Fingers of crossing

The team returning to the palace was mighty, like a huge winding dragon, crouching on the misty mountain.

Letting Luhe put on the heavy palace clothes for her, Jiang Ning got up drunk, and saw that Qingfu had already ordered someone to load the box back to the palace into the carriage, and returned to the tent.

"My lady, everything has been arranged."

Nodding at Qingfu, Jiang Ning said drunkenly, "Let's go."

After leaving the tent, Jiang Ningzui saw the carriages lined up neatly one by one. The guard saluted her and signaled her to go to the prince's carriage.

The starting line was as long as a wandering dragon, Jiang Ningzui stood on the spot and looked around for a while, only seeing the palace people rushing back and forth, and did not know where Yan Yilan was.She closed her eyes and led Qingfu and Luhe away.

"Princess, please stay."

Jiang Ningzui turned her head and saw Bi Yuan approaching from a distance. She was holding an exquisite food box in her hand. Some snacks to eat on the way."

After silently looking at it for a while, Jiang Ningzui turned her head to signal Qingfu to accept it, and then asked, "What's in it?"

"If you go back to the princess, it's filled with peach heart cakes." Bi Yuan said, smiling slightly, "His Royal Highness said that the princess likes this snack very much, so I specially ordered the royal chef to prepare it yesterday."

Her heart fluttered slightly, Jiang Ningzui still had no expression on her face, she said calmly: "How does the eldest princess know that I like these snacks?" With a guilty conscience and lowered head, he instantly understood.

Knowing that Jiang Ning must have guessed the reason when she was drunk, Bi Yuan didn't explain too much, but jokingly said: "The Crown Princess often says that the Eldest Princess has an iron temper, it seems that no matter how iron-blooded and ruthless a person is, there are moments when she twists her fingers. "

What she had said before was picked up by Bi Yuan, and Jiang Ningzui knew that she was wrong and didn't say anything more. She lifted the curtain and bent over to get into the carriage, and finally said: "Thank you Princess for me."

Putting down the car curtain, Jiang Ningzui took the food box in Qingfu's hand, slowly opened the lid, and a fresh fragrance of peach blossoms came out. There are still peach petals that can be used as seasoning ingredients in this season. Jiang Ningzui was taken aback.

Seeing Jiang Ningzui staring at the food box in a daze, Lu He leaned over and said with a smile: "The eldest princess is really kind to the empress."

"Speak up."

Jiang Ningzui let out a soft reprimand, then turned the lid of the food box aside, and there was a sound of drums and horns outside, presumably it was about to leave.Thinking about it, the curtain of the carriage was lifted from the outside, and Yan Junyao leaned over and sat in. The eyes of the two met unexpectedly, but they staggered away in embarrassment and silence.

Because most of the family members were sent away earlier, the bustling team when they came, they always felt a little lonely when they returned.Jiang Ningzui remembered that on the way to Weiyi Mountain, there was always an extra Qi Yue sitting in the prince's carriage. Although there was no rest along the way, but now that she is really missing, it looks so dull.

Jiang Ningzui looked at Yan Junyao sideways, and it seemed that his conversation with Qi Yue last night did not change anything.

But these have nothing to do with her after all, and Jiang Ningzui didn't want to ask, she reached out and stroked the food box beside her, slowly collected her thoughts, closed her eyes and leaned against the end of the carriage, not thinking about it anymore.

Inside Yang Xuanlin's carriage, Zhao Hang, the imperial commander, stood outside the carriage with his hands folded, and said, "Report to the King of Beiyang, everything is ready, the eldest princess ordered the ministers to come and ask the King of Beiyang, do you want to leave immediately?"

Yang Xuanlin leaned against the corner of the huge carriage, slowly opened his eyes as dark as the night, and said, "Where is she?"

Guessing that Yang Xuanlin must be asking Yan Yilan, Zhao Hang replied: "Go back to King Beiyang, the Eldest Princess said that Princess Jing is taking care of King Beiyang, so she won't come here to bother you."

Yan Lingge had been sitting quietly beside Yang Xuanlin, but now he heard Zhao Hang's words, his hand pouring the tea was unavoidably tilted, the tea was skewed and spilled all over the table.

"Trouble?" Carefully chewing the meaning of the word Yan Yilan, Yang Xuanlin's face was as silent as iron, and he said in a deep voice, "Tell her for me, it's time to start."

Zhao Hang led the order to retreat, and there was a dead silence in the carriage.After a while, only the sound of horseshoes was heard, and the neat team finally drove down the mountain slowly.

Handing the freshly filled hot tea to Yang Xuanlin's hand, Yan Lingge sniffed the fresh tea fragrance in the cup, she lowered her head and took a sip, the tea was rich in flavor, it should be good tea, but she You can only taste the bitterness in it, but you can't taste the sweetness and sweetness.

Concentrating on the frozen atmosphere, Yang Xuanlin looked sideways at Yan Lingge, who was silent and silent, and asked, "Why don't you ask the lonely king, what are your plans after returning to Dayan Palace?"

Yan Lingge looked back at Yang Xuanlin, she smiled slightly, but her heart was full of embarrassment. "If Miss Huang refuses to marry His Majesty, will His Majesty let it go?"

Yang Xuanlin's eyes turned cold, making people afraid to look directly at them. "Won't."

"In that case, then I won't ask." Yan Lingge put down the teacup in her hand, her brows and eyes drooped slightly, but her always gentle eyes were full of calm at this moment. "Although I have been married to the king for many years, I have always been the princess of the country of Yan. The empress mother and the emperor's sister have treated me with kindness, and the kindness is as heavy as a mountain. I will not let them down. If a big fight cannot be avoided, I would rather choose not to know."

After all, they are sisters whose blood is thicker than water. The reason why Yang Xuanlin has favored Yan Lingge these years is not only because she is Yan Yilan's most beloved sister, but also because of certain parts of her body. Exactly the same as Yan Yilan.

"What do you think the lonely king will do?" Yang Xuanlin chuckled, with a dignified and handsome profile. "If the lonely king wants to intimidate her with his power, why wait until now?"

Yan Lingge smiled vaguely, but his heart ached. "That's because the king four years ago never expected that there would be other people in the life of Huang Jie."

So Yang Xuanlin has been waiting patiently for these years, waiting for Yan Junyao to return to the Yan Kingdom and become the emperor. After that, he will come to marry Yan Yilan, whom he has been thinking about countless days and nights. Everything should have been as planned It went so smoothly, but unfortunately, there was an extra Jiang Ningzui in Yan Yilan's life.

A Yan country that has been attached to the Yang country for many years and barely supported it, without the protection of the Yang country, can immediately become the target of other countries to carve up and plunder.What's more, the wounds brought to Yan by Sui's first war have not been completely healed, and the country has just stabilized. At this time, it will never be able to withstand the erosion of the second war.

However, Yan Yilan, who is a king, has too many dead spots for Yang Xuanlin to choke her throat.There are too many things that she is destined to bear in this life.

"If Your Majesty insists on getting Sister Huang, it will be a piece of cake." Yan Lingge's eyes flashed, and he said, "But there is one thing, Your Majesty must not forget that Sister Huang herself is also Your Majesty's only Achilles' heel. Is it?"

The last sentence was Xuan Lin's bull's-eye in the middle, his handsome brows were furrowed, his right hand rubbed the jasper finger of his left hand, and fell silent untimely.Because he was very clear in his heart that there was nothing wrong with what Yan Lingge said.

Refilling each other with hot tea, Yan Lingge put down the teapot in her hand, her eyes flicked across the curtains blown by the wind, and looked at a certain carriage behind her, a gleam of wisdom flashed in her clear eyes. "Besides, I haven't seen her for many years. Ningzui is no longer what it used to be. I can't even compare that cowardly little girl back then."

Yan Junyao smiled contemptuously: "It's just a little girl, why should I be afraid?"

"When the King saw Ning Zui for the first time, he would never have thought that one day she would take away the heart of Huang Jie, right?" Yan Lingge hit the nail on the head, "The person who can make Huang Jie fall in love with him is not ordinary. "

Yang Xuanlin's expression darkened, and there was once again deathly silence in the carriage.

After driving for half a day on the road, the carriages of the Yang and Yan countries finally returned to the palace.

The carriage carrying Yan Junyao and Jiang Ningzui drove back to the East Palace non-stop. As soon as he got off the carriage, Yan Junyao received an urgent order from Yan Yilan and hurried to the Qiluan Palace.

"Madam, just now Eunuch Zhang came to ask questions." Qingfu paused, and said, "Eunuch Zhang would like to ask Madam, what should I do with the luggage left by my side concubine on Weiyi Mountain?"

The crown prince never had many wives and concubines, and now that even Liu Huanxue had left, the entire East Palace became more and more deserted.Thinking about it, Jiang Ning said drunkly: "Send the things back to the Shaohua Palace first, and discuss it after the prince returns to the palace."

Knowing that Qing Fu would stay to handle palace affairs, Jiang Ning went back to her bedroom drunk, thinking of Yan Yilan's urgent order to Yan Junyao to go, her heart was ups and downs, and she was always restless.

After Liu Huanxue's incident, the relationship between Yan Yilan and Yan Junyao was already tense. If there was no important matter at this time, it was absolutely impossible for Yan Yilan to rush to tell Yan Junyao to go over.The more she thought about it, the more confused her heart became. Jiang Ning got up drunk and was about to go out for a walk, but she saw Lu He knocking on the door and entering.

"Niang Niang." Lu He closed the door, saluted and said, "Sister Bi Yuan is outside the hall, do you want to come in?"

Jiang Ningzui nodded, and said, "Biography."

Not a while after Lu He left, Bi Yuan hurried in and saluted, "Crown Princess, this servant has obeyed His Highness's order and came to inform the Crown Princess that tonight's family banquet has been cancelled."

cancelled?

Jiang Ningzui is puzzled, Yang Guo's visit at this time is really a major event for Yan Guo, since Yang Xuanlin's arrival, Yan Yilan has always entertained well and courteously, how could the banquet be canceled at this time for no reason?

Seeing Jiang Ningzui frowning in thought, Bi Yuan said in a low voice, "Two days ago, King Wu's concubine, Concubine Zhao, passed away."

Jiang Ningzui looked solemn, "Dead?"

"Back to the princess, that's right." Bi Yuan explained: "According to the rules in the palace, when a noble concubine dies, the palace must refrain from suspending banquets, singing and dancing for three days, and today is the last day."

Based on this calculation, it happened that Concubine Zhao died on the day they left for Weiyi Mountain.But it's not right, Jiang Ningzui was silent, she always felt that something was wrong.She has been in Yan Country for so long, she has never heard of Concubine Zhao Gui, besides, she is a good-looking person, she has never heard of being ill before, so how could she suddenly say no and disappear?

With more and more doubts in her heart, Jiang Ningzui finally found the key to all the problems, and she asked, "What about King Wu?"

Bi Yuan looked slightly different, and said: "King Wu was shocked to hear that Concubine Zhao had passed away, and in a state of grief, he had already beheaded and returned to the palace three days ago without waiting for His Highness's consent."

"What?" Jiang Ningzui sat up straight in surprise, her heart almost jumped into her throat.

Without the emperor's oral order, the vassal king left the fief and returned to the palace without authorization, but it is impossible for King Wu not to know about the serious crime of beheading.If he knew, why would he do such a rebellious thing?

Besides, the external worries of King Beiyang have not been eliminated, and King Wu took advantage of the chaos to return to the palace at the right time. Dayan is really in a situation of internal and external troubles.Thinking about it, Jiang Ningzui narrowed her eyes slightly, with a worried and condensed expression.

This time, Yan Yilan, can you still hold on to this great Yan country?

Anyway, I just hope you are safe and sound.But now that I think about it, my little wish is actually a luxury.

Standing up abruptly from the chair, Jiang Ningzui walked out of the hall without thinking.

"Come here, set up the Qiluan Palace."