Chapter 166: The Mystery of the Assassination

Queen Xie had taken the antidote, and there was no more heart-rending pain like before, and when everyone was happy for her, she suddenly vomited blood. [No pop-ups. 】

The sudden change startled everyone present, and Mrs. Yiqing's face also changed greatly, jumped in front of the queen, grabbed her pulse and looked at it intently.

When King Liang saw that the queen suddenly vomited blood, he rushed to the side of the bed in fright, and shouted sharply to Master Yiqing: "What's wrong with the queen?" Isn't it possible to detoxify, how did it suddenly become like this? ”

Mu Lingzhi and the crown prince were also anxious to rush forward, anxiously asking Yiqing where something had happened? But no matter how anxious everyone was, Mrs. Yiqing gritted her teeth and calmly took the pulse of the queen without saying a word.

During this period, Queen Xie vomited several mouthfuls of dirty blood, and everyone was not only frightened by her description, but also by the blood she vomited----

The blood of ordinary people is bright red and bright, but the blood spit out by Queen Xie is black and purple, not to mention the terrifying color, and it also has an extremely unpleasant smell of fishy ugliness, which makes people disgusting and even dizzy.

And Queen Xie vomited to the end, and the person fainted directly.

As a result, King Liang and everyone were even more frightened, thinking that the queen had died like this. King Liang was furious, and was about to ask someone to drag Yiqing Shitai down and cut off his head, but Yiqing himself had already spoken.

Compared with the anxiety on everyone's face, after she probed the queen's pulse, she breathed a sigh of relief, and turned back to King Liang with a sad and angry face: "Congratulations, Your Majesty, the poison on Niangniang's body has been completely resolved." ”

King Liang was stunned, Mu Lingzhi and Xiaodao were also full of doubts, and Yu Mingzhu and Mu Ziyue, who almost thought they were going to pay for the queen just now, were puzzled and happy at the same time after hearing Yiqing's words.

Mu Ziyue was convinced of her master's medical skills, and she said that nothing would definitely be nothing.

Among the people, only Yu Ruyan showed a puzzled expression, and she stared at the black and purple blood spit out by Queen Xie and couldn't help frowning----

Stained blood of such a color. And this unpleasant smell seemed to be familiar to her, as if she had seen and smelled it before, but she couldn't remember it for a while.

In the face of everyone's doubts, Mrs. Yiqing explained: "Your Majesty, rest assured, what Niangniang spit out is just the toxins that have accumulated in the body for many years, and now, the toxins in the body are completely cleaned up by the blood of the jade girl, and she will wake up as long as she rests for a while." ”

Hearing this, King Liang and the others came to their senses, and their eyes couldn't help but look at the jade pearl on the side in amazement.

Although everyone had seen the magic of the 'Jade Girl' blood at the queen's post-sealing ceremony last time, now that they saw the huge poison that had plagued Queen Xie for many years being solved, everyone looked at the Jade Pearl with the same amazement as if they were looking at a living immortal.

Master Yiqing's eyes gently swept over Yu Ruyan, who was sluggish on the side. finally stopped at Yu Mingzhu, who had an angry face, and said in a smug tone: "The eldest princess's blood is really the most precious treasure in the world, which is amazing!" ”

After King Liang stepped forward to personally probe Queen Xie's snort, he found that it was really as Mrs. Yiqing said, her breath was completely stable, and her face also returned to ruddy blood.

After a while, Empress Xie woke up slowly, feeling that she was non-toxic and light, and her heart was also very happy, and she pulled Yu Mingzhu to her bedside. touched her hand and praised her, she was reluctant to let her go, and insisted on keeping her in the palace until the day she officially married the eldest prince Mu Yunzhi next month, as if she regarded her as her own daughter, and wanted to keep her in the palace to be married.

But Queen Xie's enthusiasm made Yu Mingzhu feel timid, she knew who the real jade girl was, so in case she stayed alone in the palace to help her, she asked the queen to let Mu Ziyue and Yiqing stay with her, and Queen Xie agreed.

King Liang was in a good mood, and the disaster in the south was also under control, and soon the prince was going to officially confer the seal, and everything went smoothly, so he gave an order to set up a banquet in Yaohua Palace tonight to celebrate the queen.

Back in Chaoyang Palace, Yu Ruyan secretly thought to herself, looking at the late sky, thinking about the palace banquet at night, and feeling really embarrassed.

Mu Lingzhi went to the previous dynasty to discuss matters, and Yu Ruyan was about to go out of the palace alone to return to the other garden, but met Aunt Qin at the door.

Aunt Qin was holding a set of ice concubine-colored palace skirts in her hand, and Yu Ruyan looked at her in a daze. I don't understand what she meant.

Seeing that she was about to leave the palace, Aunt Qin understood her dilemma in her heart, and couldn't help sighing: "Today is a good day for the queen to be happy, Your Majesty has ordered the palace to celebrate, since the princess is in the palace, if she leaves at this time, won't it cause gossip?" ”

Yu Ruyan has a very good impression of the old aunt in the palace in front of her, feeling that although she is serious and unrestrained, she is very measured, and she is polite and unfamiliar to her on the surface, but secretly she takes a lot of care for her, if she does not intercede for herself in front of the queen mother this morning, I am afraid that it will not be easy for me to pass the queen's level.

Thinking of this, she didn't hide her thoughts from Aunt Qin, and said bitterly: "Aunt has also heard that now the people of Daliang regard me as a bad star, an ominous person born without tears. So on such a good day, my appearance will only make the mother unhappy, and it will also sweep everyone's interest, so"

"The princess was wrong, Niangniang specially ordered the old slave to stay with the princess and participate in the banquet in the evening."

Aunt Qin smiled and took the clothes in her hand to Yu Ruyan, and said, "This is the dress that His Royal Highness asked the old slave to prepare for the banquet for the princess, I hope it can meet the princess's wishes." ”

Hearing this, Yu Ruyan was stunned, she never expected that the queen who hated herself would deliberately ask Aunt Qin to notify her to participate in the banquet, nor did she expect that Mu Lingzhi would considerately think that she did not bring a dress into the palace, and the clothes on her body were splashed by the blood swallow in the morning, and the toss on the bed with him before was even more wrinkled.

She took the dress and thanked Aunt Qin, and Mother Qin pointed to the two little palace maids who came in with her and said, "There are only a few rough girls in Chaoyang Palace, and the old slave specially selected two clever girls to serve the princess, called spring flowers and autumn moons." Rest assured, they were picked by the old slave for the princess, and the queen didn't know that the princess could call them with confidence. ”

Aunt Qin's direct and frank words surprised Yu Ruyan, she was the queen's person, but she was really surprised to carry the queen behind her back to choose a girl to serve herself.

But after thinking about it, she knew everything about herself and the queen, so she also knew that if it was someone sent by the queen, she would not be at ease, so it was better to explain it directly, so as to save her from guessing in her heart.

After Aunt Qin left. Yu Ruyan bathed and changed clothes under the service of spring flowers and autumn moons, and when she was done with everything, it was time for the palm lamp to start, and the palace banquet of Yaohua Palace had almost begun.

When she came to Yaohua Palace, Yu Ruyan went in to say hello to Queen Xie and toasted the wine and withdrew, she knew that Queen Xie allowed her to participate in the banquet to show Mu Lingzhi, so she would not be uninterested in really sitting in front of the queen for a night and let her block her heart.

Moreover, the protagonists of tonight's banquet are Queen Xie and Jade Mingzhu, watching Jade Mingzhu be loved by everyone, and he is because of Qin Xianglou. was looked at by everyone as a suspect, and he felt really uncomfortable, so he was more comfortable to leave the table.

Daliang's palace is very large, she is not familiar with other places here except Chaoyang Palace, although there are two palace maids around Chunhua and Qiuyue to follow, not worried about getting lost, but in her current mood, she has no intention of visiting Daliang Palace at night, only leading Chunhua and Qiuyue back to Chaoyang Palace.

Kankan walked halfway and met a person head-on, Yu Ruyan thought about his heart all the way and didn't pay attention to the person who came from the opposite side, but the person who came exclaimed. The next moment, he knelt in front of Yu Ruyan.

Yu Ruyan was almost frightened by that exclamation, she stared at it, but when she saw the person kneeling in front of her with the palace lamp in the palace maid's hand, she was surprised----

The one kneeling in front of her was none other than Chen Yanfei, who had been released from the palace by her not long ago!

After not seeing him for a few days, Chen Yanfei was actually very well-nourished, his face had returned to his previous water color, no longer as yellow and thin and ugly as when he came out of the miscellaneous room, his cheeks were full and ruddy, his eyes had also returned to their previous looks, and he knelt on the ground and asked Yu Ruyan for peace in fear.

Yu Ruyan never expected to meet her in the palace, and couldn't help frowning in surprise: "Why are you in the palace?" What about Chen's mother? ”

Chen Yanfei knelt in front of her respectfully, never dared to raise her to look at her, and said softly: "Back to the princess, because the slave's father is on an errand in the East Palace, the prince took pity on our family, so he let my mother and I enter the palace together, and the slave and maid are now doing errands in the East Palace."

Hearing this, Yu Ruyan had a moment of doubt.

In her impression, Chen Yanfei is not such an easy person to change her mind, thinking of her previous madness towards Mu Lingzhi, in order to become his woman, she did not hesitate to use all means to get on the throne. After the matter was revealed, he did not change his life, and his possessiveness was very strong. also has an inexplicable strong jealousy and hatred for her, but now she is willing to be a little palace maid in the prince's East Palace, which is really unbelievable.

So Yu Ruyan didn't believe her, her eyes flickered, she thought of a possibility, and couldn't help but say coldly: "If you are still not dead to His Highness, and want to come to the palace to entangle him, I advise you to save your mind, and next time it falls into my hands, you will not be as merciful as before." ”

After that, he didn't bother to say anything more to her, and led the spring flowers and autumn moon to leave.

Chen Yanfei, who was kneeling on the ground, kept his head down. A fierce cold light flashed in his half-constricted eyes.

Seeing that Yu Ruyan was leaving, she half raised her head and looked around, suddenly a small pebble rolled to her feet, her whole body was shocked, but the next second she immediately turned around to catch up with Yu Ruyan, and said in a sincere voice: "Princess, you are really wronging me, I entered the palace and I entered the palace not to entangle His Highness, but to have something unspeakable!" ”

Yu Ruyan didn't want to deal with her anymore, so she walked straight forward and said coldly: "Regardless of whether your words are true or not, I just tell you---- cherish your current life and don't cause trouble again." Because you don't have the ability to bear the consequences of what you do, in the end, your parents will be involved in cleaning up the aftermath for you. I'm telling you this, it's just heartache Uncle Chen's mother, as for whether you can listen to your heart, it's your own business! ”

After that, she didn't want to say anything more to her, but she didn't expect Chen Yanfei to rush in front of her to block her way out, gritted her teeth and said: "I know that the princess is for my good and for the good of my family, so there is something in my heart today that I don't feel unhappy, and I also want to use this matter to show my heart to the princess to see if I have really let go of His Royal Highness!" ”

Seeing her serious and serious look, Yu Ruyan was curious, she stopped and looked at her fixedly, and said, "What's the matter?" ”

Chen Yanfei looked at the spring flowers and autumn moon, and said solemnly: "Princess, this matter is very important, please let the princess retreat!" ”

As soon as she heard that she was going to retreat, Yu Ruyan flashed suspicion in her heart, and said coldly: "You don't pretend to be a ghost, just say something, don't say it, I'm not interested in your business." ”

Seeing that Yu Ruyan was about to leave again. Chen Yanfei hurriedly said: "Princess, it's about the person you saved three years ago!" ”

Yu Ruyan's whole body was shocked, and she looked back at Chen Yanfei's flickering uneasy expression, seeing her nervously looking at the two palace maids beside her, she suddenly understood that what she was going to say was about saving Xiaodao three years ago.

Twisting her eyebrows and looking at Chen Yanfei, Yu Ruyan fell into doubt----

It is not a secret that she saved the knife, now King Liang and the queen know about it, and this matter is a good thing for her, there is nothing that cannot be said to others, but looking at Chen Yanfei's nervous and abnormal appearance, it made her suddenly think of another thing----

After the knife regains his memory. She had been told about the tragic assassination three years ago, and for so many years, the Criminal Department had been tracking down the identities and whereabouts of those assassins, but nothing had been found.

Could it be that what Chen Yanfei wanted to tell him was about the assassins who assassinated the knife?

But, what does this have to do with her wanting to prove that she has let go of Mu Lingzhi?

Don't----

Yu Ruyan's mind turned extremely quickly, but in an instant, she had already thought of a possibility, and the cold sweat on her whole body broke out without warning. She couldn't help but shake her head, dismissing the possibilities that came to her mind----

Impossible, absolutely impossible!

She waved her hand to let the two palace maids retreat, and said coldly: "You can say it now, right?" ”

Chen Yanfei's half-constricted eyes flashed with a fierce cold light, and when she raised her head again, she was already panicked, she looked around carefully in fear and worry, and said cautiously: "Princess, today's matter, it's just you and I know, don't let a third person know." ”

"Say!"

Yu Ruyan's expression was cold, but her heart was inexplicably flustered.

Chen Yanfei looked at the panic in her eyes, smiled proudly in her heart, and said: "The princess rescued the crown prince in Daqi three years ago, and she must have known that he was assassinated before he lost his memory and ended up in Daqi. But does the princess know who his assassin was? ”

Seeing that what she said was really as she expected, Yu Ruyan's heart sank even more. The panic in his heart became worse, and he said coldly: "You know? ”

"Yes, I know!" Chen Yanfei's tone sounded panicked, but there was a hint of imperceptible triumph in it.

"Who is it?"

There were 10,000 voices in her heart telling Yu Ruyan not to believe Chen Yanfei's words, but as if she had fallen under a spell, she asked involuntarily.

Chen Yanfei smiled coldly and said, "If I say that the person who assassinated the Eighth Highness back then was the Third Highness, would the princess believe it?" ”

With a "horn click", Yu Ruyan shook her body and took several steps back, and stepped on the dead branches on the ground.

The hunch in my heart guessed again. Yu Ruyan's heart was terrified, and she felt that her heart was about to stop beating, but she didn't want to believe what she heard.

Trying to calm the excitement in her heart, she pointed at Chen Yanfei and said coldly: "You are talking nonsense, how can the person who assassinated the knife be His Highness?" His Highness has always loved him! ”

Immediately afterwards, she stepped forward and glared at Chen Yanfei, who was scared, gritted her teeth and said: "Nonsense, I shouldn't stay at all to listen to your nonsense here, let me tell you, if there is one person in this world who will not harm the knife, it is the Third Highness." He will never harm him, he will only protect him! ”

After that, she threw up her sleeves and left, but after taking a few steps and turning back, she said sharply to Chen Yanfei: "I warn you, if half of this sentence spreads today, even the Da Luo Immortal will not be able to save your dog's life!" ”

"Wouldn't it be too arbitrary for the princess to deny all this without even hearing it?" Chen Yanfei didn't care about Yu Ruyan's threat, his expression was unusually calm, and he looked coldly at Yu Ruyan, who was pale under the moonlight, and his heart was very happy!

"Although I am not as smart and clever as the princess, I also know what to say and what not to say, such a big thing. If there is no real evidence, how dare I say it, and I am not destroying myself? ”

Listening to her words, Yu Ruyan's whole body was numb, and she looked at her in a daze, but she couldn't refute a word.

But Chen Yanfei had already said it to himself----

"Three years ago, the prince at that time was gifted and intelligent, and was given the dragon sword on behalf of the prince's identity by His Majesty.

"Originally. The route of the prince's travel is extremely secret, and few people know about it, that is, to prevent the assassination of unscrupulous people. But unexpectedly, on the way to Hengzhou, the prince encountered an assassination, and the assassins not only outflanked the number of people, but also planted a large amount of gunpowder in advance in the place where the prince stopped and rested, so in the end, all the guards around the prince were killed, and the prince almost died on the spot."

It is reported that at that time, only the emperor and the third highness knew the path of the prince, and every path the prince walked. Where to settle down and rest was arranged for him by the Third Highness in advance, so who else could make such careful arrangements besides him? ”

"Is that the evidence you're talking about?" Hearing this, Yu Ruyan's heart that had been hanging fell to the ground, and she sneered: "Are you too stupid or think of Your Highness too stupidly, the route was arranged by him for the prince, if he relies on the route to assassinate again, is it too stupid?" He's so smart, doesn't he know how to avoid suspicion? ”

"Huh!" Regarding Yu Ruyan's rebuttal, Chen Yanfei smiled indifferently, and she said coldly: "Hasn't the princess heard the opposite?" His Highness is indeed wise. And it's smart to the extreme. is because the route was all arranged by him, and he is still the prince's own brother, so even if someone suspects him, they will think like the princess, thinking that he will not do it so obviously, so everyone thinks about him with the same mentality as the princess, and naturally believes that he will not be stupid enough to do it so obviously, and it is also determined that the black hand behind the scenes is not him! ”

The cold wind of early winter blew fiercely, and it seemed to break off the branches on the side, making a slight 'click' sound.

Yu Ruyan's whole body was like falling into an ice cave, and she leaned weakly against the rockery behind her. Stunned: "I don't believe it, I won't believe it no matter what, Ling Zhi is not such a person, he has no reason to harm the knife"

Seeing that Yu Ruyan still refused to believe it, Chen Yanfei's eyes drifted over Conglin on the side, and he sighed helplessly, hesitated for a moment, and finally took out a piece of paper from his body and handed it to Yu Ruyan.

"The princess will take a look at it with her own eyes, look at the handwriting and danqing of the Third Highness! This map map was drawn by him to his secret guards back then, and such a similar road map, His Majesty must still have a copy in his hand, if the princess does not believe it, she can compare it with His Majesty's pair. See if it's exactly the same! ”

Yu Ruyan's hands trembled and opened the things in his hand, and looked at it by the moonlight, it was indeed a delicate road map, although the picture could not be confirmed whether it was drawn by Mu Lingzhi, but the font on which the place name was written Yu Ruyan was unusually familiar, it was Mu Lingzhi's words!

The whole body was like being struck by lightning, Yu Ruyan opened her mouth stupidly several times before making a sound, she trembled and said: "I still don't believe it, Ling Zhi has no reason to do such a thing to Xiaodao, he is his own brother, there is no resentment between them at all."

"What if it's because of the Dragon Yin Sword, or rather, for the position of the crown prince represented by the Dragon Yin Sword?" Looking at Yu Ruyan's frightened and desperate appearance, the pleasure in Chen Yanfei's heart came flooding, her face was distorted with joy, and there was a voice in her heart shouting wildly, she wanted revenge, she wanted the woman in front of her to die---- she couldn't die well!

However, Yu Ruyan was caught up in the terrible things she said, and she didn't notice the color on her face at all, and she muttered nightmarishly: "No, Ling Zhi doesn't want to be the prince, he is bent on supporting Xiaodao to be the prince, and then he can take me out of Daliang and everything here." How could he assassinate and murder his younger brother because he was vying for the crown prince? ”

Hearing the sentence 'take me away from Daliang', Chen Yanfei felt a new hatred in her heart, and she sneered: "The princess may not know that before she met you, His Royal Highness was very keen on the position of the crown prince, controlled the military power and secretly cultivated many forces. But later, in order for you to change your mind, you turned to the power you have cultivated for many years to support the crown prince to ascend to the throne, among them, maybe there is a sense of guilt he felt about what the prince did back then! ”

Chen Yanfei's words exploded on Yu Ruyan's heart like thunder, she was panicked and scared, she didn't want to identify this fact, but the road map in her hand was real evidence. And everything Chen Yanfei said was also reasonable, and suddenly, her heart was like a boulder, which made her breathless----

If, if all this is true, what is she going to do?

What to do with the knife?

Is she going to hide the knife for Mu Lingyi?

The pain in her heart was tangled together, she suddenly thought of something, looked up at Chen Yanfei suspiciously, and asked, "Where did you get this drawing?" How can it end up in your hands? ”

Chen Yanfei smiled slowly and said proudly: "A few days ago, didn't there be five secret guards in the palace who were murdered while protecting the princess, and one of them was the person who was ordered to lead the team to assassinate the crown prince, he had several friendships with my father during his lifetime, and my father accidentally found it when he was helping him clean up the relics."

'Collapse! The last string in Yu Ruyan's heart was also broken, she couldn't support it anymore, and fell to the ground weakly!