“…”

Cao Zhizhang was so angry that he could not speak. Finally, he started to argue, "Princess Zhaoyang, are you still being reasonable? This is the Golden Palace, not a place for you to curse like a shrew."

"Yeah?"

Ruyi glanced at the Golden Palace, innocently looking at him, "I thought this wasn't the Golden Palace, but Lord Cao came up and started to throw a tantrum at me, saying that I have a lot of hair but little knowledge."

"Isn't this what you said?"

Cao Zhizhang: “…”

When he came, he intended to use his power to overwhelm others.

He is an elder and has been immersed in the center of power for many years. Not only does he have a deterrent effect on a little woman, but he also has a deterrent effect on the officials below.

But unexpectedly, he failed to suppress Ruyi.

If he fails to suppress it and starts a debate, his own arguments will not stand up and it will just end up as a quarrel, right?

At this moment, Ruyi's eyes changed.

She took two steps towards Cao Zhizhang, stood with her hands behind her back, leaned forward slightly, and raised the corners of her mouth, "Since Lord Cao doesn't want to curse, let's talk about something more profound."

Blinking her eyes, she smiled at Cao Zhizhang, "I heard that Lord Cao has recently learned from the great rat and dug many holes under our feet. What kind of profound and mysterious truth is this?"

"Please enlighten me, Lord Cao."

"You're talking nonsense!"

Cao Zhizhang's defense broke down at this moment.

His eyes widened, visibly panicked.

"Hahaha, just kidding."

Ruyi laughed and ignored him.

Cao Zhizhang's heart sank because he noticed that the emperor looked at him at this moment.

He could feel that locked gaze even through the high steps.

He didn't dare to provoke Ruyi again.

It was not until this moment that he realized that this little girl who had rushed out of the backyard where she was doomed to die and soared to the sky in just one month was not that simple at all.

She was not promoted to this position because of luck!

Because she is different.

Others who originally wanted to cause trouble also stopped at this moment.

Although many people were confused by Ruyi's last words, just looking at Cao Zhizhang's reaction, they knew that he was stepped on by Ruyi.

In this round, Cao Zhizhang lost completely.

At this moment, as the imperial seal bearer, Ruyi had already followed Eunuch Yuan who had come down, up the steps and appeared before the emperor.

She suppressed the smile on her face and whispered, "Your Majesty, someone dug a hole in the ground. Even if Cao Zhizhang was not the mastermind, he was a participant."

"You cheated him?"

The emperor looked at her with a complicated expression.

Is this little girl's mouth blessed?

A few times, he even felt that she was scolding him.

Although he is very open-minded, some things are the legacy of thousands of years and are deeply rooted.

But Ruyi also understood that if he wanted to open up this road, he would need to draw the sword himself.

This morning, Ye Hongzhuang didn't even make a move.

She was standing below and watching at the moment. Although she didn't say anything, her eyes were full of excitement.

Ruyi took a deep breath and put all this behind her. She said softly, "Last night, I received a letter from my master, saying that he felt there was some movement under the Priest's Hall. He went to Yancheng before he had time to investigate."

"I thought about it for half the night last night, and combined it with what I found out yesterday morning. I think someone must have dug a secret passage underground to transport explosives into the palace."

The emperor looked grim upon hearing this. "Are you saying that someone wants to blow up the palace?"

This is regicide!

Ruyi nodded and told the emperor roughly the information they had confessed to the people they had captured at the Mu family during the day, but she did not mention that it was the third prince's gang.

"In other words, they want to kill three birds with one stone."

"Kill the king, destroy the Prince of Yan's Mansion and the Xiao family."

Ruyi looked at the emperor and said, "In this way, the royalists have been wiped out."

emperor:"……"

He took a deep breath, clenched his fists slowly, and finally glanced at Ruyi, "Why did you think of deceiving Cao Zhizhang?"

Ruyi said: "Because the Third Prince went to Yancheng, Mu Yuandao was poisoned, and General Yao was framed... all these are related to each other."

Ruyi wanted to avoid the third prince.

Finally found that it is unavoidable.

The emperor nodded, "The Shen family buried you."

"Follow me in the morning court."

He turned around and walked into the Golden Palace. "Although some of your words may sound harsh, you are right. Northern Qi is now facing internal and external troubles. Women, who account for half of the country's population, really need to come out of the harem."

“We need people.”

“We need talent.”

He had experienced the destruction of his country and the ruin of his family. When he was young, the Northern Qi Dynasty was almost destroyed by its neighboring country.

He didn't want to go through that again. "I hope everyone in Northern Qi has the ability to fight and resist, instead of just a bunch of powerless women and children left, unable to fight back, and being slaughtered."

Ruyi felt the overlap in his words——

The emperor wanted more fighting power, and she took this opportunity to carve out a bloody path.

If the strength of Northern Qi was the fortune of heaven and earth, then women's paths should be paved on top of it and they should take advantage of it.

She came to the emperor's side.

The emperor was sitting, and she and Eunuch Yuan were standing on both sides.

At this time, all the ministers came in, knelt on the ground and shouted "Long live the emperor". The feeling of looking down at this scene from a high position really gave Ruyi a strong shock.

Something is stirring in my heart.

She was thinking that even if she became a queen in the future, she wanted to be a queen with power, not just someone's queen.

She wants to leave her own name in this long scroll of history.

Rather than, whose who.

The world outside the inner house, although dangerous, is so wonderful and vast!

Ruyi had a blank expression on her face, but it felt like magma was surging in her heart.

The second prince was demoted. Yesterday it was just the emperor’s oral order, but today it was announced in public.

When Fang Yizhou came in with the Second Prince, Concubine Li, Minister Gu, Gu Qinghua, Shen Yuewan and others, Ruyi felt as if she was in another world.

"Ruyi, you go."

The emperor signaled to Eunuch Yuan to hand the imperial edict to Ruyi.

Ruyi was quite nervous when she received the imperial edict, but when she thought about her confrontation with Cao Zhizhang outside the Golden Palace just now, she felt less nervous.

She walked down three steps and stood on a high place to announce the decree, "The Emperor proclaims, by the Will of Heaven..."

Gu Qinghua knelt on the ground and looked up at the young girl under the dragon throne. He felt dazzled when he saw her in a round-collared official robe, speaking loudly and reading out the imperial edict in a sonorous voice.

How many days have passed?

Why did he feel that the little girl who once chased him everywhere had become an illusion?

When the attention was not on him and the Shen family father and son, was she so stunning?

Gu Qinghua was in mixed feelings.

From the remnants of memory, I found some clues of our time together.

She had an amazing memory and could remember clearly even things that happened when she was three or four years old. Therefore, whenever she brought up old matters, she would always make him angry and embarrassed.

She was sensitive and suspicious, and could always tell something was wrong with him. She was afraid of losing him due to his unreasonable behavior, so she tried to please him carefully.

Over the years, she has suffered enough from having an amazing memory and being sensitive and suspicious.

At this time, the sword is sharpened by the grindstone, and these have turned into her outstanding planning ability, learning ability, and unique and keen sense of smell and observation ability.

It turns out that the same person is completely different when he is with different people.