Bibo Pond is not a shallow lotus pond, but a place for concubines to have fun by boating. No one can say how deep the water is.

"But Niangniang, there are five-step snakes everywhere in this place!" Lan Yi's voice was already trembling. There was a small snake with the thickness of her thumb at her feet slowly approaching, she gritted her teeth, aimed at her seven inches and slashed at her feet, and the snake was killed.

Lan Yi breathed a sigh of relief and patted his chest. However, this only solved one, and another one crawled behind him.

"Run away! Such a thick slave doesn't dare to guarantee that she can be trampled to death with one foot! Lan Yi pulled Lin Yuan and continued to run out.

Lin Yuan refused to move. After a while, she turned around, pulled Lan Yi to pick a vacant space with few people, and walked back.

"Mother, what are you doing! It's full of five-step snakes! Lan Yi was frightened.

"Five-step snake? Concubine Ben didn't believe it. Lin Yuan faced the snake behind him: "You also saw it, I am pregnant, and it is impossible to escape safely." If I want to survive, I have to go to the flower garden. ”

The long snake in front of him was indeed not small, but it was only three fingers thick and a few feet long. Its snake head touched Lin Yuan's skirt, probed his brain a few times, Lin Yuan gritted his teeth and stretched out his foot to kick it away.

The snake was kicked away a few steps, and its head shook several times before it came to its senses, and fled in the opposite direction in a panic, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Lin Yuan smiled: "You see, compared to people who are afraid of snakes, snakes are more afraid of people." ”

Lan Yi already understood something in his heart. She grew up in the fields of crops since she was a child, and she knows that the real five-step snake is extremely aggressive, and when she is slightly provoked, she will desperately rush up and bite people without letting go.

And the timid guy in front of him obviously doesn't have the "demeanor" of a poisonous snake.

Lin Yuan and Lan Yi walked towards the center of the flower garden. Chu Xue and Chu Tao were just dispersed by the crowd, and they didn't know where they were. And all the people are concerned about running out, and the more they go to the center, the fewer people there are.

When I got to the place where I had just picked the silver-white epiphany, it was empty.

Lin Yuan stood still. Although there was no one in this place, there were many snakes, and there were two snakes at their feet, not small. Lin Yuan suppressed her instinctive fears and carefully avoided them.

One of them bit Lin Yuan's calf. Lan Yi stepped down, its tail was trampled on, and it struggled to flee in horror.

"Mother, are you alright?" Lan Yi said in a panic. She wasn't sure the snakes were really non-venomous.

Lin Yuan didn't feel uncomfortable. She barely crouched down to examine the wound, and the two bloody eyes were not small, and they kept bleeding out, but they were both bright red.

"It looks like it's non-toxic, and I just hurt a little." However, Lin Yuan still tore off his shirt and tied it to his legs.

Lan Yi breathed a sigh of relief, looking at Lin Yuan like this, these snakes must not be highly poisonous, at best they are slightly poisonous.

"Mother, you are amazing! I grew up in the countryside and couldn't even tell what kind of snakes they were! Lan Yi praised his master with some joy: "It's just that the woman just now was too infiltrating, she staggered a few steps and fell, no matter how you look at it, she looks poisoned!" ”

Lin Yuan smiled shallowly: "Although I came from a humble background, I grew up in the courtyard of the high gate, where have I seen a snake." Saying that, he glanced at her, and after this incident, he already trusted this third-class palace maid in his heart, patted her hand and said, "Don't worry, this won't be a poisonous snake." This is the Imperial Palace, and poisons are not allowed to be mixed in, have you forgotten? ”

Lan Yi slapped his head: "Oh, I said it!" What a place is the Imperial Palace? ”

Lin Yuan stopped talking, Lan Yi was still too simple, did he really think that the palace was clean?

So what happened to the poison that Concubine Shen hid in the apse at the beginning?

Lin Yuan was able to conclude that these snakes were not poisonous, it was really because Tuoba Hong was searching for assassins during these days, and the palace was heavily guarded, so he decided not to allow poisonous snakes to mix in.

I stood in the flowerbed for a long time, and the people outside were almost gone. The concubines gathered around the emperor, many of them had abrasions, a few twisted their feet, and even Wang Shurong's arm was dislocated.

Concubine Wen was the most embarrassed, she accidentally fell into the blue wave pool, almost drowned, at this time was supported by the palace maid to sit on the ground, her wet body was draped with a blanket, and her scattered bun continued to drip water.

Concubine Jing stood far away, but she was not affected.

Tuoba Hong's face turned blue with anger, and he pointed to the flower garden and shouted angrily: "How can there be a snake in the palace!" How does the Shanggong Bureau do things, and who is responsible for cleaning this garden? ”

The palace guards on the side were all kneeling. Tuoba Hong glanced at a circle of embarrassed concubines, and suddenly found that Lin Yuan was not among them, and exclaimed: "What about Hui Concubine!" Where is she? ”

"Concubine Fang Cai and the others are in a panic, I haven't seen Concubine Hui......" Concubine Jing stepped forward and said worriedly.

Yao Fusheng was clever, and hurriedly said to the attendants: "What are you doing, why don't you go find it quickly!" ”

Tuoba Hong's eyes searched the concubines again, but he couldn't see clearly in the middle of the night. He ordered Concubine Jing to say: "Ah Mi, you can come to see if there are any concubines." ”

Concubine Jing nodded yes, counted them one by one, and finally said with a sad expression: "Your Majesty, not only is Concubine Hui missing, but Ye Guiji and Zhao Shuji don't know where they went." ”

Tuoba Hong's face was even more worried. At this time, a royal forest army captain rushed over, kneeling on the ground and saying that Hui Concubine had found it.

Several palace maids behind him helped Lin Yuan over. Lin Yuan didn't look very good, her hair was messy, and there were faint traces of blood on her skirt.

Tuoba Hong saw that she was still able to walk with a big belly, and breathed a sigh of relief, and stepped forward in three or two steps to help me and said, "You are scared to death!" How's it going, is the child okay? ”

Lin Yuan looked good, shook his head and said: "The concubine is fine, but the emperor is worried, it is the concubine." ”

Compared to others who either twisted their feet or bruised their arms, Lin Yuan's situation was much better. However, at this time, Tuoba Hong only had Lin Yuan in his eyes.

Lin Yuan turned a blind eye to the jealousy in the eyes of the concubine, and leaned on the emperor's shoulder. Tuoba Hong cherished her even more, and sent a stack of orders to the imperial doctor, and kept saying: "It's okay if you're fine." ”

The first snow and the first peach only ran over at this time, and they were separated from Lin Yuan, but fortunately they were not injured, and they were quickly dragged out of the flower garden by the attendants. Chu Xue grabbed Lin Yuan's hand with tears on her face, seeing that Lin Yuan was doing well, but she was choked up and couldn't speak. Lan Yi was fast-talking, worried about the injury on his master's leg, and blurted out: "My master was bitten by a snake......"

This time, Tuoba Hong was shocked again, and Lin Yuan hurriedly said: "Isn't it good to be a concubine!" These snakes are not venomous at all. As he spoke, he pressed his leg through his clothes: "Well, the blood is dry, and there are only two small holes, and there is nothing at all." ”

"Doctor Kong, you show Concubine Hui's legs." Tuoba Hong commanded.

Doctor Kong was serving in front of the emperor, she squatted down and lifted the hem of Lin Yuan's skirt, looked at it twice, and replied: "The wound is dark red, and it can quickly scab over, which shows that Concubine Hui Niangniang is not poisoned." There was a guard with a knife next to him holding a dead snake in both hands, and the Confucian doctor was bold, took it and took it carefully, and said, "It is a common cauliflower snake among the people." ”

Tuoba Hong's face turned slightly pale, and then he frowned and pondered. He squinted his eyes and glanced at the pile of concubines: "Who just shouted the five-step snake?" ”

Lin Yuan was silent and quietly took two steps back. is worthy of being an emperor, and he can see the problem in an instant.

The concubines looked at each other, and many of them were silent before they had recovered from their panic.

Tuoba Hong sneered, pointed at the snake and said, "The woman is cowardly, and there are people who forget the etiquette in a panic, so I shouldn't blame you." However, according to what I saw, I am afraid that someone deliberately murdered the pregnant concubine, put a snake in the flower garden, and shouted a five-step snake to cause chaos! ”

Saying that, he glanced at Yao Fusheng: "You are the head of the palace, you come to tell me that this flower garden is cleaned every day, why are there snakes!" ”

Yao Fusheng knelt down, and a group of palace people next to him kowtowed repeatedly. Even though Yao Fusheng had served the emperor for more than ten years, he was extremely scared at this time, and trembled: "This ...... This epiphany garden was cleaned by those rough palace people during the day, and tonight the epiphany was in full bloom, and they also deliberately swept it a few more times, so that the nobles could come and enjoy the flowers......"

Tuoba Hong's face was cold, and it was obvious that Yao Fusheng didn't know anything. frowned and said, "You step back first!" Go to the Shanggong Bureau to check on those miscellaneous palace people, and then go to Changxin Palace to inform the queen and let her investigate thoroughly! ”

Yao Fusheng was like being amnestied and hurriedly retreated.

Tuoba Hong's eyes were fierce, and he scraped them one by one on the concubines. Everyone didn't dare to come out, only Concubine Jing stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, compared to the terrible snake, the human heart is more terrifying." According to the concubines, there are villains who use snakes as a means to attract the concubines to run away, and in the chaos, the pregnant concubines will inevitably be pushed and fell. And the person who shouted the five-step snake must be the murderer. ”

Tuoba Hong nodded and said, "Ah Mi, I remember that you have been standing on the outermost part of the flower garden. ”

Concubine Jing couldn't help but feel proud in her heart, she was really the most far-sighted, and she felt that something would happen at the beginning, so she refused to play with the concubines. She had never set foot in the middle of the flower garden at all, and naturally she could not be the one who put the snake, and she was the first to be ruled out by the emperor.

"The concubine has always loved narcissus, and she doesn't have much interest in epiphany." Concubine Jing said solemnly: "But the concubine stood far away, and she didn't see which one shouted the words 'five-step snake'." ”

"Your Majesty, it was extremely chaotic at the time, and the woman who shouted the five-step snake fell to the ground on the spot, but then she didn't know what happened." Lin Yuan said steadily: "The night is thick, and the concubines and others only see her falling, but they can't see her appearance clearly." Later, everyone ran away, and there were not a few people who fell, and no one would take care of others. ”

"That's just as well." Tuoba Hong's expression was awe-inspiring, and his brows were furrowed: "The snake is non-poisonous, and the woman pretended to be poisoned and fainted, but she will definitely get up afterwards and run out together in the crowd." ”

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