Chapter 12: Scorpion Venom
"I don't know what the emperor wants, although Shuang'er is a woman, but I only ask for a safe place, people don't offend me, I don't offend people, I won't interfere in your affairs in the court, whether you and Zhou Guifei or the future concubine, I will do a harmony for you, I just need you not to disturb me." He Nanshuang had thought of this day for a long time, and she also knew what she would encounter in the palace, so she went straight to the point.
"And what do you give me in exchange?" Helian couldn't laugh or cry a little, it turned out that she was not at all uncommon in her big palace, she was just a resident here. "Is my palace just what you say?"
He Nanshuang saw that the man in front of him didn't want to give up. "In this way, Your Majesty will give me a piece of heaven and earth, and I will solve a problem for you."
"Oh, what do you mean by that?" Helian looked at the woman in front of him, she still had to talk to herself about the conditions?
"Your Majesty, you can think for yourself, and tell me when you think about it." He Nanshuang gritted her teeth and said that for the sake of a peaceful life, she had already made concessions, and if it weren't for her father, she wouldn't have been able to enter the palace.
Helian saw He Nanshuang's thoughts, and suddenly smiled, "Come on, the queen didn't protect the property in the palace and let people steal money, which led to the minister suing and imprisoning the queen in the weaving workshop until she paid 100,000 gold." β
"You, Helian, you ......" He Nanshuang was angry all of a sudden, but he bit his lower lip tightly and didn't speak, he wanted to keep the money he earned for himself! What a vicious mind!
"As for the queen's proposal, I look at the mood! But I remember, if I help you with something and you help me, the queen will not break her promise in the future, today is the first thing. Okay, go rest, I'll come to you in the evening. Helian said with a sinister smile. He could feel the aura of the exercises emanating from his wife, and perhaps as she said, she would become his helper, but what he wanted was more than that.
"You ......" He Nanshuang looked at this brightly dressed man with hateful eyes, he was playing with the idea of the money he earned, okay, I bear it, can't I pay it back? If you don't want to participate, you have to pull me in, okay, then see how I turn your palace upside down!
"Miss, ...... tonight," You Huai asked tentatively.
"Tonight, if you come, you will be safe." He Nanshuang thought very openly, his own exercises were obviously below that person, but it was still okay to use poison by himself, so he was forced to give him a taste, don't think that this girl is a vegetarian!
Leaving the Frost Ran Palace, Helian's expression suddenly became stagnant, "Come on, set up the Muran Palace, I haven't seen my mother for a long time, and it's time to accompany her to talk about family life." β
"Yes, Your Majesty." Xiao Dezi hurried to catch up.
"Xiao Dezi, do you know what has happened to the mother concubine recently?" Helian asked.
"Your Majesty, Concubine Zhou Guifei has been researching the perfect health porridge recently, offering it to the Queen Mother every day, and beating her back and pinching her feet for the Queen Mother."
"Oh, really?" Helian smiled bitterly in his heart, the Queen Mother was still like that, too lonely.
"The son asks the concubine to say goodbye."
"Yao'er, you're here." The Queen Mother staggered to Helian. In fact, the Queen Mother is only in her forties, how can any woman in the palace be too old?
"Yes! The queen mother, the sons miss the queen mother all day long, so they hurried to the next court today, and I don't know if the queen mother is in good health.
"Okay, the queen mother's health is much better, with Queen Zhou taking care of her every day, don't mention how happy the queen mother is." The Queen Mother deliberately said the wrong thing.
Helian's face became very ugly, and sure enough, the Queen Mother had the idea of abolishing it.
"Queen Mother, that's Zhou Yanxi, it's Zhou Guifei, not the queen, you're always mistaken, right?" Helian pretended not to care.
"Oh, is it? Who's the queen? The Queen Mother pretended to ask.
"It's He Nanshuang, the daughter of the loyal minister He Tianliang." Emperor Helian said patiently, it must be his own negligence that annoyed the Queen Mother.
"Yao'er, the mother asked you, why didn't you enter the cave room on the wedding day?" The Queen Mother no longer pretended to be stupid and went straight to the point.
Helian's heart moved, and the Queen Mother was really blaming herself.
"Mother, the son-in-law knows his mistake, and the son-in-law will go to the concubine tonight to apologize to her." Helian said on his knees.
"Okay, good, good girl, I don't embarrass you for my mother, the child will have to deal with things independently when he grows up, and when I leave in the future, you have to help me take good care of the country with your father!" Don't let others do it, handle the affairs of your own harem by yourself, from tomorrow I will send back the palace maids of the Frost Ran Palace, as long as I don't let me hear the words of beauty and miscountry, I will also be happy to cultivate my heart! The Queen Mother's care is very heavy, and her meaning is obvious, she wants to pass the throne to her eldest grandson, Helian Zhuyao's brother Helian Zhushun's son Helian Yingri.
The emperor exchanged a few words with the queen mother, and left in a hurry, from the day his brother died, the mother's heart was completely deviated, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't compare to the bureau set up by Helian Zhushun for her, when would he be able to untie the knot in the concubine's heart?
Helian Zhuyao had a headache and didn't want to think about it so much.
After the emperor left, the queen mother's face suddenly became serious: "You come out!" β
"Yes, Queen Mother." I saw a delicate and pretty woman walking out from behind the screen, and this person was Zhou Yanxi.
"Did you hear what the emperor said just now?" The Queen Mother looked at Zhou Yanxi with great majesty, and that gaze seemed to want to penetrate her, making people scared for no reason.
"After the mother, the daughter-in-law, the daughter-in-law knows." Zhou Yanxi felt scared for the first time, and the Queen Mother looked at her as if she was looking at a straw, as if she could strangle you to death at any time.
"I'll only help you this time, as for what happens later, it depends on your performance, I like obedient people." The queen said, flicking her sleeves, Zhou Yanxi was pushed outside the Muran Palace.
"Damn it!" Zhou Yanxi said hatefully, "Old witch, don't think I'm afraid of you, wait for me to become the queen, hum, we'll see!" β
Zhou Yanxi has been outside the Muran Palace every day since she entered the palace, cooking ten perfect porridge every day, but the Queen Mother has not seen her until just now, and the Queen Mother quietly brought her to the Muran Palace with a secret envoy.
When she arrived here, just breathing air brought a great sense of oppression to Zhou Yanxi, her skill was already at the end of the fifth level, but she knew by feeling that an invisible force was surrounding her, and it could kill her at any time, so she honestly kept her etiquette in exchange for the trust of the Queen Mother.
"Come on, go and write to Daddy!" Zhou Yanxi hurriedly wrote a letter and called the secret guard to help him pass it, this is at the end of the sixth level with his skills since he was a child, he is a taciturn man, Xuanyi, obeys her orders, but does not obey the orders of the house.
"Master, Miss gave it to you." After speaking, Xuan Yi stepped a little and flew away.
"That's what Daddy said, you mean?" Zhou Yanxi quickly digested what he had just seen, the Queen Mother's skill was actually at the eighth level? In this way, who is her opponent, no wonder it was ...... that day
"Yes, the lord personally took my place." Xuanyi said.
"You, help me go to the Muran Palace." Zhou Yanxi commanded.
"Are you sure you want to cooperate with the Queen Mother?" Xuanyi's expression was a little strange, the reason why he was willing to obey Zhou Yanxi's orders was just to repay her for taking her in back then, although she didn't pay much attention to herself, but she gave herself a chance, he Xuanyi is a person who knows how to repay his kindness, and after this year, he will be free.
"What, when is it your turn to take care of my affairs?" Zhou Yanxi said unceremoniously.
"I know you won't listen to me, I just want to tell you that the Queen Mother is a senior cultivator in our martial arts, she is a former queen, and the people around her hide dragons and crouching tigers, in her eyes, you may just be a chess piece, and even when you are useless one day, you will be a dead man."
Xuan Yi said cruelly, he clearly remembered the Queen Mother's eyes, he was not for Zhou Yanxi, but they were masters and servants, and he would not ignore her safety.
"When I become the queen, who will kill the deer?" Zhou Yanxi said indifferently.
"Okay, in that case, I'll go, I hope you don't regret it." Xuan Yi jumped and left Yan Xi Palace.
In the imperial study, Helian Zhuyao was practicing his own exercises, and in three days, his exercises had not broken through the middle of the seventh level, and the person who claimed to be his mother had already reached the middle of the eighth level, and belonged to the powerhouse of this world, what should he do?
The queen mother, originally a woman with an excellent practice genius in the Hengshao Dynasty, with a beautiful face and a generous personality, was selected by the first emperor, and the two practiced together.
After several struggles for hegemony, the queen mother gradually became stronger, and established a lot of power in the government and the opposition, and later because of the death of the first emperor, she gave up the government and chose to retire, and at the same time retired The top ten elders of the rivers and lakes also retired, one of which was He Nanshuang, the peak master of the Five Poisons Peak, who went to seek medicine - Qiu Tianren.
Three years ago, a war caused the Queen Mother to lose her eldest son, and although the sacrifice of the eldest son hit each other with an egg, it became the regret of the Queen Mother's life, so the Queen Mother and the emperor went to the opposite side.
"Your Majesty, tonight, where are you going to the queen's mother, or where is Zhou Guifei?" Xiao Dezi said worriedly.
"Go for both." Helian replied briskly.
"Emperor, Emperor, you have to take care of the dragon body!" Xiao Dezi hurriedly followed.
"Let's go, start driving the Frost Palace!" Xiao Dezi didn't want to say it, because he could see that although his master was cold on the surface, he actually cared about this little master in his heart.
"Little Dezi, well done."
Inside the Frost Palace.
"Master, it's late, let's rest first!" You Huai comforted, today in the Weaving Department, the master almost lifted the sky, one moment to smash the machine, one moment to light the cloth, I don't know that I thought it was the fire of the sky, and the thunder was angry.
"Yes, I'm really tired today, but I still have to learn to weave, the emperor wants me to weave to repay, I have to do it!" He Nanshuang pretended to have a headache, she had already felt the emperor's approach.
"So the queen is still reluctant to call out ten thousand taels of gold?" Helian then asked.
"Your Majesty, I'm just the daughter of a criminal minister in Ququ, and I entered the palace penniless, how can I get so many silver taels?" He Nanshuang complained bitterly, she thought that her bottom line, Emperor Helian, should not know for the time being, as for the previous statement, it must have been deliberately difficult for her.
"Oh, is it? Are you confessing your father's sin? Helian seemed to have caught a handle on something.
"Your Majesty, listen to me, I didn't admit my father's crimes, how about my father as an official, Your Majesty, your old man knows in his heart, he has worked hard for more than 20 years, from the first emperor to support you to ascend the throne when you were young, it can be described as painstaking, but now you are framed and imprisoned by traitors, Yu Gong, it is your selflessness, selfishness, you do not bend the law for personal gain, but you are like this, and the cold is the heart of thousands of loyal ministers of the Hengshao Dynasty!" He Nanshuang changed his breath and continued.
"It's Your Majesty who imprisoned your father, and it was Your Majesty who said that your father was guilty, can someone say that the words of the Son of Heaven are wrong, no, so, I just repeat Your Majesty's words like that, and there is no such thing as admitting guilt or not admitting guilt, if Your Majesty wants to bend into a trick, Nanshuang has no choice, I am a woman, powerless and powerless, but I ask Your Majesty to leave a whole body for your father-in-law for the sake of you and my husband and wife."
What He Nanshuang said was heartwarming, and Helian also seemed to feel that he was not kind enough and too stupid, but he would not be moved by He Nanshuang's words, and it was not a love word that could solve it in the court.
"Oh? The queen said that you and I are husband and wife, so do you and I need to do the things of husband and wife? Helian smirked.
"How could the son-in-law not care about the father-in-law's affairs? Queen, come on. With that, a gust of wind blew and the lights in the room went out.
"No, no." He Nanshuang didn't want to refuse, although she had long thought that there would be such a day, but after all, she was a modern new young man, and it was impossible to accept anything about the ancient Three Palaces and Six Courtyards, and besides, if it was such a closed emperor, she couldn't look down on it even more.
Helian clearly saw He Nanshuang's serious disdain and disdain, but he still had to insist, one day, I would convince you.
He Nanshuang was angry, and flew up twice, Helian was not to be outdone, and the two quickly fought together.
"It turns out that my queen has extraordinary martial arts?" Emperor Helian feigned surprise.
"What does this have to do with you? I don't know you, but you have to force me to enter the palace, and now you are torturing me in every way, you naughty son! "Fight and retreat.
"Lingbo Weibu!" Helian exclaimed, "Miaomiao, it seems that my queen is not a thing in the pool!" β
"You're not weak, but you've lost!" He Nanshuang stopped, and silently counted in his heart, "One, two, three-"
"You," Helian felt a true qi approaching his heart, and at the same time, his head began to feel a sharp pain, "what a vicious woman! β
After speaking, Helian fell heavily from the air to the ground.
"Poisonous woman, I won't let you go! Hurry up and hand over the antidote! Helian ordered.
"Who do you think you are? Don't ask about the suffering of the people, deal with people indiscriminately, you can deal with me, I can not give you an antidote. He Nanshuang said proudly, she couldn't catch up with his level in terms of martial arts, but in terms of poison, she was only under the Lord of the Five Poison Peaks, and in her previous life, her research on poison was also one of the best, and with the thinking of ancient people, she was far from being able to solve the poison she added with modern elements.
"Come on, put the queen in the stable! Poisonous woman, I want you to pay for what you did today! Helian shouted, and returned to the imperial study surrounded by a crowd.
"Your Majesty, this poison is called scorpion venom, it is a product of the Assassination Hall, and only the Five Poison Peak Masters and the Assassination Hall Masters have an antidote in the world." Chu Yan began to investigate as early as after discovering the situation.
"Damn, that woman is still poisonous, I underestimated her!" Helian sighed.
"Your Majesty, go down and tie up the queen?"
"No need, I won't bow my head to her, I don't ask about the people's suffering, I don't care about the people's suffering, I don't care about the people's suffering, I want to let her see if I, the king of a country, am incompetent!" Helian said angrily.
"But Your Majesty, you have been poisoned."
"It's okay, I'm going to care about the people's welfare, Chu Yan, have you asked you to inquire about it?" Helian asked.
"As far as my subordinates know, the Queen Mother has never been out of the Muran Palace in the past few years, and it was the Dark Palace that summoned Zhou Guifei that day, and there was no summoning before." Chu Xi is the emperor's biggest spy and has all the information under Helian.
"Use the Dark Palace on Concubine Zhou? The queen mother really cares about her sons! Helian sighed, a tear running down his cheek. Queen Mother, you finally can't stand the loneliness! β
"Let's go, let's go see this Zhou Guifei whose temperament has changed greatly!" Helian commanded.
"Your Majesty, your body is ......," Xiao Dezi said worriedly.
"It's okay, Father-in-law De, you are also an old man next to me, you know my physical condition best, I can hold this little poison." Helian gritted his teeth. "Father-in-law De, bring me the antidote pill."
"Your Majesty, this antidote pill will damage your strength, and besides, the earth dragon in it will damage your foundation, and you can't recover it in a year and a half." Father-in-law De worried.
"It's okay, my body really knows itself, don't say more." Helian waved his hand, that woman, I will definitely show you what it means to be the king of a country!
"Your Majesty ......" Father-in-law De no longer nagged.
"Swingβ"