Nong Hua Makeup
Chapter 115 Shield
Chapter 115 Shield
The news of Concubine Li's death in the middle of the night did not spread until the next morning, because the Ninth Prince also jumped into the river, and the royal family was full of sorrows, so the emperor decided to rest for three days.
In the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Eunuch An was studying ink at the side and followed the emperor's instructions.
"Pursue Concubine Li as Concubine Li and be buried in the imperial mausoleum." After the emperor finished speaking, he turned to look at Mrs. An and said, "Order to call Xuan Wang and his wife back to the capital."
"Yes." Eunuch An responded quickly.
The minister on one side heard the words and carefully reminded: "Your Majesty, what can we do about the flood in the south of the Yangtze River?"
The emperor's expression was calm, and he didn't seem to be worried: "Appoint Xu Chengqing as the imperial envoy to personally handle the flood."
The lord agreed, and after drawing up the imperial edict and showing it to the emperor, he immediately went to read the imperial edict.
After the people left, the emperor justified with An Gong: "From today onwards, Lin Yu will be promoted to be the nobleman of Yu, and the nobleman of Heart will be promoted to be the concubine of Xin." After he finished speaking, he hesitated for a while before saying: "If she wants to see the abandoned concubine, let her go See you."
Eunuch An responded immediately, but he really couldn't understand what the emperor said.
After passing the decree to Xue Wenxin, he went to see Xiong Linyu.
Xiong Linyu lived in the side hall of the Yonghe Palace. The emperor never allowed Princess Xixi to enter the palace, so after the incident, she just sat by the bed alone in a daze, and no one cared about her until the imperial decree came.
She stood up and saluted dumbly, then knelt down to accept the order.
Eunuch An looked at her red and swollen eyes, and after reading the imperial decree, he said, "My lord, you can kneel in front of the emperor to thank you later."
"Then can I go see my aunt?" Xiong Linyu's voice was hoarse, remembering the emperor's words, he said that as long as she agreed, he would not do anything to the Xiong family.He had already guessed his father's intention of treason, but because of himself, the emperor said that he could let the Xiong family go.
"Naturally." Eunuch An hurried forward to help her up, but she opened his hand.
It was the first time that Eunuch An was treated like this since he was with the emperor.
The sympathy in his eyes has disappeared, but he has already learned how to hide his temper after being in the deep palace camp for many years.
He politely smiled at the side and saluted, and then said: "No need to be angry with the emperor anymore, a woman who enters the palace will never be able to get out of this place in her life. In the square world of the harem, what do you want?" It's a lifetime, but it's up to the emperor whether it's sunny or rainy, why don't you let yourself live happily?"
Xiong Linyu didn't like the imperial palace, and he didn't like these eunuchs either. Hearing this, he just snorted coldly, threw the edict on the ground, and walked towards the cold palace.
Seeing this, the maids on one side immediately looked at Eunuch An in embarrassment.
But Eunuch An smiled generously and said: "Go and serve, after all, he is the emperor's favorite person, and it's normal to be a little bit arrogant." But the emperor is not those brats, even his arrogant sister, Princess Duanhui, is too. People who can ignore it, let alone a woman?If you like her now, let her be more, when you don't like her in the future, you will end up as today's Concubine De.
The maids followed immediately, and Eunuch An straightened his clothes and left.
As soon as he left, Xue Wenxin came out from the alley near the Yonghe Palace, and saw the back of Mr. An leaving, his face darkened.
The maid on one side carefully supported her, and said darkly: "Your Majesty, what should we do now?"
"What do you mean?"
"Ninth Prince, he already..."
"I want to see people in life, and I want to see corpses in death. I haven't seen the corpse yet, maybe I'm not dead yet." Xue Wenxin raised her hand and touched her stomach, biting her teeth slightly. Now that the Ninth Prince has an accident, the child in her belly is Her only amulet, but the emperor was seduced by other vixen at this time, Xiong Linyu is so arrogant that Mr. An can bear it, it can be seen that the emperor likes her, if she wants to deal with herself, it is too easy, she It takes a surefire way to...
After thinking about it, she whispered: "I heard that Princess Ning has been frightened these days, so I took some bird's nests to send."
The maid nodded quickly.
Lin Jinhua was talking to Mrs. Xu at the moment, while Xu Boshan was in the study with Zhao Huaiyan, discussing the sudden dispatch of Xu Chengqing to Jiangnan.
Mrs. Xu looked worried, and sat on one side with her brows furrowed: "Places like Jiangnan are dangerous, and Qing'er has only been in office for so long. I am really worried about letting him go to Jiangnan."
"Cousin is smart, so it might be a good thing to go to the south of the Yangtze River." The emperor will use him more when he has meritorious deeds, and according to the emperor's respect for his uncle, there is no other purpose in removing Xu Chengqing, but he was transferred back to King Xuan Make her feel weird.
Mrs. Xu sighed lightly: "I hope so."
After finishing speaking, another servant girl came from outside, and seeing Mrs. Xu was there, she bowed her head and said: "Princess, my concubine Xin in the palace has sent someone to bring you bird's nest."
"Concubine Xin..." Lin Jinhua got up, and then the eunuch came out, and said with a smile: "My lady remembers that the princess has been frightened these days, and the bird's nests are the best bird's nests given to her by the emperor. Laughing."
Lin Jinhua raised her eyebrows slightly. Why did Xue Wenxin come here suddenly? Could it be that she saw something happened to Zhao Qing and planned to seek refuge in Prince Ning's Mansion?
She smiled slightly, looked at A Bao on one side and said: "Didn't the prince find a piece of warm jade a few days ago, go and get it."
Ah Bao immediately trotted away.
After Ah Bao left, Lin Jinhua smiled and said, "My concubine naturally dare not refuse the gift from my empress, but my empress is pregnant now and cannot catch cold. The warm jade that the prince found a while ago just happened to be a gift to my empress."
The eunuch never thought that she would return the gift, so he was stunned for a while and forced a smile. After a while, Ah Bao brought a brocade box. Inside the brocade box was a fist-sized topaz. It looked warm and moist, and it was a piece of jade. Excellent stuff.
"Then thank you, Princess." He smiled.From this point of view, it doesn't look like the concubine Xin concubine has given favor.
"Is your mother okay recently?" Seeing him looking around, Lin Jinhua knew that he was looking for Zhao Huaiyan, so she asked directly in no hurry.
The little eunuch nodded: "You are in excellent health."
Hearing this, Que Xi raised his head in surprise.How can it be wonderful when the early pregnancy is the most difficult time.
The little eunuch noticed the slip of the tongue, and laughed quickly: "Your Majesty is under the care of the imperial doctor, and everything is fine. It's getting late, and the slave will retire first." He felt that if he stayed again, he didn't know what to say. He simply saluted and quickly turned around and left.
Lin Jinhua watched him leave in a hurry, then took a look at him and said, "There must be something wrong with her child."
"I have heard of a method before." Quilt sighed and thought for a while with downcast eyes: "If you use moxibustion method, you can leave a child who is dying of breath, but this method is very evil. People who use this method, She will not experience vomiting, anorexia or other symptoms during pregnancy like ordinary people, but this child will definitely not live to full term."
Lin Jinhua suddenly thought of Dr. Zhang who threw himself into the lake in Changchun Garden. If she remembered correctly, Dr. Zhang seemed to be Xue Wenxin's chief physician at that time. Could his suicide be related to this matter?
Before Lin Jinhua could think clearly, voices came from outside. It turned out that Zhao Huaiyan and Xu Xuboshan had come out from the inside.
Xu Boshan saluted Zhao Huaiyan solemnly, and said solemnly: "This time, I will trouble the prince."
"However, my lord, you have to think clearly, if you do this, you will be involved in the struggle for the heir apparent," Zhao Huaiyan said.
Xu Boshan sighed, and shook his head helplessly: "Xiaguan's father had never been involved before, and he was also accused of being involved. Now, it is impossible for the Xu family to be a coward again. Since everything is coming to an end, Xu Boshan The family is not afraid, I am an uncle, and I can't even protect the closest people, so what kind of official should I be."
Lin Jinhua knew that he had always been concerned about his mother's death. If the Xu family had supported her in the capital at that time, her mother and herself would not have suffered so much grievance.
She stepped forward and called him with a smile: "Uncle."
"Jinhua." Xu Boshan looked at her, deeply moved, but there was only kindness in his eyes: "Uncle has already let your mother down, so I can't let you down again."
"It's my cousin and Zhao Zhao..."
"Zhaozhao, I have arrangements. Mr. Yuan once approached me, saying that the Yuan family planned to move out of the capital, and when it was unavoidable, I would send Zhaozhao to go with them." Xu Boshan said.
Lin Jinhua was moved. It turned out that his uncle had already made up his mind, just to help him.
Lin Jinhua's eyes were slightly wet, and Mrs. Xu also came from behind, holding back her worries, and smiled softly at her: "Jinhua, now that you have married into the palace, don't think too much about it, it's serious to have a child for the prince." .”
Seeing that the focus of her conversation turned to this person, Lin Jinhua couldn't help but feel hot in her ears: "This matter can't be rushed..."
"I'm in a hurry. I don't want your cousin's child anymore, so I can only think about yours." Mrs. Xu said with a gentle smile, and then said to Xu Boshan: "It's not too early, and we are too early Go back soon, don't disturb the prince and concubine."
"Yes, I will resign." Xu Boshan also laughed.
Lin Jinhua sent them out of the house dumbfounded, and then looked helplessly at Zhao Huaiyan and laughed.
Zhao Huaiyan was envious of her having so many family members who treated her sincerely, rubbed her head, and said with a smile: "Don't think about it anymore, I will arrange the rest."
Lin Jinhua nodded.
After returning from the front hall, a yellow leaf suddenly fell in front of Lin Jinyu. When she looked up, she found that many leaves on the top of the tree had turned yellow.
"It's already September, if it's hot for another month, it will be cool." A Bao said with a smile.
Lin Jinhua smiled, walked back to the yard slowly, and then sat down on the swing under the shade of the tree, swayed slowly, and slowly thought about things in the palace.
The emperor's attitude didn't change suddenly, he had been making preparations early in the morning, but she was really surprised when he suddenly abolished Concubine De and sealed Xiong Linyu. Could it be that he really wanted to force the Xiong family to rebel?He was so sure that his father would bring troops back to rescue him before he let go of the Southwest?
Lin Jinhua couldn't figure it out, and also couldn't figure it out was the Southwest King who was far away in the southwest.
When Zhao Kan learned that Concubine De was abolished, he was about to return to Beijing, but was stopped by the Southwest King.
Zhao Kan looked at the people sitting in the tent, and said anxiously, "Uncle, if we don't go back now, do we have to wait until the mother and concubine are dead before going back to collect her body?"
The Southwest King looked at the fidgeting Zhao Kan, and his face became more serious: "Do you want to go back to save your mother and concubine more, or the woman you never forget?"
"Brother, if you've seen that woman Lin Jinhua, you'll know what Kan'er is thinking now." The person who had been sitting in the corner suddenly said, Zhao Kan looked at him and gritted his teeth.
Seeing Zhao Kan's eyes, he snorted coldly: "Kan'er, don't forget that Lin Jinhua almost killed your second uncle and me. If I hadn't saved my hand, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to sit here. I used to After all, he is also the prime minister of the Jin Dynasty, and she has been harmed so much by her, so what happened to your mother and concubine must have been caused by her."
The Southwest King's face darkened when he heard the words: "So, this Lin Jinhua is the key? Could it be that the emperor is so confused that he was fooled by a yellow-haired girl?"
Xiong Shuli sneered: "She is very capable, but it is more likely that the emperor is already confused, otherwise how could he do such a thing to Lin Yu? It is so old, Lin Yu is still his niece Woolen cloth."
The Southwest King looked even worse, and glared at Xiong Shuli.
Xiong Shuli didn't speak until now, but found that there seemed to be a figure outside the camp. He glanced at the guard beside him in a dark way.
After the person was dragged in, Xiong Shuli taunted: "I knew the emperor sent this yellow-haired girl here, not to stabilize people's hearts, but to monitor us."
"I don't." Yuan Luyi lost a lot of weight, her eyes became brighter, and she only gritted her teeth.
The Southwest King raised his hand and motioned for someone to tie her down. As for what will happen to the tied-up woman, everyone knows that women are the most lacking in the barracks.
Yuan Luyi's complexion was slightly pale, and he struggled a few times, and when he couldn't move, he said angrily to the Southwest King, "What are you doing, I'm the princess!"
"So what about the Princess?" The Southwest King gave her a cold look: "You came to the Southwest, do you think you can go back to the capital?"
"I—" Yuan Lvyi bit her lips tightly and said nothing, her thin body was grabbed, as if it could be crushed.
The guard was dragging her and was about to go out, Yuan Lvyi resisted and knocked over the tea on one side, spilling it all over Zhao Kan's body.
He immediately frowned, but he also recovered from his contemplation. He remembered that Lin Jinhua and Yuan Lvyi had a good relationship?Jinhua is the most emotional person...
Thinking of this, he stepped forward and slapped the attendant who was strangling Yuan Luyi's neck: "Get out."
The attendant was stunned, but Yuan Luyi took the opportunity to break free and hide behind Zhao Kan.
Zhao Kan raised his eyebrows slightly, patted the water on his body in disgust, and said to the Southwest King, "I want this woman."
"Don't you want Lin Jinhua?"
"Which man doesn't have three wives and four concubines? When Lin Jinhua becomes mine, let her be the main wife." Thinking of this, Zhao Kan couldn't help but smile.
After finishing speaking, he turned his head and went out when he saw that the Southwest King was silent.
Yuan Luyi trembled all over, and hurriedly followed.
Zhao Kan went all the way, only thinking about going back to the capital as soon as possible. If the father and the emperor really planned to kill the mother and concubine, what about the rebellion?Maybe he can take the opportunity to snatch Jinhua over!
When he thought of her making love under other men day and night, he was so annoyed that he wanted to kill someone.
He walked all the way to the door of his tent, only to hear sobs behind him, and when he turned around, he found that Yuan Lvyi was looking like a soldier who could be killed and could not be humiliated. He could not help but sneer and raised the corners of his lips: "Don't worry. Not interested, if you don’t want to die, just stay in the camp obediently.”
"Don't think I'll be grateful to you!" Yuan Lvyi gritted her teeth. They almost killed Jincheng several times and wanted to rebel. Now they must have another purpose in doing so.
"Does my lord need your thanks?" Zhao Kan glanced at her disdainfully, then turned his head and said to the attendant, "Look at her, don't let her run around." After speaking, he turned his head and left.
Yuan Lvyi frowned slightly, but looked at the guards not far away, and then turned and entered the tent.
She thought that coming alone would not attract attention, but she was wrong. The king of the Southwest didn't take himself seriously from the beginning, or rather, he didn't take the emperor seriously...
She quietly took out the pigeon hidden in her sleeve, bit her finger and wrote the message on the paper, and quietly let the pigeon go when the people outside the tent were not paying attention.
Xiong Linyu had been in the cold palace for a whole day, and she didn't dare to tell Concubine De that she had been summoned. Looking at Concubine De who kept asking herself to beg for mercy from the emperor, she finally couldn't help but said: "Auntie, Your Majesty Maybe I don't want to let you go."
"How is it possible!" Concubine De didn't believe it: "Even if the emperor looked at the Xiong family's face, he wouldn't treat me like this. It must be some vicious and despicable means used by that bitch, Concubine Li, to make the emperor treat me like this of!"
"But..." Xiong Linyu looked at her hesitantly, "Concubine Li died last night."
"What? How could she die? Even if she fell into the water, she would be frightened at most..."
"The imperial physician said that he died from excessive fright." Xiong Linyu said, but she could see clearly that this was clearly the emperor's deliberate effort to blame Concubine Li's death on Auntie's head.
She looked at the dazed person in front of her, and said, "Auntie, what should we do next? I've already sent a letter to the southwest, and my father and cousin must have known about it..."
"Who asked you to tell them!" Concubine De came back to her senses and said angrily.The emperor was afraid of the power of the Xiong family so he did not dare to give the seat to Kan'er. Now that he was demoted, the emperor might just want to take this opportunity to help Kan'er take the position, but if his brother was impulsive, he might lead troops to the capital. At that time, nothing will come in time.
Xiong Linyu didn't know why she was angry: "Auntie, I..."
"Your Majesty, it's getting late, you should go back to the palace." The maid outside saw that it was getting late, and the emperor might have to call her tonight, so she couldn't help reminding.
"Your Majesty?" Concubine De's complexion paled slightly.
Xiong Linyu's eyes were slightly red: "Auntie, it's the emperor..."
"Snapped--!"
Concubine De slapped her hard on the face, and her eyes turned bitter: "Fox spirit, the emperor is your aunt's man, how dare you..."
Why didn't Xiong Linyu feel aggrieved and wanted to speak again, but Concubine De had already pushed her out.
"Auntie..." Xiong Linyu wanted to say more, but Concubine De only looked at her young and beautiful face, touched her own aging face, her eyes turned cold: "I never thought that the person who stabbed the knife in the back would actually do that." It's you."
"Your Majesty, it's getting late..." The maid on the side wanted to remind her, but Xiong Linyu gave her a cold stare, but at this moment, Concubine De had already turned around and closed the door tightly.
Xiong Linyu looked at the closed door, recalled all kinds of things in the capital, and tears fell slowly, but she only raised her head to hold back, and turned her head to the Yonghe Palace.
In the dark, the maid saw her leaving, so she hurried back and told Xue Wenxin the news.
Xue Wenxin played with the warm jade sent by Prince Ning's mansion, and laughed after hearing the maid's words: "It turns out that the emperor wants to borrow the rain from the nobleman as a cover." After finishing speaking, he put away the warm jade, and then said: "Don't worry about her for now. She won't be able to ride on my head for a while." As long as the child is still in my stomach.
She turned her head and glanced at the jade, her eyes darkened slightly, "His Royal Highness Ning, I will definitely, definitely get you!"
When King Xuan hurried back to the capital, it was already the day when Concubine Li was going to go to the funeral. He was considered a filial man, and when he was buried, he ignored his dignity and cried all over the place. The seam got in.
After concubine Li was buried, King Xuan took his wife and children back to the palace to greet the emperor.
As soon as Concubine Li died, he seemed to have lost his pillar, and he had no intention of fighting for these things anymore. Who would have thought that the first thing the emperor asked him was whether he wanted this supreme position.
King Xuan knelt on the ground and wiped away his tears, he was stunned, but Princess Xuan was very happy, she pushed him quietly, and said: "My lord, what the emperor asked you."
The emperor glanced at Princess Xuan, his eyes were slightly cold.
King Xuan was stunned for a while, and then said timidly: "Father, I'm afraid my son doesn't have that ability..."
"Without your mother and concubine, you have no ability?" The emperor said coldly.
When King Xuan heard his voice, he couldn't help shaking three times, shook his head, and said, "Father, my son is worried..."
"What if I am willing to find someone to support you?" the emperor asked again.
When King Xuan heard this, he still didn't understand that Emperor Father really wants to give him the position!
He looked up at the emperor's serious expression that didn't look like he was joking, recalled the last time he was beaten, swallowed his saliva, and nodded with courage.
Seeing this, the emperor laughed, stepped forward to help him up personally, and said: "From today onwards, you will temporarily stay in the palace in the name of paying homage to Concubine Li, but none of you can say a single word that is redundant. ,Understand?"
Concubine Xuan's face was flushed with excitement, and she nodded with a busy smile, regardless of Concubine Li's death.
King Xuan also nodded.
Not long after, Eunuch An came in from the outside, bowed and saluted, "Your Majesty, Mr. Yu is here."
"Your Majesty Yu?" King Xuan was surprised, and soon saw Xiong Linyu approaching.
Xiong Linyu's appearance and appearance were indeed very similar to Concubine De's when she was young, but Concubine De was charming while she was cold.
King Xuan looked at this scene, recalled the rumors he had heard all the way, and hurriedly said: "Father, the minister there will retire first."
"En." The emperor nodded, seeing his respectful appearance, his smile widened, and when he left, he glanced at Eunuch An: "Get ready for bed."
"Yes." Eunuch An answered with lowered eyes, and immediately asked someone to come in to serve him.
Xiong Linyu's palms were slightly tight and he didn't speak.
The emperor looked at her like this and knew: "Have you seen Concubine De?"
Xiong Linyu didn't make a sound, and the emperor didn't care about it, he just said: "I let you go, just to let you see clearly, if you dare to betray me and plot against me, this is the end."
"But the Xiong family..."
"The Xiong family has dominated the southwest for so many years and refused to hand over military power. Do you think I don't know what they want to do?" The emperor pushed away the maid who was about to change his clothes, pointed at Xiong Linyu and said, "Come here."
Xiong Linyu clenched her fists tightly and walked to his side tremblingly. She still remembered the pain and humiliation last night, and now she walked by his side, only wanting to kill him.
But the emperor has already seen through her thoughts: "If you dare to do something, your mother outside the palace will immediately become a dead soul under the sword."
Xiong Linyu suddenly looked up at him, but he only raised his hand to send everyone out, and pushed Xiong Linyu on the couch not far behind.
At night, when everyone was dreaming soundly, in a fast-flowing place outside the city, someone fished out a person who had drifted for dozens of miles with a piece of driftwood in his arms.
"It's not dead yet." The man who rescued him sniffed his breath, and said to the woman sitting in the light gauze sedan chair.
"It's his fate."
"Then shall we save her?" the maid asked.
The corners of the woman's pretty lips curled up slowly: "It seems a pity that he died like this."
The maid nodded: "I understand." After saying that, she immediately recruited someone to carry him away.
Not long after they were carried away, Wen Xiao led people to search over, saw someone by the river, stepped forward and asked, "Can you see a seriously injured man crawling out of the river?"
"My lord said such horror, I think we haven't seen it before." The woman's voice was soft.
Wen Xiao took advantage of the night wind to blow up the curtain and barely saw the woman wearing a veil inside, even if only half of her face was exposed, she looked good.Moreover, the ones who carried the sedan chair seemed to be women too, and they all looked good.
He frowned: "Since the girl didn't see it, go home earlier, it's dangerous outside." After speaking, he drove the horse and continued to chase.
After the people left, the four maids quickly lifted the sedan chair and disappeared into the night.
Wen Xiao felt strange, and when he reined in the horse and wanted to turn around to ask again, the figure of the man had already disappeared.
He felt strange, and immediately someone came to report: "My lord, one part of the river bank is wet."
"It's broken!" Wen Xiao immediately realized that Zhao Qing was taken away, but he didn't know whether it was dead or alive, although it should be dead according to common sense...
After thinking about it, he quickly led people to chase him forward.
As soon as they left, Gao Zhi, who had followed Wen Xiao all the way away, saw this scene, his expression darkened.
After one night, when Lin Jinhua woke up, Zhao Huaiyan had already woken up, and was still looking straight at herself.
"My lord..."
Zhao Huaiyan's throat tightened slightly when he heard her vague and soft voice: "What's wrong?"
"When did you wake up?" Lin Jinhua naturally got into his arms and hugged his waist and asked in a daze.She was so tired last night that she still feels back pain now.
Zhao Huaiyan put his hand on her waist slowly, and rubbed it for her slowly: "Is this still sore?"
Lin Jinhua rested comfortably on his shoulder, feeling the warmth of his palm, her waist was indeed not so sore, but...
"My lord!" She called out and looked at him, but his face suddenly magnified in front of her eyes, and the numbness on her lower back directly hit her whole body.
Afterwards, Zhao Huaiyan carried her in the bathroom to wash up, and then carried her back to bed.
But seeing that she covered herself in the quilt as soon as she got back to bed, she couldn't help laughing and said, "What's wrong?"
"Sleepy." Lin Jinhua didn't want him to see her blushing.
Zhao Huaiyan smiled, and hugged her even under the quilt, then rubbed her head and laughed: "Mrs. Xu just said yesterday that I want you to have a baby earlier."
"It's not easy..."
"You have to work hard, don't you?"
Lin Jinhua's head is full of black lines, can a day's hard work be enough? He also thinks pregnancy is too simple.
The two were arguing, when Mo Feng's voice came from outside: "My lord, Guard Gao is looking for you."
"Yeah." Zhao Huaiyan responded lightly, then pulled out Lin Jinhua, kissed her lightly on the forehead, watched her black hair sticking to her face due to thin sweat, and looked at her with big eyes wet, slightly The swollen red lips were slightly pursed, and the appearance of crying, made him feel hot.
Lin Jinhua just wanted to come out to get some air, how could he think so much?But looking at his deepening eyes, he silently lifted the quilt to cover his face, only showing a pair of eyes: "The prince will go first, and I will get up later."
Seeing her like this, Zhao Huaiyan's eyes were filled with a smile, and then he got up and left.
Seeing him leave, Lin Jinhua breathed a long sigh of relief, hugged the quilt and sniffed the unique fragrance of his body that was still lingering in the air, the corners of her mouth curled up.
When Ah Bao came in to serve her, he saw her giggling and thought she was sick, so he hurriedly said, "Princess, what's wrong with you?"
"Ah, I'm fine." Lin Jinhua immediately put away her smile and sat up from the bed.
The blue silk fell behind her smoothly, and Ah Bao was shocked when she saw a bruise on her neck: "Princess, what's wrong with your neck?"
Lin Jinhua was startled for a moment, and suddenly remembered Zhao Huaiyan's actions before, her face blushed, but she pretended to be calm and said, "It's okay, I was bitten by a mosquito last night."
Seeing that she was serious, Ah Bao didn't suspect him, so he said seriously: "I must be more careful to fumigate the mosquitoes in the house tonight!"
"Yeah." Lin Jinhua immediately put on her clothes, and when she left the room, she breathed a sigh of relief.
Sitting in front of the dressing table, she also took a special look at her neck, which is a big piece of a star!
She didn't care about the heat, so she asked someone to bring a set of high-necked skirts and combed them into a cross bun to barely cover the marks on her neck.However, Ah Bao was also "popularized" by Mo Feng, and Lin Jinyu blushed throughout the whole process.
When Zhao Huaiyan came back, seeing both master and servant blushing, she couldn't help asking: "What's wrong?"
"No...it's nothing." Ah Bao felt more and more shy, and hurriedly saluted: "Your servant is going to get the soup." After speaking, he ran outside in a panic, tripped on the threshold and fell as expected Everyone laughed out loud, and finally Lin Jinzhen was not so embarrassed. Seeing A Bao running away quickly, she looked at Zhao Huaiyan with a smile and said, "Isn't your lord not lacking? Don't you need to sit down and drink some soup?"
Seeing her smirk, Zhao Huaiyan sat down lightly and said, "I need to make up."
Seeing his generous admission, Lin Jinhua was dumbfounded, and then began to eat breakfast peacefully, but she didn't know that Zhao Huaiyan's ears were already red.
He looked at Lin Jinhua who was eating breakfast very quickly and gracefully, the tenderness in his eyes overflowed.
After a warm breakfast, Lin Jinhua planned to go to the Lin Mansion. Ru Yan was the one who was hurt the most by what happened last time. Now that the limelight has passed, she just went to have a look. coming.
Lin Jinhua followed Zhao Huaiyan to receive the order in the front yard, but she was always a little worried.
"By God's blessing, the emperor said. My son, Huaiyan, is the eldest son of the ancestral hall, and belongs to God's will. Today, he is bestowed with a book of treasures and established as the crown prince, who is seated in the East Palace..."
Lin Jinhua didn't listen much to what was said later, but she knew that the emperor made Huaiyan the crown prince at this dangerous time, which meant that even if the Xiong family wanted to rebel, even if Zhao Kan wanted to seize the throne, the person to deal with was not The emperor, but Huai Yan, he let Huai Yan act as a shield.
Thinking of this, her fists clenched tightly.
Zhao Huaiyan accepted the imperial edict calmly, looked at the person in front of him, and said calmly, "Please trouble me, Eunuch."
"It's my honor to be here to deliver the will to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. The ceremony for the canonization of the Crown Prince will be held three days later, which is an auspicious day." The father-in-law laughed.
Zhao Huaiyan was rewarded with something, so he was ordered to send him out of the house.
Lin Jinhua stood up, grabbed his hand and said with a smile, "Congratulations, Your Royal Highness." She knew that there must be more disappointment in his heart.
Zhao Huaiyan looked at her crescent-like eyes, raised his hand and rubbed her little head, and said with a little helplessness: "I wanted to take you to live a peaceful life for a few days."
"With you, no matter where you are, you can find peace." Lin Jinhua said seriously, as long as he was there, she would have the courage to break through the sea of swords and fire.
Zhao Huaiyan held her in his arms, the disappointment in his heart was filled with love
He always thought that his father treated him sincerely, but in the end, he was just like the other princes, a pawn he wanted to control.
After the imperial decree, the emperor's imperial decree to confer on the side concubine came again, and it was the decree passed down by Eunuch An himself.
In the flower hall, Eunuch An looked at Lin Jinhua, and then said: "The emperor means that on the day you canonize, welcome the two side concubines into the mansion."
Lin Jinzheng was a little nervous, but she also knew that it was inevitable, and the emperor would not disobey the queen mother's will, so she just said: "By the time the concubine will be ready..."
"No need to prepare, just carry it in from the back corner door and place it in the west courtyard." Zhao Huaiyan said indifferently.
Eunuch An raised his head in surprise, and reminded: "Your Highness, the Emperor will not be happy if you protect the Crown Princess like this."
Zhao Huaiyan stared at him indifferently: "So what if you are unhappy?" Will he be removed from the crown prince?No, until the Xiong family's military power has not been taken back, and until the ambitious people in the court have not been dealt with, my position will remain stable.
Eunuch An knew his temper. Hearing this, he only glanced at Lin Jinhua quietly.
Lin Jinhua turned around to look at Zhao Huaiyan, and said with a smile, "Your Highness, you don't need to be angry, just treat it as if you bought two potted plants to enjoy in the house..."
"Since it's a potted plant, it should stay where the potted plant is." After Zhao Huaiyan finished speaking, she looked at her forced smile, and her eyes were soft: "Won'er not jealous?"
Lin Jinhua was dumbfounded, even if she was jealous, she couldn't say it in front of outsiders.
Eunuch An saw that he was determined, so he had no choice but to tell about the fact that the emperor had secretly met with King Xuan yesterday and left him in the palace: "Although I didn't hear what the emperor said to His Highness What did you say, but Princess Xuan seems to be very happy."
"There is only one thing that can make her so happy regardless of Concubine Li's decency to die." Lin Jinhua could guess.
Seeing that it was getting late, Eunuch An didn't stay any longer, he just said: "The emperor seems to have invited a Taoist alchemist into the palace recently, I don't know what it is for, but since seeing him, the emperor has been in good spirits every day. "
The light in Zhao Huaiyan's eyes was slightly cold, could it be that his father had also followed the old path of the emperors of the past, and began to pursue the technique of immortality?
After Eunuch An left, Zhao Huaiyan got up: "I'll go out for a while."
Lin Jinhua knew that he had to prepare some things. After all, he had become a prince now, so there must be a lot of troubles, and the emperor suddenly appointed a prince, which would definitely force Zhao Kan and the Southwest King to approach the capital quickly. too much……
Thinking of this, she felt uneasy, her power was not ready yet, and she could not compete with the emperor yet.
Thinking of this, after Zhao Huaiyan went out, she immediately prepared the carriage and went out.
in the city.
When Zheng Qiong saw her coming, she was no longer confined as before, but he only thought that he wanted to ask about the Sun family, and said: "Since what happened last time, Minister Sun has taken a long vacation at home for a month. He is transporting the belongings in the mansion out of the capital, and it seems that he wants to escape."
"He has long been unable to fly." Lin Jinhua didn't worry about Sun's family affairs for the time being, and only said, "What I asked my lord to prepare is what happened?"
Zheng Qiong remembered what she had said before, and said: "I have already discussed with Miss Moyue, it is unlikely to recruit people widely, but I heard that the princess has recruited a new group of people from Qingshan Village?" He had heard about the forced return to the capital.
Lin Jinhua smiled slightly: "Your Excellency, do you think Qingshanzhai can be used?"
"Although bandits are not as good as the regular army, they also have advantages that the regular army doesn't have, that is, they are flexible and have their own ideas, and can adapt to changes." Zheng Qiong said.
"My lord, are you going to Qingshan Village?"
"Well. I still want to go in the direction of the south of the Yangtze River. Isn't Master Xu just going to the south of the Yangtze River? With him, I can not only take care of them secretly, but also recruit many people who died due to the destruction of the Dashui family. They will be trained like bandits. The time spent by the regular army can still achieve better results." Zheng Qiong has been thinking about this for the past few days, and after deliberation, this method is the most reliable.
Lin Jinhua nodded: "Okay, I will arrange for the adults to leave the city in these two days."
The two talked about the details for a while, until Mo Yue came back from the outside.
"Did you get in touch with the boss?" Lin Jinhua asked seeing her running in a hurry.
Mo Yue's face was a little dignified, and she said: "The head of the family has disappeared. I heard from the people in the village that the head of the village has been saying that someone is watching him for the past two days. Until last night, after a fight broke out in his room, he was killed. missing."
Lin Jinhua's expression turned cold: "You take someone to look for it immediately, and you must save his life!"
Mo Yue nodded, and led the people out quickly without saying a word.
Lin Jinhua looked at the worried Zheng Qiong, and said, "Don't worry, my lord, your plan will definitely go ahead as usual." After finishing speaking, she said to Peanut, "Go find Zhang Xiaofang immediately and ask her to come to see Master Zheng. Mr. Zheng discusses."
Seeing the urgency of the situation, Peanut didn't dare to delay, so he went immediately.
Seeing that the arrangements were made, Lin Jinhua got into the carriage and went home.
But who wants to kill the master?Zhao Qing?Impossible, even if he survived by luck, he would not be able to kill him, but knowing that the only people around him who are in contact with the head of the family are these people around him, could it be that there is an inner ghost...
(End of this chapter)
The news of Concubine Li's death in the middle of the night did not spread until the next morning, because the Ninth Prince also jumped into the river, and the royal family was full of sorrows, so the emperor decided to rest for three days.
In the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Eunuch An was studying ink at the side and followed the emperor's instructions.
"Pursue Concubine Li as Concubine Li and be buried in the imperial mausoleum." After the emperor finished speaking, he turned to look at Mrs. An and said, "Order to call Xuan Wang and his wife back to the capital."
"Yes." Eunuch An responded quickly.
The minister on one side heard the words and carefully reminded: "Your Majesty, what can we do about the flood in the south of the Yangtze River?"
The emperor's expression was calm, and he didn't seem to be worried: "Appoint Xu Chengqing as the imperial envoy to personally handle the flood."
The lord agreed, and after drawing up the imperial edict and showing it to the emperor, he immediately went to read the imperial edict.
After the people left, the emperor justified with An Gong: "From today onwards, Lin Yu will be promoted to be the nobleman of Yu, and the nobleman of Heart will be promoted to be the concubine of Xin." After he finished speaking, he hesitated for a while before saying: "If she wants to see the abandoned concubine, let her go See you."
Eunuch An responded immediately, but he really couldn't understand what the emperor said.
After passing the decree to Xue Wenxin, he went to see Xiong Linyu.
Xiong Linyu lived in the side hall of the Yonghe Palace. The emperor never allowed Princess Xixi to enter the palace, so after the incident, she just sat by the bed alone in a daze, and no one cared about her until the imperial decree came.
She stood up and saluted dumbly, then knelt down to accept the order.
Eunuch An looked at her red and swollen eyes, and after reading the imperial decree, he said, "My lord, you can kneel in front of the emperor to thank you later."
"Then can I go see my aunt?" Xiong Linyu's voice was hoarse, remembering the emperor's words, he said that as long as she agreed, he would not do anything to the Xiong family.He had already guessed his father's intention of treason, but because of himself, the emperor said that he could let the Xiong family go.
"Naturally." Eunuch An hurried forward to help her up, but she opened his hand.
It was the first time that Eunuch An was treated like this since he was with the emperor.
The sympathy in his eyes has disappeared, but he has already learned how to hide his temper after being in the deep palace camp for many years.
He politely smiled at the side and saluted, and then said: "No need to be angry with the emperor anymore, a woman who enters the palace will never be able to get out of this place in her life. In the square world of the harem, what do you want?" It's a lifetime, but it's up to the emperor whether it's sunny or rainy, why don't you let yourself live happily?"
Xiong Linyu didn't like the imperial palace, and he didn't like these eunuchs either. Hearing this, he just snorted coldly, threw the edict on the ground, and walked towards the cold palace.
Seeing this, the maids on one side immediately looked at Eunuch An in embarrassment.
But Eunuch An smiled generously and said: "Go and serve, after all, he is the emperor's favorite person, and it's normal to be a little bit arrogant." But the emperor is not those brats, even his arrogant sister, Princess Duanhui, is too. People who can ignore it, let alone a woman?If you like her now, let her be more, when you don't like her in the future, you will end up as today's Concubine De.
The maids followed immediately, and Eunuch An straightened his clothes and left.
As soon as he left, Xue Wenxin came out from the alley near the Yonghe Palace, and saw the back of Mr. An leaving, his face darkened.
The maid on one side carefully supported her, and said darkly: "Your Majesty, what should we do now?"
"What do you mean?"
"Ninth Prince, he already..."
"I want to see people in life, and I want to see corpses in death. I haven't seen the corpse yet, maybe I'm not dead yet." Xue Wenxin raised her hand and touched her stomach, biting her teeth slightly. Now that the Ninth Prince has an accident, the child in her belly is Her only amulet, but the emperor was seduced by other vixen at this time, Xiong Linyu is so arrogant that Mr. An can bear it, it can be seen that the emperor likes her, if she wants to deal with herself, it is too easy, she It takes a surefire way to...
After thinking about it, she whispered: "I heard that Princess Ning has been frightened these days, so I took some bird's nests to send."
The maid nodded quickly.
Lin Jinhua was talking to Mrs. Xu at the moment, while Xu Boshan was in the study with Zhao Huaiyan, discussing the sudden dispatch of Xu Chengqing to Jiangnan.
Mrs. Xu looked worried, and sat on one side with her brows furrowed: "Places like Jiangnan are dangerous, and Qing'er has only been in office for so long. I am really worried about letting him go to Jiangnan."
"Cousin is smart, so it might be a good thing to go to the south of the Yangtze River." The emperor will use him more when he has meritorious deeds, and according to the emperor's respect for his uncle, there is no other purpose in removing Xu Chengqing, but he was transferred back to King Xuan Make her feel weird.
Mrs. Xu sighed lightly: "I hope so."
After finishing speaking, another servant girl came from outside, and seeing Mrs. Xu was there, she bowed her head and said: "Princess, my concubine Xin in the palace has sent someone to bring you bird's nest."
"Concubine Xin..." Lin Jinhua got up, and then the eunuch came out, and said with a smile: "My lady remembers that the princess has been frightened these days, and the bird's nests are the best bird's nests given to her by the emperor. Laughing."
Lin Jinhua raised her eyebrows slightly. Why did Xue Wenxin come here suddenly? Could it be that she saw something happened to Zhao Qing and planned to seek refuge in Prince Ning's Mansion?
She smiled slightly, looked at A Bao on one side and said: "Didn't the prince find a piece of warm jade a few days ago, go and get it."
Ah Bao immediately trotted away.
After Ah Bao left, Lin Jinhua smiled and said, "My concubine naturally dare not refuse the gift from my empress, but my empress is pregnant now and cannot catch cold. The warm jade that the prince found a while ago just happened to be a gift to my empress."
The eunuch never thought that she would return the gift, so he was stunned for a while and forced a smile. After a while, Ah Bao brought a brocade box. Inside the brocade box was a fist-sized topaz. It looked warm and moist, and it was a piece of jade. Excellent stuff.
"Then thank you, Princess." He smiled.From this point of view, it doesn't look like the concubine Xin concubine has given favor.
"Is your mother okay recently?" Seeing him looking around, Lin Jinhua knew that he was looking for Zhao Huaiyan, so she asked directly in no hurry.
The little eunuch nodded: "You are in excellent health."
Hearing this, Que Xi raised his head in surprise.How can it be wonderful when the early pregnancy is the most difficult time.
The little eunuch noticed the slip of the tongue, and laughed quickly: "Your Majesty is under the care of the imperial doctor, and everything is fine. It's getting late, and the slave will retire first." He felt that if he stayed again, he didn't know what to say. He simply saluted and quickly turned around and left.
Lin Jinhua watched him leave in a hurry, then took a look at him and said, "There must be something wrong with her child."
"I have heard of a method before." Quilt sighed and thought for a while with downcast eyes: "If you use moxibustion method, you can leave a child who is dying of breath, but this method is very evil. People who use this method, She will not experience vomiting, anorexia or other symptoms during pregnancy like ordinary people, but this child will definitely not live to full term."
Lin Jinhua suddenly thought of Dr. Zhang who threw himself into the lake in Changchun Garden. If she remembered correctly, Dr. Zhang seemed to be Xue Wenxin's chief physician at that time. Could his suicide be related to this matter?
Before Lin Jinhua could think clearly, voices came from outside. It turned out that Zhao Huaiyan and Xu Xuboshan had come out from the inside.
Xu Boshan saluted Zhao Huaiyan solemnly, and said solemnly: "This time, I will trouble the prince."
"However, my lord, you have to think clearly, if you do this, you will be involved in the struggle for the heir apparent," Zhao Huaiyan said.
Xu Boshan sighed, and shook his head helplessly: "Xiaguan's father had never been involved before, and he was also accused of being involved. Now, it is impossible for the Xu family to be a coward again. Since everything is coming to an end, Xu Boshan The family is not afraid, I am an uncle, and I can't even protect the closest people, so what kind of official should I be."
Lin Jinhua knew that he had always been concerned about his mother's death. If the Xu family had supported her in the capital at that time, her mother and herself would not have suffered so much grievance.
She stepped forward and called him with a smile: "Uncle."
"Jinhua." Xu Boshan looked at her, deeply moved, but there was only kindness in his eyes: "Uncle has already let your mother down, so I can't let you down again."
"It's my cousin and Zhao Zhao..."
"Zhaozhao, I have arrangements. Mr. Yuan once approached me, saying that the Yuan family planned to move out of the capital, and when it was unavoidable, I would send Zhaozhao to go with them." Xu Boshan said.
Lin Jinhua was moved. It turned out that his uncle had already made up his mind, just to help him.
Lin Jinhua's eyes were slightly wet, and Mrs. Xu also came from behind, holding back her worries, and smiled softly at her: "Jinhua, now that you have married into the palace, don't think too much about it, it's serious to have a child for the prince." .”
Seeing that the focus of her conversation turned to this person, Lin Jinhua couldn't help but feel hot in her ears: "This matter can't be rushed..."
"I'm in a hurry. I don't want your cousin's child anymore, so I can only think about yours." Mrs. Xu said with a gentle smile, and then said to Xu Boshan: "It's not too early, and we are too early Go back soon, don't disturb the prince and concubine."
"Yes, I will resign." Xu Boshan also laughed.
Lin Jinhua sent them out of the house dumbfounded, and then looked helplessly at Zhao Huaiyan and laughed.
Zhao Huaiyan was envious of her having so many family members who treated her sincerely, rubbed her head, and said with a smile: "Don't think about it anymore, I will arrange the rest."
Lin Jinhua nodded.
After returning from the front hall, a yellow leaf suddenly fell in front of Lin Jinyu. When she looked up, she found that many leaves on the top of the tree had turned yellow.
"It's already September, if it's hot for another month, it will be cool." A Bao said with a smile.
Lin Jinhua smiled, walked back to the yard slowly, and then sat down on the swing under the shade of the tree, swayed slowly, and slowly thought about things in the palace.
The emperor's attitude didn't change suddenly, he had been making preparations early in the morning, but she was really surprised when he suddenly abolished Concubine De and sealed Xiong Linyu. Could it be that he really wanted to force the Xiong family to rebel?He was so sure that his father would bring troops back to rescue him before he let go of the Southwest?
Lin Jinhua couldn't figure it out, and also couldn't figure it out was the Southwest King who was far away in the southwest.
When Zhao Kan learned that Concubine De was abolished, he was about to return to Beijing, but was stopped by the Southwest King.
Zhao Kan looked at the people sitting in the tent, and said anxiously, "Uncle, if we don't go back now, do we have to wait until the mother and concubine are dead before going back to collect her body?"
The Southwest King looked at the fidgeting Zhao Kan, and his face became more serious: "Do you want to go back to save your mother and concubine more, or the woman you never forget?"
"Brother, if you've seen that woman Lin Jinhua, you'll know what Kan'er is thinking now." The person who had been sitting in the corner suddenly said, Zhao Kan looked at him and gritted his teeth.
Seeing Zhao Kan's eyes, he snorted coldly: "Kan'er, don't forget that Lin Jinhua almost killed your second uncle and me. If I hadn't saved my hand, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to sit here. I used to After all, he is also the prime minister of the Jin Dynasty, and she has been harmed so much by her, so what happened to your mother and concubine must have been caused by her."
The Southwest King's face darkened when he heard the words: "So, this Lin Jinhua is the key? Could it be that the emperor is so confused that he was fooled by a yellow-haired girl?"
Xiong Shuli sneered: "She is very capable, but it is more likely that the emperor is already confused, otherwise how could he do such a thing to Lin Yu? It is so old, Lin Yu is still his niece Woolen cloth."
The Southwest King looked even worse, and glared at Xiong Shuli.
Xiong Shuli didn't speak until now, but found that there seemed to be a figure outside the camp. He glanced at the guard beside him in a dark way.
After the person was dragged in, Xiong Shuli taunted: "I knew the emperor sent this yellow-haired girl here, not to stabilize people's hearts, but to monitor us."
"I don't." Yuan Luyi lost a lot of weight, her eyes became brighter, and she only gritted her teeth.
The Southwest King raised his hand and motioned for someone to tie her down. As for what will happen to the tied-up woman, everyone knows that women are the most lacking in the barracks.
Yuan Luyi's complexion was slightly pale, and he struggled a few times, and when he couldn't move, he said angrily to the Southwest King, "What are you doing, I'm the princess!"
"So what about the Princess?" The Southwest King gave her a cold look: "You came to the Southwest, do you think you can go back to the capital?"
"I—" Yuan Lvyi bit her lips tightly and said nothing, her thin body was grabbed, as if it could be crushed.
The guard was dragging her and was about to go out, Yuan Lvyi resisted and knocked over the tea on one side, spilling it all over Zhao Kan's body.
He immediately frowned, but he also recovered from his contemplation. He remembered that Lin Jinhua and Yuan Lvyi had a good relationship?Jinhua is the most emotional person...
Thinking of this, he stepped forward and slapped the attendant who was strangling Yuan Luyi's neck: "Get out."
The attendant was stunned, but Yuan Luyi took the opportunity to break free and hide behind Zhao Kan.
Zhao Kan raised his eyebrows slightly, patted the water on his body in disgust, and said to the Southwest King, "I want this woman."
"Don't you want Lin Jinhua?"
"Which man doesn't have three wives and four concubines? When Lin Jinhua becomes mine, let her be the main wife." Thinking of this, Zhao Kan couldn't help but smile.
After finishing speaking, he turned his head and went out when he saw that the Southwest King was silent.
Yuan Luyi trembled all over, and hurriedly followed.
Zhao Kan went all the way, only thinking about going back to the capital as soon as possible. If the father and the emperor really planned to kill the mother and concubine, what about the rebellion?Maybe he can take the opportunity to snatch Jinhua over!
When he thought of her making love under other men day and night, he was so annoyed that he wanted to kill someone.
He walked all the way to the door of his tent, only to hear sobs behind him, and when he turned around, he found that Yuan Lvyi was looking like a soldier who could be killed and could not be humiliated. He could not help but sneer and raised the corners of his lips: "Don't worry. Not interested, if you don’t want to die, just stay in the camp obediently.”
"Don't think I'll be grateful to you!" Yuan Lvyi gritted her teeth. They almost killed Jincheng several times and wanted to rebel. Now they must have another purpose in doing so.
"Does my lord need your thanks?" Zhao Kan glanced at her disdainfully, then turned his head and said to the attendant, "Look at her, don't let her run around." After speaking, he turned his head and left.
Yuan Lvyi frowned slightly, but looked at the guards not far away, and then turned and entered the tent.
She thought that coming alone would not attract attention, but she was wrong. The king of the Southwest didn't take himself seriously from the beginning, or rather, he didn't take the emperor seriously...
She quietly took out the pigeon hidden in her sleeve, bit her finger and wrote the message on the paper, and quietly let the pigeon go when the people outside the tent were not paying attention.
Xiong Linyu had been in the cold palace for a whole day, and she didn't dare to tell Concubine De that she had been summoned. Looking at Concubine De who kept asking herself to beg for mercy from the emperor, she finally couldn't help but said: "Auntie, Your Majesty Maybe I don't want to let you go."
"How is it possible!" Concubine De didn't believe it: "Even if the emperor looked at the Xiong family's face, he wouldn't treat me like this. It must be some vicious and despicable means used by that bitch, Concubine Li, to make the emperor treat me like this of!"
"But..." Xiong Linyu looked at her hesitantly, "Concubine Li died last night."
"What? How could she die? Even if she fell into the water, she would be frightened at most..."
"The imperial physician said that he died from excessive fright." Xiong Linyu said, but she could see clearly that this was clearly the emperor's deliberate effort to blame Concubine Li's death on Auntie's head.
She looked at the dazed person in front of her, and said, "Auntie, what should we do next? I've already sent a letter to the southwest, and my father and cousin must have known about it..."
"Who asked you to tell them!" Concubine De came back to her senses and said angrily.The emperor was afraid of the power of the Xiong family so he did not dare to give the seat to Kan'er. Now that he was demoted, the emperor might just want to take this opportunity to help Kan'er take the position, but if his brother was impulsive, he might lead troops to the capital. At that time, nothing will come in time.
Xiong Linyu didn't know why she was angry: "Auntie, I..."
"Your Majesty, it's getting late, you should go back to the palace." The maid outside saw that it was getting late, and the emperor might have to call her tonight, so she couldn't help reminding.
"Your Majesty?" Concubine De's complexion paled slightly.
Xiong Linyu's eyes were slightly red: "Auntie, it's the emperor..."
"Snapped--!"
Concubine De slapped her hard on the face, and her eyes turned bitter: "Fox spirit, the emperor is your aunt's man, how dare you..."
Why didn't Xiong Linyu feel aggrieved and wanted to speak again, but Concubine De had already pushed her out.
"Auntie..." Xiong Linyu wanted to say more, but Concubine De only looked at her young and beautiful face, touched her own aging face, her eyes turned cold: "I never thought that the person who stabbed the knife in the back would actually do that." It's you."
"Your Majesty, it's getting late..." The maid on the side wanted to remind her, but Xiong Linyu gave her a cold stare, but at this moment, Concubine De had already turned around and closed the door tightly.
Xiong Linyu looked at the closed door, recalled all kinds of things in the capital, and tears fell slowly, but she only raised her head to hold back, and turned her head to the Yonghe Palace.
In the dark, the maid saw her leaving, so she hurried back and told Xue Wenxin the news.
Xue Wenxin played with the warm jade sent by Prince Ning's mansion, and laughed after hearing the maid's words: "It turns out that the emperor wants to borrow the rain from the nobleman as a cover." After finishing speaking, he put away the warm jade, and then said: "Don't worry about her for now. She won't be able to ride on my head for a while." As long as the child is still in my stomach.
She turned her head and glanced at the jade, her eyes darkened slightly, "His Royal Highness Ning, I will definitely, definitely get you!"
When King Xuan hurried back to the capital, it was already the day when Concubine Li was going to go to the funeral. He was considered a filial man, and when he was buried, he ignored his dignity and cried all over the place. The seam got in.
After concubine Li was buried, King Xuan took his wife and children back to the palace to greet the emperor.
As soon as Concubine Li died, he seemed to have lost his pillar, and he had no intention of fighting for these things anymore. Who would have thought that the first thing the emperor asked him was whether he wanted this supreme position.
King Xuan knelt on the ground and wiped away his tears, he was stunned, but Princess Xuan was very happy, she pushed him quietly, and said: "My lord, what the emperor asked you."
The emperor glanced at Princess Xuan, his eyes were slightly cold.
King Xuan was stunned for a while, and then said timidly: "Father, I'm afraid my son doesn't have that ability..."
"Without your mother and concubine, you have no ability?" The emperor said coldly.
When King Xuan heard his voice, he couldn't help shaking three times, shook his head, and said, "Father, my son is worried..."
"What if I am willing to find someone to support you?" the emperor asked again.
When King Xuan heard this, he still didn't understand that Emperor Father really wants to give him the position!
He looked up at the emperor's serious expression that didn't look like he was joking, recalled the last time he was beaten, swallowed his saliva, and nodded with courage.
Seeing this, the emperor laughed, stepped forward to help him up personally, and said: "From today onwards, you will temporarily stay in the palace in the name of paying homage to Concubine Li, but none of you can say a single word that is redundant. ,Understand?"
Concubine Xuan's face was flushed with excitement, and she nodded with a busy smile, regardless of Concubine Li's death.
King Xuan also nodded.
Not long after, Eunuch An came in from the outside, bowed and saluted, "Your Majesty, Mr. Yu is here."
"Your Majesty Yu?" King Xuan was surprised, and soon saw Xiong Linyu approaching.
Xiong Linyu's appearance and appearance were indeed very similar to Concubine De's when she was young, but Concubine De was charming while she was cold.
King Xuan looked at this scene, recalled the rumors he had heard all the way, and hurriedly said: "Father, the minister there will retire first."
"En." The emperor nodded, seeing his respectful appearance, his smile widened, and when he left, he glanced at Eunuch An: "Get ready for bed."
"Yes." Eunuch An answered with lowered eyes, and immediately asked someone to come in to serve him.
Xiong Linyu's palms were slightly tight and he didn't speak.
The emperor looked at her like this and knew: "Have you seen Concubine De?"
Xiong Linyu didn't make a sound, and the emperor didn't care about it, he just said: "I let you go, just to let you see clearly, if you dare to betray me and plot against me, this is the end."
"But the Xiong family..."
"The Xiong family has dominated the southwest for so many years and refused to hand over military power. Do you think I don't know what they want to do?" The emperor pushed away the maid who was about to change his clothes, pointed at Xiong Linyu and said, "Come here."
Xiong Linyu clenched her fists tightly and walked to his side tremblingly. She still remembered the pain and humiliation last night, and now she walked by his side, only wanting to kill him.
But the emperor has already seen through her thoughts: "If you dare to do something, your mother outside the palace will immediately become a dead soul under the sword."
Xiong Linyu suddenly looked up at him, but he only raised his hand to send everyone out, and pushed Xiong Linyu on the couch not far behind.
At night, when everyone was dreaming soundly, in a fast-flowing place outside the city, someone fished out a person who had drifted for dozens of miles with a piece of driftwood in his arms.
"It's not dead yet." The man who rescued him sniffed his breath, and said to the woman sitting in the light gauze sedan chair.
"It's his fate."
"Then shall we save her?" the maid asked.
The corners of the woman's pretty lips curled up slowly: "It seems a pity that he died like this."
The maid nodded: "I understand." After saying that, she immediately recruited someone to carry him away.
Not long after they were carried away, Wen Xiao led people to search over, saw someone by the river, stepped forward and asked, "Can you see a seriously injured man crawling out of the river?"
"My lord said such horror, I think we haven't seen it before." The woman's voice was soft.
Wen Xiao took advantage of the night wind to blow up the curtain and barely saw the woman wearing a veil inside, even if only half of her face was exposed, she looked good.Moreover, the ones who carried the sedan chair seemed to be women too, and they all looked good.
He frowned: "Since the girl didn't see it, go home earlier, it's dangerous outside." After speaking, he drove the horse and continued to chase.
After the people left, the four maids quickly lifted the sedan chair and disappeared into the night.
Wen Xiao felt strange, and when he reined in the horse and wanted to turn around to ask again, the figure of the man had already disappeared.
He felt strange, and immediately someone came to report: "My lord, one part of the river bank is wet."
"It's broken!" Wen Xiao immediately realized that Zhao Qing was taken away, but he didn't know whether it was dead or alive, although it should be dead according to common sense...
After thinking about it, he quickly led people to chase him forward.
As soon as they left, Gao Zhi, who had followed Wen Xiao all the way away, saw this scene, his expression darkened.
After one night, when Lin Jinhua woke up, Zhao Huaiyan had already woken up, and was still looking straight at herself.
"My lord..."
Zhao Huaiyan's throat tightened slightly when he heard her vague and soft voice: "What's wrong?"
"When did you wake up?" Lin Jinhua naturally got into his arms and hugged his waist and asked in a daze.She was so tired last night that she still feels back pain now.
Zhao Huaiyan put his hand on her waist slowly, and rubbed it for her slowly: "Is this still sore?"
Lin Jinhua rested comfortably on his shoulder, feeling the warmth of his palm, her waist was indeed not so sore, but...
"My lord!" She called out and looked at him, but his face suddenly magnified in front of her eyes, and the numbness on her lower back directly hit her whole body.
Afterwards, Zhao Huaiyan carried her in the bathroom to wash up, and then carried her back to bed.
But seeing that she covered herself in the quilt as soon as she got back to bed, she couldn't help laughing and said, "What's wrong?"
"Sleepy." Lin Jinhua didn't want him to see her blushing.
Zhao Huaiyan smiled, and hugged her even under the quilt, then rubbed her head and laughed: "Mrs. Xu just said yesterday that I want you to have a baby earlier."
"It's not easy..."
"You have to work hard, don't you?"
Lin Jinhua's head is full of black lines, can a day's hard work be enough? He also thinks pregnancy is too simple.
The two were arguing, when Mo Feng's voice came from outside: "My lord, Guard Gao is looking for you."
"Yeah." Zhao Huaiyan responded lightly, then pulled out Lin Jinhua, kissed her lightly on the forehead, watched her black hair sticking to her face due to thin sweat, and looked at her with big eyes wet, slightly The swollen red lips were slightly pursed, and the appearance of crying, made him feel hot.
Lin Jinhua just wanted to come out to get some air, how could he think so much?But looking at his deepening eyes, he silently lifted the quilt to cover his face, only showing a pair of eyes: "The prince will go first, and I will get up later."
Seeing her like this, Zhao Huaiyan's eyes were filled with a smile, and then he got up and left.
Seeing him leave, Lin Jinhua breathed a long sigh of relief, hugged the quilt and sniffed the unique fragrance of his body that was still lingering in the air, the corners of her mouth curled up.
When Ah Bao came in to serve her, he saw her giggling and thought she was sick, so he hurriedly said, "Princess, what's wrong with you?"
"Ah, I'm fine." Lin Jinhua immediately put away her smile and sat up from the bed.
The blue silk fell behind her smoothly, and Ah Bao was shocked when she saw a bruise on her neck: "Princess, what's wrong with your neck?"
Lin Jinhua was startled for a moment, and suddenly remembered Zhao Huaiyan's actions before, her face blushed, but she pretended to be calm and said, "It's okay, I was bitten by a mosquito last night."
Seeing that she was serious, Ah Bao didn't suspect him, so he said seriously: "I must be more careful to fumigate the mosquitoes in the house tonight!"
"Yeah." Lin Jinhua immediately put on her clothes, and when she left the room, she breathed a sigh of relief.
Sitting in front of the dressing table, she also took a special look at her neck, which is a big piece of a star!
She didn't care about the heat, so she asked someone to bring a set of high-necked skirts and combed them into a cross bun to barely cover the marks on her neck.However, Ah Bao was also "popularized" by Mo Feng, and Lin Jinyu blushed throughout the whole process.
When Zhao Huaiyan came back, seeing both master and servant blushing, she couldn't help asking: "What's wrong?"
"No...it's nothing." Ah Bao felt more and more shy, and hurriedly saluted: "Your servant is going to get the soup." After speaking, he ran outside in a panic, tripped on the threshold and fell as expected Everyone laughed out loud, and finally Lin Jinzhen was not so embarrassed. Seeing A Bao running away quickly, she looked at Zhao Huaiyan with a smile and said, "Isn't your lord not lacking? Don't you need to sit down and drink some soup?"
Seeing her smirk, Zhao Huaiyan sat down lightly and said, "I need to make up."
Seeing his generous admission, Lin Jinhua was dumbfounded, and then began to eat breakfast peacefully, but she didn't know that Zhao Huaiyan's ears were already red.
He looked at Lin Jinhua who was eating breakfast very quickly and gracefully, the tenderness in his eyes overflowed.
After a warm breakfast, Lin Jinhua planned to go to the Lin Mansion. Ru Yan was the one who was hurt the most by what happened last time. Now that the limelight has passed, she just went to have a look. coming.
Lin Jinhua followed Zhao Huaiyan to receive the order in the front yard, but she was always a little worried.
"By God's blessing, the emperor said. My son, Huaiyan, is the eldest son of the ancestral hall, and belongs to God's will. Today, he is bestowed with a book of treasures and established as the crown prince, who is seated in the East Palace..."
Lin Jinhua didn't listen much to what was said later, but she knew that the emperor made Huaiyan the crown prince at this dangerous time, which meant that even if the Xiong family wanted to rebel, even if Zhao Kan wanted to seize the throne, the person to deal with was not The emperor, but Huai Yan, he let Huai Yan act as a shield.
Thinking of this, her fists clenched tightly.
Zhao Huaiyan accepted the imperial edict calmly, looked at the person in front of him, and said calmly, "Please trouble me, Eunuch."
"It's my honor to be here to deliver the will to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. The ceremony for the canonization of the Crown Prince will be held three days later, which is an auspicious day." The father-in-law laughed.
Zhao Huaiyan was rewarded with something, so he was ordered to send him out of the house.
Lin Jinhua stood up, grabbed his hand and said with a smile, "Congratulations, Your Royal Highness." She knew that there must be more disappointment in his heart.
Zhao Huaiyan looked at her crescent-like eyes, raised his hand and rubbed her little head, and said with a little helplessness: "I wanted to take you to live a peaceful life for a few days."
"With you, no matter where you are, you can find peace." Lin Jinhua said seriously, as long as he was there, she would have the courage to break through the sea of swords and fire.
Zhao Huaiyan held her in his arms, the disappointment in his heart was filled with love
He always thought that his father treated him sincerely, but in the end, he was just like the other princes, a pawn he wanted to control.
After the imperial decree, the emperor's imperial decree to confer on the side concubine came again, and it was the decree passed down by Eunuch An himself.
In the flower hall, Eunuch An looked at Lin Jinhua, and then said: "The emperor means that on the day you canonize, welcome the two side concubines into the mansion."
Lin Jinzheng was a little nervous, but she also knew that it was inevitable, and the emperor would not disobey the queen mother's will, so she just said: "By the time the concubine will be ready..."
"No need to prepare, just carry it in from the back corner door and place it in the west courtyard." Zhao Huaiyan said indifferently.
Eunuch An raised his head in surprise, and reminded: "Your Highness, the Emperor will not be happy if you protect the Crown Princess like this."
Zhao Huaiyan stared at him indifferently: "So what if you are unhappy?" Will he be removed from the crown prince?No, until the Xiong family's military power has not been taken back, and until the ambitious people in the court have not been dealt with, my position will remain stable.
Eunuch An knew his temper. Hearing this, he only glanced at Lin Jinhua quietly.
Lin Jinhua turned around to look at Zhao Huaiyan, and said with a smile, "Your Highness, you don't need to be angry, just treat it as if you bought two potted plants to enjoy in the house..."
"Since it's a potted plant, it should stay where the potted plant is." After Zhao Huaiyan finished speaking, she looked at her forced smile, and her eyes were soft: "Won'er not jealous?"
Lin Jinhua was dumbfounded, even if she was jealous, she couldn't say it in front of outsiders.
Eunuch An saw that he was determined, so he had no choice but to tell about the fact that the emperor had secretly met with King Xuan yesterday and left him in the palace: "Although I didn't hear what the emperor said to His Highness What did you say, but Princess Xuan seems to be very happy."
"There is only one thing that can make her so happy regardless of Concubine Li's decency to die." Lin Jinhua could guess.
Seeing that it was getting late, Eunuch An didn't stay any longer, he just said: "The emperor seems to have invited a Taoist alchemist into the palace recently, I don't know what it is for, but since seeing him, the emperor has been in good spirits every day. "
The light in Zhao Huaiyan's eyes was slightly cold, could it be that his father had also followed the old path of the emperors of the past, and began to pursue the technique of immortality?
After Eunuch An left, Zhao Huaiyan got up: "I'll go out for a while."
Lin Jinhua knew that he had to prepare some things. After all, he had become a prince now, so there must be a lot of troubles, and the emperor suddenly appointed a prince, which would definitely force Zhao Kan and the Southwest King to approach the capital quickly. too much……
Thinking of this, she felt uneasy, her power was not ready yet, and she could not compete with the emperor yet.
Thinking of this, after Zhao Huaiyan went out, she immediately prepared the carriage and went out.
in the city.
When Zheng Qiong saw her coming, she was no longer confined as before, but he only thought that he wanted to ask about the Sun family, and said: "Since what happened last time, Minister Sun has taken a long vacation at home for a month. He is transporting the belongings in the mansion out of the capital, and it seems that he wants to escape."
"He has long been unable to fly." Lin Jinhua didn't worry about Sun's family affairs for the time being, and only said, "What I asked my lord to prepare is what happened?"
Zheng Qiong remembered what she had said before, and said: "I have already discussed with Miss Moyue, it is unlikely to recruit people widely, but I heard that the princess has recruited a new group of people from Qingshan Village?" He had heard about the forced return to the capital.
Lin Jinhua smiled slightly: "Your Excellency, do you think Qingshanzhai can be used?"
"Although bandits are not as good as the regular army, they also have advantages that the regular army doesn't have, that is, they are flexible and have their own ideas, and can adapt to changes." Zheng Qiong said.
"My lord, are you going to Qingshan Village?"
"Well. I still want to go in the direction of the south of the Yangtze River. Isn't Master Xu just going to the south of the Yangtze River? With him, I can not only take care of them secretly, but also recruit many people who died due to the destruction of the Dashui family. They will be trained like bandits. The time spent by the regular army can still achieve better results." Zheng Qiong has been thinking about this for the past few days, and after deliberation, this method is the most reliable.
Lin Jinhua nodded: "Okay, I will arrange for the adults to leave the city in these two days."
The two talked about the details for a while, until Mo Yue came back from the outside.
"Did you get in touch with the boss?" Lin Jinhua asked seeing her running in a hurry.
Mo Yue's face was a little dignified, and she said: "The head of the family has disappeared. I heard from the people in the village that the head of the village has been saying that someone is watching him for the past two days. Until last night, after a fight broke out in his room, he was killed. missing."
Lin Jinhua's expression turned cold: "You take someone to look for it immediately, and you must save his life!"
Mo Yue nodded, and led the people out quickly without saying a word.
Lin Jinhua looked at the worried Zheng Qiong, and said, "Don't worry, my lord, your plan will definitely go ahead as usual." After finishing speaking, she said to Peanut, "Go find Zhang Xiaofang immediately and ask her to come to see Master Zheng. Mr. Zheng discusses."
Seeing the urgency of the situation, Peanut didn't dare to delay, so he went immediately.
Seeing that the arrangements were made, Lin Jinhua got into the carriage and went home.
But who wants to kill the master?Zhao Qing?Impossible, even if he survived by luck, he would not be able to kill him, but knowing that the only people around him who are in contact with the head of the family are these people around him, could it be that there is an inner ghost...
(End of this chapter)
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