slave like jade

Chapter 166 The Mystery of the Assassination
Empress Xie took the detoxification medicine, and the heart-piercing pain did not reappear. When everyone was happy for her, she suddenly vomited blood.

The sudden change shocked everyone present, and Mrs. Yiqing's face changed drastically, she jumped in front of the queen, grabbed her pulse and concentrated on checking.

Seeing that the queen vomited blood suddenly, King Liang rushed to the bed in fright, and shouted at Master Yiqing sharply: "What's wrong with the queen? Can't it be detoxified? Why did you suddenly become like this?"

Mu Lingzhi and the prince rushed forward anxiously and asked Yiqing what happened?But no matter how anxious everyone was, Mrs. Yiqing gritted her teeth calmly and concentrated on feeling the queen's pulse without saying a word.

During this period, Empress Xie vomited several mouthfuls of dirty blood. Everyone was not only frightened by her description, but also frightened by the blood she spit out——

Ordinary people's blood is bright red, but Empress Xie's spit out is black and purple, the color is appalling, and it also has an extremely unpleasant fishy smell, which makes people sick, and even makes people feel sick. People are dizzy.

But Empress Xie vomited to the end, she passed out directly.

As a result, Liang Wang and the crowd were even more frightened, thinking that the queen had just died.Liang Wang was furious, and was about to have Mrs. Yiqing dragged down and beheaded, but Yiqing herself had already spoken.

Contrary to the anxiety on everyone's faces, after checking the empress' pulse, she breathed a sigh of relief, and turned her head to the sad and indignant King Liang, "Congratulations, Your Majesty, the poison on your empress has been completely cured."

Liang Wang was stunned, Mu Lingzhi and Xiaodao were also full of doubts, and Yu Mingzhu and Mu Ziyue, who almost thought they were going to pay for their lives for the queen, were puzzled but also happy when they heard Yiqing's words. .

Mu Ziyue firmly believed in her master's medical skills, she said that if there is nothing wrong, it must be nothing wrong.

Among the crowd, only Yu Ruyan showed a puzzled expression, she could not help frowning as she stared at the black and purple blood spewed out by Empress Xie——

This color of dirty blood and this unpleasant smell seemed familiar to her, as if she had seen and smelled it before, but she couldn't remember it for a while.

Facing everyone's doubts, Mrs. Yiqing explained: "Your Majesty, don't worry, what the empress vomits out is only the toxins accumulated in the body for many years. Now, the toxins in the body have been completely cleaned up by the blood of the jade girl. You just need to rest for a while and you will wake up." of."

Hearing this, Liang Wang and all the talents came to their senses, and they couldn't help looking at the jade pearl beside them in amazement.

Although everyone has seen the magic of the "Jade Girl" blood at the empress's conferring ceremony last time, now that the poison that has plagued Empress Xie for many years has been released, everyone looks at Yu Mingzhu as if they were looking at a living god surprise.

Mrs. Yiqing's eyes lightly swept over Yu Ruyan who was sluggish at the side, and finally stopped on the proud Yu Mingzhu, and said in a proud tone: "The blood of the eldest princess is really the most precious thing in the world, it's amazing!"

After Liang Wang stepped forward to check Empress Xie's breath, he found that it was exactly as Mrs. Yiqing said, her breath had completely calmed down, and her face had returned to a ruddy complexion. The three of Yiqing were rewarded.

After a while, Empress Xie woke up leisurely, feeling that she was non-toxic and light, and she was very happy in her heart. She pulled Yu Mingzhu to her bedside, touched her hand and praised her, reluctant to let her go anymore, and forced her He wanted to keep her in the palace until the day when she formally married the eldest prince Mu Yunzhi next month, as if he regarded her as his own daughter and wanted to keep her in the palace to be married.

But Queen Xie's enthusiasm made Yu Mingzhu feel timid. She knew who the real jade girl was, so she asked the queen to let Mu Ziyue and Yiqing stay behind Accompany yourself, Queen Xie agreed.

King Liang was in a good mood, and the disaster situation in the south was also brought under control, and soon the crown prince would formally confer the seal, and everything went smoothly, so he gave an order to hold a banquet at Yaohua Palace tonight to celebrate for the queen.

Back at Chaoyang Palace, Yu Ruyan thought about it secretly, seeing that it was getting late, and thinking about the palace banquet tonight, she was really troubled.

Mu Lingzhi went to the former court to discuss matters, and Yu Ruyan was about to leave the palace alone to return to the other garden, but she ran into Aunt Qin at the door.

Aunt Qin was holding a set of imperial concubine-colored skirts in her hand, Yu Ruyan was startled, staring at her blankly, not understanding what she meant.

Seeing that she was about to go out of the palace, Aunt Qin understood her embarrassment in her heart, she couldn't help but sighed: "Today is a happy day for the empress, your majesty has ordered the palace to be celebrated, since the concubine is in the palace, if this Wouldn't it be a gossip if you leave at the right time?"

Yu Ruyan has a good impression of this old aunt in the palace in front of her. She feels that although she is serious and informal, she is very measured in her dealings with others. She is polite and rude to her on the surface, but secretly takes care of her a lot. If she hadn't pleaded for him in front of the empress this morning, I'm afraid it would not be easy for him to pass the empress' test.

Thinking of this, she didn't hide her inner thoughts from Aunt Qin, and said bitterly: "Auntie has also heard that people in Daliang now regard me as an evil star, an ominous person born without tears. So on such a happy day, my appearance It will only make the empress unhappy, and it will spoil everyone's happiness, so..."

"The princess is wrong, the empress specially ordered the old servant to keep the princess and attend the banquet at night."

Aunt Qin gave the clothes in her hand to Yu Ruyan with a smile, and said: "This is the dress that His Highness asked the old servant to prepare for the banquet for the princess. I hope it will suit the princess's wishes."

Hearing this, Yu Ruyan was stunned. She never expected that the empress who hated her would specially ask Aunt Qin to inform her to attend the banquet, nor did she expect that Mu Lingzhi would considerately think that she did not bring a dress into the palace, and that her body His clothes were already a bit embarrassed by the blood swallows in the morning, and the tossing with him on the bed before was even more wrinkled. If he attended the banquet like this, he would indeed lose his manners and make people laugh.

She took the dress and thanked Aunt Qin. Qin's mother pointed to the two little maids who came in with her and said: "Chaoyang Palace only has a few rough maids to order, and this old slave specially selected two smart girls The girls serve the princess, and they are called Chunhua and Qiuyue. Don’t worry, they were chosen by the old slaves for the princess. The queen doesn’t know, and the princess can order them with confidence.”

Aunt Qin's straightforward and frank words surprised Yu Ruyan, she was the Queen's person, but behind the Queen's back she chose a girl to serve her, it really surprised her.

But after thinking about it, she knew everything about herself and the queen, so she also knew that if the queen sent someone, she would definitely be worried, so why not explain it directly, so as to save her from guessing and worrying.

After Aunt Qin left, Yu Ruyan took a bath and changed clothes under the service of Chunhua Qiuyue. After finishing everything, it was time to light the lanterns, and the palace banquet in Yaohua Palace almost started.

When they came to Yaohua Palace, Yu Ruyan went in to say congratulations to Empress Xie and toast her wine, and then quit. She knew that Empress Xie allowed her to attend the banquet as a show for Mu Lingzhi, so she would not be ignorant Really just sit in front of the queen all night, making her worry.

Furthermore, the protagonists of the banquet tonight are Empress Xie and Yu Mingzhu. Seeing that Yu Mingzhu is loved by everyone, and because of the Qin Xianglou incident, being looked at by everyone as a suspect, I feel really uncomfortable, so I feel more comfortable leaving the banquet .

The Imperial Palace in Daliang is very large, and she is not familiar with other places except Chaoyang Palace. Although there are two court ladies Chunhua and Qiuyue by her side, she is not worried about getting lost, but with her current mood, she has no intention of visiting Daliang Palace at night. He led Chunhua and Qiuyue back to Chaoyang Palace.

Kankan walked halfway, and met a person head-on, Yu Ruyan was thinking all the way and didn't pay attention to the person coming from the opposite side, but the person who came from the opposite side exclaimed, and the next moment he knelt in front of Yu Ruyan.

Yu Ruyan was almost frightened by that exclamation, she stared at it, and when she saw the person kneeling in front of her clearly with the palace lantern in the maid's hand, she was shocked——

The one kneeling in front of her was none other than Chen Yanfei who had not been released from the palace for a long time!

I haven't seen him for a few days, but Chen Yanfei is well-raised, his face has returned to its usual color, it is no longer as yellow, thin, and ugly as when he came out of the handyman's room, his cheeks are plump and rosy, and his eyes have returned to their usual radiance, kneeling on the ground Greetings to Yu Ruyan with sincerity and fear.

Yu Ruyan never expected to meet her in the palace, she couldn't help but frowned and asked in surprise, "Why are you in the palace? Where's Mama Chen?"

Chen Yanfei knelt down in front of her respectfully, never daring to look up at her, and said in a soft voice: "If you go back to the princess, because the servant's father is working in the East Palace, the crown prince takes pity on our family, so I let my mother and I come into the palace together. , slave girl... slave girl is now doing errands in the East Palace..."

Hearing this, Yu Ruyan was puzzled for a moment.

In her impression, Chen Yanfei was not such a person who could easily change her mind. Thinking of her madness towards Mu Lingzhi before, in order to become his woman, she would do everything possible to get in the position.After the incident was revealed, she remained stubborn, possessive very strong, and had an inexplicable strong jealousy towards her, but now she is willing to be a little maid in the Prince's East Palace, which is really unbelievable.

So Yu Ruyan didn't believe her. She turned her eyes and thought of a possibility. She couldn't help but coldly said: "If you still don't give up on His Highness and want to come to the palace to pester him, I advise you to save your mind and do it again next time." If it falls into my hands, I won’t be as merciful as before.”

After all, I was too lazy to talk to her any more, and led Chunhua and Qiuyue away.

Chen Yanfei, who was kneeling on the ground, kept his head down all the time, a cold light flashed in his half-closed eyes.

Seeing that Yu Ruyan was about to leave, she raised her head halfway, looked around, and suddenly a small stone rolled to her feet, her whole body was shaken, but in the next second she immediately turned around to catch up with Yu Ruyan, and said earnestly: "Princess, you really wronged me. I entered the palace... I did not enter the palace to pester His Highness, but to have something to hide!"

Yu Ruyan didn't want to talk to her anymore, walked straight forward, and said coldly: "Whether your words are true or not, I just tell you one thing - cherish the life you have now, don't cause trouble anymore. Because you don't have the ability to protect yourself You will bear the consequences for what you do, and in the end, your parents will be involved in your aftermath. I tell you this because I feel sorry for Uncle Chen and Mother Chen. As for whether you can listen to your heart, it is also your own business!"

After all, she didn't want to say anything more to her, but Chen Yanfei jumped in front of her to block her way out, gritted her teeth and said: "I know that the princess is doing it for my own good, and it is also for the good of my family, so something happened today I don't feel uncomfortable, and I want to use this matter to express my heart to the princess, to see if I have really put down His Highness!"

Seeing her serious face, Yu Ruyan was curious, she stopped and looked at her steadily, and said, "What's the matter?"

Chen Yanfei looked at Chunhua and Qiuyue, and said solemnly: "Princess, this matter is of great importance, and please stay away!"

As soon as she heard that she was about to back off, doubts flashed in Yu Ruyan's heart, and she said coldly: "Stop pretending to be a ghost, just talk about something, or don't talk about it, I'm not interested in your business."

Seeing that Yu Ruyan was about to leave again, Chen Yanfei hurriedly said: "Princess, it's about...about the person you saved...that person three years ago!"

Yu Ruyan's whole body was shocked, she turned her head to look at Chen Yanfei's flickering uneasy expression, and seeing her nervously looking at the two maids beside her, she immediately understood that what she was going to talk about was about saving Xiaodao three years ago.

Frowning and looking at Chen Yanfei, Yu Ruyan fell into doubt——

It is not a secret that she rescued Xiaodao herself. Now both King Liang and the Empress know about it, and it is a good thing for her, and there is nothing that cannot be said to others. Another thing came to mind-

After Xiao Dao regained his memory, he once mentioned to her the tragic assassination three years ago. For so many years, the Ministry of Criminal Justice has been tracing the identity and whereabouts of those assassins, but they have found nothing.

Could it be that what Chen Yanfei wanted to tell him was about the group of assassins who killed the knife?
But, what does this have to do with her wanting to prove that she has let go of Mu Lingzhi?
Is it—

Yu Ruyan's thoughts turned extremely fast, but in an instant she thought of a possibility, and cold sweat broke out all over her body without warning.She couldn't help but shook her head and dismissed the possibility in her mind——

Impossible, absolutely impossible!
She waved her hands to make the two maids retreat, and said coldly, "Now can you talk?"

A fierce cold light flashed in Chen Yanfei's half-closed eyes, and when she raised her head again, her face was full of panic. She carefully looked around in fear and worry, and said cautiously, "Princess, today's matter , It’s just you and I know, don’t let the third person know.”

"Say!"

Yu Ruyan's expression was icy cold, but her heart became inexplicably flustered.

Chen Yanfei looked at the panic in her eyes, smiled triumphantly, and said: "The princess saved the crown prince in Daqi three years ago, she must have known that he lost his memory after being assassinated and ended up in Daqi. But the princess knows how to assassinate him Who is it?"

Seeing that what she said was exactly as she expected, Yu Ruyan's heart sank even more, the panic in her heart became more and more serious, and she said coldly: "You know?"

"Yes, I know!" Chen Yanfei's tone sounded terrified, but there was an imperceptible color in it.

"who is it?"

There were 1 voices in her heart telling Yu Ruyan, don't believe Chen Yanfei's words, but she seemed to be under a spell, and asked out involuntarily.

Chen Yanfei smiled coldly, and said, "If I say that the person who assassinated the Eighth Prince was the Third Prince, would the princess believe it?"

With a sound of "Bada", Yu Ruyan was so shocked that she stepped back several steps, and broke the dead branches on the ground with her foot.

The premonition in her heart guessed again, Yu Ruyan was so terrified that she couldn't be more frightened, she felt that her heart was about to stop beating, but she didn't want to believe what she heard.

Trying to calm down the excitement in her heart, she pointed at Chen Yanfei and said coldly: "You are talking nonsense, how could the person who assassinated the knife be His Highness? His Highness has always loved him very much!"

Immediately afterwards, she stared fiercely at the frightened Chen Yanfei in front of her, gritted her teeth and said, "There's a lot of nonsense, I shouldn't have stayed here to listen to your nonsense, let me tell you, if there is a person in this world who doesn't If it hurts Xiaodao, then it is His Highness the Third Highness. He will never harm him, only protect him!"

After finishing speaking, she flung her sleeves away, but after taking a few steps, she turned back and sternly said to Chen Yanfei: "I warn you, if even a word of this word gets out today, even Immortal Da Luo will not be able to save your dog's life!"

"Wouldn't it be too arbitrary for the concubine to deny all of this before she finished listening?" Chen Yanfei didn't care about Yu Ruyan's threat, with an unusually calm expression, looking coldly at Yu Ruyan who was pale under the moonlight , I feel very happy!

"Although I'm not as smart as the concubine, I also know what to say and what not to say. If there is no real evidence for such a big matter, how dare I speak out. Wouldn't it be self-destruction?"

After hearing her words, Yu Ruyan's whole body went numb, she stared at her blankly, but couldn't refute with a single word.

But Chen Yanfei started talking on his own——

"Three years ago, the prince at that time was gifted and intelligent, and was bestowed by His Majesty with the Dragon Singing Sword representing the identity of the prince. In order to increase his knowledge and broaden his horizons, the emperor asked him to visit in disguise and study everywhere!"

"Originally, the prince's travel route was kept extremely secret. Few people knew about it. It was to prevent the assassination by unruly people. But unexpectedly, the prince was assassinated on the way to Hengzhou. The assassins were not only numerous, but surrounded In the end, a large amount of gunpowder was planted in the place where the prince stopped to rest... So, in the end, all the guards around the prince were killed, and the prince almost died on the spot..."

"It is reported that the only ones who knew the prince's path at that time were the emperor and his highness, and every path the prince walked, where to rest was arranged by the third highness for him in advance, so, besides him, who else can do such a thing?" Careful arrangement?"

"Is this the evidence you said?" Hearing this, Yu Ruyan's heart fell to the ground instead, and she sneered coldly: "Is it you who are too stupid or think His Highness is too stupid? The route is his Arranged for the prince, if he relies on the route to assassinate, isn't it too stupid? He is so smart, doesn't he know how to avoid suspicion?"

"Oh!" Chen Yanfei smiled indifferently to Yu Ruyan's rebuttal, and she said coldly: "Hasn't the princess heard of doing the opposite? Your Highness is indeed smart, and smart to the extreme. It is because The route is all arranged by him, and he is still the prince's real brother, so even if someone suspects him, they will think like the princess, thinking that he will not do it so obviously, so everyone treats him like the princess. Thinking about him with a mentality, you will naturally believe that he will not be so stupid as to do it so obviously, and you will also believe that he is not the mastermind behind the scenes!"

The cold wind of early winter blew fiercely, and it seemed to break off the branches on the side, making a slight 'click' sound.

Yu Ruyan's whole body fell into an ice cave, she leaned against the rockery behind her weakly, and said in a daze, "I don't believe it, no matter what, I won't believe it, Ling Zhi is not such a person, he has no reason to hurt Xiaodao..."

Seeing that Yu Ruyan still refused to believe it, Chen Yanfei's eyes drifted to Cong Lin who was at the side, he sighed helplessly, hesitated for a moment, and finally took out a piece of paper from his body and handed it to Yu Ruyan.

"Princess, take a look with your own eyes, and see that this is the handwriting and painting of His Highness the Third Highness! This road map was drawn by him for his hidden guards, and His Majesty must still have a copy of the same road map." If the princess doesn't believe it, you can compare it with His Majesty's to see if it's exactly the same!"

With trembling hands, Yu Ruyan opened the thing in her hands. Looking at it under the moonlight, it was indeed a delicately depicted road map. Although it was impossible to confirm whether the map was drawn by Mu Lingzhi, the font of the place names written on it was like that of Yu Ruyan. But Yan was very familiar, it was Mu Lingzhi's word!
As if struck by lightning all over her body, Yu Ruyan opened her mouth stupidly several times before making a sound, she tremblingly said: "I...I still don't believe that Ling Zhi has no reason to do such a thing to Xiaodao, he is his own brother, There's no grudge between them at all..."

"What if it's because of the Dragon Chanting Sword, or in other words, the crown prince represented by the Dragon Chanting Sword?" Seeing Yu Ruyan's frightened and desperate look, Chen Yanfei's heart was overwhelmed with pleasure, and his face was distorted with joy, There was a voice in her heart clamoring crazily, she wanted revenge, she wanted the woman in front of her to die—a terrible death!
However, Yu Ruyan was caught up in the terrible things she said, and didn't notice the color on her face at all. She murmured like a nightmare: "No, Ling Zhi doesn't want to be the crown prince, he just wants to support Xiao Dao to become the crown prince." , and then he can take me away from Daliang and everything here, how could he assassinate and murder his younger brother just because he was fighting for the throne?"

Hearing the phrase 'Take me away from Daliang', Chen Yanfei felt a surge of hatred again, she sneered and said: "Maybe the princess doesn't know, but before getting to know you, His Highness was very keen on the position of prince, controlling the military power is not the right thing to do." He secretly cultivated many forces. However, he changed his mind because of you and used the power he cultivated over the years to support the crown prince. Among them, there may be some guilt he felt for what the crown prince did back then!"

Chen Yanfei's words struck Yu Ruyan's heart like thunderbolts, she panicked and frightened, she didn't want to admit this fact, but the road map in her hand was solid evidence, and everything Chen Yanfei said was well-founded, and immediately , it was like a boulder was pressing on her heart, making her breathless——

If, if all this was true, what would she do?
What about the knife?
Is she going to hide the knife for Mu Lingzhi?
Tangled in pain in her heart, she suddenly thought of something, looked up at Chen Yanfei suspiciously and asked, "Where did you get this blueprint? How could it be in your hands?"

Chen Yanfei smiled slowly, and said triumphantly: "A few days ago, didn't five secret guards in the palace were brutally murdered while protecting the princess, and one of them was the person who was ordered to lead the team to assassinate the prince. How many copies did he have with my father? Friendship, my father accidentally discovered it when he was helping him clean up the relics..."

'collapse! 'The last string in Yu Ruyan's heart was also broken, she couldn't hold on any longer, and fell powerlessly to the ground!
(End of this chapter)