Traveling through the heavens from the prequel of the Lotus Lantern

Chapter 903 No wonder you never forget the dishes I cooked. I can feel your happiness.

The next day, Ren Ruyi was sleeping on the bed in a bedroom. Her eyelids suddenly moved slightly and she slowly opened her eyes.

"I just thought you were about to wake up, so I went to cook porridge and a few light dishes." Yang Jiao, who was sitting at the table in the bedroom, saw Ren Ruyi waking up and said aloud.

Ren Ruyi stood up and walked over, looking at the porridge and a few dishes of side dishes on the table. She didn't say much, just sat at the table and started eating in small bites.

After a while, she said:
"I didn't expect that your cooking skills are so superb, and you can make ordinary side dishes so delicious."

"If you like it, I can keep burning it for you from now on." Yang Jiao replied warmly.

Ren Ruyi smiled and said:

"Jialing."

Yang Jiao immediately understood and began to tell:
"Don't worry, I won't let you break your oath. I have fulfilled her last wish, but she probably won't get the title she wanted from the court. Yang Ying went into the palace today to see Emperor An. Emperor An's attitude was extremely Ping He, it’s probably because Deng Hui didn’t report what happened last night.”

Ren Ruyi asked softly:
"What would you do if you were in a different place with him?"

"If I were Deng Hui, I would have done the same thing as him. I would say that Jialing and the Beipan people colluded to assassinate Li Tongguang. The left envoy Chen Gui died at her hands. Therefore, it all depends on my command as the commander. Trap it on the river beach last night."

Ren Ruyi looked slightly startled:
"How credible do you think Jialing's words are?"

After she finished speaking, she raised her eyes and stared at Yang Jiao:

Yang Jiao looked calm:

Ren Ruyi looked downcast:
"So, Jialing's last wish has also come to nothing. Is it true that the political affairs of the DPRK and China are all about confusing right and wrong?"

"This is not about confusing black and white, it's just about profit."

"In this way, we can not only give an explanation to Emperor An, but also take the opportunity to eradicate dissidents in Zhu Yiwei, killing two birds with one stone."

Ren Ruyi's tone was cold:
"I will find out everything. No matter who harmed the empress, I will not let him go."

Yang Jiao said calmly:

Yang Jiao said slowly:
"In the final analysis, this palace secret is just a rumor, and there is no evidence. But in short, Emperor An directly identified you as the murderer of Queen Zhaojie back then, which seemed like he was deliberately looking for a scapegoat."

Yang Jiao answered the question:
"Gao Yao told me a palace secret about Anguo last night. Before the Yaoyuelou incident, when Emperor An was attacking Suguo, he asked Beipan to cooperate and buy horses. When Queen Zhaojie found out, she immediately stopped it and angrily scolded this. It's collaborating with the enemy. Emperor An's strong argument failed and he lost his face. He threatened to abolish the throne if he mentioned this matter again."

"I need a medicine that will make people lose consciousness after taking it and make them easily follow other people's orders. Can you help me prepare some?"

Ren Ruyi had a look of deep thought in his eyes and said:
"What you mean is that Emperor An took the initiative to collude with Beipan, and the empress turned against Emperor An because of her righteousness."

Yang Jiao smiled lightly, his fingertips flickered with light, and he lightly tapped Ren Ruyi's eyebrows, saying:

"Don't go to such trouble. I'll teach you the technique of charming the five senses. With your qualifications and understanding, you will be able to master it in no time."

Not long after, a soft color appeared in Ren Ruyi's eyes:
"Why don't you ask me, what are you going to do?" Yang Jiao raised his eyebrows slightly:

"I believe that no matter what you do, you have your own reasons. There is no need to ask any questions."

Two days later, late at night.

When Ren Ruyi, dressed in night clothes, returned to her room in Siyi Hall, she heard a knock on the door. As soon as she opened the door, she saw Yang Jiao carrying a food box.

"It's already midnight, and you still haven't meditated and rested according to your own habits."

"Since I came to Andu, I have taken you as my top priority. I just wanted to wait for you to finish the business and eat supper with you." Yang Jiao raised the food box in his hand and walked slowly into the room, putting the food box in his hands. Putting the meal on the table, he said:
"Didn't you say that the dishes I cook are more delicious? I cooked a few more dishes, which can be regarded as medicinal foods to nourish the body, and this one-bite cake. I searched all over Andu's shops today and found that one of them is not as good as Wudu. Zhang Ji has a bite of the cake, come on, have a taste, don’t waste my efforts tonight.”

Ren Ruyi took the chopsticks from Yang Jiao, tasted a dish, and nodded:
"My cooking skills are still so superb. Come on, you can eat too."

After that, he picked up a piece of meat and fed it to Yang Jiao's mouth.

Yang Jiao smiled and ate it, then said: "No wonder you are obsessed with the dishes I cooked. I can feel your happiness."

Ren Ruyi laughed happily, and then said:

"Tonight I first went to see the second prince of Anguo, and then I met Li Tongguang. Now he also knows my true identity, and I have thoroughly found out the whole story. Back then, Emperor An wanted to rob the Suguo Salt Mine, so he bought horses from Beipan , after the empress could not stop her, she was so angry that she wanted to kneel down at the Ancestral Temple."

"Emperor An knew that after the incident broke out, his throne would probably be unstable, so he tried to imprison the empress, blocked the news, hid it from all officials, and wanted to depose the queen."

"The reason why he is not afraid of the dissatisfaction of my mother-in-law's mother-in-law, Sha Dongfong, is that I promised my mother's father 3,000 riding slaves, and threatened that if Sha Dongfang still wanted to cause trouble, he would punish my mother's two younger brothers and fight for the pasture in central Sha."

"After being instigated by the eldest prince of Anguo, he even wanted to kill the empress to cover up the incident in Beipan. However, he was afraid that I would rescue her, so he wanted to get rid of me before taking action. He planned to disguise it as a fire accident."

"And at this time, the empress suddenly found out that the second prince of Anguo, the son she had given birth to, and his father had agreed to the abolition of the queen, so she became disheartened."

Yang Jiao concluded:
"In order to cover up the scandal, with the promise of establishing a crown prince, three thousand slaves, Queen Zhaojie's husband, son, and father worked together to sell her."

Ren Ruyi nodded:
"That's right, what the empress cares about most is not a mere inferior position, but the betrayal of her loved ones. Therefore, no matter how I tried to save her, she didn't want to escape at all. This was not sadness or shame or anger, but despair. "

Yang Jiao raised his eyebrows slightly:

"What about Li Tongguang? Since he has completely recognized you, he probably has other thoughts."

Ren Ruyi looked depressed:
"No one in the world understands better than Li Tongguang what the late Empress means to me, but for so many years, he has never thought of avenging her, not even once to pay homage."

"He has forgotten who brought him into the palace when his mother didn't want him, and who made me his master."

She paused slightly:
"I've already told him that he lost Jiu'er himself, because no matter how unruly and bastard the former Jiu'er was, he would never be so cool."

"After telling him this, I finally said that I will avenge the queen myself, and then I will leave Andu. After all, the master and the disciple are one, and we will be fine in the future."

(End of this chapter)