The moon is like a disk, the light is like ripples, and on the night of the last day of the first year of the Xi Dynasty, Luojing City was clothed in snow and jade.

The faint moonlight reflected on the window paper was still too dark for the interior, and there was a sound of rustling in the main room of the Jianing Hall of Yanwang's Mansion late at night, and then a candle was lit.

"Princess!" , Xiao Qiao, who was on night duty in the outhouse, turned over and stayed, and a flying jumped at the door of the room. And the older Mother Qi also quickly followed.

As Manyun's production time is getting closer and closer, the people on duty at night in Jianingtang are not untied, and they have been careful and very tense their nerves.

"I'm just going to get up and sit down, you don't have to come in yet." , Zhou Manyun, who was leaning alone by the door in the room, comforted the child while stroking his stomach, and raised his voice to persuade the slightly moving door curtain.

Hearing this, Mother Qi hurriedly dragged Xiaoqiao's sleeve, and there was a slight dissatisfaction in her eyes. For her, the solitary nature that she has seen since she was a child and has never changed until now makes it very difficult for people who want to take care of her.

Just by peeping and listening, you can understand that Zhou Manyun got up and lit a candle to do more than just sit.

But Xiaoman still didn't go in, and pulled the small bridge away again, in case her curiosity disturbed the pregnant women in the room.

Zhou Manyun was also listening to the movement outside, and waited for a while before walking back to the couch. She picked up the Baizi yarn tent on the couch frame with one hand, and picked up a couch from the shelf with the other hand and waved it on the mattress that still carried her body temperature.

The dark red soft brocade was filled with black spots that had seemed to be stained, gradually forming into a small pointed pile.

A black body the size of a copper coin eye, four pairs of long legs with fine fluff on the thin and tough knots, and more than 100 foreign objects that suddenly appeared on the sleeping couch were dead poisonous spiders.

Because they had spit venom before they died, they were sticky to each other, and they were immediately tangled up after being swept into a pile.

Before being discovered by silver. They're all alive.

Man Yun stretched out his hand and wanted to pick up one to take a closer look, but in the end, his hand was still firmly protected on his stomach.

Before the child was born, she didn't want to touch the poison at all.

Turning over the table next to the couch, he found a needlework basket and emptied it, Zhou Manyun swept the spider corpse into it three times and two times, and then poured in a brocade bag, and then called Xiaoman to enter the house and take the things and burn them immediately.

Xiaoqiao was also called in to help change the sweaty mattress sheet she had dreamed of.

Wait for silence to return to the room. Zhou Manyun sat back on the couch alone and blew out the candle. In the darkness, he quietly looked at the pair of glazed black eyes of Gu Snake Yinzi.

"Silver! Looks like we're being targeted! ”

Yaksha thief, a small spider that is not very poisonous. Supplemented by drug domestication, it is mostly used by the poisoners of Nanzhao to find Gu and find poison.

But so many of the poisonous spiders visited in their slumber at the same time, and if they hadn't been carrying silver, they would have been bitten into a dead mass of stinky flesh.

Although he didn't know if he had let the live spider slip through the web just now, Man Yun was sure that the truth that he was carrying the Star Gu of the Southern Summoning Holy Star Temple had already been leaked.

The silver climbed up to Man Yun's wrist, and she raised her hand to rest on her shoulder, and the little snake's cold body immediately rose up and rubbed her hot cheek.

Life events. What you gain is bound to be lost, and everyone must bear the risk of good fortune.

In the past, he had benefited from the help of silver in Toyotsu and survived, but now even if there are more enemies who may be attracted by silver in the situation of being embattled, he can only accept it calmly.

"According to the previous contact with Tianxiangyuan, they can't tame the Yaksha thief. Then the spider man should be from Nanzhao, and the purpose of finding the door is mostly ......"

Zhou Manyun's gaze fell on his high bulging abdomen, and the bottom of his eyes seemed to be inlaid with a layer of cruel faint green light.

It's not just pregnant women who are visited by poisonous spiders who stay awake at night.

The bright moonlight turned and reflected into another deep courtyard.

On the neat stone path, a group of about a dozen spiders lined up in a neat line like soldiers on the march. Along a wisp of dark incense, he crawled to a three-legged tripod in the middle of the courtyard.

The black ding was chrome with a strange ornament of a spider body, and behind the ding, which was emitting a faint smoke, sat an old man in gray with white hair and white beard.

One by one, the Yaksha Spiders who roamed the streets returned to the office. Elder Kui waited quietly for nearly a pillar of incense, and after confirming that there would be no more small insects returning, he quickly reached out and firmly fastened the lid.

The poisonous spider that was put on the vicinity of Yanwang's Mansion in a desperate gamble only came back by one tenth.

Faced with such a fact, Elder Kui's orange peel face had a strange crying and laughing, and he didn't know whether it was the happiness of getting his wish or the sadness of heartache and poison being damaged out of thin air.

"That woman should be the person Elder Kui is looking for, right?" , Gao Wei, who insisted on staying behind the old man, finally couldn't help but ask.

Elder Kui shook his head solemnly. After Gao Wei showed a slight disappointment on his face, he replied softly: "Although it is not far away, the person with the Gu should be in the Yan King's Mansion." ”

The poisonous spiders that quietly dispersed in were all raised for several years, even if they were hunted by natural enemies such as snakes and birds or beaten to death by diligent subordinates, they would not consume so much overnight, and the Yanwang Mansion, which sent people to keep an eye on, did not spread the news that the doctor had cured the spider venom.

Most of the people with Gu poison are there. Poisonous spiders will not hesitate to die like moths to fire.

When he was in Jiangnan, when he secretly discovered the poisonous mink amethyst that Xiao Hong was carrying, and he followed Xu Yu's actions with only a superficial clue, Elder Kui deduced that Xiao Hong at least understood the Gu cultivation of the Nanzhao Holy Star Temple.

The noble son of the Central Plains Prince's family was able to learn the details of Nanzhao Xinggu in detail, and most of the knots were due to his wife, who was said to have a habit of poison.

And this time the poisonous spider test made Elder Kui a little more confident.

He pinched two black and thin fingers and counted and counted repeatedly, and finally asked Gao Wei on the side as if seeking verification, "Can you be sure that the woman's scheduled delivery date is at the end of January and the beginning of February?" ”

A dead old man pretending to be a ghost! Gao Wei snorted to himself and said with a smile: "A few days ago, people asked a few noble ladies who knew about it at the banquet, and it was determined that it was about that time. ”

Xue Suyun, who was standing beside Gao Wei with his hands tied, nodded in agreement and said in a low voice: "As the old saying goes, seven out of eight are not alive, if the elder takes that woman now, I am afraid that it will be dangerous to promote the birth of a fetus." ”

It was Elder Kui, who thought of this, who immediately agreed: "There is indeed such a statement. Mrs. Gao was really kind. ”

A voice from Mrs. Gao attracted Gao Wei's side eyes, and her eyes swept over Xue Suxuan's face, cold and cold.

Where will Xue Suyun be soft-hearted towards Zhou Manyun?

At this time, in order to survive, their resentful couple is eager for the other pair to die early and be reborn.

Those vain deeds in the past are now ropes around their necks, and if Xiao Hong crosses it, the better, and the position is getting higher and higher. The deadly rope that tightened them naturally became tighter and tighter.

In order to survive, a husband and wife who were already separated from each other have become partners with the same hatred again.

In the palace, Empress Xu favored the eldest son and grandson and did not wait to see Xingliu's younger son, although the reason was not clear for a while, but Xiao Ze's serious illness and the private actions of Empress Xu sent people to run around just gave them a chance.

Whether it is Xiao Han, who is less than five years old, or Xiao Tandeli, who has a little sympathy for Gao Wei, it is always much better than Xiao Hong. The Gao couple now only want to clean up the pair that knows their roots first.

If Xiao Ze, who might also know some details, died at the same time, or Emperor Jing had another accident, it would naturally be better......

Gao Wei, who realized that his thoughts were a little too much, was shocked and his expression became serious. Seriously suggested to Elder Kui, "Then ask the elder to put the time of initiation in January." I have received a rumor from the DPRK that Emperor Jing will lead most of his courtiers to leave Luojing in the first month of the new year. ”

"Hmmm! It is said that the crown prince stayed in Beijing to supervise the country, and Empress Xu privately contacted several familiar families to be afraid that he would do something big. At that time, the capital was chaotic, and it was a good thing for us to take advantage of the situation to be able to take over the difficult Zhou's production. Speaking of childbirth, it is a woman's life and death! ”

Xue Suyun said softly, as if she was Jin Lan, the sister of Man Yun.

When the old man arrived, he just wanted to leave with the child and return to Nanzhao. After that, I would never dare to bother Lord Gao and Mrs. Gao again. ”

Elder Kui looked deeply at the couple in front of him, and there was a little smile on the old face of the ravine.

Get this old thing away, and those people in Tianxiangyuan!

Xue Sujun gently returned the salute with a short bow, when he was picked up by Gao Wei'enai. Scratching his palms with his tail fingers, he gestured to a few faithful servants who were watching them play like wooden carvings not far away.

The layers of shackles on the body can only be slowly untied and thrown off, and the top priority is to kill the unsettling Zhou Manyun first.

Gao Wei smiled softly in Xue Suyun's ear: "Madam! I have to bother you to go to the East Palace to ask He Liangdi for a farewell. There are some things that have to wait for her to show. ”

"The concubine obeys the orders of the marquis!" , Xue Sujun smiled accordingly.

The He family in the East Palace has her own reasons for targeting Zhou Manyun and his wife, and she naturally has to bear her weight in the hunting net that she pulls up.

In the first year of the Xiyuan Dynasty, all the yamen in Luojing City were very busy.

When Xiao Rui accepted the Zen concession, he directly changed the first year of the Yuan Xi Dynasty, and the upcoming second year of the Xi Yuan Dynasty was actually the first New Year ushered in by the Jing Dynasty.

The ancestors of the Xiao family who have been buried in Yunzhou for generations are not suitable for long-distance burial, so the Taimiao of the Xiao family is directly erected in front of the old Jingguo Gong tomb in Luojing, when Emperor Xiaozong of the Chen Dynasty died. The newly formed Taimiao will also come in handy for the first time in the year.

According to the regulations issued by the Ministry of Rites and the Superintendent of Qintian, in the first month, the first three mounds are sacrificed to the sky, the first five square mounds are sacrificed to the ground, and the first seven are worshipped to the emperor. The Eighth Festival of the First Month......

In the next few days, Emperor Jing will award medals to the meritorious soldiers in the past battles, and will symbolically plough the fields and hold a shooting salute.

By the 27th, the ancestral court of the temple will be buried, and the edict will be announced.

The edict made it clear that the fundamental legislation of the Jing Dynasty included the criteria for the selection of the heirs of the imperial family.

A series of plans made it so that Emperor Jing Xiao Rui would have to run around the altars on the outskirts of Luojing for the first month of the first month, and he would move with a huge group of officials and guards.

The military and political power of Luojing City will be handed over to the crown prince Xiao Ze.

If it weren't for Xiao Ze's serious illness, everything would be flawless. Uncle Xu Shida, who was swaying lightly on the horse, was in a trance, and frequently looked back at the palace he had just left, and the frowning brows on both sides were tightly tied into twisted knots.

It was the end of December, and when I went to see my sister Xu just now, poor Wei Guogong was once again subjected to a stormy criticism.

Empress Xu complained that he was too slow to act, and the weight of the few families who received a clear answer was too light, and he couldn't stop the great edict that would be announced to the world in Taimiao a month later.

The emperor's brother-in-law is prosperous in the Spring and Autumn Period, and he has many sons! Although it is a good thing to be an emperor with his own blood flowing in his body, the queen's sister has always been strong to hold the eldest grandson Xiao Han's move still looks like crazy.

After all, although the prince's nephew is sick, he ...... after all Not dead after all!

The team that followed the master who did not belong to the gods stopped when he arrived at the Iron Lion Hutong in the South Pailou, and the guards whispered to remind Uncle Xu Guo that he had arrived at the place.

Xu Shida slowly turned over and dismounted, instructed the guards to hand the greeting note to the door of the house, and then looked up blankly at the plaque given by Emperor Jing and was stunned.

He is now standing in front of the mansion of Li Yu, the right minister of the Jing Dynasty. In the arrangement of the emperor's visit this time, Li Yu is the highest official who will stay in Luojing City.

Because the crown prince is really sick, the defense and political affairs of the capital will fall on Li Yu in the next month. If Li Yu refuses to pretend to be deaf and dumb, it is nonsense to raise swords in the city.

But Li Yu is an old man who has been mixed up with Emperor Jing Xiao Rui since he was a teenager, and he is a confidant of the Eight Classics!

Thinking about convincing his brother who had taught him in the past, Xu Shida, who was more than ten years younger, couldn't help but stiffen his legs and stomach.

My sister has a life, let's gamble! Xu Shida gritted his teeth, lifted his robe and ran directly towards the owner who opened the middle door to greet him. (To be continued......)