Chapter 116: It has been sunny since the last snowfall in the Captivity, as if winter was just a momentary thing, and it was spring in a blink of an eye. The weather today is as good as ever, but it is still winter after all, and the temperature is still a bit low.
In Su Yixuan, Yan Yan held an ancient book with great interest. Although some of the words were not very understandable, he still found it interesting. Xiaolan put a cup of hot tea on the coffee table next to Yan Yan, looking at it intently.
While Yanyan was reading the book, she stretched out her hand to serve the tea. As a result, her finger reached into the tea cup filled with boiling water. It was so hot that she dropped the book in her hand and kept blowing on her burned hand.
Xiaolan ran over in panic, "Miss, are your hands okay? It's the slave who deserves to die. You shouldn't have opened the lid of the cup. Miss, you will punish the slave."
Yan Yan frowned slightly, shook his head, and smiled at him: "It's just a slight perm, it's okay. You can go down and do your work."
"Miss, I'm going to get some medicine for you." As soon as she finished speaking, Xiaolan ran away, and after a while, she ran over with a pile of ointments.
Yan Yan looked at her in surprise and said with a smile: "Xiao Lan, this is too exaggerated. I just permed it."
Xiaolan also laughed, "I was so anxious that I brought all the medicine."
As she said that, she selected one ointment from a pile of ointments and insisted on applying it to her. Yanyan had no choice but to stretch out his hand and let her apply the ointment. The cool ointment was applied to the burned area, and instantly her fingers felt different from before.
It was so spicy. Yanyan walked to the courtyard holding a thick layer of ointment on her fingertips. She couldn't stand Xiaolan's caution anymore. She was only slightly burned, but she exaggeratedly asked for gauze.
Bandage her.
As soon as she walked to the courtyard and sat down, Zhao Yue came to Su Yixuan with her personal maid, walked straight to the opposite side of Yan Yan and sat down. Seeing Yan Yan holding a book, she suddenly said sarcastically, "Your calmness
I’m so impressed.”
"How do you say it?" Yanyan lowered his head to look at the book in his hand and asked without even raising his head.
"Now the people in the palace are divided into several factions. One faction supports Brother Feng as the crown prince, one faction supports Qi Yi as the crown prince, and the other faction just supports Qi Yu. I really want to know, you are still reading the book so calmly
, Who will you support in your heart?"
"The emperor has his own ideas about the candidate for the crown prince. No matter how much support we have, it will be useless. The key is the emperor's approval. If you want to ask me who I support, I can tell you for sure that I don't support anyone."
Yanyan closed the book and looked at Zhaoyue in front of him calmly.
"Why?" Zhao Yue obviously couldn't guess what Yan Yan was thinking.
Yan Yan suddenly smiled and did not answer Zhao Yue. Only she knew that Qi Feng and Qi Yi did not want to be the prince, and the third elder brother could not be the prince. He was too cold and indifferent to everything.
Although he looked like that, he actually cared deeply in his heart. If the third elder brother was allowed to become the prince, there was no guarantee that he would not find a reason to kill Qi Feng and Qi Yi in the future. Thinking of this, Yan Yan couldn't help but shudder.
"Zhaoyue, you didn't come to Su Yixuan simply to ask me who I support?"
"I just came here to avoid gossip in the palace. Since you are my sister, of course I have to come and have a look. I don't want you to affect Brother Feng's fight for the crown prince position." Zhao Yue expressed.
It was very calm, probably during an extraordinary period, that's why she talked to her so calmly.
Yanyan has always been grateful to Zhaoyue for rescuing her. No matter what reason she had for saving her, the final result was that Zhaoyue saved her, so she should be grateful to Zhaoyue. It's just that
This kind of grateful reward cannot be given to Qi Feng. Qi Feng firmly told her yesterday that he did not want to be the prince and would not be the prince. She did not tell Zhao Yue because she had been favored by the emperor since she was a child.
Yue has always thought that she would get married to Qi Feng, and now she just hopes that Qi Feng can become the prince. However, growing up in the palace since she was a child, she is used to the competition for wealth, status and power, so she has long been destined to want fame and fortune.
receive.
Zhaoyue sat in Suyixuan for a while and then left. Thinking about the reason for her coming, Yanyan actually laughed for a second. The days she lived in Suyixuan had been peaceful, which did not mean that other people were not there.
He tried every means to expose her identity. And Zhaoyue also knew in her heart that if she caused trouble again, Qi Feng would definitely take action, and the thoughts in Zhaoyue's heart would be annihilated.
The temperature of the sun at noon today is the warmest. Everyone sat in the courtyard and enjoyed the warmth of the sun in the imperial garden. The palace ladies also took the quilts to the courtyard to dry them and took the opportunity to bask in the sun. The sleeping palace gradually gradually
As he began to wake up, the entire palace became busy. Almost every courtyard was filled with colorful brocade quilts, and the quiet palace was no longer so peaceful.
Almost all the courtyards in the palace were covered with brocade quilts, except for the Queen's Tianyi Palace. In the main hall of the Tianyi Palace, the current first-grade Taifu was sitting opposite the Queen, and Chuan Yunde served a cup of hot tea.
On the coffee table next to him.
"Mr. Duan, please have tea!" The queen sat on the main seat with a calm smile on her face.
"Thank you, Queen, for the tea!" Duan Yihong thanked him. When he saw the Queen taking a sip of tea, he picked up the cup on top of the tea. He seemed to be very thirsty, but he drank it all in one gulp without fear of burning it.
"Taifu Duan is also a man with far-sightedness, and I will not mince words today. The second elder brother was the crown prince promoted by the emperor, and his current dethronement is entirely an act of anger by the emperor. I have served the emperor for so many years, and I have deeply learned from it.
Knowing the emperor's temper, the emperor will still restore the second elder brother's position as prince in the future."
"What the Empress said is absolutely true!" Duan Yihong agreed while sitting in his seat. He knew that the purpose of the Empress' visit to him today was simply to ask him to support the second elder brother in the court to restore the crown prince.
"Then do you understand what I mean?" The queen smiled softly. As long as she can win this prince to her camp, Qi Yi will have a more solid backing for restoring his position as prince. She turned around and gave instructions.
Turning to Chuan Yunde, "Xiao Chuanzi, go and bring out the small gift I gave to Mr. Duan."
Duan Yihong hurriedly knelt on the ground and said, "Thank you very much for your kindness, the Queen. I just think that the second elder brother is the crown prince who is responsible for his duties, so I will support the second elder brother to resume his position as crown prince."
The queen just smiled quietly and said nothing. After a while, Chuan Yunde came over with several pieces of precious jade and handed them to Duan Yihong. Duan Yihong declined at first and then happily accepted.
After Duan Yihong left, Chuan Yunde helped the queen walk to the courtyard and sit down. Then Chuan Yunde said: "I would like to congratulate you first, for being able to bring Taifu Duan to your camp. Then the second elder brother will resume his position as the crown prince."
The position is just around the corner.”
The queen laughed and said, "The position of the prince can only belong to the second elder brother. I am doing this just to let those elder brothers who want to be the prince know that they are not qualified."
Chuan Yunde agreed and smiled, "What the empress said is absolutely true."
While he was talking, Qi Yi hurriedly walked up to the queen, frowning tightly with a look of displeasure on his face.
"Yi'er, you came just in time. Sit down and talk to the queen." The queen glanced at him, then turned to stare at a flower branch next to the stone seat. She seemed to be in a good mood and reached out to gently pick one.
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"Mother, when my son came in, he saw Taifu Duan." Qi Yi tried his best to hold back the resentment in his heart and said calmly.
"Yes." The queen just nodded and looked at the petals in her hand with interest.
"Mother, my son saw Taifu Duan who left Tianyi Palace." Qi Yi raised his voice and said, the expression on his face began to look ugly.
The queen was a little annoyed, and her tone became stiff, "If you are here to persuade the queen, then you should go back to your Moyang Palace and stay there."
Qi Yi's emotions finally broke out, "Mother, why are you still so stubborn? I don't want to be the prince, why are you forcing me like this? I have already promised you not to go to Yanyan, and you also promised your son not to force me, but
Now, as before, you recruit ministers behind your back and force your son to become the prince."
The queen suddenly threw the flowers in her hand on the table and said angrily: "Have you done it? I see that you are very diligent and report to Su Yixuan on time every day."
Qi Yi was shocked and looked at the Queen stiffly, as if she couldn't accept it, "Queen Mother, are you sending someone to monitor me?"
"I'm doing this for your own good!"
"For my own good, mother, you have disappointed your son so much. You keep saying you are good for me, but you force me to do things I don't want to do, and you also send people to monitor my every move." Qi Yi took a few steps back in a daze, turned around and left.
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"Stop!" the queen shouted.
Qi Yi paused and stood stiffly on the spot.
"From today on, you will stay in Moyang Palace until you resume your position as crown prince. Otherwise, you are not allowed to go anywhere." The queen walked up to Qi Yi and ordered word by word.
"Is the queen trying to confine her son?" Qi Yi suddenly laughed and looked at the queen with indifference.
The queen couldn't help but shuddered in her heart. She never thought that her son would look at her like this. Blood rushed to the top of her head, and she turned to look at Chuan Yunde with a sullen face, "Xiao Chuanzi, from today onwards, I will monitor the prince."
No matter what he does, he is not allowed to take even one step out of Moyang Palace."
After saying that, the queen walked away. Looking at his mother's leaving figure, Qi Yi felt cold in his heart. This was his mother, who had arranged everything for him since he was a child and restricted all his freedom. Even when he was an adult,
She still wants to arrange his future life and force him to do everything he doesn't want to do.
"Second Brother, please go back to Moyang Palace."
Chuan Yunde's voice sounded behind him, and he wanted to vent for no reason, so he turned around and slapped him, "You little slave, it's not your turn to take care of my business."
Chuan Yunde groaned, but did not dare to attack. He stretched out his hand to touch the face he had hit, spit out a mouthful of blood, and stared at Qi Yi with hateful eyes. He secretly swore in his heart that one day, he would kill Qi Yi.