I am a cat in the palace

Although Yan Yu was born in a general family, she has been raised as a lady since she was a child. When she was a child, her parents didn't let her learn any martial arts. When she came to Ling Wuzheng's mansion, Ling Wuzheng also took the title of Miss Jingzhong. Standard to raise this little girl.

It's just that, I didn't expect that after raising and raising like this, instead of cultivating the affection between father and daughter, there would be the affection between man and woman.

Jinjiang City is about 200 miles away from Shengyuguan, and it only takes a day to go back and forth on a fast horse.

Now that he took over the job of looking for Yanyu, Rourou took Zhen to leave Shengyuguan. Regardless of whether Yanyu left by himself or was kidnapped, he had to go back to Jinjiang City first to have a look.

Because of the war ahead, Jinjiang City is also very tense in the order.

After asking the maid who was in charge of serving Yanyu and the guard at the door in the City Lord's Mansion, Zhen and Rourou's guess was confirmed, and Yanyu left on his own.And I made a lot of preparations before leaving, but I didn't bring a lot of gold and silver. For example, she didn't bring the 2 taels of silver notes that Ling Wuzheng gave her to make the bottom of the dowry box.

"Sister Yanyu made very thorough preparations before going out, but judging from the clothes and money she brought, it doesn't seem like she is going far away. I suspect that sister Yanyu just wants to go to Shengyuguan." Rou Rou After asking everyone, I thought about it and analyzed it.

"My sister has never traveled far alone." Qiushan, who insisted on coming along, stood beside Rourou, and said worriedly.

He is good at martial arts, but he has never been very talkative, and usually stays by Ling Wuzheng's side most of the time.But he and Yanyu are always close siblings. Although I don't see how close he is to Yanyu on weekdays, I can see that he actually relies on this sister in his heart. It is probably because he lost his father when he was young, so he grew up a lot The year-old Yanyu is both a sister and a mother in his heart.

Rourou turned his head and gave him a reassuring look, and then ordered someone to immediately check all the roads from Jinjiang City to Shengyuguan, including all inns and carriage houses.

"Don't worry, although it only takes one day to go from Jinjiang City to Shengyuguan by fast horse, but it takes about three days or even longer if you take an ordinary carriage or mule cart. Sister Yanyu has been missing for only three days now , maybe when we found her, she had already arrived at Shengyuguan."

Akiyama nodded, as if he could only think so first.

Of course, in addition to focusing on the investigation of the passage from Jinjiang City to Shengyuguan, Rourou also arranged for people to search for the whereabouts of Yanyu in other places.

But another day passed, and there was still no news from Liu Yanyu.

This made both Zhen and Rourou a little worried, because before that, Zhen and Rourou both thought that she must be unwilling, and wanted to go to Shengyuguan to see Ling Wuzheng again before getting married, or even to Ling Wuzheng Face to face appeal.

However, now the time has passed the time limit for her possible arrival, and the dark guard also sent a message that no trace of Liu Yanyu was found on the way from Jinjiang City to Shengyuguan.

Back in the room, Rourou said to me with some worry: "Liu Yanyu is not a reckless person. From the fact that she has arranged all the affairs of the mansion properly before going out, she is going out with preparations, and if she really To go to Shengyuguan, it is reasonable to use the carriage in the mansion. She is the eldest lady of the mansion. After her uncle leaves the mansion, everything in the mansion is up to her. She insisted on going to Shengyuguan to meet her uncle and Qiushan before she got married, and no one in the mansion dared to stop her, but she left the mansion quietly without notifying anyone in the mansion, which is very strange."

When I heard Rourou say that, I also felt that something was really wrong.

If a single woman leaves home rashly before she gets married, if this is put in the storybook, then there is no need to even think about it. Eight or nine times out of ten it will be considered as elopement.

But because both Zhen and Rourou knew that there was someone in Liu Yanyu's heart, and this person would never have any affair with her, so this idea was never taken into consideration by Zhen and Rourou before. Inside.

But now, Liu Yanyu's whereabouts were not found in the direction of Shengyuguan, and it took more time for her to go to Shengyuguan by herself, so she had to consider other factors.

The scope and direction of the dark guard's search have been further expanded.

And just when Zhen and Rourou were devastated by Liu Yanyu's sudden disappearance, Xinying suddenly brought back a new battle report from the south.

The second prince, who was far away in Jingzhou, withstood the puppet imperial army's offensive for the third time, and joined forces with King Shun who came for reinforcements. A total of 30 troops were ready to counterattack the capital.

This latest news reminded Zhen and Rourou of the silent existence in the mansion—the Empress.

Since arriving in Cangzhou for more than a year, Zhenhe Rourou has visited the Queen several times, but compared to when she first arrived in Cangzhou, she seems very unhappy to see Zhenhe Rourou, and it is not her turn to speak each time , she had already started making noises, or throwing and smashing things desperately.

Later, Rourou followed Ling Wuzheng and spent more time in front of Shengyuguan, so he didn't pay much attention to the Queen's situation.Anyway, I thought at the time that I wouldn't need her for the time being.

"Would you like to visit the queen?" Zhen asked Rourou.

Rourou looked at the information in his hands, "Well, let's go and have a look, anyway, there's nothing to do right now."

The queen's small courtyard is as heavily guarded as ever, even when Ling Wuzheng is not in the mansion. This is a range that even Liu Yanyu cannot enter. selected.

"His Highness is coming?" Xiuhe saw Rourou approaching, and immediately came out to greet her with a smile.

"How are the queen's days?" Rourou asked softly, while glancing into the room.

On the other hand, I jumped onto the open window sill and looked inside.

The queen was sitting quietly at the table, embroidering something, her complexion was much better than it was a few months ago, and her thin body before was also slightly plump, so she didn't look so haggard at all.

"The past two months have improved a lot. Occasionally, she can still answer a few words when I talk to her, and she can already remember Dr. Chen and me. I am not afraid of seeing Dr. Chen like I did last year. It's terrible, as long as you don't get too close to her now and sit in the same room, you won't be too excited."

"Well, you go down first, take people a little farther away, even if there is any movement here, don't come here, I have something to say with the empress."

Rourou gave Xiuhe instructions, and Xiuhe nodded knowingly and retreated.

Rourou carried Zhen into the empress's room, and closed the door behind her back.

The empress had heard the voices at the door about before, and she didn't have any special reaction when she saw the meat coming in. She just slowly put the needle and thread in her hand back on the table and put it in the basket.

"Second Emperor Brother has joined forces with King Shun and is ready to counterattack the capital." Rourou didn't salute the empress this time, but walked to the table, picked a seat facing the empress and sat down.

The queen looked at Rourou calmly. Although there was no madness in her eyes, it was like a pool of stagnant water. Even after hearing the news about the second prince, she was still calm.

"Actually, the second emperor brother has a big secret, I don't know if the empress knows about it." Rourou gently smoothed my hair for me, while casually getting into the topic.

The queen's body froze suddenly, but she turned her head to the side like a cover-up and looked elsewhere.

"Your Majesty, you don't need to pretend any more. This King knows that Your Majesty's mind has recovered, at least half of it has recovered. Your Majesty should understand what this King is saying." Rourou said in a deep voice, the sharpness and aggressiveness in his tone were completely different. He looks like a boy of thirteen or fourteen years old, but he is [-]% like his old fox master Wei Yin who has been practicing for many years.

The empress is still silent, but her eyes don't look as calm as before.

"Brother Erhuang has a vicious spirit on him. He feeds on living souls and occupied the body of Brother Erhuang many years ago."

The queen turned her head when she heard the words, and finally couldn't help exclaiming: "You... how do you know?!"

The queen asked in surprise, but Rourou had no obligation to answer. He just continued to say what he wanted to say: "Your Majesty must have thought that the second emperor brother had been killed by that evil spirit, and that's why she was so hopeless. But this king wants to Tell the empress one thing, that is, the second brother is still alive."

"What?!" This time the queen not only turned around in shock, but also stood up all of a sudden, and even knocked down the basket on the table, causing the silk and needlework in the basket to be scattered all over the floor.

When I saw it, I jumped out of Rourou's arms with a "meow", stepped on a ball of thread and scratched it.

But Rourou quickly grabbed me back, "Be careful, there are needles in there!"

At the same time, when Rourou was hugging me, he saw something the queen was embroidering. When he picked it up, it turned out to be a baby's bellyband with a delicate flying dragon embroidered on it. Only the last one of the four flamboyant claws remained. Finished embroidery.

I and Rourou looked at each other, why is the empress embroidering this thing? Could it be that she wants to embroider a belly pocket to remember the second prince's childhood?

"Prince Zhen...Shang Xin, Xin'er, you, tell me quickly, what do you mean by what you just said? What do you mean that your second brother is not dead?" The queen rushed over and grabbed the fleshy hand, her whole voice is trembling.

Rourou didn't come in to show off. Seeing that she really knew about the evil spirit on the second prince, she continued: "Even if the dead spirit absorbs more living souls, it cannot use the body of a living person. If you want to keep your body from rotting, you can only let the living soul of the second brother live in the body. It's just that the power of the evil spirit is too strong, so the living soul of the second brother will sleep in his body."

"Then, if we get rid of that ominous spirit..." The queen's eyes began to overflow with tears unconsciously, and the corners of her mouth uncontrollably drew an arc that seemed to be crying and smiling, and kept shaking.

"Second Brother should be able to regain consciousness, but..." Rourou pressed the queen's hand with his backhand, and slowly pushed her hand away from holding his hand.

"But what?" The queen didn't notice Rourou's movements at all, the hands that were pushed away immediately pinched each other tightly, and then tightly grasped the edge of the table. At this moment, she urgently needed something Support her body.

"However, Brother Second Emperor's living soul must be extremely weak. Brother Second Emperor's body is congenitally deficient. In fact, he has never recovered. The reason why he is as healthy as he is now is entirely because of the feedback given by the evil spirit after devouring a large number of living souls. If the ominous spirit is eliminated, the body of Second Emperor Brother will lose the nourishment of the ominous spirit, and will soon decline, and may not even survive for three days. Even if the most extreme method is used to prolong his life, he may not survive for five years. Rourou calmly stated the real condition of the second prince's body to the queen.

Sure enough, the queen, who was overjoyed to hear that her son was saved, was hit so hard that she felt dizzy. If she hadn't held onto the edge of the table tightly with both hands, she would have fallen to the ground immediately.

"I have no way of judging whether what you said is true or not."

After a long time, the queen took a breath and sat back on the stool while leaning on the edge of the table. After another long time, she suddenly raised her head and stared sharply at Rou Rou.

"If this king really wanted to lie to you, he wouldn't tell you that the second brother is still alive. I just need to tell you that there is a way to get rid of that evil spirit for you and avenge the second brother. As long as you are still alive, as long as you get rid of that evil spirit, you will naturally see the outcome, don't you want to see the second brother again?"

The queen was silent, and looked up again after a while: "What do you need this palace for?"

"Actually, there is nothing I need you to do." Rourou tilted his head and thought for a while, "It's just that we will announce the news that you were rescued by us in the near future, and I hope you can write an imperial edict in the name of the empress, calling on people with lofty ideals all over the world. First assist the Yanwei Army to resist the 50 troops of the Yu State. Even if the imperial court and the second emperor brother can't send troops to help, don't try to find ways to hold back my Yanwei Army, otherwise the victory of the Yu Pass will be broken, and the 50 Yu State will be defeated. Wan Dajun went down the river, not to mention the puppet emperor's imperishable imperial city army could not resist, even if all the Nanyunguan army came to reinforce it, it would be difficult to save the country and family from defeat."

"Even if you leave the palace far away, you are still the empress of Daxia, the first wife of your father, and you will always be buried in the imperial tomb in the future, and you will be enshrined by the descendants of Daxia for generations to come."

The queen obviously didn't expect that Rourou made such a request to her.

"That Hui'er..."

"Actually, you should think carefully about the matter of the second emperor brother. The voice for maintaining orthodoxy in the country is extremely high now. With the help of King Shun, the battle between the second emperor brother and the false emperor for the throne should be won or lost by the number of five or five. He But there is a chance to ascend to the throne of God. Although we all know that the second emperor brother has an evil spirit in his body, but others don't know, they will only think that it is your son, the grandson of Wei Guogong's mansion. If he ascends the throne, Wei Guogong's mansion Prosperity and wealth should not be shaken. If the evil spirit is punished, the Second Emperor’s brother will not live forever, and the hard work of Duke Wei’s mansion for so many years may be in vain. You—you have to think clearly whether you want to get rid of that evil spirit."

"Can you get rid of that evil spirit?"

"Since we know so many things about evil spirits, we naturally know how to deal with him." Rourou spread his hands indifferently. I think his current appearance is actually quite hateful.

"You said just now that you can prolong Hui'er's life?" The queen suddenly remembered something, and asked Rourou as if grabbing a life-saving straw.

"That's a way of exchanging life for life, but at most it can only prolong the second brother's life for a few more years." Rourou shook his head.

"What method?" the queen asked eagerly.

"You really want to know?"

"You said."

"There must be someone who is willing to transfer his soul power to the second emperor brother to nourish his living soul, but the soul of the person who transfers the soul will dissipate in the three realms because the soul power is exhausted, and the transfer of the soul is not only very difficult. Dangerous and very painful, as long as both parties have the slightest struggle or reluctance, the true souls of the two will be wiped out at the same time. This is not only a life for life, but also a few years of health for the second emperor brother in exchange for hundreds of thousands of lives in the future. From my king’s point of view, it’s not worth it.”

After a long pause.

The queen suddenly looked at Rou Rou firmly, and slightly narrowed the corners of her eyes, which already had deep fine lines in her eyes: "You actually have an idea about that seat, don't you?"

"I understand. You are actually telling me that now Hui'er is just an evil spirit, and he is not my son who ascends to the throne of God. In the future, except for the evil spirits, Hui'er will not live long, and he will not be able to survive at all." Inheriting the throne, so, you told me these things today because you hope that I can help you, support you, and even take you under your name, become the son of the main palace, and become the orthodox Daxia like Huier."

"Prince Zhen, I really have to praise you. Although you are only 14 years old, you are worthy of being a royal son. You really have a heart."

But Rourou sneered slightly: "This king never thought of taking your name. There is only one mother of this king, and that is the precious concubine under Jiuquan. As for Jiangshan, I really don't have any ideas at the moment. It's that evil spirit who has ascended to the Great Treasure, and it doesn't care about me, the King of Lingbei who is thousands of miles away."

"Do you think this palace will believe you?"

"Whatever you think about it, it's all for the future. Now there is only one thing you need to do. This matter has little to do with the second emperor brother, but it has a great relationship with Daxia Jiangshan, and that is to let The Yanwei army concentrates on fighting the enemy, otherwise, no matter whether it is the false emperor or the second emperor brother, there will soon be nothing to seize."

After all, Rourou got up and was about to leave.

But just when Rourou was about to open the door, the queen suddenly said in a hoarse voice behind him: "I don't care about the honor and disgrace of Duke Wei's mansion, I just want to see my son again, just tell me what you need me to do, but , I must see you get rid of that evil spirit with my own eyes!"

Rourou turned her head and smiled at her: "Okay!"