Empress Dowager Han looked kind, with a kind tone and a little regretful.?                                                                                                                     

The key to what Empress Dowager Han reminded them was also very clear.

Qin Lin has killed Ji Xiaolian and his son. In the next step, in order to clear the obstacles to fighting for the throne, Qin Lin will attack Qin Xuan. Because without Qin Xuan, Qin Yu, the young prince of Prince Su's mansion, is the only heir to the throne.

Empress Dowager Han tried so much to tell them about this matter, and it was not unreasonable. Moreover, she had spoken several times before and suggested that Emperor Longqing had no son, so she would never let the country fall into Qin Lin's hands. It was obvious that the heir to the throne she liked was Xuan'er.

But although Empress Dowager Han hinted this several times, she never clearly stated this sentence.

This is also the shrewd and experienced Empress Dowager Han.

Sprinkle enough bait, but give yourself enough room to move forward and backward freely.

Ji Xiaotang and Qin Zhen could not be completely indifferent when Empress Dowager Han was so attentive. The two comforted Empress Dowager Han, and Qin Zhen also clearly stated his loyalty to Empress Dowager Han and Emperor Longqing, and his attitude that he had no intention of the throne.

The An Mansion is on the side of Empress Dowager Han and Emperor Longqing.

At the same time, Qin Zhen and Ji Xiaotang both avoided the topic of Qin Lin as much as possible. This made Queen Mother Han feel a little dissatisfied, but she did not show it immediately.

After all, now, she has achieved more than half of the purpose of calling Qin Zhen and Ji Xiaotang into the palace. She firmly believes that Qin Lin will not watch Qin Xuan grow up safely. She also firmly believes that Qin Zhen and Ji Xiaotang do not have no idea about the throne.

With these two things, it is impossible to live in peace between Prince An’s Mansion and Prince Su’s Mansion.

He also kept Ji Xiaotang and Qin Zhen in the Cining Palace for a while, and Empress Dowager Han's face showed a little tiredness.

Ji Xiaotang and Qin Zhen immediately saw it and offered goodbye to Empress Dowager Han, saying that they were asking Empress Dowager Han to rest for a good rest. They also wanted to pay their respects to Emperor Longqing.

Empress Dowager Han did not keep the two of them, and even gave them a few words to let them go to the Qianqing Palace and persuade Emperor Longqing to persuade him.

When Ji Xiaotang and Qin Zhen left the Cining Palace, the sad expression on Empress Dowager Han's face disappeared without a trace, and replaced by a sinister look.

She sat on the chair and coughed gently. The palace maid came in from outside and brought a cup of hot ginseng tea.

Empress Dowager Han took the ginseng tea and drank slowly with a gloomy face.

Recently, she felt that her physical strength was getting worse and worse, and she woke up in her heart. Not only did she ask the imperial physicians to take pulse and prescribe the prescription for recuperation, but all the tea she usually drinks were changed to medicinal tea that replenishes blood and nourishes qi.? ¤

Just now, she felt very tired with Ji Xiaotang and Qin Zhen. This kind of ginseng tea is what she needs most at this moment.

After drinking a cup of ginseng tea, Empress Dowager Han gently placed the teacup on the table at her elbow. The palace maid who came to deliver ginseng tea stood by her side. At this time, she came forward and collected the teacup and wanted to retreat.

"Did you cook this tea?" Queen Mother Han suddenly asked.

The palace maid was busy and she promised to cook the ginseng tea.

"Very good." Empress Dowager Han nodded and looked at the palace maid again.

"It's different to read the words and words. It's much better than those who don't know the words but don't know the words. It's really lovely." Empress Dowager Han called out the name of the palace maid, "Pianpian, these days, thanks to you who are around the Ai family."

It turned out that this palace maid who served Empress Dowager Han was Yang Pianpian.

Yang Pianpian has long become one of the most decent palace maids around Empress Dowager Han, and after Madam Fang disappeared, Yang Pianpian was even with Empress Dowager Han, almost inseparable from her.

Empress Dowager Han had already regarded Yang Pianpian as her confidant. She did not let Yang Pianpian retreat, so Yang Pianpian took a step back and stood beside Empress Dowager Han.

"They thought they did nothing. I didn't know what they were thinking? It's ridiculous!" Empress Dowager Han said almost to herself with a gloomy sneer on her face.

"...I am sick, why don't you get sick early or late? But I'm sick at this time. At a young age, he has been practicing martial arts since he was a child. What kind of symptoms can make him unable to get up or go out? It's clear that he got the news in advance and knew that the thief was going to deal with me? But he pretended to be fine and wanted to stay out of the matter."

"Watch the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and want to reap the benefits of the fisherman, they think of the beauty!"

Empress Dowager Han did not name her name, but the disgust and hatred in her tone were almost overflowing.

Yang Pianpian stood beside Empress Dowager Han, with almost no expression on her face. When she heard this, she nodded repeatedly.

"The Empress Dowager is wise!"

This sentence is just right.

Empress Dowager Han snorted lightly, and did not go to see Yang Pianpian, but continued to speak, with a hint of pride in her tone this time.

"That thief is so great that he didn't escape his eyes. He was so brave that he actually tried to make me do it once. It was me. I'm afraid that it wouldn't work this time. If I hadn't made a quick decision..."

If she hadn't been decisive and cruel, and had cured Ji Xiaolian and his son first, she would probably not be able to sit openly in the Cining Palace, but was sent to the cold palace, or even... the body had already entered the coffin.

Qin Lin has been in secret for many years, but he is no match for him after all.???    ◎№   ?

Not to mention Qin Lin, it’s Qin Lin’s…

Thinking of this, a heavy haze flashed across Queen Mother Han’s face.

If she hadn't been decisive and cruel back then, and would have taken the initiative as she did this time, then now the saplings next to the tomb of Emperor Longqing were growing to cover the sky and the sun. How could she have had so many years of good days of holding power?

However, Qin Lin's actions this time still disrupted her plan. A good little prince disappeared like this. If the concubines in the harem were pregnant, I don't know when they would have to wait.

And fake pregnancy has become completely impossible under Qin Lin's eye. And Emperor Longqing...

As she said to Qin Zhen and Ji Xiaotang,... it is impossible for the harem to have children anymore.

In the past, she never accepted this, and she didn't want to admit it. However, this incident made her think about it. Emperor Longqing had no descendants, which did not mean that she would give up her authority.

On the contrary, if she operates properly, she will not only get a good heir to the throne. She will eliminate two major concerns at the same time.

Qin Zhen made this idea when the snipe and clam fight against each other, but the fisherman gained profit. However, the play is still the same, and the people are still the same. However, the roles of each person in the play have changed.

She is the eternal fisherman and the eternal beneficiary.

He admitted to Qin Zhen and Ji Xiaotang that Emperor Longqing could not have any more children, and it was impossible for these two people not to be moved.

Between Qin Xuan and Qin Yu, that is, between Qin Zhen and Qin Lin, she wants to see what kind of killing each other for the sake of the throne. For the sake of the throne, the two brothers who have been competing since childhood!

Thinking of this, Empress Dowager Han couldn't help but giggle.

She is already an elderly person. If a girl makes such a laugh, she will naturally be crisp and cute, but the laughter comes from her mouth, which is a bit squinting and cold.

Yang Pianpian shook almost invisibly, then stabilized his body, and there was still no expression on his face.

...

At this moment, Ji Xiaotang and Qin Zhen had already met Emperor Longqing and were walking out of the Ganqing Palace.

It was a little different from what the two expected, this time the storm did not seem to have a significant impact on Emperor Longqing. In addition to being worse and more depressed, Emperor Longqing was almost no different from the previous few days.

The two were a little surprised at first, but they soon understood.

This storm was a heavy blow to Empress Dowager Han, but not to Emperor Longqing. Perhaps Emperor Longqing was a little bit lucky in secret. After all, if the child survived, he would have to be his father and even personally proclaim him the crown prince.

Now that Ji Xiaolian and that child have returned to dust and earth, Emperor Longqing can at least breathe a sigh of relief. It is not that he has washed away the shame of greening on his head. Instead, he does not need to face such shame every day in the future, and he has to pretend to be happy.

However, although the two understood this, Emperor Longqing's attitude and words later surprised and confused them.

Even so, the two did not show it. After Emperor Longqing hinted that the two left, they quickly retreated.

After leaving the Ganqing Palace, Ji Xiaotang and Qin Zhen exchanged a glance. Both of them had a lot to discuss, but the palace was not the place where the conversation was.

The two of them went back to Prince An's mansion without staying in the palace.

When she returned to Xichun Hall, Madam Cheng brought her people forward to serve.

While washing and changing out the high-quality makeup on his body, Ji Xiaotang asked Madam Cheng: "Where is Xuan'er?"

"The little prince was full and slept for a night. Just as he woke up, the wet nurse took someone to watch. Young Master Changsheng and the princess were in the room." Madam Cheng replied hurriedly, and asked Ji Xiaotang again, "...whether do you want to bring the little prince here."

If it were normal, Ji Xiaotang would have immediately ordered Madam Cheng to bring Xuan'er over. But this time, she shook her head.

"The prince and I have nothing to do here. Madam, go and take care of Xuan'er." Ji Xiaotang ordered.

Madam Cheng immediately realized that this was a private matter between Ji Xiaotang and Qin Zhen and had to discuss it. She quickly agreed and took the people serving in the room and retreated gently.

After everyone was out, Ji Xiaotang and Qin Zhen sat down on the couch.

Qin Zhen frowned slightly.

"Xiaotang, what do you mean by Your Majesty?"

Today, Emperor Longqing was very cold to the two of them. After saying a few words, he said that he was very tired and asked them to leave. Moreover, Emperor Longqing implicitly suggested that it seemed that he would not always go to the palace to see him in the future.

Did Emperor Longqing hate them?

But this attitude has changed too much.

Moreover, Emperor Longqing not only did not mention the qualifications of the incident that had just been born in the palace, but when Qin Zhen mentioned it briefly, Emperor Longqing also interrupted Qin Zhen, obviously he didn't want to listen.

"I think your Majesty is reminding us." Ji Xiaotang lowered his eyelids, pondered for a moment, then raised his eyelids and said.

Ji Xiaotang's eyes were clearly black and white, and clear, and Qin Zhen could almost clearly see his reflection in her eyes.

"I was also wondering along the way whether Your Majesty knew that I was intentionally out of the matter, so I had a knot in my heart. Later I realized that Your Majesty was not such a person. The result of this matter should be what Your Majesty wanted to see. Those words were indeed reminding us."

"Your Majesty asked us to enter the palace less in the future, as if he was telling us not to see him. But he actually didn't say that, right?" Ji Xiaotang said while recalling the words of Emperor Longqing at that time, "Your Majesty really wanted us to enter the palace less in the future, but it was not that he didn't let us see him. Your Majesty reminded us to enter the palace less in the future, and to get close to the Queen Mother!"

"That's right!" Qin Zhen stroked his palm.

Emperor Longqing must have known that Empress Dowager Han would use them to deal with Qin Lin.

"The fisherman is profitable when fighting against the snipe and clam, and the queen mother has a good plan, but she doesn't know one thing." Qin Zhen sneered.

And that thing is that there is a tacit understanding between Qin Zhen and Qin Lin that does not need to be said. No matter when, even if the two of them are really going to be bloody and live to the death, they will never let Queen Mother Han benefit from it.

The two have many differences, but one thing is the same and will never change: Empress Dowager Han is their enemy.

"Prince..." Ji Xiaotang felt a little uneasy.

Empress Dowager Han did plot against Gui Taiwei, but she did not kill Gui Taiwei, who died. Empress Dowager Han used Qin Zhen, but never persecuted Qin Zhen.
To be continued...