"How could it be!? Sanniang was so loyal to him, how could she be executed..."
Before Meng Eqi was finished, Zhao Yanran took another step closer to the palace gate, her weak voice seemed to be mixed with Bing Lingzi, and coldly poured into Meng Eqi's collar: "Sister, I listened to the palace on the way here just now. Man, the emperor agreed to Prime Minister Liang's proposal and agreed to the draft. He must use this method to suppress the public opinion. He keeps his sister like this, so don't think too much about her..."
Her words sounded soothing, but it really made Meng Eqi fall into an ice cellar.
Meng Qiqi couldn't see Zhao Yanran's expression, and couldn't guess the intention of her words, but felt that every word of her was twisted into her heart like a rope.
Zhao Yanran wanted to do it again, but suddenly Meng Eqi heard a bell ringing outside the door, and someone came running from far to near.
"Who are you? What are you doing here?" The female voice asked crisply, with a hint of displeasure in her tone.
Zhao Yanran saw that the visitor was bright and beautiful, and was rampaging in the palace again. Guessing that he was not willing to offend, she only said: "I'm just an old friend of Sister Meng, just come and see." After that, she turned her head to the door. Said: "Sister, I'm leaving first, you have to take care of your body."
She Shi Shiran left, and was stared at before she left.
"Miss Biyi, is that you?" Meng Qiqi asked across the red palace gate.
"What girl in Biyi..." The girl said crisply: "I have a name, my name is Zhong Yangyu. Brother Chunfeng was beaten for your love and passed out in bed. I know he will not worry about you. , so I'll take a look for him."
A thin layer of white snow fell on Meng Qiqi's hair. She had black hair and red clothes, with white snow on her shoulders, and her face was gorgeous. She gave an ugly smile, regardless of whether Zhong Yangyu could see it or not: "I'm fine, you tell him not to worry. The snow is getting bigger, and you should go back quickly."
Outside, Zhong Yangyu seemed to be trying to kick the locked palace gate, only to give up when he found that he really couldn't open it.
Meng Qiqi was startled for a while, this ancestor was really not afraid.
"Who was that girl just now? With a malicious look on her face, I don't like her at all. If she comes to see you again in the future, you will simply drive her away." Zhong Yangyu said.
Meng Qiqi responded and said, "Don't be so rude when you see her in the future, maybe she will be raised as a concubine, and you should bow when you see her."
"Salute her?!" Zhong Yangyu raised her voice: "She has to live another two lives before she deserves it! If she dares to offend me, I will send her to my father's military camp and tell her that life is better than death!"
"But the emperor has already agreed to the prime minister's draft. By then, there will be more concubines in the harem. What should you do?"
Zhong Yangyu was stunned for a moment: "You already know, Brother Chunfeng won't let me tell you..." She scratched her head, and the bells on the two buns rang: "Then I won't enter the palace, Out of sight, out of mind and out of mind, Your Majesty is true, why can't this matter be handled well!"
Meng Qiqi was silent, the melancholy in her heart was as disordered and disordered as the flying snow above. The Meng family was silenced more than ten years ago, and there is still no conclusion as to who the murderer was. She, Meng Eqi, is the last survivor of the Meng family. If Sheng Jiayan wants to protect her, it must be a lot harder.
She remembered that when she was in the palace, she made mistakes, and Mo Chunfeng and Xiang Dingchen were always there to protect her. If it was a more serious mistake, Sheng Jiayan would take care of it for her. At that time, life was simple, just because he was the prince, and she was just a maid under the prince.
He wants to protect her, very reasonable.
But now, he is the new emperor of the Jin Dynasty, and he is the daughter of a sinner. Most of his actions will be restrained, and he can no longer do many things according to his own will.
It turns out that becoming the next supreme, there will be many last resorts.
"It's snowing a lot this year..." Zhong Yangyu changed the subject after hearing her silence. The tip of her nose was cold and red, and her big eyes were black and bright: "You don't have to feel bad, the emperor can save you no matter what. My father will also help you, and won't let those old The traitor succeeded!"
Meng Eqi stretched out her hand to catch a few snowflakes and watched them melt in the palm of her hand.
"Shh, don't talk like that. Go away, the guards will chase you away when the guards arrive."
"They dare!" Zhong Yangyu scolded a few words angrily at her age, and said, "Brother Chunfeng should wake up, and I should go back and tell him about your situation. In short, don't worry, it will definitely be resolved."
When she was done, she turned to leave. Waiting for a blue shadow to disappear into the red wall and white snow, Meng Eqi was still standing there.
At this time, her shoulders were already covered with thin snow, and there was no maid in the huge Fengyi Palace, she was alone.
The news brought by Zhao Yanran was undoubtedly a double blow. Although Zhong Yangyu was comforted behind, Meng Qiqi's heart was difficult to calm down for a while.
She stood in the snow for a long time, and when she finally returned to the temple, there seemed to be a vast expanse of white in front of her.
…
In the imperial study, Sheng Jiayan was holding Meng Qiqi's eight-character paper in his hand.
He was still wearing court clothes and sat behind the desk with a dark expression.
Qin Kun knelt in front of him and pleaded eagerly: "Your Majesty is confused, and how mysterious and mysterious it is that you don't continue your life. It really succeeded. You let Miss Meng live alone in the world, she is probably unwilling!"
Sheng Jiayan disagreed: "I didn't want to be the emperor at all. You and I are absurd. I came to this world just for her."
Qin Kun couldn't understand, he just thought it was the emperor who was sad and confused.
"If the emperor makes fun of his dragon body like this, he will simply take the life of his minister to continue to Miss Meng!"
Sheng Jiayan glanced at him: "You get up, if I really die, there are many things that you need to take care of."
What more did Qin Kun want, when there was a commotion outside.
"There are assassins! Come on, there are assassins!"
Qin Kun quickly stood up from the ground and stood in front of Sheng Jiayan, holding the sword hilt at his waist.
"Open your eyes to see who Grandpa is!" There was a roar outside, and Sheng Jiayan's eyes narrowed.
The visitor knelt on the ground outside, clasped his fists and said loudly, "Ding Chen came back late, please forgive me!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the door in front of him was slammed open.
He raised his head to Dingchen, saw Sheng Jiayan's still stern brows, and his eyes became hot for a while, and he kowtowed deeply—
"His Majesty!"
Xiang Dingchen was dressed in rags, with many scars and bruises on his body, and countless white snow was mixed in his unkempt hair. Only his square face still has the perseverance of the past. The many difficulties and obstacles he encountered on his way back can be seen from the appearance.
Sheng Jiayan stretched out a hand to pull him up, Xiang Dingchen wanted to dodge at first, feeling that he was unworthy. However, Sheng Jiayan directly grabbed his wrist and lifted it up, and he almost continued to kneel down and hug Sheng Jiayan's leg and cry bitterly.
Sheng Jiayan didn't rush to ask him what happened, but let him take him to wash and change his clothes first.
After Xiang Dingchen had cleaned up, Xiang Sheng Jiayan slowly explained what happened.
It turned out that that night, a few dark shadows flashed before his eyes while he was drowsy. He was keenly aware that someone was approaching, so he wanted to ambush and catch the enemy in one fell swoop. Who knew that he had been buried for a long time when he suddenly saw Meng Eqi running up the mountain in a coat.
Xiang Dingchen did not suspect him, and hurriedly followed. It wasn't until he turned around after the man at the edge of the cliff that he realized that it wasn't Meng Eqi. It was a woman wearing her outer clothes. He had already chased the edge of the cliff at that time. After a few moves with the woman, he was accidentally knocked off the cliff.
When he fell, he grabbed the woman's collar and dragged the coat down.
During the fall, he hit a tree, and his clothes hung on the top of the tree. Fortunately, there was the resistance of the dead tree, which made him get stuck when he fell on the second branch. fell again. Fortunately, it was not far from the ground this time, but he was also temporarily unable to move because of the fall. After a few days of wind and rain, he climbed out of the cliff by himself.
When he returned to the bamboo building, all he saw was ruins. Meng Qiqi and the others were long gone, so he searched for it for many days. I asked the monks at Biyun Temple to know that the emperor had died and the new emperor had ascended the throne.
So he ran back day and night, and when he entered the imperial city, he claimed to be Xiang Dingchen, but no one dared to believe it. So he only dared to sneak into the capital, who would be considered an assassin again.
The guards in the capital wanted to stab him to death without listening to his explanation, and Xiang Dingchen had to fight all the way to the front of the imperial study, with countless injuries on his body.
"By the way, Your Majesty, it turns out that the girl Suhe that Qiqi saved that day, she is actually..." Xiang Dingchen remembered the news he had found when he came.
"She is the wife of Lord Nie Hou of Chu State, I know." Sheng Jiayan's expression was indifferent, as if he didn't take it seriously.
Xiang Dingchen's eyes widened: "The Marquis Nie of Chu has a very high prestige in Chu, and he has great military exploits. If Suhe girl is really his wife, then the child in Suhe girl's womb is the only seedling of the Nie family. The Nie family in the state of Chu can be regarded as a famous family, if your majesty can capture Suhe girl back, the state of Chu will naturally retreat."
Sheng Jiayan frowned with sadness in his heart and did not speak. But Qin Kun said: "Mrs. Nie Hou also sneaked into the palace a few days ago, and her subordinates have already sent people to follow her. At present, it seems that she has lost her way in the palace and can't find where Fengyi Palace is. ."
Sheng Jiayan rubbed his brows: "Then take her there, don't let her find out that you did it on purpose."
Xiang Dingchen was puzzled: "Why did you take her to Fengyi Palace? Come back, Your Majesty, what about Qiqiren, why didn't you see her?"
"She was locked in Fengyi Palace by me." Sheng Jiayan gave him a sideways glance.
Xiang Dingchen jumped on the spot after listening to it: "What!? Could it be that what I have heard all the way is true! Do you really want to punish her as a descendant of collaborating with the enemy and treason?"