Lu Haoran, walking aimlessly on the street, felt a chill all over his body, and all he could hear in his mind was Huo Bier's vicious curses.
Raindrops as big as beans suddenly fell, and the people on the street were jogging. Lu Haoran looked at the scene in a trance.
The transparent and hazy raindrops seemed to show the days when he came to the capital to propose marriage and stayed there temporarily a few years ago.
It was also raining like this at that time. He was running on the street with his clothes on his head and Xu Jinyi, whose eyes were full of him.
At that time, he was actually attracted to Xu Jinyi, after all, she was the most beautiful woman in the capital.
But later...
Lu Haoran fell to the ground, looked towards the direction of the palace and smiled bitterly.
The girl whose heart was filled with him now belonged to someone else.
In the palace, Xu Jinyi stretched lazily, and a pain came over him. He couldn't help but open his mouth to curse again.
She has been bullied badly these days. It is said that newlyweds are passionate and passionate, but that bastard Di Zisheng is not polite at all.
Di Zisheng tried every position in the booklet about matters between men and women that his mother gave to his daughter when she got married.
Every day is truly sweet and torturous.
Rubbing her waist, Xu Jinyi asked Liuli to change her clothes: "Liuyun, prepare the sedan chair. I have been in the palace for so long, it is time for me to pay my respects to the Queen Mother."
Yongshou Palace.
The Queen Mother sat at the top, staring at Xu Jinyi's charming face, a sense of displeasure evident in her expression.
"Your servant pays homage to the Queen Mother. May the Queen Mother be well and healthy." Xu Jinyi bowed and stood up.
The queen mother frowned at this rude behavior.
"How dare you! As the queen, didn't the nanny teach you etiquette before you entered the palace? Don't you, a lady from a noble family, know how to behave when you pay a visit to me?" The queen mother spoke harshly with an unfriendly look in her eyes.
Xu Jinyi is not afraid of her. She has not forgotten that the incident in the general's mansion was caused by this old witch.
She walked to the side and sat down, meeting the old witch's gaze: "It is my fault. I am really exhausted from serving Your Majesty these past few days. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."
"I should have come to see you, Your Majesty, long ago, but Your Majesty was so insistent that I was delayed. I hope Your Majesty will not blame me."
"As you know, Your Majesty has no children yet, so I want to work harder. Please don't be angry if I come to see the Queen Mother late."
The Queen Mother half-closed her eyes and stared at Xu Jinyi's flat belly with an unclear expression.
Then she smiled and said, "That's right. The Queen has worked hard to serve the Emperor today, and Nanny hasn't served tea yet."
The nanny understood and retreated.
Xu Jinyi's lips curled up into a charming smile, and as the nanny brought over the tea, the smile grew even bigger.
The smile was beautiful, but the Queen Mother found it a little creepy and strange.
"Why doesn't the Queen drink?"
Xu Jinyi examined the teacup carefully and spoke with an ambiguous tone, "Jealousy makes a person ugly. It is indeed true. The Queen Mother has given me such a generous gift on our first meeting. I am not worthy of it."
The Queen Mother's pupils dilated: "How dare you! What nonsense are you talking about?!"
Xu Jinyi sneered, "No wonder the late emperor had so few children. It turns out the empress dowager has such a vicious and effective medicine."
"You are very shrewd. If Di Zisheng hadn't been lucky enough to meet me, I'm afraid your plan with King Yan would have succeeded."
“What a pity!”
The Queen Mother's eyes were suddenly filled with venom: "You helped the Emperor?! What do you know?"
Xu Jinyi didn't answer, but instead asked, "Do you know why you and your son lost? Queen Mother, you have done so many evil things, and your hands are stained with so much blood. Have you ever considered that there will be retribution?"
That enchanting and charming face frightened the Queen Mother: "What on earth are you talking about?"
Xu Jinyi brushed the hair by her ear and spoke to herself, "Yangjia Village, thirty miles outside Beijing, Jiang Jienan's military camp in Huobei, the remnants of the previous dynasty in the Hedong Valley..."
The Queen Mother's pupils shrank drastically, and her hands were shaking. "Who? Who are you?"
Xu Jinyi smiled and suddenly met the Queen Mother's eyes: "The six million gold in the national treasury should be hidden in this Yongshou Palace!!"
The Queen Mother was completely shocked. Her hand shook and she knocked over the teacup on the table. "Nonsense, absolutely nonsense. I think you, Queen, have lost your mind."
"Come here, the queen has gone insane, arrest her for me."
Xu Jinyi: "Your Majesty, you don't think you are still the powerful Queen Mother you used to be, right? I know your answer, so I won't bother you any more."
Xu Jinyi didn't waste any words, patted her dress, stood up and walked out.
The Empress Dowager would never let Xu Jinyi go. The six million taels of gold and those men were the hope for their mother and son's revival, and the Emperor must not be allowed to know about it.
Thinking of this, the Queen Mother actually drew out a dagger and rushed towards Xu Jinyi.
Xu Jinyi was on guard against her, so how could he let her hand go?
But she didn't need to take action, as the female secret guard beside her appeared and captured the empress dowager.
Di Zisheng rushed over and hugged Xu Jinyi in fear: "Why are you here? How can she be worthy of your kneeling?"
Xu Jinyi's eyes curved, and it was obvious that she was in a good mood. "How could I possibly kneel down to this old witch? She almost killed my whole family. I just wanted to trick her to confirm my guess."
Di Zisheng: "What?"
"The six million gold is in Yongshou Palace. Send people to search for it inch by inch."
Di Zisheng suddenly realized that the safest place is also the most dangerous place. He understood and kissed Xu Jinyi on the corner of his mouth.
"Ao Guang, search this Yongshou Palace thoroughly for me."
"yes."
"You dare—!" The Queen Mother's eyes turned red.
"I am the Empress Dowager, personally appointed by the late Emperor! You have no right to search my Yongshou Palace."
The emperor looked at her as if she were a dead person. "I am the emperor personally appointed by the late emperor. The whole world belongs to me, let alone searching a small Yongshou Palace."
"Someone, escort the Queen Mother to the Cheng Huan Palace next door and keep her under guard."
The Queen Mother went mad, screaming and struggling. Her usual calm and noble appearance disappeared completely. She opened her mouth and kept beating and cursing: "Di Zisheng, you unfilial son, I should kill you, kill you!"
Yongshou Palace was not small, and the emperor was not in a hurry. After all, if the gold was really there, it would definitely not disappear, so he hugged Xu Jinyi and left.
Sitting in the sedan chair, Di Zisheng finally spoke: "Next time something like this happens, tell me now. Don't take risks. Besides, the gold is in the palace, it will definitely not be lost."
"I just want to share your worries. Even though the confiscation of the Minister of Revenue's house has yielded a small amount of silver in the national treasury, it's still a drop in the bucket."
"You still owe the soldiers on the border six months' pay? Six months' pay for an army of hundreds of thousands is a huge sum."
"Moreover, we cannot owe anyone military pay. Soldiers risk their lives to defend their homeland, but if they don't receive the treatment they deserve, their morale will easily crumble. We cannot let the soldiers down."
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