171 The Murder Trap of a Maniac

Under the instructions of the ceremonial officer, the women of the whole hall knelt in front of the spirit and kowtowed regularly, and wept regularly, which is a rather physical work.

Although there is a futon cushion, but kneeling is a morning, and it is no different from being tortured, and soon a group of older ones can't hold it anymore, and they are helped aside by the eunuchs and palace maids to rest.

Bai Poria secretly tugged at her mother's sleeve and said in a low voice: "Let's pretend to be dizzy too, okay?" I have the medicine given by Fang Hai here, and even if the imperial doctor comes, I can't see anything. "She asked her grandfather yesterday about the steps of worship, and immediately asked people to go to Fang Hai to prepare medicine.

As soon as you take that kind of medicine, you will ensure that your face is pale and your pulse is weak, and no one will doubt it when you see it.

Mu Peilan was both distressed and a little funny about her daughter's suffering, so she was embarrassed: "Ling'er bear with it a little longer, it's easy for us to go to the side too early to rest...... And it's a three-point poison, so you can stop eating it or don't eat it. ”

Bai Poria thought of her grandfather Bai Changshan's current situation, and flattened her mouth, so she had to endure it. They are now the target of public criticism, and some of their actions are easy to be used by those who care about them to add fuel and vinegar, and then pretend to be stunned when more people fall and they are no longer so conspicuous.

Regret it! I knew that I should ask Fang Hai to get some colorless and tasteless medicinal powder, and make the few people next to her dizzy, then she could justifiably mix in it, and sure enough, she was still inexperienced! Bai Poria examined herself with bitter joy.

At this time, there was a sudden commotion outside the hall, and then I saw the twelve princesses running into the hall with red eyes and rushing straight to the queen's coffin and crying bitterly, crying and shouting: "Queen Mother! Queen mother...... You died such a miserable death! ”

When Bai Poria heard this, she almost laughed, and immediately remembered the classic scene of Stephen Chow carrying a cockroach crying "Xiaoqiang, you died so miserably". She covered her face hard to hold back her smile, holding back her little face with red tears, I don't know how much she empathizes and is sad for these two mothers and daughters.

The twelve princesses were followed by a large number of palace maids and eunuchs, all of whom stepped forward to persuade her to take her away, but the twelve princesses seemed to be determined to make a big fuss, and threw away a few palace maids who came up to pull her, crying more and more fiercely: "Queen Mother, you are gone, everyone comes to bully your daughter, my father does not want to see me, only thinks about those foxes in this palace, and wants to marry me to Tiantongguo to go to peace!" My daughter is gone, and I don't know how many years I can live, and I will never see you again in this life! If I knew this, my daughter might as well go with you that day! Queen mother! You have a spirit in heaven, open your eyes and see what your daughter has become of being bullied! ”

While crying, he slapped the coffin hard, tears were all over his face, his makeup was all messed up, and a face that was not beautiful in the first place was made even more miserable.

The palace maids and eunuchs wanted to pull her away, but she was a golden branch and jade leaf, and she didn't get instructions, who dared to be rude to her, and the other women in the main hall of Huilan Palace saw this scene, all of them looked at their noses and noses, pretended to be dizzy, and hid their faces, all pretending to be gone, but they shook their heads in their hearts at what the twelve princesses did.

What is this? The princess of a dignified country doesn't even want to be decent, and she cries and makes a fuss like a shrew and a crazy woman in front of a group of foreign women, this is still her mother's funeral, which is simply unorthodox.

But they are princesses, and none of them can afford to wade through this pool of troubled waters, so they can only pretend to be stupid.

The Xia family also came to a few ladies' wives, Mrs. Xia and the eldest grandmother of the Xia family were sick at home, and the rest of them had always been afraid of this noble and brutal niece, plus now the Xia family can't withstand any storms, who would dare to rush forward to take this scourge up?

Bai Poria breathed a sigh of relief, and felt a burst of disdain for this brainless princess in her heart, is it useful to be so noisy? I really want to go with your mother, it's not too late, go back to the palace to find the three-foot white silk, and promise to be a hundred. Obviously, with Li Yunxin's example in the past, wouldn't he have thought of pretending to be sick to avoid trouble? Besides, they are all married anyway, although the living conditions of marrying Tiantongguo are not as good as those of Qi Guo, maybe she can become a queen in a few years, why is she so dead or alive?

Seeing that the funeral scene was about to be messed up by the twelve princesses, the rescue person finally came to the rescue, Princess Antai and the two highest-ranking concubines Cao and Concubine Zhao in the palace.

Princess Antai was inconvenient to live in the palace for a long time, so after the rebellion on Chinese New Year's Eve, the affairs of the palace were entrusted to Concubine Cao and Concubine Zhao. They were under the pressure of the queen and Mao Guifei before, they could only be people with their tails between their legs, and they had just taken over the affairs of the inner palace, and they had to do funerals for the queen, and they were cautious and cautious in everything. Seeing that today's foreign wife entered the palace to worship the queen, she could breathe a sigh of relief, but she didn't expect the twelve princesses to jump out and make a scene again.

The twelfth princess is the only daughter of the queen, where do the two of them dare to care about her, fortunately, Princess Antai is in the palace today, and the two concubines hurriedly begged her to appease her.

Princess Antai didn't expect to see such a scene, seeing the virtue of the twelfth princess, she was so angry that her face turned blue, and she stepped forward in a few steps and shouted to the group of palace maids and eunuchs who were in a mess: "The princess is too sad, she speaks and does things out of proportion, and you actually let her mess around?" Why don't you take her back to the dormitory to take care of her? You can't stop a weak woman, what's the use of raising you waste?! ”

The palace maids and eunuchs listened to her words, although they were scolded, but some people supported their waists and became stronger, and hurriedly stepped forward and held down the twelve princesses and dragged them out of the palace without saying anything.

This time they didn't care about scruples, and they started a lot harder, and the twelve princesses could no longer break free, crying more and more bitterly, and the words became even more ugly: "You old pious woman! When you saw that my queen mother was dead, you came to bully me? You ruined my marriage, and I want to go to the same country and Fan, and I won't let you go if I am a ghost! ”

She didn't think that on Chinese New Year's Eve, Concubine Mao would torture and humiliate her, and only Princess Antai came out to save her life regardless of her personal safety.

Princess Antai was too lazy to be angry with her, and said to a eunuch next to her with a cold face: "Let her shut up!" ”

The eunuch was a person from Yihui's palace, took out a handkerchief from his arms, stepped forward to cover the mouth of the twelve princesses directly, and a group of people quickly retreated.

Princess Antai ordered someone to rearrange the utensils that had been knocked down in the hall, and when she turned her head to see Mu Peilan's mother and daughter not far away, it was inconvenient to say more about the current scene, she smiled helplessly at the two of them, nodded and led people away.

The main hall returned to its previous solemnity, but there was a little more impetuous atmosphere.

Time passed minute by minute, and there were more and more ladies who were unwell and were sent aside to rest, Mu Peilan didn't want her daughter to suffer and didn't want her to take medicine, so she asked Bai Poria for the pill to swallow by herself, and sure enough, it was only a moment, and her face became very ugly.

Bai Poria cooperated very well and exclaimed in a low voice to support the mother who was crooked, and when the eunuch who was waiting next to him saw it, he quickly stepped forward to help Mu Peilan and sent him to the chair next to him, and Bai Poria naturally followed to take care of it.

Mu Peilan's identity is not trivial, the eunuchs in the palace are all discerning, a chief eunuch sent the little eunuch to call the eunuch and asked people to send Mu Peilan to the wing room behind the Huilan Palace, send tea greetings, and have a very courteous attitude.

The imperial doctor came to see Mu Peilan's face, and then checked the pulse, and immediately became solemn, and prescribed a prescription to Mu Peilan to recuperate after she returned, and made her have to rest in bed from now on.

Bai Poria smiled secretly in her heart, pretending to be worried and frightened on her face, and respectfully sent the imperial doctor away, just now the chief eunuch rushed to hear the news and repeatedly asked Mu Peilan to rest in peace, and at the end of the funeral, she would come to see their mother and daughter leave the palace and return home, so don't go to the front to get tired.

The two mothers and daughters got up early this morning, thinking that it would be good to get a good night's sleep, but as soon as they lay down, Cui Zhenyi and the two eunuchs came to the door one after another.

The two eunuchs came forward to say that Princess Antai heard that Madame Bai was unwell and wanted to invite their mother and daughter to Yihui Palace to rest.

I don't know what excuse she used to leave the hall and come here, she looked sad, and when she saw Mu Peilan, she bowed and called her "stepmother", and then lay at Mu Peilan's feet and cried silently, regardless of the two eunuchs standing next to her.

After all, she and Lu Ying have husband and wife status, and no matter how annoying Mu Peilan is, it is inconvenient for her to embarrass her in person, so she has to persuade her to get up and say that Cui Zhenyi sobbed and just begged her for forgiveness, and said that she had something to say about Lu Ying.

The two eunuchs were also a little anxious when they saw her pulling and pulling endlessly, and stepped forward and said, "Madame Bai, can you let Miss Bai go to Yihui Palace with the little one first, the little ones are afraid that the princess will be in a hurry......

Mu Peilan just saw these two eunuchs following Princess Antai, and it should be a good person from Yihui Palace. Bai Poria was beside her, Cui Zhenyi refused to say anything happily, it was better to let her daughter go to Princess Antai first, she had spoken to Cui Zhenyi and it was not too late to pass, so she nodded and said: "I'm tired of the two fathers-in-law taking care of the little girl." ”

The two eunuchs didn't dare to say anything, so they took Bai Poria out of the side door of Huilan Palace, got into a sedan chair and went to Yihui Palace.

Cui Zhenyi saw that there were no outsiders around her, so she slowly suppressed her crying and said sadly: "I have done many wrong things in the past, and my stepmother should resent me and despise me in my heart, but please believe that my stepmother is really sincere to my father-in-law, and I beg my stepmother to persuade my father-in-law for me, I really know that I am wrong, and I am willing to change whatever he is dissatisfied with me." I just beg him not to abandon me, but to give me a chance to change my ways. ”

Mu Peilan said coldly: "Lu Ying wants to divorce you?" Who do you listen to? ”

Cui Zhenyi lowered her head and said: "Everyone in the capital said so, even the subordinates in the general's mansion said so. ”

"You and Lu Ying are married by the emperor's personal decree, could it be that if your subordinates say a few words of gossip, you can overturn the emperor's marriage decree? Cui, you are also from Jiangmen, why are you so confused? Mu Peilan said impatiently.

This Cui Zhenyi is not a stupid person, why is she talking and doing things so upside down today? Mu Peilan suddenly felt a little uneasy in her heart, as if something important had been ignored by herself.

Cui Zhenyi's face turned red, and she said intermittently: "It's me who is confused, my husband has been very cold to me since he returned to Beijing for many days, and I am scared...... Xianggong really won't divorce his wife? Then, the emperor wants to name another lady as a wife for the prime minister......"

"You have to ask the emperor about this." The suspicion in Mu Peilan's heart became thicker and thicker.

She hadn't dealt with Cui Zhenyi head-on before, but from her daughter and the maid who followed her, this Cui Zhenyi was by no means such a stupid and blunt appearance without assertiveness as she was now.

From the time she dared to rush to Beiguan City with her family thousands of miles away to see Lu Ying with the intention of winning over, deliberately setting up a situation in front of Lu Ying to frame Bai Poria, daring to walk up to the city tower when the enemy was attacking the city, and later looking for people from Qiufeng Pavilion to assassinate Bai Poria, all kinds of actions show that she is a very decisive person, how could such a woman listen to a few rumors and rush to her to show weakness and cry, admit her mistakes and beg for mercy?

If these are all intentional things she wants, what is she doing them for?

Mu Peilan was wondering to herself, when a small eunuch ran in and said that the wife of Lord Pei in the Ministry of Officials asked to see her. Mu Peilan's eyebrows raised lightly, she remembered that this Mrs. Pei's husband was one of Xia Ge Lao's protégés, and this Mrs. Pei was from the Xia family's side branch, what did she mean when she came to the door at this time?

However, she hated Cui Zhenyi deeply, and would rather go to see the people of the Xia family than deal with Cui Zhenyi, so she immediately said to the little eunuch: "Please." ”

Cui Zhenyi stood up, took out a handkerchief to wipe her tears, and said politely: "My stepmother has a guest, so I will retire first." ”

She was the one who didn't leave just now, and now it was she who took the initiative to leave, Mu Peilan's heart moved, and she nodded to let her leave.

Cui Zhenyi turned around and went out, passing by Mrs. Pei who was about to enter the door, Mrs. Pei was also stunned when she saw her, only to feel that the light smile on Cui Zhenyi's face was cold, and she trembled all over, and when she wanted to see it clearly, she felt that her smile was very ordinary, thinking that she was dazzled, smiled politely and nodded and walked into the door.

Mu Peilan still remembered that she was pretending to be sick, leaned on the chair and smiled weakly, and asked, "I don't know what happened when Mrs. Pei came to visit?" ”

Mrs. Pei took two steps, took out a wax pill from her sleeve, handed it to Mu Peilan, and whispered cautiously: "This is what my cousin Xinxin asked me to bring to Mrs. Bai or Miss Bai, saying that you will understand when you read it......"

She didn't know what was in the wax pill, but Xia Xinxin told her that handing over this wax pill to the Bai family's mother and daughter would be of great benefit to her, and maybe she would be able to keep her husband's official position. This cousin has always been good friends with her, and she is also smart, and there is no reason to harm her at this time, so she took advantage of the queen's funeral today to send things in person.

The grievances between Xia Xinxin and Bai Poria were well known to Mu Peilan, and she was a little strange in her heart that she had something to give to Bai Poria Cocos, so after thanking Mrs. Pei, she crushed the wax pill to see what was hidden in it.

There was only a thin piece of silk cloth in the wax pill, on which were embroidered with four words in bright red silk thread: Be careful twelve.

When Mu Peilan saw these four words, she suddenly felt like being drenched on the head by a basin of ice water, and then regardless of pretending to be sick, she jumped up from the chair and rushed to the door in a few steps, regardless of the surprised gaze of the nearby palace maid and eunuch, she grabbed the little eunuch who was guarding the door for her with one hand, and asked quickly: "Which palace were the two eunuchs from just now, and where did you take my daughter?" ”

The little eunuch was so frightened that he only shook his head.

Mu Peilan finally figured out Cui Zhenyi's strange appearance, she obviously had the intention to drag herself so that the two eunuchs could take Bai Poria away!

She thought that the queen and Concubine Mao were dead, and no one in the palace would calculate their mother and daughter for no reason, even if they did, they didn't have the courage and power, but she missed one item in her calculations - not everyone will weigh the benefits and disadvantages before harming others, and the reason why some irrational madmen do everything possible to harm others is probably just a trivial jealousy or just want to find someone to vent their anger.

When she thought that her daughter might have met with an accident in an unknown corner of the palace, she was so worried and frightened that she almost went crazy, if her daughter had a case, what use would she use even if she cut the twelve princesses with a thousand knives?

She made up her mind, there are many houses in the palace, and she doesn't know where the twelve princesses are, the best way is to ask Princess Antai for help, and mobilize people to search thoroughly, thinking of this, she didn't hesitate anymore, and hurried to Yihui Palace.

On the other side, Bai Poria got into the sedan car and was taken away by two eunuchs for a while, and she also noticed that something was wrong.

Although she is not familiar with the road in the palace, she still has a little impression of the road between Yihui Palace and Huilan Palace, and the road she is walking now seems to be a little inconsistent with the direction of Yihui Palace in her memory.

The last time I sat in the palace sedan chair, I was almost calculated by the queen and the second prince, and I was robbed elsewhere, so it won't happen again this time, right? Why is it so unsafe to have a car...... Bai Poria was a little scared in her heart, she entered the palace today to attend the queen's funeral, and the little raccoon flower was not with her, she was now an authentic weak woman, and two eunuchs in the prime of life were enough to kill her ten times eight times!

Although she knew that she would not die until she was eighteen years old, there were many dirty things in the palace, and some things might make people feel countless times more disgusting and uncomfortable than death.

Just when she was hesitating whether to give it a fight and jump out of the car now, the sedan car had been dragged into a small door, and the two eunuchs who were responsible for pulling the sedan car did not wait for Bai Poria to make a move, threw down the sedan and turned around and ran back, and then the small door was bolted from the outside.

Bai Poria jumped out of the car and ran over, and found that the small door had been locked from the outside, and such a small door was actually made of iron.

She pushed hard a few times, knowing that it was impossible to break through the door with her own strength, unless she had the skill of the Great Devil, so she stopped doing futile things, and turned to see where the two eunuchs had locked her up.

She was taken aback by what she saw, this courtyard occupies a large area, there is no edge in sight, the four high walls are three zhang, there is a high platform in each direction of the left and right hands, at least dozens of zhang away from her location, there are no other buildings nearby, the yard is densely planted with plants, and the foot is standing on a muddy ground mixed with snow, not the smooth stone road in the palace. Just after the cold winter, the branches of the plants in the yard are still bare, and they look very desolate.

She smelled a familiar smell in her nose, similar to the smell of beasts she would smell in the mountains and wilderness where wild beasts lived on Baili Mountain, and she was wondering how there could be such a desolate place in the palace, when a yellow shadow flashed on the right, and then there was a roar of a heaven-shattering tiger.

A fierce tiger two or three times her size sprang out of a mountain of fake rocks and pounced in her direction, a thick bloody breath coming to her nose.

Bai Poria took a few steps back, flashed to the back of the car, and heard a loud sound of wood breaking and silk tearing in front of her, and the whole car was waved by the tiger's claws, and half of it was destroyed in an instant.

At the same time, another black shadow circled the car and was less than three feet away from her—a large black bear about her height!

Poria finally knows what this place is! Yang Heng once mentioned to her that there is an animal garden in the palace, which is dedicated to raising rare birds and beasts sent by places and foreign countries......

The twelfth princess was sitting in her dormitory at this time, smiling in the mirror, and the palace maids and eunuchs who served her in the palace looked at her abnormal appearance and were stunned.

I don't know what kind of nerves this princess has today, she first ran to the queen of Huilan Palace and made a big noise, and after being escorted back by Princess Antai, not only was she not angry, but she smiled happily, it couldn't be overstimulation and crazy......

The twelfth princess asked the palace maid to wash the makeup and tears on her face, and she played with the jade comb and combed her long hair from time to time, while whispering in a voice that only she heard: "That little slut should have been bitten beyond recognition by the tiger and black bear in the beastyard now, brother, don't blame me for hurting your sweetheart, that little slut looks like a fox, what should I do if I go to the underworld to confuse you?" ”

"Aren't her grandfather, brother-in-law, and cousin all very powerful? Hee-hee, I really want to see their expressions when they see the corpse of that little slut, it must be very exciting. ”

"When the queen mother died, you dared to bully me one by one? I will give you a taste of the tragic death of your loved ones and the loss of their bones. ”

"Queen Mother, Concubine Mao, who killed you, will soon come down to accompany you, are you happy?"

"You don't have to worry, I'm going to marry to Tiantongguo to be the queen, even if my father knows that I killed that little slut, he doesn't dare to do anything with me, otherwise, who will he take to kiss! Hahaha......"

"Why do you all dislike me, but treat that little slut as a baby? Why should I go to a wild land to marry a hellish barbarian, but that little slut is proud in the capital? ”

"Why did their Bai family ascend to the sky in one step, but your Xia family, Queen Mother, fell to this? Why can the old thief of the Bai family take his grandfather's place? ”

"After today, I see that you are still proud, and I see if you can laugh or not, hahaha!"

At this time, a eunuch walked into the dormitory, walked to the princess with a smile and knelt down and said, "Princess, the small matter has been done. ”

The twelfth princess smiled even more happily: "You saw it with your own eyes...... She went in? ”

"Yes! The little one listened outside the door for a while, and there was a tiger roar inside, ouch my mother, and almost scared the little one to pee his pants. The eunuch looked terrified.

The twelfth princess threw him with a jade comb, and scolded with a smile: "Look at your useless virtue, go and get the reward and get out." ”

The eunuch kowtowed his head in fear, got up and retreated. The twelve princesses didn't notice the disdain and gloom in the eunuch's eyes from beginning to end.