No. 1 Girl in the Imperial City

Chapter 290
After hearing Xue Ya's words, Empress Dowager Zhu was also shocked.

Although Xie Yan has always made her feel very unhappy these years, Xie Yan is indeed a very powerful person in Empress Dowager Zhu's heart.Although he was a few years younger than the first emperor, if he was not Gaozu's nephew but his son, it is still unknown who would finally ascend to the throne.

This is not to say that the first emperor was not good enough, but that Xie Yan was too good.

Therefore, now that Xue Ya calmly said whether Xie Yan would survive tonight or not, the first reaction in Empress Dowager Zhu's heart was disbelief.But looking at the reactions of everyone in the hall, the unbelief was a little more hesitant.And once she accepted this reality, her fear of Xueya would become more and more serious.

Xue Ya looked at Empress Dowager Zhu and said with a smile: "How is it? Has the Empress Dowager agreed?"

Empress Dowager Zhu remained silent, Xue Ya chuckled lightly, shook her head and said, "The empress dowager is so hesitant, is it because she is reluctant to part with the regent?"

Empress Dowager Zhu's complexion changed slightly, and she said angrily: "What nonsense are you talking about!" But the voice was a bit harsh and inwardly soft, and in the eyes of bystanders, it seemed a bit guilty.

Xue Ya nodded clearly and said: "It seems that the rumors are true? It's a pity...the regent has no affection for the queen mother. Hasn't the queen heard about how the regent and the little princess who just entered the door Is your husband and wife loving, and your love is deep?"

Of course Empress Dowager Zhu had heard of it, and not only had she heard of it, Xie Yan even slapped her in the face for Luo Junyao!

Thinking of this, Empress Dowager Zhu felt more and more resentment towards Xie Yan.

Xue Ya saw it, a smile flashed across her eyes, and then she dropped the last stone neatly, "The dignified Empress Dowager secretly covets my uncle. If this news gets out... I don't know what the people of the world will think? No What do you think if you know His Royal Highness and His Majesty the Regent?"

"You...you don't want to spout blood!" The Empress Dowager Zhu was terrified when she heard this.

Xue Ya raised her eyebrows and said with a smile: "Bloody mouth? Is the empress dowager sure? I heard that... a few years ago, the empress dowager made a request to the regent to serve her with her body, but unfortunately the regent refused. And... ...In the empress dowager's bedroom, what is in that eight-treasure sandalwood box?"

"..." Empress Dowager Zhu was speechless, she could only turn around and give her confidant servant a fierce look.

These secret things, even the queen mother will not be known to everyone.This Xueya can know these things, of course someone told him.

It's a pity that the person she stared at didn't care, they still kept their eyes on their noses, their noses, their noses and their hearts, and stood there upright, no longer afraid of her authority as the queen mother.

Xue Ya seemed to be watching a good show, and said leisurely: "Since ancient times, the royal family has been so secretive, and it really deserves its reputation. If the people of the world can watch such a good show, even if there is nothing tonight, it will not be a loss. .”

Empress Dowager Zhu turned pale. Looking at Xueya, she felt that this handsome young man in white was so hateful and terrifying, "No...you can't do this..."

Empress Dowager Zhu was extremely remorseful at this time, she knew that she had been caught by someone.

Unless this Xueya died and everyone in the hall died, she would be doomed to be manipulated.

Empress Dowager Zhu never revealed the slightest concern for Xie Yan in front of outsiders, even if she made such a request to Xie Yan at the beginning, it was under the banner of Xie Cheng.It doesn't mean that she doesn't care about her son at all, she is naturally doing it for his son's benefit, but only she knows how selfish she is.

She is an aristocratic daughter who has been carefully raised since she was a child, how can people know that she has such unbearable thoughts?
Back then, Empress Dowager Zhu met Xie Yan and the first emperor almost at the same time. Compared with the gentle and elegant first emperor, the first thing she saw was Xie Yan, who was as handsome as a fairy at a young age, cold and arrogant.

At that time, she didn't think much about it, after all, Gaozu appointed her to be the crown princess.Compared with the glory that being a crown princess brought to herself and her family, the flash of amazement and affection is naturally not worth mentioning.

But after she really became the crown princess, she faced a gentle but busy husband and various trivial matters in the crown prince's womb.Looking at the young man who is always by her husband's side and is still outstanding, she gradually feels insufficient in her heart.

She greeted him in the name of her sister-in-law, but she didn't get the boy's favor. On the contrary, the other party appeared less and less in the uterus.Afterwards, he simply followed Gao Zu to the battlefield, and then stayed at the border and rarely returned to Beijing.

During the Three Kings Rebellion five years ago, she thought that their orphans and widows really had no way out.At this time, Xie Yan led the army to quell the rebellion, stepped on the imperial city with the heads of the rebels, and entered the palace in a suit of travel and dust. The youthful spirit of the young man with the blood on his battle robe was no longer that of a few years ago. Time can be compared.

Such a tall and straight figure, such a stern and intimidating aura, and that more handsome face than before...

Her heart was beating like a drum, she was shocked and frightened, and she had uncontrollable emotions.

So she finally couldn't help but propose to him in private what she thought was a "both" proposal, and in the end all she got in return was his cold rejection and walk away.

Now that this matter is mentioned again, Empress Dowager Zhu is not only afraid but also annoyed.

Xue Ya looked at the fluctuating expression of Empress Dowager Zhu with great interest, and the Mingyin Pavilion Master who was sitting next to her seemed to be a little bit impatient, and said lightly: "Do you think you have a lot of time?"

Xue Ya raised her eyebrows, quickly restrained her expression, and said with a smile: "You are right. Queen Mother, how are you?"

Empress Dowager Zhu collected herself and said in a trembling voice, "What do you want to do?"

Xue Ya smiled and said: "I said, we can help the Empress Dowager to take power and make you a real Empress Dowager. Now that the little emperor is young, it is reasonable for the Empress Dowager to listen to the government behind the curtain, right?" Empress Dowager Zhu said: "Why should I believe you?"

Xue Ya said: "Based on the fact that I am sitting in the Empress Dowager's Palace, soon, we will bring His Majesty to meet the Empress Dowager."

"What do you want to do to Cheng'er?" the Queen Mother asked in surprise.

Xue Ya was a little annoyed, no wonder Xie Yan would rather marry a little girl than look down on this woman.Respect for one's cousin may have been one reason, but the woman herself must have played a large part.

"Don't worry, Queen Mother, we won't do anything to Your Majesty."

"You won't win, even if something happened to Zhifei and Xie Yan...and General Luo is here..." The queen mother murmured.

Xue Ya chuckled lightly: "General Luo has no time to care about these things now, the Queen Mother may not know that General Luo was poisoned, and he is still unconscious. Speaking of which, it's your Xie family's own fault too. "

The queen mother was silent, she was frightened by the news from Xue Ya's mouth.

Xue Ya said: "If Gaozu Dasheng and the late emperor hadn't planted a thunderbolt, it would not be an easy task to deal with General Luo at this moment."

"Young master." Several men in black came in quickly from the outside, walked to Xueya and leaned over to whisper a few words in his ear.

"What?" Xue Ya squinted slightly, the man in black nodded silently to show that what he said was correct, and Xue Ya did not hear wrong.

Others looked at Xueya sitting on the hall, Xueya said lightly: "The empress dowager, I don't want to be rough. Please send someone to see and bring your majesty here, just say that your majesty is suddenly seriously ill, please come over here How about a visit?"

Empress Dowager Zhu couldn't help but sarcastically said: "Didn't you say that you would let someone bring Ah Cheng over?"

Xue Ya said: "I'm afraid the Empress Dowager doesn't know that Your Majesty is now in the Empress Dowager Palace."

Empress Dowager Zhu was taken aback, she really didn't know that Ah Cheng stayed in the inner court tonight, "So what?"

Xue Ya said: "Marquis Xiaoyuan Yu Mingqiu is also here."

The owner of the Mingyin Pavilion next to him chuckled, he didn't know whether he was laughing at Empress Dowager Zhu or Xue Ya, he slightly raised his eyebrows and said to Xue Ya: "It seems that Xie Yan is not as ignorant as you think."

If Xie Yan didn't know anything, how could Marquis Xiao Yuan, who is the commander of the military guards, appear in the palace late at night?

Xue Ya snorted softly, turned her head to the Mingyin Pavilion Master and said, "Since I can deal with Xie Yan, do you think I have no other way to deal with Yu Mingqiu?"

"Wait and see?" Pavilion Master Mingyin said lazily.

Empress Dowager Zhu was overjoyed, she knew Yu Mingqiu, she was once the late emperor's confidant.

Xue Ya seemed to see Empress Dowager Zhu's thoughts clearly, and said with a sneer, "Empress Dowager, don't be too happy, don't forget your current situation. Even if Xie Yan wins, what good will it do you?"

The expression on Empress Dowager Zhu's face became more and more stiff, and she gritted her teeth after a while and said, "What do you want me to do?"

On the other side, in the palace of the Empress Dowager, Eunuch Huang staggered out of the dormitory, and several people sitting in the hall greeted him immediately, "Gong Huang, how is the empress?" Princess Changling asked anxiously.

Eunuch Huang said in a low voice: "Princess, general, please don't worry. The Empress Dowager was in a deep sleep. She just woke up in a daze for a while. The old slave said that fireworks were going off outside to cover it up. The Empress Dowager has fallen asleep right now." .”

Princess Changling breathed a sigh of relief, nodded and said, "That's good, that's good."

Yu Mingqiu said in a deep voice: "Princess, don't worry, I'm ordered to stay here, and no one will disturb the Empress Dowager in the slightest."

Princess Changling nodded, "General Lao Yu."

Yu Mingqiu said: "It's all the job of the general, princess, please go to rest, the general will stay here forever."

Princess Changling also knew that she couldn't help here, but she wanted Yu Mingqiu to take care of her, so she also nodded, "My palace is in the side hall, if there is anything, the general just ask someone to call me."

Yu Mingqiu nodded in agreement, and Princess Changling turned and left.

Seeing Princess Changling disappear, Yu Mingqiu turned around and walked out of the hall.

Standing under the eaves outside the main hall and looking up at the sky, the upper part of the palace is still dark in the dark night, but the sky outside the palace is obviously much brighter, and the faint light of fire can be seen from a distance.

A figure quietly landed not far from Yu Mingqiu's side, and Yu Mingqiu asked without turning his head, "How is the situation in the palace?"

Leng Shuang's beautiful face became more and more deserted under the night, she said in a deep voice: "The person sent to pick up the Queen Mother replied, the people in the Queen Mother's palace said that the Queen Mother has fallen asleep, and the guards in the palace are so strict that there will be no disturbance from thieves. willing to come."

Yu Mingqiu raised his eyebrows, "What do you think?"

Leng Shuang said: "I'm afraid he's in the Empress Dowager's palace. General, we..."

Yu Mingqiu shook his head and said: "No, who would have thought that... these people could actually put their hands into the palace? If they don't find them all this time, there will be endless troubles in the future. Wait a minute, let's do it after they move."

Leng Shuang thought for a while, "No one has been in charge of the palace these past few years." Those people were able to reach into the palace, mostly because the palace has indeed been a little loose these years.

With the empress dowager's body and age in place, all her energy has been exhausted in raising her grandchildren, so how can she care about it?The little emperor was young, and Empress Dowager Zhu was obviously not that material.The prince is not in the imperial city, who can control those messy things?
These years, Shangyong appeared to be singing and dancing to promote peace on the surface, but secretly it was a group of demons dancing wildly.

"My lord is betting so big this time, we must be steady, and find out those mice hiding in the dark at one stroke!"

If Xie Yan didn't want what happened tonight, then the chaos tonight would never happen.But at the same time, it is absolutely impossible to find out all those people who are hiding in the dark.

This trick is actually quite dangerous. If it is done successfully, it will be of great merit, but if the slightest mistake makes a big mistake, then the regent will be a sinner through the ages.

As the leader of the Secret Word Camp, Leng Shuang has never lacked confidence in His Highness the Regent, "The prince has never failed."

Yu Mingqiu thought for a while, nodded and smiled, "Indeed."

"General Qi, someone is coming from the Empress Dowager's Palace!" Outside the door, a guard came in and reported.

"Oh?" Yu Mingqiu said, "What did you say?"

The guard said: "It is said that the Empress Dowager was frightened by Cai Cai's voice. She suddenly fell ill and wanted to see Her Majesty. Please come over immediately."

Leng Shuang narrowed her eyes slightly, and instantly heard a problem.

Yu Mingqiu shook his head at her, and said: "Go and tell the people in the Empress Dowager's palace, Your Majesty was also frightened just now, the imperial doctor prescribed sleeping pills and has fallen asleep right now."

The guard clapped his hands and said yes, turned around and walked out.

"Can this be fooled?" Leng Shuang asked.

Yu Mingqiu laughed and said: "What fooling around, it's just delaying time. Don't those people dare to force their way into the palace of the Empress Dowager? After a while, won't the time come out?"

Leng Shuang frowned and said: "The Empress Dowager wants to see Your Majesty at this time, I'm afraid she was kidnapped by someone, I will go to the Empress Dowager's palace to have a look."

Yu Mingqiu said in a deep voice: "I'm afraid it's not just being held hostage. I don't know how many Luan ceremonies are still in the palace at this time. Be careful."

Lengshuang nodded, turned around and jumped onto the roof for a while before disappearing into the night.

Yu Mingqiu looked around, raised his hand to beckon someone, and ordered: "No matter what happens, you just need to guard the Empress Dowager's bedroom and protect the Empress Dowager and the eldest princess, understand?"

The guard cupped his hands respectfully and said, "General, don't worry."

Yu Mingqiu chuckled lightly and said, "The First Battalion of Zhen Guo's Guards, if I still can't trust you, who else can I trust?"

(End of this chapter)