Reborn to marry the regent and seize the throne as queen

When the carriage stopped, they had already arrived at the palace.

Gu Yanbai sat on the stone steps outside the palace gate, leaning lazily on the ground, not caring about the white brocade clothes worth a hundred gold.

Seeing that the carriage had stopped for a long time and no one came out, Gu Yanbai vaguely sensed something.

"Hey, what are these two doing? Is it so exciting in the carriage?"

Watching the carriage swaying slightly, Gu Yanbai chuckled in disbelief.

"Gu Yanbai, you bastard, shut up." Jiang Qingwu cursed through the small window, then covered his shoulder and hissed in pain.

Gu Yanbai was startled, and seeing that something was wrong, he hurried over and asked, "What's wrong? Are you injured?"

When Yan Xiuchen got off the carriage, Gu Yanbai just arrived.

"It's just across the street, in broad daylight, who did you fight with?"

Yan Xiuchen sighed secretly, glanced at Gu Yanbai, and said helplessly, "It was an old injury that was accidentally touched."

After hearing Yan Xiuchen's words, Gu Yanbai finally reacted.

The last time I was injured seemed to be in Taohua Village, and it seemed... I did it myself.

Thinking about it, Gu Yanbai asked with a guilty conscience, "So, what happened just now was..."

"Just treat the injury, what else can you do?" Jiang Qingwu scolded, sticking his head out of the carriage.

"If everything is ok, I will go back to the mansion."

As he spoke, Jiang Qingwu gestured to the coachman.

Seeing Jiang Qingwu shrink back, Gu Yanbai suddenly rushed forward and stopped the driver, "Wait..."

"Yes, yes, I have something very important to ask you. I have asked the kitchen staff to prepare your favorite dishes. We haven't sat together and drank for a long time."

"Eat and talk, eat and talk!"

Jiang Qingwu looked at Gu Yanbai and Yan Xiuchen hesitantly, and finally got off the carriage.

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In the palace, the prefect of Beijing personally took Qin Shuyue and sent her to the Queen's palace, and told her everything that happened on the long street.

Looking at Qin Shuyue kneeling in the hall, the queen did not give him a good look. She grabbed the teacup on the table and threw it at Qin Shuyue.

"How dare you! Who gave you the guts to humiliate the Regent Princess?"

"Aunt, Shuyue knows she was wrong. Please save me." Qin Shuyue cried like a pear blossom in the rain, but the queen did not show any mercy.

"You know you are wrong now. You dared to act arrogantly in front of so many people."

"The Regent is right. You should be taught a lesson."

"Come here, obey the prince's order, thirty slaps on the face and twenty punishments with the stick." As soon as the queen gave the order, the nanny beside her immediately bowed and saluted.

"Yes, ma'am."

Although Qin Shuyue begged for mercy again and again, the Queen still prepared the torture instruments in the yard in a grand manner and even asked the prefect of Beijing to watch it with his own eyes.

There were terrible screams coming from the Queen's Palace, echoing throughout the surrounding palaces.

Naturally, everyone in the palace knew about it.

The news soon reached the palace.

The prefect of Beijing came to report and told Jiang Qingwu and Yan Xiuchen what happened word for word.

By the lake, Jiang Qingwu and Yan Xiuchen listened to the words of the prefect of Beijing and looked at each other, understanding each other tacitly.

"So, now everyone in the palace knows that Qin Shuyue offended me and was severely punished by the Regent, right?"

The governor of Beijing raised his eyes to look at Jiang Qingwu, and was somewhat speechless.

"Yes, I don't know why it spread so quickly. When I left the palace, the palace servants on the long street were already talking about it."

Yan Xiuchen looked unhappy, and lowered his voice to the prefect of Jing Prefecture, "I understand, you can go down now."

"Yes, Your Highness."

Looking at the prefect of Beijing leaving, Jiang Qingwu sat on a stone bench beside him with some annoyance.

"I endured it and took precautions, but I still couldn't avoid it."

Jiang Qingwu was a little angry. At that time, she was afraid of causing criticism and affecting Yan Xiuchen's reputation.

At this point, I don’t know how many people are waiting to say that Yan Xiuchen is arrogant and abusing his power for personal gain.

Now it has become true.

"Why should we endure it? Why should we be on guard? It's nothing." Yan Xiuchen blurted out and walked towards Jiang Qingwu.

Jiang Qingwu frowned and looked at Yan Xiuchen in confusion, "It's in the palace now, and it will soon be the entire capital."

"Do you want everyone to talk about you, saying you are powerful and cruel?"

"By then, I don't know how many people will say that you don't take the queen seriously for the sake of a woman."

"I never took her seriously." Yan Xiuchen murmured firmly, looking at Jiang Qingwu calmly, "Instead of enduring and guarding, it's better to take the initiative."

"I see that this queen is not going to live in peace."

"Rather than letting it grow in secret, it is better to get back to square one as soon as possible."

Jiang Qingwu's heart tightened slightly, and he understood something in an instant, but his face was quickly filled with worry.

"But now the Queen is in the right. If we take action against her, we're afraid she will use us as a pretext."

"It's really one thing after another. If we completely get rid of the Shen family and Yan Lin, it won't be so difficult."

"I always feel uneasy when they are outside."

Jiang Qingwu secretly clenched his fists, thinking of the things in his previous life. Compared with the Queen, Yan Lin and the Shen family, they were not to be feared.

"Hey, have you finished chatting? The dishes are all ready. They are all your favorites."

In the pavilion in the middle of the lake, Gu Yanbai, Tan Xi and Jiu Ye were busy cooking vegetables and meat. The table was full of food, including fish, shrimp, meat, vegetarian dishes, cakes and cold dishes.

Yan Xiuchen heard the shout, slowly walked towards Jiang Qingwu, and gently pulled him up.

"No need to say anything more. I'll take care of everything. Let's eat first."

"Eat?!" Jiang Qingwu looked at Yan Xiuchen in a daze, muttering in a low voice.

Following Yan Xiuchen's footsteps, I went to the pavilion in the center of the lake, but I felt a little surprised.

Everyone in this mansion, including Yan Xiuchen, verbally said that it was time to have a meal.

It was a bit strange to listen to the meal.

Yan Xiuchen was born in the palace. Since the establishment of the palace, all places in the palace have been built according to the palace style.

Whether it was washing clothes, cooking, pruning flowers and plants, or personal guard patrolling, everything was done in accordance with the rules of the palace.

Even the doctors who treated the patients were imperial doctors from the palace, and a medical building was built specially for this purpose.

Moreover, Yan Xiuchen didn't pay much attention to food. He was very casual on weekdays and usually didn't eat much.

"What's wrong? Why are you staring at me?" Yan Xiuchen noticed the gaze and turned around to ask.

Jiang Qingwu smiled and said, "It's nothing, it just sounds a little strange."

"On weekdays, Tan Xi, Jiu Ye and the others, including you, always talk about having a meal."

Yan Xiuchen smiled, as if he had just noticed it, but before he could say anything, Gu Yanbai, who was not far away, interrupted them.

"What's the big deal? Can you eat first? Man is iron and rice is steel. If you don't eat, you will be hungry."

"Come on, come on, sit down. I have prepared all the condiments for you two."

When Jiang Qingwu heard what Gu Yanbai said, he was stunned at first, then he sneered and looked at Yan Xiuchen helplessly.

"Now I know why you suddenly changed. It turns out that... the closer you are to the red, the more you become. There is now a lovely person around you."

It's so funny and ridiculous that Gu Yanbai said she fell in love with Yan Xiuchen.

Yan Xiuchen said he was joking with himself.

Humph, now looking at it this way, she found it even more difficult to understand.

It is said that if the water is too clear, there will be no fish. The water is like a pool of water with three people. She needs to stir it up. Who knows, she might be able to catch a big fish...

As he thought about it, a hint of mockery and teasing flashed through Jiang Qingwu's mind.

After pretending to shake off Yan Xiuchen's hand, he sat down next to Gu Yanbai.

Gu Yanbai was still confused. He looked at this and that, "What are you talking about? What's the saying that people get redder when they are around red people get redder, and people get blacker when they are around black people get blacker?"

Hearing the voice, Jiang Qingwu raised his eyes and smiled, then held his chin and looked at Gu Yanbai, his eyes filled with a burning heat like water.

"Nothing, I'm just praising you. You're so considerate and lovable. Not to mention Yan Xiuchen, I'm happy to see you."