You have asked for permission to marry, why should I restrain myself?

Chapter 364: Previous Life (8) Just a deposed queen, buried casually

Xiao Jingchen couldn't understand the adults' complicated emotions. He just didn't know why he was being held like this by his father at this moment. When he heard his father's voice, his heart ached and he wanted to cry.

Xiao Jingchen stretched out his little hand and patted Xiao Yan's back, saying in a baby voice:

"Father, Chen'er is here, and so is mother."

Hearing him mention Lin Zhaoyue, Xiao Yun tightened the strength in his hands, his dark pupils reflected a glimmer of broken light, and then quickly returned to calm.

In front of the child, he did not reveal too much emotion, but just picked him up and said hoarsely:

"It's getting late, go back to bed."

"it is good."

Xiao Jingchen responded obediently.

After one night, Xiao Yan was the same as usual, without any negative emotions. He got up quietly before dawn in the morning to attend court.

Lin Zhaoyue didn’t know what other ghosts were like, but she was no different from when she was alive, except that she didn’t feel hungry, had no sense of touch, had no entity, and couldn’t touch anything. She also got tired and sleepy.

She was forced to follow him and was so sleepy that she just lay down in the carriage and fell asleep.

Suddenly, a noisy sound rang in her ears, and a scent of chestnuts came, waking her up from her sleep.

She stuck her head out of the carriage, saw the bustling morning market, and quickly floated out.

There are usually more steamed bun shops doing business in the morning market, but I didn’t expect there were two selling chestnuts.

She floated to the chestnut stall, looked at the chestnuts coated with sugar and fried until shiny, and was so greedy that she started to suck them madly.

Just as she was indulging in the aroma of chestnuts, she heard a cold voice:

"Give me two pounds of chestnuts."

Lin Zhaoyue turned around and saw Ning Yi.

Does big brother also like to eat chestnuts?

They are indeed siblings, even their tastes are the same.

Lin Zhaoyue watched him buy, and then followed him eagerly.

She missed her elder sister. Every time they went shopping, her elder sister would buy her chestnuts and peel them for her.

Sitting in the carriage, Lin Zhaoyue saw Ning Yi put the chestnuts in his hand into the sedan chair, and then she saw a slender jade-like hand taking the bag of chestnuts.

Lin Zhaoyue: …

So Xiao Yan wants to eat chestnuts?

He didn't know how to eat these before, but he peeled them for her.

When Lin Zhaoyue entered, she saw him peeling the fruits one by one, just like before. After peeling them, he put them on a plate that he had taken out from somewhere.

He didn't eat it, he just peeled it.

Lin Zhaoyue looked at him, extremely anxious.

I really want to grab them all and put them all in my mouth.

She stretched out her hand and grabbed in anger, but ended up grabbing nothing.

After peeling two kilograms of chestnuts, we arrived at the palace.

The jade butterfly was piled high with golden whole chestnut flesh. Xiao Yun tried to eat one. His expression did not reveal whether it tasted good or not, but after finishing that one, he started to eat one after another.

It was really a miracle. Before, when she asked him to taste it, he wouldn't move, and she had to rinse her mouth every time after eating the chestnuts. But now he was enjoying eating them.

When they arrived at the Golden Palace, it was already daybreak and all the ministers had already gathered and were waiting in the palace.

Xiao Yan handed the remaining chestnuts to Ning Yi.

Ning Yi has always tacitly accepted a rule that as long as the food is handed to him, it belongs to him.

So he walked in while holding the jade butterfly and eating, attracting the attention of all the ministers.

Lin Zhaoyue: …

My eldest brother's train of thought is still different from that of ordinary people as always.

She subconsciously looked at Xiao Yan, but he just glanced at Ning Yi and said nothing.

Lin Zhaoyue looked at all the ministers in the court, headed by Marquis Xuanping, followed by Liu Bojian, and among all the civil and military officials, there was no place for the Lin family any more.

When Beiyang Pass was breached, the Northern Jue broke through eleven cities in a row and almost attacked the capital. Marquis Xuanping led his army to follow Xiao Yun into the battle, drove away the Northern Jue and made great contributions. Now, Marquis Xuanping has become a powerful official second only to the emperor.

Marquis Xuanping has always supported the eldest prince. Now that the eldest prince is imprisoned by Xiao Yin, it is inevitable that he will have selfish motives.

Liu Bojian and Liu Yiyi are fine now, which means that the plans of the remnants of the previous dynasty are still continuing.

Since they did not succeed in the battle of Beiyang Pass, they will never give up.

They will definitely secretly add fuel to the flames, let Marquis Xuanping support the eldest prince to ascend the throne, let the two of them fight, and when both are defeated, they will get rid of them and support the child in Liu Yiyi's belly or Lin Yanzhi to ascend the throne directly, and the remnants of the previous dynasty will be able to complete the cause of restoring the country.

Lin Zhaoyue was actually very conflicted.

On the one hand, in this life, Xiao Yun wiped out her entire family and was her enemy just like the people of the previous dynasty. On the other hand, she knew that if the previous dynasty's cause of restoring the country was completed, Anguo would again fall into dire straits, and countless people would be infinitely exploited and oppressed, making their lives miserable, which was completely contrary to the ideas of her father and her.

Intellectually, she needs to help Xiao Yun. After all, Lin Kaiji and Lin Yanzhi of the Lin family are both from the previous dynasty, and Xiao Yun is not completely wronging the Lin family.

But emotionally, she couldn't do it.

Lin Zhaoyue was having a headache thinking about it, but it didn’t matter, they were all dead anyway, so why should she care about those things.

As soon as Lin Zhaoyue came to her senses, she smelled the scent of magnolia, which was the scent of Liu Yiyi.

When she raised her eyes, she found that she had arrived at the Imperial Study from the Golden Palace without knowing when, and the morning court had ended without knowing when.

Liu Yiyi was wearing an elegant white brocade dress, a white fox fur coat, and light makeup. She didn't seem to have any lipstick on her lips, intentionally or unintentionally, which made her look particularly pale and frail.

Every move exudes a sense of weakness.

When Xiao Yan saw the person coming, he didn't show much emotion on his face, he just said:

"Why is the Queen here?"

"It's cold, Yiyi personally made ginseng black chicken soup for Brother Ying, please have a try."

As he spoke, he brought the hot black chicken soup to Xiao Yan. Xiao Yan glanced at it and said calmly:

"Thank you for your concern, Queen. However, I still have many government affairs to attend to. If Queen has nothing else to do, please go back first!"

Liu Yiyi looked at the expression on Xiao Yan's face and really couldn't guess whether he knew about the love Gu. As for the matter of the cold palace, she had handled it very cleanly and was not worried at all.

None of the people she sent out yesterday came back alive, and even their bodies could not be found.

Seeing that she didn't move, Xiao Yan looked up at her and frowned slightly:

"Anything else?"

Liu Yiyi looked at him and suddenly burst into tears. She said:

"Brother Ying, the cold palace was burned last night, and Sister Yue was unfortunately buried in the sea of ​​fire. Now Sister Yue's relatives are gone, and her identity is special. Yiyi wants to ask, what should be done with Sister Yue's funeral?"

Xiao Yan's face was slightly cold, and he said in a nonchalant tone:

"It's just a deposed queen, buried casually."

There seemed to be some impatience between his brows, and he said:

"The ministers have discussed this matter today, and it will be handled by the Ministry of Rites. According to the rules for ordinary concubines, these are not things you should worry about. You are pregnant now, so just take good care of the baby."

Liu Yiyi saw the impatience in Xiao Yan's eyes. Tears started flowing, and she looked extremely aggrieved:

"Brother Ying, you are mean to Yiyi! You used to call Yiyi by her nickname, but now you call her Queen Yiyi. Brother Ying, do you regret it? If Brother Ying doesn't like Yiyi anymore, then Yiyi will ask to go to Huguo Temple and become a nun, so that Brother Ying won't hate her in the future and throw her into the cold palace like he treats her sister to let her fend for herself."

The fingers of Xiao Yan holding the memorial turned white. After a while, he stared at her with his dark eyes and said:

"If the Queen wants this, then let's set off tomorrow!"

Then he said:

"Eunuch Fu, send the queen out."

Seeing Eunuch Fu sending the guests away mercilessly, Lin Zhaoyue let out a sigh of relief.

If you don't treat Yiyi well now, he will suffer in the future.

Liu Yiyi loves him so much. Even if the country belongs to the Ye family in the future, Liu Yiyi might find a way to save his life.

The two people who were "sent out" looked back at the imperial study, and Jinzhu's eyes were filled with worry. She said:

"Your Majesty, His Majesty is so cold to you today, did you discover something?"

Liu Yiyi shook her head and said:

"do not know."

"What if the emperor finds out?"

Upon hearing this, Liu Yiyi didn't show any worry but instead started laughing.

"If Brother Ying found out, he would just be cold to me. Doesn't this just show that Brother Ying loves me deeply? He couldn't even bear to punish me."

Brother Ying is a human being, and it is normal for him to have emotions. It would be abnormal if he had no temper at all.

Jinzhu felt something was wrong, but also felt that what Liu Yiyi said made a lot of sense.

"Let's go! I guess the big incident at the Queen's coronation ceremony yesterday has ruined Brother Yin's mood. Let's come back another day."

After Liu Yiyi left, all the emotions on Xiao Yan's face disappeared completely, leaving only his pair of dark eyes, deep and cold.

He turned the jade ring in his hand, and a secret guard appeared behind the screen in the imperial study.

As soon as Liu Yiyi left, he stood up and reported:

"Master, the queen's body has been found."