Hibiscus Flower West Moon Splendid

Chapter 217
Theoretically, the Yuan family should be the one who benefited the most. After the Xuanyuan family died, it can be said that they followed the destiny to inherit the throne, but now at the most critical moment of the battle with Dou Zhou, Yuan Qingjiang shouldn't act rashly like this.The position of the eldest son in the family has not yet been determined, I am afraid that only the eldest son, Yuan Feiqing, is the most likely to attack.Insects are small and easy to hide, but there are only me and the prince here, I am afraid that I am the number one suspect, and I will not be able to get rid of it, and I will also implicate Feibai and the Yuan family behind me.Thinking of this, the back of my clothes was drenched with cold sweat, and Fang felt that the deep palace was indeed extremely dangerous.

I helped the prince up and sat down, and then checked the surroundings again. Sure enough, there were no pests.I ran to the poisonous scorpion and carefully pulled out the hairpin through the silk to prevent the venom from the hairpin from splashing on my hands. It happened to be the silver hairpin inlaid with pearls that Xiaoyu gave me before leaving. Since the tribute of Songping (the ancient name of Hanoi in Vietnam), King Annan (the ancient name of Vietnam) came to return to Dali and agreed to attack Nanzhao with Dali from north to south.Duan Yuerong was in a good mood, so she secretly gave herself a vacation and went to Guazhou.

At that time, he and Xiaoyu combed a very complicated hanging cloud ring flower bun with great interest, and was about to try on this silver hairpin. A hairpin scratched him, and he loosened his black hair, with an unhappy face like a resentful woman, complaining that I disturbed "her" as a woman's creativity when dressing up, and disliked me for not respecting "her" enough and being considerate enough "She" said angrily that she didn't want it, and I accepted it with a smile.I thought if you don't want it, then don't, I just took it to test the poison.

Later, I didn't expect Xiaoyu to bring it together when he came. Now that hairpin is completely black, the poison of this flower scorpion is really powerful.

I really didn't expect that Duan Yuerong opened his eyes and saved my life by remote control.

I took out a box of celadon rouge from the sachet, poured out the new powder inside, and put the scorpion inside as a proof.At this time, a middle-aged eunuch ran in with a bunch of snacks, the one I had seen in the Shangxin Pavilion before, and he said, "Changshun was delayed by the imperial kitchen just now, is everything safe, master?"

The prince whispered a few words in his ear, and Chang Shun immediately went down with a pale face.After a while, there were more shadows of guards around us, so we spent the night with the prince in the Penglai Hall in fear and anxiety.

The next day, when the crown prince and I handed the medicine that we had cooked at the cost of our lives to Qingsi Hall, there were many guards in the palace, especially around Qingsi Hall.The Crown Princess has already been waiting at the entrance of the hall, and there is a handsome and strong young man standing beside him, with the mustache that is popular among noble and handsome men nowadays, looking at me with a slightly cold expression.Wang Yuanli was smiling like a flower, but when she saw me following behind the prince, her delicate face immediately collapsed.

The prince briefly introduced us.It turned out that the young man was the concubine's brother, General Wang Juting, the commander of the right army of the imperial guards. We greeted each other and rushed into the hall with me.

Dezong seemed to be in better spirits. He asked the prince and concubine to take medicine together. He listened to Concubine Li chatting with us for a while, then he looked at Wang Juting and said with a light smile, "It's been very noisy outside recently. What's the matter?"

That Wang Juting knelt down and said: "Last night, someone assassinated the crown prince. Fearing that some thieves would take advantage of the emperor's serious illness and intend to plot against him, so we strengthened the imperial guards to protect him. Please forgive me."

Dezong's face remained unchanged, but he just listened quietly to the prince's ins and outs, and then nodded, "Jiating is thoughtful, and it won't be too late to investigate after my health is better. Now, just don't disturb the family members of the harem .”

The prince listened for a while with a cold face, but didn't ask me to show the flower scorpion.After a while, Concubine Li frowned and asked us to kneel down.I didn't sleep well yesterday, so I went back to my room and slept for a while under Weiwei's company.At night, when I was about to go out to accompany the prince to make medicine, I saw two court ladies coming. I recognized one of them as Chu Yu, who was the emperor's close court lady; the other was very similar to me in figure and appearance. , but never seen.

Chu Yu asked me to change into the clothes of the court lady who looked similar to me, and said that the concubine Li wanted to see me, so I changed my clothes and disguised myself as a very ordinary imperial court lady, and went with her. She walked around a long way. The far circle then came to the back door of Qingsi Hall.I was still wondering why Empress Li wanted to meet me in Qingsi Hall, but I didn't expect to see Dezong wearing a crimson satin robe with homely auspicious cloud patterns, sitting on the bed and looking at me with a smile.

I quickly knelt down, and Dezong told me to flatten my body, "Don't be afraid, Mujin, I want to ask about Xu'er being assassinated by a poisonous scorpion last night."

The Xuanyuan family is really powerful, it is estimated that if Wang Juting didn't say anything, they already knew everything about yesterday.I didn't ask Dezong how he knew, so I took out the flower scorpion in my cuff, and gave a general account of what happened yesterday.

Dezong thought for a while, then got up slowly, revealing the bedside table behind him engraved with Erlong Xizhu. He tapped his hand lightly on the mahogany board of the bedside table. The dragon on the left opened its mouth, and a big black The mouse ran out, about ten centimeters long, raised its two front paws, stared at me with its small black eyes.

"Madam is not an ordinary weak girl, so she shouldn't be afraid of mice." Dezong smiled and touched the body of the big black rat. "This is Qingcheng, Qingcheng with a country and a city, I raised it since I was a child."

It's really interesting that a big black mouse that everyone sees as evil has a name of a beautiful woman.

I smiled and shook my head, "Mujin often ate rats on the way to escape in the early years, please rest assured, Your Majesty."

Unexpectedly, the big black rat seemed to understand my words, looked at me slightly trembling in horror, squeaked, and ran back to Dezong.

Dezong smiled and said: "Qingcheng is not afraid, this is Mrs. Huaxi, and she can be regarded as your old friend."

ah?It doesn't exist in my circle of friends.

Dezong continued: "Have you forgotten? Her mother once gave you Buddha oil!"

After listening to Dezong's words, the black rat ran to me and sniffed for a long time, then nodded to me, then returned to Dezong's side and looked at me.

"Qingcheng come to smell the fragrance of this flower scorpion?" Dezong said softly to the black mouse seriously, as if he was a very good friend, and suddenly remembered the important point, "Stay away, be careful of poison."

Then he smiled at me and said, "Hibiscus, does everyone have a unique smell? Even though people may not be able to distinguish it after a long time and distance, mice can still smell it. This is because it is better than us. The place."

I suddenly realized, "Your Majesty suspects that the people in this palace did it. Your Majesty can let Qingcheng recognize the owner of the flower scorpion?"

"You don't need Qingcheng, you just need Qingcheng to tell the person what incense to use, and I can deduce the murderer one or two. Don't forget, I have dealt with incense for decades. Let me tell you a secret," Dezong said proudly He smiled lightly, "Actually, I keep my eyes closed in court, not because I'm too old to sleep, but because I can tell who is courting and who is talking just by using my nose."

The big black rat smelled it for a long time, then raised its head and squeaked at Dezong for a while.Dezong's eyes lit up, "Qingcheng has found the envoy."

My heart was pounding.Don't smell it as the original Qingjiang on the spot, then what should I do?
Dezong pointed to a multi-layered large nanmu incense box on the table, and I hurried to get it.Changwang handed me a mask and told me to cover my nose, and I also covered my face under Changwang's protection.He said lightly: "Don't think that incense is just an ordinary thing, but anyone who has a little understanding of incense will know that mixing it together can become a kind of poison, which can kill people more than ingesting it in food or drinking water."

The big black rat circled around the nanmu incense box, jumped onto it, and reached the third floor with its small claws. Dezong was taken aback for a moment, "Are you sure? Qingcheng, these are benzoin."

The big black rat stubbornly put its small paws to the third layer, and finally grabbed it eagerly, making scratches.Dezong slowly opened the third layer, and a burst of strong fragrance came.There were a few pieces of spice lying inside, Dezong took it out with shaking hands, put it in his nose and smelled it.His eyes drifted away, and he fell backwards.

Changwang and I quickly helped him up, I took the big nanmu incense box away, and wanted to call the imperial doctor, Changwang took out a small green bottle, opened the cap and put it in Dezong's nose to smell it.Dezong woke up and stared blankly at me, with tears slowly streaming from his eyes.

Dezong's eyes widened and he looked at me with extreme grief, "The Dou thief ruined my family. Not only did I not wait to kill him with my own hands, but my family started killing each other. Is it God's will? Afterwards, the country is really going to change hands? The snow will destroy the wood, and the Yuan will prosper? The twins will be born, and the dragon will dominate the nine heavens." He looked at me a little desperately, and muttered to himself, "If you were me, what would you do? manage?"

I froze there, not knowing what Dezong was talking about.Could it be that the one who assassinated the prince was the emperor's clan?Who is it?Xingqing Wang Xuanyuanzhang?Chongnan Wang Xuanyuanke?

In that room, Dezong's tears flowed more violently, he stared at me blankly, his eyes full of heartbreak, and then made a decision.He touched Qingcheng, and said word by word with tears in his eyes: "270 seven."

The black mouse nodded again, and jumped back to the bedside table. When it came out, it was holding a wish-like gold utensil in its mouth, which was as long as a middle finger, thick at both ends and short in the middle.The gold vessel has two sides, one side is embossed with exquisite peony patterns, and the other side is carved with two faces, one seems sad and the other is a strange smiling face.

Dezong put this golden vessel in my hand, "Thank you Mujin for helping me discover the truth today, this is my gift of thanks, maybe Mujin will use it one day."

I was about to ask Dezong what it was, but Dezong interrupted me with a violent cough. He coughed up a big mouthful of blood and sprayed it all over Changwang and me. We were all terrified.I was dragging Changwang to call the imperial physician, but Dezong stopped Changwang. Changwang covered his mouth and fell to the ground crying, his old eyes were extremely panicked.

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty," I supported Dezong's trembling body, "The crown prince will surely be blessed, please take care of the dragon's body, Your Majesty, and my wife will call Empress Li to come here immediately."

"Stop," Dezong clasped my arm tightly with his skinny hands like chicken feet, and said tremblingly, "Concubine Li bows to the Buddha, I only gave her this kind of benzoin."

I was dumbfounded immediately.At this time, Dezong's breathing became extremely difficult, his lips became purple and black, and his veins burst out, "I don't understand, why did she want to kill Xuan'er?"

Suddenly he seemed to understand something, and said tearfully, "Mr. Xiang, is that you?"

His eyeballs protruded straight out, his mouth couldn't be closed in time, his pupils suddenly dilated, and he fell heavily on my shoulder, and he couldn't breathe for a while.

Before I came back to my senses, Changwang did not give first aid to Dezong, but retreated step by step, crying, and then left us abruptly, ran to the door and shouted loudly: "Come quickly, Your Majesty Bintian!" Yes, Princess Zhenjing assassinates His Majesty."

Volume 130 of "Old Court Book":
On the first day of May in the fourth year of Yuanqing, at the time of Gengwuhai in the year of Siwei, he died in the Qingsi Hall of the Xinggong Palace in Xijing at the age of sixty...

The posthumous posthumous title of the ministers is Shengmu Jingwen Dexiao Emperor, the temple name is Dezong, he is benevolent and thrifty, respectful, filial and loving the people. In mourning, he also became Emperor Ai, and was buried in the Qinling Mountains of Xijing as a guest.

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