Cold Palace’s Abandoned Consort

Shui Xiu stood beside me and watched that I was always fascinated. In the end, even the food in the bowl was so cold, she finally bent down and said gently, "Girl, what are you thinking about?"

I looked up at her, and suddenly thought of something, and asked, "Shui Xiu, was the magic charm you asked me for in the Taimiao before, was it painted by the protector?"

Shui Xiu nodded his head: "They said yes, they said it was very effective."

"Then, have you met the Protector?"

She immediately shook her head: "Of course not. Where do we ordinary people see him? All those things are handled by his disciples."

"So, do you know if anyone has seen him?"

"..."

Shui Xiu is also smart. She looked at me and said softly, "Girl, are you investigating the matter of the protector of the country?"

I didn't hide her, nodded, "Yes."

Shui Xiu said: "I haven't seen him. In fact, the people in the palace have never seen him except the emperor. Even everyone who goes to the Taimiao will be turned away when the mage appears."

"Oh……"

"But—" She seemed to think of something again, and hesitated to speak. As soon as I heard this, it seemed like an afterword, and hurriedly asked, "But what?"

She frowned again, thinking, as if it had been a long time, and she also had some memory. After a while, she looked up and said to me, "Girl, I was actually a defender No one knows it. I only knew it when they talked about Wu Yan and Qian Yan. "

"Oh?"

I was suddenly energized-Wu Yan and Qian Yan.

Speaking of them, these two are the old men in the palace, especially they have served the Empress of the Martyrs. They have seen, heard, and know that these younger generations can't compare, maybe they will know. Regarding the protector.

I asked, "What did they say?"

Shui Xiu thought for a while and finally looked up at me, and said a little sorry: "Girl, it's been too long, I really can't remember, and I didn't mean to go Listen, so I don't remember much. "

"..."

I have some regrets, but this kind of thing is not to blame her. After all, it is the same for anyone. People and things that have nothing to do with themselves are always reluctant to spend their minds.

So I gently waved my hand: "It doesn't matter, I just ask."

The things on the table were cold, and I had no appetite to eat again. Shui Xiu was preparing to clean up the chopsticks. When she was packing, she seemed to suddenly think of something, standing there stunned, after a while, she Turning his head and looking at me, he said, "But, girl, I seem to faintly remember, when Wu Yan and Qian Yan talked about that protector, they seemed to talk about Li Fei."

"what?!"

I froze for a moment, and looked at her with a stunned smile: "Li Fei?"

Nangong Lizhu?

Does she have anything to do with Mage Guardian?

I hurriedly asked, "What's going on?"

Shui Xiu said: "I don't remember the specific things, but listening to them, it seems that Li Fei has met the protector."

"Oh……"

Although I asked some things from Shui Xiu's mouth that I didn't know before, but I felt that the fog in front of me was getting thicker, which made me more and more unclear about what I should do at this moment.

Li Fei, Nangong Lizhu ... She was originally Pei Yuanzhang's most beloved woman. Pei Yuanzhang did not let other people contact the protector of the country. Of course, Nangong Lizhu can be an exception for everyone, but if I want Inquire about the mage, and inquire about who it is, and never inquire about Nangong Lizhu.

So I didn't take it to heart.

Early the next morning, I sent Du Yan to go outside to see if I could find a way out of the city and go to the western suburbs once. When I was bored at home, Yang Jinyao sent someone to greet me. Yesterday I had I was told to tell her that she was unharmed. She thought she should come over and talk to me today, but she didn't.

After the girl she sent to see me, I was about to ask Cai Wei to lead her to tea and snacks, and asked, "Is your master at home today?"

"Master is not at home today, and went up."

"Then your wife didn't come today, is there anything wrong?"

"Not at all," said the girl-in-law, shaking her head: "But when the master went out, he instructed his wife not to go out recently, so the wife did not come here today."

"..."

I did stumble.

To say that Yang Jinyao is in this capital, there must be a lot of friends, but after getting married, she goes the most diligently is my side. Wu Yanqiu doesn't let her go out, is she not willing to let her come to me?

Thinking about it that way, I think I'm thinking too much.

It shouldn't be too bad.

So, I didn't ask any more, and after waiting for a long time, Du Yan finally came back. The snow was very heavy. When he returned, his face was frozen pale, and a thin layer of snow accumulated on his shoulders. Things came back to me. I hurried Shuixiu to pour hot tea for her husband, and then asked, "How?"

Du Yan said: "Don't block the road to the west."

"what?!"

I was startled, he still said calmly: "I went out of the city to see, all the roads and roads leading to the western suburbs were blocked, and the pedestrians passing by were checked."

"So, where else? For example, the eastern suburbs, the southern suburbs."

"Those places are open and unchecked."

My brow frowned.

what happened?

If it was said that the curfew may be due to the recent New Year's Day, it is natural to step up management in the imperial city, but this time blocking the road to the western suburbs seems to have some Sima Zhao's heart. Moreover, the other roads have not been blocked. Zha, alone is the western suburbs-

Is it really because Pei Yuanzhang knew that I was looking after the Master of the State?

Du Yan suddenly said, "Mrs."

I looked up and looked at him: "Huh?"

He said: "I'm afraid that Lord Wu has noticed that day."

"..."

I froze for a moment.

That day I asked him to follow Wu Yanqiu to the western suburbs and found the location of Chongyun Pavilion. Later, I was touched by Wu Yanqiu, although I used the tracing of him to mediate the previous relationship between the couple as an excuse to barely confuse the situation at the time. In the past, but now thinking, Wu Yanqiu is not an ordinary person. He has been floating in the sea for many years, and he is not a person who is so easily confused.

Even if he was content with Yang Jinyao at the time, he could think a little more after he calmed down afterwards.

I'm afraid, my real purpose that day, he already guessed it.

Therefore, the next day, the capital began a curfew, and the inspections outside the city became stricter. This must not be what he could do. He was only an official from the Ministry of War, not a person from the Ministry of Defense. He must have reported Pei Yuan. Alas, Pei Yuanzhang gave such an order.

Yesterday, I went to Jixian Temple. Today, the road to Xijiao was blocked.

It seems that my every move in Beijing is always in Pei Yuanzhang's eyes ...

Thinking of this, I can't help but get discouraged.

Although I knew in advance that returning to the capital must not be so free elsewhere, but when I thought that I might have been close to some truth, I was rejected by the door softly and hardly, the layer of window paper I can't break anything, it makes me feel weaker.

However, things are not turning for the better.

I stayed at home until the third day. On this day, after half a month of snow finally stopped, the sky was slightly cloudy, the blue sky was white and snow, and the whole land became clear and clear.

Soon after I had breakfast, Xiao Ni came in to report, and someone from the palace picked me up.

When I went out, it was the same father-in-law who was standing next to the carriage. When I saw me coming out, he smiled and said, "Mrs."

"My father-in-law is here again."

"Yes, the last time things were done well, the little master was happy and appreciated the slaves a lot, so today the errand, the slaves rushed again."

I couldn't help but laugh: "Father-in-law, this is more capable."

He also smiled, then raised his hand: "Madam, please get in the car."

I thought about it, but did not refuse, and the note that I was kicked behind the door that day, which I originally wanted to go to see, took Cai Wei and Du Yan and got into the car again.

Like that day, entered the palace gate.

Waiting at Jixian Hall, Nianshen was waiting for me at the gate. He stood on the high steps and wondered how long he had stood. When he saw us getting out of the carriage, he immediately walked down: "Aunt Qing!"

"His Royal Highness."

I also looked at him with a smile and hugged my arm. The ancients often said that they do n’t see each other like Sanqiu in one day, and now they look quite mean to him, compared to the uncomfortableness when they saw me that day. Sad, now he is as happy as if he had returned to the past with a carefree child, and smiled and said, "I'm still worried that Aunt Qing won't come."

I smiled and said, "Did I not tell His Royal Highness last time? Of course, as long as there is a return, I will certainly go into the palace to see His Highness again."

He narrowed his eyes with a smile.

This time it took me in, but there was nothing wrong with it. It was just that he wanted to see me. When the weather was fine and only the wind was blowing, it would blow down the snow accumulated on the roof with some fine snow. He wandered together in this Xiandian Temple while chatting.

I know that he has finished his college mediocrity, and Fu Bazhen also praised his articles.

I laughed: "Well, does your father like your article?"

When I asked this question, I saw that the steps under Nian Shen's feet were stagnant, and his face was slightly faint in the clear sky.

I immediately murmured, "Huh?"

He glanced up at me, and said dullly, "Father Emperor didn't like my article very much."

"Oh……"

"The emperor always said that my article was too soft."

"..."

"he does not like."

"..."

When I heard him say this, I frowned.

Pei Yuanzhang may not dislike this son, but he does have a lot of dissatisfaction with this "prince". I have felt the tone I used to speak to me in Yangzhou before, and now I understand it even more clearly Naturally, one's article expresses the person's heart, aspirations, and the best proof is that Pei Yuanzhang said that his article was too "soft", just like he has been dissatisfied with the child's gentleness and gentleness.

Nianshen took two steps forward, stopped again, and looked back at me: "Father Emperor often says my wife is kind."

"Did the Emperor say so?"

"Ok."

"Why did he say that?"

"It was just a while ago that the emperor ordered his father to take back some of Yang Wanyun's business, so I wrote to persuade the emperor."

My heart moved, but I didn't move. "Why would your Highness persuade the Emperor to do this? It's just a few businesses."

Deeply brow frowned even deeper and looked back at me and said, "It's not that simple."

"Oh?"

"Aunt Qing, Father Huang did this for money."

"..."

"In the past few years, the new policy promulgated by the imperial court has actually raised tax revenue in many places. The silver in the treasury has more than doubled when the father emperor ascended to the throne. ... "

I tentatively smiled and said, "What's so bad about this?"

"Aunt Qing," he looked at me with deep anxiety in his eyes: "the country, in one case, wants to spend a lot of money."

"..."

"Father Emperor is so busy now, there is only one possibility."

"..."

"Just for--"

When he said that, he paused again, as if he didn't dare to say those two words, but if he did say it, he would become a proverb and everything would be irreparable.

But even if he didn't say it, I knew it.

In fact, when Pei Yuanzhang gave a speech at Yang Wanyun's birthday party, and I took back those businesses, I already knew it.

His current policy is tightening, "making money," and the country hoards that huge amount of wealth for one thing-

fight.

Although Fu Bazhen mentioned to him before that he hopes that the country will not have war in fifteen years, he is trying to maintain this, but there are always some people who will not act according to his wishes, such as Jiangnan, who has the biggest action.

Pei Yuanxiu wants to provoke war at any time. Although Pei Yuanzhang doesn't want to fight, it is impossible for him to sit still with his character and prepare so much money for this.

In other words, the current court is slowly entering a state of preparation for war.

Thinking of this, I feel a bit heavy.

Maybe, war will really be triggered at a time we never imagined.

I thought about it, looking at Nian Shen's sad expression, and said, "So, His Highness advised me, what did the Emperor say?"

Nianshen said: "That day, the emperor called me to the Royal Garden. Just after I asked Ann, he asked the father-in-law to throw a wattle in front of me, asking me to pick it up."

"..."

"As soon as I took it, my hand was bleeding. The emperor asked me coldly if it hurt."

"..."

"I nodded, and then the emperor picked up the wattle, cut off all the thorns on it with a knife, and threw it before me."

"..."

"He said, moving the knife is to allow you to take good care of this thing."