Mountains and rivers pray for peace

Chapter 1 Pregnant and tragic death
There was only a faint candlelight in the main room in the east courtyard of the Zhenyuan Hou Mansion in the capital. A woman was leaning on a fine mahogany round table, her eyes were slightly closed, and there was a thin layer of sweat on her forehead.Apparently, she had just woken up from a nightmare.

In that dream, she was pushed off the cliff by her own husband, killing her with the child in her belly.

Fortunately, it was just a dream.

The woman caressed her six-month-old belly, and before she recovered from the nightmare, suddenly, there was a trace of metal coolness from her neck.A sword lay across her neck, and the one holding the sword was the husband of her dreams——Yuan Shao, the son of Marquis of Zhenyuan.

"Why?" The woman's voice was hoarse, and she turned her head in disbelief.

The man in front of him turned a deaf ear, and his tone was as cold as a millennium's ice: "Huo Qi, Duke of Ningguo's mansion, will be executed at noon tomorrow."

"You did it?" Huo Qi's jaw trembled, his heart seemed to be pierced by thousands of silver needles.

Yuan Shao's eyes were full of tenderness, even with some disgusting infatuation.He put down the sword in his hand, caressed the woman's face, and said to himself: "Duke Ning Guo conspired against him, damn it."

Huo Qi turned his face away from the man's hand in disgust, and then stared at the person in front of him with a pair of dark eyes: "I think the person who deserves death is you! Aren't you afraid of being punished by God!"

"Instead of guarding the false reincarnation of heaven, it is better to be the heaven yourself. We, the Yuan family, take the emperor's salary, but we are just fulfilling our duties as ministers and sharing your majesty's worries." Yuan Shao smiled as gentle and elegant as usual, but this kind of calmness Xian's smile was clearly a sign of arrogance and cruelty from a superior looking down on a subordinate.

Huo Qi felt as if he had heard a joke, gritted his teeth and said: "My father has always been loyal to the emperor, but he was too upright, and that's why he ended up in this situation. Do you really think that I don't know anything? Ask yourself, after all, is Ning Guo Gongfu Is it rebellion, or is your Zhenyuan Marquis Mansion colluding with the fifth prince in the palace in an attempt to seize the country?"

Although she was in the inner chamber, she was not ignorant of government affairs.My father always adheres to justice and does not get involved in party disputes.But this Marquis of Zhenyuan prefers to play with power, and wholeheartedly supports his own nephew, the fifth prince, to succeed to the throne. Yuan Shao and the fifth prince have a close relationship, and the wolf's ambition has long been foreshadowed.

But she naively thought that she and Yuan Shao, her childhood sweetheart, were in love as husband and wife.Father and Marquis Zhenyuan were sworn friends and felt like brothers.Although their positions are different, they still have some feelings for each other.

Unexpectedly, her husband turned into an enemy overnight.

This man, for the benefit of the Marquis of Zhenyuan, did not hesitate to regard her as an abandoned son.It's ridiculous and hateful!

After hearing these words, Yuan Shao's face changed slightly, and he pinched the woman's chin: "Huo Qi, you have always been smart, but has anyone told you that knowing too much has become your death talisman? An accident happened in the public house, although the married woman is not involved, but the father still fears your existence. Now you have my child in your belly..."

When the conversation changed, Yuan Shao's originally affectionate eyes turned into a bone-chilling coldness: "This child, with the blood of your Huo family, is destined to be a disaster. In this case, why let him come to this world to suffer?"

This child is six months old and has long been connected with the mother's blood. If he is forcibly separated from the mother, the mother of the child may not survive. Yuan Shao simply wants to kill the grass and kill the mother by abandoning the child!
Huo Qi saw Yuan Shao's eyes pass over his belly coldly, and his eyes looked like that of a female animal.She clutched her belly tightly and her voice shook like a sieve: "What does this child have to do with you? Let me go. The child and I will have nothing to do with the Zhenyuan Marquis Mansion from now on, and I will never return to the capital. !”

Yuan Shao was not moved at all, glanced at the door, and said coldly: "Steward Lin, come in."

As soon as the words were finished, Butler Lin opened the door and leaned in, holding a tray firmly in his hand with a wine glass on it. The nectar inside was slightly shiny, obviously he had prepared it long ago.

"Uncle Lin, the last dignity of the Crown Princess will be left to you. Keep an eye on her and let her drink the poisonous wine." Yuan Shao spat out a few cold words, as if he didn't kill the person if he hadn't done it himself. .

After Yuan Shao left, Butler Lin put the tray on the table, his eyes fell on Huo Qi, whose face was ashen, and he said impatiently: "Prince Concubine, please hurry up. Drink this wine so that you and Ning Guogong can get together soon." Reunion.”

The world is like this, everyone likes to worship those who are superior and those who are inferior.Although Butler Lin is just a servant, he still has the snobbish blood of his master's family in his heart.

During the good years of Ningguo Duke's Mansion, it was still a good match with Zhenyuan Hou's Mansion.But since the death of the eldest son of the Huo family, the family line of the Huo family has been cut off, and it has already gone downhill.Now, the entire Ningguo Duke's Mansion has been destroyed. How can this poor woman be worthy of her own family?
"Steward Lin, I have never treated you badly in the past. Now I beg you, please let this child live." Huo Qi knelt on the ground softly, pulling the corner of the old man's robe in front of him and practically begging.

As soon as the words fell, there was a contemptuous female voice at the door: "I never thought that my sister would be so proud all her life, and she would sometimes ask for help?"

Huo Qi looked up and saw a woman wearing a smoky pink chest-length skirt. The peonies at the corners of the skirt were meandering like clouds. Her hair was combed in a bun with clouds, and her earlobes were decorated with two huge pearls. There was also a faint glow. Glossy, leaning against the doorway.

This person is her cousin Huo Qinglan.

Huo Qinglan...why does she appear here?

What she didn't even expect was that the faint scent of powder on this cousin was exactly the same as that on Yuan Shao just now!
In the blink of an eye, the messy fragments in her mind were suddenly pieced together: "You... you and Yuan Shao actually had an affair?"

"Sister, don't talk nonsense."

Huo Qinglan looked at her pitifully and contemptuously: "I grew up with Shizi, and in terms of talent, appearance, and affection, I am not inferior to you in any way. However, your identity was forced to let Shizi out because of your pressure." The position of concubine. Now my father inherits the position of Duke Ning, and he is on the same boat with Marquis Zhenyuan. It is only a matter of time for me to marry into Marquis Zhenyuan’s mansion. You should have given up this position a long time ago. .”

Huo Qi stared at Huo Qinglan's face, as if he wanted to see through this beautiful face.She couldn't accept that her gentle sister in the past turned out to be so miserable once her claws were revealed.

She also suddenly understood that her father was always cautious, how could he be taken advantage of by the Yuan family so easily?Guard against day and night, it is difficult to guard against house thieves.My good uncle Huo Rushan may have colluded with the Yuan family for a long time.

"I don't understand, my father treated your father well, and I never treated you harshly, why did you guys commit such a crime of killing people and stealing goods?" Huo Qi opened his mouth with difficulty.

His father was only Huo Rushan, a concubine's younger brother, and the two families were as close as one family.She has never seen her concubine, she grew up studying with her cousin, Huo Qinglan, and usually respects and loves each other, and is very close.

So what is all this about?
Huo Qinglan seemed to have heard some joke, with strong hatred bursting out of his eyes, and asked: "My father is not inferior to uncle in talent, but because of the distinction between the son and the concubine, he can only be subordinated to others. After so many years, I feel so emotional. Because of the so-called distinction between concubine and concubine, you are short of one head, so does this mean that you treat my father well? Have you ever treated me harshly?"

She didn't seem to be satisfied with Huo Qi's reaction, so she covered her sleeves and sneered contemptuously: "Your short-lived elder brother deserved it, he didn't go on the Yangguan road, but went to guard the bitter cold place, but died on the way back to Beijing , do you want to know how he died?"

Huo Qi raised his head suddenly when he heard the words.

Didn't the elder brother die at the hands of the bandits?Could it be...

"It's you?" Huo Qi felt a sharp pain in his heart, and tears finally flowed down, "Yes! It must be you, how could the eldest brother die, the eldest brother will not die..."

"He himself was short-lived and he couldn't blame my second brother for adding fuel to the flames. It's really pitiful. He actually thought that those bandits were here to take him back to his hometown, but they turned out to be killers." Huo Qinglan smiled softly. After a moment of madness, her emotions gradually gradually Calmly, he brushed the hair on his forehead, and said sarcastically, "If I were you, I would have no face to live in this world anymore. You should have died a long time ago."

After finishing speaking, she gave Steward Lin a threatening look: "Steward Lin, since she refuses to die, you can drink this poisoned bar. Anyway, it is death, suicide or being killed makes no difference." ?”

Lin Butler was a little hesitant, but when he turned his head and thought, this Huo Qinglan was probably the future new master of the Marquis of Zhenyuan, and it would be of no benefit to offend her.Immediately, he took a few steps forward, while viciously clutching Huo Qi's chin, he poured the poisonous wine on the table into Huo Qi's throat.

Although Lin Butler is old, his hands are not light.Huo Qi was pregnant and his mother was weak, how could he be Lin Butler's opponent?Time passed by second by second, and Huo Qi's struggle became weaker and weaker. It didn't take long before he spit out a mouthful of blood, and he had already lost his breath.

The woman with a mouth full of blood stared at the ceiling with shocking hatred in her eyes: she was under the shadow of Duke Ning's family for a lifetime, became a gentle daughter for a lifetime, and believed in the way of a gentleman for a lifetime, but in exchange for the death of her parents, The fate of stillborn!
If there is reincarnation, it will be her who controls the way of heaven in the next life!
(End of this chapter)