Chapter 114:

The winter of the second year of Zhaohua was very cold.
That year, thick ice formed on the moat, and the poorer people even froze to death on the streets of Shengjing. Fortunately, the right minister Wei Lan opened a shantang for heating and helped many people.
The people are not well, and the nobles are not better off there. Many people have suffered from the wind and cold, and the emperor in the palace has been coughing intermittently for nearly a month.
A month later, Da Chu had the first snow since the beginning of winter. That afternoon, Wei Lan suddenly received news from the palace.
"The Queen Mother locked the gate of the palace, so you can rush over immediately."
Wei Lan was not surprised at all. She immediately ordered the soldiers and rushed directly to the palace, while Xie Zichen immediately left Shengjing and Hou was outside Shengjing, in case something happened, the two of them would not be caught in the urn together.
When Wei Lan went out, the snow had just come down. She was dressed in a purple embroidered python official uniform and a pure white fox fur cloak, and she hurried across the street with her troops and horses. The horseshoe stepped on the snow, leaving a mark. When the stall vendors saw this posture, they immediately knew something was wrong and took the stall early.
Wei Lan was one of the first foreign ministers to go to the palace, and the queen immediately asked her to open the gate to her. Wei Lan hurried in with someone, and quickly controlled the situation in the inner palace before heading to the emperor's bedroom.
When we arrived at the dormitory, it had been surrounded by soldiers inside and out. The soldiers brought by the soldiers gathered here to confront each other. The queen's people stood in the innermost area, surrounding the dormitory.
Wei Lan stepped forward, stepping on the thick snow, and squeaking. Ranmo held an umbrella behind her, and the oil-paper umbrella painted with gorgeous peach blossoms was stained with snowflakes, and the man with his hands folded between his sleeves, step by step, came to the palace of the emperor with a calm and freehand gesture.
The swords turned around and pointed at her, she stood with a smile, and the peach blossom on the umbrella was trembling slightly, opening wantonly.
"My lords, what are you doing?" Wei Lan said gently, and Wang Huan, the leader of the Imperial Imperial Army in the West Palace, frowned, but said, "Why is Wei Xiang here?"
"I got the imperial decree of the empress, and I heard that the inner palace was unstable, so I came to protect him."
Wei Lan said, as if to show the authenticity of her words, the soldiers ran over and lined up behind Wei Lan.
Wei Lan's army troops were all elites who had been killed from the battlefield, and all of them were worthy of ten. Her two thousand army troops were in the palace, and the faces of the Yulin army were not very good.
The Imperial Forest Army was also divided into three factions, which belonged to the Wang Family, the Xie Family, and the Emperor. After the emperor’s death, the Imperial Forest Army in the palace received the news immediately, but the Queen locked the palace gate for the first time, so everyone could only stay in the Emperor’s palace. Before, I want to wait to confirm the authenticity of the message.
However, when Wei Lan led soldiers into the palace, she admitted this in disguise. The queen is helped by Wei Lan and protected by the loyal Royal Lin Junbo. Now the inner palace is the queen's world.
Wanting to understand this, everyone does not want to go into details about how the emperor died at this moment. Since Wei Lan has entered the palace, the next majesty will naturally have a place. Wang Huan pursed his lips. The Wang family is about to give in. She also had no intention of fighting for the throne, but she had never thought that Wei Lan actually killed Su Bai directly.
Even if there is no evidence, everyone can tell that Su Bai is in his prime of life. It is incredible that Su Bai has just left the throne for two years. But at this moment, Wang Huan can’t be here, unless he intends to confront Wei Lan head-on, but once a head-on conflict, Wei Lan and the Queen should be inside and outside. The Xie family’s army should also be on Wei Lan’s side. Being an enemy, he is not called conflict, it is called death.
Wei Lan seemed to see Wang Huan’s thoughts, and slowly said:
A few days ago, A Xi came to me for a drink and told me that his sister gave birth to a child, and he was very happy. I have the same brotherhood with A Xi. His nephew, just like my nephew, was finally able to see it today, which made people extremely happy."
Moving Wang Xi out showed Wei Lan's attitude. Wang Huan's expression has improved a lot. An walked out, looked at Wei Lan, and hurriedly said, "My lord, you are here, and the lady has been waiting for you for a long time."
Wei Lan nodded and turned to look at Wang Huan. Wang Huan is not uninterested. The Wang family seems to be born with such abilities and can always find the most suitable point to stand, so Wang Huan retired. , Made a gesture of please.
When Wang Huan retired, everyone withdrew from the road. Wei Lan walked into the bedroom, and saw the palace man shivering and kneeling in the outer room.
Wei Lan didn't speak, and walked straight over them, saying coldly: "Go out."
Hearing this sentence, everyone was amnesty. Wei Lan strode into the inner room and saw the queen kneeling on the side of the bed, her eyes blank.
Su Bai was lying on the bed, her clothes disheveled, and the queen was blank, sitting on the ground blankly, holding Su Bai's hand.
Wei Lan walked in, looked at the queen respectfully, and slowly said, "Niang Niang, Wei Lan is here."
"You are here..." The queen raised her head and looked at Azure. Wei Lan stopped by the side, looked at the woman who was obviously crying in front of him, and said indifferently: "Sorrow and change."
"I thought I was not sad..." the queen said hoarsely: "I married him at fifteen and wanted to spend my life with him. Later, there were more and more women around him. I am a princess, what can I do? Do? I can only pretend to be magnanimous, endure, and cheat, so that I almost really think I have no extra feelings for him."
"I never thought about getting to this point..." the queen murmured: "I never thought, one day, it will be me..."
"Niang Niang!" Wei Lan raised her voice: "Speak carefully."
The queen turned her head and looked at Wei Lan quietly.
The young man's face was plain, and there was no emotional ups and downs in his beautiful expression, as if the person who had died in front of her was a stranger.
"You used to be classmates, right?" The queen said hoarsely, Wei Lan nodded, and the queen laughed: "Classmates are still like this, you say, how can people be trusted in this world?"
"Wei Lan," the queen stood up supporting herself: "You killed, Su Cheng, forced to death Your Majesty, next one, who do you plan to kill again? Wang Xi?"
"Manny," Wei Lan obviously felt that the queen was in the wrong mood, but she couldn't see any emotion on her face: "You are qualified to say this to me?"
She was the one who did it, she was the one who had evil thoughts, and Wei Lan was just adding to the flames.
The queen didn't seem to want to think about more problems at all. She was too anxious to need someone to take care of everything, so she laughed out loud: "I was forced! Wei Lan, you forced me!"
If it weren't for her deliberate guidance, Su Bai wouldn't hate her in this way. If it weren't for him to hate her too much, the position of the prince would not make progress so quickly.
Everything was Wei Lan forcing her to move forward, she had no choice but to come this far!
"If it weren't for you..." The queen covered her face and collapsed to the ground, crying in a low voice, "Why am I here?!"
Hearing this, Wei Lan looked at her quietly and smiled slowly.
"Yes, everything is planned and forced by me, madam, there is nothing wrong with you. I force you to do everything."
With that, Wei Lan reached the queen, bent down, and said gently: "Think of it this way, will you feel more comfortable?"
"Your Majesty doesn't like you, and the child of the Royal Concubine will be the prince. Everyone knows that. Now you and your Majesty are just bringing an event that will happen sooner or later to the present. Early or late, it's me. , Or other people, your majesty, you and your majesty are already immortal."
The queen did not speak, and after she said something, she was obviously calmer.
"The outside is cleaned up?" The queen asked coldly, and Wei Lan nodded: "It's all under control."
"Okay." The queen dried her eyes and said slowly: "Then bring the ministers in and announce the sacred dictum."
Wei Lan did not move, the queen frowned: "What do you mean?"
"Niang," Wei Lan reminded calmly: "You probably forgot one thing."
"Do you remember how your majesty died?"
Upon hearing this, the queen's face became cold: "You promised me..."
"The big prince will ascend to the throne," Wei Lan said lightly: "At this point, I haven't thought about lying to you."
While talking, there was a loud noise from outside, and a woman's voice rang: "I heard that Wei Xiang is here, dare you to ask if Wei Xiang is inside?"
Wei Lan and the empress looked at each other, and she smiled gently: "Queen, empress, there has never been the best of both worlds in this world."
"You died alone for your majesty, or you dragged the prince to die together, will you give the next accurate count?"
"Wei Lan..." The queen trembled: "Aren't you afraid that I will shake everything out?!"
"What is shaking?" Wei Lan raised her lips, her expression was cold: "Did you do anything here to make the empress shake out?"
Upon hearing this, the queen froze.
After working with Wei Lan for a long time, she is too worry-free, everything can be counted in front of you, and she can finish it ahead of time without even writing a letter. So once they came and went, there was really no token among them.
There is evidence, but who can do anything about Wei Lan?
Wei Lan needed her only when Su Bai was alive. She is the lord of the first house, and Wei Lan has nothing to do with her. Wei Lan will not personally bear the charge of killing the king.
However, now Wei Lan took the queen's decree and walked into the palace with a fair and dignity. She had a reasonable reason to enter the palace, and she couldn't help her anymore.
How could she believe that Wei Lan spent so much effort just to assist her child to ascend the throne? Her Jiang family and Wei Lan are not relatives, and Wei Lan will not let her live.
The anger and resentment in her heart were too obvious. She once thought that one day she would retaliate against Wei Lan, who was forcing her, but Wei Lan was already ready to respond.
The voice of Concubine Xie's talking with the person is getting closer, and Wei Lan's eyes darken.
"You do it yourself, or I do it, madam, it's time to make a decision."