesty and Princess Youyue Kingdom went to the Lantern Festival hand in hand, which would damage the reputation of Princess Youyue Kingdom. Your Majesty should soon accept Princess Youyue Kingdom Back to the palace."
Yun Shang pursed her lips, and snorted coldly: "I took precautions against everything, and even used laxatives to keep them in the post house, just to prevent them from entering the palace and making troubles. The moths forced us to bring them into the palace. But I didn't expect that there would be a way for them not to enter the palace."
"This one is really hard to guard against."
Yun Shang's eyes were full of anger, if they hadn't left the palace today and didn't know about it, and waited for tomorrow, I'm afraid that the rumors and rumors would have already spread to everyone in the city, and no matter how they tried to explain it, they wouldn't be able to stop it This is a lot of talk.
At that time, they would be put on fire and roasted. If the princess of Youyue Kingdom was not taken back to the palace, the reputation of the princess of Youyue Kingdom would be ruined, so they could use this as an excuse to attack Xia Kingdom.
And at that time, Luo Qingyan's reputation will definitely be greatly damaged. I'm afraid people outside will say that Luo Qingyan is the king of a country, but he doesn't even have the courage to act daringly.
If they were forced by gossip and gossip to bring the Princess Youyue Kingdom back to the palace, it would be their wish fulfilled.
No matter what choice they make, they are always the ones who suffer.
Luo Qingyan stretched out his hand to hold Yunshang's hand, and smiled: "Don't worry, we are already here now, and we knew about this at the first time, and we understand what they are planning, and we will be able to deal with it way."
Yun Shang nodded, even if they were not here and would not know the news until tomorrow, she would definitely not be able to make You Yue and Yi Haiguo's plan come true.
Luo Qingyan didn't know what Yunshang was thinking, so he turned around and asked the hidden guard: "When will Liu Wen'an come here with a guard of honor?"
"Director Liu should have left the palace by now."
Luo nodded softly: "Notify the governor of Jincheng to summon the officers and soldiers to come and open the way."
"Send another eight hundred city guards to escort me and the empress."
"yes."
After Luo Qingyan ordered, he turned around and saw Yun Shang looking at her fixedly, and then smiled: "Since rumors and rumors have already started to spread, we naturally have to make our momentum as big as possible to be able to resist those rumors ah."
"Also, there are many people in the city today, fish and dragons are mixed together, and there are more guards, so it is safer."
Yun Chang nodded and didn't make another sound.
After about half an hour, they heard noises coming from downstairs.
Yunshang stood up and walked to the window, and saw the crowds in the street below, and there was a vague discussion: "What's the matter? What happened? Why are they all walking that way?"
"There are officers and soldiers rushing behind, saying that the emperor and empress came out of the palace to visit the lantern festival in the city unannounced, and someone from the palace came to pick up the empress and return to the palace."
"Really? Both Your Majesty and the Empress have come to see the lantern? Where are they?"
"Who knows? Considering that His Majesty and Empress Dowager watched the same lantern festival as us, I feel that it is a great blessing in life."
The crowd kept rushing to the other side of the street.
Not long after, officers and soldiers trotted to stop the crowd on both sides of the street, leaving a space in the middle.
The officers and soldiers went all the way to the restaurant and blocked the entrance of the restaurant tightly.
"Why don't these officers and soldiers leave here?"
"I heard that His Majesty and Empress are above this restaurant."
"Really? But didn't you see them go in?"
"I've talked about unannounced visits. If everyone knows about it, what is it called an unannounced visit?"
"Too."
The crowd that had just poured out to the street squeezed here again, all looking at it with their heads poking around.
The officers and soldiers held long guns and stopped the people.
Not long after, Liu Wen'an came over with the emperor's guard of honor.
"Here we come." Yun Chang said softly.
Luo nodded lightly: "Don't worry."
The emperor's guard of honor stopped under the restaurant, and Liu Wen'an led the palace people into the restaurant quickly.
Yun Chang turned around and sat down at the table, and after a while, she heard a knock on the door.
The hidden guard opened the door, Liu Wen'an left the other palace people at the door, and entered the room with a bowed body.
"Your Majesty, empress, the guard of honor is ready, please return to the palace with your majesty and empress."
Luo responded lightly, and stretched out his hand towards Yunshang.
Yun Chang smiled, held up the river lantern on the table, and took Luo Qingyan's hand down the restaurant together.
Everyone in the restaurant stretched their necks and looked towards them.
From time to time, whispers came into my ears.
"Are they the ones? My God, I saw them coming in earlier, and I was still thinking that the couple are both very handsome. I didn't expect it to be His Majesty and the Empress."
"I came in right behind them."
"I heard that His Majesty and the Empress are very affectionate, it's true."
"Is the empress holding a lantern? It looks very delicate. I don't know where I bought it. I have to look for it later. If I find it, I'll buy one too..."
When Yun Shang heard this voice, she raised the corners of her mouth and laughed, turning her head to look at the speaker.
It was a young woman who was speaking. Seeing Yun Shang looking over, she seemed to realize that Yun Shang had heard her words, and quickly shrank her neck.
Yun Chang laughed and raised the river lantern in his hand: "This river lantern was taken by Mingyue Lake, but it was not bought. This is the Lantern King, and His Majesty won it by guessing the lantern riddles from the vendor correctly. "