Queen's Development

Chapter 243 Finding out the truth
On one side of this road is a mountain wall and on the other side is a cliff. The wind is whistling and the chill is soaking in people.

Lady Wang and the little maid jumped down, but there was no sound of landing, which shows how deep the valley is.

The sedan chair that Yuzhi was riding in had already rolled down, throwing the four bearers who were fleeing down into the cliff.

Yuzhi's legs were weak, she hugged Lin Yin tightly and sat on the steps, wishing she could stuff Lin Yin back into her stomach.

This is the flesh and blood she gave birth to in October, and it is her and Lin Jia's son. No matter when it comes, she will not let him go, and she will protect him.

She has lost her daughter and must not lose her son again!

Lin Yin hugged her mother's neck tightly, her pale face pressed against her mother's face, her black phoenix eyes were filled with tears, but she didn't cry loudly.

Ah Lan stood aside, looking at Concubine Bai and Xiao Shizi, feeling extremely uncomfortable.

Han Lin stood on the side with a blank face, full of remorse in his heart.

At that moment just now, she was right inside, and was almost hit by the overturned sedan chair. She wanted to pull the sedan chair, but she didn't.

Abi's eyes were full of tears. She was very skilled. Yibaolou sent her to the palace to protect her concubine, but she didn't expect that when a real crisis happened, she would be frightened and stupid. Own.

What she is most afraid of now is that Concubine Bai will pursue her actions just now.

Yeluxiao was standing on one side. He looked young, but he was actually very precocious.

He saved Yuzhi's mother and child with a soft heart at that moment, so he must be rewarded.

Yuzhi's body was weak and unable to move, but her mind was clear.

After resting for a while, she began to order: "Ye Bi, you go to the queen mother now, just say that I was in danger and frightened on the way, so I won't go to the queen mother!"

Ye Bi's face was pale, but her eyes lit up—the side concubine seemed to have forgiven her—she answered "yes".

Yuzhi lowered her head and kissed Lin Yin's soft black hair, and said, "Observe the reactions of those who accompany the queen mother, and take time to chat with the lady officer Tian!"

Ye Bi remembered all Yuzhi's words in her heart, and then hurried forward.

Yuzhi told Alan again: "Go and send a message, let Yu Yiwei go and investigate this royal lady and this court lady!"

Alan answered "yes" and went to make arrangements.

Yu Zhi looked at Han Lin: "Han Lin, help me up, let's go back to Qiufeng Garden first!"

Han Lin froze for a long time, and stood up while leaning on the railing.

She agreed, and walked over slowly holding onto the railing, intending to help Yuzhi up.

At this moment, there was a rush of footsteps below.

Yuzhi hugged the shade of the tree and looked over, and found Lin Jia was surrounded by a few followers, she couldn't help feeling relieved.

Lin Jia was discussing with the cabinet below about punishing Goryeo, when she heard the sound of explosions from the mountainside, she asked Ah Qing to take a look.

Knowing that Yuzhi and Lin Yin happened to be going to the Empress Dowager's place, he was afraid that they would pass by the mountainside, so he didn't have time to think about it. He changed his usual calmness and left a few cabinet scholars there. He immediately lifted up his clothes and walked towards the mountainside Run away.

All the followers naturally chased after him.

Seeing Yuzhi sitting on the steps with her arms in the shade of the tree, Lin Jia's heart sank slowly—Chang'an had been stolen by Han Qing, and he couldn't imagine losing Yuzhi. What will happen to Zhizhi and Linyin!

Yuzhi smiled and looked at Lin Jia: "Ajia, you're here—"

Although she was smiling, her big eyes were wet, clearly containing tears.

Lin Jia's legs seemed to be filled with lead, and she walked to Yuzhi's side with difficulty, hugging Yuzhi and Lin Yin.

Yuzhi sniffed the mint scent on Lin Jia, and said in a low voice, "Ajia, someone harmed me and Ayin, we have to check it out!"

Lin Jia let out a "hmm", folded her arms, and hugged Yu Zhi and A Yin's mother and son even tighter.

Yeluxiao stood aside, watching all this calmly.

After Lin Jia learned that it was Ye Luxiao who saved his woman and child, she bowed her hands sincerely and said, "Thank you!"

He originally planned to cultivate Yeluxiao well, and he will pay more attention to it in the future.

Yeluxiao didn't speak, still looking awkward as a teenager.

Ye Bi rushed to the Empress Dowager's Palace and found that it was very lively. Concubine Jiang Gui, Concubine Gui Liang and Concubine Lian Hui were playing leaf cards with the Empress Dowager.

Lady Tian was waiting outside the hall, when she saw Ye Bi coming over in a daze, she hurriedly said, "Ye Bi, what's wrong?"

Ye Bi took a deep breath and forced herself to calm down. She stretched out her hand to hold Lady Tian's hand: "Miss Tian, ​​did the Queen Mother order Lady Wang to invite our side concubine and Xiao Shizi over?"

Miss Tian nodded in surprise: "Yes, at that time, the queen mother somehow remembered the eldest son, and it happened that Miss Wang was by her side, so she asked Miss Wang to pass on the message!"

Ye Bi stared at Mrs. Tian: "Who was accompanying the queen mother at that time?"

Lady Tian thought for a while, and said: "I was guarding outside the hall, and the rest of the people accompanied the queen mother in the hall, including Concubine Jiang, Concubine Gui Liang, Concubine Lian Hui, as well as Cai Lipin and Ouyang Noble Lady. Later, Cai Lipin and Mrs. Ouyang went back to play chess together, and after they left, after about a cup of tea, Lady Wang also ordered her to come out!"

She was very smart, she already knew that something might happen to Concubine Bai's side, so she knew everything and said everything she knew.

With Ye Bi in mind, she let go of Miss Tian's hand and said, "Please tell me, Miss Tian!"

The Empress Dowager was just holding a good hand of cards, and she was not too sad when she learned that Bai Fangfei and Lin Yin had an accident, she just said: "It's fine - give it a shot!"

She drew a leaf card and threw it out.

Knowing that Bai Yuzhi and Lin Yin had escaped this catastrophe, Concubine Jiang secretly hated her, her teeth were gritted sorely, but she didn't show it on her face - she still had a trick in mind!

Concubine Jiang Gui tried her best to suppress the irritability in her heart, and picked up the rope with a smile: "I want it!"

She cast a total of three cards.

Ye Bi stood there respectfully, but slowly sizing up the few people present with his eyes, trying to see some clues.

Concubine Gui Liang took a sip of the teacup handed over by the lady in the palace, and took a sip of it, then glanced at Abi: "Your side concubine is really blessed, to see the queen mother with the prince of the Liao country, and was rescued by the prince of the Liao country !"

Abi lowered her eyes and said respectfully: "Your Majesty ordered the prince and Yelu prince to sworn brothers. The prince Yelu came to see the queen mother and kowtow to the queen mother, so he came with the side concubine's sedan chair!"

The Queen Mother laughed when she heard this: "Oh, the Liao Kingdom has a strong force and has always killed all directions. Now the emperor's son of the Liao Kingdom wants to kowtow to Ai's family. It's really rare!"

Concubine Lian Hui counted the cards early, and immediately played a piece of [-], and said in her mouth: "I'm afraid the queen mother has never seen the little prince of Liao Kingdom, and her voice hasn't changed yet, like a little girl!"

Seeing that Concubine Gui Liang had sinister intentions, she seemed to want to associate Concubine Bai with the little prince of Liao, so as to cause misunderstanding, so she opened her mouth to excuse Yuzhi.

The queen mother had been waiting for [-] yuan, and immediately said: "I'm so sorry! Haha!"

"If I had known that the queen mother was waiting for this card, the concubine would not have played it, but the concubine's banknotes were all scrambling to fly to the queen mother, and the concubine couldn't control it!" The bank note was presented to the Queen Mother.

After winning the silver ticket, the queen mother was in a good mood and said with a smile, "Come again!"

Concubine Lian Hui smiled and said: "After going through such a terrible thing, it's okay for Concubine Bai to be an adult, I'm afraid the little prince will be frightened!"

The Empress Dowager remembered it now, and told Ye Bi: "You go back quickly, let your side concubine take your son to rest!"

Ye Bi glanced at Concubine Lian Hui, answered "Yes", and stepped back.

The main room in the inner courtyard of Qiufeng Garden was very quiet, only the crisp sound of the silver spoon hitting the silver-rimmed white porcelain bowl could be heard from time to time.

Lin Jia was feeding Lin Yin with calming soup.

Yu Zhi was sitting on the side, eating a eight-treasure rice—she claimed to like sweets the most, so she didn't need to drink calming soup, and her mind would be settled after eating a eight-treasure rice!

Lin Yin couldn't hold back her father, so she could only drink the calming soup sadly, while her pair of black phoenix eyes were sadly looking at the eight-treasure rice in front of her mother.

Yuzhi felt guilty for a while when her son looked at her, she hurriedly smiled and said, "Ayin, you finish the calming soup, mother will let you eat eight-treasure rice!"

After hearing this, Lin Yin picked up the bowl in his father's hand without hesitation, drank the remaining calming soup in one go, and then went to eat eight-treasure rice with his mother.

Lin Jia handed the empty bowl to Han Lin, and sat there watching Yuzhi Linyin's mother and son eating eight-treasure rice. Seeing the mother and son eating happily, they seemed to have completely forgotten the life and death disaster, and Lin Jia felt relieved.

Yuzhi and Ayin fell asleep after eating enough, so they dragged Lin Jia into the room and fell asleep.

After the mother and son were sound asleep, Lin Jia got out of bed, put on her clothes and went out.

Feiying was waiting outside.

Lin Jia whispered, "I'll leave this matter to you. In half a month, I want to know who is behind the scenes!"

Fei Ying answered "Yes" and quietly retreated.

The next day, Lin Jia sent Yuzhi and Lin Yin back to the capital on the grounds that Yuzhi and Lin Yin were frightened.

Back at the palace, Ah Yin went to play with Li Hanxing, Lin Jia was talking with Yu Zhi, Ah Qing came in and reported: "My lord, side concubine, Ling Que is back!"

Lin Jia and Yuzhi looked at each other, and they held each other's hands almost in unison——Ling Que was sent to Xixia by Yuzhi, and he should bring the definite news about Princess Chang'an!
The magpie came in quickly.

He used to be a pretty boy, but now he came back from the northwest day and night, he became dark and thin, his fair face turned into a little black face, only his peach eyes were still watery, very pretty, black and black became pretty in black .

Ling Que knew what the lord and concubine wanted to know, so he stopped and said, "I would like to report to the lord and concubine, the little princess is indeed staying in the Xixia Palace well!"

Only then did Yu Zhi heave a sigh of relief—it's good that Chang An is alive!

After hearing the good news, Yuzhi felt a little weak, and was held in Lin Jia's arms.

Knowing that her daughter was still alive, Lin Jia was very emotional: "Tell me the details!"

Ling Que had already organized his speech on the road, and immediately said: "To the concubine of the prince, the little princess is now the princess of Xixia, and her name is Han Xiaoqing. The king of Xixia loves the princess very much. He asked his subordinates to pass a word." To the prince and concubine."

Yuzhi snuggled into Lin Jia's arms, thinking that her daughter had fallen into Han Qing's hands, she couldn't help feeling sad for a while, she stretched out her hand to hold Lin Jia's hand, but stared at Ling Que with her big clear eyes.

Ling Que hurriedly said: "The King of Western Xia said that he can reject Gao Li's surrender and drive out the Gao Li mission. Even if Da Zhou attacks and punishes Gao Li, he will never take action. The condition is—"

He paused, and then said: "The condition is that the prince and concubine agree that the princess will grow up in the Xixia Palace!"

Lin Jia waved Ling Que back, and then looked at Yuzhi.

He naturally wanted to save his daughter, but according to Han Qing's stubbornness, if he wanted to save his daughter, he would have to go to war with Xixia.

Now that the Eastern Continent has managed to achieve a temporary balance, if Dazhou goes to war with Xixia, Goryeo, Liao, and the Wa Kingdom in the east will definitely take advantage of the fire to loot them—the current situation in Dazhou does not allow Dazhou to make enemies everywhere.

Yuzhi had already thought about it, she smiled wryly, and said: "Han Qing is holding us back so that we cannot go to war for the time being, so as not to prevent the mantis from catching the cicada and the oriole. Our military strength in the Great Zhou Dynasty is still not strong enough. When we are strong enough to fight against the Xixia and Liao are fighting, save your daughter when the time comes!"

Lin Jia hugged Yuzhi tightly.

Yuzhi felt uncomfortable, but she looked at Lin Jia and smiled: "Ajia, our Dazhou is now ahead of the Western Xia countries in terms of muskets and explosives, but there are still too few military personnel, and the imperial court has been emphasizing civility over military affairs for many years. Change!"

Lin Jia said softly: "I have ordered that from this year onwards, martial arts, engineering, and arithmetic will be added to the county and township examinations. The treatment of scholars, candidates, and Jinshi in these three subjects is the same as that of liberal arts. Wu's situation."

When Yuzhi heard this, she immediately said joyfully, "That's very good!"

Until the beginning of February, Emperor Yongtai finally had enough hot springs and returned to the capital.

One day, Yu Zhi took Han Lin and A Lan to Lin Jia's newly built Chang'an Yangsheng Hall outside the city. Ye Luxiao had nothing to do, so she insisted on following them.

This Chang'an Yangsheng Tang was built by Yuzhi, and she plans to build it every year in the future, even if it is to accumulate blessings for the son and daughter of Lin Yin and Chang'an.

The person in charge of Chang'an Yangshengtang was sent by Yibaolou, and he was thorough in his work.

Yuzhi inspected it, felt very satisfied, encouraged her a lot, and then got into the carriage and left.

As soon as Yuzhi entered Tingsongyuan, it started to rain.

She was leaning against the window of the inner study to watch the rain when Jin Er brought Mrs. Lan over.

After chatting for a few words, Mrs. Lan waited for the waiters to step back, and then said softly: "Side concubine, have you found out who murdered you and your son in the hot spring palace?"

Yuzhi frowned and said, "Not yet!"

In fact, Yu Yiwei was very efficient. After investigation, it was found that Mrs. Wang was originally from Ganzhou, and her whole family was devout Guizhen believers. They participated in the Guizhen rebellion two or three years ago, and many family members died in Lin Jia's suppression of the rebellion.

Because of this, Lady Wang wanted to kill Yuzhi and Lin Yin to avenge her family.

But both Lin Jia and Yu Zhi felt that it was not that simple, so they asked Yu Yiwei to continue to investigate.

Mrs. Lan smiled mysteriously, and took out a roll of paper from her sleeve pocket and handed it to Yuzhi: "Concubine Lian Hui just returned to Beijing, and my mother went to the palace to visit Concubine Lian Hui, and Concubine Lian Hui asked my mother to pass it on. Dare to have too much contact with you, afraid that if something happens, you will be hurt, so I came up with this idea."

Yuzhi opened the roll of paper and found that it recorded what happened in the Empress Dowager's Palace on the day she and A Yin had an accident and what everyone said.

After reading this roll of paper, Yuzhi already understood in her heart—although the scene was lively and everyone present said a lot, but if you look closely, you will find that Concubine Jiang and Lady Wang exchanged a word, and finally said Move the queen mother to ask the queen to invite the son to come over!
It turns out that the Queen Mother was also used as a gun by Concubine Jiang and Princess Wang!
Yuzhi thought for a while, then got up and thanked Mrs. Lan sincerely.

Mrs. Lan has always been flamboyant, but at this time she showed her true feelings. She took Yuzhi's hand and said in a gentle voice: "My husband is under the command of the prince, and the prince is very dependent on him. The glory and wealth of our husband and wife are tied to the prince, the side concubine and the little prince. , if the side concubine wants to thank me, then let my husband-in-law upgrade to another level!"

Yuzhi couldn't help laughing, and said: "Don't worry, I will tell the prince!"

After seeing off Mrs. Lan, Yuzhi took a walk in the rain with an oil-paper umbrella.

Ye Ling and Run Ye each held an umbrella and followed behind. Seeing Yuzhi walking in the rain for half an hour, but remained silent, they couldn't help asking: "Side concubine, what are you thinking?"

Yuzhi smiled and glanced at Ye Ling.

Ye Ling and Ye Bi were originally more lively than Han Lin and the others, especially Ye Ling, who was even more lively and quick-talking. If this was the case, Han Lin and Run Ye would never ask.

However, Yuzhi also liked Ye Ling's vivacious personality, and said, "I'm wondering when the mission to Xixia will come back!"

In fact, she was thinking about Li Rui, who went to Western Xia with the mission.

Li Rui has been by her side all these years, and she is used to Li Rui's company, so she doesn't feel much.

Now that Li Rui had been gone for two or three months, Yu Zhi realized the importance of Li Rui - Li Rui and Han Lin were like her family, they had already become an indispensable part of her life!

Yuzhi has confirmed that Concubine Jiang made use of Princess Wang to create the last distress, so she is thinking about revenge.

It's just that Concubine Jiang is in the deep palace. If she wants to avenge Concubine Jiang, she needs Li Rui's cooperation
The plan was made, Yu Zhi held the umbrella in one hand, wrapped the cloak around her body in the other, looked up at the tender green wicker swaying in the spring rain, and told Run Ye: "You go to the outer study to see the prince, and say that today's dinner is served at The Nuan Pavilion in the back garden, I will wait for the prince there!"

The Nuan Pavilion was the place where she and Lin Jia had a tryst. She wanted to spend time there with Lin Jia. Lin Jia was really tired of arranging the military operation to attack Goryeo during this time.

It was also drizzling in the Xixia King City.

Spring has also come to the northwestern frontier, wicker unknowingly turns bright yellow, poplar trees that can be seen everywhere also germinate young leaves, and winter jasmine also blooms bright yellow stamens in the spring rain.

Han Qing negotiated with the Korean mission that came to pay tribute, and at the same time negotiated with the Dazhou mission. At the end, he turned his face on the Korean mission: leave all the beauties and money, and the mission get out of Xixia!
The Goryeo mission threatened in vain, but was driven out of the royal city by Han Qing, and had to leave in frustration.

The Dazhou Mission and Goryeo concluded a covenant, agreeing to jointly deal with the treacherous Goryeo, and they were about to leave the Xixia King City.

Before leaving, Li Rui made a request to see the King and Princess of Xixia.

When Han Qing heard that Li Rui wanted to see him and Han Xiaoqing before his departure, he couldn't help feeling sour, and immediately said, "I'm not free!"

As Han Qing's conscience, Liang Chen looked at the little princess who was sleeping soundly on the wide couch behind the king, and said softly: "My lord, the reason why Li Rui asked to see her was not because he wanted to see the little princess."

Han Qing is a very transparent person, knowing that Li Rui came to see Han Xiaoqing because of Yuzhi, he said angrily: "You take the little princess to see him, bring more people, lest he snatch my Xiaoqing away! "

He was a little annoyed by Li Rui, and when he thought of Li Rui pretending to be by Yuzhi's side, he felt so annoyed!

According to the tradition of Xixia, Li Rui held an umbrella in his hand, and stood in the rain outside the corridor like a javelin in a white robe, waiting quietly.

Liang Chen hugged the little princess and walked over surrounded by the guards.

Li Rui stepped forward, looked at the little princess for a while, then stretched out his hand to lift off the collar of the little princess, looked at the bright red birthmark on the back of her neck, and was sure it was Princess Chang'an, so she asked Liang Chen, "What's her name now?"

Liangchen hugged the little princess tightly, and maintained a high degree of vigilance: "Our king gave the little princess a Chinese name of Han Xiaoqing, and a Christian name of Naya, Princess Naya!"

Li Rui looked at Princess Naya, and saw that her little face was rosy, and her big clear eyes were looking at him curiously. It was clear that she had forgotten her appearance, and felt sad: The Princess may have even forgotten her mother, right? !
Liangchen straightened his back and maintained a posture of turning his face at any time. When Li Rui turned to leave, he was relieved and went back with Princess Naya in his arms.

In the main hall, Han Qing was sitting on a precious chair thinking about his thoughts. One of the two beauties massaged his shoulders, and the other knelt on the soft cushion in front of him and squeezed his legs.

Seeing that Liangchen came back with Princess Naya in his arms, Han Qing breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile, "My daughter, come and let my father hug her!"

After taking Princess Naya, Han Qing sniffed the fragrance of milk on his daughter, and muttered to himself: "My little princess, my father will make you the most delicate rose, the most beautiful queen, and the most free woman in Northwest China." , when the time comes for the Quanxi Xia beauty pageant, I will marry seven or eight princes for you as you like, no, I want as many as you want, and it will make Lin Jia's nose crooked!"

Princess Naya didn't understand anything, she snuggled into Han Qing's arms and ate her fingers.

Liangchen: "."

(End of this chapter)