After I went back, I told the princess that she and Cao Ping would have another chance to meet according to Mr. Zhang. She reacted as soon as she heard this, and asked hopefully, "Really?" ”

I bowed my head: "Mr. Zhang told me this...... It should have been the Empress who told him. ”

These words were like a mirror on her dressing table, refracting the light source outside the curtain into her long-dull eyes. She opened her eyes wide and asked me if I knew when this opportunity was, and then she was shy again, and quickly lowered her eyelashes to cover the light.

I handed over the bronze mirror and said with a light smile: "Even if the queen asks Cao Gongzi to come to see the princess tomorrow, is the princess willing to see him like this?" ”

She saw her haggard face in the mirror, screamed in fright, and pushed the mirror away and didn't dare to look at it again.

I brought the meal and the decoction to her at the right time, and this time she did not refuse. After eating and taking her medicine with unprecedented seriousness, she fell asleep with a pillow of beautiful dreams for the future.

During the fourth watch, someone knocked on the door of the pavilion. I had already woken up at that time, and I set out to look, and saw that it was the eunuch sent by the middle palace to summon the message.

"The queen asked Miao Niangzi to go to Funing Hall as soon as possible, and there is something important to discuss." He said that he had run all the way to the red face, and the chamberlain looked very nervous.

Miao Shuyi heard the sound and glanced at me, her eyes full of panic.

"Yes...... Official? She asked, her voice trembling.

"The official fainted in the hall again," the chamberlain whispered, "but the imperial doctor's medicine and burning wormwood failed to revive him." ”

Miao Shuyi became more and more panicked, and said to me, "Huaiji, hurry, follow me to have a look." ”

When we arrived at the Funing Temple, the main hall was already full of people. In addition to the queen and the imperial doctor who knelt on the ground, there were several governors, deputy governors and Mr. Zhang, as well as the Zhou clan and the Qinghe county monarch Zhang clan, who had often served the current Anding county in the past two years.

I also discovered Akiwa. She stood behind the curtain in the hall, far away from the rest, her posture as unassuming as ever, like a shadow outlined in light ink.

I asked her about the situation here, and she lowered her voice and said, "Recently, the official family saw Zai Zhi after the fifth watch, but today the official family got up very early and summoned me to come and comb my hair. After combing it, Shi Duzhi came in before Shi and Wu were both known, picked him up and went to the small hall of the inner east gate, and talked to him while helping him go. As soon as the official family walked to the door of the palace, he suddenly gasped heavily, stroking his chest, as if he was in pain. By the time I ran over, he had fainted and was on the ground. ”

"Shi Duzhi?" In the past few days, it shouldn't have been Shi Quanbin who accompanied the official's family to the small hall at the east gate to see Zaizhi, but why did he come early this morning? I asked Qiuhe softly, "Did you hear what he said to the official?" ”

Qiu He said: "At first, what he said was nothing more than some words of hushing and warmth, but then when he walked away, I couldn't hear it. Just now, the queen also asked Shi Duzhi, and he said that he was just exchanging health care with the officials, and he didn't dare to say anything. ”

I looked up at Shi Quanbin, who was standing with his eyes down expressionlessly, and there was no trace of abnormality on his face.

At this time, Yu Chongyi also arrived, and the queen said to Miao and Yu: "The official family suddenly fainted, the medicine stone was useless, and the imperial doctor was helpless. Shi Cai Mao recommended acupuncture, but it had to be done in the back of the head, and no one dared to treat it in this way. Mao Ze has been in the Imperial Pharmacy for many years, and has also studied medical skills, and has treated this disease before, so in order not to delay the treatment time, he recommended himself to administer needles to the official family. I don't know what the two of you think? ”

The two ladies looked at each other and did not respond for a while, and Shi Quanbin opened his mouth from the side: "The acupuncture points on the back of the head are not trivial, if there is a slight mistake, it will be blind at least and unimaginable at worst...... Lady, please think carefully. ”

Hearing this, the two ladies didn't dare to express their stance easily, their faces were embarrassed, and they were silent. Seeing this, Zhang Mao stepped forward and said to them: "Lady, please rest assured, this is not the first time I have seen this kind of symptom, and I have also applied needles to the patient's brain many times, and I have never missed it." If the official family is injured after acupuncture, the minister is willing to receive the punishment of Ling Chi. ”

Shi Quanbin indifferently rejected him: "Can the life of a lowly eunuch like ours be compared to that of the Supreme Son of Heaven?" ”

Perhaps because he was afraid that they would be angry, Yu Chongyi immediately said to the queen at this time: "The concubine and Sister Miao are just official concubines, and the stakes are very high. ”

Miao Shuyi also chimed in: "Yes, yes." Ask the queen to decide, and we will just do what we want. ”

"So, you have no objection to acupuncture?" The queen asked.

The two ladies were stunned for a moment, but they still said yes.

The queen then looked at Zhou and Zhang, the two county monarchs: "You are also harem ladies, speaking of which, you also belong to the emperor's family, do you think there is something wrong with my decision?" ”

Although they hesitated, the two county monarchs finally agreed with the queen's decision: "Everything is up to the queen's decision." ”

So the queen immediately ordered Mr. Zhang: "Mao Ze, enter the inner room, and use acupuncture as the official treatment." ”

Mr. Zhang received the order, and when he was about to enter, he heard Wu Jilong order to close the palace door in front of the Funing Palace left and right, he immediately turned around and said loudly: "There is nothing to worry about, why do you want to cover the palace door to make China and foreign people suspicious?" ”

Wu Jilong was silent, and then ordered the chamberlain who went to close the palace gate to come back.

There were fewer people who were allowed to enter the inner room by the queen, except for Mr. Zhang, there were only four ladies, Miao, Yu, Zhou, and Zhang, and Qiu He, who wanted to untie the bun for the official family.

I waited in the hall with the rest of the people. Mr. Zhang began the treatment, I don't know what the result is, there is silence inside and outside the bedroom, no one has a little superfluous action, I also maintain a static posture, as if it is not Mr. Zhang who stabs the back of the head with a golden needle but myself, for fear that if I move, I will puncture the extraordinary life-sustaining silk.

Later, what broke this stagnant silence was an exclamation. As if he had seen a terrifying scene at a moment when he was unprepared, the man's voice was filled with extreme horror and uneasiness. This was followed by two or three female screams.

I didn't have time to think about it, so I immediately ran into the bedroom and saw Jin Shang standing in front of the bed with his hair scattered, holding a sharp blade in his hand, pointing directly at Zhang Maoze in front of him. On the ground, dozens of golden needles were scattered.

Mr. Zhang looked at him quietly, holding a long needle in his right hand.

Several ladies were so frightened that they shrank to a corner of the room, and only the queen greeted them.

"Official, Shigeru is treating you ......," the queen tried to explain to him.

Jinshang didn't listen at all, his arm was horizontal, and the sharp blade was aimed at the queen again.

"Are you so eager for me to die?" He said slowly, looking at the queen, Shicai's anger when facing Mr. Zhang disappeared a little, and a layer of tears appeared in his eyes, "I take you as my wife, let the thirteenth marry you, and you are still not at ease...... Okay, then I'll take your people to the court, and I'll let you know what you want to know...... Isn't it enough that you will give me a rope and I will be bound willingly? But why don't you feel at ease, and do so many things in private, preferring to believe that eunuch rather than believe me? ”

"Is it that I don't believe you?" The queen was also quite moved at this moment, with tears in her eyes, "If you believe me, will you let me walk on thin ice for the past twenty-two years, ready to deal with one sudden shame after another?" But if you trust me more, why should you and I be husband and wife! ”

Jinshang's body trembled slightly, staring at the queen in a trance, for a moment, he smiled, and sighed: "Twenty-two years, it's really boring......"

Before the voice fell, he raised his hand, turned his wrist, and aimed the knife in his hand at himself......

I realized what he was trying to do, and immediately took a few steps to stop him. He was a little far away from him, and when he saw his hand swinging down, and was about to hate that he couldn't catch it, suddenly a man rushed from the left side of the present and grabbed his hand before his sharp blade touched his body.

It turned out to be Autumn Harmony. There was a moment of stillness in the picture, and I realized that the above impression was not accurate. To be exact, it was Akiwa who rushed over and grabbed Imagami's hand with one hand and ...... with the other Firmly grasped the sharp blade.

Bright red blood poured down from Qiu He's hand, dripping into the quiet space at this time, falling to the ground little by little, making a slight sound.

Imagami, like everyone else, looked at her in surprise, and there was no reaction for a brief moment. It wasn't until I snatched the knife from his hand that he regained consciousness, pushed away the attendant who had stepped forward to help him, and strode out of the hall.

And Qiu He seemed to feel the pain that pierced her heart at this time, bent down and pressed her hand in her arms, and the uncontrollable ** and fragmentary cries escaped from her clenched teeth, and she leaned and fell to the ground.

Miao Shuyi and Yu Chongyi hurriedly stepped forward to help her sit up, and the queen immediately ordered Deng Baoji, who came from behind: "Quickly announce that the imperial doctor outside will come in and bandage Dong Niangzi!" ”

Although in this state of confusion, I still noticed that she just called Qiuhe "Dong Niangzi", and when she said these three words, she deliberately accentuated her tone.

Shi Quanbin, Wu Jilong and others have already chased him after running out of the Funing Palace, and even Zhou and Zhang have run out, and now, the queen cares about Mr. Zhang and instructs: "Pingfu, you go and see the official family......"

Mr. Zhang agreed and immediately went after him. I followed him closely, following the direction of the Imagami run, all the way. My heart was beating unusually fast, and I had a vague premonition that there was an even bigger storm ahead of the unknown.

This hunch is correct. The destination of this day is the small hall of the inner east gate. When we caught up with him, he had already held the hand of Prime Minister Wen Yanbo, who came out to take over, and said a sentence in a loud voice: "The queen and Zhang Mao are plotting against him!" ”