"That's because, with Your Majesty's skills, falling from a horse will not hurt his life at all, at most it will hurt his muscles and bones. And once His Majesty is injured, the palace banquet will not be held. If the palace banquet can't be held, it will naturally be impossible to carry out the assassination you originally arranged. For the sake of your assassination plan, Xiao Liang had to save him. ”

After listening to me, Han Xiuhua's usually gentle face became cold, and a trace of murderous intent faintly flashed in his eyes, as if he was planning something, I smiled lightly, "I know that there must be someone from Sister Han in this Dai Yan Yuan, and it will be easy to solve me." But sister, don't be in a hurry to kill people, destroy corpses, or quietly blame other concubines. Because if I disappear or die, there will definitely be news in this palace that you and Xiao Liang are the internal responders of the Fuliang Society. His Majesty originally suspected that there was an internal response of the Fuliang Society in this palace, otherwise how could the people of the Fuliang Society sneak into the palace? Once the news is released, whether it is true or not, Your Majesty will definitely find out on your head, with Your Majesty's mind, do you think he will not be able to find out? ”

"When the time comes, what will you and Xiao Liang face? What are you afraid of death, you and Xiao Liang don't matter, it's the poor Ten Princes, so Xue Yu's lovely child, before he has time to take a good look at the world, he ......"

When he said of the Ten Princes, Han Xiuhua's delicate eyelashes trembled slightly like open flames, and the killing intent in his eyes stagnated, and said, "You didn't report it to Your Majesty, but came to me, you must have asked for something." Say, what do you want from me? ”

Sure enough, he is a smart person, and he can understand it as soon as he says it. I looked at her with satisfaction and said clearly, "I want to join forces with you." To be precise, I want to join forces with the Fuliang Society to conspire for a great cause. ”

The autumn-like eyes trembled violently, Han Xiuhua was obviously taken aback, he never thought that I would make such a request, "Why?" ”

I increased my strength, clenched her slender hand, met her eyes, and said solemnly: "Because, we all have a common goal - to kill Chen Qian." ”

The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and a hidden cooperation has been reached.

I won't tell King An Cheng about my alliance with Han Xiuhua.

Qinglan, the new palace maid from Yilan Palace, is the person arranged by Chen Ji to my side, and I once sent Qinglan to follow Lan Yao, and found that she always wandered around the Yihe Palace, which is the so-called forbidden place in the palace, from time to time, and secretly inquired about the Yihe Palace.

She is like this, which means that there must be some secret hidden in the Jardine Palace. What the hell, I asked Qinglan, but Qinglan didn't say. If she didn't say it, it must have been Chen Ji's instructions. On the surface, Chen and I are allies, but in fact, he does not regard me as an ally, at most as a pawn that can be used, and he does not believe in me enough to have reservations about me.

If he has reservations about me, why can't I have reservations about him?

What's more, seeking power and usurping the throne has been a very dangerous thing since ancient times, and it is possible to lose your head at any time. If it is successful, it is to hold the throne and overlook the country; If he fails, he will fall into hell like a lost dog. I am not sure if I can achieve my goal in the end, so I don't want to lose my life if I can't do it at that time. I can't hang myself from a tree, I have to leave a way back for myself, prepare with both hands, and if I can't rely on Chen Ji, I can also rely on the Fuliang Society.

The spring breeze blows, the peach blossom trees fly and dance, blurring people's eyes, walking through the rain of flowers, looking at the long petals in a place, pink and bright.

These gorgeous petals, in my eyes, are a mess of fallen flowers, crying blood and red. This peach blossom, no matter how beautiful it is, its value in the palace is only for the king to enjoy. Not only this peach blossom, but also every tree and flower in this palace are all set up to please the king.

Brushing away the little remnants of flowers on my shoulders, I told myself that I was one step closer to my own goal, and I would never be like this peach blossom, the flowers bloomed and fell into the king, life and death, glory and withered in the deep palace, I would definitely be able to go out.

Dark night, Chonglan Pavilion.

"What, you said that you found the fine work that Yuwen Hu sent to Jiankang at the beginning, and lurked in the palace?"

"Exactly." I looked at Chen Ji's surprised face and said clearly, "This person is a palace maid mixed in Si Bao Si, named Lan Yao, and this person has a lot to do with Wan Zhaoyi. ”

An unnatural light flashed in Chen Ji's eyes, and he said, "What does this have to do with Wan Zhaoyi?" ”

"Because Wan Zhaoyi is also Yuwen Hu's meticulous work lurking beside His Majesty."

When Chen Ji heard this, his eyebrows were shocked, and he immediately returned to his nature, "Don't say anything, how do you know that Wan Zhaoyi is meticulous?" ”

Chen Ji pretended to be stupid, I stared at his black jade-like eyes with a smile, and gently opened my lips, "The prince doesn't have to cover for her anymore, whether Qin Wanxi is meticulous or not, you know it." That night, at the queen's birthday banquet——, I saw the prince and Wan Zhaoyi. At the end of his sentence, he should understand what it meant.

Chen Ji's dark eyes flashed with astonishment and uneasiness, and then gloomy and uncertain, and it was difficult to distinguish between joy and anger. I didn't panic and continued: "Don't worry, Qingqiang won't expose her. Qin Wanxi is the prince's beloved, how could I hurt her. ”

With this assurance, Chen Ji's face calmed down and said, "Don't worry, this king will handle this matter." ”

"Then please ask the prince to dispose of that fine work as soon as possible."

I found out that Lan Yao was a fine work, and I didn't take action because I was planning to leave the palace, and I wanted to leave her behind and stay in Chen Qian's palace to deal with Chen Qian. But the situation has changed, I was forced to stay in this palace, and my plans have changed, since I am determined to cooperate with King An Cheng, I naturally have to show some sincerity.

Since the incident on Chinese New Year's Eve, I have quietly distanced myself from Lifei, and on the surface she is still serving in the inner hall, as before, but I have never given her the opportunity to let her serve me closely, and instead I have been replaced by my newly promoted palace maid, Qinglan, who is also the person secretly installed by King An Cheng.

"Niangniang, yesterday, there was a palace maid who broke into the forbidden place and was executed by His Majesty." As the intermediary between me and King An Cheng, Qinglan leaned over and told me about it.

"Is it Lan Yao?" I saw Qinglan nodding and asked again, "Did the prince tell Your Majesty that she was a spy sent by Yuwen Hu?" ”

"The prince has already made this matter known to His Majesty, but His Majesty said that the matter is serious, and he doesn't want to make the people in the palace panic and suspicious because of the detailed work, so he did not make this matter public."

"Hongu knows."

——

At lunchtime, I was staring at a table full of exquisite and delicious dishes, but I lacked interest and had no appetite.

The palace people reported that His Majesty was coming, and was about to get up and go out to greet him, but when he saw Chen Qian coming in with a smile on his eyebrows, Yunxi reported my recent situation to Chen Qian, and said: "Recently, my mother has no appetite, and she only eats a little bit every day, and she doesn't even move her chopsticks." If you are so anorexic, sooner or later you will get sick. I can't persuade her, now that Your Majesty is here, Your Majesty has to talk about Niangniang, you can't go on like this. ”

"How can you do it without eating?" Chen Qian's slender fingers brushed my slightly haggard eyebrows, and sighed a little distressedly, "I see that you have lost weight, and when you really get sick, I will feel distressed again." ”

After saying that, he picked up a bowl of millet and bean porridge, scooped a small spoonful of rice porridge, and said warmly: "Come, drink some porridge first, appetizing." "You want to feed me yourself.

I hurriedly removed my lips, avoiding Chen Qian's overly warm gaze, and squeaked: "No, no, Your Majesty, it's better for Qingqiang to come by herself." Then he reached for the bowl of rice porridge.

The next moment, Chen Qian's generous palm pressed my hand, and his eyes looked at me gently, but it was a perseverance that could not be refused, "I come, I want to take care of you." ”

In the end, I couldn't resist him, so I had to drink a few sips casually and forget it, under the supervision of Chen Qian, I reluctantly picked up the chopsticks and ate a few bites of food to show him. Chen Qian smiled with satisfaction, picked up a piece of fish meat, and used chopsticks to pick out the fish bones inside, which were so many and miscellaneous that it was difficult to remove them. But he didn't show an impatient look, just slowly and carefully picked out the fish bones inside, and then put them in my bowl, looking at me with a gentle gaze like the warm sun, "Eat." ”

I didn't expect Chen Qian, the dignified monarch of a country, to deign to be so patient to pick fish bones for a woman, but I am not the kind of little girl who is not deeply involved in the world, and will be softened by men's whims and occasional tender offensives.

I was about to make a show and eat the piece of fish, but as soon as I put it to my mouth, I felt a heavy fishy smell coming to my nose, and I felt nausea in my stomach, and then I ran to the door and vomited, "Vomit-"

"Mother, what's wrong with you?" Yunxi said worriedly as he helped me into the house.

I smiled weakly, "It's okay, maybe it's a bad stomach." ”

Chen Qian took me from Yunxi's arms, carried me back to the dormitory, put me on the couch, twisted the quilt, and said angrily and with concern: "It's all like this, how can it be okay!" ”

After saying that, he shouted at the palace people: "Pass the imperial doctor!" ”

The imperial doctor soon came, and after checking the pulse, he said to Chen Qian with a happy face: "Congratulations to Your Majesty, Niangniang, she is a happy pulse." ”

In a word, it exploded above my head like thunder, and the explosion made my whole body stiff and my limbs numb!

Chen Qian was stunned for a moment, took my hand and looked at it carefully, his eyes stayed on my lower abdomen, his bright eyes exuded indescribable brilliance, he didn't care about the imperial doctor, he excitedly hugged me in his arms, "Qing'er, you have our child!" The warm breath was exhaled on his face, and there was irrepressible ecstasy in his voice.

I tried my best to control my trembling voice, and asked relentlessly, "Imperial Doctor, are you sure it's Ximai, and there is no mistake?" ”

The imperial doctor checked my pulse again and reassured me repeatedly, "Yichen's many years of experience in practicing medicine is undoubtedly a happy pulse." Congratulations, you've been pregnant for more than a month. ”

In a word, wipe out all my hopes.

Exegesis:

(1) The title is from Chen Shuda's "The Emergence of the Self-Monarch" in the Tang Dynasty, "Heart-wrenching and Tears"