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A group of people rushed back to the palace anxiously, including Yelv Zongche.Originally, he didn't want to take care of this mess because of his irrelevant temperament, after all, the previous attitude of Zhao Zhen and even Bai Yutang choked him a lot.But he couldn't stand Xiao Qi's begging eyes, and Zhan Zhao really owed him a favor for saving Xiao Qi, so there was no reason to stand idly by.So everyone rushed to the side hall where Han Mengfei was temporarily housed, and told the beginning and end of the incident with emotion and reason, and waited for the answer they expected.Unexpectedly, Han Mengfei leaned on the bed and remained silent for a long while, finally lowered his eyelids slightly, and said quietly: "I...don't know."

Bai Yutang no longer cared about the disrespect in front of the palace, rushed up madly and grabbed his skirt and dragged him out of the bed.His eyes were burning with anger, and he cursed: "Han Mengfei, you bastard, you still don't intend to tell the truth at this point? You will kill Zhan Zhao."

"I really don't know where Guard Zhan is!!!" Han Mengfei argued anxiously.

"You still say that? I, Bai Yutang, really misjudged you! I knew that I shouldn't have listened to the cat to save you. You deserve to be left to fend for yourself." Seeing that Han Mengfei opened his mouth, he finally remained silent. Bai Yutang couldn't control it any longer and wanted to punch the opponent's cheek, but a hand stretched out from the side grabbed his wrist and neck.Bai Yutang glared angrily, seeing that Yelu Zong, who had no expression on his face, stopped him completely, so he asked, "What do you mean?"

"Can't you see that he's telling the truth? Since Yan Kui, the commander of the Imperial Forest Army, put him under house arrest, he just guarded against him, so how could he let him know so much?" Yelu Zongche said lightly after knowing the whole story.At this moment, he was the only one among the three who could keep calm.After all, caring makes chaos, Zhan Zhao is not even a pawn in him, he will not be as confused as the two people in front of him because of the unknown whereabouts of the imperial guard.

After hearing Yelu Zongche's words, Zhao Zhen's heart suddenly turned cold.But at least he still grasped the last sliver of clarity in his chaotic mind.He asked Han Mengfei, "Then you can always tell us who told Sixiangge to arrest Zhanwei?"

When Zhao Zhen mentioned this point, Bai Yutang finally calmed down from his rage, and said in a deep voice, "Yes, you must know the person behind it. It will definitely not be Yan Kui, as he is absolutely unable to support the Chai family." A big banner. I thought that the remnants of the Chai family knew that you were the illegitimate son of Lord Chai, so they entrusted you as the master and continued to plot rebellion. But Yan Kui's reaction was not the same that day, and he The blind silence with that Zhou Tong is even more weird to the extreme, just like..."

Zhao Zhen murmured thoughtfully, "It's like willing to die in order to protect the mastermind behind the scenes. Now that I think about it, Yan Kui's final suicide outside the palace is also full of doubts. He killed Zhou Tong first. Could it be that he was aware of Zhou Tong's love for me? There is also friendship, afraid that he will not be able to bear the identity of the person behind him for a while?" Zhao Zhen and Bai Yutang glanced at each other, and when they saw him nodding in agreement, they immediately felt more confident in their guesses.Zhao Zhen's eyes froze and he straightened his eyes, and said to Han Mengfei: "Han Mengfei, I believe that you really don't know where the guards are. But I also believe that you must know who is in charge of Chai Wangfu and the Chai family after Chai Wenyi's death. The rebellious actions of the remaining party. Now, Zhan Wei's life and death are in your hands, and whether you say it or not is entirely up to you."

Han Mengfei's silence again made everyone see hope, at least he didn't immediately deny that he didn't know the inside story.It's just that the man had been at war with heaven and man in his heart for a long time and still only uttered a few frightening words.

"...I...can't say...."

It's not that I don't know, but I can't say.

Seeing that Bai Yutang was about to run away again uncontrollably, Zhao Zhen suddenly grabbed him in front of him, and shouted in a deafening roar, "Isn't the life of the guard Zhan more important than that gangster who secretly plotted? Han Mengfei, you You should be a kind-hearted person, otherwise you wouldn’t have reminded me to save Zhan Zhao as soon as you woke up. But now, why are you still obsessed with helping the person behind the scenes? Yan Kui will arrest you In the imprisoned mansion, do you think that person will not know? Do you know how many people he caused to stir up the situation in the palace and killed many people? Among them is my mother. Such a person who has brought so many evils, what is it that makes you still Want to keep his identity?"

"Your Majesty only knows how to criticize, but have you ever thought that he has never done you any harm?"

Zhao Zhen was puzzled: "What are you talking about? I was assassinated in the street just after returning to Beijing..."

"That was Yan Kui's private decision, but that person never thought of harming you!"

What Han Mengfei blurted out made Zhao Zhen look stunned, and suddenly realized a question that he had never delved into.

Yeah, why has he never thought about it?The thief used his hands to assassinate his mother, Empress Liu E. Afterwards, he did not hesitate to frame Zhan Zhao in the palace and put him in prison.This person has dealt with the most important and important people around him one by one, but why is there no movement towards him alone?This is simply too strange!And Han Mengfei actually said that the person behind the scenes never wanted to harm him...Wait...could it be...he? !

As if thinking of something suddenly, Zhao Zhen's eyes widened, revealing an unbelievable expression on his face.He let go of Han Mengfei suddenly, and didn't notice that he fell to the ground. Instead, he turned and ran towards the door, disappearing in a blink of an eye.This made Bai Yutang and Yelvzong completely confused, so they looked at each other and chased them out—although they didn't know what happened, Zhao Zhen's reaction was to tell them that he must be know what.

When Youyou woke up, she was actually in a private prison.

He moved his hands and feet weakly, only to hear clangs and bangs, and then realized that he was tied to a torture rack.Zhan Zhao smiled wryly in his heart, he was forced to take Hua Gong San, but the other party was still not at ease, and tied his hands and feet with gold and steel chains, how much defense he had for him.

The dim light can only illuminate one corner, and the rest are hidden in the dark.As far as the eye can see, except for some scattered instruments of torture, there is only a faintly visible corner of a boxwood wooden bed.He was not surprised by the instruments of torture. Looking at the standard of these instruments of torture, they are either cotton needles or fine forceps. They are delicate and small, and they seem to be mostly suitable for women.It's just that I don't know why there is such a bed suddenly appearing in this private prison, and the headboard of the bed is exquisitely carved, which seems to be used exclusively by the inner court.This discovery made Zhan Zhao very puzzled, he couldn't help but muttered to himself, "Could it be that I'm not somewhere else, but in the palace?"

"Master Zhan is really powerful, you can even guess this?" A man in black came out from the shadow, and it turned out to be the leader of the Four Elephant Pavilion who captured him.

There was a glimmer of gloom in Zhan Zhao's eyes, but it didn't show at all on his face, and he said calmly as usual: "What's so difficult about this? As long as you know who is behind the scenes who appointed you to work in Sixiang Pavilion, you can naturally guess."

"Oh? You already know?"

"Originally, Zhan didn't know who did the tricks until he entered the prison of the Ministry of Justice. The mastermind behind the scenes was really powerful, and he played with people completely between applause and applause. But your prison robbery in Sixiang Pavilion completely wiped you all out." employers were exposed."

The leader didn't believe it: "It's impossible! Our party has never revealed anything. You can't find out who hired us from my people in Sixiang Pavilion."

Zhan Zhao sneered, nodded and said, "That's right. This flaw was not revealed by you Sixiangge, but by the employer who inadvertently revealed it in order to cooperate with your actions."

The person in charge recalled the whole process of action carefully, and couldn't figure it out.He tentatively asked, "Master Zhan is framing me, isn't he?"

"Nowadays, people are knives and I'm fish, is it necessary?" Zhan Zhao's sharp eyes looked past the man in black, all the way to the entrance of the private prison hidden in the darkness.His voice was calm, but it had a new momentum that made people feel full of force. "Since you're here, why don't you show up to see her? —— Empress Yufei?!"

The door suddenly opened, and a gust of wind blew in from the outside, making the bean-sized lamp wildly flicker and dim.What followed was a series of unhurried footsteps, accompanied by every step that seemed to step on the heart, a slender figure curled up and appeared in front of Zhan Zhao.

The face of the beautiful woman in full dress no longer had the soft and kind smile of the past, and her expressionless eyes looked like a jade-faced Rakshasa.If she could, she really wanted to turn her eyes into sharp knives and cut the man in front of her into pieces.

The leader of the man in black clasped his fists when he saw the Lord coming, and said, "My mission is over, I should return to Sixiang Pavilion to report. As for the reward..."

"Don't worry, the remuneration has already been sent to the Guige. Please!" With a wave of his left hand, he sent the person away.From the beginning to the end, Concubine Yu kept staring at Zhan Zhao, as if she wanted to see through him from the inside out.It wasn't until a while later that she opened her red lips slightly and said, "I also really want to know where the flaw is."

Zhan Zhao looked at Concubine Yu calmly, raised his head seemingly inadvertently, just to prevent her from seeing the fleeting regret in his eyes. "Your Majesty still doesn't understand? That plate of sweet-scented osmanthus and red date cake betrayed you." Seeing that Concubine Yu was still puzzled, Zhan Zhao sighed in a low voice, "It's true that I love sweets, but red dates are the only ones I can't touch. It is easy to get red rashes on the back after eating. Your Majesty has always known my taboo, so even if you send food to prison, you will never use food cooked with red dates. Empress, I am afraid that you have gone too far by speculating on the emperor's heart."

Concubine Yu narrowed her eyes slightly, knowing that what Zhan Zhao said was right.At the beginning, Zhao Zhen prepared desserts for Zhan Zhao who was on duty every day, refurbished them every day, and never repeated them. She only got a glimpse of the emperor's deep intentions for him, so when setting up the situation, she followed the same pattern and prepared different pastries. Unexpectedly, the mistake of Yin and Yang became the biggest flaw.

Concubine Yu said unwillingly: "Even so, at most it will make you alert that someone is planning to harm you, how do you know that person is Ben Gong?"

"At the beginning, the Empress Dowager used the lotus seeds in the cakes to make Zhan Zhao drugged. Later, she was pushed out of the Dragon Pavilion by Shang Chongyi. I thought it was all a coincidence. But combined with the empress's behavior today, a certain Some answers are ready to come out - Zhan Zhao also had her part in setting up the situation, didn't she?" Seeing Concubine Yu's expression was dull and silent, Zhan Zhao continued: "If you think about it this way, Shang Chongyi hanged herself in the cold palace. Was it also silenced? It's so good that everything is intertwined. The queen mother is responsible for planning and prescribing the medicine, and the empress is cleverly pretending to be other people's hands to harm others. It’s really impressive.”

Seeing that Concubine Yu was still looking at him indifferently, Zhan Zhao took a deep breath, and simply revealed all the bits and pieces in his heart. "The Queen Mother passed away. Zhan Zhao thought that someone was trying to harm His Majesty, so he stayed in the Palace of Compassion and Peace. Instead of reprimanding such an out-of-order behavior, the Empress did not reprimand her like the Empress Dowager, but let her go. Could it be that the purpose was to send His Majesty away. The group of hidden guards by my side were trying to frame them later. The ridiculous thing is that even if they were designed into the prison of the Ministry of punishment, I didn't dare to think that the empress had other plans, because I don't think anyone in the world can While framing others, he took the initiative to testify for the other party’s innocence. So from the beginning to the end, I overturned my guess many times, but I never thought of you, Empress Yufei. It wasn’t until the plate of cakes appeared that Zhan Zhao truly understood Empress’ intentions —Your Majesty never hoped that the Ministry of Criminal Justice would kill me, Zhan Zhao, but wanted to make me disappear with lightning speed before everyone recovered, right?"

"It's true that I was negligent. I didn't expect you to see the ins and outs of the whole incident with just such a small omission."

Zhan Zhao shook his head and said: "Zhan Zhao's knowledge is superficial, he only knows what's going on, but he doesn't know why. From Zhan Zhao's point of view, the empress must love His Majesty deeply, so I really don't understand why the empress would get involved with the Chai family? Although I can barely deduce how things happened, but I can't figure out the reason."

Concubine Yu froze for a moment, then laughed out loud. "Why, there are still times when Guard Zhan can't figure it out? Do you really want to know? Okay, I will tell you." She suddenly approached step by step, so close that Zhan Zhao could even feel the breath of the other party every time. . "The reason is simple. My name is not Li Yuzhen, but... Chai Yuzhen."

Zhan Zhao looked at Concubine Yu in surprise, and the words that came out of his mouth were stuck in his throat. "Who are you……."

"Just as you think, I am the illegitimate daughter of Lord Chai. Li is my mother's surname. I was sent to the palace many years ago because my father wanted to find a more peaceful way to deal with Chai Zhao. The grievances between the two families. If I can give birth to your majesty's heir, and then my heir will become the emperor in the future, my father's wish will be fulfilled. Who would have thought that three years ago, the whole family of the Chai family was destroyed, and I have been living in the deep palace for a long time. I was kept in the dark. Until a few days ago, my half-brother Chai Wenyi asked Yan Kui to find me and asked me to help him succeed."

"So, the empress became the palace's internal response? Could it be that the empress was also responsible for the assassination of His Majesty at the North Street Market that year?"

"What nonsense?! How could I harm His Majesty?" Concubine Yu snapped, her expression immediately became cloudy. "When I went out of the palace, I originally wanted Yan Kui to send someone to secretly guard him. Who would have thought that he would go against his will to assassinate him. Afterwards, I never let him get any news from your Majesty again."

"The Chai family was wiped out, doesn't the empress hate His Majesty in her heart?"

"I know better than anyone else what kind of person Your Majesty is. He will never do such a heartless thing. In my eyes, Your Majesty is not only the Lord of the world, but also my beloved husband. What's more What happened to the Chai family was done by the Empress Dowager, so what does it have to do with Your Majesty?"

Zhan Zhao frowned and said, "So Concubine Yu doesn't hate Your Majesty, but the Empress Dowager. You let Zhou Tong kill the Empress Dowager?"

Concubine Yu was startled, and then let out a sneer.Her smile became soft and strange, and she suddenly stretched out her right hand to hold Zhan Zhao's left cheek. "Guard Zhan, you are wrong, it was not me who killed the Queen Mother, but you."

"Your Majesty, don't talk nonsense." Zhan Zhao said sharply.

"Do you really not know, or do you pretend not to know? Didn't His Majesty tell you how the Empress Dowager died?" Concubine Yu burst out laughing, tears streaming down her face. "The one who poisoned the dragon cup was none other than His Majesty himself." Seeing that Zhan Zhao's expression seemed to be arguing, Concubine Yu covered Zhan Zhao's mouth and nose with her hand before him. "I know what you're going to say. Your Majesty certainly won't harm the Queen Mother, because the poison (du) that sealed the throat with blood should have been poured into the tiger cup you held. But since your accident at Longting Lake , His Majesty has already taken precautions against the Queen Mother. That's why he bribed Liang Jianzhang, the chief manager of the Palace of Compassion and Ning, so that he could put the medicine in the Dragon Cup one step earlier than the Queen Mother. And that Dragon Cup, His Majesty never thought of letting anyone use it. .”

Concubine Yu saw that Zhan Zhao's eyes were getting wider and wider, and she had obviously thought about the inside story, so she let go of her hands and smiled bitterly, "You understand, don't you? That's right, His Majesty left that dragon cup for me. For you, His Majesty even went so far as to I want to risk my own life and drink that cup of poison (du) myself, just to use my own life to force the dowager to never dare to harm you. How can I let His Majesty take such a risk?"

This time Zhan Zhao was completely shocked, and murmured, "Why...Your Majesty, why did you do that?"

"Zhan Zhao, thanks to your shrewdness and courage in everything, how can you be so stupid when it comes to the word 'love'?" Concubine Yu's tears had long been uncontrollable, she tightly grasped the front of Zhan Zhao's chest, He hissed: "Don't you still understand why the queen mother wants to kill you? And why do I go to such lengths to put you to death?...Because we hate you! Hate you! Just because of you In the past six months, no one in the harem has received His Majesty's mercy. Haven't you ever carefully looked at the eyes His Majesty is looking at you? I thought I had received His Majesty's love. But I didn’t know how wrong I was until I saw the way His Majesty looked at you. Your Majesty does have feelings for me, but that’s not love. My husband, who is more important than heaven and earth in my heart, actually gave you all his love Such a man, how can you tell me not to hate you?!"

He slowly took out a dagger from his arms.The shining blade slowly touched Zhan Zhao's heart.Concubine Yu smiled with tears in her face, her face was slightly distorted, but she was not ugly at all, on the contrary, she was so charming that she was astonishingly beautiful. "Actually, I have never killed anyone with my own hands. If I kill others, I will definitely feel guilty and afraid. But you, I won't, I just feel happy! Do you know why I went to such trouble to let Sixiang Pavilion rob you out? ? Just because I want you, who took everything from me, to die in my hands."

It is clearly the same face, why does Concubine Yu look so different at this moment?It turns out that a person's love and hate can change even the appearance of a person.

Zhan Zhao was at a loss for words.He couldn't even feel the sharpness of the sharp blade in his heart at this moment. He only felt his mind was in a state of confusion and dizziness. His eyes were not dark, but countless fragments of memory with Zhao Zhen kept flashing, and all kinds of memories were messed up in a disorderly manner. Together, it was like weaving a grotesque net, which tightened his throat and pressed his chest even more, making it impossible for him to breathe.

"Guard Zhan, I know that all of this may not be your fault. But please don't blame me. Only when you die can all of us be free."

After finishing speaking, Concubine Yu raised her dagger high and stabbed at Zhan Zhao viciously.But seeing that the edge of the blade was about to approach him, a sudden hand grabbed the edge of the blade.The blood flowed out in an instant, and fell drop by drop on Zhan Zhao's cheeks. The extremely dazzling bright red and the warmth brought by the blood itself immediately made the absent-minded Zhan Zhao suddenly regain his consciousness.

"...Your Majesty...?" His throat was so dry that it tightened.

The clear eyes finally accommodated Zhao Zhen in front of him.With a determined face, the emperor firmly stuck the blade with his phalanx and would not let it drop half a point.Those eyes are so bright that it makes one's heart tremble, but they don't look at anyone, they just greedily stare at the fresh life in front of them, unable to move away.

Just a little, just a little, and he almost lost him.If he could, he would even kneel down and kowtow to Nangong Wei three times, because if the other party hadn't taught him a set of Qingling swordsmanship based on lightness kung fu, he would almost be late to save Zhan Zhao.

"Guard Zhan, are you alright?" He couldn't help stretching out his other hand towards the man's cheek.But seeing the other party tremble all over, he dodged slightly.

Zhan Zhao looked blankly at Zhao Zhen in front of him, and felt a splitting headache, which affected all his thoughts.

It turns out that His Majesty is actually looking at me with this kind of eyes...

It turns out that besides Zi Jin and Bai Yutang, is this look "contaminated" by His Majesty, whom I have always protected and cherished as my best friend?

Why?Why did it become like this? ! ...

"Cat!—"

With a loud shout in the distance, Bai Yutang rushed towards him several times, swung his swords down, and the iron chain snapped.Zhan Zhao, who suddenly lost his support, collapsed.Zhao Zhen reached out to pick him up at the same time, but Bai Yutang was the first to hug him into his arms.Seeing Zhan Zhao's completely lifeless, almost gray eyes, his heart tightened, and he asked anxiously, "What's wrong with you, Maoer?"

"Yutang...take me...." Before the word "go" came out, there was darkness in front of his eyes, and he fainted.

"Guard Zhan!" "Cat!" The two screamed at the same time.Zhao Zhen snatched the dagger from Concubine Yu's hand and threw it far away.He shouted angrily, "Yuzhen, what did you do to him?"

Concubine Yu smiled sadly and despairingly: "The concubine didn't have time to do anything, so His Majesty came here."

Bai Yutang saw that she didn't seem to be lying, so he probed Tan Zhanzhao's forehead and took the pulse, and then said to Zhao Zhen, "The pulse condition is fairly stable, with a slight fever. He probably caught a cold in the dungeon."

Zhao Zhen nodded, and said to Bai Yutang: "Bai Huwei, you first send Zhan Huwei back to Zhuyixuan and ask Imperial Physician Dong to come over for diagnosis and treatment. I still have some things to deal with here."

Glancing at Yelu Zongche, who arrived one step late, Zhao Zhen said flatly: "My lord, please do as you please. I'm sorry for my poor greeting."

Yeluzong knew everything, "Your Majesty, you don't need to care about this king, the business is important." After saying that, he followed Bai Yutang out of the private prison, but he didn't notice the unkind look in Yufei's eyes when he watched him go away.

The author has something to say: the last update in September!The next update will be on October 10st.By the way, how many chapters do you want to read during the National Day holiday?Maybe I can finish Zihuang in October ahead of schedule, counting the remaining chapters so far, maybe I can do it.

The last boss is Concubine Yu, did you guess right?In fact, Concubine Yu is quite easy to guess. I think I missed the question very seriously. You see, I have reserved a place for Yuzhen, who doesn't have many roles in the supporting role. Doesn't that explain the problem?

In addition, as I mentioned in my reply, I will not update Zihong weekly at the beginning, but about twice a week. Of course, the length of the article will be shortened to [-] words per chapter.In addition, I will probably revise it from purple to black while making it more purple, and I will modify and add a lot of content.Please also give me your opinions.