Yuzhu smashed two celadon tea cups and a red-glazed vase before kicking out the room of ill-intentioned people. The light golden veil hung low, Chu Zhixia closed his eyes uneasily in his dream, his brows were slightly twisted, and his breath was burning.

There was a sudden sound from the back window, Yuzhu's eyes were sharp, and she pounced silently and quickly, but unexpectedly saw a familiar figure.

Bai Ziche, who was dressed as a eunuch, lay on the ground in embarrassment, freezing so that the tips of his ears were red. He was not very skilled in turning over the window, but fortunately, the movement of Yuzhu Fang was too terrifying, and the palace guards outside the house did not notice the abnormality.

"Fourth Highness?" Yuzhu was stunned.

Bai Ziche held up a finger and motioned for her to whisper, "I've been guarding outside for a long time, and I heard it." Be quiet. ”

Yuzhu nodded repeatedly.

"The decoction has a strong taste, so I can't bring it in, but I know that acupuncture points can suppress heat. Let me see her. Bai Ziche said as he came to the bedside, his snow-soaked shoes and socks leaving a string of wet footprints on the floor.

He took out a few silver needles from his arms, and gently poked them at Chu Zhixia's fingertips, squeezing the blood beads. Yuzhu looked at Bai Ziche's movements, and her heart was very high, and she couldn't help but wonder, how could Bai Ziche, a prince with gold and jade, still know medical skills.

Bai Ziche saw her doubts, and said with a smile: "I am different from the three princes, when I am sick, someone holds and coaxes them to serve. Even if I was sick and dying, no one would give me a second glance, let alone serve the decoction. If you want to live without medicine, you have to think of other ways. ”

Bai Ziche lowered his head and looked at Chu Zhixia's fingertips, but his face suddenly changed.

The bright red blood beads turned slightly black. Bai Ziche picked up the blood beads with the tip of the needle and pulled out a slender and sticky blood thread. He poured the tip of his bloodstained needle into the candle flame, and a thin wisp of green smoke rose with a hint of sour fish.

Yuzhu's face suddenly became ugly.

"It's ...... Poisoned? Bai Ziche's expression was grim, "When did it happen?" ”

"The eldest lady has not used the decoction of Luhe Palace, and the ones used in the house have also been checked layer by layer......" Yuzhu recalled quickly, but suddenly jammed.

No, not a decoction, but earlier.

It's the blue-eyed snake gall.

Chu Zhixia paid the price for her hand debt.

"Don't worry, if it's really a very rapid poison, it won't be delayed today. Maybe the poisoning is not very serious yet. Bai Ziche cleared his thoughts and said softly to Yuzhu, "You take care of your eldest lady, I'll go back and figure out a way." ”

Yuzhu suddenly stopped him: "Fourth Highness, this matter must not be known to Your Majesty." ”

Bai Ziche was stunned for a moment, and looked back at this maid who he hadn't paid much attention to before.

If it is an ordinary disease, it is fine, but the snake venom is unpredictable, and Chu Shixia can't say when he will lose his life. If the emperor knew that Chu Zhixia was in danger, I believe that he would be happy to let Chu Zhixia die in the Empress Dowager's palace as a matter of course, in exchange for the complete enmity between the Chu family and the Chen family.

Among them, Bai Ziche naturally knew the trick in his heart, but he didn't want Yuzhu to think about it.

Bai Ziche didn't think much about it, just thought that she was beside Chu Shixia, so he nodded, asked her to rest assured, and went out of the back window again.

——

Dead.

The candle flower exploded with a "snap", which dispelled Bai Ziche's shallow sleepiness. He pushed his spirits and turned another page of the medical book, his eyes aching.

There are very few records about the snake venom in Miaojiang, and many of them are old and vague, and the blue-eyed snake gall is even more illusory, and it is not even known whether it is true or false. Bai Ziche rummaged for most of the night, but he didn't have a clue.

"Fourth brother, why don't you sleep yet?" The sixth prince rubbed his eyes and was held in his arms by Fuyun, and asked ignorantly.

"His Royal Highness the Sixth was woken up, and as soon as he woke up, he was clamoring to see His Highness, and the slave and maid really couldn't coax him." Fukumo apologized to him.

"What's going on out there?" Bai Ziche took the six princes and held them in his arms, and asked absentmindedly.

"There was a eunuch in the Luhe Hall who fell into the lake and drowned, but it was terrifying." Fuyun was shocked, and said mysteriously, "I heard that it was an old man beside the Queen Mother." Strange to say, there were many little eunuchs living not far from the lake, but none of them heard the cries for help. ”

Bai Ziche didn't take it to heart, "Maybe I choked on the water and didn't shout." ”

The sixth prince shrunk into Bai Ziche's arms, rolled his eyes and looked at the medical book twice, but he couldn't understand a word, "Fourth brother, what kind of book is this?" ”

"It's a medical book." Bai Ziche answered him patiently.

"Is the fourth brother sick?" The six princes were worried.

"It's a very important person in the fourth brother's life."

"Why don't you see the doctor?" The sixth prince asked innocently.

Bai Ziche only smiled bitterly.

From the Tai Hospital to the Imperial Doctor, down to the apprentices, all of them were stared at by the Queen Mother's people, and no one could enter the gate of the Luhe Hall safely. If Bai Ziche had asked about snake venom at this time, he was afraid that it would attract the attention of the emperor and the queen mother at the same time, and it would be self-defeating.

The sixth prince was still pestering, tugging on Bai Ziche's sleeve and asking him if he was sick.

Bai Ziche nodded his forehead and said, "Before my brother learned to paint, he wanted to be a doctor. ”

The Six Princes were quiet.

"The fourth brother's mother died of illness." Bai Ziche said in a calm and weird tone, "It was a very hot summer, it was raining heavily, and I couldn't see the people on the other side of the heavy rain at a glance. She lay on the bed and coughed repeatedly, so thin that only a handful of bones remained, and coughed up mouthfuls of blood with blood clots. ”

"Even the blood is black."

Actually, the disease was not serious, as long as you took a little medicine. But Bai Ziche was locked up with her in a dark room until she was terminally ill.

Then the woman died, and the people of the queen's palace scribbled a white cloth over her.

She has no name, so even the burial is so perfunctory. Bai Ziche didn't even know where she was buried, maybe she wrapped a straw mat and threw her into a mass grave outside the city.

The sixth prince's eyes widened, and he carefully touched his face, but he didn't touch his tears, but instinctively felt that it was a sad thing, "I don't ask, brother, don't cry." ”

"My brother didn't cry." Bai Ziche held his hand and said, "Is it okay for Ah Yan to go to sleep?" My brother still has to find a way to save that friend, and I don't want her to die of illness like my brother's mother. ”

The Sixth Prince nodded vigorously.

——

Following.

The weather was fine.

The female officers of the weaving department entered the painting academy in droves, carrying flowing silk and soft rulers. The female officials gently measured the height and waist of the sixth prince with their hands and feet, and softly praised him for growing taller.

In the past, it was rumored in the palace that the "little Concubine Pei" who would inherit the position of her sister's concubine, and now Pei Zhangsi is sitting and drinking tea with Bai Ziche slowly and methodically.

Pei Zhangsi is the younger sister of Pei Zhang's mother, but between her eyebrows and eyes she is more like the deceased Concubine Pei. She held her high bun and swept her eyebrows, with the calm and calm of a noble girl.

"The high-grade Yunjin newly paid tribute by Jiangnan has only ten horses in the palace, five of which are left in the Weiyang Palace, one is given to Concubine Rong, one is sent to the queen, and one is sent to the queen mother's palace later. The rest were not His Royal Highness and Third Highness, and His Majesty personally ordered the Fourth Highness and the Sixth Highness to cut a spring coat. ”

"It's my father who has a lot of love, but Ziche doesn't dare to be in front of the two brothers." Bai Ziche replied with restraint.

"I haven't thanked His Highness for saving Ah Yan."

"Pei Gongzi has already thanked him." Bai Ziche smiled slightly.

"Your Highness is kind-hearted, and there will be a day when hardships come to an end." Pei Zhangsi looked at the busy female official and the giggling sixth prince, and said without squinting.

Bai Ziche did not answer.

He suddenly got up and walked to the wide patio in the courtyard, where the female officials were about to measure him, but they saw him waving his hand and standing alone under the eaves. The female officials didn't dare to make a mistake, so they had to continue to coax the six princes to cooperate.

Events happen in an instant.

The sixth prince stumbled over and asked Bai Ziche to hug him, but Bai Ziche's expression changed suddenly and he pressed him in his arms. A small emerald blue snake ejected out like lightning and bit Bai Ziche's forearm fiercely.

The female officials screamed, but Bai Ziche's movements were faster, and he grabbed the seven inches of the little snake, smashed it to the ground, and stomped on its head.

"Call the Imperial Doctor!" Pei Zhangsi stopped the panicked crowd in the painting courtyard.

——

Xuanzheng Palace.

Through a curtain of beads, the emperor propped up his chin and lazily listened to the courtiers arguing over trivial matters. The emperor knew that it was not that there were no major events, but that important people and important things did not have the opportunity to be put on the Xuanzheng Palace.

The only thing that comforted him was that his good uncle, the nameless regent, had not been to court for many days.

Maybe the regent is really old and weak.

The Bai family's country is finally going to return to the Bai emperor's hands!

The emperor was pondering how to use to cook this group of regents' lackeys well, when he suddenly heard a sound of horses running in front of the Xuanzheng Palace. The herald rolled down from his horse, his voice uncontrollable in ecstasy.

"Report! Embrace the snow and win! General Chu Mingxiu is a great victory! ”

The voices of the people in the Xuanzheng Hall fell silent for a while, and everyone's eyes were focused on this insignificant little herald.

Since Emperor Ling's twenty-first expedition to the north, the Chu family has been sticking to the snow pass, and it has only been a few frictions with Beidi. There are only a handful of battles that can be called "great victories", and the name of Chu Mingyan's illness and weakness is also talked about, so that the courtiers have forgotten the prestige of the Chu clan in the clouds.

"A month ago, General Chu Mingxiu led 5,000 people to attack the royal court of the Baisha Department of Beidi and killed the Khan of the Baisha Department with his own hands! Subsequently, 10,000 troops were sent to Yongxueguan, all the adult men of the Baisha Department were killed in battle, and 3,200 women and children were captured! ”

The Baisha tribe is the fourth largest tribe in terms of population, cavalry, and territory among the thirteen tribes of Beidi, because it is close to the south and has abundant water and grass, so the soldiers are strong and strong, and they have repeatedly invaded the borders of the Great Zhou. But the cavalry of the Baisha Department was very fast, and often the troops had not yet been sent out of the Snow Pass, and they had already burned and looted, patted the horse's buttocks and returned to the tent.

This bloody good news swept the lifeless court.

"Yes, yes!" The emperor was overjoyed, stroked his palms and praised, "Sure enough, it is a tiger father without a dog!" Xuan Chuming chose a day to enter the imperial capital, and he was rewarded for his meritorious deeds! ”

After a small footstep stepped into the curtain, the little eunuch whispered a few words in the emperor's ear. The joy on the emperor's face was swept away.

"Second brother is coming!"