The master and servant were startled by the person who suddenly appeared, and Brother An's first reaction was to block in front of Yu Ruyan, hand the palace lamp in his hand to the person, and shouted, "Who are you?" ”

And after Yu Ruyan smelled the faint sandalwood on the arrival, the palace lamp shone on the iris embroidered on her upper, and Yu Ruyan slightly bent her knees and saluted the visitor: "Hello Fourth Emperor Sister!" ”

Listening to her words, Brother An glanced back at her ignorantly, and when he looked at the person again, the person who came had already lifted his cloak, and under the palace lamp, the beautiful face was indeed the fourth princess Yu Huaizhu.

Since Yu Huaizhu was brought into Yanghua Palace by the Queen Mother, she has never stepped out of the palace gate for half a step, and has been religiously following the Queen Mother to chant the Buddha and cultivate her mind, and no longer care about the grievances and grievances in the harem. ”

Compared with Yu Huaizhu, who had a fierce temperament before, after several months of meditation and cultivation, Yu Huaizhu has changed a lot compared to before, whether it is from the temperament or the eyes of looking at people, it is much more relaxed and stable, and her eyes swept lightly on Yu Ruyan's body and said: "Fifth sister, can you go to my nunnery to drink tea?" ”

There is a small nunnery in the Empress Dowager's Huayang Palace, and most of Yu Huaizhu stays there on weekdays, but now she suddenly invites Yu Ruyan to drink tea in the nunnery at night, no matter how you look at it, she feels that something is alive.

Yu Ruyan didn't shirk, nodded obediently and said: "It's just right, I drank too much wine tonight, go to my sister's place to ask for tea to relieve my hangover!" ”

Follow Yu Huaizhu from the back door of Huayang Palace quietly into the nunnery, only to see that in the room that is not too big, the cigarette smoke is swirling, and a heavy sandalwood fragrance spreads in the room, the furnishings in the house are simple but very elegant and simple, so that people can feel that their minds are instantly calm, and there is a lot less impetuousness!

Yu Huaizhu led Yu Ruyan to sit down at the round table by the windowsill, and after ordering the palace maid to serve refreshments, she waved away the palace people in the house, leaving her and Yu Ruyan alone.

Looking at her posture this time, Yu Ruyan's eyes turned slightly-it seemed that Yu Mingzhu actually had something important to say to her.

When only the two of them were left in the house, Yu Huaizhu's expression suddenly became panicked, and she said in a deep voice: "Sister, are you willing to do my sister a favor?" ”

Her abrupt words Yu Ruyan's heart paused, she put down the teacup and said gently: "What does my sister want my sister to help you?" ”

Yu Huaizhu took out two letterheads from her close-fitting body, handed them to Yu Ruyan's hands with trembling hands, and said, "Sister, take a look for yourself." ”

Yu Ruyan opened the letterhead suspiciously, her expression was stunned, and her eyes became solemn......

When she carefully read the two letters from beginning to end, she already thought of something in her heart, and her hands couldn't stop shaking-

She knew that the mother and daughter of Chunlan Palace had always been ruthless, but she didn't expect that they would be so ruthless!

Swallowing her throat with difficulty, Yu Ruyan tried to soothe the shock in her heart, and said with difficulty: "Sister...... How did my sister get this letter? ”

Yu Huaizhu's face was shrouded in extremely light smoke, adding a touch of sadness to her countenance, and it was also difficult for her to speak, and it took a while to suppress the churning in her heart, and said in a deep voice: "On that day, although he was ruthless and left me to marry Yu Mingzhu, it was ...... But then I was furious...... I did such cruel things to him, after all, I did too much......"

"After talking to the Queen Mother every day, my mind calmed down a lot, and I understood a lot of things, the more I felt that my impulsive actions that day were too cruel, and my heart was full of guilt, and I always wanted to ask him for his forgiveness in person......

"But later, when his marriage to Yu Mingzhu was approaching, the news of his suicide suddenly came out, so I didn't even have a chance to atone for my sins......"

"After his death, Yu Mingzhu didn't even want to go to hang his filial piety, and the Queen Mother finally felt ashamed of the Shangguan family, so she asked Yu Mingzhu to wear linen and filial piety for him for a month......"

“…… I blamed myself day and night, and if I hadn't cruelly cut out his tongue, he might not have figured out how to kill himself. On the day of his funeral, I begged the Queen Mother to secretly leave the palace and plead in front of his spirit, hoping to get a little forgiveness from his parents......"

"When I was about to leave after worshipping the spirit, Shangguan's mother quietly pulled me aside and handed this to me, saying that it was ......"

The rest of the words were not finished, but the two people who read the letterhead knew it in their hearts.

Neither of them spoke again, and there was a dead silence in the room......

After a long time, Yu Ruyan came back to her senses from the initial shock and said calmly: "Sister, what are you doing here?" Will you find the murderer for him? ”

Yu Huaizhu's face turned pale, and the hand holding the tea trembled slightly, and said, "Do you still need to find the murderer?" It must be the pair of vicious mother and daughter in Chunlan Palace! ”

The two letterheads were quietly placed on the table, Yuruyan's eyes were deep, and she sighed: "I didn't expect that until now, the last person who is willing to help that negative man is still my sister!" ”

“…… When I pleaded guilty in front of his spirit that day, Mrs. Shangguan said that if I really had a bad conscience, I would help him find out his murderer and let him avenge his wrongs. So, I agreed......"

Having said that, Yu Huaizhu's eyes flashed, and he actually shed tears, but he was embarrassed and quickly wiped them off.

Seeing her like this, Yu Ruyan knew that she still couldn't let go of Shangguan Xianzhong in her heart after all, and she couldn't bear to sympathize with her in her heart, and said helplessly: "But sister, just a love poem he wrote to Yu Mingzhu and another conversation he overheard in Chunlan Palace are not enough to make my father believe that her daughter actually committed the murder of her husband and convict Yu Mingzhu." ”

"That's why I'm here to ask you for help, you've always been smart, you must have a way to force that poisonous woman to show her own prototype, so that her father can condemn her!"

Yu Huaizhu is a real person, and she is anxious, even if she knows that the person who killed Shangguan Xianzhong is Yu Mingzhu, she still can't think of a way to make her guilty.

But fortunately, after being nurtured by the Queen Mother's side, she was not as impulsive as before, and she did not directly take the letterhead to ask Yumingzhu Xingshi for her guilt, but also knew how to tolerate it and quietly discussed with Yuruyan.

Yu Ruyan thought of King Qi's tolerance and indulgence of the mother and daughter in Chunlan Palace over the years, her heart sank, and she said sadly: "Sister, just based on the words left by Shangguan Xianzhong, and this word and phrase was overheard by him in Chunlan Palace, he can't help Jade Pearl at all." You don't want to think about it, if the evidence is conclusive, why didn't the dignified Shangshu come forward to avenge his son in person, and still need to quietly let you do it privately! ”

"Mrs. Shangguan told me, Lord Shangguan has been an official for many years, and he has more or less in the hands of Concubine Lian's father Huo Xiang, Huo Xiang is in charge of civil officials, how can Lord Shangshu escape from the palm of his hand, so, for the peace of the Shangshu family, I have to knock out my teeth and swallow it in my stomach, and I don't dare to say a word."

"But Mrs. Shangguan is a beloved son, and she can't bear her good son to die like this, so she has to quietly beg me and let me help her come forward, and I ...... I promised her! ”

Yu Huaizhu also understands the danger and embarrassment of this matter, if he is a little careless, not only will he not be able to bring down Yu Mingzhu, but he will also implicate the Shangguan family, if Concubine Lian knows the real cause of Shangguan's death in Shangguan's family, I am afraid that in order to seal his mouth, Huo Xiang will find a crime and put it on Shangshu's head, but I am afraid that everyone in the mansion will suffer at that time, maybe it will be - Zhu Jiu clan!

Therefore, she thought of asking Yu Ruyan for help, firstly, because Yu Ruyan has been able to avoid the poisoning of Concubine Lian's mother and daughter so many times in the palace over the years, she must be very smart, and she now has a husband who is kind to Daqi by her side, like a tiger with wings, so looking at the entire harem, she can only have the strength and ability to help her bring down Jade Mingzhu.

Seeing that Yu Ruyan had been silent, Yu Huaizhu thought that she would not agree, gritted her teeth, and actually lifted her robe and knelt in front of Yu Ruyan, kowtowed: "The only demon in my heart now is the evil thing I did to Shangguan Xian that day, only by helping him this time, my debt to him will be settled, and my uneasy heart will be at peace, so I ask my sister to help me and make this knot for me." ”

Looking at Yu Huaizhu's appearance, Yu Ruyan was very embarrassed in her heart-

In fact, just like the Queen Mother said, tracing back to the source, all the cause and effect came from the hands of Yu Mingzhu, it was she who destroyed her sister's marriage, which caused Yu Huaizhu to hurt people later, and then she herself disliked Shangguan Xian and became a dumb and crippled, and she killed him!

And Shangguan Xianzhong himself is also at fault, if it weren't for Qin Duchu, the fourth princess who gave the marriage thought of the eldest princess in his heart, and he didn't have the courage to express his intention to refuse marriage in front of the saint, but he was unwilling, and he didn't deal with the problem in the right way, but he refused to marry with other ideas, which angered Yu Huaizhu, which led to a series of things that followed, and put his life into it.

Therefore, the most fundamental reason for all this is Yu Mingzhu, but in the end, Yu Huai has to pay it back, although Yu Ruyan does not approve of her doing this, but looking at her resolute appearance, she knows that if she doesn't help her, she will do this too, but, with her character, I'm afraid that she is not Yu Mingzhu's opponent.

With a sigh, Yu Ruyan finally stepped forward and pulled up the jade Huaizhu on the ground, and said, "Okay, I'll help you, I happen to have new and old hatreds and want to settle accounts with the mother and daughter of Chunlan Palace!" ”

Early the next morning, not long after Yu Ruyan returned to Jinying Palace, Mu Lingzhi also came back from outside the palace, with three midwives behind him.

Mu Lingzhi said: "The doctor is a man, so it's not good to bring him into the palace too early, but he has also found a good candidate and stayed in Chen Xiang's mansion to be on standby, and these midwives came first." ”

After Yu Ruyan returned to the palace, she had already found an excuse to drive the two girls out of the courtyard, so Yu Ruyan asked Brother An to tell the head of the Internal Affairs Office, saying that these three women were the benefactors who took care of her when she fell ill on the way to the battlefield before, and because of the war, their families were gone, so they were left to serve by their side, leaving the three midwives in the Jinying Palace.

Brother An was puzzled: "Princess, seeing that it is about to be the end of the month, why doesn't the princess send these three midwives to Chunwu Palace, and what are you doing in Jinying Palace?" ”

Slowly turning the teacup in her hand, Yu Ruyan said with a solemn face: "Now that Chunwu Palace is under the surveillance of Concubine Lian, every move will reach her ears, if she is now Wu Zhaoyi's side, she will understand that her conspiracy has been revealed by Wu Zhaoyi, and then, there is no need to wait for the day of delivery, Wu Zhaoyi will be killed." ”

Hearing this, Brother An was so frightened that he didn't dare to speak.

Actually, there is another reason why Yu Ruyan didn't tell her, for fear of scaring her-

That is, she wants to use the time when Wu Zhaoyi gave birth to expose Concubine Lian's conspiracy, so that she will completely fall into hell and never get up again!

Brother An went to the Internal Affairs Office, Yu Ruyan asked Mu Lingzhi about what happened to Chen Yiqing and the county lord of Yuhan, Mu Lingzhi told her helplessly that he originally wanted to let the copper money take Xie Yuhan back to Daqi, and let Chen Yiqing go to Daliang with him to formally propose marriage, but Xie Yuhan already knew that her family would not be willing to marry her so far away, and she would not agree, so she secretly brought her dowry to Daqi to join Chen Yiqing, how could she agree to go back?

Chen Yiqing remembered Mu Lingzhi's words and didn't dare to come nonsense, but Xie Yuhan was afraid that her father would chase after Daqi, so he forced Chen Yiqing to marry him, and Chen Xiang and his wife were so satisfied with this daughter-in-law that they agreed to the marriage.

Mu Lingzhi had no choice but to write back to his uncle's family to inform him of the matter on Daqi's side, and at the same time he was busy helping his cousin prepare for the marriage.

After all, now he is the only relative by her side.

After dinner, Yu Ruyan asked Brother An to set up the chessboard under the lamp, and said to Mu Ling: "Your Highness, I haven't played chess for a long time, do you want to play a game with me?" ”

Mu Lingzhi looked at her posture, lifted his robe and sat down at the table, and said with a clear face: "Say, what are you thinking about me in your heart?" ”

Yu Ruyan knew that she couldn't hide it from Mu Lingzhi, so she pushed the chessboard and said with a smile: "Since His Royal Highness asked directly, there is no need to play this chess, I will say it directly." ”

Seeing her move the chessboard away, Mu Lingzhi stopped her, and said with amusement and anger: "You ask me to help you do things on the condition that you win me in chess every time, why, are you so confident that you will win me all the time?" ”

Seeing through his thoughts, Yu Ruyan's face turned red, and she said embarrassedly: "Actually, I know that His Royal Highness has let me win many times before, but now I do have something to ask you for, so I want to ......"

"Stupid girl, are you stupid? Instead of racking your brains to win me, you might as well -"

Mu Lingyi deliberately put his index finger against his mouth with a wicked smile, and the fingers flicked his lips one by one, and his fingers bent and bent from time to time, happily and flexibly hooked towards Yu Ruyan, who had a black line on his face.

Yu Ruyan didn't understand what he was thinking, but there was no way at all, her pretty face flushed, and she leaned over and pecked him lightly on the mouth......

But a peck from the dragonfly could satisfy Mu Lingzhi, and in the next second, before Yu Ruyan could raise his head and leave his lips, his body had been tightly clamped, his lips were pressed together, and Mu Lingzhi's kiss was already affectionate and fanatical......

Seeing that someone's hand was also uneasy to touch, Yu Ruyan hurriedly stopped, pushed him away and said angrily: "Your Highness is too tricky, I knew it was like this, and if you win in chess, you can ask for a favor directly!" ”

Mu Lingzhi looked at her slightly pursed mouth and smiled with satisfaction: "Say, what do you want me to help you?" Go up the knife mountain and go down to the sea of fire to help you do it! ”

"This is what His Highness said!"

Looking at the cunning gaze in Yu Ruyan's eyes, Mu Lingzhi suddenly felt that he had been trapped by her, and deliberately sighed and said: "Little goblin, this palace is wise and wise, but it is planted in your hands, let's say, where are you going to sell this palace?" ”

Yu Ruyan was provoked by his pretentious appearance and laughed, took out a piece of paper from his arms and gently put it in front of Mu Lingzhi, and said with a smile: "I am willing to sell my husband there, but I just want you to recite the love poems on this note." ”

Mu Lingzhi took the paper and read it carefully under the lamp, and said as he looked at it: "This fleshy love poem is very well written. ”

As soon as the words changed, he turned cold again in the next second, and said angrily with a sour tone: "It seems that I really can't leave you for a moment, and after only one day of leaving, the love poem will be delivered to the door." Say, who writes love poems? ”

After that, his face was already gloomy.

Seeing his angry and serious appearance, Yu Ruyan had to tell his plan. When Mu Ling heard this, his brows furrowed, and he couldn't help but be annoyed: "Do you actually want me to read love poems to that woman?!" I can't do it! ”

Without thinking about it, Mu Lingzhi refused.

Yu Ruyan knew that he hated Yu Mingzhu, and it was really embarrassing for him to let him be a prince to do such a thing, but apart from him, he didn't know who to ask for help?

Seeing her embarrassed appearance, Mu Lingzhi was reluctant again, got up and walked to the courtyard of the Jinying Palace, snapped his fingers, and immediately a black shadow appeared in front of him, and said extremely respectfully: "What does Your Highness command?" ”

Mu Lingzhi looked at the iron-blooded man in front of him, and was a little embarrassed: "This mission-"

Suddenly, overnight, in the entire palace, in the middle of the night, many people heard the man's slurred words, and listened carefully, but the voice was the man's repeated muttering......

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, from that night, the palace was rumored to be haunted everywhere in the palace, only to hear the human voice, but not to see the figure, although the voice was vague, but sad and pitiful, as if full of grievances and reluctance, in the middle of the night to listen to the ears of people extraordinarily mad!

Moreover, not only did many people in the palace hear it, but even King Qi heard it in his own bedroom, and for a while, the entire palace was in a strange situation, and everyone was too scared to go out of the palace at night.

For a few nights in a row, such a strange thing happened every night, but after a few days, the sound became more and more concentrated around the Peony Pavilion of Chunlan Palace, and the voice became clearer and clearer, actually chanting love poems, and shouting grievances one after another, accompanied by ghostly shadows that appeared from time to time, which made people creepy.

There were rumors in the palace, saying that this ghost was the dead Shangguan Xianzhong, who liked to write love poems to the eldest princess the most during his lifetime, and the vague voice was exactly the same as the description that he had no tongue and couldn't speak!

When the ghost matter became more and more intense, a rumor suddenly spread in the palace in private, which actually said that Shangguan Xianzhong did not commit suicide, but was killed by Jade Mingzhu.

Of course, such rumors will spread word for word into Chunlan Palace, and even more into the Peony Pavilion.

In broad daylight, the door of the Peony Pavilion, which has always been lively, was closed, and after hearing the strange sound from the first night, Yu Mingzhu understood the content of the voice, and was immediately frightened-

The voice was faint and resentful, and the repeated recitation was the last love poem Shangguan Xianzhong wrote to him!

To this day, she still clearly remembers that a few days before getting married, Shangguan Xianzhong came to Chunlan Palace to look for her with great interest, but she stopped him at the door and did not let him in.

Every time she saw him, Yu Mingzhu couldn't help but think of the half bloody tongue on the ground of Ruyi Palace that day, and her heart was as uncomfortable as swallowing a dead mouse, and then she saw the strange appearance that he wanted to speak but couldn't say, and the mouth was empty, which really made her disgusting and terrible!

She didn't have much true feelings for Shangguan Xianzhong, so on the basis of no love, once she saw that something happened to him, instead of sympathy, she became even more disgusted!

Shangguan Xianzhong did not give up, and guarded the palace gate of Chunlan Palace for a morning, and asked the palace people to hand her a piece of paper, which was the latest love poem he wrote for her, and he also wrote on the paper that even if he couldn't speak in the future, he would still write love poems for her every day, and write sweet words on the paper to her, so that she wouldn't dislike him!

Yu Mingzhu didn't know what he wrote at all, and he threw these love poems to the palace people disgustingly, and asked the palace people to return them to Shangguan Xianzhong, and let him go!

However, unexpectedly, Shangguan Xianzhong originally came to amuse her with an inferiority complex, but after being provoked by her, his heart was also on fire, remembering that he was so pitiful today, and it was also caused by her, so he couldn't help sneaking in from the back door of Chunlan Palace, wanting to find her theory. But he didn't expect that he heard that Yu Mingzhu and Concubine Lian were conspiring to kill him, so as to avoid marrying a mute cripple!

After Shangguan Xianzhong went back, he was in a panic all day long, he no longer dared to enter the palace to find the jade pearl, nor did he dare to mention the matter of marrying, he was bored in the room all day long, and when he thought of what he overheard, he was terrified!

However, no matter how he dodged, he couldn't escape the poisonous hands of Concubine Lian's mother and daughter, and he wanted to blackmail a subordinate in the house, a cup of tea, and half a bottle of dove feathers to let him die quietly.

The people in Shangshu Mansion knew that he had died strangely, and they also asked him to do an autopsy, and the result was that he died of a huge poison!

Lord Shangshu was shocked and was about to order someone to investigate the real culprit, but Mrs. Shangshu found the note he left from Shangguan Xianzhong's relics and learned the fact that Concubine Lian and Jade Mingzhu wanted to kill him.

In order to save the lives of the old and young people in the mansion, Shangguan Shangshu gritted his teeth and endured the revenge of killing his son, only claiming that Shangguan Xian died violently.

But Mrs. Shangshu's beloved son was so heartfelt, she finally couldn't help but tell all this to Yu Huaizhu, who came to the house to mourn!

Therefore, when Yu Mingzhu heard that the strange voice was full of love poems rewritten to her by Shangguan Xian, she was so frightened that she didn't dare to go out half a step anymore, and even ordered the palace people to close the palace door, for fear that Shangguan Xianzhong's unjust soul would come to ask her for her life!

But since it was a wronged soul asking for her life, how could she escape?