The sound of beating the watch, boom, boom, echo in the palace for a long time.

When Aunt Sun saw the blood spit on the ground by Empress Dowager Hu, she felt that her eyes were dark, and she was about to faint. A cold voice swept over her ears coolly: "Don't you let the Imperial Doctor come over?" If the Queen Mother has three long and two short, here, there is only one aunt, if you ask who the Queen Mother is to harm, what should the aunt do? ”

Her body trembled, and Aunt Sun slammed her head on the ground: "Niangniang spare your life, and the queen mother spares her life." Her forehead was pressed hard against the hard jade, and for a moment, her face was covered in blood. The wet stream of blood blurred her eyes, and when she looked up, she saw that the room was empty, the windows and doors were closed, and only a wind on the ground seemed to reveal that what she had just done was not all a dream.

On the couch, Empress Dowager Hu was lying softly, her breath was weak, and her clothes were full of blood. Aunt Sun hurriedly stood up, pushed open the door, and shouted, "Come on!" Doctor, please! The Queen Mother is no good! ”

At that time, a ray of light rising from the east had just broken through the clouds. The news that Empress Dowager Hu was seriously ill and in a coma soon spread from inside the palace to outside the palace.

In other words, Jin Suqing originally wanted to live in the princess's mansion, but the eldest princess was exquisite, and she didn't want to offend anyone, and of course she didn't want to offend the saint, so she politely refused her. Under the arrangement of Empress Dowager Hu, Jin Suqing secretly lived in the courtyard of Sun's mansion.

Jin Suqing thought that last night, the eldest princess of the Lantern Festival failed to deceive Li Zimo, but with Empress Dowager Hu's ability, as many times before, at least she and Li Zimo could meet once or twice. She's not in a hurry, there's nothing to hurry. It's been so many years. It's been almost twenty years. From Chapter 070 in the lobby. Not only that, but all the civil and military officials in Beijing were affected. ”

"Don't look at the saint after he ascended the throne, he handled the government with his own hands everywhere. But in the final analysis, there are no relatives in this dynasty. As long as the Empress Dowager Hu is alive, Hu's relatives are all there. is not like the queen of the palace, there is only such an incorruptible palace family, no wonder the palace queen will die so early. Jin Suqing analyzed lightly, "What about the saint?" ”

At this moment, the emperor is most needed to come out to preside over the overall situation and stabilize the dynasty.

"Niangniang, this is the news that the slave maid just got, and she is in a hurry to tell Niangniang. It is reported that the saint and the queen mother went to Yunling to sweep the tomb last night. The Queen Mother came back last night, and the saint has not returned so far. ”

Jin Suqing raised her eyelids, slammed the teacup in her hand and pressed it on the table: "You said that the saint went to Yunling to sweep whose tomb?" ”

Rosewood didn't dare to look her in the eyes.

Jin Suqing tapped her heart with her fingertips: "Is this the reason why this palace was uncertain last night?" ”

"Mother-"

"Hongu asked you to arrest someone last night, did you catch it?"

"That old lady of the Hua family is very cunning. Last night, the king protector brought several people and formed a formation to besiege their master and servant. As a result, a masked hacker came out of nowhere halfway and rescued the two of them at once. ”

"Someone robbed me halfway! Why didn't you talk to Hongu last night?! ”

"Niangniang, you were in the Eldest Princess's Mansion last night, so many people were staring."

Jin Suqing got off the couch and walked quickly. Rosewood followed closely behind her, and saw that she was passing through the passage connected to the Sun Mansion and walked directly to the Sun Mansion compound.

In the Sun Mansion, there are many guests coming and going here. However, the people who come and the people who leave are very secretive. I hit a sedan chair and came from the alley, not daring to take a carriage. Leave, quietly. In front of the Sun Mansion, the usual four atmospheric stone lions are in formation, and the main gate is not opened, only the corner door is opened, or the back door. Directly above the gate, there is a large plaque with golden characters, which reads General Chengde.

This plaque was given by the first emperor of the first emperor, and it was given to Sun Xuanxi Sun Ruyu's grandfather's father, at that time, the first emperor of the first emperor had an expedition, and was almost shot by a stray arrow, it was this grandson senior who saved the emperor's life, and, for the royal victory battle, to old age and illness before death, are stationed in the Tanglin frontier to defend the land for the royal family, a lifetime of loyalty, in exchange for the title of family honor.

The protection of the Sun family's ancestral shade has continued to the present, and it is the official residence of Chapter 070. ”

Hua Xiyan looked at the courtyard wall of the palace and thought that at this time of year, her mother would take out the books in the study to dry. It's going to rain today, and I wonder if my mother will come out to dry books. The mother is like now, she and her son met in the teahouse that day. It can be seen that the elder brother takes good care of his mother, which is not enough for her to worry. It's her father.

"Gong Taishi—"

Knowing that she would ask about this, Du Youzhi couldn't have been more cautious: "Not long after Niangniang died, Gong Taishi was dismissed by the Shengshang, saying that it was sent to the frontier, but after all, he was the head of the country, and the Shengshang must have considered it later." Returning to it, for fear of disturbing the saint, the minister still does not dare to find out the whereabouts of Gong Taishi. ”

"Let's go back." Hua Xiyan lowered the curtain. If her father was in his hands, she would have asked him directly. Presumably he found out something last night, so he didn't return to the palace overnight, maybe he went to find her father.

The sky was bright and bright, but it was a sunny day and a burst of rain was falling.

Li Zimo listened to the sound of rain like hail on the rubble of the roof, as if he had just woken up from a dream. He's been sitting here all night. Facing the middle-aged man in front of him, it was like a dream.

The middle-aged man had a beard, a little unkempt edges, rough skin, and was dressed in the clothes of hard labor, and his hands and feet were not handcuffed, but he was no different from hard labor. Every day here, I go up the mountain to chop wood, and the scope of my activities is limited to this small forest. Such a life of hardship is like a prison sentence, and the days when a middle-aged man was an official and enjoyed the worship of the people, there is a world of difference, and not everyone can bear it. But in Li Zimo's eyes, he, the national ruler who was punished by him as a hard laborer, seems to be very suitable for this kind of life. Gong Hongwen's face did not seem to be half sorrowful, and his two eyes were shining.

"Gong Taishi, still don't you have anything to say to me?"

Gong Hongwen swallowed his saliva, touched the sweat towel tied around his waist, and said in an unhurried tone unique to the palace family: "It's time for the saint to go back to the palace, it's time for the court." ”

"I'm asking you something, asking you all night!" Angry, he slapped his hand on the rough wooden table.

But this trick is useless for the Gong family. The Gong family is loyal and principled with this temper. Sometimes the emperor is helpless.

Li Zimo calmed down, and looked at the back standing at the door of the house, he had thought about letting his son come in to persuade his father, but if this trick could be successful, what would he have done seven years ago.

Gong Hongwen was a little afraid that Long Yan would be angry, and said, "Chen really has nothing to say to the saint." If you can say anything, seven years ago, you confessed to the saint. It was the sins of the ministers, who failed to heal his daughter and the holy queen. ”

"Do you still think Jinxi died of illness?"

"The doctors of the Chenhe Tai Hospital, I really can't see that Niangniang can have other reasons besides being killed by a sudden illness."

The ink eyes were slightly clamped, and he looked at him: "Do you know why I came to you suddenly after seven years?" ”

"For what?"

"I entered the queen's mausoleum with Gong Qing last night. As a result, I found that not only the jade door that I could open had been opened, but also the coffin. ”

Gong Hongwen's lowered head was raised, as if he was surprised: "What does the saint mean, has the queen's mausoleum been stolen?" ”

"I can't figure out who can enter and exit the only place where I can go in and out."

Hearing this, the father and son of the Gong family seemed to be a little stiff in their bodies.

After a while, Gong Hongwen said: "The Holy Lord, the minister has been in this place all along, and there are holy people watching, it is impossible to go anywhere. The minister also couldn't figure it out, why did the saint find the minister to ask this question? ”

Li Zimo looked at him for a while, and saw that there was really no trace of lying when he said this on his face. It's strange, it's my own mistake. Obviously, I thought that this person should know what to say. However, it is illogical.

Gong Xiangru looked at the blue sky washed by the rain, and saw a secret guard suddenly jump out of the forest, walked in front of him, and arched his hand: "Lord Gong, please tell the Holy Lord that something happened in the palace, and maybe the Holy Lord must take the Lord Gong back immediately." ”

"What's the matter?"

"The Queen Mother is seriously ill, and the Tai Hospital is helpless, and they are all waiting for the palace lord."

At the same time, the words came into the house. Both men in the room were shocked.

"The Queen Mother is seriously ill—" Gong Hongwen read this, his brows furrowed.

Glancing at Gong Hongwen, Li Zimo walked out of the wooden house and said to Gong Xiangru and the secret guard: "Go back to the palace immediately and go to see the Queen Mother." ”

Gong Hongwen only heard the sound of the carriage outside the house galloping by, and it didn't take a moment for him to return to silence in this hut. Getting up, he took an axe and was about to chop wood, but I don't know where his body suddenly failed, his hand hung down weakly, and he muttered in his mouth: Could it be that he really didn't die of illness?

Du Youzhi sent Hua Xiyan back to the palace, and Hua Xiyan asked him to stand outside the Yongning Hall and not enter again, saying, "The hour is almost up, and he is coming back." If you come in again, there will be danger. ”

"That's too. The minister has been hiding it for so many years, if the saint learns about it, it will be strange if the saint doesn't cut off the minister's head. Du Youzhi wiped his sweat.

"Where and what day we will meet in the future, this palace will tell you."

"Obey." Du Youzhi finished the salute, and was a little worried about her, "Niangniang goes back, if the saint suspects Niangniang?" ”

"If he really finds out, Bengong will have less trouble to explain." Having said that, Hua Xiyan was really worried in her heart, whether he found it or not, in itself, she recovered the part of Gong Jinxi's memory, the seven souls and six spirits in her body that Gong Jinxi came back, she hadn't seen him for seven years, how could she not be embarrassed in the face of him.

Seven years have passed, she has experienced a reincarnation, and she still hasn't found a partner, speaking of which, she is worthy of him. Of course, he is also worthy of her, isn't there no more queen. But I haven't seen you for a long time, what is it good to say, how are you doing?

Will he listen to the urge to strangle her to death?

Walking slowly in the corridor, pacing and contemplating. On the other side of the Yongshou Palace, it is still busy. I only heard someone come to report that the Holy One has returned!

Everyone is scrambling. She suddenly had a strange thought, wanting to see what he would think if he saw Empress Dowager Hu like this, it was his own mother. Immediately, he turned into a little eunuch and hid in the busy crowd.

The royal drive of the Holy One is like a whirlwind when it comes. Everyone stood on both sides of the corridor, their faces blown by the whirlwind.

When the carriage stopped, a row of doctors from the imperial hospital knelt down in front of the royal car, first pleaded guilty before speaking, and shouted: "Long live my emperor, the ministers are incompetent, please forgive the saint." ”

Li Zimo stepped on the footstool and looked at the dense heads of people kneeling under his feet, if he said that he was not angry, he was really angry at this time. Raising a bunch of waste refers to the kind in front of you. At the critical moment, none of them were used, and they all thought about their lives first.

"Imperial Physician Wang, how is the Queen Mother? Didn't you often see the Queen Mother? The Queen Mother, this pathology should be best known to you. "I ordered a doctor to ask first.

Imperial Physician Wang stood up vigorously and replied conscientiously: "Holy Lord, the Queen Mother's illness this time is different from the past, and it is menacing, as if she has been hit by evil?" ”

Hua Xiyan stood in the crowd and shrunk her mouth: Hey, this is too much progress. When she died before, the word evil was not invented from the mouth of the imperial doctor.

"Evil? Who cursed the Queen Mother in this palace? Long Yan asked softly.

Even if Imperial Physician Wang knew the way, he didn't dare to point at people casually, so he had to take a step back and say: "Minister, minister doesn't know the way." ”

The emperor's stern eyes swept over the head of the imperial physician: "Of course you don't know the way, your head is the same as that Zhu Erkang, it is made of grass. After reading medical books for so many years, I dared to say the word evil. ”

Imperial Physician Wang fell to the ground, sweating profusely, and regretted: "Minister, the minister is ashamed—"

Long Yan brushed past the imperial physician, and was just about to step into the queen mother's bedroom. A sudden pause made everyone raise their throats.

Hua Xiyan couldn't resist the action of raising his sleeves to cover his face, and his gaze swept over her left and right. Had it not been for the chaotic voices in the courtyard urging him, she believed that his eyes would have pulled her out.

Entering the courtyard of the Empress Dowager Hu, a group of eunuchs and palace maids all knelt in unison, asking who found out that the Empress Dowager was seriously ill first, and someone replied that it was Aunt Sun. But Aunt Sun was sick, her head was covered in blood, and her weak body was supported by two palace maids, so she came to the saint, knelt down, and panted: "Slave, knock to the saint." ”

"What's the matter with the Queen Mother?"

Where did Aunt Sun answer? Can it be said that the palace queen climbed out of the coffin and went to the Empress Dowager Hu's house? Having said that, wouldn't it become that Empress Dowager Hu was a thief herself, otherwise how could she be scared sick by the Queen of the Palace. The Holy One had long been suspicious of this.

"Return, return to the saint, the Queen Mother is not in good health, she was frightened last night, and her illness has worsened today."

"But how can the imperial doctor say that the queen mother is evil?"

The imperial physician who said that Empress Dowager Hu was evil still knelt at the door and did not dare to move.

Aunt Sun's lips turned white: "Queen Mother, how can the Queen Mother be evil?" The Queen Mother has always been the most benevolent master in the palace, who can curse the Queen Mother? ”

"You're right, that's what I thought." Long Yan said this, and no one dared to say that the Queen Mother was evil.

Gong Xiangru took the medicine box brought by the medicine boy of the Tai Hospital, followed the emperor, and walked into the bedroom of the Empress Dowager Hu.

When I entered the room, I saw that the Empress Dowager Hu was pressed by two quilts, her eyes were closed, she was unconscious, and she spit out a mouthful of blood from time to time.

Yun Mei frowned lightly and waved his hand. Gong Xiangru stepped forward and checked the pulse of Empress Dowager Hu.

Hua Xiyan visited on tiptoe behind her head, I don't know if with her brother's ability, she can see that Empress Dowager Hu is being attacked by the curse of heaven.

After a while, Gong Xiangru let go of the hand to diagnose the pulse, and replied: "Back to the saint, the queen mother's illness, the minister is afraid that there is no way to return to heaven." ”

Mo eyes then tightened: "What disease?" ”

Gong Xiangru replied slowly: "The Queen Mother's illness is similar to the illness of the Queen of the Palace seven years ago. ”

As soon as these words came out, all the imperial doctors in the room showed surprise. Seven years ago, when the queen was sick, Gong Xiangru was not in the palace, how did she know.

"The minister has studied the queen's medical case, and the queen mother, like the queen of the palace, has all the blood in her body destroyed, the blood cannot gather, and the seven holes bleed. However, there is no poison in the world that can destroy the blood. ”

For this imminent answer, it seems that Li Zimo has already heard about it, and said: "Is it a heavenly curse?" ”

Hua Xiyan was shocked somewhere in her heart: it seems that she underestimated the ability of him and her brother.

However, it is also possible that they guessed that she died of the Heavenly Curse, so Zhilu Dao has no skills to return to the sky, so Zhilu Dao may not be able to find her murderer for the rest of her life, so she can only turn to save the little prince she left behind wholeheartedly.

The other people in the room, some of the old doctors, had also heard of the Heavenly Mantra, and they all looked very shocked.

What does it mean that the queen and the queen mother who were killed by the curse of heaven have happened one after another in the palace?

"I remember that when the queen died that year, I wanted to talk to the queen, and Gong Taishi used a method to get the queen to speak. Can Gong Qing do it? I have something to ask the Queen Mother. ”

"Commandment." After the salute, Gong Xiangru took out the needle box, took out three silver needles, and pierced them into the Empress Dowager Hu's Yin Hall, Listening Palace, and Baihui respectively.

After a while, Empress Dowager Hu opened her eyes, looked at Long Yan standing above her head in a blur, and coughed: "Saint, saint-"

He lowered his head so that the unconscious Empress Dowager Hu could hear his words clearly: "I know that the Empress Dowager is no better than the Empress, and the Empress Dowager can tell me who wants to harm the Empress Dowager, and I will avenge the Empress Dowager." ”

Empress Dowager Hu's two eyeballs slowly moved, like an hour hand, and glanced around his face, and as a result, it caused her an illusion-like scene: "The first emperor—"

Just a little hesitant, he said, "Well, it's me." ”

"Emperor Xian, the mourning family knows that the way is wrong." After saying this, Empress Dowager Hu closed her eyes and lowered her hands.

Gong Xiangru stepped forward to check the pulse, and then lowered his hand: "Please mourn on the Holy Day." ”

At the same time, everyone inside and outside the house bowed to the ground, and the sound of sobbing filled the inside and outside.

Hua Xiyan stood behind, trying to see his face clearly, but the distance was too far away, and she could only look blurry, so blurred that she could only vaguely distinguish the shape of his mouth. From what she knew about him, his lips seemed to say: Why did you bother in the first place?

Her heart suddenly froze, and Hua Xiyan knew that it was time to run.

But he is the emperor, and he must wait for him to leave first before she has a chance to run. When he walked out of the house, his steps were very slow, and everyone thought that he was grieving because of the death of Empress Dowager Hu, but she noticed that his eyes had been scanning around the house. Gong Xiangru followed him several times and stopped several times, but he was also a little suspicious.

"Holy?"

"Go back to the Yongning Palace." I finally made up my mind and walked fast.

Seeing him run away, Hua Xiyan quickly jumped up, and when she ran out of the door, she almost squeezed shoulder-to-shoulder with a medicine boy to the door. Then, run desperately in the familiar corridor. Ran to the Yongning Palace, saw that the corner gate was actually closed, and did not dare to go to the main gate, so he had to climb over the courtyard wall.

Lucui was in the house, and because she pretended to be her for the first time, she was very afraid of revealing her stuffing, so she sat in the house and didn't dare to move. When Aunt Liu came in to visit her, she simply lay down on the bed and said that she had not slept enough last night, her body was tired, and she wanted to sleep.

This kind of statement is generally deceiving people. It's a pity that this Aunt Liu is very worried about her body because she has the emperor's order. wanted to ask the imperial doctor to take a look at her body, but the imperial hospital was too busy to find out the manpower because Empress Dowager Hu was too busy. Just heard that the saint had returned, Aunt Liu hurriedly walked out of the palace to tell the emperor.

Hua Xiyan climbed over the courtyard wall, walked against the wall for a while, didn't see anyone following, breathed a sigh of relief, and when she wanted to rush into the house and exchange for green green, she only heard a movement at the door of the small courtyard where she lived.

"Yan Shangshu is sick?"

"Yes, I haven't been very good since the morning. The slave was worried about whether the girl was caught with the cold? ”

The shadow of the dragon robe entered the small courtyard, looked around the courtyard, and saw that a tree had sprouted new shoots, and the corners of the cold and deep lips hooked a small arc.

Before Aunt Liu pushed the door open, she shouted, "Girl, the saint has come to visit you." ”

The door opened, and when she saw Lucui standing outside the screen, Aunt Liu sighed: "I haven't seen you all morning, your master said that he sent you to run errands, when did you come back?" ”

Lu Cui blessed her body and said, "Not long after I came back, I saw that my aunt was not there. After speaking, his head was carefully raised, and he looked at the dragon robe that came in, and immediately drooped down again.

Bypassed the screen, walked to her bed, and saw her body hidden in the gauze tent, so he sat on a stool next to the bed, and said, "Yan Shangshu, did you eat too much at the Lantern Festival last night, and you have accumulated food like your son, come, stretch out your hand and let me take a look." ”

Depend on. Did he think she was her son?

Turning his head, he met his eyes through the veil, and the light in his eyes was like a fire that was about to burn her, making her body feel like she was on fire.

This book was first published by Xiaoxiang Academy, please do not reprint!