In the palace, Zou Yangyao hurriedly went to ask for an audience, fearing that Miao Qinghua would refuse to see him!
When Zou Yangyao learned that the Queen had summoned him, he breathed a sigh of relief.
He strode into the hall and saw Miao Qinghua holding the child and coaxing him seriously. The child was completely unaware of the danger and was sleeping peacefully.
Miao Qinghua glanced at the palace maid, who stepped forward and took the child away. Zou Yangyao opened his mouth to ask for the child, but finally held back.
"Queen, I wonder why you took my child away from me?"
Miao Qinghua curled her lips slightly and looked at Zou Yangyao: "General Zou, I want to ask you, whose child is that?"
Zou Yangyao had pondered deeply on the way here. He responded, "...Queen, you should know that I was ill and unable to conceive, so I adopted a child from someone else. But why did you bring the child to the palace, Queen?"
Zou Yangyao had an innocent expression. Although he was angry in his heart, he didn't dare to be disrespectful because Xue'er was in his hands.
"Really? Then the child has no blood relationship with you at all?"
Zou Yangyao still hadn't figured out Miao Qinghua's exact purpose. He frowned and replied, "Empress, even if that child has nothing to do with me, I've personally raised her for several months. I already consider her my own! I wonder why you, Empress, brought the child into the palace?"
Miao Qinghua sneered, "Raised for several months? Do you think I'm blind? Although I don't have any children yet, I can still tell how many months old a child is. General, you've disappeared for so long, and now you suddenly show up. Is this something you did on purpose?"
Miao Qinghua's gentle face now showed only cruelty, and there was no trace of her former easygoing nature left.
Zou Yangyao clenched his fists: "Queen, the emperor is critically ill now. As a minister, I am also very worried, but Queen, you are taking your anger out on a child, you..."
"That child is the prince's, right?" Zou Yangyao didn't finish his words but was interrupted by Miao Qinghua.
Zou Yangyao's face darkened. "Queen, are you crazy? How could the Crown Prince have a child born into the world? And for a humble minister to raise him?"
Zou Yangyao refused to acknowledge her, but Miao Qinghua snorted coldly, "Never mind, never mind. I'll keep the child in my care for now, and after a while, I'll send him out of the palace and return him to you, General!"
Miao Qinghua looked at the palace maid, who stepped forward knowingly: "General, please come this way!"
It's obviously an order to expel you!
Zou Yangyao stood there, unwilling to move, clenching his fists and staring at the queen with a murderous look.
But Miao Qinghua pretended not to see it and lazily supported her forehead.
"General, please come in!" Seeing that no one moved, the palace servant urged again.
Zou Yangyao finally took a step and walked out. Miao Qinghua had just been questioning him. Obviously, in Miao Qinghua's eyes, she was not sure whose child it was.
But leaving the child with Miao Qinghua would definitely be dangerous!
He was anxious, and he didn't know what was happening to Jing Yuchen at this moment...
*
Jing Yuchen had arrived early before the hour of Chou, but as agreed, he did not show up in advance and just observed his surroundings in secret.
However, he heard some noise coming from a direction in the distance.
In the end, Jing Yuchen took a step and walked towards that direction.
When he got closer and parted the dense forest, he could see clearly that someone had tied up a woman in a bright red wedding dress, blindfolded her and hung her high up. She was still struggling, but her whole body was tied up. How could she break free?
Jing Yuchen gritted his teeth, a surge of anger in his heart, and wanted to rush forward, but finally he calmed down and looked ahead with fiery eyes.
Under the tree, a woman asked several men, "Are you tied up?"
"Reply Princess, it's tied up!"
"Then let's go down and ambush!"
Jing Yuchen only saw a back, but the voice must have been Qiu Tianmi.
Seeing people disperse and hide, Jing Yuchen felt that the time was about up, so he turned around, went back a distance, and rode his horse towards the edge of the cliff.
He reined in his horse and stopped at the edge of the cliff, then glanced quickly, first at Ni Yueshan who was hanging up, and then at the person standing with his back to him.
"Princess Tianmi is truly capable. After being rescued, she managed to turn the tables and kidnap the wife of the Crown Prince, who was getting married today!"
The figure with its back to Jing Yuchen slowly turned around, revealing its beautiful and otherworldly face. However, at this moment, the face was no longer pure, but had a sinister and calculating look to it, and was looking at him with smugness.
"Your Highness, what you said seems wrong. She is not just the wife you are getting married to today, right? Your Highness, this princess simply does not want to marry you. I want to escape from the capital and return to Tufan. Why did you have someone kidnap me?"
She spoke with resentment in her tone, and her eyes were filled with extreme dissatisfaction when she looked at him.
"Princess, why did you flee back to Tufan? Wasn't it to persuade people to go to war? I kidnapped you simply to delay your return, but I never thought of taking your life. But now, you are hanging this prince's beloved woman from a tree with a bottomless abyss below. What do you want to do?"
Facing Jing Yuchen's questioning, Qiu Tianmi couldn't help laughing. "No matter what situation you two are in, you still love each other, but you just can't be together. I'm worried about you! Prince, let's put aside the grudges in the past and talk about today!"
"I'll give you a chance to die together!"
She took out a tinder from her bosom and blew twice, and the tinder ignited a flame. She smiled and moved the tinder towards the rope. Jing Yuchen still clenched his fists tightly: "What do you want in exchange for letting her go?"
"readily!"
Qiu Tianmi immediately put away the tinderbox and looked at Jing Yuchen with admiration in her eyes: "I want you to dig out your own heart!"
Jing Yuchen looked at Qiu Tianmi in confusion. Qiu Tianmi seemed very patient and took the initiative to explain: "Why not let you die with a clear mind? Once the emperor dies, once you die, Xian Chang will fall apart without a fight. The easiest way to get rid of you is to find your weak spot!"
"Princess, since you want me to die with a clear conscience, why don't you tell me how you escaped?"
Hearing this question, Qiu Tianmi, who was originally full of pride, gradually changed his expression, and finally snorted coldly: "Go to hell and ask those damn men!"
She roared, as if she was instantly ignited by anger.
Jing Yuchen asked someone to pretend to be a robber and kidnap Qiu Tianmi, but he didn't expect that a woman could not keep a close eye on him and exposed him, and even implicated Ni Yueshan!
"prick!"
Qiu Tianmi threw out a dagger and stared at Jing Yuchen fiercely.
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