Concubine Chongxi: Binding the Medicine Jar to the Master

Chapter 96 She Is Baili Xiao's Daughter
a few days later.

An oral order, summoning Baili Jiuge to go to Chonghua Hall, see Queen Yuan.

At that time, Baili Jiuge was cooking in the kitchen. Because he had to control the fire with a spoon, he had no time to talk to the servant who came to deliver the letter. He threw him an apple as a thank you, and sent him away.

During lunch, she and Mo Li mentioned the matter at the dinner table, and left Shizi Mansion in the afternoon, and entered the palace to go to Chonghua Hall.

In the streets and alleys, rumors of what happened a few days ago have already been circulated.The common people scolded Baili Qingping for being a fox and seducer, not afraid of being caught by the government, and even scolded Emperor Zhaoyi for being blind.

Baili Jiuge was naturally filled with righteous indignation, but she already knew who Yin Haoyi was, and she had already given up any hope for that person, so she didn't even bother to scold him.

After arriving at the Chonghua Palace, Baili Jiuge was led into the bedroom by the palace servants, and at a glance, he saw Empress Yuan lying on the couch, wearing only obscene clothes, her face and expression were pale and haggard, it was obvious that she had fallen ill.

Baili Jiuge quickly walked over, and at the same time, Empress Yuan waved her hand and screened away all the maidservants.

The doors and windows of the bedroom were all closed, making it a bit dark.Baili Jiuge raised his sleeves, wiped the sweat from Empress Yuan's forehead, held Empress Yuan's hand, and said distressedly: "Why did your mother fall ill? Is it because the environment in the prison is too bad, which has corroded your body?" ?”

Empress Yuan shook her head weakly, sighed, and said: "If only the body is corroded, then it will be fine. Now the heart is desolate, and I am so disappointed that I don't even have the strength to stand up."

Baili Jiuge felt the same way, and comforted him, "Don't think about it, empress, I'll send a maid to serve you, and I'll make you some cold soup to cool off the heat."

"No need." Empress Yuan squeezed Baili Jiuge's hand, lowered her voice, and said solemnly: "You stay here with me. There is Baili Qingping in Chonghua Palace. Bengong Can't believe them."

Baili Jiuge was startled, "What did you say, Ma'am?"

"It's absolutely true." Empress Yuan said in a low voice, "I've thought about it these past few days. If I can get my hands covered in arsenic without knowing it, and I can hide a puppet in my mattress, I'm sure I'm sure I'll be able to do it." It's a person close to me... but who it is, I don't know yet."

These words sounded extremely shocking, Baili Jiuge sweated secretly in his heart, thought for a while, and simply smiled: "Understood, then allow me to examine the empress's body, there is a genius doctor in the past few months Taught me some medical skills, very practical."

"Well, thank you very much."

"Where, you are welcome, empress!"

Baili Jiuge lightly raised the cuffs of Empress Yuan, and just felt her veins with her fingertips, before she could feel them carefully, but at this moment, she heard someone knock on the bedroom door.

The one speaking outside was the servant girl of the Chonghua Palace: "Your Majesty, the servant has something important to report, do you want to hear it now?"

Empress Yuan averted her eyes, remained alert, and said, "You can talk outside."

"Yes." The palace servant said: "It's Concubine Ping... Your Majesty took Concubine Ping out of the cold palace."

"What did you say?!" Even though Empress Yuan was used to seeing ups and downs at this moment, she still couldn't control her excitement, her body trembled violently, and she sat up.

Baili Jiuge quickly clenched Empress Yuan's hand, turned her head and said to the outside: "Isn't Concubine Ping thrown into limbo a few days ago? After committing so many crimes, why was it canceled in just a few days? !"

This oppressive anger made the servant girl tremble in fright, and replied falteringly: "Your servant, I don't know the details, it seems that... General Fengguo visited His Majesty in the imperial study and said something to His Majesty, and then Your Majesty Then in astonishment, he ordered that Concubine Fang Ping came out..."

is dad?A wave of disgust welled up in Baili Jiuge's heart.Why did Baili Yue have to personally bury a kind person like Hongxiao, and why did he go to great lengths to rescue Baili Qingping, who was so vicious? !
"Jiuge." Empress Yuan suddenly supported her shoulders and got off the phoenix.

"Young lady, you...?"

"Jiu Ge, come with me to the Imperial Study Room!" Empress Yuan dragged her sick body, and put on the phoenix robe with difficulty, "I want to hear with my own ears how the Great General Fengguo deceived His Majesty!"

Baili Jiuge nodded, supported Empress Yuan, opened the door for her, helped her all the way, brought a few maidservants, and went to the imperial study together.

Along the way, Empress Yuan staggered, her breathing was unsteady, but her steps were still fast, which made Baili Jiuge feel distressed.

After finally arriving at the Imperial Study Room, Empress Yuan deliberately stepped in without informing, and saw Baili Yue holding Baili Qingping's shoulders, crying so much.

"Qingping, I didn't tell you about this as my father. I didn't want you to be sad. But now, I have to let you recognize your ancestors. I am sorry for my elder brother, I am sorry for my brother and sister-in-law!"

Hearing these words, Baili Jiuge was unsure about what Baili Yue meant by this, what about recognizing his ancestors and returning to his clan, what about elder brothers and sisters-in-law.Isn't his elder brother and sister-in-law Baili Xiao and Mrs. Yueyue? What does this have to do with Baili Qingping...

Is it? !
A terrifying thought struck Baili Jiuge, and she looked at Empress Yuan in astonishment.

Seeing that Empress Yuan was also full of astonishment, she rushed into the imperial study and asked sharply, "General Baili, what did you mean by what you said just now?!"

Unexpectedly, Empress Yuan appeared suddenly, Baili was startled for a while, hid the jealousy in his brows and eyes, saluted, and said respectfully: "Returning to Empress Empress, Qingping is actually... the daughter of Brother Weichen and his sister-in-law. .”

Empress Yuan asked in disbelief: "Back then Mrs. Yuyue had dystocia, and both mother and daughter died. Everyone knew about it. Besides, if Mrs. Yuyue's daughter was alive, it would be this year, but Concubine Ping is over nineteen years old. General, please be careful with your words and deeds!"

Baili Yue quickly explained: "Queen Empress, calm down. I have just told Your Majesty that my brother and sister-in-law had dystocia and hemorrhage, but my daughter was fine. Before she died, her brother and sister-in-law adopted her daughter under the knee of this minister, and ordered Weichen, don't tell her about this. Later, Weichen was afraid that Qingping would be hurt if the news leaked, so he deliberately found a dead baby to replace him, and asked Zhao Qian to keep his mouth shut, claiming that Qingping was born in the year of Xinsi, not the year of Renwu .”

As he spoke, he knelt on the ground, "The emperor and the empress just punished the crime of the minister. It's just that Qingping is just a poor child. Please the emperor and the empress take care of the deceased brother of the minister. Come on, forgive Qingping this time!"

Seeing Baili Yue's earth-moving appearance, Baili Jiuge was speechless, and the feeling of desolation in her heart swallowed her deeply.

This is her father, no matter what he said is true or not, his attitude towards his daughters is very different, which really makes her feel chilling.

Baili Qingping staggered to help Baili Yue up, crying like pear blossoms and rain: "Daddy, my daughter really doesn't know about this thing, and my daughter really doesn't know how to repay Daddy's kindness to her in nurturing her. My daughter's biological father turned out to be Baili Xiao, the former God of War of my great merchant, and your closest brother..."

She knelt on the ground suddenly, and begged Yin Haoyi in a delicate cry: "Your Majesty, please don't punish Daddy. Daddy did this for the sake of my concubine and her biological father! The military camp rescued His Majesty desperately, please see this loyalty and courage, please spare the concubine's father! The concubine is willing to take the punishment on behalf of the father!"

"No, no! Qingping, you silly child, even if you are broken into pieces for your father, you can't let you have trouble. Otherwise, how can you be worthy of the souls of your brother and sister-in-law?"

"Daddy, daddy! Daughter doesn't want anything to happen to daddy, daughter doesn't want it!"

"..."

Seeing the father and daughter kowtowing continuously, a scene of high emotions and righteousness, Baili Jiuge looked away and didn't want to look at it anymore.At this moment, he only thought that he was a stranger to them, and had nothing to do with them.

Yin Haoyi finally spoke slowly: "You all get up."

The two were still crying together, clinging miserably to the ground.

"Aiqing, Aifei, get up quickly." Yin Haoyi's tone was a bit strange, as if covered in a strange fog, and there was no trace of smell.

"I... pardon you both of your innocence!"

Hearing this, the two of them froze in place happily, and then hastily kowtowed to thank each other, tears of joy streaming down their cheeks.The father and daughter even hugged each other emotionally and comforted each other.

In contrast, it was Baili Jiuge's desolation in his heart, and Empress Yuan's expression as cold as a pool of ice.

"Jiu Ge, let's go." Empress Yuan whispered softly, her tone like white water.

She looked at Yin Haoyi, blessed her body slowly, and walked out of the imperial study room with the support of Baili Jiuge without saying a word.

The four corners of the sky outside are so blue that water can drip out, and the clouds are so white that they can turn into snow. The bright sun seems to illuminate every dark place under the sky.

But the two of them just looked at each other at the same time, the corners of their lips and the bottom of their eyes outlined a temperature that was colder than winter, and their whole bodies were immersed in the ice and snow, which was thoroughly chilled.

Empress Yuan suddenly raised her head to face the sun, and said with a sad smile: "When a country is about to perish, there must be evildoers. It turns out that this evildoer is not someone else, but a treacherous concubine. Great merchants, the country will not be far away!"

At this moment, Baili Jiuge remembered what Yin Liehuo once said - "If he can be close to virtuous ministers and keep away from treacherous sycophants, why should this great businessman need his father's bitter advice! That tyrannical and fatuous king with no big heart is nothing but silk A piece of paper, if this goes on like this, one day he will end up decapitated and separated from his family! I am afraid that even the foundation of the ancestors will be destroyed in his hands, and the eternal infamy is not an exaggeration!"

But after thinking about it, she lowered her voice and said: "In the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, there are still quite a few people who serve the country and the people like Yin Zuoxiang. I don't believe they are indifferent."

Empress Yuan sneered: "It's not that they are indifferent, but it's just a drop in the bucket. It's completely useless. Jiuge, think about it carefully, how could the harem witchcraft matter be a petty trick. Baili Qingping can make such a big move, it must be behind the scenes. There are extremely prominent people supporting her, not Baili Yue, then someone else."

Someone else?Who could have such huge financial resources and contacts, and actually invited the wizards from Xiang Kingdom to bring down the Empress Yuan?And certainly more than one wizard!
The whole body seems to be shrouded in a cloud of haze, Baili Jiuge clenched his fists, and one can imagine how empress Yuan is walking on thin ice in this palace, trying her best to support Guotai Min'an, and at the same time, she has to fight in the open and in secret. Mediation, dignified but strong standing.It is very precious for Dashang to have such a queen who understands righteousness, loyalty and courage, but it is a pity that Yin Haoyi is terminally ill, Baili Jiuge feels that it is not worth it.

Later, he left a few prescriptions for health care for Empress Yuan, and Baili Jiuge left the palace and went out through the West Palace Gate.

She had just bid farewell to the maid in charge of sending her out of the palace, and in a blink of an eye, she saw several blood-red flowers flying past her eyes.

The flying lines of the flowers are smooth and beautiful, almost not like being blown by the wind, but rather like a "leaf picking and flying flowers" in martial arts.

Baili Jiuge approached those flowers subconsciously, picked up one and put it in the palm of his hand.

This flower... why do you think you have never seen it before?

Originally, there were very few flowers with the color of blood, but this flower looked like a pear blossom...

Wait a minute, Lihua?Bloody pear blossoms?

Baili Jiuge immediately understood.

The blood pear flower is the symbol of "Pear Blossom Witch", one of the seven places in the Valley of Flowers.According to what Mo Li said, the Lihua witch is a witch of the Bailuo Shengjiao in Xiangguo, and it is well known in the world that her martial arts are unpredictable, and she can only hurt people with a flick of a finger.So this time, the Pear Blossom Witch is using the Blood Pear Blossom to lead the way and call her to meet her in the past?

Since it was an appointment with people from Qihua Valley, Baili Jiuge was going to attend the appointment. Looking forward, I saw blood pear blossoms one after another, fluttering on the long street, like a butterfly leading the way. fly.

Baili Jiuge quickly jumped up, performed lightness kung fu, and followed quickly.

After chasing this way for a long time, even chasing after the west city gate, at the Xijiang in the western suburbs, those flying blood pear blossoms slowly fell, scattered on the ground, paving the landscape.

Looking along the stretch of flowers, the line of sight is drawn to the Wangjiang Pavilion on the bank of the West River.

Under the pavilion, a slender snow-white figure stood faintly.The wind blew up the white sleeves, dyeing the sky blurred.I don't know the feeling of tonight and what night, so Baili Jiuge's breathing tightened, only feeling that the figure was just like the thin smoke after the rain, and the wind blows away.

She walked into the Wangjiang Pavilion with strides, and greeted her loudly: "Is it the Pear Blossom Witch? Since you called me over, you must know that I am Heifeng. But who told you my secular identity?" where?"

"...Your senior brother, Gu Yan." This clean and pure voice was too ethereal, as ethereal as smoke.

The Pear Blossom Witch turned around and looked over.A veil printed with a few blood pear flowers covered her face, and all Baili Jiuge could see was her ethereal eyes.A mole of tears is dangerously dotted under the corner of the eye, and the whole person is somewhat alienated, somewhat ethereal, obviously close at hand, but seems to be separated by thousands of rivers and mountains.

Baili Jiuge said with a smile: "It turns out that you met Gu Yan in Zhongshan, so you must have met Xiao Siming too. By the way, you came to Dashang from Hunan, what are you going to do, why are you looking for me? "

The pear flower witch whispered softly: "It is the mission given to me by the master of the country to capture a group of escaped prisoners. They... are members of the Black Luo Sect. I have been chasing them for a long time. Here, the female relatives contracted a strange disease... I know they did it, and I can feel that they are still in the capital. So, I want to ask you to help us deal with them together."

Just right!Baili Jiuge is also very clear that only by capturing those people, can he approach the Yinyang family through them, and also see which high-ranking officials in Chaodu City are backing them.

"Okay, Pear Blossom Witch, don't worry, I will spare no effort to help with this matter!" After speaking, another question came to mind, and he hurriedly asked, "But what if there are too many of them and we can't catch them back?"

The Pear Blossom Witch said quietly: "One is enough to survive, and those who cannot be caught...kill."

Under my heart, I couldn't help but shudder, I just felt that when such an ethereal and ethereal person said the word "kill", it was too ruthless and casual.Forget it, the people in Qihua Valley are cold-blooded and cruel, some are old-fashioned and warm-hearted, and there are many good and bad people who are good and evil.As long as he knows that the pear blossom witch is one of his own people, he doesn't care about anything else.

So he nodded and agreed, and told Lihua Wu the whole process of witchcraft in the palace a few days ago.

When twilight fell, the two of them sneaked back to the imperial capital together, and spent the night in the shop of the owner of Mipu on Nanshidao Street.Baili Jiuge asked someone to deliver a letter to Mo Li, and he had something to do tonight, and then he asked the brothers of the Beggar Sect to help investigate where the black Luo Sacred wizards were hiding.

It's late at night, and the capital is lit up.

The night wind was already a little bit cool, blowing into the courtyard wall of the Shizi Mansion, blowing across the courtyard full of epiphyllum, gently lifting the feathers under the crane cloak of the qin player, rolling up petals like snow and flying in the air. The corner of his clothes, caressing and staying there, is filled with the faint fragrance of the moon, elegant and seductive.

A black shadow suddenly appeared beside the qin, and Yuying looked at the note on the corner of the qin table. On it, the six words "I have something to do tonight" were written freely and straightforwardly, and they were naturally handwritten by Baili Jiuge.

Mo Li played the piano with ten fingers, and asked lightly: "Today you are secretly protecting Jiu Ge, and she is in the palace, so it's safe to assume that nothing happened."

Yuying replied: "The concubine is fine, but Baili Yue entered the palace and claimed that Baili Qingping was the daughter of Baili Xiao and Mrs. Yuyue. Emperor Zhaoyi then pardoned Baili Qingping."

"Well..." Mo Li responded lightly, "Ziqian told me about this when he came to see me in the afternoon." He asked, "You returned home very late. If you think about it, Jiuge is too busy late."

Mikage whispered in a deep voice, "It's the Pear Blossom Witch."

"Her?" The hand playing the qin stopped slowly, making a series of concluding notes, her moon-like eyes were slightly bright, she looked at Yufeng, and said lightly: "Witch Lihua is a member of the state teacher of Hunan, and she is here to court the capital." , I must have followed the order of the Xiang Guo Guoshi."

"Exactly." Yuying then relayed the conversation between Baili Jiuge and Lihua Wu to Mo Li. After finishing speaking, after deliberating for a while, she finally added a sentence: "The imperial concubine is so active, it has something to do with Your Highness." .”

"I know." Mo Li replied in a clear and shallow manner, which seemed to be full of exclamation.

He got up slowly, and the epiphyllum flowers on the crane cloak were in full bloom, blooming like snow, and said to Yuying: "The Lihua witch is good at divination and prophecy, and knows the art of black and yellow. During these days, you should not protect Jiuge secretly, lest you be caught by Lihua. Wu noticed that something was wrong. On the other hand, Mo Yi has been hiding in the court capital like a duck to water recently, so if you go to see what he needs help, you will help him with all your strength."

"Yes." Mikage clasped her hands together, like black smoke, instantly blending into the boundless night...

(End of this chapter)