after rebirth

The queen opened her eyes wide. Just now she seemed to hear the sound of the dagger piercing the skin, passing through the muscles, and breaking the bones. She glanced at her chest in disbelief. Far.Holding her belly with her hands, the queen opened her eyes wide and looked for the person in her heart, but her lover never looked up at her from the beginning to the end.

Zhao Hengxu supported Du Jinrong's back and made a clever effort to make Du Jinrong stand up steadily. He fell to the ground, and the queen, who had only one breath left, fell limply in his arms. Zhao Hengxu hugged the queen, and put his mouth to the queen's ear Beside, the voice was very low, "How does it feel to have the dagger that was supposed to be prepared for me stabbed into my body? It hurts!"

The queen's eyeballs were slowly aimed at Zhao Hengxu, as if she could hear the clicking sound of the eyeballs moving, her lips trembling, and a crackling sound came out from her throat, which sounded like the word "child".

Zhao Hengxu smiled suddenly. With his smile, his sharp and tough facial features instantly softened. The corners of his eyes and brows were filled with smiles, full of masculine charm. His voice was magnetic and deep, and it passed through the cochlea and was deeply imprinted in his heart. , "Don't worry, I will send him down soon, the three of you will stay in the underworld for a long time." The words are full of murderous air, there is still a smile on the corner of the lips, but there is only fierce killing in the eyes .

Deng Suzhen's pupils constricted, and she let out a final cry, warning her lover with the last strength of her life. She thought her voice was loud, but it was actually just the sound of air leaking from her throat. Deng Suzhen's eyes were not closed until she died. He tried his best to look in one direction, but the person in that direction kept his head buried in awe and remained motionless.

The maid had already been subdued by Du Jinrong, and the assassin had also been captured. The chaos gradually calmed down, but the chaotic hall was eerily silent at this moment.Less than three months after he ascended the throne, the emperor hosted the first banquet, but an assassination incident occurred. During the incident, the queen was injured, and it was not known whether her life was in danger. It was a great shame for the emperor.

No, someone moved. With the support of his two sons, the thin, withered old man and his family bumped towards the main seat. After being assassinated, Zhao Hengxu was surrounded like an iron barrel. How could they still Entering, Deng Sheng trembled his lips, knelt down with a pale face, "Your Majesty, are you all right, how is the empress?"

Zhao Hengxu put the queen on the ground and glanced at the empress who was dying. The people around were so shocked by the queen's death that they couldn't speak a word. Deng Sheng's words were like a button that pushed everyone's switch. The eunuch and court lady next to her knelt on the ground, and Du Jinrong looked at the pale-faced Deng family under her eyes, not knowing whether it was pity or sympathy.

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The queen died, and all the people present could not leave. The delicious food and drinks were served, and the warm indoor was blowing with cold wind.Du Jinrong glanced into the hall through the window lattice, no emotion could be seen on his calm face.

When Yuan Bao came to see Du Jinrong like this, he shivered for a moment. For a moment, he felt that Du Jinrong was strangely similar to his master.Coughing to calm down his emotions, Yuan Bao went to Du Jinrong's side and said, "My lord, Your Majesty asked you to wait in Funing Hall."

Funing Hall is where Zhao Hengxu lived.

Du Jinrong withdrew his eyes and nodded, told his assistant to keep a close eye on this side, and walked towards Funing Hall with Yuan Bao.The long road was quiet and quiet, and the lantern held by the little eunuch illuminated a bright spot, which was hazy and unreal.

Yuan Bao gathered the clothes on his body, it's really cold tonight, "Master."

"Ah."

Yuan Bao cleared his throat, waved his hand to make the little eunuch go away, and said to Du Jinrong after a while, "Your Majesty saw a secret document, it's about you." It is not a good thing for Du Jinrong.

"Ah."

Tonight, Du Jinrong seemed very cold, not as gentle as usual, Yuan Bao didn't think much about it, after all something big happened tonight, the whole court became quiet and everyone became silent.

After a while, when Yuan Bao thought that Du Jinrong would not say anything more, he heard a "thank you" in a very soft voice, which disappeared in the wind as soon as he said it. smell.Yuan Bao rubbed his face. He didn't help much, so he didn't deserve Du Jinrong's thank you.

Funing Hall was very quiet, many candles were lit, brightly driving away the darkness, Du Jinrong looked around, his eyes were a little dazed.The candle flame flickered slightly, and Caiwei, the grand maid of Funing Palace, came in with a cup of milk porridge. Caiwei has been serving Zhao Hengxu for five or six years. , There is no thought of flying up the branch and turning into a phoenix.

"My lord, there are walnuts in the milk porridge. You must be hungry. It's good to eat this at night." Caiwei was wearing a lake-green palace dress with a little powder and daisy, looking pleasing to the eye.

Du Jinrong smiled lightly, his pretty face was dazzling in an instant, under the faint yellow candlelight, people were confused and fascinated, and Cai Wei was also slightly dazed, "My lord, you look even more beautiful."

Du Jinrong was taken aback, then shook his head with a broken smile, "Caiwei, I'm sorry to trouble you, I'm not hungry."

"Eat something even if you are not hungry. My son, sit here. The cushions are warm. You can eat a bowl of milk porridge, and there are books to relieve your boredom. Your Majesty will come soon." The long couch by the window is very comfortable , dark red embroidered pillows, rose-red cushions, and eight-treasure glazed lamps are placed on the red sandalwood kang table. The lights are bright but not dazzling, soft but not dull. . There is a bookmark on the page of "Zhi Taste", a few bamboo branches are simply outlined under a crescent moon, and a few stones are dotted around the thin bamboo. Du Jinrong put it aside after looking at it. Drawn by hand.This "Story of Taste" was not the one he was reading, but the bookmark was clipped where he happened to see it. He lowered his eyes and looked at the pages for a while. He was so silent that people couldn't figure out his emotions.

Du Jinrong didn't know that this book had been with Zhao Hengxu for more than 30 years in his previous life. Whenever he was sleepless at night, he would look for Du Jinrong's figure through the lines by candlelight, over and over again, night after night.

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Different from the tranquility and warmth of Funing Hall, the dark tide is raging in the Imperial Study Room. Zhao Hengxu sat at the top without saying a word, with a gloomy face, while Deng Sheng, the Duke of Wei, looked gray below. I'm going to follow the empress.Deng Xiugu, the eldest son of Deng Sheng, had a sorrowful expression on his calm face. He was Deng Suzhen's father, and he loved Deng Suzhen so much that he kept his mouth shut and was afraid of falling.Deng Sheng's second son, Deng Xiuji, is a concubine. He looks a little frivolous, with a white beardless face, puffy bags under his eyes, drooping eyes, and eyeballs swimming around under the eyelids. Standing behind Deng Sheng, he shakes his hands from time to time, looking a little uncomfortable patient.

The father and son of the Deng family didn't say a word, and Lin Bingcheng, the prime minister sitting opposite Deng Sheng, squinted his eyes. There was nothing he could do. He was old and mentally ill.Right Prime Minister Zhong Zhizhi just said a word - must be strictly investigated.

"Such things are insulting to the dignity of the royal family. The murderer must be thoroughly investigated and severely punished, so as to comfort the empress's spirit in heaven, otherwise I will be ashamed of my ancestors!" Come to suppress people. In his previous life, Zhao Hengxu wanted to reform any government orders. This person shouted the loudest. He always used the ancestral family law to suppress Zhao Hengxu. Zhao Hengxu had long disliked him.

"My minister thinks it is impossible. Your Majesty has just ascended the throne and the country is not stable. Now that you wantonly pursue the murderer, you may cause turmoil. Your Majesty, please think twice." Wang Wentao, Minister of the Household Department, is a modest and gentlemanly figure, but in fact he has long been in collusion with Zhao Yizhan.

Zhao Hengxu supported his head and looked at his courtiers who were arguing with each other, evaluating these ministers in his heart, who is available, who is not available, how the available ones can maximize their value, and the unavailable ones. He plays value.

"Your Majesty, I think that the most urgent thing is to let the Empress be buried in peace." At the end of the argument, Gu Liangchen, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, said with a straight neck.

Gu Liangchen and Wang Wentao were the ones arguing the most in the Yushufang. The others just said one or two suggestions of their own and then kept silent.Among them, Gu Liangchen talked the most, he wished for blood and tears every word, and he was more like the Deng family than the Deng family, and the old man Deng Sheng frowned inexplicably.

If he didn't know Gu Liangchen's character, he could guarantee that Gu Liangchen would be a pure minister, always standing on the side of the emperor to make things difficult for the emperor.Zhao Hengxu slightly lifted his eyelids, and looked coolly at Gu Liangchen, whose neck was stuck, otherwise he would have thought that Gu Liangchen was on the side of the Deng family.

"The minister seconded the proposal." Lin Bingcheng, who had always regarded himself as a bystander, suddenly agreed with Gu Liangchen's proposal, making Wang Wentao, who was about to speak, shut his mouth tightly.

The prime minister on the left expressed his opinion without reason, and the prime minister on the right has to be silent as a coffee table.

Zhong Zhizhi stood up and said, "The minister seconded the proposal." He changed his initial position. Zhong Zhizhi and Lin Bingcheng's political views had been at odds with Lin Bingcheng, but he didn't expect that they would become so consistent this time. Zhao Hengxu looked at it secretly Zhong Zhixian, in his previous life, he insisted on finding the murderer and bringing the real murderer to justice. Could it be that because of his rebirth, Zhong Zhixian also changed his mind?

The two prime ministers have already seconded, and it becomes meaningless for others to insist on their own opinions. A series of seconded, even Zhao Yizhan, who was filling the teacup there, seconded, with his eyes downcast and his eyelashes casting dark shadows under his eyes, His pale complexion looked pale under the candlelight, and his loose robe covered his tightly clenched hands with white knuckles.

Zhao Hengxu didn't speak immediately, but sat there silently, looking in one direction, for a long time, so long that everyone held their breath, the new emperor was notoriously cruel and impatient, everyone present thought that the new emperor was just Anger is brewing, the more silent the more angry, the more angry the more unreasonable.