Chapter Twenty-Six: The Sacrifice of the Daughter

Front-line military affairs, how can the emperor bother with the discord between Concubine Shu and Concubine Zhen. The chores in the backyard are all controlled by Concubine Shu, and the emperor never asks, it has always been like this.

On this day, the emperor was tired, so it was rumored that Concubine Zhen led the Han girl to perform. The emperor waited for a long time and left without seeing anyone, and turned his head to discuss tactics with King Wu. After King Wu and several generals retired, the emperor was full of Hun cavalry, and he had long forgotten Concubine Zhen.

On Concubine Zhen's side, it was a mess.

After she accepted the will to offer the Han girl to the emperor, she did not take the woman who had been prepared for a long time to dress up. Half an hour later, the emperor forgot about it, but the concubine still remembered it and sent someone to urge her.

After urging Concubine Zhen again, there was no sound here, so Concubine Shu came over in person. Concubine Zhen didn't expect Concubine Shu to hold on to such a thing, and before she could react, Concubine Shu over there burst in with a large number of people.

"Ouch, what's going on?" Lin Yun looked at the tables and chairs that had smashed all over the ground in Yundan's dormitory in surprise, looked around and said, "Concubine Zhen, what are you so angry about." This palace knows that you love the emperor, and you are the most unfavorable. Are you angry with that Han girl, changed your mind, and don't want to sacrifice her to the emperor? ”

Lin Yuan brushed aside the debris at her feet, sat down on a soft collapse, and watched Concubine Zhen come forward to salute calmly.

Concubine Zhen was very embarrassed on her face, and bowed her head and said, "Let Concubine Shu Niangniang smile." ”

"Concubine Zhen, I didn't say you." Lin Yuan leaned on the pillow casually: "As the concubine of the Qin Palace, virtue and open-mindedness are the most important. I know you don't like to hear these words - our emperor is not only your husband, but also the emperor who sits on the throne. You are a foreign princess with a noble status, and the queen and I don't expect you to be as virtuous as a Han concubine, but at least you must know restraint and persuade the emperor to recruit good women and spread the leaves......"

said and glanced at Concubine Zhen, who was bowing her head: "I heard that this time the Han girl is the daughter of a Jiangnan squire, and her identity is acceptable." Such a good family is different from the female slaves who used to be playthings, and they can't be disposed of at will! If you don't want to offer it in person, give it to the palace. ”

"Lady Niangniang!" Concubine Zhen was shocked.

Fang wanted to distinguish something, Lin Yuan raised his eyes and frowned at her: "You shouldn't really be executed, right?!" What about people? Bring it over to Hongu and have a look! ”

While speaking, the waiters behind Lin Yuan actually broke into Yun Dan's inner room and raided it vigorously.

Concubine Zhen was shocked, and soon someone retrieved a corpse from the well in the open field of the camp at the back.

Lin Yuan snorted coldly, pointing at Concubine Zhen and scolding her for ignoring human life. Concubine Zhen knelt and didn't speak, Lin Yuan waved her hand to let the body of the Han girl be carried down and buried.

Several attendants carried it on a stretcher, but when the female corpse was turned over, Chu Xue saw the female corpse's appearance clearly, and suddenly exclaimed, "Ah...... Mother, mother, come and have a look......"

Lin Yuan took a closer look, and immediately covered her mouth with her eyes wide open.

"Concubine Zhen!" She shouted. Then he got up and ordered left and right: "The matter is so big, Concubine Zhen's camp tent has been sealed, and no one is allowed to enter or leave without the will of the palace!" This female corpse...... Carry it into the cellar, and then send someone to the emperor to communicate! ”

With a look of anger on her face, she hurried away. When he opened the curtain, he met King Wu, who had changed into his usual clothes.

King Wu looked at Lin Yuan and the others in slight surprise.

Concubine Zhen's identity is special, King Wu, as a prince, is not easy to have a deep friendship with Concubine Zhen in Su Ri, but he will come over every two days to salute and greet him.

He saluted Lin Yuan, and Lin Yuan said to him lightly: "There is an accident in Concubine Zhen's tent, and King Wu can't go in today." ”

"What's wrong with Mother Yu?" King Wu frowned slightly, leaned over and looked inside the curtain.

It doesn't matter. He saw the shelf behind Lin Yuan, carrying the corpse.

The woman's corpse had been thrown into the well when she had not been dead for a long time, and her face was still recognizable. King Wu just glanced at it, but his face suddenly turned pale.

He didn't say a word, his whole body began to tremble, and his teeth chattered.

Seeing this, Lin Yuan hurriedly covered his eyes and said in a panic: "Quickly carry the body out!" King Wu is still young, how can he look at such a dirty thing! Ah! King Wu seems to be frightened, go and invite the emperor, ...... quickly"

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The murder case was stabbed in front of the emperor.

Lin Yuan is the emperor who retreats left and right and asks to see him alone. After listening to her, Tuoba Hong inspected the female corpse with his own eyes, and said with a shocked face: "There is such a thing! Ye's she ......"

"Yes, Ye is not dead." Lin Yuan shrank her cold hand: "When the concubine was in the capital, the Ye family's palace was drained, and the bodies of the people in it were scorched, and the concubine thought that the Ye family had lost her life and buried her with a concubine ceremony. But during that time, it was also very chaotic, and the concubines and queens were anxious for King Wu to leave the palace without authorization...... I never thought that the Ye family was not dead at all, and he came out of the palace to Beisai. ”

"But she's dead now. The concubine felt that she must want to see the emperor, but she escaped the fire, but finally died in Beisai, in Concubine Zhen's bed. ”

Tuoba Hong sighed: "Is the Ye family the Han girl that Concubine Zhen originally wanted to offer?" Why did she die in Concubine Zhen's palace again? ”

"The concubine doesn't understand either." Lin Yuan shook her head and looked at Ye Xiuxin's body with pity: "Concubine Zhen's temperament is known to the emperor, and she is the most intolerable. She offered a woman, and the concubine also regretted it, because the concubine saw that she was narrow-minded, so she often taught her and persuaded her to choose a woman for the emperor. She finally decided to sacrifice her daughter, afraid that she would not want to. After the Ye family escaped from the palace, there was nowhere to stay, so it was not surprising that he came to Beisai and was taken in by Concubine Zhen. Perhaps Concubine Zhen promised that the Ye family would send her to the emperor at first, but then she repented due to jealousy. ”

Tuoba Hong didn't say a word, paced over, and personally reached out to close Ye Xiuxin's wide open eyes.

"Say it's a woman who is good at the piano......" he murmured, "who should I be?" Xiuxin used to like to play the piano the most. What a pity. ”

"Yes, Wen Xiuyuan is not a stunning beauty, but she is better than being gentle and petty, serving the emperor without saying anything, and giving birth to five princes to the emperor." Lin Yuan pursed the corners of her eyes: "The concubine has already made the decision to ground Concubine Zhen." ”

"Is it really Concubine Zhen who killed Xiuxin?" The Emperor asked in a low voice.

"This is the case file." Lin Yuan unfolded a piece of paper in front of him: "Concubine Zhen pressed the seal on it with her own hands." She didn't argue. After examination, Wen Xiuyuan died of strangulation, and the strangulation marks on her neck matched the strap on Concubine Zhen's clothes. The concubines also felt strange, in the past, there were concubines in the palace who were guilty of murder and sitting, and they all covered up the crime in every possible way, but Concubine Zhen Bingxue was smart, but she left such obvious ironclad evidence. The concubine speculated that it should be Concubine Zhen and Xiu Yuan who had a dispute, and Concubine Zhen impulsively strangled her in a hurry. ”

Ye Xiuxin was indeed killed by Concubine Zhen, which Lin Yuan did not move.

The Emperor was silent for a long time.

"Does the emperor want to summon her over for questioning?"

"No need." The emperor said in a low voice: "You are right, Concubine Zhen's temperament...... But Yuan'er, Concubine Zhen treats me very wholeheartedly, and I can't bear to punish her for her affection. Moreover, the state of Qin should be grateful for the assistance of the Tibetan people to the Great Qin......"

"The emperor is right." Lin Yuan brought tea to the emperor: "Concubine Zhen can't move." Wen Xiuyuan...... This is probably fate, it's her life. Tinglan Xiaozhu was already dead when she walked out of the water, and she never came to Beisai at all. As for Xiuyuan's body, the emperor ordered the people from Dongchang to secretly bring it back and send it to the imperial mausoleum. ”

Tuoba Hong listened and nodded: "Yes, you come to draw up the purpose." At that time, when the palace was in the water, Ye's burial was in a hurry, and I couldn't pay attention to state affairs, so I hadn't given her a posthumous seal. Life, Xiuyuan Ye's family, served me for many years, raised King Wu with merit, and posthumously crowned Concubine Wen. ”

Lin Yuan said in the order: "With Tinglan Xiaozhu taking the water first, it is easy to suppress this matter, and outsiders will not be suspicious." However, King Wu ......"

"King Wu is young and promising, and he has the world in mind, so he will not lose his princely demeanor for this matter." Tuoba Hong didn't take it to heart: "I heard that he went to Concubine Zhen's palace today, I'm afraid I heard a little news." But don't worry, he didn't mention his biological mother in front of me, and he handed me a map of the city's defenses. ”

"What the emperor said is that King Wu is not the former King of Zhao." Lin Yuan smiled lightly, and then retreated.

As the emperor said, the prince of the Great Qin State had a strict upbringing, and King Wu was an excellent child, and he did not delay the affairs of his family and country because of his children's affection.

But who are the children in the palace? His face is silent, and he may not really be calm.

The day after the accident, Concubine Zhen was ungrounded.

At that time, King Wu was personally collecting Ye Xiuxin's corpse. Because the matter could not be spread outside, King Wu only took two henchmen to the cellar where the coffin was placed.

Tears fell the moment he opened the coffin. He knew that his mother had come to Beisai, but he would inevitably leak the news and be assassinated by Concubine Shu, so he didn't dare to meet with the Ye family. He knew that it was Concubine Zhen who helped the Ye family escape from the palace and brought the Ye family to Beisai. Just a few days ago, Concubine Zhen discussed countermeasures with him, saying that she would lead the Ye family to the emperor by offering Han women.

At the beginning, Concubine Shu killed the Ye family secretly, and they suffered from having no evidence at hand. But even if you don't find out about this matter, it is a good thing to let the Ye family serve in front of the emperor.

He looked forward to the day with joy, thinking that he would soon be able to see his mother in the open.

However, all he was waiting for was his mother's body.

He was not without suspicions. Originally, Concubine Shu wanted to put Ye Xiu's heart to death, but Concubine Zhen came to her hand and took her in. How could Concubine Zhen be the murderer of her mother? But when the autopsy pointed to the strangulation marks on Ye Xiuxin's neck and explained to him, he had to believe it in the face of ironclad evidence. Concubine Zhen couldn't tell the difference, and nodded in acknowledgement.

He almost collapsed.

He touched Ye's face with trembling hands. It's cold and a little sticky.

The cellar was pitch black, and only King Wu was holding a palace lamp in his hand.

"Fifth Highnessβ€”" Suddenly, a woman's deep voice called out to him.

"Who is it?" King Wu raised the palace lamp and looked around in a panic: "Pretend to be a ghost and get out of Lone!" ”

In the next moment, he saw a familiar face. The woman's face was ruddy, and her hair was tied up in a silver ribbon and meticulously combed. She stood opposite the coffin, nodded at King Wu and said, "Your Highness, you are here." ”

"Concubine Zhen!" King Wu gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "You poisonous woman, you dare to appear in front of Lone!" What are you doing here? Do you want to disturb the soul of the concubine? ”

"King Wu, now is not the time to say this, the Ye clan is already dead......" Yun Dan tried to persuade him.

However, King Wu was even more furious. He raised his hand and threw the palace lamp to the opposite side: "So far, what else do you have to say!" You really killed the mother! If you can argue a thing or two, Lone will still believe you, but you will admit it...... Needless to say, from now on, Lone no longer needs the support of Mother Zhen. ”

"King Wu!" In the cold darkness, Concubine Zhen stepped forward and grabbed King Wu's sleeve: "Yes, I did kill the Ye family, but I did it for no reason!" Do you know, just seven years ago, Ye Xiuxin almost ruined me. It's her fault in the first place! But I regret it now, and that day, I learned that she had done it seven years ago, and strangled her on the spur of the moment......"

In the twelfth year of Qianwu, Yun Dan had just married into the Qin State. At the Dragon Midnight Banquet that year, she took the stage to dance for the emperor, and the empress Shangguan Li took the opportunity to instruct the assassins to assassinate her.

She almost got her face scratched that time. The identity of the assassin is surprising, it is Chu Huaxin, the eldest daughter of the Chu family who she has never met and was sent to the cold palace for her crimes many years ago.

That year, she escaped by luck, but her favorite concubine Chu Huashang gradually went to ruin. Rumors spread in the palace, saying that Chu Huashang used his sister to assassinate Yun Dan.

Yun Dan was not so stupid, she didn't suspect Chu Huasheng. But she always thought that the queen had done it. Later, she also found out that the incense she was in at that time was the spice in the queen's palace.

Until years later.

On the battlefield of Beisai, she and Concubine Shu competed for favor. As soon as Concubine Shu came, she forced her four attendants, saying that they were guards, but they were actually eyeliner.

This kind of trick is commonplace, and Yun Dan is not surprised. She found a reason to send all four of her subordinates, but when she ordered someone to check the details of one of the inner prisons surnamed Chen, she found something unusual.

Chen Neijian is not young, and has served in the palace for many years. What Yun Dan found out was that he was originally on an errand in the cold palace, but later he was killed with a rod for some crime, but he was rescued halfway.

Yun Dan felt that this person was weird, and ordered his henchmen to step up a thorough investigation, and found out that the inner eunuch surnamed Chen had served the abolished concubine Chu Huaxin fifteen years ago.

At this time, Yun Dan finally remembered. This person is the accomplice who assassinated the abolition of Concubine Chu back then.

She left Chen Neijian behind, and as a result, she said about the year in his mouth.

The person who used the incense at the Dragon Midnight banquet was the queen, and it was also the queen who wanted to assassinate Yundan while there was chaos. But there is only one difference - Empress Shangguan instructed an ordinary palace maid to do this, and Ye Xiuxin replaced the palace maid with Chu Huaxin in the cold palace.

In that incident, Ye Xiuxin was involved.

Ye Xiuxin just wanted to involve Chu Huasheng. The assassination was just the beginning, and a few months later, she used the Liu sisters to frame Chu Huashang again.

She ruined Chu Huashang little by little. In the end, she got what she wanted, and after Chu Huashang was given to die, she regained her son.

Of course, in this process, she will inevitably have to sacrifice other people, such as Yun Dan.

Yun Dan was furious, she couldn't tolerate a woman who wanted to assassinate her. At that time, Ye Xiuxin fled to Beisai with her and lived in the backyard of her camp. They supported King Wu together, and they had always been sisters, and in the early morning of that day, Yun Dan discussed with her to take her to the emperor.

However, on the same day, Yun Dan came to the shocking truth from the mouth of the inner prison surnamed Chen. She began to recall the past, and she suddenly realized that from the assassination to Liu Guiren's pregnancy and death, these two things were not very clear back then, which was suspicious. Now that I think about it, Chu Huashang was wronged at all.

It was Ye Xiuxin, who did everything possible to design Chu Huashang in order to win the child.

Yun Dan is a fierce person, and immediately broke up with Ye Xiuxin and questioned her about what happened back then.

During the dispute between the two, Ye Xiuxin was forced to almost collapse. The suffering of years of separation from King Wu's mother and son came to her heart, and she knelt in front of Concubine Zhen and cried: "Jue'er is the meat that fell from my body!" He's mine, it's mine! No one can take it away...... I'll do anything for him......"

However, these words angered Yun Dan.

Yun Dan suddenly realized a terrible thing - Ye Xiu's beloved son was heartfelt, and she was even crazier than ordinary mothers. I helped her support King Wu, so what about after the deed? Ye Xiuxin will become the queen mother as the emperor's biological mother, so what is herself?

She originally wanted to work together and get a share of it. But on the issue of treating King Wu, Ye Xiuxin will not allow others to get involved with his son.

Angry and frightened, Yun Dan had a murderous intent.

"Shut up!" King Wu was furious: "You are my mother's enemy, this will not change no matter what!" ”

"His Royal Highness King Wu!" Concubine Zhen hurriedly said: "Does King Wu really want to treat this palace as an enemy!" Has King Wu forgotten that there is a Tubo Tiger Talisman in the hands of this palace, and the 200,000 reinforcements here are all in charge of this palace! Didn't King Wu want to capture the Wusheling Ridge......"

King Wu gritted his teeth and did not speak. Concubine Zhen is right, if it weren't for Concubine Zhen's support over the years, he would not have been able to take this step as an ordinary prince.

He can compete with the East Palace, it is nothing more than the support of Xiliang and Tubo. Without these forces, he is nothing!

Concubine Zhen saw that King Wu was shaken, and hurriedly wanted to persuade him again.

"Someone should I be making noise in the darkroom, it's you." Suddenly, a woman laughed and said: "Today, King Wu came to add a coffin to the Ye family, and the palace came to take a look." It's Concubine Zhen, why are you here? ”

King Wu turned his head sharply and shouted, "Concubine! The matter between Lone and Concubine Zhen does not need to be interfered with by Concubine Shu! ”

If it is said that Concubine Zhen impulsively killed the Ye family because of old things, the concubine in front of her has always wanted to put the Ye family to death.

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