Concubine Xiao Shufei heard that Queen Wang had failed to search the Chengxiang Palace, so she went to the Baifu Hall to comfort Queen Wang, saying: "You don't need to be discouraged if you fail a few times, as long as you succeed once, it is enough." The concubine wanted to make persistent efforts and sent someone to the Chengxiang Hall to arrange the puppets, and then went to search. ”

The queen said, "Don't act rashly, first stabilize your position." If you act recklessly, it is easy to expose our undercover agents, and the gains outweigh the losses! ”

Concubine Xiao Shufei said: "Then let's just watch her smug and grow her power?" ”

Queen Wang smiled and said, "Of course not, let's wait for the opportunity." Sister, don't think about these worries, my sister will take you to a good place to relax. ”

Queen Wang took Concubine Xiao Shu to visit the Qionglin Treasure House.

The inner government ordered Zheng Henglu to open the door of the warehouse, accompanied by Cui Shanggong, Si Zhen Huacai and Si Shu Qiushui, who were in charge of the treasures. There are many warehouses in the Qionglin Treasure House, including the Ice Warehouse, the Gold and Silver Pearls and Jade Library, the Rare Treasure Library, the State Treasury Library, the Siyi Treasury, the Silk Silk Library, the Calligraphy and Painting Library, etc.

Concubine Xiao Shufei couldn't wait to advance the treasure house, and was dumbfounded as soon as she entered, because there were gold and silver treasures from all over the world gathered here, many of which had never been seen in her life, some had never heard of it, and some had never heard of it, and she saw the proof that Datang was the center of the world.

Concubine Xiao Shufei walked up to the huge amber and agate and screamed. Queen Wang smiled and said: "This is the amber offered by the Wa Kingdom, a big bucket (ten liters), this agate, as big as five buckets." ”

Xiao Shufei visited all the way and exclaimed all the way.

I have successively seen the red coral tree, the night pearl, the jade Buddha, and the white jade pagoda of Kowloon;

The terrifying chicken rhinoceros, large shellfish, luminous bi, bright moon pearl, Kong cui, ivory floating map;

the heavenly rhinoceros, agarwood, five-color ribbons and round white fire beads paid tribute by the Linyi Kingdom;

There are also countless treasures such as the secret color porcelain pot of Yue kiln, the white porcelain candlestick of Xing kiln, and the Tang Sancai horse.

When he entered the gold, silver, pearl and jade vault, he was also full of dazzling, jewels, and golden light, so that people could not open their eyes.

There are Eastern Roman gold coins, Persian Sassanid silver coins, Gaochang Kingdom auspicious, renting Yong tune gold cakes, gold collars, silver cakes, silver collars, etc., which are neatly placed;

There are silver sachets with flower and bird patterns, eight-sided gold cups with music patterns, silver jars with parrot beams, gold bowls with lotus petal patterns, gilded bamboo copper smokers, deer eagle gold monsters, gold flowers and silver plates and other treasures;

There are also burnt blue inlaid gold flower fine, red jade drop bead earrings, exquisite point emerald inlaid pearl silver hairpin, royal blue point emerald pearl hairpin, jasper Tenghua jade pendant, red gold phoenix tail agate tassel and other jewelry.

The paintings were explained one by one, Concubine Xiao Shu nodded again and again, and Queen Wang said: "My sister has a favorite, just take a few pieces!" ”

Concubine Xiao Shufei excused herself, couldn't help Queen Wang's hospitality, and took a few pieces of emerald jewelry.

Queen Wang said: "As a queen, the difference between my sister and my sister is that I can come here every day to see the treasures. Without the emperor's favor, the gold and silver mountains cannot be owned for a long time, so there is no need to be envious! ”

Concubine Xiao Shu said: "Sister, don't worry, with my sister's help, forgive Wu Zhaoyi for not going to the sky!" ”

Queen Wang said: "If my sister can firmly attract Your Majesty and make Ah Wu fall out of favor, my sister will ask Your Majesty to hand over the Qionglin Treasury to my sister to take charge of!" "Really?" Concubine Xiao Shufei said in surprise, her beautiful eyes were looking forward to it, and she was smiling smartly.

Since then, Concubine Xiao Shufei has changed into different hair buns, eyebrow styles and hairpin stepping jewelry every day, carefully dressed up, hugged Princess Xuancheng, and took Li Sujie, the king of Yong, to find Li Zhi, hoping to regain grace.

Li Zhi saw that she had good intentions and was not good at losing face, so he went back to Daji Hall with her. But after sitting for a while, without saying a few words, Concubine Xiao Shu often pulled on Ah Wu, slandered and slandered Ah Wu, saying that she was a fox and a demon girl like Meixi, Daji, and Baoxi, and she would want to get rid of her quickly.

At that time, Ah Wu's belly was getting bigger and bigger day by day, Li Zhi was taking care of her, and he loved her very much, how could he tolerate others slandering her?

So he protected her and said: "Ah Wu is the plum blossom outside the post station, by the broken bridge, the bushes, the orchid under the artemisia grass, the lonely Ling Han bloomed alone, fortunately I found it, transplanted to the palace, hoping to carry forward her lonely and noble nature, there is no intention to compete for spring, why should you be jealous?" ”

He also said: "A flower blooming alone is not spring, and a thousand purples and thousands of reds are full of spring." In my harem, the flowers are planted more and more, but the intoxicating fragrance of flowers is getting weaker and weaker, and the taste is getting stronger and stronger, why is this? I hope that the harem concubines will be united and harmonious, tolerate each other, emit their own fragrances, and decorate their beautiful homes together! ”

The female historian quickly wrote down Li Zhi's words, and Concubine Xiao Shufei listened to Li Zhi's reasoning, but she was speechless. Li Zhi turned around and left, going to the Divine Dragon Hall to be a quiet beautiful man.

After Queen Wang heard about it, although she was envious and jealous of Ah Wu, who had a big belly, she had to send someone to pack up gifts and go to condole, and hypocritically expressed her concern.

Wu Zhaoyi expressed her gratitude to Queen Wang for her care, but there were frequent incidents of deceit, open guns and hidden arrows, and mutual slander in the palace, and she was afraid every day.

She realized that the contradictions between her and Wang and Xiao were irreconcilable, and that she could only live in peace if she overthrew Queen Wang, so she began to pay attention to a fatal opportunity.

At the beginning of the first month of the fifth year of Yonghui, Wu Zhaoyi successfully gave birth to a little dragon girl, handed it over to the nurse to feed, and asked her sister Wu Shun to enter the palace to help take care of it, and maintain it with peace of mind so that the jade body could recover quickly. During this period, there is no need to ask the queen for peace.

Wu Shun has been widowed for many years, although he is thirty-two years old, but the charm still exists, he is pretty and lively, his figure is convex and backward, his jade legs are slender and straight, and he is always in and out of the palace, exuding a fatal temptation.

In front of the emperor, she always looked at him with reverence, and her watery eyes were full of eager hope, which made Li Zhi's heart shake and irresistible, and the two had already looked at each other with a smile, eyebrows, and secret feelings.

When Queen Wang heard that Wu Zhaoyi had given birth to another daughter, she gritted her teeth with envy and jealousy, and sent someone to bring gifts to Chengxiang Hall to comfort Wu Zhaoyi, and sent Xiaoyue to Mrs. Wei's mansion to order Xie Jiangli to make a peach puppet, write the birthday of Xiaolongnu, and curse and cast the puppet to Xiaoxiong and bury it in the wall of the well of Chengxiang Palace.

He also ordered the bear to continue to inject poisonous Gu excrement into the well water.

Queen Wang still felt that it was not enough, so she ordered Xie Jiangli to make three more paulownia puppets, representing Wu Zhaoyi, Li Hong and Xiaolongnu, writing the birthdays of the three of them, setting up an altar once a week to pray for spells, and pricking the hearts, brains, and abdomen of the paulownia puppeteers with needles, and cursing them to be infected with evil diseases and go to hell early!

Soon it was the season of peach blossoms again, but Li Zhi was not happy, because his henchmen Shangshu's right servant Zhang Xingcheng and his servant Gao Jifu passed away last year, and he had to promote Chu Suiliang to be Shangshu's right servant and Cui Dunli to be the servant.

The Huangmen squire Han Ying and the Zhongshu squire who were promoted the year before last were both towards the eldest grandson Wuji, and the political pattern of the court changed in favor of the Taiwei faction.

Li Zhi's troubles were his own troubles, and Wu Zhaoyi, despite his postpartum weakness, met Xu Jingzong with the curtain and asked him about his contact with the courtiers.

Xu Jingzong replied: "Last winter, the minister's old friend Cui Yixuan, the assassin of Wuzhou, sent troops to quell the rebellion of Chen Shuozhen, a woman from Muzhou, and made a great contribution. ”

Wu Zhaoyi was very happy and said: "The imperial historian holds the national criminal constitution, impeaches hundreds of Chinese and foreign officials, and pushes the prison lawsuit, can he grab the pigtails of the nobles and correct them!" He asked if there was anything else.

Xu Jingzong replied: "The nephew of the minister, Wang Dejian, is now a Zhongshushe, and he has a good friend, who is also a Zhongshushe, called Li Yifu, who can be used as a help!" ”

Wu Zhaoyi said: "The people of the Zhongshu House are in charge of the march, and the senators and seals are all drafted and painted by the Zhongshu Sheren; After it is passed, the procedures of publicity, signature, application and review will be carried out, and then it will be implemented. With these two people, it is possible to ensure that His Majesty's edict is carried out. ”

Xu Jingzong nodded yes, and Wu Zhaoyi said: "Please Mr. Xu work hard to strategize, go up at a critical moment, and support Your Majesty!" At the end of the meeting, Xu Jingzong was given a fox fur robe.

Wu Zhaoyi reported all the situation of the curtain to meet the courtiers to Li Zhi in 1510.

Li Zhi suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out that in addition to the Taiwei faction in the imperial court, there was still a faction that supported him that was secretly growing!

In the spring of March, Wu Zhaoyi's waist was tightened a lot, and his body had almost recovered, looking very slender and slender.

Li Zhi asked her to go to the Forbidden Garden to watch the elephants and rhinoceros paid tribute by the king of Linyi, and also took the Wushun family with him.

When the time for the dispersal of the dynasty came, Wu Zhaoyi arranged the chores in the hall and waited outside the palace gate with Wu Shun, Helan Minzhi, Helan Minyue and others. After a while, Li Zhi came to pick them up with three Ancheon, and after everyone got on the car, they went to the West Inner Garden through the Anli Gate, and then went to the Zuolong Medium Leisure Stable in the East Inner Garden.

Along the way, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, azaleas, allium orchids, peonies, camellias, bauhinia, poppies, geraniums and other flowers are clustered, golden monkeys and squirrels are jumping on fruit trees, wild ducks and reed geese swim in the pond, golden pheasants and peacocks are walking in the bushes, elks and foxes are haunting the road, a good picture of the vibrant flowers and birds landscape.

Arriving at the Zuolong Medium Stable, everyone got off the car and saw two tall elephants standing in the garden stable from a distance, so they ran and shouted happily!

AMTD Fengyu came over to say hello and introduce the guide. The people ran to the front and saw a rhinoceros farm next to the elephant garden, with two rhinos in it. Compared to elephants, rhinos appear short and stocky, but the horns are sharp and abrupt, and there are several small birds perched on their backs.

Helan Minyue shouted happily: "I want to ride an elephant, I want to ride an elephant!" Helan Minzhi also echoed.

Li Zhi applauded, and asked Wu Zhaoyi and Wu Shun if they wanted to ride, and Shangcheng was immediately ordered to prepare by the emperor. The driver led the elephant to the stage and blew the bamboo whistle, and the elephant knelt down when he heard the sound.

Helan Minyue and Min Yi rode the elephant from the stage together, and another bamboo whistle sounded, the elephant got up and walked, more than a zhang high, Min Yue screamed happily.

The elephant walked to the edge of the stable, stretched out its long trunk, rolled down the young leaves of the tall trees, and ate them. After a while, the driver blew the bamboo whistle, the elephant turned back to the stage, let Minyue and Minzhi down, and the driver took out the frozen plantain to feed the elephant.

Wu Zhaoyi and Wu Shun also rode elephants from the stage, high up, looking around, very excited.

Minyue and Minzhi ran to the rhinoceros park to ride a rhinoceros again, and guided the two rhinoceros to the stage, letting Minyue and Minzhi each ride one, and the birds flew around the rhinoceros, and Minyue and Minzhi were very curious. The two rode the rhinoceros around a few times and fed carrots to the rhinoceros to eat.

After visiting the elephants and rhinoceros, Li Zhi took them to visit the horses and falcons of the Right Jiliang Stable and the Left Tianyuan Stable. Everyone had a great time.

Just when Wu Zhaoyi was about to return to the palace from Dongneiyuan, Queen Wang also took Zhu'er, Su Changshi, Lu Shanggong, Siyan Peiyu, Xiaoyue and other entourages to go out and prepare to go to Beihai Pool to go boating.

Walking through the Ningyin Pavilion, seeing the Beihai Pond surrounded by willows and peach and plums in the distance, everyone laughed and walked briskly, ready to play to the fullest.

When Queen Wang saw the Chengxiang Hall looming in the east, a thought suddenly flashed in her mind: she is the mother of the princes and princesses, and she should go to the Chengxiang Hall to have a look, and let the children call her A-Niang and Aunt Wu Zhaoyi! By the way, explore the reality and see the effect of witchcraft and disgust.

The queen led her entourage to turn around and go to the Chengxiang Palace. In front of the palace gate, Peiyu shouted: "The queen has arrived!" ”

The little monkey and the little rabbit hurriedly opened the door to greet her, and after the queen entered the palace, she asked where Wu Zhaoyi was, and Hongzhu said that she went out with the saint.

The queen went around the palace and visited the one-and-a-half-year-old Li Hong, who had just learned to walk, and the nurse helped him and said, "The fifth prince, the grandmother is here, call A-Niang!" ”

Li Hong opened his eyes and looked at Queen Wang curiously, and called his mother, and Queen Wang smiled and gave him a small toy.

The queen went to visit the little princess accompanied by the nurse, she was only two months old, the queen picked up the little princess from the cradle and stroked it for a while, then put it back in the cradle, covered it with a futon, and turned around and left the Chengxiang Palace.

This process is quite normal and there are no problems.

The problem is that the witch Xie Jiangli was setting up an altar in the Lady of Wei Mansion at that time to cast a spell, and used a needle to prick the heart, brain, and belly of the paulownia puppeteer who represented the little princess, and cursed her! Moreover, as soon as the queen left the palace gate, a parrot flew to the glazed tiles of the Chengxiang Palace, called a few times, circled a few times, and then flew away.

Soon, Li Zhi and Wu Zhaoyi returned to Taiji Palace by car, and the family entered the Chengxiang Hall with a smile and a smile, and everyone was immersed in the joy of the outing.

Wu Zhaoyi wiped the sweat with a finch gold embroidered towel, came to the cradle, opened the futon to look at her daughter, and found that her daughter was not breathing.

Wu Zhaoyi thought that her eyes were spent, she rubbed her eyes, and looked again, her daughter was really not breathing, and when she touched her body, there was no heat, and her daughter was indeed dead!

A terrible scream pierced the white clouds above the Chengxiang Palace, turning into dark clouds!

Li Zhi hurriedly came over to take a look, and was also stunned. Wu Zhaoyi cried bitterly, Li Zhi was at a loss, they were still on the peak of happiness just now, and they fell into the abyss of sadness in an instant.

Life goes up and down so fast, it's so exciting!

Li Zhi quickly came to his senses, summoned the nurse, the palace maids, and the eunuchs to interrogate, and the palace maids and eunuchs all said: "The queen has just come!" The little princess lived well before she came, and it became like this after she left. ”

Li Zhi said angrily: "Could it be that the queen killed my daughter?" ”

Wu Zhaoyi cried and said: "Queen Wang has been childless for many years, and there is a palace concubine who is pregnant, and she gritted her teeth with jealousy in her heart. On the surface, he pretends to be fraternity, hypocrisy, as we all know! This time, when the concubine and Jiulang went out, there must be a conspiracy. ”

Li Zhi went to the Baifu Hall to ask Queen Wang again, Queen Wang was shocked and angry, she really didn't expect that she had a temporary idea, and she would actually get a hand, and she would never be able to get out of it!

Queen Wang replied: "The concubine did go to the Chengxiang Palace and visited Hong'er and her daughter, and it happened that Zhaoyi was not there, and the concubine was also very surprised. Although the daughter is not born to the concubine, the concubine is her mother-in-law, how can she harm her? Even if there is a conspiracy, it should be harmful to the son, not to the daughter! ”

Li Zhi thought about it, nodded and said, "It also makes sense!" The queen replied again: "How did my daughter die, please pass on the imperial doctor, the imperial doctor's order, and the doctor's edict to come to the tripartite consultation?" ”

Li Zhixuan recruited the imperial doctor, the imperial doctor, and the doctor to enter the palace to conduct a tripartite consultation on the body of the little princess.

After examination, there were no strangulation marks on the little princess's neck, and there were no traces of suffocation or poisoning, and it was finally determined that the little princess was not murdered by others, but died of unknown causes.

Wu Zhaoyi was very dissatisfied and saddened by this result, and continued to cry sadly!

Li Zhi said to himself: "Maybe the queen is an ominous person, who is unlucky to go anywhere, and it is unlucky to stay in the palace!" Although Wu Zhaoyi kept crying, her ears were always pricked up, and she was secretly happy when she heard this, and suddenly she suddenly became enlightened when she thought of witchcraft from the ominous.

Wu Zhaoyi sent Pan Changshou to invite the cursed doctor Xu Shengchou to enter the palace to investigate the sneakiness and get rid of the evil spirits for the little princess.

Xu Shengchou took the compass to watch the wind around the Chengxiang Palace, and then entered the hall to check the corridors, bedrooms, wells, etc., and reported: "There is an evil spirit in the Chengxiang Palace, and people have buried dirty things!" ”

Wu Zhaoyi was taken aback and said, "As expected, if I can dig up the dirty things and find the cause of my daughter's death, I will have a heavy reward!" ”

Xu Shengchou used the compass to carefully locate and calculate, and found the puppets and puppets buried under the floor of the bedroom of the Chengxiang Palace, under the floor tiles of the corridor and in the wall of the well.

Wu Zhaoyi saw that the puppeteer with his name and eight characters written on it was buried under the floor tiles of the aisle for everyone to trample on, so he laughed angrily and said: "Someone has good intentions and hates me to such a field, and I am also drunk!" ”

Wu Zhaoyi saw that the puppet with her daughter's eight characters written on it was taken out of the wall of the well, so she asked her daughter about the cause of death.

Xu Shengchou replied: "I think that someone used the technique of disgust on the little princess, and the little princess was cursed and died of evil spirit!" ”

Wu Zhaoyi asked, "If I had invited the doctor to come a few days earlier, would I have been able to cure my daughter's illness?" ”

Xu Shengchou replied: "Yes, the lowly will use the mantra to hold the spell, and prohibit the little princess from being empowered by evil spirits, and the little princess will be fine!" ”

Wu Zhaoyi sighed and said, "Hey, blame me for being negligent for not thinking of witch Gu aversion earlier." Please let the doctor ban Hong'er too! ”

Xu Shengchou set up an altar to burn incense, recited mantras and burning talismans, and imposed curses for both Li Hong and Wu Zhaoyi, so that the two of them would no longer be attacked by evil qi like King Kong.

Xu Shengchou said: "Well water is not drinkable, and vegetables and fruits cannot be washed to prevent people from falling into Gu." Wu Zhaoyi bowed his head and said, "Yes, thank you Dr. Xu for reminding me." After speaking, he took out two golden cakes and rewarded them to Xu Shengchou.

When Li Zhi came, Wu Zhaoyi took out the puppet to show him while crying, and said: "This is the dirty thing that the cursed doctor dug up in the main hall, and his daughter was cursed by someone and died of evil spirit!" ”

Li Zhi was taken aback, rummaged through the puppeteers and said, "Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's witch Gu disaster, witch Gu disaster!" ”

Wu Zhaoyi cried bitterly again and said, "The concubine must find out the murderer who killed her daughter and avenge her daughter!" Li Zhi was distraught and didn't know what to do for a while.