Boss, she was forced to be the wife

Chapter 76
At the same time, in the middle of the night, in the posthouse where the envoy lived, an envoy was killed by an assassin. The assassin's technique was clean and neat, and he disappeared into the vast night immediately after the murder.

In the early morning of the next day, the members of the Shanyu clan at the station quickly discovered the dead envoy. Although he was just an unimportant person, it was enough to make the Shanyu clan go to war.

Soon the matter broke out in the palace. At this time, Her Majesty the Empress was going to the court, and many ministers in the court were standing below, and Wu Lun came in with all the members of the Shan Yu clan after passing through the transmission.

Her Majesty the Queen already knew about this matter, and her expression was naturally not good-looking. The first thing she did in the morning was to discuss the matter with all the ministers, but she didn't expect the Shanyu clan to come so quickly.

After watching Wu Lun lead everyone into the palace, and after giving an insincere salute to Her Majesty the Queen above, Wu Lun went straight to talk about the death of his men.

In fact, Her Majesty the Queen already knew about this matter late at night. As the head of a country, how could she be at ease with the foreign Shanyu clan?

A secret guard had been dispatched to watch in the dark, and the sneaky assassin held him down after killing him.

In fact, the dark guard could hold down the assassin before he entered, but the assassin was not Wulun who killed him, but an unknown person.

If the assassin went directly to Wulun, it would save Her Majesty the Empress a lot of energy.

After holding the assassin down, Her Majesty the Queen's men spent the night forcing a confession from him. At this time, several highly respected ministers in the court who were highly regarded by Her Majesty the Queen had already entered the palace late at night and found out about the matter.

Yuge was on the list. Seeing what Shan Yu's daughter Wulun was repeating, she followed the ministers in shock. In fact, they knew what was going on. The old fox took a quick look and saw that each one was acting more exaggeratedly than the other.

After last night's interrogation, the assassin had already confessed the person above him. Her Majesty the Queen glanced at the courtiers with neither sadness nor joy, her eyes stayed on the already confused Minister of War, and then looked away.

The meaning of Wu Lun is very clear. Since the dead person is not an important person of the Shanyu clan, then this matter is not important.

But she insisted that this matter was related to the harmony between Shanyu and Nanguo, and also said something like "the two countries are at war without killing each other". Her poor Central Plains dialect paired with her angry look made everyone watch. It makes me want to laugh a little.

And Her Majesty the Empress also greeted the Shan Yu clan as a matter of routine, and promised to find the person who assassinated the envoy, and comforted Wu Lun a lot.

Originally, Wulun came this time to use this excuse to take the opportunity to claim the long-separated land between Shanyu and Nanguo, but after all, Her Majesty the Empress is not an ordinary person, so she bypassed this matter with a few sentences.

After sending away Wu Lun and his party, she went down to court. At this moment, Her Majesty the Queen's face completely collapsed and she said to Yu Ge who was following behind:
"Go and invite the servants of the Ministry of War to come in."

Yuge had never seen such a look on Her Majesty the Queen's face in these many years. She responded and hurriedly left the palace to invite people.

This time, Yuge personally led people to the home of the Minister of War, and almost all the Jinyi guards of the Zhenfu Division were dispatched.

I saw Yuge walked into the home of the minister of the Ministry of War with the imperial decree, and before the guards at home could react, a few excited Jinyi guards held everyone down.

The Minister of War had just returned home when everyone from the Jin Yiwei came. He couldn't help but feel at a loss, but when he saw Yu Singzhong holding the imperial edict high and kneeling down in panic, Ruan Qingliu and her father came out.

At this time, everyone in the courtyard of the Minister of War had been brought out by the Jin Yiwei, including Ji Liang and Ji Chen.

Ji Chen had a sharp eye, and he saw Mo Luo standing behind him at a glance. Just as he was about to say hello happily, he was pushed by the Jin Yiwei in front and staggered forward.

Mo Luo naturally saw everyone, including Ji Chen, and he seemed to have lost some weight after not seeing Ji Chen for a few days, but now he was dealing with business, even if Ji Chen took the initiative to greet Mo Luo, he would not respond.

After everyone kneeled down, Yuge opened the imperial decree, chanting according to Huangbo's words:
"By God's decree, the emperor has issued an edict that Ruan Qingliu, the daughter of the Minister of War, is a virtuous and virtuous woman with outstanding literary talent. She has been specially approved to serve in the palace. She will set off today. I admire you here."

This is a reward decree. Her Majesty the Queen has taken a fancy to Ruan Qingliu and wants her to enter the palace!
All Jin Yiwei couldn't help being shocked by the content of the imperial decree, just because what Master Yuge did just now made people think that she was going to copy the home of the Minister of the Ministry of War.

As a result, after the big fight, what was promulgated was a decree of grace!

It's just that the faces of those who received the order were not very good, especially Ruan Qingliu's father, who is the younger brother of Her Majesty the Empress, and naturally knew that it would not be a good thing for her Majesty to summon her daughter to the palace at this time.

Although I was worried in every possible way, but looking at Yuge that strangers should not enter, with frosty eyes, he still pressed his words that he wanted to go together.

He knew very well that because of the treason case, he couldn't help offending the Zhen Fusi, and even aroused the suspicion of Her Majesty the Empress. He had already used the last emperor's edict to save his life.

And when everyone was at a stalemate, I only heard a person beside me say:

"My lord, Miss Ruan needs someone to wait on her when she enters the palace, why don't you take me with you."

As soon as the words came out, everyone's eyes focused on the speaker, Ji Chen turned his head in surprise, and the speaker was none other than Ji Liang.

"Brother, you are crazy"

Ji Liang patted Ji Chen to stop him from saying anything, and then said firmly:
"I want to stay with Miss Ruan."

At this time, everyone's expressions were different, and Yuge just raised his eyebrows and looked in Ji Liang's direction, then turned around without saying anything, and signaled Jin Yiwei to take Ruan Qingliu and a group of people and set off immediately.

"Brother is going, then I will go too!"

Seeing that Yuge didn't object, Ji Chen naturally realized that this kind of behavior was acquiesced, worried about Ji Liang's safety, and couldn't help but blurt out.

Although he had quarreled with Kira before, he still missed Kira in his heart, so naturally he followed him into the palace regardless of Kira's dissuasion.

"What are you doing here?"

After setting off, no one paid attention to the brothers, so Kira warned:
"The imperial palace is a dragon's pond and a tiger's den, you'd better go back now before it's too late."

Ji Chen glanced at his brother in disapproval and said:
"Since that place is a dragon's pond and a tiger's den, where are you going and what are you doing?"

Ji Liang looked at his younger brother with such a firm look, indicating that he would not give up until he could find out the reason. Then he sighed and said:

"Qingliu, it seems that no matter what I do, I can't get into her heart."

Seeing his brother's distressed look that he had never seen before, Jichen couldn't help but ask:
"Brother, do you really like sister Ruan?"

"My silly brother, do you know that!"

Ji Liang patted Ji Chen on the head with a smile, and the original sad atmosphere was diluted a lot.

"But."

Ji Chen didn't say the rest. He had always felt that Ruan Qingliu was interested in Nangong Tou, but he didn't know if his brother felt it too.
There was no words all the way, and the crowd escorted Ruan Qingliu into the palace smoothly, and then met Her Majesty the Empress without stopping.

At this time, everyone could only wait in the outer hall, only Ruan Qingliu entered the inner hall.

At this time, Her Majesty the Empress was not reviewing the memorial, but played with a piece of jade repeatedly, until Ruan Qingliu knelt in front of her, and then said unhurriedly:
"Ruan Qingliu, you are so brave!"

As soon as these words came out, no matter what the nature of the matter was, the atmosphere changed in an instant.

Ruan Qingliu had never thought that when she saw the emperor saying this in a TV series before, she didn't take it seriously. She thought that just one sentence could make the people below so afraid.

But after this matter fell on her own head, Ruan Qingliu only felt that the atmosphere around her seemed to be frozen as soon as Her Majesty's words came out of her mouth. look at yourself.

She just felt that her whole body was trembling involuntarily, and she couldn't make any sound.

It wasn't until I don't know how long it took before Her Majesty said slowly:

"The assassin who killed the Shanyu envoy was sent by you."

This is a declarative sentence, in Ruan Qingliu's view, it is condemning her to death.

Yes, it was true that the person who assassinated the envoy was sent by her, but she only followed the plot in the TV series. She never expected that the emperor would investigate him so easily, or even be pulled out for public execution.

At this time, outside the palace, Xiaoran, Ji Liang and Jichen were kneeling together. They saw a sedan hurriedly passing by on the road outside the palace. The sedan stopped at the entrance of the palace, and a man opened the curtain and walked out. .

He looked at Ji Chen carefully and pushed Ji Liang and said:
"Is that Nangong Tou?"

Ji Chen's words were correct. The person who came at this time was indeed Nangong Tou. He was much thinner than before, but his whole person exuded a decisive aura.

"Nangong Tou, Ruan Qingliu has been brought inside! If you have the slightest feeling for her, go and save her!"

At this time, Ji Liang didn't care too much, and hurriedly stood up and ran in the direction of Nangong Tou, but was kicked over by the nanny who was following Nangong Tou:
"Where did the little hooves come from without any rules!"

Then he smiled at Nangong Tou and said:

"Prince Tohru, come in quickly, Her Majesty the Queen is waiting for you!"

The smile did not reach the bottom of his eyes, and even contained a hint of sarcasm. Nangong Tou just glanced at the old woman and walked into the hall without speaking to outsiders.

Ji Chen, who was frightened when he saw his brother being bullied, rushed to help him up. After repeatedly confirming that nothing was wrong, he said with tears in his eyes:

"The nuns in this palace are really cruel."

When Nangong Tou entered the palace, what he saw was Ruan Qingliu kneeling on the ground with his whole body prostrated. Her Majesty the Queen's eyes moved as Nangong Tou came and then said:
"You came."

"Please forgive me, Queen Mother."

Before Her Majesty the Empress could speak, Nangong Tou knelt down with a thump, and speaking was atonement.

"Oh? Why are you guilty?"

Her Majesty's voice was languid, but now she changed her state, as if she was not asking questions, but just chatting.

But this simple sentence made Nangong break into a cold sweat. He knew that Her Majesty the Queen would become kind and cheerful when she was in an extremely bad mood, because there was no need to speak harshly to someone who was about to die. It can be regarded as an act of accumulating virtue for oneself.

So Nangong Tou hurriedly said:
"I know I was wrong. It's just that I and Ruan Qingliu are in love with each other. I really don't want to be separated from each other. Please let your majesty do it."

"Ah"

At this time, Her Majesty the Queen smiled coldly, and looked at the two of them with an even more stern expression:

"The two of you are in love with each other, you want to elope, assassinate the envoy, and ignore the Nanguo, Nangong Tou, have you ever remembered Gu's teachings!"

The tea cup in front of Her Majesty the Queen fell squarely on Nangong Tou's head. The bright red blood flowed down Nangong Tou's forehead, and the hot tea splashed all over him, but he still did not dare to move.

At this time, Ruan Qingliu saw Nangong Tou's appearance and wanted to step forward to wipe him, but was stopped by Her Majesty the Queen's scorching gaze.

Gritting his teeth, closing his eyes, he said:
"Your Majesty the Queen, forgive me for overstepping my bounds. Now that I have offended you, why don't you send someone out to attack?"

Ruan Qingliu was obviously very nervous, she stumbled several times with one sentence, and she felt guilty.

"Who's going? You?"

The Shanyu clan has occupied the north for many years, and even has a clear tendency to grow stronger. It is not that there are no generals in the southern country who can fight against them, and the one headed by Yuge is naturally not a problem.

It's just that today's Southern Kingdom still needs to send many generals and soldiers to guard the border. If one side is in chaos, the other sides will definitely attack.

This is also the reason why these countries are unwilling to fight lightly, but the Shanyu clan is different. They are nomadic people, they don't need to guard any frontiers when they live in no fixed place, and they are good at hunting and ambushes.

Both Nanguo and Huangfuguo have suffered in the hands of Shan Yu, they are like loaches, they cannot be caught or killed, which makes people angry.

Now that there is an easy way to appease Shan Yu, Her Majesty the Empress naturally does not want to make a big move, and the actions of Ruan Qingliu and Nangong Tou just pushed this matter to the cusp of no retreat.

If they compromise, Wu Lun will definitely go to a large area of ​​the city. If they don't compromise, then the battle is inevitable.

So under the fierce eyes of Her Majesty the Empress, Ruan Qingliu only felt that the blood in her body was frozen, and she looked at Nangong Tou who was giving her eyes to hint that she should not promise easily.

Ruan Qingliu gritted her teeth, a wave of ruthlessness and enthusiasm rose from nowhere, and said firmly through gritted teeth:

"I'll go, just I'll go!"

(End of this chapter)