The Zhao family sent over to confirm the evidence that Rong Qingyu had been buried in the shipwreck - a tattered little brocade robe, Zhao Ziye, who had been crying for several days because of the disappearance of his young son, did not have a single tear.

She asked someone to bring a nurse with a large salary, took out her clothes, and asked the nurse to confirm it.

The nurse carefully looked at the stitches, and tears fell: "This is indeed the dress that the prince wore that day, this dress was made by the slave maid herself, and I remember every stitch and thread very clearly!"

As he spoke, he covered his mouth and cried suppressedly.

Aunt Zhao hurriedly asked someone to take her out, so as not to recruit Zhao Ziye.

However, Zhao Ziye just looked at the little clothes on his knees indifferently, with no expression on his face, only a pair of eyes that were uncertain, and he couldn't see his thoughts.

After a long while, she asked in a dumb voice, "The prince is out, isn't he? When he comes back, ask someone to talk to him and ask him to come over, I have something to discuss with him." ”

In fact, King Gaomi has been living on the princess's side for the past few days, and he has many heirs under his knees at this time, and the number of children has added up to almost twenty, but the descendants are different...... Regardless of whether he really values his concubine so much in his heart, he also has to show this attitude towards the Zhao family.

At this point, King Gaomi has never been confused.

Therefore, knowing that after Rong Qingyu disappeared, in addition to the political affairs that he had to be busy, King Gaomi guarded the princess almost every step of the way, just for fear that Zhao Ziye would make a mistake.

After coming back this day, I heard about it, and the footsteps that I was going to go to the study suddenly turned around, and I went directly to Zhao Ziye's courtyard.

Zhao Ziye prepared some side dishes and waited here, as well as a pot of wine.

When King Gaomi entered the door, he saw his wife, who had never drunk before, sipping slowly with a small cup, and when he lowered his eyes, the look of no sadness and joy to numb made him suffocated, and he paused before walking in, and advised: "We still have Qingjiu, Qingdrunk, Qingfanghui and them, and the remuneration is you and my own son, and the blessing is profound, even if you are out, it may not be a good child." ”

Zhao Ziye didn't answer immediately, and after drinking the wine in the cup, he said in a boring tone: "Just now, someone from my mother's family came and told me a message." ”

King Gaomi asked puzzledly, "What?"

"The whereabouts of Qingfu have not been found, but who harmed Qingfu already has an eyebrow. Zhao Ziye looked at him, there was no sound of crying, but tears poured out, soaking the whole face, but her tone was still calm as if nothing had happened, "It was the concubine, and the side concubine did it." ”

"......" King Gaomi was at a loss for a moment, was he shocked by the sudden news, and he didn't know what to do?

After a while, he said in a hoarse voice, "It's a big matter, but there is evidence?" It's not that I suspect the Yue family, it's just that the Meng family is very ambitious, so maybe they won't take this opportunity to sow discord from it?"

Zhao Ziye said lightly: "I can't think of this at home?"

Hearing that she believed this statement, King Gaomi thought about it quickly, and said in a low voice: "Mi Xue, it's not me who helps the concubine speak, but the concubine is all the grandmother of Qingyu, even if she has been coaxed by the Mo family a little confused over the years, she will not say that she has poisoned her own grandson! ”

Zhao Ziye didn't answer this, only said, "What are you going to do?"

"The concubine is old, and many things are powerless. King Gaomi looked at her, was silent for a while, and said, "Let her live and retire in the harem in the future, and we don't have to bother if it is not necessary!"

This is to knock on Concubine Mo, so that the concubine will stop pointing fingers at the affairs of the palace in the future, and the palace will no longer inquire about the princess diligently, at most to ensure her safety and the treatment that a concubine should have in the palace.

As for Concubine Mo, King Gaomi's face turned cold, and he said in a cold voice, "This cheap maid was coaxing her mother to help back then, and she used extremely obscene means to enter the mansion! If it weren't for the sake of the concubine and your generosity over the years, where would there be a place for her in this mansion? ! I didn't think that the cheap maid was not only grateful, but had the intention of murdering her sister-in-law! How could such a thing still be kept?!"

Spit out, he simply said neatly, "Stick to death, just say to the outside world that you are dead!"

Zhao Ziye hoarsely said: "I don't want to see her in the mansion again! However, if the cane is killed, not to mention how can the concubine bear it if she knows? The concubine has always treated her as her own daughter! What should I do if she has a few children under her knees? Do you expect me to have to raise her children for her without my own children? She is a side concubine, and she can't ask the concubine to raise her flesh and blood, right?"

She said coldly, "Tell their mother and son to get out of the palace and go to the village in the countryside, and they are not allowed to come back in this life!"

“…… Her child can be sent out, but this can't stay. King Gaomi was stunned for a moment, and said, "Mi Xue, you are too soft-hearted! Do you think that this cheap maid came from a humble background, and it is all because of her mother that she has today, and normal people know that it is impossible for her to replace you!

The voice was low, "And the children she gave birth to are also half old and a little sensible, how can it be reassuring to stay around? Anyway, there are a lot of children born under your knees, and a few cheap mothers and sons, compared to the safety of your mothers and children, what is it?"

Zhao Ziye looked at him fixedly, and after a while, he said astringently: "Of course, the children of the Mo family are nothing to me, but those are also your biological flesh and blood!"

"The son is more precious than the mother. King Gaomi shook his head, looked at his wife's pale face, hesitated, and finally asked, "Can you tell me how that cheap maid calculated the remuneration? I heard that it was Qing Drunk and Hui He who went to the Zhuangzi to pick up the remuneration at that time?"

Zhao Ziye drank another cup and said, "I don't want to talk about this today, let's have a few cups!"

King Gaomi sighed and obediently took the rhino horn cup she had pushed into his own.

Swallow it in one gulp, and then you don't know anything.

…… In the middle of the night, the entire backyard was violently woken up by the sudden intrusion of the armor.

From Concubine Mo down, all the concubines, their attendants and their children were forcibly driven into Xiangji Hall.

To be precise, it is the backyard of Xiangji Hall.

Because the original owner was still young and was not sure of his son's future preferences, Zhao Ziye just asked someone to dig the lake, planted something casually, built a nine-curved bridge and water pavilion, and didn't get anything else.

On this kind of cold night, it looks bare, not bleak, and even a little crazy.

"Sister, what do you mean by this?" This kind of encounter made everyone feel very ominous, and when they saw Zhao Ziye, who was only wearing thin clothes and didn't feel the biting north wind at all, this premonition was even stronger.

Concubine Mo subconsciously asked, "This big night's ...... Let so many foreign men break into the backyard...... What do you want to do? Do you want to betray the prince?"

Zhao Ziye ignored her, just silently looked at the dark lake under the night.

Concubine Mo was in a mess in her heart, and couldn't help but ask a few more words: "What about the prince? What happened to the prince? Don't be wrong! You and the prince have so many children, don't think about others, think about your children!"

"When she said one more word, she twisted her tongue!" Zhao Ziye still lowered his head, and did not raise his eyelids when he heard the words, and ordered lightly.

She said this sentence very plainly, without any harsh words, but everyone trembled when they heard it, and they didn't dare to squeak.

After standing for a while, he couldn't tell what Zhao Ziye was going to do.

It wasn't until Rong Qingchu and the other four Zhao Ziye's own children arrived in a daze under the leadership of the subordinates that she moved her feet and walked down from the Jiuqu Bridge.

"Take off their robes!" said Rong Qingdrunk and Lord Huihe.

When they heard this order, the subordinates were a little dazed, thinking that they had heard it wrong.

It wasn't until Zhao Ziye repeated it that they hurriedly moved.

"Mother?" Rong Qingdrunk and the county lord of Huihe were both taken aback, and the county lord of Qingfang hurriedly stepped forward and said in surprise: "What are you going to do, concubine? It's so cold, or is it night, and there is no outer robe, isn't it going to catch a cold?"

Zhao Ziye glanced down at his eldest daughter when he heard this, and without warning, he pulled an ear scraper, and the Qingfang County Lord almost went dark in front of him!

"I'm not dead yet, why is it the turn of the county lord of Qingfang to call the shots in this backyard?!" After the fight, she didn't even look at the stunned expression of the county lord of Qingfang, and looked at the frozen subordinate coldly.

The subordinates looked at each other and quickly quickened the movements in their hands.

A moment later, Rong Qingdrunk, who had been stripped of his dirty clothes, stood trembling with the county lord of Huihe standing in the cold wind, his bare feet stepping on the frozen ground, and in an instant, he was purple.

The brother and sister were at a loss, tears rolling back and forth in their eyes.

Zhao Ziye looked at them, without pity, without forbearance, only indifference, and even mixed with a bit of indescribable happiness.

The backyard, which was still whispering, is silent at the moment.

Concubine Mo's mother and son were even more pale.

"......" Zhao Ziye looked at his pair of children for a while, and then turned his gaze to them, his eyes were like a poisoned knife, sweeping over little by little, and everyone who looked at them was a spirit, looking at each other, wanting to ask but not daring to ask.

After a long time, she said, "Let's start with this!"

His eyes fell on the second-to-last child among the sons of Concubine Mo.

There was a dead silence on the shore of the lake for a moment, and Concubine Mo looked at her incredulously: "You...... What do you say?"

Zhao Ziye looked indifferent, ignored it, and escorted the side concubines and concubines over, but without hesitation, two people came out of the ranks, grabbed the boy who was less than ten years old on the left and the right, dragged him to the lake with great ease, and then threw him down!

The lake is frozen this season, but because of the breadth of the lake, it is not so strong, and of course the edges are thicker.

When the boy was thrown down, he smashed open part of the ice, and most of his body immediately sank.

However, the desire to survive made him immediately grasp the part that had not yet been broken, and shouted ignorantly and fearfully: "The side mother ...... concubine"

"Sister, are you crazy?!" Concubine Mo was stunned by this change, she hurriedly walked a few steps, but was quickly stopped by the armorer raising his hand, and could only shout at Zhao Ziye from the other person, "This is the blood of my cousin! It is the blood of the concubine, you are the concubine ...... you"

"Slap mouth!" Before the words were finished, Aunt Zhao behind Zhao Ziye had already shouted, "Cheap maid An dares to speak to the princess like this?!Are you all dead?!"

The reprimanded armor did not hesitate, and kicked Concubine Mo down with one kick, and dragged her hair up again, forcing her to kneel towards Zhao Ziye.

"Bao'er is only nine years old, why are you coming at me......! Please! He doesn't know anything, he's still a child!!" Concubine Mo was still questioning Zhao Ziye at first, but watching her child floating in the ice water, soon because the child's family was not strong, he gradually slipped into the bottom of the lake, and suddenly broke down and cried, crying and begging, "Sister, no, princess Niangniang, you are doing well! Why are you treating us like this? This is the blood of the prince, you treat him like this, how can you explain it to the prince and the concubine when you turn around? What will others think of your child... …”

Zhao Ziye didn't look at her, and in the dark, she saw that the princess had a pale face, and her eyes were dark and looking at Rong Bao, who had no strength to flutter.

After a while, I don't know if she was persuaded by Concubine Mo or couldn't bear it, she said slowly, "Pull it up!"

Among the two armorers before, someone agreed, and he didn't go down to the lake, he directly untied a long whip from his waist, threw it neatly into the lake, wrapped up Rong Bao's waving arm when he struggled out of the water, and dragged him up fiercely!

Rong Bao cried out bitterly, half fear, half pain: when he was thrown to the shore, his long whip arm hung limply.

Concubine Mo breathed a sigh of relief, and said in her heart that she was right not to admit her guilt, obviously the princess was just suspicious, and put up this battle to scare herself.

If I can't hold my breath and reveal the bottom of my heart, I know that my youngest son is still a princess who has lost her talented young son, and I will never let go of their mother and son!

This thought is not over yet, I don't want to take another kick on the back and kick her away, and the unknown side concubine struggled to get up and sit up, but saw that the armorer who had whipped before put away the long whip, picked up Rong Bao with one hand, and walked towards the lake again!

"What are you going to do?!" Concubine Mo was startled and tried to step forward to stop her, but was rudely stepped on her legs by another soldier, feeling the warning in the other party's eyes that as long as she dared to move, she would directly step on her legs, Concubine Mo instinctively stopped, and said anxiously, "Princess Niangniang, you calm down!"

Before the words fell, he saw that the armor had thrown Rong Bao by the water, but he did not throw it into the water.

Zhao Ziye paced over unhurriedly, squatted down, stared at Rong Bao, who was still sobbing, and asked in an almost weird soft voice, "Are you afraid?"

Rong Bao looked at her timidly, this child is usually not small, because Concubine Mo is a side concubine, and she is deeply loved by the concubine, she loves the house and Wu, and his status in front of Concubine Mo is faintly higher than that of the eldest brother Rong Qingchu, so he is very pampered and willful.

Although it did not reach the point of openly bullying his brothers and sisters, he usually relied on the identity of a child to make trouble for Zhao Ziye and Zhao Ziye's close attendants.

Because Zhao Ziye's self-respecting identity has never bothered with him, it has become a habit to make some trouble in front of this mother-in-law.

But the scene just now was obviously beyond his ability to bear at this age, and at this moment, even if Zhao Ziye asked very kindly, he didn't dare to answer.

Zhao Ziye smiled when he saw this, and stretched out his hand, as if to stroke the top of his hair.

But, the next moment, she grabbed Rong Bao's hair and pressed it into the lake!

"Bao'er!!" Concubine Mo's pupils contracted suddenly, and she subconsciously wanted to pounce to protect her child!

At the same time, there was a crisp "click" from her legs, and it was the armorer who stepped on her leg bones without hesitation!

The severe pain made the side concubine, who had been dressed and eaten for more than ten years, burst out of Venus in front of her eyes, and she almost fainted on the spot!

"Are you scared?" After Zhao Ziye pressed Rong Bao into the water, after a while, he let go again, looking at the concubine who was crying and desperately gasping, there was no emotion in her eyes, but her tone was gentle like water on a spring night, and she seemed to repeat patiently, "Behave, tell me, are you afraid?"

“…… Harm...... Afraid...... Mother ...... I'm so scared...... I won't dare to deliberately knock over your bonsai next time, and I won't dare to put a centipede into the skirts of the sisters who are serving you...... "Where has Rong Bao seen such a battle, he can't help crying at this time, he sobbed and pleaded when he heard the words, "I will definitely listen to you in the future, and be filial to you, I ......"

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Zhao Ziye: "Is it cold?"

Rong Bao didn't dare to delay at all this time, and immediately said: "Thank you for your care, I'm not cold!"

The next moment, his head was pressed into the water again!

After a while, he looked at Zhao Ziye expressionlessly: "Is it cold?"

Rong Bao was already trembling and couldn't speak, he didn't dare to answer, but he didn't dare not answer, hesitated for a moment, for fear of coming again, before he choked up: "Cold ......?"

"Look at your biological mother. Zhao Ziye nodded, his tone was always gentle, but his subordinates forced Rong Bao to turn his head very rudely, looked at Concubine Mo, who was still trampled under the feet of the armor, and said softly, "She is there, but she just watched you suffer...... What's your mood?"

Rong Bao thought that his mother-in-law had always been at odds with his biological mother, and he definitely didn't want to hear him say words of understanding, so he said timidly: "You are the master of the palace, and you should punish her." ”

Zhao Ziye pressed his head into the lake for the third time, this time it was extraordinarily long, and when he was finally released, he was already paralyzed and didn't even have the strength to move his fingers: "I hate her!!!"

This answer seemed to satisfy Zhao Ziye, she looked at Rong Bao fixedly, and did not move for a while.

Rong Bao was scared of being looked at, and tried to endure it for a while, but finally couldn't help crying: "Mother, mother, don't you treat the child like this again? The child was ignorant before, and he will definitely change it in the future! In the future, he will never disobey you, he will not bully the sisters who serve you, and he will not deliberately say that the eldest brother bullies the child in front of his father......"

He chattered and almost told all the things that he thought had offended this mother-in-law, and the concubines who were originally frightened by Zhao Ziye's sudden actions changed their faces and began to talk to each other.

And Rong Qingxi's four siblings were also dumbfounded, they didn't expect that the mother and son of the side concubine would have taken so many eye medicines over the years.

But Zhao Ziye didn't seem to care about any of this, just stared at Rong Bao for a long time, and after a while, she stood up and turned to Rong Qingyu: "Qing Yu disappeared in the shipwreck." ”

"The man sent to search said that he had searched for a hundred miles in the place where the shipwreck had occurred, and found only one piece of his clothes. ”

"From the moment I got the news. ”

"I've been thinking, are you scared or not?

When she said this, her expression and tone were very calm, except for a pair of eyes, as if something had been ignited, bright and scorching, even a little dazzling in the dark night, and when she lowered her eyes to look at Rong Bao, it seemed that there were turbulent waves surging, "You are four years older than my Qingyu, and this lake is completely incomparable to the sea...... If you are afraid, he will be more afraid, if you are cold, he must be colder, and if you resent your biological mother...... My remuneration must also hate me, a stupid and incompetent concubine?"

This was said in a hurry, as if nothing was interesting.

But Concubine Mo heard the meaning, her eyes widened instantly, and she screamed: "No, ......!!!!"

However, as if he hadn't heard it, Zhao Ziye lifted his skirt lightly and kicked Rong Bao into the lake lightly.

The shore of this lake has a gentle slope for safety, so the water is relatively shallow.

Although Rong Bao was young, he was not yet able to reach the top here, so he struggled and cried to climb ashore.

Zhao Ziye looked at him indifferently, and just as he tried to grab the hem of his skirt and beg, she raised her foot, stepped on his head, and stepped him into the water little by little, little by little, slowly but firmly.

…… I don't know how long it took, Concubine Mo's voice was hoarse, so she withdrew her foot and said lightly: "I don't know if my remuneration was the same when the ship sank, did the sea water do the same, little by little, little by little, not him?"

Turning her head sideways, under the firelight, her pale face was like frost and snow, and her eyes stabbed straight at Concubine Mo like a knife, "It's a pity that I didn't even see him for the last time, but you can watch your child die here...... Why do you think you're so lucky than I am?"

When he said this, the armor who stepped on Concubine Mo immediately pulled out his short knife and neatly gouged off Concubine Mo's eyes!