Aijia Kefu: Your Majesty, please avoid

Chapter 80 My Today Is Your Future!
After a sound of iron chains hitting, the door of the stone room was opened.

It was the eunuch Xiao Zhongzi who came in.

Su Qingyuan moved her eyelids, and after seeing the person coming, she still closed her eyes.

"Empress Dowager, please have dinner." Xiao Zhongzi said respectfully.

Su Qingyuan didn't move.

Little Zhongzi thought for a while, and then added: "The dinner is made by our own kitchen, not the prison meal in the Yangju Hall. The servants don't know the Queen Mother's taste, so they cook everything—to take advantage of it. It’s best eaten hot.”

"Go out." Su Qingyuan said coldly.

Little Zhongzi hesitated for a moment, and as expected, he withdrew quietly.

Su Qingyuan sat up slowly and walked to the table.

I saw that the food box was full, containing four bowls of vegetables, one bowl of rice, and a large bag of snacks, overflowing with aroma.

Su Qingyuan picked up the incense burner on the table, sprinkled the incense ash inside evenly on the food, then picked up the teapot on the table, poured most of the pot of tea into it.

After doing this, she sighed a long time, and lay back on the bed, covering her head with the quilt.

There is no food to eat and no water to drink.

The other party was obviously well versed in the technique of attacking the heart, and the food delivered was full of color and fragrance, and the food box was not even covered, and the aroma was so strong that she couldn't help but be greedy.

During this period of time, her food intake increased greatly. She was already hungry when she was first captured, and now she was already so hungry that her chest was pressed against her back.If this trend continues, it won't be long before she can't help but run over and eat that meal!
Auntie Nian is so vicious, who knows what she will add to it?In order to prevent herself from being unable to bear it, she had no choice but to make a bad move.

but--

Still hungry!

Thinking of the food in the food box, thinking of the smell that filled the room just now, she felt uncomfortable as if her stomach was on fire, and her stomach had already groaned hundreds of times.

When I'm hungry, my heart is more fragile than usual.Su Qingyuan bit the corner of the quilt, so wronged that she wanted to cry.

She even thought, if she was very hungry, she would just eat the cotton wool in the quilt and forget it!

The sound of iron chains clashing sounded again.

This time it was Aunt Nian who came in.

Seeing the mess in the food box, she froze for a moment, then looked up at the bed.

Su Qingyuan was still curled up under the quilt, refusing to move.

Aunt Nian sighed, walked over and pulled the quilt away forcefully.

Su Qingyuan raised her head and looked at her coldly.

Aunt Nian breathed a sigh of relief: "It turned out that I fell asleep, and I was shocked!"

"I have two lives, and I won't commit suicide unless it is absolutely necessary." Su Qingyuan said calmly.

Aunt Nian reached out and touched her forehead: "Knowing that I have two lives, why don't you eat well?"

Su Qingyuan glared at her and twitched half of her lips.

Aunt Nian sighed: "You are too thoughtful. If I want to attack your child, I definitely won't use such sneaky tricks."

Su Qingyuan let out a low sneer.

Aunt Nian's face turned cold, but she quickly regained her composure, and put on a gentle voice: "Yuan'er, how are you doing without your mother being by your side these years?"

Su Qingyuan raised her head, and finally showed a complete smile: "Very good, much happier than having a mother."

"This is an angry word. Which child doesn't want a mother?" Aunt Nian sat down beside Su Qingyuan, bent down, and put her arms around her shoulders.

Su Qingyuan has thought about her mother's embrace for more than ten years, but now she just wants to escape.

Aunt Nian sighed, lovingly stroking Su Qingyuan's messy blue hair: "16 years... Yuan'er, 16 years ago today, my mother gave birth to you through untold hardships, and you were forced to separate before the full moon... ...Do you know how my mother survived these years?"

Su Qingyuan said in a nonchalant manner: "My mother left when I was not yet full moon—in this way, if she can rush to reincarnate in time, she should not be much younger than me in this life."

"You!" Aunt Nian turned blue with anger.

Su Qingyuan raised half of her lips and looked at her mockingly: "Aunt Nian is getting old, so it's better not to get angry easily, there are many wrinkles in the first place."

When Aunt Nian heard this, her face turned even greener.

But she suppressed her anger in the end, hugged Su Qingyuan's shoulder and asked softly: "You still don't believe that I am your mother? Let me ask you—on your right calf, is there a half-stripe since childhood?" A circular scar? It was when you were just born, and the midwife washed your body with a lantern, and accidentally got burned."

Su Qingyuan chuckled: "Shu Xing even told you this? It's no wonder that she can even steal that kind of thing for you..."

Aunt Nian's face was full of anger.

Su Qingyuan continued calmly: "I have to admit that your methods are really good. Before I entered the palace, Shuxing only accompanied me to the palace to visit the eldest sister two or three times a year - just this little time is enough Your Tao becomes your marionette."

Aunt Nian shook her head and smiled, "You are wrong. I sent Shuxing to you in the first place."

Su Qingyuan was a little surprised, but didn't ask further.

Shuxing was dead, and there was no point in chasing the past.

Aunt Nian didn't give up, she forced Su Qingyuan into her arms, and sighed: "You blame me in your heart and refuse to recognize me as a mother, and I can't blame you. I really didn't fulfill my responsibilities as a mother. Those women are not good, and your father doesn't know how to take care of children. You must have been miserable all these years without being loved or favored... If not, you wouldn't be so confused and be deceived by that bastard Lu Li with a few sweet words Here we go..."

Su Qingyuan rolled her eyes, covered her stomach with her hands and curled up into a ball, closing her eyes and pretending to be asleep.

Aunt Nian sighed: "Now that you have all your heart on him, you don't intend to listen to my words. I just advise you to think carefully—is Lu Li treating you sincerely? Do you really trust him? Nasu Qingluan is only for the children? Do you really believe that he drafted the concubine because he had to? The third miss of the Cheng family, Princess Jingmin... Which one of these people is inferior to you? You pat your chest and ask yourself, do you believe in Lu Li? Will I always pamper you?"

Su Qingyuan was annoyed by her questioning, so she had to open her eyes again: "It doesn't matter whether he will spoil me all the time, the important thing is that he is sober. He knows that you are waiting for him with a net, so he decided not to give up. I won't fall into your trap, so you can rest easy!"

Aunt Nian smiled gently: "It's not that you are very confused when you can say such a thing. But silly boy, you have to know that when a man really likes you, he will fight for you You said he was 'very sober', but you didn't know that it was just because he didn't love you enough. You see, you disappeared out of thin air in Yeting Palace. Instead of looking for you, he was still drinking and having fun with civil and military officials, Where are the fireworks!"

"Fireworks?" Su Qingyuan was a little moved.

Fireworks are a rare thing.She has grown so big, she has only seen it twice in total, both when the first emperor Qianqiu lived his entire life.Lu Li set off fireworks for her birthday, which was considered very intentional.

It would be great if she could see it!
Seeing that these few words were effective, Aunt Nian hurriedly hit the iron while the iron was hot: "You are young, so you will inevitably be deceived by your own eyes and ears. If he says a few good words, you will believe that he is sincere for you—you know, What you see is what he wants you to see; what you hear is what he wants you to hear! Yuan'er, you are completely played by him in the applause, do you know that!"

"Is Lu Li so free? Toying with me, what good does he get?" Su Qingyuan felt a little funny.

Aunt Nian's expression gradually became solemn: "Yuan'er, there are some things I didn't want to tell you too early—but if you continue to be obsessed like this, I'm afraid you won't be able to turn back..."

"Why should I turn back? Where do I go? To join you?" Su Qingyuan sneered.

Aunt Nian ignored her sarcasm, and the expression on her face gradually became sentimental: "You hate me, blame me, blame me for not fulfilling my responsibility as a mother, blame me for forcibly interfering in your affairs with Lu Li, blame me for murdering your child... There is nothing wrong with these, but do you know that the me 16 years ago was exactly the same as you now! I also firmly believed that all children came into the world because of the love between husband and wife and the fate of blood... But Yuaner, this is a conspiracy! Someone once tried to use this method on me, but failed; 16 years later, the same conspiracy is targeting you again! If you give birth to this child, my today is your future !"

She spoke so emotionally that a tear rolled down the corner of her eye.

Su Qingyuan's heart twitched inexplicably.

Aunt Nian held her hand, wiped her tears and said, "Yuan'er, listen to your mother and kill the child! You can't have children—especially Lu family's children!"

Su Qingyuan frowned, and said lightly, "Aunt Nian, it's time for you to take your medicine."

"You still don't believe me?" Aunt Nian looked a little desperate.

Su Qingyuan just looked at her mockingly.

At this moment, the door rang twice, and a young eunuch's voice said outside the door: "Auntie, the exit to the Ye Ting Palace has been discovered!"

Aunt Nian sat up slowly.

The little eunuch opened the door and came in, lowering his head and saying: "The golden armored guards in the palace surrounded Yeting Palace and searched the rooms inch by inch. They found out one of our exits. I heard they even picked up one of the Queen Mother's." earrings……"

Su Qingyuan raised her hand to touch her earlobe, and sure enough the earring on the right was gone.

This is a pleasant surprise.

But Aunt Nian didn't have much worry on her face.She just frowned slightly, and asked calmly: "Is it all blocked?"

The little eunuch's tone was uneventful: "It's blocked. The hidden guards have already entered the tunnel and found nothing. We only found a dead end for them. Even if they dig around at the end of the tunnel, they will definitely not find a second one." channel."

Aunt Nian smiled.

Su Qingyuan felt a sense of loss in her heart.

I don't know how many forks there are in this tunnel, and every fork can be blocked. How can it be so easy to find the right road?
This fact also brought her a new question: Digging a tunnel is no easy task, let alone under Miyagi!For such a project, it is necessary to consider the position of each exit, whether there will be sound when excavating, and avoiding tree roots, foundations, and water veins... Even if it is a country's effort, I am afraid it will not be achieved overnight. Gong, how could Aunt Nian have such a great ability?
After the little eunuch retreated, Aunt Nian turned her head to look at Su Qingyuan: "Having hope, and then seeing hope shattered, isn't it very pleasant?"

Su Qingyuan responded with a smile: "Well, there will always be hope. If it doesn't work this time, there will be a next time. Lu Li won't give up, and I won't give up either."

"Since you are so confident, why were you frowning just now?" Aunt Nian asked mockingly.

Su Qingyuan hesitated for a moment, and slowly sat up while leaning on the head of the bed: "I'm a little curious, who are you? I don't believe that you have the ability to dig so many tunnels, and I don't believe that you have the prestige to make so many people admire— - There is a master behind you, right? Who is it?"

Aunt Nian looked at her with a smile: "This time, you guessed it all wrong. I don't have a master behind me—even if there was one, it's all gone now."

Su Qingyuan frowned.

Aunt Nian sighed, still smiling: "But you are right, I didn't dig this tunnel - it was something made by the Lu family themselves, but they forgot all about it. Now the whole building is I already know the underground of Miyagi very well."

"Did the royal family dig it themselves? They dug tunnels under their own palace?" Su Qingyuan didn't believe it.

Aunt Nian let out a low sneer: "The Lu family is greedy for life and afraid of death, despicable and dirty, not to mention they have done so many bad things, how could they not prevent outsiders from coming to kill them? Their hearts are so empty, they dug a few tunnels to escape , is it strange?"

Su Qingyuan thought for a while, and seemed to have no way to refute.

Aunt Nian sneered mockingly: "These secret tunnels have been dug since the time of Taizu, and they were not completed until Chengzu's later years. It took nearly a hundred years for three generations. They built this palace city as solid as gold, and in the following hundreds of years No one forced them to the point of escape, so this tunnel was used by emperors of all dynasties to do some dirty, despicable, sneaky and shady things—the secret of the tunnel was only handed down to the emperor. So it was lost.”

"Is it because of the fire in Weiyang Palace?" Su Qingyuan couldn't help asking.

Aunt Nian's expression was ugly, but she still answered her question: "That's right. Because of the fire... that old thief died too quickly, and he didn't have time to pass it on to his son, and his confidant was conceived by the successor later." The emperor has been killed, so that little bastard will not know about this place, so you can give up."

Su Qingyuan was a little disappointed.

Aunt Nian stared at Su Qingyuan for a long time, seeing that she didn't intend to speak again, she couldn't help feeling anxious: "Why don't you ask, how did I know about this place, and how did I know about these old things?"

Su Qingyuan met her gaze and blinked her eyes: "You have been circling around here for most of the night, isn't it just to draw the topic and tell me these old things? You want to talk, but I don't want to hear it. I'm so anxious for you !"

"You don't want to hear it now, come and beg me when you want to hear it later, I won't say it!" Aunt Nian's face was very ugly.

Su Qingyuan shook her head, her attitude was very stubborn: "I'm not interested in listening, if you really want to talk, go out and catch a little eunuch and tie him up, tell him!"

Aunt Nian ran out of ideas, and began to consider whether to partially adopt Su Qingyuan's suggestion—lift her up and tie her up, and insist on telling her.

After thinking for a while, Aunt Nian woke up like a dream.

Su Qingyuan is already in her hands now, and she can't run away without being tied, why should she ask for advice over and over again?Just say it!
So, Aunt Nian regained her composure, lowered her face, and started the mode of talking about the past: "16 years ago, not long after I gave birth to you..."

***
Yeting Palace.

Lu Li sat in that narrow and cold cell.

The soil from the tunnel was brought up basket by basket, all of which were lumps of very solid red mud.

An old eunuch shook his head while watching: "It's still not right. The red mud is very firm, and there is no sign of being turned over."

"But, this is already the last direction!" The little eunuch at the entrance of the cave said aggrievedly.

The old eunuch thought for a long time, then shook his head: "There is no way out at the end of the tunnel, we have been fooled."

Lu Li stood up and turned around irritably, "But, Yuan...the mother's earrings were indeed found at the entrance of the cave. If they weren't in the tunnel, where would they go?"

The old eunuch bowed his head and said: "It's not that it's not in the tunnel, but...the exit is not at the location we found. Anywhere in this section of the tunnel is possible."

The little eunuch at the entrance of the cave turned pale with fright: "The tunnel we found is hundreds of feet long. If we search for it inch by inch..."

"Then send more people to search inch by inch!" Lu Li sternly shouted.

The little eunuch dared not speak, and prostrated himself at the entrance of the cave and kowtowed.

Xiao Luzi hesitated for a long time, and finally knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, the prison cell is already so cold, and the tunnel must be even more difficult. If the people who go down are frozen to death, the empress will definitely feel sorry..."

Lu Li gritted his teeth and thought for a long time: "All the people below will come up now, and a new group of people will go down—let's look for it again."

Xiao Luzi didn't dare to persuade him anymore, so he had to ask someone to deliver the order.

The old eunuch said hurriedly: "Since the other party dares to seal the exit at this end, there must be other exits in the tunnel, otherwise the people inside will easily suffocate to death!"

Lu Li ordered in a hoarse voice, "Order the palaces to search the courtyards and rooms, and not to let go of any clues."

Xiao Luzi repeatedly agreed, but couldn't help persuading him: "It's late at night, your majesty..."

"I don't know if Ah Yuan is alive or dead, how can you let me rest assured!" Lu Li was anxious and angry, his voice was already hoarse.

No one around him dared to persuade him, so he had to grit his teeth and endure the shivering, and endured the cold with him.

At this moment, Princess Jingmin suddenly knocked open the little eunuch guarding the gate, and barged in: "Brother Emperor!"

Lu Li collected himself, and after a long time he said in a hoarse voice, "Why are you here? I remember... Didn't the Queen Mother order you to stop and reflect?"

Princess Jingmin hugged Lu Li's waist and cried, "I heard that the queen mother is gone, and I know you must be sad, so I want to come to accompany you... If the queen mother is angry, when she comes back, ask her to punish me for two more feet. The month is over!"

Lu Li sighed and patted her on the back reassuringly, "I'm fine."

Princess Jingmin cried with snot and tears: "How can it be okay! It's so cold here...your body is cold! If you get sick from the cold, everyone will be worried!"

Xiao Luzi hurriedly took the opportunity to persuade: "What the imperial concubine and empress said is true, your majesty, if you don't cherish the dragon's body, the empress dowager and the empresses will be worried!"

Princess Jingmin wiped her eyes vigorously, raised her head and said anxiously: "You don't have to worry too much, the Queen Mother will be fine! Think about it, there was no one else in Ye Ting Palace when the accident happened, if the bad guys want the Queen Mother They can kill her on the spot, so why waste time and effort to take her away! Since they are willing to take this effort, it shows that the Queen Mother is useful to them - since it is useful, of course they will keep her life!"

Lu Li pondered for a long time, and finally regained some light in his eyes: "What you said... makes sense."

Princess Jingmin hurriedly said: "Of course what I said makes sense! So - you go back with me and have a rest, okay? This damn place is too cold, I'm afraid your body will collapse before the Queen Mother is found!"

Lu Li hesitated in his heart, Xiaoluzi saw it, and boldly made a decision for him: "For those who go down the tunnel, change a group of people to come up to rest every hour; for those who find the exit in each palace, be more careful. If you find out, come to Yuxiu Palace and report to the emperor as soon as possible!"

Lu Li had no reason to insist on staying any longer, so he obeyed Princess Jingmin's wishes and followed her out of the cell.

A bright smile appeared on Princess Jingmin's face immediately.

Lu Li looked a little dazzling.

When he left Yeting Palace, he couldn't help asking: "Who taught you those words just now?"

Princess Jingmin raised her head and blinked her eyes in doubt: "I thought about it myself! Doesn't Brother Emperor believe that Jingmin can reason?"

Lu Li reluctantly pulled the corner of his lips: "It's not that I don't believe it, it's just that... I suddenly feel that you have grown up a lot."

"I'm almost 17 years old, do you still think I'm a child?" Princess Jingmin muttered dissatisfied.

Lu Li's feet paused.

The smell of gunpowder still seemed to linger in the air.He has carefully prepared the fireworks for several months, which must have become the talk of the people in the capital after dinner.

But what about the person watching the fireworks?

Did she know his intentions, did she know that he was burning with anxiety for her?
Where is she now?Have you been wronged?Will the other party use cruel means to deal with her?
He doesn't know anything!
Lu Li frowned tightly.Princess Jingmin babbled a lot of words, but he couldn't hear them anymore.

The distance from Yeting Palace to Yuxiu Palace is not that close, but no one thought of Chuanchar.Princess Jingmin carefully supported Lu Li, and walked back slowly along the frost-covered gravel road.

Standing in the warm room of Yuxiu Palace, Lu Li felt even more uneasy.

Where A Yuan is at the moment, is there a stove?Do you have food?Do you have a bed to sleep in?She is pregnant with a child, she is weak, and has bad taste... Who will take care of her?

Princess Jingmin saw Lu Li standing still, so she had to come over and pull him to sit down: "Brother Emperor, you haven't even eaten lunch, you must be starving to death! I asked the small kitchen to prepare food and drinks, you Anyway... warm up your body!"

(End of this chapter)