Golden branches and jade leaves

Chapter 14

Su Mi only felt that her consciousness was blurred for a while, maybe she just had a nightmare, a voice lingered in her ears, muttering, why do you have to work so hard, just go to sleep like this, don’t need to think about anything, don’t need to do anything... your body is like flying through the clouds She seemed to be floating, but suddenly a burst of darkness surged up and surrounded her, making her unable to breathe, and the pain of almost suffocation made her wake up suddenly.

She struggled to open her eyes, this movement almost exhausted all her strength, as if the whole world was still dark, she moved slightly, am I already dead?Could it be that this is already Hades hell.

"Master!?" There was an exclamation, it was Mi Qing, who had been standing by the bed, and when she saw Su Mi opened her eyes, she cried out in surprise.

"I..." Su Mi struggled to say something, but she couldn't speak well. She struggled to get up, but her hands and feet felt so weak.

Mi Qing hurriedly stepped forward to support Su Mi, while offering tea, she fed Su Mi a few sips, and Su Mi regained her breath.Looking at everything around her, she woke up and her memory slowly came back. She was still alive, living well in this harem of Da Qi.That sword was not ordinary sharp, he was really lucky!Not knowing whether to be thankful or sad, Su Mi lost her mind for a moment.

It's just that she hasn't thought about the past for a long time. She relaxed and leaned on the cushion, and she actually recalled the past when she broke the city. Did the feeling of life and death scare her?
Since she is not dead yet, she has to face...

"What time is it now, what happened?" Su Mi suddenly came to her senses and asked hastily.Her voice was still a little hoarse, and she didn't know whether it was because of panic or dryness.

"Master has passed out for a day and a night." Mi Qing said anxiously: It is already a quarter of Yin hour, and it will be dawn in another hour.

What?one day one Night!
Now Su Mi's mind is spinning quickly, "Did the imperial doctor come to see it?" Then the matter of her pregnancy...

"The imperial doctor came over to see it." Mi Qing also realized this, her face was very ugly, "it was He Ling from the Imperial Hospital who came to check the pulse of the empress."

Su Mi's face paled instantly.

She miscalculated!
Originally, her plan was to take this opportunity to secure her favor. Newcomers would come in from time to time in the harem. The favor obtained by relying on her beauty and talent will not last long. Concubine Yun is an example that cannot be reproduced, but once she sacrifices herself to block the sword Success is different. There is no man who will not be moved or shocked by a woman who is willing to die for him. Even if he is the Emperor of the Ninth Five-Year Supreme, even if his love fades, this kindness is also a good way to save his life.

It's just that after being hit by the sword, I will definitely be impacted, so I can just use this plan to have a legitimate abortion. As long as I have a moment, I can use acupuncture to temporarily change the pulse condition and hide the truth. In exchange for saving the emperor's life, it is very worthwhile and very cost-effective. After all, such an opportunity can be met but not sought.

But the implementation of all of this requires one's own sobriety as the premise.

She didn't expect that the sword of the man in Tsing Yi was so fierce that it could penetrate the jade pendant and enter her body. She couldn't bear the sword and fainted. Poisons are nothing to me. When I was a child, I always liked to play with medicines. My foster father and the others were afraid that if I swallowed something by mistake, they let her take a lot of elixir to strengthen her body since she was a child. Her resistance to poisons is far better than ordinary people. , so she is confident that she has not missed a single omission.After deciding on the plan, she asked Miqing to go back to Caiwei Palace to prepare for her own miscarriage under the guise of preparing hangover soup.But because of that sword, she lost too much blood and fainted, and she couldn't diagnose, treat and detoxify herself in time, so she fell into a coma and was delayed.

Now she was injured and comatose for a day and a night, this time was enough to completely destroy the whole situation, first of all, her false pregnancy could not escape the eyes of the imperial doctor, how could she have a seriously injured fetus, but it was not affected at all, Wen Si Changeless.

This is the principle that my father often said that people plan things and things come true. Su Mi smiled self-deprecatingly.One mistake, and the whole game is lost.

"Did he say anything?" Su Mi asked after a moment of silence, with a bitterness in her voice.

"Physician He didn't say anything, but the master is very dangerous this time, if he doesn't wake up within two days, he will be in danger, Xiao Luzi and the others are in a hurry."

"He didn't say? About the abnormality of my fetal image," Su Mi's voice contained a glimmer of hope.

"No, the servant has been with him all the time, and the emperor was here at that time, he didn't say anything about the fetus from the beginning to the end. The emperor didn't ask about it either." Mi Qing said with certainty.

Su Mi thought about it for a while, and immediately understood that this He Ling was probably a cautious person. At that time, he was most likely dead, and he would be dead in two days. Of course, there is no need to create side effects for a dead person. Add variables and get yourself into trouble.

It seems that he is also a person who knows how to protect himself.

Maybe I was lucky this time, He Ling didn't leak the news.What should I do next?Su Mi calmly sorted out the thoughts in her mind.

"Master, what should we do?" Mi Qing asked anxiously.

"Where are the others?" Su Mi raised her head and asked.

"Mi Hong and Xiao Luzi waited for a whole day, and they were exhausted. The servant told them to go to sleep, and only the servant stayed here for the night. Do you want to wake them up?"

"No need," Su Mi asked again: "Have I prepared the things I told you to prepare?"

"Yes, the maidservant is ready, and she is hiding in the small kitchen, and no one has seen it." Mi Qing nodded in response.

"In that case, hurry up and get ready," Su Mi raised her head and instructed. "Don't alarm anyone, get rid of this 'child' first."

Right now, I have to take one step at a time. First of all, I have to get rid of this "child". If the news of my waking up spreads, the imperial doctor will come for diagnosis and treatment immediately. At that time, I will never be able to hide it.The imperial doctor He Ling didn't seem to be very powerful. Since he knew how to judge the situation and was a smart person, he should be careful.

As long as he didn't divulge his affairs within this day.Su Mi's eyelashes trembled slightly, thinking to herself.

Qianqing Palace, Yangxin Palace.

Qi Taki walked back and forth anxiously, he hadn't closed his eyes for a day and a night, and a series of news recently made him unhappy.

First the assassins!The majestic court banquet of the Great Qi Dynasty, the inner palace banquet located in the inner courtyard of the deep palace, unexpectedly an assassin barged in majestically, many concubines were killed, and many more people were injured, Qi Long really couldn't help it I suspect that the next time an assassin comes to kill him, he can directly break into his bedroom and take his head.

This caused him unprecedented anger and fear. In less than half a day, he issued several orders in succession to urge the personnel of the Ministry of Criminal Justice to step up efforts to solve the case.

Soon the autopsy search results of Wu Zuohui, the Criminal Ministry and Dali Temple came out.

The clothes on the assassin's body were made of silk that could only be produced locally in Yongzhou. Most of the weapons had no clues, but they found a worn-out simple knife that was equipped by the guards of Duanyong Pass in the old Liang Dynasty. With engraving.

Yongzhou was originally the territory of Liang State, but now it is the fiefdom of the Ni family. Ni Yuan was a general of Liang State before he surrendered to Da Qi, and he led the army to station at Duanyong Pass to guard Yongzhou.Back then, the late emperor led the army to attack the state of Liang, unable to attack for a long time, and the situation was stalemate. In order to recruit Ni Yuan, the late emperor made a special promise to designate Yongzhou, one of the nine states in the world, as the fiefdom of the Ni family. He would never go back on his word. The Ni family's influence in Yongzhou can be said to be deeply rooted.

Based on these things alone, can it be concluded that the assassin is related to the Ni family?Qi Taki is not so stupid yet, especially since Ni Yuan is fighting in the north and south at this time, he is absolutely not going to do such a thing of self-destruction of the Great Wall.

And the assassins are divided into two groups.Most of them were lurking in the Shenqing troupe summoned by the Wang family appointed by the Queen. Only one of them killed the servants of the Ni family at the gate of the palace and pretended to be him. Most of the assassins were hidden in the Wang family's troupe Therefore, the Wang family cannot escape the suspicion of assassination.

In fact, what Qi Long cares about is not only who planned this matter, after all, Da Qi has conquered cities and conquered territories in recent years, destroyed countless countries, and has too many enemies.But when Qi Taki calmed down, he immediately realized that this incident was a rare good opportunity for him, and he could use this to weaken the power of the Wang family he had long disliked and Ni source.

The Wang family can be called the No. 1 family of Da Qi. At the beginning of Qi State’s establishment, it followed the Qi King to make military exploits repeatedly. After a hundred years of development, it has a solid foundation. Especially in recent decades, successive generations of queens are all from the Wang family. They were all born by daughters of the Wang family, so that in the eyes of all the people of Qi, the Wang family seemed to be the descendants of Da Qi, and it seemed that it was an established rule for the daughters of the Wang family to enter the middle palace.Over the years, the behavior of the Wang family has become more and more rampant. Now most of the courtiers in Daqi's court belong to their faction, and it seems that countless dignitaries in Daqi are related to the Wang family, which makes him deeply worried.He deliberately promoted Ni Yuan, who had a shallow foundation in the court, in order to suppress the royal family.

And Ni Yuan, although he has been obedient and secluded since he surrendered to Daqi 20 years ago, he has always been grateful and grateful since he was hired by himself, abides by courtiers, and acts in a low-key manner.But in the past few years, he has destroyed Wei Pingshu, won many battles, and his prestige in the army is increasing. Moreover, in Kyushu, their Ni family still occupies Yongzhou as a private fief, so their power should not be underestimated.This time, he recalled him to the capital to reassign him on the grounds of celebrating the new year because he didn't want him to develop too much power in the army.

Taking advantage of the assassin's timing, he was in a position to give them a good beating.

But soon his plan came to nothing.

After hearing the news about the assassin yesterday, the queen mother fell ill again because of her rage and worry, and this time the "sickness" seemed to be much worse than before, but she still held on to her sick body and fell down immediately. Yizhi called the empress who presided over the dinner party to give him a hard reprimand, and now the empress stays in the Palace of Compassionate Ning to serve day and night in her clothes.In this way, I definitely can't touch the Wang family at this time, so as not to make the queen mother's condition worse. Daqi governs the world with loyalty and filial piety. As the king of a country, I can't leave a reputation of being unfilial.Not only can't he show face to the Wang family, but he needs to make an order to appease them.

As for Ni Yuan, just after the autopsy results from the Ministry of Criminal Justice were delivered to his desk, news came that Ni Yuan was also assassinated and was seriously injured. This made the already difficult assassination incident even more confusing.The next day, I received Ni Yuan's request to resign as Minister of the Ministry of War and return home to recuperate from his wounds.Qi Long had no choice but to offer another burst of comfort and encouragement.

After all these twists and turns, it seemed that all he could do was to punish the guards and reward the bloody and hard-working Prince Yu and others.It really pissed him off to the extreme.

What made him feel the most comforting was that he had just received a secret report that Nan Chen had once again appointed Prince Cheng Chen Qian as the guard of Jianye City.

Jianye City was the frontline battlefield where Qi and Chen confronted each other.Chen Qian is the younger brother of Emperor Nan Chen, Prince Feng Cheng, and the number one famous general in Nan Chen. In the past ten years, the Qi army has been defeated several times by him. , Chen Qian has the appearance of an emperor, he is the reincarnation of a real dragon, possessed by gods, and so on, which finally made Emperor Chen fear that his younger brother would usurp the power and seize the throne, so he was dismissed from his military power, put him idle, and lived in seclusion in the capital.

However, in this year's battle, Ni Yuan led the Qi army to win consecutive battles, beat Nan Chen to the brink of misery, and cede territory for peace.Now at a critical juncture, he is going to be reactivated again!The report said that as soon as Chen Qian arrived in Jianye City, he began to rectify the military defense, and sent spies to various places to investigate, and the meaning of conquering the lost land was clearly revealed.In this way, it seems that there will be a battle in the beginning of spring, and Ni Yuan, who originally commanded the army to deal with Nanchen, has made it clear that he will not be able to go out this time.Even if he doesn't know anything about military affairs, Qi Taki knows that it is a big taboo in the military to change commanders before the battle...

Everything is not going well!
Qi Taki slammed the teacup in his hand on the ground, venting his feeling of powerlessness in his heart, he was really useless as an emperor.

With a "bang", the broken cup just hit the feet of Gao Shengnuo who trotted in.

"Emperor... Your Majesty..." Gao Shengnuo was startled, and knelt down in panic. Since the assassin incident, Qi Taki has been in a particularly bad mood, and those who serve him are also very careful, worrying day and night that he will be confused If you get confused, you lose your head.

"How decent is it to be in such a panic?" Qi Long shouted.

"Yes, yes, the old slave is guilty, the old slave is rude, the old slave is guilty..." Gao Shengnuo quickly kowtowed in response
"What's the matter?" Qi Taki waved his hand impatiently and asked.

"Your Majesty, the people from Caiwei Palace came to report the news, and Empress Concubine Su has woken up." Gao Shengnuo replied.

"Awake?!" Qi Taki's voice could not conceal the surprise, this was the first good news he heard in the past few days.

"However..." Gao Shengnuo hesitated for a moment, then said, "Miss Su's child has had a miscarriage."

"What?!" Qi Taki's figure swayed, and he was silent for a moment, his voice couldn't tell whether it was sadness or joy: "I'll go and have a look."

When Qi Taki hurried to Caiwei Palace, Su Mi had already suffered a miscarriage.

For Qi Taki, the grief brought to him by the news of the miscarriage this time was not as intense and unacceptable as when he heard the news before. Perhaps hearing the news of Su Mi waking up was enough to make him feel too I am overly thankful and grateful, which greatly dilutes the blow of losing my child this time.

He had also looked forward to this child, but when the imperial physician told him that Su Mi might be hard to save, he was not even interested in asking about this child. After all, even the mother had no hope. Not to mention a fetus less than one month old.

Now hearing the news of Su Mi waking up and the news that the child is gone at the same time, he didn't know whether it was sadness or joy. After all, Su Mi finally woke up, and he didn't want to expect too much.

He rushed to Caiwei Palace in a hurry, the courtyard was already full of imperial physicians and eunuchs, he ignored everyone's salutes, and quickly entered the back room, and saw Su Mi sitting on the bed surrounded by quilts.

Su Mi's hair was scattered on her shoulders, tears were shining in her red and swollen eyes, against her bleak and pale face, the sad eyes in her eyes made people unable to help feeling a heartbreaking sadness.

He hurriedly stepped forward to hold her hand, "Mi'er, that's great! It's good that you wake up."

"Your Majesty..." Su Mi's face was bloodless, her pale face was full of sadness, and she said in a mournful voice: "The concubine might as well die, the concubine and the emperor's children are like this... "While speaking, tears rolled down Su Mi's cheeks as white as jade.

Qi Long's heart ached when he saw it, and he couldn't imagine that the woman in front of him was so weak, but she was able to rush forward to save her own life in a critical moment under the shadow of the assassin's sharp sword.

"Mi'er, don't be impatient, we will definitely have more children in the future, and I will treat you well in the future. We will have many, many children." He held Su Mi's hand tightly and said.

"Your Majesty!" Su Mi fell on Qi Taki's shoulder and wept bitterly.

Qi Long held her in his arms and comforted her softly.

Su Mi's teary eyes were full of tears, Qi Taki comforted him for a long time before he slowly stopped the tears and stabilized his emotions.Just when the two were tender and affectionate, Gao Shengnuo outside made a long announcement: "The Empress has arrived."

Immediately, the curtain was lifted, and the queen walked in.Seeing the situation in the room, the queen was slightly taken aback, and then saluted Qi Long respectfully and greeted him.

"Isn't the empress serving at the Compassionate Ning Palace?" Qi Long asked, with a hint of displeasure in his voice, "Why did you rush over so soon?"

This time the Empress Dowager fell ill at the right time, which made him very dissatisfied. Of course, he knew in his heart that maybe the Empress Dowager’s illness may not be as serious as what he said, and it may not be necessary for the Empress to stay in the Palace of Compassionate Ning for a long time. Serving, but this obvious method of protecting the Wang family left him helpless and helpless. He felt angry but had nowhere to vent, and he became less polite to the queen's words.

The queen was stagnant, but the family banquet she hosted had infiltrated the assassin, who should be punished logically, thanks to the protection of the queen mother, she was not blamed.It was also expected that Qi Long's expression on her would be unfavorable.

She quickly calmed down, and said respectfully: "The concubine was originally serving the queen mother, and just after serving the queen to rest, she heard the palace servants around her come to report the matter of the concubine Su's sister. The concubine wants to have something to do with the emperor's heir, which has a lot to do with it, but she can't." It was delayed, so I hurried over here." Then he asked Su Mi with a concerned face: "How is my sister's health? I heard the news, but I am very anxious."

When Yurui delivered the news, she was sleeping peacefully, got up and thought about it for a while, then remembered the secret report from the little palace maid, and finally couldn't let go, so she rushed over, unexpectedly, Qi Long was here too.

"Thank you for your concern, the concubine is fine, but..." Su Mi still respectfully said with a sad face.

"Well..." There was a gleam of light in the queen's eyes, and she turned away, still with a bit of sadness on her face, and comforted her softly: "Sister, don't be sad, sister is still young after all, as long as you take good care of yourself, why don't you worry about it in the future?" What about the heirs?"

"That's the reason," Qi Long said, while patting Su Mi's back lightly, "Don't be sad, Mi'er. You are inherently weak."

The queen smiled gracefully, and said to the outside world: "Which imperial doctor diagnosed and treated Concubine Su?"

"It's a lowly job," an imperial doctor outside immediately responded, "The humble job is Liu Cheng from the imperial hospital."

"Huh? I remember that He Ling has always been in charge of Concubine Su's pulse. Why didn't he come here? It's too dereliction of duty." The queen asked in surprise.

"Returning to your mother, Imperial Physician He was on rotation yesterday, and he was on duty today, but the hour is not up yet, and he hasn't arrived at the imperial hospital yet, so he has a humble job to do it for him." Imperial Physician Liu replied.

Looking around, the sky outside was still pitch black, and now it was around the end of Yin Shi and the beginning of Mao Shi, and it must not be the time for the imperial physician to enter the palace to start work.

"Then let me ask you how concubine Su's pulse is?" the queen asked, the words completely expressed a queen's concern for the sisters in the harem.

"If you go back to your mother, thanks to my emperor's protection, all the remaining poisons in the body of Su Bin's mother have disappeared, and the sword wound has not deteriorated. Although she just had a miscarriage, her pulse condition is very peaceful. It doesn't seem to have any major impact. Rest and recuperate for a while. It will be cured in a few days." Imperial Physician Liu replied.

Qi Long felt relieved when he heard it inside, he hugged Su Mi and said, "That's good, Mi'er has been weak and sick, so I've been worried."

"That's right," the queen said with a smile, "this is really a happy event. It's all the blessings of the emperor and the blessing of the Buddha." While talking, there was an imperceptible hesitation in his expression, he paused, and he said: "But why did Concubine Su suddenly have a miscarriage when she woke up? Originally, I was overjoyed when I heard the news that my sister woke up, but I didn't expect that the next thing would be... oh..." Turning to the imperial physician, he asked, "Concubine Su had a miscarriage before she had a miscarriage. What's wrong with your fetal image?"

"This... the humble duty is guilty, the humble duty is dereliction of duty, and when the humble duty came here, the empress had...never checked the pulse of the empress before the miscarriage, so I don't know." Imperial physician Liu hurriedly pleaded guilty, while secretly groaning, What's wrong with us? Who told you not to call for someone early? By the time you arrive, it will be too late.

Su Mi's tears flowed down silently again, her face was bleak, and she couldn't cry.

"Okay, okay." Seeing that Su Mi couldn't help being sad when she heard the mention of the child she had just lost, Qi Taki interrupted the queen and said, "Don't mention this matter again."

"The concubine thinks that Concubine Su's miscarriage is a bit strange, why don't you call Imperial Physician He over to ask together?" The queen hesitated for a moment, gritted her teeth, and said.

The queen herself has never given birth, and she doesn't know much about medicine, but she also knows that it is not normal for a sword to have no effect on the fetus.Last time she ordered Yurui to send an edict to He Ling, but He Ling ended his duty and went home. Today, she simply sent someone and asked here.

"What's wrong?" Qi Taki asked a little impatiently.

"My sister didn't have any signs of miscarriage when she was injured before, but now she wakes up and has miscarriage...I'm afraid something is wrong. After all, it has something to do with the dragon descendants, and it has a lot to do with it, Your Majesty." Seeing that Qi Long was moved, the empress Hastily said again: "And I see that my sister has been in poor health, maybe there is some hidden disease, but it needs to be treated as soon as possible. Imperial Physician He has been in charge of diagnosing my sister's pulse, and you can also come with a few imperial doctors if you ask him to come over. Discuss, learn more about my sister's physical condition, so that I can recuperate in the future, this is also for the sake of my sister's health."

What he said was reasonable and methodical, and Qi Long also felt it was reasonable, nodded and said: "Alright, Mi'er has been in poor health, and now she has suffered a serious injury, it should be up to them to discuss it carefully and come up with something Come up with a feasible prescription, and adjust it well.”

Su Mi couldn't help changing her face. She had originally planned to send away a few people, so she summoned He Ling to lure and intimidate her, and subdue him so that his doubts would not be revealed.But now the queen and Qi Long have to make it clear that they are there, so how should she act?

Why did the queen insist on calling He Ling?What did she know?What should I do?
There was no clue on the queen's face, she had already quickly ordered the people around her: "Go and find Imperial Physician He. You must come here."

Yu Rui quickly responded, turned around and left.

Seeing Su Mi's complexion, Qi Long thought that she was still worried about the child, worried that her old wounds were not healed, and she would be sad again, so he quickly comforted her.

Su Mi reluctantly responded with a smile, but her mind was full of thoughts, how should I do it well?
For a moment, the expressions of everyone in the room were different.The thin moonlight outside the room was falling, but the ground was still full of moonlight like water.

It was already early morning outside, but the sun always rises very late in winter, and it was already time to go to work, and the outside was still gray. He Ling, the imperial doctor of the Tai Hospital, had just walked out of the house at this time, and was going to the Tai Hospital. On the way, he rubbed his hands and sighed, "This damn weather..."

Just as he turned into a small alley, he suddenly saw a tall figure standing in front of him.

"Who?" He Ling turned pale with shock.Robber?

The figure of the visitor seemed to be blending into the night, he turned around, and before the imperial physician had time to call for help or move, a flash of saber light flashed across, and a mellow light diffused.

At the same time, the sun rose, and at the moment when day and night intersected, people couldn't tell whether the dazzling light was the light of the knife or the sun.

The visitor turned his head slightly, and the halo shrouded his face, outlining the delicate outline and the criss-crossing old scars on his face...

The floating stars in the sky are still shadowy, as if reflecting all living beings and floating dust in the world.

The blood has spread...

(End of this chapter)