Rong Qing naturally sat on the seat behind Feng Nianyan with Zhaoli, Zhaoli was whispering to add vegetables to Rong Qing, and suddenly felt that there were many pairs of eyes looking at her and Rong Qing, and the chopsticks holding the dishes were frozen in mid-air.

Yao Yi followed everyone's gaze to find Rong Qing, and said with a smile: "How can you let Rong Gongzi and the county lord squeeze together, and ask Rong Gongzi to come and sit in front." ”

Everyone looked at Rong Qing and Zhaoli carefully, and sighed silently in their hearts, these two people are indeed better than the county lord of Zhaoning and the king of Yongyi. Although King Yongyi is also handsome, there is a trace of evil at the corner of his mouth between his eyebrows. And this Rong Gongzi is like a fairy out of the dust, warm as jade, and his temperament is extraordinary. The little county lord has an aura in his beauty, which is more compatible with Rong Qing.

"No need." Rong Qing said lightly.

"Young Master Rong is too conceited! Don't even the emperor take it seriously? A minister next to him said indignantly, and Yao Yi hurriedly raised his hand to signal him to be cautious.

A few envoys secretly snickered, and there were still people who were so blind. This Rong Gongzi is the emperor of all countries who will treat each other politely when he sees him, which round to get one of his courtiers to talk nonsense.

Yao Lie sat at the bottom of the stairs and silently picked up his wine glass and took a sip.

"I heard that Gongzi Rong came to the palace today, and I specially set up this position, and I also asked Gongzi Rong to appreciate his face."

Feng Nianyan was afraid that he would refuse again, so he turned around and coughed lightly at him twice. After all, the envoys of all countries are there, and if the lord of a country loses face, then he can't get over the face of being a courtier.

Rong Qing knew the meaning of Feng Nian's extension, turned her head to look at Zhaoli, thinking that today was her aunt's grandmother's birthday, so she also looked at her face and gave Yao Yi three points of thin noodles.

"Ah Li, you're right here." After he finished speaking, he glanced back at the red sleeves standing against the wall, got up and went to the front.

Zhao was a little displeased, and she wanted to sit with him, but she saw her grandfather glaring at her, so she had to give up. pouting and muttering: "Stinky old man, fierce!" ”

Rong Qing's white clothes are incompatible with this grand feast, Zhaoli feels that the mountains and rivers are more suitable for him, but fortunately, his white robe is so white that it seems that this mortal world cannot be contaminated with his body, he is still him.

The Empress Cao and the Queen Mother sat on both sides of Yaoyi, and opposite Rong Qing sat King Yongyi.

After several hours of arguing, an elderly official came to the palace and said that the Empress Dowager wanted to see the county lord of Zhaoning and the fiancé of the county lord of Zhaoning.

"Rong Qing, don't be afraid, my aunt and grandmother are very good, and she never scolds me." She tugged on Rong Qing's sleeve and led him to the Empress Dowager's bedroom, and the old internal official followed behind and covered his mouth and looked at the two of them with great indulgence and smiled.

The old official's name is Yu Shun, and he has followed her since the Empress Dowager entered the palace, and now she has been forty-three years, and she has also watched Zhaoli grow up, so she naturally knows that his master is very fond of this little county lord.

After passing through the Imperial Garden, you will soon arrive at the Empress Dowager's bedchamber. In the summer, the weather is getting hotter, and the empress dowager is sitting on the couch in the palace, and there are two fifteen or sixteen little palace maids beside her who are shaking fans to take the wind and cool off for her.

"Oh, it's good to wait! Come and let the mourners take a look. As soon as he saw Zhao Li enter the door, he greeted her with a smile on his face.

"Aunt and grandmother, granddaughter wish my aunt and grandmother good fortune like the long flow of the East China Sea, and longevity than the old pine of Nanshan!" As soon as he entered the door, Zhao Li flatteringly threw himself on the ground and kowtowed three times.

"Get up, get up, you kid, your mouth looks like honey!" The Empress Dowager smiled so hard that she couldn't see her teeth, and quickly got up and pulled her up. Seeing Rong Qing behind her, she looked at him with a smile, and looked very satisfied with his expression: "This is your fiancé?" ”

Zhaoli dragged Rong Qing to the front and said obediently: "Aunt and grandmother, this is Rong Qing, my father-in-law!" ”

Rong Qing glanced at her with some surprise, and then lowered her head and smiled again, smiling very beautifully.

"Good, a good boy. How old are you this year? ”

Rong Qing paused slightly, the Empress Dowager's kind eyebrows and kind eyes were tight, just like an ordinary grandmother asking her juniors, Rong Qing had never encountered such a situation, and couldn't help but feel warm in her heart: "Twenty-one." ”

"I'm five years older than Li'er! It's okay, it's okay..."She took Zhaoli's hand and patted it: "Someone will take care of you in the future, but you have to restrain your temperament, don't be like before." ”

"Got it!" Zhaoli leaned on her with a smile, hugged her arm and shook it coquettishly.

The sky is getting dark, the lights are lit everywhere in the palace, the lights are dazzling for a while, the sound of silk and bamboo in the Hexi Hall rang all afternoon, the dignitaries and envoys in the palace are drunk, and they don't know that the crisis is coming.

Zhaoli hugged the arm of the Empress Dowager and sat with her on the couch in the dormitory, and the old lady was amused by her to laugh from time to time. Rong Qing sat on the chair below and looked out of the hall, he turned sideways, his red sleeves leaned down slightly and listened to what he said, and then went out alone.

At night, countless dark shadows lurked in the dark corners of the palace that were not lit.

Hexi Palace

"The younger brother has not gone to kowtow to the imperial grandmother today, if it is not early today, I am afraid that the imperial grandmother will rest if I go later." In the entire Hexi Palace, except for the palace maids and eunuchs who are waiting, I am afraid that the most sober is King Yongyi.

"Go ahead." Yao Yi's face was slightly red, thinking that he had drunk a lot of wine.

Yao Lie bowed and went out of the hall, and when he walked to the door of the hall, he gave a slight look to the guard at the door, and the guard nodded.

A moment later, there was a sound of swords outside the door of Hexi Palace, and everyone looked puzzled.

"Oh no! The emperor is not good, King Yongyi... King Yongyi raised troops to surround the palace, and the soldiers outside came in! A little eunuch rushed into the hall and fell down the steps with a frightened face.

"What!" Yao Yi stood up from the dragon chair, incredulous.

Red Sleeves returned to the Empress Dowager's bedroom, stood beside Rong Qing and whispered: "Son, King Yongyi has already made a move." ”

Rong Qing didn't respond, and turned his head to look at Zhao Li, who was laughing with the Empress Dowager on the couch, "Ah Li." ”

"Huh?" She smiled and turned her head to look at him.

"Just stay here and don't go anywhere."

"Oh... Oh. ”

Zhao Li looked puzzled, and before he could ask him, he saw him go out of the palace gate. Redsleeves remained in the temple and closed the door when he went out.

There were a few secret guards of the Lechuan Pavilion hidden outside the hall, which Rong Qing arranged to protect her.

The guards and palace guards outside the Hexi Hall have been exterminated, and the corpses are all over the ground, splattering blood everywhere. The ministers and officials in the palace were so frightened that they hugged each other, and the envoys of various countries were terrified except for the envoys of the Apocalypse, and they couldn't imagine that they had come all the way to celebrate their birthdays and actually encountered the rebellion of the Yue Wang, and they were really unlucky to get home!

The Hexi Hall had been surrounded like an iron bucket, and Yao Lie put his hands behind his back and entered the main hall with an evil smile on his face.

"Brother Huang! What are you doing here? Yao Yi was furious, he thought he had a deep relationship with the Yao Lie brothers.

"Brother Huang? Brother Huang's words are wrong. Yao Lie looked at the frightened Empress Dowager Cao in front of him and said, "After you are the Cao family, how can I be your imperial brother?" ”

"You!" Empress Dowager Cao thought that her youngest son had just broken the adultery between her and Cao Fengrong, but she never thought that he knew more than that. I suddenly felt remorseful in my heart, if I had killed him, there would have been nothing to do.

"You and I both bleed the blood of the Cao family, what do you mean by this?" Yao Yi was puzzled.

"Brother Huang, although you and I both have Cao's blood on our bodies, yours seems to be thicker than mine!" A sneer appeared at the corner of Yao Lie's mouth: "Twenty-three years ago, the Cao family entered the palace as the queen, and in September of that year, he had an affair with Cao Fengrong in the Yuzhang Palace, and you were born ten months later. Brother Huang said, is your Cao clan's blood thicker than mine? ”

There was an uproar in the hall, and even Feng Nianyan, who was not surprised in the past, was stunned. If the current emperor is really born of the affair between the Queen Mother and Cao Fengrong, it is impossible to tell who is wrong and who is right in today's rebellion.

"You rebel! You are talking nonsense! Empress Dowager Cao was extremely corrupt and almost fell, and the palace maids around her hugged her in time.

"Nonsense? The queen mother forgot that on my tenth birthday, the queen mother and Cao Fengrong were cheating in the rockery in the imperial garden and were broken by their sons, and the queen mother still wanted to kill me? If it weren't for the palace people passing by at that time, I guess my birthday would have been my death date in the future. ”

The ministers were amazed again.

"You... You rebel, you want to seize the throne, and you slander your biological mother so much! ”

Yao Lie was silent, and with a wave of his hand, a shadow guard outside the hall came in with an old palace person, and Empress Dowager Cao looked at it and sat down on the chair. That was Empress Dowager Cao's personal palace person, and he did many unseemly things for her, including of course a tryst with Cao Fengrong.

The shadow guard threw the old palace man down, drew his long sword and lowered it to his neck.

"The emperor spares his life, the prince spares his life! Old slave... The old slave doesn't know anything, it's all the old slave that the Queen Mother asked the old slave to do! The old slave is just doing what he is told..."

"Speak clearly!" Yao Lie looked at him in disgust.

"It's... Yes, the old slave was ordered by the Queen Mother to bring Lord Cao into the palace... And... Meet the Queen Mother. ”

Yao Yi looked back at Empress Dowager Cao with a sad face.