After hearing Xue Ya's words, Queen Mother Zhu was also shocked.
Although Xie Yan has always made her feel very unhappy over the years, in the heart of Empress Dowager Zhu, Xie Yan is indeed a very powerful person. Although he is a few years younger than the late emperor, if he is not Gaozu's nephew but his son
, who will finally ascend the throne is still unknown.
This is not to say that the late emperor was not good enough, but that Xie Yan was too good.
Therefore, when I heard Xue Yayun calmly saying that it was hard to say whether Xie Yan could survive tonight, the first reaction in the Queen Mother Zhu's heart was disbelief. But after looking at the reactions of everyone in the palace, the disbelief was a little more hesitant.
.And once she accepted this reality, her fear of Xueya would become even more profound.
Xue Ya looked at Queen Mother Zhu and said with a smile: "How is it? Has Queen Mother agreed?"
Empress Dowager Zhu remained silent, Xue Ya chuckled, shook her head and said, "Is the Empress Dowager so hesitant because she is reluctant to part with the regent?"
Empress Dowager Zhu's face changed slightly, and she said angrily: "What nonsense are you talking about!" However, this voice revealed a bit of sternness, and in the eyes of onlookers, she looked a little guilty.
Xue Ya nodded clearly and said: "It seems that the rumors are true? What a pity...the Prince Regent has no friendship with the Queen Mother at all. Hasn't the Queen Mother heard about how the Prince Regent and the little princess who just entered the house are doing?
The love between husband and wife, the deep love between husband and wife?"
Of course Empress Dowager Zhu had heard of it. Not only had she heard of it, Xie Yan also slapped her in the face for Luo Junyao!
Thinking of this, the resentment towards Xie Yan in Empress Dowager Zhu's heart became even heavier.
Xue Ya saw this, a hint of smile flashed in his eyes, and then he dropped the last stone neatly, "The majestic and majestic Queen Mother secretly covets her brother-in-law. If this news gets out... I wonder what the people in the world will think? No.
Do you know what His Royal Highness the Regent and His Majesty think?"
"You...you don't want to spit on anyone!" Upon hearing this, Queen Mother Zhu was filled with fear.
Xue Ya raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "You are slanderous? Are you sure, the Queen Mother? I heard... A few years ago, the Queen Mother made a request to the Regent that she was willing to serve, but unfortunately the Regent rejected it. And...
…What’s in the eight-treasure sandalwood box in the Queen Mother’s palace?”
"..." Empress Dowager Zhu was speechless. She could only turn around and glare fiercely at the confidant behind her.
Not everyone, even the Queen Mother, knows about these secret things. If Xue Ya knows these things, someone will naturally tell him.
It's a pity that the person she glared at didn't care at all, and still looked at her nose and heart, standing upright and no longer afraid of her authority as the Queen Mother.
Xue Ya seemed to be watching a good show, and said leisurely: "Since ancient times, the royal family has been rich in secrets, and its reputation is well-deserved. If the people of the world can watch such a good show, even if you get nothing tonight, it will not be a loss.
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Queen Mother Zhu's face turned a little pale. She looked at Xue Ya and felt that the handsome young man in white in front of her was so hateful and terrifying, "No... you can't be like this..."
Empress Dowager Zhu felt extremely regretful at this time. She knew that someone had taken advantage of her.
Unless this Xue Ya dies and everyone in the entire hall dies, she is destined to be taken advantage of.
Empress Dowager Zhu has never revealed her concerns about Xie Yan in front of outsiders. Even when she made such a request to Xie Yan, it was for Xie Cheng's sake. It doesn't mean that she completely ignores her son. She is naturally doing it for his own good.
, but only she herself knows how selfish it is.
She is an aristocratic daughter who has been carefully raised since she was a child. How can she let people know that she has such unbearable thoughts?
Back then, Empress Dowager Zhu met Xie Yan and the late emperor almost at the same time. Compared to the gentle and elegant late emperor, the first thing she saw was Xie Yan, who was as handsome as an immortal at a young age, cold and proud.
She didn't think much about it at the time. After all, Emperor Gaozu appointed her to be the Crown Princess. Compared with the honor that being the Crown Princess brought to herself and her family, the fleeting surprise and favor were nothing to mention.
But after she really became the Crown Princess, she faced her gentle but busy husband and all kinds of trivial matters in the Crown Prince's womb. Then looking at the young man who always followed her husband and was still outstanding, she gradually felt inadequate in her heart.
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She greeted him in the name of her sister-in-law, but it did not win the boy's favor. On the contrary, he appeared in the prince's womb less and less frequently. Later, she simply followed Gaozu to the battlefield, and then stayed at the border and rarely returned.
Beijing.
During the Three Kings Rebellion five years ago, she thought that their orphans and widowers really had no chance of survival. At this time, Xie Yan led an army to quell the rebellion, carrying the heads of the rebels and riding into the imperial city, and entered the city covered in dust.
After entering the palace, the blood on his shirt has not yet dried, and his youthful aura is no longer comparable to that of his youth a few years ago.
Such a majestic and upright figure, such a cold and intimidating momentum, and that face that is even more beautiful than before...
Her heart beat like a drum, she was frightened and frightened, and she had uncontrollable emotions.
So she finally couldn't help but privately proposed to him what she thought was a "best of both worlds" proposal, but in the end she only got his cold rejection and walked away.
Now that this matter was mentioned again, Empress Dowager Zhu was not only afraid but also angry.
Xue Ya watched Empress Dowager Zhu's changing expression with great interest. The Master of Mingyin Pavilion sitting next to her seemed a little unable to stand it anymore, and said lightly: "Do you think you have a lot of time?"
Xue Ya raised an eyebrow, then quickly calmed down her expression and said with a smile: "You are right. How about it, Queen Mother?"
Queen Mother Zhu composed herself and said in a trembling voice: "What do you want to do?"
Xue Ya smiled and said: "I told you, we can help the Queen Mother to take power and make you a real Queen Mother. Now that the little emperor is young, it is logical that the Queen Mother should listen to politics behind the curtain, right?" Queen Mother Zhu said: "Why should I believe it?
you?"
Xue Ya said: "Just because I am sitting in the Queen Mother's Palace now, we will bring Your Majesty to see the Queen Mother soon."
"What do you want to do to Cheng'er?" the Queen Mother asked in surprise.
Xue Ya was a little bored. No wonder Xie Yan would rather marry a little girl than look down on this woman. Respect for his cousin may be a reason, but this woman herself must also account for a large part of the reason.
"Don't worry, Queen Mother, we won't do anything to Your Majesty."
"You won't win. Even if you know that something happened to Xie Yan...and General Luo is here..." the Queen Mother murmured.
Xue Ya chuckled and said: "General Luo has no time to worry about this now. The Queen Mother may not know that General Luo has been poisoned and is still unconscious. Speaking of which, you and the Xie family are also to blame for this.
"
The Queen Mother was silent, she was frightened by the news from Xue Ya's mouth.
Xue Ya said: "If Great Ancestor Dasheng and the late Emperor hadn't planted a thunderbolt themselves, it would have been really not easy to deal with General Luo at this moment."
"Sir." Several men in black walked in quickly from outside, walked to Xueya and leaned over to whisper a few words in his ear.
"What?" Xue Ya narrowed his eyes slightly, and the man in black nodded silently to show that what he said was correct, and Xue Ya did not hear it wrong.
Others looked at Xue Ya who was sitting in the hall. Xue Ya said calmly: "The Queen Mother, I don't want to be violent. Please ask someone to see Your Majesty and bring her here. Just say that the Queen Mother is suddenly seriously ill and please come and visit her."
How is your illness?"
Empress Dowager Zhu couldn't help but sarcastically said: "Didn't you say that you would let someone bring Ah Cheng here?"
Xue Ya said: "I'm afraid the Queen Mother doesn't know that Her Majesty is currently in the Palace of the Queen Mother."
Queen Mother Zhu was startled. She really didn't know that A Cheng was staying in the inner court tonight, "So what?"
Xue Ya said: "Xiaoyuan Hou Yu Mingqiu is also here."
The master of Mingyin Pavilion next to him chuckled lightly, and he didn't know whether he was mocking Empress Dowager Zhu or Xue Ya. He raised his eyebrows slightly and said to Xue Ya: "It seems that Xie Yan is not as ignorant as you think."
If Xie Yan knew nothing about it, how could Xiaoyuan Hou, the commander-in-chief of the armed guards, appear in the palace late at night?
Xue Ya snorted softly, turned her head and said to the Master of Mingyin Pavilion: "Since I can deal with Xie Yan, do you think I don't have any tricks to deal with Yu Mingqiu?"
"We'll see?" the master of Mingyin Pavilion said lazily.
Empress Dowager Zhu was overjoyed because she knew Yu Mingqiu and was once the late emperor's confidant.
Xue Ya seemed to see clearly what Queen Mother Zhu was thinking, and sneered: "Queen Mother, don't be happy too early, don't forget your current situation. Even if Xie Yan wins, what good will it do to you?"
The look on Queen Mother Zhu's face became stiffer and stiffer, and after a while she gritted her teeth and said, "What do you want me to do?"
On the other side of the Empress Dowager's palace, Eunuch Huang staggered out of the bedroom. Several people sitting in the palace immediately came to greet him. "Eunuch Huang, how is the queen mother?" Princess Changling asked anxiously.
Eunuch Huang whispered: "Princess, general, please don't worry. The Queen Mother was sleeping deeply. She just woke up in a daze for a while. The old slave said that there were fireworks outside to cover it up. The Queen Mother has fallen asleep now."
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Princess Changling breathed a sigh of relief, nodded and said: "That's good, that's good."
Yu Mingqiu said in a deep voice: "Princess, please rest assured, I have been ordered to station here and will never let anyone disturb the Empress Dowager in the slightest."
Princess Changling nodded, "Thank you for your help, General Yu."
Yu Mingqiu said: "This is all the responsibility of the general. Princess, please go and rest. The general will always stay here."
Princess Changling also knew that she could not help here, but asked Yu Mingqiu Fen to deal with her, so she nodded, "I am in the side hall. If anything happens, the general can send someone to call me."
Yu Mingqiu nodded in agreement, and then Princess Changling turned and left.
Seeing Princess Changling disappear, Yu Mingqiu turned around and walked out of the palace.
Standing under the eaves outside the main hall and looking up at the sky, it was still dark above the palace, but the sky outside the palace was obviously much brighter, and the faint light of fire could be seen in the distance.
A figure landed quietly not far from Yu Mingqiu's side. Yu Mingqiu asked without looking back: "How is the situation in the palace?"
Leng Shuang's beautiful face looked more and more deserted in the night. She said in a deep voice: "The people sent to pick up the Queen Mother responded. The people in the Queen Mother's Palace said that the Queen Mother has fallen asleep. The palace is tightly guarded and no thieves will disturb her. No.
Willing to come."
Yu Mingqiu raised his eyebrows, "What do you think?"
Leng Shuang said: "I'm afraid I'm in the Queen Mother's Palace. General, we..."
Yu Mingqiu shook his head and said: "No, who would have thought that... these people could really reach into the palace? If we don't catch them all this time, there will be endless trouble in the future. Wait a little longer, and we will take action after they move."
Leng Shuang thought for a while, "No one has been in charge of things in the palace in the past few years." Those people were able to extend their hands into the palace, mostly because the palace has become somewhat loose in recent years.
The Empress Dowager's body and age are so great. She has already exhausted all her energy in raising her grandson. How can she take care of this? The little emperor is young, and Empress Dowager Zhu is obviously not the material. The prince is not in the imperial city, who can control it?
Can you live with all that mess?
In recent years, Shangyong appeared to be singing and dancing, but secretly, demons were dancing wildly.
"Your Majesty is betting so big this time, we must be steady and pull out all the rats hiding in the dark in one fell swoop!"
If Xie Yan didn't want what happened tonight, then tonight's chaos would never have happened. But similarly, it would be impossible to uncover all those hiding in the dark.
This move is actually quite dangerous. If it succeeds, it will be of great merit, but if there is the slightest mistake and it becomes a big mistake, then the regent will be a sinner for the ages.
As the commander of the secret camp, Leng Shuang never lacks confidence in His Highness the Regent, "Your Majesty has never failed."
Yu Mingqiu thought for a while, nodded and smiled: "Indeed."
"General, someone is coming to the Queen Mother's palace!" Outside the door, a guard came in to report.
"Oh?" Yu Mingqiu said, "What did you say?"
The guard said: "It is said that the Queen Mother was frightened by the voice just now. She suddenly fell ill and wanted to see Your Majesty. Please come over immediately."
Leng Shuang squinted her eyes slightly and immediately heard the problem.
Yu Mingqiu shook his head at her and said: "Go and tell the people in the Queen Mother's Palace that Your Majesty was also frightened just now. The imperial doctor prescribed sleeping pills and you have already fallen asleep."
The guard said yes, turned around and walked out.
"Can this be fooled?" Leng Shuang asked.
Yu Mingqiu laughed and said: "What fooling around, it's just delaying time. Do those people still dare to break into the palace of the Empress Dowager? Won't time come out after this time?"
Leng Shuang frowned and said: "The Queen Mother wants to see Your Majesty at this time. I'm afraid she is being held hostage. I'll go to the Queen Mother's Palace to have a look."
Yu Mingqiu said in a deep voice: "I'm afraid that not only are they being held hostage, but there are also many people from Luanyi Division in the palace at this time, so be careful."
Leng Shuang nodded, turned around and jumped onto the roof for a moment before disappearing into the night.
Yu Mingqiu looked around, raised his hand to summon someone, and ordered: "No matter what happens, you only need to guard the Empress Dowager's chamber and protect the Empress Dowager and the eldest princess. Do you understand?"
The guard bowed his hands respectfully and said, "Don't worry, General."
Yu Mingqiu chuckled lightly and said: "The First Battalion of Dingguo Guards, if I can't trust you, who can I trust?"
