Yu Gongzi smiled proudly: "Why not combine two into one!"

  He summoned his personal attendant, who retrieved from the heavy luggage a square-shaped object, which turned out to be a Tang-style wooden chessboard.

  "Please leave temporarily!"

  Chenlu understood his meaning and shouted loudly.

  Although she is young, her words have a natural and unspoken charisma that wins people's hearts.

  The crowd retreated into the courtyard, and all that could be heard was the soft clinking of the pieces in the box. After a moment, there was complete silence again - it was clear that the two had already guessed the outcome of the game.

  A crisp sound, everyone closed their eyes, imagining that they were already in the midst of a violent storm, and how could they dodge in such a small room?

  The countless clinking sounds, in the next instant, all stopped, and everyone's attention was focused, only to hear a sound of clothes fluttering in the wind. Those chess pieces then returned to their original positions simultaneously.

  Gufeng listened and came out, this is Chenlu using his sleeve to gently wipe away all the chess pieces.

  With a loud "slap", it was very loud, and there was still a black one that survived under the sleeve, steadily falling into the plate.

  Morning dew did not rush, but smiled slightly, her voice was very pleasant. She raised her hand and picked up a white piece, and in the air, there was a faint sound of butterfly fluttering, circling back and forth, with an indescribable lightness and cleverness.

  "Fly whisk? That's going too far!"

  Yu Gongzi said so with his mouth, but his hands also spent a lot of effort, letting the chess piece fall between the board.

  The two of them went back and forth like this, with each side trying to outdo the other in speed. Before long, the situation had already begun to take shape.

  "Halt!"

  The girl's clear voice rose up, exceptionally clear amidst the swirling dance of black and white pieces.

  "Are you going to give up?"

  "You insolent fool... Just wait for this child of mine to grow up, no matter how powerful you are, even if you have the ability to fly like a dragon, I will annihilate you all."

  "What?!"

  Yu Yun listened to Yu Gongzi's shocked voice and couldn't bear the curiosity in her heart, rushing into the room and looking at the chessboard.

  He is also a master of Go, and usually only discusses chess with the emperor. Today, he encountered this good opportunity and couldn't help but feel itchy in his heart.

  The chessboard was indeed strange, the whole board seemed to be in favor of Young Master Yu, with sharp edges and corners exposed. However, Chenlu's chess moves were like clouds and mist, mysterious and unpredictable. Qu Yun was full of doubts, but when he saw her final move, he was shocked and speechless.

  This move wasn't even finished yet, she dropped her piece onto the board, but her hand didn't leave it, instead she just smiled and looked at her opponent.

  This move, like the stillness of heaven and earth, the darkness of all horses at the same time, that one sword that broke through the vast sky.

  Just one move of surprising and brilliant strategy can decide the fate of the world.

  Yuan Qi's chess moves never reveal his strategy, but after the game is won, you marvel at how all the previous subtle details have come together to form a majestic landscape.

  While morning dew... Her chess move was not about strategy, but that one thought of drawing her sword, a heavenly fairy's move beyond the sky.

  "This round, I lost..."

  Yu Gongzi's expression slightly fell, but he smiled and said: "However, in the way of martial arts, you have lost the initiative - that black chess piece just now has already broken through your long sleeve."

  The morning dew stroked the long seam of her sleeve mouth, and she smiled slightly, her eyes sparkling brightly, which was dizzying.

  "Take off your outer garment."

  Yu Gongzi was puzzled and untied his belt. Inside, on the inner shirt, at the position of the chest, a white jade was firmly embedded!

  He slumped down, this godly scene finally left him speechless.

  Everyone at this time gathered around, looking at Chenluo's gaze, which was different from the beginning.

  Their eyes were filled with admiration and adoration, without a hint of doubt.

  After briefly listening to the reports of the four, he also talked about the recent situation of the "Mituo" alliance of the Tartars. Chenlu and Qiyun looked at the darkening sky and feared that the palace gate would be locked, so they got up and bid farewell.

  They walked on the main street in the city, seeing that the sky was gradually darkening, with a hint of rain clouds, and the surrounding streets were hastily closing their stalls and dispersing.

  Yu Yun took out a few silver coins and bought two bamboo umbrellas. He didn't let the old woman find change, and continued on his way with Chen Lu.

  The sky quickly turned dark, and the night came early with wind and rain. Large raindrops fell, stinging people's faces, and pedestrians on the road complained as they quickened their pace. Before long, the streets were empty of people.

  Dew lifted the bamboo umbrella, just about to smile and say "like a girl washing clothes in the woods", but saw a black shadow flashing by on the roof of the opposite house.

  She didn't even have time to close her umbrella, and with a swift movement, she floated up onto the roof like an immortal, reaching out to unbutton the man's cuff.

  But then a cold light flashed, and on that person's wrist, a serrated ring blade suddenly appeared out of thin air, looking as if it was about to pierce through the snow-white tender skin.

  That person was gloating, but suddenly felt a flash before his eyes. His own secret weapon had shattered into several pieces and flew back at him.

  He frantically dodged and weaved, but his wrist was already caught by the opponent. In a state of utter panic, he mustered all his strength to struggle free, barely escaping with his life.

  He kicked up dust with his feet, exerted his utmost skill and ran away swiftly.

  Morning dew didn't chase after him, but instead gazed at his own hands, muttering: "Strange..."

  Qiu Yun concentrated her mind and looked over, only to see that on those snow-white fingers, there was actually a piece of sticky and slippery fresh blood.

  "There was blood all over his wrist, but looking at his body, he seemed quite agile and didn't appear to be injured..."

  She said to Qu Yun: "Tomorrow, you'd better go to the Yamen of Jing Prefecture and see if there's any serious case!"

  Her eyebrows were slightly furrowed, as if she was hesitating about something.

  "However, they are just a couple of small thieves, and their martial arts skills don't seem to be anything special."

  Morning dew shook her head: "The round package on his back looks a bit strange."

  "Wait a minute, I've met this little thief in black before - I even joked about it to the Emperor - do you remember? It was that time when we ran into each other..."

  Morning dew nodded, still thinking hard in her heart —

  That spherical pouch and those serrated ring blades seem familiar...

  They returned to the palace, and before they could even close the gate, inside was in an uproar, with lanterns shining brightly everywhere, as if something extraordinary had happened again.

  Gu Yun grabbed a familiar eunuch with his hand: "What's going on?"

  "The Great Leader... is in a terrible state... The Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager she... has met with disaster!"

  What?!

  The two exchanged a glance, with one of them looking shocked and speechless.

  "What's wrong with the empress dowager?!"

  "This servant... this servant doesn't know either... it's just that the people in the palace are all in an uproar!"

  Looking at each other without a word, Qu Yun let him go, and the two of them quickened their pace, heading straight for Cining Palace.

  The thunderstorm in Cining Palace was something that no one had expected, and the first to discover the anomaly was the Empress with a very bad temper.

  The queen's good deed that night did not come to fruition, and Yuan Qi went to the palace of Mei Gui Bin. She cried to the empress dowager, and in her unguarded words, she revealed the fact that the emperor had deliberately made her infertile. In a moment of madness, afterwards thinking about it, she was filled with fear.

  He recalled the Empress Dowager's stern gaze, and his heart felt uneasy. He thought of the Emperor's cold treatment towards him, and for a moment he felt pleased. But then he thought again, and suspected that Mei Guibao had ulterior motives. She summoned the imperial physician who was on duty that night to ask questions carefully.

  This question is even more confusing. The imperial physician's pulse diagnosis was written clearly, with symptoms of intense heat attacking the heart, and various other symptoms that didn't seem to be fake, but rather...

  The queen was startled and asked Aunt E: "Did the manager really put the medicine in the emperor's ginseng soup?"

  Auntie O originally suspected her of falsely transmitting the Empress Dowager's orders, and now that she was suspicious again, she was even more displeased: "Your Ladyship personally sent me there, have you forgotten?"

  "Why... the symptoms of Mei Gui Bin, it seems like a woman who has taken Red Star Grass, with flames burning her body... Could it be that the servant put the medicine in the wrong bowl?"

  The Empress thought it over and felt that it was possible. Although Mei Gui Fei's rank was not high, she was sitting right below the Emperor that day - Zhou and Qi two consorts who should have been seated between them had left early - wasn't it possible that the medicinal soup had been delivered to the wrong table?!

  The empress recalled that Mei Gui had a miscarriage not long ago, and it was just the time when she was drinking ginseng soup to nourish her body. The more she thought about it, the more likely it seemed, and her original anger turned to the steward who had never met her before.

  She hastily got up and wanted to go to the Cining Palace of the Empress Dowager, to find that unlucky official, and also to visit the Empress Dowager - it was said that her heart disease had relapsed again, and she had just invited Yu Xujian to perform a ritual to expel the illness.

  She walked into the Cining Palace, but saw that the main hall was quiet and still. Just as she was about to push open the door, a servant came out to stop her, saying: "The Empress Dowager and Ye Gu are discussing matters inside, Your Highness should leave first!"

  The queen was full of resentment, staring at the manager, as if he was the one who had ruined everything. She coldly laughed and said: "I am the niece of the empress dowager, what is there to be ashamed of?!"

  She ignored the persuasions of those who were trying to stop her and pushed with all her might.