In Yinzhong, the prince served Emperor Xianjia, who was extremely tired, and lay down and walked out of the dormitory lightly.

Outside the dormitory, Xun Ying, who had followed Emperor Xianjia for more than 30 years, quietly stepped forward and said, "Your Highness!" ”

"The Father Emperor has been settled." The prince pinched his eyebrows and motioned for him to follow him outside.

Xun Ying made a look and ordered two small chamberlains to enter the dormitory to wait, and then followed the footsteps of the prince.

When the two arrived at the corridor outside, the prince didn't speak immediately, but couldn't stop swallowing his saliva—after a while, he said, "Father-in-law Xun......"

"Please also ask Your Highness to mourn." Xun Ying said plainly and briefly, which made the prince's breathing suddenly worse!

- The lord of Xifu Palace, Concubine Cui, his biological mother, is gone?

Although the prince already knew the result when he failed to intercede, but now after confirming it from Xun Ying, he still felt unspeakable grief and melancholy.

After a while, the prince finally collected his emotions, but asked another person: "That...... Warm beauty? ”

"Your Majesty has not yet shown it, and the slave maid does not dare to be specialized, so she can only temporarily invite the two aunts to accompany the beauty." Xun Ying said unshockedly, "Your Highness has something to bring to the warm beauty?" ”

He deliberately bit the word "bring", but it was a euphemism to remind the prince that the emperor's concubines, especially the beautiful concubines who were several years younger than the prince, were not what the prince should care about in the middle of the night.

"Lone knows." In fact, when the prince asked, he realized that he had lost his temper, but he really couldn't settle down - just a moment ago, the conversation between Emperor Xianjia and Empress Su came to an end, and he summoned the prince.

It's just that the father and son greeted each other a few words, and the warm beauty served the decoction, and Emperor Xianjia only took a sip, and was knocked over the medicine bowl by Xun Ying, who hurriedly broke into the dormitory!

The reason is that Xun Ying received a notice that someone saw Nuan Mei mixing something into the medicine bowl.

However, when the hospital arrived, it was found that although the medicine bowl did add poison, it also added antidote, which was harmless to people - as for the origin of the antidote, the hospital found traces of storage in the purse worn by the warm beauty.

At this time, Nuan Mei confessed that she had been placed in the Xuanming Palace by Concubine Cui a few days ago and asked to secretly go to Xifu Palace to meet her, and Concubine Cui hinted euphemistically that she hoped to use her convenience to serve Emperor Xianjia close to her, and do tricks in the emperor's decoction.

Due to the fear of refusing and not being able to leave the Xifu Palace, the warm beauty could only pretend to agree, and for a few days, Concubine Cui did not move, and the warm beauty only said that she had changed her mind - as a result, after learning that Emperor Xianjia woke up tonight, the warm beauty hurried to the Xuanming Palace, and learned that the emperor was talking to the prince, so she went straight to the place where the medicine was boiled.

"The concubine recognized that among the people guarding the medicine stove, there was Concubine Cui's mother, who was suspicious of the bowl of medicine, but the concubine didn't know the art of disambiguation, and she didn't know whether the medicine was doing anything or not." Nuan Meiren explained the reason why she was suspicious but silent, "And the concubine has an antidote pill in her hand that she obtained when she was in Wuhuan, which can detoxify all kinds of poisons, and there is no harm if people who have not been poisoned take it." So halfway with the medicine, she quietly put the antidote pill in, and the concubine only said that she had done it hidden, but she was still looked at. ”

Although she may not be thoughtful in doing this, it is understandable from her own standpoint: the princess of the dead country who is alone has been bullied during this time, so it is naturally better to have more than less.

The question is - Emperor Xianjia asked on the spot: "Why didn't you report this matter to the queen after leaving the Xifu Palace a few days ago?" ”

Not to mention that after learning that someone wanted to kill the king, she should have exposed it, just saying that Nuan Meiren has been taking refuge under Queen Su for the past few months, such an important news, she shouldn't hide it from Queen Su, right?

"When Concubine Cui summoned the concubine that night, there was certainly a hint, but there was no evidence for the concubine." The warm beauty trembled and said, "What's more, the queen's heart was on Your Majesty at that time, and the concubine was ...... The concubine is also afraid of disturbing the mother! ”

This is a flaw that everyone can hear: first of all, Queen Su and Concubine Cui are racking their brains for their respective sons to take the throne, if the queen knows Concubine Cui's thoughts, she can find out the evidence without evidence; Secondly, it is precisely because the queen attaches great importance to the safety of Emperor Xianjia that someone intends to murder the emperor, so she must find out how to eliminate the hidden danger!

But Emperor Xianjia and the crown prince understood the implication of what Nuan Mei said: she was afraid that something would happen to Emperor Xianjia!

At that time, the Xuanming Palace was ruled by the queen, and the queen hoped that her son King Zhao would ascend the throne, if she knew that Concubine Cui had the idea of killing the monarch, and also inserted her eyeliner in the Xuanming Palace, maybe she would have planned it, so that Concubine Cui's subordinates "smoothly" killed Emperor Xianjia, and then exposed Concubine Cui's crimes, so even if the prince was established by Emperor Xianjia, how could he continue to ascend the throne?

And the warm beauty is helpless, the only valuable thing is that Emperor Xianjia likes her company very much, and the queen is willing to accept her under her command for this purpose - if Emperor Xianjia dies, what use will she have for the queen? So even if she took refuge in the queen, she didn't want anything to happen to the emperor.

Under such considerations, of course Nuan Meiren would not tell Queen Su that Concubine Cui intended to kill the king!

Emperor Xianjia didn't say anything after hearing this, but ordered someone to take her down, and then thoroughly investigated the palace people who had just participated in boiling the medicine, so he found out the eyebrows, and then found Concubine Cui - After confirming that the words of the warm beauty were true, the emperor directly ordered someone to go to Xifu Palace to deal with the aftermath, and for this reason, he also found an excuse to persuade Queen Su, who noticed the clue halfway and came to ask, to go to the side hall to rest - the prince will have a very complicated perception of the warm beauty: I don't know how to thank her for the antidote pill she put in the medicine, so that Emperor Xianjia didn't have an accident even if he drank the medicine; Or should she resent her actions for causing the exposure of Concubine Cui's murder of the monarch and causing her biological mother to die in the palace?

He waved his hand in distraction, signaling that he had nothing to say and asked Xun Ying again, and after pulling his collar, he faced the night breeze for a while before he walked to his resting place in despair: Emperor Xianjia's attitude is very clear, secret. Deal with Concubine Cui and others, and cover up the murder of the monarch, so as not to affect his status as a prince.

This father is so careful about him, how can he bear to disappoint him?

- Tomorrow, after the palace people of Xifu Palace find out that Concubine Cui "died of illness", he will have to play a filial son who heard bad news at first glance!

It's just that what the prince doesn't know is that in the Dongnuan Pavilion at this moment, in the room that is only a few rooms away from his house, Jian Xubai is holding a bamboo hosta in his hand, his internal strength is slightly vomiting, and the hollow hairpin body is silently broken into powder.

"Grandpa?" Ji Su was stunned when he saw this, he was Jian Xubai's henchman, and he naturally knew that this bamboo hosta looked ordinary, but in fact, it was a hidden mystery, and in the hollow section of the hairpin, there had always been an antidote pill that could cure all kinds of poisons.

This is a gift that Jian Xubai specially asked Aunt Yun to give him when Mrs. Duanmu sent Aunt Yun to treat him after Wuhuan was poisoned. This time, it is unpredictable to enter the palace to serve the sick, and Jian Xubai naturally has to bring it just in case.

It's just that Ji Su thought that the emperor had woken up, why did he still need this thing? And looking at the way the jade powder spilled from between Jian Xu's white fingers, the antidote pill was obviously no longer among them.

His heart jumped, "Could it be that someone ...... to Grandpa?" ”

"Someone just made a trick in the decoction that the imperial uncle drank, and I put the antidote pill in it." Jian Xubai shook his head and said briefly, "But the antidote pill is under the banner of a warm beauty, in order to win the trust of the imperial doctor, I also asked her to put the antidote pill in the purse and pinch it first, and then put it in the medicine, and now the secret of this hairpin naturally cannot be known, so it can only be destroyed." ”

As he spoke, he had destroyed the entire hosta, sprinkled it into the small pond outside the window, and then flicked his wide sleeves, the pool water was slight, and in a moment, the powder that had originally floated on the surface of the water was gone.

Ji Su didn't care about the hairpin, and said in surprise: "Who is so bold?!" How dare you murder Your Majesty! ”

When he asked this, his eyes subconsciously moved to the side hall, which was where Queen Su would rest temporarily.

"Nominally, it's Concubine Cui." However, Jian Xubai said in a strange tone, "Actually, it's the imperial uncle!" ”

If Ji Su was startled when he heard that someone was trying to kill the monarch, he almost jumped up at this moment: "Your Majesty?!" ”

"If it weren't for the emperor's uncle's instructions, Concubine Cui would also want to stretch out her hand to Xuanming Palace?" Jian Xubai sneered slightly, "The imperial aunt is the queen of the Yuan who is seriously presiding over the six palaces, if it weren't for the fact that the imperial uncle was unconscious this time, and still commanded the people of the Xuanming Palace, let alone Concubine Cui?" It's not a day or two since the imperial uncle practiced Zuo, if he couldn't even restrain the people in his palace, God knows how many times he would have died when he seized the crown prince - it's a pity that the imperial uncle knows this truth, but Concubine Cui is ignorant! Oh, maybe she doesn't know, but she just wants to be the queen mother too much, and Li Lingzhi is dizzy! ”

"But Your Majesty has been getting worse day by day since the beginning of the year, maybe the people of Xuanming Palace want to think about the future?" Ji Su said incredulously, "Otherwise, if Your Majesty wants to abolish the crown prince, it is just a sentence, why bother to go around such a circle and start with Concubine Cui?" ”

Jian Xubai sneered when he heard this, and said, "Waste prince? If the imperial uncle wants to abolish the crown prince, he really doesn't need such trouble - the problem is that the imperial uncle didn't plan to save it at all, but was determined to let the prince ascend the throne, so how could the disposal of Concubine Cui be simple? ”

Seeing Ji Su's dazed face, he snorted slightly, "After all, in the emperor's uncle's heart, the crown prince is more important than Aunt Daiguo, but Aunt Daiguo is definitely more important than Concubine Cui!" ”

"Your Majesty plans to pass on the crown prince, but you also want to keep Her Royal Highness the Acting Princess?!" When Ji Su heard this, he could be considered to understand, "It's just that if the crown prince ascends the throne, Concubine Cui will be the queen mother, and at that time, the mother will be more precious than the son, and if she has to deal with the acting princess, the acting princess will definitely not be fortunate - yes, Your Majesty plans to dispose of Concubine Cui before the prince ascends the throne?!" ”

- After all, although the crown prince is Concubine Cui's biological son, he has not gotten along much with Concubine Cui since he was a child, and the relationship between mother and son is far less profound than that of father and son, so if Emperor Xianjia disposes of the family of the acting princess before his death, and then asks the prince to open up in the future, the prince should agree.

The premise is that none of the Empress Dowager Cui insists on killing them all!

Otherwise, even if the crown prince keeps his promise, those who want to please the queen mother will do everything possible to target the family of the acting princess!

In other words, if Emperor Xianjia wants to keep his sister, Concubine Cui must die.

The easiest solution to this situation was to change the prince, but the emperor didn't care about the life or death of the prince's biological mother, but he didn't want to be easy to save, so he had to let Concubine Cui die by herself, and she died as a matter of course, and the prince was speechless!

In particular, you can't blame the acting princess and any other person that the emperor wants to preserve!

So what other crime could be more appropriate than killing a king?

Legally, this is a heinous act; Emotionally speaking, the prince is more to the emperor than to Concubine Cui, if he has to choose one of his biological parents, the prince must choose the emperor; Generally speaking, the woman who murdered her husband deserves death!

The more Ji Su thought about it, the more he felt cold sweat, he couldn't help but swallow his saliva, and then he said, "But...... But wouldn't His Royal Highness the Crown Prince think that if it weren't for the hard work of the Acting Princess, Concubine Cui would never have made such a decision? ”