An Lingrong's Rebirth: The Lock of Qingqiu

However, when everyone was searching everywhere, they unexpectedly discovered a secret tunnel entrance. The Queen Mother was delighted, thinking that she had finally found An Lingrong's hiding place. She immediately ordered the Jinyiwei and Aunt Zhuxi and others to search the tunnel.

The tunnel was dark and damp, but the Jinyiwei and the others were not afraid and kept moving forward. Soon, they heard bursts of laughter coming from the front. The empress dowager, who was following closely, felt nervous and quickened her pace.

Finally, they came to the end of the tunnel, and suddenly they saw a magnificent palace in front of them. It turned out that they followed An Lingrong to the Yusha Palace where the Prince of Qinghe lived. Concubine Shu was sewing shoe soles in the Yusha Palace, and An Lingrong was helping her thread the needle, and the two were having a great time together.

The Queen Mother looked at the scene in front of her and could not help but feel angry. She did not expect that An Lingrong's relationship with Concubine Shu was closer than her relationship with her, and her eyes were filled with sourness.

"Someone, take An Lingrong down!" The Queen Mother called out her name, which surprised Concubine Shu. She quickly put down the shoe in her hand and stepped forward to greet the Queen Mother. However, the Queen Mother pushed Concubine Shu to the ground.

The Queen Mother said, "I never thought that Concubine Shu and An Lingrong would collude with each other and form a clique for personal gain. Let's take them down together!"

Prince Qinghe hurried out to stop the Queen Mother's men and said, "I don't know why the Queen Mother wants to arrest Concubine Li, why she wants to arrest my mother, what crime has my mother committed?"

The Queen Mother said arrogantly: "If I say you are guilty, then you are guilty. If I want to convict you, do I need to explain it to you in detail in advance? This is ridiculous! What are you doing, Zhuxi, why don't you do it?"

Therefore, the Queen Mother immediately ordered Aunt Zhuxi and others to take action immediately. For a while, a fierce chase and fight broke out in Yusha Palace. However, when An Lingrong fled to Yusha Palace, she had already ordered people to make preparations. They took advantage of the terrain and fought with the Queen Mother and others.

After a fierce battle, the Queen Mother and her companions finally forced An Lingrong and her companions to a corner of the palace. However, just when they were about to successfully capture An Lingrong, they suddenly heard a loud noise. It turned out that the Prince of Qinghe had already placed explosives in the palace, intending to use the explosives to force back the Jinyiwei brought by the Queen Mother.

The Queen Mother watched from afar, and the Jinyiwei and Aunt Zhuxi were horrified and fled in all directions. However, An Lingrong only heard a loud bang, and the entire Yusha Palace was instantly reduced to ruins, and An Lingrong was heartbroken.

The Queen Mother was terrified and angry. She was afraid that there would be more casualties, so she quickly withdrew the Jinyiwei from Yusha Palace, allowing An Lingrong to escape for the time being.

Qin Sanyue escorted An Lingrong back to the deep and dark tunnel.

An Lingrong warned, "Qin Sanyue, don't confront the Queen Mother head-on. After all, she is the Emperor's biological mother. If things get out of hand, it will be difficult to end."

Qin Sanyue said dissatisfiedly: "My lady, it's already this time, and you are still protecting that old witch. I don't care about that. She wants to kill you. She wants to put you to death! Just because the emperor killed her old lover, this account is put on your head. I don't accept it!"

An Lingrong frowned slightly and said in a low voice, "Since when have you stopped listening to my words? What goes in one ear and out the other?"

Qin Sanyue urged, "My lady, hurry up, that old witch is chasing us! If she wasn't afraid of Aunt Zhuxi beside her, I would really want to scratch her face with a big hemp flower. She likes Longkodo so much, why doesn't she follow him? If she loves him deeply, she will die with him. Now she has caused so much trouble, really."

An Lingrong pulled her aside and said, "You don't have to be overly afraid of Aunt Zhuxi. She knows that I am the emperor's man, and she doesn't want to offend either side. If Zhuxi wanted to attack you just now, you might not be her opponent."

The tunnel was dark and narrow, and it was impossible to fully display her skills. Qin Sanyue said that she was not afraid. She was protecting An Lingrong in the open, and there was also a Xia Qian - Lord Xia who was protecting An Lingrong in secret.

Unfortunately for Qin Sanyue, she couldn't go on a killing spree. She had originally planned that she and Xia Qian would join forces to kill all the empress dowager's men. However, An Lingrong warned her not to act against the empress dowager easily, which made her itchy.

They showed mercy to the Queen Mother, but she was merciless. When An Lingrong and others escaped from the tunnel together, the Queen Mother arrived late. She ordered Zhu Xi to pile up dry branches and leaves into a mountain at the entrance of the tunnel and light a fire. In an instant, the incomplete burning of firewood produced thick smoke, and the whole tunnel was filled with the smell of burning. An Lingrong had already come out of the tunnel at this time. In order to prevent the fireworks from affecting the palace, she ordered Qin Sanyue and others to seal the tunnel entrance at this end with gravel and wet quilts. Even if the Queen Mother and others chased after them from the tunnel, they would not be able to break through the tunnel entrance in a short time.

Xia Li was worried about An Lingrong's safety. Seeing that the Queen Mother's actions were too absurd, Xia Li stopped Qin Sanyue and said that he would rather bear the blame alone. Xia Li took action and controlled the Queen Mother with his own strength. He forced the Queen Mother to order the extinguishing of the fire in the tunnel and restore the tunnel to its original appearance.

After returning to Shoukang Palace, the Queen Mother fell ill within a few days. She lay in bed, looking pale and weak. Although the imperial doctors tried their best to treat the Queen Mother, her condition did not improve. The atmosphere in the palace became heavy and depressing.

An Lingrong, who was almost killed by the Empress Dowager, was very kind-hearted. When she learned that the Empress Dowager was seriously ill, she went to the Empress Dowager's bedroom with Shen Meizhuang every day, personally boiled and delivered medicine for the Empress Dowager, and took good care of her.

But how could the Queen Mother trust An Lingrong so easily at this moment? It was she who wanted to force An Lingrong into a desperate situation.

The Empress Dowager didn't dare to drink the medicine sent by An Lingrong, so An Lingrong tested the medicine for her in front of her. After seeing that it was non-toxic, the Empress Dowager was willing to open her mouth and drink the medicine sent by An Lingrong. Then she gave her a large amount of various nourishing medicinal materials and delicious food, and gradually restored the Empress Dowager's body to normal.

Aunt Zhuxi came to report: "Empress Dowager, the emperor is back. He learned that you were not feeling well and is kneeling outside!"

The Queen Mother said coldly, "Kneel if you want. I am not in the mood to care about him now. I get a headache when I see him. Let him kneel as long as he wants. Anyway, just don't let him enter my Shoukang Palace. Longkodo is dead. The dead cannot be resurrected. I want to mourn for you. I am tired and want to sleep."

The Queen Mother was lying in Shoukang Palace, ignoring the Emperor, while the Emperor knelt outside the palace, feeling upset, and began to talk about the hardships of his war: