"Hmm..." The Queen Mother responded in a low voice, turned to look at the Emperor standing beside her, hesitated for a moment, and couldn't help but ask: "Is the Emperor still reluctant to let Xiuzhu become the crown prince?"
The emperor was slightly startled, lowered his head, glanced at her, was silent for a moment, and then whispered: "Yun'er, you should know that my heart has always been biased towards our Han Qing."
"But Han Qing..." The Queen Mother hesitated to speak. After a long time, she finally whispered: "He is your brother in name after all. Since ancient times, the position of the prince has been passed down to the son. How can there be any inheritance? Tell your brother."
"Yun'er, you know that he is not my brother." The emperor looked at the queen mother with a touch of tenderness.
"I know..." The Queen Mother sighed softly and said: "But... you were only eight years old when your mother died of a serious illness. The late emperor entrusted you to me. At that time, I had just entered the palace and was only ten years old. You are only six years old. There are long nights in the palace, and the late emperor had so many concubines. On weekdays, only the two of us depend on each other. I watched you grow up, I watched you marry a wife, and I watched you ascend the throne, but you should never... "
The Queen Mother suddenly stopped in the middle of her words, followed by another long sigh.
The emperor looked at her for a long time, and then said in a low voice: "Is Yun'er complaining about me?"
"No, I just..." The Queen Mother looked at the Emperor and finally said nothing.
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In the early morning of the next day, Mo Hanqing took Ye Qiqi, Mo Xiuzhu, Murong Hongyu, and a thousand light cavalry to leave the capital and rush to northern Xinjiang.
It was a long journey from the capital to Northern Xinjiang. Even if we traveled day and night, it would take nearly a month to arrive.
Three days after leaving the capital, walking straight north is the sphere of influence of Feihe Villa.
Ye Qiqi was riding on his horse, looking at one of the rolling mountains from a distance. He didn't know that Li Yun and the others had not found their grandfather after they returned.
"Qiqi." Mo Hanqing's low and cold voice suddenly sounded above her head.
"Um?"
Ye Qiqi turned around and glanced at Mo Hanqing, who was riding a horse and following beside him.
"What are you looking at?" Mo Hanqing followed her gaze and saw mountains in the distance, with greenery filling his eyes.
That direction…
It seems to be the direction of Feihe Villa?
"Nothing." Ye Qiqi withdrew his gaze, looked up at the setting sun, and said with a smile: "The sun is about to set. It seems that we have to spend the night in the forest tonight."
"Yes." Mo Hanqing responded in a low voice, nodded and said, "Find a place with water later and rest."
"Okay." Ye Qiqi nodded readily.
Tonight is a full moon.
A full moon hung in the dark night sky, casting a faint layer of light on the ground.
In the woods, the hoot of an owl came one after another.
Mo Hanqing led a thousand light cavalry and stationed themselves along both sides of a small river.
Immediately, dozens of light cavalry went out to hunt consciously.
Others raised bonfires one after another, and everyone sat around the bonfires, feeling very quiet for a while.
"Hey, by the way, we seem to be on some mountain now." A light cavalry suddenly broke the quiet atmosphere.
"It's Yueqing Mountain."