The garden was quiet on a rainy day, and Yu Ruyan walked all the way to Uncle Chen's house, when she suddenly heard footsteps behind her.

At first she thought it was a servant passing by the garden, but then something was wrong with her, and the footsteps followed her not far behind, and as she walked, so did her stop.

With a frustration in her heart, she hurriedly turned around and hid in the flowers and trees next to her, hid her body, and carefully looked through the gaps in the flowers to the way she came.

Sure enough, after a while, a little girl came to her, she looked around while walking cautiously this way, as if she knew that she had lost Yu Ruyan, and suddenly muttered with a sad face: "Obviously in front, why is it gone?" How do you deal with this? ”

The little girl anxiously walked forward a few steps and turned back, staying at a loss on the spot, but the next moment she suddenly cried!

Yu Ruyan's face was full of doubts, this girl had never seen her, what was she following herself?

She quietly walked around to the back of the little girl and asked abruptly, "What are you looking for me?" ”

The sudden voice frightened the little girl and fell directly to the ground, she looked back in horror at the disappeared person and suddenly stared at her closely, her face was red, she got up and knelt in front of Yu Ruyan and said in a panic: "Girl, please save my master!" ”

Hearing this, Yuruyan looked ignorant, she stared at the people on the ground twice, and wondered, "Who is your master?" Who are you? Why do you suddenly say such a thing? ”

The little girl crouched on the ground and whispered in fear: "The slave is called Dongcao, is it······ Please go with the slave and maid, the master is waiting for the girl to save her life! With that, he knocked his head at her a few times on the ground.

Yu Ruyan was confused, she pulled up the winter grass on the ground, and wondered: "Which yard girl are you?" If you ask me to save people but don't tell me who to save, how dare I go with you? ”

Dongcao was so anxious that she was about to cry, her little face was flushed, as if there was something unspeakable, so she had to beg vigorously: "I will never harm the girl, I really have something to ask the girl, and the master won't let me say who she is······ The girl will know if she goes with me. ”

Yu Ruyan looked at her carefully, and saw that her anxious expression did not look like she was lying, and she couldn't help but wonder in her heart - who was asking for help from her?

The girl took her along the path of the garden and walked forward, looking at the direction she took herself, Yu Ruyan's heart stopped for a moment!

"You're from Shiroin?" She frowned and asked coldly.

Seeing that the courtyard was in front of him, Dongcao knew that he couldn't hide it, so he had to nod slightly, and Yu Ruyan didn't think about turning around and walking back.

As soon as her legs sank, Dongcao actually caught up and hugged her legs and pleaded: "Girl, please have mercy, the master is really not good, she said······ She said that you were the only one in the palace who could save her, so she let the slave go to you secretly. Girl, please come in with me! ”

Yu Ruyan didn't want to step into the Ziluo Courtyard at all, but Dongcao kept holding her legs, and her whole body was lying on the ground, and the stagnant water on the ground made her whole body wet, which was very pitiful.

No, she had to turn around and say, "You get up first and tell me what's going on?" I'll wonder if I should go in! ”

Hearing this, Dongcao hurriedly got up from the ground and gasped: "This morning, the master accidentally fell while walking in the yard, and her stomach hurt until now, she asked the slave maid to invite the girl, and asked the girl to help the master!" As soon as he finished speaking, Dongcao knelt on the ground again.

Hearing that Gu Qing'er fell, Yuru's eyes sank, and after thinking for a moment, she gritted her teeth and said, "Don't kneel, get up and lead the way!" ”

There is a dead silence in the Ziluo Courtyard, the once prosperous courtyard is now deserted and depressed, overgrown with weeds and fallen with dead leaves, it is obviously the spring season, but the world here seems to have been shrouded in winter, and people walk in and feel the biting cold inexplicably.

Dongcao hurriedly led her into the house, and when the door opened, a foul smell of Chinese medicine came to her nose.

It's time to hold the lamp, there are no candles in the house, the light is very dim, only a screen in the middle is red, purple and white, it is the purple jade coral screen that Mu Lingzhi gave her before, the light of the screen illuminates the bed not far away, Yu Ruyan looked at the light, only to see a person half lying on the bed, heard the sound of the door and turned his head, looked at each other, and actually scared Yu Ruyan!

I haven't seen Gu Qing'er for a long time, and when we meet again, her description surprised Yu Ruyan-

The person on the bed had a big pregnant belly, which seemed to be six or seven months old, with a belly as big as a bulge and a high bulge, but his body and limbs were as thin as wood, and he looked extremely strange and terrifying. In the past, the delicate face was also thin, and the charming big eyes were deeply sunken like two empty and godless caves, without a little light, looking at Yu Ruyan not far away in a daze, it took a long time to turn her dry eyes sluggishly, her lips moved for a long time without saying a word, and she tilted her head to the side before the tears were about to fall, not wanting people to see it.

Dongcao lit the candles in the house, the lights turned on, Gu Qing'er was still hiding on the bed, facing inside without saying a word, Dongcao stepped forward and whispered in her ear: "Master, Miss Xiaoqing is here." ”

Gu Qing'er still didn't say anything, Yu Ruyan stood in the middle of the room and said coldly: "Mrs. Gu called someone over, why didn't she say anything, what did she mean?" ”

A dry voice came from the bed, and he said coldly: "I have been demoted to a concubine, what do you still ask my wife to do?" ”

When the words fell, Gu Qing'er slowly turned around and struggled to get up with the help of Dongcao. Sitting on the edge of the bed in a blue jacket, his hands were on the edge of the bed, and his thin body seemed to fall down as if the wind blew!

Yu Ruyan got straight to the point and said, "What do you want me to help you?" ”

Gu Qing'er's face was pale, her eyes were gray, and she bit her lip and hesitated for a long time before she spoke: "Are you really willing to help me?" ”

Yu Ruyan sneered: "Since you don't believe it, why did you ask me to come in?" If nothing else, I'll go first! ”

"Please stay!" Gu Qing'er's hurried voice came from behind her, and she trembled: "I have hurt you before, and I have embarrassed you everywhere······ Please forgive me, for the sake of Your Highness, help me and save my child! As long as you are willing to save my child, let me do anything! ”

She said quickly and incoherently, Yu Ruyan turned around in surprise when she heard this, looked at her in a daze, her eyes sank, and she said coldly: "Isn't your child fine, what happened?" ”

Gu Qing'er's face darkened, and her whole body trembled before she could say anything, as if she had encountered a fierce beast. She suddenly raised her five fingers to Yu Ruyan, and said tremblingly: "Look at my hand, is there any difference?" After that, she bent her fingers a few times, but the simple bending action was extremely difficult for her to do.

Yu Ruyan's heart was shocked, and she looked at her fingers intently, only to see that her thin fingers seemed to be frozen, and they were very stiff and inflexible when they moved. Dongcao took the walnut on the small table on the side and handed it to her and she asked her to grab it, but as a result, she tried hard for a long time and the walnut still didn't grasp it steadily, it slipped from the palm of her hand and rolled to Yu Ruyan's footsteps.

Bending down to pick up the walnuts at her feet, Yu Ruyan looked at Gu Qing'er with a sad face on her face with a shocked face, and asked worriedly, "······ What's going on? ”

Gu Qing'er smiled coldly, and tears flowed down while laughing: "In the past month, my body has become more and more bulky day by day, and I can't do anything except sleep all day long, at first I just thought it was a normal reaction during pregnancy, but until I ······"

"A week ago, I suddenly realized that I couldn't even walk, and I began to think that I was not comfortable in bed for a long time, so I asked Dongcao to accompany me to the yard for a walk, but finally moved to the yard, I let go of Dongcao's hand, and before I took three steps, I was shaken down by a pebble, hehe, a stone smaller than an egg can mix me, I am simply a waste!"

The more he went down, the more Gu Qing'er's tears swelled-

"When I fell, I tried to turn my body sideways so as not to hit the ground, but my whole body was stiff and I couldn't move, so I could only watch myself throw myself on the ground······ If it weren't for Dongcao's opportunity to take his own body under me to protect my belly, I'm afraid my child would have died a long time ago! ”

A layer of cold sweat broke out on Yu Ruyan's back, her hands were clenched involuntarily, and her heart was furious.

"What's wrong with your body, why is it all of a sudden?" Without thinking about it, Yu Ruyan couldn't help blurting out and asked.

Gu Qing'er listened and signaled to Dongcao with her eyes, and Dongcao immediately took out a white cloth bag, and when the cloth bag was opened, there was a pile of boiled medicine residue inside.

Seeing this, Yu Ruyan's eyes were slightly cold, and her heart was already clear, but she couldn't help asking, "What is this?" ”

Dongcao lowered her head and said softly: "Back to the girl, this is the fetal medicine that the master usually takes, but it's just ······ Just ······" She didn't dare to say the next words, and cautiously glanced at Gu Qing'er on the side.

Gu Qing'er's face turned from white to blue, her nails dug at the placket of her clothes deeply, and said in a trembling voice: "It is obviously a fetal medicine, but there is yellow heart grass added to it, and it is not abnormal when I first take the medicine, but after eating for a long time, the mother will become weaker and weaker, not only the body is stiff and inconvenient, but even the action and thinking will be affected, I privately asked Dongcao to secretly ask the doctor, and the doctor said that if I don't continue to eat, within three months, people will become hollow people with empty bodies, the whole body can't move, the brain is broken, I can't remember anything, I can't do anything, became a ······ A living dead! ”

The whole body shook, and the walnut in his hand fell to the ground uncontrollably. Yu Ruyan looked at the woman in front of her who was described as stiff and inconvenient, although she had done a lot of hateful things before, but now seeing her like this, her heart couldn't help but soften, and she couldn't help asking, "Who drugged you?" Didn't I ask Your Highness to send someone to take care of you secretly? How can you still be framed? ”

Gu Qing'er's whole body was shocked, and she looked at Yu Ruyan in disbelief and muttered, "It turns out ······ It turned out that you asked Your Highness for your kindness on my behalf······"

The gray eyes flashed slightly, a trace of hesitation and entanglement flashed on her face, and after her hands touched her high bulging belly, she said firmly and fiercely: "Your Highness just sent someone to take care of the safety of the Ziluo Courtyard, but the diet and medicine are supplied by the kitchen of the palace, and now she is in charge of the palace, and I have her secret in my hands, how can I be at ease for a long time if she doesn't kill me?" ”

Yu Ruyan's eyes dimmed, and she said in her heart, not only because you know the secret of what she is doing, but mainly because the child in your belly is blocking her child's future, so she is bound to leave you behind!

On her face, she said calmly: "You believed her words to bring down Concubine An Fang that day, but have you ever thought about what you got after Concubine An lost power?" And what did she get? Do you believe a man who has betrayed his former Lord? ”

Gu Qing'er's face froze, and she looked at Yu Ruyan with a shocked expression, she never expected that she knew everything about her previous dealings with An Lan!

"You ······"

"Although Wu Jinshao is not your leave, it is not you who pushed me to Shekou, and besides, the little wooden man used by witches ······" Yu Ruyan looked at her coldly, and said slowly: "Rockery, the little wooden people are all An Lan's ideas for you, in order to make you trust her, she even personally prepared the wooden people to put them in the rockery, so as to gain your trust, am I right?" ”

“······”

Gu Qing'er looked at the calm woman in front of her with wide eyes in horror, and suddenly a coldness spread from the soles of her feet to her whole body, and she shuddered: "How do you know?" ”

"If you don't know, you can't do it unless you don't know it!"

Yuruyan's eyes were cold, and she said coldly: "On that day, the little wooden man was taken back to Yunsong Courtyard after the copper coin, and his whole body was covered with mud, and he vaguely saw that it was written on it with your name and birthday, and then it fell to the ground and was picked up by me, and the mud on it fell off, I clearly saw the name on it, although your name Gu Qing'er was written, but if you look closely, the three words are more strokes and less strokes, and you can't see it if you don't look carefully!" ”

"In the end, you are still afraid that witchcraft will really be harmful to your children and you, so you don't dare to bet on yourself, so An Lan gave you an idea, deliberately wrote the wrong words, and then wrapped them in mud, so that people think at first glance that the cursed person is you, but in fact, it can't be you!"

"An Lan is a left-hander, and her writing on wood is not as good as on flat paper, so the words she writes on the wooden figure are slightly tilted to the left······"

The more she heard it, Gu Qing'er's face became even paler, she originally wanted to make a deal with Yu Ruyan about An Lan's affairs, so that she could trust herself and help herself, but what she didn't expect was that Yu Ruyan already knew everything about the dirty things between them, and she couldn't help but feel empty-

"Since you all know, why didn't you stand up and tell Your Highness to expose me when she was planning to expose me that day?"

"What does it matter to me that you dog-eat-dog?" Yu Ruyan looked at her cruelly, and said coldly: "You have been punished for the events of the day, and she-" Yu Ruyan's eyes flickered slightly, and she said word by word: "Someone will eventually ask her for an account!" ”

Actually, it's more that she really doesn't want to get involved in the shady struggle of the back house!

Gu Qing'er showed a look of despair on her face, looked at her in a daze, and said with difficulty: "Since you already know everything, you ······ Would you still like to help me? ”

"How do you want me to help you?" She quietly looked at the bleak woman in front of her, if it weren't for Mu Lingzhi, in order to keep his child, Yu Ruyan didn't want to pay attention to these things at all.

"Girl, please, please help me find a doctor to come into the house to treat me and cure the poison of this yellow heart grass······ I can't get out of this courtyard, I'm afraid that this yellow heart grass will hurt the child in my womb······"

Hearing that she was willing to help herself, Gu Qing'er's face was happy and flustered, and she hurriedly said: "I don't dare to eat any more of the food provided by the kitchen, and I also ask the girl to find a way for me, and ask His Royal Highness to allow me······ Grant me permission to open a kitchenette in my yard······"

Hearing this, Yu Ruyan's brows furrowed tightly-

Dr. Wu left the house some time ago to go back to his hometown to visit relatives, and he happened to be not in the house, is it necessary to trouble Yue Yu again?

When she thought of Yue Yu's weak body, she couldn't bear it, but apart from Yue Yu, she didn't know who to ask for help?

After thinking about it, she asked Dongcao to wrap the medicine residue and let her take it back, and prepared to take time out of the house to let Yue Yu take a look at the medicine residue first!

When she was about to go out, Gu Qing'er begged her not to tell Mu Lingzhi about the affairs in the Ziluo Courtyard, let alone let the people outside know, she said: "If An Lan knows that I have seen through her conspiracy, she will definitely come up with more vicious tricks to deal with me, and now I am difficult to even move my body, and I am trapped in this Ziluo Courtyard every day, if I want to prevent her, it is impossible!" ”

It is undeniable that what she considered did make sense, before the matter was clear, she didn't want to let Mu Lingzhi know too early, it just so happened that he was worried about the affairs of the court recently, and Yu Ruyan didn't want to let the matter of the back house make him sad again.

Coming out of the Ziluo Courtyard, it was getting late, Yu Ruyan had to find a hurry to ask Uncle Chen about the knife next time, she returned to Yunsong Courtyard and just hid the medicine residue, she heard that Mu Lingzhi was back, she hurriedly rushed to his bedroom, and when she entered the door, she was taken aback when she saw the description inside!

Mu Lingzhi leaned on the soft couch with a tired face, his face was full of annoyance and discomfort, and when she got closer, she realized that a corner of his silver brocade robe had been torn, and there were a few deep scratches on the exposed arm, which added a little tired and embarrassed!

Tong Qian was helping his wound rub the medicine, Yu Ruyan stepped forward to take over the work in Tong Qian's hand, carefully smeared the ointment for him, and said distressedly: "Didn't Your Highness enter the palace?" How did you come back with an injury? Did you get into a fight? ”

Mu Lingzhi was originally depressed and depressed, but seeing that the troubles in Yu Ruyan's heart had inexplicably dissipated a lot, he looked at her with a distressed look, and a trace of warmth surged in his heart, so as not to worry about her, so he said unhappily: "What do you mean - I fought with others and hung up the lottery, and I didn't win?" ”

Yu Ruyan, who was busy around her, looked up at someone with a serious face when she heard this, and didn't know what he meant, Mu Lingzhi had already said seriously: "You look down on me like this?" Hmph, looking at the world, no one has ever been able to beat me in a fight, I have never been the only one who lets others hang the lottery, and others don't want to move me in the slightest! ”

Looking at his confident look, Yu Ruyan unceremoniously poked a few times at the wound on his arm, and said, "It's all hanging up and still quibbling, na, na, what is this?" Who caught this? ”

Mu Lingzhi bared his teeth and gasped, but he didn't know how to explain how the injuries on his body came from for a while. When Tong Qian saw it, he hugged him and said: "No, the injury on the master's body was caught by the mother······ As soon as the words came out, he realized that his mouth was fast, and he hurriedly covered his mouth and slipped out.

The hand applying the ointment froze, and Yu Ruyan didn't know how to ask about Xie Guifei, when Mu Lingzhi's deep voice came from above his head.

"Don't worry. My mother was accidentally poisoned many years ago, and although it was not life-threatening, she would do it regularly every month for so many years. Today is the time of poison. ”

"I entered the palace early in the morning to be by my mother's side when she was most in pain, hoping to alleviate her pain. For so many years, every time the poisonous mother concubine was worse than death, and many times she couldn't survive and wanted to kill herself, but because of me and my father, she gritted her teeth again and again and persevered, enduring inhuman torture day after day. This is the real reason why I have been looking for the Jade Girl of Qi State! ”

Although Yu Ruyan had already learned the cause and effect of Heqin from An Lan, now that he said it himself, it still shocked Yu Ruyan's heart-

"So, when His Royal Highness learned that the fifth princess was not a jade girl, he killed her?" She gritted her teeth and suppressed the trembling of her voice, asking the question she had been asking all along.

"No, it's only to blame King Qi for not believing in his promise and deceiving me too badly!" The deep eyes were infected with frost at some point, Mu Lingzhi's expression instantly turned cold, his tone was cold, and he said coldly: "When it is four points today, Liang Qi Wei Wu, Qi is the weakest, and Wei Wu has always been eyeing it. When I asked the King of Qi for a jade girl, the condition promised by the King of Qi was that the Great Liang and the Qi State would form an eternal good, and form an alliance with the Great Liang, if Wei Wu attacked the Qi State, our Great Liang would send troops to reinforce it unconditionally. In fact, such conditions are really harsh for Da Liang, you know, if Da Liang wants to take the Qi State, it is simply easy, but for the sake of the mother's illness, my father and I agreed to the conditions of the King of Qi······

"However, when I was full of expectations to marry the jade girl of Qi and entered the door, I heard a spy come to report, saying that the princess of Qi and his relatives was not a real jade girl, but the fifth princess of Qi with a bad reputation and a bad reputation.

Mu Lingzhi's expression was unconsciously infected with a murderous aura, but Yu Ruyan's heart became colder and colder-

"If it's just an ordinary princess, even if it's not a jade girl, I can't kill the killer, but the king of Qi actually threw such a daughter to me like a rag, it's really too deceitful······

When the truth was laid out naked in front of her, Yu Ruyan's heart fell to the edge of darkness, and she knew that when her father forced her to make peace, she was ready to give up on her.

Knowing that Da Liang wanted a jade girl, he sent her over who was not a jade girl, knowing that this was a dead end, but his father still did not hesitate to force her to a dead end!

Her eyes began to sour again, she blinked uncomfortably, but unfortunately she couldn't squeeze out a single tear, the sour pain in her heart welled up in her heart, and she suddenly grinned -

Yes, because she was born without tears since she was a child, she was regarded as an ominous person, and she was driven out of the palace and thrown into the deep mountains and old forests since she was a child, so that she was killed by herself, and later she was fortunate to meet the master and left a life······

Therefore, such a self, regarded as an ominous person, what is there to regret and cherish by his father?

Her eyes were slightly gloomy-if she didn't guess wrong, the real jade girl of Qi should be the eldest sister who was cared for by her father as a treasure-

The most famous and dazzling eldest princess Jade Pearl in Qi country!