This queen is not too curly

Chapter 54 How dare he?
In front of the imperial mausoleum, the mountain wind howled.

Yan Yuan stood between Chu Lingshen and Chu Jingyu.Her hair was disheveled by the wind, and a strand of disobedient hair around her ear was slightly raised, which made the court dress on her even more abrupt.

Chen Ling stared at the strand of hair deeply, and curled the corner of his mouth.

Chu Jingyu naturally also saw Yan Yuan's intention to protect her, he just thought it was ridiculous, he said: "The empress is worrying too much, this king is just worried about the Holy Majesty."

Yan Yuan said: "Oh."

She believed in his ghost oh, just worried?

Yan Yuan replied lightly, her eyes passed all the civil and military officials, and drifted to the mountain road with no end in sight.

At this time, the mountain road was already full of Chu Jingyu's men and horses, and there were thrilling barking sounds from the mountainside in the distance. It was obvious that a massive and violent search was going on there.

Yan Yuan didn't know much about King Xuan.

All she knew was that he seemed to be the child of the first emperor and a court lady when he was young. He was supposed to live an unknown life in the corner of the cold palace, but he got lucky and met the queen at that time, who was Chu Lingchen's biological mother.

At that time, the queen was not pregnant with her own heir, so she took him by her side to raise him because she felt sorry for his loneliness.

Rumor has it that the empress loved him so much that even after she had her own son, Chu Lingshen, she still treated Chu Jingyu as her own. This incident has always been recorded as a good story by historians.

Now it seems...

Yan Yuan looked at Chu Jingyu coldly.

The eldest son of the emperor is not only regarded as his own son, he is going to heaven.

The sound of dogs barking kept coming from her ears, and Yan Yuan's heart also rose to her throat:

Did they search the hot spring cabin?
See the spy on the hillside?

Did you find the body?

She regretted a little in her heart, if she had been a few steps closer to the hut last night to scare them, if she had simply killed the carbine secretly in the morning, maybe she would not have fallen into such a stupid situation now.

She didn't even know what she was worried about.

Yan Yuan quietly turned her head and peeked at Chen Lingchen.

It turned out that the dog emperor had lost his mind.

He actually lost his mind!

At this time, Chen Ling looked over the crowd, and his empty gaze quietly drifted into the distance.

Yan Yuan looked in the direction of his gaze, only to see the misty peak of Yuting Mountain in the distance, even the scorching sun did not penetrate the clouds and smoke on the top of the mountain, so she couldn't see anything clearly.

Yan Yuan: ...

What a douchebag that can't be helped.

Yan Yuan had some headaches, but the innocence of a loyal minister and good general prevailed.She stood firmly in front of Chen Lingchen, and under Chu Jingyu's mocking gaze, she showed a kind smile.

The barking of dogs on the mountainside intensified.

The sound of hooves broke the silence.

A moment later, a cloud of dust and smoke rose in front of the imperial mausoleum, and a group of powerful iron cavalry stepped on the flying soil, passed through the officials aggressively, and came directly in front of Xuan Wang Chu Jingyu.

The iron cavalry officers got off their horses, but they didn't see the king, they just knelt down and startled Yu.

"Reporting to His Royal Highness King Xuan, my subordinates have searched the mountainside, and found a group of people, horses and dogs in the wooden house on the mountainside. They should be the personal guards of the Holy Lord, and my subordinates have invited them here!"

Of course, the emperor's personal guards could not come tied up, so he respectfully asked someone to mount a horse and come with him.At this moment, they were standing behind him, neat and heroic, and they didn't look embarrassed at all.

Chu Jingyu frowned and said coldly: "What else?"

Eight hundred elite soldiers searched up the mountain, but only found a dozen bodyguards and a group of dogs?

The iron cavalry officer said: "Return to His Royal Highness King Xuan, no!"

Chu Jingyu said: "Where's the hut in the back mountain? You didn't find the room next to the hot spring?"

The cavalry officer said: "Go back to Your Highness, there is nothing abnormal in the hut!"

Chu Jingyu's face darkened.

Today's game, he has been planning for a long time.

As early as when Chen Lingshen's hidden guards took things up the mountain mysteriously, he had already laid a net.Before dawn, the spies reported to him that the group of people settled in the hut next to the hot spring, and the unknown thing was inside the hot spring.

And now, only a few hours have passed.

During this period, not even a mosquito came down the mountain.

How could it be possible to get nothing?

Chu Jingyu's body was stiff, his expression changed again and again, the arrogance on his face gradually faded, and the color of surprise gradually enveloped his entire face.

impossible……

Absolutely impossible!
The mountain wind blew past, leaving only the whistling sound in front of the mausoleum.

I don't know how long it took before Chen Ling's deep voice rang out: "Why, didn't Brother Huang find the assassin?"

Chen Ling walked around Yan Yuan, walked slowly in front of Chu Jingyu, and said softly, "What a pity."

His voice was calm, half-swallowed by the wind, but it was just...

With obvious sarcasm.

Yan Yuan lowered her head and laughed.

Sure enough, it was him, Chu Lingshen.

……

At this moment, there was no sound in front of the mausoleum, but the atmosphere was different from that just now, when Chu Jingyu came in menacingly, but now he is the most embarrassing person here.How righteous he was just now, how embarrassing he is now.

Now that things are up to now, whether Chu Jingyu can handle this situation depends on whether Chen Lingshen will give him a step.

He coughed dryly, and said stiffly: "Forgive me, Your Majesty, the reason why I acted presumptuously was because the spies reported last night that the assassin who was following him had already gone up the mountain, so he rushed to escort him."

Chen Ling was noncommittal, with indifference in the corners of his eyes.

Chu Jingyu said dryly: "I am too worried about the Holy One, so..."

Chen Ling said in a low voice, "I understand."

Chu Jingyu breathed a sigh of relief: "Then today's misunderstanding..."

Chen Lingshen's eyes were still lowered, as if inadvertently, his eyes turned to the civil and military officials: "But today, the horse stepped on the imperial tomb, disturbing the spirit of the ancestors in the sky, and the historian is still there, alone... there is nothing to help."

His voice was flat and his eyelashes drooped.

It seemed that he had really encountered a difficult situation, and wanted to help but it was of no avail.

Thin beads of sweat had already appeared on Chu Jingyu's forehead.He dared to step on the imperial mausoleum today, firstly because the Queen Mother had indeed issued an imperial order, and secondly because he was fully sure that he could find something, so as to block the mouths of all the officials and make Chen Ling feel overwhelmed...

But the problem is, he can't find anything now.

Without evidence, his behavior today is not justified.

Even if he sat on that dragon chair in the future, I am afraid that the historians will not let him go, and he will be stabbed in the back for thousands of generations, and he will be charged with unfilial piety.

This is this...

Chu Jingyu suddenly realized that he had done something stupid, and his face turned blue instantly.

Chen Ling said slowly: "The mage is still here, if Brother Huang is willing to repent, it's not too late."

Chu Jingyu's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said: "This king will accuse the ancestors! I beg the ancestors to forgive the crime of disturbing the king!"

The horse's stepping on the imperial mausoleum happened in a hurry, and apologizing afterwards is a good talk.

As if seeing light in the dark night and finding hope in a desperate situation, Chu Jingyu's gray face was wiped away, and he hurriedly shouted to the iron cavalry officers and soldiers: "Iron Armor Battalion listens to the order! Today, you will be disturbed!" The mausoleum of the ancestors of the ancestors deserves death, so hurry up and kneel down!"

Chu Jingyu took the lead, and the cavalry soldiers knelt down in front of the mausoleum.

Chen Ling turned his eyes lightly to the ministers: "My dear friends, do you still enjoy watching?"

Yan Yuan: "..."

The ministers finally came to their senses. If the crime of disturbing the mausoleum was counted, then they could not escape the crime if they failed to stop it.So the civil and military officials also knelt down with King Xuan, and kowtowed heavily to the ground amidst the mage's chanting.

"The emperor and ancestors forgive the sins, and the ministers deserve death!"

"The emperor and ancestors forgive the sins, and the ministers deserve death!"

"The emperor and ancestors forgive the sins, and the ministers deserve death!"

The sound of confession resounded through the sky, and the scene was even more lively than just offering sacrifices to the mausoleum. The hounds who came from custody were so frightened that they barked wildly.

Only Chen Lingshen watched everything in front of him silently.

Yan Yuan's tinnitus couldn't stop from being shaken by those voices, and she didn't dare to cover her ears, so she could only take two steps back quietly.

Seeing that Chen Lingchen seemed to be in no danger, she took another two steps back.

Before she knew it, Yan Yuan had retreated to the edge.

Behind her is the group of hounds in custody.

Those hounds were fat and strong, and they barked earth-shatteringly, but they stopped suddenly when Yan Yuan approached, and the barking stopped abruptly.

Yan Yuan looked back curiously.

Those strong black hounds suddenly turned pale with fright, and took a step back in unison.

Yan Yuan: "..."

What a dog.

Yan Yuan's face was paralyzed in thought.

She is used to this kind of situation. Ever since she brought back the little wolf cub in the snowy field to keep her by her side, her relationship with animals has been cut off. So far, she has never met any animal that dared to approach her.

Fortunately, no one on the field noticed the strange change here, so Yan Yuan silently moved a little distance towards the other side of the crowd.

Sure enough, as soon as she walked away, the hounds barked again.

Another pack of mighty and ferocious royal hounds.

Yan Yuan: "..."

"Miss, are you alright?"

Yan Yuan walked around frequently, Luo Ziqiu at the side noticed something strange, stepped forward and asked softly.

Yan Yuan shook her head: "No problem, I just... have always been afraid of dogs."

Luo Ziqiu followed Yan Yuan's gaze, saw the hounds, and immediately smiled understandingly: "It's okay, they are all tied with ropes, the lady just needs to stand farther away."

Yan Yuan followed him and sighed: "Yes, fortunately there is a rope."

If it weren't for the tether, the scene might not be very good.

……

Not far away, the mage recited the scriptures again. Chu Jingyu, together with his men and horses, knelt in front of the mausoleum with all the civil and military officials.

Chen Ling stood in front of the people, his gaze still drifting towards the distant mountain.

Is there something there?

Yan Yuan thought quietly.

This was not the first time he looked there. When Chu Jingyu searched the mountain, when everyone was kneeling on the ground, his eyes always looked at the peak of Yuting Mountain with meaning.

Yan Yuan followed Chen Lingshen's gaze and looked up.

Luo Ziqiu said in a low voice, "What are you looking at, Your Majesty?"

Yan Yuan thought for a while and asked him, "What's on the top of this mountain?"

Luo Ziqiu's fan moved slightly, and he asked without changing his expression, "Yuting Mountain is steep, and few people go up it. The peak probably only has the scenery of the mountain."

Yan Yuan was thoughtful, only the scenery of the mountains?
Luo Ziqiu said: "Why is your empress suddenly interested in Yuting Mountain?"

He asked indifferently, but there was a gleam of light in the corner of his eyes, observing Yan Yuan's face vaguely.

Yan Yuan pretended she didn't see it, and said casually: "It's nothing, I just saw His Majesty was looking at it, just curious."

Luo Ziqiu said: "Your Majesty must have been exhausted and distracted."

As he spoke, he naturally glanced at the direction where Chen Lingchen was standing, and found that Chen Lingchen was really looking at the mountain as Yan Yuan said.

The crowd is still kneeling.

Chen Ling stood there in a black brocade court dress, surrounded by indescribable solemnity. At this moment, he raised his eyes to look at the mountain peak, and there was a glimmer of piercing glimmer in his pitch-black pupils.

He was obviously not tired and distracted.

Luo Ziqiu froze for a moment, a certain memory in his mind inadvertently revived.

He suddenly became short of breath and his face was pale.

He finally understood.

Why do you have to travel thousands of miles to transport the corpse back to the imperial capital;
Why did you have to wait until the time to sacrifice to the imperial mausoleum before ordering it to be transported back;

Why do you have to take the risk of transporting the corpse to Yuting Mountain when you can identify the corpse at the foot of the mountain?

Why... knowing that it is the imperial tomb, but still ordering the corpse to be cremated on the top of the mountain;
……

From the very beginning, Chen Lingchen had no intention of transporting the three corpses down the mountain.

The murderer in the snowy field three years ago has nowhere to be found, but the culprit is very likely to be among the people who knelt down today.

He had already planned it.

Find the young general named Ning Bai and bring his body to the imperial mausoleum.

The top of his body was incinerated, and the ashes would melt into every inch of Yuting Mountain.

No matter who the culprit is.

Regardless of whether he is in the crowd at the moment.

No matter how many years.

As long as Yuting Mountain is still there, as long as his Chu family's imperial court is still there, everyone in the whole government and the public must come here every year to the place where the bones of these soldiers are buried.

Kneel down, be grateful, apologize.

This has been the case for generations.

……

The folding fan was pinched into many folds, Luo Ziqiu still couldn't believe his deduction, he stared at his almost cracked eyes, the elegance of the past was gone, and he could only stare at Chen Lingchen.

They are just ordinary soldiers, even if they are successful in saving him, but after all...

It's too crazy.

Even if he is the king of a country, the historian is still there, in front of the imperial tomb, where the dragon's veins gather, how can he?
How dare he?
……

Luo Ziqiu's body was crumbling, and the fingertips holding the fan trembled slightly.

Yan Yuan stood five or six steps away and looked at him.

The Luo Ziqiu in front of him had long lost his former composure, his face was pale, his breathing was random, and shock and panic were written all over his body.

Is it because of... something on the mountain?
Yan Yuan stared at Luo Ziqiu and thought quietly.

Luo Ziqiu was obviously not as simple as Chen Lingchen's imperial doctor. Judging from the way he scolded those spies last night, he should have another identity beside Chen Lingchen.

Those who accompany the king for a long time are usually not surprised by their emotions.

What could scare him like this?
Yan Yuan's mind was floating, and a thought flashed through her mind inadvertently:
Corpse in the hot spring hut.

King Xuan's men rummaged through the entire mountain and couldn't find any corpses.

Could Chen Lingshen be...

In order to deceive the world, why not just burn the body?

……

Yan Yuan was also taken aback by her own thoughts, and turned her astonished gaze to Chen Lingchen.

Unexpectedly, her eyes met his.

At that time, the sunlight was just right, so that the dark lines of gold threads on Chen Lingchen's body were faintly visible.

Standing in the din of people, he was obviously a member of the hustle and bustle, but he seemed to be in a different world from everyone.

When the mage's chanting gradually subsided and the long confession ceremony was finally over, Chen Lingshen finally walked in front of Chu Jingyu again.

Chen Ling hooked the corner of his mouth deeply, and an unpredictable light flashed in his eyes, and said softly: "Brother Huang has worked hard, tell the queen that everything is fine."

Chu Jingyu said: "Okay, since the sacrifice is over, I will..."

Chen Ling said solemnly: "The lonely bodyguard can send the elder brother back to the residence."

Chu Jingyu said: "You don't need to trouble your majesty, I have chariots, horses and soldiers..."

Chen Ling said lightly, "No more."

(End of this chapter)