On the afternoon of December 23, the seventh year of Emperor Yong'an, after Lingxi and Lotus Leaf carefully finished a meal, they sat on the low kang and were silent.

Since Ruiyun sent highly poisonous food to the cold palace, this is the second time that Empress Zhu has done such a blatant thing.

Lotus Ye's face was pale, and her body trembled vigorously, but she bit her lip and comforted Lingxi, "Niangniang, don't be afraid." It's a big deal, and the slave and maid will be a wicked person again. ”

Lingxi was also scared in his heart, and held the red and swollen hands of lotus leaves and said, "You killed a money-hungry Mama Liu, in exchange for the scheming Mama Cui." If you kill this Cuizhu who sent us poison, I'm afraid we won't be able to deal with the people who come again. ”

"Do you want them to harm you so blatantly?" The lotus leaf gritted his teeth and said fiercely, "That Cuizhu, it looks like she is very talkative, but I didn't expect it to be such a vicious person......"

The thin eyebrows on Lingxi's miserable white face were raised, and his eyes said without a god, "If it were me, I would choose between a criminal concubine who fell out of favor and was beaten into the cold palace and the queen mother of the powerful harem, I would also choose the queen." ”

"Mother, let's not let them succeed!" Lotus Ye said, "In the future, we will carefully examine the food they sent before eating, as long as the dragon heir in your belly gives birth to ......."

Lotus Ye already knew in his heart that it was hopeless to send a letter to Emperor Yong'an.

"Hmm." Lingxi's right hand touched his lower abdomen, hummed meaninglessly, and stopped talking.

It is said that it is not eaten, but it is easier said than done. Their daily needs now come from the hands of Mama Cui and others, in this case, how can they prevent it?

Even if they can prevent these people from doing things with food, but the dragon heir in her belly is getting bigger and bigger, is Empress Zhu still willing to play such a game of cat and mouse with them?

"Niangniang, don't worry." The lotus leaf helped the spirit rhino lie down and said, "There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, you just need to raise the fetus with peace of mind, and the rest of the things are only done by the slave and maid." ”

Lingxi nodded slightly and closed his eyes.

Outside the east hall, Yuhua shouted loudly as he walked, "Lotus leaf, lotus leaf." ”

Lingxi's eyes opened suddenly, and he rolled over and sat up.

Lotus Ye was also startled by the sudden sound outside the hall, and he didn't know why this Yuhua came at this time.

"Niangniang, don't be afraid." Lotus Ye helped Lingxi lie down again, covered the quilt tightly and said, "I'll go out and have a look." ”

Lingxi's face was indifferent, but his heart was in his throat. A trace of uneasiness flashed in his heart, this Yuhua wouldn't be here to kill the mouth, right?

In this cold palace, if Yuhua really harmed them, I am afraid that no one will know until the bones are clean.

Lotus Ye opened the door and went out, standing at the entrance of the hall and said to Yuhua who came over, "Why is Miss Yuhua free to come over today?" ”

Yuhua didn't smile on his face, and only said to Lotus Ye, "Yesterday, I was supposed to be on an errand to deliver something to you, but unfortunately I had a high fever, so I asked Cuizhu to come on my behalf." I didn't have any other meaning to come today, just to ask you if you can send all the things for the New Year, if not, I'll go back to Mama Cui to make up for you. ”

Lotus Ye smiled brightly and said to Yuhua, "Yesterday, Miss Cuizhu sent a lot of things, I think I gave them all." ”

"If it's all gone, I'll go." After Yuhua finished speaking, he turned around and left.

After returning to the inner hall, Lotus Ye told Lingxi everything Yuhua said, and Lingxi sneered, "How fresh, there is still after-sales service in this cold palace." This is to see if the things are delivered or not, this is simply to see if we are dead or not. ”

Lotus Ye knew this truth in his heart, and lay down beside Lingxi, his heart was full of sorrow.

On December 24, the seventh year of Yong'an, Cuizhu came to Tongxin Hall again, handed a pair of red candles with lotus leaves, and said with a smile, "This is the share of the New Year, I don't need so much, so I will send you a pair." For the New Year, you also ordered a festive celebration. ”

Lotus Ye looked at Cuizhu and was angry and ruthless in her heart, but she still took the pair of red candles with a smile on her face, "I'm tired of Miss Cuizhu." ”

After Cuizhu left, Lingxi looked at the pair of red candles and turned pale directly.

When Lingxi was still a palace maid, there was a case of poisoning candles in the harem. It wasn't until the bitter master had already died and the incense was lost, that Dong Guifei, who was the assistant of the Sixth Palace, found out that the poison was put in the candle that was burned on weekdays.

After listening to Lingxi, Lotus Ye directly threw the pair of red candles out of the distance, and never dared to touch them again.

On December 25 of the seventh year of Emperor Yong'an, Yuhua came to the Tongxin Hall of the Cold Palace, and wore a branch of jade on his head.

Lotus Ye's heart trembled when he saw the step shake, and he couldn't wait to go to Yuhua's head immediately and snatch the step shake down.

But Lotus Ye knew that she couldn't, so she could only listen to Yuhua say a few words of inconsequential things, and Ren Yuhua left.

When Lotus Ye returned to the inner hall, Lingxi was sitting on the low kang, lying on the gap in the window to watch Yuhua's distant back in a daze.

Lotus Ye hurriedly comforted, "Niangniang, the slave and maid who are shaking also saw it, it is very similar to the jade walking that the five princes have, but this is not jade, but inferior green jade." The color is not good, and when you look closer, you can see that there are impurities in the jade. ”

Lingxi lay down on the kang again, his face was pale, but he said to Lotus Ye in a calm voice, "It won't be the Five Princes, didn't Cuizhu say that the Five Princes are in the concubine?" The five princes will not give things to outsiders when they are young, and Concubine Yu has no reason to reward the palace people with things that the five princes like. ”

Can Cuizhu's words be believed? Lingxi felt bitter in his heart, holding his lower abdomen and worrying.

"What Niangniang said is that Yuhua came just because Cuizhu sent a pair of red candles yesterday, and she came to see if we were still alive." Lotus Ye rubbed Lingxi's cold and stiff legs with her red and swollen hands, and said, "The slave maid's face was a little bad when she saw Yuhua leaving, thinking that she couldn't do well in the cold palace, and the queen would definitely not be able to spare her." ”

"Lotus leaf, do you think the queen will jump off the wall in a hurry?" Lingxi closed his eyes and asked indifferently.

The lotus leaf helped Lingxi press the hand of the leg, and his face became whiter.

Lingxi turned over and turned his face to the other side, his heart in turmoil.

Lotus Ye didn't know how to comfort him, so he went to the yard and took out a piece of bacon from the snow and boiled a bowl of bacon porridge for Lingxi for dinner, and Lotus Ye himself ate something that was sent by Cuizhu recently, and it was not highly toxic.

It was night, and suddenly there was a loud sound of a heavy object falling to the ground in the courtyard of the east side hall.

Lingxi had been sleeping unrealistically, and when he heard the voice, he sat up suddenly, and his heart was stuck in his throat and his eyes were beating wildly.

The lotus leaf and the spirit rhino slept in a quilt, and after the quilt was gone, it was frozen and woke up. When I opened my eyes, I saw Lingxi sitting there, with his hand on Lingxi's cold arm, and just as he wanted to make a sound, Lingxi covered his nose with his cold right hand in the dark.

Lingxi moved his right hand down, covered Lotus Ye's mouth before Lotus Ye made a sound, and whispered in Lotus Ye's ear, "Don't speak, listen." ”

Lotus Ye nodded, took Lingxi's cold hand off his mouth, and listened carefully......

In the dark night, in addition to hearing the heart of the spirit rhino, the lotus leaf is the sound of the cold wind whistling outside. In the wind, you can faintly hear the sound of the wild grass on the top of the cloister beating against the old wood.

The howling of the wind and the whistling of the wind, as if a poor woman were being tortured and weeping in pain, sounded horrible indeed. Lotus Ye secretly made up her mind that when the morning dawned, she would climb to the old cloister and pull out those weeds, so as to save it from being so scary on a windy night.

After listening quietly like this for a while, Lotus Leaf slowly put down her hanging heart. She carefully pulled up the quilt and wrapped it around Lingxi and herself, and just made a voice to comfort Lingxi that there was nothing to do outside the hall, when she heard a 'creaking' sound coming from the snow outside the hall.

Lotus Ye's body trembled irrepressibly, and his mind buzzed as if he had been hit by a sledgehammer, and his body suddenly became cold.

Lingxi also trembled with fright, his hands clenched tightly together, and his body began to tremble.

After the lotus leaf Famu's brain reflected a little, she reached out and hugged the spirit rhino into her arms, and tried to stare wide-eyed in the dark to see the things in the hall, and even breathed carefully.

'Crunch' 'Crunch'

The sound of footsteps in the snow sounded one after another, and it was getting closer and closer to the east side hall......

Lingxi swallowed a mouthful of spit, and there was a convulsion in the lower abdomen, which did not hurt, but fell straight down.

Lingxi frowned in the dark, his cold right hand was on his lower abdomen, and he was more and more afraid in his heart, not only afraid of the person in the snow outside the hall, but also afraid that the child in his womb would be gone.

Lotus Ye felt Lingxi's nervousness, and hugged Lingxi tighter with both hands, but not only did she not stabilize Lingxi's trembling body, but she trembled with it.

Suddenly, the 'creaking' sound was gone.

Lingxi and Lotus Ye looked at the door of the dormitory with frightened eyes at the same time.

They knew that it wasn't the man who was gone. Instead, the man walked out of the snow to the stone floor where the snow had been swept away in front of the temple.

Lingxi's silver teeth clenched, and his gums were faintly painful, and the palms of his hands on his lower abdomen were full of cold sweat.

Lotus Ye let go of the spirit rhino, trembled and stretched out his hand, took out a pair of scissors from under the futon next to the bed and hugged it tightly in his arms. The scissors were put under her hand when she was doing needlework before going to bed, and she didn't expect them to become the only weapon they could use for self-defense.

Lotus Ye clenched the scissors with both hands in the direction of the temple door, and used his body to block the spirit rhino behind him......

A soft sound of 'Bang~' came from the temple gate.

The already tense nerves of Lingxi and Lotus Leaf tightened even more.

Tears slipped out of the lotus leaf's fearful eyes, cold and cold.

Lingxi's chest rose and fell rapidly, and his lower abdomen fell even more. Lingxi knew that she couldn't escape tonight, and Empress Zhu's patience was finally exhausted.

Lingxi stretched out his left hand to hold Lotus Ye's shoulder, trembled his voice, and whispered to Lotus Ye, "Lotus Ye, if there is a next life, we will not be master and servant, let's be sisters, and I will take care of you." ”

The tears in Lotus Ye's eyes flowed even more, and the hand holding the scissors kept shaking. She choked up and said to Lingxi, "Niangniang, it's going to be fine." Don't think about it, you ......"

Lotus Ye couldn't bear this nervous and sad emotion anymore, and after sobbing twice, she suddenly burst into tears.

In the cry of the lotus leaf, there was another 'bang' outside the hall......