It’s hard to break a phoenix’s destiny

In the end, Yang Xianrong did not go to Kamakura. Instead, the embroidered messenger from Kamakura came to Guangmo Palace and came in with his head lowered on the pretext of making a foot soak bucket for Yang Xianrong. Yang Xianrong happened to meet him in the backyard and chatted for a few words.

The embroiderer turned out to be an extremely old nun named Zhou. She was over sixty years old, but her body was quite strong. She looked at Yang Xianrong's belly and said, "This child must be healthy. Looking at the face of the Supreme Empress. , I also know that she is a blessed woman."

Yang Xianrong was very happy and rewarded her with a piece of silver.

"I also know how to look at my pregnant belly. Your Majesty the Queen, can you let me touch your hand?" Aunt Zhou was very respectful, and Yang Xianrong nodded in agreement, so they went to the small study and sat down together. .

These days, Zhang Heng's guards are sorting weeds in Guangmo Palace, which is quite messy. Someone looked up and saw this scene and quietly told Zhang Heng. Zhang Heng curled his lips, thinking that pregnant women were troublesome, and they must also want to know the gender of the fetus. He waved his hand, telling the guards not to worry so much and just continue to sort out the weeds.

Aunt Zhou knelt in Yang Xianrong's small study room and lowered her voice and said, "When I look at the Supreme Empress, she looks like she is giving birth to a son. However, her belly seems to be a bit flatter..."

Yang Xianrong was stunned for a moment, then smiled.

Cuixi wanted to stare, but Yang Xianrong pulled her back and continued to ask with a smile: "Mother Zhou, what should it be like?"

"The pointer here in the belly will be more like it." Aunt Zhou showed no sign of fear. Lu Zhu even coughed, and said to Yang Xianrong in a very low voice: "I didn't say anything."

"It doesn't matter. Since we are the messengers of embroidered clothes, they are all our own. Although this matter should be a secret, Grandma Zhou must not be an ordinary person. People often say that the big hermit hides in the city, and the small hermit hides in the wild. Grandma Zhou You have lived in a place like Kamakura for a long time, so there must be someone you need to pay attention to, right?"

Yang Xianrong didn't beat around the bush and asked directly, his big black and white eyes full of sincerity. Grandma Zhou's expression also softened a lot, and she sighed: "I still want to find out about the emperor's heir."

"What do you mean?" Yang Xianrong frowned slightly, but thought that this must not be talking about himself, but someone else.

"I suspect there is something wrong among the concubines in Kamakura. After all, Jia Nanfeng harmed many pregnant women back then..." Grandma Zhou also glanced at Yang Xianrong's belly, "The Supreme Empress, Is there a shadow maid?"

"Yes." Yang Xianrong waved and let Lan Xiang come out. "Look at her belly. Is it a boy or a girl?"

"Your Majesty the Queen." Grandma Zhou suddenly made a grand salute, kneeling three times and bowing nine times in a very formal manner. She must have received a very strict etiquette education, her movements were extremely elegant, and everyone was secretly admiring her.

When Yang Xianrong saw this, he didn't stop her. He just waited quietly for her to complete the set of movements before asking: "So, do you approve of me?"

"The old slave respects the Supreme Empress very much. I heard that you took over the Embroidered Clothes Messenger before, and I was a little distrustful. But now that you trust the old slave so much, and tell the old slave such a secret without reservation, the old slave will definitely do something for you. The queen will go through fire and water without hesitation." "Hey, okay, you are not outsiders. Anyone who treats the Supreme Emperor well is naturally mine." Yang Xianrong waved his hand, "Say it, anything is fine. of."

"Let's talk about Kamakura first." Cuixi had already brought a stool for Aunt Zhou and asked her to sit down. This man is old and his health is still a little weak. "The people living in Kamakura are very complicated now. There are concubines who were thrown here by Jian Nanfeng before, and there are also concubines who were driven here by the emperor who didn't like it. But last year, some of Jian Nanfeng's maids were also thrown in... So, the interpersonal relationship here The relationship is extremely complicated, and there will be many secrets. Among the rumors among these people, the old slave heard about a past incident, which was about the heir of the current emperor. "

So far, Sima Zhong has only one son among his imperial heirs, and the rest are daughters. The son was originally given high hopes, and Sima Yan was even willing to give the throne to this fool for the sake of his grandson. However, Jia Nanfeng poisoned him to death, leaving Sima Zhong without a prince to inherit the throne, which led to the current situation.

But there has been a rumor among the abandoned concubines that the child that Concubine Bai gave birth to did not die. Although it was a purple-clad fetal bundle, it was the symbol of the true dragon emperor and a child blessed by gods. Therefore, many people are saying that if that child can inherit the throne, there will be no troubled times.

But the child was obviously burned to death by Jia Nanfeng, and Concubine Bai was also poisoned to death inexplicably. However, it becomes very strange that such a prophecy is still circulating among the concubines. Especially when Sima Zhong became the Supreme Emperor and came to live in Jinyong City, this rumor was mentioned more and more frequently.

Then, after the painting appeared outside the wall of Guangmo Palace and the deaths of three maids one after another, the people in Kamakura became even more frightened. Concubine Lan, who had already gone crazy, kept talking every day. My sister's child is not dead. He is the True Dragon Emperor and will inherit the throne.

If this kind of thing is thought about a lot, it will naturally attract the attention of others.

Aunt Zhou was already looking for answers because of this rumor, and now she wanted to know more about the strange painting and the murder.

"There is also a palace maid who died. Her name was Qinglian, and she died in Luoyang Palace. I only found out about it a few days ago." Yang Xianrong said, "What I want to know is who in Jinyong City can come and go at will?"

"Why do you ask that?" Grandma Zhou frowned, "Qinglian actually died too. Then... no one knows about the circumstances of Concubine Bai's birth back then."

"The person who can kill Qinglian is the same person who killed the other three palace maids, because the method is the same. He has only one purpose in doing this - to kill and silence them. They should know something, otherwise everything would have been done. It's really too vicious to have your tongue cut off and your throat pierced." Yang Xianrong took out a small painting, which was the painting outside the Guangmo Palace wall that she secretly copied, "Zhou Can mama see any clues?"

Aunt Zhou took the small painting, took one look at it, and said immediately: "This painting is what Concubine Bai looked like when she gave birth. That woman is Concubine Bai. She likes emerald gold hairpins the most, not phoenix hairpins." , but a red camellia...the Supreme Queen...this is..."

"Yeah, copying. I painted it with white powder at the time, so I didn't know the color geometry. I just painted everything I could remember."

"The one holding the baby is Concubine Bai, the old nanny is the person next to Jia Nanfeng, and the other one is Jia Nanfeng... This is what happened back then."

"Why isn't it a purple fetal bag? Is this a baby?" Yang Xianrong recalled the painting on the wall that day and was very puzzled.