Drunk House

  Chapter 55 Queen (one more)

   Regarding the candidates for Nanping, Taifu Qin couldn't decide who to recommend for a while.

  Yan echoed: "Why don't you send Qin Feng?"

   "Your Highness, do you think the dog is competent?" Taifu Qin was taken aback, then shook his head quickly, "He is not calm, and the old minister is afraid that he will mess up such an important matter."

   "Gu believes in Qin Feng, and the Taifu should also believe in him." Yan Hui smiled, "That's it!"

   Qin Taifu was blocked, so he could only agree, "It's okay, since Zhou Gu left the capital for Jiangning, he has grown like grass, and now he is released, I am afraid he will be happy."

  He continued: "When the old minister returns to the mansion, he will give him strict instructions. After he comes to the East Palace, you must also give him strict instructions. The Marquis of Nanping is a great help for the First Prince. If we can use Ningchi to bring down the Marquis of Nanping and bring the Marquis of Nanping's mansion into our camp, the First Prince will lose a lot of help. There is nothing to fear."

  Yan nodded in echo.

  The two discussed for a while, and someone outside reported, "Your Highness, the empress is here."

   Qin Taifu stopped talking, looked at Yan Huisheng, Yan Huisheng was also a little surprised, and went out to greet him.

  The queen empress is a dignified beauty. As she gets older, she becomes more and more beautiful. Seeing Taifu Qin there, she smiled and said, "Did I interrupt the discussion between the Taifu and the prince?"

   "The old minister has seen the empress, don't bother me. The old minister and His Highness have finished their discussions, so I will leave." Qin Taifu said quickly.

  The Queen smiled and said: "I have some matters to ask the crown prince. Now that the Taifu has finished the discussion, I will not keep you. The Taifu will go slowly."

   Qin Taifu nodded, resigned, and left the East Palace.

  After Taifu Qin left, the queen stopped smiling and looked at Yan Huisheng.

  Yan Huisheng knew that the empress would not come to the East Palace easily. Usually, she would say something when he went to Fengyi Palace to pay her respects. She cupped her hands and said, "The empress please speak in the study."

  The Queen nodded and followed Yan Huisheng to the study.

  The door of the room was closed, and there were guards outside. The mother and son faced each other. Then the queen asked, "I ask you, where is the dagger that Zhang Chengming made for you?"

  Yan echoed for a moment, "Why would the queen mother ask this?"

   "I just want to ask you, where is the dagger?" The queen stared at him and asked.

  Yan echoed: "Give it away."

   "So important, who did you give it to?"

   "Give it to the person who was assassinated in Jiangning last time and saved his minister." Yan echoed.

  The queen was taken aback, "Is it a woman?"

   "Yes." Yan echoed surprised, "How does the queen mother know?"

  The queen sat down, "How do I know? Naturally, I obeyed the queen of Nanchu's promise to kill someone for her, and she asked the king of Nanchu to support you. Who knew that the person I sent to kill had your dagger on him."

  Yan Hui was startled, his face changed slightly, and he asked anxiously: "Mother, did you kill someone?"

  The queen looked at him and shook her head gloomily, "I didn't kill you. The man I sent recognized your dagger and stopped it. He came back and told me to make a decision. I was thinking about your dagger, which was Zhang Chengming's masterpiece of sealing mountains. You love it the most. How did you let it fall into the hands of outsiders? I came to ask you."

  She was helpless, "Why did she save you?"

  Yan Echo breathed a sigh of relief, "It's fine if you don't kill her, but is she injured?"

   This time it was the Queen's turn to change her expression slightly, "Prince, why do you care about her so much?"

  Yan Huisheng also knew that he was a little too revealing, so he calmed down, "Mother, she saved my son's life. Otherwise, I would have no strength to escape the two killers that day. The grace of saving lives is greater than heaven. No matter how much I care about her, I can't be too much."

  The empress choked for a moment, paused for a while, and then said: "That's what I said, but where is Queen Nanchu..."

   "My mother can find out clearly why the queen of Nanchu wanted to kill her? A vassal state of Nanchu thousands of miles away, a place as small as Jiangning County, what enmity does the queen of Nanchu have with her?"

   "This... I don't know either. It was the queen of Nanchu who came to me on her own initiative and said that she knew about your situation and that Your Majesty is in control of you in many ways. If I can kill someone for her, she will persuade the king of Nanchu to support you. You know, the vassal state of Nanchu plays a very important role in our Daliang. It is very beneficial for you to have a vassal state's support. Even if it is your majesty, it is not good to suppress you too much."

  Yan nodded in echo, but he understood the Queen's concern for him. "I have been sending people to look for her, but I didn't know her identity. I didn't expect to be bumped into by the queen mother first. Can the queen tell me, who is her name, and where does she live? She saved him, and he can't let the queen of Nanchu kill her. After he knows her identity, he will also investigate why the queen of Nanchu killed her."

   "You don't know her identity?" The queen was surprised.

   "At that time, I was eager to get away, and my son never asked, thinking that she should be easy to find, but never thought about it, so far no one has been found."

  The empress nodded, "She is the daughter of Su Xu from the Jiangning prefect's mansion, she is the seventh daughter, and her name seems to be Su..." When she said this, she suddenly asked in surprise: "Is the little concubine from the Su prefect's mansion who is engaged to Zhou Gu called Su Rong?"

  Yan Huisheng's complexion changed, and he didn't speak for a long time. After a long time, under the surprised gaze of the queen, he nodded, "That's the name."

  The queen saw that Yan Hui nodded, but she didn't speak for a long time.

  Things in this world, who knows that it is such a coincidence, the person who the queen of Nanchu wanted to kill was Su Rong, the person who saved Yan Huisheng was Su Rong, and the person who had a marriage contract with Zhou Gu was also Su Rong.

   The study was quiet for a while.

   After a long while, the queen opened her mouth and asked tentatively, "You found her because you want to repay the favor? How do you plan to repay the favor of saving your life?"

  Yan Echo didn't speak.

  The queen is someone who has been here, her face suddenly turned a little bad, and she asked tentatively: "It's just a one-sided relationship, you can't..."

   "Mother, I'm here." Yan Huisheng met her gaze and admitted.

  The queen's face changed drastically, "It's just one side..."

  Yan Hui was silent for a while, "After returning to Beijing, I have always regretted that I didn't ask her name that day."

  Just this one sentence, the queen's heart sank.

  As his crown prince, if he wanted to repay his life-saving favor, he didn't need to worry about it so much, but it would be nice if he could think about it like this. But who is wrong? It was Su Rong, who was wanted to be killed by Queen Nanchu and Zhou Gu's fiancée.

  The queen looked at Yan Huisheng, "You are the prince, even if you care about it, you can't let it go."

  Yan echoed and laughed, "Mother, do you think that Erchen is the kind of person who can easily let go of someone after he has fallen in love with him?"

  If this is the case, he won't have no women around him for many years. He is not interested in all the women given by the palace, including Qin Luan. Everyone said that Qin Luan was good, but he didn't think so.

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