Chapter 661 Three Years Later
Three years later
Liao Dynasty, Royal Temple
In the bamboo forest behind the mountain, a bamboo house appears in the quiet forest.
There was a desk outside the house, and a woman was painting.
On the white drawing paper, there is a small courtyard. In the courtyard, a man is sitting on a chair, reading a medical book intently.
There was a baby crawling next to the man. The little fellow was fair and tender and very cute. He raised his fair and tender little arms, grabbed a grape and handed it to the man. His bright eyes stared at the man, as if saying "eat". His cute appearance made people want to hug him and kiss him.
This scene is painted extremely realistically, as if the painter was actually there to paint such a realistic scene.
Looking at the painting, the woman's bright red lips curled slightly and said, "Put it away."
As he finished speaking, a woman came forward from behind him and carefully put away the painting.
After the woman arrived at the bamboo house, a man dressed as a guard appeared.
"master."
The woman walked to the pool nearby and picked up some fish food to feed the fish in the pool.
"What's going on in the palace?"
Subordinate: "My Lord, the Emperor is getting thinner and thinner, and the imperial physician says he doesn't have much time left."
The woman paused for a moment and said calmly, "Where's the Regent?"
"The regent has been claiming to be ill and not attending court these days, and many ministers have been refused an audience."
"What about people?"
The woman's voice seemed a little cold.
"The Queen Mother's bedroom..."
"Ah…"
The woman threw the fish carelessly, her eyes dark, and no one knew what she was thinking.
"If you have nothing else, go down first."
"Subordinates retire."
……
A lot of things happened in three years. First of all, Di Ran and Bai Fuling were about to leave the next day, but were stopped by someone.
He was the Liao spy who was ordered to look for Di Ran.
It turns out that Di Ran is the crown princess of the Liao Dynasty!
Xiao Qiyue, the Crown Princess of Liao, was a talented person with both literary and military talents and unparalleled wisdom, but her heart was not in the court. She liked to travel around the world and her whereabouts were unknown. She was even more mysterious.
It has been more than half a year since the Crown Princess left the Liao Kingdom. When the Queen Mother received the latest news about her daughter's situation, she was even more furious, fearing that she was out of her control.
People were sent to urge him one after another, but Di Ran remained unmoved. Until this battle with Zang Rong, the Queen Mother didn't want to endure it anymore, so she secretly sent people to trip Di Ran.
However, she did not expect that the tripping trick was too much and caused Di Ran to fall off the cliff, which made the Queen Mother panic.
Fortunately, the empress dowager was relieved to learn that Di Ran was still alive, and she sent people to find Di Ran.
Di Ran, due to some memory loss, didn't know where to go. He thought that he had to escort Bai Fuling back to Lin'an anyway. Lin'an was at the old site of Liang State. Liang State was defeated and merged into Liao State, so he had to return to Liao State after all.
So, Di Ran and Bai Fuling followed those people back to Liao Kingdom.
As soon as they left, Di Yi came back, but he was still a step too late.
Emperor Ran returned to Liao.
The Liao Kingdom was not so peaceful at this moment.
The former dynasty was controlled by the regent, the harem was controlled by the empress dowager, but the emperor was becoming increasingly weak, like a puppet.
The identity and status of Di Ran, the daughter of the previous emperor, is even more complicated.
Di Ran's original name was Xiao Qiyue. She was the crown princess of the Liao Dynasty, the daughter of the previous emperor, the sister of the current Liao emperor, the biological daughter of the empress dowager, and the niece of the regent.
The throne of the Liao Dynasty has always been held by the most capable, regardless of gender. The first emperor in Liao history was a woman, and there were several female emperors after her.
But Xiao Qiyue is the daughter of the late emperor after all. The late emperor died early and left no will, and the crown prince had already been appointed at that time.
Although women in the Liao Dynasty could hold power like men, most men were unwilling to be inferior to women. They believed that since the crown prince had been appointed, he should ascend the throne as a matter of course.
However, some ministers opposed it, arguing that although the crown prince had been appointed, the late emperor did not like him. Instead, he doted on his youngest daughter, Xiao Qiyue, and was clearly intending to appoint a new crown prince.
The two factions were arguing endlessly, and in the end the country relied on the eldest son, who used Xiao Qiyue's young age as an excuse to make Xiao Yan (the new emperor) the new emperor of the Liao Kingdom.
Due to the coercion of the Regent and the pressure of the Queen Mother, the Liao Emperor had to confer the title of Crown Princess on Xiao Qiyue.
(End of this chapter)
