This queen is not too curly

Chapter 74

In the silent hall, the falling dust made a loud noise.

The most honorable woman in Yan Kingdom sat on a high seat, looking down at Yan Yuan.

It seemed as if hundreds of millions of years had passed before a deep and hoarse voice slowly sounded from the high seat: "The queen, do you know why I am kneeling here today?"

Of course, it was because I accidentally heard something that I shouldn't have heard, and then I was asked to settle accounts and kill people to silence me!

Yan Yuan slandered silently in her heart, but naturally she didn't dare to show anything on the surface.

Her figure was reflected on the dark marble tiles, and her steps swayed slightly.

She lowered her head and said softly: "The concubine is dull."

The Queen Mother sighed, like a heavy burden was on her shoulders, she said: "Then you should know where you were caught."

Where was he caught?
Plum Garden of course.

The queen mother cannot easily convict the current queen on the grounds of "hearing the secret".She must be looking for a talker, and Queen Plum Garden worshiping ghosts is a very suitable reason.

Yan Yuan resolutely confessed: "The concubine is guilty, please punish the Queen Mother."

The Queen Mother said: "Where is the crime?"

Yan Yuan said: "Concubine...shouldn't be impatient and unable to fulfill the Queen Mother's orders, don't listen to rumors, thinking that if you bring some fruit tribute plates to the plum garden, you will be able to get the favor of the Holy Majesty..."

I'm all here to fulfill your boss's entrustment!

It's not a crime to be stupid!
Yan Yuan's words are sincere, and she avoids the important and takes the light.

The Empress Dowager raised her eyebrows and said, "Hasn't the Empress already received the Holy Grace?"

This is what Yan Yuan was waiting for.

She raised her head, showing red eyes that had been brewing for a long time: "You don't know, Queen Mother, those are just rumors outside..."

Tears welled up in her eyes, and Yan Yuan's voice was choked with sobs.

"Although the Holy Majesty visits Wangshu Palace every night, he just lingers in the study room, he... he has not actually been with Yuan'er..."

"Yuan'er is stupid, she doesn't know the meaning of the Holy Majesty, and she dare not ask... just a momentary thought..."

"Yuan'er knew she was wrong, please punish the queen mother."

Yan Yuan blinked her eyes, trying her best to let the queen mother only see her figure and imagine how ashamed, angry and helpless she was.

Between words, she just wanted to convey one thing:
Chen Lingshen's grandson did it on purpose!
He's digging a hole for your boss!
The so-called harmony between the emperor and the empress was all pretended by him, and the rumors were also spread by him. He just wanted to drive a wedge between you and me, my good boss!
Yan Yuan cried blood every word, and could not afford to kneel for a long time.

The hall was silent for a while, and the Empress Dowager's flat voice sounded: "Liangyu, have a test."

Have a test?test what?
Yan Yuan was at a loss, and when Aunt Liangyu and several old nuns surrounded her, she finally understood what they were going to test—they were going to test whether she was still a virgin.

After some inspection, Aunt Liangyu knelt down and said, "Report to the Empress Dowager, it is indeed perfect."

With Aunt Liangyu doing her homework, the Empress Dowager's face finally softened a little. She stared at Yan Yuan and said coldly, "Confused!"

Although the tone was sharp, the murderous intent was gone.

Yan Yuan quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

She still didn't dare to look up at the queen mother.

After all, the real conflict between her and the Queen Mother was not Concubine Mei, but the dead Tutor and a royal scandal.

She knelt on the ground and lowered her head.

After an unknown amount of time, a luxurious hem appeared in her sight.

That was the Empress Dowager standing up from the high seat, and stepped down the steps to her body: "Get up."

Yan Yuan knelt down, wiped her eyes with her hand after a while, and mustered up the courage to speak: "Chenqie... Chenqie heard that day."

Her image in front of the queen mother is: a stupid waste, a simple rabbit, and a disgrace to the Hou Men.

Of course, that is which pot should not be opened and which pot should be lifted.

Everywhere is dead.

It's better to take a gamble.

There was a sudden silence in the hall, even the sound of breathing disappeared.

Yan Yuan heard her own heartbeat, each sound slower than the last.

After an unknown amount of time, an old hand stretched out in front of her, followed by the Queen Mother's sigh: "The Ai family knows that you are an honest child, and the Ai family... will not kill you."

Yan Yuan raised her head and looked into the Empress Dowager's eyes.

Her eyes were like a pool of old stagnant water, filled with indescribable fatigue.

Yan Yuan red eyes: "Really?"

The Empress Dowager's fingers landed on Yan Yuan's head, and rubbed lightly: "It's not your fault, it's the emperor who wanted to separate you and me, and borrowed Ai's hand to make a knife hanging above your head."

"He was wrong. If he yelled at Manchu Wenwu, wouldn't the Ai family want to slaughter Manchu Wenwu?"

"Besides, you're a good boy."

The Empress Dowager's eyes were gentle, but her voice was cold and quiet.

She said: "Aijia doesn't kill good children."

The door of the main hall opened slowly.

The sun shines into the hall from the outside, bringing a refreshing breeze.

Yan Yuan's hanging heart fell to the ground quietly, and she knew that this was a life door opened for her.After all, the queen mother is still the queen mother who will reply "the child is innocent" in the internal fold. Although she kills decisively, she is not a murderer after all.

As the boss, the Queen Mother was obviously much more serious than Chen Ling.

Yan Yuan lowered her head and seriously considered whether it was possible to work double jobs. If she recognized two employers, she would have two chances of survival if necessary.

Yan Yuan was still in a daze, but Aunt Liangyu had already stepped forward to help her up, and guided her all the way to sit on the chair in the side hall.

Beside the chair was a plate of pastries and a pot of hot tea.

Aunt Liangyu said softly, "Your Majesty, please use it."

She became that gentle and amiable old nanny again.

Yan Yuan was dumbfounded, and shook her head decisively: "No need, no need!"

Aunt Liangyu said again: "The lady, please drink tea."

Yan Yuan bit the bullet and took a sip. The tea was jasmine-scented green tea, which had a slightly sweet taste in her throat. It was delicious, but she was afraid she would die if she drank it.

Right now the situation is not clear, drinking too much can easily lead to death.

The Empress Dowager took a seat opposite Yan Yuan, her expression was different from before, her brows were frowned, and her voice was serious: "Today, the Ai family summoned the Empress because of the Plum Garden, but not for the Plum Garden."

Yan Yuan was taken aback for a moment, then raised her head.

It's not about Meiyuan, nor is it a scandal, so what else did she get into?

The Empress Dowager said: "Recently, the border has been peaceful, and the Huncheng Army has moved their training grounds. They have camped in Anding City for two months."

Yan Yuan was confused.

The Huancheng Army is one of the most valiant armies in the Yan Kingdom. The frontier border is short of supplies. When the world is at peace, the frontier only needs ordinary city guards.

This kind of elite relocation to the training ground is very common, and it is not a big deal.

It's just that the destination of the transfer is quite particular. It must be easily dispatched at any time, it must be sparsely populated, and it must be rich in supplies.Anding City is the closest to the border with a few people and rich land, it is the best choice for marching and training.

Seeing Yan Yuan's suspicious face, the queen mother said slowly: "The Huncheng army dug up a wreckage 30 years ago in Anding City. There are countless corpses inside, and all of them have turned into white bones."

Yan Yuan: Bones... pit?

Yan Yuan: Why is there a pit of bones?

"Because Anding City is the name given by the late emperor, that city used to be called..."

The Queen Mother stared into Yan Yuan's eyes, and said slowly, "Blue City."

blue city.

Yan Yuan's breath paused, and her eyes widened instantly.

30 years is too long, and the Blue City has been buried in the long river of time. Many people have forgotten the name of this city, and my children don't even know that there used to be a city called Blue City in this world.

But it is impossible for Yan Yuan not to know the name Lancheng.

Her father, Marquis of Dingbei, Yanzhou, accompanied the late emperor to open up territories and made great military exploits by slaughtering three cities. The prestige of the Living Hades was like a nail into everyone's heart.

And Blue City is the city that was slaughtered.

If the former Blue City is today's Anding City, then the bone pit that was dug out in Anding City...

"Recently, the National Teacher's Mansion has stargazing visions, and the white bones of Anding City have appeared in the world. These are all related to Yan Hou's old affairs, so many people in the court are concerned about it."

"This matter was originally kept secret, no one dared to comment, but Yuan'er..."

The Queen Mother's voice sounded slowly: "You shouldn't be visiting the Plum Garden at this time."

Yan Yuan lowered her head, the chaotic thoughts in her mind rolled into balls of thread, she took a deep breath, closed her eyes, her mind went blank.

Every time a flower blooms on the snowfield, the underground rhizomes have been growing for several years.

Rumors don't go on endlessly.

It is irrigating, growing, spreading and brewing.

Finally, the ice surface was broken and the first flower bloomed.

It turns out that the old affairs of Blue City are the flowers that really bloomed.

"For the current plan, let's go to the Buddha Bone Pagoda first by working hard for the Queen."

"Tell the spirit for five days, copy a thousand volumes of scriptures, or you can survive this calamity."

……

In the Palace of Qianzheng, the fragrance of calming the nerves rises.

Through the windows of the main hall, a little bit of the afterglow of the setting sun was seen, and thousands of golden threads sprinkled on Chen Lingchen's desk, dyeing the stacks of memorials in black gold.

Candles were already lit before the desk.

Chen Ling sat in front of the desk and closed the last memorial, a trace of fatigue flashed in his dark pupils.

He rubbed the space between his brows, and put the memorial on the candle flame.

The flames devoured the paper, and in an instant bright flowers bloomed at his fingertips.

"Another one?"

Luo Ziqiu had been watching behind him for a long time. This was already the seventh memorial that Chen Lingchen had burned today.

Ever since the incident of the Bone Pit in Anding City was reported back to the previous dynasty, those pedantic civil servants seemed to be crazy, and they were taking the opportunity to test the emperor's attitude towards Yan Zhou.

Those memorials were relatively hidden at first, but it was unexpected that the queen went to the plum garden to pay homage to Concubine Mei every day in the harem, so the rumors of the previous dynasty also broke out.

It was rumored that because Yan Zhou bloodbathed Lancheng 30 years ago, the Yan family had excess karma, and the queen was naturally infected with this yin energy.So since she entered the palace, the yin energy in her body has nurtured the Mei Concubine of the previous dynasty in the plum garden.

Of course, the courtiers' memorial naturally did not dare to say these uninhibited talks openly.

They were just playing, the Blue City of White Bone Pit appeared in the world, which caused countless public grievances. They asked the emperor to make Dingbei Marquis Yan Zhou compensate for this, so as to quell the public anger and demonstrate the imperial court's kindness.

"These civil servants have lived in peace for a long time."

A mocking light flashed in Luo Ziqiu's eyes.

"It's really interesting that the generals who are defending the city are starting to dislike their cruel methods."

They were secretive, hesitating to speak, pretending to be compassionate, and begging the emperor for some grace, so that the bones in the pit could be buried in peace.

Chen Ling was silent.

So someone asked whether to donate a temple so that monks could recite scriptures for those innocent creatures and resolve the grievances of the dead.

Chen Ling acquiesced again.

Since those bones are innocent creatures, who are the people who slaughtered them?
That is the real murderer, Yan Luo reborn.

So when the painting style of the memorial changed, someone raised a question: Was the massacre of the city really a last resort?Is Dingbei Hou Yanzhou warlike and fond of meritorious deeds, more than meritorious deeds?Was he really not at fault for slaughtering Lancheng?
He is so cruel!
He should take responsibility for the innocent people in Lancheng!
It is impossible for a general to be without fault, and the crusade started from then on. The courtiers even dug out the past that Yan Zhou gave himself two catties of tea in the barracks.

If the small details are damaged, how can the big ones be preserved?

A general who steals tea leaves is definitely not a good guy.

Why does his daughter sit firmly in the middle palace, and why does he enjoy his old age peacefully?
He stole tea in the past, and he can steal the country in the future.

No wonder I never wait to see Yan Hou!

So the memorial rolled in like a flood, reached Chen Lingchen's desk, and then turned to ashes in his hands.

The sun finally set.

Chen Ling stared at the moonlight outside. At this time in the past, he should have been on his way to Wangshu Palace, but today...

Luo Ziqiu swayed in the wind: "I heard that the Empress Dowager punished the empress to go to the Buddhist bone pagoda to copy scriptures, and to sue the spirit for five days. Although it is useless, it should be able to stop those annoying mouths for a while."

When encountering such gossip, it is most taboo to do nothing.The Empress Dowager's actions protected the Empress, which was really surprising.

"It's just..." Luo Ziqiu sighed softly, "The Empress doesn't seem to be a dull person, how could she believe those strange rumors and go to worship Concubine Mei?"

He did wonder about it.

Be puzzled.

Judging from his few contacts with Yan Yuan, this queen is not only not stupid, but also very smart, so smart that Chen Lingshen changed her principles for her and acquiesced in her as an ally.

But such a smart person, why did he go to Meiyuan?

She really believed that Concubine Mei's upper body could win the emperor's heart?

Although the appearance of Baigukeng is obviously not a coincidence, and the matter will come to the stage of questioning Yanhou anyway, but if there is no such thing as the queen worshiping the plum garden, the rumors would not be so overwhelming.

why?

Luo Ziqiu stared at Chen Lingchen, and teased, "Could it be that women in this world are so ignorant and innocent once they fall in love?"

He was joking, but Chen Lingchen didn't respond.

He seemed a little... distracted.

Chen Ling was staring at the moon outside the window. He didn't intend to be in a daze, but he didn't know why the situation after the bath in Rongyuan suddenly sounded in his mind that day.

He carried her back to the room, and his heart didn't fluctuate much along the way.

But when he put her on the bed and saw her wet eyelashes, he suddenly felt an unspeakable feeling in his heart.

Just a little bit, this frail mushroom died.

He didn't want to admit it.

I used to breathe a sigh of relief.

I don't want to admit that the reason why I think of these things at this moment is because the difficult words of the medical woman echoed in my mind: "Your Majesty, she has a deep-rooted love for Your Majesty, and she cannot extricate herself."

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(End of this chapter)