"Past and present lives, the cycle of cause and effect. Life and death depend on each other, and life for life. ”

"Princess......

Bai Yanran woke up suddenly, and was still in a trance for a while, and her ears seemed to still echo with the whispers of the person in her dream. It's a strange feeling, knowing that you're in a dream, but you're so immersed in it that you can't extricate yourself.

"Princess, the ancient guards are awake!"

Like a thunderclap on the ground, Bai Yanran finally came to her senses.

She slammed to her feet, but she almost sat back down. Zhu Ling quickly helped her, and after Bai Yanran eased up, she got up and went to the Frost Ding Pavilion.

When I arrived at the gate of the courtyard, I could hear the noisy voices of people inside, and all the guards in the house were huddled in front of the bed talking nonsense, and only when I saw Bai Yanran did she quiet down and spontaneously give up her position.

Gu Fang's face was still pale and bloodless, and he struggled to get up but was stopped by Bai Yanran, he said ashamedly: "It was the subordinates who were not good enough to put the master in danger, and asked the princess to punish him." ”

Bai Yanran took a deep breath and looked at him fixedly.

"You are the prince's henchman, and how you punish depends on the prince's meaning. The most important thing at the moment is where the prince goes, what happened? ”

At the beginning, Ji Chengyu really wanted Ji Lingyun to avoid Lingxi and his relatives, so he transferred him out of the capital to assist Zhang Mu. Last year's winter wheat harvest was abundant, and the emperor sent Zhang Mu to parade around to promote winter wheat.

This is a good thing, but there are also difficulties. Zhang Mu is now the minister of the Qincha, and the officials from all over the country should have held the offering, but Zhang Mu had to consider the land tax in order to implement the winter wheat, which stepped on the tail of the local officials.

It is said that the parents have been officials for three years, and the family has 100 acres of land, which can be seen. In the officialdom, there are a few people who can really clean their sleeves, and most of them are a little greasy, which is also a common practice in officialdom, and it is understandable to get some oil and water.

But having said that, it can't be put on the bright side. And although Zhang Mu is a minister, he is a down-and-out official who was promoted by exception. One has no connections and two backgrounds, so it is inevitable that people will look down on them.

Zhang Mu is dedicated to the people, and he can't play with the fancy intestines of these local snakes. The minister came with two sentences of good food and drink, but as soon as he did something, he pushed back and hindered it, and people couldn't find fault with it, so the errand kept delaying.

Zhang Mu was originally promoted by Bai Yanran, and he was a practical person, who was not only reused by Emperor Yuanhe, but also went to Ji Chengyu's eyes. Some time ago, Ji Chengyu was in charge of the country, and after seeing the fold presented by Zhang Mu, he pressed it down first.

The court rebuked the magistrates and ordered them to cooperate with the ministers to run errands, but as the saying goes, a strong dragon can't overpower the snake on the ground. The magistrate cooperated on the surface, but secretly he didn't know how many stumbling blocks he had to make.

Ji Chengyu thought about it, and then thought of sending Ji Lingyun to support Zhang Mu. In this way, he can naturally suppress the arrogance of the magistrate, and Ji Lingyun is relaxed in his affairs, and he can also reconcile the discord between Zhang Mu and the magistrate.

Ji Lingyun also lived up to expectations, and when he arrived, he really shocked the magistrate. He knows these secrets of officialdom, knows that when the water is clear, there are no fish, and he has not been killed after beating.

In this way, the local officials were not only reassured, but also had the handle in their hands, so they naturally did not dare to take Qiao anymore.

However, within a few days, there was another turmoil. The rumors that came from nowhere, saying that the current prince was not worthy of the position, and he took the last year's sacrifice ceremony to talk about things, but he advocated Ji Lingyun.

Such despicable means of sowing discord are obvious, but most of the local people are closed to information and do not know the distance of the mountains and rivers. After hearing too many rumors, it is inevitable that they will be taken seriously, and after a long time, I am afraid that something will really happen.

Ji Lingyun saw that the situation was not good, so he asked people to secretly investigate the person who spread rumors behind him, and suspected that it was related to Liao Guangtian. didn't know that this was the trap of taking advantage of Ji Lingyun's bad voice and privately investigating the step.

Liao Guangtian's heart has been revealed, but the imperial court is bitter and cannot rush to send troops without evidence. This time, Liao Guangtian took advantage of this to make Ji Lingyun think that he had grasped the handle, and pursued it regardless of the danger, but fell into the trap.

"Liao Guangtian has already made arrangements, we are not familiar with life, and we accidentally fell for a while. My master and I were both hit by the soft incense, and we were surrounded halfway through the escape, and our subordinates were incompetent and failed to protect our master. ”

It is not advisable to make a big fuss about the matter and alarm the local officials, and if there is no available person around the capital, it is inevitable that they will fall into the trap. At that time, the situation was critical, and the two were outnumbered by the soft incense.

Gu Fang saw Ji Lingyun being taken away before he passed out, which showed that Bai Yanran guessed well, Liao Guangtian did not hesitate to make a move on the cusp of the storm, not only because he wanted Ji Lingyun's life.

But even so, the situation is still not optimistic. Liao Guangtian has jumped over the wall now, who knows what his idea is, now the situation is changing rapidly, once he tears his face, the consequences are unimaginable.

Bai Yanran asked people to deliver the news to the prince, but she also knew that it didn't mean much. Although Gu Fang knew the whole story, it only confirmed their guesses.

It has been three days since the accident, but Ji Lingyun's whereabouts have not been searched so far. Now that Ji Lingyun is in the hands of Liao Guangtian, they can only passively wait for Liao Guangtian to make a request.

After reading the ancient recipe, Sun Mingzhe privately told Bai Yanran about the situation in the palace now.

Lingxi's accident sounded a wake-up call to Emperor Yuanhe, and now even the palace is not safe, and the palace people are being cleaned these days, and all those with ominous origins or something to do with Nanyang have been sent out of the palace. The palace people who served in the Liuli Palace were all thrown into the extremely prison and interrogated, but they never found out anything.

Sun Mingzhe paused for a moment before he said: "Weichen was suspicious, and checked the body of Suo Xiang, a palace man from Caiwei Palace, and found that although she was injured before her death, she was not injured to death, and Weichen suspected that Suo Xiang's death was strange. ”

Bai Yanran narrowed her eyes slightly and muttered, "Now the rest of the people can't find out the problem, because everyone has missed someone." The dead are the best cover-up, and they are also the best substitutes for the dead. ”

If Suo Xiang really has a problem, then the poor nobleman will definitely not be able to run away. She originally felt that the timing of the noble woman's pregnancy was strange, but now it seems that it is not her life charm.

She asked: "I heard that the emperor attaches great importance to the dragon in the belly of the merciful nobleman, which imperial doctor did he refer to to the merciful nobleman's fetus?" ”

Sun Mingzhe understood and replied: "It is Imperial Doctor Lu, and his status in the Imperial Hospital is second only to Imperial Doctor Zhang. Imperial Physician Lu has always been rigorous, and presumably there will be no fake dragon in the belly of the noble man. ”

Bai Yanran nodded and said: "I've worked hard for you in the past few days, you can go back and rest first, the errand over there is not easy in the Tai Hospital, and if there is something on the Gu Fang side, I will ask Dr. Sun to ask for it." ”

Seeing Sun Mingzhe away, Bai Yanran was still thinking about her thoughts, but Xiaoba hurriedly came to report, saying that someone from the Bai family wanted to see Bai Yanran.

Bai Yanran's heart jumped, and she invited someone in, but it was Zou's mother who came. Zou's mother has always been calm, but she can't hide her worries right now, and Bai Yanran's heart sank.

"Why is Mama Zou here? But what happened to my mother? ”

Zou's mother said bluntly: "Miss, go back and take a look, Mrs. is still unconscious, and the house is already in chaos." The slave and maid are really helpless, so they come to bother the young lady. ”

Qi's illness is really strange, it was just an ordinary wind and cold, but it was implicated in the old diseases in the past, Qi's day after day was difficult to sleep and eat, and his body naturally couldn't stand it, and today he suddenly fainted.

was in a hurry for a while, and I didn't want the Tang family to suddenly identify the Yang family as the assassination of the housewife. Bai Zonglin only regarded it as a woman's jealousy and didn't take it to heart, but Tang came up with evidence, but Yang didn't admit it, and he was in a stalemate now.

Bai Yanran listened to the ins and outs, forced herself to calm down, and asked, "What evidence did Aunt Tang come up with?" ”

Mother Zou frowned and said: "It's a technique of disgust, the girl next to Aunt Tang saw Mo Ci sneakily burying things under the tree behind the Zhaohe Courtyard, and when Mo Ci left, she dug it out and took a look, and found that it was a puppet in the box."

The puppet looks like a lady, and there is a note at the bottom, on which is written the eight characters of the lady's birthday, which is Aunt Yang's handwriting. ”

Bai Yanran listened to the cause and effect, got up and said, "Without further ado, I will go back with you." ”

The Bai family was really panicked, and when they entered the gate of the Zhaohe Courtyard, they saw the Yang family kneeling in the courtyard, Bai Zonglin sitting in the hall, and the Tang family accompanying him. Seeing Bai Yanran, Bai Zonglin sighed and said, "You go to see your mother first." ”

Bai Boren stayed in the inner room, and said with red eyes: "My mother has become more and more unwell in recent days, but I have not been able to notice that something is wrong, and I am really unfilial. ”

Bai Boren's expression was haggard, not much better than the Qi family.

These days, he has been worried about Lingxi's affairs, he thought it was fate, but who knew that Lingxi had become what he is now, and he knew that he must be uncomfortable in his heart.

Bai Yanran didn't know how to comfort her brother, so she looked at Dr. Sun on the side. Doctor Sun understood and said, "The old doctor's skills are not refined, and I really can't see any clues. It's just that the lady is overly worried and tired, which is really inappropriate. ”

Zou's mother said: "Madame is not such a temperament that thinks too much, but it has been difficult to sleep and eat recently, and it is inevitable that her mind does not belong, and even those who are beaten with iron can't stand it." ”

Bai Yanran finally grasped a little thought, and muttered, "Can't sleep well? ”

Madam Zou nodded, "Madame has always been physically strong and open-minded, and she is not a person who is always obsessed. But lately, for some reason, I've always had chest tightness and shortness of breath, and I'm impetuous.

I don't know the taste of food, I can't sleep at night, and I don't dare to be sloppy with my daily decoction, but it has no effect. In the long run, the body will collapse, but now it involves a disgusting technique......"

Doctor Sun was busy on the side: "The old man is only a shallow learner, but he doesn't dare to do his best. When a woman's family is at the age of her wife, she does have chest tightness and shortness of breath, and impetuousness, which is really the norm.

But Madame's illness is menacing, and there are no other symptoms, and the old decay has increased the dosage, but it is still useless, and there is really nothing to be done. Could it be that he was under that spell? ”

Bai Yanran completely sank her face and said, "The most vicious spell in this world is a bad heart. ”

Fortunately, the Qi family just looked at the danger, but it did not hurt the root, although he was still asleep at the moment, but Dr. Sun gave the needle, and when he woke up, there would be no major problems.

Bai Yanran went to the front hall, and there was Mo Ci's shout outside, and he shouted out that he was wronged. Bai Zonglin frowned, and Tang waited cautiously by his side, looking worried.

Seeing Bai Yanran come out, Bai Zonglin sighed, turned his head and said nothing. Tang wiped the corners of his eyes and said: "Fortunately, the second lady came back to preside over the overall situation, and now that the lady has been calculated, and the old man cares about the old feelings, I can't surpass a concubine." Just letting the wicked go unpunished is really chilling. ”

Bai Yanran looked at Tang Shi and said, "The two aunts were selected by their grandmother and mother, and they are both responsible people. Mother Suri treats you even more kindly, I really don't want to believe that Aunt Yang is so ruthless. ”

Tang also sighed: "I am Sister Yang who entered the door to wait for the master, and Mrs. has nothing to say to us, and I can't believe that Sister Yang is such an ungrateful person." But now the facts are in front of us, and people have to believe it. ”

Tang's words were sincere, but Bai Yanran was unmoved, looked at Bai Zonglin and said: "Please also ask my father to listen to his daughter's words, the so-called technique of disgust with victory is just a folk rumor, and it is not believable." Aunt Yang has always respected her mother, and there is really no reason to harm her mother, so maybe there is some misunderstanding of you.

Besides, in the end, Aunt Yang gave birth to Hongrui and passed on the incense for our Bai family, and she is a meritorious person. is reasonable, and asks my father to be light. ”