This queen is not too curly

Chapter 21 Big Ship
A wind suddenly blew up by the lakeside, and there was a humid breath in the air.

Yan Yuan's bangs were messed up by the wind, and when she looked up, she suddenly saw a huge monster appearing on the lake in the distance. The thing was hidden in the dense fog of water vapor rising from the lake, and now it suddenly broke through the fog and approached the shore.

Is that a... ship?

Yan Yuan looked at the lake in shock, it was hard to imagine that such a huge boat was moored within a palace wall.

At this time, the boat was already approaching the shore, and Chen Lingshen walked behind her at some unknown time, and whispered in her ear: "Does the Queen want to watch the moon with Gu Youhu?"

Yan Yuan's eyes were still on the boat, she was covered with an indescribable strange feeling, this intuition had saved her life several times on the battlefield, but at this moment, it was clamoring for her not to board this boat. boat.

So she shook her head resolutely: "...the concubine can't."

Chen Ling looked down at her condescendingly: "Why?"

Yan Yuan said: "Because it's easy for a concubine to die."

Chen Ling said calmly, "Oh?"

Yan Yuan said earnestly: "The concubine is suffering from a cold illness. She has been ill for a long time and is weak. She can't stand the cold air, and she died accidentally."

Chen Ling didn't speak, but looked at Yan Yuan with a half-smile.

As if God was also trying to verify what Yan Yuan said, suddenly there was another gust of cool wind on the lake, blowing Yan Yuan's skirt.Sure enough, Yan Yuan started to cough, and the coughing sound became more and more shrill.

At the end of the cough, Yan Yuan's eyes were red.

Chen Lingshen finally looked away. He stared at the big boat in the night fog and said casually, "It's so, it's a pity."

Yan Yuan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and hastily resigned and left the banquet.She walked a little fast, fearing that Chen Ling would regret it, she walked across the lake in one breath, and stopped when she was about to turn to the path of the imperial garden.

"Your Majesty?" Xiao Yu whispered, "My Lady, it's windy, let's hurry up..."

Yan Yuan raised her head and looked at the lake in the distance. She had traveled quite a distance, and even though the boat was moored, she could only see a vague shadow.It happened to be windy at this time, blowing from the lake to the garden, and a subtle smell filled the air.

This smell is mixed with the fragrance of the flowers in the imperial garden, so light that it is almost inaudible.

But it does exist.

Once upon a time, she had also smelled this smell several times at the border, and each time she paid a great price.

It's the smell of kerosene.

……

When Yan Yuan returned to the banquet hall again, the ministers had already left their seats, and the moonlight was dim in the night, only the faintly glowing palace lanterns and the hazy figures beside the palace lanterns remained on the entire lakeside.

"Miss?"

The old eunuch next to Chen Lingchen found Yan Yuan with a surprised expression on his face.

He asked Yan Yuan: "Your Majesty, what did you leave behind?"

Yan Yuan shook her head and said, "I have never seen such a big ship since I grew up in the north."

The old eunuch hesitated: "But the body of the empress..."

Yan Yuan smiled dryly: "Thanks to the doctor Mu's diagnosis and treatment these days, my body is getting healthier day by day. It's nothing if I want to swim in the lake for a while."

After all, she has been "crazily in love" with Chen Lingchen for many years, wouldn't it be strange if she left without looking back?

The old eunuch looked at Yan Yuan with a troubled face, then turned to look at Chu Lingchen again: "Your Majesty, this..."

It was only then that Yan Yuan discovered that Chen Lingchen had been standing in the shadow not far away.He just stood silently by the lakeside, the twilight covered the expression on his face, and his whole body was almost hidden in the darkness behind him.

Yan Yuan asked softly: "Is it not possible?"

Her eyes were piercing, and she stared straight at Chen Lingchen: It was clearly invited by him just now, so could it be that it was just a courtesy?
For a while, only the autumn wind was left by the lake.

I don't know how long it took for Chen Ling's deep voice to resound in the night.

He said, "Yes, it's warm in the cabin."

There was something indescribably tender in that tone.

……

Yan Yuan did not lie, she was born in the north, and she has never seen such a cruise ship with carved railings and painted buildings.

The armor of the ship fell slowly, and Yan Yuan followed Chen Lingshen and walked slowly to the deck of the ship.At that time, the bright moon was shining on the lake, and the red silk lanterns on the cabin were swaying in the night, and the subtle smell of kerosene became more and more clear.

Could it be that someone wants to kill the king?

But what kind of person can quietly sneak into the inner courtyard of the palace and hide enough gunpowder on the emperor's royal cruise ship to burn down a ship?With such superb skills, wouldn't it be convenient and effective to sneak directly into the Qianzheng Hall to assassinate?

Yan Yuan had doubts in her heart, so she walked on the ship armor for a while.

When she entered the cabin, she suddenly smelled a strong fishy and sweet smell.

Is that... the smell of blood?

Yan Yuan suddenly woke up from the fugue, and the door of the cabin was slowly closed in front of her.

"Queen, please take your seat."

Chen Lingshen was beside her, leaning down and whispering softly in her ear.

Yan Yuan couldn't hear what he said, all her attention was attracted by the scene in front of her:

There were five or six men's bodies lying in the cabin. It was not true that they were human beings. The clothes on their bodies were too tattered to be recognizable, and bloodstains were scattered all over their dilapidated bodies. The black and purple blood gathered in the cabin.

Not far from those people, there was a charcoal stove burning.

There were a few iron instruments of torture inserted into the furnace, and those instruments of torture had already been burned red at this moment.

This is……

Yan Yuan froze on the spot, and the words of Chen Lingshen echoed in her mind like lightning.

He said it was warm inside the cabin.

It turned out to be this warming method...

Chen Lingchen had already sat on the only chair in the cabin. He was leaning against the desk, and the old eunuch next to him brought him a cup of tea familiarly. Slowly poured it on the face of one of them.

The already unconscious person gradually woke up.

At first, the man was a little bit pained and ignorant, but when he saw that the person in front of him was Chen Lingchen, his red eyes almost burst open: "Uh-uh--"

"The queen probably doesn't know them yet."

Chen Ling's voice was slow and calm: "They are a few solitary officials with low official positions and deep thoughts. In the past half a month, they have spread rumors in the court, instigated Song Taifu's death remonstrance, and... lobbied the court's veterans to attend the Jianqiu Banquet Make trouble."

Chen Ling's heavy eyes fell lightly on Yan Yuan's face, with tenderness in his eyes: "The queen thinks, how should we deal with it?"

In the burning candle shadow, his eyes also reflected some light, watching Yan Yuan quietly.

Yan Yuan closed her eyes.

It's not that she has never seen such torture scenes. In those years, she would have done it herself, but...Chen Ling's gaze on her gave her an indescribable sense of chills all over her body. .

Chen Lingshen, he was not interrogating those Ling Shis at all.

He was testing her.

(End of this chapter)