The reborn poisonous woman is hard to abandon

Chapter 367 Portrait of the Empress
Zhao Feng's study room was full of books. Zhao Yan stepped forward and quickly flipped through them one by one, and found that most of them were books on military affairs, and the other half were books on the way of governing the country.

With a flash of clarity in his mind, Zhao Yan searched faster and faster.

At this moment, a mahogany box placed in the corner of the bookshelf suddenly broke into his eyes.There is a thick stack of things inside, and some paper can be vaguely seen.

With a twitch in his heart, Zhao Yan immediately dropped the book in his hand and stepped forward.

As the mahogany box was opened, he flipped it up and down, and suddenly found that it contained all the letters with other officials.

"Sure enough, it's exactly what I expected! Zhao Feng really kept evidence of his dealings with other officials!"

There was a strong secret joy in Zhao Yan's voice, and he turned up and down, and found that the earliest letter in it was three years ago.And the content inside is the provinces in the cloud reporting to him the progress of the conscription.

Resolutely putting the letter in his arms, Zhao Yan was about to estimate the time and was about to leave, but when he turned around, he found that Ling An was staring at Zhao Feng's desk in a daze.

"what have you found?"

Zhao Yan stepped forward with doubts in his heart, but when he saw the characters on the painting clearly, his expression changed suddenly.

"My lord, my lord, how do I feel that this painting is very similar to the empress..."

Just now Ling An and Zhao Yan split up to look for it. When they searched for the memorial on the desk, they saw the portrait of Zhao Feng spread out on the table at a glance.

Ling An has been with Zhao Yan for nearly ten years, and has frequent contact with the Empress on weekdays. Although the woman in the painting is younger and more charming than the Empress, and her temperament is much different, Ling An can still tell at a glance that the person in the painting is the Empress.

Under Ling An's surprised expression, Zhao Yan slowly reached out his hand to see the painting scroll, took it up and observed it carefully, and when he saw a gold inlaid jade bracelet stuck in the woman's hair, his mind was shocked.

He was very familiar with this walk when he was young, and he often saw the empress wearing it on his head, and he never changed it all year round.

Since when, this gold-encrusted jade bracelet has been kept in the jewelry box by the queen and has never been taken out to wear again.

If he hadn't seen this painting today, he wouldn't have thought of this walking stick at all!

For a moment, Zhao Yan felt as if a white light flashed across his heart. The question that he had never been able to figure out before suddenly became a little bit stunned at this moment.

When the army failed, the queen told him to find a way to go to the land in the cloud, and told him that as long as he got to the cloud, someone would help him.

At that time, he didn't understand why the queen was so sure. Now that Zhao Feng carefully preserved the portrait of the queen when he was young, he must have had some kind of close friendship with the queen before, so he would help him.

Does this mean that Zhao Feng didn't want to use him as he thought before?
No, no!
He doesn't believe that the friendship between a man and a woman can be more attractive than ascending to the throne.What's more, the queen is dead, even if Zhao Feng loves the queen so much, it is still a fact that he secretly stationed troops with the intention of rebelling.

Zhao Yan stared at the portrait in his hand for a long time, thinking he had figured out a lot of things, but there were still countless questions popping up from the bottom of his heart.

But at this moment, the sound of footsteps suddenly came from the door, pulling Zhao Yan's thoughts back to reality. He was in a bad mood, and he exchanged glances with Ling An, and was about to look for an opportunity to escape, but it was too late.

"Why are you here?"

Zhao Feng didn't expect that someone would sneak in after he left the study for a while, and the infiltrator even found his portrait on the table.

Zhao Feng didn't expect that he was caught, and his mind turned around quickly, and he suddenly put down the scroll in his hand.

"How come there is a portrait of my mother here, uncle?"

Zhao Yan avoided talking about why he was in the study, but instead asked Zhao Feng why there was a portrait of the queen.As if he didn't know that he was wearing night clothes, appearing in other people's study furtively like a thief.

Zhao Feng didn't answer immediately, he stared at the position on Zhao Yan's chest for a long time, and then suddenly walked towards the bookshelf.

Looking across the entire row of bookshelves, Zhao Feng's eyes finally stopped on the mahogany box in the corner.

"Yan'er, it seems that we should have a good talk."

At this time, the mahogany box seemed to be the same as when Zhao Yan saw it, but Zhao Feng's face showed a smug expression: "Let your people go out first."

"My lord! Your subordinates are right outside the door. If your lord has any orders, just ask your subordinates to come in!"

Different from the calmness on Zhao Yan's face, Ling An showed a look of defense from the moment King Xia came in.

He just said that the two of them were too careless, they were all attracted by the paintings on the table and forgot that Zhao Feng might come back at any time.

Now that he was caught by Zhao Feng, and he wanted to let himself go, he was really worried that the other party would be detrimental to his prince.

But seeing Zhao Yan nod at himself, Ling An looked back at Zhao Feng helplessly, and turned and left without saying the same thing.

As the door of the room was closed, Zhao Feng sat down on the seat beside him, and looked at King Xia with irony on his face: "I really didn't expect that the emperor not only stationed troops privately, but also kept a portrait of the Queen Mother. Could it be?" Uncle Huang is not afraid that things will come out, will the emperor know all of this?"

Zhao Yan told the other party that he already knew that he had ambitions for the throne, and wanted to get out his relationship with his mother and concubine.However, unexpectedly, Zhao Feng did not answer immediately, but just stared at Zhao Yan with lion-like eyes and remained silent.

"Don't you think the emperor doesn't know about all this?"

"what do you mean?"

Zhao Yan's eyes flashed, and he immediately showed surprise.

Zhao Feng's words, could it be that the emperor knew that he had the intention of treason, and knew that he had been coveting the queen?

It seems that the expression on Zhao Yan's face was too surprised. Zhao Feng turned around and stared at his chest: "Actually, I have always wanted to tell you the truth, but I have not found a suitable opportunity. But if you will If you send the letter in your arms to the emperor, you will never have the chance to avenge your mother, and you will destroy your future and your own arm."

To avenge her mother and destroy her future?

A possibility flashed in his mind, Zhao Yan stood up suddenly, looked straight at Zhao Feng with a pair of sharp eyes, and suddenly raised his voice a few degrees: "What do you mean by that!"

Zhao Yan's tone was very hasty, but Zhao Feng turned his gaze to the portrait on the table as if deliberately teasing people's appetite, and said as if recalling: "Do you know the origin of this portrait?"

Zhao Yan tried his best to suppress the faint answer that was about to jump out of his heart, with a calm face, and there seemed to be a trace of imperceptible indignation in his slightly squinted eyes: "Tell me about the origin!"

"It's a long story, and I have to start more than 20 years ago. At that time, I was not named General Jinwu and stationed in Yunzhong..."

Seemingly not paying attention to the expression on Zhao Yan's face, Zhao Feng soon fell into the memories of the past.

"The first time I saw your mother was when the peach blossoms were in full bloom. The peach blossom forest in the palace was full of fragrance, and the breeze passed by, and the petals were flying everywhere, and your mother stood in a peach blossom like a celestial being. She dances like a fairy. Her long skirt flutters and her ribbon flutters, and she just lives in my heart..."

"Shut up! I just want to know what agreement you made with my queen mother! What is your purpose for taking me in!"

Zhao Yan seemed unwilling to hear Zhao Feng blaspheme his mother, and interrupted her sharply, trembling slightly with anger, but Zhao Feng looked at him lovingly and continued slowly.

"It was only later that I found out that she was a beautiful girl in the harem, but since then I couldn't help but pay attention to everything about her, and found that she was not happy in the palace..."

When Zhao Feng said this, anger suddenly appeared on his face: "I have already promised your mother that I will take her out of the palace, but the first emperor not only forbade me to continue to communicate with your mother, but even sent me to the cloud... In, guarding this barren land!"

There was silence in the study room, and Zhao Feng's voice was occasionally mixed with heavy gasps. The more Zhao Yan listened, the more his heart was beating violently, and there was already an answer in his heart, but Zhao Feng's expression at this time was suddenly A change, almost gnashing of teeth.

"...Not long after I came to Yunzhong full of anger, I got a piece of news that I was both happy and worried about. Your mother lost the child I was pregnant with because she was chosen by the emperor... that is, since then, I secretly swore in my heart that no matter what price I pay, one day, I will definitely return to the capital and use snow to win the hatred of my wife and son!"

"However, you haven't succeeded in taking revenge after 20 years, so you thought of using my identity to return to the capital?"

When Zhao Yan heard Zhao Feng say that the Queen had aborted their child, he breathed a sigh of relief, and instantly thought he knew all the truth.But just as he questioned, he saw a look of disappointment on Zhao Feng's face.

"You must have visited the armory in Baifushan, and you have also read these letters. Don't you really find it strange at all, why I have been able to return to the capital ten years ago, why have I been delaying?" till now?"

Zhao Feng looked straight into Zhao Yan's eyes, and slowly approached him. The sigh in his voice made Zhao Yan tremble, and the thought that he had originally denied reappeared again.

According to his previous estimation, it was only five years ago that Zhao Feng began to station a large number of troops, but unexpectedly, this person had planned to return to the capital since ten years ago.

In this way, Zhao Feng's true strength is stronger than he guessed before - he not only occupies the three provinces in Yunzhong, but also has officials in other places, even the capital, who are his henchmen!
Suppressing the shock in his heart, Zhao Yan finally understood that the man in front of him didn't need to use his identity at all. As long as he wanted to, he could go back to the capital at any time and compete with the emperor.

(End of this chapter)