Seeing that she had changed from her usual dignified motherly manner, and now her eyebrows were full of charm, Zu An's head felt hot and he said in a hoarse voice: "Woman, you are playing with fire!"
"What's wrong with me playing with fire? You are so weak now, how can you still teach me a lesson?" the queen said with a smile.
Eunuch Lu, who was guarding the door, was in a daze for a moment. How many years had he not seen the queen so happy?
When she was young, she used to tease me with such a smile, but it's a pity that the tenderness that only belonged to me back then belongs to another man now.
Hey, what's the use of thinking about these things, now as long as the queen is happy, I will be happy too.
But why do you feel so sad when you think about it? In the end, it’s all nonsense.
At this moment, a low cry came from the room, and he turned around suddenly, just in time to see Zu An pull the queen into his arms, and the grand phoenix robe on the queen's body was rubbed a little wrinkled.
"This brat is so brave!" Lu Eunuch's eyelids were twitching. He wished... he wished that the man holding the queen inside was him.
It's a pity that he can only think about it, and he has to guard the door for the two of them outside to prevent anyone from coming over and seeing something they shouldn't.
"I am the one who can't be provoked the most. Since you have such a request, then I will satisfy you." Zu An fiercely stopped her waist and hugged her to him. The mature woman's waist was soft and plump, but there was no trace of it.
Burden is a completely different experience from the youthful vitality of a girl.
The Queen felt something strange about her body. She couldn't help but look down and immediately spat: "How dare you offend me."
This guy has been so seriously injured, and yet...
Zu An smiled: "Do you want to report it to the emperor?"
The queen's eyes flashed: "Why bother the emperor with this kind of thing? As long as I speak, two young eunuchs will come directly to drag you out and beat you to death."
"I'm afraid the Queen will be a little reluctant to part with it." Zu An said as he began to study her phoenix robe. Although the two of them were already familiar with each other, this was the first time to see her such a grand dress so close. I have to say,
The material is really good, and the phoenix embroidered with gold and jade threads is also quite beautiful.
The queen's heart was beating fast. How could she have expected that the other party would be so bold?
I originally thought that I would control the rhythm and manipulate the other party, but now I am being manipulated by the other party so much that I feel weak all over.
"There are other guards outside." The queen originally wanted to be angry, but the voice she made was not angry at all. Instead, it was so delicate that it even scared her.
At the door, Eunuch Lu felt increasingly bitter and at the same time felt inexplicably excited.
"I know." Zu An said nonchalantly. Naturally, he was not dazzled by the beauty now.
The main reason is that the relationship between him and the queen is very strange.
There is obviously a negative distance of skin-to-skin contact, but both parties know that there is no love or tenderness between the two, but only outright calculations.
The relationship between the two of them is like a war. Once whoever loses at the beginning, they will cut off cities and lose territory later. Therefore, both of them show their talents and want to take the initiative in the relationship.
Queen: "..."
What do you mean you know, and then what?
She felt that she had fallen into the other person's rhythm, and her reason told her to break away, but the unprecedented feeling made her reluctant to let go.
At this moment, the sound of Eunuch Lu coughing came from the door.
The queen immediately pushed Zu An away, stood up from his arms, and quickly straightened her somewhat messy phoenix robe.
Eunuch Lu would not make any noise, it was obviously a warning.
Sure enough, Zhu Xie's heartfelt voice soon came: "Hey, why is Eunuch Lu here?"
Eunuch Lu smiled and replied: "I came here with my wife to visit the warriors who have made great achievements this time, but they are actually great commanders. They are really everywhere."
"I just came out of the Imperial Study Room, so I came back here to take a look." He said as he walked towards the door. He happened to see the Queen inside and immediately saluted, "Greetings to the Queen."
He was a little surprised, the queen looked really beautiful today.
In fact, the queen is a great beauty, but she was a little gloomy in the past few years and had a somewhat alienated aura. Recently, she seems to be in a much better mood. It seems that after her position as crown prince is secured, she is completely relieved.
The Queen smiled and said: "How polite, Commander-in-Chief. Now that the Commander-in-Chief has come back, I will leave this place to you."
Zu An on the side sighed secretly, as expected, none of the women in the palace had fuel-efficient lamps.
Bi Linglong is like this, and so are the queens. It would be a pity not to compete for Best Actress at the Oscars.
"I send you to your Majesty." Zhu Xie followed him out with all his heart.
The queen raised her eyebrows, but didn't say anything.
The group walked out of the courtyard all the way, and the queen stopped: "Tell me, what do you want to say when you come out with me?"
Zhu Xie smiled sincerely and said, "Your Majesty's eyes are indeed as bright as fire..."
The Queen interrupted directly: "If you fart, hurry up."
The other person was the emperor's loyal dog, and she was upset just looking at him. What's more, she was disturbed from what she had just done, so she naturally couldn't treat him well.
Zhu Xie was choked up in his heart, but the other party was the queen, so he couldn't get angry, so he could only say: "Please don't reveal some details of what happened in the secret realm to the outside world. The emperor hasn't figured out how to deal with this matter yet."
, everything still needs to be kept confidential.”
The queen was stunned for a moment, then realized immediately that the other party probably thought that she ran to see Zu An to find out the information in the secret realm, and then revealed it to the Liu family outside.
"Are you going to teach me how to do things again?" Seeing that he misunderstood, she didn't bother to explain, but this was the best.
Zhu Xiechi hurriedly lowered his head and apologized: "I don't dare, it's just that the emperor has been having a headache recently because of this matter..."
"There is no need to use the Emperor to pressure me, I have my own sense of proportion." She said lightly, and then walked away.
Looking at the sound of her leaving, Zhu Xie smiled bitterly. The queen's temper has become more and more weird in recent years. In the final analysis, it is because of the emperor.
He went back and exchanged greetings with Zu An before leaving. Before the emperor made a decision, he still had to keep a distance from these people.
Then some guards ran to congratulate Zu An. Obviously, the reward from the Crown Princess and the Queen made everyone understand that he would definitely be a popular man in the future. After Zu An dealt with them, he lay on the bed thinking about the next things, and then unknowingly
Fall into a deep sleep.
The days in this secret realm kept reminding him that he had little chance to sleep.
I don't know how long I slept for, but Zu An suddenly felt alarmed. He jumped up from the bed and grabbed the neck of the man in black next to him, and pinned him down.
"What's wrong?" A familiar voice came from outside, that was Eunuch Lu's voice.
Zu An's heart moved, and he looked at the noble and coquettish eyes of the person he had restrained. Who else could he be if he wasn't the queen?
"It's nothing, you go outside and guard." As Zu An let go of his hand, the queen also spoke.
"Hmm." Mr. Lu responded vaguely, obviously a little annoyed.
Zu An took off the mask of the man in black and saw the beautiful and mature face. He couldn't help but be a little surprised: "Why are you dressed like this?"
"Some people keep saying that they come to Kunning Palace to look for me, but they never come, so I had to come and have a look myself." The queen was lying on the bed, raising her hands naturally on her head, showing more and more
A proud figure.
Zu An noticed her night clothes and then looked out the window. Unexpectedly, he slept until late at night.
He was stunned for a moment before he realized: "My lady is running around like this in the middle of the night, so don't worry about getting into the wrong bed."
The Queen's charming eyes were as silk as silk: "With you in bed, I can't go wrong."
Zu An secretly screamed, thinking that if Mi Li hadn't reminded her before and knew that she wanted to absorb his essence to restore her cultivation, she might have been deceived by her, thinking that this woman had a deep love for him.
"Thank you so much for your love." Zu An let go of his hand, got up from the bed, walked to the side and poured a cup of tea.
Seeing that he didn't rush forward in a hurry, the queen's eyes flashed with surprise. She lay on her side and looked at his figure: "People in the palace say that you are seriously injured and may die, but I don't think you are injured at all."
You look like this, aren't you afraid that I will go to the emperor to report you?"
Zu An drank the herbal tea in one gulp: "If you go to report him, I will tell him, 'Your wife is awesome'."
Queen: "..."
Even though she prided herself on being mentally strong, she was almost off guard by his words.
Zu Anxin thought, if you knew that I really said this in front of the emperor not long ago, you would be so frightened that you would faint.
"Mother, what happened in the capital during my absence?" Zu An asked. As soon as he came out of the secret realm, he was taken to the palace by Zhu Xie and put under house arrest. Now he has no contact with people outside the palace.
information.
If there is insufficient information about many things, it is easy to make wrong judgments.
At present, if we want to know what is happening inside and outside the palace, who is a more suitable candidate than the Queen?
"Is it because this palace is not beautiful enough that I still have the mood to care about these things?" The queen snorted, but still replied, "After you entered the secret realm, you attracted the hearts of all parties. Prince Qi's palace seems to have everything in mind, and the emperor's side
He also looks like he is sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai. Although I don’t know their respective trump cards, I am more willing to believe in the emperor. Zhao Jing cannot beat him."
Zu An nodded with deep sympathy. Zhao Hao is really a shady guy. He treats everyone like a monkey from beginning to end. If he hadn't encountered the secret realm of Xiquanqiu by chance, his bones would have been cold for who knows how long.
.
The queen then snorted coldly: "Later something went wrong in the secret realm. Jijiu personally concluded that the elements of heaven and earth inside were broken. On the surface, the people in Prince Qi's palace were grief-stricken, but in fact they almost laughed out loud."
Obviously, as the prince's natal family, they have no favorable impression of the Qi Wang lineage.
"The emperor behaved very strangely during those days. I have never seen him so panicked. Although he tried his best to hide it, he could not hide it from others, so how could he hide it from me." The queen said with certainty, and the two of them were fooled after all.
After so many years as a couple, they really know each other very well.
"The emperor is in a very bad mood during this period. Many of the young eunuchs who served him have disappeared for no apparent reason. I heard that they were sentenced to death for making small mistakes." The queen frowned, "Until you come out of the secret realm safely,
His mood has just gotten better, but only a little better, I can still feel his suppressed anger."
Zu Anxin wondered if he could not be angry, but his soul was destroyed in a secret realm for no apparent reason, and his lifelong plan to live forever came to nothing.
"Other than that? Has anything else happened in the capital?" Zu An then asked.
"Your matter is the biggest thing." The queen was a little confused as to why he was entangled in this issue, but she still thought about it and replied, "Besides, our people in the back of the academy have had many conflicts with people from Prince Qi's mansion.
There was a conflict between people, and Zhu Xie's sincerity was absent, so many people were killed and injured. The young master of the Chu family was there all day long asking for his brother-in-law, acting like a woman. No wonder the Chu family was in decline, as a whole.
The yin is rising and the yang is declining; the former chief minister, Nong Sanghong, and his family have returned to Beijing. The emperor trusted him very much at the beginning, and has often consulted with him recently..."
She talked about several things that happened in the capital during this period, and each of them was indeed not worth mentioning compared to what happened in the secret realm.
But Zu An's heart moved: "Sang Hong is back."
A bright and pretty face suddenly appeared in his mind. Could it be that Zheng Dan has also returned to Beijing?
"I almost forgot that you two had a grudge in the past," the queen laughed, "Sang Hong did a lot of dirty things for the emperor in the past few years. I guess it was retribution, and he did so badly. But this is not necessarily a bad thing.
In the past, when he was a lonely minister, everyone wanted to get rid of him quickly, but now that he is gone, there is no threat. In addition, he has a beautiful daughter and a beautiful widowed daughter-in-law, so many people beat them.
idea."
"Sang Hong is the emperor's confidant after all. He seems to be making a comeback recently. How dare those people do this?" Zu An was a little confused.
The queen explained: "The Sang family, who came from a poor family, originally lacked a lot of background than other big families. The last time they failed to run an errand in Mingyue City, the Sang family suffered a devastating blow. And for some reason, the Sang family has been struggling for many years.
The warriors I raised seem to have disappeared overnight. Without these powers, how can the noble families in the capital be afraid of the Sang family?"
"Many people in the capital now believe that Sang Hong also acquiesced. They wish that their daughter would marry a wealthy family and restore the Sang family's former glory."
"It's a pity that those aristocratic families are not stupid. Sang Hong's daughter's family background is too poor. In addition, the Sang family has had too many enemies in the past. No one wants to marry the Sang family lady as their official wife. They just covet the other party's beauty. They are crazy about it.
It would be nice to have a concubine. The reason why many people are so interested in it is because they want to buy one and get one free. After all, the widowed daughter-in-law of the Sang family is an out-and-out beauty."
Zu An snorted coldly: "You don't have to say this to test me. The Sang family and I were both prisoners when we went to Beijing together. We also made some friendships on the way. Of course I will help if I can."
"Tch, I'm afraid you are also trying to be eclectic." The queen sneered. Men are not good things anyway.
"You're thinking too much. How could the Sang family let those little bastards succeed? It's even more impossible for a gentleman like me to have such thoughts." Zu An said sternly.
"Are you a gentleman?" The queen looked strange and had the urge to spray him in the face.
"Ahem," Zu An felt guilty and hurriedly changed the subject, "Did anything else happen?"
The Queen spoke slowly: "Yes, a strange thing happened in Prince Qi's Mansion..."
Zu An waited for a long time but she still had nothing to say, so he couldn't help but ask: "Where's the next one?"
The queen pursed her lips and smiled: "Let me tell you a story first."
Zu An was a little confused as to what story she was telling at this time, but he still listened patiently.
"Once upon a time, there was a male pigeon and a female pigeon on a branch, and a sheep was grazing below. Not long after, a big bad wolf came and ate the sheep. Guess what the female pigeon said to the male pigeon?"
The queen's eyes flickered, and her eyes were inexplicably charming.
Zu An vaguely remembered where he had heard this story, and answered uncertainly: "The sheep down there are dead?"
"Yes, down there...the sheep...is dead." The queen repeated, but her tone changed slightly. She lay on her side on the bed, stretched out her finger and hooked Zu An, her eyes almost oozing with water.
Zu An: "..."
He instinctively said Hong Shixian's famous line, and then he couldn't hold back and pounced directly.
Hearing the coquettish laughter coming from inside, Eunuch Lu at the door trembled, and then let out a long breath, as if he was satisfied.
He silently raised his aura and blocked the sounds in the room to prevent other guards from noticing anything unusual.
…
On the other side of the East Palace, Bi Linglong was lying on the bed, unable to sleep. Rong Mo, the personal maid outside, rubbed her sleepy eyes and ran in to check: "Princess, what's wrong with you?"
"It's nothing, I just have a little insomnia. You can go down and rest by yourself." Bi Linglong replied.
Rong Mo snorted, yawned and walked out.
Bi Linglong suddenly remembered something and hurriedly called out to her: "By the way, no matter what noise you hear later, you are not allowed to come in again."
"Why?" Rong Mo was a little confused. Isn't it his duty to serve the Crown Princess?
Bi Linglong's face was slightly red, and she pretended to be angry and said: "I already have some insomnia. If you come in and run out, it will make me unable to sleep even more!"
Seeing her getting angry, Rong Mo stuck out his tongue and said hurriedly: "Okay, okay, don't disturb the Crown Princess anymore."
Seeing her trotting out and deliberately closing the door, Bi Linglong breathed a sigh of relief. She lifted the quilt under her body, looked at the lock on it, hesitated for a long time, and closed it.
However, she lay on the bed for a while, and suddenly reached out and turned the mechanism back on.
…
Just like this, it was turned off and on for a while, and she gradually fell asleep during the long wait.
On the other side, the clouds are clearing and the rain is coming, the queen is sweating on her temples and her hair is slightly damp. A cheerful and sweet smile remains on her face, especially when she feels that the damaged meridians in her body have been nourished and recovered a little.
She was in a better mood.
"You guy, you don't know how to care about women. I feel like I have become a tool for you to vent." Although she was scolding like this, there was no hint of anger in her tone.
"Don't you like it?" Zu An also entered an ethereal state. He just thought of being chased by the emperor in the secret realm. The suffocating sense of oppression made people breathless, so he pressed harder and harder in his heart.
I vented all my depression.
"What a bad man." The Queen laughed foolishly, "But I like your rudeness."
Maybe little girls like gentleness and delicateness, but for a mature woman like her, she knows best what she needs.
"What happened in Prince Qi's Mansion?" Zu An didn't want to have too many emotional entanglements with her, so he directly changed the subject.
"You can't forget other things at this time," the queen was a little depressed, but she still said, "It doesn't matter, since you just made me happy, I will tell you and regard it as payment for your hard work."
Zu An had a strange look on his face. Looking at the other person's proud look, he thought he was almost done and took out a wad of bills and threw them on himself before going out.
"The concubine of King Qi suddenly lost her footing and fell into the pond a few days ago and drowned," the queen said.
"How is that possible?" Zu An was stunned, "Where are the maids and servants around her?"
Although she is a concubine, she is still the concubine of King Qi. I don’t know how many people are serving her. How could this happen?
"That's the strange thing. It is said that she secretly ran to the pond alone in the middle of the night, so she was not accompanied by a maid," the queen said with some gloating. "There are several theories circulating in the capital about her death. Some are
Some said that she indeed accidentally slipped, some speculated that she was caught stealing from someone, and some said that she saw some secret that she shouldn't have seen and was silenced... Which one do you think?"
"Having an affair?" Zu An asked tentatively. Running out alone in the middle of the night would always make people think about it.
"I thought so at first," the queen said with a smile, "but that guy Zhao Jing is very handsome and charming. It's really hard for me to understand that his woman would steal someone, and the entire Prince Qi's palace,
Who dares to have an affair with the princess? This matter is by no means simple."
Zu An suddenly looked strange: "Perhaps in the eyes of outsiders, the usually graceful and luxurious queen is even less likely to do such a thing."
"You guy!" The queen finally broke through her defense and pounced on him and bit him hard...