"Huh?" Ling'er was stunned for a moment: "What spare life?"

"If you want to shout, you will shout. Yuan Xi frowned, and suddenly twisted Ling'er's arm, and Ling'er shouted out the sentence "The queen mother's life" when he arrived.

I only heard that the bricks and tiles on my head suddenly broke together, and the dust fell in a plop, and in an instant, the masonry tiles fell all over the ground with a sound, and a man in the color of an inner prison uniform floated down from the place where the masonry was broken.

He held a short knife in his hand, and the cold light swept away, reflecting on Yuan Xi's face. Ling'er screamed in surprise and subconsciously protected Yuanxi's body. As soon as she turned around, she heard the voice of a man screaming behind her. Like a sack filled with sand on the ground, the man fell on his back on a crumbling brick and rubble.

Ling'er looked back, just as the short knife in the man's hand landed. Ling'er didn't know where to get the courage, so she suddenly pounced, snatched the knife in her hand, and returned to Yuanxi's side.

"You're the waiter in the dining room?"

The man did not answer, but sat on the ground, gritting his teeth and pulling out a long hairpin from the sole of his foot. The moment the hairpin broke away from the body, the man let out a heart-rending scream. Pulling out a hairpin has already made him sweat in pain.

He stared at a pair of blood-red eyes and stared at Yuan Xi: "It's a big belly, only a woman surnamed Wei in the palace is pregnant, and she called you the queen mother just now." You are the enemy of my lord's family, the former crown princess, Wei Yuanxi, aren't you?!"

"No, my master is a nephew and relative of the Queen Mother, not a princess. Ling'er shook her head vigorously.

"You fart, I heard you call her Queen Mother. He stretched out his hand, revealing a mouthful of black and yellow teeth: "Give me back the knife, I will only take her life." ”

Ling'er immediately hid the knife behind his back: "If you want to kill, kill me, don't hurt my master." ”

"Then I'm sorry!" Hou Xiao propped up his hands, like a hungry tiger pounced.

Ling'er was startled and turned around to protect Wonxi's body. Won-hee grabbed her belt and pulled her forward a few steps. Hou Xiao's legs were like sugar cane broken in unison, and he couldn't exert his strength and fell to the ground again. It turned out that when he jumped down just now, he stepped on the hairpin, and as soon as he was in pain, his right foot lost his strength, and his body was crooked, and he twisted his left ankle.

He lay on the ground grinning in pain, and his hands reached forward heavily, but he couldn't reach Wonxi.

"Haha, you can't even stand up, who else can you kill?" Ling Er covered his mouth and smiled: "You can walk on the left and right, but if you want to tear down the house and jump down, you can't stop yourself as the king of Hades!"

Hearing that there was movement here, the internal guard turned back again, Hou Xiao saw that the situation was not good, if he couldn't catch Yuan Xi as a hostage at this moment, he might not have a chance to escape and ascend to heaven. He threw himself forward with all his might.

Seeing this, Yuan Xi pushed Ling'er aside, Hou Xiao pounced into the air, and fell to the ground with a chirp. Ling'er turned over and stabbed the short knife in his hand suddenly. A stream of hot blood spurted from Hou Xiao's back, splashing Ling'er's face. Blood covered the eyelashes.

"The last general is late, Niangniang is frightened!" rushed to the front was Lu Shaoyong, who used to be Xu Wenliang's subordinate and had been an insider in the Wei Mansion, and when he rushed to the bottom of the corridor, Hou Xiao had already lost his breath.

Yuan Xi didn't have any sense, she had personally experienced the scene of killing hundreds of thousands of soldiers in January, and she had also seen Rong Zhan's armor on his body shattered and soaked in blood. Ling'er has never seen any major battles, and this is the first time she has been killed, and she has killed it with her own hands. Ling'er sat on the ground with her buttocks, Lu Shaoyong crossed the railing to help her, and Ling'er held the knife tightly in her hand, as if she had lost her soul.

Lu Shaoyong saw the blood on her head and face, so he wiped it for her with his sleeve, making her body tremble all the time, and she couldn't hear a word of what Lu Shaoyong said. It's just that he can't stop muttering: "I didn't want to kill, I killed someone......"

Lu Shaoyong glanced at Yuanxi, stepped forward to break the knife in Ling'er's hand, but Ling'er was very tight, and Lu Shaoyong broke it for a long time before snatching the knife and throwing it aside.

"Ling'er, you killed Hou Xiao because you were loyal to the lord, and Hou Xiao was originally a heinous ghost, even if you didn't kill him, the emperor would kill him. Lu Shaoyong patted her on the shoulder twice, got up and arched his hand at Yuanxi and said, "Niangniang is frightened, will I send someone to send Niangniang back to the palace?"

Yuan Xi answered and asked someone to help Ling'er up.

The news of Hou Xiao's killing spread throughout the palace in an instant, and Rong Zhan heard that Yuan Xi was also present when Hou Xiao died, and he sighed in his heart. When he hurried to Zichen Palace, Yuan Xi was sitting at the table drinking fetal pills.

"Are you okay?" Rong Zhan leaned down and checked her up and down, left and right, and made sure that there was no wound on her body before relieving herself.

Yuan Xi shook his head: "The inner ghost is dead, this time the emperor can sit back and relax." ”

Rong Zhan frowned: "Sit back and relax? Do you know that you almost scared me to death just now?" When I heard that the internal guards arrived, Hou Xiao was already dead, these useless things, even the master can't protect them, what's the use of asking them?"

Yuan Xi gently stroked Rong Zhan's sideburns for a while: "Don't say that, the palace is so big, there are only three thousand internal guards, and the emperor has decreed, and they are already trying their best to find it again." But wouldn't it be a needle in a haystack to catch a person in a huge palace? I have nothing to do, so the emperor should not blame them. ”

Rong Zhan sighed: "If you hadn't interceded for them, I would have beaten them one by one." ”

Yuan Xi covered his mouth and smiled: "The emperor is going to play fifty boards each?"

Rong Zhan also smiled: "Now that Zhao Kezhen has found out the inner ghost planted in the palace, her charge of poisoning the emperor has been implemented." This time, I will never let go of the Zhao family, and this time, it is definitely not as simple as playing fifty boards each. ”

Yuan Xi stroked his lower abdomen and said softly: "That's the emperor's business." ”

"How to deal with Zhao Kezhen? You are in the middle palace, you are the future queen, and her guilty palace concubines, according to convention, should be disposed of by you. Rong Zhan turned his head and asked indifferently.

"Does the emperor have affection for her?" Yuan Xi raised his face and asked categorically.

"What do you mean by that?" Rong Zhan was a little surprised.

"If the emperor has affection for her, I will send her to the cold palace and spare her life. If the emperor is ruthless to her, then I will give her white silk poisoned wine. ”

Zhao Kezhen's life and death are only between Rong Zhan's thoughts, but at this moment, Rong Zhan has no affection for Zhao Kezhen. Rong Zhan shook his head: "I don't have any affection for her, but if I have it now, there is only one word of hatred over there." ”

Yuan Xi nodded: "Then do it according to the emperor's wishes." ”

Rong Zhan suddenly remembered something, turned his head and asked: "I passed by the corridor just now, and saw Wei Chengyong still kneeling there, I must have known that I was wrong, you are a family in the end, go and persuade him, tell him to go." ”

Yuan Xi smiled disappreciably, this nerd, still didn't understand his words?

"It was the concubine who made him kneel there. Yuan Xi said.

"Huh?" Rong Zhan was a little surprised: "What? because of Chenxiang?" Rong Zhan sighed heavily: "That's it, since he really doesn't want to marry Chenxiang, let him go." My royal sister doesn't know how many princes and nobles can't ask for it, and it's not that they can't get married. ”

Yuan Xi shook his head gracefully, took Rong Zhan's hand and said, "The emperor is wrong, the matter has come to this point, Cheng Yong can't help but marry the princess." Although the emperor's will has not yet been issued, it has long been known to everyone, if the emperor changes his mind at this moment, I am afraid that the princess will be criticized. ”

"You mean, even if Cheng Yong doesn't want to marry, he has to force Chenxiang to be stuffed into him as an object?" Rong Zhan shook his head incredulously: "This is absolutely impossible, and the queen mother will not agree, although Chenxiang is not the queen mother's biological child, her biological mother is also noble, and she was raised by the queen mother, and the queen mother will never watch her be wronged." ”

Yuan Xi sighed: "Otherwise, what else can I do? If the emperor marries the princess to other noble sons who don't know the roots, can he ensure that the princess will not be bullied? If that prince wants to do something difficult for a strong man, he will threaten the princess with this matter." Although you are a princess, you are also a woman who is rejected by the common people, and it is a great honor for me to marry you. If so, the princess will marry and be equally angry. ”

"Chenxiang is my imperial sister, who dares to bully her? Rong Zhan flicked his sleeves indignantly. Damn, it's all made by Wei Chengyong, a scholar.

"Well, let's wait for Enko later. Rong Zhan sighed heavily.

Just when the clock mother walked in with a tray and removed the medicine bowl on the table, she also knew that there was a lot of trouble in Beigong today, and most of the masters were in a bad mood, so they didn't dare to speak, just lowered their heads and walked out.

"Mother Zhong," Yuan Xi stopped her, "How is Ling'er?"

Mother Zhong hung her head and said softly: "If you go back to the master, the girl is already much better, and the imperial doctor prescribed her a calming medicine, and the slave maid asked someone to fry it for her to drink." I'm sweating under the quilt right now. ”

"What's wrong with Ling'er?" Rong Zhan asked, holding his belt.

"It's not that Hou Xiao, he suddenly pounced, Ling'er was afraid that he would hurt me, so he subconsciously stabbed him, but he didn't expect to be stuck in the vest, and Hou Xiao was killed on the spot. Ling'er was timid, and the first time she encountered this kind of thing, she was scared. Yuan Xi smiled at Rong Zhan and said, "With the concubines to take care of, the emperor doesn't have to worry about it." ”

Rong Zhan froze Yuanxi for a while, and laughed: "I really can't imagine that Ling'er still has so much courage." ”

"Back to the emperor, Miss Ling'er took the risk out of loyalty to her master. Otherwise, she is very timid, and she usually doesn't even dare to kill a chicken. Mother Zhong lowered her head and whispered.

"Yes, yes, yes," Rong Zhan nodded again and again: "Ling'er, this girl is indeed timid, but she is loyal." Mother Zhong, you ask the imperial doctor to check her carefully, it's not a minor illness if she is scared, don't fall into the root of the disease. ”