The quiet night shrouded Fengluan Hall, making it seem particularly quiet.

Everything around seemed lifeless, like the cool autumn wind bringing a mass of mourning.

This Fengluan Hall should have been brilliant and bright, but now it is like a dusty era.

There is a sense of desolation and gloominess, how is it different from the cold palace.

Su Ying came slowly with a wooden brocade box in her hand. She saw the empress looking at herself in the mirror with a lost look. She gently put down the wooden brocade box and took off the hairpin from the queen's hair.

"Yesterday, the Empress Dowager asked Chen Zhaoyi to copy scriptures. The Empress should be happy."

"happy?"

But she didn't feel any joy from it.

Although the Empress Dowager did this to cause trouble for Ye Yilan, she still did it for his face after all.

The Empress Dowager has always hated Qiu Shuwan. She only wanted her niece to be the queen, so naturally she would not tolerate the interference of other women.

What is the difference between the late emperor's feelings for Qiu Shuwan and those between Murong Haochen and Ye Yilan?

The eldest grandson Guanji looked at his own face in the mirror, and he saw that he was no worse than Ye Yilan.

It is said that men love women's looks, but with Ye Yilan's mediocre looks, how could Murong Haochen fall in love with her.

She put all her anger into the comb she held tightly in her hand.

She hated why she didn't attack her directly in prison that day. In order to leave some room for herself, she actually showed mercy.

No matter what she did, she could not win back Murong Haochen's heart.

The eldest grandson Guanji snorted disdainfully: "I thought that once the Queen Mother returned to the palace, the emperor would take into account the old man's feelings, but I didn't expect that the emperor would remain the same as before."

Seeing the queen's hatred, he took the comb from her hand.

I have followed her for many years and I have never seen her so depressed. As she combed her hair and slowly lowered it, she comforted her and said: "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager will definitely let the emperor favor the concubines in the harem for the sake of the country and the country. After all, the Queen Mother will definitely let the emperor favor the concubines in the harem.

The Empress Dowager hates her, so how can she let her give birth to an heir?"

Heir?

She didn't even know if she would have a chance to give birth to an heir for him, maybe she wouldn't.

"The Empress Dowager has always been afraid of the Changsun family, so how could she allow me to give birth to an heir? On the other hand, unless there is nothing that can threaten the interests of the imperial power, the three of them, perhaps, the Empress Dowager can feel at ease."

She stroked her belly with her hand, imagining that day when her belly swelled and the baby cried loudly as soon as it fell to the ground, she could feel happiness.

After all, life at this moment is like living in a cold palace. It is said that the woman who enters Fengluan Palace is extremely lucky and happy, but she is completely miserable.

She saw the queen's action, but she could not change the current situation.

"Right now, there are only Chen Zhaoyi and Feng Bin."

Concubine Shu's eldest brother had a close relationship with the Sixth Prince, so he was naturally not the best candidate.

What's more, in this way, the focus of all eyes is only on the two of them. For the sake of the country, I am afraid that the Empress Dowager will do the same.

Su Ying didn't know whether Chen Zhaoyi could be favored by the Empress Dowager. It seemed that everything was still controlled by the Emperor alone.

"According to what you said, there is no hope for me?"

hope?

All her hopes seemed to be turned into ashes, and with the caress of the breeze, all the hopes she had were gently taken away.

Now, she is only disappointed.

Everyone says that living in Fengluan Palace will bring you all the glory and wealth.

And she has no glory if she has others. However, all this is an illusion.

She, as a queen, is nothing more than an empty name. She is not as beautiful as they say.

The prosperity here is nothing more than her extravagant wish.

Now, she is guarding the huge Fengluan Palace, which is deserted. This is just like a palace, so what's the difference?

She had sacrificed so much, but her original hopes had been dashed and shattered by Murong Haochen.

It was an extremely terrifying thing for Su Ying to see her empress looking like she had no hope for anything.

I'm afraid of what she might do.

Looking at her eyes in the mirror that were so dim, she put down the comb in her hand and said with relief: "Empress, how can you say that about yourself? Even the Empress Dowager hates Chen Zhaoyi, there is still hope for the Empress."

"Will not."

She no longer had any hope, and her lazy words slowly sounded: "Even if the Empress Dowager hates her, she can still be favored. And even if the Emperor does not favor her, she can still have the Emperor's favor."

Love. Even though what the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager said may be mixed with rain and dew, the Emperor remains the same as before. Has anything changed?"

No, Murong Haochen would never change anything. What he believed in was for a lifetime.

The faint smile on the corner of his mouth was so sad and tearful.

"Empress, please listen to your advice. The days are long, and there will definitely be opportunities." He leaned close to his ear and whispered softly: "After all, we still have Chen Zhaoyi's handle in our hands, and we still need to be able to defeat her in the future.

Can't do it?"

handle?

Indeed, this handle is really beneficial.

"By the way, has there been any news about Chen Zhaoyi in the past few days?"

If we talk about the handle, she has forgotten that there is another handle, but this handle has never been realized.

She remembered that when she passed by Qinlan Palace that night, she saw Ye Yilan alone but didn't know where she was going?

There has been no news from her in the past few days, and she almost forgot about it.

Thinking about it carefully, she said that she had not seen Chen Zhaoyi for some time, and said: "This servant only knows that there was a man beside Chen Zhaoyi the previous two times. In order not to alarm them, she stared at him from a distance.

I just don’t know what a man looks like."

In the past few days, she did not dare to approach the Qinlan Palace at will. After all, the emperor went there every day, and even the Peach Blossom Forest had no trace of Chen Zhaoyi.

"Man?" Immediately, the corner of Changsun Guanji's mouth raised a smile, blooming like a poppy flower. He looked at himself in the mirror with bewitching eyes. "It turns out that Ye Yilan has been secretly following someone else.

tryst."

Originally, she wanted to wait until the day her cousin came, but she was afraid that she would not be able to wait until the day he came back. She couldn't wait any longer.

"What do you want to do, your Majesty?"

The eldest grandson Guanji murmured in her ear. Upon hearing this, Su Ying felt that this method was extremely appropriate: "The Empress Dowager will definitely be very happy with this gift."

His eyes immediately brightened, and he looked at his face and smiled charmingly: "I not only want to make the Empress Dowager happy, but also want to make the entire palace lively."

The eldest grandson Guanji stood up, casually glanced at the wooden brocade box next to him, and asked, "What is this?"

"You don't know, slave?"

If the queen hadn't mentioned it, she would have forgotten about it. But she really didn't know what it was.

She only knew that someone had placed this object in the middle of the palace, which was extremely conspicuous.

Curiously, he picked it up and saw that the Queen was dressing up, so he put it aside and ignored it.

"I don't know?" Changsun Wan raised his gaze and looked at her. She didn't know what the things she brought were. Isn't it too strange?

For some reason, I no longer trust her as much as I used to.

Su Ying was shocked by those eyes and immediately knelt down: "My slave picked this up outside the palace. I don't know what is inside, nor who left it outside Fengluan Palace."

Grandson Guanji stared at her for a long time before reaching out to touch the brocade box and open it.

"ah--"

Frightened, she immediately threw the wooden brocade box to the ground, looking at the ground with frightened eyes, and her body tremblingly supported.

Looking at the wooden brocade box on the ground and the bright red blood seeping out around it, she pointed with trembling fingers: "Your Majesty, this is..."

Slowly, he squatted forward and bravely opened the wooden brocade box. When he saw it, he collapsed to the ground.

The cat was lying in a pool of blood, dying peacefully, looking extremely horrific.

The empty eyes had already been gouged out and put aside.

And its limbs were tied up with ropes so that it couldn't move.

The eldest grandson Guanji was so frightened that he tightened his forehead and shouted anxiously: "What are you still doing? Why don't you clean it up quickly?"

Su Ying did not dare to touch the dead cat, so she crawled over slowly, took off her coat, turned her head and closed her eyes tightly, wrapped it in her clothes, and quickly placed it in the wooden brocade box.

.

He walked outside the door, handed the wooden box in his hand to them, and told them to clean up in the palace.

Su Ying was curious, who would put a dead cat in the box, and who would be so vicious as to do such a thing.

When she walked into the palace, she saw the empress looking eclipsed, still sitting in front of the mirror. Her eyes were staring at the ground. At that moment, Su Ying should have known what the empress was thinking about.

She will always remember her eldest grandson Wanji. When she was ten years old, she loved a snow-white cat very much and kept it in her arms.
To be continued...