When Yan Zheng left Ziyun Palace, his steps were a little unsteady and he had not yet recovered from the shock.
He had never thought that the emperor would actually want to deal with the queen mother! ?
What should I do about this?
The Queen Mother was deeply loved by the late Emperor, and it seemed that she had never done anything to disrupt state affairs.
But if I don't help Your Majesty, I would be disloyal.
If I help, I'm afraid it will go against the late emperor's last wish.
Yan Zheng never thought that such a choice would fall upon him, and he almost broke down.
He walked for a long time without realizing it, until he heard a sound that was neither crying nor laughing, and he stopped as if suddenly awakened.
Yan Zheng looked around and was surprised to find that he had walked to the most remote corner of the palace. The surrounding area was desolate and the walls were mottled. It was obvious that no one had taken care of it for a long time.
In front of him was the cold palace, and the voice came from inside.
At this time, two listless young eunuchs passed by and knocked on a window in the wall.
"Dinner is ready, dinner is ready!"
After saying that, he hastily threw a portion of food that had been left for who knows how many days into the wall, turned around and left.
"Who is crying in here?" Yan Zheng couldn't help but ask. The voice sounded a little weird.
The two eunuchs looked at his clothes and became respectful. They asked tentatively, "Who is this gentleman..."
"I am the Imperial Guard, the commander of the Imperial Guard." Yan Zheng said with a frown.
The eunuchs who fell to work here had all made mistakes or been ostracized. They had no future at all and had never seen the commander of the imperial guards.
Upon hearing this, the two of them became attentive and quickly replied:
"My Lord, don't you know? The person imprisoned here is the late emperor's concubine Rong. Later, she made a mistake and was demoted to a commoner. She is imprisoned here."
Yan Zheng asked again why she made that sound.
The two eunuchs looked at each other and said with a smile, "You will know when you see it yourself."
After saying that, he led Yan Zheng to the window where meals were delivered, opened it and let him look inside.
There was a woman in the yard with disheveled hair and a crazy look, just like a beggar. She was crying and laughing while holding a dirty pillow in her arms.
A eunuch sighed:
“She also gave birth to a little prince for the late emperor, and was sent out of the palace.
Since she was locked up in this cold palace and separated from her husband and wife, she went crazy not long after, and she hugged a broken pillow every day to comfort herself. "
After hearing this, Yan Zheng remembered that those were things that happened several decades ago, and he was not yet the commander of the imperial guards at that time.
If I hadn't come here, I would have been like the people outside and almost forgotten that the late emperor had a little prince who lived outside the palace.
When the late emperor passed away suddenly, there were many things that he had not been able to settle. My Yan family was blessed by the emperor, and I should fulfill my duty to protect the safety of the royal family members.
Thinking of this, Yan Zheng glanced at the crazy Li Yao in the cold palace, then turned and left.
…
In the evening, a carriage slowly drove into Tongzhou, followed by three fast horses.
There is a palace in Tongzhou, which has been idle for most of the time. Only an old concubine who was born in Tongzhou, whose father the late emperor requested a special decree to leave the capital, lives here.
Two generations ago, Li Yao was deposed, and the infant Second Prince Yan Tiao was sent here to be raised by Concubine Wan.
Yan Tiao is not only the son of Yan Xiuyun, but also has the blood of the Li family flowing in his veins. Zhu Lan had long thought that perhaps one day the Li family would support Yan Tiao and use him as a shield to control the government.
Seeing that the conflict with the Li family is about to break out, at this critical juncture, Yan Tiao must be found at all costs and must not be allowed to fall into Li Zhengqing's hands.
After Zhu Lan and his men entered Tongzhou, they found an inn to rest. The next morning, Zhu Lan brought Yan Jing to the palace to pay a visit to Concubine Wan.
The two entered the palace, which was deserted with only a few maids serving them.
Zhu Lan walked into the inner courtyard and saw a woman with her hair in a bun sitting under a ginkgo tree, staring at the clouds in the sky in a daze.
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