Also early in the morning of this day, Mu Xize was dressed in white clothes like snow, tied his hair, and knelt in the center of the Zhanghua Hall under the attention of hundreds of civil and military officials.

"Your Majesty, it was I who secretly controlled Ye Ningxiang, asked her to kill the emperor's heir, and let her follow King Jing to rebel, Ye Ningxiang didn't know anything about all this. Mu Xize didn't talk nonsense, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he took all the crimes on Ye Ningxiang's body.

The civil and military officials looked at Mu Xize's lifeless approach, their eyes widened in shock, but they didn't dare to say anything at all.

"So the person who should be sentenced to flogging is not Ye Ningxiang, but me. Then, Mu Xize kowtowed to Mu Jingyuan, who was sitting on the dragon chair, and continued: "Ask the emperor to release the innocent Ye Ningxiang!"

Mu Jingyuan thought about 10,000 possible methods that Mu Xize might take to rescue Ye Ningxiang, but he didn't expect that he would exchange his life for Ye Ningxiang's life, one life for another, and he was so shocked that he couldn't speak in an instant.

After a long while, Mu Jingyuan opened his mouth, but there was a little less hostility and more admiration in these words, because Mu Xize was indeed better than him in this matter.

"His Royal Highness King Ning, do you know what kind of outcome you will face?"

"Yes. ”

"You don't regret it?"

"No regrets. ”

Previously, Mu Jingyuan did have some respect for Mu Xize, but when he heard Mu Xize's short, concise, affirmative, and decisive words, that trace of respect was all transformed into jealousy, which was the jealousy between men and men who often used life and death as bargaining chips.

What he couldn't let go, he Mu Xize put it down without thinking about it, he wanted to save the person who couldn't be saved, and he Mu Xize was willing to save that person's life in exchange for his life. Will he always be defeated by him, even if he is already in the position of the Ninth Five-Year Supreme, he still can't reverse this situation? He is not reconciled, how can he be reconciled!

Mu Jingyuan didn't say much anymore, and immediately issued a holy decree, "Mu Xize, the king of Ning, killed the emperor's heir, committed a rebellion, and was given a whip, and was escorted to Dali Temple on the same day to prepare for execution." Ye Ningxiang, the chief inspector of the inspectorate, was framed and was not at fault, and was acquitted on the same day. ”

Ye Ningxiang is not a person who knows hunger, thinking that this is her last meal in this world, so she desperately keeps stuffing food into her stomach. Before she knew it, her belly had become a ball.

In the end, she lay down on the ground with difficulty, but a voice suddenly echoed in her ears, "Such a big person, I don't know how to eat yet, now I'm afraid I'm going to die of sin!"

Mu Xize's words lingered in her ears, and unconsciously, she recalled that when she first entered Ning Wangfu, she ate with Mu Xize at Xu Ji's wonton stall, at that time, she was also as hungry as now, but she thought the wontons were delicious and ate two large bowls, and finally had a stomachache for a night.

At that time, Mu Xize saw her round little belly teasing her like this, and the intoxicating peach blossom eyes looked at her warmly, unconsciously making her feel warm and even intoxicated.

Thinking of this, she forgot the situation she was in at this time, and she couldn't help laughing. At the moment when she was about to die, just because she suddenly thought of the happy memories when she was with Mu Xize, she left everything behind, and was as simple as a silly girl, laughing non-stop.

Ye Ningxiang suddenly stopped laughing, and was even shocked by her ridiculous behavior just now, and then stared at the cold and black wall in front of her with wide eyes and thoughtfulness.

There was another riot in the prison, such a riot almost every day, and Ye Ningxiang, who had lived in the prison for many days, was already not surprised by this riot that was not a big deal.

However, this time something really happened, because the former emperor's concubine, His Royal Highness King Ning, who was in a storm, was once again taken into the prison. Under the gaze of all the prisoners and jailers, his expression was calm and calm, as if he was going to the elegant room to drink tea, and as if he was going to the mountains to enjoy the flowers, without the reluctance and fear of death.

Among the prisoners, the most shocked was Wei Xun, that day he relied on the last straw of Mingyue Pavilion to try his best to inform Mu Xize about Ye Ningxiang, he hoped that Mu Xize would save her, but he never thought that Mu Xize would save Ye Ningxiang's life by exchanging his life for his life.

He rushed to the front with all his might, grabbed the prison door with both hands, stretched his body outward as much as possible, and shouted: "King Ning, King Ning, don't go yet, Wei Xun has something to say." ”

Mu Xize stopped, looked in the direction where Wei Xun was, and showed an extremely warm smile, "What does Lord Wei have to say?"

Wei Xun, who has always been high, suddenly knelt in front of Mu Xize, and his words were full of sincerity, "No matter what His Highness has done before, His Highness is now willing to exchange his life for his life to rescue Ning Xiang, something worthy of admiration, please accept Wei Xun's worship." ”

Mu Xize stroked the arm of Wei Xun in the prison door and tried to help him up, but he still smiled and said: "It's as if you know what I did before, get up, you don't have to worry about me, you should worry about yourself, ten years is a long time!"

"As long as you can keep Ning Xiang safe, even if you want Wei Xun's life, Wei Xun doesn't care!"

Mu Xize put away his smile, nodded solemnly, and said, "Promise me to take good care of Xiao Yezi." With that, the corners of his mouth went up, he made a false smile, and turned to walk towards the depths of the prison.

The position Mu Xize was in at the moment was directly below Ye Ningxiang, a dark and cold cell. His shirt had been removed, and he had been tied to the torture rack, waiting for the executioner to crush his flesh with nine lashes, and finally die a miserable death.

The first to come to visit him was not the executioner, not Mu Jingyuan, but the Queen Mother, the woman he used to call his sister.

In his impression, although the Queen Mother was weak on the outside, she was as resolute as steel on the inside, except for crying out of the need for disguise, she never shed sincere tears in front of people, but this time, she wept with grief because she saw him bound in chains on the torture rack.

She brutally poisoned Mu Xize's biological father in order to smoothly let Mu Jingyuan ascend to the throne, but she never had a trace of hypocrisy towards Mu Xize, a person who is more important than her own brother, and even cared about him and worried about him all the time. When he took out the peachwood dagger and tried to kill himself with her human hand, she didn't hesitate to push him away and take the deadly dagger.

In the final analysis, she loves him, the kind of family love that is thicker than water, and it can never be separated from her body.

"Queen Mother, I knew you would come. The things were also brought, didn't they?" Mu Xize raised his pale face and met the Queen Mother's crying red eyes.

"What is it, I don't know. ”

Although she said so, her heart was like a mirror, and the thing in Mu Xize's mouth was the peach wood dagger that she hid. Ordinary people who have been punished with nine canes will definitely die of blood loss and pain, but Mu Xize will not, not only will he not, but he may also become stronger, so strong that he can't control his actions at all.

She didn't dare to gamble with Mu Jingyuan's life, she was afraid that Mu Jingyuan would die without a place to bury after Mu Xize's seal was lifted, so the peach wood dagger that was enough to kill Mu Xize was on her body at the moment, but she really didn't want to finally understand Mu Xize's life in this way.

"I know it's on you, so give it to your most trusted guard, and if I can't survive the punishment, let him see the moment and plunge the dagger into my heart." ”

The Queen Mother walked to Mu Xize's side, hugged his body tightly, and her cheeks full of tears were tightly pressed against Mu Xize's strong chest, "It's all my fault, if I hadn't insisted on getting rid of Ye Ningxiang, you wouldn't be in danger today, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"

It's all her fault, it's that she's too self-righteous, she's done too many things over the years, so she gets a little carried away, naively thinking that she can take Ye Ningxiang's life just by framing her, but she never thought that Mu Jingyuan would collapse and get drunk every night, and Mu Xize would be willing to exchange her life for her life to seek Ye Ningxiang's safety.

In addition to Qin Mingyue, the two people she cherishes the most in this world, because Ye Ningxiang's appearance is suffering from an unprecedented disaster, she is both heartbroken and remorseful.

It was such a misleading moment again, Mu Jingyuan hurried over with the look of an executioner. And this scene is also unfortunate to be under Mu Jingyuan's eyes.

"The queen mother is really reluctant to King Ning, if you feel that King Ning is too lonely on the road to Huangquan, you can go with him!" Mu Jingyuan sneered, and that kind of smile made the queen mother's heart instantly freeze into a piece of ice.

The Queen Mother stopped her tears, let go of her arms that hugged Mu Xize, turned her head to look at Mu Jingyuan, and showed her majesty as the Queen Mother with her gestures, but the eyes that she couldn't hide no matter how she could hide them were revealing unprecedented despair at this moment.

Her son, her only reliance in this life, not only did not love her and honor her, but regarded her as an enemy, and even hoped that she would die soon!

"If King Ning really goes to Huangquan, he will have someone to accompany him, and he doesn't need your mother's help!"

The Queen Mother didn't bother to see her extremely wayward son again, and turned around and walked out of the prison.

"Sister, wait. Mu Xize raised his head and looked in the direction of the Queen Mother's departure, and a trace of anxiety flashed in his eyes.

Sister, he hasn't called himself like this for a long time, the Queen Mother turned around, her tearful eyes seemed to smile, "Aze, I believe in you, you can control everything." ”

The Queen Mother has left, and only Mu Xize and Mu Jingyuan are left in the cell, and there is only one person in charge of execution.

"Your Majesty, can you begin?" asked the executioner, half-hunched and a little timidly.

Mu Jingyuan didn't answer, stepped forward and stroked Mu Xize's face.

"Such a handsome face, such a charming body, isn't it enough for the third brother to have these?

The more Mu Jingyuan spoke, the more excited he became, and his originally white face was already a little crimson.

"From childhood to adulthood, no matter how hard I work and how motivated I am, people will always only see you, how talented and unparalleled you are!"

Speaking of this, Mu Jingyuan suddenly burst out laughing, such a laugh sounded panicked in the bottom of his heart, both frightened and sad.

"Yes, I am jealous of you, I am jealous that you were born to occupy the position of a concubine, never to show it, but always to win all the love of your father, and never to make any effort to accomplish everything well. Why, since my father gave birth to you, why did he give birth to me!"