106. Killing
In the dark of the night, Zhang Yan curled up in the futon alone, and the nightmares of recent days made her afraid to sleep.
As long as she closed her eyes, she seemed to be able to see her and Chang Wan walking together with a big belly, and then she suddenly took out a long sword, stabbed Chang Wan's stomach, cut open the belly, and took out a baby inside.
The baby was covered in blood, and his eyes glared at Zhang Yan fiercely.
And Chang Wan fell in a pool of blood, twitching, moaning, and a pair of bloody hands violently strangled Zhang Yan's throat, trying to strangle her to death.
"I don't want ...... I don't want it! ”
Zhang Yan plunged into the futon, and the sound of crying spread in the unlit room, echoing.
Zhang Yan changed, she began to stop talking, like a mute, combing her hair in a bun or wearing clothes was fiddled with by everyone, like a puppet.
She once heard Liu Ying say that he was a puppet.
Zhang Yan didn't understand what it meant, but now she did. It's the kind of thing that I don't want to do in every way, but resisting can only lead to a bloodier ending.
Zhang Yan almost felt that she was about to collapse. But when Liu Ying came to see her, she couldn't say a word. She was so scared, afraid that Chang Juan would have an accident, and afraid that Liu Ying would be sad.
No matter how beautiful the days were before, they were like bubbles in the water, and the wind dispersed before it blew, and even he was shattered.
Zhang Yan felt that she had been isolated from the other side of this world for a long time, far away from Liu Ying and Chang Juan, and she didn't understand whether she wanted to live or not.
But once, when Zhang Yan was led by the palace maid to the back garden to relax, she saw Chang Juan and Liu Ying enjoying the flowers at the pavilion. Liu Ying stroked Changwan's slightly bulging belly, and the two of them laughed happily.
Zhang Yan frantically ran back to the Jiaofang Palace, ignoring the palace maid chasing behind her to remind her that she was now 'pregnant'.
Because Zhang Yan suddenly understood one thing, she couldn't touch the happiness of Liu Ying and Chang Juan, let alone let Chang Wan go to death. She has what she has to do!
"Niangniang, are you joking with the old slave?"
When Zhang Yan took a box of jewelry and handed it to Mama Su beside Lu Pheasant, and told her that she wanted to help Chang Juan's plan, Mama Su felt like she was in a dream.
First, I didn't expect Zhang Yan to be so calm, and secondly, why did she find herself, the henchman next to the Queen Mother?
Zhang Yan tidied up her collar and said in an unchildish voice: "This palace once saw you go out of the palace with a big bag of luggage to help others, but the next day you lied to the queen mother and said that you went out of the palace to find a remedy for medical treatment. If you lie to the Queen Mother, it means that you are unfaithful to her. If I tell her your secret, you and your family outside the palace will go down to the Yellow Spring with Chang Liangren! ”
Mama Su knelt on the ground, almost unable to believe her ears, this is what a thirteen-year-old queen said?
Mama Su laughed dryly: "Queen Mother, even so, Niangniang got the handle of the old slave, but the plan proposed by the mother is no different from risking death, both horizontally and vertically, so why does the old slave want to go around in circles to help Niangniang?" ”
Zhang Yan was obviously not afraid of Mama Su's words, she smiled: "Who said that both horizontal and vertical are one death?" The box given to you by the palace is all the belongings of the palace, which is enough for you to live for ten lifetimes, will the queen mother reward you so much? How can you feed anyone but you with your meager income? It's better to help this palace once, so that you don't have nothing, how about it? ”
"That'...... Rong Lao Nu went back to think about it. ”
Zhang Yan was gambling on Mama Su's ambitions, and she knew that this woman was not a fuel-efficient lamp. But apart from her, Zhang Yan really didn't know who to find to help her.
Sure enough, Mama Su agreed to her conditions.
"Mama Su, the Queen Mother trusts you so much, on the day of Sister Juan's birth, you must have gone to watch Wen Po deliver the baby, and only you can replace the poisonous wine, and then get her out of the palace and find someone to answer her. When the time comes, you tell the Queen Mother that Sister Juan struggled before she died, and her death was ugly, for fear of irritating the emperor, so she was thrown directly into the mass grave in Yongxiang. ”
"Mother, wouldn't this be too far-fetched? If the Queen Mother is held accountable......"
Zhang Yan shook her head, her nails embedded in her skin: "She still loves her son, she will definitely be afraid that Liu Ying will find out the clues, so keeping Chang Juan's poisoned corpse is a long night, as long as you explain to her like this, she will definitely not be careful, but will think that you are able to do things." ”
"No."
In fact, Mama Su didn't promise Zhang Yan exactly for the box of silver, even if Zhang Yan didn't come to beg her, she would save Chang Juan, because this woman is very important, and a little use can become a strength to counter the Lu family.
It's just that she didn't expect that she couldn't come up with a perfect plan every night, but was conceived by thirteen-year-old Zhang Yan. If Zhang Yan wasn't so kind, she would definitely be a very scary person.
This may be the helplessness of being in the emperor's house, and the forced growth is all distorted memories.
As the days passed, Zhang Yan tied a thick cotton cloth on her stomach and sat in Yifeng Palace with Chang Wan. Zhang Yan could feel Chang Wan's stolen gaze towards her, with doubts and sadness.
But she couldn't do anything, her face was indifferent that had never been revealed, she just thought in her heart, Sister Juan, wait a while, all your confusion will disappear, and then, completely break away from this ruthless Han Palace, go to live a life without fighting the world outside the palace, and never come back!
Chang Juan was named a beauty, and this position shows Liu Ying's love for her. Everything seems to be back to normal in the palace.
Only Zhang Yan knew that this was just an illusion, and she wanted to tell Liu Ying and Chang Wan that they should wake up, and not be fooled by the Queen Mother's words.
Chang Juan's pregnancy in October was even more difficult for Zhang Yan than her.
If Zhang Yan's plan against the back of the Queen Mother is known by others, it will be a dead end. She was careful, careful, doing the thrills she had never challenged in her growth.
"As long as it's for Uncle and Sister Juan, Yan'er has no regrets."
She looked at the sky and said this, but it was impossible to say this sentence to their faces.
The days finally came when Chang Wan was about to give birth, and the Queen Mother had already found an excuse to send Liu Ying out of the palace. Zhang Yan decided to go and see Chang Wan before the big event happened, after all, without Liu Ying by her side, she must be very uneasy.
When she went to Zhaoyang Palace, Chang Wan's face was ugly, especially in the face of Zhang Yan's gaze, she had a little more scrutiny, she already regarded Zhang Yan as a group with Lu Pheasant.
"It's about to give birth, Chang Meiren still has to be more careful, the emperor is not around, you have to take care of yourself."