After the first snowfall, the day finally had a pale day.

Outside the imperial study, the two small yellow doors on duty were sleepy at noon, and they were slightly drowsy outside the quiet bright yellow brocade curtain, and they were suddenly disturbed by a rapid pace, and quickly widened their eyes, and saw that the curtain was lifted, and the prince who had not been in for a long time strode out with a happy face, leaving only a Zhu Yang back in a moment.

The two attendants looked at each other, and this person was still depressed and nervous when he entered, how could he suddenly come out refreshed and high-spirited, could it be that something good had happened? It's unlikely, even the queen is abolished, who doesn't understand that the East Palace is in danger.

However, the chamberlain naturally did not dare to discuss, that is, he watched the golden embroidered moire on the prince's hunting robe gradually fade out of sight, and then regained his drowsiness and stood and napped.

The prince's mood was indeed happy.

Because just now his father's edict allowed him to go to the Rehe Palace, although he did not say it explicitly, he actually acquiesced to him to visit the abolished concubine Zhen, the prince is not very keen in political affairs, but he is very aware of this matter.

Walking like a fly to the East Palace, the prince pulled the commander of his own soldiers is good instructions, and went straight to the dormitory, bumped into the palace maid Danli head-on, and pulled someone's slender hand: "Danli, Danli!" Father allowed him to go to the Rehe Palace alone, prepare quickly, and set off today, Danli, I can finally see Ah Lian, are you happy? ”

The ecstatic prince never expected his joyful thanks, and after he couldn't wait to say goodbye, his father pressed his forehead and smiled bitterly: "I really can't count on it, I should have died a long time ago, and I tried something, or not, since Da Lang has never forgotten the Zhen family, so affectionate, in the future, he will let him live in the forbidden palace with the Zhen family for the rest of his life, with Zhen's company, I think Da Lang will not feel that life is like a year, and there is less misery of forbidden residence." ”

And the prince naturally didn't notice the discomfort on the face of his cronie palace maid Danli, and the relief that followed closely followed.

Danli instructed the little palace maids to pack up, walked alone to the wing room at the back of the main hall, threw the pill that she had made up her mind to take earlier into a bowl of hot water, and after watching it melt with her own eyes, she raised her hand and poured it into the spit pot.

This medicine is from the Miao family, if it is taken, the person is hyperthermic, the palace maid suffers from a disease, of course, it will not alarm the doctor, not to mention that the ordinary doctor can not diagnose it because of poisoning and fever and not a disease, the palace maid has a disease, according to the law when sent to the palace outside the nunnery to recuperate, and can only return to the palace after healing, the nunnery is far less strict than the palace, and there are people who respond, there is a great chance of disappearing.

The reason why Danli planned to sneak away was, of course, to get a signal - the lark got out.

As early as half a month ago, she got the poison handed over by the dark line in the palace, and it fell on the prince's tea, this poison naturally originated from the Miao family, the toxicity was fierce, and it should have happened immediately, but Miao Shimo also prepared the medicine of restraint, and the Danli people were in the palace, so as to ensure the prince's safety for the time being, as soon as she left the palace, the prince had no medicine of restraint to relieve the toxicity, and he would have an attack that night.

Once the prince is poisoned, the palace people who serve in close service and even the entire East Palace are bound to be severely punished, Danli was originally the confidant of the crown princess Zhen and not the dead soldier of His Royal Highness the Maharaja, and was later bought, firstly, because the family fell into the hands of people and became a threat, and secondly, the other party also promised that as long as Danli obeyed the order, her parents and family would be able to enjoy wealth and nobility in Xiliang, and they would no longer suffer from slaves.

Of course, if Danli wants to poison the prince willingly, she must also be safe.

Yu Haoxi has long harbored malice towards the prince, and he didn't think about using the Miao family's poison technique to assassinate him, firstly, when the Zhen family was in power, he supervised the East Palace very strictly, and it was not easy for him to buy the palace maid to poison him, and it was also because he was afraid of Jiang Qinggu, and it was difficult to guarantee that nothing would leak, so he dispelled this idea, but bought Yu Dong and Huang Tao with great waste and twists and turns, so that it was possible to make the prince die in a confusing way, so as not to be suspicious.

Of course, at this time, the Maharaja will not care whether the Son of Heaven will understand the truth, as long as the prince dies violently, the goal will be achieved.

However, the trip to Prince Rehe was indeed a coincidence.

Rehe is hundreds of miles away from Beijing, how can the road be delayed for three or two days, Danli knows the habits of the prince, will not be accustomed to the official post diet, and then pinch again, not afraid that there is no chance to go to the restaurant market, because she is the only remaining henchman of the Zhen family, and the prince is very respectful, as long as she leaves the palace, there are many opportunities to abscond, not to mention that she can also pass the news out of the palace through the palace attendants, and agree on a meeting place with the person who responds.

Danli chuckled, the days of fear and fear have finally come to an end, and she is expected to be reunited with her family and no longer suffer from being a slave and a maid.

And the prince who was about to come to the catastrophe didn't know it, so he left the East Palace in a hurry and rushed to Rehe, along the way, thinking that he was going to say goodbye to his lover who had been separated for several years, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and the heavy mood since the exposure of the imperial examination dance case was swept away, and he hated to fly to his lover in a blink of an eye.

Danli was "soft-hearted" and planned to give the prince another chance to "say goodbye" to his former master, Zhen, so on the two days after the trip, he still insisted on relieving the poison to the prince.

The Rehe Palace is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the scenery is very beautiful, but the forbidden Zhen family is not qualified to live in the magnificence, but a palace in the remote part of the palace.

Over the years, the prince has silently paid attention to the dots, although Zhen's forbidden life is not pampered, well-dressed, and well-fed, he has not been bullied and humiliated, and his life is quiet and undisturbed.

But Zhen's mood is really not happy, she has the ambition of Lingyun, but she ended up in the forbidden cold palace, and she wants to pin her future completely on the prince, she really thinks that the chance of turning over is less than one percent, that is, because of the only remaining hope and unwillingness, she insists on living like a year.

In the ninth year of Yuanqing, the great changes that took place in Kyoto hundreds of miles away did not reach Zhen's ears.

On this day, the weather was clear, and Zhen was wearing a plain jade coat without a hairpin ring, strolling through the Forbidden Garden.

The scenery in this garden is really not beautiful, the green walls are high, the leaves are dense, because in winter, the green is reduced to a bleak yellow, and there are only a few old locust trees in the yard, it is this season, the dead leaves fall all over the ground, covering the pale gravel road.

The withered grass in the corner of the wall is green, and under the light of today's light gold, there is a tendency to be canopy.

The waste concubine who lives in the forbidden palace can't be painted red, Zhen's face is pale, and even on her lips, you can't see the slightest bright color.

Her gaze flashed over the broken cobwebs on a slightly lower branch, and she was sneering when she heard the dull sound of the door opening and closing behind her, and a series of hurried steps.

For a moment, Zhen's heart was suffocated.

This door is opened twice a day, and no one enters, only the palace slave waits for someone to deliver the meal.

Over the years, she had become accustomed to silence, and the sound of her steps seemed unfamiliar.

Zhen Lian stiffened her back, almost subconsciously thinking that the Son of Heaven who was far away in Jinyang had finally lost his patience, or that the crown prince was about to ascend the throne, and the Son of Heaven ordered to remove her as a hidden danger.

Since she was confined here, she has thought about this possibility a thousand times, and everything waiting for expectations is just in vain.

Before she could ease the suspicion in her chest, Zhen Lian was tightly surrounded by a pair of arms.

"Ah Lian, I'm here, Ah Lian, I'm finally ......" There was a somewhat familiar and somewhat unfamiliar voice in her ears, which made Zhen Lian's back suddenly stiffen a little.

Very slowly, a wave of ecstasy passed through her heart.

Did she really look forward to a one-hundredth-percent chance that the crown prince finally ascended the throne and came to pick her up and return to Jinyang.

Even if he is a sane person, after a long period of seclusion, he will infinitely magnify that glimmer of expectation and become naïve.

Zhen forgot that even if the crown prince inherited the throne, he did not have such a great ability to immediately suppress the group of ministers and ministers in the court, and even before she heard the death knell ring, he personally rushed to the forbidden palace to pick her up and return to Beijing.

The anticipating Zhen avoided the prince's impatient kiss, her long-frozen eyes burst into a flaming frenzy, and her thin fingers tightly twisted the prince's palms, she didn't speak for too long, and she opened her mouth for a while, that is, for such a moment of sluggishness, she was hit by five thunders!

"Ah Lian, Ah Lian, I don't think about you every day, do you miss me? You've lost weight, my Ah Lian, blame me...... But don't worry, since my father has allowed me to visit you, it must be because of my soft heart, I beg my father again, and maybe I can take you back. The prince burst into tears, and his trembling fingers were directed at his beloved wife's face, but he was once again held tightly.

"What did Your Highness say? Did the Holy One let you come? Zhen Lianxing's eyes were round, but the flames in her eyes were fading inch by inch, sinking into a dead silence.

If the Son of Heaven is still alive, it is absolutely impossible for the Crown Prince to step into the forbidden palace where she is, unless ......

"Your Highness, tell me clearly, what has happened during this time?"

The crown prince, who had been carried away by the ecstasy of reuniting with his lover, completely lost his mind, and until this time, he did not understand his father's disheartenness towards him, he grabbed Zhen Lian's stiff hand and put it on his cheek, and actually began to complain: "Ah Lian, without you by my side, I can't do anything but borrow wine to kill my sorrows...... Ah Lian, how can you guess that so many things have happened in this period of time, and they have weighed on my heart like iron and stone, and I can't breathe...... The queen mother was deposed, the uncles were also executed, and the Kong family was beheaded...... "The prince was about to pour out his anxiety and worry in detail these days, when he was suddenly pushed and stumbled, and almost didn't crash into the old huai on the side.

He stood firm on the tree pole, but saw that the facial features of the haunting person suddenly distorted, and a pair of eyes turned blood-red.

All hope collapsed, and Zhen Lian was sure that her forbearance and humiliation were a joke from the beginning to the end.

"Yu Haoze, at this point, the Holy Lord asked you to come here, and you can't wait to come?" Zhen Lian pressed one hand on the placket of her clothes, and the poignancy in her throat resounded unhindered through the Forbidden Garden, which had been silent for many years: "Don't you know, what does the Holy Lord mean, Yu Haoze, your storage position is gone, gone!" In the future, you will be confined to this wall with me, and you will spend the rest of your life like this, do you know it? ”

Zhen Lian clutched her shirt tightly, her chest was full of grief and anger, but she couldn't leave half a tear.

The prince's face was pale and seemed to be incredulous, but he knew that his wife's words were true, and he had such a premonition, but he never dared to face it.

"Ah Lian, even so, as long as we can ...... together"

"Get out! Get lost! I knew that I shouldn't have expectations for you, I should have been sober a long time ago, if I had to die at that time, at least I could maintain my dignity and avoid this humiliation, Yu Haoze, I really hate, I really hate how you are such a person in the storage position, I really hate how I can marry you! Zhen turned around, stepped on a fallen leaf, and walked towards the cold and lonely hall.

But she was pulled by her sleeves, and the prince stood in front of her, his face full of sadness, and his eyes were full of despair: "Ah Lian, if I am not the prince, will you not even give a straight eye?" ”

The prince's question was not answered, and what he finally got was a decisive back, and he disappeared into the deserted hall, and then there was a heavy knock on the door.

This desperate day is destined to be broken and strange, life and death will be separated, and it will end with indifference.

The prince did not stop at the Rehe Palace, and left with a dead heart.

In the evening of the same day, staying at the official post on the way back, the prince was persuaded by Danli and went to the wine shop to get drunk.

Around the night, the prince was already half drunk, although he was persuaded by his own forces, the prince ignored it, and still used wine to kill his sorrows, and he was clearly not drunk.

Danli made an excuse halfway, saying that he wanted to go back to the official post to find a thick piece for the prince, in case the night was cold and cold, and the soldiers were defenseless.

Danli never returned, and the soldiers realized that something was wrong, but they could no longer find Danli's whereabouts.

The wind was very urgent this night, and the drunken prince was carried back to the official post by his own soldiers.

In his sleep, he bled to death.

At the third moment of the third day of November in the ninth year of Yuanqing, the prince of Dalong died of poison on the way back to Beijing in Rehe.

Perhaps it was providence, on this day, the abolished princess threw herself into the forbidden palace.

The couple, who were ridiculously denied love, were destined to die on the same day, the same month, and the same year.