At the end of the summer of August, when I returned to the palace to go to the fifteenth Mid-Autumn Festival palace banquet, the hot weather that lasted for several months was also alleviated, after a few night rains, the hot summer heat hovering on the red wall tiles was already bustling and difficult to blaze, and the air in the Forbidden City was floating everywhere with the refreshing breath of fresh rain, mixed with the smell of cinnamon that was fragrant for ten miles, and filled the entire palace.

In this way, the golden wind in mid-autumn and August is cool, and the cool autumn is slowly coming.

On the sixteenth, Huizhu came back from Chuxiu Palace, entered the inner room of the main hall, and fell down as if she had no bones.

Su Xin looked distressed in her eyes, beckoned Xiaojuan and handed over the warm tea, she was busy serving the bottom of the flower pot that was more than an inch wide for Huizhu, and while kneading her ankles and calves with pantothenic acid, she muttered: "What is this, the iron body can't bear it, let alone a precious master like the master, how can you stand it!" I spent the night in Yikun Palace last night, and I went to Chuxiu Palace early this morning, and I tossed for most of the day."

With Su Xin's babbling words in her ears, Huizhu closed her eyes tiredly, and her thoughts drifted to the palace banquet last night. Fifteen is the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the sky is full of silver toad, and the world is boiling; And the Qing Palace is not exempt from the vulgar feast, the Qianqing Palace is wide open, the feast is listed, everyone drinks wine and enjoys, the new crab is tasted, the fresh fruit fills the stomach when eating, the scenery is harmonious, and it is happy; But when the people were scattered, Yinzhen drove the palace to nourish the heart, and the concubines returned to the palace to end the curtain, I don't want her to just step into the Jingren palace room with her front foot, and the palace supervisor chased after her back foot, shouting: "Eighth brother is not good, the emperor and the main lady have rushed to go, you better go and see." Hearing this, Huizhu was exhausted at the moment, so she hurried to Yikun Palace with the lantern that had not yet been extinguished.

The lights in the Yikun Palace are brilliant, bright as day, the palace people kneel under the steps of the main hall, and there is a woman's cry in the hall. Huizhu was in a hurry, so she avoided the communication of the palace eunuch and went inside; I saw that the room was also a high point of the bright light, Nian's was crying to death on the edge of the bed, and the Wulanala clan was comforted from the side, and there were Wu and Geng's on his side.

Not as clear as Huizhu, Xiao Luzi, who was standing on the side of the bed, walked quickly to the front, and said with a thousand words: "The young concubine has just returned to Yikun Palace, and the eighth elder brother who has not gone to the palace banquet is wrong. At the end, he lowered his voice.

A few words have explained the situation at this time, Huizhu nodded to Xiao Luzi clearly, and then turned to Yinzhen with a dull face, hurriedly walked to the couch, looked at the couch through the few people in front of him, couldn't help but be surprised, and covered his mouth so as not to exclaim.

Fuhui was lying unconscious on the couch, her originally white skin flushed, and vomit came out of the corners of her dry mouth. However, after half a day, Fuhui's whole person was severely dehydrated, like a person who had been lying on the sickbed for a long time.

was looking at it in horror, but saw Fuhui, who was in a coma and lying on the couch, suddenly sat up, and vomited a mouthful of yellow saliva with a "wow", which still contained some undigested food, emitting a sour and rotten stench.

"No—my brother Hui-" Seeing this, Nian's body shook for a moment, and then he pulled away the persuasion of the Ulanala clan, completely ignoring the filth on the mattress, and threw himself on Fuhui, which was a burst of crying.

Seeing the chaos of the scene, the Ulanala clan hurriedly leaned over to comfort, but the Nian clan did not appreciate it at all, turned around and waved away the Ulanala clan resentfully, gritted his teeth and scolded: "Brother Hui'er came back this morning and was still alive, but after staying in the palace for a long time, he was seriously ill and did not wake up. Queen, the harem is under your control, but tell me, how did Brother Hui become like this, and why did you be ruthless-"

"Bang" There was a sudden sound, and I saw Yinzhen sweeping off a few teacups with one hand, staring at Nian's eyes gloomily, Nian's couldn't help but subconsciously silent, he turned his gaze to the imperial doctor, and asked in a deep voice: "How is Fuhui?" Can you find out the cause and think of a cure? ”

The imperial doctor's heart sank suddenly, and the thoughts in his mind were very fast, and he weighed the words and said: "The slave has a preliminary look, and the eighth elder brother has eaten poison; The present value of the poisonous gas gathers in the abdomen, and there will be vomiting. As he spoke, the atmosphere around him slowed down instantly, and the imperial doctor smiled bitterly, and hurriedly changed his words: "However, the eighth elder brother is not deeply poisoned, and when the servants arrived, the eighth elder brother was not poisoned...... I think it is...... Slaves will do their best...... Let the eighth elder brother spit out the poison he ate first. ”

Nian has always been delicate-minded, and he can understand a thing or two when he hears the vague words in the mouth of the doctor; Suddenly, I felt that my chest was suffocating, and the heart-wrenching pain of losing two sons and a daughter in a row a few years ago surged into my chest, and there was a sudden sharp pain in my throat, she coughed, and first tasted a touch of fishy sweetness in her mouth, and then her upper body twitched, and a mouthful of blood spurted out of her mouth.

"Ah, master—"

"Nian Concubine Niangniang-"

For a while, the room was full of breath, everyone opened their eyes, looked at Nian's scarlet with a look at the corners of his mouth, and looked at the weak Fuhui with a loving face, and then his eyes fused extremely sharp, and he slowly got up with one hand on the bed rail, and pointed at the Wulanala clan with the other hand and said: "Queen, the concubine respects you as the emperor's wife, and is willing to live under him!" But why are you so kind to your concubine, thinking that Brother Hui is only four years old, you ......" Before he could say a word, Nian's face suddenly changed, and he struggled extremely uncomfortably for a few times, and then fainted unconsciously along the edge of the bed.

The Wulanala clan stared at the Nian clan with a pale face, but felt that the eyes around him were all betting, so he could only suppress his anger, and tried his best to maintain the anxiety on his face, and said while Zhang Luo: "Quickly help the young concubine to lie down, this eighth elder brother has not escaped yet, and the young concubine must not be fine!" "The palace people received the order, and they were busy walking according to their orders.

Then the Ulanala clan dealt with the rest of the matters in an orderly manner, detained all the cadres who served Fuhui, interrogated them one by one, and ran back and forth between Nian's mother and son all night without sleep, until the sky turned white, Fuhui's condition was temporarily stabilized, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

Recalling this, Hui Zhu Huo sat up suddenly, opened his eyes suddenly, and muttered to himself in an almost inaudible voice: "It's not the queen-" If it was done by the Ulanala clan, last night's thorough investigation to the end, and today's nearly half of the toss was just to clear his innocence, and the reason why he was so angry and attached importance to it shows that the Ulanala clan was also kept in his bones and suffered from the injustice of the Nian clan.

Su Xin saw that Huizhu seemed to be abnormal, and her face changed in shock, and she called out in a lost voice: "Master, what's wrong with you?" Huizhu was barely self-contained, and before she could speak to appease, suddenly there was a rush of footsteps outside, and Xiao Ranzi exclaimed in horror: "Master, something happened!" Something happened...... "Huizhu and Suxin's master and servant glanced at each other, and they were busy holding their breath and looking sideways, but in the blink of an eye, they saw the curtain lifted, and Xiao Ranzi panted and dragged the corner of the curtain, trembling and said: "Yuyao hanged himself!" ”

Everyone in the room was stunned when they heard this, only to hear a gasp of gasp, Huizhu turned pale and said: "You swallow the matter of Yuyao into the stomach, who dares to chew the root of the tongue here, don't blame the palace for being ruthless!" As he spoke, his eyes swept sharply across the room, put on his shoes and said, "Xiao Ranzi, take the palace to ...... Yuyao's room. ”

Turning to Yuyao's room, Xiao Ranzi had already ordered two palace supervisors to guard the door, and there was Yurao sitting on the ground on the side.

The pestle was at the door of the room, Huizhu's ten fingers sank into the palm of his hand, and he took a deep breath, closed his eyes and said, "Open the door!" When the words fell, there was a "squeak", one pounced, fell to Huizhu, and cried: "Master, Yuyao, she died, she hanged herself, she wants to kill the slave maid, the slave maid don't die, don't die......"

As soon as Yurao cried, the palace people who didn't know why ran one after another, Huizhu glared at her angrily, and ordered angrily: "Someone will tie her up, and her mouth will be blocked in this palace!" When Yurao heard this, she hugged Huizhu even more desperately and said: "Master, you want to save the slave!" The slave knows nothing! Huizhu's heart was crossed, and she said angrily again: "What are you doing!" A few bold people rushed forward, moved Yurao, divided five by two, and tied her up.

Seeing that Yurao was held hostage and left, Huizhu didn't bother anymore, took a deep breath, and walked towards the house.

Inside the house, the bedding was messy, and the cabinets were horizontal, but Yuyao's corpse was not seen! As soon as Hui Zhu thought of this, he suddenly felt a chill in his back, and then he saw Xiao Ranzi pointing to the corner of his back tremblingly, and said with a pale face: "The master is there." ”

Huizhu swallowed her saliva, nodded her head heavily, turned around with her body trembling, and a pair of snow-blue satin embroidered carp pattern pot-bottomed shoes dangling in mid-air shook into her eyes. Huizhu's gaze slowly moved up with the flowerpot bottom shoes, skimming the palace dress with a pale cyan bamboo butterfly pattern, and a gray face broke into her eyes; The director of the face, with his eyes in the arms, blue circles, white balls on his eyes, and a pair of upturned black pupils under his eyes; The tip of the nose is also blue-gray, and when viewed from below, two strands of blood that seem to be colored and dark red and semi-dry slip out of the nose; Further down, the red lips, which were originally not dotted, were blue and purple, and the upper and lower lip flaps were half-opened, and the purple tongue coating was faintly visible.

"Ahh Huizhu didn't know that Yuyao's appearance after death kept flashing in her mind, and the emotions of horror and horror spread to her limbs.

Hearing the screams, Su Xin ran into the house in a panic, saw Huizhu buried in his knees, kept shaking his head and shaking his head, and then turned his head to look at Xiao Ranzi's sluggish gaze in confusion, and his heart was suddenly stunned, and he hurriedly closed his eyes to avoid it, and said "evil" in his heart, and recited a few Buddhas in his mouth, and then squatted down and hugged Huizhu, patted and said: "Amitabha, don't be afraid, it's okay to go out with the slave?" Huizhu nodded busily, and helped out of the room with Su Xin's support.

"The slave asks Concubine Xi to say goodbye, and the queen asks you to speak in Chuxiu Palace" As soon as he came out of the house, he was officially shocked, and he saw a palace eunuch call a thousand children and said.

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