Retreat, Retreat, Retreat! - Chapter 8

Today, Xiao Changning is wearing a big red shirt, Xia pi, a phoenix crown, an indigo embroidered gold skirt, and a pair of small silk shoes under his feet, which is swaying in action, making it even more slim and slim.

She folded her hands in front of her forehead, knelt down towards the tall woman with frosty temples in front of her, and said, “My son Changning, knock on the empress dowager.”

Empress Dowager Liang stretched out her hand to lift up Xiao Changning, and said to the grand palace lady in charge of Ci Ning Palace: “Yukou, give the princess a seat.”

The grand palace lady Yu Kou was a diligent and capable person, she soon ordered someone to add a case, and personally soaked Xiao Changning a pot of high-grade Biluochun exclusively for Cining Palace. This was a blessing, and she said, “His Royal Highness, please use tea. .”

Xiao Changning took a seat and tasted tea.

The Empress Dowager Liang has always been cold-hearted, but today she is rarely kind and kind, and actively asks about Xiao Changning’s current situation, “Changning is going to marry the Dongchang this time, will everything go well?”

Xiao Changning frowned her delicate brows, squashed her mouth, and sighed bitterly: “Since the empress dowager left me to the East Factory, she knew that I was lucky to be immortal, so why did she say smoothly?”

The Queen Mother was not annoyed, she only narrowed her slender, wrinkled eyes, and said with a smile: “If you return to the palace this time, you’d rather come to Lamentation’s house rather than go back to the East Factory. It must be Shen Xuan who treats you harshly. .”

Xiao Changning hung his head and didn’t speak, fingers tucked at the side of his sleeves, a teardrop on his eyelashes was about to fall, and he wanted to cry.

When the queen mother saw her aggrieved and weak appearance, she knew that she had suffered a lot in Shen Xuan’s place. She thought fast, but she didn’t change her face. She only leaned on the side of the case, rolled the rosary in her hand thoughtfully, and asked, “Changning, do you really want to leave the tiger and wolf land of Dongchang?”

This sentence really came!

Xiao Changning felt like a mirror in his heart, knowing that the Queen Mother was testing herself.

“Naturally at that time! The wolves in the East Factory were all around them. They were all murderous eunuchs. How many days can a weak woman live in such a place of right and wrong?”

Xiao Changning choked, talking about the sadness that couldn’t stand the tears like rain, sobbing and saying: “What’s more, in Shen Xuan’s eyes, this palace is just a spy you appointed the queen mother to kill me someday. To vent my anger…If my mother and concubine were still alive, I would never have fallen here.”

“The pack of wolves is waiting.” Empress Dowager Liang chewed her words, suddenly constricted a smile, and sat up straight, looking straight at Xiao Changning with slender and indifferent eyebrows. “If you don’t want to be bitten by the wolf, there is only one Way.”

Xiao Changning sniffed: “What way?”

The Queen Mother Liang’s gorgeous red lips lightly opened, and said every word: “Preemptive strike, kill him.”

Xiao Changning seemed to be frightened, got up suddenly, and shook his head again and again, saying, “No, no! You know how terrifying Shen Xuan is! He is so skillful that even the commander of Jin Yiwei Huo Jie is not his opponent, let alone his support. With countless murderous Dongchang fans! What you can’t do, this palace has no power to bind the chicken, and it is impossible to do it!”

“You can do it, and only you can do it.” The Queen Mother Liang winked at Yu Kou.

Yu Kou understood, and withdrew her head back, and closed the door.

The cauldron burns incense, and the room is dark and quiet, as if the air has become thick and heavy, making people unable to breathe.

“The East Factory is guarded, the water is impenetrable, and it is difficult for outsiders to break through from the outside. Only to disintegrate them from the inside is the best policy.” Empress Dowager Liang stood up obsessed with the prayer beads, wearing a dark purple robe snaking down, staring at Xiao Changning. “You are the only one who can enter them and get close to Shen Xuan.”

“Shen Xuan did not put down his guard against me.”

“Then do everything possible to let him put down his guard against you.”

“But… but Shen Xuan is a castrate, not close to female sex, we have been separated since the wedding, and we are not in harmony.”

“Changning, your beauty is inherited from your biological mother, but you are better than your biological mother Yu Guifei.”

Empress Dowager Liang stretched out her fingers coated with Dankou, and her nails gently stroked Xiao Changning’s face, causing a slight tremor. She said, “Do you know Changning, how pitiful you look like a pear blossom with rain, if you want to, he Shenxuan can’t resist it.”

Xiao Changning trembled slightly, avoiding Empress Dowager Liang’s cold fingers, and a drop of tear slipped over her eyes, dampening her slender eyelashes, “My palace has no choice, right?”

“Yes.” Empress Dowager Liang said, “Shenxuan will not die, you and the emperor will both die. The only chance for you to survive is to help Qingjun of Ai’s family and kill Shenxuan, the leader of the castrated party!”

“You planned everything long ago…”

Xiao Changning still showed fear and hesitation, stepped back and said with red eyes, “My palace can’t beat him. There is no chance of winning.”

“If you don’t try it, how can you know that there is no chance of winning?”

With that said, Empress Dowager Liang took out a small sapphire bottle from her sleeve and handed it to Xiao Changning, “This poison is a fortune for the mourning family. Only a small half bottle can kill people, and the poison is like a cold, medicine stone. Without a doctor, the state of death is very similar to a wind-cold emergency. No matter what Hua Tuo is alive, he will not suspect that he died of poisoning. You only need to find a chance to put the medicine on Shen Xuan’s diet, and all the suffering will end.”

Xiao Changning’s eyes flickered, and his delicate makeup was soaked with tears, making him look a little embarrassed.

Seeing that she was silent, the Queen Mother forcibly opened her five clenched fingers and placed the medicine bottle in her palm.

Xiao Changning looked down at the medicine bottle in his palm, and took a deep breath, “My palace has a request.”

The queen mother straightened up and said, “Come and listen.”

“Since the death of the emperor father, you have taken back the six hundred food towns in this palace on the grounds of supervision. Now I am in the Dongchang factory. great cause?”

“so?”

Xiao Changning raised his head and cried slowly with a nasal voice: “Therefore, this palace wants to request the Queen Mother to return Shiyi to me. In this way, I will have the confidence to fight against Shen Xuan.”

The Queen Mother Liang squinted her eyes, and looked at the weak princess in front of her with cool eyes, seeming to weigh the pros and cons, and she didn’t say a word for a long time.

“The emperor is here—”

There was a chant from outside the house, which broke the deathly silence in the house.

“One step back is the abyss. Remember, you have no way of retreating.” Empress Dowager Liang smiled slightly, “Your request, I am sorry! Kneel down.”

“Sister!”

As the little emperor’s joyous voice sounded, Xiao Changning hid the medicine bottle in his sleeve, bowed to the ground, and said, “The son…retire.”

The door of Ci Ning Palace slowly closed, bit by bit, isolating Xiao Changning’s lonely and thin back.

In the gentle autumn sun, Xiao Changning slowly raised his head with his back to Ci Ninggong. She lifted her sleeves to wipe away the remaining tear stains at the corners of her eyes, her lips curved into a confident arc, where is the weak and helpless appearance in Ci Ning Palace?

It is clearly a little fox in rabbit skin!

“Sister!” The little emperor Xiao Huan walked over quickly, and while hurriedly retiring the palace man, he pulled Xiao Changning’s sleeve and said, “It’s great that you can go back to the palace alive! I’m worried about death… “

“Okay, little crying bag!” Xiao Changning flicked the little emperor’s head with his fingers.

Xiao Huan reached out to touch the ends of her wet red eyes, “Sister A has cried?”

“These two tears are invaluable.” Xiao Changning smiled and avoided, and then said in a low voice, “It’s not convenient here. I’ll talk with you while walking.”

The siblings retreated left and right, taking a relaxing walk along the winding bluestone trail. At this time, it was late autumn, the apricot leaves were golden, the red maple was like fire, there were only a few remaining lotuses standing in the lotus root pond, and the golden sage beside the road was blooming brilliantly, and the air was full of fragrant fragrance.

“What did the queen mother and sister-in-law said?” Xiao Huan opened his clear eyes and looked at Xiao Changning worriedly.

Xiao Changning didn’t intend to hide his brother, and sighed, “She gave me a bottle of poison-drug.”

“She wants to kill you!” Xiao Huan was shocked.

“It’s more serious than killing me.” Xiao Changning looked around, saw no one, and whispered, “She wants me to kill Shenxuan.”

“Did you agree?” Xiao Huan was anxious, his eyes flushed, “You can’t agree! Who is Shen Xu, the queen mother and Jin Yiwei commander Huo Wei can’t kill people, how could you…”

“Hush.” ​​Xiao Changning said, “My princess of a country married to Dongchang. She is both a queen mother and a member of Dongchang. She is neither a queen mother nor a Dongchang member. She seems to be standing on a cliff. On the crossbar, one end is tied to the queen mother, the other is tied to Shen Xuan, and a slight deviation in behavior will plunge into the abyss of immortality.”

Xiao Huan scratched his head, “Sister A’s words are like tongue twisters, I’m confused.”

“The emperor only needs to know that this palace is currently struggling. I don’t know Shenxuan, but knowing that the Queen Mother has always been worried about my rebellion and has a lot of suspicion against me, so I made a special trip today to cry out grievances to the Queen Mother, and eliminate Shenxuan on the grounds of being afraid of Shenxuan. The defensive heart of the Queen Mother for me.”

“Then this poison has not become a hot potato? It is not used, and it is not used…”

Xiao Changning smiled slyly, took out the medicine bottle in his sleeve, threw it into the air, and then steadily caught it, “As for the poison, although it is in my hand, it is up to me to decide whether to use it or not. Even if the queen mother is to blame , I just said that I couldn’t find the opportunity, and she had nothing to say.”

What’s more, she took the opportunity to return to her food town that was confiscated by the Queen Mother!

“But Sister, the Queen Mother and Shen Xuan are not good fools, and you can’t live on both sides of your life to survive.”

“My palace understands. Don’t worry, what I’m asking for is just a way of self-preservation.” Xiao Changning patted the little emperor on the shoulder, “The emperor is more worried about himself than me.”

Xiao Huan opened his mouth, just about to say something, his face changed suddenly, his eyes widened and he looked at some place behind Xiao Changning, his lips were white, and he shivered slightly: “Sister, you, behind you… Shen, Shen …”

Xiao Changning didn’t understand, so he followed his line of sight and smiled and said, “What’s wrong behind me?”

Before she finished speaking, she trembled all over and froze in place!

Ten steps away, under the arch, stood one person and one dog. The man was dressed in an official gown and a black cloak. He was as tall as a mountain, and it was Admiral Shen who brought the **** dog to greet his wife.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Changning subconsciously turned his back and clenched the medicine bottle in his hand.