Chapter 287: Step by Step to Win
There was chaos in the palace.
The emperor was in a coma and had not woken up at all from day to night, and at this time, the four princes, Junlin and Mu Qingyan, were also left in the palace.
The civil and military officials didn't know what caused the emperor to be so angry, vomiting blood and falling into a coma, and they didn't know what the queen mother said to the emperor.
I can only keep my mouth shut with endless doubts and clouds......
Mu Qingyan and Junlin are very clear, and they have also listened to what the Queen Mother said unscrupulously, and even the Queen Mother is a little regretful that she did not eradicate the crown prince Junyuan!
However, why did the Queen Mother say so unscrupulously in front of them, and why did she push the crown prince to a high position?
However, after everything today, the crown prince is definitely more estranged in the emperor's arrogant heart, and he is afraid that he will be suspicious of the emperor.
The progress of the Praetorian Guards was not smooth, and Jiang Ming was found to investigate the case.
What made things even more desperate was that the captured female assassin vomited blood and died on the way to the prison, so that it is impossible to find out who arranged for her to enter the palace, or how she got into the palace singers and dancers.
Also, where did the advanced bow and crossbow come from, what kind of poison was the poison on the arrows, where did it come from, and was the motive for the assassination really just because of the flood?
All of this is left in front of me as a fog.
I went first, thinking that I could learn from the female assassin's mouth about the torture in turns, and I didn't expect to die on the way.
Mu Qingyan thought in her heart, her brows were deeply locked, if she continued like this, the royal family of the Daduan Dynasty would really be in danger, it would be chaotic enough.
The queen only came to see the emperor at the beginning, and she kept hiding in her own dormitory because she was sick, but the prince was more like the emperor, and he insisted on cleaning up the mess with a pale and crumbling face.
Although, it seems that the mess was not cleaned up perfectly, that is, let the civil and military officials disperse, ordered the Praetorian Guards to strengthen patrols, and personally served in the emperor's bedroom......
Prince Junyuan always looked like she didn't seem so gentle, I don't know if it's an illusion.
Yes, Mu Qingyan was thinking, and when she was thinking, she walked out of the emperor's bedroom, took the white handkerchief handed by Zhang Heng with an indifferent face, and began to carefully wipe it one finger at a time, and only after wiping it did she speak: "There is blood on the chest, and half of his life is gone, if he doesn't wake up again, I can't do anything about it." ”
King's Landing also walked out of the emperor's bedroom, walked to Mu Qingyan's side with slender thighs, and said in a deep voice: "Didn't you say before that the emperor's body has at least more than a year to live, why is this all of a sudden?"
When he heard this, his expression became even more gloomy, and he said with a gloomy look in his eyes: "I always feel that the emperor vomits blood a little strangely this time, although it looks like blood vomited in anger, but how can my medical skills and the elixir of the Medicine King Valley be so bad?
When Mu Qingyan heard this, she completely agreed with the question of one in a hundred, and looked at King's Landing with the same doubtful eyes.
Jun Lin's eyes rolled, and he said in a deep voice: "She has openly tore her face with us, which is very likely to be unfavorable to Jun Qingzhen, and the emperor's most nervous son is Jun Qingzhen." The words fell, but the color of his eyes was unknown.
"It's just a sentence, it's too exaggerated to vomit blood and vomit half a life in a sentence, right?" Mu Qingyan recalled: "I always feel that the Queen Mother did this on purpose, she seems to be deliberately leaning towards the emperor's side......"
These words resonated with them, and for an instant, they were silent with each other.
“...... The smell!"
Suddenly, Mu Qingyan woke up suddenly and said suddenly.
When he heard this, he looked up in amazement, and then said: "I didn't expect that catalysis, it was catalysis, and the smell catalyzed the toxins in the emperor's body! ”
King's Landing said, "What is she afraid to do!" The words fell, and a mocking smile flashed across his face.
Mu Qingyan's expression also sank, and said: "She is so unscrupulous, she is accurate, we can't find evidence, and smell can't be collected as a trigger for inducing toxins, and it is difficult to easily use it as evidence." What a thoughtful and ruthless person, how can I sleep with peace of mind with such an existence!"
Thinking of the incident of meeting Li Xi's nurse Li Mama, at this moment, she really had the idea of rushing to Cining Palace to kill the old pious woman of the Queen Mother.
There was gloom in King's Landing's eyes, and he said, "It's late at night, rest first, and continue tomorrow." ”
"Then who will guard the emperor?" the prince ......" Mu Qingyan heard this, and her first reaction was this, after all, the person in the palace who wants the emperor to die now is the queen mother, if so, if they are not there, it is not impossible for the queen mother to break in.
The current situation of the crown prince Junyuan is very embarrassing, besides, the prince doesn't know that he is standing over there, the queen mother so openly holds up the prince Junyuan, saying that they don't have anything is really unbelievable.
However, after hearing the words of the Queen Mother, the crown prince immediately knelt in front of the emperor in fear and confessed......
"The king has already sent the crown prince back, and as for tonight, the people who keep vigil for the emperor are Gonggong Gui and Zhang He. King's Landing said in a deep voice, "I've been here today, I've been busy all day, and I'll continue tomorrow!"
When the two of them walked to the inner house of the emperor's palace to go to bed, it was already late at night, and although the entire palace was still brightly lit, the eunuchs and palace maids who led the way carried the lamps reflected their faces with sleepy eyes.
When I arrived in the room, I waited for another while to change clothes and wash, and after a while, it was already two or three o'clock in the night.
After Mu Qingyan sent those eunuchs Gong E, she saw that in the inner room, King's Landing was still listening to Zhang Heng whispering to him on the side.
Slowly crossing the screen and walking into the dormitory, she remembered that King's Landing seemed to have been without Zhang Heng since the day, as if it had been from finding her and walking back to the Jinluan Palace.
Obviously, on weekdays, Zhang Heng would never leave King's Landing for more than half a step, why did he disappear for most of the day today, and while walking in silence, she wondered, she walked into the bedroom, and King's Landing looked at her coldly and asked, "What do you think?"
"Subordinates retire!"
Zhang Heng saw Mu Qingyan walk in, and immediately retreated with interest.
Mu Qingyan was still indulging in recalling the events of the day, and she didn't expect that King's Landing would finish chatting with Zhang Heng so quickly, and she was stunned for a while before replying: "How can there be a new situation?"
Looking at the not-so-bright lights, King's Landing sat on the soft floor in a white midcoat, and there was a strange sense of softness.
"Well, about the situation in the palace, Zhang Heng is making some reports to this king. King's Landing said, reaching out and putting his arm around Mu Qingyan in his arms.
Mu Qingyan absorbed the warmth from her body and said, "How is the situation in the palace?"
King's Landing didn't answer her question, but picked her up and went to bed, the first thing he did was to put her on the bed and wrap her tightly in the quilt before he spoke, "Rest first, you should go to bed at this time instead of discussing here, besides, why don't you put on more clothes when it's still so cold?"
The day and night of the beginning of spring are still cold, the air is cold, and the bed is even more important at the moment.
Before Uncle Jun's words fell, Mu Qingyan shivered, because the bed and quilt were cold.
King's Landing naturally felt it, and quickly got into bed, lifted her quilt, and held the person in his arms.
Men belong to yang, women belong to yin, Mu Qingyan actually felt cold hands and feet after washing, and when she encountered warmth at this moment, she immediately found a comfortable place to nest.
"Tell me, what were you thinking just now? Thinking so engrossedly, you can't even hear this king call you?" King's Landing wrapped his arms around her slender waist with one hand, and gently stroked her shiny black silk with the other, and then hooked the few strands of hair that were messy on her little face behind her jade-like earlobes.
Mu Qingyan closed her mouth tightly and pursed her lips, she suddenly felt that she didn't know how to speak, and she had a thousand things in her head but didn't know where to start.
For her, who has been through so much, the things she encountered in the palace today are really nothing, but they have something closely related to her.
King's Landing didn't urge her to do this, but with a wave of his free hand, the lights in the room were extinguished, because darkness was the best place to relax.
I don't know how long it took before Mu Qingyan asked in a low voice: "You know that this queen mother is fake, why did you have to be faint for so long? Today, she has done such a thing to force the emperor, with your ability, with the emperor's current ability, the two of you are enough to pull her down from her high position, why do you want to tolerate these things she does? Do you really want to continue to tolerate her evil?"
"It's easy to kill her, it's just a knife, a white silk, a glass of poisoned wine, and it's just a sudden illness and death!" King's Landing said calmly: "However, you, me, and the poison on the emperor's body may become a hidden danger that can never be lifted, and I don't know when I will die of poison." Besides, when she did such a thing, she had already thought of the way back, and even when the emperor and this king were full-fledged, she almost emptied the treasury of the Daduan Dynasty in various names. ”
In the darkness, Mu Qingyan seemed to see King's Landing's embarrassment, and said in a deep voice: "The poison on our bodies is all her handiwork, but it is not just her who did it, right?
King's Landing replied in a deep voice, "Hmm!"
Mu Qingyan was silent for a while, and said again: "Yes, your worries are right, because until now, I and one of the hundred miles have not found an effective antidote, but after today's incident, I think it is impossible for the emperor to keep her life, if so, she is still alive in this world, it is a very big threat to us." ”
King's Landing's faint voice became clearer and clearer in the night, and said, "You've thought of it all!"
Mu Qingyan nodded in his arms and said, "Well, since Mama Li deliberately led me over, I thought that it was probably the fake empress dowager who was going to openly fight for power, and that so many people had died in Cining Palace before, it wasn't that someone wanted to assassinate her." She hid in Cining Palace and stayed at home, and the situation at that time, now I understand that she was not afraid but liquidated, and really killed those who she suspected of having problems. As for why some people who died were not sent to Cining Palace, it should be related to the crown prince. ”
After a pause, she continued: "The emperor has already told the prince that he will not let him set foot in the palace again and will no longer act as an agent for state affairs, but today's situation in the Jinluan Palace, he understood at a glance that the prince is related to the fake queen mother, or he will not be angry by the fake queen mother's words, I think the smell of the fake queen mother at that time was to induce the poison in the emperor's body, and then use language stimulation to make the emperor angry and promote greater toxicity." ”
Talking, talking, Mu Qingyan's voice was a little astringent, and she said sullenly: "You...... Didn't you already know?"
She couldn't understand why King's Landing had spared no effort to save the Emperor while putting the Emperor in such a dangerous situation.
King's Landing calmly admitted, saying, "This king has guessed, and there are some clues, but there is no substantial evidence. However, after leaving, the king sent someone to do the ......"
“......”
Mu Qingyan couldn't answer this, couldn't complain, and couldn't say a word about his wrongness.
There is no evidence, even if he, as the fourth prince, can not easily let the prepared fake queen mother be imprisoned, besides, the fake queen mother seems to have been around no less vicious people.
Taking a deep breath, Mu Qingyan poked his chest muscles with her fingers, and said: "The fake queen mother is so arrogant, how do you deal with her? Besides, if you don't deal with her, I will also deal with her, she has done so many bad things, I don't believe that she can really be so arrogant forever." ”
King's Landing felt the pain coming from his chest muscles, his eyes flickered a few times in the dark, and the heavy haze that had been haunting his heart was diluted a little because of Mu Qingyan's reaction.
"Don't be angry, she is arrogant in the Jinluan Palace, but in the harem, this king has already let my people design a trap waiting for her to throw herself into the net. King's Landing said lightly: "She is very careful about her diet on weekdays, and she thinks that only she will use poison." No, this king also let people add colorless and tasteless bone erosion to the wine and food she drinks, as long as she touches anything at any banquet at any banquet, it will immediately poison the bone marrow, if there is no antidote, she will also die soon!"
Mu Qingyan never expected that King's Landing would still have such a hand, and said, "How did you place someone next to the fake queen mother? and how did you know that the fake queen mother would definitely appear at the spring ploughing banquet?"
She wanted to kill people, but she didn't think that she couldn't kill them all, of course, unless she killed everyone! ”
King's Landing's faint voice sounded again, and said: "This king has always sent people to secretly monitor Cining Palace, and one night, she had to deal with a henchman palace maid in the inner hall of Cining Palace. ”
It is precisely because of this that the king vaguely guessed what the fake queen mother was going to do. also knew that Lin Tao and Lin Hanting often had secret meetings with her, and this confidant palace maid even revealed an important news, saying that there seemed to be an ulterior secret between the fake queen mother and Ye Lingtian. ”
"The fake queen mother and Ye Lingtian also have an ulterior secret? The matter of the imperial palace may also be that the queen mother and Ye Lingtian are calculating you together, but why does Ye Xun have to have your heir?" Mu Qingyan thought deeply and said: "Even recklessly, I want to take advantage of the day you enter the palace to seduce you, so that Ye Xun can get pregnant?" really, do you just want Ye Xun to get pregnant?"
"Why did Ye Lingtian do this? His daughter is the queen, and his grandson is the crown prince, why do you have to let Ye Xun conceive your heir? Moreover, there is no need for him to let Ye Xun accept the position of your side concubine, how can Ye Xun's identity be matched with the crown princess, or a more stable kiss and a kiss to become the crown princess but become your side concubine, this is something I can't figure out. ”
"This is also one of the reasons why this king wants to keep her life, he can't let her die so easily, and he can't cheapen those who have a secret hand behind her back. ”
Once in the same dark night, he was alone and made an oath to the heavens, earth, ghosts and gods.
He wants the fake queen mother to also try the poison that can't be removed, and the pain of being eaten by the poison will be painful. Even if he knew that it was his poison, he couldn't do anything to fight back, because he had already let people start a killing in Cining Palace.
Let her also try the feeling of being powerless, helpless, afraid, poisoned and facing death at any time, how does this taste compare to the humiliation when he was forced to go to Jiangnan?
Moreover, once she kills the people in the ambush in her Cining Palace this time, her good days will come to an end.
He still won't kill her, but he will make people abuse her well, tooth for tooth, blood debt and blood debt, of course, what Shui Linglong does is ten million times more vicious than what he does.
Back then, he was chased and killed by Shui Linglong all the way to Jiangnan, and because of her, he was able to be severely poisoned and miserable for many years, and he already wanted to get rid of her in his heart.
After careful deployment, I wished that Shui Linglong would die without a full body, but I never expected that Shui Linglong would still have an ulterior secret with Ye Lingtian.
If it weren't for the woman who assassinated at the spring ploughing banquet, Shui Linglong didn't say those words, he wouldn't have done it so quickly.
The sudden change made him suddenly realize that Shui Linglong, a woman, had to be removed even if she couldn't find an antidote for the rest of her life!
"Then you tell me the truth, Chu Xun was ambushed, I was attacked after I left the capital, Nangong Jin's appearance, and Ye Xun's affairs are all related to the fake queen mother's handiwork?
King's Landing replied in a flat voice, "Well, now that it's over, you can guess it's probably coming. It's just that there are some things that this king can't easily explain to you!"
At this moment, he could feel Mu Qingyan's tense limbs in his arms, so he spoke again and said: "This king knows what you want and what you are worried about, but this king has thought about using you from the beginning, and then he has defended you everywhere, and what he has done for you later, isn't it enough for you to dispel your worries?"
Mu Qingyan was silent, and in the dark, it seemed that King's Landing's voice was a little abrupt.
King's Landing hugged her tightly in some amazement, and said, "Don't isolate this king from your world, this king is willing to wait for you to believe!"
"However, we have come to this point, can we really believe without barriers?" Mu Qingyan asked in a deep voice.
"It's only a matter of time before the emperor dies, even if there is an antidote, he won't be able to live long, and the Daduan Dynasty will be chaotic after all...... At that time, there will be no such a small wind and rain, in addition to civil strife, there are also the State of Chu and other countries that are eyeing each other, and this king is the most capable person to protect you, so don't think about escaping from this king's side, let alone those past things. King's Landing rested his chin on top of her head, a muffled sound.
When Mu Qingyan heard this, the corners of her mouth showed a trace of bitterness in the darkness, and then her eyes changed, and she said: "The fake queen mother has almost emptied the treasury, and now, many places in the people have not calmed down the disaster. I think you know better than I should know that the rogue is not terrible, but the people are more terrible than the rogues, and if the tens of thousands of disaster victims are not resettled and appeased, the country will really perish. At that time, the first person to bear the brunt was the people of the royal family, and no matter how powerful you were, it was impossible for you to go head-to-head with these crazy victims, and it was not realistic to kill them all. ”
Yes, at this time, she doesn't talk to him about the relationship between children and daughters, and she doesn't talk to him about the small family but about everyone.
"As the fourth prince, you are in power and in the opposition, and your ability is even higher than that of the emperor and the crown prince, I don't know how many times, and your mental means are extremely powerful, it stands to reason that the emperor is assisted by you, and state affairs will never be so bad. However, the court of the Daduan Dynasty is rotten, in addition to the interference of the Queen Mother, it should be more of your laissez-faire. After a pause, she added: "The reason why you say this to me is because you have already calculated, such a powerful person, a step-by-step man, a thoughtful person, an invulnerable person...... You're so perfect that it scares me a little!"
And it's definitely not just that little bit in front of you......
Of course, Mu Qingyan didn't say this.
King's Landing picked up the metaphorical concern in her words, but didn't refute it, just letting her continue.
In the dark, Mu Qingyan opened a pair of eyes like stars, looked at King's Landing's face accurately, and said, "I remember that once you asked me why I didn't attack you when I had so many opportunities, and I told you at the time, I didn't dare, I couldn't do it." Another reason is ......"