Chapter 176: The Empress Dies

The prince's wedding, the entire East Palace is full of joy, and the Changle Palace where Yu Ruyan is located is even more luxuriously decorated, the exquisite wedding clothes sent by the Clothing Bureau and the Treasure Bureau, as well as the whole box of dazzling jewelry hairpin rings, piled up in half of the room, the prince is almost all the treasures in the world are like flowing water into the Changle Palace. [Full text reading. 】

The entire East Palace is busy and noisy, and it is very lively, but no matter how lively it is in front of her ears, Yu Ruyan always focuses on embroidering the clothes in her hands.

In order to make clothes before Han Rui, Yu Ruyan was in a hurry, for the female red who was not very skilled, it was inevitable that she would make mistakes, the ten fingers of her hands and the palms of her hands were full of piercing eyes, every time she was seen by Chunhua and Qiuyue, she didn't agree to take the initiative to help her do it, and insisted on making the first clothes for Mu Lingzhi herself.

Day and night, the clothes in the clothes can finally be completed, Yu Ruyan embroidered the last stitch, the moment she bit the thread, the dry well-like eyes finally lit up with a trace of light, and the face that had been silent for many days also surged with a trace of sour and joyful expression.

She carefully wrapped the finished clothes, handed them to Chunhua and Qiuyueyou, and said solemnly: "After I get married tomorrow, I will ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to let you leave the palace and return to the garden, and when the time comes, please be sure to help me hand it over to His Royal Highness, just say, just say that this is my last bit of heart, please cherish it"

Although the two maids have not been with Yu Ruyan for a long time, they like this very good master, so now when they see Yu Ruyan like this, their eyes are red again.

But now, Yu Ruyan's fate cannot be changed, and she will eventually be separated from the Third Highness and marry His Royal Highness the Prince. Chunhua and the others felt uncomfortable, but they couldn't show it at this time, which made Yu Ruyan even more sad, and the two of them felt sour, and finally reluctantly smiled and said: "Master, we naturally want to help you deliver the clothes to His Highness, but after sending the clothes." We have to go back to the palace to serve the master, and the master must not drive us away! ”

Yu Ruyan's heart was sour, and when she looked at the two of them, she suddenly thought of Brother An, her heart was sour, and her eyes turned red.

"No, I have many people in the palace to serve, and I will live well, but Your Highness, who is seriously injured, and the copper coin is not around, and there is no one close to me to take care of him, I am very satisfied with the two of you, and I believe that you will take good care of Your Highness for me."

Hear her say so. The two maids couldn't refuse her anymore, because the two of them also listened to Aunt Qin's words to take care of her, and since she was their master, she could not listen to what she said!

Yu Ruyan carefully told the two of them about Mu Lingzhi's preferences and let them remember.

In fact, she said these words every day with the two maids a few days ago, from Mu Lingzhi's food, housing, and transportation, to many habits in life, she said them carefully and carefully, without missing a single thing.

Finally, she told again: "You must remember everything I said." ”

The spring flowers and the autumn moon were about to fall, but the closed door of the temple was suddenly opened in the next second.

The door opened, and the winter wind swept into the temple with a biting chill. And with the cold wind coming in, there was also Queen Xie with a cold face.

And in her hand, she actually came in with a bowl of things, and the palace people around her were all left outside the hall, only Aunt Qin accompanied her into the hall, and as she entered, the heavy palace door slammed behind her.

The dull sound of the door closing made the three masters and servants jump in shock, and when they saw the things in the queen's hand, Yu Ruyan's heart was already clear----

When the queen comes to Changle Palace at this time, she must be asking for her own life!

Although she knew that her time of death had come, she was not afraid, but felt a relief.

But when she thought of Mu Lingzhi in the prison, she had already resolutely thought in her heart that she couldn't die yet, at least until Mu Lingzhi was released from the prison, she couldn't die anyway.

Although the leg injury was not yet healed, Yu Ruyan still knelt down next to the edge of the bed and respectfully greeted Queen Xie.

Everything in the palace stabbed the queen's eyes, how much she longed for her two excellent sons to marry and have children as soon as possible, especially after Xiaodao became the prince, in order to consolidate his crown prince, Queen Xie was even more eager to hope that he would marry the princess as soon as possible, so that Changle Palace would have a real hostess.

For this reason, she spent all her efforts to choose a candidate for the crown princess for him, and also brought the granddaughter of the Jing'an Hou family into the palace, so that she had the opportunity to spark between her and the prince. As she wished, she became the prince's concubine and entered the East Palace

But now, looking at the Changle Palace in front of her, she can't wait to burn this festive and luxurious palace with a fire, along with the people who live in it.

Suppressing the raging anger in her heart, Queen Xie sat down at the table directly, looked at Yu Ruyan who was kneeling on the ground, looked at her with disgust, and said coldly: "As the saying goes, a good woman doesn't serve her second husband, but if she becomes another woman, even if she commits suicide, she won't follow her brother and marry her brother again." However, I didn't expect that you are a dignified princess of a country, and you can't even do the most basic etiquette, righteousness and shamelessness, shameless to the point of being so shameless, it's no wonder that you are a cheap breed born by a cheap maid, even if you have the identity of a princess, but in your bones, you are also a lowly mother, and you are so cheap"

The queen's words were sharp and piercing, with endless hatred, not only humiliating her, but also her mother concubine who was far away in Daqi.

Yu Ruyan knelt there, biting her lip and not making a sound, letting Queen Xie insult her.

"You were originally a military prostitute who rolled out of the military prostitute camp, and marrying Ling Zhi was already wronged by him, but I didn't expect you to be the crown princess now with a broken body, you are shameless!"

The more Empress Xie scolded, the more angry she became, she stood up, sent the bowl with bright soup in her hand to Yu Ruyan, and said coldly: "This palace used to let you leave Ling Zhi and leave you with a cheap life, but now, you are even a scourge for the prince, so don't blame this palace for being ruthless." ”

"This bowl of crane top red is a wedding gift given to you by this palace, if you are interested, you can drink it obediently, so that I can protect you with a whole corpse and the last reputation. If you don't follow, this palace doesn't mind cutting you into a human being, making your life worse than death! ”

Queen Xie's cold and ruthless words made the people present change their complexion when they heard the words, Aunt Qin and Chunhua Qiuyue were all cold, and the cold hair on their bodies was upside down, and they were also anxious.

Aunt Qin, who was following the queen, looked distressed, she had promised Mu Lingzhi to help him take care of Yu Ruyan, but now, the queen has made up her mind to take her life, how can she be stopped by a subordinate?

And it is impossible for Chunhua and Qiuyue to go out of the palace to ask the prince for help, because the palace door has been closed after the queen came in. How do they get out?

Hearing this, Yu Ruyan had a calm face, she had expected such a result when Empress Xie came in, and she also understood in her heart that Empress Xie could enter Changle Palace, and the knife must not be in the East Palace at this moment!

The bowl in front of her contained a brightly colored soup, which was obviously a deadly poison that pierced the heart, but at this moment, under the bright light, it had the most alluring human luster, and approached her with the breath of death.

Looking at the crane in front of him, a chill spread from his footsteps to his whole body, and Yu Ruyan shivered all over her body, and she couldn't help but speak anymore----

". I'm not afraid of death, but I can't die now, otherwise, Ling Zhi's life won't be saved! ”

Hearing this, Empress Xie and Aunt Qin were shocked, Empress Xie's narrow and sharp phoenix eyes darkened, her brows furrowed, she looked at her suspiciously, and said coldly: "How can you say this?" ”

As soon as the words opened, Yu Ruyan's emotions that had been suppressed in her heart for too long also collapsed. Her eyes were red, and as soon as she remembered the scene she saw in the prison that day, she couldn't help but tremble all over, and choked up: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince listens to slander. determined that the person who designed to assassinate him three years ago was the Third Highness, so he had a grudge against His Highness in his heart, and even locked His Highness in a prison."

As soon as these words came out, the queen's whole body was shocked, she looked at her dumbfounded, and said in shock: "How is it possible, Ling Zhi will not harm Chenzhi, isn't he in the south for disaster relief, how can he be imprisoned in the heavenly prison by the prince?" Tell me, what happened? ”

So far, Yu Ruyan no longer hides it, so she told the queen about Chen Yanfei and everything she saw in the prison, as well as the prince's threat to her marriage with Mu Lingzhi's life.

After listening to her, the queen was already weak and unable to stand on her feet, she sat down weakly on the chair next to her with the support of Aunt Qin, and asked Yu Ruyan with a trembling voice: "What you said is true?" ”

Yu Ruyan said with a dark face: "I am true in every sentence, and I dare not deceive my mother in half a sentence!" ”

Receiving her affirmative answer, Empress Xie's expression was sad, she never expected that her two sons would go to a place where they killed each other, she was very sad in her heart, and said to Aunt Qin in a trembling voice: "Quickly, quickly send someone to the heavenly prison to have a look, no, you go in person, go to the heavenly prison to see if Ling Zhi is?" If everything is as she said, I will fight for my life to save him. I don't believe it, the prince can really not have a brother and not recognize me as the queen mother! ”

Aunt Qin was also anxious after hearing that Mu Lingzhi was imprisoned. So after getting the queen's decree, he immediately turned around and went out of the palace to the prison.

As soon as Aunt Qin left, Empress Xie sat in a daze, not completely recovering from the shock, and she didn't dare to say anything more, and the room suddenly fell into a terrible silence

After a long time, Queen Xie finally came back to her senses, her eyes flashed, and she looked straight at Yu Ruyan, and her stunning eyes made her heart skip a beat!

Empress Xie stood up with the back of the chair, and came to Yu Ruyan again, her sharp phoenix eyes glared at her for a moment, and she gritted her teeth and said, "Actually." The prince has never been such an impulsive and extreme person, and he is not stupid, he will not easily listen to the instigation of a cheap maid in a few words, and believe that the assassination was done by Ling Zhi. At the end of the day, it's all because of you! ”

"If it weren't for you, the prince wouldn't have lost his mind, in the end, this stupid boy is just guilty and wants to find a suitable reason for himself to marry you, he thinks that as long as his brother is unjust to him first, he can be with you regardless of his brother's relatives, so as to reduce the guilt in his heart"

There is no doubt that the queen's words are reasonable, and Yu Ruyan also understands this truth, so she did not refute it, but just knelt quietly, waiting for the queen to execute her.

"So, no matter what the reason, for the sake of my two sons, for the sake of the century-old foundation of Daliang, not only can you not marry the prince, but you can no longer stay in this world!"

Queen Xie thought very clearly, everything was because of Yu Ruyan, her two sons liked her, and for her they turned against each other, brothers killed each other, this woman is bound to not stay!

Hearing Empress Xie's words, Yu Ruyan smiled miserably, and her eyes were full of absolute ----

So far, she can't advance or retreat, she doesn't want to marry Xiaodao, and she has no chance with Mu Lingzhi

Because after the trouble in the East Palace, everyone knows that she is already the prince's person, and she and Mu Lingzhi are no longer possible

Thinking of this, she kowtowed to Queen Xie and choked up, "Niangniang." His Royal Highness has handed it over to you, and I hope you must save him from prison, and I"

Looking at the crane in front of her in a daze, she smiled miserably, and said slowly: "As long as His Highness is fine, I can leave without worry."

As soon as the words fell, the next second, she had resolutely picked up the crane top red in front of her, closed her eyes and poured it into her mouth without any nostalgia

Chunhua and Qiuyue watched her drink the poison, and the two couldn't help but pounce on her and hugged Yu Ruyan and cried bitterly.

And the queen on the side, watching Yu Ruyan resolutely drink Heding Red, was stunned for a moment, she thought she would struggle to escape. begged for mercy from herself, but unexpectedly, she resolutely drank the deadly poison

Aunt Qin rushed to the prison with the queen's order, took out the queen's token and forced the jailer to open the prison door, and finally let her discover that the person inside was not the real Third Highness Mu Lingzhi.

When the officials of the prison saw that the matter was revealed, they finally did not dare to hide it, and told Aunt Qin what the prince had done quietly.

After Aunt Qin heard all the truth, her face turned white instantly, and she sighed in her heart, and was about to rush back to tell the queen and Yu Ruyan, but she found that the palace was full of Yulin Army, and she couldn't help but have doubts in her heart, and quietly inquired, only to know that the real third prince was already on the way back to Beijing and was about to enter the city, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince got the news and would go out of the palace to stop him.

Thinking that the two brothers would inevitably kill each other when they met, and looking at the prince's formation, it was actually a life-and-death battle with Mu Ling, Aunt Qin's heart jumped to her throat, and she hurriedly turned around and ran towards the East Palace----

She thought that now, the only way to stop the rebellion between brothers is to rely on the queen and Yu Ruyan.

However, before Aunt Qin rushed back to the East Palace from the prison, suddenly. The entire Great Liang Palace rang with a dull bell.

"Bang ---- bang---- bang ----"

The endless bell rang twenty-seven times, resounding throughout the palace and even the entire Eastern Capital.

Aunt Qin counted them one by one, and the more she counted, the more she counted, her whole body was already cold----

Twenty-seven times the death knell, this is a national mourning!

Aunt Qin's first reaction was that King Liang had died, and she couldn't help but rush towards the Imperial Palace, but before she could reach the Imperial Palace, she heard the earth-shattering cry from the Queen's Yaohua Palace, and everyone was crying bitterly----

The queen has died!

Aunt Qin couldn't believe her ears, and she was stunned on the spot, thinking that she was dreaming. It wasn't until the eunuch who summoned her cried and ran to tell her in person that Aunt Qin realized that everything was true.

Without waiting for her to cry bitterly. The eunuch's next words exploded on her head like a thunderbolt, instantly causing her blood to flow backwards all over her body, and she was so shocked that she couldn't cry----

The eunuch told her that the prospective crown princess and the fifth princess of Daqi, Yu Ruyan, killed the queen!

There has been a great change in the palace, but the two brothers who confronted each other at the gate of the eastern capital did not know that their queen mother had been killed

At that time, the cold and cold long sword in the hand of Mu Lingzhi, who was wearing a dark cloak, was already on the neck of the knife!

In terms of martial arts, there is no one in the world to match the invincible Mu Lingzhi, so even if the knife ordered the city gate to be closed, and sent an additional 50,000 elite soldiers to defend the city, but Mu Lingzhi only relied on a long sword, flying eaves and walking the wall, but it was too late for the elite soldiers to defend the city to set up a bow and arrow, he had already flown to the city wall, and put the cold sword in his hand on the neck of the knife.

He is proficient in the art of war, how can he not know how to capture the thief and capture the king first!

What's more, as long as he doesn't give in, who in this world can help him Mu Lingzhi!

The moment the long sword was on the neck of the knife, the knife's whole body was shocked, and he looked at Mu Lingzhi in front of him in disbelief, so shocked that he couldn't speak.

The cold wind was blowing, and under the night, Mu Lingzhi's deep eyes flashed with a terrifying cold glow, and the murderous aura of his whole body made the soldiers who surrounded him and wanted to save the prince fearful, and they couldn't help but stop three steps away. Don't dare to take a step further!

Mu Lingzhi didn't look at the soldiers around him at all, his sharp eyes looked at the knife with a panicked face for a moment, and his expression flashed with disappointment, sadness, and resentment----

He went to the disaster area in the south to rescue Yue Yu, when the news of King Liang's illness came from the eastern capital, he had successfully rescued Yue Yu from the cell on the grounds of insufficient evidence, and had to hand over the remaining matter of exterminating the bandits to his subordinates, and collect evidence of Mu Xiang and the great prince's crime, Yue Yu took the initiative to help him take it.

After arranging everything in the disaster area, he immediately prepared to return to Beijing, because he had already thought that as soon as his father fell, although the knife was the crown prince's prison. But he was afraid that he was not in the Eastern Capital, and Xiaodao alone would not be able to deal with Mu Xiang and the Great Prince, who were about to move.

However, before he could leave, he had already received a secret order from Xiaodao, and in his capacity as the crown prince's supervisor, he strictly ordered him to continue to deal with the affairs of the victims in the south, and stressed that he would not be allowed to return to Beijing for a day until the affairs of the disaster areas in the south were not dealt with.

At that time, when he received such an order, he was very puzzled, but he thought for a moment that maybe Xiaodao hoped that he would find evidence of corruption and murder between Mu Xiang and the eldest prince, so that he could do so. It is possible to completely finish off these two rivals at once

But a few days later, he sent the secret guards who were beside Yu Ruyan to protect her safety, and they escaped from the Eastern Capital scarred and told him that Xiaodao actually forcibly brought Yu Ruyan into the East Palace, and killed several of his secret guards mercilessly, and these few who escaped were also chased and killed all the way by the people sent by Xiaodao, and finally left half a life to spread the news of the Eastern Capital to him.

After hearing the news from the secret guard, he immediately realized the seriousness of the situation, especially after learning that Xiaodao brought Yu Ruyan into the East Palace, he was frightened in his heart, and he had already expected what Xiaodao was going to do, so he immediately set off to return to Beijing in a hurry.

However, before he could rush back to the capital. On the way, he saw the edict issued by Xiaodao, and he couldn't wait to tell the world that he wanted to marry Yu Ruyan as the crown princess!

The moment he saw the edict, he was so angry, he never thought that his own brother, the prince he supported, would betray him and do such a ruthless and unethical thing

Thinking of this, Mu Lingzhi's hand clenching the long sword was bruised, and he trembled with hatred, and his teeth were about to bite out blood----

If it weren't for the fact that he was his own brother, if someone else treated Yu Ruyan like this, he would have already broken him into pieces.

The knife's expression was shocked from the beginning. It slowly calmed down, his dark eyes were also cold, he looked coldly at Mu Lingzhi who was gritting his teeth on the other side, and smiled coldly and said: "Brother Huang, if you want to kill the king, you have to listen to the respect!" ”

Seeing him describe it like this, Mu Lingzhi became more and more chilled, he also calmed down, his expression was indifferent, and he said word by word: "I won't kill you, as long as you let go of Yan Yan, I will no longer pursue everything before, and you will continue to be your prince." And I, immediately took Yan Yan away from Daliang, incognito, no longer the third prince of Daliang, and no longer your brother. ”

Hearing this, Xiao Dao's whole body was shocked, and he looked at Mu Lingzhi's tenacious description under the moonlight in a daze, knowing that he did what he said, and there was a panic in his heart for no reason.

The next second, he blurted out: "No, the real prince should be my brother, and this world should also be my brother, I don't want to be a prince, I just want to live with my sister." Brother Huang, I beg you, you are more suitable to be the emperor of the Great Liang than me, and I am willing to return the crown prince to you, as long as you let me be with my sister"

"Bastard!"

With a loud shout, Mu Lingzhi interrupted his words angrily, and the anger that had finally calmed down was ignited by his words again, he glared at the knife fiercely, and said hatefully: "Yan Yan is already my woman, no one in this world wants to beat her again, and you can't ---- it!" ”

"But the edict has been issued, and my sister has agreed to marry me, now. is happily waiting to be married in my East Palace, it's not that the royal brother can't say no! ”

Xiaodao sneered back at him, but there was no trace of confidence and courage in his heart

Ever, in front of this heroic and outstanding brother, he has a deep inferiority, although his father and queen mother have always favored him more, but he knows that in the eyes of the world, he is far inferior to his brother, even he became the prince, but also relied on Mu Lingzhi's help.

These have silently taken root in his heart, and he always thinks that one day. He can be more outstanding than his brother, he can cope with everything without him, and he no longer lives under his halo.

Therefore, while admiring Mu Lingzhi, a trace of jealousy also quietly took root in his heart

However, what made Xiao Dao jealous of Mu Lingzhi the most was Yu Ruyan's deep love for him, every time he saw her obsession and affection for him, Xiao Dao's heart was like a knife, both sad and unwilling

Therefore, in his subconscious, he desperately wanted to get Yu Ruyan

Hearing his words, Mu Lingzhi laughed angrily, but in the next second, he put away the long sword in his hand with a slam, and said coldly: "I'll go to the East Palace to pick up Yan Yan now, this farce is over!" ”

After that, he didn't want to be entangled with the knife anymore, so he jumped off the high city wall, turned over his horse, and flew towards the palace

In fact, he almost couldn't control the knife opponent just now, but he remembered what Yue Yu said to himself before returning to Beijing, and he finally gritted his teeth and endured it.

Yue Yu said that ten years ago, during the Hanrui Festival, the Liang Wang brothers turned against each other and killed him, and he didn't want such a tragedy to happen again in ten years!

Yue Yu's words spoke to his heart, and in the same way, he didn't want a similar tragedy to happen ten years later, so he tried his best to restrain the anger in his heart, and just wanted to take Yu Ruyan away.

Seeing that he was about to break into the palace, Xiaodao's expression changed drastically, and he dared to let him go to the East Palace to see Yu Ruyan, so he chased after him without thinking about it.

However, when the two brothers rushed to the palace one after the other, they all heard the continuous sound of the death knell in the Daliang Palace, and the ceremonial officials of the Ministry of Rites stood on the high wall of the Beiding Gate with a crying voice, and cried to the ministers and officials who rushed to hear the death knell----

"The queen is dead!"

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