If He Lanyan's only biological son hadn't died because he saved Helian Yingche who accidentally fell into the water, then the person who sat on the throne of the Great Yan Emperor today would be the pure-hearted crown prince.

Even if Helian Yingche is not Helan Yan's biological flesh and blood, even if there is an inextricable estrangement between the two, Helian Yingche has to admit that without Helan Yan's assistance to him in court politics, there would never be Helian Yingche today.

The Empress Dowager He Lanyan had a keen insight into the strangeness of the palace maid Ace of Luanfeng Palace, and also had a premonition that Helian Yingche and even the entire Great Yan would encounter a crisis. Helan Yan's words, for Helian Yingche, were enlightened and deafening.

The sharp-minded Helian Yingche had already faintly felt a trace of turmoil. Helian Yingche had a hunch that the border barbarian spies would not be quietly lurking in the Great Yan all the time, and sooner or later they would take action. But what Helian Ying never expected was that someone would do this to Helan Diemeng, the queen of the world who is kind and virtuous and has a motherly manner. The purpose of the real murderer behind the scenes is self-evident, that is, to disrupt the harem and cut off the bloodline of the Great Yan royal family, so as to achieve his ulterior purpose.

The autumn leaves are withering, and the cool breeze is blowing.

Helian Yingche, who was in the majestic palace, faintly felt the biting chill of the harsh winter coming.

Concubine Ning Pingzhi instructed the palace maid Ace to retreat outside the hall to wait, and she came to the inner hall alone.

Concubine Ning Pingzhi saw Helian Yingche guarding in front of Queen Helan Diemeng's sickbed, frowned, thoughtful, took a cloak, gently draped it on Helian Yingche's body, and said with good intentions: "The night is cold, and the emperor should also take good care of the dragon's body." ”

Helian Ying turned his eyes when he heard this, barely squeezed out a smile, and said softly: "The concubine is hard, and she has to accompany me to take care of the queen." ”

Concubine Ning Pingzhi shook her head lightly and said softly: "The emperor is very kind to his concubines, and the queen's mother is better than her own sisters on weekdays. Now that the queen mother has suffered this incident, she is unconscious, and the concubines should serve the left and right. ”

Helian Yingche kept holding the hand of the still sleeping queen Helan Diemeng, staring at Helan Diemeng on the sickbed, feeling guilty and blaming herself.

"It's all my fault, if I have been by the queen's side and never left, I won't give the villain a chance, and I won't let the villain hurt the queen and my flesh and blood. It's all my fault! Helian Ying's heart ached.

Concubine Ning Pingzhi persuaded and said: "The emperor doesn't need to blame himself, these are not the emperor's faults at all." Even if the emperor has been by the queen's side, it is difficult to keep the time when he has not been negligent. Moreover, the concubine felt that the queen mother was good at raising a baby in Luanfeng Palace, and she had never been in contact with any outsiders, which meant that the person who poisoned the queen mother was a thief in the palace. As the so-called house thief is difficult to prevent. How could the emperor blame himself for all this. ”

Helian Yingche slowly turned his head and stared at Concubine Ning Pingzhi beside him.

"Even Concubine Ai thinks it's done by people inside the palace?" Helian Yingche asked.

Concubine Ning Pingzhi nodded, looked at the pale and bloodless Queen Helan Diemeng lying on the sickbed with pity, and then said: "The concubine has thought of a way, maybe she can help the emperor catch the real culprit who poisoned the queen mother as soon as possible." ”

Helian Yingche asked, "What is the method of Aifei?" ”

Concubine Ning Pingzhi whispered softly in her ear.

Helian Yingche nodded slightly.

In the middle of the night, a mournful cry suddenly came from the inner room of Luanfeng Palace. I saw Concubine Ning Pingzhi running out of the inner room of Luanfeng Palace, calling the palace maids who were keeping vigil inside and outside, and said, "Quick! Tell the Imperial Doctor! The queen has no pulse and no breathing! ”

After hearing this, the palace maids of Luanfeng Palace ran to pass the imperial doctor in a panic.

The palace maid Ace, who had been guarding the palace, ran forward and asked Concubine Ning Pingzhi in a loud voice, "Hasn't the queen been rescued by the imperial doctor?" Why is there no breath all of a sudden?! ”

Concubine Ning Pingzhi swallowed her words more, cried slightly, and replied sadly: "Who knows, it was fine before, this night, I saw that the queen's hands were cold, thinking that the queen's body was cold, so I covered the queen's mother's brocade for the queen's mother, who would have thought, the queen's mother...... The queen didn't breathe, and she didn't even have a pulse! ”

Concubine Ning Pingzhi said, bursting into tears.

Seeing this, the palace maid Ace was stunned. Hurried to the inner room to check.

As soon as the palace maid Ace arrived in the inner room, she saw that the curtain on the red couch of Queen Helan Diemeng was hanging down, and the whole person was wrapped in brocade, and her face was also covered by brocade, and she couldn't see her look.

Emperor Helian Ying, who was guarding in front of Empress Helan Diemeng's bed, got up, tears in his eyes, and said in grief: "There is no need to pass on the imperial doctor." Queen She ...... Queen, she's dead! ”

After hearing this, Ace threw herself in front of Queen Helan Diemeng's bed, cried so much that the pear blossoms brought rain, and mourned: "Queen Mother, Queen Mother, why did you go like this!" It's not good to be a slave! It was the slave who didn't take good care of the queen, which allowed the villains to take advantage of the loophole and poison the queen! ”

Helian Ying's eyes were out of focus, and the whole person looked as if he was dead, staring blankly at the queen Helan Diemeng in the curtain, and couldn't say a word anymore.

The other palace maids and eunuchs of Luanfeng Palace also followed, kneeling down in front of Queen Helan Diemeng's couch one by one, crying and grabbing the ground.

Ace knelt on the ground and continued to cry: "The slave and maid have served the queen mother for all these years, and the queen mother treats the slave and maid like brothers and sisters. Now that the queen is gone, the slave and maid do not want to live, the slave and the maid might as well follow the queen and go to the other side, and also be a cow and a horse, and serve the queen mother! ”

Ace said, got up suddenly, and was about to crash into the Zhu Zhu in the hall crying.

Fortunately, Xiao Tuanzi was sharp-eyed, and ordered the eunuchs on both sides to pull Ace in time, which prevented Ace from doing stupid things.

Xiao Tuanzi sighed: "The queen mother has always been benevolent, how can I watch you do something stupid!" Besides, this is the queen's bedroom, how can you, a palace maid, hit the pillar in the queen's bedroom, and the blood stains the Luanfeng Palace! ”

After a long time, Helian Yingche came to his senses from his sorrow, and slowly spoke: "The queen is happy and pure, how can you let the queen go at ease when you are crying like this." ”

Helian Yingche waved his hand.

Xiao Tuanzi understood and ordered, "You all retreat first." ”

The little eunuchs on both sides took the palace maids and eunuchs in Luanfeng Palace out of the inner room. Ace, who had fainted from crying, was carried out by two little eunuchs.

Concubine Ning Pingzhi saw the scene that had just happened in Luanfeng Palace.

Xiao Tuanzi asked in a loud voice: "Your Majesty, what should you do next?" ”

Helian Yingche's eyebrows frowned slightly, and he said in a deep voice: "Everything is going according to what Concubine Shu said before." ”

It didn't take long for Xiao Tuanzi to help the grief-stricken Helian Yingche out of the inner chamber and come to the inner hall to rest.

At midnight, in the dead of night, the big palace maid Ace sent out the two palace maids who were guarding the inner and outer rooms. Alone in the inner chamber. By the moonlight, Ace quietly walked to the front of the couch, looked at the queen Helan Diemeng lying quietly on the couch in the curtain, and said quietly: "Although the queen mother is kind to me, but how can Ace be his master, I have to do this, and please don't blame me." ”

Ace said, stretched out his hand to pick up the curtain, and was about to lift the brocade on the face of the queen Helan Diemeng on the couch, when the man on the couch got up suddenly, lifted the brocade, grabbed Ace's hand, and said sharply: "It turns out that you are the murderer who poisoned the queen's mother!" ”

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