Ye Youqing let out a half-crying, half-laughing sound, mixed with a sigh, to smell Ci Ke's body, which was mostly covered by the smell of smoke.

It felt like the aftermath of a catastrophe, a mix of dread and relief.

"I'm afraid you'll be..." Ye Youqing sighed again. The moment she saw the flames, her previous dream suddenly appeared in front of her eyes. She was afraid that even though she had done so much, she still couldn't change the established ending.

Fortunately, fortunately, Ye Youqing raised his head, wiped off the ashes on Ci Ke's cheeks with his hands, and suddenly said domineeringly: "From now on, you are not allowed to wear red anymore."

Ci Ke looked down at himself, a little puzzled, but nodded in agreement.

"I'm fine, don't be afraid." Ci Ke saw that her tears still couldn't stop, so he softened his voice and coaxed her, stroking the wetness with his scarred hand.

Ye Youqing waited for the palpitations in his heart to stabilize, then he stood on the rockery, stretched out his hand to pull Ci Ke up, Ci Ke seemed to have been soaked in muddy water now, and no part of his body was dry, so Ye Youqing took off his coat and put on his clothes. on her shoulders.

"I'm not cold..." Ci Ke said that he wanted to refuse, but Ye Youqing was surprisingly stubborn and forcibly wrapped her in his coat.

Ci Ke's eyes flashed, he lowered his head and let out a chuckle, letting Ye Youqing play with him.

"You set the fire?" Ye Youqing asked sullenly.

Ci Ke rolled his eyes and nodded.

"I almost fainted from fright, but you can still laugh!" Ye Youqing couldn't help scolding, "Aren't you afraid?"

Ci Ke followed Ye Youqing around the apse, whispering as he walked, "Don't be afraid."

"I thought you would always come, so I'm not afraid at all."

The woman's soft hand nestled quietly in her palm, followed obediently, and with her words, Ye Youqing's anger just now seemed to be extinguished by strands of spring water in an instant.

Ye Youqing sniffed and snorted nasally.

Ci Ke withdrew his smile, suddenly remembered something, hurried to catch up with her, and asked, "Where's Auntie?"

Ye Youqing's heart tightened.

There was no one in front of the hall, Zhou Ziqiu had already been taken away by the imperial doctor, Shili put a knife on the imperial doctor's head and ordered him to be treated, the imperial doctor was frightened and trembling, vomiting and checking the pulse.

When Ye Youqing and Ci Ke arrived, the imperial doctor came out profusely with sweat, while Zhou Ziqiu lay quietly on the couch, and Shi Li beside him sat on the floor with his back against the edge of the bed as if he had lost his strength.

"Aunt..." Ci Ke let go of Ye Youqing's hand and stepped forward, touching the tip of Zhou Ziqiu's nose with tears in his eyes. After feeling the slight but even breathing, he let out a long sigh of relief, half-kneeling and rubbed his forehead Put it in Zhou Ziqiu's palm.

Ye Youqing looked at the back of the imperial doctor who ran to boil the medicine, then turned back to Shili, and asked, "How is it?"

Shili's tone was very tired and low, she wiped away the tears on her chin with her fingertips, and said: "Fortunately, she only swallowed a small amount of medicine, which is not dangerous, but she has inhaled green calyx pollen for a long time and hurt her lungs, I don't know if it can be cured intact."

"And since I fell into a coma just now, I have never woken up again." Shili turned his head to look at Zhou Ziqiu's face, his eyes were pitiful, "I don't know her..."

Shili's remaining words were swallowed back into his throat, his light-colored eyelashes closed, and a tear fell from the corner of his eye.

Ye Youqing looked at Shili's messy clothes and fragmentary wounds, and her eyes were red with her, then squatted down and patted her on the shoulder: "It's good to be alive, she should be really tired and want to sleep for a while .”

Ye Youqing wiped her tears with his hands, and said: "Are you going to rest next door for a while, or guard her."

"I want to guard." Shili raised his eyes and looked at Ye Youqing.

Ci Ke on the side was crying sadly, Ye Youqing rubbed the top of her head, and then ordered someone to guard the door, while he left here. Many things need to be resolved.

The sixth prince was walking from a distance with a saber in his hand, followed by several guards. It was already dark, and the lanterns originally used for birthday banquets finally shone brightly, illuminating the green leaves and red walls. Tonight must not be quiet, there are noises everywhere Voices.

"How about the imperial concubine and Ci Ke?" the sixth prince asked.

Ye Youqing briefly explained the situation, and then urged: "As the prince, you should first claim that the emperor is dead, so as to quell the chaos in the palace, so as not to cause complications."

The sixth prince nodded when he heard the words, and the two walked out together, she was a little worried: "Sister, don't you want to come with me?"

"I have other things." Ye Youqing's tone slowed down, and the killing intent in his eyes disappeared.

The sixth prince didn't say anything, and when she walked out of the harem gate and had to part ways, she just grabbed Ye Youqing's sleeve, looked at her with eyes as dark as night, and then lowered her eyes.

"Sister, are you really willing to..."

Seeing her hesitating, Ye Youqing knew her intentions, so he turned to face her. Although the girl in front of her was young, she had a tall and straight body, and she had lost her flamboyant immaturity and turned into a restrained sharpness.

"Why did you fight for the crown prince?" Ye Youqing asked.

The flame of the lantern was reflected in her eyes, dazzling, the sixth prince replied in a low voice: "To resist, save mother."

Ye Youqing nodded: "What else?"

The sixth prince was stunned for a moment, and said again: "Let the world be less unfair, less homeless, and less separated from wives and children."

"Look, it's much more enlightened than mine." Ye Youqing raised his eyebrows jokingly, and patted her on the back, "Go."

The sixth prince was patted half-turned, wanted to say something, but hesitated to speak, finally lowered his eyes under Ye Youqing's smile, turned around and strode away, the corners of his clothes quickly disappeared in the night.

Ye Youqing went in another direction and entered a small wing room. The candles were lit in the wing room, and the smell of blood was strong inside, mixed with the smell of rotten wood, which was very unpleasant.

"Miss Ye, he fainted again." The guard cavalry clasped his fists and said.

It was the emperor lying on the ground. He could no longer see the majesty of the king of a country at this time. His luxurious robes were stripped off and his hair was scattered around his body. He looked like a beggar. The wound on his chest was torn. Oozing blood.

Ye Youqing waved his hand, and someone approached with a bucket of water, pouring it all over him. The emperor suddenly woke up like a nightmare, opened his eyes suddenly, and gasped hoarsely.

When he saw Ye Youqing's figure, his body trembled, and then he struggled to crawl, but his legs and feet were pinned down and he couldn't move.

There was fear in his eyes.

"What are you going to do?" the emperor looked at her in horror.

"Always ask some boring questions." Ye Youqing turned his neck, when the originally beautiful woman condescendingly looked down on people, it made people's backs feel cold, as if several mountains were pressing on the heart and lungs.

The emperor still struggled, but when he heard a click, accompanied by a painful groan, the emperor collapsed on the ground, only trembling.

"You can't, I'm the Son of Heaven..." He squeezed out a voice between his teeth.

Ye Youqing sneered, leaned over and squatted, and pulled his ugly head up: "Just now that foot was paid for me."

There was another click, and now the emperor didn't even have the strength to moan/groan, and blood was overflowing from his mouth.

"This is for those subjects who were persecuted by you." After Ye Youqing said, he let go of his hands and stepped back. The cavalry behind him stepped forward, grabbed his hair and raised his face, and a black pill was stuffed into his mouth , force him to eat by pouring water.

"This is the same as what you fed to Zhou Ziqiu." Ye Youqing had no expression on his face, "Taste how it tastes."

The emperor's body began to twist when the pill entered the mouth. He tried hard to pull out the pill, but to no avail. Soon, he began to breathe rapidly. Finally, it was like a bellows pulled violently, but the air inhaled could not reach the lungs. And bulging.

The emperor's eyes were bloodshot, he stared at Ye Youqing, rubbed his hands desperately on his neck, and finally rolled his eyes, the scene was indescribably suffocating.

Ye Youqing looked at him coldly, as if looking at a lump of garbage, she didn't turn around and go out until the person stopped making any noise.

The moon did not know when it crossed the palace wall, shedding it as bright as milk, and there were crying sounds in the palace from time to time, especially in the Sangong and Liuyuan, the crying echoed from left to right, and it was lively and lively.

Ye Youqing breathed the air blown by the wind, replaced the stale air in his body, and raised his eyes to see a bright moon.

it is finally over.

After the sixth prince appeared, the leader of the imperial army issued an order, so that all the imperial soldiers no longer resisted, and obediently put away their weapons and returned to their respective guards. The princes, nobles and ministers who participated in the birthday banquet were still trapped in the Daqing Hall to prevent further disturbances. There are traces of battles everywhere in the palace, and occasionally corpses can be seen, and some palace people are cleaning and tidying up tremblingly.

When the sky was completely gone, the rebel army approached the city and surrounded the city. The people in the city were terrified, crying and fighting for the ground. However, the whole night, the rebel army only stationed outside the city and never entered the city.

In the morning of the next day, facing the bright rising sun, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty who had not slept all night were forced to go to the court, watching the sixth prince announce the death of the former emperor with great pain, and keep everything simple, offering sacrifices to the heavens and accepting the imperial edict. .

However, the rebellious army was still guarding outside the city, and no one dared to say a word, so the news of the new emperor's enthronement spread to ordinary people's homes that day, and spread to the entire Qi State.

Fortunately, although the new emperor was young, he acted cleanly. He quickly took out the treasury and went to the north to provide disaster relief and rebuild the cities destroyed by the war. Incorporated into the army of Qi State, he was stationed in Luoyang together with the army returned to the dynasty.

At the same time, vigorously reform the original agricultural and commercial system, reduce taxes on ordinary people, reduce the burden on the people, reduce the extravagance of the palace and officials, clean up the troubled gentry and rich people, etc. After a series of measures, the whole country is very busy. .

Soon, no one talked about this matter any more. In just one month, everything inside and outside the palace returned to calm, as if nothing had happened.

The rebel army never entered the city, and the battles in the palace were not exposed to the eyes of ordinary people, so the panic on the day of the rebellion was quickly forgotten by the common people, but Ye Youqing's name spread all over the streets and alleys. Extremely shocked, the person who dared to lead a hundred people into the imperial palace and recommend Qi to change the dynasty overnight was actually the daughter of the Ye family back then.

In the eyes of everyone, how could it not be talked about that the frail woman who was often ridiculed could do such a shocking event.

And the point is that after the rebellion, not only did the daughter of the Ye family's prostitute do nothing, but she handed over the throne to the sixth prince Song Yi. Some people speculated that Ye Youqing could not be emperor as a woman, so she helped the sixth prince as a puppet.Even more thoughtful and flexible, she made up a touching and touching story between Ye Youqing and the sixth prince, and secretly spread it among the people.

The weather was rare that day, neither hot nor cold, and it was bright in early summer. Ye Youqing walked from the street to the end of the street, and bought a white peony flower sprinkled with dew from the side of the road.

When she was taking out the copper plate, two hands suddenly covered her eyes, blocking her view, and her voice was deliberately lowered: "Guess who I am?"

Ye Youqing couldn't help showing a smile, put the flower in his mouth, held the man's wrist with both hands, seemed to recognize him, and finally went down suddenly, and slapped the soft part of the woman's waist, causing the woman to clench her fist and push him away. her shoulders.

Ye Youqing giggled and turned around, looked at Ci Ke's angry face, spit out the flowers in his mouth and said, "Why?"

"In public, there is no manners at all." Ci Ke's ears were reddened by her inappropriate behavior, and he glared at her winkingly.

"It's not a big deal, then I'll let you call back." Ye Youqing pursed his lips and smiled, and was pushed by Ci Ke again.

Ci Ke was helpless to her, grabbed the flower in her hand, turned and walked onto the long street, frowned and complained: "You were never like this in the past, why are you getting more thick-skinned now!"

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