Chapter 12: Spying
"Haha! The prince has made great achievements in his young years, and this time he was able to go south to southern Xinjiang to obtain such a treasure, which shows that I am not wrong, and the prince is up to the task! This time, the prince was rewarded with a thousand taels of gold, a pair of jade to attack, and ten night pearls! The old emperor looked at Nan Xuanye in front of him and began to reward.
"Thank you, father!" As soon as Nan Xuanye finished speaking, the palace maids and guards behind him brought in boxes of gold jewelry at once, as well as fragments of jade and jade night pearls, and the ministers around him drooled.
Prime Minister Su Zhe didn't make any remarks in the main hall from beginning to end, just looked coldly at the prince Nan Xuanye in front of him, in addition to receiving the task assigned by the emperor when the prince became an adult, he usually did not appear at the court meeting, so the opportunity in front of him was very rare, and all the ministers opened their eyes wide and carefully observed the prince Nan Xuanye in front of him.
It's just that there are some new changes in the political situation of the Great Zhou Dynasty today, and the national teacher Dugu Luo is like a dark horse that suddenly came out, taking away most of the attention of the old emperor Nan Wuyan, every word he said and everything he did unintentionally easily affected Emperor Nan Wuyan's decision-making power, and the origin of this national teacher has always been a mystery, which makes people very curious.
And Su Zhe, the prime minister who introduced the national teacher Dugu Luo, was silent, which couldn't help but make everyone start to find a way to find a way to get in touch with the red national teacher Dugu Luo in front of the saint in front of him, but the strange thing is that this national teacher Dugu Luo has a special personality and temper, and successfully drove everyone away, except for the emperor and the prime minister, no one else is seen, usually he stays alone in the national teacher's mansion to participate in Zen, meditate, study Taoism, drink and eat meat like ordinary people, and also love beautiful women, Usually everywhere he goes, he likes to wear his hair loose and wear a black robe, only when he goes to court, he wears a blue court robe, and no one can really understand this mysterious national teacher.
But according to legend, this national teacher will refine medicine, and some of the tonic that has been refined, after the diagnosis of the hospital confirmed that there is no problem, a good one entered the old emperor's stomach, and the amazing thing is that the old emperor has been full of red light and refreshed since he took the medicine, and he is a lot fatter than before, and the reputation of the national teacher has also spread, establishing his status in the Great Zhou.
Nan Xuanye naturally secretly sent someone to quietly check on this national teacher Dugu Luo, but judging from the information currently in his possession, nothing was investigated, judging from the official registration information, this national teacher is an amateur who travels everywhere, alone, and no one knows his true origin, and because of this, Nan Xuanye is quite bothered.
Nan Xuanye, who had just returned to the Prince's Mansion, was bored for a while, looked at the gold placed in the flower hall, and said to Cheng Yu who was standing next to him: "Put all the gold in front of you in the private treasury, this pair of jadeite will be given to the crown princess, and these ten night pearls will be given to Xia Yinbing of the Hundred Beast Garden, she likes to run around, and these beads can just be used for her lighting." As soon as Nan Xuanye finished speaking, Cheng Yu on the other side secretly covered his mouth and smiled.
"Isn't it funny?" Nan Xuanye looked at the pile of gold and silver jewelry opposite, calm and calm.
"The subordinates just think that these night pearls are indeed suitable for Xia Yinbing Xia girl, I heard that Xia Yinbing girl has been running to the Hundred Beast Garden almost every day in the past few days, and the life is very comfortable, but the crown princess almost exploded, she has already discovered the fact that Xia Yinbing Xia girl is pregnant, and she has sent more than a dozen masters to quietly attack Xia Yinbing's garden, and it seems that after these people went in, they never came out."
The words in Cheng Yu's mouth were very light, but they were so harsh in Nan Xuanye's ears, his eyes were slightly low, and the strength of holding the chair behind him with both hands was amazing, and he actually crushed the chair.
With a click, the chair was half broken after Nan Xuanye stood up, and Cheng Yu immediately added: "The subordinates immediately arranged for people to secretly protect Miss Xia's personal safety, you can rest assured, they will definitely protect the flesh and blood in Miss Xia Yinbing's abdomen." ”
Nan Xuanye's eyes raised slightly: "Did I say anything?" ”
"No, you didn't say anything, it's all your subordinates talking!" Cheng Yu immediately smashed his mouth, and watched Nan Xuanye in front of him quickly enter the study, he could only rearrange the gold, silver and jewelry rewarded by the emperor of the flower hall in front of him.
Late at night, the moonlight in front of the window was faintly sprinkled on the ground, Dugu Luo stood alone by the bed and looked at the bright moon outside the window, a person holding a wine jug and constantly pouring wine into his mouth, looking at the frost outside, he slowly climbed up to the window, took a deep breath of the cold air in the cold night, and threw the wine jug in his hand with a raised hand.
It's just that he didn't hear the sound of the wine jug falling to the ground for a long time, and he couldn't help but raise his eyes slightly, and in the starry night, the night clothes worn by Prince Nan Xuanye appeared in Dugu Luo's field of vision.
"The national teacher is really good Yaxing, and he secretly climbed to the window in the middle of the night to drink." Nan Xuanye walked out of the night, holding the wine jug that Dugu Luo had just thrown away, and walked in front of Dugu Luo.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is also very skilled, and he secretly ran to the back garden of the national teacher in the middle of the night to peep, is this really good?" After Dugu Luo finished speaking, he jumped down from the window and stood in the garden looking at Nan Xuanye in front of him in a night suit.
"I don't know why His Royal Highness the Crown Prince came to visit late at night?" Dugu Luo's slender eyes narrowed slightly, looking at Nan Xuanye in front of him.
"It's just Xiao Wang, I heard that the national teacher doesn't like outsiders to disturb, but Xiao Wang is really very curious about the national teacher, so he came uninvited late at night, and I ask the national teacher to forgive me!" Nan Xuanye was suddenly very tired of such politeness.
"The real purpose of Xiao Wang's coming tonight is actually to ask the national teacher, the Soul Rejuvenation Pill in Southern Xinjiang, has my father taken it in recent days, and what is the effect?"
"This, shouldn't His Royal Highness the Crown Prince go and ask the imperial doctor of the Imperial Hospital, but since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince came over in person, I might as well inform you that the Emperor has taken the Soul Rejuvenation Pill yesterday, and it seems that everything is fine at present, and there are no unexpected symptoms, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is full of filial piety, and he will definitely tell the truth in the future!" Dugu Luo said meaningfully.
"Since that's the case, Xiao Wang, I won't disturb the national teacher's Yaxing!" After the crown prince Nan Xuan finished speaking, he disappeared into the night.
Dugu Luo watched the figure in front of him disappear, a mocking smile appeared on the corner of his lips, and he said to the person who slowly came out behind him: "The old emperor has already taken the pill, and these mediocre people in this Soul Rejuvenation Pill naturally can't find out what is in it, and you go back to Yu Gao, I personally stared at him and took it." ”
"Yes!" The visitor quickly disappeared into the night.
Nan Xuanye was unusually bored in his heart, and said that there was an aura between people, but for this national teacher of unknown origin, Nan Xuanye's heart was like a fish in his throat, and he felt more and more uncomfortable, but he couldn't find more inside information about this national teacher's identity for the time being, let alone any of his shortcomings, but he could only watch him turn around in front of his father every day, and he faintly felt a trace of crisis.
When Nan Xuan returned to the East Palace at night, Cheng Yu happened to come to his side, "Send someone to closely monitor this unknown national teacher Dugu Luo, what he does every day, who he has seen, where he has lived in the past years, where he has grown up, all these information are found out for me, remember, what I want is the result!" ”
Cheng Yu immediately bowed down and replied: "Yes!" ”
At this time, in Fengyang Palace, the crown princess Su Yan, who was still asleep, looked at the medicine residue that had been placed in front of her for three days, and looked at Yuan Shuang in front of her with a hideous expression: "What do you say!" Didn't any of the guards sent into the Garden of Beasts come back? ”
"Yes, the slave and maid personally monitored, and all of them ...... Didn't come back! Yuan Shuang knelt on the ground, her right hand kept wiping the cold sweat on her face, her body kept trembling, and in the end, there was no sound.
"Get out!" As soon as the crown princess Su Yan finished speaking, Yuan Shuang disappeared without a trace. “
Crown Princess Su Yan opened a pair of red eyes, staring at the slag on the table, this is the slag of the tocopreservation medicine that Xia Yinbing has drunk in recent days, since Xia Yinbing's woman came back, she has always sent people to keep an eye on Xia Yinbing's every move, including the people who come and go around Xia Yinbing.
That's right, she didn't dare to go in and out of the Hundred Beasts Garden at will, the lions and tigers there were so scary, not to mention going to see, as long as she heard the roar of a lion from a distance, she was going to be frightened, Xia Yinbing hid in the garden and couldn't come out, after all, unlike the woman who lived in Changchun Garden, she couldn't touch it with her hands, but another benefit of doing so was also great, that is, people stared at Xia Yinbing in front of her unknowingly, and killed her secretly!
However, after staring closely at the results for three days, before she took the action of killing, the people around her sent her a big surprise, and put a piece of medicine residue in front of her, and after being cut off by the imperial doctor, she found that the medicine residue in it turned out to be the residue of the tocolytic medicine that Xia Yinbing ate!
The flame of jealousy began to burn in the heart of the crown princess Su Yan! She has obviously been married to Prince Nan Xuanye for four or five years, why can't she give birth to a child, obviously the imperial doctor has diagnosed that there is no problem with her body and she can conceive and give birth to a child, but the world is so cruel, Xia Tianmo, who slept with Prince Nan Xuanye for one night, quickly became pregnant, and Xia Yinbing, who had been with Prince Nan Xuanye for two months, was lucky to be pregnant, Xia Tianmo, Xia Yinbing, why did she always fall into the hands of a woman surnamed Xia, she hated the woman surnamed Xia to death!
The crown princess Su Yan grabbed her hair frantically, swept the medicine residue on the table in front of her to the ground with a wave of her hand, covered her face with her hands, tears slowly flowed out from the fingers of her hands, her heart was irritable, the flame of jealousy in her heart almost burned her brain, she couldn't sleep all night, she didn't feel sleepy at all.
Since the prince Nan Xuanye came back, she pestered the prince Nan Xuanye in front of her to sleep together, the prince Nan Xuanye also seemed to love her very much, and has been making up for her regret that she did not take her to southern Xinjiang, and has never recruited other women, staying with her every night.
Except for tonight, the crown prince Nan Xuanye was not by her side, looking at her messy black hair, scattered medicine residue, red eyes, and a dangerous murderous aura exuded all over her body, such a terrifying look, she would never appear in front of her beloved man.
She usually stays alone in the boudoir is neatly dressed and meticulous, even in front of her biological mother, she can't let go of her guard, except for herself, she doesn't believe in anyone, she doesn't trust, she would rather believe in the kindness of a stranger, and she won't tell others all her thoughts at will, which is why she is very tired.
She lived really hard, and she guarded it for four or five years, as long as it was a woman who was touched by the prince Nan Xuanye, she forced the other party to take contraceptive drugs without exception, so these women in Changchun Garden hated the crown princess Su Yan to death, but when they saw the prince's love for the crown princess Su Yan and the power behind Su Yan, everyone chose to be silent at the same time, they have been waiting, waiting for the princess Su Yan to give birth to a child, so that they can be free to write words and meet the desire of these women to become mothers.
It's just that this wait is four or five years, and the girls who live in Changchun Garden are more colorful than the other, and one is younger and more beautiful than the other, so that these long-waiting women are waiting for the flowers, but there is still no news about the belly of this princess!
The crown princess Su Yan stayed awake all night, frantically grabbed her hair all night, and also fell her hair all night, meditated, scratched her ears and cheeks all night, stared at her red eyes, held a brush in her hand, and in order to deal with Xia Yinbing, she kneaded the paper ball on the ground, and finally came up with a method that she thought could be effective than the vicious yin damage.
As soon as the sky was bright, when Yuanshuang just opened the door of the crown princess Su Yan's room, she was frightened by the scene in front of her, and almost knelt on the ground, looking at the crown princess Su Yan in front of her in a low voice: "Niangniang! What are you? ”
"Don't talk nonsense, you go to the Prime Minister's Mansion, tell your father, and call me the blood red!" Crown Princess Su Yan looked at Yuan Shuang in front of her with a pair of red eyes and said.
"Yes! Slave and maid, go now! After Yuanshuang finished speaking, she quickly ran out.
Zoo of Beasts, late at night
Xia Yinbing stood alone in the cold wind, with two lions and three tigers lying beside him, who were lying next to Xia Yinbing to rest at this time, and some were lying directly on Xia Yinbing's hand, constantly rubbing Xia Yinbing's hand, Xia Yinbing's lips showed a smile, and looked at the few snoring sounds in front of him from time to time with satisfaction.
The smile on the corner of Xia Yinbing's lips had not disappeared, and suddenly there was a gust of cold wind behind her, the hair on the side of Xia Yinbing's ears flew up, and the lion and tiger at her feet raised their heads vigilantly first, and two of the tigers first noticed the killers hiding behind Xia Yinbing, and with a roar, they pounced on the dozen killers hiding in the grass.
There was no expected sound of swords, only constant screams, and the cold wind howling in the cold night, Xia Yinbing stood up, waved her hands gently, and the two lions at her feet ran out with a hula, chasing them in the direction of the three tigers, just when she just sat down, suddenly there was a man's cry for help, and the tragic sound of broken flesh and bones, she squinted her eyes slightly, did not look back, and walked towards the deep night.
The crown princess Su Yan has been restless for the past few days, took the initiative to decline the prince's invitation, and virtuously selected a few beauties for the prince to sleep in Changchun Garden, but she herself hid, she is now wholeheartedly devoted to the process of eliminating Xia Yinbing, naturally she does not dare to approach Nan Xuanye, and is very afraid that this highly alert prince will find out.
Before dawn, the crown princess Su Yan woke up early, when she lifted the curtain and lit the lamp, she suddenly screamed, and Yuan Shuang, who had been waiting outside, immediately opened the door, and when she saw the room, she was also so frightened that she knelt on the ground!
There is nothing else in the room, it is the killer sent by the crown princess Su Yan and her father Su Zhe to test Xia Yinbing's skills last night, at this time, the stumps, broken legs, and rolling heads of these killers are being placed in the room of the crown princess Su Yan one by one, on the table, on the chair, on the ground, and on the hangers, there is a piece of crimson blood on the ground.
At this time, the crown princess had already lost control and wanted to run out, and at this time, a woman in a red power suit suddenly rushed into the room, closed the door neatly, smashed Yuan Shuang's mouth, and lit the dumb hole of the crown princess Su Yan.
"Don't alarm anyone, Crown Princess, no matter how scared you are, don't alarm anyone!" Xue Hong, a woman with scars on her face, looked at the crown princess Su Yan, who was already trembling with fright in front of her, and shouted.
"Crown Princess, what the hell is going on!" At this time, the exclamation of the crown princess Su Yan had already attracted the guards on the side.
"It's okay! Stand down! At this time, the crown princess Su Yan, who was trembling all over her body, had just been opened by the blood red, looking at the blood of the stump all over the ground, and shouted at the guards shouting outside with a dumb voice.
Soon there was no sound outside the door, Su Yan suddenly fell on the blood-red body, his body was still trembling, and he looked at the blood-red in front of him in horror: "Hurry up and deal with it for me!" What do you eat! You don't even know that something like this is happening in my room! ”
"Niangniang forgive me, last night, Blood Red has been lurking in the Hundred Beasts Garden, and has been monitoring Xia Yinbing's traces, but I didn't expect that there was someone behind her to protect her, and they also sent these stumps to your room, do you know who is guarding her?" Blood Red looked at the crown princess Su Yan in front of him and asked.
"Is there anyone to protect her? There is no need to ask, who else must be the prince Nan Xuanye, but I didn't expect him to go against the Su family for a woman! Crown Princess Su Yan looked at the stumps and heads on the ground, couldn't hold back any longer, lowered her head and began to vomit wildly.
"Now there is no evidence that the prince sent someone to protect Xia Yinbing, and our actions were also carried out secretly, even if Xia Yinbing looked for the prince's theory, she had no evidence, and the prince would naturally ignore it, but it would be easier to startle the snake, so that the prince openly began to protect the woman Xia Yinbing!"
"So what do you say? If you can't kill it, what else can you do? The crown princess Su Yan asked arrogantly, looking at the killer in front of her, she was almost going to eat it.
"The slave has been poisoned in the small courtyard where Xia Yinbing lives, this kind of poison is colorless and tasteless, ordinary people can't detect it, it will be latent in the human body for about a year, but for the fetus, it is a fatal injury, as long as she drinks the water in the well, it is a matter of time before the tire slips, and it is only a matter of time before she dies!"