The clouds in the court are treacherous, changing rapidly, today's King Ning's call for the crown prince is high, tomorrow's call for King Rui to be the crown prince is higher, and the voice of King Lihuai and King Rong is also there, but compared with the first two, it is a little worse.

It's just that recently, because of the poisoning of the people, King Rui has gained some prestige and popular support, so some vacillating ministers have stood on King Rui's side.

The emperor has not established a prince for a day, and the competition for the prince in the court will not stop for a day, and everyone has speculated which prince the emperor's mind belongs, but no one can guess it.

Originally, King Ning thought that he had a good deck of cards now, but he didn't think that what happened next would knock him into the abyss.

Concubine Liniang in the palace had a miscarriage.

I don't know why, Concubine Li was fine, but suddenly she had abdominal pain, and when the imperial doctor came, the blood had already flowed down the inner thigh to the calf.

She lay on the bed in pain, and felt like she was going to die. She looked at the Imperial Physician and begged him to help her save the child. As long as she can keep this child, she is willing to do anything.

But the imperial doctor is not an immortal, and that situation obviously can't be saved.

At five months, the child was thrown away as soon as it was formed and left the mother's body. Stillbirth in the royal family is an ominous symbol, unclean, to be thrown away. After the child was born, Concubine Li fell into a coma, and before she could take a look, she was taken away.

Emperor Xuanwu was furious and sent someone to thoroughly investigate the cause of Concubine Li's miscarriage, but he never entered the room to take a look or comfort Concubine Li. When Mu Xuefu heard about this, she hooked the corners of her mouth and gently spit out two words.

It's just that I didn't expect that this would not meet, but it would never be seen again.

That night, Concubine Li began to bleed, lying in the rose-red magpie climbing branch brocade quilt, like a fish that had landed on the shore, white and transparent from too long of dehydration. The imperial doctor tried his best to treat her, but after all, he couldn't resist her bleeding like a broken embankment, and in the second half of the night, he was unable to return to the sky, and Xiang Xiaoyu died.

Hearing the news, Emperor Xuanwu was in Mrs. Ning Xin's room, and he was stunned on the spot for a while, and he didn't speak for a long time. But Tuoba Xin looked at him, but felt that Emperor Xuanwu at this time was like a lonely old man.

Last year, Concubine Hua Defei's mother and son died because of him, and he still feels guilty. And this time, although Concubine Li's mother and son were not his reason, he felt that his heart was even more blocked this time.

After a while, he held Mrs. Ning Xin's hand, and the old voice revealed a touch of exhaustion, "Do you say that I am cursed, as long as the concubines who are pregnant, both mother and child will die." ”

Tuoba Xin was stunned for a while, relieved her breath, and comforted: "Your Majesty, you are the Ninth Five-Year Honor, the Son of Heaven, how can you be cursed?" Besides, there are so many princesses and princes in the harem, and where are there curses, the emperor thinks too much. ”

Emperor Xuanwu looked at her with a sad gaze, "Then why do you say that as long as you are a pregnant concubine in the past two years, you have ended up like this?" ”

Tuoba Xin had never seen him look so sad, and she hesitated, "Maybe it was an accident, after all, it is difficult to give birth to a child in the palace." ”

Emperor Xuanwu's eyes were fluctuating, he didn't say anything, just put on his clothes and went to Huayang Palace.

When the news came, it was already the next day, when Jing Rong and Mu Xuefu were having breakfast, and they both stopped their chopsticks and looked at each other. Concubine Li suddenly had a miscarriage, and she didn't even save herself, which was really unexpected. It stands to reason that the five-month-old fetus should sit firmly, without touching it, without knocking, and it is just gone, which is really incomprehensible.

Mu Xuefu didn't want Emperor Xuanwu to have any more children, but this time she didn't make a move. Maybe it's because of the dream she had after the death of Hua Xitan's mother and son, maybe because of the smell of blood in the courtyard when Hua Meier was killed with a cane, or maybe because she didn't want to see the queen mother sad. In short, this time, she was always unwilling to kill Concubine Li's mother and son again. She felt that it was not because she was kind-hearted, but because Concubine Li, unlike Hua Xitan, almost made her and Jingrong bear the sin of bullying the king. She has revenge, so she will only take action against Hua Xitan.

"Has the cause of the miscarriage been found?" Jing Rong's heart moved, and he raised his eyelids and looked at Zhou Cheng and asked.

Zhou Cheng shook his waist and replied: "The emperor has sent someone to investigate." ”

Jing Rong nodded, waved his hand to let Zhou Cheng retreat, looked at Mu Xuefu, and said, "You can go into the palace to see the imperial grandmother in a while, she is an old man, and now she is not in good health, so she must be even more sad to hear this news." ”

Mu Xuefu bowed, quickly drank the porridge in the bowl, hurriedly changed her clothes and entered the palace.

The Queen Mother has always lingered on the sickbed, and there has been no improvement at all, knowing that Jing Rong's encounter with the assassin when he came back from Guangling is even more serious, and now he has just improved, if he hears this news, he is afraid that he will relapse again.

The Queen Mother's face was very poor, with an unhealthy red in the salallow yellow, and Mu Xuefu knew that it was all supported by this medicine. Emperor Xuanwu did not allow anyone to tell the Queen Mother about this, so as not to aggravate the Queen Mother's condition, but the news still reached the ears of the Queen Mother.

Holding a Buddhist string in her hand, she sat on the bed, her back looking at the soft pillow, her eyes closed, and the words in her mouth. Mu Xuefu knew that she was reciting a death spell for Concubine Li's mother and son, just like she had been for Hua Xitan's mother and son last year.

Mu Xuefu stood aside, looking at her silently, unconsciously reciting silently along with her voice.

After a long time, the Queen Mother slowly opened her eyes and saw her coming, so she put down the Buddha beads and beckoned her to her side.

"Good boy, you came to see the mourning family, right?" The Queen Mother's voice was hoarse as if she had stirred sand, panting slightly, revealing weakness.

Mu Xuefu lowered the pillow to make her half-lying, and said with a smile: "The prince just got a thousand-year-old ginseng, thinking that it would be best to give medicine to the queen mother, so he asked his granddaughter-in-law to bring it." Today, I see that the Queen Mother's complexion has improved a lot, and she is also in good spirits, so she will be very good. ”

The Queen Mother took Mu Xuefu's hand and asked her to sit down, "So the mourning family said, when it comes to filial piety, it is still our family's Ah Rong and the younger two." It's hard for you little couple to still think about the mourning family like this, and if you have some good things, you will send them to the mourning family, during this time, the mourning family's Changqiu Palace is almost filled with the things you send. Actually, the mourning family lacks nothing, and the emperor often sends people to send tonic treasures, so it's good to keep your things for yourself. ”

Mu Xuefu smiled lightly, her hand was covered on the back of the queen mother's hand, the wrinkles on her hands were deep and shallow, vertical and horizontal, recording the traces of the years, "The emperor sent it to be the emperor's filial piety, and what we sent was also our filial piety, and it is not a precious thing, the queen mother, you just have to keep it." ”

The Queen Mother smiled lovingly, but there was sadness in her smile that could not be erased. She sighed slightly, and lowered her head because of her weakness, "The mourning family knows that you entered the palace today to comfort the mourning family, and the mourning family knows about Concubine Li." The mother and son died again, and I don't know what's wrong in this palace, it's been like this for two years in a row. After a sigh, she let out a long breath and looked up at Muschelf. This face is really as beautiful as her family's beautiful girl. A few times, she even vaguely saw the look of the old lady from this face, so similar, but if you look at it seriously, it is so different. The hand was slowly raised, stroking on Mu Xuefu's beautiful face, and the Queen Mother said: "Xu is emperor has killed too many people, and now there is retribution." I remember that there was a pair of sons and daughters in the Zhenguo General's Mansion back then, and they all died under the random arrows. Now that the emperor has also lost two children, it is difficult to guarantee that he is not paying for his life. ”

The last sentence she said was so soft that only she and Muschev could hear it. Mu Xuefu's body was shocked, and she looked straight at the Queen Mother. Although he looked directly at the Queen Mother, there was a blank look in his eyes, and there was no focus.

I don't know if it's a weak heart or a panic, Mu Xuefu couldn't say anything for a while. I instinctively held the hand that covered my face, then lowered my head and put back the tears that were about to well-up in my eyes.

"Don't say such things to the queen mother, the wall has ears, if it reaches the emperor, the emperor will be unhappy." After a moment, Mu Xuefu said softly.

The Queen Mother smiled lightly, and the folds at the corners of her forehead and eyes bloomed like a thousand-petal chrysanthemum, but this flower did not exude a clear fragrance, but had a bitter breath, "What if you hear it?" This is to say in front of the emperor, and the mourning family is not afraid that he will be unhappy. Well, his sins are far from that. ”

Xu felt that it was a loss to say such a thing in front of her granddaughter-in-law, and the Queen Mother coughed lightly a few times, which made Mu Xuefu have no time to think about it, and hurriedly smoothed her back.

But how can I not think about it when the words reach my ears, but the Queen Mother also understands it, as if she doesn't care.

After going back, Mu Xuefu kept pondering the words of the Queen Mother, "His sins are far from being like this." What does this mean? In addition to destroying the General's Mansion, what other sins does he have that the Queen Mother cannot forgive?

Three days later, Concubine Li's miscarriage had an eyebrow. According to the people who served around her, Concubine Li not only drank the tocolytic medicine beforehand, but also drank the tonic sent by Concubine Xian. It's just that both the tocolytic pills and the supplements have been thrown away after Concubine Li drank the leftovers, and even the cups have been cleaned.

In order to find out the truth of the matter, in this case, only an autopsy can be performed. Emperor Xuanwu thought about it again and again and finally agreed to such a proposal, and after the imperial doctor's examination, it was found that there were some traces of cantharids left in Concubine Li's stomach, and eating cantharids would cause the woman's uterus to contract violently, resulting in heavy bleeding and miscarriage, and she would die after half a day or more than ten days. Such a domineering poison clearly wants Concubine Li's life.

Emperor Xuanwu was furious and ordered that the murderers of Concubine Li's mother and son must be arrested. First, the palace people who had boiled fetal pills for Concubine Li were arrested and tortured, but no one confessed. Although the person who boiled the medicine was the most likely, there were so many people coming in and out of the small kitchen that it was impossible to say for a while.

Emperor Xuanwu adhered to the principle of preferring to kill by mistake rather than let go, and arrested all the palace people in Concubine Li's palace for interrogation, and even the people in Concubine Xian's palace were also arrested.

For a while, the harem was panicked, and everyone was in danger, for fear that this matter would implicate themselves.

Concubine Xian was so angry in her own palace that she blamed herself for not being in this troubled water. Now, even the people in her palace have been pulled for interrogation, doesn't it mean that the emperor doesn't trust her?

At this time, she just blamed herself for not being involved with Concubine Li, blamed the emperor for not trusting her, but she didn't know that a bigger conspiracy was getting closer to her little by little.