I'm not willing to be a cannon fodder for the female supporting role anymore

Li Qiyun himself didn't know why. He had been thinking for a long time in the imperial study and had almost made up his mind to marry the daughter of the Shen family as his queen. But when he saw Yueying's sad look, he wavered again.

He originally wanted to just give her a position as empress, marry her into the palace, and let her fend for herself. But Xiaoying'er didn't want to, and he didn't even want to give her the title.

Yueying had been under house arrest. The empress dowager had Qin Hanyan in her control and thought the emperor would relent. But after two days of waiting, she got the news that her own nephew had gone to a brothel at night and killed someone.

The Queen Mother really didn't expect that Li Qiyun would go against his own mother's family for a woman. Although Uncle Shen had three wives and four concubines and had many children, Shen Lian was the only boy who survived to adulthood. He was an official, and he should have been thrown into prison for staying overnight in a brothel, not to mention that he killed someone out of jealousy.

In the Cining Palace, the Queen Mother had a gloomy face, the Buddhist beads in her hand were tightly clenched, and His Highness Uncle Shen was kneeling.

"Brother, Lian'er has been taught very well by you!"

The anger in her heart made her speak sarcastically with gritted teeth. She had to vent her anger, right?

"Please save Lian'er, Madam Queen. If he is truly convicted, the Shen family's honor and favor will have nothing to do with our branch."

The emperor's biological mother, the empress dowager and Uncle Shen are all brothers from the same mother and are the direct descendants of the Shen family. So if anything happens to Shen Lian, even if the emperor still cares about the Shen family in the future, the descendants of those illegitimate sons will enjoy it.

Shen Luyi never expected that when he went to the palace to meet the emperor this morning, the emperor would show no mercy and only said that he would leave Shen Lian's body intact.

The Empress Dowager had just hurriedly instructed him two days ago to prepare her second daughter to enter the palace, saying that the Emperor would agree to make her the Queen. At the very least, she would let Ling'er take the position of Imperial Noble Consort first.

Now that her brother has been executed, it is impossible for Ling'er to enter the palace for a while.

"I underestimated the girl from the Zhao family."

Then he seemed to think of something and sighed.

"After all, she is Wanxi's daughter. Whatever. Brother, go back. I will also go to find the emperor. The child has grown up and has become independent."

The old nanny helped the empress dowager up and left the front hall, leaving Uncle Shen kneeling alone.

"Why are you so happy today?"

For dinner, Yueying went into the kitchen and made some pastries herself. As soon as she entered the main hall, she saw Li Qiyun looking very happy. He was sitting restlessly and pacing around the room.

He Run saw his master's look and signaled the palace maids to leave.

"Of course it was the right move, and the game is going in the direction I wanted."

"I heard about the incident with the Shen family's eldest son. Was it Ah Xuan who did it?"

Yueying asked calmly. After all, they were Li Qixuan's maternal family. If something happened, she couldn't gloat over it.

"If Shen Lian has good character, I won't be able to hold them responsible."

Li Qiyun pulled up Yueying's sleeves and said with a happy smile.

"But that's Ah Xuan's mother's home."

Yueying was a little confused. Even if Li Qiyun took action against the Shen family for her, there was no need for her to be so happy, right?

"We can't let Ying'er down."

"Although I know that a qualified queen should urge Ah Xuan to have many children, I just don't want to share the person I love with others. Because of my selfishness, Ah Xuan will offend many people."

Hearing him say this, Yueying felt a little moved and naturally agreed.

"It's as sweet as sugar."

Yueying stuffed a pastry into Li Qiyun's mouth. He took a bite, put it down, and hugged her in his arms.

In the palace, where there is joy, there must be sorrow.

Cining Palace.

I don’t know how many teacups the Queen Mother broke today, but she suddenly lost her temper and punished the palace maids.

The old lady beside her let her vent for most of the day, and finally tried to persuade her.

"Queen Dowager, calm down. You will get sick from anger. The emperor has grown up now. He is just favoring a woman. Why ruin the relationship between you and him when he is in love with her?"

Shen Huanxi then raised his eyes to look at the person and began to think seriously.

"I am really angry. For the sake of the Shen family and him, I married someone I didn't want to marry and missed my own marriage. Now he doesn't care about the Shen family at all and is targeting me."

The old nanny asked the little palace maid who had cleaned up the broken teacups to go out before she spoke.

"My dear, you are the Queen Mother. You are not allowed to talk nonsense about whether you are willing to marry or not. It is your own destiny."

She knew that she was angry and confused, and had spoken out of turn. The nanny was the one who took care of her, and what she said was for her own good, so Shen Huanxi always listened to her.

"Those two little maids just now."

"I will take care of it."

Li Qixuan knew that Yueying had taken away a lot of gold and silver when she escaped last time. He didn't have a specific idea, but when he saw the empty bedroom, he knew that she had taken a lot.

When she came back, she only brought a small bag. Later, she found Haitang and found out that she had left most of the gold and silver to that girl. When Li Qiyun heard that Yueying had taken away all the jewelry he had personally given her, he was not so angry. He agreed with Yueying and directly pardoned Haitang's crime.

After the two of them reconciled, in addition to sending good things to the Jiaofang Palace, they also bought some for Yueying.

Recently, when talking about the post-disaster resettlement of the Northwest War and the Jiangnan Flood, both of which require huge amounts of money, Yueying realized that being in the imperial palace really means receiving tributes from all over the world.

"Ah Xuan, although there is not much that one person can save, but now there is a shortage of silver, I think the harem should promote frugality, and each palace lady should only have two dishes and one soup for each meal."

"Although this amount of money may not be enough to do anything, it can at least serve as a warning to all officials. What do you think?"

Yueying dragged out her own small treasury from under the bed, which contained a lot of silver bills.

What was left to Haitang were basically some items and gold and silver in her package, totaling about 10,000 to 20,000 taels.

Most of the treasures were put into the space by herself, so when she heard that Li Qiyun was worried about money, she secretly took her Linglong umbrella, picked out a few rare items of this era, and went to the auction house to sell them, and got back more than 500,000 taels of silver.

"Where did you get so many banknotes?"

"I sneaked out of the palace last time and sold some of the fun stuff."

It would be a lie to say I wasn't embarrassed. It's always hard to explain when you move good things to auction.

Sure enough, Li Qiyun's expression changed slightly, and he seemed a little angry. Yueying quickly made up for it.

"The things I sold were all the ones I didn't like very much. I couldn't bear to sell any of the things you gave me personally, really!"

Yueying looked serious, eager for the other person to believe that her eyes were genuine, and the man's anger soon dissipated when he saw her.

When you like someone, you will always find various excuses for their behavior. He is no exception. Although the money Yueying gave was ultimately given by him, this thought made him feel extremely precious.

"I didn't know Xiaoying moved so many things under my nose."

"They are all small and precious toys. They are probably not worth much in a pawn shop, but they will be much more expensive in an auction house."

She and the owner of the auction house were very good at driving up prices, and she cheated a lot of rich young men out of their money.

"auction?"

Li Qiyun naturally knew the only auction house in the capital, Zhenbao Pavilion.

Rumor has it that it was a gang organization, but in fact it was the eldest princess's intelligence station.

It was established during the reign of the Emperor's grandfather, and only the succeeding emperor knew about it, so the eldest princess naturally only reported to the emperor. This is one of the reasons why the eldest princess was particularly respected by the late emperor.

"Yes, you don't know what a coincidence it was. I gave an old man some food and he gave me two antidote pills. Then I went to find a pawn shop and passed by a clinic. I saw a child being carried out. He was said to be severely poisoned. I asked the child's family if they dared to try to give him a pill. Who would have thought that the old man would give it to the child as a last resort?"

“And the child was saved?”

"Yes, don't you think God is magical?"

"Then the master is the owner of the Treasure Pavilion, right?"

"You guessed it right, Ah Xuan is really smart."

Li Qiyun lowered his eyes to hide his inner thoughts. It was not because he was smart, but because of what happened a few days ago.

The eldest princess came to the palace a few days ago and said that a force seemed to want to take over the Treasure Pavilion and poisoned the grandson of the puppet shopkeeper, but he happened to be rescued by someone.

He remained calm and smiled, but his tone was light and without any fluctuation.

"Xiaoying has been out of the palace for only three days, but I didn't expect to encounter so many things?"

People who don’t know that they have said the wrong thing continue to make up stories based on the principle that they will not be discovered if they mix true and false things.

"Yes, but that's why I got so much silver."

It was really a coincidence. She was worried that the money given by the pawnshop was too little, and she heard about the Treasure Pavilion, but didn't know how to get in touch with it. She happened to hear that the boss's grandson was poisoned, so she gave the antidote pill to the child.

After all, this matter is true. Yueying thought that the emperor, who was in the deep palace, would not investigate the specific date of the incident for such a small matter, not to mention that what she did was a good thing.

"Ding, the male protagonist's dark value is 90%."

Although she did not notice the subtle changes in the man, the electronic sound of the prompt made Yueying's heart tremble. She looked at Li Qiyun timidly, not knowing why the man was looking at her with a smile on his face, but his darkening value suddenly soared to 90.

Yueying felt a chill running down her spine from the other person's smile. Was it because she mentioned the escape that made him unhappy?

So she put her arms around Li Qixuan's neck, sat on his lap, and coaxed him for a long time, but the darkening value did not change at all. Finally, she got tired and even began to suspect whether there was an error in the system.

After that, Li Qiyun was busy for two days, saying that he was busy with military and political affairs and had no time to come to the East Court Hall. But Chief Steward He came every day. In the past two days, he sent people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to change all the furnishings inside and outside the East Court Hall, saying that the emperor wanted to change the layout.

Yueying always felt that something was wrong, but it was understandable that the emperor was superstitious about Feng Shui.

When she woke up that morning, Yueying found that her hands and feet were tied up, and there were some copper ornaments and burning candles around the bed.

Not far away were Li Qiyun and an old man in a green Taoist robe. The person on the bed, who was originally a little dazed, woke up instantly after seeing this scene.

What kind of magic circle has he trapped himself in? He wants to be sacrificed alive?

It's all over. Theoretically, Zhao Yueying has already passed away, so the following are not the original plot, and I have no idea at all.

Did I do something recently to upset Li Qiyun? Yueying looked at her dangerous situation and spoke cautiously.

"Ah, what's going on?"

The old Taoist priest was muttering something, and Li Qiyun was different from usual, with a gloomy face and no words.

Yueying felt as if something inside her body was squeezing her soul, especially her head. It was very similar to the pressure from a powerful person with high cultivation level in the world of immortal cultivation. It seemed that this old Taoist priest had some skills.

"Ah Xuan, what's wrong? What happened?"

There was no one else in the palace, and Yueying had no way to ask anyone for help, so she could only call Li Qiyun's name over and over again.

"Your Majesty, there is only one soul in the Queen's body, and it has been well integrated with the body. I'm afraid it has been five or six years."

A half-full bottle, it's a good thing that people still think he has some Taoist skills. This is Yueying's comment on the old Taoist priest, even though she has only been here for about seven or eight months.

Li Qixuan narrowed his eyes, stared at Yueying with a flash of his eyes, and then looked at the old Taoist priest.

"Impossible, she..."

He saw the person on the bed with his eyes wide open, his eyes seemed to be red, but he was just looking at him eagerly.

When the words came to my lips, I felt it was hard to tell. Could it be that another soul had been accompanying me all these years? Recently, Xiaoying's state when she returned to the palace was not the same as before. In fact, there was an explanation. It was nothing more than letting go of the burden she had been carrying for many years.

"What's your name?"

Why is this paper person so sensitive? Yueying pretended to be very good. The original owner was a lady from a noble family, but she was also born in a military family. Moreover, Li Qiyun himself said that the two of them should be more casual with each other, so she was quite restrained.

"Ah Xuan, I'm Yueying, your little Ying. What's wrong with you? I don't understand what gods and souls are. What do they have to do with me?"

"How did you go to the Treasure Pavilion to auction things a few days ago?"

Who said that it is easier to be believed by mixing the truth with lies? How could this man be so suspicious that he actually went to check.

"I didn't..."

Yueying saw that there was no warmth in Li Qiyun's eyes, so she didn't dare to say the lies that were on her lips. She bit her lower lip and turned her head to look at the lit candle on the ground.

"Qikawa, please go out first."

"Pindao, please resign."

The old Taoist priest glanced at the person on the bed, quickly retreated, and carefully closed the door of the bedroom.

"Your Highness, let me see the girl. It must be this old Taoist priest..."

Haitang's voice suddenly came from outside the door. Li Qiyun actually caught her back...

"When did you come?"

Li Qiyun walked into the candle formation set up by the Taoist priest, squatted down, and picked up a red candle with flickering flames.

Although his tone was calm, he was holding the candle and moving closer to the bed. Yueying felt uneasy, thinking, is this pervert going to burn me with the hot wax?

Her hands and feet were tied, so she could only move towards the bed like a worm, kicking her legs.

"Or, when did she leave?"

Seeing the fear and anger in her eyes, he could guess without even asking that she was at least not the same person as before her second escape.