This queen is not too curly

Chapter 71 He seems to be asleep?
In the quiet plum garden, fallen leaves rustle.

Peng Yue's breathing became heavier every time, as if a huge boulder weighed heavily on his body, and his tall and straight shoulders drooped slightly.

What is he afraid of?
Was he also looking for something in the plum garden?
Every time I enter the Plum Garden, I can meet this guard. Is his guarding area really in this area?

Yan Yuan looked at Peng Yue, her probing eyes lingered on him for a few times, and soon she saw a little trace of sweat on the tip of Peng Yue's nose.

Peng Yue said with difficulty: "Subordinate..."

"Actually, Ben Gong didn't come to Plum Garden for no reason."

Yan Yuan interrupted Peng Yue's words.

If he wanted to speak, he could only lie. Under the current situation, she didn't want to push Peng Yue into such a situation. It would be harmful to her, and maybe it would make him feel bad.

Then we can't fight him, right?

That would be digging its own grave.

Yan Yuan squinted her eyes and showed a warm smile: "I want to go to the garden next door. There is a lock on the door of the next yard, so I think that the two courtyards are abandoned. Maybe the wind and rain have eroded and the walls are decayed. It's not impossible, so..."

Peng Yue was stunned and asked, "Your Majesty, do you want to go to the former site of Kuiyu Camp?"

Yan Yuan nodded: "Exactly."

As an imperial guard, he really knew it.

Peng Yue hesitated and said: "That place has been abandoned for many years, why does your mother..."

Yan Yuan smiled a little embarrassedly: "I was born in the general family. Although I grew up in the boudoir, I admire the deeds of my father and the late emperor very much. When I was young, my father often told me about the deeds of Kuiyuying, so After entering the palace, I am fascinated."

Yan Yuan's tone of voice has always been calm, but now she deliberately slowed down her speech, making her appear softer.

The doubts in Peng Yue's eyes disappeared, and his expression relaxed.

Everyone in the world knows that the empress of the current dynasty is the daughter of Marquis Dingbei. Marquis Dingbei had a young friendship with the late emperor and participated in almost all the major events in the late emperor's life.It is not uncommon for Marquis Dingbei to know Kuiyuying like the back of his hand.

It is human nature for the daughter in the boudoir to grow up listening to the story and admire her heart.

If I can bestow this favor on the queen today...

Peng Yue said: "Your Majesty, Kuiyu Camp has been closed for a long time, but if you want to see your Majesty, the subordinates are willing to work for your Majesty."

Yan Yuan immediately beamed with joy: "Then there will be Lao Peng's guards."

This is really a windfall.

Yan Yuan followed Peng Yue, walked around the broken walls of the plum garden, pushed aside the overgrown weeds, and entered Kuiyu camp through a dilapidated side door all the way.

Peng Yue seemed to know quite a lot about Kui Yu Ying, and explained the function of each room to Yan Yuan as he walked, but it was a pity that the rooms were all empty.Today's Kuiyu Camp seems to have disappeared out of thin air, from people to things, all traces have been erased.

The sun disappeared at some point, and everything in the courtyard looked a little gloomy.

Yan Yuan looked at the empty room and asked Peng Yue: "Guard Peng, do you know why the Kuiyu camp was suddenly closed?"

Peng Yue shook his head: "I don't know about this subordinate. The Kuiyu battalion that entered the palace has been disbanded. I heard that all the people have been dismissed from the palace."

Yan Yuan asked: "Then where are the things here?"

Peng Yue said: "Destroy, or the Department of Internal Affairs."

Yan Yuan said: "Where are the documents? Will you also be in the Department of Internal Affairs?"

Peng Yue said: "The Kuiyu camp is the late emperor's personal soldiers. Their daily documents are not under the jurisdiction of the Department of Internal Affairs. If they have not been destroyed... it should be in the imperial study."

Imperial study?
No wonder I searched the archives of the Department of Internal Affairs, but couldn't find a single word about Kui Yuying. I didn't expect it to be in Chen Lingchen's own hands.

This can be troublesome.

Yan Yuan sighed inwardly.

"Miss?"

Seeing Yan Yuan in a daze, Peng Yue asked softly.

Yan Yuan came back to her senses and said: "The sky has changed, I want to go back to the palace to rest."

Peng Yue saluted immediately: "This subordinate is willing to send your empress back to the palace."

Yan Yuan looked at him, and suddenly thought of the food box by the pool. If she had left Peng Yue in the plum garden, it might be hard to guarantee whether he would find that food box.

She thought for a while, nodded and said, "Then there will be Lau Peng's guards."

Yan Yuan walked out of the plum garden under the escort of Peng Yue.

At that time, the weather changed, the sun disappeared, dark clouds covered the sky, the cold wind mixed with the stench swept in, and sporadic raindrops floated indistinctly.

Yan Yuan stood at the door and paused for a moment, and faintly heard some sobbing.

The sound seemed to be there, and it was much lighter than the last time I heard it, like a trace of aftertaste revealed under the cover of layers of cotton. If you don't listen carefully, it will be mixed with the sound of weeds and waves.

Yan Yuan stopped and looked back at the plum garden.

She listened intently for a while, then turned her head and asked, "What sound did Guard Peng hear?"

Peng Yue's face froze, and the corners of his mouth curled into a line: "Ms. Hui, my subordinate is deaf, and I didn't hear anything."

Can't you hear me?

Or pretend not to hear?
Yan Yuan's thoughts were flying, and she hadn't figured out how to deal with it when she suddenly saw a few furtive figures flashing by the courtyard wall in the distance.

Those figures came from the direction of the Department of Internal Affairs, and they were walking shrinkingly against the courtyard wall.

Suddenly a thunderbolt landed, they raised their heads in panic, met Yan Yuan's eyes, and ran away without looking back.

Yan Yuan: "..."

……

When Yan Yuan returned to Wangshu Palace, the heavy rain had just fallen.

She walked a little anxiously, and before she had time to catch her breath, she saw Ruan Zhu rushing up to meet her.

"Your Majesty, you are back!"

"?"

"Your Majesty has been waiting for your empress for a long time!"

"..."

Chen Lingshen?What is he here for?
Before Yan Yuan could speak, Ruan Zhu grabbed her by the wrist and hurriedly dragged her into the room, then pressed her against the dressing table and frantically touched up her makeup.

"Didn't the empress go to look for His Majesty?"

"The make-up is all worn out. It's raining and someone should be sent to pick it up."

"Look up, servant girl."

"Well, it's so pretty."

Yan Yuan was like a puppet on a string. Under Ruan Zhu's emergency rescue, she lost her embarrassment and became a decent queen again, and was guided by her to move forward.

"Your Majesty said that the front hall was too cold, and he wanted to go to a warmer place, so the servant took him to the study."

"What kind of study should I go to? How nice it is to go to the bedroom."

"The chair in the study is too small and too hard, it's inconvenient!"

Ruan Zhu's face was full of embarrassment.

She dragged Yan Yuan all the way to the door of the study, leaned over and whispered in her ear: "Your Majesty, there are many tricks to play in the study."

"If Your Majesty needs to use pen and ink, Madam will touch his fingertips. If Your Majesty wants to read, Madam will pretend not to reach it. If Your Majesty coughs, Madam will say that there is a charcoal stove in the bedroom!"

"The servant will not add charcoal to the stove in the study, the empress will bear it."

"Work hard, ma'am!"

Yan Yuan was in a fog when she heard it, and before she had time to react, a heater was stuffed in her hand.

The next moment she was pushed into the study.

As if afraid that she would regret it.

The door slammed shut behind her.

Yan Yuan: "..."

It all happened so fast.

Yan Yuan stood blankly at the door of the study, feeling her head was still buzzing, and there was only one thought in her mind: If there is a chance, I should buy an old imperial calendar.

The room in the study was peaceful and quiet.

Chen Lingchen was still wearing a loose black brocade, leaning lazily on the desk.

He was holding the casual book she usually read in his hand, and his long eyelashes cast a shadow on his cheeks, so quiet that one could feel that even the dust in the room had never fallen on his shoulders.

For some reason, the restless emotions receded like a tide.

Yan Yuan lowered her head and moved forward: "The concubine has seen His Majesty."

Everything is not going well for her today, and her heart is even heavier than going to the grave.

Chen Lingchen seemed to be waiting for a sound, he raised his head slowly and said, "I heard that the queen is taking some snacks to travel abroad, I'm so excited."

Yan Yuan said silently: "The concubine has chest tightness and shortness of breath, and wants to go out for a walk."

Chen Ling's deep eyes fell on Yan Yuan's body, and the corners of his mouth curled up: "Is the queen not cold today?"

Her outfit today was different from usual, without the fur coat, she was only wearing a thin golden dress, she looked a lot lighter, reminding people of autumn sycamore leaves for no reason.

Yan Yuan said: "The concubine has gotten a little angry recently, so she wears less clothes than usual."

Chen Ling's deep gaze fell on the stove in Yan Yuan's hand, with a half-smile: "On fire?"

Yan Yuan calmly said: "Xuhuo, I was scared out of it by soaking in the hot spring."

Chen Lingshen: "..."

Yan Yuan took a deep breath, bit the bullet and raised her head.

She no longer wants to guess.

The chaos last night broke all her trade-offs and struggles. No matter what kind of agreement she had with the dog emperor, no matter whether she was asking for some medicinal materials or not, these are not important anymore.

She knew the secrets of the royal family.From then on, her head was stored around her neck. Even if Chen Lingchen was willing to keep her life, the queen mother would not let her live for a long time.

She knew that this was Chen Lingchen's purpose.

The Queen Mother designed him with "Under the Moon".

He countered with scandal.

There has never been a logical cooperation, and he has never really trusted her. Last night, he deliberately exposed the Queen Mother's scandal, in order to smash the possibility of her secretly communicating with the Queen Mother.

It was he who forcibly asked her for a nomination certificate.

From then on, if she wanted to live, she could never do without his protection.

What could be more reassuring?
It's really a no-brainer.

Yan Yuan looked at Chen Lingchen calmly, and said calmly, "Your Majesty, it doesn't have to be like this. Yan Yuan is not such an important person."

It's just a small pawn.

It's just that I want to enter the palace to check a little bit of the past.

Where is it worth him to go to war so much.

Chen Ling was indifferent.

He looked at Yan Yuan's expressionless face, and felt that the mushroom in front of him seemed a little wilted. Although it was less slick than before, it had a trace of unscrupulousness.

Probably because I was scared out of my wits last night.

She seems to be messed up today.

Chen Ling stared at her deeply, and suddenly felt that even though she wasn't wearing that heavy fur coat, her depressed look was still a little fluffy.

It doesn't look so stupid now.

It's more pleasing than when she was cheating.

The corners of Chen Lingshen's mouth were raised, and he lowered his eyebrows to take a stack of documents from the desk, and gently pushed it to the edge of the desk with his bony fingertips.

"come over."

He greets like a kitten or a puppy.

Yan Yuan stood there silent for a while, and then slowly walked forward.

Chen Ling suddenly asked, "What kind of books does the queen read on weekdays?"

Yan Yuan replied fluently: ""Women's Rules", "Women's Law" and "Women's Training"."

Chen Ling said solemnly, "Tell the truth."

Yan Yuan said with a dead voice: ""Sun Tzu's Art of War", "Qin An's tricks", "Ten Tortures"."

Chen Ling nodded in satisfaction, gently pushed the documents on the edge of the case with his slender fingertips, and said calmly: "These are your duties, if you explain them well, I won't ask you where the scars are from."

Yan Yuan: "..."

Yan Yuan resigned to her fate and took over the documents.

She glanced down.

Those documents look like memorials in the court, but they are not exactly like them.There is a dark red mark in the center of the memorial, which should be the inner fold of the harem.

Since it is inwardly folded, it is handed over to the Queen to manage the Six Palaces, which is indeed her scope of responsibility.It's just because she has always been a vase, so she hasn't seen such a document so far.

Yan Yuan stared at the documents and was stunned.

So Chen Lingchen didn't plan to kill her, but now he planned to let her get involved in the harem?

There is only one desk in the study.

Chen Lingchen gave up the table and chairs, walked lightly to the chair in the study, found a comfortable position and drank tea, it seemed that he would not leave for a while.

Yan Yuan had no choice but to bite the bullet and sit in the seat where Chen Ling and Shen had just sat, and opened the first harem fold.

In the first passage, it is written that there is a maid in Yongning Palace who has reached the age of 25. She should have been released from the palace at the beginning of the year, but she was postponed for an extra year because of her shrewdness.But in this year, the court lady had a secret love affair with a young general in the imperial guards, had an affair with him, and was already pregnant when she was discovered.

Since ancient times, palace maids and guards have been punished strictly for adultery, and it is common for them to be killed with both sticks. The Department of Internal Affairs wanted to arrest this court lady that night, but she escaped.

After seven days, the people from the Department of Internal Affairs found the body of the court lady in the imperial garden.

The palace lady was dead, but the guard didn't know who it was, so this matter became an unsolved case.

Half a year had passed, and there was still no progress in the case. The Department of Internal Affairs asked if the case could be sealed up.

Um, is this... harem affairs?

Yan Yuan was dumbfounded.

This plot is comparable to the words of the street.

Also... Strange twists and turns are attractive.

Yan Yuan raised her head and glanced at Chen Lingchen, and found that he was looking at her lazily with his head propped up. She immediately lowered her head and took the second book, followed by the third book, the fourth book, and the fifth book...

Before you know it, time passes.

The heavy rain gradually subsided.

The moon rises high.

Yan Yuan changed from being compelled to actively watching. When it got dark, she lit a candle and continued watching.

I don't know how long it took, but she finally finished reading the last book, and she just felt that her whole body was filled with the desire to find someone to talk about these right and wrong...

Of course, the person he was talking about would not be Chen Lingchen.

She stood up quietly.

Chen Lingshen didn't move.

At this moment, Chen Ling was sitting heavily on the chair by the window, his body stretched out, his back slightly bent, his body was like a stone statue, only a corner of his clothes was left slightly fluttered by the breeze.

The moonlight shone on his eyelashes, and time seemed to stand still.

Yan Yuan stared at him blankly.

Like, he fell asleep?
(End of this chapter)