Out of the Xihua Hall, come to the Ning Xue Hall.

Concubine De was feeding Yu'er to drink lotus seed soup, and when she saw Zi Ling coming, she was overjoyed: "I am also relieved to see that my sister's spirit is much better." ”

"I've been sick for the past few days, and I haven't taken good care of Yu'er, I'm really sorry for my sister." Zi Ling sat down in a chair.

"If this is the case, my sister's body matters. Listen to Xiaoru, did you go to Yuhuatang? But what's the matter? ”

"It's nothing, I just want to get to know Concubine Rong. Ever since I met her in the garden that day, I have always thought of her unconsciously, and it's really strange. Zi Ling said.

"It's better for my sister to have less contact with her, the emperor doesn't like her." Concubine De kindly reminded.

Zi Ling thought to herself, "Concubine De also knows that the emperor doesn't like Concubine Rong?" So, why didn't you tell me last time? Could it be - did she do it on purpose? ”

No way...... Zi Ling hurriedly shook his head and drove away the thoughts in his mind: "That day I fell into the lotus pond, Concubine De guarded me all night, Concubine De cared about me so much, how could she frame me?" She must have forgotten to remind me. ”

"Sister...... My sister ...... "Concubine De is calling her."

Zi Ling came back to his senses, smiled and said, "I'm sorry, I'm distracted." What's up? ”

Concubine De said: "I have a request, I wonder if my sister can agree?" ”

"Sister, why be polite, just say anything you want."

"My sister has just been punished by the emperor because she often comes to see me, so I think it's better for my sister to come to me less in the future. It's better to let Xiaowei go to Yongle Palace, she has been with me for so long, and she knows Yu'er's living habits better than the people in my sister's palace, and with her taking care of Yu'er, I can rest assured, and my sister can also be more at ease. Besides, if there is any news between our sisters, it is convenient for her to pass it on. What does my sister think? ”

"However, Xiaowei has always taken care of her sister, if she goes to Yongle Palace, who will take care of her sister?" Zi Ling instinctively refused, after all, Xiao Wei was Concubine De's personal palace maid and had followed Concubine De for so many years. She won't have the heart to harm people, but she still has the heart to defend against people.

"Sister, don't worry, I have already passed the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother also promised to let Xiaowei come over, and she will send me another palace maid."

Concubine De took the queen to press her, what should Zi Ling do?

"That couldn't be better." Zi Ling had to "laugh and accept".

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That night, after seeing Zi Ling, Meng Hongyu instructed the eunuchs and palace maids of Yongle Palace not to tell Zi Ling that he had come. Therefore, Zi Ling didn't know that the warm hands that caressed her in the dream were Meng Hongyu's hands.

Meng Hongyu didn't want Ziling to think that he missed her, after all, he was a man and an emperor. A man's self-esteem does not allow him to miss more than her, and the emperor's self-esteem does not allow him to bow to love. He was going to wait for her to come and beg him, to beg him to see her.

However, he would rather endure the torment of longing, and Ziling stubbornly refused to take the initiative to ask to see him.

One day, Ziling went to Cining Palace to help the Queen Mother copy the scriptures, and the Queen Mother left Ziling to accompany her to dinner. The meal was set up, and as soon as he was seated, Meng Hongyu came. His brow furrowed, full of preoccupation.

The queen mother instructed the palace maids to buy him dishes and chopsticks, and asked, "The emperor is worried, but what happened?" ”

Meng Hongyu glanced at Ziling from the corner of his eye, and wrote lightly: "It's nothing, the queen mother doesn't need to worry." The Queen Mother didn't ask any more.

Everyone was silent, the meal was boring and dull, and Zi Ling only felt emotionless.

As soon as the meal was finished, Liuyun, the palace maid who was as white as frost, hurriedly came to report, saying that at dusk, Bai Rushuang was frightened, and now she has unbearable abdominal pain, so please ask the emperor to go over and take a look. Meng Hongyu put down the dishes and chopsticks and hurried to Sitong Hospital, the Queen Mother was very worried, and she had to follow, but she was persuaded by Aunt Shuwen.

An hour later, news came from Sitong Hospital-Bai Rushuang had a miscarriage.

If she was hit by five thunders, the Queen Mother sat on the chair in a daze, old tears, Ziling and Aunt Shuwen were at a loss, so they could only carefully comfort her.

It turned out that at dusk, two poisonous snakes crawled into Bai Rushuang's bedroom, and Bai Rushuang was very frightened, so he moved the tire gas, causing the tire to slip.

Meng Hongyu was furious and ordered the Imperial Forest Army to carefully search the vicinity of Sitong Courtyard, but no poisonous snakes were found. The palace maids and eunuchs in Sitong Courtyard were implicated and interrogated overnight, saying that they had never seen any suspicious characters enter and leave Sitong Courtyard.

After serving the Queen Mother and falling asleep, when she returned to Yongle Palace, it was already Hai time, and Xiaowei had already coaxed Yu'er to sleep.

The palace has always regularly exterminated insects and rats, and there are poisonous snakes in Sitong Courtyard, and Zi Ling always feels that something is wrong. Thinking of the snake's soft and cold terrifying appearance, Zi Ling felt creepy, and she hurriedly instructed the palace maids and eunuchs to carefully check the vicinity of Yongle Palace before going to bed with confidence.

In the middle of the night, a scream came from Yu'er's bedroom. was having a nightmare in the dark, Zi Ling was awakened by the scream, put on his clothes and ran to Yu'er's bedroom.

On the bed, Xiaoru hugged Yu'er, who was so frightened that she trembled and couldn't stop crying. Seeing Zi Ling, Yu'er suddenly threw herself into Zi Ling's arms, crying and saying, "Niangniang, there is a snake, there is a snake...... Yu'er is afraid. ”

Xiaowei sat on the ground, there was a small wound on the back of her left hand, her eyes were full of fear, and she said tremblingly, "Niangniang...... The slave was bitten by a snake, and the slave and the slave ...... Dying. As she spoke, she began to cry in a hurry. Zi Ling hurriedly ordered someone to go to the Tai Hospital and call the Tai Doctor.

Xiaowei continued to cry and said, at night, she got up to take care of Yu'er, who knew that as soon as she entered the house, she found a poisonous snake under the bed, spitting out a letter, and was about to climb on Yu'er's bed, she reached out to grab it in a hurry, but was bitten by the snake.

By the time the Imperial Doctor arrived, Xiaowei was unconscious, and the back of her hand was swollen. The imperial doctor checked the pulse and said that the snake venom had spread, so he could only take medicine to detoxify it first, and as for whether Xiaowei could wake up, it depended on her creation. If the snake that bit her wasn't poisonous, it might have been able to save her life.

Because of the snake, the people in the palace were panicked, and the concubines were so frightened that they even screamed when they saw the straw rope. The emperor ordered the Imperial Forest Army to carefully rummage through the entire palace to find the two poisonous snakes, and those who caught the snakes could go to the Internal Affairs Office to receive a reward of fifty taels of silver.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs distributed realgar powder to each palace and each courtyard, and arranged for many little eunuchs to sprinkle realgar powder everywhere in the palace.

Ziling was also too frightened, she had slept with Yu'er for the past few days. At night, the nightmare was like a ghost, overwhelming her. She always dreamed of a snake crawling into her bed and burrowing into her bed......

She was suddenly awakened, and when she woke up, she looked around the empty room, and the deep night seemed to be murderous, and even the air was filled with the smell of intrigue.