Chapter 2: Dead and Alive

"Uncle Huang seems to want to say something but can't defend himself."

"Yes, please forgive the emperor for his false words, in recent days, the minister has heard some news that the jade seal that disappeared since the Wei and Jin dynasties appeared in the Qi country."

"The jade seal of the country is in the country of Qi? What nonsense! Qi Huang's voice was a little sharp with excitement.

"However, according to what the ministers have seen, there may not be no reason for the groundless, but I am afraid that the emperor of Wei will also hear the rumors, so he will raise troops against our country."

"Well, it is not unreasonable for Uncle Huang to say this, that Yuan Hao abolished Liang and established Wei, and he felt that his name was not right, and it was not surprising if he coveted the jade seal of the country." Emperor Qi said thoughtfully.

"The emperor is wise." Feng Tao immediately complimented.

After a moment of silence, Emperor Qi suddenly said dumbly: "I'm tired, Uncle Huang should step back first, and Uncle Lao Huang will mediate with the Wei State." ”

"The minister will live up to the emperor's trust." After Feng Tao finished speaking, he retreated.

As soon as it was quiet for a while, I heard a shrill voice from the palace people: "Your Majesty, Concubine Ze asks to see you." ”

"Ah, it's Concubine Ze, announce it."

"Your Majestyβ€”" A delicate voice walked in with a crying voice.

"Concubine Ze, she ...... without a night"

"Nightlessβ€”"

Summer Night was suddenly hugged by someone, a woman fell on her body and whimpered and cried, it took a long time to raise her head, her eyes were already swollen like peach pits, but it did not damage her peerless appearance at all, and even added a little bit of pear blossom with rain beauty.

"Without night, the mother thought that she would never see you again in this life, but if she met in this way, the mother would rather never see you for the rest of her life. My poor emperor, in a month, you will be sixteen years old......" Concubine Ze sobbed and cried, and as she spoke, tears fell like beads with broken threads.

"Okay, Concubine Ze, it's useless to cry so much, and I've hurt my body carefully." Emperor Qi comforted Concubine Ze very distressedly.

"Hey, what is this?" Concubine Ze suddenly stretched out her hand to caress Xia Ye's neck, "Your Majesty, please look!" ”

Emperor Qi hurriedly put his head up, his face suddenly changed drastically, and said, "It's still Concubine Ze who looks carefully, why didn't I find out." Could it be that Nightless was poisoned and died? Come! ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." A father-in-law immediately answered.

"Hurry up and send the female medical officer to the Tai Hospital."

"Little Command."

Footsteps hurried out.

"Come, bathe and change clothes for Her Royal Highness the Princess." Emperor Qi's words were like the princess was still alive, he secretly blamed himself in his heart, as soon as the princess returned to the palace, he only cared about sadness, and did not ask anyone to examine the injury.

The palace maids quickly carried Xia Ye down to wash, and Concubine Ze also accompanied her, and personally scrubbed her body for Xia Ye, and couldn't help shedding tears while washing. Cleaned up, everyone put the summer night back in its place. Just at this time, the female medical officer came to see her.

"Female Doctor Cen, let's see what the cause of the princess's death is."

"Yes, I obey."

Xia Ye saw a very neat woman, leaned over to his side, and used her slightly cold fingers to examine her whole body, and saw that her expression became more and more solemn. Unwillingly, she carefully looked at Summer Night's eyes and tongue, as well as the nostrils behind her ears, and leaned her face closer to sniff with her nose, and suddenly her hand stopped when it touched the back of Summer Night's head, and her expression widened.

After a while, Female Doctor Cen got up and reported to Emperor Qi: "Your Majesty, the red spot on Her Royal Highness Princess's neck should be a reaction to the poisonous hair, but Her Royal Highness the Princess died under the sharp blade, and there was a sword wound in the back of her head, which was deep in the bones, and she died of blood." ”

Concubine Ze stood up, her voice trembling slightly with excitement: "Who is it, who is bent on my emperor's life, the emperor, you must be the master of the princess." ”

"Concubine Ze rest assured, I know it in my heart." Because the female doctor confirmed that the princess was indeed highly poisoned, Emperor Qi was also extremely angry in his heart, he didn't expect that there were more than a group of people who wanted to kill the princess, so he suppressed the anger in his heart and asked in a low voice, "Female doctor Cen , you said that the princess was poisoned, do you know what poison is there?"

"Back to the emperor, the red spot on the princess's neck should be poisoned by the peach blossom scorpion."

"Peach Blossom Scorpion?" Emperor Qi and Concubine Ze asked in unison.

"Is it scorpion venom?" Concubine Ze chased after her, thinking that if it was bitten by a scorpion, it would not be blamed on people.

"Back to the emperor, Concubine Ze Niangniang, the peach blossom scorpion is not a poisonous scorpion, but a poisonous weed, because it is extremely gorgeous and gorgeous like a peach blossom when it blooms, and its poison is as vicious as a scorpion, hence the name. This poisonous weed is also rare, and Chen once occasionally saw it in the medical book of the Taiyi Pavilion, and was deeply impressed by the tragic description of his death. ”

"How tragic?" Emperor Qi muttered, even though he knew that Wuye no longer had to suffer that kind of suffering, he still couldn't help but feel heartache.

"The emperor is good, this poison will have more than a month from poisoning to poisoning, and there will be a large red rash on the neck in the early stage, and gradually spread to the chest and abdomen, and the red rash will become bigger and bigger, like a peach blossom that blooms slowly, until it passes the dantian, the 'peach blossom' completely blooms, then these red rashes begin to fester, and the stench is incomparable, until there is no good meat on the whole body, rotting and painful and dying."

"Smack!" Emperor Qi slapped the table fiercely, unable to speak for a long time.

After a while, Emperor Qi said in a deep voice, "Female Doctor Cen, I want you to do one thing, after returning to the Tai Hospital, I will secretly investigate whether anyone has ever tampered with the princess's medicine, and I must find out the person who poisoned me." ”

"Yes." Female doctor Cen retired and left.

Concubine Ze slowly walked to Emperor Qi's side and said faintly: "Your Majesty, it seems that there are people in this palace who want to live without a night." ”

"I'm afraid that this person is also a collaborator and traitor." Qi Huang's tone was clear.

"Your Majesty, the concubine will also go to check on the people in this harem, there are suspicious people." Concubine Ze said that she was about to retire to Emperor Qi.

"Concubine Ze is not in a hurry, I still have something to say to you."

"Your Majesty?"

"Concubine Ze, you will leave the Qi country in a few days."

"Your Majesty, why is this?" Concubine Ze's voice was shocked.

So Emperor Qi told Concubine Ze about the conditions of the Wei State peace, Concubine Ze didn't speak for a while, but walked gently to Xia Ye's side again, caressed her face lovingly, her eyes were full of tears, and she asked in a choked voice: "Even if the concubine wants to find the murderer for the emperor, she can't do it?" ”

"Not bad." Emperor Qi gritted his teeth and spit out two words.

"I don't know how the emperor will place the emperor? Can the concubine still give her a ride? ”

"After tomorrow, the princess will be quietly sent to the palace outside the city, I have ordered someone to build an ice coffin, put it in the mausoleum house, to temporarily place the princess, and wait until the war stabilizes, choose an auspicious day of the zodiac, and then bury the princess ceremoniously."

Xia Ye couldn't help but be frightened when she heard this: Oops, if I was really buried, I wouldn't even have the slightest hope of coming back to life, but I'm obviously not dead yet! What to do? What to do?! What went wrong? Xia Ye was so anxious that she couldn't do it, but she couldn't do anything about it.

"Please ask the emperor to promise the concubine that before she is sent to the underground palace, so that the concubine can always accompany the princess."

"Okay, it's up to you."

……

Before being sent to the underground palace, Concubine Ze really stayed by Xia Ye's side, and Xia Ye slowly calmed down, feeling that as long as she was not buried, things would take a turn. During this time, she also thought a lot: judging by what was happening at the moment, she would not be wrong to cross over, and she was not dressed smoothly, as if she was stuck in a certain link. She remembered the night of thunder and lightning on the roof of the villa, a dazzling white light, and then she came to this strange era, I don't know if anyone else has passed through like her, she remembers that a woman called An Hao heartbreakingly, maybe An Hao also came. Thinking of this, her heart was a little inexplicably excited, but when she thought that she couldn't move, Xia Ye was very depressed.

Time flies, and soon it's time to go to the dungeon.

On this day, the imperial study suddenly became lively, and the summer night was served by the palace maids, who scrubbed their bodies again, and were at the mercy of them like wooden people, and put on heavy and luxurious shrouds, put on countless gold and silver jewelry, and finally someone painted her face with exquisite makeup - this is what she guessed, and it must be exquisite.

Eventually, she was placed in a spacious coffin with the scent of logs.

Xia Ye saw Emperor Qi walk to the coffin, looked at her deeply, and then left silently, and then she saw Concubine Ze coming over with red eyes.

"The Nightless Emperor, the mother concubine is really reluctant to you, you are so beautiful and intelligent, and you are more humble and courteous, and quite strategic, even men may not have your knowledge, but unfortunately you have a thin life, you and I mother and daughter are destined for this, just wait for the next life to continue." Concubine Ze took a breath and calmed her mind, raised an object in her hand in front of Xia Ye and said, "This Fat Wei Incense Tower was a gift from Liang Guo to your father back then, and later your father gave it to you, your favorite during your lifetime, Dao It is made of rare heart and soul stones." Now the mother takes it with you, let it be by your side, just as the mother takes care of you. ”

"It turned out to be it!" When Xia Ye saw the incense tower in Concubine Ze's hand, his heart couldn't help but be shocked, isn't this what An Hao had let himself identify, the thing he picked up from the woods near the ancient tomb?! According to An Hao, this kind of stone did not exist after the Sui Dynasty, and now she heard that the Qi State and the Wei State saw that their costumes were not as old as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, could it be said that she had come to the Northern and Southern Dynasties before the Sui Dynasty.

At a cursory glance, this incense tower is really ninety percent similar to An Hao's, the only difference is that this one is updated. She remembered that night before the crossing, the pocket containing that thing glowed with a dazzling white light, and it was hard to say that she could come here, and it had nothing to do with the fat incense tower made of the soul stone.

After saying a few more sad words, Concubine Ze put the incense tower in Xia Ye's hand, and for some reason, when this thing was placed next to her, her heart beat so hard that it seemed to escape from her body.

And Concubine Ze couldn't see all this, she stared at Xia Ye's face reluctantly, and couldn't stop crying silently.

"Uncle Huang, the matter of transporting the princess's coffin to the underground palace will be up to you. This matter must be carried out quietly, if Wei Guo hears the slightest rumor, I am afraid that there will be another war. ”

"The emperor can rest assured, the minister understands."

"Cover the coffin!" Emperor Qi seemed to exert a lot of effort to say these two words.

"Nightless!" Concubine Ze suddenly cried out heartbreakingly, and was immediately pulled away by someone.

"It's over! Finished! Xia Ye thought silently in his heart, and watched above his head, a huge coffin board slowly swallowed up all the light, and at the same time, this heavy wooden board instantly blocked the sound of the outside world, and the inside was suddenly terrifyingly quiet, as if it had been lying in the tomb. But the coffin moved quickly, and at first she was very scared, afraid that the air inside would run out, and she would suffocate to death in the coffin, but then she remembered that she didn't have to breathe at all, and she didn't have to worry about suffocating to death.

I don't know how long I walked, but the coffin finally stopped jolting and was carefully placed on the flat ground. Soon, Summer Night felt a bright light appear above his head, and it turned out that the coffin lid had been opened. She was lifted up and placed in a clear, cold box, which she thought must be an ice coffin. The incense tower was gently placed in her hand, and a heavy block of ice was placed above her head.

After a moment, Summer Night felt gray again, and she knew that people had left the house...... In the silence and darkness of the large ice box, she heard her heart begin to unsettle again, and the fat incense tower in her hand also made a flurry, pulsing wave, and there was a feeling in the summer night that they seemed to try to get closer to each other, but the distance stopped them.

……

It felt like a long, long, long time, and it felt like half a century had passed. Suddenly, the lid of the coffin above her head was pushed open, and she saw a masked man in black, holding a fire fold in his hand, taking her from beginning to end, and taking the incense tower in his hand, and looked at it with great curiosity.

On a summer night, I faintly heard someone outside shouting: "Hurry up and put out the fire-"

Suddenly, a reckless voice rushed in and shouted: "Boss, the fire has been amplified a little, and it has burned to the imperial tomb!" ”

The masked man's hand shook, and the incense tower fell on Xia Ye's chest, and he turned around and nervously ordered, "Quickly bring someone to fight the fire!" Tell me there's a fart. ”

"Yes, yes, yes."

At this moment, Summer Night saw a silvery-white, spiral-shaped band of light suddenly rise from her chest, hovering above her heart. Summer Night was surprised when the masked man turned around, and the light band just went into her left chest and disappeared, and Summer Night's was like being hit hard by an iron hammer, and she screamed "ah-" in pain, and then took a deep breath.

"Ahh Boss, blow up the corpse! ”