She steamed for an hour before she lazily lifted the quilt and poked out a jade foot to look for shoes. Soft-soled silk shoes kicked off a moon-white curtain on the feet.

The shadow of the lamp flickered slightly, she looked down, a row of white marble inclined ladders were discharged into the water, and Shen Yun really sat on the ladder with her eyes closed. The yellow halo of the light is reflected on the white marble bricks, which is folded by the water light, and the swaying brightness is soft, and the moon shadow is like a moon.

Su Zhaoyi took off her shoes and socks and slowly walked into the water along the stairs, her body was hot, and the temperature of the bath was suitable. She leaned on Shen Yunzhen's side and saw that Shen Yunzhen's face was a little pale.

"What's wrong?" She asked with concern, "Isn't it uncomfortable?" ”

Shen Yunzhen shook her head and said with a smile: "It's okay, it's been like this these days." ”

Su Zhaoyi stared at her stomach and was silent. Wang Pintang said that Shen Yun's real delivery date should be before Chinese New Year's Eve, and now seeing her like this, Su Zhaoyi was a little worried.

Shen Yunzhen glanced at her and said with a smile: "What's wrong with you?" Seems to be more nervous than me. ”

Su Zhaoyi shook her head: "It's okay." The emperor said that Luan will return to the capital after the first day, so don't worry. ”

Shen Yun smiled, she didn't have anything to worry about. When Nan Jingpei left, she had already taken away the two rivals, Concubine Xian and Xu Chongyi, and now that Xu Chongyi is back, she still has Su Zhaoyi by her side to rely on, and if something happens, she will not be at a loss for a while.

Su Zhaoyi just wanted to ignore Xu Chongyi and see how much patience she could have. She soaked in the bath for another hour, and Zhixia came to report that Xu Chongyi had gone back.

Su Zhaoyi secretly sneered, a swaying and impatient character like Xu Chongyi, I am afraid that it will be difficult to find a master she can rely on for the rest of her life.

She got dressed up, said goodbye to Shen Yunzhen, and went back to her palace.

I often hear people say that bathing can relieve fatigue, but every time she comes back from bathing, she always feels that her body is getting weaker and weaker. Su Zhaoyi sat in the main hall, took the ginseng tea brought by Zhixia, and asked, "Have you asked, what did Xu Chongyi say?" ”

Zhixia replied: "The slave maid has already asked, Xu Chongyi didn't say anything, and went to the apse to see the child." ”

"Watching the kids?" Su Zhaoyi raised her eyebrows, and a cup of warm tea was brought to her lips and suddenly stopped.

Zhixia nodded: "She also gave the child a few clothes, saying that it was rewarded by the emperor." ”

Su Zhaoyi smiled disappreciatively, this is even more strange, the emperor knows that this child is not his, so he just ignores it, why is he still kind enough to reward what clothes? Thinking about it carefully, maybe he was deliberately treating Tian's children better in order to let Shen Yun really give birth with peace of mind.

"This Xu Chongyi is also very attentive, Baba changed the child's clothes for her, the nurse said no, the child's clothes were newly changed at noon, she didn't listen, she had to change." Zhixia flattened his mouth: "I'm afraid that she has a hard time with Concubine Xian, so she turned her head and begged us again." ”

Su Zhaoyi put down the teacup and snorted lightly. She can't look down on people that Concubine Xian can't look down on, although she and Concubine Xian have different opinions, they have surprisingly reached an agreement on this matter.

Concubine Xian is not a fool, how can she tolerate Xu Chongyi hanging around the emperor all day long? One Shen Yun is really enough to give Concubine Xian a headache, how can she tolerate the emperor having another person by his side to share the holy grace?

It's a pity that Xu Chongyi didn't understand this truth, and ran to ask for a concubine in a daze. inherited the favor but did not know how to restrain the edge, and pestered the emperor all day long and refused to let go. Now that he was driven back by Concubine Xian, presumably this Xu Chongyi can also learn to be smarter.

She was a little hungry and told Zhixia to get snacks, but as soon as Zhixia went out, she saw the nurse in the palace running in in a panic, screaming like crazy: "Niangniang is not good, something is wrong!" ”

The nurse fell at her feet with a puff: "Go to the apse and take a look, the little prince is spurting blood from his mouth and nose, I'm afraid it's not good at this time!" ”

Su Zhaoyi only felt a buzzing sound in her head, her hand shook, and she knocked over the tea cup on the case, and the hot tea splashed on the back of her hand, she shrank in pain, stood up in panic, and shouted in amazement: "What did you say?" ”

She ran to the apse in a panic, only to find that the child's face was swollen purple and red, and sometimes he coughed violently, and a stream of blood spurted out of his mouth, the blood was very thin, but it was red and gorgeous, and the tender yellow brocade was wet and sticky on the baby's face.

"Doctor Legend! Tell the Imperial Doctor! Su Zhaoyi exclaimed.

But it's still too late, how strong can this baby be? By the time Wang Pintang rushed to the dormitory with the medicine box, the baby was already out of breath.

Su Zhaoyi sat down, her mind was blank, and the blood all over her body was cold. She looked at Wang Pintang blankly, like a zombie without a soul, and her eyes were gloomy and numb.

"Block the news, don't let anyone know about it until the matter is clear!" Su Zhaoyi pushed Zhixia heavily: "You don't want to go quickly!" In particular, Lantai Palace is not allowed to know! ”

Wang Pintang held his breath and calmed down, lifting the brocade quilt that was already wet with blood, revealing the baby's small body. There was also blood on the garment, which seeped into the placket through the brocade.

"The little prince has always been strong, how could he suddenly cough up blood?"

Su Zhaoyi's voice was terrible, and Wang Pintang's heart trembled. He also couldn't figure it out, so he called the medicine girl in the palace, Dong Xiang, but Dong Xiang insisted that he didn't miss anything for the little prince.

She didn't have much suspicion of Dong Xiang, this medical girl had always followed her, and she had some friendship with Shen Yunzhen, so she wouldn't do such a vicious thing anyway.

"That's the nurse?"

As she spoke, she asked someone to carefully examine the complementary food that the baby had eaten, and found no problems.

Wang Pintang unbuttoned the baby's clothes, revealing his fleshy chest, he was suddenly shocked, thinking that he had seen it wrong, and leaned down to take a closer look.

"! Look! He exclaimed, which frightened Su Zhaoyi and hurriedly came to him.

This baby's tiny body has a steel needle stuck in it! The stab obliquely stabbed at the mouth of the heart, revealing only a short needle nose.

Wang Pintang gently took off this needle and put it in his hand, this is not a common embroidery needle used by women in the palace, but a thicker one, like a thick needle used to save the sole of the shoe when making cloth shoes!

A steel needle more than two inches long pierced into the heart, not to mention an unweaned child, even a strong adult would probably be killed instantly! Who is so vicious that he can use such a despicable and vicious trick against a baby who is still nursing?

"This!" Su Zhaoyi suddenly glanced at the hall: "Who is it!" ”

The maid eunuch of the palace and the nurse knelt on the ground together, crying out for wrongdoing. Su Zhaoyi looked at them fiercely and shouted: "If you don't tell the truth, this palace will let you all be buried with the prince!" ”

The nurse was also cowardly: "Master, except for the slave and maid on this day, there is no one else to serve by the prince's side, but the slave and maid will never dare to murder the prince's life!" ”

This nurse was personally selected by Su Zhaoyi, and she is a distant relative of her Su family, who traveled thousands of miles to Beijing to take refuge, and has been doing things honestly in the Su family, she is very timid, and she usually doesn't dare to kill a chicken, let alone a well-behaved baby, and it won't be her.

Su Zhaoyi pondered for a long time, and suddenly her heart trembled, and she looked at Zhixia at a glance: "It's her!" It had to be her! ”

Zhi Xia thought about it for a while, this matter must not have been done by someone from his own palace. This child has been raised in their palace for a long time, and if he wanted to kill him, he would have killed it hundreds of times, so why wait until Xu Chongyi came back today to do it? Just now she was so diligent in changing the child's clothes, who knows if she was not the killer of the child when she was changing clothes?

Tian is dead, and this child is not treated by the emperor, this matter is clearly not for the child! It seemed to be a big dream, and when she suddenly woke up, Su Zhaoyi shuddered.

It turned out that Xu Chongyi returned to the palace this time for this!

She waved her hand at Zhixia in a panic and said, "Find a few down-to-earth palace people, and bury the child quickly." Don't mention this to Lantai Palace, Concubine Liang is a month old, I'm afraid I can't stand the fright. ”

Zhixia nodded and arranged for someone to do so.

Several eunuchs quietly nailed a thin wooden box, put the baby's body in it, and simply buried it. Taking advantage of the fact that there was no one around, he secretly found the root of a plum tree, dug a two-foot-deep pit and buried the child hastily.

Su Zhaoyi wasn't worried about the emperor, but Shen Yunzhen didn't know how to explain, although Shen Yunzhen didn't often ask about the child's situation, but in case she wanted to see the child on a whim, how should she tell Shen Yunzhen at that time?

She called Zhixia: "Bury the child deeper, don't let people see it." ”

Su Zhaoyi didn't dare to tell Shen Yunzhen, so she had to send someone to send a secret letter to ask the emperor. Although the letter did not say who the child died at, the emperor could roughly guess a thing or two.

At the beginning, he kept this child in order to stabilize Shen Yunzhen, so as not to hurt her heart with her cranky thoughts. If something happened to this child, of course, he couldn't tell Shen Yun really, he also asked Su Zhaoyi to hide it, but he didn't know the bottom of his heart. The affairs of the palace are treacherous and changeable, who knows what will happen?

Su Zhaoyi asked someone to bring Xu Chongyi to inquire, but she didn't know anything, and pretended to be worried and told Su Zhaoyi not to tell Concubine Liang about it, so as not to frighten her.

Shibei three days, sure enough, will be impressive. Xu Chongyi has only served by the emperor's side for a few months, and this tongue has become smart.

Although the child's clothes were changed by Xu Chongyi herself, the incident happened not long after she left. But after all, all of this happened in Su Zhaoyi's own bedroom, and Xu Chongyi could completely shift these responsibilities to the slaves and eunuchs in Su Zhaoyi's palace.

After all, there is no direct evidence to prove that the needle was pierced into the child's chest by Xu Chongyi's own hands, so she cannot be convicted of killing the prince.

Su Zhaoyi was speechless angrily, pointed at Xu Chongyi hatefully, and said for a long time: "You'd better not make another incident, otherwise this palace won't let you go easily." ”

Xu Chongyi asked with a smile: "This incident is in the Niangniang Palace, why do you say that the concubine is in trouble?" The concubine really doesn't know what she has done, if the concubine has to blame, the concubine can only ask the concubine Niangniang to come forward to administer justice for the concubine. ”