Chapter 109: Poor Woman

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It was easy to forge a letter, but it was almost impossible to forge a twenty-year experience under his Helan Chu's nose.

Helan Chu didn't know why Zuo Ying made up these lies, maybe to seize his weakness and hit him, maybe to tarnish the reputation of his father and son...... In short, he is not in the mood to figure it out now, let alone have any reason to believe it. He threw the letter in his hand, raised his foot and walked towards "Aunt He", who had already fallen to the ground.

From Helan Chu's eyes, Zuo Ying had already guessed what reason he was refuting her in his heart. Because of these questions, Zuo Ying had already considered them, and understood everything in the side knock on 'Aunt He' just now.

"I can tell you why her background and what she knows are so seamless." Zuo Ying looked at "Aunt He" who was facing away from everyone and said, "Because, what she said is not completely false. She did stay in the desert for twenty years, and for some of those twenty years she was with the princess. ”

Zuo Ying's words made Helan Chu stop.

"Back then, after the Yugu military camp was lost, Su Meier and the princess were taken captive by the Turks in the chaotic army." Zuo Ying continued to say: "When the Turks knew the identity of the princess, they planned to use the princess as a bargaining chip in exchange for benefits for our army, so they did not embarrass the princess. The princess did not know Su Mei'er, who was taken captive with her, because she took pity on her as a lonely and weak woman, and lied that she was her own sister and kept her safe. Later, the battle situation took a turn for the worse, and the Turks hurriedly returned to the army because the rear was disturbed by Tuyuhun, and the princess and Su Meier were helplessly taken to the desert, and the farther away from the Central Plains from then on, there was no hope of returning. The two supported each other and relied on each other in the face of adversity. So the relationship gradually became intimate. During this period, the princess shared many of her own stories with Su Meier. including the bits and pieces of getting along with her husband and beloved son; But Su Meier has always had reservations, and has never let her relationship with King Pingnan be exposed. She was also jealous of the woman next to her who had achieved true happiness, but the princess's kindness and kindness made it impossible for her to resent her. ”

"The desert and the Central Plains were not well connected and cut off from the sound, and it was not until they lived in the desert for a year that the news of the death of King Pingnan reached their ears. The princess was grief-stricken, and she couldn't afford to fall ill because of her grief, and finally died of depression. Before dying, she handed over the gold earring she wore when she was separated from the chaotic army to Su Meier, begging her to return to the Central Plains in her lifetime. And she gave the earrings to her beloved son. That's why Su Meier will know a lot about the past between your mother and son. And the reason why the princess's gold earrings are hidden. ”

At this point, there is no point in making any reservations. Zuo Ying wants to tell everything she knows, and let the other party listen.

Su Meier endured humiliation and secretly lived for 20 years, and did not hesitate to use self-harm to persuade Ashina to bring her back to Luoyang, not to fulfill the princess's last wish. It's for revenge. Zuo Ying subconsciously glanced at the short knife that fell to the ground, "She pretended to be your mother and asked you to correct her name and canonize her as Mrs. Fate, not to take the position of the princess and enjoy the glory, but to plan to publicize her private relationship with King Pingnan on the day of the canonization ceremony, when the house was full of friends and ministers, and ruined the reputation of your father and son." She wants the right name. is not the name of He Suji's princess, but her Su Meier, who once had the status of husband and wife with King Pingnan. The reason why she intended to assassinate you just now was because she knew that her identity and purpose had been revealed, and her drama could no longer be played, so she vented all her hatred on you. ”

Zuo Ying, who is accustomed to seeing the situation, has never been a person who is easy to sympathize with and move. But having said this, she couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed in her heart. Because the woman she is exposing is indeed a poor person who is lonely in a foreign land, and has been tortured to return to her homeland. And she has changed from the prime-looking elegance at that time to the gray temples now, her face is damaged, her body and mind are damaged, and her life experience and situation are very sympathetic. At the same time, she is indeed as she said, she has not sinned, she is not a great traitor. It is no longer known what was wrong with the improper relationship between men and women back then, and her fault can only be said to be too obsessive and today in order to take revenge, she did not hesitate to make up such a big lie.

Her excitement of returning to her homeland, her complicated mood when she first met Helan Chu, and her sorrow of crying silently in front of the tombstone of Luomei Pavilion were not entirely achieved by performance, most of these violent inner conflicts were what she really felt.

Helan Chu remained silent, his cold eyes seemed to be completely cut off from communication with the outside world, and he was so dim that he didn't reveal any information.

When Zuo Ying said those words, how much he longed for his mother to stand up and refute and overturn them one by one, even if it was just to reveal the slightest grievance or struggle for being wronged; But she remained on her knees like that, motionless, like a statue that could not be heard or seen.

After a long time, Helan Chucai took another step and continued to walk towards Su Mei'er.

"Helan Ying, when did you start caring about the reputation of this father and son? You also gave the 'fake princess' poisoned wine to help clear the way for this seat? On the occasion of our gratitude. ”

For the first time, Zuo Ying heard the weakness and exhaustion in Helan Chu's voice, but she could also hear the sarcasm between the lines of his words being extremely sharp.

She couldn't help but sigh in her heart, she was as wise as Helan Chu in her life, and one day she would be blinded by family affection and couldn't make a correct judgment.

"Actually, you should also know that she is not a princess. It's just that you prefer to believe her. "Sigh to sigh, Zuo Ying is very soberly aware that if things have reached this point, if she can't completely convince Helan Chu, but let him deceive himself, in the next step, all the hatred will be transferred to her, and she is not far from the disaster of killing; And she is far from being ready to meet these, "The most obvious thing is that the princess is only knowledgeable, but in terms of Confucian attainments, she is far from being able to be a concubine for the prince of Ashina, which you know best." ”

"And what I rewarded Su Mei'er just now was not poisonous wine," Zuo Ying blinked her eyes hard, and then continued, "It's ......"

Before she finished speaking, she suddenly felt an uncontrollable dizziness, and then her eyes went black, and the whole person instantly lost her strength and went limp.

"Your Majesty! What happened to you?! Scarlet Feather stepped forward and held Zuo Ying in her arms before she fell, "Someone!" Tell the Imperial Doctor! ”

Helan Chu also walked over as if he had been awakened in an instant. At this time, they found out that one of Zuo Ying's cuffs had been wet with blood, and from the folds on it, it should be that she had been tugging on this sleeve just now to secretly stop the bleeding from the wound, but because the clothes she was wearing were dark, no one noticed it.

Helan Chu suddenly lifted her sleeve and took a look, only to see that there was a bloody mouth several inches long in the palm of her left hand! The fresh wound turned black in color, an obvious sign of poisoning. He turned his head to look at the dagger that had fallen to the ground, and now he realized that the color on the knife was not pure metallic, but also had an almost transparent color, which was actually quenched and poisonous!

He had seen too many things on the battlefield to increase the lethality of weapons by quenching poison on weapons. Even his own father died under such weapons. Once poisoned, the sooner it is detected, the better, if the poisonous blood can be exported in time, and the poison does not flow all over the body, the threat to the body will be much smaller. But no one noticed that this knife was poisonous, and Zuo Ying, who was used to seeing the light and shadow of the sword, didn't care about such a small wound in the environment at that time, and now that at least a quarter of an hour has passed, the poison is likely to have invaded the heart!

Now is the time to wait! Helan Chu decisively tore off a piece of his clothes, hastily wrapped the short knife and put it in his sleeve, then bowed down and picked Zuo Ying up, and strode towards the door. The palace people who poured in from outside the door when they heard Scarlet Feather's shout saw such a scene, and they didn't know why, and they didn't know whether the Taishi was saving His Majesty or harming His Majesty, and they were all so frightened that their faces changed sharply, and they couldn't judge whether it was better to step forward to help or stop them.

Helan Chu walked out of the courtyard where the Yishen Temple was located, crossed the road connecting several palaces, did not avoid the etiquette of the fence, and took the nearest path to the Tai Hospital. When he came to the Tai Hospital and put Zuo Ying on the bed where the imperial doctor was resting on duty, the attendant who had also come from the Yishen Temple to invite the imperial doctor had just stepped into the door of the Tai Hospital.

The imperial doctor whose official age is the same age as this Tai Hospital has never heard of it, let alone seen such an emperor being carried directly to the Tai Hospital, and they are all frightened, and only one of the old imperial doctors who was born as a military doctor immediately calmly stepped forward to ask His Majesty what kind of acute illness he had.

Helan Chu quickly took out the dagger from his sleeve, "Your Majesty has been poisoned by this knife, and the wound is on the palm of your left hand, you can treat it quickly!" ”

The imperial doctor and the attendants immediately divided up to wash Zuo Ying's wounds, do poison sampling and identification, and dispense medicines, and the room was suddenly so busy that there was no place for idlers to stand.

Helan Chu looked at the unconscious Zuo Ying for a while. His heart seemed to be very heavy, so heavy that he felt unbearable, but it seemed empty, and when he really wanted to capture it, he couldn't catch anything. He turned his head and walked out of the room silently, just in time to meet Scarlet Feather, who was standing in the doorway with a sad expression.

He was about to pass by the other party, but at the moment of leaving, he couldn't help but ask in a low voice: "Do you have something to tell this seat?" ”

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