"Don't worry, I broke a little skin, the wound is not big, but now it is a little swollen. I've put medicine on you, and if you think the wound is too ugly to be exposed, I'll wrap it up for you. I turned around and took out a white bedgown from the baggage prepared for me by the Chen Mansion, and tore a circle of silk cloth from the hem, "Fortunately, I brought some medicine to reduce swelling and stasis into the palace this time, you and I can make do with it!" ”

"Girl, why did you hit me last night?" The temple man sat down on the bed and obediently asked me to tie a strap around his head.

"Last night was a misunderstanding. Actually, I was forced to enter the palace by Miss Su this time, and the wound on my shoulder was also beaten by her. When I saw that you were on good terms with her yesterday, I suspected that she had sent you to harm me. ”

"Miss Su wants to hurt you! Why? ”

"Miss Su doesn't mean to harm me, hey, I can't tell you about this for a while. Bi, since you grew up in the Hou Chen Mansion, you must have seen a lot of things, and you should know better than me when you should be deaf and when you should be mute. I hit you last night, and it was my fault. But now I finally know that you're not a skilled killer, and now that I've figured it out, I won't doubt you anymore. I helped the temple man to bandage his wounds, and helped him to lie down on the bed who seemed to understand whether he understood or not, "You can only sleep on your stomach these days, I will find an opportunity to go to the palace garden to go around, if there are any herbs to heal the wounds, I will pick some for you to come back." ”

"No, it's too dangerous. Didn't the head of the temple in this palace tell the girl not to run around? I'm fine, girl, don't look at me thin, in fact, I'm very skinny. The temple man grabbed my hand and said urgently.

"Don't worry, I won't break in until I find out the situation in the palace." I took a pu fan, sat next to the temple man and fanned it gently, "Bi, I beat you, don't tell Miss Su first, okay?" ”

"Well, what would I say if Miss Kesu saw my head and asked?" The head of the temple man was tied with several strips of cloth by me, and it looked very miserable.

"Let's just say that I was cooking medicine in the yard last night, and when I left, I didn't see clearly what was on the ground, and I fell and hit a stone."

"Stones? All right...... Since I went into the palace to serve the girl, I will listen to the girl. Although he was not satisfied with my answer, he nodded vigorously.

"Thank you! In the future, if we have the opportunity to leave the palace, I will help you open a fat powder shop in Kangzhuang. Incense powder, flower paste, patina of eyelids, whatever you want, you don't have to look at other people's faces. Isn't that good? ”

"Yes, of course. Girl, my kindness to you is also sincere, don't ...... in the future" The temple man sniffled, as if he was about to cry.

I quickly patted him on the shoulder and said softly, "I know, I won't hit you again in the future." It's not dawn yet, do you want to sleep a little longer? I'm here with you, not going anywhere. ”

Temple Renbi looked at me aggrievedly, hummed softly, and closed his eyes.

After he fell asleep, I took out the medicine jar and soaked the medicine juice in silk cotton dumplings and rubbed it on my red and swollen shoulders little by little. The potion was cool and comfortable on the wound, and I fell asleep after a while leaning against the earthen wall.

When I woke up again, it was already dawn.

The temple people are not in the bed, and the courtyard outside is very noisy.

I put on my clothes and went out, and now the beauties and servants in the Qilan Pavilion were all thirty or forty people crowded in the middle of the courtyard. Some people covered their mouths and sobbed, some people whispered to the people next to them, and Ah Su rested his head on the shoulder of his maid, weak and weak, as if he would faint at any time.

"What's going on here?" I saw the big head with the white strap, and hurriedly squeezed over.

"Girl, someone died last night." The temple man whispered next to my ear.

"Dead? Who died? I was shocked and hurriedly asked.

"The food box given to Miss Su yesterday was poisoned, and Miss Lizhu and the other five girls who shared food with her were poisoned. I just saw that the eyes, nose, and mouth were full of black, purple, black, and purple blood, and it was terrible to look at. The temple man said as he pulled me forward.

A food box actually killed six people! I looked back at Ah Su outside the crowd, and I couldn't help but feel a chill in my heart.

The twenty beauties sent in by Chen Heng were placed under house arrest by Kan Zhi in this remote and dilapidated Qilan Pavilion as soon as they entered the palace. If there is no accident, everyone here, including me and Ah Su, will soon be forgotten by the people in the Qi Palace. If you want to get close to Qi Hou, it is even more of a fool's dream. Therefore, I expected that Ah Su would take action in the face of such a situation, but I didn't expect her to be so quick and ruthless.

Everything that was born yesterday was obviously in Ah Su's plan, but I couldn't understand that if the killing was to arouse Qi Hou's attention to these beauties, then why didn't she poison the bucket of corn soup, but instead hurt people like this?

"Girl, look, someone is coming out again." When I was puzzled, an exclamation from the temple pulled me out of my thoughts.

On the steps of the Qilan Pavilion, four tall temple people carried out four corpses covered with plain linen cloth from inside. I and the temple people crowded to the front, and the dead girls lay straight at my feet, their faces and bodies covered with sackcloth, revealing only six pairs of white and blue feet. In the sunlight, their toes spread in a strange way, looking horrible and eerie.

"Six are here, you carry two out first, and I'll stay here and watch the other four." The temple man commanded the other four people to lift the corpse on the ground. At this time, Ji Jiang, who was standing opposite me, suddenly led three other beauties to stop in front of the temple carrying the corpse: "Why did they die after eating the dinner you sent?" We are all people sent in by Zuo Xiang, and the people who died here are all the noble daughters of the doctor's family, why are only a few of you here to carry the corpses? Let you take care of it! We want to meet the king! ”

"Yes, we are not allowed to lift it, we have to meet the king!"

"You've taken them away now, are you going to carry the rest of us out tomorrow? No, we have to meet the king! The women behind Ji Jiang responded one after another.

Later, more than a dozen women rushed forward in a swarm, blocking the five temple people who were carrying the corpses in the courtyard.

"Let's go inside! It's too noisy here. "I silently recited a witch word in my mind to send souls, and then turned and walked towards my hut.

Seeing that I was leaving, the temple people hurriedly followed: "Girl, why are you leaving?" It's not over yet! ”

"Do you miss you Chen Ye? I feel that in a few quarters of an hour, our Chen Ye, who has just become a guard, should come. Go lie down and rest, you are the one who serves the girl's makeup, and the affairs of the dead are in the hands of Master Chen, not you. ”

"The girl is saying, Chen Ye will come later? Oops, fortunately, the grumpy lady yesterday robbed the vegetarian girl of her dinner, otherwise wouldn't it be the vegetarian girl who died here! The temple man let out a long breath and patted his chest with palpitations.

In the past, I always set up a game to calculate others, but this time I fell into a trap carefully orchestrated by others. It's a bad feeling to be blind, especially if the person next to you is still your enemy.

The palace guards came and went. Chen Cheng came, but stayed.

On the surface, he was one of the guards who stayed behind to "protect" the beauties, but in fact, he was another person sent by Chen Heng to monitor me and prevent me from escaping.

The fact that Chen Wei entered the palace has always puzzled me. He is obviously a fugitive murderer in Qi State, why did he sneak into the palace as a guard? Didn't anyone in the palace know him? Or is there anything else that Chen Heng has to do besides killing me, and he has to do it?

Regarding Chen Wei's life experience, there are three theories in Linzi City. First, he is a distant relative of the Chen family, and he was accepted by Chen Heng as a righteous son because of the swordsmanship group, and he was Chen Heng's illegitimate son, because his mother was a musician from the teaching workshop, so he was not recognized by Chen Heng The third statement, which is also the most credible statement I think, is that Chen Cheng is a member of the Chen clan, and he has been valued by Chen Heng because he saved the life of Chen Pan, the son of Chen Shizi.

On death row that day, Chen Wei also said that after he died, he held his head and went to Chen Pan, and Chen Pan would redeem himself for "me". Later, it was because of this sentence that I blamed Chen Pan for the prison robbery.

This Chen Pan is said to have been placed under house arrest by Chen Heng after the incident. As his friend, did Chen Cheng enter the palace this time to atone for his sins, and begged Chen Heng to release Chen Pan?

I have too many doubts in my heart about Chen Wei, and I have always wanted to find an opportunity to trick him. But helplessly, Chen Cheng completely ignored me after coming to Qilan Pavilion, even if he occasionally met me in the courtyard, he would bow his head and avoid it, pretending not to see me.

On the other hand, the performance of the temple people greatly surprised me.

After the poisoning, the temple people wore his "miserable" white bandages, and walked around every room of Qilan Pavilion with his proud incense powder and rouge that did not take off his makeup. He wiped his honey-like mouth to coax the beauties' hearts to bloom, and gently and skillfully asked me all the news I wanted to know.

The court of Qi exploded because of the death of the six people of Lizhu.

It turned out that the beauties that Chen Heng sent to the palace this time were not ordinary female musicians. Among them, thirteen of them were the daughters of various doctors in order to show loyalty to Chen Heng. On the second day after the news of her death came out in the palace, the six doctors who had killed their daughter made a fuss first, and then the other seven doctors who sent the daughter to the palace also wrote to ask Qi Hou to investigate the matter thoroughly. After coming and going, this originally inconspicuous Qilan Pavilion poisoning case actually suppressed the attack of the Right Prime Minister's faction against Chen Heng a few days ago.

Under Kan Zhi's step-by-step pressing, Chen Heng unexpectedly exchanged the deaths of six girls for a respite. This makes me can't help but suspect that Chen Heng chose female music to enter the palace from the beginning for this "Qilan Pavilion poisoning case". Lizhu, the delicate "scapegoat", was selected a long time ago, and the five girls who were in the same car with her were also selected in advance, their father's official position and their father's temperament determined their life and death. A carriage that was supposed to go straight to Qingyun drove into the Yellow Spring with six flower-like girls. And all this, some people have long known, and the list of life and death may come from her. The cruel reality once again tells me that in the struggle for power, human life is always secondary, and victory or defeat is the most important.