The girl in her arms was covered with blood all over her body. She persisted until now, and her consciousness finally fell into sleep, but her body was still warm, rising and falling slowly with her breathing...

Qiu Bai immediately pinched her wrist to check her pulse, and after confirming again and again that she was just exhausted and not fatally injured, she breathed a sigh of relief.

But before he could take his hand back, a white light suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.

The expressions of everyone else present did not change.

So only he could clearly see the long transparent clouds emerging from her body, hidden in the rain and mist, spinning straight up into the sky.

The rising sun is dipped in brilliant gold, ushering in the entire dawn.

Before the glorious golden color and the wind and rain gradually faded away, an old and deep breath came from afar.

"Musician, you're fine..."

Qiu Bai was stunned, and his heart suddenly tightened. He subconsciously looked up at the sky, but there was only the cloud that had completely dissipated...

*

In early autumn, Daqi gained another state capital.

Linlang had a more intuitive understanding of the eldest princess' abilities.

Some people seem to be born to interpret a certain word, and Murong Lingyao is a wizard in this art of war.

I have led troops for many years and am very experienced. I have both nature and nurture, so I have a double layer of buffs.

So it was not the prince who followed the late emperor to conquer the world, but this powerful princess. It was probably for this reason that although she was a female, she was still feared like those princes and needed to go to the fiefdom...

At the same time, the Imperial City.

There was silence in front of Shoukang Palace. The concubines and imperial doctors were kneeling on the ground. They all bowed their heads with solemn expressions and did not even dare to express their anger.

Inside, Ji Huirong was lying on a soft couch, and a large oil lamp was burning on the desk, swaying very faintly.

She has never been a smart person in her life. Her adoptive parents loved her when she was young, and her biological parents felt indebted to her. After entering the palace, Concubine Cen took great care of her, and the late emperor was also very accommodating to her.

But now that my life has come to an end, I feel a kind of transcendent peace and kindness, but my eyes are always staring at the door.

"Mother, the emperor is coming soon." After many years and changes, it was still Shen Lanyi who sat in front of her.

"Agui."

The Queen Mother weakly raised her hand. Next to her, Nanny Gui, who was always steady but was silently wiping tears at the moment, immediately understood and walked forward holding a small box covered with brocade.

The box is extremely exquisite, with a gold-plated phoenix flying in flight and singing towards the sun. Just looking at it like this is already noble and majestic, and you can imagine how rare the box is.

When Aunt Gui knelt down and presented the things respectfully, Shen Lanyi was slightly stunned.

"Queen mother?"

"This was supposed to be yours, but it's too late now..." Ji Huirong personally handed the phoenix seal into her hands, with a weak trembling on his fingertips.

"Good boy, the Ai family knows that Shen'er is sorry for you, but Shen'er... Shen'er is the emperor. From the outside, it seems that the emperor doesn't care what he says, but the emperor can't just ignore what he thinks..."

When Ji Huirong said this, his eyes couldn't help but become confused.

This was what the late emperor had told her about at the beginning. The late emperor had a good drinking capacity and rarely got drunk. But on the day General He died in battle, he was so drunk that he cried so much that his cat slept on her palace desk.

Stay...

"The Ai family knows that no matter how much you say, it will only hurt you. So the Ai family doesn't dare to ask you to forgive Shen'er, but I hope you can accept this Feng Yin... No matter what you owe, you can make up for it, just treat it as it is.

For Chen'er, Lan Yi should continue to move forward."

Shen Lanyi didn't say much, she just took the plate with both hands and bowed solemnly to the Queen Mother. This was the ceremony she performed when she met Ji Huirong for the first time after entering the Prince's Mansion.

…

When Murong Linshen came, he paused as if fleeing outside the palace, as if if he didn't open the door, he wouldn't have to face anything.

But he still walked in. When he entered, Shen Lanyi was exiting with the phoenix seal. She only bent her knees to salute, and the two of them continued to pass each other in a hurry.

Ji Huirong watched silently and only sighed softly.

"Even the queen mother...will leave her sons and subjects now?"

The emperor's expression still showed no big fluctuations or gaffes, as if the mask that had been glued to his face for many years had been integrated into his flesh and blood.

But there was an imperceptible tremor in his words, which rarely revealed his weakness.

"Shen'er..."

Ji Huirong reached out and patted the hand that he held tightly, with soft eyes, "Do you still remember what your father said?"

"Those who serve as kings are destined to be lonely."

Murong Lin answered the words in a deep voice, his tone full of mockery but firmness, "The dragon chair can only seat one person, so the path of the emperor is destined to be walked to the end by my son and minister alone, without anyone to accompany him."

When he chose to take over Da Qi, his father repeatedly warned and asked whether he had really considered it and carried the country and the people on his back.

"It's normal for people to have their own lifespan. But the one I'm worried about the most is you... The fourth son is open-minded and has friends and friends, but you are different."

Ji Huirong looked at him, as if through the court uniform and crown that symbolized the emperor's status, he could discern the soul that still belonged to his son.

"Since you became the Crown Prince and the Emperor, you have become more and more unfamiliar and less like yourself. Sometimes even the Queen Mother can't tell... whether you are really happy or fake... Shen'er, Emperor The crown is too heavy."

She managed to push herself up and gently pushed away the beads on Murong Linshen's face, finally clearly revealing that all too familiar face.

"The Queen Mother is afraid that after the Queen Mother leaves, you will really be all alone. Although your father told you not to trust anyone, Shen'er and Si'er are your brothers... He has the same heart. Always clean..."

The Queen Mother was partly explaining and partly comforting.

"So, the queen mother hopes that if you are unhappy in the future, you don't need to say anything, even if you just go to Si'er for tea..."

"Mother."

Murong Lin lowered his head meekly so that she could see him clearly, and said word by word, "I have never doubted the Fourth Emperor's brother."

Even if I don’t fully believe it, I definitely don’t doubt it.

There was an age difference between him and Qiu Bai. After Concubine Cen's death, Qiu Bai was adopted into the Queen Mother's lap, and he was already the crown prince. Every day, he was involved in one bloody battle after another.

At that time, although the little boy with a low sense of presence was not familiar with him, he would always help him silently to carefully smooth out the rice papers filled with black words one by one and press them under the ruler...

In this way, I want to work hard to repay the kindness.

"That's good, that's good..."

As if she had settled an important matter, the Queen Mother's eyes gradually became blurry, but she turned her head and glanced outside the palace door again, "Si'er...hasn't you come back yet?"

Murong Linshen half-knelt beside the couch, his brows unusually tired and hurt, and he replied in a low voice, "Si'er has already entered Beijing and will arrive soon. Mother, please wait and spend more time with me..."
Chapter completed!