Concubine Zheng in Jinyang City was directing Yueru to pack her bags, waiting with joy for Yuan Ziyou to send someone to take them back to the palace, she teased the black cat called Wutuan in her arms, the shiny black hair was soft and smooth, and Concubine Zheng liked to rub her face on its fur the most. Wu Tuan will also squint his eyes, enjoying the love of his master, and occasionally "meowing" with satisfaction. Concubine Zheng looked at Qi Wan who was sitting in a corner with a teacup in her hand in a daze, she let out a dry cough from the bottom of her throat, and Qi Wan was so shocked that she almost dropped the cup to the ground. Concubine Zheng looked at her and blamed angrily, "Giving you so many opportunities, I haven't even climbed up to the emperor's bed until now, and people are pregnant, what else will you do besides being in a daze?" ”

Seeing that her aunt was angry, Qi Wan hurriedly put down the cup and wondered, "Concubine, the Buddha statue has been made of hands and feet back then, and there is also that coral, both prongedly, it stands to reason that it is foolproof, how can she still get pregnant?" ”

Concubine Zheng was also puzzled by this, her layout was thorough, even Yuan Ziyou didn't know, she suddenly had a thought in her heart, and she got up suddenly. Wu Tuan fell from her arms to the ground, let out a painful "whin", hurriedly hid in a corner with his tail between his legs, and shrank into a ball with frightened eyes, looking at his master. Concubine Zheng began to pace back and forth a little anxiously, and secretly exclaimed, "It's not good, could it be that the emperor found out?" If this girl knows, we are now in Jinyang, this is her family's territory, just to seek justice, wouldn't we be more than lucky, or it is normal to imprison us, and the emperor will not intercede for us. ”

The more Concubine Zheng thought about it, the more flustered she became, and Qi Ju was also so frightened that she began to think nonsense, but Yueru was calm, and she persuaded softly, "Concubine, why scare yourself, the emperor and you have been in love since childhood, and they also respect you the most." The queen is pregnant, but it has been three months since we left Luoyang, and the Buddha statue has not been brought out, I am afraid that it is because of this. And now she is silent, thinking that she doesn't know the details, otherwise she wouldn't have made a fuss long ago, how can there be peace now. ”

Qi Wan muttered nervously, "Even if it can recover in three months, the medicinal properties are too poor." ”

Concubine Zheng frowned and thought carefully, "What Qi Wan said is right, don't take it lightly. That musk is the amount of medicine that the mourning family specially asked Imperial Doctor Zhao to dispense, even if it is not used for more than a month, it will not be pregnant so soon, at least for more than half a year, it must not touch the Buddha statue, and it must be conditioned. Could it be that the emperor knew something and saved her? She thought of this place even more panicked, and was about to tell Yueru to investigate, when Zhao Ming, the eunuch sent by Zhang Haosong, asked to see her outside, she was dressed, and asked Yueru to call Zhao Ming in first.

After Zhao Ming came in to meet Concubine Zheng and Qi Xuan, he took out two oranges from his arms and offered them to Concubine Zheng, "This is what the emperor specially asked the servants to send to the concubine to eat, and the emperor said that after the Luoyang palace was cleaned up, he would invite the concubine back to the palace." ”

Concubine Zheng secretly wondered what Yuan Ziyu meant by sending oranges at this time, and with the respect of the royal family, even if it was a reward, it would not be just two, she nodded quietly, "Well, Yueru brought the oranges to the mourning family." "Concubine Zheng looked at the fresh orange, although there was still a circle of cyan at the leaf stem, it was rare to have such an orange at this time, and the deep meaning of this orange made Concubine Zheng feel comforted." The mourning family asked you, what did the emperor ask you to send to the queen? ”

Zhao Ming shook his head, "Back to the concubine, the emperor ordered the servants to come and see the queen mother and go back, but he didn't say that the slaves would go to the queen, and the rest of the slaves didn't know. ”

The smile on Concubine Zheng's face was even more, so Yueru gave him a piece of gold as a reward, after Zhao Ming withdrew, he looked at Qi Yan's puzzled eyes and said disdainfully, "Let you read more books, but don't listen, the emperor is comparing himself to Lu Ji and treating the mourning family as his biological mother." Well, since this is the mourning family, I can rest assured, and the emperor's heart is towards the mourning family. The mourning family also has to protect the emperor's country, Yueru, if something happens to the queen in the palace of the king of Taiyuan, you say, does Zhu Rong have a way to find fault? ”

Qi Wan exclaimed, "Auntie, no, concubine, are you going to kill the queen's child?" ”

Concubine Zheng calmly answered her question, "Not to mention whether the queen has discovered the secret of the Buddha statue and coral, if the queen gives birth to this child, do you think the emperor's dragon chair can sit for a long time?" This girl is so thoughtful, the emperor won't allow her, let's just help the emperor with this knife. You don't have to make a fuss, just do what the moon tells you to do. ”

Qi Wan didn't dare to say more, in fact, Ying'e also treated her like a sister, but her extremism and jealousy blinded her heart, and at this time she held more grudges against Ying'e. When she knew that Concubine Zheng was going to do something to the child in Ying'e's womb, she felt inexplicable pleasure in her heart, and a sneer appeared on her face, which made people shudder.

The summer night was accompanied by a long sultry heat wrapped in a thick black cloud of ink, and before the thunder was struck, the rain and mist gathered, and in a few seconds the sky began to pour down like a waterfall, like white beads of rain jumping on the window lattice, trying to turn over and jump into the house.

Aunt Qiu got up when she heard the sound of the rain, looked at Ying'e who was sleeping soundly, and was afraid of waking her up, so she tiptoed to the window and prepared to close it. As soon as her hand touched the lattice, she suddenly saw a figure flash in the courtyard. She was taken aback, closed the window and went out to take a look, when she stepped out and stuck out her head to take a closer look, when a pale face came to her. The face seemed to have no eyeballs, its hair was disheveled, its long tongue sticking out, and a chill greeted it. At this moment, a lightning bolt swept across the sky, illuminating the night sky, and the face looked even more terrifying under the illumination of the bright light. Aunt Qiu stared in horror, but her legs could not move, her slightly open mouth could not make a sound, and before she could react, she suddenly fainted.

The muffled sound made when Aunt Qiu fell to the ground woke up Ying'e in her sleep, and she called softly a few times, "Aunt Qiu, Aunt Qiu." Seeing that no one agreed, she lifted the quilt, got out of bed and walked to the outer hall, and before she reached the outer hall, she saw Aunt Qiu lying on the ground, and she hurriedly shouted, "Come on." While running towards Aunt Qiu, the soles of her feet slipped and fell backwards when she crossed the threshold, and Ying'e's back hit the threshold. Ying'e didn't feel any discomfort at first, relying on her usual good health, she stood up with the door frame, just when she wanted to help Aunt Qiu, suddenly she felt a cramping pain in her lower abdomen, as the colic became more and more severe, she felt a hot current surging down between her legs, she looked down slowly in horror, the little red on her underwear slowly expanded, the pain made her feel difficult to breathe, and she was covered in cold sweat, she tried her best to shout outside the door, "Come on." ”

When the outsiders heard her call and rushed to the ground, Ying'e finally collapsed to the ground with no physical strength. Hearing the news, Princess Beixiang and Gu Ronghua rushed over with a piece of clothing, and the imperial doctor of the palace trembled and reported the bad news like chaff, and Ying'e had a miscarriage.

Princess Beixiang couldn't bear her grief and cried loudly, only to say, "What to do, how good is this, how can this happen." How can I explain to the emperor, how can I explain it to her father. E'er, my hard-working child, how can you slip so well. ”

Gu Ronghua knew that comfort was powerless at the moment, she carefully observed the place where Ying'e slipped and fell, and saw that there was a long water mark on the ground in addition to Ying'e's blood, and there was nothing suspicious about it, it was raining at this time, and it was normal for water to flow under the porch outside the window. Gu Ronghua was not satisfied with the appearance of these scenes, because she vaguely smelled a faint fragrance in the air, although she understood that Ying'e's child could not be saved, but she didn't expect that Concubine Zheng and their layout were so thorough, she needed to find out what was going on for Yuan Ziyou. She pretended to wander anxiously, but in fact she looked down carefully, and finally found a small ice crystal under the pillar in front of the door, and she gave Yun Cui a look. Yun Cui saw that no one was paying attention to her, so she deliberately walked to the edge of the pillar and stepped on the ice crystals, and in a moment the ice crystals had all melted and entered the rain on the ground, all of which happened because of everyone's anxiety and no one noticed.

Princess Beixiang's maid Su Ping tortured the maids in the palace one by one, and came to report to Princess Beixiang with a confession, "Princess, the slave asked all the people, and they all said that because the queen was pregnant and quiet, she didn't want too many people to serve, so let them rest in peace." When she heard the queen scream, a little girl named Chunmei said that she saw a female ghost in white floating outside the wall in a trance, and Aunt Qiu also said that she had seen a ghost after waking up, and the two described it very similarly. ”

Princess Beixiang became even more angry when she heard it, "Haunted? Our dignified Taiyuan palace does not treat people harshly, and there are no superfluous concubines, where did the unjustly killed female ghost come from? It's clearly a ghost by someone, check, check it for me. I also went to call the eldest prince and asked him to find out who was doing it. ”

The eldest son in the mouth of Princess Beixiang is Er Zhu Rong's eldest son Er Zhu Bodhi, this son is only ten years old, but he is an old man, and his decisiveness is more powerful than his father, so he is deeply loved by Er Zhurong, not only personally and carefully taught, but also arranged for Murong Shaozong and other famous teachers to guide Wenzhi martial arts and the way of governing the country. When he heard his mother's call, Erzhu Bodhi didn't even have an umbrella, so he ran quickly, and after understanding the whole story, he carefully inspected the scene, and then personally retried the attendants and maids in the palace, this time he used the criminal law, and in a wail, he got more information, and learned that these people seemed to smell a fragrance, so they slept more deeply, and Aunt Qiu also fainted because of the smell. He lowered his head and thought for a moment, and then got the answer, which surprised Gu Ronghua, who had seen the evidence

。 I only heard him reply to Princess Beixiang and said, "Mother, my son has already tried those people, and the people in my sister's palace are all personally selected by my mother, and it will not be an insider who harms my sister." According to her son's inference, this person's target was the child in her sister's womb, and she sent someone to pretend to be a ghost to sneak into the temple because she was afraid that people would see the real face, so she first used incense to make people fall asleep, but she didn't calculate that it would rain tonight, so the effect of the medicine faded. My sister didn't use incense in the hall, because she wanted to attract Aunt Qiu to come out, and woke up her sister with a sound to come out to check. My sister will wake up when she hears the sound, and with her sister's kindness, Aunt Qiu will naturally want to help her up, and the point of this person's scheming is that there is nothing outside the threshold that can make my sister slip, such as tung oil and the like. Aunt Qiu said that she felt unusually cold when she saw the ghost, and it was not the real ghost that made her cold, but the broken ice carried by this ghost, and the broken ice was slippery and easy to melt in hot weather, and only this could make everyone unaware of the ghost and attribute the matter to the haunting. ”

Princess Beixiang listened to everything her son narrated, and gritted her silver teeth with hatred for someone who wanted to hurt her daughter like this, and she said fiercely, "Bodhi, just follow this line of thought, I will break this person's body into ten thousand pieces and avenge my grandson." ”

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On August 19, 529 A.D., Yang Jin, the governor of the Chinese army, captured Yuan Hao's younger brother Yuan Hao, and beheaded him in the vegetable market on the same day, and then he led the army into the palace, sprinkled and swept the palace, and closed the treasury. Four days later, when everything was ready, he took Yang Yu to Beibei to greet Yuan Ziyou, and when he saw Yuan Ziyou and the others, he cried bitterly and couldn't help but ask Yuan Ziyou to surrender.

Yuan Ziyou helped the two of them up, comforted him, and officially re-lived in Luoyang Palace, and the first letter he received when he just entered the palace was a secret fold sent by Princess Beixiang. He didn't say a word, put the fold on the lamp and lit it, Yuan Ziyou under the green smoke had a solemn face, and there was no expression on his resolute face, just cold as an ice sculpture. The moment he closed his eyes, a tear slipped down his cheek, and his first child was stillborn just after conception, and he said to Zhang Haosong faintly, "I will continue to owe her from now on, and I will owe even more." ”

Zhang Haosong said worriedly, "Your Majesty, when the incident suddenly happened, even the queen couldn't tell how she slipped, but Miss Gu only knew when she saw the remaining ice crystals." This eldest prince is terrifying, and he can draw conclusions from the inquiry, but he is afraid that he will soon find out about the concubine, what does the emperor plan to do? ”

Yuan Ziyou was not thinking about who to blame at this time, because he expected that Concubine Zheng would find a scapegoat, he was worried about Erzhu Bodhi's talent, Gu Ronghua mentioned more than once that Erzhu Bodhi was still learning how to govern the country, and Er Zhurong was not cultivating his successor, but cultivating the heir to the throne. Thinking of this, he felt that the hairs on his body stood on end, and the sense of crisis became more and more urgent, and he had to start taking action. He didn't care about Zhang Haosong's worries, and said in an almost cold tone, "They must have thought of a way out when they take this step, but I'm afraid that what I need to think about now is how to appease General Xi." ”

Zhang Haosong was puzzled after listening, but he didn't dare to ask Yuan Ziyou again, and when he watched Yuan Ziyou look at the entrenched forces on all sides against the map, he quietly retreated, because Yuan Ziyou needed to think more at this moment.