Chang Anqing

Chapter 290 The Beginning of the Conspiracy
When Baoying tried her best to run all the way to Zangshu Pavilion next to the pear garden, she walked through the arched door with hanging flowers and moons on her embroidered shoes, and she could see the three-story tower-shaped attic behind the quiet rustling bamboo forest.

Walking past the empty building and standing outside the door, Baoying clenched her hands tightly, looking at the engraved door in front of her eyes, waiting for the moment when she had stood there for a long time and adjusted the hasty breath from trotting all the way. , The door in front of him was suddenly slowly opened from the inside.

While looking at each other, Baoying saw Shangguanling standing at the door, and the moment she saw her, she cried out of joy, forced herself to suppress the tears welling up in her eyes, and smiled with relief and reassurance on her lips.

"I know, you will come, you will come."

Hearing shadowy voices outside the door, and extremely small footsteps, Prince Yang Yan, who had rushed to the library and was attracted by the sneaky figure on the first floor, was lying in the corner of a room, feeling like a splitting headache. Drowsy, he tried his best to open his eyes, but vaguely saw that there was no one in front of him, no one at all.

"This is written by the lady."

Just as Yang Yan moved his heavy head wearily, his pupils were shocked by another female voice from outside again, and he was about to get up and rush out almost involuntarily.

However, at this moment, his body has long been out of control beyond what he expected. For some reason, no matter how hard he tried to stand up, it was as if he was being tied up, and it was difficult to even move his fingers. But no more.

Faintly, he seemed to understand that they were all tricked——

Thinking of this, Yang Yan suddenly became nervous, so panicked that he was dripping with cold sweat. What he was afraid of was nothing but Baoying downstairs.

He knew Baoying's kindness very well, no matter what the truth was, no matter how she and Chen Zhiyan were, he could believe that she would never be someone who would break the rules.

But he also knows that within these high walls and gold tiles, there is never a place where I don't offend others, and people don't offend me.

Baoying's kindness cannot be exchanged for everyone's sincerity.

Just because of this crown prince.

So he couldn't just watch her fall into the trap of others because of him, unable to extricate herself.

Just when Yang Yan was struggling to get up but couldn't move, Shangguanling outside the house saw the note that Baoying handed out, and he didn't mean to avoid it at all, he just nodded calmly and said: "Yes, I wrote it. .”

At the next moment, before Baoying could speak, the Shangguan Ling in front of him suddenly knelt down without warning, as if she were a real Bodhisattva in the high hall, lowered his head, lowered his eyelids, and said in a heavy and choked voice: " Crown Princess, I beg you, I beg you to save Ah Xian, save the former Linzi Palace, and save the lives of thousands of Chen clan royals on the land of Daxing."

As soon as these words came out, Baoying's ears rang loudly. Although she was prepared, facing what Shangguan Ling said personally, her spine froze in shock and she was speechless.

Ah Xian, she had heard Emperor Yuan Cheng call him that, because it was Chen Zhiyan's name, Xianchen.

But what surprised her was what Shangguan Ling said, as well as the Linzi Palace, and even the entire Chen royal family.

What do you mean, after ascending the throne today, although the titles of the Chen royal family have been lowered one by one, and they intend to send their sons and confidants to monitor them, they still treat them with courtesy and support them with the world.

Why, Shangguan Ling would say——

At the same time, Yang Yan, who was struggling hard, was also startled, and fell silent unknowingly.

Looking at Baoying's stunned face, which he couldn't understand at all, Shangguan Ling couldn't help but smile, and in that smile was the desolation of insight into the world, the reckless determination, and the inseparable affection.

"That's right, even the fish on the chopping board like us don't know who killed us, how can people like the Crown Princess know?"

While speaking, Shangguan Ling shook his head mockingly, and said with a tear on his cheek: "What the world sees is the benevolence and generosity of the current emperor, and how he has spared a large number of our lives, but they don't know. He didn't want us to live in the first place."

Hearing these words, Baoying clenched her hands tightly. For some reason, an indescribable premonition hovered in her heart, and the more she was afraid of touching it, the more she had to touch it.

The light outside the door fell on Shangguan Ling's face through the window paper. In the silence, she turned her head, got up and approached Baoying step by step, and said, "Do you know that in order to eradicate the Chen royal family, the current emperor is ignoring the past on the surface, but in fact he has ordered surveillance?" Those who put a slow poison called immortal drunk into the daily diet of every Chen royal family."

Almost at the same time, Baoying's face was pale and trembling in disbelief, but her back felt chills bit by bit.

"The poison will not kill us right away, not because he is kind enough to keep us alive for a few more days, but because he wants to deceive people and convince the world that the Chen royal family is just destiny, and everyone is doomed to die early and not die well. .”

Speaking of this, Shangguan Ling smiled brightly, that smile was like a flower on the other shore, but it was beautiful with a bit of creepy coldness.

"No, no—"

Seeing Baoying who was hesitating in front of him, the smile on Shangguan Ling's lips became more and more sad and depressed, and he said after a long time: "You know, in just two months now, the royal family of the previous Zhou family is almost dead. More than half, because although this medicine is chronic, it will erode people's internal organs little by little day and night, until they die of complete exhaustion at the end, and now all the dead are those old and weak old people, And this also includes Ah Xian's Weng, the former King of Linzi—"

Seeing the shock in Baoying's eyes, Shangguan Ling said sadly: "You are right, Ah Weng's health is getting worse and worse, even the doctor said that he is dying."

Hearing the choked up words in Shangguan's order, Baoying felt that her mind was confused, her palms were numb, and even her ears were buzzing, as if all this was a nightmare from which she could not get out.

"Crown Princess, I know that you are a kind person. You are a kind person just like the prince. Please, save Ah Xian, save Ah Weng, save these Chen royal families—"

When Shangguanling held Baoying's hands humbly and beggingly, Baoying only felt that the hands wrapping her were as hot as coal fire, so hot that she couldn't help but want to pull them out.

"These are all your wild guesses. Today I'm just a lady because I drank too much wine and talked nonsense—"

At this moment, Baoying was completely messed up, she knew very well that her identity was too sensitive now, she dared not trust someone easily, especially someone who only met a few times.

Because she is not just Yang Baoying, she is also the Crown Princess of the Eastern Palace. If she makes a mistake, she will implicate Yang Yan, the Eastern Palace, and even the entire Li family.

So she can't, mustn't—

Just when Baoying turned around and was about to leave, Shangguanling couldn't care less, took out the scroll from somewhere and suddenly opened it, and her sad questioning voice came out in response.

"Your identity alone is enough to find out whether what I said is true or not. You know all of this, don't you? What are you running away from? Can you really just watch Ah Xian die unexpectedly and feel depressed all his life—"

After the words fell, Baoying was completely frozen there, and at the moment she was struggling, Shangguan Ling's desperate voice came from behind her.

"Do you know, he loves you, he has loved you from beginning to end, even though I have been married to him, he has never stepped into my door, we have never been a real couple—"

Shangguan Ling's words fell on Baoying's ears like a slap in the face, and also fell on Yang Yan's ears in the room.

At this moment, their hearts were all confused.

At this moment, Baoying didn't turn her head, but she had already closed her eyes, crying uncontrollably.

"I used to think that he just didn't like me, until I saw this painting in his study later, I realized that he already had someone else in his heart, and he couldn't tolerate me anymore."

Speaking of this, Shangguan Ling suddenly smiled, not only self-deprecating but also bitter.

"This painting is about the day you met, right? Look, how well he paints, even if I haven't seen it, I can still feel like I was there, which shows how deep his love for you is—— "

Shangguan Ling's words were like a blunt axe, slashing across Baoying's heart bit by bit. At this moment, she could no longer turn around uncontrollably. When she saw the painting painted by Chen Zhiyan himself, , tears almost came out of her eyes, blurring her eyes and wet her face.

Even if her eyebrows and eyes were not drawn in that painting, she could clearly see him who was as dazzling as summer under the clusters of hibiscus flowers that day.

"I tell you this today, not to question you, not to threaten you, because I know that you are the one who loves each other, and whether I am the prince or the prince, I am just a latecomer, and I am not qualified to criticize you. Once. I just want you to know that for you, in order not to bring you troubles, he has always buried his heart that loves you in the unknown shadow, waiting for the impossible return of yours alone Lu, alone suffering unspeakable loneliness and pain."

Speaking of this, Shangguan Ling's throat was as uncomfortable as thousands of needles, and he choked up.

"Crown princess, let you firmly occupy his heart from the beginning to the end, holding that pure love, he who is willing to wait for you alone, even if he can't get happiness in this life, doesn't he even have the chance to live? "

In the silence, Shangguanling saw Baoying's pain that was unbearable, and did not stop, but put his hands in front of his eyebrows again, and bowed to Baoying.

"Crown princess, to this day, winners and losers, as the Shangguan clan, I am willing to seek salvation by death, but only Ah Xian, and his countless relatives, they used to be just eat the king's salary, bear the king's fortune. Worry, what they did was not for their own benefit. I only beg the princess to save them and give them a chance to start over. Since I knew the truth about the emperor's poisoning, I have no one to go to but you. Beg, no one can be trusted."

Speaking of this, Shangguan Ling bowed deeply, and said with his forehead: "Everyone in the world knows that the current crown prince is a true benevolent gentleman, and the crown princess is a tolerant Bodhisattva like the Holy Queen of Mingde. I can only beg you, I implore you to save them, when is the time for retribution, everything should end, the moment the Shangguan clan is exterminated, it should end."

I don't know how long it took, but it was so long that there was no voice outside, and it was so long that Yang Yan heard the sound of the lock opening of the locked room door, and he suddenly realized that he was locked in this small place. inside the house.

When he slowly got up, walked to the door step by step, opened the door and walked out, he saw the empty hall, but his heart seemed to be thrown into a sinking pool of ice.

So cold, so cold, so numb.

At this moment, he couldn't think of pursuing the person who locked him here.

Because his ears kept echoing every word of Shangguan Ling just now.

Every sentence shocked him and made him realize suddenly.

It turned out that under the seemingly harmonious and calm surface of the lake, there was still killing and blood that he couldn't see.

It turns out that his crown prince has already been soaked in the blood of countless Chen royal families, and there will be even more.

It turns out that Baoying and Bohai County King Chen Zhiyan are the couple who love each other deeply.

But in the end, because of this ruthless way of heaven and the reality of indifferent status, none of them could get what they wanted.

That's right, what Shangguan Ling said was right, none of them had the right to comment on the past between Baoying and Chen Zhiyan, just as even he had never achieved the love that Chen Zhiyan stayed with and waited alone.

At this moment, Yang Yan only felt that the morals of the world were wrong, hopelessly wrong.

From childhood to adulthood, he learned from various schools of thought, learned the way of a sage, and remembered that the benevolent ruled the country.

But in the end, he couldn't do anything, because he had watched the confrontation, crushing and killing again and again and was powerless to fight, so he lost his sister, his eldest brother, and even Ah Man. Love her aunt.

And all of this, in exchange for this cold, ruthless throne of the emperor and the position of the crown prince that is closely watched by the world.

"All fruits originate from causes, and all rewards originate from karma."

A tall building built with a conspiracy will eventually collapse with a conspiracy.

He didn't want to see the same tragedy happen again, and he had to do something.

Because he is the prince, this is his responsibility and also his obligation.

There is a long way to go.

The road is rough and difficult, although there are tens of thousands of people, I will go on.

(End of this chapter)