Chapter 213: A Thousand Blows (5)

In the blink of an eye, the mid-spring of the ninth year of Wude was patronized, no one noticed that the gentle and warm spring breeze blew all night, and when the door was pushed in the early morning, the wind with the smell of new grass leaves in the spring came to the face, and brought an intoxicating breath lingering in Luoyang City.

The door of Sishun Fang has long been locked, and a wide carriage has come from the avenue, and the eaves of the carriage and the bell on the horse's neck have been removed, so the night is missing, leaving only the clatter of the horse's hooves and the subtle creaking sound. The carriage stopped steadily at the gate of Sishun Fang, and the Marquis of Wuhou who had been on the night rubbed his eyes, and it was indeed a restrained but magnificent carriage in front of him, and even the driver of the car was solemn.

Someone in the car jumped down, stepped forward and handed a sign to Na Wuhou, and said in a low voice: "Be careful to do your work, don't be loud, carefully startle the nobles, and everyone will be embarrassed." Wu Hou took the sign from Fangmen Fengzhong, and held up the wind lantern with one hand to look at it, this look made him completely sober in an instant.

What was handed over was a sign of Tiance Mansion, and he had seen the brand of Tiance Mansion a few times, but it was fine, usually it was just the main bookkeeper and the likes of Cangcao joining the army, at most he was engaged in Langzhong. This time, the sign handed over was impressively engraved with the words "Admiral Tiance".

These words turned in the mind of Wuhou in the last night, Admiral Tiance, isn't it His Royal Highness the King of Qin in the capital? At that moment, he lost even the courage to peek at the carriage, and hurriedly lowered his head to open the door, leaned on one side with his hands tied, and respectfully welcomed the carriage into the workshop.

With a cup of tea, on the curved bridge in the inner courtyard of the Du house in Sishunfang, a figure walked towards the main house near the water, and after a while, the cloud board under the corridor of the main house knocked in the middle of the night.

Du Ru sat up from the bed in a vague manner. He gasped and broke out in a cold sweat. Mu Qing was also awakened by the knock of the cloud board, sat up in his arms, looked at Du Ruhui's solemn expression in a daze, and couldn't help grabbing his arm in a panic, "What's wrong?" ”

"Ah Lang, lady, Yinghua is here." Outside, Du Qi's deliberate voice fell on Mu Qing's ears, which was even more terrifying than the cloud board. She thought of Shiro as soon as she thought of it, and her heart pounded suddenly. I didn't dare to think about it, but I had to think about it. But something happened to Shiro.

The two of them hurriedly put on their clothes and shoes, opened the door and hurried to the front hall with Du Qi.

Yinghua sat in the hall with an anxious face, with only one maid by her side. Mu Qing paused as he stepped into the door, almost tripping over the threshold. It was Du Ruhui who reached out behind her and helped her.

"Sister. Brother-in-law. Yinghua saw the two of them enter the house. Struggling to stand up, Mu Qing's gaze fell on her high bulging abdomen, and he stepped forward and pressed her shoulder. "It's been seven months since you were in your body, and it's all at this time, what happened to you to come overnight?"

Yinghua sat back in the high chair and struggled to support her waist with one hand. "Erlang was plotted by someone and fell poisoned in the wine and food, and the imperial doctor in the Daxing Palace came a few times, and finally vomited the poisoned wine and food in his stomach, but the person was still unconscious." Yinghua tilted his words directly, and his speed of speech was a little hurried, and he choked on his words for a while, not knowing how to go on.

Mu Qing was shocked, turned his head to look at Du Ruhui, but saw that his brows were low, and he said in a low voice: "Don't be in a hurry, speak slowly." Let me know first, where and with whom did His Royal Highness King Qin use the wine and food before the poison? ”

Yinghua took a few breaths and settled down, "The day before yesterday, the prince summoned Erlang for a night tour, just because the East Palace and Hongyi Palace were competing urgently, and he shouldn't have go, no matter how loud Erlang's voice is, it's just for the prince, how can he disobey the prince for no reason?" also complained that Erlang was competitive, and only said, 'There is something to be afraid of when you drink wine', and then went. It was almost midnight, and he was suddenly helped back by the king of Huai'an, and the sleeves of his clothes were full of blood......"

She suddenly couldn't speak, twisted her head left and right anxiously, and stretched out her hand to Mu Qinggou, "Sister, sister, I can't find Zhao Cang." The imperial doctors are all mediocre, although they urge poison, Erlang is still not awake, if Zhao Cang is there, if he is there, there will be a way......"

Mu Qing held her hand, put his fingers on her wrist and listened carefully for a while, but fortunately, her body and the child in her womb were still stable. "Don't be anxious, Erlang Zhenlong, you can survive many disasters, and this time it will be fine."

"Sister, you originally studied medicine with Zhao Cang, but if you can't find him, I can only come to you, or there is a way to cure Erlang." Yinghua tugged at her wrist like a person who had fallen into the water holding a piece of driftwood.

"Princess Qin sent you to look for me?" Mu Qing frowned.

"No, no." Yinghua shook his head, "As soon as Erlangfu came back, there was an inner supervisor who was in a hurry to summon me, and when I arrived at the main hall, he couldn't speak, only pinched a gesture of seven in his hand, at first I couldn't understand, and then I had an epiphany, isn't that seven exactly what Qi Niang said?" I was asked to come to find my sister. The more I thought about it, the more I felt that this was the meaning, at that time, there were many people in the main hall, and he had the strength to speak, and he would not say it so rashly, and besides, except for Erlang, only I knew where my sister and brother-in-law were safe, and I was urgently called to go, so I coped with this meaning even more. ”

Mu Qing's face was at a loss, and her expression became complicated in an instant, she gently let go of Yinghua's hand, took a few steps straight forward, turned her head suddenly, and said to Du Ruhui, "Your Highness is not looking for me, but you." ”

Du Ruhui pursed her lips, suppressed the excitement that rose up, and lowered her head, "It's time to go back to Chang'an." Sure enough, everything was as he expected, the king of Qin sent the two Turkic khans by the Weishui according to the plan, and when the report was sent into the Daxing Palace, the Manchu courtiers were all there, and they were already discussing the relocation of the capital.

The courtiers became more and more obsessed, and the prince's chest was like a cat with sharp claws, scratching his heart day and night. In a hurry, the tricks used became more and more urgent and inferior, and in the eyes of others, it was inevitable that it would be even more detached, and so on and so on, that he was so eager that he even did such a thing as poisoning.

Mu Qing took Yinghua to the room where she lived before to rest, and the kind words comforted her for a while, and then made Yinghua carefully talk about the symptoms of King Qin's poisoning, and when he heard it, in addition to spitting blood, he also had convulsions and howls, and there was a little spectrum in his heart. This is not some powerful poison, but it is just thunder wilford. Taking a small amount of food will not immediately hurt a person's life, and the poisoner intends to slowly take his life, and it must have been because he drank strong wine after taking Tripterygium Wilfordii, which aggravated the medicinal properties, and suddenly vomited blood.

"You can sleep peacefully for a while, and then you can leave for Chang'an at dawn, and enter the city at dusk tomorrow." Mu Qingwen persuaded him, and suddenly remembered something, "Are you hungry?" I still remember when I was pregnant with Shiro, and it was also such a month. I have to go hungry twice a night. You've been going all the way around, I'm afraid you're already hungry. ”

"I'm not hungry...... Yinghua stroked his stomach and asked, "Erlang, ...... he"

"Erlang, he doesn't matter. Since the imperial doctor has induced vomiting of the wine and food he entered, let's go back and cook more mung bean soup and pour it with him. It's all right slowly. ”

Hear this. Yinghua breathed a sigh of relief. Turning his head and thinking for a while, he took Mu Qing's hand and whispered, "Sister, I'm really hungry." All the way to hurry, only those coarse and hard cakes to satisfy hunger......"

Mu Qing covered his mouth and laughed, "That's it, I can't sleep left and right, my sister and you will make some food." Wild rice porridge, and a few jade noodles, okay? ”

Mu Qing went to the back kitchen with the lamp to be busy, Yinghua then looked around the room with the faint candlelight, several cases, beds, curtains, and household furnishings were all the same as in the old days, and the bedding on the bed was still what she was used to. She buried her face between the futons, and the sweet fragrance was as sweet as ever. In the end, she was tired, and when Mu Qing came over with the food box, she had fallen asleep between the futons.

However, in the past three or two days, the big mansion without a door plaque in Chang'an Yongxing Fang was noisy again. Although the neighborhood is separated by a high wall and a deep courtyard, everyone knows that the lady who left Beijing in a hurry four years ago has now moved back to this mansion.

is different from the embarrassment and panic when he left, and when he came back, he made a big fanfare, as if he was afraid that his neighbors would not know. The day before yesterday, the steward in the mansion bought a dozen or so neat-looking maids; Yesterday, the door of the house was opened to recruit nursing homes; Today is even more lively, early in the morning Chang'an City is the most wealthy big merchants, personally led more than 20 people, almost half of the East City to move here.

The onlookers saw with their own eyes a noble lady walking out of the mansion, less than thirty years old, with a smooth doxedtail bun on her head, a gold comb inserted, a slight swaying step, a silk skirt, and the collar and silk wrapped around her arms were still muddy gold, which made her look bright and picturesque, and couldn't help but make people look at it a few more times.

But seeing her slowly walking out of the open door, she smiled on the stone steps and thanked the big Hu Shang, "We have been friends for many years, how can San Lang be so polite, this gift is too heavy." ”

That Hu Shang patted his chest and said in a rough voice: "If Qi Niang doesn't accept it, she really looks down on me Kang San." Besides, these ones, how can there be any heavy gifts, but they are daily necessities, I want to come to Qi Niang to return to Chang'an for the first time, and the house has been deserted for a few years, so I hurriedly went to prepare household utensils, I'm afraid it's too late, and things are not as good as mine. ”

Everyone saw her smile, and they no longer refused, and invited the Hu merchant into the mansion. For a while, there was a lot of excitement outside, and there was everything. There was an informed whisper: "The head of this family was originally Du Changshi of the Shaanzhou Governor's Mansion, and I don't know what I did four years ago, and the Holy Lord issued an edict and sent him out of Chang'an. ”

In the crowd, there were sighs of "tsk", and another person said: "I remember that the lady of this family is not a simple one, it seems to say that she was born in the Gu family in Jiangnan, and she is like a sister with Princess Qin, although she and her children are not guilty, but they are always the family members of the guilty officials, after Du Changshi died, he has not been seen for many years, how did he move back, and the scenery is better than before." ”

"Ahem, you don't know." Someone sighed knowingly, causing the onlookers to listen. "Mrs. Gu originally had a sister, who are you to be that little lady? It turned out to be a female general under the command of Princess Pingyang Zhao, who commanded the Xiao cavalry camp in the west of the city, and was inseparable from the Xuanjia army under His Royal Highness King Qin. I was fortunate to see it twice back then, this Gu Niangzi was born with bright eyes and bright teeth, a moving posture, and a military uniform, and she was even more heroic. After hearing that Du Changshi had an accident, Gu Niangzi married His Royal Highness the King of Qin and taught people to enter the Forbidden Garden. ”

It is a matter of royal dependents, and there are all good things in the market, and some people in the crowd suddenly realized, "I said, how can this Mrs. Gu return in fine clothes now, it can be seen how much her sister is favored in Hongyi Palace." ”

These words were only circulated in Yongxingfang at noon, and by the time the market opened in the middle of the day, they were already the words of the wine shops and restaurants. In the next day, those middle-class eunuchs who often go in and out of the wine shops and fat powder jewelry shops in the East Market have also been heard. Not in a few days. The family members of the official family went from stealing and selfish desires to boiling, and even a few officials and relatives who had some dealings, if it weren't for their husbands who were afraid of the tension between the King of Qin and the crown prince, they would have come to Yongxingfang to find out.

Mu Qing moved back to Yongxingfang, and after settling down, he took Ah Liu to Hongyi Palace for a trip, and took a look at the situation of King Qin. Because Yinghua production is imminent. It's inconvenient to lead Shiro anymore. Mu Qing took advantage of this moment to ask Shiro to take him back. The eldest grandson couldn't say anything, so he had to nod his head and agree, and the next day he sent someone back to Yongxingfang.

In the past four years, I have been able to see it all the time. Mu Qing was still so happy that he couldn't sleep all night. The words that Shiro had said on the day he left her were repeated. The clarity of the words is abnormal. Before waiting for dawn, he sent Du Qi to the door of the workshop to pick it up. When Shiro returned home, the mother and son had to hug their heads and cry, that scene. Even Ada couldn't help but quietly reddened his eyes.

In a blink of an eye, it was the second day of the fifth month, Yinghua gave birth, gave birth to a county lord, Hongyi Palace sent palace people to pick up Mu Qing into the palace, she was full of joy, and entered the palace to visit. As soon as she stepped into the room, a low cry of surprise came straight at her.

Mu Qing looked up, but saw the crown princess Zheng sitting at the top of the head, probably to make a gesture and look at the child. At this time, she was staring at her like a clay sculpture, and her expression was like a ghost.

Mu Qing only regarded her gaffe as not seeing her, and bowed meticulously, Zheng Shi was a little sober, stiffened his cheeks, and reached out to ask her to get up, but his eyes were still staring at her unconvinced, "Mrs. Gu, but I haven't seen you for a long time, and I don't know when I will return to Chang'an, I ordered someone to know about it earlier, so I can go and greet her." ”

"How dare a concubine work Mrs." Mu Qing got up and bent his knees again, with a sincere smile on his face, "How can Madam conclude that the concubine is Chang'an who returned from outside?" Could it be that there is really such a thing as a heart-to-heart? ”

Zheng knew that he was speechless, and he suddenly regretted it on the one hand, and thought to himself on the other hand, after years of not seeing it, this Gu family was even more aggressive than back then. As soon as he recalled how she had dealt with Ying Niang cleanly and decisively back then, Zheng's heart was cold, and he couldn't remember that he was now respected as the crown princess, so he could force her to be suppressed in momentum, but he involuntarily retreated half a point.

The eldest grandson chuckled a few times, "Sister Gu, come and take a look at the child, this little appearance is very beautiful." Mu Qing looked at Yinghua's expression, a little tired, but it was generally good, so he turned to the eldest grandson with a smile and carefully took the newborn baby from the nurse's hand. In the swaddling clothes, a little pink face was revealed, and his eyes were closed and he was trying to smack his mouth.

"Sister Gu, you see, this eyeliner is long and deep, and it is the same as His Royal Highness, with a small chin and a round chin, which is exactly what Yinghua looks like. The woman who gave birth said when she saw it, she had given birth to so many children, and it was the first time she had seen such a marked ...... "The excitement and pleasure of the eldest grandson made Mu Qing feel a little uncomfortable, she had never given birth to another child since Yinghua entered the palace, and the joy at this time was too abrupt.

"Has Your Highness come here to take a look?" Mu Qing's face was full of joy, matching her joy.

Changsun stretched out a finger, gently teased the child's pink cheeks, and said with a smile: "Why don't you come and see, I've been watching for most of the night, and I've just been away for a short time." With such a little lady, His Royal Highness was so happy that he gave him a milk name, and now he is only waiting for the saint to be crowned. ”

"Erlang wants to ask for a title for this child?" Zheng couldn't help but interject, Mu Qing was also surprised, according to the prince's sons, they only get titles, and those who come out of the princes usually don't have titles, even if they do, they have to wait until they grow up, and the saints like them.

"Yinghua is already highly meritorious, this is her first child, His Royal Highness loves her very much, and it is not too much to ask for a title." The eldest grandson was close to the swaddling clothes in Mu Qing's arms, and coaxed softly: "Our Feng Ling will also be a small county lord in the future, but it is noble, isn't it ......?"

Mu Qing's heart was shocked, and Feng Ling ...... She just said that it was the name given by the King of Qin, and he named the child "Fengling"? The child of the eldest grandson is called the song of the green finch and the warbler, and it is born by a concubine, but it must be named after the phoenix. Mu Qing's mind was confused, and he suddenly felt that the blessings and misfortunes of the little girl in his arms in the future were unpredictable.

After eating two teas, the Zheng family and the eldest grandson family left separately. Mu Qing accompanied Yinghua for a long time, and after talking again, she was tired and fell asleep in a daze. Mu Qing had to instruct the maid to recuperate a few words and go back to Yongxingfang.

As soon as she got out of the forbidden garden, Ada was waiting outside, her expression was strange, and when she sat down in the car, he took advantage of the moment to step down, leaned over and whispered to the car, "There are people staring in the dark, sneaky, and I don't know what to do." ”

Mu Qing frowned, sighed, and laughed instead, "Don't pay attention to those, let's just ignore the unknown, pick up the clear way, and let them see the real thing." ”

Ada was like falling into a fog, confused, but he also knew that his wife must have a reason, and he didn't say much at the moment, and drove back to Yongxingfang.

Mu Qing sat in the car, and couldn't help but have a smile on his lips, the fanfare and high-profile actions in the past three or two months finally attracted the attention of Donggong. Today at Yinghua's place, seeing her as if she had hit a ghost through the crown princess, Mu Qing seemed to be able to see Li Jiancheng's gloomy and flustered face, and his heart was happy.

Happiness is still secondary, it is more important to be able to tease the East Palace to concentrate on her whereabouts, and ignore the undercurrent changes in the Hongyi Palace, and not see Du Ruhui, who is hidden in the Hongyi Palace, and his overall plan.

A rough thunder rolled through the sky, and the first muffled thunder of the early summer of Wude Nine suddenly came, Ada looked up at the sky that was about to change, and added another whip, and with a roar, he urged the driving horse. (To be continued.) )

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