Because of Feng Xi's letter, Chu Xuan and Lu Yanluo became famous in the capital. Everyone praised them when they mentioned them, and even the emperor became kinder to Chu Xuan and his wife.

However, Chu Xuan and Lu Yanluo, the parties involved, had no feelings about it at all and acted as if it had nothing to do with them.

After all, both of them have seen too many things like this, and the emperor's checks and balances make them even more annoyed.

For the princes in this imperial city, you may be favored today and demoted tomorrow. This is very common in the eyes of Chu Xuan and Lu Yanluo.

Today, the emperor believes that Chu Xuan puts the overall situation first and disregards his own safety to go deep into Fengxi. Tomorrow, he may begin to fear the power behind Chu Xuan and suppress the Night Palace for this reason.

After playing this trick so many times, the two of them were no longer surprised and lived their lives as usual.

On this day, Lu Yanluo finally finished taking care of the trivial matters in the mansion, and brought Chu Yao and Chu Yuan to Guanju Palace to visit Qin Xuelin.

Qin Xuelin's temperament has become much calmer since her last miscarriage, but when she saw Lu Yanluo coming in, she immediately stood up happily and took a few quick steps to greet her.

"You finally remembered to come to the palace to see me." Qin Xuelin pretended to be unhappy and rolled her eyes at Lu Yanluo: "I thought you had forgotten me. You left for so many days and didn't even say hello when you came back. Do you know how worried I was!"

Lu Yanluo smiled helplessly and quickly apologized: "It's my fault, it's my fault. I've been away from the mansion for a long time. There are too many trivial things in the mansion. I came to see the queen as soon as I finished my work."

Qin Xuelin looked at Lu Yanluo with a tense face, but after a moment she couldn't hold it back anymore and laughed.

"Look at you. You've become darker and thinner after going out. Did the Night King mistreat you outside?" Qin Xuelin held Lu Yanluo's hand and walked to the table. She ordered the maid behind her: "Go, bring a blood swallow for the princess and tell the kitchen that this is what I want to use."

The maid bowed slightly, accepted the order and left.

Lu Yanluo turned sideways to look at Qin Xuelin and smiled leisurely: "Things are different now. It seems that the queen has been doing well recently. I am relieved."

Qin Xuelin sneered, picked up the teacup in front of her and took a sip, her eyes full of sarcasm.

"Of course I'm living a good life. This was paid for with my child's life!"

Seeing this, Lu Yanluo sighed and said, "I heard when I entered the palace that the emperor handed over the power of assisting the six palaces to you and the imperial concubine. I think there must be some concessions he made in order to protect Yue Meiren."

"Yes." Qin Xuelin stood up, walked to the window, looked at the camellia outside the window, and said calmly: "In order to protect Yue Meiren, he tried his best to make up for me, so I just went with the flow. The emperor took advantage of his desire to make up for me and used some tricks to take the power of assisting the six palaces from Concubine Xian, which will also be convenient for my future actions."

"You..." Lu Yanluo looked at Qin Xuelin's lonely back and felt sorry for her.

From the first time they met, she knew that Qin Xuelin was a very sentimental person. Perhaps because she was an illegitimate daughter, she cherished the people around her who were good to her.

For example, her sister Qin Xueqi. She could ruin her own happiness in life and enter the palace as a concubine because of Qin Xueqi's death. She could also be cautious in this cannibalistic palace and become the most capable spy of the Night Palace in the palace in order to repay Lu Yanluo's help that day.

If other people are like this, what about the child she has been carrying for months and is full of expectations for?

Qin Xuelin turned around leisurely and smiled gently: "I'm fine, you don't have to worry about me, you should understand me, I will live well until my enemy is dead."

Lu Yanluo stood up, walked to the window, stood side by side with Qin Xuelin, but her eyes were looking in the direction of Qingcheng Pavilion.

"Is it safe there these days?"

Qin Xuelin naturally understood who Lu Yanluo was asking about, and replied in a low voice: "With the emperor's favor in her hands, how could she be calm with her personality, but..."

Qin Xuelin's eyes became more serious. "The people I sent to keep an eye on Qingcheng Pavilion came back and said that a few days ago, the historian Kong Chenyang from the Hanlin Academy had privately met with Yue Meiren. The two talked for a long time at the door of Qingcheng Pavilion. I'm a little confused. Why would Kong Chenyang, an outsider, and Yue Meiren, a palace concubine, meet in private?"

Kong Chenyang, it's him again.

Lu Yanluo's face was slightly cold: "It can't be anything good, right? Send someone to secretly keep an eye on Yue Meiren for a while to see if she has any unusual movements."

Speaking of this, Lu Yanluo thought of the virtuous concubine who lived in Fenghua Palace. Prince Liang is now under house arrest, and she wonders what the virtuous concubine feels.

"Xian Guifei?" Qin Xuelin said disdainfully. She only knew how to stay around Yue Meiren all day long. I don't know what's wrong with her. She follows Yue Meiren's lead. It's strange that she didn't do anything when Prince Liang was confined. "

Lu Yanluo nodded and snorted, "What's so strange about this? The emperor dotes on Lady Yue, and everyone in the palace knows it. I guess she wants to use Lady Yue to win over the emperor's heart for Nanjiang."

"But we can't take her lightly. A cornered dog will jump over the wall. Now that Prince Liang has been imprisoned and the power to assist the six palaces has been taken away by you, she must be full of resentment and will definitely not stay still for too long."

The situation in the palace was chaotic and complicated. When the maid carefully brought the blood swallows, Lu Yanluo was whispering with Qin Xuelin.

The maidservant didn't dare to disturb them, so she put down the stewed blood swallows and left.

The two talked for a long time. When they came to their senses, it was already late and the palace gates would soon be locked. Lu Yanluo had no time to taste the precious blood swallows and left in a hurry.

On the carriage back to the mansion, Lu Yanluo closed her eyes to rest, and Qin Xuelin's words kept appearing in her mind: "Kong Chenyang is an outsider, why would he want to meet the concubines in the harem in private? What exactly are the two of them going to do?"

And there is Kong Chenyang. He is obviously not interested in helping Tatuo break through Tianji's defenses. Instead, he is more intent on taking personal revenge. What exactly does he plan to do?

After returning to the mansion, Lu Yanluo got off the carriage and asked casually, "Is the prince in the mansion?"

The servant waiting on the side quickly replied: "To answer your question, Princess, no. Not long after you left, the Ministry of War sent someone to the mansion to look for the prince. It looked like he was in a hurry. The prince left without saying a word and has not returned since then."

"Ministry of War?" What could they want from Chu Xuan? Lu Yanluo was suspicious. Seeing that the city gate was about to be closed by curfew, she simply turned back to the carriage and went to the Ministry of War to pick up Chu Xuan.

The lights outside the gate of the Ministry of War were bright at this moment. Lu Yanluo sat in the carriage and looked at the patrolling guards who were walking hurriedly. She suddenly had a premonition that something might happen.

As expected, the servant from the Night Palace who was sent to gather information returned soon. He waited beside the carriage and whispered, "I asked the patrolling guards and heard that there is going to be another war on the border."