The Neon Tower

The emperor ordered someone to proclaim the imperial edict. He was in poor health and had to rest for a few days to avoid going to the morning court.

He entered that mountain forest based on his own memory, and after walking for less than an hour, he found that the surroundings began to be filled with smoke, and the fog became thicker and thicker. . .The scene before his eyes grew darker and darker until it was completely dark.

When he woke up, he found that he was on the bed in a small thatched house, and beside the bed was a two or three-year-old girl who was concentrating on handling a sepak takraw ball bigger than her head.

"Wow..." Seeing him sitting up, the little girl immediately pointed at him and made a babbling sound.

"Are you awake?" The woman who was sitting at the bamboo table doing needlework cast a glance at him and said something.

"Where is this?" he asked.

"A shabby hut in the deep mountains." The woman simply replied: "You fainted in the mountains, and it happened that my daughter's rattan ball rolled to you, and I found you when I came to pick it up. Thank you, my daughter Come on, otherwise you would have been eaten by jackals."

"So that's it. I really thank the little girl and my sister-in-law."

"Hmph, eldest sister, although I haven't seen anything in the world, I can see that your outfit is not an ordinary person. You have an emperor's seal on your body..."

He was stunned for a moment, jumped off the bed and said: "Bold, you actually take advantage of people's danger to obey things?"

"I won't tell you if I want to go along, but I am acquainted and report my background."

"The current emperor, do you believe it?" He straightened his waist and said with anger gathered in his dantian.

"Not even a guard?"

brought. . .When he just remembered, Xing Zhi had been following behind him, but now. . .He was nowhere to be found. . .

"It seems that the emperor got separated from the guards? It's not surprising in this deep mountain and old forest." The woman was still doing needlework stitch by stitch. Judging from the situation, it seemed that she was not going to kneel down and salute to the emperor?

"Sister-in-law, do you know where my guard is now?"

"If it's not here with the women, then it's likely that the people in the village will catch them and search all the valuables on them before throwing them back into the mountain pass. Don't worry, Your Majesty, you will be fine."

"The stockade? Is that the stockade that can manipulate Gu poison?"

"..." The woman put down the tattered clothes in her hands, and looked in his direction: "Oh~ Your Majesty is here looking for Gu poison?"

"No...no." The emperor rolled his eyes and thought of an excuse: "I came here looking for an antidote, one of my concubines accidentally ate a kind of Gu poison, and now I can't sleep, I'm so anxious."

The woman asked again: "Then may I ask the emperor, what are the symptoms of that empress?"

"Sleeping as if dead, the body is not rotten, and there are two scars of tooth holes on the back of the head."

"..." The woman finally knelt down in front of him: "Return to the emperor, this kind of Gu poison, there is only one Gu poison, and there is only one antidote, and only one person in the world has it."

"Who?"

"Returning to the emperor, there is a stockade in our mountain. As the emperor said, the clansmen in it make a living by refining Gu. It is reasonable to say that this kind of Gu can only be owned by the heir there, but... that heir offended the clan in the village. Case was expelled from the village, and he carried both the Gu and the antidote on him."

"Where did you find him?"

"Your Majesty... don't you know him?"

"Ok?"

The woman slowed down and said: "He is the most appreciated doctor of the Empress Dowager, and the Yunxing Medical Center belongs to the owner. I heard that the Empress Dowager does not even use the imperial doctor in the palace, so he is specially allowed to enter the palace to take care of her health."

"Yunxing Medical Center...belongs to the owner?!" The emperor recalled, but it wasn't. . .The military doctor of the cavalry army?

"Exactly."

The emperor pondered for a while, he was not familiar with the owner of the pavilion, if he contacted him rashly, the matter might be exposed, how can he get the antidote smoothly?Xing Zhi is right, the antidote is like one's own destiny, and it is much safer and more reliable to control it in one's own hands than in the hands of others.

"Hey, then I'd better go back first... ah, this jungle is very weird, I just passed out while walking, can my sister-in-law point out a bright way?"

"Oh, the emperor doesn't need to worry, the woman has already lit a guiding light on the emperor, you won't faint again when you go down the mountain this time."

In order to thank the woman and the little girl, the emperor left a paper fan inscribed with an imperial pen, with the emperor's seal stamped on it, and left after saying something like seeing the emperor in person on the paper fan.

Ruoning gave birth to the little prince smoothly, she hugged the little prince and watched, the little guy quietly closed his eyes, his lips were pursed and raised slightly, very cute.She put down the baby and walked to the case. The delicate silver box attracted her attention as if exuding magic power. She casually put the small box into the tribute wooden box and closed it.

Eunuch Feng came late at night with some supplements in both hands.

Seeing Eunuch Feng coming, Concubine Ning hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Eunuch... Has Mr. Zhao Tan already been..."

"Go back to your mother, yes." The father-in-law bowed and saluted slowly, and replied.

"Eunuch knows..."

"The emperor won't say..." The father-in-law replied again: "But this old slave understands in his heart that the emperor doesn't want to hurt Mr. Zhao Tan, it's just..."

"Just what?"

"Your Majesty, the emperor feels bad about losing his siblings."

"Then may I ask how Mr. Zhao Tan was..."

"Returning to your empress, the old slave was not there at the time. I only know that Mr. Zhao Tan broke into the empress's bedroom, intending to attack the emperor and empress, and prepared to kill the emperor."

. . .

Concubine Ning's expression froze for a moment, and she slowly looked at the solid tribute wooden box.

"Your Majesty, do you know about the birth of the little prince?"

"The emperor is not in the palace now, and he brought guards and said that he would go out for inspection in a low-clothes. The old slave tried to dissuade him but to no avail. He is probably on his way back now."

"Eunuch... I want to ask you one thing."

"what's up?"

When the emperor returned to the palace, he hadn't been anywhere except reviewing the memorial in the imperial study. When Feng Zheng reported that Concubine Ning had finished praying and returned to the palace, the expression on his face was strange and complicated.

He simply replied "Oh", and continued to concentrate on the memorial in front of him.

On the third day, the emperor rationalized his thoughts and concluded that the owner of the pavilion is an old friend of General Fan. I am one of the best medical experts in the country. The owner of this unknown Gu poison and antidote in the world, the Gu poison is on Zhao Sheng. It fell out, but the antidote was not on Zhao Sheng's body. What was the original intention of this Gu poison?It can't poison people to death, it can only make people enter a state of suspended animation. If giving Gu poison without an antidote is not equivalent to deceiving the emperor, then where should the antidote be?

After much deliberation. . .The emperor's forehead suddenly flashed: "Ruoning?"

He decided to go see Concubine Ning, even if. . .She is very likely to see through the truth at a glance.

When she came to Concubine Ning's bedroom, Concubine Ning had already knelt in front of the courtyard to welcome her. She kept her head down, seemingly out of politeness but in fact she had no idea.

"Ruoning..."

In the bedroom, the emperor shunned all the maids and eunuchs, and there were only him and Concubine Ning in the room.His concubine Ning never said a word, but stood motionless in the center of the room, watching him.

"Ruoning, sit down."

"The concubine... I want to see the emperor's face a few more times."

"Zhen, is something wrong?" The emperor's heart was vacant, he unconsciously clenched his palms, and cold sweat leaked from his fingers.

"It may be that the concubine has not seen the emperor for a long time, and I always feel that the emperor has become very strange."

"Oh, it's the first time to be stared at by my concubine like this."

"Who told the emperor to change someone..." Looking into Ruoning's eyes, the emperor's eyes showed a trace of warning, and then heard Ruoning say: "It seems."

Hearing this sentence, the emperor knew in his heart that he couldn't hide it from this woman no matter what, even if he imagined the plan to be perfect, everything would be ruined in front of her.

Nor is it?After all, she was single-handedly, but she had the empress empress and the right minister as a strong backing, who would believe her one-sided words, as long as she behaved obediently. . .Then I can fulfill my wish of staying with her forever.

"What happened to him?" Ruoning asked unabashedly.

"Conspiracy, there is always only one end."

"He is your conjoined brother, another you in this world."

"Since it's one heart and one body..." The emperor looked away: "Then why do you want to back me?"

"Does the emperor still remember what he promised his concubine?"

"Ahem..." The emperor pretended to cough, trying to avoid the temptation.

"Your majesty really manages everything, I forgot..."

"Ah um..." The emperor hesitated and couldn't find anything else to say, his eyes glanced at Concubine Ning's painting case inadvertently.

On the desk, a wooden box that he was very familiar with was quietly placed. He walked over to pick up the box and looked at it for a while, and an impulse surged in his heart to open the box.

"My concubine, I want to borrow this box for a few days... My brother is dead, I want to borrow it to commemorate it."

"Does the emperor want to try to open this box again? Obviously he can't open it..."

The emperor's finger was about to press down, when he heard this sentence, he retracted suddenly.

Can't open it?Why can't it be opened?He had seen Zhao Sheng open the box with his own eyes, and he was still sad, now. . .Ruoning said he couldn't open it?Are you testing yourself?

He shook his head silently, picked up the box and left. . .

He once imagined that without Zhao Sheng, he and Ruoning could become a real couple.But when he saw Ruoning, he realized that guilt had become a barrier between him and Ruoning, and they could no longer get along like before, let alone talk about feelings.

When he found that he couldn't open the box, he was discussing matters with Prime Minister Zhen.The moment he knew he couldn't open the box, he stared at the box for a long time. He thought that his posture to open the box was wrong, so he pressed his fingers down again. . .Still no response.

"Your Majesty? Is there any mystery hidden in this box?"

"Ah, no..."

Since it can't be opened. . .Let Ruoning put it back. Ruoning cherishes this box so much, which proves that she still has her own in her heart.

When he came to the bedroom, he felt very strange, there was not a single servant inside and outside the palace, and the whole bedroom was eerily quiet.Uneasy in his heart, he quickened his pace and ran to Ruoning's bedroom.

The queen rode on Ruoning, strangled her neck tightly, several bloodstains were scratched on the two exposed arms, Ruoning fell into a pool of blood and did not move anymore.

"What are you doing?" The emperor let the tears drip from his eyes at this moment, his mind was empty and he couldn't think of anything.

"She already knows that you are Zhao Tan, and she cannot be left in this world." The corner of the queen's mouth rose triumphantly, looking at Ruoning's face with her eyes closed, a burst of satisfaction came from her heart.

"You're just looking for an excuse to get rid of her."

"General Fan has done a lot of battles in our court, and General Deng, Prime Minister Zhen, and Lord Wen are loyal officials in the court to support him. If you let these court elders know that you are not Zhao Sheng but Zhao Tan, then you will be rewarded for your hard work." Everything that comes here will be in vain, and the concubine is only thinking of the emperor."

The queen stood up and stepped over Ruoning's corpse: "If you want to secure the throne, please remember that you and I are on the same boat now."