Late at night, the palace suddenly lit up the lamps and candles, this palace since the first queen concubine Yan Fei hanged herself, has been no one to sweep, after a long time the palace courtyard is overgrown with weeds, a desolate color, the palace maids who occasionally pass by here in the past will feel that there is a cold breath penetrating into the skin, making people shudder, over time, no one dares to pass here.

At this time, there was a Qingjun man wearing a purple and gold crown and a white python robe standing in the palace, he looked at a dresser covered with cobwebs with a sad face, and the bronze mirror on it had long been unable to reflect the human figure, he slowly closed his eyes as if thinking about the past, and the man behind him urged: "Master, we should not stay here for a long time, if the emperor knows, it will not be good." ”

"Huang Que, do you remember when you were a child, my mother liked to sit in front of this dresser and dress up, and sometimes braid your hair, she often joked that you were a boy and a girl, but unfortunately you were reincarnated by mistake. ”

"Master, this is a joke between the mother and her subordinates, you remember. Huang Que lowered his head, smiled slightly, and his eyes narrowed slightly, as if he had also returned to the past.

"When my mother left this king, this king was only 8 years old, 20 years, this king left for 20 years, and now I come back to worship my mother, even if he knows? Now I am no longer the child who can be at the mercy of others, Huang Que, today this king swears in his mother's bedroom, this king will snatch back all the things that will be taken away, so that the spirit card of this king will enter the ancestral hall, and will always be worshiped by the royal incense. ”

"The subordinates are determined to do their best to help the master achieve his wishes. ”

The man opened his eyes, the sadness in his eyes had been swept away, replaced by a vicious and cold look, he turned to look at Huang Que and said: "This king knows that you and Rouge have practiced martial arts together since childhood, and the relationship is good, but Rouge has repeatedly missed a big taboo, this time this king looked at your face, and finally gave her a chance, but it's a pity..... It backfired, and in the end it still fell short, and now she is imprisoned in the Kaifeng Mansion prison, I guess Bao Zheng must have other uses for keeping her, rouge is alive is a hidden danger to this king, this king wants you to know what to do. ”

Huang Que gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "Rouge is not doing things well, this is the end she deserves, and her subordinates will not let her spoil her master's big thing." ”

"Well....you understand. Oh, by the way, how is that Zhang Guifei doing?"

"After hearing that her brother was Bao Zhengquan, she made a big fuss in front of the emperor and was severely reprimanded by the emperor, and now she is being locked up in meditation and introspection. ”

"Oh, why is the emperor willing to be ruthless this time?"

Huang Que said with a smile: "The daughter of Master Pang is Tao Li Nianhua, he took advantage of the time when the emperor and Zhang Guifei fell out, sent his daughter into the palace, the emperor took a fancy to it, and directly canonized it as Concubine Pang. ”

"Meditation?" The man snorted lightly, and gently plucked a few rosaries on the glass bracelet in his hand and said: "I have never heard the newcomer laugh and the old person cry, this person who is not quiet will only have infinite resentment after meditating for a long time, it seems that I am going to see that Zhang Guifei." ”

"Master, I'll accompany you tomorrow. ”

"No need, you have to closely monitor every move of Kaifeng Mansion in the past few days, the emperor ordered Zhanzhao to guard me personally, your appearance will arouse his suspicions, it is better for you to be more useful in the dark, if there is anything, I will send a message to you." ”

"The subordinates obeyed. Master, do you still want to arrest that Xue Feifei?"

"That group of waste is simply not enough, and now that it misses a hit, it has already alerted Zhanzhao and them, so let's observe it for a while. ”

"Master, when Rouge hypnotized Xiaoxi, that Xiaoxi once said that Xue Feifei was not a person, and said that Xue Feifei was not Xue Feifei, and his subordinates never understood, what does this mean?"

"Huang Que, do you still remember the secret of refining the elixir of life written in the red porcelain bottle? This king has seen most of them, but there is only one thing that he has never understood, to get the elixir, you need to use the hearts of people who are not yin and yang, and after refining the medicine, you need to feed it with the blood of this person, and it can be effective. ”

"Does the master suspect that Xue Feifei is a person who is neither yin nor yang?"

"Do you remember what the man we sent said when they came back?"

Huang Que thought for a while and said, "Xue Feifei was seriously injured by our people and almost died, but the news I received later was that she returned to Kaifeng Mansion intact. ”

"If this king's expectations are good, Xue Feifei should be the person this king is looking for. ”

Huang Que was stunned and muttered, "Is there really such a demon in this world, this is incredible." ”

The man said thoughtfully: "I don't know if I have tried it." ”

After another moment, he breathed a sigh of relief and said to Huang Que, "It's not too early, let's go." ”

The man looked around the palace again, and then turned and decided to leave.

On the second day, when Zhanzhao and the four returned to Kaifeng Mansion, it was already ten o'clock at noon, and Bao Zheng told Zhanzhao that King Xian had arrived in the capital and met with the Queen Mother and the emperor, and the emperor ordered him to go to King Xian to listen to instructions as soon as he returned.

Zhanzhao didn't expect King Xian to come so quickly, and he was a little surprised, but since the emperor had given the order, he should obey his orders. Before leaving, Bao Zheng told Zhanzhao to be careful in everything, and now the virtuous king is no longer the ignorant child at the beginning, Bao Zheng always feels that this virtuous king has a dangerous atmosphere. Zhan Zhao responded one by one, and hurried to King Xian's mansion.

Feifei saw Zhan Zhao leaving in a hurry, and knew that there must be something tricky, so he asked Gongsun Ce what happened to Gongsun Ce, who came out? Gongsun Ce was inconvenient to talk more about her, so he had to say that Zhan Zhao was ordered to protect the safety of King Xian during this time in Beijing.

Ruoxi on the side saw Feifei's dissatisfaction, so as not to show Gongsun Ce the clue, he hurriedly opened the topic and said: "Mr. Gongsun, this time Songjiang and his party will let me find a way to save Nuo'er." ”

Gongsun Ce was surprised and curious, and hurriedly asked, "This is really good, can Miss Ruoxi tell me how to solve this Gu poison?"

Ruoxi pointed to Feifei beside him and said, "I accidentally discovered that using her blood as a medicine guide, combined with centipedes, poisonous scorpions, and other ten kinds of poisonous things to refine the elixir, can restrain Gu poison. ”

Gongsun Ce said, "Isn't it possible to eradicate it?"

Ruoxi said in embarrassment: "The Miao clan's Gu technique, there is only one way to eradicate it, that is, find the mother Gu and kill it, this Gu poison will not heal itself, but this mother Gu is likely to be known only to the person who planted the Gu, so unless Rouge is willing to say where the mother Gu is, otherwise, Nuo'er can only rely on the pill I refined to live in this life." ”

When Gongsun Ce heard this, he said for a long time: "Well, life and death are fate, and it is already good to be alive, so I will go and tell the adults, what the girl needs to prepare, just tell me." ”

Ruoxi smiled and said, "Just a quiet room and a medicine furnace for me to refine medicine." ”

Gongsun Ce nodded and went to arrange it by himself, and after walking a few steps, he said to Bai Yutang on the side: "Can Bai Daxia go with me to meet Master Bao, my lord may need Bai Daxia's help if there is something." ”

Bai Yutang nodded, and went with Gongsun Ce.

Feifei and Ruoxi saw that everyone was gone, so they returned to the chrysanthemum courtyard together and went back to their rooms to rest.

Although it is still built in the Imperial Garden, it is located in a remote and sparsely populated place, and the gate of the courtyard is closed all day long, which is much more deserted than the flowers of the Imperial Garden.

In the closed courtyard gate at this moment, an uninvited guest came to surprise Zhang Guifei, who had been detained here for many days.

"King Xian, why are you here? Do you know what this place is?"

The man who was called the Virtuous King by Zhang Guifei leisurely played with the glass bracelet in his hand, and smiled coldly: "How could this king not know about this, you may not know that this king lived here for a while with his mother when he was 8 years old." ”

"In that case, doesn't the prince know that it is beyond the norm for you to come here without permission?"

"Hehe, I didn't expect that the once arrogant and domineering concubine Niangniang would also say that she obeyed the rules and disciplines, it seems that the days of meditation really didn't let you live in vain, but your eldest brother died in the hands of Bao Zheng in vain, do you admit this comparison?"

"My brother is at fault first, and he should be punished, but I am not able to save him....."

"Zhang Guifei, do you really think that your brother died for that broken red porcelain?" said King Xian as he paced slowly to the cabinet where the red porcelain was placed, reached out to pick up the porcelain bottle, and looked at it carefully for a while.

Zhang Guifei screamed, stumbled to King Xian, and asked in a trembling voice, "King Xian, what are you doing?"

King Xian grabbed Zhang Guifei and squatted down together, pointed to the pile of broken porcelain pieces and said, "I heard that you have always loved porcelain, take a closer look, this is the real thing?"

Zhang Guifei couldn't help but be stunned when he said this, tremblingly picked up a few pieces of broken porcelain and looked carefully at the lines on it, and then picked up the bottom of the bottle, and there was a broken hole, a bright red forgery, which was impressively printed on the bottom of the inside of the porcelain bottle.

Zhang Guifei's heart trembled for a while, her hand shook, and the porcelain vase fell to the ground in response, but she herself couldn't stand anymore, and her body fell to the ground as soon as she became weak.

"See, this is just a fake, your eldest brother lost his life for this fake, but unfortunately, the concubine is also an expert in playing porcelain, why don't you understand it, you can't see the authenticity?"

Zhang Guifei couldn't control her emotions anymore, and tears burst out of her eyes.

"At the beginning, when my eldest brother gave me the red porcelain, I didn't look at it carefully, and I knew that the emperor had always admired frugality, so I was afraid that the emperor would be unhappy to see this priceless treasure, so I kept it hidden and didn't dare to take it out often. But, King Xian, how do you know that this thing is a fake?"

"I'm not going to hide it, this fake was given to your eldest brother by this king, and this king naturally knows about it. ”

"What...... You, it's you, you, why are you still hurting my eldest brother and me?"

King Xian pretended to be surprised and said: "This king has ever thought of harming you, but your eldest brother is eager to ask for treasure, and this treasure does not know where it is, this king wants to be friends with your eldest brother, so he came up with a way to replace the real with the fake, anyway, you are brothers and sisters, even if you are seen, at most you will be scolded, you will never do anything to your eldest brother, don't you say?"

"The preface is eloquent, my eldest brother is dead, and now it is not arranged at will by you, I will definitely report this matter to the emperor, and let the emperor administer justice for me. ”

"Your Majesty, hahahaha, Concubine Zhang, to tell you honestly, the emperor will be in love with Concubine Pang, how can you have time to care about your business?"

"What? What Concubine Pang, where did Concubine Pang come from?" said Zhang Guifei in shock.

"Concubine Pang....naturally it is Mrs. Pang's daughter Luo, Concubine Zhang, you shouldn't be naïve to think that if this happened, the emperor would still be difficult for your old feelings. ”

"You are talking nonsense..... the emperor loves me the most, he will never....never ......"

"Wake up, Zhang Niangniang, if the emperor really has a deep affection for you, how can he ignore your feelings and let Bao Zheng give your eldest brother to him at will? Do you know that there are 4 criminals involved in this case, and Bao Zheng only has 2 prisoners, and 2 people are only in prison, if he really has conclusive evidence to try this case, why is it so procrastinated, and there are still 2 people who have not been convicted?"

Zhang Guifei looked at King Xian in disbelief, shook her head again and again, and said, "No, it's impossible, the emperor said that Bao Zheng has real evidence to prove that my eldest brother has indeed committed a capital crime." ”

"Is it really based on real evidence? No one recognizes this statue as a fake red porcelain fake? It's really funny, why is the Kaifeng Mansion so hasty in handling the case. ”

"You mean..... emperor deliberately borrowed Bao Zheng's hand to kill my eldest brother?"

"Whether it is the emperor's intention or not, it is difficult for the king to determine, but according to the king's opinion, this matter is most likely instructed by the emperor, and Bao Zheng acted on orders. ”

"But, why, why did the emperor do this?" asked Zhang Guifei in confusion

King Xian stared at Zhang Guifei, his eyes showed a cold look and said: "Since ancient times, the emperor only talked about the pros and cons of rights and interests, how can there be feelings, the Xue family's red porcelain case is well known, and the crowd is angry, your eldest brother is offering red porcelain at this time, purely on the cusp of the limelight, think about it, whether this red porcelain is true or false, it is from your eldest brother's hand, if the emperor wants to appease the anger, what is the easiest way? In the final analysis, these are all bought by your eldest brother's life, if the emperor really has affection for you, how can he "spoil Concubine Pang......." so quickly?

Zhang Guifei listened to King Xian's analysis, her face gradually turned pale, but she still refused to fully believe King Xian's words, she glanced at King Xian coldly and said: "Even if what you said is true, why do you want to tell me this, aren't you really afraid that I will go to the emperor to report you?"

"Although the king has not been in Beijing for a long time, but there are still a few friends, Zhang Yao went to the capital for a long time after there is no news, the king turned a few friends to inquire, who knew that he found out such an unfortunate thing, the king thanked him for his righteousness Bo Yuntian, even if he suffered an accident and did not say this king, he was very ashamed in his heart, so he also came to the capital to seek justice for him, only to know that Niang Niang had also ..... after entering the palace, alas, it was all my fault, regret should not have hurt Brother Zhang with such a bad idea. ”

After King Xian finished saying this with tears in his eyes, Zhang Guifei listened to the true feelings of the words in her ears, and said sadly: "As you said, even if I already know the truth, what can I do?"

"Don't you want to avenge the death of Brother Zhang?" asked King Xian rhetorically.

"I, what else can I do to avenge him now?"

King Xian handed a red porcelain vase to Zhang Guifei, and said in a cold tone: "Whoever killed your brother, who made your life plummet, who made you a joke in this palace, can be solved with this small porcelain vase, on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the emperor and the queen mother will invite a few henchmen and officials to spend the festival together, and it happens that Bao Zheng will also go, this king will go to the queen mother for you to intercede, and you will be released that day, you should know how to do it." ”

Zhang Guifei stared at the porcelain vase, giggled for a long time and said mockingly: "The prince is so painstakingly trying to avenge me, is it for himself or for my eldest brother? If this bottle of poison really enters Bao Zheng's mouth, I am afraid that no one will continue to investigate this case. ”

"Do you think that you are really safe when you are in meditation? Once Concubine Pang's position was stable, how could she allow such a threatening existence like you to poke her heart from time to time, so that she could not live in peace, her father was a court master, and it was easy to get rid of you. ”

King Xian played with the glass bracelet in his hand and continued casually: "Anyway, sooner or later, it will be a death, why not make your death more valuable, so that your brother's death will be blind." ”

"Aren't you afraid that I will tell the emperor about today's events?"

"Hahahaha, if you want to say it, just say it, but this king advises you to think clearly, you go to sue without evidence, does the emperor believe you or this king, does the queen mother believe you or this king? Don't lift a stone and shoot yourself in the foot. As he spoke, he put the porcelain vase in his hand on the table and said, "The king of things is placed here, think about it yourself, and the king will come to see you in a few days." With that, he got up and left without looking back.

Out of the meditation view, King Xian hurried to King Xian's mansion, and as soon as he entered the door, the guards waiting outside hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Lord, Zhanzhao has been waiting for a long time, he said that he was ordered by the emperor to protect the safety of the prince during this time in Beijing." ”

King Xian snorted coldly, his face showed displeasure, and said coldly, "Where is Zhanzhao now?"

"I'm waiting in the middle of nowhere. ”

Without saying a word, King Xian walked to the side.