Luo Qingyan finished asking, but before Yun Shang could answer, he fell asleep. Yun Shang pushed Luo Qingyan aside, stood up and sat for a while, then took off Luo Qingyan's shoes, socks and robe, and covered her with it.
After getting under the quilt, he sat on the edge of the bed and fell into a daze.
Luo Qingyan's question kept lingering in his mind. He asked her whether she preferred Ning Guo or Xia Guo.
Yun Shang closed her eyes, but her heart couldn't calm down for a long time. Why did Luo Qingyan ask her this question? Could it be that Liu Yinfeng agreed to his request? That's why he asked her what she liked because he wanted to find a relationship with her.
A place she likes to live in seclusion?
Yun Shang bit her lip, her heart filled with struggle. She followed Luo Qingyan to the Xia Kingdom. Over the past two years, they have been struggling step by step. From the very beginning, they were controlled by others and plotted by others at every step.
Later, they gradually spread their power. Only she understood the hardships best. In the past two years, they had hardly had an easy day and almost lost their lives several times.
Although the throne was obtained by Xia Huanyu's abdication, without Luo Qingyan's efforts, in the face of those calculating opponents, it would not have been his turn to become the emperor anyway.
In the past few months since Qi Luo Qingyan ascended the throne, he had worked very hard despite internal and external troubles. He would go to court early in the morning every day until evening, and sometimes he could only return to Weiyang Palace very late.
So much hard work was given away so easily because of her. Even Yun Shang would feel unwilling to do so, let alone Luo Qingyan.
Yun Shang turned her eyes and looked at Luo Qingyan who was already asleep. She reached out and stroked Luo Qingyan's eyebrows bit by bit, but she was struggling extremely in her heart.
"Empress?" The voice of Qian Drinking came from outside.
Yun Shang was startled, quickly retracted her hand, stood up and put down the bed curtain, then quickly walked to the door and opened the bead curtain: "What's wrong?"
Qianzuo quickly responded: "Do you want a slave to wait on the queen to wash up?"
Yun Shang nodded slightly and responded: "Come in."
Qianzui served Yun Shang to wash up and take off her bun. Yun Shang opened the bed curtain and lay next to Luo Qingyan. Qianzui blew out the lights in the room. The inner hall was dark, and Yun Shang slowly closed her door.
eyes, but couldn't fall asleep.
In fact, there is another solution to this current situation...
Yun Shang bit her lower lip, tears falling from the corners of her eyes.
It wasn't until early in the morning that Yun Shang fell asleep. When she woke up, it was already noon. As soon as the Lantern Festival passed, the new year was considered over.
Yun Shang thought about it and lay on the bed not wanting to move. After a while, Qian Zui walked in, poked his head and looked towards the bed. When he saw Yun Shang's eyes open, he was startled, and then he hurriedly said
: "Your Majesty, are you awake? I thought your Majesty hadn't woken up yet."
Yun Shang turned her head to look at Qian Zui, nodded slightly, and asked, "How is the weather today?"
Qianzuo smiled quickly and said: "It's good. Although the sun is not shining, there is no wind and no snow."
Yun Shang nodded slightly.
Seeing that Yun Shang had no intention of getting up, Qian Zui said with a smile: "I'm afraid your Majesty will have to get up earlier. Previously, someone from the Taihe Palace was sent to invite you. The servant only said that your Majesty hasn't gotten up yet.
A palace official named Yuan Bao then said that when the empress gets up, she should go to the Taihe Palace for a tour."
Yun Shang was stunned when he heard the words, and Fang responded like a mosquito. He hesitated for a while before getting up. Qian Zhu quickly dressed and washed Yun Shang, and served Yun Shang for lunch. Yun Shang then
He put on his big cloak and walked to the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
The weather today is indeed as Qian Zui said, no wind, no snow, no sun, but it has a somewhat dull feeling.
When they arrived at the Palace of Supreme Harmony, Yun Shang was a little surprised to see Hua Ling instructing the palace people to pack things. Yun Shang was stunned and quickly entered the main hall, looked at the two large boxes of items that had been packed in the hall, and hurriedly
He hurriedly turned his head to look at Hua Ling: "What is the queen mother doing?"
Hearing this, Hua Ling couldn't help but laugh and responded softly: "I have told you before that the Supreme Emperor said that he would leave the palace for a walk after the New Year. After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the New Year will also be here.
After all the calculations, the Emperor has decided to leave early tomorrow morning."
Yun Shang was stunned, but there was such a thing, but because of those messy things in the past few days, she had no intention of thinking about anything else, so she forgot about it.
Seeing this, Yun Shang knew that Xia Huanyu had already made a plan, but she was afraid that no matter how much she tried to persuade him, she couldn't persuade him, so she said softly: "I don't know where the queen mother and father are planning to go as their first stop?"
Hua Ling smiled and said, "I don't know either. If I ask your father, he has always been cheating on me."
Just as he was talking, Xia Huanyu walked in, raised his eyebrows and asked, "What are you trying to do?"
When Yun Shang heard this, she quickly laughed and said softly: "I just asked my mother where we are going after leaving the Imperial City as our first stop."
When Xia Huanyu heard this, he smiled and said, "Get ready to go to Jin'an."
A map of the Xia Kingdom flashed through Yun Shang's mind. Jin'an was a city that extended in all directions among the Xia Kingdom's cities. You had to pass through Jin'an to go to many places, but it was also the only way from Jincheng to Liucang.
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Yun Shang lowered her eyebrows and pondered for a moment, then quickly said: "Although I have never heard of this place, it must be a good place. However, my father and mother must send more messages back to the palace, otherwise Your Majesty and I will make a decision."
I’ll be worried.”
"There's nothing to worry about. He's not a three-year-old child anymore." Xia Huanyu waved his hand casually and responded casually.
Yun Chang smiled and changed the topic: "In the future, there will be fewer opportunities to play chess with my father. Today, I will play a game with my father again."
When Xia Huanyu heard this, his eyes lit up, and he quickly turned around and shouted: "Yuanbao, bring up the chess pieces and the chessboard."
While the palace servants were preparing things, Yun Shang mentioned casually as if by accident: "Young Master Liu has been back to Jincheng for a few days, but I don't know if he has visited my father."
Xia Huanyu nodded and said with a smile: "We were here yesterday, and the child has lost some weight."
Yun Shang responded with a smile: "Perhaps it's because he has been imprisoned by his seventh brother in Liu Cang. Now he has returned to Jincheng, and Yang Yiyang has come back. Yesterday, Mr. Liu was still with us in the imperial garden.
Your Majesty is very drunk."
"Oh?"
He has such an uncontrollable temper."
"Yes." Yun Shang responded with a smile. After watching Yuan Bao place the chessboard, she followed Xia Huanyu to the chessboard and sat down.
Xia Huanyu took the lead and Yun Shang followed suit. Hua Ling sat down next to Yun Shang and stared at Yun Shang for a while before saying: "I heard that you were sick some time ago. Look at you.
You still look a little bad, but the disease has not been eradicated?"
Yun Shang responded quickly: "It's okay. My face looks a little worse today because I was troubled by a strange dream last night. I spent almost the whole night and fell asleep this morning."
"Dream? What dream?" Hua Ling looked at Yun Shang with some confusion after hearing this.
While Yun Shang was playing chess with Xia Huanyu, she responded: "I probably dreamed about two brothers fighting for the family property. I don't remember it very clearly. I only remember that the eldest son is the legitimate heir, but he likes to play with wood.
He was stone-faced and had no interest in running the family property. He was always scolded by his father, saying that he was losing his ambition by playing with things. The second son was a bastard, but he was capable. So the eldest son went to the second son to ask him to find a way to let him leave the big family and let him
The second child will inherit the family property."
Yun Shang curled her lips and noticed that Xia Huanyu's eyes were looking at her coldly, but she continued without hesitation: "I don't remember much about what happened after that, but this dream was really strange.
, I have no idea why I had such a dream, and no one in the dream knew me, so I was woken up several times."
"Maybe I'm too tired during the day, so I tend to have many dreams at night." Hua Ling didn't understand what Yun Shang said, so she could only comfort her casually.
Yun Shang nodded with a smile and said softly: "Yes."
Hua Ling sat for a while, then stood up and took the palace maid to the inner hall, asking the palace maid to put everything she needed to take away into the cages. Yun Shang heard Hua Ling's voice coming from inside from time to time.
Xia Huanyu glanced at Yun Shang, then lowered his head, and said softly: "There are some things that you will not benefit from knowing too much about. It is best not to even dream about such things."
Yun Shang knew what Xia Huanyu was referring to, so she smiled and said, "Thank you, father, for reminding me. Chang'er understands."
"Understood?" Xia Huanyu shook his head, "You don't know that many things are not as simple as you think, or not as complicated as you think. After all, you are only the queen, and what you need to take care of is the harem. Mo
You should underestimate the harem, sometimes the harem plays a much more important role than you think."
"The draft is held every three years, but it should continue. Qing Yan has just ascended the throne, and there should be the first draft this year." Xia Huanyu looked calmly, with a slight frown between his eyebrows.
"Do you think that I always try my best to put women around Qingyan, and I am deliberately going against you?"
His eyes fell on the chessboard, and he said after a long time: "It's not that I want to have a hard time with you, but that this Xia Kingdom's country needs one person to inherit it. It can't be like what Li Lanyi said at the palace banquet on New Year's Eve.
Are you going to let the Xia Kingdom's royal family die like this? As the queen, I think you can take on this position, but you can't ruin the Xia Kingdom for your own selfishness."
Yun Shang's hand holding the chess piece trembled slightly, and the chess piece in his hand fell on the chessboard with a "ding" sound, which was like a knock on Yun Shang's heart.
It turns out that Xia Huanyu had known about it for a long time. (To be continued)
