I didn't meet anyone from Yanshou Palace all the way out of Butterfly House, and Zhiying felt that it was inappropriate, but she couldn't ask more, and followed Fu all the way to Wansheng Palace.

It was already night, but the imperial study of Wansheng Palace was still brightly lit, which showed that Cui Jie's life was the same as before, a diligent emperor.

If he wasn't so cunning, suspicious and ruthless, he might not be able to become a generation of Ming Jun, Zhiying thought with some regret, Cui Jie just took power too seriously, but didn't take the foundation of the country - the emperor's reputation to heart, and killed countless people in the years of ascending to the throne, if he could live a few more years, maybe he would witness his downfall.

Fu opened the door and went in to report: "Your Majesty, Princess Wu has brought it to the eldest grandson." ”

Cui Jie sat behind the desk and folded the folds, and said without raising his head when he heard the words: "Bring it in." ”

Fu bowed and made way out: "Eldest grandson, please." Holding Ying lifted the hem of her skirt and stepped over the threshold, and as soon as she entered, Forde closed the door behind her.

The Imperial Study...... She has lived two lives, and the first time she walked here, the funny thing is that she is not as a queen, but as a brother-in-law.

Cui Jie couldn't believe it, there was not even a person in the imperial study who brought tea and poured water to feed the ginseng slices, Zhiying was thinking about how he called himself to this place in the middle of the night, should he be a palace maid for him, while tidying up his sleeves, knelt down and saluted: "The concubine asks the emperor for peace." ”

"Do you know what I told you to do?" Cui Jie still sat in the chair and asked, without looking at her.

"If the emperor is worried that the concubine will tell the story of that night, then there is no need," Zhiying then knelt on the ground and replied, "No matter how the queen is the sister of the concubine, don't say anything about sisterhood, once this disgraceful thing is shaken out, the queen will be given death, and the eldest grandson's family will also be punished for the crime of bullying the king, how can my sister escape." ”

Cui Jie put down the red pen in his hand, closed the fold and threw it aside, and picked up the teacup: "It's good if you know." ”

Zhiying said in her heart that I know more, definitely more than you know.

Cui Jie took a sip of ginseng tea, refreshed himself, and said, "But since I deliberately suppressed this matter, even if you go and say it, it's useless." You are now the person next to the Queen Mother, and it is not easy to take you out of the Yanshou Palace, and I can't come to you for such a trivial matter. ”

"What ......?"

Cui Jie raised his eyes to look at her from a distance, holding a chill down his spine, not wanting to look at him, and not afraid that looking away would make him feel weak, so he had to let him see.

Cui Jie asked: "Do you know why the Queen Mother wants to protect you?" ”

Zhiying shook her head honestly, she had been thinking about this question for a few days, and she didn't have a clue at all.

"The ancestors of the Rong family have produced a lot of generals who can fight well, and the girls of the Rong family are all women who do not let their eyebrows be bearded, ruthless, more terrible than men, in order to survive for themselves, they can abandon their parents and brothers, abandon their husbands who have a white-headed covenant with them, and even make their own children," Cui Jie pointed to his heart, "In their hearts, there is only themselves." ”

Holding Ying's brows furrowed, Cui Jie continued: "General Rong Qingxue, who followed Taizu to open up the territory, was poisoned to death by his own daughter, in order to just marry her to a political enemy - no consultation, no begging, directly poisoned and killed his father, and then her son, who was the biological father of the Queen Mother, my grandfather, also died at the hands of his sister, because he was not satisfied with the result of the separation, a weak female streamer hacked to death with a kitchen knife to his own brother who grew up. ”

The corners of Cui Jie's mouth had a mocking smile: "Whether you believe it or not, this is the case, the women from the Rong family are all more terrible than ghosts-"

"Doesn't the emperor feel ashamed to say this about his mother?" Zhiying interrupted him coldly.

Cui Jie smiled and said: "Eldest grandson Zhiying, you are very smart, but you are too soft-hearted, your soft-heartedness completely covers up your wisdom, as long as it involves family affection, you can't make decisions calmly, no matter how deeply they hurt you, you still treat them as relatives." ”

Zhiying said angrily: "This is the most basic filial piety as a human being. ”

"Nope! You are stupid! Cui Jie retorted loudly while standing up from his chair, "What is filial piety?" Only when your parents also love you, what you do is filial piety, but they don't love you, they don't even care about your life and death, they only have high-ranking officials in their eyes, gold and silver wealth, how can there ever be you? Even so, you, who are still thinking about them, are you not stupid? ”

Holding Ying wanted to refute, but couldn't make any sound.

Cui Jie asked coldly, "Do you know you're pregnant?" ”

Profit: "......"

Cui Jie couldn't help laughing: "You are really smart and confused for a while, your own body, you don't know?" ”

Profit continues: "......"

Cui Jie slapped his face, Fu came in with two teacups, Cui Jieyi said angrily: "These two cups, one cup is filled with aborted safflower, and the other cup is filled with arsenic, you can choose yourself." ”

The corners of Zhiying's mouth twitched, and after a while, he picked up the cup of safflower, and Cui Jie nodded with satisfaction: "The one who knows the times is Junjie, Fude, send her back, remember, you have to watch her drink it before you can come back." ”

"The minions obey."

Back in Yanshou Palace, Zhiying drank the cup of saffron under Fude's surveillance, and Fude sneered without yin or yang: "Those who know the times, for Junjie, hehehe~" Zhiying didn't bother to pay attention to him, and closed the door with a bang.

As soon as the people outside left, Cui Yi immediately jumped out of the tent: "Are you okay?" What did they just ask you to drink? ”

Holding the profit has nothing to do with himself, and he replied indifferently: "Red flower." ”

Cui Yi was full of question marks, what is safflower, and Zhiying explained: "Medicine for women's abortion." Cui Yi went crazy in an instant, and grabbed her arm: "You drank?" ”

"Drink it, if you don't drink safflower, you have to drink arsenic, which do you say I choose?" Zhi Ying deliberately asked rhetorically.

Cui Yi's expression seemed to cry and laugh for a while, and it took a long time to break out a sentence: "Then this is ...... Gone? ”

Zhiying said with a smile: "What is not there in the first place, where can I talk about it." ”

Cui Yi looked sluggish and didn't react, so Zhiying smiled and twisted his face: "Let's go, it's going to be dawn in a daze." Cui Yi was still a little confused, and Zhiying urged again and again, so he put away what he wanted to say and stopped, and escaped from Yanshou Palace with Zhiying turning over the [vertical and horizontal] wall.

There was silence in the palace in the middle of the night, the concubines couldn't wait for the emperor's presence, they all blew the lamps early to rest, except for the torches patrolling the guards in the distance, there was no light to be seen along the way, Cui Yi pulled Zhiying all the way to run, Zhiying asked in a low voice: "The palace is so heavily guarded, there are big internal guards everywhere, where did you come in?" ”

"There is a drainage channel in the palace, the iron grate is wider than the others, and the rust is very strong, I pried off a few and came in," Cui Yi also lowered his voice and replied, "You must go out as soon as possible, otherwise someone will find out when it passes, and you won't be able to get out at that time." ”

Zhiying wondered in her heart, what kind of place is this, there will be people after the child, the washing department? The washroom isn't so early, is it?

When I climbed over a wall and entered the courtyard, the pungent stench came to my face, and Zhiying couldn't help but laugh and found that this outlet was actually the place behind the imperial dining room to pour vegetable water and rice water! The palace maid and eunuch in the imperial dining room are coming to prepare breakfast for the master before dawn, no wonder there will be people as soon as the time passes.

So many people eat in the palace every day, hundreds of dishes, and the fat meat, the old hard skin, and the stale vegetable leaves are all skimmed into the ditch and washed away by the living water. When she squatted down, she could see that a few iron grates the thickness of her little finger had been broken and turned outward, and the gap in the middle was large enough for a person to get out.

The only thing that made her a little hesitant was the smell in the canal, although it was running water, it was still very smelly, no wonder Cui Yi had a lot of strange smell.

"Quick, you go out first." Cui Yi urged, Zhiying had no choice but to pinch her nose and lie down in the water, and swam out with nausea.

The palace wall is not as thick as the city wall, and Zhiying will not swim in the water, but it is only a little uncomfortable, and she quickly drills out along the current, and as soon as her head is raised, someone reaches out and pulls her out of the water, puts on a brocade coat, and sends her to sit in the carriage.

"Thank you." Zhiying took the clean cloth towel and wiped the water on her face, and when she could open her eyes, Cui Yi also followed and got into the carriage, and there was another person outside the carriage, and she could see that it was Zhai Rang.

Zhai Rang's eyes dodged, not daring to look at her, but whispered to Cui Yi: "Without further ado, the grass people will send the prince and his wife out of the city." Cui Yi was wiping the dirty water on his body, and nodded when he heard the words: "I'm tired." Zhai Rang didn't say more, closed the car door, and drove away.

The water in March was still bitterly cold, Zhiying sneezed a few times, Cui Yi reached out and hugged her, anyway, both of them were the same dirty, and he was still a little warm, and Zhiying was already frozen.

"Is it cold?" Cui Yi let her be close to her, and wrapped the two of them tightly with a brocade fur.

Zhiying snorted: "It's a little, but it's not in the way, can you get out?" ”

Cui Yi wiped a strand of wet hair from her cheeks: "You can get out, it is General Dai who guards the city gate tonight, this king has a deep friendship with him, he will open the city gate and let us out." ”

Zhiying nodded, still a little uneasy, Cui Yi guessed what she was thinking, so he said: "He is different from Zhai Zicheng, after Mrs. Cheng was taken away, he regarded you and me as the last straw, but before he could count on it, he inevitably felt resentful, so he took revenge on you, and he has been severely punished by Cheng Lao for this." Scholars are cautious, easy to drill the tip of the horns, help us this time, maybe next time will betray us, General Dai is different from him, he is a person who was born and died with this king, you can rest assured. ”

Zhiying couldn't think of any other credible person, so he said "um" and stopped talking.

Cui Yi hugged her, held her cold hand again, sighed, and rubbed it. His hands were as hot as a stove, and Zhiying was really envious of this physique that was not afraid of the cold, and shrank into his arms.

"By the way, you just said safflower or something, what did you mean by not having it in the first place?" Cui Yi asked suddenly.