Chapter 163: Friend or Foe?
"You're too high-minded to see you cold."
The middle-aged man glanced at Wang Zixuan arrogantly, then withdrew his gaze, and after a while, he let out a long sigh before he said: "If the Prime Minister has any doubts, wait for me to go back and ask the hall master, if it is not our Qinghe people, then think of other ways." ”
"Figured out? That person's illusion strength is as high as the strength of your Dharma Protector, how can I fight the Queen Mother? ”
Thinking of the relaxed eyes of the person who teased him just now, Wang Zixuan was angry, and the pair of gray pupils of the person were terrifying, and at the beginning, he was also scared into a cold sweat.
The Queen Mother is obviously doubting herself now.
But at this juncture, in his opinion, the matter of King Ningyuan was that the Queen Mother instructed the person around her to do it, and then pushed it to him!
I have long heard that Chu Nian gave the Queen Mother a Taoist priest who can practice the elixir, and now the Queen Mother is obviously relying on herself not to die of old age, and she has taken back the rights given to the Wang family little by little!
It's really a bully for him! When you are old, you should wait for death, why do you care so much!
The middle-aged man narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Wang Zixuan's gloomy face, and after a while, he said as if he remembered something: "Have a few concubines died in the harem recently?" ”
Wang Zixuan raised his eyes to look at him: "What do you have in mind again?" ”
Seeing his suspicion, the middle-aged man's face was dyed with a smile, "Don't worry, Prime Minister, I will go back and ask the Dharma Protector to come out, if the Queen Mother dies because of poor management of the harem, no one will be able to suppress you all the time." ”
Wang Zixuan's eyes lit up, and then his face calmed down a little: "The queen mother can't die now, I heard that the queen is terminally ill now, if the queen dies, ask the protector to help, then the entire harem will be ours." ”
Outside the door, Mrs. Wang conscientiously guarded the door of the study, and when she heard bright footsteps coming from the door, she immediately removed her ears from the door, and saw Wang Zixuan walking out of the door, and when she saw Mrs. Wang, his face was full of surprise.
"What are you doing?"
Mrs. Wang looked a little uneasy, she grabbed her cuffs and said softly, "Do you really plan to watch your sister-in-law die?" ”
Wang Zixuan glared: "Otherwise? She has been in the harem for so many years, and her heart is not towards me, what is the use of keeping her? ”
After that, Wang Zixuan raised his legs and left, not giving Mrs. Wang any room to speak, looking at Wang Zixuan's obviously cheerful steps, Mrs. Wang sighed silently.
After a while, she waved her hand and beckoned her personal maid: "Go and send a letter to the palace, just say that the queen mother has been more cautious about eating and everything recently, and ask for more blessings, I probably can't help her." ”
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"Your Highness is awake today?" Chu Nian looked sideways at Mother Zhu, who had just entered the house to bring tea and water, and her eyes were full of anticipation.
Mother Zhu shook her head helplessly and said, "If the lady is worried about His Royal Highness, why don't you go and ask Lord Medicine King in person?" ”
Chu Nian smiled slightly, "That's not necessary, if Ming Xiu gets better, the Medicine King will definitely tell me first." ”
Hearing this, Mother Zhu smiled: "Lord Yaowang has told the old slave today, but in three days, His Royal Highness will definitely wake up, and tell the lady not to worry too much, saying that if you are also sick, there is an old man who is busy." ”
Chu Nian pursed his lips, at this time, he regretted that he only brought Mei Xiang and Mother Zhu, if he brought a sister-in-law, he would not need to trouble the Medicine King all day at this time.
Now, the Medicine King seems to be a little too busy, in addition to boiling medicine for Ming Xiu all day long, he soaks in the pharmacy specially configured for him by the Wuxin Dao Chief, which has all kinds of rare medicinal materials, and also ordered all the disciples in the temple not to approach, just to make him feel at ease to refine medicine for Chu Nian.
Of course, Chu Nian also hoped that the Medicine King could concentrate on taking care of Ming Xiu, but Li Le had just sent the news, now that the court was in turmoil, the situation between the princes and the Wang family had been broken, and if they returned to Beijing a few days later, I was afraid that the princes would occupy the entire imperial court.
Now that Ming Xiu has finally won a lot of hearts in the imperial court, if the princes have the upper hand, I am afraid that they will spend a lot of effort when they go back.
Besides, the queen and Mu Qingke are still waiting for help.
Chu Nian sighed silently, since the Medicine King explained that she would inevitably wake up if she couldn't cultivate for three days, then Ming Xiu would already be fine, and thanks to Ming Xiu, she would have become a sinner for the ages.
At this time, Mei Xiang screamed from outside the door, and Zhu's mother hurriedly ran out, and so did Chu Nian.
Out of the house, Chu Nian saw Mei Xiang standing by the wall, her face was pale, there was a dagger on the wall, and there was a brocade bag on the dagger, and the blade of the dagger was less than a finger away from Mei Xiang's face.
No wonder Mei Xiang screamed, thinking that someone was passing a book with a flying knife, just wiping Mei Xiang's face, Mei Xiang was so timid, of course she would shout.
But that person obviously didn't want Mei Xiang's life.
Chu Nian took two steps forward casually, pulled out the dagger inserted in the wall, and a one-finger-wide pit appeared on the wall.
"It's okay, it's okay."
Chu Nian glanced at him and said with a smile: "There are others." ”
Dark San remembered what was going on, and hurriedly let go of Mei Xiang, both of whom were slightly red.
He looked at Chu Nian, frowned, and said, "That person ran so fast that even I couldn't catch up, but his steps were weird, his body was thin, and he didn't look like the exercises that circulated in the martial arts, but more like ......."
Chu Nian raised his eyebrows, and then listened to Dark San continue: "It's more like being drunk." ”
"But the subordinate struck him in the leg with a throwing knife, and hit, and the man fell down the mountain, and the subordinate chased him, but he was nowhere to be found, and this was the only thing left in the same place."
Dark Three took out an object from behind his back and looked at what looked like a human figure made of several bamboo poles.
Bamboo?
Chu Nian took the human-shaped bamboo pole, looked it up and down, and then stuffed the bamboo pole back into the hand of the dark three, and his face was slightly gloomy: "It's burned." ”
Seeing that Dark San was ordered to leave, she picked up the sachet in her hand again, frowned, and saw Mei Xiang stepped forward curiously: "Lady, what is this?" ”
Chu Nian glanced at her amusedly: "Aren't you afraid now?" ”
Mei Xiang blushed and said: "The slave and maid were almost disfigured, the lady didn't care, and she teased the slave!" ”
Mother Zhu on the side was used to seeing Mei Xiang who was neither big nor small with Chu Nian, so she said angrily: "Mei Xiang, where would the lady not care about you, it's just that the person didn't want to hurt your life at first glance." ”
Seeing Mei Xiang pouting, Chu Niancai reached out and pinched her face: "It's okay, I don't care about you, isn't there still a dark three?" The Dark Three won't allow you to get hurt. ”
Mei Xiang blushed, and came up again: "Lady, let's see what is in here." ”
Seeing this, Chu Nian had no choice but to sigh, reached out to open the red thread tied to the brocade bag, reached out and took out a note from it, his heart tightened, and he frowned without a trace.
Sent by someone from the capital? Look at that humanoid bamboo pole, illusion? Could it be that Qinghe's people already know the whereabouts of her and Ming Xiu? A warning?
After Chu Nian opened the note and read it carefully, he fell into deeper doubts.
There were a few words written on the note: The Queen Mother and the Wang family have turned against each other and returned to Beijing quickly.
Qinghe's purpose has only one big cool from beginning to end, how can he turn the chess pieces under his hands against him?
Could it be that Qinghe was the means to win her over and Ming Xiu?
Chu Nian frowned, Qinghe's people shouldn't be so stupid, knowing that she and Ming Xiu wouldn't become their Qinghe's puppets and still do such useless work......
However, it seems that this news will not be false, judging from the news from Li Le from the capital, the Wang family is indeed plotting something, and this matter is related to the Queen Mother.
If this person is really not Qinghe's person, what position does he take to help them?
Besides, they faked their deaths and got out, and after coming to Qingyun Temple, except for the Wuxin Daoist family who were elders, no one had seen them, and they could know where they lived, and the strength of this person to investigate intelligence could also be considered average, if it was an enemy......
Chu Nian's eyes sank slightly, and at this point, the Medicine King came out of Ming Xiu's room, and said with a straight face: "County Lord, go and see His Highness for the last time." ”
Chu Nian's heart suddenly cooled, and she looked at the Medicine King inquiringly: "What do you mean by Lord Medicine King?" What's the last look? ”
It seemed that Chu Nian was staring at him a little flustered, the Medicine King frowned and coughed lightly, "I'm sorry, I made a mistake when I made the medicine, and I mistakenly put the poison in it as a medicine to heal the prince, and His Royal Highness the prince is now ......."
Halfway through his words, he saw that the three women in front of him who were still full of panic all looked at him with a smile, but they still stubbornly said: "Your Highness is afraid that it is ...... now."
Chu Nian said amusedly: "Ming Xiu can't do it?" Okay, I'm going to see him for the last time." ”
She bit the last four words and pronounced them heavily, and when she passed by the Medicine King, she glanced at the Medicine King meaningfully: "Lord Medicine King, you have also learned badly." ”
The Medicine King's face was stunned, and after a while, he sighed and muttered in a low voice: "I really can't understand the young people now, if you have nothing to do, you can make fun of the elderly, I have already said that I can't deceive Chu Nian......
The person in the room was lying on the couch, looking sideways at the door, he heard a sound of fine footsteps, he quickly closed his eyes, and after a while, a refreshing fragrance entered his nose, he forcibly endured the twitching of the corners of his mouth, and looked at the gap between his eyes, and saw a delicate little face, looking at himself with a sad face.
Ming Xiu's heart was inexplicably dark.
Chu Nian lay on Ming Xiu's body, "Your Highness...... Why did you forsake me? ”
Her weight seemed to be gradually increasing on her body, and Ming Xiu only felt that she couldn't breathe for a while, especially when the cold little hand was restlessly touching up and down, and even "unknowingly" pinched the wound on his waist.
Ming Xiu's face turned pale with pain suddenly, but he could only hold back the pain with his teeth tight, and roared angrily in his heart, is this girl really distressed? pinched like this, she was pinched to death if she didn't die!
Seeing that Ming Xiu still refused to open his eyes, Chu Nian raised his eyebrows, and the strength of his subordinates increased, and he wailed: "Your Highness, how can I live in the future......"
At this point, Ming Xiu suddenly opened his eyes, slapped away the little hand that was pinching his wound, and then gritted his teeth and said softly: "Girl, look, as soon as you cry, I was so distressed that I had a big fight with Lord Yama, and Lord Yama put me back." ”
Chu Nian sat up, looked at him sideways, and wrote four big words in his eyes: Tian is shameless.
Ming Xiu smiled embarrassedly, then raised his hand and hugged her into his arms again, "I'm sorry for worrying you." ”
The person in her arms was lying on her stomach obediently, her ears were his powerful heartbeat, she took a deep breath, the lotus fragrance filled the entire nasal cavity again, and her heart was slightly calm, and she remembered to count him: "You just instigated Lord Medicine King to lie to me?" ”
Ming Xiu said: "I didn't, I was released by Lord Yama because I missed you too much." ”