Chapter 473

When the situation within Da An was stabilized, Shen Ninghua set her sights on the border. While she had people raise provisions to support the frontline army, she dispatched people out to look for Baili Junyi’s traces. She didn’t believe that Baili Jun Yi would die, or as long as she didn’t see his body, she didn’t believe that he was dead.

At this time, the Emperor of the Great Yue Country was assassinated, because he did not get timely treatment, under the deterioration of the injury, not long after he passed away. Without Shen Ninghua’s intervention, the several princes of the Great Yue Kingdom who had been separated from each other started an internal battle, coupled with Baili Jinze’s deterrence at the borders, the Great Yue Kingdom began to retreat. The few cities that were originally occupied have all been recovered.

Hongling delivered the latest news, “Empress Mother, now that the border crisis has been resolved and the people’s hearts are extremely stable, you can rest assured for now.”

Shen Ninghua slightly relaxed her tightly wrinkled brow, the breath she had been carrying in her heart loosened for a long time, “Is there any news from Baili Jin Yi’s side?”

“The Abolished Prince defected to the Great Yue State, originally thinking to threaten you with the power of the Great Yue State, but I didn’t realize that the Emperor of the Great Yue State passed away, the throne wasn’t confirmed, and several imperial sons were competing for power, so how could they still care about him?”

Shen Ninghua looked at the content of the letter, slightly shook his head: ”The death of the Emperor of the Great Yue State has some impact on the Great Yue State, but it is not so great. On the surface it looks like the Great Yue Country is under the Emperor’s control, but behind the scenes the one who really takes the idea is still the Great Yue Country’s Empress Jin, a few of the Imperial Princes are fighting, she shouldn’t just stand by and watch, there should be some kind of accident in this.”

“The slave girl will send someone to investigate and see if there is something hidden.”

Shen Ninghua nodded, and suddenly spoke when she was about to go out, “Does Hongling … have any news of Jun Yi?”

Hongling’s footsteps lurched as she hung her head and shook it slightly, “There’s no news from the Emperor yet.”

“Got it, you go down.”

The hall was quiet, but Shen Ninghua’s heart couldn’t be quiet, she raised her eyes and scanned around the hall, her complexion was a little dazed. More than a month has passed, but there has been no news from Baili Junyi. Many times, she woke up from her dreams, hoping that Baili Junyi could suddenly appear in front of her, and then smiled and told her that he had not disappeared, and was only joking …

Boss and Little Treasure walked in hand in hand, quickly walking to Shen Ninghua, looking at her face, she couldn’t help but ask, “Mother, what’s wrong with you, are you not feeling well?”

Shen Ninghua snapped back to her senses, looked down at Xiao Bao, who was lying on her knees, and touched her head, “No, Niangniang is not uncomfortable.”

The oldest walked to Shen Ningshua’s side, and also followed his sister’s model to lie down beside Shen Ningshua, his little face with a blushing red color, he was already a man, but in order to make his mother smile more, he didn’t mind to learn more from his sister, “Mother …”

Shen Ninghua was softened in her heart by the two children, and couldn’t help but reach out and gather them into her arms, “Good children.”

Xiao Bao lay on Shen Ninghua’s shoulder, reliantly rubbed her cheek, and asked somewhat cautiously, “Mother, daddy hasn’t been coming back, does he not want us?”

Shen Ninghua’s body stiffened, letting go of Xiao Bao to help her straighten her clothes, “Who did Xiao Bao hear that from?”

“It is the palace lackey.” Xiao Bao huffed and puffed and said, also stomped his feet on the ground, “Xiao Bao just don’t believe it, daddy is the best, won’t not want Xiao Bao, and, Xiao Bao is very good, all have obediently obeyed, daddy why don’t you want Xiao Bao?” Mouth said do not believe, but in the end listen into the heart a few points, round big eyes have been full of tears.

The Boss also bowed his head slightly and raised his sleeve to wipe his eyes.

A hint of sternness flashed in Shen Ninghua’s eyes as she turned her head to Hongling, who was at the side, “Go and investigate, and find out who is so bold as to dare to believe what they say in front of the Emperor and the Princess!”

“Yes, Your Highness.” Hongling walked out as quickly as if it were a gust of wind, full of anger, let her find out who it was, and she would definitely pull out that person’s tongue!

Shen Ninghua wrapped her arms around the two children, “How does father treat you on weekdays, do you not understand in your hearts?”

Xiao Bao thought about it and nodded heavily, “Father treats brother and Xiao Bao very well on weekdays.”

Shen Ninghua looked at them with a smile, “Since that’s the case, then how could father not want you?”

The two children thought about it, and suddenly felt that their mother was right, and couldn’t help but be happy: daddy wouldn’t not want them!

Only after they had pondered for a while did Shen Ninghua continue, “You are imperial princes and princesses, and your father is the emperor, so many people look at him unfavorably, so they will try to slander him in any way they can. It’s fine for others to not believe him, but we can’t not believe him, right?”

“Yes, yes!” The two children nodded their heads repeatedly, only feeling that they had been foolish before, to believe in other people’s words instead of their own father.

“Mother don’t tell father, or father will be sad.”

“Well, it’s all our fault, we shouldn’t have doubted daddy.”

Shen Ninghua nodded, “Good.”

After pacifying the two children, the three mothers went to see Sanjang together, and only after about an hour, when the children were all tired, did Shen Ninghua ask her grandmother to bring them down.

Hongling walked in quickly, “Your Highness, it’s been found out, it’s the palace maid beside Zhao Tai concubine in the harem.”

“Mrs. Zhao? A member of the Zhao family?”

“Yes, she is a side branch of the Zhao family, and this family does not have much dealings, and then the Zhao family had an accident, but she was not implicated, who ever, even today popped up.”

Shen Ninghua’s eyes were cold, “Send someone over, replace all the palace staff around her, the people who originally served her, investigate properly, let go those without problems, and cane all those with problems.”

“Yes, ma’am.”

Zhao Tai concubine was mad by Shen Ningshua’s tactics, she didn’t dare to directly confront Shen Ningshua, so she cried and went to Qi Tai noble consort, “Your Highness, the Empress is really bullying people too much, where is she beating and killing the lackeys beside me, she is clearly hitting me in the face, we people are already pitiful enough, why does the Empress still want to be deliberately difficult?”

Qi too noble consort turned the Buddha beads in her hand, since Baili Jinze left, she let the palace maid clean out a Buddha hall, weekdays the door of the temple are not out, only concentrate on the ritual of Buddha, at this time she was expressionless listening to Zhao’s cries of concubines, turning the beads of the Buddha’s movement but did not stop, “Zhao too concubine, since you are so dissatisfied, then the palace sent to invite the Empress to come, and you face-to-face confrontation, how to ?”

“Your Majesty, you …”

“What, don’t agree?” Qi Tai Guifei raised her head, her gaze coldly looking at her, wanting to use her as a gun, not looking at herself to see if she’s qualified enough, “Didn’t you say that those lackeys were wrongly accused, saying that you yourself are pitiful? How can this palace not watch the empress bully people, just ask her to discern this reasoning to see which is right and which is wrong!”

“Niangniang … no … no need, but it is just a few lackeys … think it should be that they have violated some taboo, Niangniang, I’ll go first, don’t disturb you to salute Buddha.” Said, the color of the wolf rushed to leave.

Qi Tai Guifei let out a cold smile, and instructed the palace maid on the side, “Close the door of the palace, if there are still people coming, just say that this palace is going to concentrate on the Buddhist rituals, and no one will see them.”

Shen Ninghua couldn’t help but smile faintly when she heard the reaction of Dowager Consort Qi, and ordered people not to neglect her, and then put this matter behind her.

Daan inside and outside the gradual calm, the courtroom, but suddenly some people advise, said the country can not be a day without the king, the emperor is now missing, although it is not certain whether the death, but in the end can not bear the country’s heavy responsibility, the need to determine the throne as soon as possible successor is.

Although this idea was proposed by the old school officials, the newly promoted officials did not oppose it. They also knew that the situation today would be even more unfavorable to Daan Kingdom if it lasted longer.

Shen ninghua shrugged off will consider, do not say for the time being. After returning to the rear chambers, is a heavy hearted look, green bird to help her change clothes, can not help but ask, “Your Highness, the officials in the former dynasty again?”

“Well, the officials advised and wanted to determine the heir to the throne and stabilize the hearts of the people of the world.”

“An heir? Isn’t that the Grand Prince?”

Shen Ninghua also understood, just that she didn’t want to burden her child with a heavy responsibility this early.

Suddenly, Hongling ran all the way in with a cry of alarm, ”Miss! No, Empress Mother! Your Majesty, there’s news, there’s news!”

Shen Ninghua froze, then stood up violently, “But there is news of the Emperor?”

Hongling ran in with a big smile on her face, handing over the letter in her hand. Shen Ninghua’s fingers trembled as she opened the envelope, repeatedly reading the contents of the letter a few times, her body trembling slightly, “Are you sure? Possibly sure it’s the Emperor?”

The letter said that seven days ago, a person from the Huajun Pharmaceutical Company saw a man who looked exactly like the Emperor in Salt City, and then lost him, but it was certain that the man had come to Kyoto.

“Your Highness, it shouldn’t be wrong, besides, isn’t the Emperor already coming towards Kyoto? We just need to wait in the middle of Kyoto.”

Shen Ninghua nodded, with a crystallized look in her eyes, “Not bad, order it down, as long as you see His Majesty enter the city, report it to me immediately, in addition, have someone monitor the whole city, so that no accidents happen.”

“Yes, ma’am.”

Shen Ninghua’s hand that was pinching the letter was shaking slightly, and her eyes were sore as hell, “Great, just great.”

Baili Junyi, that is, now the amnesia Junhua, in the Yuyang mountain range will be most of the injury recuperation, then feel that there are important things to do, he followed his heart, all the way to Kyoto. Just entering the gates of Kyoto, looking at the crowds of people coming and going, and he did not know what to do, only to feel that the emptiness in his heart is more and more powerful, in urgent need of a person to fill. But who is this person, how can he not remember …