After Bai Li entered the city and saw the phoenix as green, he squeezed the small fruit in his hand. The fruit was a very green wild fruit in the mountains, and it didn't look sweet.

He had no idea of ​​tasting it, so he just stuffed the fruit into his arms and kept it close to his heart.

Feng Ruqing followed Zu Shang into the imperial city, but soon she quietly got off the car halfway.

After the merchants entered the city, they were no longer afraid. After the city gate was closed, the city guards did not care much about things outside the imperial city, but if someone did evil in the imperial city, the city guards would never tolerate it.

The group of them also took the bandits who were planning to rob them outside the city into custody, and went straight to the city guard's office in the city, where they handed over the bandits whose wrists had been severed to the city guard's office for disposal.

Feng Ruqing directly found an inn to stay. It was getting late, but there were still some people in the inn having drinks and chatting in the lobby.

After Feng Ruqing entered, the waiter came to greet her. Feng Ruqing opened a room and brought some food and drink in. At the same time, she pretended to be a gossip and asked the waiter about the affairs in the imperial city.

The waiter was coy at first, but later Feng Ruqing stuffed him with some scraps of silver, and he knew everything.

Even one of the concubines in the palace took advantage of the emperor's serious illness to have sex and was executed by the queen mother.

There was nothing particularly secret, and Feng Ruqing didn't expect to find out any secrets from this guy.

But it was good, she knew everything she wanted to know, including the residence of the then Prime Minister Pei Congnan.

Feng Ruqing ate something and slept well that night, and was not in a hurry to go to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

After Bai Li was brought to the palace, he did not see the Queen Mother that night. Instead, he was placed in the palace to stay, waiting for the Queen Mother to summon him.

Bai Li couldn't sleep at night.

After washing, the whip marks on his face were even brighter and hotter, but he didn't even feel much pain because the person who hurt him was already dead.

If someone takes action for his pain, his pain will be nothing.

For so many years, surviving has been Bai Li's only goal. He doesn't have a decent personality, but he believed Feng Ruqing after hearing that she would not kill innocent people indiscriminately.

But he misunderstood that Feng Ruqing killed Tan Lin for him, but he didn't feel anything was wrong.

He was lying on the bed, playing with the green fruit in his hand. The maid came quietly into the room, extinguished the candles until there were only two candles left, and then left silently.

Bai Li guessed that the Queen Mother would summon him tomorrow, and he had to brace himself to deal with it carefully, but Feng Ruqing kept thinking about it in his mind.

Finally, I could only sigh softly, close my eyes and force myself to sleep.

When the sky dawned the next day, Feng Ruqing arrived outside the Prime Minister's mansion. Hiding her figure, she followed the servants who came in the morning into the mansion and followed the courtyard to find the main house where Prime Minister Pei Congnan lived.

At this time, Pei Congnan was not in the house. A beautiful woman was sleeping soundly in the main room, her belly was slightly bulging, and she was carrying a baby in her belly, which looked to be about five months old.

Feng Ruqing was not impatient, she simply hid her figure, found a shady spot under a big tree, transformed into her own body and attached to the tree, staying in the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Bai Li met the Queen Mother and wanted to see Pei Congnan.

Being the prime minister of the dynasty is not something you can just meet casually, and Bai Li's private meeting with Pei Congnan was of great importance, so Feng Ruqing had to find a very suitable time to do it.

During the national mourning period, Pei Congnan did not return home last night, and he must have met with his staff and members somewhere else.

But Feng Ruqing is not in a hurry. Bai Li should be meeting the Queen Mother now and won't be able to get out for a while.

Pei Congnan is busy with family and country affairs, and there is also a beautiful 1-month-old woman at home who will always come back.

I don't know if that beautiful woman is Feng Ruqing, the wife of the Prime Minister, but she lives in the Prime Minister's main house, so she must be Pei Congnan's favorite person.

Moreover, Feng Ruqing saw that Pei Congnan's daily necessities were also in the house, which showed that it was indeed his living place. No matter how busy he was, he would always come back to see people.

Sure enough, by noon, when the beautiful woman had already eaten two rounds of meals and countless desserts, but was still feeling depressed, Pei hurried back from the south.

As soon as he came back, he got into the main room, went straight to the imperial concubine's bed where the beautiful woman was leaning, and said, "Lan Suzu, my husband is back!"

The beautiful woman raised her eyelids and glanced at him, snorted and held her stomach and said, "Son, does your father think he ran away secretly after I fell asleep last night, and doesn't your mother know?"

Pei Congnan looks about forty, but he doesn't have a beard and doesn't look much older.

The furrows at the back of his eyes are not deep, and he has an upright appearance. At first glance, he looks very aura. He has the appearance of a dignified and dignified veteran, and his eyes are full of transparency.

If any of his colleagues saw him hurriedly mixing garlic under his feet just to get into the house to apologize to his wife, their jaws would probably drop.

Pei Congnan had an upright temperament. When the old emperor was in power, he was very stubborn and even wanted to bring shame on the emperor, so he had been accumulating prestige in the court for a long time.

Many people in important positions in the court were promoted by him. Therefore, although his clan is not as large as the Queen Mother's mother's family, it is still like a big tree with roots tens of feet deep. He is the only one in the world who dares to compete with the Queen Mother.

people.

However, this person was not a purely kind person. When Feng Ruqing really met him, she saw that his sins were not many, but they were not none.

Sitting in this position, it is inevitable that the hands will be unclean. Pure black and white cannot survive in the court, and Feng Ruqing is not surprised.

Feng Ruqing saw that he was very concerned about the lily of the valley, and even leaned down to listen to her belly, and said sorry in a low voice, which gave people the impression that he was a very good husband and father.

The two people chatted nonchalantly. Feng Ruqing listened for a while, but found that there was nothing important, so she stopped listening, and her body invisibly pressed against the wall and slid outside.

Pei Congnan left not long after. He was really busy. As soon as he left the main house, he frowned and strode towards the carriage at the door.

Feng Ruqing thought for a while and followed him, always familiar with where he usually passed and where he gathered with his staff and supporters.

Feng Ruqing followed the Prime Minister and turned into a very secluded Zhuangzi from the main street of the imperial city. Bai Li was also driven to the side gate of the palace by car and entered the palace to see the Queen Mother.

Returning to this high wall again, Bai Li's mood was completely different.

He opened the sedan curtain and looked in the direction of Leng Palace, feeling unavoidably unstable in his heart. He was no longer the dog prince struggling to survive in the high four-corner wall, under the eunuch's feet.

No matter whether this trip succeeds or fails, he will die, and he will no longer be such a lowly person, abandoned and despised by others.

He has people who like him and people who protect him. He has dared to have wishful thinking and even dared to confirm his wishful thinking. He is not alone.

Bai Li kept encouraging himself and reached out to touch the bulging spot in his arms. It was the little fruit that he was still reluctant to eat last night.

He was carried to the front of a seemingly abandoned palace, and someone asked him to wait outside the palace.

Bai Li knelt on the ground consciously, lowered his head, and suppressed the ambition in his eyes, replacing them with submissiveness and fear. He knew that the Queen Mother must be looking at him, or asking someone to look at him.

He knelt down for more than an hour. His knees seemed to be broken, and the sharp pain from the beginning seemed to penetrate directly into his brain along his knees.

But Bai Li is very experienced in this kind of thing. Once he kneels behind him, his knees will go numb.

Bai Li knelt for two full hours, his back sweating profusely under the noon sun and his face flushed. Finally, he was carried into the hall.

After entering the hall, he was helped to sit on a chair.

From the moment Bai Li entered the palace yesterday, he acted like a cower.

When he was sent to Feixia Mountain by the Queen Mother from the palace, he tried his best to show that he was calm and useful, for fear that the Queen Mother would kill him because he was too cowardly and weak.

At that time, he was a remnant and a backup to take the blame. The third prince was the best candidate for the puppet.

But after the Empress Dowager broke up with the third prince and killed him mercilessly, Bai Li carefully considered her thoughts. The Empress Dowager must have wanted to see him helpless.

A dog who has been stuttering in the cold palace since he was a child and has been grateful for his kindness and will not bite even if he kicks him, and a prince who has grown up and has unpredictable variables, naturally the former is more suitable to be a puppet.

Bai Li was fortunate that the people who had protected him before, including Tan Lin, were all dead. No one knew about his inconsistent behavior before and after, and no one except Tan Lin reported everything in detail like the Queen Mother.

Bai Li didn't dare to raise his head while sitting on the chair. His neck felt like it was broken. He only dared to look at the place next to his feet. He was also restless in the chair. Anyone who took a look at him would think that kneeling was more suitable.

Apart from him, there were only maids standing silently on both sides of the hall. After a while, someone came in from outside and walked slowly to Bai Li's side.

"Are you Yinniang's son?" The voice was very graceful, coming from Bai Li's lowered head, unhurried and slow, just like her footsteps.

Bai Li trembled violently, not out of fear, but because it was the first time he heard his mother's name, Yinniang, from someone else's mouth.

Who in this world would remember a humble maid who unexpectedly gained favor from the emperor?

"Yinniang once served me, and Koudan did a very good job. He is a wonderful person."

This voice should be that of the Queen Mother. Bai Li wanted to hear her talk about his mother again, but she just gave him a slight introduction, then passed Bai Li and went up to the main seat in the palace.

There was only one person with her. He was extremely tall, with a straight back, and was not groveling. He was wearing a moon-white robe. It was obvious that he was not a palace eunuch at all, but a real man!

In this harem, the Queen Mother, an old witch, led men in and out openly, which shows how arrogant she is.

Bai Li was secretly frightened, but not because the Queen Mother was bringing a man, but because he heard Tan Lin say in a warning tone that he should not have any evil thoughts. The capable people around the Queen Mother can understand your thoughts at a glance.

.

Bai Li's breathing became tight, and his heart was beating wildly. He subconsciously pressed the small fruit on his chest, thinking that this capable person was indeed extraordinary. As soon as he entered the door, the air seemed to be filled with a heavy feeling of suffocation.

Bai Li was extremely lucky that he didn't agree to let Feng Ruqing follow him. Otherwise, what would have happened if this talented person had discovered him!

Bai Li was thinking wildly when the Queen Mother suddenly said, "Look up and see how much you look like Yinniang."

Bai Li's face turned pale and he slowly raised his head. Half of his face was covered with a mask, and half of his face was covered in hideous red marks from Tan Lin's whip, which looked very unsightly.

Bai Li only hoped that the Queen Mother would not be curious about the other half of his face and ask him to take off the mask on the spot.

But when Bai Li raised his head and met the Queen Mother's gaze not far away, he was too surprised to suppress it.

The Queen Mother sounded like a middle-aged woman, but Bai Li never expected that she had a face that looked about the same age as Feng Ruqing, and was very beautiful.

At this moment, Bai Li finally understood why someone called the Queen Mother an old witch in private.

The Queen Mother's voice is too young for her age. Now that the emperor is dead, she is already the Queen Mother, and she has been in the palace for more than 40 years!

Now that he looks like this, how can he not be a monster?

And the capable man next to her, the high-level monk Tan Lin mentioned, was also as gentle and beautiful as pearls. When the two of them sat and stood, there was no sign of a sinister person.
Chapter completed!