"I look at you, and I look familiar."

After Chang Qing finished saying this, even through a door, I could feel Yang Jinqiao suffocating, as if a wild beast suddenly found herself in the hunter's trap. Her face suddenly turned pale, but she didn't say anything, just lowered her head.

Then, she slowly knelt in front of Chang Qing.

I seemed to see a dead gray on her pale face.

At this moment, listening to the different breaths of the people outside, the low slander, and Chang Qing's question that was astonishing as if it were a rock, I suddenly realized the cause and effect of the whole thing.

Yang Yunhui...Yang Jinqiao...Sun Jingfei...

So that's it.

I looked back at Pei Yuanhao. He was still silent, and the expression on his face was particularly calm, as if what happened outside had nothing to do with him.

At this moment, Chang Qing had already walked to Yang Jinqiao. A gust of wind blew and blew into the back hall. My face turned pale because of the cold, but I still looked outside without blinking. I saw Chang Qing gently put the leather cage in his hand and slowly said, "Rise your head up."

“…”

Yang Jinqiao slowly raised his head.

Several people in the crowd gasped.

"Oh my God, that's not--"

"Is it really her?"

"How could it be?!"

"Aren't she... dead?"

"You don't know, I heard that she appeared at the Yang family's birthday party a while ago. And..."

The lowly comments from the people around him did not disturb the gaze of Chang Qing and Yang Jinqiao at all. When I looked at them like this, I suddenly felt a little strange. They, one was once and the other, were both Pei Yuanhao's women, and they were all women who helped Pei Yuanhao stabilize his harem at different times. However, after he successfully fought for the throne, Yang Jinqiao "retired" and Chang Qing held the throne of the mother of the world. If Yang Jinqiao was still by the emperor at that time, then she and Chang Qing would not know what kind of path they would take.

Alliance? Or opposition?

Chang Qing died in Dongzhou, and the only thing he cared about before his death were these two women. But now, the golden hairpin he gave was tightly held in his hands by Chang Qing. What did they think of when they met like this?

Chang Qing "looked at her" for a while, took a step back, glanced at the concubines who were following her around her, and said slowly: "A few days ago, I always summoned the second lady of the Yang family to the palace to accompany her. Today, it seems that this person is somewhat similar to that lady Yang Jinyao."

As she said that, she glanced back at the people around her: "You said, are you?"

The people around him were voluntarily and nodded.

But no one said that sentence.

Chang Qing looked down at the hairpin in her hand again and said slowly: "Why did you ask Sun Jingfei to steal such a thing from the palace to you?"

“…”

"Do you know what kind of sin is it to steal objects in the palace?"

“…”

Yang Jinqiao's face became paler, and at this moment, my heart also tightened.

Chang Qing asked Yang Jinqiao none of the words she said directly that she was the "Long Miss Yang Family", but she made indirect attempts and blocked Yang Jinqiao's path from any aspect.

In fact, Pei Yuanhao appeared at Yang Wanyun's birthday party before, and Yang Jinqiao came out to take down the glass of poisoned wine. This matter could not be hidden. Besides, I have already told the queen, but now she is bringing so many people to block Yang Jinqiao, so the matter is going to be discussed in another way.

First, she wanted Yang Jinqiao to "appear", and second, she was still waiting for Pei Yuanhao's statement.

After meeting Yang Jinqiao in the Yang family, Pei Yuanhao has never had a clear attitude towards how to deal with this "resurrected" wife. Chang Qing could not rashly recognize her identity to the world and re-incorporate her into the harem. After all, Pei Yuanhao has not spoken yet. But for Chang Qing, Yang Jinyao, who knows nothing and is even a bit reckless, will cause trouble to herself, is well versed in the laws of survival in the harem and knows how to check and balance all parties, which is the real help.

I never knew that Chang Qing was such a scheming or skillful person.

Or in other words, she should have been such a person, otherwise her rear position would not have been stable under Shen Rou, and she was still firm and unshakable under the many impacts of Nangong Lizhu.

However, in the past, she did not have such obvious edge.

From this time I returned to Beijing, I found that she was different from the past. After all, now she could no longer have children. Nianshen was enthroned as the crown prince, but there was a prince still in the palace. At this time, the restoration of Nangong Lizhu must have a great threat to her and Nianshen, so she could not sit still and wait for death.

but……

She is still waiting for Pei Yuanhao's statement.

She must have known that Pei Yuanhao was in the back hall, and the twists and turns that he said to Yang Jinqiao were waiting for Pei Yuanhao to come forward.

As long as Pei Yuanhao comes forward and publicly admits the identity of Mrs. Jinqiao, Yang Jinqiao will no longer be outside the palace and must enter the palace.

If Pei Yuanhao didn't come forward at this moment, he would just tell her silently that he did not intend to bring Yang Jinqiao into the palace again. In this case, there was no sentence in Chang Qing's previous words that pointed directly at Yang Jinqiao's identity. Of course, he could find an excuse to let the matter go to nothing.

Thinking of this, I looked back at Pei Yuanhao, with a hint of worry in my eyes.

How will he express his opinion?

At this time, he slowly looked at me. Although the atmosphere outside had become a little tense, his expression was very calm and even a little cold.

He said slowly: "Why, are you waiting for me to express your opinion?"

I looked at him and said, "Who is the emperor's intention?"

"what you think?"

I said seriously: "The emperor's heart is not light and can be guessed."

He slowly walked up to me, and his lips curled slightly: "Yan Qingying, what you did is more than just guessing the heart of heaven?"

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While the two of them were looking at each other so close, their breathing gradually became tense. He could almost feel my trembling and extreme depression. However, after taking a deep breath, he did not go further. Instead, he relaxed a little and whispered: "How do you think I should choose?"

“…”

"Is it Yang Jinqiao or Yang Jinyao?"

"This is the emperor's family matter."

"If I asked you to make this choice, who do you hope?"

“…”

"I know, in your heart, you hope that I will go out now, recognize Yang Jinqiao's identity, and include her in the harem again."

“…”

"In that case, Yang Jinyao wouldn't have to enter the palace again, right?"

My eyes flashed, and I looked up at him, and the business trembled slightly: "Master, would you make this choice?"

He was right, deep down in my heart, I really hoped that way.

Because, I know very well how painful and desperate a person with a heart belongs to him will be forced into the harem.

There is a person you love deeply, who cannot love, or even dare not approach easily, because every mistake in walking is not simply a misbehavior, a wrong behavior, or a punishment you receive, or a simple thrust by someone, but may be an anger from the emperor and a disaster that affects your relatives.

If it were me, if it were Yang Jinqiao, we could tolerate it and would have learned to tolerate it long ago.

But Yang Jinyao, she won't.

If she enters the harem, what is waiting for her will sooner or later be a catastrophe.

But I also know that such a choice is unfair to Yang Jinqiao. Although she can tolerate it, although she has been tolerating it for so many years, she should have her own life. Even if Yang Yunhui is dead, she still has the power to be sad and remember it for the rest of her life. A woman like her may not necessarily rely on any man in this life, nor does she have to sacrifice her loneliness for her sister's happiness.

This seems like a dead game.

No matter how you choose, there is a woman who shed tears.

I was worried and the sorrow between my eyebrows was entangled. Pei Yuanhao looked at me quietly and said, "It's because Yang Jinyao's heart belongs to me, so you hope that her dreams will come true, right?"

A good dream come true?

When I heard these four words, I felt like I was stabbed.

Once upon a time, someone promised me with these four words, making my dream come true, and I naively believed it, but in the end, it was almost the ending of the collapse of heaven and earth. All my expectations and longings were destroyed by this man in front of me.

And Yang Jinyao - her good dream, has actually been shattered.

Wu Yanqiu would not marry her, regardless of whether she entered the palace or not, she would not be able to fulfill this dream.

I looked up at Pei Yuanhao and said slowly: "I think whether other people's good dreams can come true should not affect His Majesty's consideration of making decisions."

“…”

"Other people's good dreams are not what His Majesty the Emperor wants to care about."

He looked at me and smiled faintly.

There seemed to be a lot of clarity in that smile. Perhaps, the scene from many years ago was not only unforgettable to me, but also not so easy to forget for him.

"You are right. Whether other people's good dreams can come true is indeed not a question I will care about."

“…”

"So, why do I have to accept Yang Jinqiao instead of Yang Jinyao?"

My heart sank.

"If that's the case..."

"If that's the case," he cut off my words, looked down at my eyes, and said word by word: "Where should I talk to you about the issue I just now?"

My face suddenly turned pale.

His eyes flashed like a needle tip, with sharp pain in the skin. He looked straight at me and said word by word: "What if I still want you to go back four years ago now?"

“…”
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