He Muyan frowned and looked at the woman who rushed into the palace rashly, as if she really didn't think about it.
Lin Ruolan secretly bit her silver teeth into pieces, but she still smiled and said:
"Your Majesty, my concubine Ruolan is the Concubine Lan whom you personally consecrated during the Flower Festival."
Speaking of this, Lin Ruolan couldn't help but reveal tenderness in her eyes.
At that time, she was just a beautiful girl who had just entered the palace. Because her distant aunt was the current Queen Mother, she was arranged to go to the Chengshou Palace to do some leisure work and chat with the Queen Mother.
That day, she had just returned to the palace after taking scriptures for the Queen Mother. When she arrived at the entrance of Chengshou Hall, she saw a man with extremely delicate features leaning lazily against the door, holding a bunch of flowers in the courtyard in his hand.
It was obvious that he was just standing casually, but he unconsciously attracted her attention.
But that flower...that flower was the most precious thing to the Queen Mother. I heard it had a soothing effect, so she valued it more than her own children.
She recognized the dragon robe he was wearing and hurriedly knelt down and shouted:
"His Majesty."
There was no movement for a long while.
Lin Ruolan raised her head in confusion, and suddenly looked into his deep, bent eyes.
My heart beat suddenly and unconsciously for a second.
But the man stood up straight away and shouted into the hall:
"The Queen Mother, just her, you won't be reluctant to part with her, right?"
Before waiting for a reply from the palace, he left with his hands behind his back.
Not long after, a eunuch came to congratulate him with an imperial edict.
"By God's blessing, the emperor issued an edict: Lin Ruolan, the eldest daughter of Lin Yu, the minister, is Shen Huiya, handsome and respectful, and her thoughts are pure and majestic. Please obey me and be honored. She will be granted the title of Zheng Liupin, and she will be given the title of Lan. I appreciate this."
Later, Lin Ruolan found out that he had no intention of marrying a concubine, so he let the selected showgirl delay again and again.
It is precisely because of this that the pieces played every day are flying like snow.
And she was pushed out by him, becoming a perfect shield. On the surface, he stayed in her bedroom every night, and her status was raised again and again, becoming the most famous Empress Lan in the palace.
However, only she knew that when He Muyan came, he only sat at the table all night to approve the memorials, and never looked at her once, even if she had reached the rank of concubine.
But even so, Lin Ruolan still insisted that it was love at first sight when they met. Otherwise, with He Muyan's temperament, how could he be wronged to marry someone he didn't like.
There has been no other woman around him for so many years, and she has become Concubine Lan under his "favor". If Su Lian hadn't appeared, she would have taken the back seat one day, with thousands of phoenixes,
became his only wife.
But now everything has been ruined by Su Lian.
"Your Majesty, don't you know that the Jiang family and the Su family are family friends, and the young master and the young lady are childhood sweethearts who grew up playing in the same yard, and their relationship is very good.
I heard that Dr. Jiang came to the palace just to nurse Concubine Su back to health."
Lin Ruolan twisted her waist and came in, a dark look flashed across her face.
Zhou Nuanhai knew that something was wrong as soon as he heard this, and looked at He Muyan with some worry.
Turning the fingers between his fingers, He Muyan looked gloomy.
Childhood sweethearts, childhood sweethearts?
It's really good.
He kept his little concubine in the harem, but he didn't want her to be so bold as to run away with a man privately.
He didn't send anyone to look for her these days because he was sure that she was used to being pampered and would come back sooner or later.
He also sent people to investigate the fire, and it seemed that there were no civilian casualties. The person who died was a prisoner on death row in the sky jail, and the ending method was extremely clean.
But now it seems that he really spoiled her.
"As the order goes, Imperial Physician Jiang has harbored evil intentions towards the concubines in the harem many times. He stole the palace treasures and fled the day before yesterday. The bold thief Jiang Pingzhi was captured and killed without mercy.
As for Concubine Su..."
The man stood up and said in a cold voice:
"Concubine Su was taken away under Jiang Pingzhi's coercion. She is really pitiful. She lives alone and has to see people dead and corpses."
In just a few words, Su Lian's guilt was completely removed. Lin Ruolan clutched the hem of her skirt a little unwillingly. She originally thought that if His Majesty found out that Su Lian was having an affair with an outsider, he would definitely order someone to kill him in anger.
She was captured and beheaded.
But he didn't want to take things lightly, so Su Lian became a victim of coercion.
Lin Ruolan curled her face and opened her mouth to argue, but was slapped back by He Muyan with a cold look:
"Why, Concubine Lan has any objection to Gu's decision?"
"I...don't dare."
Jiuzhou City boundary.
The wind and sand that were enough to dazzle people suddenly rose. Jiang Pingzhi led the horse and followed behind a caravan group. Su Lian sat on the horse and closed his eyes lightly, his face as pale as paper.
This body has a habit of being squeamish. She was raised by Su Xiang in the Prime Minister's Mansion and never left the door. This became even more so after entering the palace.
However, it had been several days since she left the palace, and she obviously felt that she was no longer capable of doing so.
But there is only one road into Jiuzhou City, which is in the heart of the desert. Therefore, although the journey is short, it is very bumpy. Many merchants even got lost and couldn't find their bodies.
Because of this, this road is nicknamed the "Bone Road", which is said to be that the road you step on is made of human bones.
They spent a lot of money to get a passing caravan team to agree to take them out of the Bone Road, but they only agreed to let them follow behind.
Covering his mouth and nose with a veil, Su Lian saw that Jiang Pingzhi was also staggering a little, so he simply got off his horse.
"Brother Jiang, I'm tired of sitting. Come down and take a walk."
Su Lian gently pulled Jiang Pingzhi's sleeve and said softly.
Jiang Pingzhi grew up with her, and she didn't know anyone else, but Jiang Pingzhi had been a literati since he was a child, and his physical fitness was not much better.
A wry smile appeared on Jiang Pingzhi's lips, but he didn't show off, and just nodded silently.
"By the way, Lian'er, why did you think of going to Jiuzhou City?"
Jiang Pingzhi turned around and said.
It is true that Jiuzhou City is rich in materials, but it is precisely because it is so rich that its city lord used thunderous means to protect this state separately. Although it is within the territory of Hao Kingdom, it is actually a very independent place, leaving only
This lane is used for trading and comings and goings.
Because of this, although the name of Jiuzhou City is well known, not many people know the specific information. Only business travelers traveling back and forth rumor that this place is like a paradise, extremely dangerous but extremely attractive. As long as you are willing to pay the price, it can
Help you get everything you want.
Su Lian was startled, and a trace of confusion flashed across her face.
In fact, because He Muyue informed her of the plan too late, she did not plan carefully and subconsciously circled this place when looking at the map.
Along the way, she also felt inexplicably familiar, as if she had seen these scenes before.
But how could she, a wealthy lady who had lived in the Prime Minister's Mansion since childhood, be familiar with a place so far away from the capital?