The palace is quiet, and the empress of the cold palace is acting as a demon

Chapter 219 Restarting Concubine Selection
In the side hall of the Xuanzheng Hall at night, Zhai Yin finally got some real information, and immediately came to Ning Yi to report: "Your Majesty, we have found some clues about your mother's previous whereabouts."

"A clue?" Ning Yi frowned, "Say."

"Reporting to Your Majesty, on the day Your Majesty came back, some forbidden soldiers saw Your Majesty and…" outside Yongning Gate..." Zhe Yin shook his head and glanced at Ning Yi.

Bai Zixian urged from the side: "Zhou Yin, when did you learn to speak hesitantly?"

He clasped his fists and said: "That day, a soldier of the imperial army saw you and your majesty together outside the gate of Yongning."

As soon as these words came out, Bai Zixian and Ning also looked at each other in blank dismay.

"Say, tell me all the information you found." Bai Zixian asked.

Zhe Yin lowered his hands and said: "The forbidden army was on duty at the gate of Yongning on August [-]th. They saw your majesty in micro-clothes walking with your empress to the city gate for about a mile. After sending your empress into the city, you walked out of the city. Entering the cold city alone."

Bai Zixian: "Are you sure that soldier of the Imperial Army saw it right?"

Zhe Yin affirmed: "The guard soldier had participated in Situ Xinghe's rebellion, so he could recognize the appearance of you and your empress. But at that time, he was afraid of causing trouble, so he didn't report it."

"And then?" Bai Zixian asked.

"After entering the city gate, the empress walked along the avenue towards the imperial palace, and entered a small shop on the way, but according to the memory of the waiter in the shop, the empress left without eating for some reason. According to the time calculation, the empress should have seen you at that time, Lord Bai. After welcoming Princess Dongyi's convoy, the empress then changed her route and went to the princess mansion, and then waited as a 'Miss Wan' until Xiao Shizi's full moon wine."

Bai Zixian glanced at Ning Yi, and asked again: "I still can't find any traces of your mother before she returned to Hancheng?"

Blame shook his head.

Ning Yi's face was condensed, and he ordered to blame: "Continue to investigate!"

After Xi Yin took the order to retreat, Bai Zixian looked at Ning Yi: "The imperial army must have misread it."

Ning Yi got up and looked at the starry sky outside the window, without saying a word.

……

Qin Wan didn't see Ning Yi for a few days. He heard from Liu Ying that he had recently lived in the Xuanzheng Hall, and he didn't return to the Chonghua Hall because he was dealing with official business every day.

Qin Wan knew that these were all excuses, he was just fighting her coldly over that bowl of wontons.

When she was worrying about how to reconcile with Ning Yi, Liuying hurried back: "Mother, it's not good!"

Qin Wan was annoyed when she saw Liuying come back in a hurry, and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Your Majesty has just decreed that Princess Yaoxing of Dongyi, Sun Ning, the daughter of General Sun Zhao, Chen Fuling, the daughter of Zhisu Neishi Chen Yiheng, and Du Yueer, the daughter of Du Liang, the inspector of Yuzhou, have been shortlisted for the concubine candidate list." !” Liuying said eagerly.

Qin Wan raised her eyelids and looked at Liu Ying: "Didn't it mean that Ning Yi stopped choosing a concubine?"

Liuying gritted her teeth: "It's not like those people from the previous dynasty who are pushing His Majesty to choose a concubine every day, so His Majesty will restart the selection of concubines."

Qin Wan sat up straight, propped her cheek with one hand, and put the other hand on the table. Four fingers tapped on the table in turn, thinking, "He's fighting me hard!"

"What's the hard line?" Liuying saw Qin Wan's calm face, and worried for her, "Your Majesty, you should think of a way, or His Majesty will really want to accept a concubine."

Qin Wan bit her thumb and frowned without speaking.

Liuying was almost jumping in anxiety: "Your Majesty, why don't you wait for a big wedding, and just go to the Xuanzheng Hall with the quilt in your arms tonight, and deal with His Majesty all the time, how about it?"

Qin Wan raised his eyebrows and looked at Liuying: "Liuying, are you so simple and rude now? Calm down. Naturally, we have to think about the solution, but we have to think about it in the long run. It's not that I can stop the former dynasty by taking care of Ning Yi now." He was forced to accept a concubine. Instead, he had to think about how to get these old men from the previous court to stop thinking about this question. Liuying, you think about it, you want me to fight against the thousand-year-old court tradition and the nature of a man. You have to find a way to hold Ning Yi to death, otherwise there is no chance of winning at all."

"Mistress, think about it, think about it quickly, you are so smart, you can definitely figure out a way." Liuying cheered Qin Wan up.

Qin Wan bit her nails and turned her head: "Liuying, what day is it today?"

Liuying immediately replied: "Today is August [-]th, and tomorrow will be the first day of September."

Qin Wan gritted her teeth, became ruthless, and told Liuying: "Prepare me incense candles and paper money, as well as a plain white dress and hair accessories, and then help me ask Princess Yaoxing to go to Baoguo Temple tomorrow."

Liuying was a little surprised: "Mother, shouldn't you bring incense when you go to the Buddhist temple, why should you bring paper money?"

"Oh, don't ask so many questions, just help me get ready."

……

On the second day, Qin Wan was dressed in plain white, and placed the golden squirrel hairpin on the dressing table of the Chonghua Palace, and put on a white jade hairpin to tie up her hair. Boarded the Baoguo Temple on the way to Nanshan in Hancheng.

Yaoxing asked Qin Wan: "Wan Wan, what day is it today, why are you dressed like this?"

"I'm going to pay homage to my late husband." Qin Wan said without hesitation.

"My husband?!" Yaoxing was shocked.

Qin Wan nodded: "Today is the anniversary of my husband's death. I feel uncomfortable, so I want to invite you, a bosom friend, to accompany me. I didn't explain it to Yaoxing in advance. Please don't take it for granted."

Seeing the silence in Qin Wan's eyes, Yao Xing was clearly not joking: "Wan Wan you can think of me about such a thing. Although I am surprised, I am happy to accompany you."

Qin Wan looked at Yaoxing, and smiled slightly: "Because in this entire cold city, I don't know who to accompany me to do this... I came out without telling Ning Yi, if he knew, he must Be furious."

Yaoxing looked at Qin Wan: "Your Majesty is the emperor, you can't hide it. Maybe he already knows about it now."

"Perhaps, let him alone." Qin Wan pursed her lips.

Yaoxing looked at Qin Wan worriedly: "You are not afraid of your majesty's anger, let alone his punishment, right? Judging by your attitude towards your majesty, you are not as attentive as the concubine, and you don't bother to fight for favor. I don't even think you are I really like Your Majesty."

"No, it's not like Yaoxing you seem on the surface." Qin Wan shook her head, stared into Yaoxing's beautiful eyes, and said lightly, "... Yaoxing, can you imagine? In order to please Ning Yi, I killed I died my husband and gave everything my husband owned including myself to Ning Yi."

"!!!" Qin Wan's words shocked Yaoxing.

Qin Wan looked at Yaoxing: "This is just one of the countless things I did to please Ning Yi. I also made many decisions that you can't even imagine, breaking the bottom line again and again. Yesterday I heard that Ning Yi has selected you and three other women to be concubines. So I think I am the stupidest woman in the world... Yaoxing, I asked you out just to tell you that if you want to be Ning Yi's woman, what will you pay for taking my place..."

"Wanwan, I didn't..." Yaoxing wanted to explain.

Qin Wan shook her head: "As I said, I only regard you as my enemy. I don't think the other three women are threatening. But I also regard you as a friend. Military experts say that if you know yourself and the enemy, you will never be defeated in a hundred battles, so I want to let you You know what I have done for Ning Yi, and I have prepared you mentally."

"Late night..."

"Yaoxing, I'm actually not a princess of the Ba Kingdom. You must have heard of my real identity." Qin Wan squeezed Yaoxing's hand, looked at her and said honestly, "I'm actually the noble concubine Xiang of Emperor Liang Yuanchen." .”

(End of this chapter)