Chapter Eighty-Nine: A Thousand Cuts
Yu Xiaodao thought of the possibilities after Yu Ruyan's identity was exposed, and her heart was even more flustered than her, and she gritted her teeth and said: "Now there is no other way to think about it, I will go directly to kill that Xiaoqing, so that after a hundred times, no one will know your identity!" ”
Yu Ruyan was shocked when she heard this, and hurriedly stopped him and said, "Don't be impulsive, have you forgotten what happened to Brother An last time?" Maybe this time Mu Ziyue has laid a trap again, waiting for us to jump in. ”
"So what to do? Do you really want her to confront you with the real Xiaoqing? "The knife is impatient.
The more anxious she was, the more she calmed herself down, Yu Ruyan closed her eyes and speculated on Mu Ziyue's psychology, and after a while, she opened her eyes and said coldly: "Don't worry, before Xiaoqing saw me in person, just listening to Mu Ziyue's description should not be 100% sure that I am Yu Ruyan, so at this time, Mu Ziyue will not act rashly, she will definitely let Xiaoqing recognize my identity before making plans." ”
Xiaodao looked at her suspiciously, puzzled: "What does that sister mean?" ”
"Stand still and wait and see!"
As she expected, early the next morning, she heard the people say that Miss Mufu was coming to the palace today—
Yu Ruyan knows that the head-to-head confrontation is finally coming!
Although she had a quarrel with Mu Lingzhi, she still had the right to go out of the mansion freely, Mu Ziyue entered the palace from the front door, and she came to the Yuyu Pavilion from the back door, sitting in the private room on the second floor. She asked Xiao Er to serve good tea and waited for Mu Ziyue's arrival.
Sure enough, an hour later, Mu Ziyue got off the carriage at the door of the Jade Pavilion, and found the private room on the second floor all the way.
After a while, there was a knock on the door, and Yu Ruyan pretended not to know and asked, "Who?" ”
Hearing her voice, Mu Ziyue couldn't wait to push the door and walked in, Ying Ying smiled: "It's me!" ”
Yu Ruyan sat at the table and didn't get up, half of her body was hidden behind the screen, and said coldly: "Miss Mu is really ghostly, I don't want to taste the new dishes of the Jade Pavilion quietly!" ”
Yu Ruyan's undisguised dislike for Mu Ziyue didn't pay attention to it at all, looking at Yu Ruyan sitting at the table, she hated it in her heart, and she wanted to kill her with a knife.
But when she thought of the girl brought outside the door, she couldn't help but say coldly in her heart, slut, let you be rampant and proud again, I'm afraid that there will be no good life for you in the future!
How could the hatred in her eyes escape from Yu Ruyan's eyes, she said coldly: "I have taken care of this private room, if Miss Mu has nothing else to do, let's leave!" With that, he picked up the teacup in front of him and sent it off.
Mu Ziyue's face suddenly turned white, she smiled ruthlessly, and sneered: "I went to the Prime Minister's Mansion to play today, and I heard that the girl came to the Jade Pavilion to taste new dishes, so I couldn't help but come over to try it together, the girl knows, I have always liked the things of this Jade Pavilion." But now that the seats are full, is it convenient for the girl to set up a table? ”
Yu Ruyan sneered lightly and sneered: "Although the dishes in the Jade Pavilion are from the same product, everyone's preferences are different, Miss Mu likes delicacies from the mountains and seas, and I like pastoral fresh vegetables, so I don't think it is possible for me and Miss Mu to have a table." ”
She knew that the more she was like this, the more Mu Ziyue would not leave, and she really knew the woman in front of her too well.
Sure enough, no matter how sneering and cold she treated, Mu Ziyue just refused to take a step away from the private room, and the ice blade crossed her beautiful apricot eyes!
Not only did she not leave, but she also walked to the window and opened the window facing the street, and when she saw the figure in the window of the teahouse opposite, she showed a satisfied smile on her face, turned around and sat opposite Yu Ruyan without authorization, and said: "Why do you refuse to be thousands of miles away, I will borrow you half a square table today, maybe the girl will have a place to ask Miss Ben in the future." ”
Yu Ruyan's eyes looked past her and looked at the window of the private room of the teahouse opposite, where the figure flashed, but after a while, there was a knock on the door outside the private room, and Mu Ziyue's personal maid came in with a post, and whispered: "Miss, I just met Miss Shangshujia and invite you to go to her house tomorrow to enjoy the flowers." With that, he handed the post to her and bowed down.
Mu Ziyue couldn't wait to open the post in her hand in front of Yu Ruyan, and the moment she unfolded the plain notepaper, her face froze like a dead silence!
Yu Ruyan hooked her lips and smiled coldly, and said indifferently: "I heard rumors from outside, Miss Mu will soon enter the palace and become the third princess, if the news is true, I will congratulate Miss Mu in advance." However, if the five princesses of Qi Kingdom, who were friendly to the Third Highness at the beginning, suddenly appeared, you say, how sure are you of this marriage? ”
Mu Ziyue was completely stunned by the six words on the note, although she had doubts about the identity of the woman in front of her before, she never expected that she would be ······
She stared at Yu Ruyan dumbfounded, her face was pale and panicked, her mind was blank, and when she heard Yu Ruyan's inquiry, she replied in a daze: "Huh? ”
Yu Ruyan smiled knowingly, didn't care about what was written on the note in her hand, and said slowly: "I mean, there is only one princess, if the disappeared princess of Qi suddenly appears, with the peace treaty between Qi and Liang at the beginning, is Miss Mu sure to re-enter the palace?" ”
"You ······" Mu Ziyue had recovered from the shock, she drank a sip of tea fiercely, and looked coldly at the smiling woman opposite, shocked and resentful in her heart!
I thought she was just a lowly military prostitute, but I didn't expect her identity to be much more noble than her!
She gritted her teeth to resist the panic in her heart, and said coldly: "You are really good at acting, and you actually deceived everyone around." If you let Ling Zhi know your true identity, he will definitely not spare you······"
"Why can't I understand what Miss Mu said?" Yu Ruyan raised her eyebrows and looked at Mu Ziyue, who was pale on the other side, and said indifferently with a smile on her face: "I'm just kindly reminding Miss Mu that if you want to be the third princess, it's best not to let Yu Ruyan, the fifth princess of Qi State, appear in front of Her Royal Highness, otherwise——"
She smiled and moved the charcoal stove in front of her to Mu Ziyue, looked at her pale face and said word by word: "I heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has removed the excerpt of marrying the Prime Minister, and instead proposed to the granddaughter of the Duke of Qin. Now that this eastern capital is a noble family, except for the Third Highness, Miss Mu doesn't seem to have a better marriage partner. If you let the princess of the Qi Kingdom disturb your marriage with the Third Highness again, I'm afraid that Miss Mu will have to continue to stay in the boudoir! “
The last few words at the end of her words made Mu Ziyue's whole body tremble, and her eyes darkened-
Although she hated the woman opposite, Mu Ziyue undeniably said that she was not bad at all!
Now that her scalp is damaged and she has become a disgusting leprosy, the prince has already excluded her from the candidate for the crown princess, and marrying the prince has come to naught. With her current appearance, she can only use the power of the Prime Minister's Mansion to marry into an ordinary official family, she can use her heart, how can she be willing to marry an ordinary family, she dreams of being a queen!
Now that the crown princess has come to naught, the position of the queen is unattainable, but at least she has to marry the prince as a princess, and the emperor now has only two princes, Mu Lingzhi has undoubtedly become her last choice.
Although Mu Lingzhi's feelings for her were no longer what she had been because of Yu Ruyan's affairs, she thought that with their friendship for many years, if she took the initiative to marry him, it was estimated that he would not refuse. With Mu Lingzhi's current momentum in the court, coupled with the support of the Prime Minister's Mansion, maybe it is not impossible for him to replace the prince on the dragon chair that day, and at that time, her wish of the queen of the phoenix will come true!
Therefore, at this time, he must not let Mu Lingzhi know that the princess of Qi who still has a marriage contract with him is the one in front of him!
But it took her a lot of effort to know her true identity, how could she be willing to be disintegrated by her in just a few words?
"Ling Zhi hates others for deceiving him the most, but you have deceived him all over the place, if he knows all the truth, he will never spare you, let alone marry you again-"
"Really?" Yu Ruyan looked at her fearlessly, and took tongs to add two pieces of silver charcoal to the red clay furnace, and the flames immediately burst up, and the beating fire reflected her shining eyes blood-red.
"Miss Mu, dare you make a bet with me?"
"Bet on what?" Mu Ziyue's eyes were gloomy, and she glared at her fiercely.
"Bet on who His Highness will choose between you and the fifth princess of Qi Kingdom, Yu Ruyan!"
The whole body trembled, and Mu Ziyue's silver teeth were about to be crushed-
A few days ago, the news that Mu Lingzhi wanted to take Yu Ruyan as a side concubine had already reached her ears, and she, like the An family, couldn't believe her ears!
The dignified three princes of Liang actually want to marry a military prostitute as a side concubine, which is really unprecedented and unprecedented!
If he didn't really like her, how could he risk angering the emperor's mother and concubine to do such a thing that made the world laugh!
Therefore, if he really knows that the person he likes is his fiancée, I am afraid that his joy will be far greater than the anger of being deceived!
In this gamble, she is doomed to fail miserably!
Looking at the glamorous woman in front of her, doubts flashed in her heart, her eyes were cold, and she said coldly: "You follow Ling Zhi with a dead face, don't you just want to be a princess?" Why, now that there is such an opportunity, why hide yourself and give it to me? ”
Yu Ruyan's eyes flashed, and she didn't want to answer her. Mu Ziyue remembered what she had heard, and couldn't help but sneer: "Is it really just because he took a concubine and broke your heart?" Oh, it is common for a man to have three wives and four concubines, not to mention that it is still royal. Are you really delusional, do you really think that there is a man in this world who has always been the same? ”
Yu Ruyan was upset, but she smiled quietly with contempt on her face, and sneered: "Miss Mu is really generous. In the future, the palace will rely on you to revitalize, and I believe it will be a lot more lively! ”
Mu Ziyue's expression froze, looking at the sparks in the small red clay furnace in front of her, Yingying Xing's eyes were about to drip blood, and she struggled fiercely in her heart, and finally, she gritted her teeth and threw the paper in her hand into the stove, and the tongue of fire rolled up, and in less than a moment the plain paper became a wisp of black smoke and dissipated!
"If you want to continue to stay in your current identity, Miss Ben will fulfill you, I only hope you don't regret it halfway!"
Yu Ruyan smiled slightly, raised her glass to Mu Ziyue, whose face was flushed, and said, "Thank you!" ”
After Mu Ziyue left, her tense nerves relaxed, and she sat in a daze, and the food on the table didn't move again, and it was all cold!
She dragged Mu Ziyue from revealing her identity today by delaying the army. But she was right, she could tell Mu Lingzhi her true identity now, believing that with his current feelings for her, he might forgive himself for deceiving him and accept her again.
But is it really that simple? Through the cold arrow between her and him, her deception of him from beginning to end has become a scar that they can never heal before, the broken realm cannot be reunited, the water can no longer be collected, if you miss it, you miss it, everything can no longer go back to the past!
Perhaps, with Xiaoqing's identity, she can still deceive herself and stay by his side, but if everything is exposed, she doesn't have the courage to face him as Yu Ruyan!
After sitting for a long time, the tea was cold, she got up in a daze and walked out of the private room, and when she walked to the counter to check out, she asked the shopkeeper: "Have you come here recently?" ”
Yue Yu once took her to the Jade Pavilion to eat, and her appearance was too eye-catching, so she left an impression in the shopkeeper's heart, so she politely replied: "Xiao Ke hasn't seen the master for a long time, is the girl looking for the master?" ”
Yu Ruyan's heart was empty-
Since Yue Yu disappeared, Xiaodao has searched all the shops of the Yue family in the Eastern Capital, but there is no news of him anywhere, so the shopkeeper doesn't know where he has gone, nor where his house is, he seems to have been steamed in the world and there is no news again!
She smiled bitterly, "It's nothing, it's just······ If the shopkeeper saw him that day, he would have told him that he had a friend who had always remembered his kindness! ”
Feeling upset, she took two jugs of wine from the wine shop and went back, poured half a pot of wine in one go, and fell asleep······
The cold moonlight shone through the window lattice on the silver mask, and the mask man quietly looked at the drunk man on the bed, his eyes flashed with a hint of coldness.
Yu Ruyan turned over uncomfortably, and kicked the quilt on her body away. The masked man silently re-covered the quilt, looking at Yu Ruyan who was frowning in his sleep, his heart suddenly became very uncomfortable, his eyes fell on the scar on her right wrist, his eyes soured, and he smiled bitterly: "Say goodbye here, I don't know if I can still leave my life and see you again?" ”
"You saved my life, but I had to ······"
"I hope you ······ Don't hate me! ”
The masked man walked out of the small bungalow with a jade appearance, and a slender figure walked out of the flowers on the side, knelt in front of the masked man with a 'plop', raised his little face full of tears and trembled: "Childe, they said you were going to assassinate ······"
"Why are you here?" The masked man looked at the woman who suddenly appeared, his face was cold, he stretched out his hand to pull her to a hidden place, and said coldly: "Are you so reckless, do you want to kill her?" ”
"Diligent doesn't care whether others live or die, as long as the son is well!" Kuang Qinqin pulled the sleeve of the masked man and cried: "It's too dangerous to enter the palace and assassinate, but I know that I can't persuade the son, so I just ask the son to bring the slave and maid with him." I would like to live and die with my son! ”
The masked man's eyes were cold, and he said coldly: "I said, since you have become his concubine, live your own life well, don't inquire about my affairs again, I won't bring anyone with me this assassination, don't say it again!" ”
"Childe ······"
"Don't say any more, if you really want to help me, help me take good care of her."
"Childe is ······ But like her? Seeing that the masked man turned to leave, Kuang Qinqin gritted his teeth and asked.
After a pause, he finally didn't answer her words, and turned to leave······
Kuang Qinqin's desperate eyes flashed fiercely, and she suddenly laughed miserably: "This time, I will never listen to you again!" ”
It was not until noon that Yu Ruyan cleaned the garden area in charge of her, however, before she packed up her things and went back to the bungalow for lunch, Dongcao came to her with a pale face, and said with a trembling body: "Girl······ Girl, go quickly, my master has an accident······"
Yu Ruyan looked at the flustered little girl in front of her with some ignorance, and said suspiciously: "I went to the Ziluo Courtyard just the day before yesterday to see it, isn't your master good?" What's out ······"
Before she finished speaking, she suddenly saw the blood on Dongcao's trembling hands, and suddenly looked up at her, but there were also blood stains on Dongcao's body, and she couldn't help but be frightened: "The blood stains on your body ······"
Before she finished speaking, she had already thrown down the things in her hand and ran towards the Violet Courtyard with her life.
The death silence of the Ziluo Courtyard, as soon as I arrived at the door of the room, I smelled a strong smell of blood, and the middle of the room was sprinkled with blood from the table to the edge of the bed, and there was an inclined porcelain bowl on the table, and the purple jade coral screen placed in front of the bed was pushed to the ground and smashed······
Gu Qing'er fell into the broken screen, her face was pale, the dress under her body was bright red and dazzling, her whole body seemed to be soaked in blood, and the breath between her noses was almost inaudible, just desperately staring at Yu Ruyan who was stuck there with a pair of empty big eyes.
"Help me······ Save ······ Save the ······ child" She struggled to open her lips and ask her for help, Yuru Yan stood in a daze, her mind was dazed, until she heard the cry of Dongcao, and then suddenly shouted: "Go and call the doctor!" ”
Dongcao stumbled out of the door, Yu Ruyan trembled all over and stayed by Gu Qing'er's side, trembling: "You hold on, the doctor will be here soon, you will be fine······ The kids will be fine, too! ”
She wanted to carry Gu Qing'er to the bed, but as long as she moved, the blood gushing out from under her was even more turbulent.
Time passed little by little, she was helpless to stay by Gu Qing'er's side and say the same thing to her over and over again, other than that, she couldn't do anything, she didn't know how to help her stop the bleeding, Ruxiu rescued her, but desperately begged the doctor to appear soon.
Gu Qing'er, who was lying in the fragments, had round eyes and a painful and hideous face, but her tightly clasped hands gradually became weaker and weaker······
Yu Ruyan was looking forward to seeing the doctor, but watched Mu Lingzhi stride in, followed by a group of ladies from the palace.
When he entered the house and saw Yu Ruyan, a trace of surprise flashed on his anxious face, and he snorted, "You······ Why are you here? ”
Yu Ruyan glanced sadly at the people soaked in a pool of blood on the ground, her eyes were sour, but she couldn't say a word.
······
Gu Qing'er died, and died together with the child in her womb who was about to be full-term, one corpse and two lives!
Mu Lingzhi was furious and angry, and ordered a thorough investigation of the matter. After examining Gu Qing'er's corpse, he told him that Gu Qing'er died of arsenic poison!
The next moment, the doctor found arsenic in the decoction spilled from the tilted porcelain bowl on the table in the room!
The whole house was shocked, and even Concubine Xie in the palace went out of the palace to personally question the matter!
The Shira-in Temple, which had been silent for a long time, was lively again.
Concubine Xie Guifei sat on it with a cold face in a purple palace pretend, and the red gold phoenix hairpin on her head shook slightly with the anger of her body, and said sharply: "Bring that cheap maid up!" ”
Yu Ruyan was pushed and knelt in the middle of the room, and Gu Qing'er covered with a white cloth was placed on the wooden board beside her, even if her face was covered, but the white cloth on her stomach was raised high and made people feel terrible!
Until this time, Yu Ruyan had not recovered from Gu Qing'er's violent death, she looked at the corpse beside her in a daze, feeling that she was having a terrible nightmare!
When arsenic appeared in the medicine on the table, he traced it all the way, and Dongcao told the source of the medicine, which was the antidote that Yu Ruyan brought back from Yue Yu to cure the poison of Huang Xincao for Gu Qing'er!
Xie Guifei's eyes were fierce at Yu Ruyan on the ground, thinking of Gu Qing'er's grandson who was about to give birth soon, she hated her heart, and gritted her teeth and hated: "Bold slave, dare to drug and mutilate the emperor's heir, come and beat her to death with a stick!" ”
Yu Ruyan's whole body was shocked, and she looked up at the angry Concubine Xie in a daze, her throat rolled hard, but she couldn't say a word.
Someone immediately came to drag Yu Ruyan down to carry out the execution.
The female relatives around saw that the concubine Niangniang had personally issued a killing order, except for a few expressions of compassion and unbearable on the face of Hua Ying, everyone else was extremely happy and relieved of hatred!
The figure flashed, and Mu Lingzhi, who was awe-inspiring, stopped in front of Yu Ruyan, his face was so gloomy that he seemed to be freezing, his eyes swept over the palace people who were about to make a move, and said coldly: "Who dares to touch her!" Retire! ”
The palace people looked at each other, neither daring to offend the murderous third prince, nor daring to disobey Concubine Xie's orders, and stayed on the spot one by one in embarrassment and fear.
Mu Lingzhi's eyes took a deep look at Yu Ruyan, who was stunned, and suddenly lifted his robe and knelt beside her, begging for Concubine Xie, who was so angry that she couldn't speak: "Mother, this matter has not been fully investigated, so you can't convict her so hastily······"
"Shut up!" Concubine Xie looked at Mu Lingzhi who was kneeling on the ground with an incredulous expression, her eyes were as sharp as ice blades.
"I have found out that Gu died of arsenic poison, and this poison is from the medicine that this slut brought back to the house, who else would she be?"
Concubine Xie asked aggressively, and Mu Lingzhi met her gaze fearlessly and said coldly: "The mother concubine lives in the harem all the year round, don't you know the trick of planting dirt and framing her?" The mother concubine is wise, and I hope that the mother concubine will give her son more time, so that her son can find out the real murderer behind it! ”
Concubine Xie's face was covered with frost, and her tone was so cold that there was no trace of temperature: "She is just a little maid, she is worthy of your dignity to defend and believe in her-"
"She has been with Erchen for a long time, and she has never done anything that hurts heaven and reason, Erchen believes in her person, this matter must not be her doing, someone framed her!" Mu Lingzhi's voice was unusually resolute, and his expression was unwavering!
Hearing this, the corners of Xie Guifei's mouth hooked up a cruel sneer, she slowly got up and came to the two of them, the pointed armor provoked the chin of Yu Ruyan, and when she saw her stunning appearance, her expression froze, and after a while, she came back to her senses, and her heart was clear-
"It turns out that she is the pickled and dirty military prostitute who makes you ignore the rules of your ancestors, and would rather offend your father and emperor, and make the whole world laugh at and become a concubine!?"
Mu Lingzhi's whole body trembled, and the rich murderous aura on Concubine Xie shook his heart, and he said with a flustered expression: "Mother Concubine, everything is what Erchen wants, and it has nothing to do with her!" ”
"Give me a thousand knives and throw this slut into a mass grave to feed the dogs!"