"So, what if I lose?" Yu Ruyan asked cautiously.

Mu Lingzhi couldn't help but feel funny when he looked at her cautious appearance, he picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea gently, a light flashed in his deep eyes, and said, "You have been a member of this palace all your life, what else can you give to this palace?" ”

The implication is that if she loses, she loses, and there is no need to bet?

Wouldn't that be a good deal!

Or is it that Mu Lingzhi is too confident and doesn't believe that she can beat him?

"Let's go!" Rolling up her sleeves, Yu Ruyan drove the left car out steadily, and looked at the opposite person with a smile: "Your Highness, please!" ”

When it came to the palm of the light, the chess game had not yet ended, and it had already passed a hundred games when it was replaced with copper coins. However, how can a master duel be decided so quickly?

The two are really glued together, overcoming each other, defending equally, and the situation on the chess surface is actually equal, and they can't tell the winner from loser.

However, seeing this situation, in Mu Ling's eyes, he had already lost. He is a national player in the Daliang chess world, and he even won the top spot in the Three Realms Chess Competition, not to mention losing, even if he has never met an opponent of equal strength, he never expected that he would not be able to win against a little woman, and this woman is just a maidservant, wouldn't it shock him in his heart?

She has been with him for a while, he has always thought that she is just an ordinary servant girl of the Qi Kingdom, who can only work, and does not know how to play the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but he didn't expect her to have such a high chess skill!

Under the bright lights, Yu Ruyan stared at the chess surface intently, not noticing that Mu Ling looked at her with a deep face, and there was deep doubt in his eyes.

There always seems to be surprises and surprises in her, so how many secrets does he not know about her?

In a distraction, his right elephant was eaten by her horse. His brows tightened, and he knew that he had fewer chances to win.

The copper coin stood aside and watched with great interest, he saw it in the clouds in front of him, and he was directly dazzled later. He looked at Mu Lingzhi's frowning brows, and only then did he feel some relief for his fiasco just now, you know, he, the master of chess skills, even in the chess competition, also had a relaxed expression, when had he ever seen him frown on the chessboard?

It wasn't until Gu Qing'er came to invite her in person that Mu Lingzhi suddenly remembered that he had promised to go back to Ziluo Courtyard to accompany her for dinner, and that he had something to ask Yu Ruyan when he returned to Yunsong Courtyard, but he didn't expect to forget important things when he played chess with her.

Thinking of the news he got, Mu Lingzhi's eyes were heavy and he looked at Yu Ruyan who was looking at the other side with an interested face, and he was suspicious of all beings in his heart. But now that Gu Qing'er and they are all there, they can only postpone asking her again.

When Gu Qing'er saw Yu Ruyan, a chill passed in her eyes for a moment. Thanks to her, she was imprisoned for a whole month, which was a great shame for her, who had always been favored, but she, after she was grounded, actually took the favor of His Royal Highness, and moved directly into Yunsong Courtyard to live with His Highness, which is simply hateful!

But after the last incident, she was much smarter, and she also saw the situation in front of her clearly, at this time, she had to deal with not Yu Ruyan, who was being favored, but An Lirong and An Lan, the initiators of the last incident. If they hadn't been using Yu Ruyan to provoke her, how would she have taken Yu Ruyan for them.

She obediently stood aside to watch the two play chess, and the slender jade hand peeled the grapes and personally sent them to Mu Lingzhi's mouth, and said coquettishly: "The newly paid jade grapes, Your Highness will taste them!" ”

Mu Lingzhi didn't pick up the grapes in her hand because she thought about it, but Yu Ruyan, who was sitting opposite, swallowed several times, her favorite fruit was grapes, but after playing chess for so long, her stomach was hungry and thirsty.

Touching her 'cooing' belly, she decided to fight and kill Mu Lingzhi's old handsome man and take the silver to flash people.

The style of chess changed, she changed her previous cautious step-by-step approach, concentrated her firepower to deal with the opponent's marshal, and for a time she actually killed Mu Ling's square inch.

Seeing that he was about to win, suddenly the chessboard turned over and all the pieces fell to the ground.

Gu Qing'er looked apologetic and panicked: "Oh, the concubine is really clumsy, accidentally knocked over the chessboard, how is this good?" ”

Yu Ruyan was dumbfounded, she had worked hard all afternoon, her waist was about to break, and she was about to win, and she could take the opportunity to go out of the house to find Brother An, but she didn't expect to be hit by Gu Qing'er and all gone.

She looked at the chess pieces scattered on the ground with grief and indignation, but she dared not speak angrily. Gu Qing'er panicked and said: "Your Highness, all concubines are not in good health, this is really ······ since pregnancy"

"It's okay, how can I blame you for being pregnant and unable to move? Forget it, it's not too early, let's go to Ziluo Courtyard for dinner together. Mu Lingzhi took Gu Qing'er's hand and walked out like no one else. Seeing that Yu Ruyan was still there, Gu Qing'er said with guilt on her face: "Miss Xiaoqing, why don't you go to my Ziluo Courtyard to have dinner together, just take it as my apology to the girl." ”

Who rarely eats your food, you have the ability to pay me money!

Yu Ruyan suppressed the dissatisfaction in her heart and said in a muffled voice: "Madame is polite, how dare you ask Madame to apologize for a trivial matter?" I'll just have dinner here, and I don't dare to disturb Madame and His Royal Highness's Yaxing! "It's not uncommon to watch you show affection!

Thinking that the money bag that was about to arrive was gone, she was so heartbroken that she didn't even have the heart to eat, she turned off the lights and went to bed sullenly, and played chess all afternoon, she was really tired, thinking that Mu Lingzhi would not come back in Ziluo Courtyard, so she fell asleep with peace of mind.

In her sleep, she smelled the ambergris beside her, and involuntarily rolled to the side, and her hand touched someone's strong chest.

The hand goes down to someone's waist, gathers the strength and pinchs it again, and then goes downstream after pinching······

This dream is too refreshing and angry.

As soon as Mu Lingzhi got on the bed, he saw her pounce on him, his hands touched his body, pinching while touching, and laughing while pinching. What makes her so happy that she can laugh in her dreams?

was touched by her and burned with lust. And she was obviously a little hesitant after touching something in her dream, wondering if something would happen if she pinched it? It suddenly occurred to me that this was in a dream, and she could torture him well to avenge his usual torture of her.

Thinking like this in his heart, he obediently pushed his hand down, and when he was about to pinch something, his hand was suddenly grabbed, Mu Lingzhi gritted his teeth and scolded 'little goblin', he couldn't hold it anymore, turned over and pounced like a wolf······

Until the joy ended, Yu Ruyan still couldn't believe that the person she pinched was real. For the first time, Mu Lingzhi didn't turn over to sleep after the incident, but looked at her for a moment, the inquiring look in her eyes made her feel a bad premonition, thinking that she had almost pinched his whole body just now, she felt furious in her heart, and said in a trembling voice: "Temple..." Next··· I..."

Mu Lingzhi lifted the quilt and pointed to the bruises on his body and said coldly: "You seem to be very happy to pinch me?" ”

"No... No, the slave didn't mean to······"

"Who did you learn your chess skills from? Don't tell me you're self-taught! He interrupted her and asked abruptly.

Yu Ruyan didn't expect his tone of speech to change so quickly, and she didn't know how to answer him for a while.

Her chess skills are indeed not taught by her master. When I was a child, although I studied and played chess with other princesses, Taifu got the holy order of his father and spent all his efforts on the eldest princess Yu Mingzhu, and for others, they were all resigned.

At first, she didn't like to play chess very much, and later when she was confined by her father, she was really bored, and stole the chess game from her father's library and studied it every day, and she was unconsciously addicted, but at that time she rarely played against others, until she saved the knife and brought him into the palace, and now he is a chess master, and he kills chess when he has nothing to do······

"The master who served the slave and maid used to like to play chess, and the slave and maid often accompany her to practice. It's going to be a little bit ······."

Even he is not an opponent, and he actually said that he would only be a little bit? When is he a fool?

Also, she was sold to that kind of place, why did she hide herself and not say a word?

How did she know Ju Jia Yue Yu?

This series of questions made him more and more unable to see the submissive person in front of him, his brows furrowed, and he was about to ask her directly, when there was a sudden knock on the door outside, and the copper coin said anxiously outside: "Master, Ziluo Courtyard sent someone to invite the master over, saying that Mrs. Gu accidentally fell into the pool in the courtyard······"

How could a good third watch fall into the pool in the middle of the night? Mu Lingzhi's eyes darkened, he turned over and got up, put on his coat and left. When Yu Ruyan saw it, she also got dressed and followed him to see what happened?

When Mu Lingzhi and Yu Ruyan rushed to the Ziluo Courtyard, An Lirong and the other concubines who heard the sound also arrived, and everyone rushed to the pool on the side of the Ziluo Courtyard, only to see Gu Qing'er, who was rescued, was soaking up in Zhuzhu's arms, and when she saw Mu Lingzhi's arrival, she threw herself into his arms and cried: "Your Highness, the concubine is afraid!" ”

Mu Lingzhi took her into his arms, his eyes swept over everyone coldly, and said, "What the hell is going on?" ”

Zhuzhu knelt on the ground and trembled: "Back to Your Highness, the master has always had nightmares and can't sleep peacefully these days, she said... She said..." At the end of her speech, she hesitantly glanced at Mu Lingzhi, whose face was gloomy, and she didn't dare to say the following words.

"Your Highness, the concubines always dream that there are bloody and terrible things in this courtyard, and they run to the outside of the concubine's bedroom every night to shout through the window, stretching out their sharp nails to the concubine, as if they are... It's too scary, Your Highness, the concubine is so scared! Gu Qing'er shrank in Mu Lingzhi's arms and trembled like chaff, beads of sweat the size of beans rolled out of her pale little face, and she was indeed greatly frightened.

Mu Lingzhi looked at her pale little face and frowned, he ordered Tong Qian to invite the doctor in the house, and picked up Gu Qing'er into the house.

An Lirong led a group of concubines and subordinates into the house, and everyone was suspicious, even if this good person had a nightmare, he would not fall into the pool in the courtyard for no reason.

Gu Qing'er was put on the bed, and the maidservants wanted to change her clean clothes, but she didn't dare to leave Mu Lingzhi for a moment, and her pale fingers grabbed his placket tightly and said fearfully: "Your Highness..." The concubine is really scared. ”

"Don't be afraid, with this palace, no one dares to hurt you!" Mu Lingzhi rarely coaxed her gently, turned around and asked Zhuzhu, who was guarding the side, "Qing'er was fine when I left at night, why did she fall into the pool?" ”

Zhu Zhu said in fear: "The master has always slept unsteadily these days, and often wakes up in the middle of the night. She suddenly said tonight that she heard a strange sound in the pool, and thought... I thought there was something hidden in the pool, so I called everyone to the pool to inspect it, but I didn't expect that the master had just arrived at the edge of the pool, and something suddenly jumped up in the water, and the master was scared and fell in······"

Everyone was amazed when they heard this, and some of them suggested that they go to the pool and have a look. At this time, Dr. Wu from the palace came in with a medicine box. Mu Lingzhi didn't see Gu Qing'er's description very well, so he asked Dr. Wu to help her take a good look. Dr. Wu put a silk handkerchief on her wrist and gazed at her through the veil.

This is the second time that Yu Ruyan has entered the Ziluo Courtyard, the last time was to return the agate beads to Gu Qing'er after being beaten, and he was only in a hurry in the courtyard at that time, and today he entered Gu Qing'er's bedroom for the first time. She didn't bother to look at the exquisite furnishings in the room, but she just looked at the situation in the room carefully, but after looking at it for a long time, there was nothing unusual in the room, and there was no special smell in her nose.

Could it be that Gu Qing'er really just had a nightmare before she fell into the pool with an innocent mind?

Taking advantage of the time when Dr. Wu took her pulse, Yu Ruyan quietly withdrew from the room and came to the pool alone.

Because of the proximity to the garden, the Ziluo Courtyard led the water from the lake in the garden into the courtyard and dug a pool, the pool is not too big, the water flow in it is clear and you can see the bottom, except for a beautiful rockery built by the pool, not even a fish is seen, let alone other things.

In this case, what is the thing that Zhuzhu said jumped out of the pool to scare Gu Qing'er?

At this moment, she suddenly saw something exposed in the bottom groove of the rockery, and suddenly the blood all over her body coagulated, so frightened that she ran into the room, and accidentally bumped into the beads who came out with a medicine list to grab the medicine when she entered the door.

Seeing that Zhuzhu was knocked to the ground by herself, she hurriedly stepped forward to help her up, and apologized while patting the dust on her clothes: "I'm sorry, I just did..."

In the middle of the conversation, she suddenly froze, looking at Zhuzhu in a daze, and Zhuzhu rarely didn't trouble her today, and said impatiently: "Forget it, I still have to rush to grab medicine for my master, and I don't have time to worry about you." You take it easy, this is Ziluo Courtyard, not Yunsong Courtyard! With that, he turned around and went down the stairs and hurried away.

When Yu Ruyan returned to the room, she heard Mu Lingyi ask Dr. Wu with an anxious face: "You said that Qing'er's fetus is unstable?" What is the reason for this? It wasn't always good before. ”

Dr. Wu is over sixty years old, and his medical skills are also well-known in the Eastern Capital, he sighed and said slowly: "The previous lady's fetal appearance was indeed very stable, but in recent days, she has been disturbed by nightmares and cannot rest well, which is greatly detrimental to the fetus, and the first three months of pregnancy are the most prone to accidents." So ······"

"Can you get rid of the nightmare?" The fetus in Gu Qing'er's womb was his first child, and Mu Lingzhi couldn't help but get nervous when he heard this.

"Your Highness, rest assured, the servant has prescribed medicine for Madame to calm her mind and sleep, and she will get better after drinking it for two days."

When Yu Ruyan heard this, she glanced at Gu Qing'er, who had a weak face, and her eyes swept around An Lirong and the others, and said in her heart, I am afraid that Gu Qing'er's nightmare will not be so simple!

When Gu Qing'er's mood stabilized, Mu Lingzhi led everyone to the pool again, and several torches illuminated the inside and outside of the pool, but there was no strange thing that Zhuzhu said.

His eyes sank, and he asked the copper coin to lead someone into the water to find it.

After the copper coin should be down, he took off his shoes and led people into the water, Yu Ruyan saw it, quickly grabbed him, picked up a stick from the yard and stuffed it into his hand, and advised: "You be careful..."

"Don't worry, there's nothing in this water, I'm good at water, there won't be any problems." Copper Coin didn't see the worry in her eyes, and took the stick and went into the water.

Watching them go into the water, Yu Ruyan's heart jumped to her throat, and she mustered up the courage to look into the ditch of the rockery, but then she didn't see the previous thing again, she was glad and secretly relieved, hoping that she was dazzled by the mistake before.

Tong Qian led five courtyards and searched carefully in the small pool, and a few people walked around the pool and still found nothing, Mu Lingzhi saw this and ordered them to go ashore.

He glanced at Zhuzhu, who looked uneasy, and said, "Are you sure there's something in the water?" ”

Zhu Zhu's whole body trembled when she heard it, and she said in fear: "The slave maid saw it very true, when the lady was standing on the shore, she said that she heard movement in the water, and when she got closer to look, suddenly a long thing jumped up in the water... Madame was frightened and slipped into the water. ”

However, the small pool has been carefully inspected by the copper coins, not to mention the scary things, that is, there is not a single ordinary fish and shrimp, and everyone can't help but relax their expressions, and they all believe that either the beads are dazzled by the wrong ones, or the pair of masters and servants are making a false sense to attract His Highness over.

The copper coin climbed up to the shore, and when she passed by Yu Ruyan's side, she smelled a rotten mire, and her heart suddenly thought of something, and a bright light flashed in her mind-

"Ahh

Just when everyone thought that this was just a farce, one of the guards who had come to the end suddenly fell into the pool with a scream, and the people on the shore were startled, and when they looked up, they saw a thick gray and black snake wrapped around the thigh of the guard, and the sharp head of the snake had bitten into his lower abdomen.

The sudden change made everyone exclaim, and Zhuzhu shouted in a panic: "Ah, that's it, kill it!" Yu Ruyan was already cold, and this thing was the figure she had accidentally seen in the rockery ravine before.

The people on the shore were stunned, Mu Lingzhi's reaction was the most rapid, he snatched the copper coin, hit the stick in his hand and hit the snake's head, the snake was in pain, loosened its mouth, let go of its body, and drilled into the rockery with a 'snort' and disappeared. The nursing home was rescued ashore, but it was foaming at the mouth, his face was purple, and Dr. Wu on the side immediately took the opportunity to cut the bite of his lower abdomen with a razor blade, and asked someone to bring water to rinse, but in the end, the nursing home died in less than half an hour.

As soon as the nursing home died, everyone was completely shocked!

Doctor Wu said weakly: "If you are not mistaken, the snake in the water just now is a rare black gold tip, this snake is highly venomous, as long as it is bitten, as soon as the venom touches the blood, people will definitely die!" ”

Dr. Wu's words were like a basin of cold water poured on everyone's hearts, and everyone changed color when they heard the words, and they couldn't help but stay away from the pool, for fear of being accidentally bitten by a snake in the water.

The corpse of the courtyard was carried down, Mu Lingzhi's face turned pale, and he said coldly: "How can there be such a poison in the inner courtyard of the house?" ”

Dr. Wu frowned and was puzzled, how could this snake come to the inner courtyard of the palace if it lived in a hot and humid swamp?

The sound in the courtyard had already alarmed Gu Qing'er, who was recuperating in the inner room, she walked out in her coat, and after hearing Zhuzhu's report, she hid to Mu Lingzhi's side in fear, and said in a trembling voice: "It's so dangerous, if the concubine was bitten by that poison just now, I'm afraid that now I have returned to the West with my poor child." Your Highness, I can't live in this courtyard anymore. ”

She cried as she spoke: "Your Highness, this is someone who wants the life of our mother and son!" ”

As soon as these words came out, not only Mu Lingzhi's face changed greatly, but even everyone else had a grim expression, everyone knew the importance of Gu Qing'er's fetus, she kept saying that someone wanted to harm her, and a rare poisonous snake appeared in the courtyard where she lived, and she also bit a courtyard guard to death in public, all kinds of signs show that everything she said is possible.

Yu Ruyan stood quietly aside, her eyes slid over everyone's faces without a trace, her heart was already transparent, but she didn't know who this play would fall on in the end.

Mu Lingzhi's face was gloomy, and he said coldly: "This matter will definitely be investigated in detail, but now it is necessary to find out the black gold shoots in the pool, so as not to cause any other people to suffer." ”

He took people to the pool again, looked at it intently, the small pool returned to the previous clarity, at a glance, there was no trace of the poisonous snake, he looked at the rockery in the pool, frowned and said: "Come on, move the rockery out." ”

As soon as she heard that she was going to move the rockery out, An Lirong suddenly had a bad premonition in her heart, and she suddenly realized that everything that happened in the Ziluo Courtyard tonight seemed to be coming towards her.

The whole body suddenly felt cold, and he couldn't help but look at Gu Qing'er, but the latter only had grievances and uneasiness on his face, and he couldn't see the slightest conspiracy.

No one dared to go into the water anymore, so they had to put a rope on the rockery, and everyone worked hard to drag the rockery out of the water. After the rockery came out of the water, it tilted and fell into the open space in the middle of the yard, and several guards of the courtyard surrounded the stone face with sticks and steel forks, and the female dependents invariably hid on the steps in the courtyard, watching from a distance, and did not dare to approach.

Yu Ruyan's heart jumped to her throat, the thing she was most afraid of in her life was snakes, thinking of the cobra she had encountered by the stream in the barracks before, her heart was still trembling, and she couldn't help but hide behind the crowd.

At this time, under the beating of the nurses, a black figure suddenly came out of the stone kiln of the rockery, and the body was extremely fast like lightning in the direction of the steps, and the women on the steps screamed and fled backwards, Yu Ruyan ran into the house without thinking about it, and suddenly her body was pushed, and she fell straight down the steps, and under the steps, Wu Jinshao was running frantically under the pursuit of the guards, and when she saw someone rushing over, she opened her cold teeth and bit it······