However, what the empress dowager said at this moment overturned his previous guess.
"Do you really think that a young woman can easily control the imperial palace? Your father is no ordinary emperor."
The empress dowager stood up and said earnestly.
"Grandmother, what exactly are you going to say?"
Chu Jiyao had never thought about it that way before.
The emperor was seriously ill, and he has not been seen since then.
The queen's various obstructions and the imperial physician's statement convinced him that the father was hidden by the queen.
However, at this moment, I know the truth.
"Your father is indeed ill. He was taken out of the palace."
"Since you know everything, why didn't you stop it?" Chu Jiyao couldn't believe it.
The Empress Dowager sighed deeply.
"How can I stop it? How can I stop it? What's more, the empress dowager is the emperor's grandmother. Would she still harm him?"
Yes, everyone thinks so, but the truth is so ironic.
The empress dowager returned to the palace, but the emperor did not return.
"Where is the father now?"
Ever since the Empress Dowager returned to the palace, Chu Jiyao hadn't seen her, and was turned away several times when she went to see her.
"I don't know, now, the Empress Dowager is nowhere to be seen."
"What is grandma trying to do by telling me this now?"
In fact, not only the people outside, but the entire palace is under the control of the Empress Dowager. Although she didn't show up, the people around her are not easy people.
Xu Wei, the commander of the imperial guards, has long been stranded outside.
The guards at the four gates had already been replaced, and the entire imperial city seemed bloody, but it was watertight.
All of this was seen by everyone, but no one could stop her.
"I suspect that she will do something to you."
The empress dowager looked at Chu Jiyao quietly, her eyes were full of worry.
"It's impossible, what good will it do her to kill us? Does she still want to be a queen?"
Chu Jiyao has never had the heart to fight for the reserve, but step by step to the present, it is not easy to give up.
If it is said that he still has a little affection for the empress dowager, but he has no affection for the legendary empress dowager. What's more, this woman is too mysterious. Few people have seen her since returning to the imperial city, but she can call the wind and rain in the entire empire.
"Shut up, don't talk nonsense, now her eyeliner is everywhere, don't you want to live?"
The empress dowager patted Chu Jiyao on the shoulder twice, signaling him not to talk nonsense.
"Grandmother is worrying too much. She said she wants to do something to me. She can find any reason. If she doesn't want me to die, it doesn't matter anyway."
"Have you gone to see the Queen?"
"No, I'm afraid she is the most dangerous person right now!"
No matter how deeply the queen hides, Chu Jiyao has gradually figured out the power behind her in the past few years.
With so many alien spirits, and thinking about the current situation, one can imagine that the queen and the empress dowager have long colluded together.
It's a pity that it seems that the two people's paths are different, and they are just taking advantage of each other. Now that they have reached a fork, it is time to let go of one.
"Since you understand this in your heart, I won't say more. Don't mess with the Empress Dowager recently. The envoys from the other four countries and ten places are already on their way and will arrive in the imperial city soon. We will wait until this matter is over."
After the empress dowager said this, she waved him to go back first.
Chu Jiyao didn't see it that way.
"Grandmother may have taken it for granted. The Empress Dowager has been preparing for so long, presumably for the reunion of the Five Kingdoms. I'm afraid something big will happen."
However, no matter what the two of them think, everything is just speculation.
There is no way to deal with it.
Except for the Empress Dowager in the entire imperial city, I am afraid that no force can sleep peacefully.
The tense atmosphere in the imperial city lasted for four months.
In the golden autumn of October, there is a scene of a bumper harvest outside the city.
Many strangers have come outside the city gate in recent days.
After the report is full of big shots.
Envoys from the other four countries and ten places have arrived one after another.
At this time, the imperial city began, with a relaxed atmosphere, and the bustle and bustle of the past resumed.
Both sides of the street are decorated with festive decorations just like Chinese New Year.
Everything is welcome from other countries.
The candidates for the imperial reception this time fell on the head of the First Prince.
The eldest prince accepted Yi's order in a daze, and hurried to arrange a matter.
There was not the slightest objection to the people next to his arrangement.
At the moment the second floor of the restaurant.
A man and a woman sat by the window.
The man is wanton, and the woman is weird.
She turned another wine glass in her hand, propped her chin with the other hand, but looked at the eldest prince and the others who passed by downstairs.
"It's a good thing you didn't choose him at the beginning, otherwise you should be living a life of being a saddle for others now?"
The man didn't mean anything, and teased her.
"It's been a long time since I saw him."
"Why don't you go down and say hello, he should be happy to see you."
"Surnamed Qian, if you want to die, don't drag me to be buried with you, this girl hasn't lived enough yet!"
Qian Kai shrugged, and at this moment Xiao Er brought the food.
interrupted their conversation.
"Okay, okay, I said something wrong, please have a good meal, it's an apology!"
These two people are exactly Qian Mi and Xiao Ting who returned to the Imperial City from Li City.
The First Prince's carriage downstairs quickly disappeared at the end of the road.
Xiao Ting did not go to see him. It has been three days since she returned to the imperial city. She did not go to see anyone, and she will not go to see anyone, including her father and aunt.
Xiao Ting filled her stomach three times, five times and two times, and slapped the chopsticks on the table, looked at Qian Mi, and asked, "Where is the prince?"
On the first day Xiao Ting returned to the Imperial City, she went to the Nine Princes' Mansion.
All the furnishings inside remain the same, and the gatekeeper is still the same butler as before.
Other than that, nothing else.
There was no figure of the Ninth Prince in Zhongtian Moonlight Bieyuan, even the underground palace, she had tried a way to get in.
But everything is empty.
It was as if the Ninth Prince had never returned.
Qian Kai shook his head, and told her solemnly that he didn't find any news.
"Then what do we do now?"
If it wasn't for Qian Mo's obstruction, Xiao Ting would have rushed straight into the palace to settle accounts with that woman.
But she also knew that all this was not done by the queen.
It's so good right now, if you want to find someone to vent your anger on, you don't even know who the real master is.
"Don't worry, there will always be a solution. I don't believe it. How many years has she been operating in this imperial city? Can she keep the news secret?"
"Forget it, it's useless to ask you, let's go back and see Xiao Ten first!"
Xiao Ting was a little troubled, she hadn't planned to take Xiao Shiyi on the road together, but the child couldn't live and die, and even came up with a bunch of excuses, so she had to agree.
But he didn't expect that he started to feel unwell not long after he was on the road, and it became even worse when he arrived in the imperial city, and he passed out directly. If the doctor didn't see that there was nothing serious, Xiao Ting would have thought that Xiao Shi was about to die.
"Don't worry, typical acclimatization."
"That's not your brother, of course you don't have to worry about it." Xiao Ting angrily scolded him.
Qian Kai rubbed his nose, based on the principle of not haggling with women, he stopped talking.
But what the two of them didn't expect was that when they returned to the temporary residence, Xiao Xin had already disappeared.
Xiao Ting was furious, and called Xiao Er, asking him what's the matter
As a result, Xiao Er looked at the two of them in a daze, and said, "It was the doctor who said that the young master was seriously ill and needed to be taken back to recuperate, and you agreed."
The whole person is in a foggy state.
"Where is the person? Where did he go? How long did he go?"
Qian Miao hurriedly stopped Xiao Ting who was about to make a move, and hurriedly asked.
The little girl was also frightened, and stammered, pointing behind her and said, "Just, just leave."
Without saying a word, Xiao Ting and Qian Kai left Xiaoer behind and hurried to chase outside.
No accident, they took a shortcut and saw Xiao Xin after climbing over the courtyard wall.
Being carried on the shoulders by one of them, a group of four hurried.
"Leave people behind."
It was good that Xiao Ting didn't speak, but when she spoke, the four of them ran away without even looking back.
People were coming and going on the street, Xiao Ting and Qian Kai separated to catch up with the four people.
But they found that what they were carrying was not Xiao Xin at all, they had been transferred.
"Where's the person?" Xiao Ting was anxious. Xiao Shi was still in a coma, so she was taken away like this, and she didn't know why.
The four of them were straightforward, they didn't even wait for her to finish asking, their necks tilted, and they died directly.
Xiao Ting was dumbfounded, and looked at Qian Miao in a daze, what does this mean
Chiba also had a look of helplessness.
He checked the situation of the four people left and right, and told Xiao Ting that they died of poisoning.
"So straightforward?" Xiao Ting really didn't understand these people. She had only seen this kind of thing in TV dramas before, but she didn't expect it to happen to her.
The most important thing is that now that Xiao Xin is being taken away, she doesn't know who did it.
"It seems that the other party doesn't want us to know at all, has your brother offended anyone before?"
Xiao Ting glared at him, "My little darling has always been out of doors, who can be offended?"
"..." Qian Kai wanted to say that the door does not leave the second door, is it to describe a girl
This is an upright little son of yours.
"It's not him, then you have offended someone. Someone knew your whereabouts, so they tied up your brother?"
Qian Min's analysis was normal, but Xiao Ting always felt that something was wrong.
"The whereabouts of our return this time are very secretive. Even Li Mo and the others don't know the specific situation. How can others know?"
"That's true. It's good now. Chu Li hasn't found it yet, and your brother is lost again. It seems that you are busy now."
Xiao Ting rolled her eyes at him and looked at him suspiciously, "Why do I feel that you are gloating?"
"This is definitely your illusion. The two of us are now grasshoppers on the same rope."
Xiao Ting stood there for a long time scratching her head and ears.
In the end, I couldn't think of a way, so I had to go back first.
All of a sudden, many important figures came to the imperial city, and more and more guards, patrolling the streets day and night.
However, until the evening, Xiao Ting did not hear any news about the death of the four people.
(end of this chapter)