In the harem, Concubine Shu, who assisted in palace affairs, grounded King Wu's biological mother and Xiuyuan Ye Xiuxin in the palace on the grounds of this matter.

The battle for the heir is the most tragic struggle in the world, if it can, Lin Yuan will be impatient to kill Ye Xiuxin.

However, Lin Yuan is just a concubine, not the queen of the main palace. Now that the emperor is away from the palace to fight, she is not qualified to make an order in the name of Concubine Shu and take Ye Xiuxin's life. Ye Xiuxin is the mother of King Wu, and she was given a high position of second rank two years ago, so with such an identity, Lin Yuan can't move her, and she can't do anything except house arrest.

The rule is that dead people are alive, Lin Yuan can't do it clearly, and he is always very good at doing things in secret. After the Ye family was grounded, the meals sent by the Shangshi Bureau to Tinglan Xiaozhu were all raw meat and lettuce. Lin Yuan also sent a large number of Imperial Forest Army to garrison near Tinglan Xiaozhu, always checking whether the chimney inside was smoking. 【1】

After two days like this, the palace people were afraid of Concubine Shu's majesty, and no one dared to send meals to Xiuyuan.

When King Wu left the palace, Ye Xiuxin should have expected her fate, but she had to gamble to the death. If King Wu can succeed in seizing the throne, she is willing to be trapped and die in the palace.

Until the third day, the concubines went to Changxin Palace to ask the queen for peace, and Concubine Zhen pleaded with the queen in public: "The concubine and Wen Xiuyuan are like sisters, after Wen Xiuyuan was grounded, she must be very depressed, please let the queen allow the concubine to visit her." ”

Concubine Shu grounded the Ye family, and the queen ignored it, obviously not wanting to interfere in the battle between King Wu and the East Palace.

The queen and the concubine are in the harem, and the remaining concubines cannot be compared with these two at all, and no one dares to have the idea of disobeying the concubine. However, Concubine Zhen Yundan came out for Ye Xiuyuan.

Lin Yuan looked at Yun Dan with a cold expression, and said indifferently: "Ye Xiuyuan is the biological mother of King Wu, but she didn't discipline him well, causing King Wu to leave the palace without permission!" Such a big mistake, this palace is too merciful to ground her, she suffers from solitary confinement, shouldn't she be? ”

Yun Dan is not an ordinary concubine, her status is noble, and her position is close to Lin Yuan, but because she is a royal daughter of a foreign country and relatives, she can't take charge of the palace according to the ancestral training. She glanced at Lin Yuan, but she didn't reply, only kowtowed to the queen and said: "The concubine heard that the people in the palace saw that Xiu Yuan was losing power, and they treated her harshly and neglected, and the concubine couldn't bear it. The concubine just wanted to take a look at Xiu Yuan. ”

She pleaded with the queen by herself, but she refused to pay attention to Concubine Lin Yuan. Lin Yuan was furious, since Wei Mizhuang's death, no one dared to give her face in public.

After patting the case, he said: "Does Concubine Zhen treat the palace rules as if they were nothing?" Wen Xiuyuan made a big mistake and thought about it behind closed doors in the dormitory, of course it is not suitable for you to visit! Queen Mother, you come to comment, is it too much for the concubine to be grounded in Xiuyuan? If King Wu has three long and two short, Xiu Yuan will not be able to escape the death penalty, and now the palace has ordered her to think about it just to make her suffer a little, and Concubine Zhen will visit again, what kind of system will it become! ”

Shangguan Li was taking a cup of fruit tea and tasting it carefully, showing impatience with the dispute between the two imperial concubines. In her opinion, the dispute between the fifth prince and the sixth prince has nothing to do with her, and no matter which of these two factions wins, it is not a good thing for her. Watching the slaughter of both sides, she was happy to watch from the wall.

Concubine Lin Yuan was bold and reckless, and ordered someone to replace all Ye Xiuxin's meals with raw ones who wanted to starve her to death, and these Shangguan Li knew it. Of course, she won't care about Ye Xiuxin's life or death, but hopes that King Wu can be valued by the emperor this time, and after returning to the palace, he will override the East Palace, and then settle the old account of killing his mother with Concubine Shu.

Shangguan Li glanced at the concubines casually, waved his hand, and said: "Concubine Shu is reasonable, the Ye family is the concubine who is the master of the grounding, and Concubine Zhen is not good at breaking the rules." ”

"Queen Mother!" Yun Dan kowtowed and pleaded: "Since the mother does not allow it, the concubines don't dare to ask for it anymore, but ...... The concubine wants to send some things to Wen Xiuyuan, chatting for relief, I wonder if the mother can be accommodating? ”

Shangguan Li didn't think about it, frowned and said, "Then you can send it." Then he ordered the concubines to disperse.

Yun Dan wanted to send something to Ye Xiuxin, but Lin Yuan was not unvigilant. Yun Dan and the Ye family became friends and supported King Wu together, and now that the Ye family is grounded, Yun Dan Bacheng wants to send a letter and discuss countermeasures with her.

However, at noon on this day, Xiao Chengzi came to report in a panic: "Niangniang! Big things are not good! Concubine Zhen Niangniang she ...... I sent a basket of peaches to Tinglan Xiaozhu! ”

"Peaches?!" Before Lin Yuan could speak, Tuoba Qi, who had lunch with him in Yuzhao Palace, jumped up and was shocked: "Mother, didn't you already order that everything that Concubine Zhen sent to Tinglan Xiaozhu must be inspected, and if it is eaten, it will never be allowed to enter!" Why can Concubine Zhen still send peaches in?! ”

Xiao Chengzi said with a bitter face: "Your Highness doesn't know anything!" That Concubine Zhen was very cunning, and when she gave something, she said that it was a box of jade, and the sergeants opened it and saw it, and it was indeed just jade. Concubine Zhen also said that these utensils are all liked by Xiu Yuan in Su Ri, and sending these in is just to talk about cousin love. Who knew that after Xiu Yuan got the things, she smashed open the jade, and it was full of peaches......"

Lin Yuan was shocked when she heard this, and couldn't help but say, "It's really willing...... Wrap peaches in jade and send them in! He said distressedly: "The matter of me sending raw food to the Ye family is already disgraceful, even if we know that Concubine Zhen is sending peaches, we can't stop it anymore." If I really ordered someone to search out all those peaches, wouldn't it show that I was going to starve Ye to death......"

"Xiu Yuan is really a difficult person!" Tuoba Qi also felt upset, shook his head and said, "Mother, if you grind like this, I don't know when you will be able to grind her to death." With a basket of peaches, she can last a long time. It's better to cut through the mess quickly ......"

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A few days later, Tinglan Xiaozhu walked away, and no one in the palace was spared from top to bottom, and Wen Xiuyuan Ye was burned to death in the dormitory.

Lin Yuan didn't expect it to be so easy to succeed. Out of her life, Empress Shangguan finally had to intervene, she sent the palace people to clean up Tinglan Xiaozhu, which was burned to an empty shelf, and moved out more than a dozen charred corpses, among which the bodies of several women found in the inner room of the dormitory were held together and died, and at this time they had been burned to a whole, and it was impossible to tell who was who.

It was only when he found an unburned agate bracelet on the wrist of one of them and recognized it as Xiu Yuan's belongings, so that the identity of the female corpse was confirmed. Now that the emperor is leading troops to fight abroad, the crown prince is in charge of the country, and the people in the entire capital are panicking, and Ye's death has not attracted the attention of the courtiers at all. Empress Shangguan and Concubine Shu claimed to the outside world that it was an accident, and according to the ritual, they moved Ye's coffin to Chonghua Palace to chant and stop the spirit, and the matter was settled.

Lin Yuan and the prince breathed a sigh of relief, Ye Xiuxin, this person, looks mediocre, but in fact he is like a weed. Lin Yuan really had no choice but to order someone to burn Tinglan Xiaozhu, she didn't dare to poison it, there were many henchmen of King Wu in the court, if the old accounts were turned out in the future to find out the evidence, it would be a great trouble.

Only fire attacks can leave no trace.

After Ye's coffin was removed, she kept an eye on it, and sent a few henchmen to cry for Ye's spirit with the authority of the palace, and then quietly opened the museum to inspect the body when there was no one in the evening.

It doesn't matter what it turns out to be. Several subordinates crawled back to report and said in shock: "Niangniang! The female corpse had no scars on her neck! That's not Xiu Yuan's body! ”

Lin Yuan was so shocked that the bowl in his hand was removed. She was careful and cautious, and before she walked into the water, the palace people who had already delivered food entered the main hall to assassinate the Ye family and cut her neck.

Therefore, the Ye family has died a long time ago.

But there were no wounds on the body......

It's impossible!

Lin Yuan was anxious and angry, grabbed her hair and collapsed and said to herself: "Ye Xiu has a lot of ideas, and the corpse is weird, so there must be a problem!" But where can she escape? This is the inner court of the harem, which is heavily guarded. At the beginning, King Wu was able to leave the palace because he lived in the five institutes of Qianxi, which was not considered a harem......"

It is not without concubines who have escaped from the palace since ancient times, but it is really difficult to succeed.

Suddenly, a ray of light flashed through my mind. Lin Yuan inhaled sharply, and her heart gradually became clearer.

Hurriedly ordered: "Prepare for it!" Go to the Intoe Palace! ”

Ye Xiuxin escaped......

Run, Peach!

It's Concubine Zhenyundan! She gave peaches to Ye Xiuxin, not only to give food, but more importantly, to imply that she was the best policy.

Lin Yuan was anxious, she hated things to escape her control the most. Yuzhao Palace is not far from Linzhi Palace, she hurried slowly, but met a group of inner supervisors of Changxin Palace on the way.

Instead of getting up and saluting the side of the road, as usual, the inner guards stepped forward to stop the sedan.

"What are you doing here?" Lin Yuan's heart was in turmoil, and he asked calmly.

"Lady Niangniang, the minions are offended." The leader knelt respectfully and said: "Niangniang, the envoys of Tubo have come to the court, and the queen has presided over the state banquet in the Jinluan Palace." Because a foreign man entered the palace and the emperor was not in the palace, the queen made an order that all concubines were not allowed to go out. If the lady concubine is fine, please go back to Yuzhao Palace quickly. ”

"Tibetan envoys?" Lin Yuan was stunned: "The emperor went out to fight, and the palace was full of women and children, why didn't the envoys go to the front line to face the saint but come to the capital?" ”

The leader of the inner eunuch humbly arched his hand and said: "Niangniang doesn't know, the envoys have already seen the saint in the battlefield of northern Xinjiang, and this time I came to the capital of Daqin with the will of the saint, to take Concubine Zhen Niangniang to the front line together." As he spoke, he raised his eyes to look at the sky and said, "The hour is not early, and the minions have to go to the East Palace to deliver a message to His Royal Highness the Prince." The minions retired. ”

Lin Yuan's face was full of shock, her chest rose and fell, and she muttered, "Concubine Zhen...... How so! ”

Tuoba Hong summoned Yundan to the northwest battlefield to accompany him!

Lin Yuan only felt dizzy and chest tightness for a while. She barely held Feng Yuan, and said to the left and right: "Find a palace person with fast legs and feet, and go to the Lintoe Palace to see if Concubine Zhen is there." ”

Notes: [1] Tang Zhongzong was originally married to the princess, and the Empress Zhao died by the same means. Her daughter, Princess Changle, offended Wu Zetian, and she was deposed and starved to death.

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