The queen pried open the teeth of King Yu with a hairpin and fed the powder into his mouth, "Son of the emperor, don't be afraid, my mother will come with you immediately, and she will come soon."

King Yu twitched, blood flowed out of his mouth and nose, and his eyes stared at the roof.

The queen's heart seemed to be poked by a sharp weapon, breaking a hole, and blood was dripping.

She reached out in panic to touch the blood on King Yu's lips, but she was afraid of showing flaws. She swallowed the remaining powder with tears in her eyes. She put the hairpin back on her head and leaned against the bed.

——

Shang Zhi walked out of the cold palace, Xue Shenzhi stood by the door and waited, and the two of them left the palace side by side.

When Xue Shenzhi saw Shang Zhi coming out of the cold palace, he was silent all the way, "They deserve it, don't take it to heart."

Shang Zhi shook her head. She just felt that the women in the deep palace were very sad. No matter how pure a woman was, she would no longer be like herself after staying in the deep palace for a long time.

Looking at the queen's appearance, she couldn't help but think of Nine Lady. She was so simple and kind, with a full of vitality on her face. However, for how long she entered the palace, the smile on her face disappeared and became very silent.

She was wondering, will Ninth Lady become the queen and Concubine Wen one day?

"I'm thinking of Nine Lady." Shang Zhi felt that Nine Lady was withering in the deep palace and wanted to save her, but Helian Yu was right. Nine Lady was not an ordinary woman, she represented the entire Donghu. She could not put the two countries into war because of her personal feelings. The reason why Nine Lady agreed to enter the palace was for the sake of the people of Donghu. She would not come out easily, right?

Xue Shenzhi said: "Everyone has different responsibilities and different choices. People in the royal family have too many people who cannot help themselves."

Shang Zhi understood, but after seeing the queen's madness, she became worried.

More of a pity.

Shang Zhi kicked off a stone and rolled to a pair of embroidered shoes. She raised her head and saw Gu Yulian Tingting's pretty palace lantern.

Shang Zhi's face suddenly became cold.

Gu Yulian watched Shang Zhi change his face and took two steps back. She pursed the corners of her lips and looked at Xue Shenzhi.

Xue Shenzhi's eyes were faint and his expression was cold. He just took a look and then he withdrew his gaze.

"Mr. Xue." Gu Yulian bit her lower lip and walked timidly to Xue Shenzhi, "I came to the capital to find you. My uncle has given me to you, and in my heart, I regard myself as your person. When I heard your bad news, I felt very sad. I learned that you had already come to the capital when you were alive, and I don't know how happy I was for you. I knew that I couldn't forget you, and after hesitation, I finally decided to come to the capital to find you."

Shang Zhi sneered, "If you really can't forget him, you shouldn't have committed suicide when you heard this news? Since you didn't commit suicide, it means that you don't like him as much as you said."

Gu Yulian's face turned pale and she looked at Xue Shenzhi at a loss.

"Your uncle gave you to Shenzhi, so should Shenzhi accept you? Are the people in the Gu family as thick as Gu Yingying? No shame at all?" Shang Zhi was upset with the Gu family. Gu Yingying approached the Gong family, full of scheming. Now another woman appeared, which is better, worse than Gu Yingying, and she didn't want that layer of fig leaf.

Gu Yulian looked sad and suddenly knelt on the ground, "Sister, I really want to serve Lord Xue and will not compete with you. I beg you to give me a way out. If I return to Anyang Prefecture City, my parents will sell me! My uncle has been beheaded and the Gu family has been raided. I am desperate to come to join Lord Xue."

"Aren't you afraid that I will sell you to a kiln?" Shang Zhi sneered.

Gu Yulian was stunned, not expecting Shang Zhi to say such words, "Sister, if you sell me, aren't you afraid of having a reputation of jealousy?"

"You can give it a try." Shang Zhi has never been dragged on the face of people who covet Xue Shenzhi.

Gu Yulian opened her mouth slightly, Shang Zhi was different from what she thought. The woman was worried about destroying her reputation and was disliked by her husband's family. She would show her virtuousness and take a concubine to her husband and show her magnanimity.

But looking at Shang Zhi's cold face, the coldness in her eyes condensed into ice, and there was no joke. The fact that scared her was trembling, she couldn't help but feel trembling, and inexplicably believed that Shang Zhi was serious.

As long as she dares to enter the Xue family's door, she will dare to sell herself!

She bit her lip and asked Xue Shenzhi with courage, "Sir, it is common for men to have three wives and four concubines. You only marry her one woman and do not take a concubine. She is not dignified and virtuous in such a way. Do you not control her?"

Xue Shenzhi said coldly: "Ms. Gu, the Li family rules not to take concubines."

"But your grandfather has many concubines." Gu Yulian had no way out. Gu Mian was beheaded and the Gu family was scouted. Her parents sold her to a wealthy family in their fifties as a concubine. She secretly fled back to the capital to find Xue Shenzhi.

Now that the queen has been sent to the cold palace, she has no skills. If Xue Shenzhi refuses to take her in, she will sleep on the streets.

"I've booked."

Gu Yulian looked at Xue Shenzhi in surprise.

"Miss Gu, we have no relatives and no reason, and you are desperate. What does it have to do with me?" Xue Shenzhi looked a little impatient. He held Shang Zhi's hand and said to her warmly: "Don't pay attention to her, she is just an irrelevant person. It's getting late, so we will leave the palace earlier to report safety to our grandmother so that they won't worry."

"Mr. Xue..."

Xue Shenzhi said coldly: "Please call Mrs. Zhizhi and Xue."

Shang Zhi couldn't help laughing when he heard his symphonic emphasis.

How could Shang Zhi not know Gu Yulian’s thoughts? If she said she likes Xue Shenzhi, she just likes his talent and appearance. In fact, she doesn’t necessarily have a deep affection, just to find a backer and a place to accommodate her.

"I can find you a place to settle down. Do you want to find a man who is honest and willing to work as a private partner, or a person with status as a concubine?"

To eliminate future troubles, she is married.

If Gu Yulian finds a man who is honest and willing to work and is his official wife, it means that he is a good woman and wants to live a life sincerely. She will find a doctor for Gu Yulian. She will not be very rich in life, but she will not worry about money.

If she wants to marry a man with status as a concubine, she is a woman who is greedy for wealth and willing to be inferior. Such a woman is afraid that she is a messenger for others.

Gu Yulian looked at Shang Zhi in shock, but she didn't expect that she would pester Xue Shenzhi to be a concubine, so Shang Zhi would find her husband.

But will she introduce it sincerely?

"You don't have to worry. If you are a down-to-earth person who wants to live a life, I won't harm you." Shang Zhi said bluntly: "I'll introduce you to you because I'm worried that you can use methods to entangle Shenzhi. We hate troubles. Although my original intention is to get rid of your troubles, I won't do anything wrong."

"I want to be a real wife." Gu Yulian hesitated for a moment and asked, "Can I take a look at each other before making a decision?"

"Of course." Shang Zhi saw Gu Yulian's tense back relaxing, and his expression became a little relaxed, and his face cleared a little, "You come to Xinglin Hospital to find me tomorrow."

"Thank you, Mrs. Xue." Gu Yulian knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Shang Zhi.

Shang Zhi's mouth moved, and he didn't say anything else.

Gu Yulian is a smart person after all, without any stubbornness and fighting to the end.

If you can turn enemies into friends, Shangzhi will not easily make enemies.

At least so far, Gu Yulian has never planned on them.

She just wanted to ask for a marriage and live a good life. There were two doctors in her clinic who had never mentioned their marriage, and they could be introduced to her.

Xue Shenzhi raised his hand and rubbed her long hair, "Go home."

"good."

Gu Yulian watched Xue Shenzhi and Shang Zhi disappear into the night. During the palace banquet, she realized that it was impossible to enter Xue's mansion, but she had already come to the capital and wanted to give it a try. Xue Shenzhi's cold attitude made her know that her thoughts were ridiculous. Just when she was desperate, she did not expect that Shang Zhi would help her choose a family. Although she was not rich, she was always better than the people her parents chose.

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Ci'an Palace.

Empress Dowager Wei did not attend the palace banquet.

The eunuch invited Wei Ningzi into the palace. Empress Dowager Wei looked at Wei Ningzi, who was covered in white and couldn't help but turn red. She waved and signaled Wei Ningzi to sit beside her, hold her hand, "I've lost weight."

Wei Ningzi couldn't help laughing, "Aunt, I'm not thin, it's just that you haven't seen me for too long and have forgotten what you were like before."

"Will he treat you well?" asked Empress Dowager Wei.

Wei Ningzi's face turned slightly red. She and Qin Jingxiao had been separated for twenty years. The gap between them had long polished the familiarity between the two. He had long been a husband and a father, and his temperament and style of dealing with things had changed. She thought that it would take a while for the two to get along with each other.

When they really get along, they are even more harmonious than she thought.

Qin Jingxiao probably felt guilty towards her, so he obeyed her everywhere, which was considered very considerate.

"He treats me well."

When Empress Dowager Wei saw that Wei Ningzi's eyes were filled with tenderness and a little bit of happiness overflowed from her eyes, it was obvious that she was really doing well.

"Aunt, after our wedding, we should have gone to the palace to thank you. Because my mother passed away, we didn't have time to thank you. The second master said that we would come to the palace to pay homage to you after being overheated." Wei Ningzi knew that Empress Dowager Wei was prejudiced to Qin Jingxiao, so she said a few good words for Qin Jingxiao to change the impression in the mind of Empress Dowager Wei.

How did Empress Dowager Wei not know? She sighed, "As long as he treats you well, the Ai family will feel at ease."

"Aunt, I am not as young as Ling'er, and I know it. If he treats me badly, I can still go back to the Wei family. The Wei family has no place to stay, and I can still go to the temple. There will always be a place for me to settle down. I met him since I was a child. He is a responsible man. Since I have married me, even if I have no feelings, he will give me the honor his wife should have. If I can get the respect of my husband, I will cherish my blessings." Wei Ningzi took his fancy to this character, loyalty and responsibility.

"What do his two sons do to you?"

"Respect me as an elder."

"Didn't change the word?"

Wei Ningzi's eyes flashed slightly, a little shy, "They are all so big, they are not still young, they need to be kept under my knees, so they will naturally not call me mother."

Wei Ningzi was very satisfied when they could accept her, and there would be no internal struggle.

Empress Dowager Wei held a cup of tea and listened quietly to Wei Ningzi's answer. It was basically that Qin Jingxiao was very considerate and her two stepchildren respected her very much.

"When your father told you about this marriage, what did you think?" After Empress Dowager Wei roughly understood Qin Jingxiao's attitude towards Wei Ningzi, she went straight to the topic.

The smile on Wei Ningzi's face instantly disappeared, and she looked at the Queen Mother with a calm expression, "Aunt, I won't speak this."

It's not that it can't be opened.

Empress Dowager Wei's face slightly darkened. When she lowered her head, she covered her unhappy expression and raised her head again. Empress Dowager Wei smiled, "Okay, as long as you live well, the Ai family will not force you to avoid affecting the relationship between you and your wife." When she said this last sentence, the expression in Empress Dowager Wei's eyes was unclear.

Wei Ningzi breathed a sigh of relief.

Empress Dowager Wei pushed a brocade box in front of Wei Ningzi, "This is a wedding gift from the Ai family to you. It turns out that they were planned to give it to you when you enter the palace to thank you. The Ai family is exhausted, so you can go back."

Wei Ningzi looked at the tired look in Empress Dowager Wei's eyes and stood up to say goodbye.

Walking out of Ci'an Palace, Wei Ningzi looked back at Ci'an Palace immersed in the moonlight, with a slightly solemn expression. She lowered her eyes to the brocade box in her arms. Empress Dowager Wei was not surprised. She greeted her every day as usual, but she felt that there was something wrong. She couldn't say what was wrong.

Taking a sedan chair to the palace gate, Wei Ningzi paused, and a tall figure like a pine tree stood under the palace wall.

"Second Master." Wei Ningzi called out softly.

Qin Jingxiao turned his head and saw Wei Ningzi standing at the palace gate, strode towards her, "Just come out?"

Wei Ningzi smiled lightly, "If you come out later, you should spend the night in the palace."

Qin Jingxiao took the brocade box from her hand, lifted the curtain, and asked her to get on the carriage first, "In the past, you went to the palace to accompany the empress dowager, and it was impossible for you to leave the palace for less than one or two hours."

Wei Ningzi paused and realized something was wrong.

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