Chapter 279

Su Rushuang bit her pale lips and squeezed out a few words from her teeth, "the rebels are coming. I only have you to rely on. Do what you think."

"Meng Yuanzhen's business. I have other ideas," Meng Qianzhong's eyes darkened. "Should the throne be him? I'm just a usurper?"

"Where's Xue ronghua?" Luo Ninghai pushed away the umbrella maid coming up and opened the hall door in a hurry. "Where has the female official gone? Isn't she still in the palace?"

The maid carefully held her back. "Don't worry, madam. My aunt is playing hide and seek with the eldest prince and the eldest princess in the backyard."

Luo Ninghai breathed a sigh of relief and became nervous again. "Has she asked Meng Yanqi anything?"

"My aunt asked. But my maid said that my mother had sent someone to Yunhe pavilion to deliver snacks. The little prince has always been taken care of by a specially assigned person."

"That's good. I'm afraid you can't react," Luo Ninghai touched his chest. "Then step back first. The palace will go to see the female official."

The maid in waiting pulled her sleeve from behind. She lowered her voice and whispered, "madam, Yunhe pavilion has now become a piece of ashes. No one can be found."

Luo Ninghai's heart stagnated and said in silence, "how come it's so fast. The palace thought it would be a long time."

"Lord Luo asked to act quickly," the maid said in a deep voice. "The rebels are going to the imperial city. Your Excellency asked the maidservant to tell her to be careful. There are many dreams at night."

Luo Ninghai frowned nervously. Repeatedly waved his hand and said, "well, the palace already knows. You ask your father not to be anxious. You can't do things well if you always urge the palace."

The maid nodded slightly and hurried back.

Xue ronghua heard the movement in the main hall. She was telling a historical story with Meng Boyi and Meng jou Chia. She put down her history books and hurried to the main hall. She happened to see Princess de looking absently into the rainy air.

"Princess De," Xue ronghua asked softly, "are you looking for me?"

Luo Ninghai suddenly recovered and smiled at her, "are you playing hide and seek with the prince and princess in the back hall?"

"I played for a while after the lunch break. I was telling them a little historical story just now. I think they were very fascinated."

"You can tell stories," Luo Ninghai sighed. "What stories do you tell? I haven't taken history books for a long time. Can you tell them to me," she said with a smile. "I remember you told them to me when I was a child."

Xue ronghua smiled. "I told them the story of Webster's political chaos in the Tang Dynasty. Do you remember?"

Luo Ninghai was stiff and his eyes were covered with a mist. "Of course, I remember, but I was just a woman who wanted to be Empress Wu's second. Finally, her ability could not match her ambition."

"That's what the empress thinks," Xue ronghua smiled. "The prince and the princess have the same idea as the empress. They also think that Webster is really overestimating his strength. He even goes to rob things that don't belong to him. She is a woman without self-knowledge."

Luo Ninghai looked back at her and said with some hesitation, "what did you say?"

"I asked the prince and princess, do they know what belongs to them and what doesn't belong to them? Then what are the certificates of belonging," Xue ronghua shook his head leisurely. "Maybe they are too young to find a strong certificate for belonging or not belonging."

"Everything in the world is fought for by herself. Where does it belong?" Luo Ninghai's heart is like a mirror. "Before becoming the queen, Wu Zetian never thought that the throne was her own destiny, but her ambition taught her to fight for it. Webster also fought for it with her own ambition, but ended up like this."

"What's the end like this? Compared with all the people in the harem, Webster's words of disorderly politics in the history books are better than those women who have broken their heads for the emperor's favor and can't keep half their names," Xue ronghua looked at her deeply. "Don't you think so, madam?"

Luo Ninghai's eyes flashed a strange light, "I understand what you mean, but I'm not interested in being a queen. Just sit in front of me with a game."

"No matter what your mother means, it's on the line now."

"Meng Qianchong also asked the palace to urge his cousin to send troops," Luo Ninghai glanced at her and took her to the study. "Please write for the palace."

Xue ronghua dipped his brush into the ink, raised his eyes and said, "what is your mother going to write?"

Luo Ninghai lowered his eyebrows, and every word flashed a cold light, "send troops to alliance with Meng Yuanzhen, and then leave a group of elite soldiers in the palace for the palace."

Xue ronghua's NIB gave him a hard beating, "madam, do you think Meng Yuanzhen will alliance with you?"

"He will. With my Luo family, the imperial city is not so easy to attack. It's not a good thing if he doesn't alliance with my Luo family."

"Does the empress think he will give the throne to the game? What if he attacks the palace after the alliance?"

Luo Ninghai raised his lips slightly and said with a soft smile, "what about attacking the palace? Don't you still have you in the palace?"

Xue ronghua said, "me?"

"Meng Qianzhong invited us to Huayang Palace today to talk about things. Suddenly, he thought of someone whose eyes lit up. We guessed that he would probably come to you for help. You should be careful," Luo Ninghai swept her eyes. "It's better for us to start first."

Xue ronghua wrote the letter silently, put it in an envelope and said calmly, "I won't help you fight with Meng Yuanzhen. I only have the task of revenge in my heart. As soon as Meng Qianchong and Su Rushuang die, I will immediately return to the state of Qin with Duan Wang. As Duan Princess of the state of Qin, it is difficult for me to get out of the dispute over the throne of Qi."

Luo Ninghai stared at her for a long time and pursed his lips into a line. "When Meng Yuanzhen's rebels attacked the Imperial City, no one could escape the disaster."

It was so dark that it was almost pressing on the palace. When Zhuang Youyi woke up slowly, he saw Meng Qianchong's face. He was looking at himself with concern, "how does concubine Qi feel about her body? Do you want me to call the imperial doctor again?"

Zhuang Youyi felt that her throat was dry in her eyes, and her voice shouted falsely: "I want to drink water... I want to drink water..."

Linlang heard her weak voice and hurriedly took a glass of water and carefully asked her to drink it. "Madam, you drink it one mouthful at a time, so it will moisten your throat."

Meng Qianzhong touched her forehead and sighed slightly: "fortunately, I didn't get too sick, otherwise I couldn't take good care of his daughter. I'm really sorry for general Zhuang in the sky."

Zhuang Youyi's eyes turned red and said dumbly, "my father died for his country and has achieved his long cherished wish. As my father's daughter, I am very proud of my father."

"I'm very relieved that you think so," Meng Qianchong tucked in his quilt horn and looked at her deeply. "I heard the news that you fainted. I thought you didn't even use up your dinner because general Zhuang died of illness, so I rushed over quickly."

Zhuang Youyi quickly sat up. "I dare not bother the emperor. Please put the dragon body first. Go back and have dinner. I'm fine. I'm just a little cold. There's a beautiful girl here to take care of me."

Lin Lang nodded and said, "I'm here to take care of my mother. The emperor will go back to dinner quickly. If I hurt the dragon's body, my mother will be sorry."

Seeing that she looked better and her voice was no longer hoarse, Meng Qian smiled and said, "have a good rest. I'll go back to the study first and come back to see you tomorrow."

Through the crack of the door, Zhuang Youyi saw his figure disappear at the corner. Zhuang Youyi's high hanging heart finally put down. In the twinkling of an eye, she looked at Lin Lang's tearful eyes. "Empress, you can be regarded as waking up. The maid thought you, like min Jieyu, were stunned by the news of the general's death."

"Where is it so fragile? I'm really sad to hear the news of my father's sudden death, but I won't faint," Zhuang Youyi drank a few more mouthfuls of tea. "Just because I didn't stand the wind and cold, I fainted at once."

"The emperor heard the news that the empress fainted and rushed over from Zhongcui palace immediately. He was afraid that something might happen to the empress."

"My father spent most of his life on the battlefield for the country of Daqi," Zhuang Youyi's eyes darkened. "Even if he had a scene, he would come to see me. He would be a stranger in the future."

"Don't think so, my mother," said Lin Lang, biting her lips. "My mother really doesn't intend to..."

Zhuang Youyi turned her face in embarrassment and said silently, "I still have him in my heart. I don't want to commit myself to other men. You have advised me many times. Don't mention it again. I don't want to."

Linlang looked at her silently for a long time, and finally she could only sigh: "how can the maiden understand? It's just that Prince Chun's rebels are approaching the imperial city. How should we go in the future?"

"I can only go one step at a time. I'm really embarrassed as a middleman," Zhuang Youyi sniffed bitterly. "I don't know how I'm holding an empty Penglai hall to face Meng Yuanzhen. Let's talk about it at that time."

Meng Qianzhong returned to the table and picked up his chopsticks again. Now it was a bowl of spare ribs soup that had been served long ago. He just waited for him to come back and drink it.

"How's concubine Qi?" Luo Ninghai raised her eyebrows. "I think she's still young, but I'm a little pitiful. I want to see her in the future."

"Don't go. I've been there today. Let her stay in the Penglai hall alone," Meng Qianchong said with a faint expression, took a sip of soup and glanced at the German imperial concubine. "Why didn't you see the female official around you tonight?"

"Does the emperor have anything to do with her? My concubine saw that the moonlight was good tonight, so she asked the prospective princess to go to the palace to accompany Duanwang," Luo Ninghai looked at his face with the remaining light from the corner of her eye. "Duanwang stayed here for many days and didn't know when to leave."

Meng Qianchong took some vegetable leaves and put them into the bowl. "It's better for a female official to stay with her often. She can't go away because of her identity, or others will say that the princess doesn't know how to discipline her servants."

Luo Ninghai said with a low eyebrow, "my concubine understands that I will talk to her when ronghua comes back."

"It's time for Duan Wang to leave. The rebels are pressing on the border. I don't intend to let the state of Qin fight for fear that Snipes and mussels will benefit," Meng Qianzhong raised his lips, "but Princess Duan doesn't know whether to go back with her this time."

Luo Ninghai said faintly, "this is their own business. Why don't I ask my concubine when she comes back?"

"Just remember to ask. It's weird that these two people often stay in Daqi," Meng Qianzhong said with his chopsticks. "You don't have to stare at me all the time. Just eat the dishes in your bowl."