The partial hall of Weiyang Palace.

Bai Ziche was bitten by a bamboo leaf that slipped out of the Hundred Beast Garden, and the people up and down the Tai Hospital turned on their backs, and the Tai Doctor, who was proficient in snake and insect poison, hurried to Weiyang Palace. Eating and living with the emperor is the supreme honor for the prince, and no one dares to treat this highness with the contemptuous attitude of the past.

Pei Zhangsi was a little suspicious in anxiety.

Bai Ziche was sitting in the hall at that time, and the poisonous snake couldn't bite him. He acted as if he knew there was a snake...... But why?

She claimed to have grown up in the courtyard of the deep house, and she had seen all kinds of vicious and selfish methods, but she couldn't figure out Bai Ziche's intention of deliberately letting the snake bite her. If it was to set up a blame, the price would be too great, and the rest of the princes were not present.

In the midst of the chaos, Pei Zhangsi noticed a sneaky figure.

It is Bai Ziche's personal maid, blowing clouds.

Pei Zhangsi instructed his henchmen to stay by Bai Ziche's side, and there must not be a moment of negligence, so as not to let someone get in the way, so he secretly kept up with the footsteps of Blowing Clouds. Fuyun sneaked out of the side door of the palace, wiping his tears as he ran, clutching something tightly in his hand.

Seeing that she was about to bump into the emperor and his party who came back from the upper and lower courts, Pei Zhangsi immediately grabbed her quickly, covered her mouth and hid in the shadows of the palace wall.

When the emperor's guard of honor was far away, Pei Zhangsi let go of his hand and asked, "Miss Blowing Cloud, Your Royal Highness's life is in danger, you don't wait in front of you, what are you running out for?" ”

As soon as Fuyun heard that it was her voice, he immediately knelt in front of her, and said with a faint cry: "It was my Royal Highness who asked me to do this. ”

"What's in your hand?" Pei Zhangsi raised his chin slightly and asked.

Blowing Cloud let go of the porcelain bottle he was holding in his hand and said, "It's the Hundred Poison Pill that remedies, I stole it from the medicine box of the Imperial Doctor......"

"His Royal Highness arranged for the poisonous snake to bite himself, is it for this bottle of Hundred Poison Pill?" Pei Zhangsi was stunned for a moment, and said incredulously, "Who was poisoned by the snake, and it cost such a big Zhou Zhang?" ”

"The slave doesn't know." Fuyun bit his lip, recalled Bai Ziche's instructions, and said word by word, "Your Highness only asked me to steal this bottle of Hundred Poison Pill and quietly send it to the east side hall of Luhe Palace." There was a noble man in it who was in dire need of this bottle of medicine. ”

Bai Ziche also said that if Miss Pei came out, he would try to let her do it for her. Bai Ziche was completely sure that Blowing Cloud would be discovered by Pei Zhangsi. In such a chaotic and panicked situation, if anyone can notice the abnormality of a palace maid, I am afraid that it is only "Little Concubine Pei" who is still unfazed in the palace chaos.

Sure enough, Pei Zhangsi asked, "Where is the imperial doctor, is there still such medicine?" ”

Fuyun nodded and said, "Yes, I only took this bottle." ”

"Since this will not delay the illness of the Fourth Highness, then you can go back to Your Highness and serve the decoction. After all, I will also go to the temple of Luhe, and I will give it to the 'nobleman.' Pei Zhangsi stretched out his hand to her, and Fuyun handed it to her without the slightest hesitation.

Pei Zhangsi was a little annoyed that someone had calculated in his heart.

Blowing clouds is so refreshing, I think it must have been ordered by Bai Ziche.

Someone in Luhe Hall was poisoned by snakes, but the Tai Hospital ignored it, and may not even know it, it could only be that the Queen Mother didn't want that person to continue to live. Although Fuyun is loyal, but after all, he is young, how can he enter the heavily guarded Luhe Palace?

Bai Ziche clearly didn't plan to let Chuiyun deliver the medicine from the beginning.

The person he chose has always been Pei Zhangsi, a noble and special female official.

——

Hall of Dew.

The eunuch palace maid outside the door was still talking about the great eunuch Chen Shifu, who drowned last night.

Last night, Chen Shifu went to the Tai Hospital to get tranquilizers for the Queen Mother. Such trivial matters should not have been done by a high-ranking eunuch, but he has been serving in front of the Queen Mother for a long time, and everyone knows that he is a good dog of the Queen Mother, and he has developed a habit of doing it himself.

It was an ordinary dedication, but who expected to lose his life.

"I heard that I didn't fall into the water, otherwise why didn't I even hear the cry for help?"

"When the person fished it up, his neck was crooked to half of it, and some people said that he was thrown down by breaking his neck, so he couldn't even shout!"

"There are such murderers in the palace?"

Yuzhu quietly listened to the whispers of outsiders, reached out and wrung out the wet handkerchief and put it on Chu Zhixia's forehead. She held the snow on the windowsill and the ice skate under the eaves to turn into water, tossed for most of the night and got such a half basin, and carefully wiped Chu Zhixia's body.

The snow was cold, and Yuzhu's hands were red from the cold.

"Miss, wake up quickly." Yuzhu held her hand and prayed softly.

Suddenly, there was some other movement outside the door.

"The two fathers-in-law have worked hard, and the female officials of the weaving department came to the palace, and they want to cut spring clothes for the palace people in the queen mother's palace, and ask the two to move."

Yuzhu was stunned for a moment, and then heard the people outside excuse themselves with joy, and left in a hurry. The door of the temple was pushed open a crack, and a small porcelain vase was stuffed in, and it rolled far on the ground with a gurgling motion.

Yuzhu ran over to pick it up, and heard the person outside the door say, "My surname is Pei, and His Royal Highness asked me to come." In the bottle is the Hundred Poison Pill from Tai Hospital, try it for your nobles. ”

"Yes, thank you, Miss Pei!" Yuzhu said continuously.

Pei Zhangsi outside the door frowned, feeling that this voice was somewhat familiar, "Your young lady is ......"

Yuzhu lowered her eyebrows, and said in a dark tone: "My young lady's surname is Chu." ”

Pei Zhangsi was shocked.

As soon as the emperor left the court, the news of Chu Mingxiu's triumphant return spread throughout the palace. The Queen Mother's eyes and ears are only a lot more, and it is impossible not to know. At such a critical juncture, the Queen Mother still imprisoned Chu Shixia here, did she want to completely tear her face with the Chu family?

"You have to be careful, General Chu will enter the imperial capital in a few days, and your young lady will be fine soon." Pei Zhangsi hesitated for a moment, and then said, "The more times like this, the more you have to endure humiliation, as long as you live." As soon as General Chu came, he was safe. ”

After Pei Zhangsi said this, he immediately left quickly.

——

In the evening, a restaurant in the imperial capital.

Pei Zhang sat by the window facing the street on the second floor, looking down at the people below his feet, and the snow was endless. Pei Zhang has a pot of warm cherry stuff in his hand, which has a sweet taste and an endless aftertaste, but the wine smell is weak.

The family pays attention to a degree of wine and tea tasting, too little is shallow and vulgar, too much is addictive, and it is not a good thing. Pei Zhang has been a model for the children of the Guanzhong family since he was a child, and he has not made the slightest mistake since he was a child, and he is thoughtful and complete in all aspects.

The woman dressed in purple stepped upstairs and sat down across from him.

"I haven't seen you for a long time, why don't you call me brother anymore?" Pei Zhang slowly moved his gaze to his sister and looked at her for a long time.

"My brother is busy with the rise and fall of the family, and when he enters the palace, he either gives a lecture to the prince or plays against His Majesty, where can he have time to see me?" Pei Zhangsi squeezed him.

"You're blaming me." Pei Zhang smiled helplessly, "Are you okay in the palace?" ”

"Nothing bad. In the past, people called me 'Little Concubine Pei' in private, counting the days and waiting for me to fly up the branches and become a phoenix, and respected me; now, although I am only a female official with a low status, for the sake of my brother and Ah Yan's face, no one has dared to disrespect me. The days in the palace, except for being a little stuffy, are nothing. ”

Pei Zhangsi held the warm cherry wine in the cup, a little distracted, "I don't know how Sister Ah has survived for so many years." ”

During her time in the palace, no one praised Concubine Pei's gentleness and virtuousness. Unlike the queen's cold and compassionate eating and reciting Buddha and being isolated from the world, Concubine Pei's kindness seemed abrupt and useless in this palace, only illuminating a few people.

"His Royal Highness has taken good care of Ah Yan." Pei Zhang said lightly, "You don't have to worry. ”

"I'm not here to tell you this." Pei Zhangsi raised his head and said, "Do you know who the Queen Mother locked up in the side hall of Luhe Palace?" ”

Pei Zhang was silent for a moment and said, "I know. ”

Pei Zhangsi almost knocked over the wine glass, "You know? Then do you know that until I left the palace tonight, not a single imperial physician had entered the Luhe Palace, and no one had left the Luhe Palace? No one even knew that the eldest lady of the Chu family was locked inside! ”

Pei Zhangsi waited patiently all day, and privately sent someone to keep an eye on the side hall, but he didn't see anyone coming out of that door. The news of Chu Mingxiu's victory had spread all over the streets and alleys of the imperial capital, and the reputation of the Chu clan's heroic and heroic spirit had been revived, but the Queen Mother was unmoved.

When things go wrong, there must be demons.

Unless the Queen Mother, the Chen family, and the abolished prince this time, they really don't plan to deal with anyone anymore.

Chu Mingxiu's entry into the imperial capital this time is a blessing or a curse.

"I know." Pei Zhang looked at her and said firmly.

"Brother, the Chu family is about to have a catastrophe." Pei Zhangsi said in disbelief, "You live in Autumn Leaf Mountain to avoid trouble, but it doesn't seem to others to be like this, if the Chu family tree falls and scatters, it will inevitably affect you, and even the Pei family, you ......"

The new policy has made many people in the court and China complain about Pei's family, once the fire of the Chu family burns, Pei Zhang will be injured at least his muscles and bones, and at worst he will die without a place to be buried. The queen mother represents the Chen family, is the regent, a person who has controlled the government for many years, what can be a good man and a good woman?

"I live in the Akiba Mountain House, not to avoid trouble." Pei Zhang interrupted her, "Miss Chu and I are like-minded, we want to clean up the old evils for this Great Zhou and save thousands of Li people from danger." I am an ally and a confidant with her, and when the Chu family is in trouble, I will also go to the soup and fight the fire, and I will not give up. ”

"Do you want to go to the soup and go to the fire?"

Pei Zhangsi's eyes turned red all of a sudden, and he couldn't suppress his trembling cry, "What you value most is the rise and fall of Pei's honor and disgrace?" For this reason, my sister can abandon her childhood sweetheart fiancé and marry into the palace, and even lose her life in the assassination, leaving a Yan who doesn't know anything. At this time, you can go to the soup?! Pei Zhang, who are you worthy of?! ”

Pei Zhang's hand holding the wine glass was bruised, as if he was enduring great pain.

"It's because of that, it's because of ...... Sister. ”

Pei Zhang raised his head, his eyelashes trembling uncontrollably, "My sister's business is my fault." So I can't make another mistake with you. If you keep tolerating and dodging until this edifice is about to fall, no one can be left alone. ”

"The abolished prince is very selfish and indecisive; Chen's wolf is ambitious and unscrupulous. Such people are high above the temple, and the tragedies in the world will only increase. innocent and tragically killed, not to mention one Pei Qiong; Trapped in the deep palace, why don't you be a Pei Yao? ”

"Little Concubine Pei", "Pei Zhangsi", "Miss Pei", Pei Yao, who had not been called by others for a long time, was almost defeated. Pei Yao covered her face and breathed deeply to calm her emotions.

"If there are no eggs under the nest, you will carry them at the age of nine." Pei Zhang said softly, "It is the Chu family that died today, and it will be the Pei family tomorrow." Do you think that when Ah Yan is young, the regent will let him go? As long as his surname is Yibai, he will always be written on the assassination list of the Chen Secret Guard. ”

Pei Yao calmed down and asked, "What am I going to do?" ”

"Wait, wait for Chu Ming to come. Before that, it is necessary to save Chu Zhixia's life. ”