Qing Ping Le · Double Songs

The next morning, the sky was clear and clear. As soon as Rong Ling walked out of the camp, Zhao Shouyi led the horse over. Rong Che, Wei Changdong and Yang Shan followed all the way to the official road. Rong Ling got on the horse. She sat on the horse, and the three of them Kneeling down to salute, said in unison, "Respectfully, Your Highness."

Rong Ling said, "Get up." Her eyes fell on Rong Che, and she said, "Che'er, take care."

Rong Che raised her eyes, with a gentle smile on her face, she said, "Miss Huang should also take care when she goes."

Now we don't know when we will see each other again, although Rong Ling is reluctant to part with her, she resolutely turns her horse's head and beats the horse away, the dust kicked up by the horse's hooves floated for a long time before landing again.Rong Che's slender figure stopped on the yellow sand road, staring for a long time until Rong Ling's figure could no longer be seen, then he turned and left, it was time to send a message to his cousin.

It has been four days since Rong Cheng received the news of Rong Ling's return to the capital. On that day, Nanyang City was also sunny and sunny. For some reason this year, winter has been slow to come.

Xia Feng said, "The people in the palace are waiting outside, can the princess want to see you at this time?"

"Let him in."

Not long after, a disguised palace servant came in and knelt down to salute, "I have seen the Princess."

Rong Cheng asked, "Did you come because something happened in Luohua Palace?"

"Returning to the Princess, that's right." The little servant said, "Master Ye and Master Li don't know who they bribed to go in and out of Luohua Palace secretly. It happened that I bumped into them this time. After asking, I realized that this is not the first time."

"Okay, the princess knows about this." She said to Jing Yu again, "Jing Yu, thank you."

"Thank you, princess, thank you, princess." Jing Yu led the servant out, rewarded him with a lot of things, and ordered someone to send him outside the mansion, then turned back to the study, and said, "What is the princess' plan?"

"It's been a long time since I went to pay my respects to the imperial aunt, and it's time to visit her old man." She looked at the hibiscus in the courtyard through the open window, which was like a cluster of fiery red and coquettish flowers. Crossing the river, it's time for the situation in the capital to stabilize." After she finished speaking, she ordered to the outside, "Dinner is served at Wuxiangyuan, you guys go prepare it."

During dinner, Bai Qingtong asked again, "Is there something on your mind?"

There was a smile on Rong Cheng's face, he nodded lightly, and said, "I'm going to the palace later, I won't be able to accompany you after dinner."

Bai Qingtong would not ask questions, had dinner with her silently, and then sent her to the carriage outside the door before returning to Wuxiang Courtyard.Rong Cheng was sitting in the carriage, playing with the porcelain vase that Xiao Hai gave her, her expression had a rare seriousness, she clearly knew what going would mean.

The majestic Miyagi is like a beast hidden in the night waiting for its prey. It crouches quietly with a pair of black eyes open, firmly locking every prey that approaches it.The palace gate slowly opened and then slowly closed, as if the carriage was heading towards a huge mouth full of fangs, being swallowed up by the deep darkness bit by bit.

Rong Cheng doesn't like this palace city, it's too quiet, it lacks human touch, only desolation and loneliness accompany here all the year round, except for that one person who is aloof, everyone is cautious and walks on thin ice.No matter how big and magnificent this palace city is, it is still insignificant compared to the territory of Great Xia, but it is related to the fate of the entire Great Xia.She has understood these simple principles since she was a child, but for some reason, she just finds it ridiculous at this moment.

The entire palace city was not lit because all the halls were empty, only the Luohua Hall was brightly lit like daytime, even if the empress was imprisoned, she still behaved aloofly.She didn't let Gong'e appear from the darkness with the lamp in hand, startling the imperial guards on duty outside the palace, and almost drew their swords to face each other, but when she saw that it was Princess Anle, she immediately bowed and saluted.

She said, "Open the door."

"Report to the Princess." A guard replied, "Your Highness has ordered that no one should approach this hall."

"Anyone?" Her starry eyes were dark and bottomless at the moment, she didn't say much, but just looked at the guard who answered, and the gorgeous palace lanterns under the eaves elongated the shadow behind her again and again.

The guard only felt that there was a lightning strike, and cold sweat broke out from his forehead. He wanted to resist the coercion with all his strength, but for some reason, his knees softened and he knelt down on the ground with a plop, begging for mercy, "Princess, please forgive me. Lord forgive me."

"Which adult is it?"

He hurriedly said, "It was Li Chunsheng, Lord Li, who had a close relationship with General Lin in the imperial army, and it was General Lin who ordered us to let Lord Li in, and asked the princess to spare his life. We are also following orders."

"You only need to name a few adults, and the rest of the princess will pretend not to hear."

"Thank you, princess, for your kindness." The guard quickly got up from the ground after receiving the pardon, and pushed open the gate of Luohua Hall, "Princess, please." Rong Cheng raised his foot and stepped in.

The queen seemed to know that she would come and did not show any surprise. At the moment, she was enjoying singing, dancing, drinking and having fun in the palace, leisurely. She glanced at Cheng Cheng from the cup, raised the cup and drank it, still half-closed her eyes to enjoy with.

Rong Cheng saluted respectfully as before, "An Le greets Your Majesty."

The Empress spoke contemptuously, and she said, "Anle has planted a lot of eyeliners here and got the news so quickly, it's because Yuan Jia is pure-hearted that he mistrusted you."

"Your Majesty has praised you." Rong Cheng said with a docile attitude, "Sister Huang's talent is a blessing to the world."

The Queen raised her eyebrows, her expression was very similar to that of Rong Ling who raised her eyebrows lightly, "I know why you came here, but I also knew that you couldn't do anything to me." The Queen smiled contemptuously and continued to drink.

"Your Majesty is right, An Le can't do anything to your Majesty." She looked straight at the half-lying queen, but said to the others, "You all stand down."

"Yes." A group of maids and servants filed out of Luohua Hall, the door closed again with a bang, the copper ring trembled and made an eager sound, other than that, the hall was silent.

After a long period of silence, the empress took the initiative and asked, "As a princess, you instigated the East Palace to imprison me in the side hall. You are seeking power and usurping the throne and committing treason."

"Anle knows that what Anle committed is a capital crime." Rong Cheng replied very calmly, "According to what your majesty said just now, if your majesty takes over the government again, all these crimes will be instigated by me, but Anle didn't expect that your majesty would still Take care of the mother-daughter relationship."

The empress suddenly heard the implication of her words, she was no longer as calm as before, she said angrily, "What do you want to do?"

"What does Your Majesty think An Le is going to do?" She smiled, as if she had heard some joke, "An Le just wanted to persuade His Majesty to stop having such unreasonable thoughts. Now that His Majesty is getting old and dim-sighted, wouldn't it be better to spend the rest of his life here? ? Why do you have to go to the outer court to deal with those courtiers and work hard on small matters, Your Majesty should put the dragon body as the most important thing."

The queen looked at her suspiciously, and said, "I am the king of Great Xia, so I should be in charge of government affairs outside the court, not to mention that I am here because Yuan Jia is being manipulated by others, Anle, can you be convicted?"

Rong Cheng looked innocent and said, "What's wrong with An Le?" Seeing that the Queen was about to make trouble again, she said again, "Did your Majesty forget that before, His Majesty ordered the Imperial Army to strictly guard Chang Ning Palace, so An Le has great abilities." Unable to leave the palace under the heavy guard of the forbidden army, let alone mobilize the forbidden army to keep His Majesty in the Luohua Palace, Your Majesty, is there any reason for An Le's words?"

"Although you are in the palace, you provoked the relationship between Yuan Jia and me in advance."

"How could Your Majesty treat Huang Jie like this? Who can manipulate and control Huang Jie with her intelligence?" She looked serious, and said, "I'm afraid only Your Majesty has been able to manipulate and control Huang Jie."

"You are presumptuous."

Rong Cheng walked to the side, actually re-ignited the small red clay stove that was about to go out, and started to cook tea calmly, completely ignoring the empress' anger, she moved slowly to let the empress see her every movement clearly.The Queen's eyes did not let go of her every move. She watched her scoop the tea soup into two celadon cups, and watched her walk over step by step with the tea tray.

Rong Cheng placed one of the cups in front of the Queen, and the other cup was of course her own. The freshly brewed tea was boiling hot with thick white smoke, and she said, "Actually, Anle wants to have a good chat with His Majesty today. , Our aunt and nephew don't seem to have said a few words about themselves."

"Talk about yourself? Why do you talk about yourself when you have brought me down to this point?"

"Your Majesty, you dote on the villain and disregard the state of the country. The emperor is a prince, but she is just a pawn in the eyes of your majesty." She looked at the queen with her eyes and said, "How much is my Changning Palace?" Over the years, I have been loyal and unwavering, but in the end, your Majesty will kill you as soon as you say it, and you will not miss the old feelings at all. Instead of doing this, I, the Changning Palace, might as well turn back early like King Jingyuan, and still win a chance of life."

The queen asked sharply, "The crime of treason is so natural, Rong Cheng, do you still take me seriously?"

"Then why does Your Majesty take us courtiers to heart?" Suddenly, Rong Cheng smiled, but his tone was as hard as a rock, "Your Majesty only has His Majesty in his heart, and he can't see the world and the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains. This majestic palace city is too big, and His Majesty has stayed there for too long, so long that he can't remember what Nanyang City outside the palace gate looks like, let alone what Daxia looks like."

Now that the tea is no longer boiling hot, Rong Cheng picked up the teacup and took a sip first, then said, "Even though your Majesty has been restrained by the emperor, the food and clothing are still the most delicate, even this tea is better than the emperor's own tea." even better."

I don't know if it was the mother-daughter love in Rong Cheng's words that touched the empress, as if to prove it, she also took a sip from the teacup, the tea is good tea, but she has been used to it for many years, and she can't taste it where the difference comes.She only said, "Yuan Jia was only deceived by you for a while, after a while she will naturally understand the mistakes she made."

Rong Cheng turned to ask, "Your Majesty, does your Majesty know that Miss Huang has gone to Jeju?"

The queen was stunned, "I know she is not in the palace, but I don't know that she has traveled so far. What did she do in Jeju?" Suddenly she looked sullen, "For Rong Che? I heard that she dispatched troops without authorization. It's nonsense for Yuan Jia to cover up the treasonous thing in every possible way."

"The south of the Dongjiang River has been occupied by the rebels. If Ah Che hadn't deployed troops without authorization, our Great Xia would have been divided into two. Although Ah Che's move was wrong, it would be more than worth it." Back off, "An Le would like to know, if Ah Che doesn't tamper with the Gaoshan Camp, how will His Majesty and those old ministers recover the lost ground?"

The queen slipped her tongue for a moment and didn't know how to answer. She said, "There are eight battalions guarding the south of the Dongjiang River, and there are also garrison troops in various cities. How can there be no way?"

"Your Majesty may not know that the reason why Ah Che tampered with the Gaoshan Camp is because the original owner of the Gaoshan Camp has already surrendered to the head of the army. From this, it can be inferred that the other seven battalions His Majesty is talking about are not much better."

"A bunch of nonsense."

"Your Majesty knows whether An Le is talking nonsense."

The queen has always been so high that she would be forced to retreat without a way out. She glared angrily and asked again sharply, "An Le, why did you come here? I don't believe you came here just to tell me this."

"An Le came here this time to hope that His Majesty can write down the edict of abdication, and pass on the position of Lord of Great Xia to Miss Huang."

"You're delusional." The queen sneered, "Anle, I've seen your murderous intentions since you entered the door, but you have to know that Yuan Jia is my own daughter after all, if you dare to touch me, don't even say it's you Even the Changning Palace, which you moved to Jingzhou, can never escape this calamity."

Rong Cheng stood up and looked at the closed palace door with a heavy expression, "Your Majesty is only obsessed with imperial power, but in An Le's heart, Huangjie is more suitable to have it than Your Majesty."

"Yuan Jia is my daughter, and I trained her to teach her. No one is more suitable than me for the throne of the Lord of Great Xia."

"In terms of politics, Miss Huang may have many deficiencies, but at least Miss Huang is more humane than His Majesty. She is not as cold-hearted as His Majesty, so she will not harm siblings. She is also more able to distinguish right from wrong than Your Majesty, and she cares more about the common people than Your Majesty." Rong Cheng Turning around suddenly, he asked, "Your Majesty, are you still obsessed with the desire for power and do not want to wake up?"

The queen saw Rong Cheng's bright eyes, which seemed to ignite two flaming flames, burning herself like this, her voice revealed a trembling fear, and asked, "Rong Cheng, what are you doing?" What do you want to do?"

Rong Cheng took out an exquisite small bell and shook it lightly twice, but the sound that should have been subtle shrouded the entire hall like a magic sound. She said again slowly, "I hope Your Majesty will write down the edict of abdication. And," She paused, and saw that the empress's eyes were gradually covered with smoke. After much hesitation, she finally made up her mind, and said, "And kill yourself this life, for those who died because of your desire for power." Apologize." After she finished speaking, she turned around, walked down the imperial steps slowly and pushed open the palace door.

The guards outside the door saluted respectfully, and she said, "Your Majesty is feeling unwell tonight, please watch carefully." After she finished speaking, she walked down the stone steps and left Luohua Hall. When the empress stood on the imperial steps in a daze and looked at the dark sky outside the hall, they didn't dare to look more and quietly closed the hall door again.

It takes a long time to walk from the Luohua Palace to the outside of the palace gate in this huge palace city. She was a little tired at the moment, so she passed the chariot in the cold night. In the moonlight, when she was passing by Houyuan Lake leaning on the brocade mat with a calm expression, she threw the porcelain bottle at her waist and the small bell into the water, and the ripples on the water disturbed the reflection of the cold moon in the lake.

In the garden without flowers, Rong Cheng got off the sedan chair and stepped on the moonlight-filled platform. The maid opened the door for her. In the room brightly lit by the eight-petal lotus lamp, Bai Qingtong was sitting there in a moon-white dress. wait for her.The scene that caught her eyes caused her to pause for a moment when she raised her feet, and then she walked in with a smile on the corners of her eyes and brows.

Bai Qingtong's gaze carefully traced between her eyebrows and eyes, and she actually spoke first, "Ah Cheng's worries of the past few days seem to have dissipated."

With a slight smile, Rong Cheng took her ice-cold jade hand and asked, "Just waiting for me here for this matter?" Seeing Bai Qingtong lightly nodding her forehead, her smile became brighter, "Do you want to know how many days I have been with you?" Why worry?"

Bai Qingtong shook her head lightly again, she said, "I don't need to know." She raised her palm to caress Rong Cheng's picturesque eyebrows, "I just hope you can tell me if you have something."

Rong Cheng nodded in agreement, "I will ask Sister Huang to resign when she returns to Beijing. How about we leave Nanyang City and go to Jingzhou?"

Bai Qingtong said, "It will be the anniversary of Master's death in a few days, I want to go back to Baihua Palace first."

Rong Cheng was stunned for a moment, and the events of the past suddenly came back to his mind as clearly as yesterday. A year ago, she was ordered to go to Yongzhou City to thoroughly investigate the murder case. Now, although the truth of the case has been revealed, there have been many twists and turns.The speed of this year made her a little dazed, as if it was just as short as yesterday and today, but unfortunately the entire Great Xia has changed, and the stars have changed, how many people have turned into bones and reincarnated in one year.

But mentioning one year reminded her of another matter, she looked into Bai Qingtong's eyes, and asked slowly, "Qingtong, your one-year appointment with me is coming up, where do you want to go?"

Bai Qingtong looked back into her deep pool-like pupils, with a rare smile on the corners of her eyes, she said, "Where you go is where I go."

Upon receiving this answer, Rong Cheng smiled even more, "Qingtong, I think I will leave Wuxiangyuan to Ache and you can move to Wuhuayuan in the future."

Bai Qingtong was startled and then a little embarrassed at first, but fortunately she had already suppressed the ups and downs of her mood, so she said, "Okay."

Tonight Rong Cheng's mood is somewhat difficult to calm down, but fortunately Bai Qingtong is by her side, she can always be keenly aware of her worries and anxieties, she doesn't need to speak, just being by Rong Cheng's side is a great relief.The bloody morning awakened the sleeping Nanyang City, and a shrill cry came from the most sacred palace city of Nanyang City. He tried his best to wake up everyone who was still sleeping on the Great Xia territory.

"Your Majesty is dying."