Although the Empress Dowager is the most important thing for the legitimate and illegitimate children, she also hopes that the children of the royal family will have some potential and capable skills.

But after seeing the concubines of the princes' houses, he couldn't help but shook his head and sighed. Among the princes, except for King Zhao and King Jin, who respected their legitimate wives, King Yue and King Ming made the Queen Mother not know what to say.

However, although the legitimate son of the Zhao Mansion was weak and average ingenuity, he was better at being gentle, humble and polite. The Princess of Zhao was not bad for the concubines and daughters. Therefore, many people in the capital were much more pleasing to the concubines in the Zhao Mansion than those of the Yue Mansion and the Ming Mansion.

When the Empress Dowager thought of this, she sighed secretly, but her children and grandchildren have their own blessings, so she said to Princess Zhao: "The Ai family sees that you have educated all the children in the back house very well, which shows that you have put a lot of effort into it. The eldest is still a clear person, and it is also very good to have you control the Zhao Mansion. However, the second and fourth brothers cannot be twisted, which has caused their wife to suffer a lot..." The Empress Dowager sighed when she spoke of King Yue and King Ming.

Thinking of this, the Empress Dowager said to Princess Yue and Princess Ming again: "Don't be too weak either. You two are princesses who are married by the royal family and Ming media. You just make the decision on the matters in the prince's mansion. If anyone can't figure it out and is ignorant, just let them come to Ai's family." After that, he glanced at Princess Mei.

The cousin of the Ming Prince's Mansion is the niece of Concubine Mei's mother's family. In the eyes of the Empress Dowager, she is just a concubine with misconduct. If Concubine Mei had not pleaded with mercy in front of the emperor, the niece would have been a concubine at most. How could she be a concubine? Niece Xiao Gu, the Empress Dowager felt that neither of these aunts nor nephews were good, and she would be a fox and confusing!

When Concubine Mei saw the gaze of the queen mother, she felt so distressed that she couldn't tell whether it was okay. She didn't expect that her niece would hook up with her son! When her brother came to beg her, she couldn't let her niece be a concubine, but she couldn't resist, so she had to accept it. Unexpectedly, she offended the Princess Ming and the Queen Mother. Now she is becoming more and more disliked by the Queen Mother in the palace. Concubine Mei couldn't help but smile bitterly in her heart.

But her son is a good person. She beats and scolds her. Now her son is all about Concubine Mei and ignores the official concubine. This reputation is not very good in Beijing. The Ming princess's family has been refuting Ming Wang's face in the court all day long, which makes the relationship between the Ming prince and the Ming prince even worse.

Even now, many wealthy women in the capital and many concubines in the palace laughed at her in secret, laughing at her for being incompetent in teaching her children... I was also worried when I thought of these concubines Mei!

After talking about King Ming, King Yue has not been missing for so long. These two people are not well-known among the female relatives of various families in the capital. King Ming prefers his cousin, Concubine Mei, and King Yue is purely lustful.

However, the King of Yue caused Princess Yue to give birth prematurely for a wife, and the legitimate son died a few days after his birth. This incident also caused a lot of controversy in the capital. The end of the wife was that she was killed by the empress dowager.

But King Yue doesn't care, there is another one left if this one is gone...

Speaking of King Yue and King Ming, not only the Queen Mother, but also the Emperor was very worried.

Concubine Mei remembered the words she pleaded with to the emperor for her son's thoughts, and the queen advised the emperor: "Whether it is a concubine or a concubine, they are just concubines, even if they have bad character, they will control the official concubine. After all, Miss Mei is also the niece of Concubine Mei's mother's family. Even if the emperor wants to give Concubine Mei and the fourth prince some respect, he should also praise Miss Mei."

This sounded like a plea for her, but it successfully aroused the emperor's dissatisfaction with their mother and son. The emperor scolded her without saying anything, and the position she had agreed to raise was gone. Thinking of this, Concubine Wei couldn't help but gritted her teeth: When that day my son ascended to the great treasure, the first person he had to deal with would be the queen.

Not to mention how annoyed Mei Fei was, she still had to smile as always and deal with others.

It was soon ten days of noon, and the palace servants set up a banquet. Everyone took the seats according to the dishes. Before the dishes were served, they saw an eunuch running in and saying, "Report to the Empress Dowager, something is wrong. Some of the city guards rebelled and rushed towards the palace. Now they have attacked the Meridian Gate and are stopped by the palace guards near the Qikong Bridge."

When they heard this, the hall, which was just laughing and laughing, immediately became panicked, and everyone was amazed.

The Empress Dowager was really surprised, but when she thought of the Emperor's incident of King Pingjiang that the Emperor had told her, she had a good idea and quickly calmed down: "How many rebels are there? How many guards on duty are there in the palace now?"

This eunuch is just a little eunuch who is not good at all. How could he know this? Without a long time to answer, the empress dowager sighed and said, "Since everyone has come to the door, we are all anxious here, so we may have made dumplings. Queen, you can quickly take them to Cining Palace. The gate of the Cining Palace is thicker. If the rebels attack in, they can still resist for a while. The Ai family wants to go out and see who is so brave to siege the royal family?"

The concubines tried to persuade each other, but the empress dowager was determined to go: "Since the rebels have attacked, the guards have lost their backbone for a while, and all the adult males of the royal family have gone to the imperial tomb. If the Empress Dowager of Ai did not come forward to take charge of the overall situation at this time, would it be possible to wait for them to attack here?"

Hearing this, the Empress took off the phoenix crown on her head: "What the Empress said makes sense. As the Empress, I cannot retreat at this time. I will go with my mother." Then she looked at Princess Zhao and said: "You have always been a steady person. Now I will hand over the entire palace maids to your care. If you can successfully defeat the rebels, if you cannot, you should know what to do!"

Princess Zhao bowed and replied, "Don't worry, my grandmother, my grand female family of the Yuan royal family would rather die than surrender like a traitor." Everyone felt trembling when they heard this. If they were really attacked by the rebels, they would probably have their lives to be explained here.

At this time, Princess Zhao didn't care about his position and ordered the palace people to invite all the female relatives present to the main hall of Cining Palace. The female relatives were frightened and had no idea, so they could only follow the steps of the palace servants. Only Shan Jingyan stepped forward and pushed the wet nurse with two children to Princess Zhao: "The Empress Dowager and the Queen Mother cannot be left without serving. Although I am not good at all, I have practiced some riding and shooting skills at home, so I should be with me. These two children are handed over to Princess Zhao."

Princess Zhao's eyes turned red and she said solemnly: "Don't worry, brother and sister. As long as I have a breath, I will definitely protect them."

Shan Jingyan nodded, unable to bear to look at the child again, she took off the heavy phoenix hairpin from her head and threw it on the ground, picked up something from the ground and put it in her sleeve, and walked a few steps to follow the queen. When the empress dowager saw her, she nodded slightly and didn't say much.

After seeing Shan Jingyan's actions, Yuan Chuzhi turned around and followed Shan Jingyan's footsteps. Princess Ke suddenly stopped him: "Are you going to die?" Yuan Chuzhi looked at her mother's scared face and said firmly: "Mother, you are seeking wealth and honor in danger. Instead of sitting here and waiting for death, it is better to go out and make some money. It is better to say that her daughter can still make a fortune than waiting for death here." After that, she firmly broke free from Princess Ke's hands and ran out.

As soon as the Empress Dowager and his party walked to the Ganqing Gate, they saw the Imperial Guard with a knife guard and rushed over from the third-rank general Ma Dong and a team of men. When Ma Dong saw the Empress Dowager, he quickly knelt down and said, "I heard that there was something changed in the palace, so I specially led his troops to protect the Empress Dowager and all the empresses."

Ma Dong is the eldest son of Jing'an Bo Mansion, and the empress dowager still trusts him very much. He waved his hand to let him get up. At this time, Shan Jingyan suddenly said, "I remember you are the general of the Imperial Guard, why are you here with the patrol soldiers?" As soon as these words came, everyone looked at the soldiers behind Ma Dong, wearing the clothes of the Imperial Guard. The empress dowager and others were shocked, and the guards who followed him hurriedly blocked them.

Ma Dong didn't expect that there would be a flaw here. Seeing that it had been discovered, he stopped disguising it. He stood up with a sneer and said, "Princess Jin is worthy of being the descendant of the general. He actually saw it out at first sight, but it's too late to find out now." After that, he asked his soldiers to come forward to arrest people.

Although there were only a dozen guards who protected the Empress Dowager and others, their skills were very good. They did not lose the least of the hundred people on Ma Dong's side. In a blink of an eye, they destroyed more than twenty people on the other side.

Seeing this, Ma Dong pulled out the sword from his waist and joined the battle. Unexpectedly, Ma Dong looked like a playboy on weekdays, and his skills were also very powerful. In a blink of an eye, he destroyed the two guards on the Empress Dowager's side.

Seeing this, Shan Jingyan quietly took out the things in her sleeves. Yuan Chuzhi, who was standing beside her, saw what she took out, curled the corners of her lips, and moved to Shan Jingyan with cleverness, blocking her movements.

Ma Dong was about to slash at a guard when suddenly a pain came from his forehead. A stone flew from somewhere and hit his right eye. Although it did not hurt his eyes, the blood flowed out still blocked his sight. In this moment, a guard who was fighting with him immediately waved his knife to cut off his neck vein when he saw this.

Ma Dong did not expect that his dream of glory, wealth and glory had not yet begun, and his life was ended like this. He widened his eyes and fell to the ground, his face full of reluctance.

The other soldiers lost their leader and suddenly became in chaos and all wanted to retreat. Seeing this, the empress dowager said immediately: "The Ai family knew that you must have been deceived by the traitor and had the intention to rebel. As long as you surrender immediately, the Ai family guarantees that you will not die, and today's affairs will never harm your family." After hearing this, many people hesitated.

At this moment, he heard a black-faced man in the captain's costume in the rebels say, "Brothers, don't listen to this old witch's mischief. The empress dowager and the queen are here, and they have captured any of them alive. The King of Pingjiang rewards a thousand taels of gold. What kind of beautiful lady is there if he has silver? Why bother to care about the yellow-faced women in the family!" After that, he took the lead in fighting.

This guy is such a disaster. Shan Jingyan took out the slingshot in her hand and shot at the black-faced man. In the chaos, no one was discovered by others just now, so no one was on guard against them like women. The black-faced man's martial arts was still above Ma Dong. When the stone shot at him, he heard the wind and turned slightly. The stone that had already shot towards his temple only hit the back of his head. He touched the blood on the back of his head, stared at Shan Jingyan who was acting and cursed: "You stinky bitch, let's see how I deal with you!" As he said that, he waved the big knife in his hand and slashed.

He was filled with anger and suddenly became extremely brave. He cut down the two guards around him one after another. Seeing the big man attacking her, Shan Jingyan threw the slingshot in her hand, pushed away the guard blocking her, picked up a long sword on the ground and slashed at the big man. Shan Jingyan's movement was very quick, and she had already arrived in front of the big man in an instant. Although the big man heard the movement, he happened to be entangled by a guard, and was accidentally chopped into the right arm by Shan Jingyan. The big man was really angry this time, and he was stabbed to death with another knife and slashed at Shan Jingyan. Although Shan Jingyan tried hard to block the knife, she had just finished giving birth. In addition, her martial arts skills were not particularly good and she was not very strong. It was obvious that she was not a match for the big man. She was about to die under the other's knife.

But suddenly a strong wind blew, and in a moment, a whip blew on the man's right arm that had just been injured. Even though the man was not as handsome as the man, his skin and firm in his heart, he couldn't help but exclaim in pain, and the machete in his hand was also brought to the ground.

At this moment, Shan Jingyan seized the opportunity and raised the long knife in her hand and slashed the big man's back. The long knife penetrated the other person's body. The big man fell to the ground and was cut off by a guard.

The remaining rebels really lost their backbone and were instantly wiped out by the guards beside the empress dowager. A brilliant flashed in Shan Jingyan's eyes. The guards around the empress dowager seemed to be not good at it!

At this time, the empress dowager and the other two came to her and asked with concern: "Lady Liu, are you okay?" Shan Jingyan shook her head: "It's okay, it's okay." Then she turned to Yuan Chuzhi and said: "Chuzhi, thanks to you just now, otherwise I would have become a dead soul under the knife."

Yuan Chuzhi nodded: "Okay, do we still need to be polite? At least I have to call you Auntie! But you were so smart and brave that I admired you very much."

The queen mother smiled and said, "Okay, you two don't have to be humble to each other. You are both good kids who are brave and resourceful."

At this time, the headmaster of the Danei came over. Seeing that the Empress Dowager and the Queen were safe, I immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank God, the Empresses are safe."

The Queen Mother nodded and asked, "How are the rebels outside eliminated?"

Lu Eunuch replied: "I was temporarily stopped by the guards, but the rebels closed the Meridian Gate. The guards outside did not get any news, and they were afraid that they would not know where to reinforce them. There were only a thousand guards on duty in the palace, and now nearly half of them have been lost. If the rebels break through the Meridian Gate, they may not be able to hold on for long. Why not let the soldiers fight out a bloody way and escort the Empress Dowager and the rest of their masters to avoid leaving the palace for the time being?"

The Empress Dowager shook her head: "Now the palace is not safe, where can we avoid it? The city gate of Taihe Gate was personally supervised by Emperor Gaozu, and it is not so easy to be broken. The most urgent task is to report the city protection army outside the palace as soon as possible."

The queen also frowned and said, "Now that the Wumen Gate is occupied, it cannot ignite the beacon fire of the beacon tower. How can we send the letters out?"

Everyone couldn't think of any good idea for a moment, so they could only look at each other.

Suddenly, many Kongming lanterns floated in the harem. This was the time when the northwest wind was raging. After the Kongming lanterns rose into the air, they were soon blown out of the palace by the wind.

The Empress Dowager praised: "I don't know who is so smart and came up with such a good way. Since this is the case, it's better to make the palace people carry out all the fireworks and firecrackers that were set off on New Year's Eve to light them." After hearing this, Eunuch Lu quickly started to do it.

The people on the rebels naturally saw the Kongming lantern in the sky. The subordinates shot down one and handed it to the leader Ma Boye. The Kongming lantern cover was written with a pen that the rebels attacked the palace and came to rescue the car quickly. The empress dowager's private seal was also stamped below.

Boye Ma snorted coldly. He didn't know the news of his eldest son's death at this time. He ordered to lift artillery and other objects to prepare to break through the Taihe Gate. On the other hand, he sent someone to shoot the Kongming lamp in the sky.

The rebel archers set their bows and shot down many Kongming lanterns, but some of them flew outside the Forbidden City.

On this day, didn’t Wen Tingzhou go to the sacrifice? Mu Yun had nothing to do and came to Chengguo Duke’s Mansion to visit Xu with Madam Yun. Xu was so happy to see the little monkey. Seeing that they were coming, he immediately put down what was in his hands and focused on teasing the little monkey.

The three of them had lunch together. Mu Yun had just coaxed the little monkey to fall asleep and was about to take a tea and rest with Xu. When he heard from the servants, many Kongming lanterns suddenly floated from the sky, and one of them fell into the horse shed in the front yard, almost lit Ma Peng.

Everyone frowned when they heard this and walked into the yard one after another. There were many black spots flying in the sky. Some of them were shorter, and the appearance of Kongming lanterns could be seen. Then, there were dense sounds of firecrackers coming from the northwest direction, and fireworks rose in the sky. Although the fireworks set off during the day are not as gorgeous as the night, they are also extremely conspicuous.

Xu frowned: "The sound of firecrackers came from the palace. Could it be that something was wrong in the palace?"

Everyone looked up at the sky after hearing this. No matter how big the people were, they could sense the solemn atmosphere in the air. The atmosphere in the yard suddenly became tense. After a while, Madam Yun suddenly pointed to the air and said, "Madam, look, aren't that fireworks from thousands of miles away? This fireworks have been set off only on New Year's Eve or when the new king ascended the throne. There must be something wrong in the palace, and this is a warning to us."

Xu nodded and quickly called the head guard in the mansion to instruct: "You take the ten elite soldiers from our mansion to the palace to investigate the situation." The head guard agreed.

Xu also ordered people to close all the doors in the mansion and let all the guards and servants take the equipment to guard the doors.

The Duke Chengguo Mansion was originally one of the founding Duke Mansions, and it was still very close to the Forbidden City. The guards in the mansion went for about one stick of incense and came back and reported: "Wizhi arrived outside the Dakang Gate of the Forbidden City and found that there was a mess and blood flowing. It was obvious that he had experienced a war. Even the guards guarding the city gate were not the usual imperial guards, but some soldiers in various clothes, including some aliens, who looked like Luopu people. Seeing that something was wrong, Beizhi did not act rashly and asked his brothers to go to Shenwu Gate to check the situation. Beizhi would come to report to his wife first."

When they heard this, Xu and Mu Yun were shocked: It seems that something really happened in the palace.
Chapter completed!