Outside the palace gate of Nanjiang Kingdom, in a plainly decorated carriage, a woman in a white crescent-white dress was playing chess with a man in blue.

The man was handsome, with a pair of bright black eyes like agate stones, shining brightly and handsome. He held the black chess piece between his slender fingers, not knowing where it should land on the chessboard.

The woman's smile is as gentle as the moon, and her eyes are as black and bright as a lake under the moon. People will be deeply attracted to her at the first glance, unable to extricate themselves.

Her voice was as soft as the moonlight: "Fourth brother, you have been thinking about it for a long time, why haven't you dropped the chess piece yet?"

Situ Zhannai smiled and stretched out his hand to rub his forehead: "Little sister, your chess skills are getting better and better. Fourth brother, I feel ashamed of myself."[

"Okay, then Fourth Brother, just admit defeat!"

"That's not okay. I am your brother, so I should be better than you in everything. If I really lose like this, then where will I lose my face?"

Lin Ruoxi glanced at the chessboard with a smile. The chess she played surrounded Situ Zhan's pieces, leaving Situ Zhan with no chance to open up new strategic channels, let alone a chance to turn around.

At this moment, Mo Xueyuan lifted the carriage up. She smiled faintly and said, "Miss, the fourth young master, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has entered the palace."

As soon as these words were said, Lin Ruoxi and Situ Zhan looked at each other and smiled.

Lin Ruoxi said: "Fourth brother, it seems that we have to prepare everyone below, so as not to prepare too late and miss the opportunity."

Situ Zhan smiled and nodded: "I didn't expect you, little sister, to be so good at predicting things. His Highness the Crown Prince fell into the conspiracy you set up and came to the palace. It's just that Ah Cai is very cunning. Can she be moved by His Highness the Crown Prince's words?

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"His Royal Highness, he is by no means an idle person. He has been practicing civil and military strategies since he was a child, not to mention that he has also learned a lot about these conspiracies. This time, as long as we grasp the reality, we will definitely capture A Cai."

When Situ Zhan saw Lin Ruoxi saying this, she was almost gritting her teeth. It could be seen that she already hated A Cai deeply. He lowered his eyes in a hurry, trying to hide the complicated emotions in his heart, but he was awakened by Lin Ruoxi.

"Fourth brother, I know that you and Ah Cai started training together, and there may have been a bond that was difficult to break up in the past. But at this time, you can no longer hesitate, because the person we are facing is not just Ah Cai, but Wu who is supporting her.

Queen, Queen Wu is cunning. She used Ah Cai to deal with Pingyang Houfu because she calculated that you would never attack Ah Cai... But she never thought that the person Ah Cai was dealing with was not you, fourth brother.

It’s me, Situ Ruoxi.”

In the Fengfang Palace, A Cai was rubbing Empress Wu's shoulders and back. Seeing Empress Wu's comfortable look and relaxing the serious and indifferent expression on her face, she felt relieved.

Empress Wu suddenly asked: "A Cai, what are you thinking about?"

A Cai did not expect that Empress Wu would see her melancholy expression with her peripheral vision, and she smiled faintly: "Empress, A Cai has seen that you have been frowning recently, and the smiles on your face have become less and less.

That’s why I’m worried about you, my empress.”

"Do you think I'm too old? I can't bother myself anymore, right?"

Ah Cai shook her head hurriedly: "Mother, that's not what Ah Cai meant. Ah Cai was just thinking, how wonderful it would be if you didn't have so many troubles!"

Empress Wu stretched out her hand, took A Cai's hand, and suddenly smiled softly: "A Cai, come... come to the queen mother, let her take a good look at you!"

A Cai came to Queen Wu, and Queen Wu personally took off the white veil on her face, and saw that she had a pair of willow-leaf eyebrows, bright black eyes, a small nose, and thin and pink lips, just like how she looked back then.

There is no difference.

She stretched out her slender fingers and slid them from her eyebrows to her chin, and raised the corners of her red lips: "A Cai, you are really becoming more and more beautiful!"

A Cai smiled faintly: "Queen, even though A Cai is beautiful, she is not even one ten thousandth as beautiful as the queen." [

Empress Wu waved her hand and said with a smile: "You, don't always say what I like to hear. No one will grow old when they are born, let alone stay young forever. Now I am old and not as good as I was then."

So elegant, how could it be compared to

How beautiful are you? Look at your skin as delicate as agar-agar, your face as beautiful as a jade sculpture, and your eyes as black and bright as deep wells. You can’t extricate yourself after just one look at them. You are really younger than me.

Still beautiful.”

A Cai trembled. She knew Empress Wu very well. What Empress Wu valued most was youth. When she was young, she was the most beautiful woman in Nan Xinjiang. Since she became the queen, no one dared to call her Nan Xinjiang.

The most beautiful woman in the country, because they knew that Empress Wu loved beauty, and if anyone dared to surpass her and ride on her head, she would definitely kill them all.

A Cai is the daughter of Empress Wu, but she also believes that Empress Wu will kill her for her own sake. As long as she wants to do so, no one can stop her.

Empress Wu saw Ah Cai's avoidance and fear. She smiled and shook her head: "Silly boy, how could the Queen Mother attack you? You are so afraid, as if I can eat people. Come on..." Wu

The queen took Ah Cai's delicate hands and said with a gentle smile: "Let me see you in Haosheng."

At this moment, the door of the main hall was knocked open, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince walked into the main hall like lightning. What he saw was Empress Wu holding A Cai's hand and looking at her tenderly and affectionately. That smile and gesture were his.

I have never seen such tenderness in my life. It is estimated that even the Emperor of Southern Xinjiang may not be able to see that Queen Wu has such a gentle side. 13v.

Prince Li Yuan froze on the spot, his mouth opened, and he did not say a word for a long time.

Behind him, several palace maids and eunuchs followed. The palace maids and eunuchs knelt on the ground and begged for mercy: "Queen, it's all our fault. We didn't stop His Highness from letting him break into the main hall.

I have disturbed you, my queen."

"Get out!" Queen Wu shook off Ah Cai's hand and shouted impatiently to the maids. Ah Cai quickly put on the veil to cover her face.

Prince Li Yuan lowered his eyes at this time, feeling deep pain in his heart. He thought that the Crown Princess was lying, or that she had some other conspiracy to say this. Unexpectedly, he saw it with his own eyes today, and this time he really believed it.

As for the Crown Princess, it turns out that Queen Wu still has such complicated feelings in her heart?

Ah Cai? She is really a very special woman.

After the maids and eunuchs who followed the prince into the main hall left the main hall, the prince Li Yuan opened his mouth and said: "Empress, I come here to ask you whether what happened in Pingyang Hou Mansion these days is your fault.

Are you manipulating everything behind the scenes?"

"It's not me, am I still a loser like you?" Empress Wu snorted coldly and lowered her beautiful eyes, not wanting to look at His Highness the Crown Prince again.

Prince Li Yuan glanced coldly at A Cai, who was standing next to Queen Wu, and said calmly: "Is this lowly palace maid also involved in this matter? Mother, my son is your own flesh and blood, how can you bear to be so cruel to your son?

What? Didn’t I say that all this has to be handled by my sons and ministers? You can safely let an outsider, a lowly palace maid, handle it. Isn’t it because you are old and confused?”

Empress Wu suddenly opened her eyes, walked down from the phoenix chair quickly, came to His Highness the Crown Prince, raised her hand and gave him a slap on Bai Xi's handsome side face.

Her voice was cold and without warmth: "You are such an unfilial son, you dare to act so wildly on me, and even say that I am old and confused?" Empress Wu raised her head again without mercy.

With his hand, he slapped the other side of His Royal Highness Prince Li Yuan's handsome face, leaving five slender finger prints.

"These few slaps are a lesson from me. If you dare to do it again, I will chop off your head with a sword."

His Royal Highness Prince Li Yuan hurriedly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy: "Mother, it's all my fault, please don't be angry with me anymore..." He then raised his hands towards A Cai and said, "Please don't take it to heart, Miss A Cai.

, I just said something wrong because of my recklessness, sir, you don’t have to argue with me."

Jiang's ornaments are delicate. A Cai didn't expect that the normally aloof Crown Prince Li Yuan would lower his arrogant status? She felt that if she didn't want to forgive the prince in front of Queen Wu, wouldn't it be a slap in her face?

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She spoke kindly for His Highness the Crown Prince and said: "Queen, I know that you must be angry because His Highness the Crown Prince did not understand your feelings and spoke so rudely. However, Your Highness the Crown Prince has already sincerely begged you for forgiveness, and you are still angry."

You have apologized to a lowly palace servant like me, which shows that His Highness the Crown Prince has a generous heart and a clear sense of justice, and he treats everyone equally. The empress sees that His Highness the Crown Prince is so sincere. Please give him a chance and stop blaming him.

"

Empress Wu raised her eyes and glanced at A Cai, then at His Highness the Crown Prince. Finally, she reluctantly stretched out her fingers and put them on her forehead: "Okay, now that you are singing in harmony, it will be difficult for me to get angry even if I want to...Prince, you

Get up!"

Prince Li Yuan looked happy and said with a smile: "Thank you, Queen Mother, for forgiving me!"

"Ah Cai, please leave with His Highness the Crown Prince. I want to be alone for a while!"[

Empress Wu sat back on the phoenix chair, closed her eyes and rested.

A Cai and Prince Li Yuan knew that Empress Wu did not want to be disturbed, so they retreated from the hall.

After leaving Fengfang Palace, Prince Li Yuan suddenly stopped A Cai and said with a warm smile: "A Cai, the Crown Princess injured her arm. I heard that you have a good wound ointment, and I want you to go over there in person and prepare it for her.

Don’t worry, I will order people to find the medicinal materials you want to use.”

A Cai saw that His Highness the Crown Prince had a warm smile and was not as cold to her as before. She thought His Highness the Crown Prince Li Yuan had figured something out, so she did not refuse and nodded and said: "Okay, then I will follow the Crown Prince to the Crown Prince."

Mansion."

Prince Li Yuan asked A Cai to get into the carriage with him and left the palace gate. At this time, on a simple carriage outside the palace gate, the woman in white narrowed her black eyes like a lake and smiled coldly: "
Chapter completed!