This queen is not too curly

Evacuating the imperial army is like removing the armor of the imperial capital.

This is undoubtedly a dead end.

Yan Yuan couldn't figure it out, Chu Jingyu would choose such a path of no return, unless...

She raised her head and looked at Chen Lingchen: "Wouldn't the Blue City treasure be buried in Yuting Mountain?"

Chen Ling said calmly: "The next round of rewards is still needed."

Yan Yuan held her breath, but the thoughts in her mind gradually became clear:
Whether it is Chu Jingyu or Yu Xingzhi, since they have been holding the treasure map for so many years, they have been standing still. Presumably the treasure location indicated by the map must be a place where they cannot freely dig.

Yu Xingzhi is the prime minister of the dynasty, and Chu Jingyu is favored by the queen mother. He can toss the whole country for a birthday gift. How many places do they want to dig but can't?

There are too few places like this.

Imperial Tomb is one of them.

But they can't dig, let alone people in the world, that's why they have been able to sit back and move with peace of mind all these years, fiddling with the situation in the court.But who knows that there will be unexpected events, folk rumors are everywhere, and it is rumored that the queen of Jin not only got the treasure map, but even dedicated it to the royal family of Chu.

——This is the reason why they have been rushing forward frequently this year.

But is this really possible?
Yan Yuan was still not sure.

After breakfast, the convoy continued towards the imperial capital.

At dusk on the fifth day, the leader of the Gray Riders came on horseback and brought back definite news:
Chu Jingyu didn't lead his troops to Yuting Mountain alone, but brought the Queen Mother and hundreds of craftsmen with him.Most of these craftsmen found masons and carpenters on the border between Yan and Jin for him, and they cut off contact with the outside world as soon as they arrived on Yuting Mountain.

Today's Royal Court Mountain has become an isolated island, even the imperial doctor Mu who delivered medicine to the Empress Dowager was stopped at the foot of the mountain, even though he knelt all night, he was not allowed to go up the mountain.

……

The truth is already evident.

The Treasure of the Blue City is in Yuting Mountain.

……

Under the bonfire, Yan Yuan was dumbfounded: "But isn't Yuting Mountain the imperial mausoleum?"

Even if Chu Jingyu wanted the treasure again, but if he dug up the treasure found in the imperial tomb, the historian's pen could grind him into ink, right?How dare he?

Yan Zhou sneered: "Abandoning the city and going up the mountain may not be what Chu Jingyu meant."

Yan Yuan was startled and said: "You mean..."

Chen Ling said lightly, "Yu Xingzhi."

……

Chu Jingyu is just not that smart, but he is not so stupid. He should be well aware of the consequences of abandoning the city.

He will go up the mountain, not necessarily voluntarily.

It is most likely Yu Xingzhi who desperately wants the treasure of Blue City.

The leader of the gray cavalry also brought a piece of history:
Back then when the Que clan excavated the treasure and was implicated for swallowing half of the treasure in private, there was still a side line that escaped the catastrophe. Survive.After escaping from the dead, this branch changed its name and surname. From then on, it was no longer surnamed Que, but changed its surname to Yu, which means depressed and unhappy.

Of course, this is just an inference.

Yu Xingzhi's family situation has been interrogated many times, and nothing unusual was found, and even if there was, it had already been covered up by him.

Chen Ling kept his head down.

The night was getting darker.

Everyone went back to their tents.

Only Chen Lingchen was still sitting there, letting the bonfire draw gloomy marks on his face.

Yan Yuan went to the tent to get a jug of wine, then went back to the campfire, and handed Chen Lingchen a cup.

Chen Ling raised his head in surprise.

Yan Yuan smiled at him: "Do you want to get drunk?"

Chen Ling blinked heavily, and his breath trembled slightly.

It took a long time before he took the wine glass from Yan Yuan's hand and downed his throat sullenly.

Liquor is strong wine, and the burning knives are drunk in the barracks.

After drinking one cup, Chen Lingchen's eyes turned red, and after the third cup, Chen Lingchen's eyes were already clouded.

He looked at the flowers in the mist and stared at Yan Yuan, and said softly, "I'm a little dizzy."

Yan Yuan let him lean on her shoulder, listening to his heavy breathing falling on her shoulder.

It stayed like this for a long time.

It was so long that Yan Yuan thought he was asleep.

Chen Ling's deep voice sounded slowly: "In the beginning, the Kuiyu camp was raised by the Que family to search for gold."

His voice was cool, not drunk.

Yan Yuan gave a soft "hmm".

Chen Ling said seriously: "If it is true that Yu Xingzhi was once surnamed Que, then he may also rebuild or regain control of Kuiyu Camp."

Yan Yuan was silent for a moment and said: "You are thinking that the killing in Xueyuan back then may not have been done by the Queen Mother."

Chen Ling remained silent.

Not even breathing.

Yan Yuan asked him softly: "If it wasn't for the Queen Mother, wouldn't it be a good thing?"

After all, the queen mother is his biological mother. No matter what the relationship between them has been all these years, the killing in Xueyuan was undoubtedly a thorn in Chen Lingchen's heart. If it wasn't for the queen mother, wouldn't it be better?

At least the relationship is not dead.

There may be room for maneuver.

Chen Lingshen still didn't answer.

He leaned quietly on Yan Yuan's shoulder, his cool breath was filled with the thin smell of alcohol, and his breath faintly surrounded Yan Yuan.

Just when Yan Yuan thought he could not wait for an answer, he took a low breath.

"But Yan Yuan, I've never been a generous person."

Chen Ling paused for a while, and then a gentle voice sounded on her shoulder again:
"Even if it wasn't for her, I wouldn't change anything."

The mountain wind came slowly.

Chen Lingshen's last few words were almost soaked in the night.

Disappointed?
Chen Ling sighed inwardly.

Yan Yuan was also stunned for a while.

She is just a little confused.

She didn't know his past from childhood to adulthood, and she couldn't imagine Chen Lingshen's state of mind, but she knew that it must be an unbearable past event, and it was the mark carved on his bones when he peeled off the flesh.

But when he chose to bear hatred, he still seemed to be weighed down by the boulder of guilt, repeatedly weighing in the scale of choosing hatred.

He couldn't let it go, but thought he had it too.

He made a choice, and he suffered from it.

But obviously it shouldn't be like this.

He was the one who got hurt.

Yan Yuan smelled the faint smell of wine, thought for a while and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't see it."

Chen Ling's breathing became stagnant.

Yan Yuan said: "I grew up in the Northwest, there are many old friends of my father, they always laugh at me as a girl, and because I'm used to wearing men's clothing, they like to hold my shoulders and pinch my face when I'm drunk... ...My dad said that it was a joke of the elders, they were all his dead brothers, and they could die in battle for him."

Yan Yuan sighed: "I don't feel comfortable, but I also feel that I am stingy, because I am not happy about this touch, and I always feel that it is really like what they said, it is always a stingy girl."

Chen Ling raised his head, his eyes were gloomy.

"Later, I couldn't help but tell my mother, and my mother scolded my father severely."

Yan Yuan laughed: "That was the first time I saw my mother drop a vase, and my father nearly fell to his knees."

Chen Lingshen: "..."

"My mother told me that not all emotions need to be calculated one by one. If you feel hurt, you don't need to measure whether you should be sad or not, whether you have the right to be sad because of the hurt."

"Although this situation is not quite like you..."

Yan Yuan put away her smile and said softly:
"However, if you feel uncomfortable, you don't need to calculate the gains and losses. It's okay to let nature take its course."

"Don't force yourself to accept it."

Freezing three feet is not a day's cold.

Whether the ice is full of ice or not is actually not that important.

Chen Lingshen did not speak for a long time.

After a long time, he finally laughed out.

"it is good."

……

Half a month later, the convoy finally entered the imperial capital.

The turmoil in the imperial capital had already calmed down, the convoy drove into the imperial city majestically, and all the civil and military officials knelt on the ground trembling at the gate of the palace.

Chen Ling cast his heavy gaze around them, but only said "flat body", then took Yan Yuan's hand into the palace gate, and walked all the way to Wangshu Palace.

Wangshu Palace wept with joy.

Only the disfigured palace man remained motionless.

He stood quietly in the corner, as if the noise in front of him had nothing to do with him.

Yan Yuan's eyes intersected with him through the crowd, she was silent for a moment, then led Chen Lingchen to him.

The man was taken aback, and hurriedly knelt down.

Yan Yuan squatted down in front of him.

She looked at him and said softly: "I have often wondered along the way why Eunuch Lian Yu left you in the Department of Internal Affairs and gave you to me. Thinking about it, I always feel that the scar on your face looks familiar."

The man opened his mouth.

He seemed to want to speak, but held back.

Yan Yuan stared at the scar on his face, and slowly said: "Your scar should be a burn, but the shape fits very well with the visors worn by the chasers I saw along the way."

She should have thought of it earlier.

Eunuch Lian Yu is an old bird in this palace, it is impossible for him to send an irrelevant person to her for no reason, and at that time she was about to help Ling to go to Jin country, and was about to be chased and killed by Kui Yuying along the way.

This fat ball wanted to give her an old knife, but unfortunately this knife is not very useful, and she forgot to bring it.

Yan Yuan asked him softly: "I don't ask you why you took off your mask to survive, but I just ask you, will you still be loyal to the royal family of Chu?"

Chen Ling was taken aback for a moment, and looked down at the man.

The man's whole body was stiff, and his chest heaved violently.

There was a stalemate like this for a long time.

He finally knelt down slumped.

The hoarse voice sounded like sand and stones passing through a broken vat, "Subordinate... Yuan An, the former leader of Kui Yuying, met the lord."

He was actually the old leader of the Kuiyu camp?

Yan Yuan did not expect that this gift from Eunuch Lian Yu would be so big.

In the past half a month, the imperial capital city has been stabilized, and the main force of the city defense army has been dispatched to Yuting Mountain. Several forces including the gray cavalry tried to break through the defense line of Yuting Mountain, but unexpectedly failed.

The root cause is because of encountering the strange formation and trap set by Kui Yuying.

Kuiyuying was originally a gold-seeking team under the Que family, and chasing thousands of miles is actually not their strong point. What they are best at is going down to the underground palace to find gold and ask for protection.Over the past few days, they have set up traps near Yuting Mountain, forcing the city defense army and gray knights to be unable to go up the mountainside for half a month.

But now with Yuan An, everything is different.

Yuan An knew all the tricks of Kui Yuying.

Within five days, the city defense army broke the trap, the army approached Yuting Mountain, the gray cavalry touched the mountainside at night, and broke through the defense of the mountainside overnight.

At dawn on the sixth day, only the top of the mountain remained as Chu Jingyu's guards, and he really became a caged beast with the ground as a prison.

The early sun shines on the mountains.

The smell of blood slowly dissipated along with the morning mist.

Yan Yuan went up the mountain at this time.

This is not the first time she has visited the imperial mausoleum, but when she reached the mountainside, she was still stunned:
The original neat road has disappeared, and the mountainside is full of piles of loess, and corpses are still lying on the barren soil.

In this way all the way to the top of the mountain.

Yan Yuan completely froze on the spot.

Everyone's faces turned extremely pale, and even Chen Lingchen gasped.

... What about the imperial mausoleum?

The entrance to the imperial mausoleum on the top of the mountain has disappeared. The flat land where hundreds of officials used to kneel before has now become a big pit. I don’t know how deep the pit is. There are many ladders hanging beside the pit. An unspeakable breath.

On the edge of the big pit, Yu Xingzhi stood alone.

He clasped his hands together, and bowed deeply in the direction where Chen Lingchen was.

This is a strange picture.

The surrounding loess was messy, and there was a strange smell coming from the mouth of the big pit. The current prime minister in Qingyi court clothes was spotless, like a willow branch inserted in a mass grave.

Everyone shuddered in their hearts.

For a while, no one approached.