Huo Chengjun was a little ashamed. Although she usually acts aggressively, she is also a girl after all, and she has not yet left the cabinet, and when she is said to be a man and a woman, her face is inevitably unbearable.

"Mother......

Seeing her like this, Huo Xian didn't ask deeply, but said: "It's good that you have a sense of proportion, since you want to enter the court, you must be harsh on yourself." Huo Xian pulled her to the side, looked around, and saw that there was no one, so he whispered to Huo Chengjun: "Chengjun, you ...... Have you ever heard of Shoumiya Sand? ”

Huo Chengjun was embarrassed: "Mother...... You—Where are you going......"

Huo Xian sighed: "Hey! You damn girl! What do you say, mother--ashamed! My mother is asking you, how is 'Shougong Sand' made, do you know? ”

Huo Chengjun shook his head.

"This 'palace guard' was originally a thing that guards women's chastity, and it is pointed at women's wrists, and if they lose their virginity, the sand will fade ......away" Huo Xian began to gush: "How to make this wonderful thing?" Mother sues you - I have heard rumors that if you make a palace sand, you need to raise a female gecko, and feed it with cinnabar since childhood, gradually, when you have eaten enough cinnabar, the gecko will become red all over the body, and then mash it with a pestle, dye the woman's white arms, for the 'palace sand', and after the woman gets married, this cinnabar will disappear. ”

"Mother...... What are you talking to me about? ”

"Chengjun, aren't you curious about what your mother's dark room raises? Mother sues you, mother raises people, living people! ”

"People—?" Huo Chengjun looked puzzled.

"What? Are you surprised? The eldest princess of Eyi can raise beauties and dedicate herself to Jianzhang, you mother and I can't? ”

"That's not what Cheng Jun meant...... Cheng Jun...... I don't understand ......" Huo Chengjun said: "My mother also raises beauties, and she wants to dedicate a chapter?" ”

She naturally couldn't understand that the eldest princess of Eyi Gai offered a beauty to Jianzhang in order to please the king, and this kind of reason can also be explained. It's just that...... Why did her mother follow the example of Princess Gai? If the beauty is favored and His Majesty loves her, wouldn't it dilute her Huo Chengjun's future favor?

Her mother's gains outweigh the losses!

"You're stupid!" Huo Xian poked the bridge of her nose: "What a stupid girl!" Mother's head is broken, and she wants to send a beauty to Junshangjin? If this beauty is favored, what good will it do to my daughter to become a king?! ”

"That mother......

Huo Xian dragged Huo Chengjun in again, and was sure that there was no one around, so he said: "You must not tell your father about this, he is timid, if he is taught to know, he is afraid that he will make trouble." Huo Chengjun nodded. Huo Xiancai said: "My mother is not raising ordinary beauties, but ...... Anther Man. ”

"Anther Man?" Huo Chengjun suspected that his ears didn't hear clearly: "What is this...... Person? ”

"Beauty is also extremely beautiful, but their beauty is not used to favor the king. The mother raised them, and she had her own intentions. Huo Xian was a little proud: "These women, raised in the dark room, bathed with flowers and medicines all day long, Chengjun must know that all kinds of flowers and medicines have their different uses, women have been soaked for a long time, and naturally exude the smell of anthers all over their bodies, and where they pass, it seems to have smoked medicine." ”

As he spoke, Huo Xian pulled Huo Chengjun and walked slowly......

They stopped in front of a secret door, Huo Xian skillfully touched the mechanism, and the door opened, and she said to Huo Chengjun: "Chengjun, this is the place where the mother raises anthers, you go in and smell it." ”

Huo Chengjun curiously followed Huo Xian carefully into the dark room.

In the dark room, the windows are sealed so that no sunlight can penetrate them. But the room was lit by candles, and it was as bright as day.

Huo Xian explained: "The 'anther man' has to raise medicinal baths and flower baths every day, and if they are steamed by the sun, the effect will be completely useless. These candles are not hindered, they do not come from the sky, and they cannot hurt the 'anther man'. ”

Huo Chengjun followed her mother, little by little, she observed very carefully, and was extremely curious about the one in this dark room.

Although the name of the dark room is "dark room", it is actually bright and magnificent, and the furnishings are new, not frightening at all, but it is a hidden and quiet room, suitable for people who love purity.

It can be seen that Huo Xian attaches great importance to her dark room and her "anther man".

Huo Chengjun's eyes widened, staring intently at Yiqiē in the room.

Huo Xian took her around a screen, turned a corner, and entered another room.

This small room is covered by a curtain, and outside the curtain you can hear the sound of running water, and the mist drifts from the end of the curtain, hot and steaming......

"Mother, what's inside?" Huo Chengjun couldn't help asking.

"The anther man is bathing." Huo Xian replied with a smile, with a proud look on her face: "These are the fruits of my mother's painstaking management for many years-" She stepped forward and opened the curtain: "Chengjun, look-"

Huo Chengjun looked down on it, and saw that in the "illusion" covered by clouds and fog, there were a few women taking a medicinal bath! The fog is too heavy, and she can't really see it, but with a piece of ice muscle and jade skin that passes through in a hurry, she can also imagine that the women who take a bath must be rare and peerless beauties in the world!

The women saw that Huo Xian was coming, although they were in the medicinal bath, they were still very formal, they didn't speak, but they could feel that they treated Huo Xian with great respect and fear, because they bowed their heads in the bath, and didn't dare to look directly......

Huo Xian said: "You don't have to be formal. Then he pushed Huo Chengjun forward and said to Chixia: "This is the second miss, you will see you for the first time, so you have seen it." Because he added: "In the future, it is not me who you will serve, but the second lady." If the second lady can enter the court, you should do your best to protect the second lady's mother's honor in the world, can you know? ”

Pool jaw head. They raised their heads and bowed to Huo Chengjun just now, behaving in a proper but humble manner......

Huo Chengjun was a little dazed, and couldn't help but be curious: "Mother, ...... them Who are they? ”

"They are mothers' people, and in the future, they will also be yours."

Huo Chengjun expected that this was another chess piece on the road that her mother had laid for her.

Anther Man ...... Anther Man ......

What is it used for?

Huo Xian didn't let her stay by the bath for too long, so he pulled her away again and led her into another dark room.

This dark room is like an ant's nest, layer upon layer, ring after ring, as if it will never reach the end. Don't say that outsiders broke in, it was Huo Chengjun, a "family member" who grew up in the General's Mansion since she was a child, and she didn't know it.

She never knew that there was such a dark room in her home.

Huo Chengjun followed her mother and walked to an elegant house, and soon a maid led them into the upper seat, Huo Chengjun picked up the tea bowl, a little depressed: "Mother, I think it's really wonderful today, there are many things that I didn't know before......

Huo Xian knew her thoughts, so he said: "Chengjun, my mother is doing all this for your own good." ”

"Mother-in-law anther man...... When did it start? Does Daddy know? ”

"Your father?" Huo Xian was a little surprised: "Your father is such a pedantic wooden stake, can you teach him to know?!" She relented, and said, "When will it begin...... It was early, a long time ago - Feng'er only sat on the throne of the queen, Shangguan Ji's family was complacent, and your father was the enemy, at that time, my mother began to plan the plan of 'anther man'. These women are all hand-picked by your mother, and they are all smart. You also saw it just now, how do they look? Mother's pick, all of them are excellent! The mother thought, good birth, one day, they can come in handy. ”

"What use do you think they will have?"

When Huo Xian heard his daughter Cheng Jun ask, he wanted to slowly lead him, so he asked rhetorically: "Cheng Jun, you have just seen them taking a medicinal bath, what do you think?" ”

Huo Chengjun thought for a while and asked, "Mother, what are the ingredients of the medicinal bath?" ”

"It's a lot," Huo Xianpan said, "Mainly musk, supplemented by various materials, soaked day by day, over time, the ingredients of the bath medicine will penetrate deep into the bone marrow, and you can't remove it." …… There is also the side, my mother is bright at this time, and it will not benefit you. ”

Huo Chengjun was very smart, and even said: "Mother, this is the reason why you just told me the rumor of 'Shougong Sha'?" The 'anther man' you raised also came according to this method? ”

"Cheng Jun is smart!" Huo Xian was a little happy and said: "Yes, feed cinnabar and geckos, for a long time, the gecko's body will be red, and you can pound it to point cinnabar for women; Raising 'anther people' is also like this, soaking it in a medicinal bath, after a long time, the medicine and the body are inseparable. My mother gave a name to these beauties who were chosen by my mother-"

"'Anther Man'?"

"That's right, that's how the 'Anther Man' came about......"

"That's ......!!" Huo Chengjun seemed to think of something, slapped his thigh hard, and realized: "In the queen's palace...... My mother once said that the ...... who had eyeliner inserted in the morning? ”

"Yes, Cheng Jun is right," Huo Xian didn't shy away at all, because he said, "In the Jiaofang Palace, there are many mothers. The ones planted by the mother are not ordinary informants, they all go out from here - the mother's 'anther man'. ”

"Huh?" Huo Chengjun was shocked.

"What? What does Cheng Jun think is wrong? ”

"Mother thinks about it thoroughly, it's just ......" Huo Chengjun was a little hesitant.

"Just what?"

"It's just that my mother did a qiē, and my father didn't know, if the East Window incident happened in the future, how would my mother end?" Huo Chengjun was right, after all, how harmful this so-called "anther man" was, even Huo Xian, who created them, was not necessarily clear. If there is an incident, His Majesty will investigate it, but it will affect the entire Huo family!

Huo Xian was obviously a little unhappy: "Chengjun, mother's good Chengjun!" The way you look now is exactly like your father! ”

"Mother, don't be angry," Huo Chengjun said, "No matter when, Chengjun is standing with his mother, his mother is smarter than his father, and Chengjun is willing to listen to his mother." ”

"Mother's good Chengjun......" Huo Xian hugged his daughter in his arms and gently patted his daughter's back, feeling very happy.

A few women who had just been immersed in the medicinal bath were dressed in gorgeous clothes and neatly dressed, standing in front of them.

Huo Chengjun looked over carefully, these women, all of them had smooth muscles and bones, and their postures were beautiful, standing there, teaching people to look at an indescribable sense of comfort.

"Mother, ...... are they?"

"Chengjun, you come up," Huo Xian nodded, "You come up and smell it, is the 'anther man' raised by your mother fragrant?" ”

I see. Her mother knew that she was curious, and wanted to teach her to smell it!

Huo Chengjun stood up and said with a happy face: "Xie Niang is complete!" ”

She walked up.

pondered in his heart, the women in front of him were all personally selected by her mother, and her appearance naturally went without saying, and her demeanor and cultivation were also good. Now it is nourished by medicinal baths, the muscles and bones are moist, the skin is fragrant, and it adds to the taste, which makes people smell it, but I am afraid that I like it even more!

So she leaned in and sniffed expectantly—

It doesn't taste at all!

She was shocked.

Huo Chengjun thought that there was something wrong with his nose, so he hurriedly changed to a beauty, leaned in, and smelled it again.

- There is still no taste at all!

It won't be!

She just saw these beauties soaking in the medicated bath, listening to the meaning of her mother's words, these beauties began to soak in the medicated bath a long time ago, and nourished them with medicine, and the medicine entered the bone marrow......

The medicine has entered the bone marrow, can there still be no smell on this body!

Also weird!

Huo Chengjun turned around and looked at her mother with a pleading gaze.

Huo Xian smiled: "Chengjun, do you smell the fragrance of medicine?" ”

Huo Chengjun shook his head: "No, there is no taste." Mother--how so? You, you've changed? ”

Huo Xian stood up with a smile and approached her daughter: "Silly girl, I can't smell it, so I said that my mother has changed people, do you think so?" She patted Huo Chengjun on the shoulder and said, "Mother didn't change half a person!" Chengjun, the 'anther people' you see now are the ones you just saw in the bath, and my mother didn't do anything. ”

"How can that ......?"

Huo Xian stopped selling Guanzi, and said directly: "Child, hasn't my mother been saying, 'medicine into the bone marrow' - 'medicine into the bone marrow', the first soak in the medicinal bath, the woman will be contaminated with medicine all over her body, and when she gets closer, she can smell the smell of anthers." Soak in the medicinal bath again, and the smell of anthers is even stronger and stronger. The soaking time is longer, the woman is close, and she can't smell the smell of the drug, why is this? ”

"Into the bone marrow?" Huo Chengjun reacted quickly.

"Yes, the medicine has been integrated with the body, you have me, I have you, and it is difficult to distinguish it. Just like the gecko and the cinnabar that feeds it, in the end, the cinnabar and the gecko have long been integrated and inseparable. ”

"How?"

"Silly, this girl! What else do we do? Isn't this good? Do you want to," Huo Xian said, "the anther man sent by my mother to the Jiaofang Palace, if there is a peculiar smell, it will inevitably be recognized; It is precisely because they have no taste at all that my mother is relieved! When they enter the pepper room, they are the same as ordinary palace women, as long as they don't say it, no one in the world knows their identities except for their mothers! They will always be safe, and we behind them will always be safe! ”

Jiaofang Palace.

The sound of hurried footsteps pierced the silence of the previous afternoon. After a burst of sound was suppressed, it seemed to touch a little, and then a series of footsteps followed......

Today, there is no nap in the Jiaofang Palace.

"Miss Wang" knelt in front of the temple door in a panic, and when the footsteps hit her forehead, she woke up, and she couldn't speak anymore, because she said in a hurry: "Majesty, majesty, maid...... Endowment, endowment ......"

"What? You can't even understand a neat word, you have a face to live neatly! Yes? The Emperor kicked her to the side.

She crawled and crawled on the emperor's heels, trembling, but she didn't dare to speak......

"I ask you, Queen...... What the hell happened to the Queen? ”

The emperor came from Jianzhang Palace, but he didn't even sit down, trotted all the way to the pepper room, and his forehead was covered with beads of sweat - he was so anxious that he didn't care about the gaffe.

"Emperor, Empress...... Mother, she, she ......"

The emperor couldn't do it in a hurry, so he bypassed the palace woman and hit the queen's bedroom by himself, and when he got close to the door, he was hugged by two maids: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty can't!" ”

There was a long cry of ghosts and howls, which made him even more annoyed.

No...... No......

This can't, that can't. Just because he is the emperor, he must abide by the system, think twice for the dragon body, and think twice for the country...... Chewing these all day long, are you annoying?

He just wants to go in and see his wife, his Pingjun, is he okay?

He doesn't want to care about anything else!

The emperor was about to break in, and the door of the queen's bedroom finally opened.

It was Ah Yan who came out. She was followed by two healed women with bloody hands.

The doctor girl saw that she was useless, and when she saw the emperor, her legs weakened, and she knelt down in front of the emperor with a "plop".

"Talk back - what's going on?" The Emperor almost roared, "My Empress...... What about her? Yes?! Speak! ”

The two medical women fell trembling and collapsed, unable to speak.

The emperor was about to vent his anger, but was stopped by Ah Yan.

Only then did the emperor remember that in addition to the useless medical girl in front of him, there was also Ah Yan, and Ah Yan was there! He seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw, holding Ayan's shoulder, and refused to let go-

"Ah Yan, you say, you sue Sù I, what about Pingjun? Well? ”

Ai Xiaoyan took a step back, with sadness in her eyes: "Your Majesty, the child in the queen's womb...... This baby...... I'm afraid I can't keep it. ”

Only she dares, and only she can, tell the emperor about this matter.

The Emperor suddenly calmed down: "What did you say?" Lose? How? His eyes were blank: "Isn't it after three months, and the fetus is not easy to lose?" Pingjun has always been healthy, how could he ...... How could I not keep my child? ”

Ai Xiaoyan lost her soul: "I can't keep it, the medical girls...... I have done my best. ”

She bowed her head.

The emperor panicked, and realized that he should not pay too much attention to the child, so he walked forward and said to the medicine woman: "Listen, the child is gone, and I don't care. You -- go and take a closer look at the queen, if there is any mistake in the mother, I will be punished for several crimes! ”

"No-" The two medical women turned around tremblingly, and climbed down and crawled, almost "falling" into the door of the queen's bedroom.

The emperor stood there, alone, and suddenly felt very lonely.

"Ah Yan...... Why...... Why did Pingjun suffer this misfortune? Why did God punish me so severely? ”

Fortunately, there is also a Ah Yan, who can talk about his heart.

And this question, Ah Yan can't answer him.