The night of heavy rain is like a note, and there are also some low-lying courtyards flooded between the palace and the ban, and when the day dawns, the rain finally stops, and the low-level palace maids and eunuchs in the inner court carry the cages with their hands and feet, and there are already some scorching suns in the early morning to dry and soak their clothes, books and other things.

Zhang Ping and Jiang Shu did not rest well at night, and looked around early in the morning, fortunately, the main palace hall was on high ground, and the drainage of Chaoyang Canal outside the palace was still smooth, and the living conditions of His Majesty, the Queen Mother and many concubines and nobles were not affected.

Zhang Ping and Jiang Won are the inner eunuchs and young eunuchs, but they haven't been able to be summoned by Yang Yuanpu for a month or two, and it is difficult to resign, so they can only arrange the routine affairs in the palace at this time, and there will be no mistakes.

Today, it was Li Xiu's turn to lead his troops to stay in Miyagi, and Li Xiu also came over early in the morning to follow the commander of the guards and pro-army divisions, that is, Chen De, the nominal commander of the guards and pro-army battalions, to meet Zhang Ping and Jiang Shu to ensure that the change of generals was carried out in an orderly manner and was not affected by the heavy rain last night.

Seeing that there was nothing to do, Li Xiu thought about going to Chongwen Hall to ask for peace, but saw Huang Xi and Guo Liang walking in from Chongyang Gate under the guidance of two courtiers.

Huang Xianai is the commander of the Zuo Wuxiang army, and he is also Li Xiu's top boss, in addition to sitting in the Wuxiang army camp, he will also take turns to deal with Chen De on duty to guard the pro-military division yamen, but he will not directly lead the troops to stay in the palace.

Today, on duty outside the palace and inside the imperial city, it is a part of Guo Liang's Zuo Wuyi army.

Of course, the specific duty work is still in charge of Guo Liang's subordinate Du Yuhou, Guo Liang's responsibilities are similar to Huang Xi, mainly responsible for the affairs of Zuo Wuyi's army and the specific palace ban and city defense arrangements.

Seeing that Huang Xi and Guo Liang entered the palace early in the morning, Li Xiu, Zhang Ping, and Jiang Shu thought that something particularly important had happened, but when they came over, Huang Xi and Guo Liang didn't know why His Majesty sent a decree to let them enter the palace early in the morning.

"Your Majesty has gone to Cishou Palace to greet the Queen Mother, you go to Chongwen Palace first and wait for a while." Zhang Ping said to Huang Xi and Guo Liang, thinking that His Majesty would ask the Queen Mother for peace, and in the blink of an eye, he should go back to Chongwen Hall to take charge of government affairs, except for specific ceremonies and celebrations in the past few years, he has never seen their mother and son sitting together for more than half an hour.

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In order to show filial piety, Queen Huang E will take all the concubines to the Longevity Palace to ask for peace every day; Yang Yuanpu would also come over every once in a while to say a few words, but none of them were certain.

Of course, as soon as Yang Yuanqing brought Chen Ruyi and several eunuchs over today, the concubines who were asking for peace in the main hall of Cishou Palace were not surprised, and they thought that there was any state affairs to come over to discuss.

Qingyang didn't sleep soundly yesterday, but she didn't realize that there would be any problems in the Chongwen Palace today, so she also wanted to take the emperor's eldest son Yang Bin back to Changxin Palace first.

"Bin'er stays and talks." Yang Yuanpu took his eldest son's hand and left him behind.

Hearing Yang Yuanpu say this, Qingyang couldn't go, so Huang E, Han Shuhui and other concubines also sat aside to accompany him.

"Your Majesty, why did you come here early in the morning today, is there anything worrying?" Wang Chan'er held the hand of the second prince Yang Lin, looked at Yang Yuanpu who was sitting opposite, and always felt that he looked different when he came over in the morning, and his eyes always turned around on Yang Bin and Yang Lin, but she didn't think about it deeply, and thought that he had encountered something to behave like this.

The emperor's eldest son Yang Bin is only seven years old, and the second son Yang Lin is two years younger, his face has not grown, his nutrition is a little excessive, and his round face can't see much difference, but he is careful, or he is suspicious, but he can still see some clues from the characteristic and prominent organs such as nasal bones and eyebrows.

Yang Yuanpu didn't know Han Jun very well, but when he was in Yueyang, the ministers advocated setting up a special personal guard mansion for Wang Chan'er to show respect, Li Chong and Han Jun had been on duty by Wang Chan'er's side for a long time, Yang Yuanpu was rare, and he had met with Han Jun dozens of times.

After paying attention, Yang Yuanpu looked at the nose bones, eyebrows, and extremely bright ears of his second son Yang Lin, and the more he looked at it, the more he looked like Han Jun.

Chen Ruyi quietly pulled the placket of his clothes in the back, Yang Yuanpu woke up in shock, and said:

"The child heard from the eunuch below that the queen mother's health was not healthy, presumably because Lin Er was too stubborn, so the child wondered whether to hand Lin Er over to Concubine Shu to take care of, or tell him to return to his mother——"

"No way!" Hearing Yang Yuanpu say this, Wang Chan'er felt as if she had been stepped on by the tail, and her voice couldn't help but be sharp, others may not be able to distinguish the truth of the second prince, but Wang Chan'er has a thousand courages, and she does not dare to ask Yang Lin to return to his "biological" mother Li Yao.

She subconsciously hugged Yang Lin into her arms, for fear that Yang Yuanpu would snatch Yang Lin away.

"The Queen Mother has worked hard to take care of the second prince, but taking care of them for so many days, she loves her so much, she is afraid of falling in her hands and holding it in her mouth for fear of melting, Concubine Li is now suffering from frequent brain attacks, and she is still drowsy every day, and Concubine Han is afraid that there will be negligence in taking care of her, how can the Queen Mother be willing to ask the second prince to move out of Cishou Palace? Your Majesty, this is really difficult for the Empress Dowager today. Lu Qingxia said lightly at this time.

Qingyang looked at everything in the hall suspiciously, no matter how dull she was, she could feel the abnormality of the atmosphere in the hall, but for the time being, she couldn't figure out what kind of connection there was between everything in the hall today and what Chen Ruyi said yesterday, or the words passed on by Yang En, the Marquis of Liyang?

"Since the queen mother works tirelessly and doesn't bother Lin Er to be stubborn, then she will trouble the queen mother to continue to take care of Lin Er." Yang Yuanpu stared at his mother's hand that was holding Yang Lin's arm, the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching twice, he forcibly suppressed the anger churning in his chest, gritted his teeth and said a word, stood up and walked straight out of the main hall.

Qingyang hurriedly saluted Wang Chan'er in a panic, hurriedly took Bin'er's hand and followed Yang Yuanpu out of the hall; The concubines who didn't know why were also dismissed.

"......" Wang Chan'er's face was gloomy, sitting on the brocade couch, watching everyone walk out of the palace gate of Cishou Palace.

After a long time, she was still in shock, as if at any moment she would break into a team of armor guards and snatch Lin Er from her arms; After a long while, she ordered the unrelated eunuchs and palace maids to walk away, frowning and asking Lu Qingxia:

"Pu'er, does he know something?"

"I shouldn't know......" Lu Qingxia frowned slightly, but his tone was hesitant.

"There hasn't been anything abnormal in Chongwen Hall in the past two days." Yao Xishui said with certainty.

Lu Qingxia and Yao Xishui's words could not make Wang Chan'er feel at ease, and she sat in the shade of the hall in a trance for a morning, and at noon, she heard that Yang Yuanpu ran to Zhao Guiren and sat for a while, and her mind was even more uneasy.

Zhao Guiren is the woman arranged by Lu Qingxia to enter the palace, after Li Pu, the Duke of Changguo, was given a knighthood and cut to the people, and Li Yao was abolished as the queen and entered the cold palace, the second prince Yang Lin was originally raised by Zhao Guiren.

Yang Yuanpu's many abnormalities when he asked for peace in the early morning and went to Zhao Guiren at this time, how could Wang Chan'er feel at ease, and not worry about stealing beams and changing pillars, and even revealing that she and Han Jun secretly had a child back then?

Anxious and uneasy until the afternoon, Chen Ruyi came over with two eunuchs with a tray and a jade bowl, and said: "When the heat is hot, Your Majesty is worried that the second prince is young and weak and intolerant to heat and poison, so he specially boiled a bowl of Huanglian Jiexin soup to relieve the heat of the summer and gave it to the second prince to drink. ”

Wang Chan'er's face was a little pale, the green tendons on the back of the hand holding the brocade couch were exposed, and the apricot eyes stared at the jade bowl held by the eunuch behind Chen Ruyi, and her voice trembled slightly: "The mourning family knows, you put down the Xie Xin soup, and when Lin Er is idle, the mourning family will ask him to drink it and then go to his imperial father to thank him." ”

"Your Majesty wants Weichen to watch the second prince drink it, for fear that the second prince is stubborn by nature and the queen mother spoils the second prince too much......" Chen Ruyi said quite insistently.

"Bastard, did you talk to the Queen Mother like this?" Lu Qingxia stared at Chen Ruyi fiercely, signaled the female guards on the left and right to cover the door of the main hall, she walked to Chen Ruyi's side, picked up the bowl of medicinal soup, sniffed it to her nose, stared at Chen Ruyi's eyes, and asked, "Your Majesty stared at the second prince and drank this medicinal soup, is there something wrong with the medicinal soup?" ”

"Envoy Lu, Your Majesty is concerned about the second prince, how can there be a problem with this medicinal soup? Wang Guifei boiled it well, and said that it was specially tasted first. Chen Ruyi smiled bitterly with a sneer.

"......" Lu Qingxia made a look, and Yao Xishui brought a raccoon cat.

The tanuki cat sniffed the bitter taste of the medicinal soup and didn't open its mouth.

Lu Qingxia opened the cat's mouth and poured half a bowl of medicinal soup into it.

After a while, I saw this raccoon cat howling violently, and was grabbed by Lu Qingxia by the back of the neck, the cat's paws twitched and scratched, and after a while, it stiffened and died.

Yao Xishui and Ye Qingying behind him shot at the same time, two short swords that flickered with cold light flew out, and before Chen Ruyi and the two eunuchs could escape, they had already pierced their chests, and with a muffled scream, their bodies fell down, and red blood slowly flowed out of their chests.

"......" Chen Ruyi knelt down paralyzed, kowtowing to the Queen Mother Wang Chan'er, "Wechen never knew that there was a problem with this decoction, Wechen never knew that there was a problem with this decoction, it was Your Majesty who boiled the decoction for Wang Guifei and asked Wechen to bring it over, Wechen really didn't know!" Please be aware of the Queen Mother, please be aware of the Queen Mother! ”

Wang Chan'er's face turned pale, staring at the already stiff raccoon cat in Lu Qingxia's hand, and at this time, white saliva foam seeped out from the corner of her mouth.

"Chen Ruyi, although your abilities were taught to you by Zhang Ping, when you were living on the streets and were about to starve to death on the streets, this palace took you in. If it weren't for the palace and the queen mother, would you have today's soaring? Lu Qingxia threw the dead cat and the corpses of the two eunuchs to the ground, squatted in front of Chen Ruyi and asked.

"Ruyi is definitely not harming the queen mother and the palace envoy, Ruyi is innocent." Chen Ruyi kowtowed.

"Then tell the palace, what is the abnormality between Your Majesty and Wang Guifei in the past two days?" Lu Qingxia asked.

"Yesterday, His Majesty went to Changxin Palace, and Wang Guifei inadvertently mentioned that the eyebrows and nose of the second prince looked different from the eldest prince, and said that in the early years, the palace maid and the guards of Changchun Palace secretly gave birth to a child who was killed by the queen mother's cane, and also said that there were several times when the Yao palace envoy talked to Zhao Guiren in the dark...... Chen Ruyi stammered.

"I thought this had been honest in recent years, but I didn't expect to be as ruthless as her dead!" Lu Qingxia scolded hatefully, turned to Wang Chan'er, who was sitting on the brocade couch and couldn't help trembling slightly, and said, "Your Majesty can't bear to attack you after all, and now you may only be able to ask the second prince to drink this Coptis Jie Xin Soup......

"No, absolutely not, Lu Qingxia, you said that you want to keep Lin'er safe for the rest of your life, you can't talk and don't count!" Wang Chan'er screamed as if she was twitching.

"Your Majesty has made up your mind, who can advise Your Majesty to think that this has not happened?" Lu Qingxia took a step forward and asked.

"Exchange the real second prince back and send Lin Er out of the palace, as long as there is no longer any rumor about this matter, Pu'er will not have to take the life of a five-year-old baby." Wang Chan'er shouted.

"After stealing beams and changing pillars, the second prince contracted typhoid fever outside and died. If you say this, Your Majesty will never believe us," Lu Qingxia said, "Besides, the two little eunuchs will die when they die, so they will say that they disobeyed the Queen Mother and threw the corpse out of the palace, and no one will pursue it, but Chen Ruyi is a person close to His Majesty, and he can't be detained for too long......"

"No, I'm not Your Majesty's person, I only know from now on to be loyal to the Queen Mother and the Lu Palace Envoy," Chen Ruyi said in a panic, "Chen Shang and Huang are not good at these two guys, and they knocked over the decoction given to the second prince, and the Queen Mother ordered them to be killed with a cane when she was angry—Ruyi knows this, and His Majesty will only report this!" ”

"Are you afraid that if you leave this hall, you will say another set of words to Your Majesty?" Lu Qingxia turned to look at Chen Ruyi and said with a smile.

"Arrest him first, and let me think about it for a moment." Wang Chan'er said weakly, feeling that her mind was in chaos......