North Courtyard. Hingtai Garden.

Han Yuan has become one of the ten servants who can clean the room where Xue Huai is located. Every time he delivered a message to Xue Huai, he used a different method, this time he carved the message on five different objects, all of which Xue Huai would inevitably use today. Xue Huai found the message when he used the first item, and wrote it down without moving, and then the other four items came in order, Xue Huai wrote down the information one by one, pieced it together in his mind, and gave Han Yuan a confirmed look. Hanabyss would destroy these items without a trace, without anyone noticing.

After Xue Huai learned about the dark tide surging in the Great Xia Dynasty, he asked him very unhappily: "The dignified Condor General, because you are chasing a soldier deep into Great Xia, you are not afraid that it is the trap of the Great Xia people who will lead you to kill you?" I also went to the capital of Great Xia, don't die? That's how you value that woman? Is that woman more important than your own safety? She let out a deep breath and eased her emotions, "I don't want to ask more when I see you return safely, but the Great Xia Emperor has bullied my Beiting again and again, obviously and he is still going to use force against Beiting - I have thrown stones into the lake, let her know that I Beiting will not sit still and let me be bullied!" ”

Xue Huai didn't move, and asked, "What stone did you throw?" ”

Yingtai Qiang glanced at him: "You don't want to be that woman, what are you nervous about." What the female emperor can do, I can do the same, see who is better. Seeing that Xue Huai didn't ask, she said, "The king summoned you to play yesterday, did you have any trouble in the southwest of Great Xia?" ”

Xue Huai: "Southwest training, it is rumored that it is a soldier who uses the organ without permission, I don't know if it's true or not. ”

Yingtai Qiang: "Even if I sneaked into the southwest of Great Xia for many days to check, I didn't see a reason, that Yue Bai was really cunning." However, the female emperor is so eager to tear up the peace and plant it on the head of Beiting, I am afraid that the training has been successful, and we have to guard against it. You've been training cavalry lately, and you're pretty good at it? ”

Xue Huai: "I'm getting used to it. ”

Lingering Taiqiang: "That's fine." But your lieutenant will be the king's man, so be careful. ”

Xue Huai: "Hmm. ”

Yingtai Qiang sat for a while, Xue Huai had no intention of continuing to chat, nor did she have the intention of keeping her for dinner, which made her annoyed and a little embarrassed, and when she got up and walked out, she suddenly sighed: "Mother is at this age, even if she is ambitious, she is willing to be unable to achieve it due to lack of energy...... But you can, and you are the most suitable person to bear the great responsibility of unification, and there is no one who bears the noble blood of the two countries like you, whether it is the people of Daxia or the people of Beiting, they will obey your ......" She seemed to have a flash of inspiration, "Do you need the power of the king?" That's right, the Su Lin clan has also risen in recent years, not to mention that the civil official's verbal criticism is really powerful - it is better for me to propose marriage to the king, so that the king can be less suspicious of you and can entrust you with more important responsibilities. ”

Xue Huai's expression was faint, and he said, "How heavy is the heaviest?" One person below ten thousand people? So you already are, why are you still looking for more? ”

Yingtaiqiang was slightly stunned, and Xue Huai said again: "Since I came to Beiting, when I came to this Yingtai Garden, I saw that although you were standing in the middle of ten thousand people, you didn't smile often, and you were still very worried and worried - after you got everything you wanted, are you still the same as you imagined at the beginning?" ”

Yingtai Qiang almost shook her head, but stared at Xue Huai solemnly and said, "It's better than not getting it." If it weren't for all this, I wouldn't have been dead for many years. ”

Xue Huai didn't say anything more, just said: "There is no need to mention the marriage, you know that I will not agree." ”

Lingering Taiqiang was angry: "The person you just want to marry, it's likely that you won't be able to marry in your life!" ”

Xue Huai smiled, a shallow smile melted on his face, and said, "So what." ”

Lingering Taiqiang hated the appearance of iron not becoming steel, and said: "Take a good look at what is around you, powerful position, gold, silver and jewelry, beautiful women, all men will not be able to achieve great achievements in their lifetime!" You really don't care at all? None of them appealed to you? She was almost resentful, "I don't believe it! ”

Xue Huai looked at her, her eyes calm: "Maybe everything was doomed as early as when you gave up living and dying with me and sent me to the Pure Space Temple—pure and inactive, and the four are empty." ”

Yingtai Qiang stared at him in a daze, not knowing whether it was resentment or self-blame: "You're blaming me, aren't you?" It's better to follow your father's example and die together, right? She grabbed Xue Huai's arm and stared at his silent eyes, "If you are really soaked in Buddhism, why can you still be tempted by that woman?" You still have desires in your heart! ”

Xue Huai said calmly: "It's hard to fill the desire. But my ravines are full. ”

The mottled ravines in my heart that grew out of greed, resentment, resentment, and dazedness have been filled by her.

Yingtaiqiang didn't know what he was, but he vaguely understood that he was related to Yue Tang. She wanted to threaten him to murder Yue Tang if he didn't obey her arrangement, but she knew sadly and clearly that if Yue Tang died, she would not be able to catch him.

So her heart flashed, and she said, "If you were to get her, would you listen to me a little more?" ”

Xue Huai's eyes shone slightly, looking at her as if she didn't believe it, and as if she felt that she was deceiving herself, but finally asked, "What...... Get? ”

Great Xia.

The gas is getting hotter and hotter.

In the past month or so, Yue Tang has only been out of the house two or three times. Because the big wedding is imminent, there are always people from the palace or Kefu who come to ask Yue Tang's opinion every day for preparations, and constantly improve all aspects of auspicious clothes, tiaras and jewelry, and Yue Tang's opinion must be carefully asked.

Yue Tang was annoyed but didn't show the slightest, and even seemed very cooperative, looking forward to getting married. But secretly, she collected ten percent of the evidence of the Ke family's loss of the treasury and wanton accumulation of wealth and instigation of riots in Taizhou over the years, and only waited for the right time to report it.

It's just that before she could find a suitable opportunity, Chaozhong was disturbed by a sudden rumor and became suspicious. At first, it was a song that began to be sung on the streets, the meaning of which directly pointed to the current empress plotting to kill the former emperor, poisoning the decoction taken by the former emperor so that he died violently, and questioning whether the empress's blood was pure, after all, her mother was finally given to commit suicide because of fornication.

Together with this rumor, the former emperor's sons and nephews who were originally qualified to succeed to the throne changed one after another, and it seemed that they had found the so-called true evidence overnight, and they used various forces to force the empress to abdicate and make way for Xian. Under the anger of the empress, these dissidents were directly exiled, and Yue Tang was sent to lead troops to guard the palace, which finally calmed people's hearts temporarily.

However, it didn't take long for a codex of Guo Ting'an, the former head of the Tai Hospital, to circulate in Beijing in the form of a manuscript. On the surface, this codex seems to be a medical record written by Guo Ting'an when he was curbing the plague in Lanxi, but there are two pages of prescriptions mixed in it, which are very peculiar, which seem to be a prescription for warming and regulating cough diseases, but in fact they are murderous poisons, and if they are taken every day, they will die violently in about a month.

This recipe may not be visible to the doctors of the general medical hall, and the dosage and usage of each medicinal material have been slightly adjusted, and only those who are proficient in medical skills can see it. So there are detailed annotations in this manuscript so that even a layman can see what is going on.

When Guo Ting'an was the head of the Tai Hospital, he took care of the former emperor's cough for a while, and the former emperor did die violently. In addition, he was assigned by the empress to go to Lanxi to fight the plague and died in Lanxi, anyone can think of a result - the empress ordered Guo Tingan to poison the former emperor, and killed people.

For a while, the court was shaken, and the people were panicked, and even the soldiers began to look for their own camps, for fear that the whole family would die if they made a mistake at this time. Ke Zhao supported the empress on the surface, but secretly he had already transferred troops to the capital, and the specific purpose was unknown.

Yue Tang was summoned to the palace to sit in the palace, and dispatched his soldiers to deal with emergencies at any time. For the first time, she noticed Duan Shuqing's fear, and she didn't even notice this fear in the various dangers of competing for the throne in the past.

Duan Shuqing was really worried.

Yue Bai's flying pigeon book must arrive almost every day. Although Yue Tang didn't know the content, he guessed from Duan Shuqing's expression after reading the letterhead that Yue Bai should have given her a lot of comfort, letting her know that no matter what the situation, there were always people who were facing her and would fight to the death for her.

It was night, Duan Shuqing had already entered the dormitory, and Yue Tang was on duty outside the hall looking at the bright moon, and there was a feeling of not knowing what it was and not knowing where it came from. She arranged the guards inside and outside the palace tightly, and watched the soldiers patrolling in the distance move in an orderly manner, and felt quite stable in her heart. The sound of the temple door opening sounded behind her, and she turned around and saw Duan Shuqing walking towards her in her regular clothes, obviously waking up from a dream. Yue Tang hurriedly stepped forward to salute, Duan Shuqing casually raised her hand to excuse her, Yue Tang asked, "Is the emperor awake, or can't he sleep?" ”