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Empress?

According to seniority, she is his aunt.

Tang Yuan rarely saw this aunt.When he was a child, his mother rarely brought him to the palace for his safety, and the empress was not favored for some reason, and she was rarely seen in all kinds of ceremonies except that the empress must attend.

Strictly speaking, Tang Yuan met Liu Yun's elder sister less often than he met the real queen.

Today's Double Ninth Festival is not an important occasion, so why did it disturb this empress who lives deep in the palace and does not go out for important things?

"The queen is here!" The queen mother was naturally happy to see the queen coming.When she was young, she naturally despised a general girl who didn't understand the rules, but gradually she looked more open as she got older, and now she only wanted to enjoy family happiness.

The high-ranking princesses got up to salute the queen after hearing the pass. The queen walked in without even giving them a look.

"Please be safe, Queen Mother."

"Get up quickly——you guys also get up quickly, we are having a family banquet today, so we don't want these vain gifts." The Empress Dowager smiled like a flower, and I don't know if she saw that the Empress and these few The undercurrent between the two princesses is raging.

Tang Yuan thought, he must have seen it.The empress dowager was a fine person back then, what happened to her that she hadn't experienced?Maybe it's because I think these people's ranks are too low, so I don't say it.

The queen is a typical general girl, and she still retains the demeanor of a martial girl. Her fingers are not as slender and soft as the pampered princesses, but are covered with thin calluses, and she speaks very straightforwardly: "Queen, sister, don't mind Shall I bother you?"

"What is the empress talking about? The harem is your home, you can go wherever you want." One of the princesses said.Tang Yuan looked over and saw that it was Princess Heshuo.

This princess Heshuo is a bit special. She was a supporter of the Seven Kings back then, but after the Seven Kings lost their battle for the throne, Princess Heshuo did not switch to the current emperor, but instead supported the Five Kings who also wanted to usurp the throne.She can be said to hate the current emperor and empress to the bone.

After the failure of the five kings' rebellion, all the party members were cut off, but this Princess Heshuo was able to save her life by virtue of the gold medal from the former emperor. Not only did she save her life, she also married a wishful man. One of the most legendary experiences.

It wasn't until now that Tang Yuan noticed that the princesses who were honest with the queen were not only distinguished, but also belonged to the party of the Seven Kings back then.

Although Tang Yuan has never experienced that battle for the throne, it can be seen from the attitude of the current officials towards the Seven Kings and One Party.seven kings

The party is not only powerful, but also has a lot of capable ministers. Even now, there are backbones of the Seven Kings Party in important positions in the court.It's not that the emperor doesn't fear them, but that this group of people is really talented in governing the world, and there is no imperial party official who can completely replace them.

"He Shuo's words are also right. Today, the queen mother is having a banquet in the harem. As the lord of the harem, I have to come to see it."

"That's right. Isn't the Queen always like this? You may not be able to remember to show up when you need it?"

Tang Yuan was impatient to hear them doing Tai Chi on the wheels of a car, so he could only minimize his sense of existence and exit the inner hall step by step.

The outer hall is more lively than the inner hall. Many children who are only seven or eight years old gather together to play in the outer hall. The sound array is much louder than the inner hall, but it is far less than the dark tide in the inner hall.

Outside the door, a half moon hangs on the treetops, reflecting the long palace walls.Tang Yuan suddenly remembered that the small courtyard he bought for 50 taels was here. It was time for the jujube tree to shed its leaves, and all the leaves on the tree would fall off overnight.If you are still there now, you can watch the moon hanging on the treetops, and the leaves of the jujube trees fall with a clatter, as if they fell from the moon to the world.

With a sound of "click", Tang Yuan looked for the sound and saw that a white stone fell on the floor.He approached, picked up the stone in the palm of his hand and looked at it.This stone was ground extremely finely, and it looked like it was specially ground to make a hidden weapon. It reminded Tang Yuan of a well-known hidden weapon in the Jianghu—the locust stone.

Who is it?

Tang Yuan leaned in front of the window where the stone came in to look, and the black clothes corners on the treetops not far away flashed by. Before he had time to think, he jumped out of the window and leaped onto the branches.

"Wow, it's flying!"

"Brother, look, that person can fly, is he a fairy?"

Behind him, the children in the outer hall did not know when they gathered together to watch him perform qinggong, like watching a fairy descended from the earth.

It wasn't until several children were amazed enough that two of them wanted to climb up the window to learn from him that he was stopped by the nurses and carried them down one by one: "Oh, little masters, this is not something you can practice."

At this moment, Tang Yuan had already chased that person to the end of the palace.

"stop!"

It's just that he didn't expect that the man actually stopped on a section of the palace wall and waited for him to pass.

When Tang Yuan got closer and saw his face clearly, he couldn't help frowning: "It's really you? How did you, a foreign minister, get into the harem?"

"Tonight at the Double Ninth Festival, the emperor has transferred the Gyeonggi Guards to change the defense of the palace, and I will naturally follow." The person who came was Yuan Xiao, who took advantage of the Gyeonggi Guards' transfer of defense to come to the harem for personal gain.

"Fake public servants for personal gain? You're really a wolf with a big tail. ——Give me a hand!" Tang Yuan couldn't stand on this branch very stably, he jumped onto the palace wall, and stretched out his hand to ask Yuan Xiao to catch him.

Yuan Xiao didn't stretch out his hand, but still held the sword to strike him. He watched Tang Yuan jump over helplessly, and then opened his hands and pulled him into his arms.

"Scare me!"

"Hands are so cold. Drink to warm you up?" Yuan Xiao took out a wine bag from his bosom and handed it to him.

"Don't drink, please warm me up." Tang Yuan stuffed his hands into his clothes, and the ice made him shiver, "Why don't we go to invite Yuelou to have dinner. The Double Ninth Festival is really tiring."

Yuan Xiao took out his hand, and put the two hands together in his palm.Tang Yuan has been weak since he was a child, and has been dragged down by poison. Even if he practiced kung fu well later, he is still inferior in nature. When the weather turns cold, his hands and feet tend to get cold. "Okay, but I have to wait for my shift to change. There is still an hour before the night shift in Ouchi will come and change."

"Success, whatever happens." Just don't stay at the Double Ninth Banquet.

"Are you being urged to start a family again?" Seeing Tang Yuan's hopeless face, Yuan Xiao knew what happened to him at the Double Ninth Banquet.

Speaking of which, the two of them are brothers in need. Yuan Xiao is still three years older than Tang Yuan, and he has been listening to these remarks for three years. Fortunately, he is not often in Beijing, otherwise he would have a headache.

"If you can't hold on, you can find someone to marry." Yuan Xiao persuaded him, but he held up his wine bag to cover his face, not asking Tang Yuan to look at him.

Tang Yuan pushed his hand away, snatched the wine bag, and seeing his unsmiling face, he became angry for a moment, and scolded him: "Yuan Xiao! Don't you really deserve a beating?! You are asking me to find someone to marry now? Isn't that harmful?"

He was so angry that he wanted to spin around: "Yuan Xiao, what did you tell me? I forgot at this moment? When I fell in love with a little girl in front of me, you didn't tell me to find a girl to marry. You said that I was still young, and you didn't want to marry me." You've already done it, now what are you pretending to be a wolf with a big tail?"

"Hush—" Yuan Xiao rushed forward to cover his mouth, and pressed down his body, the two of them knelt on the top of the wall to hide themselves in the darkness.

Only then did Tang Yuan see two people walking towards him in the distance.

Both of them were wearing eunuch uniforms in the palace, but it was hard to tell whether they were real eunuchs or not.Both of them lowered their heads slightly and looked at the ground, walking forward intently.

But the two of them kept talking, and they didn't stop when they talked.

With Tang Yuan and Yuan Xiao's ear strength, they approached, and their voices were heard no matter how small they were.

"Everything depends entirely on you." This man's voice was low, and the eunuch's uniform he was wearing seemed to be ill-fitting. Although he was walking straight forward, he always twisted his body from time to time.

The other person's voice was sharp and unpleasant, but it was very recognizable, at least to Tang Yuan. It was Shi An, the eunuch serving food for the emperor to test poison. "It's easy to say, the seven kings are strategizing, and naturally more people are willing to take refuge."

As they said that, their hands met in the air for a while, as if Shi An had taken something from that person.

Yuan Xiao let go only after those two people walked away.Tang Yuan's mouth and nose were tightly covered by his hands. Although he himself was able to hold his breath a little bit, he was in a hurry and unprepared. His eyes were wet from being suppressed, and he leaned on Yuan Xiao's shoulder to pant. "Are you sick?"

Yuan Xiao didn't speak, just looked at him silently, looking straight into his eyes.There seemed to be a deep vortex in his eyes, dark and dark, as if he wanted to see Tang Yuan's whole body into his eyes.Then suddenly said: "I found that you look pretty when you cry."

"Yuan Xiao, wait until I tell Uncle Yuan that you are waiting to be beaten!"

Yuan Xiao didn't care about Tang Yuan's threat. Anyway, he cares about face and would not easily ask an adult to help him solve the matter, but he still said: "But you should stop crying. I feel sorry for you when you cry."

"Okay, after two sips of wine, you will feel drunk." Tang Yuan took the wine bag in his hand up to his nose and sniffed it. The aroma of the wine was so strong that his nose was pungent. He frowned, turned his head and poured the wine .

Yuan Xiao was still looking at him, put his face in front of him, and said, "Everyone gets drunk if they are not drunk. - Guess who those two people who just walked past under the wall are?"

"Do you still need to guess? A subordinate of the Seven Kings, a cannon fodder bought by the Seven Kings."

The position of the eunuch serving food is very important. He specially tests poisons for the emperor. Even if he dies, he can't let the emperor have an accident.But there is also work that no one wants to do.If all the people in the world are staring at the emperor alone, there are too many people who want to assassinate the emperor.Especially at the beginning of this dynasty, one eunuch serving food died a day, which was too easy to die in this position.

Shi An can be regarded as an eunuch who has lived a long time, but he still can't guarantee that he will start well and end well, because he will be bribed by others.

"But he didn't survive in the end."

"That's right." Tang Yuan agreed.If the guess is correct, what Shi An took from that person should be certain chronic poisons, and it will take several years or even longer to see the actual effect. During this time, Shi An has to follow the emperor to take these poisons all the time.

"But if he still has relatives, he can bless his offspring. ——If the Seven Kings can succeed."

"Do you think the Seven Kings can succeed?"

"I don't know, but I hope he can succeed. Because I don't want you to be hurt again. The emperor's temper is getting weirder and weirder. If he attacks you, no one can protect you."

"You are such an old lady."

But you don't know, the emperor has poisoned me long ago, but luckily I have already escaped.

The author has something to say:

Recently, I have always been subject to a high-level trial, and it is uncomfortable to issue a chapter for trial.