Ye Bufan arrived outside Lingxiao Academy. Zheng Sanbao had already prepared the horses here. Everyone got on the horses and the two of them drove in front.
"General Manager, do you know what the Empress Dowager wants to see me for?"
Zheng Sanbao smiled slightly: "I, as a slave, can't guess what the Queen Mother means."
Although he held an extremely special status in the imperial court, he did not have any arrogance and spoke calmly.
"Then how did the Queen Mother know about me?"
Zheng Sanbao smiled again and said: "Doctor Ye, don't worry, you will see the Empress Dowager soon, and you will naturally know everything by then."
Seeing that he couldn't find anything out of the question, Ye Bufan stopped talking and slowly thought about it. For some reason, he always felt that the Empress Dowager seemed to be very familiar with him.
But after thinking for a long time, he realized that since he came to Kunlun Continent, he had never seen the empress dowager, or even anyone related to the imperial court.
Zheng Sanbao prepared only top-grade wildebeests, and everyone soon arrived in front of a large palace.
The Tianfeng Empire is divided into an outer city and an inner city, and the imperial palace is naturally built inside the inner city.
Like the palaces I had seen in previous lives, the buildings here are magnificent and exude endless majesty.
Arriving in front of the palace gate, Zheng Sanbao handed the horse to the guard next to him, and everyone walked inside.
Ten minutes later, everyone arrived at the palace where the Empress Dowager lived.
Zheng Sanbao brought Ye Bufan in, then turned around and backed out, closing the door behind him, seemingly not worried at all that he would pose a threat to the safety of the Empress Dowager.
He stood in the room, and there was no one else except a woman in the bead curtain opposite.
Ye Bufan felt doubtful in his heart, what on earth is going on? Does the Queen Mother trust him so much?
At this moment, the beaded curtain opened, and a graceful woman walked out from it. She was wearing a phoenix crown and a halo, and her beauty exuded the majesty of royal freedom.
"Dr. Ye, we meet again so soon."
Ye Bufan felt that the voice was so familiar. He looked up and saw that the woman standing in front of him was the woman who had been treated in Tianlang City - Hua Ziyue.
At this moment, he was filled with shock. At that time, he only knew that Zhai Tianfang was extremely respectful to this woman, but he did not expect that it was the Empress Dowager.
"The circumstances were special and it was inconvenient for me to reveal my identity. Please forgive me, Dr. Ye."
"I...I don't dare."
The etiquette in Ye Bufan's mind was learned from the palace dramas in his previous life. When he saw the real empress dowager for the first time, he didn't know how to call himself herself.
Fortunately, Hua Ziyue didn't care about this. She smiled slightly, but she didn't have the majesty of the empress dowager at all.
"Dr. Ye, Mr. Zheng got there in time. Is the problem solved?"
"The trouble has been solved, thank you Queen Mother for your help."
Ye Bufan immediately understood that Zheng Sanbao was sent by Hua Ziyue, but this was not surprising.
As the current Queen Mother, she should have her own spies among the city guards, so it is reasonable to know this.
"This is nothing. I still owe you a life in Tianlang City."
Hua Ziyue smiled and said, "You and I are both cultivators and my savior. There is no need to be so polite. Just call me Sister Ziyue according to the etiquette of the world."
"Then I'll thank Sister Ziyue."
Ye Bufan said and bowed to Hua Ziyue. No matter what happened today, he was still very grateful.
"I told you not to be so polite."
Hua Ziyue stretched out her hand and took out a gold medal and brought it to him, "From now on, you can take this and come in and out of the palace at will. If you need anything, just come to me."
Ye Bufan took the gold medal and took a look at it. It was heavy and made entirely of pure gold. It had the words "Imperial Gift" written on the front and the words "Empress Dowager" on the back.
He was not polite and put the thing away directly.
"Sister Ziyue, there is something I don't quite understand. Why didn't you take Manager Zheng with you when you came to Tianlang City?"
Indeed, he was very confused. When Hua Ziyue went to Tianlang City, the guards she brought with her were not very skilled.
If you bring an expert like Zheng Sanbao with you, I'm afraid those assassins will have been killed before they even get to you, and there won't be any danger at all.
Besides, the Ouchi Supervisor was originally supposed to protect the Empress Dowager, so there was nothing wrong with keeping him around.
"This is complicated to talk about. You sit down first and we'll talk slowly."
Hua Ziyue asked Ye Bufan to sit down, a trace of sadness flashed across her face, and she began to tell.
"Since the death of the late emperor, the Tianfeng Empire today is very different from before..."
Of course, Ye Bufan knew that there were some things that were not suitable for him to know, but since they were already telling them, he couldn't interrupt them, so he could only listen quietly.
After talking for almost a quarter of an hour, Hua Ziyue gave a general outline of the situation.
It turns out that a year ago, the emperor of the Tianfeng Empire died suddenly, and the throne was urgently passed to the ten-year-old little emperor, with Hua Ziyue as the queen mother overseeing the country.
But in this case, it is inevitable that some people will covet, fight for power, and even want to seize power and usurp the throne.
The most powerful one among them was the late emperor's younger brother, Prince Song Jian of Anshun.
This person has great prestige in the entire Tianfeng Empire. He is also the Grand Marshal of the Army and controls the military power. If such a person has a rebellious heart, it will be extremely difficult to control.
Fortunately, there was Zheng Sanbao, the Dinghai Shenzhen, in the imperial court, and there were also some people in the military who were loyal to the current little emperor, so they didn't launch it for a long time.
But that's only on the surface. Privately, Song Jian has been recruiting troops and constantly expanding his strength.
The reason why Hua Ziyue was injured was because she encountered an assassin when she went to the Ancestral Temple to offer incense and pray for peace. The instigator behind this incident was probably Song Jian.
She finally said: "The last time I went to Tianlang City to seek treatment from you, I went secretly. In order to prevent the news from being exposed, naturally I couldn't take Manager Zheng away.
Moreover, he has to guard the entire imperial city and the safety of the emperor, so naturally he cannot leave with me, otherwise I am afraid that when we come back, the dynasty will have changed."
"oh!"
Ye Bufan nodded, saying that there was a lot of trouble within the palace walls, and now it seems that it is indeed the case.
Competition for interests is not limited to time or space, it has existed in all dynasties.
Then a trace of doubt arose in his heart: "Sister Ziyue, I have another question. I don't know whether I should answer it or not?"
Hua Ziyue nodded and said, "Just ask!"
"That's right..." Ye Bufan paused, adjusted his words and said, "Looking at your age, you are in your early twenties at most. How did you become the empress dowager?"
If it were someone else, they would definitely not have this problem, and they would think that Hua Ziyue is good at beauty.
But he is a doctor, and he has checked the other person's pulse before, so he knows the other person's body very well.
Judging from her age, Hua Ziyue is in her early twenties and cannot be more than twenty-five years old at most. How could she have a son as old as the little emperor?
There was another thing that he was embarrassed to say, that was, the Yuan Yin Qi in Hua Ziyue's body was still there, and she was obviously a perfect body. How could she have a son?
