After Hua Yuran left, the smile on Pei Gongcuo's face gradually faded.

Do you want to work with Hua Yuran? That's a good idea. But the premise must be not to hurt the heart of Myanmar. If he gains the world but loses her, he really can't do such a thing that outweighs the loss. He looked at Foxit beside him: "What do you think?" ”

Fu Xin said: "The slave feels that if the emperor cooperates with the Jade King, it seems to be beneficial on the surface, but in fact, it is likely that the gains will outweigh the losses. Not to mention what will happen to Ling Yue and Ji Yunye, Concubine Burmese alone may not forgive the emperor. What's more, Amaterasu and Dongli still have a marriage, and they may not really turn their backs on Dongli and help Nanxiu. If she can keep Concubine Burma, even if Dongli and Nanxiu are at war, Ling Yue should let Amaterasu remain neutral for her sake. ”

Fu Xin's words entered Pei Gongcuo's heart, so he temporarily accepted Hua Yuran, Hua Ruoshui, and let Ling Yue dispose of it. Thinking so, he was relieved.

Seeing that it was getting late, it was estimated that Hua Mian should return to the palace, Pei Gongcuo called Fu Xin to go to Shuihua Palace.

However, when he arrived at Shuihua Palace, he only saw Shuyu alone, and Pei Gongcuo said strangely: "Hasn't Myanmar come back yet?" Where have all the palace people gone? ”

Shuyu said with a crying voice: "Snowball has not come back since he ran out. As soon as she heard that Snowball had been out for most of the day, she drove all the palace people out to find Snowball. ”

Pei Gongcuo suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart. He said to Foxi: "Find more people to look for together." After the words fell, he rushed out of the Shuihua Palace.

At this time, it is already more than half of the hour, and although Snowball is also playful, it will never come back after the time of eating, and it is even more impossible to miss two meals in a row. However, he didn't dare to continue thinking about it, and only prayed for God's blessing to allow Snowball to appear alive in front of him.

Now he doesn't know where Hua Mian is, and he can only scurry around like a headless fly. When he was about to arrive at Xianfu Palace, he saw Hua Mian running quickly towards a certain place from a distance, he let out a long breath, and then chased after him.

When he got closer, he realized that there was an east cry leading the way. He called "Myanmar", but received no response.

Seeing that Dong Cry stopped under an old locust tree, Hua Mian stumbled two steps and almost fell, and then pounced on it like crazy, pulling the dirt under the tree with both hands.

Pei Gongcuo's heart tightened, and he hurriedly ran forward to stand beside Hua Mian. When he saw the white hair gradually revealing under the soil, he felt a bang in his head, and his body shook and fell to his knees.

Hua Mian had already burst into tears, but he was still digging desperately. Pei Gongcuo dug up with her.

When Snowball's body was fully exposed, Hua Mian finally began to cry. Pei Gongcuo hugged her tightly into his arms, unable to say a word, only patted her on the back to give her some comfort.

Hua Mian's cry disturbed the people of Xianfu Palace, and some palace people came out to check, and saw the emperor and the Burmese concubine kneeling beside the locust tree not far from the palace gate, I don't know why the Burmese concubine would cry so sadly, so she turned around and informed the master.

When Wen Ruya came out of the hall and saw this scene, she was amazed. She timidly stepped forward to salute Pei Gongcuo, but she didn't see his response for a while, and when she saw Xueqiu's corpse, she let out a frightened exclamation to regain the consciousness of the two.

Hua Mian stopped crying and looked at her. For some reason, her eyes made her tremble.

With just one glance, Hua Mian withdrew her gaze, she picked up the snowball from the pit, only to find that there was still half a chicken leg in the pit, and the tears rolled down again, she picked up the chicken leg, got up and staggered towards the Shuihua Palace.

Pei Gongcuo stood up with her, and it was not until he saw her leave in despair, that he took a deep breath and picked her up, picked her up, and walked away quickly.

Wen Ruya watched them disappear in front of her in a daze, and suddenly an inexplicable panic suddenly appeared in her heart.

On this night, Hua Mian did two things. One thing is to bury the snowball under the grape trellis in the courtyard, it loves to eat grapes as much as he does, and hopes that it will come back to see itself for the sake of grapes. The second thing was to hand over the half of the chicken leg to Imperial Doctor Zhang for examination and trace the source of the poison.

After doing these two things, Hua Mian fell to the ground as if he had been hollowed out, unconscious.

Pei Gongcuo didn't know that she was exhausted due to grief, but looking at her like this, in addition to being distressed, there was more hatred.

He just doted on her a little more, and in exchange for others hurting her again and again, the child is gone, and now the snowball is gone, such a blow, even if he is a strong man, he can't bear it, let alone a weak woman.

At this moment, he made up his mind that no matter who made the poison, he would never be soft again.

The result of Dr. Zhang's examination was that the half of the chicken leg had been soaked in broken intestine grass.

Broken intestine grass, as the name suggests, has great poison, although it has the function of attacking poison and pulling out poison, dispersing stasis and relieving pain, killing insects and relieving itching, but it can only be used externally. This highly poisonous herb is rarely purchased by the imperial pharmacy, and even if someone wants to use it, the doctor will only prescribe a little, and they must keep it on the medical case. In recent days, the only one who has a drug record is Ya Zhaoyi.

Pei Gongcuo closed his eyes in pain, he buried himself in the Taishi chair, pondered for a long time, and called Fu Xin to come forward and obey the order.

To Fu Xin's surprise, the emperor did not ask him to interrogate Ya Zhaoyi, but asked him to go to Xianfu Palace to summon Bi'er, and at the same time asked Kang Yong to go to Chuxiu Palace to summon Concubine Zhuang Xian.

What happened tonight has already spread throughout the entire palace, not to mention that the place where the incident happened is outside the Xianfu Palace, Bi'er has been frightened for a long time, and now that she has been summoned by the emperor, her soul is even more frightened.

What puzzled her was that the emperor did not directly ask about Xueqiu's murder, but gave her a piece of paper and a pen and asked her to write a prescription for Hua Myanmar under the dictation of Imperial Physician Zhang.

She didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in the emperor's gourd, so she had to obediently write a prescription according to his request. She thought that the emperor would have other orders, but she didn't expect him to say lightly, "You can go", which really surprised her, and she didn't understand what the emperor meant until she returned to the palace.

Wen Ruya had been waiting restlessly, and when she learned about the emperor's actions from Bi'er, she collapsed to the ground after thinking about it, muttering, "It's over!" ”

Bi'er Fang left, and Kang Yong led Zhuang Ziyan in.

Pei Gongcuo handed the prescription written by Bi'er to Zhuang Ziyan and said, "Let's see, is there any similarity between the prescription you picked up that day and the handwriting on this prescription?" ”

Zhuang Ziyan took it suspiciously, she frowned and looked at it carefully, at first it was only a little similar, but she was not sure, until her eyes swept somewhere, her eyes lit up and said, "Yes, it is the handwriting of the same person." ”

Pei Gongcuo breathed a sigh of relief, forcibly suppressed the surging tide of anger, and said in a deep voice: "How can you see it? ”

Zhuang Ziyan pointed to a place and said to Pei Gongcuo: "The amount of medicine 'Erqian', the word 'Er' here is a little more, and the word on the prescription last time is also a little more." ”

Pei Gongcuo only felt that the pain in his chest was unbearable. Ya Zhaoyi, I treat you well, why do you bother to frame Myanmar again and again? What should I do now?

Wen Ruya's father, Wen Junruo, should be the right minister, he has always been loyal and honest, and he is the only person who can contain the left minister Zhuang Shuhuan. Wen Ruya's grandfather, Wen Liangyu, is a general of Yipin Town, a veteran of the Three Dynasties, and has made great achievements and contributions. He is calm, good at protecting himself, and refuses to be a marquis.

It is a capital offense to defile the court, and it will affect the three tribes. The first emperor took into account the loyalty of the Wen family, and punished the prince for raping the palace concubine, confiscated the property, and demoted him to the common people, and appeased Wen Ruya on the surface, but in fact ignored it.

Now, Wen Ruya is involved in the murder of the emperor's heir, and her crime should be decided, and all the property of her relatives and three clans should be confiscated. If she is convicted on this basis, Zhuang Ziyan will not be able to escape responsibility. And attacking the two major families of the DPRK and China at the same time is tantamount to digging one's own grave. What's more, internally, he still has to rely on Wen Junruo to check and balance the court for him, and externally, he has to rely on Wen Liangyu to fight for him.

Therefore, he still couldn't severely punish Wen Ruya, so he could only let her think about it behind closed doors on the grounds that she dangerously used poisonous herbs in the palace to cause Snowball to eat and die.

When Fu Xin finished announcing Pei Gongcuo's message in Xianfu Palace, Wen Ruya understood that the emperor had done his best to her, but he was already in the middle of a flower, and he would no longer respond to her favors as before.

Although poisoning Snowball is a little wronged, she can only admit it, at least compared to murdering the emperor's heir, it is not much better.

Hua Mian woke up with a violent cough. Wan Tao hurriedly asked Shuyu to summon the emperor.

The first thing Hua Mian said was: "Who poisoned Snowball?" ”

Wan Tao's tears, which had not yet dried up, fell again: "That chicken leg was used by Ya Zhaoyi to poison mice, who knew that it was eaten by mistake by a snowball......"

"Nonsense!" Hua Mian screamed violently, tears bursting out of the embankment, "She did it on purpose!" I want her life! ”

She said that she lifted the thin jacket and was about to get up, but a wave of dizziness hit her, and she fell back into bed.

Wan Tao said distressedly: "You are still having a fever, everything will be said when you are well." ”

Hua Mian said weakly: "How long have I been sleeping?" ”

Wan Tao said: "I slept for a day and a night. ”

Hua Mian's eyes widened in surprise, she half-propped herself up and grabbed Wan Tao's arm: "In other words, I missed the centennial celebration?" ”

Wan Tao nodded.

Hua Mian said urgently: "What about Brother Ye? Is he coming? ”

Wan Tao shook his head with tears in his eyes.

Hua Mian fell back to the bed in a dejected manner, and a desolate smile hung on the corner of her lips: "Yes, Lan Xirui is inconvenient, and he is afraid that he will have to stay and take care of her." After a pause, she asked, "Who is here?" ”

Wan Tao said: "It's Ji Jinyan who came, I heard that Emperor Cheng Zhao was sick, and he left His Royal Highness by his side to serve the sick." ”

Is it? Hua Mian didn't want to think about it anymore, and at this moment, in addition to pain, it was sadness, and she no longer had the extra strength to think.

After a long time, she continued to ask, "Amaterasu except for Hua Yuran, who else is here?" ”

Wan Tao said with disappointment: "The empress and Ling Gongzi did not come, only the Jade King came. Without waiting for Hua Mian to ask, she said again, "Prince Beiyu and Little Prince Xiyan are here. ”

But at this moment, there was an attendant singing and saying: "The emperor has arrived!" ”

Wan Tao hurriedly knelt down to greet him, but felt a gust of wind passing by him, and before he could react, he saw a figure already sitting on the bed beside him.