Chapter 18: The Culprit
It was a long night's sleep, and by the time I woke up, I was back in my bed at home. Seeing that I was awake, Rulan threw herself in front of my bed, with tears on her face, and asked urgently: "Miss, Miss, you finally woke up, are you uncomfortable?" Do you want to drink water? What do you want to eat? I'll let Rufeng do it right away......"
I shook my head and said in a dumb voice, "You asked me so many questions at once, it made my head hurt a little." It was originally a joke, but she suddenly became nervous: "Do you have a headache?" I'll go to the doctor right away. As I spoke, I was about to go out, but I grabbed her, but I tried too hard, and I pulled the wound on my back, and I grinned in pain. She hurriedly turned around again and asked, "But the wound is involved?" The doctor said you can't just move it. I sighed and said, "Sit down, don't move, I'll ask you." ”
She sat down obediently. I asked, "What time is it?" What time is it? ”
She thought for a while: "On the eighteenth day of the first month, it is unitary time. ”
I frowned, it turned out that it had been three days, and my last memory stopped in the early morning of the sixteenth. I looked up and saw that Rulan also had some small injuries on her face. It was so critical that I forgot about her.
I reached out and touched the wound on her face and asked, "How is it, but it hurts somewhere else?" ”
Rulan touched her face and replied: "It's just this injury, when I was walking behind the carriage, I saw the carriage overturned, and the young lady fell off the carriage, I was so frightened that I wanted to run over to see, but I was hit in the back of the head by someone and fainted." When I woke up, the guards had arrived, but the young lady was nowhere to be found. They had no choice but to send the slaves and maids back for treatment first. The slave maid never hated herself as much as she did then, and she couldn't save the young lady......"
I took her hand and said, "Good girl, I'm fine, don't blame yourself." Those people come prepared, even Lingyun can't stop them, even if you have kung fu, it's just a drop in the bucket. I turned my mind and hurriedly asked, "How is Lingyun?" Is he okay? ”
Rulan shook her head slightly: "He's fine." I didn't see it, but I heard that if I can't find you on the top of the cliff, the third young master will go crazy. However, the mark left by Ling Yun only reached the top of the cliff, and if it weren't for General Du, who was looking for him together, to take a look at the bottom of the cliff, they wouldn't have found the fire. When I found Miss and Ling Yun, Miss had fainted for a long time, but the wound had already been treated. The doctor said that it was fortunate that it was handled in time, otherwise the consequences might have been more serious. Ling Yun was also seriously injured, but his life was fine, and Xiangye had already let him go to another hospital to rest. ”
I frowned: "General Du? ”
"It's Miss Du's brother, Young Master Du Yichun. He had just returned from the border city that day, and he heard that he had been made a deputy general, so he called him General Du. Rulan saw my confusion and explained.
I nodded, "Well, thank him." ”
But I heard the voice of the third brother: "There are many people you want to thank." ”
When I looked up, I saw the third brother stepping into the room, and he took a few quick steps to sit on the edge of my bed: "But I want to thank you." Thank you for living well. You don't know that I chased you to the cliff that day but didn't see you, I didn't dare to look down the cliff at all, I was afraid that I wouldn't see you, and I was even more afraid to see you...... At that moment, I realized how important you are to me, sister. You are my only relative, promise me never to leave me in the future. His voice trembled slightly, and his eyes turned red all of a sudden: "I heard Ling Yun tell me about the situation at that time, and I felt even more thrilled. But your cliff jumping method is too dangerous, don't use it again in the future! ”
I looked at the third brother, my heart was very moved, my nose was sour, I was afraid that I would cry, so I hurriedly changed the topic: "Just now my brother said that he wanted to thank many people, did he alarm many people this time?" ”
The third brother sniffed and said, "Isn't it?" The first is Yichun. If he hadn't come back that night, I would have been in a hurry to see him, and I wouldn't have been able to take advantage of it. So when he heard that something had happened to you, he immediately went out with me to look for you. Then there is the crown prince, he begged the emperor to ask the imperial doctor to treat you, and the queen mother also gave medicine...... By the way, there are also the Fourth Highnesses, I heard about it that day, and I actually transferred the forbidden army to find you, and I was punished by the emperor for this matter. ”
I was shocked and hurriedly said, "How did you punish it?" Thinking that his reaction was too great, he added: "I and the Fourth Highness are just friends, if he is punished for me, how can I be happy." ”
The third brother said: "The punishment is a trivial matter, the emperor favors him, and where can he be punished." But let him think about it for a few days behind closed doors. The forbidden army is still under his control. Now everyone says that he is so concerned about your affairs for the sake of the second sister. It's just that for some reason, my father thinks that this assassination was planned by the Four Highnesses, and now he is on the same page as the Four Highnesses. ”
I couldn't help but feel nervous, due to the balance of forces of all parties before, Ding Xiang had deliberately not expressed his attitude very clearly. There is no obvious bias towards the crown prince, nor is there obvious opposition to the four princes. And Ruan Guifei has always had illusions about Ding Xiang, and she is still trying her best to win him over. Now that Ding Xiang has made his attitude clear, the emperor has made many decisions and has to consider Ding Xiang as the prince's person...... That's exactly what I don't want to see. Was it because of those words that the killer said that day? But when I heard it, it was said on purpose, everyone knew about the Fourth Highness and Ding Muyan, and it was just deliberately reminiscent of people who had a relationship with Ding Muyan.
I was in a hurry and hurriedly asked, "Where's Dad?" I want to see him. "But I forgot that the third brother didn't know many things between me and my father. Seeing the third brother's surprised face, I had to slow down my tone and sneer: "I don't want to affect my father's judgment of the court's major affairs because of me." ”
The third brother snorted: "However, it's useless for you to find your father now." In fact, my father's choice of the prince has been decided a long time ago. It's just not obvious and it's not obvious. So, it's not for you, and you don't have to take on that responsibility. It's just that His Royal Highness is indeed a little wronged this time. ”
I wondered: "How do you know if he has wronged him?" ”
"I guess." He squeezed his eyes at me and smiled: "It's just that when he heard that you had an accident that day, he hurried over and asked the forbidden army to look for it, and he saw that the expression was not a disguise, but really anxious." It's a pity that I told my father, who didn't believe it at all, and said that I was too gullible to trust others. The third brother said slowly: "However, I really don't know that the relationship between him and the second sister has been so good." ”
"Perhaps, he also knows that if something happens to me, he will suspect that he is like this." I had to help find out......
"Maybe...... So, Dad's decision is not because of you, don't worry about it, let's have a good rest. ”
I nodded, lay back on the bed, and when the third brother left, I immediately got up and told Rulan to inform the housekeeper that I wanted to see my father. Things are urgent, although I understand that maybe it is not because of me, as the third brother said, but I also want to work harder.
Until the evening, Ding Xiang did not send anyone to summon me, and just when I thought I would not see him today, he came in person.
"Are you better?" His expression was as usual, and there was no warmth in his tone.
"It's much better, let my dad worry, it's my daughter's." I had no choice but to do good.
He stopped talking, and after a while, I couldn't help it before I said, "Actually, this time it shouldn't be the Fourth Highness......"
"I know, it's the prince." He interrupted me.
I was shocked, I thought he didn't know. In fact, I have long thought that it can't be Jiang Yunlin. Assassinating me won't do him any good, it will only make him and Ding Xiang farther and farther apart. Although it can be said that it is too risky to kill an innocuous concubine to warn Ding Xiang. Even if it weren't for his actions to me in the Imperial Garden, I wouldn't have thought he did it. On the contrary, the biggest beneficiary of this assassination was the crown prince. Because of this incident, Ding Xiang had to show his attitude, and Ding Xiang was completely on his side. The previous Ding Xiang's attitude was ambiguous, even if he married his daughter to the prince, he did not explicitly support the prince in the court, but now there is a "scandal" between His Royal Highness and the second lady of the Ding family, I think this also made the prince panic. So since Ding Xiang knows that he is the prince, why is he still ......
"Daddy knows that he is the prince, why ......?" I couldn't figure it out.
"Hmph, since the prince needs my attitude, then I'll make it clear, anyway, we have already decided to support him before." Ding Xiang smiled indifferently.
My heart sank, all the previous assumptions were based on Ding Xiang's liking of my daughter very much, but I didn't want to tear this veil of warmth, and what was revealed below was still **naked interests. I almost died this time, if the prince just wanted to force Ding Xiang to show his attitude and make a show. I thought I could change Ding Xiang's attitude about this incident, but it turned out that he didn't care about my life or death at all.
I smiled and said, "I see, my daughter thought that her father had been deceived." ”
Maybe I was laughing too unnaturally, but Ding Xiang also saw it, so he immediately comforted: "However, this time he is also very excessive, and he will definitely let him repay this account in the future." ”
I didn't want to listen to it anymore, so I said that I was tired and sent Ding Xiang away.
Because of the injury on my back, I could only sleep on my side or stomach, Rulan covered me with two thick beds, and Tang Pozi, but I couldn't resist the cool air that came out of my body.
What to do, what the hell should I do......