The imperial city of the five kingdoms and ten lands.
The earth-shaking thing happened overnight.
Many ministers in the court were assassinated, and even the local people were killed and injured. These things happened only overnight, and no one knew who did it, let alone the reason.
Simply no one broke into the palace.
The empire fell into chaos.
The power between the eldest prince and the third prince who had been staying in the imperial city was disrupted.
All previous layouts will start over.
Some people speculated that this was done by other princes for the position of the crown prince.
But there are also people who disagree that this is simply impossible.
No prince or prince will shake the foundation of the country for the sake of the throne.
This is basically a move that hurts the enemy one thousand and self-damages eight hundred.
At the same time, several other countries sent envoys to the imperial city of the empire to express their condolences.
The empire was very disturbed from top to bottom, feeling that this was a sign that the country was going to be destroyed.
In the prophecy of the Five Kingdoms and Ten Places, the world-destroying star will appear, which means that the world will be in chaos, and all the kings will send strange people to look for this person.
And all kinds of ghosts and ghosts can do it.
Whether it is a spiritualist or a wizard, there are signs of walking outside.
Although people are panicked, but after all, it is all the power of the world, and there is not much anxiety in everyone's heart.
However, at this moment, the sudden occurrence of such a thing in the empire is obviously a harbinger of catastrophe.
When Xiao Ting got the news, she just felt that it happened too suddenly.
Li Mo sat down with Xiao Xin and others to analyze the situation, but she didn't have such great foresight, but she was a little worried about Chu Li.
Although she told these people that she didn't know Chu Li's whereabouts, but Chu Li got the national seal, and the place he was going to turned out to be the Imperial Palace.
Is he here now
Xiao Ting felt a little uneasy, she found Mr. Xu, instead of finding out about Chu Li's physical condition.
"You don't have to worry about the safety of the prince. I watched the sky last night. If he is really the star that destroys the world, it is now shining."
Hearing what Xu said, Xiao Ting felt relieved, as long as Chu Li is not dead, she doesn't care about anything.
"Then his physique is like this, does it really matter?"
Elder Xu has also researched this point in many ways, but there is still no result. After all, the rumor about Yin and Yang being invincible in the world has been around for too long, and no one knows what happened before.
Xiao Ting felt a little disturbed.
In the middle of the night, she was tossing and turning in bed, unable to fall asleep, when an unexpected guest came suddenly.
Thousands of people.
"What do you want to lie to me again?" Xiao Ting asked him angrily. This man looks good-looking and handsome, but he doesn't even bat an eye when he deceives people.
"It's really rare, Miss Six will show such an expression?"
Qian Mo didn't care about her words, and joked directly.
"If you have something to say, get out if you have nothing to do. My girl is not in a good mood recently. Don't mess with me, otherwise I won't be able to beat you. Let you know that this place is not where you can come or leave whenever you want."
Although Xiao Ting's words were very imposing, but the posture of him sitting cross-legged on the bed with the quilt around his waist was childish no matter how you looked at it.
"Oh, where did you get so angry, I didn't offend you."
Qian Kai was a little surprised, Xiao Ting always spoke casually, he didn't take it seriously, but it was obvious that something was on his mind this time.
"It's none of your business." Xiao Ting rubbed her sleepy nose.
"By the way, do you have any news to tell me this time?"
"Miss Liu is really smart, something happened to Chu Li, do you know that?"
Qian Kai put away the wantonness and freedom of the past, and showed a rare dignified expression.
"Where is he? What happened?" Xiao Ting was startled. Even Li Mo and the others had been paying attention, but they hadn't seen the figure of the Ninth Prince. How did Qianbai know
"It seems that the news from the imperial city is hidden deeply. You really don't know anything."
Xiao Ting got out of bed directly.
"What happened? Tell me quickly."
Chiba shrugged and leaned on the beam.
"Emperor Renxiao is missing."
"What does this have to do with me? Get straight to the point, where is Chu Li?" Xiao Ting waited for him angrily.
The news of Emperor Renxiao's serious illness has been spread for a long time, and it is an indisputable fact that the eldest prince and empress control the court.
Whether the emperor is alive or dead, according to Li Mo, only the queen knows.
However, the news that Qian Min got was that after Chu Li and Xiao Ting broke up, they indeed went straight to the imperial city, bypassing everyone's attention.
It was only in those few days that there was a large-scale death in the imperial city. No one knew where Chu Li had gone or what he had done, and no one knew how Emperor Renxiao disappeared.
The Empress Dowager also returned to the palace during that time.
"You specifically mentioned the Empress Dowager, is there anything special about this woman?"
Xiao Ting heard something strange from Qian Miao's narration.
"It seems that after staying with Chu Li for a long time, Miss Six's sense of smell has become more and more acute."
Xiao Ting scratched her messy hair, and said angrily, "Stop making sarcastic remarks there, and if you don't speak well, this girl's brain cells will die."
"The empress dowager of the empire is from Yandi, and her name is Yun Ying."
Xiao Ting sat down again, waiting for him to say more.
Although the Five Kingdoms and Ten Lands have an agreement, they will not use troops lightly.
But there is still a gap between a strong country and a weak country, so there is a marriage.
However, the marriage between the empire and Yandi was passed down from generation to generation, and every king would marry a princess from Yandi as his concubine.
It's true that every emperor of the empire can only marry a woman from his own dynasty, but he loves Princess Yan to the utmost.
Concubine Yan, the biological mother of the Ninth Prince, and Yun Ying, the current empress dowager, had no chance to stay in the palace, but because of the empress's favor, she was appointed as the empress after the empress died.
"Do you know how old she is?"
Xiao Ting didn't know why he asked such a question, but she still counted with her fingers for a long time.
"This empress dowager is the emperor's grandma. No matter how you count, she must be in her seventies. But you let me guess like this. Is she particularly young?"
It is said that this empress dowager has moved out of the palace since the current emperor ascended the throne, and has been praying for the emperor outside.
"You've been married to Chu Li for so long, why don't you even know these things?"
"Hey, hey, if you want to say that I'm stupid, just say it. If I don't understand, I'll warn you. If you want to say it, you can say it. If you don't say it, you won't let it go." Xiao Ting snorted coldly, thinking that this person is really boring, and always despises her.
"Actually, what I want to say is that no one knows how old she is."
Xiao Ting was surprised, "How is this possible? Isn't she the princess of Yandi? How come no one knows how old she is?"
"She is indeed a princess of Yandi, but she does not come from the royal family, but from the people. She was picked up by the King of Yan. People who have seen her all say that she has an appearance in her twenties, but very few people have actually seen her."
Chiba seemed to be aware of these things.
Xiao Ting asked the doubts in her heart, and Qian Kai told her that he was investigating this legendary woman, the empress dowager of the empire, during this time.
"How can a person keep his twenty-year-old face forever?"
Based on her understanding of this time and space, it is impossible for even a spirit-yielding person to achieve this step.
Qian Yan smiled and said, "Maybe I didn't express clearly. It's not that she will always remain in her twenties. She is a person with thousands of faces. Can you understand me when I say that?"
Xiao Ting pursed her lips, "Do you mean that she will wear different masks to face different people, or that she will live with a mask all the time and is unwilling to show her true colors?"
"The court has been changed for three generations, and the people who knew about it are almost dead. This is all I can find out. And I don't know if it's true or not."
Xiao Ting suddenly had an idea and asked back.
"Then what do you want me to do when you say this? What does it have to do with Chu Li?"
That Empress Dowager is a monstrous existence no matter how she sounds.
Xiao Ting didn't want to take the initiative to provoke such a woman.
"I want you to go back to the imperial city, Chu Li should not just be missing."
"You suspect that it has something to do with the Empress Dowager?" Xiao Ting was a little surprised, it seemed unreliable.
"It's not suspicion. I have a hunch that this woman is not simple at all. I have already sent someone to test it out. She is not an ordinary person."
Before Qian Kai came to find Xiao Ting, he had already made a lot of arrangements.
"You mean she is also a member of the Taoist sect?"
Xiao Ting was a little surprised when she got Qian's definite answer.
"That's right, and he's a spiritualist who's more powerful than you and me."
"I'll go, is she a fourth-level spiritualist?"
Xiao Ting once heard someone say that in this time and space there are fourth-level magicians.
"I can't tell. I haven't met her face to face, but there are indeed such capable people around her, and there are many. Now she controls both inside and outside the palace. It is said that the queen has no ability to resist at all, so she is suppressed by her."
Xiao Ting listened to him like listening to the scriptures. A woman who had been away from court for so long broke into the palace directly by her own ability. Even the queen who was in the limelight was no match for her.
If it were me, ten of her might not be worth it, mainly because I really don't have that ability.
"If this matter is really related to Chu Li, I can't say, I have to go back to the imperial city, but what reason should I go back?"
Even if Xiao Ting ignored the king's law, she knew that the fief king and princess would never be allowed to return to the imperial city without the imperial edict.
"You don't have to worry about this, and you don't know what the empress dowager is going to do. She has already issued an imperial edict to let all the vassal kings enter the imperial city and enter the palace."
"Then why didn't Li Mo get any news?" Xiao Ting suddenly remembered this matter.
Li Mo and Yuchi Xinhan used to be the most powerful assistants under the Ninth Prince, who also controlled the hidden guards behind the emperor. It is reasonable to say that they are the elite of the elite, but this time such a big thing happened, they didn't know anything about it.
Even the imperial edict of the Empress Dowager had been issued, but they hadn't received the news in advance.
"Someone cut the line."
Qian Kai frowned, "If that's the case, it's not good for you."
(end of this chapter)