The night was as dark as ink, and the partition of the rosewood carved gourd vine was slightly halfway open, and the slightest cool breeze blew into the house. The hot summer weather at the beginning of August was so cold that it was palpitating. Zhou Yi Wang Ji Xie sat under the dim palace lamp, his eyes were slightly closed, his eyes were deeply dark, his face was pale with a hint of burnt yellow, and even his normal full cheeks were sunk a little.

E Yao only glanced up, and suddenly her heart trembled, but she hadn't seen her for seven or eight days, and she didn't expect King Zhou Yi to be so haggard? Thinking of why he was haggard and worried, she couldn't help but be terrified.

In the empty hall, Ji Xie's deep voice sounded like a sacrificial bell: "You know everything about you, and I called you here to hear your final justification." Anyway, do you have anything else to say? ”

"What the king said, the concubines didn't understand at all. It's all Meizi's own doing, and she has nothing to do with her concubines! She has a good relationship with Fox Ji, originally to avenge her sister, but the concubine doesn't know it! "E Yao decided to resist death and deny it, anyway, it is a death or not.

"Huh!" Ji Xie sneered: "You're wrong, Meizi still has some backbone, if it weren't for Zhaoguo Gong detaining her family, she wouldn't have said anything." But the other people in Xuanning Palace vomited a lot of things, how did you talk to Ji Jiang in the Imperial Garden, and how did Yi Ji send a message to Meizi through Mama Fox, and then send a letter to the outside of the palace by Zhu Diao, this line is clear. And the little chamberlain holding a sheepskin portrait at the gate of the Middle Palace, you arranged for him to be an errand at the palace gate, right? All of these piles are inseparable from you, Yiji is just giving advice, and you ------" He kicked E Yao to the ground: "You are the murderous knife!" ”

This kick was full of strength, and E Yao easily got up from the ground, wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, and looked sad: "Since the king already knows everything, why don't you give me a glass of dove wine, just like yourself?" Why do you call me to ask me more? ”

"Lone is curious!" Ji Xie was silent for a while, and said slowly: "Since you entered the palace, you have always been supple and have never disobeyed loneliness. You were promoted by the queen again, why did you have such a bad idea? ”

E Yao took off her guard, but calmed down, and said indifferently: "Soft temperament? Why is it not supple to be self-sufficient? But does the king really like us? Or do you think of us as plasters after you and the queen put their anger on the way? As for the queen, she promoted me just to balance Concubine Ji Jiang! Why should I be grateful to her? In order to avoid the matter of the soup, the king was almost abolished, but God didn't open his eyes! He made her pregnant, and took the king's whole heart and people. It's just someone else, Huang Huan and Ji Jiang both gave birth to princes, and Yiji and Meng Jiang also have a princess under their knees. It's just me who has nothing to come out of! As long as the queen is here, the concubine will never have a chance to have children in this life! How should the concubines spend the long night in the palace? ”

Ji Xie's eyes widened, and he approached her step by step: "So you're going to murder Aji, right?" It is Lone's idea to use avoidance soup for the concubines in the palace, why don't you come to hate Lone? But against the queen? Why? ”

"The king------" Eyao rushed over and hugged his legs, choked and said, "How can the concubine hate the king?" Since the day I married into the palace, the king has been the lifelong support of the concubines, and I can't get out of this deep palace in this life, and I can't leave the king! I just ask the king to look at me a little bit, so that I can also spread the branches for the king, and the concubine asks for ------."

"Really?" Ji Xie's voice was as cold as a knife: "Do you just want children?" Don't you have any idea about the queen's throne? He lowered his head and held up E Yao's small chin, and said word by word: "Ji Jiang has fallen out of favor, Huang Huan and Meng Jiang have low status, your brother's power in Jianghan is growing, as long as the queen dies, your opportunity will come?" Isn't it? Didn't Ji Jiang and Yiji say that to you? ”

It was as if the deepest part of the heart had been touched, and the hidden place in the heart collapsed, and the ugliness that was hidden had nowhere to hide. Eyao held the ground with one hand and said sadly: "------ I ------, said so." But everything that happens after the establishment is all in the king's thoughts------"

Ji Xie pulled out his foot fiercely, shook his sleeves violently, and said coldly: "That's it, it's superfluous to say more to you." Come on! ”

The waiter Jia and Qi Zhong bowed in from the door with a tray, the middle of the tray was a brass-inlaid ruby wine jue, but in Qi Zhong's tray was a porcelain bowl. Ji Xie pointed to the wine jue and said: "I have followed me for several years to give you a choice, this jue is dove wine, and in the porcelain bowl is safflower soup." If you drink the dove wine, you will be the queen and buried in the name of the queen of the Great Zhou, giving your mother's family infinite sorrow. If you don't want to, you can only drink this safflower soup, sterilize from then on, and be claustrophobic in Xuanning Palace for the rest of your life, how about it? ”

Large tears fell from Eyaoxiu's eyes, she held the porcelain bowl with trembling hands, raised her neck and drank it all, wiped the corners of her mouth and thanked: "Thank you for the king's mercy!" ”

Ji Xie didn't say anything, just looked at her motionlessly. After a while, beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down from Eyao's forehead, and she covered her abdomen and rolled to the ground, moaning in her mouth, screaming louder and louder. Ji Xie didn't call anyone either, just looked at her painful appearance with satisfaction, as if she had some kind of satisfaction.

The stomach hurt more and more, and E Yao finally couldn't stand it anymore and fainted. Ji Xie sneered contemptuously at this time: "Do you think the bones are so hard?" It turns out that he is just a person who is afraid of death, hum! ”

The chamberlains Jia and Qi Zhong came over, and Ji Xie ordered: "Throw her back to Xuanning Palace, leave two people to serve, only one meal a day is allowed, let her fend for herself!" ”

If you really want to talk about it, Zhou Yi Wang Ji Xie is not a ruthless person, the reason why King Xianyi was reluctant to make him the crown prince was in addition to the pressure of his uncle King Xiao, one of the reasons was that he felt that this son had a weak personality, and he was afraid that he would not be able to carry the burden of the world.

It has been six years since he ascended the throne, except for the incident of killing the Marquis of Qi Ai, most of the time King Yi is still a good-tempered monarch in the eyes of the princes and palace people.

But the sudden death of the queen changed all that. Ji Xie, who died of his wife, suddenly became very violent, first he couldn't help but say that he had killed himself, and then forced the second concubine Ejiao to drink the sterilized safflower soup. That night, when E Yao was carried back to Xuanning Palace by three or five chamberlains, she was bleeding all the way. Then Xuanning Palace closed the palace door, leaving only a small hole in the side wall to provide one meal a day, and no one knew whether the people inside were alive or dead.