Xiao Jue turned his head slightly and smiled: "Are you pitying me?"

Ye Qing looked at him seriously: "Your Majesty is the lord of the world. Only you have mercy on all living beings. Who is qualified to mercy on your Majesty?"

Xiao Jue laughed: "The Queen is right."

The rain stopped that night, and the deep blue night sky showed a sparse starry sky, and frogs crowed from time to time, with rare tranquility.

Ye Qing didn't know how to comfort people, so he just held one of Xiao Jue's arms and sat with him.

Fortunately, the floor of the room was made of wooden, and after sitting for a long time, she didn't feel cold. Instead, she made her feel a little drowsy. Her head was on Xiao Jue's shoulder, and when she fell asleep, she melted into a pool of soft mud and slid down.

Xiao Jue turned his head, glanced at her soft side face, hooked her long arms around her slender waist, and took the person into his arms, adjusting it into a position that made her lean more comfortably.

The sharp edge in his eyes slowly faded away, revealing some fatigue: "Aqing, we must all live well in this life."

Ye Qing's slender eyefelt feathers trembled slightly in her sleep.

In the corner of the room, a small piece of candle on the candlestick was almost burning.

Xiao Jue stared at the candle that was lit to the end, and the orange-red flame jumped in his black jade-like eyes.

Finally, with a "swish", the candle burned out, the candle fire went out, and the whole room fell into darkness, Xiao Jue subconsciously held Ye Qing in his arms a little tightly.

After a long time, his eyes seemed to have finally adapted to the darkness in the room. Through the screen window, he could still see the distant sky slowly turning red. With the glimmer of light shining in, he could already see the outlines of some of the decorations in the room.

He seemed to smile: "Actually, the night is not that scary, right? After all, dawn will come sooner or later."

Ye Qing breathed evenly, as if he was asleep, and could not answer him.

Xiao Jue picked up the man horizontally, put his hands and feet on the bed, covered her with a quilt before leaving the room.

There were footsteps outside the house, and Wang Jing's voice lowered: "Your Majesty, the people we sent have already lit the food and grass."

"Send another three thousand elite troops up the mountain to respond, so that the major Taibaos under General Gu led the troops along the way to block all the intersections down the mountain in Panyun Peak..."

The two walked away and said something else Ye Qing couldn't hear clearly.

She stared at the bed tent with her big black eyes open for a while.

She originally fell asleep leaning against Xiao Jue's shoulder, but because her posture was not very comfortable, she didn't sleep very heavily. When Xiao Jue adjusted her posture, she woke up.

She continued to pretend to be asleep because she was afraid of avoiding embarrassment, but she didn't expect to hear this.

Xiao Jue's words, "Aqing, we must all live well in this life", seemed to be still lingering in her ears.

Although she had guessed seven or eight points in advance, she was confirmed by the words of the master at this moment, and she still felt complicated and shocked in her heart that she could not even explain.

This night is destined to be sleepless.

Isn’t the story Xiao Jue told her just about himself?

The Xiao royal family cannot have blood. The former queen has never heard any sound of the wind since she was a child.

After all, the royal descendants are related to the country and the country. I think since the time of the former emperor, he has killed all the insiders who should have killed.

Ye Qing once heard from Madam Fang that in the early years, Empress Dowager Ye and the late emperor were in conflict. Empress Dowager Ye left the palace with anger and went to Mount Wutai to worship the Buddha with the Empress Dowager. Later, the Empress Dowager Ye returned to the palace.

Calculate the time. In the two years when Queen Mother Ye left the palace, it was almost the time when Xiao Jue’s mother took revenge on the late emperor and laid insects on the late emperor and all the princes.

Later, when Empress Ye returned to the palace, the concubines with high positions among the favorite concubines of the late emperor died of illness one after another, and the palace maids and eunuchs who were serving closely also died of various accidents. So for a long time, the palace said that Empress Ye was cruel and had secretly dealt with the concubines. And those concubines with low positions in the late emperor all ordered them to be buried with them before their death.

The queen had no son, so the late emperor handed over Xiao Jue to the queen for raising.

In the past, Ye Qing only felt that the late emperor might have been guilty of his first wife and son. After all, Xiao Jue was adopted by the queen, so he could be regarded as the birth of the queen, with a noble status and Empress Ye had a support in her later years.

Thinking about it now, I can only say that it is extremely scary to think about it carefully.

All the insiders were wiped out by the First Emperor! They also asked Queen Mother Ye to take the blame for so many years! After all, the palace ladies who didn't know that past would never think that the late emperor was attacking their concubines. The biggest winner in the palace was Empress Ye no matter how they looked at it.

Queen Mother Ye didn't know that all the descendants of the late emperor were poisoned. She only focused on cultivating Xiao Jue as the next emperor, and also mixed some selfish wishes to make her mother's family prosperous again.

Ye Qing could only sigh that the old emperor was really scheming.

If Xiao Jue struggled to survive in such an environment, he would probably die many times. He could not have told Empress Ye about the poison. After all, the descendants of the Emperor were all poisoned by the Emperor, but the Emperor had many brothers, which one of them was not eyeing the throne?

He is not the biological daughter of Empress Dowager Ye, and Empress Dowager Ye is a strong and ambitious person. If Empress Dowager Ye learns the truth and directly leads the Ye family to support the vassal king as the emperor, he will only have a way out.

So for so many years, Xiao Jue has been keeping his mouth tight on Empress Ye.

But for now, Xiao Jue told her the biggest secret of the royal family.

Ye Qing didn't think anything before, but now he becomes more and more shocked when he thinks about it.

Isn’t Xiao Jue afraid that he will shake out this secret?

If he only developed an antidote to get her blood, he would have countless ways to get her blood, so there was no need to do this.

Or did the original queen sacrifice his life to save him in his previous life, and he trusted his queen completely in this life, so he told him calmly?

Ye Qing quickly denied his idea.

How could a person like Xiao Jue easily show such an embarrassing past because of his kindness?

"Why tell me this?"

Ye Qing couldn't even come up with a reasonable answer after thinking about it, so he wailed and covered his head with the quilt.

She could only barely lie on the bed for an hour, and as soon as the sky was dawn, she got up by herself.

Although the sky cleared, it was raining heavily some time ago, and it was still a bit chilly in the early morning.

There is a tree of lilacs blooming late in the yard, with some dewdrops on the leaves. The flowers that were blooming before had been washed away by heavy rain, and only a few flower buds stood tremblingly. A spotted frog on the tower pine next to it was chirping, causing the gloomy aura of rain for several days to dissipate.

The sky where Panyun Peak is located is still red, as if it is morning glowing.

Zi Zhu didn't know that Xiao Jue's men attacked King An's army at night, and said, "How strange, how did the red clouds rise from the west sky early in the morning?"

"Maybe something big is going to happen." Ye Qing replied.

King An lost food and grass, and it was only a matter of time before he was defeated. What Xiao Jue had to do now was to block his retreat and exhaust his morale.

At this point, what other chance can King An have to turn the tables?

But the more you seem to be sure of victory, the more likely you make mistakes.

Ye Qing lowered his eyes and thought for a long time, and asked, "Do you know where my brother is now?"

"In addition to repairing the greenhouses where the people live these days, Your Majesty also sent him a team of men to help patrol Yangzhou City, for fear that wild wolves would come down the mountain and hurt the people." Mo Zhu replied.

Ye Qing raised his eyebrows in surprise. She didn't know that Xiao Jue had actually used Ye Jiannan to come. Perhaps Ye Jiannan had made great contributions to digging the river, and that day's move to save Gu Linyuanlu also made Xiao Jue notice him.

If Ye Jiannan had joined the official position, Ye Qing would have been happy to see him.

But last time she asked Ye Jiannan about his career, Ye Jiannan obviously intended to change the topic, and she didn't know if Ye Jiannan had other plans.

"I'll bring him a letter and let him come to see me." Ye Qing thought for a while.

When he saw Ye Jiannan again, Ye Qing didn't expect that he would actually be crowned.

With gauze wrapped around his forehead, he could still see blood from the forehead. He was probably very busy these days, and he didn't shave much stubble. His chin was a faint blue color, and there was blood in his eyes, but he was still in good spirits.

"Brother, what's wrong with you?" Ye Qing couldn't help feeling sour when he looked at him like this.

Ye Jiannan's eyes were slightly dark, and he didn't care and smiled: "It's just a knock, it's nothing serious."

"It's indeed a turbulent time now, but my elder brother has to be careful of his own body," Ye Qing reminded.

"I can't save it." Ye Jiannan was probably embarrassed by Ye Qing's instructions, so he reached out and scratched the back of his head. He pressed the scar on his forehead and the green stubble that was slapped. He felt a little bit shy when he saw it now.

Ye Qing sighed in his heart. Ye Jiannan was not bad-minded. If he was kind to someone, he would have to pay his attention. Her future sister-in-law would be a blessing. But his reputation in Beijing was defeated like that. If he had a single official position in the future, he would be afraid that no noble daughter would be willing to marry him.

Thinking of this, Ye Qing couldn't help but blame Ye Shangshu again. He was not very confused in the officialdom, so why was he like a blind man in the matter of inner houses?

"My brother worked in marble and helped Yang Xiang do things. Now that Yang Xiang has fallen, he has been taken into jail as a member of the party." Ye Qing said calmly, "I heard that His Majesty has gotten a little angry, and his father has been vented and has been confined."

Ye Jiannan's expression was faint, and he seemed to have a little sarcastic: "I have heard from the old man about this."

The wound on his forehead was smashed by Ye Shangshu with a teacup because he said Ye Jiansong deserved it.

Ye Qing couldn't figure out what Ye Jiannan said, and thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty has made contributions to the flood control and retreating the enemy this time. Your Majesty also knows it. Why don't you take this opportunity to enter the officialdom?"

Ye Jiannan did not look at Ye Qing, rubbed the armrest of the chair and was silent for a while before saying, "Aqing, I know your kindness. But I am a fool for my brother, and I believe in my own way. A man's fame should be fought for by himself. If his literary skills are not successful, can he be just as good as martial arts?"

Ye Qing immediately understood what he meant: "Brother, want to go to the battlefield?"

Her eyebrows flipped: "The battlefield is so dangerous, if you are not careful, you will lose your life..."

"Aqing, my grandfather also built his life on the horse's back. Moreover, no matter how dangerous the battlefield is, someone will have to go there, right?" His expression was a serious matter that Ye Qing had never seen before: "The barbarians have been invading the border of Dahan for a long time. When His Majesty finishes the court's order, he will inevitably focus on regaining the border."

Ye Jiannan didn't say anything. Being a civil servant was already a prosperous position at Yang Xiang. But Xiao Jue still didn't have much effort to overthrow Yang Xiang.

On the contrary, King An, holding heavy troops, Xiao Jue had to be more cautious when dealing with it.

From ancient times to the present, the words that have always been strong and the one who says has weight.

With nepotism, it doesn’t matter which position he can climb to depends on what the emperor thinks.

But if one military merit was saved, he would have to get a point. At that time, no one would say that the Ye family had today with the protection of the queen and the queen mother.

Finally, Ye Qing only sighed: "I feel very relieved by my elder brother who has such ambition."

Before Ye Jiannan left, Ye Qing told him to pay more attention to General Gu’s camp. Given Gu’s degree of obsession with Su Ruyi, Ye Qing was not sure if he would completely see it. If he had a bad thing, he would be in trouble.

Until noon, no one sent back the news from Pan Yunfeng.
To be continued...