In front of the pavilion.
Gu Lan stopped, looked back at Luo Chen, and raised the corners of his mouth slightly: "Why am I here alone? I have to ask your Majesty... The writing is on the table. You don't have eyes?"
Luo Chen was choked by his words!
His face suddenly darkened.
However, he didn't know to what extent Gu Lan was favored by the empress, so he felt a little wary. He glared at Gu Lan and slowly came to the table.
Luo Chen opened a booklet and took a closer look. What he saw was the dazzling red cinnabar, which made his pupils shrink severely!
"His Majesty's imperial ink pen...you! How dare you tamper with the memorial!?"
He Zhi moved, all the words on it were written by me... Gu Lan looked indifferent: "See clearly, this is His Majesty's order."
Luo Chen was stunned for a moment, then saw the piece of paper with the Empress' handwriting on it, and his brows twisted subconsciously: "Why does Your Majesty ask you to review the memorial?!"
Gu Lan: "..."
After Luo Chen and Gu Lan looked at each other for two seconds, they realized that the other person was looking at him the same way he was looking at Sabi, and the corner of his mouth twitched!
"His Majesty will ask you to review the memorial. Do you... have an unusual relationship with His Majesty?"
Luo Chen's tone has become much gentler!
Although the attitude of questioning is still habitually arrogant.
Because writing on behalf of His Majesty, even Sima Xiangguo rarely has the authority. Those who can have this honor are those who are extremely favored by the Empress!
After realizing this.
He's a little timid!
Gu Lan smiled gently: "None of your business? With whom does Your Majesty have a good relationship? Do you have the right to interfere?"
This is not because he wants to get close to the empress, but he just doesn’t want to get used to the guy in front of him.
Luo Chen: "..."
He looked at Gu Lan, wearing that extremely flamboyant outfit, walking towards the palace gate with ease, his expression extremely ugly!
"Damn pretty boy... what are you so proud of? You still have no status, you are just a poor scholar who has never even met His Majesty!"
Luo Chen thought of the concubine behind him and couldn't help but straighten his waist a little more!
"Whether you can enter the palace is still a matter of debate. Even if you can enter the palace, you may not be able to fight against me..."
He gritted his teeth bitterly and looked at the memorial that Gu Lan had reviewed, but he still couldn't help but look jealous!
finally.
Luo Chen hesitated for a long time, then looked around silently and guiltily, and then opened the memorial.
He is still worried!
If Gu Lan is truly talented and learned, and was invited to the palace by Her Majesty the Empress, then it will be really difficult for him as the commander of the Forbidden Army in the future...
but!
When he carefully read what Gu Lan had reviewed, his face was filled with astonishment, and then turned into eyes full of ecstasy and hatred!
"Ha! It seems that I am still suspicious. How much can you do when you are a pretty boy... If you dare to criticize Baiguan's Zhezi like this, you really don't want your head!!"
...
The end of Baihua Garden.
When Gu Lan walked past the gates of Luanfeng Hall and Yangxin Hall, he glanced at these two majestic palaces a few more times, and then followed the little eunuch who led the way out of the palace gate.
Taking advantage of the rising moonlight, we headed back to Gu's Mansion.
In the Luanfeng Palace.
The oval-faced beauty walked to the window lattice and looked at Gu Lan's leaving figure, with a thoughtful look in her delicate eyebrows.
"Why are there young men in the palace?"
"Back to Your Highness, I am a guest invited by His Majesty today."
"Sister Royal?"
Princess Mingle's little face was first filled with surprise, then shock... and finally her beautiful peach blossom eyes turned into the fire of gossip!
"Is the imperial sister asking for a concubine?!"
"This...servant doesn't dare to say that."
The maid was very measured, even though she felt that she was inseparable from it.
After all, after so many years in the palace, today was the first time I saw a strange man enter the palace, and he looked so handsome.
Except for the clothes being a bit...ahem, everything else is perfect!
"What is this man's name? Let me investigate his family background and send him to my house...quietly, don't tell my imperial sister!"
Princess Mingle's beautiful eyes flashed, she lowered her voice and gave instructions like a little fox.
The palace maid looked embarrassed: "Your Highness, this is not good..."
"I am your majesty's only sister. Of course I should be concerned about her affairs. Just be obedient and do what you say!"
Princess Mingle pouted and immediately became serious.
The palace maid had no choice but to sigh and surrender.
She just felt that if His Majesty found out about this, she would inevitably face trouble with His Highness the Princess...
now.
Mingle looked at the palace gate where Gu Lan left, the corners of her red lips raised slightly.
"Hmph! The thousand-year-old iron tree has blossomed. Whose young man does the imperial sister actually like?"
"Now I need to take a closer look... It would be great if he is a beloved person worthy of trust. This will save the princess from having to find trouble with me every day in the future..."
...
Gu Mansion, side room.
Liu Yexi hurriedly came back before Gu Lan, and knelt down in front of the empress with a heavy look on her face: "Your Majesty, the Sun Mansion has been sealed off... None of the guards in the mansion are from the Great Jing Dynasty, except for one king-level servant. Bend at your desk!”
"Where are the girls?!"
Mu Yuyan leaned forward, breathing rapidly, and stared at her with beautiful eyes.
Liu Yexi was silent for a while, her eye circles suddenly turned red, and then she slapped herself in the face and fell to the ground!
"Your Majesty, I deserve death for my crime! The man named Sun probably planned to leave the capital today. Those girls have also disappeared. They should have been... obliterated before he came out!"
Bang!
When Mu Yuyan heard this, she stood up from the wooden chair instantly. The knuckles on her long sleeves were clenched white, and her body was trembling slightly!
A look of extreme anger appeared on the empress' cold face!
"Those Sun Mansion guards who were lying on the desk were put into the sky jail and interrogated carefully by me... No matter what the result of their interrogation was, they were paraded in the streets, skinned and cramped, chopped into pieces and fed to the dogs!"
"The special envoy of the Xuantiansi Secret Guard has also been sent to track down this person who escaped. The entire city is under martial law and only allowed in and out! I will never allow such people to escape from the capital. The forces behind them must also be uprooted and the nine tribes will be annihilated! "
"yes..."
Liu Yexi choked up.
There is no need for the empress to say this herself, she has already complied with it... However, those beautiful girls who were killed will never come back!
Cutting the villain to pieces with a thousand swords is not enough to remedy this heartache!
Liu Yexi knelt on the ground and sobbed in grief.
a long time.
After the empress vented her anger, she sat back on the chair again, looking a little weak.
She slowly closed her eyes, heartbroken, rubbed her stuffy chest with her jade hands, and sighed faintly: "The families of these girls are very comforted. I will allocate a pension from the Ministry of Internal Affairs... try to make up for it!"
"However, the news will only be spread for three days at most. If nothing can be found during the review within three days, I will immediately issue an edict to apologize. I hope... it can calm the public anger at that time."
Liu Yexi looked up at the empress and her body trembled!
The edict of sin is the edict that emperors of all dynasties value most and are most unwilling to do, because it is related to the comments of future generations!
The Empress was misunderstood by the people of the world in the early years. If this matter continues to be discredited, I am afraid that all these years of hard work will be in vain!
However, there is actually another way... that is, you can block the news and just pretend that nothing happened, and the court can shirk it completely!
But in that case, those poor women would have died unjustly in vain! !
This is something Mu Yuyan can't do no matter what!
In some matters, she always seemed incompatible with the emperor's ruthlessness, and could not be a ruthless monarch who was in the midst of turmoil but far away from the fire and water!
Liu Yexi kowtowed repeatedly!
"I will die for humiliating you! Within three days, I will do my best and dig deep to find out the forces behind them. Your Majesty will never be charged with this crime!"
"..."
