The main hall of the Zhaoyang Hall was in a mess, and the ground was littered with smashed porcelain and pieces lying there in a mess. Mu Jingyuan was lying on the floor with the smell of wine on his back, and he was still holding an unfinished wine bottle in his right hand.

"Your Majesty, you ...... You can't drink any more!" Zhilan whispered as she knelt timidly beside him.

"Get out. Mu Jingyuan closed his eyes and said in a low voice.

Zhilan was stunned by Mu Jingyuan's stern words, and stood there for a long time without responding.

"Are you deaf, get out of here!"

Zhilan finally came back to her senses at this moment, and ran out of the main hall with her body bowed and quickly backwards, her clothes already soaked with cold sweat. Just as she breathed a sigh of relief, she saw the Queen Mother's feet like the wind, walking towards her with a gloomy face.

"The slave maid asked the Queen Mother to say goodbye. Zhilan knelt down, lowered her head, and said with bated breath.

The queen mother seemed to regard her as air, and she didn't even look at her, and walked straight towards the main hall. Fortunately, the Queen Mother didn't find any reason to cure her sins, and Zhilan knelt on the ground and breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Mu Jingyuan, what have you become of yourself?" Seeing such a decadent Mu Jingyuan, the Queen Mother said with hatred.

"The queen mother, how can the queen mother have time to come to the Zhaoyang Palace today?" Mu Jingyuan's voice was full of mediocrity and exhaustion, which made the queen mother's heart ache faintly.

The Queen Mother stopped talking, squatted down, and silently picked up the messy pieces by herself, and cleaned up the porcelain fragments scattered on the ground.

After the Queen Mother restored the messy main hall of Zhaoyang Hall to its original state, Mu Jingyuan, who had been lying on the ground, finally reacted. He got up slowly, shook his heavy head, and opened his drunken eyes to look at the Queen Mother, still without a trace of emotion in his eyes.

"The queen mother came to see my jokes!" Mu Jingyuan sneered: "Queen mother, don't think that I am a fool, why did Ye Ningxiang get involved in the case of the seventh brother, do you think I don't know?"

Mu Jingyuan walked towards his mother, his eyes were so cruel that it seemed that he would kill her in the next moment.

"Queen Mother, do you know that your act of framing Ye Ningxiang makes me feel disgusted. ”

"Your Majesty, you don't have any evidence, you can't prove that I framed Ye Ningxiang. ”

Mu Jingyuan sneered: "Does the queen mother dare to swear in front of me, saying that Ye Ningxiang was not framed by you, otherwise I will suffer the curse of heaven." ”

The Queen Mother was so angry that her face turned white, turned around, and said with a long sigh: "Ye Ningxiang is too shrewd, and she seems to be hiding too many secrets, leaving her by your side will be a disaster sooner or later." ”

After saying this, the Queen Mother suddenly straightened up, regained her original cold countenance, turned around, looked straight at Mu Jingyuan with a pair of sharp eyes, and said solemnly after a while: "Ye Ningxiang murdered the emperor's heir and participated in the rebellion, even if the emperor is willing to let her go, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military will not spare her." ”

The Queen Mother approached Mu Jingyuan, almost stuck to Mu Jingyuan's body, and said coldly: "If you want a country or a beauty, the emperor chooses for yourself." ”

After speaking, the Queen Mother turned around, flicked her sleeves, and walked towards the outside of Zhaoyang Palace.

Mu Jingyuan turned around, picked up the chair beside him casually, and fell heavily to the ground. The exquisitely crafted sandalwood chair is torn apart by gravity, and it is no longer recognizable as it should be.

Do you want a country or a beauty? The Queen Mother's words lingered in Mu Jingyuan's ears all the time, although he hated her, but her sentence really entered his heart.

If he insists on saving Ye Ningxiang, he doesn't have to care about everything around him, and a holy decree forcibly orders Dali Temple to release Ye Ningxiang. Just by doing this, he will lose the support of all the courtiers, and even the rebellion of the entire people who have left the country, they will think that he has already been confused by the demon girl Ye Ningxiang, and treat him as a heinous sinner to be reviled for eternity.

The throne, the throne that he had painstakingly managed for many years, and he was reluctant to give it up like this. He likes such a feeling of being high and condescending, although he said that it was difficult to be an emperor and the pressure was huge, but let him roll off the throne immediately, he would definitely die. This is the unique charm of power, and the unique quality of being born into a human being.

Could it be that we must choose one from among the rivers and mountains and beauties? Isn't there a solution that has the best of both worlds? Is it really impossible to save Ye Ningxiang's life?

Mu Jingyuan knelt on the ground, and the heavy anxiety in his eyes almost swallowed his whole person.

Probably because of the high terrain of Qingming Mountain, the peach forest where Mu Xize lived in March still exuded a biting coolness. Gu Liancheng thoughtfully lit the fire, and stayed by Mu Xize's side every step of the way, for fear that if he was not careful, Mu Xize would suddenly have something wrong.

These days, Mu Xize's body has become weaker and weaker, and sometimes he is even a little unconscious, and he is groggy all day long. His pale face was forever covered with sweat, his thin body was forever trembling slightly, and his big peach blossom eyes showed a tiredness that he had never seen before.

All kinds of signs indicated that something big would happen to Mu Xize, or that he would really die suddenly in the next few days, or that he would become stupid and insane because of the heart-dampening poison that Ye Ningxiang had fed him every day before, or that something would happen to him that Gu Liancheng couldn't predict.

Something suddenly sounded outside the silent window, like the sound of a bird flapping its wings. Gu Liancheng opened the door softly and walked out of the hut, and saw a snow-white carrier pigeon landing in front of the door. He carefully picked up the pigeon, pulled out the cylinder containing the letter from its ankle, and then threw it into the air, allowing it to fly down the hill.

The content of the letter is very brief, only one sentence: Ye Ningxiang is caught in the case of King Jing's rebellion and is about to be executed.

This letter also deliberately added a letter, and the three big characters of Mingyue Pavilion were written on the letter. Gu Liancheng was puzzled in his heart, Ye Ningxiang was involved in King Jing's rebellion case, and the Shadow Guard he managed didn't know about it, how did the Bright Moon Pavilion, who relied on the Shadow Guard to learn all kinds of news to solve people's doubts, know?

After thinking for a while and not finding any answer, Gu Liancheng returned to the hut with heavy steps.

He sat anxiously in front of Mu Xize, and he had no idea for a while. Should he wake up the sleeping Mu Xize? If he woke him up at this time, he would definitely go to rescue Ye Ningxiang regardless of his life, but with his weak body now, he probably didn't have the strength to walk out of this Qingming Mountain!

Even if he was lucky enough to return to the palace, the price of rescuing Ye Ningxiang would definitely be quite heavy, and maybe it would take his life. Forget it, for a servant girl of unknown origin, it is not worth paying such a heavy price for his master.

Gu Liancheng sighed lightly and threw the letter into the brazier in front of him.

"Liancheng, why are you sighing?" Mu Xize, who had been asleep, suddenly opened his mouth, which made Gu Liancheng panic.

"I didn't ...... No, it's just a casual breath. Gu Liancheng's answer was a little stammering, and his words seemed very unconfident.

Mu Xize frowned, then suddenly widened his eyes, sat up suddenly, and almost stuck to Gu Liancheng's face and said, "Is there something wrong with Xiao Yezi?"

"Wang ...... Lord, no, where do you want to go?"

"You lied to me, you always call me my son on weekdays, never called me prince, you have always been calm on weekdays, and you will never be as flustered as today. Say, what happened to Xiao Yezi?" Mu Xize was emotional, and there was even a little anger in his eyes.

Gu Liancheng had no choice but to finally open his mouth, "Ye Ningxiang was involved in the case of King Jing's rebellion, and he will be sentenced to death in a few days." ”

Hearing this, Mu Xize rushed straight to the door as if he was crazy, because he was blind, he tripped over the brazier in front of him, and there were even some blood marks on his knees. But he didn't care, he got up in a hurry, and continued to run out of the house, not to go down the mountain, but to the peach grove in front of the hut, and stopped in front of one of the thickest peach trees.

He quickly cut open the soil in front of the peach tree like crazy, only to see that a large, delicate peachwood box was revealed in the soil, and the box contained all dried peach blossoms. Ignoring his dirty hands, he grabbed a handful of peach blossoms and stuffed them into his mouth.

As soon as the peach blossom entered his mouth, it was as if a fire had ignited in his mouth, making him look hideous, and even shout uncontrollably. Red beams of light seemed to appear around his neck, and as the peach blossoms penetrated deep into his spleen and stomach, those red beams of light extended down his body until they spread throughout his body.

Gu Liancheng was so shocked by the scene in front of him that he couldn't speak, and stood there from a distance, watching Mu Xize's body show inhuman changes.

Mu Xize ate the peach blossoms in the box, and then ran down the mountain alone without explaining too much to Gu Liancheng.

At this time, Gu Liancheng came back to his senses, quickly caught up with Mu Xize, grabbed his arm, and said comfortingly: "Childe, you have an eye disease, you will get lost if you travel in such a mountain road, wait for me to call our horses, and I will accompany you back to Jing'an." ”

Mu Xize turned his head and didn't speak, and finally nodded slightly.

On the second day, there were two major events in the Zhanghua Palace, one was that Emperor Mu Jingyuan issued a holy decree to sentence Ye Ningxiang, who murdered the emperor's heir and participated in the rebellion, to be flogged, and the other was that because Wei Xun impulsively killed someone, he was removed from his official position and sentenced to ten years in prison, and he was sent to the prison to serve his sentence from now on.

From time to time, there were voices of regret in the court, not because of her Ye Ningxiang, but because of Wei Xun, a young talent and a pillar of the country. Many people even said directly: "It's all Ye Ningxiang, a fox girl, how talented a person Lord Wei is, will be in the hands of this demon girl!" "Alas, it's a pity, it's a pity!"

Dali Siqing pretended to be very sorry, and said worriedly to Wei Xun, who was kneeling on the court: "Lord Wei, why are you so impulsive, you are willing to kill innocent people's lives to help Ye Ningxiang make trouble, have you forgotten the kindness of the royal family to you!"

After saying this, Dali Siqing kept shaking his head, as if he had infinite regret and worthlessness for this talented descendant.

Wei Xun didn't speak, just looked at Dali Siqing coldly, his deep eyes contained hatred that was enough to kill people, which made Dali Siqing's hairs stand on end in an instant, and he didn't dare to speak more.