Vicissitudes know Jinhua

Kang Wuzuo entered the hall and saluted like a ritual, his face was as expressionless as a tree root carving: "The poison that His Royal Highness Prince Shengdehuichun suffered was extracted from the fruit of the poisonous arrow tree. This poison and medicinal soup will not change after drinking After half an hour, the heartbeat will stop."

After hesitating for a moment, he said, "The poisoned person has no pain."

Qi Jin closed his eyes and nodded, and said in a shy voice, "Where is the poison of the poisonous arrow tree produced?"

Kang Wu said: "Arrow poison wood is also known as seeing blood and sealing throat, and it is only produced in southern Xinjiang."

Qi Jin pondered for a moment: "You go down. Liang Zhong, go ask Sun Yuanzheng, does the Imperial Palace Hospital store poison arrow wood?"

So far, the ins and outs of the case of the prince being poisoned and killed have been explained, and every link has come to light.

Mu Zishi didn't feel happy in his heart, he was just in a trance like a bewilderment, and he avenged the prince so smoothly, could it be that there was a heavenly net in the dark?Or is it true that Qi Yupei is still by his side and never left?

Qi Jin sat down slowly, and ordered: "These three maids, let's kill them with sticks!"

The prison division is in charge of Xing Xindao, Chun Yu and Hua Xiang once passed the poison and then administered the poison by themselves, no matter what happens, they should be imprisoned. It's enough to give death by the rope, why bother to waste the board of the prison secretary?

The officer in charge understood that although the emperor looked the same as before, he had already lost his composure in his heart. Anyway, all the servants in the palace were dead, and no matter how they died, it had nothing to do with the prison secretary, so he hurriedly replied: "Yes!"

As he said that, he asked Zhang Xing to stop Chun Yu and the others.

Mu Zishi was startled, and couldn't help but rushed over and hugged Bi Luo's waist: "Your Majesty, Bi Luo..."

Qi Jin flicked down the teacup on the table with one hand, with a look of anger and irritability: "I have made up my mind, so there is no need to say more."

But Bi Luo smiled, bent down and pressed close to Mu Zishi's ear: "There is a mother-of-pearl box next to your pillow, and inside it is something left by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. He said that he would take the bone beads with him as if it were yours. Accompany... and, he knows, he is willing..."

Before he finished speaking, he was already dragged away by two fast-handed torturers who stuffed their mouths with iron walnuts.

However, during tea time, Liang Zhong returned to the Zhiping Palace, and Sun Helin, the grandson of the Grand Hospital, followed closely behind. His usual hale and hearty back was slightly bent, and he knelt tremblingly and replied: "The Grand Hospital has a small box of arrow poison." The wood medicine powder is only used to paralyze the muscles. For every penny used, the director and the deputy director of the hospital need to open it with a key and record it in the file. In the past three months, no arrow poison wood has been used. One cent."

As he spoke, he took out a palm-sized iron wooden box from his bosom, and there were indeed two shiny copper locks on the box mouth.

Qi Jin looked at Sun Helin's gray hair, and thought that Qi Yupei had benefited from the old doctor's skillful hand and benevolence since he was not born, so he couldn't help saying softly: "I can trust what the hospital says."

Sun Helin, however, burst into tears, and said: "Your Majesty, I still have a request, but I am too old to be useful, which caused His Royal Highness to be ill for a long time. Now that His Highness is gone, my heart is like ashes, so I beg for the bones to return home."

Qi Jin sighed, helped him up himself, and said, "You really don't want to stay in the palace?"

Sun Helin was originally a boy with white hair, and acted like a young man, but now he stood up staggeringly, showing his old age: "Your Majesty, there is no mercy in the palace!"

As soon as this remark came out, even Luo Shi's expression changed.

Qi Jin was not angry, and sighed softly: "What you said is..."

Instead, he told Liang Zhong: "I will give Sun Helin silver 200 liang of horses and four horses, and give him a golden plaque with the book 'Xinglin Zhishan', and go back to his hometown to enjoy Qingfu!"

Sun Helin's lips trembled slightly, he kowtowed in thanks and left.

Qi Jin was silent for a long time, the air in the hall seemed to be frozen, and the pressure of the coming mountain rain was heavy.

Mu Zishi had never heard the screams or the sound of the stick scolding. When the director of the prison reported that the three maids were dead, he suddenly realized that Biluo had gone, and those slightly rough and warm hands were gone again. He also doesn't pinch his cheeks and touch himself.

Qi Jin walked to Tao's side, seemed to hesitate for a moment, and said: "What else do you have to say? Last year, Tao Ruopu transferred Tao Xing, a branch of the Tao family, and served as the captain of the Southern Xinjiang Martial Arts School... It must be extremely easy to get this poisonous arrow tree medicine powder Bar?"

Tao Shi lightly opened his vermilion lips, and when he smiled, he saw arrogance and arrogance: "Your Majesty, what do you want my concubine to answer?"

Qi Jin really didn't like her attitude, and said, "Answer the truth, don't tell me you can do it, and dare not answer?"

Tao Shi calmly said: "The concubine answers truthfully, I'm afraid the emperor won't believe it, the emperor only wants to believe what he wants to believe, doesn't he?"

Qi Jin said coldly: "You poisoned the prince with a foreign relative. The facts are all there, and the witness and material evidence are all there. How can I believe you?"

Tao raised his face, his face was as plump as a silver plate, but his smile showed sadness and stubbornness: "Your Majesty, my concubine enters the palace at the age of 16 and becomes a noble concubine. You are my concubine's husband and my concubine's heaven. For 22 years, I have treated the emperor with all my heart." It has never changed slightly, just like when you first entered the palace, you can show the sun and the moon, and you can learn from the world."

"It's a pity that the concubine didn't become the emperor but changed a long time ago. I also forgot the promise you made to me when the concubine first entered the palace."

Qi Jin was furious: "You are narrow-minded and jealous by nature. Since the empress entered the palace, you have been persistent and resentful, and you have repeatedly committed evil. Now you are mad and poisonous to kill the prince..."

When he mentioned the word prince, he finally couldn't help but shed tears, and said: "Immediately order the cabinet to draw up an imperial edict, the noble concubine Tao, to be deposed as a commoner, and given a white silk, and the third son of the emperor, Qi Hefeng, to be deposed as a commoner, and demoted from the imperial court. Beijing!"

Tao's chin raised slightly: "Bai Ling? I thought the emperor was going to chop his concubines into pieces. Your majesty, you have always been wary that I am from the Tao family, but you don't know that I am wholeheartedly for you. As long as I am here one day, The Tao family and Hefeng will not go against the way of a monarch and his subjects as father and son."

Qi Jin frowned: "Are you threatening me?"

Tao Shi chuckled and said, "Does the Emperor think that the concubine is afraid of death? The concubine only hates that she didn't die before Luo Shi entered the palace!"

Qi Jin didn't even want to say another word to her, approached Mu Zishi, and said softly: "Follow me to the East Palace... just take another look at Yupei!"

As soon as he walked to the gate of the palace, he heard Tao said quietly: "It is not a pity for my concubine to die, I am afraid that the emperor will never have a peaceful sleep in the future..."

In the huge main hall of Zhiping Palace, only the Queen, Concubine Tao and Ranxiang were left in the blink of an eye, and the Prison Officer and Long Shuowei were only guarding outside the hall.

Tao Shi stood up slowly after a moment of silence, staring at Luo Shi, his voice was not loud but decisive: "It's you."

Luo Shi's fingertips trembled violently, and the bright light of the silver hairpin with phoenix wings made her complexion like snow: "Your concubine, you are too vicious! We are all mothers, I don't blame you for Hefeng, but why bother to hurt Yu?" Pei's life?"

Tao Shi let out a strange laugh like a night owl: "I'm vicious? I can't compare to you... The emperor is gone, who are you acting like this for?"

Luo Shi's body was slender in plain clothes, and he looked so weak that he couldn't bear the clothes. He said in a trembling voice: "I don't understand what you are talking about. When Yupei was still in the belly, you made my maidservant in the palace hide musk in her sleeves. Yu Pei was born weak because of tampering with the anti-abortion medicine, and you are the culprit!"

Tao stepped forward a few steps, and the two most honorable women in the world faced each other, so close that they could strangle each other with a hand, their eyes were full of ruthless hatred, just like mothers who lost their cubs at both ends. beast.

Luo Shi narrowed his eyes slightly: "Your fruit today has come 18 years late, if you don't die, Yu Pei's eyes won't close!"

Dow's dress and silk shoes were still silently elegant and composed, but he smiled chillingly: "Really? If I die, the prince can rest in peace? I don't believe it... Who is the mastermind of poisoning?" Who is it that wants the prince's life, you know better than me, the dead prince knows even more!"

The corners of Luo's eyes twitched violently: "Yupei is the child I got after a narrow escape..."

Tao Shi immediately interrupted: "Yes! A tiger's poison does not eat its own child. I have calculated thousands of times. I really can't calculate that you will use your own child's life in order to win me. Queen, today's defeat, I deserve it." Yes, I am convinced."

Luo's body leaned back, teardrops seemed to be rolling down: "You took a dose of medicine that day, and you are doomed to live beyond the age of a weak crown."

Tao Shixiu frowned, and asked in a low voice: "So you just poisoned the prince? Is it worth it to exchange my son's two years of life for my life?"

"Empress, do you know? You are old and shining like the sun, but it's just a joke... I can smell the shouwu ointment on your hair, and your color is fading and you love it. Didn't you realize that the emperor has loved you all these years?" You, you just love the house and the crow for the prince's sake?"

Luo Shi suddenly turned his face away, staring at Tao Shi with burning eyes: "I won you not only because I was more ruthless than you, but also because you were stupider than me."

Tao Shi thought for a moment, nodded and said, "Maybe I'm stupider than you, but I will never poison my child with my own hands, even if he only has one day left...I just ask you, are you still a mother? Are you a mother?" Can my conscience be at ease?"

After finishing speaking, without waiting for the queen to answer, she turned around and left.

That night Dow hanged himself in the Linde Palace, and Empress Luo lit a stick of sandalwood in the small Buddha Hall of Liangyi Palace. .

After Mu Zishi accompanied Qi Jin to visit Prince Zi Palace, he returned to Zhaoxu Palace alone.

Along the way, my mind was out of control, and I always felt vaguely neglected something extremely important. Thinking of Qi Yupei and thinking about Biluo, I felt that everything was withered, and I was alarmed. A few days ago, Qi Shaochong added bad words, and I felt a little guilty when I recalled it. Qi Shaochong has always treated him very well. As Qi Yupei said, this person is bright and simple on the outside, and if he becomes the prince, he will not be much worse than Qi Yupei.

Walking back to the Nuan Pavilion where they lived, it was already dusk, Xiao Fuzi and Xi Luo were waiting outside anxiously, stamping their feet and rubbing their hands together.

Xiao Fuzi saw Mu Zishi at a glance, couldn't help being excited, and rushed to greet him: "Master has come back! Just now someone from the prison department came, saying that sister Biluo..."

Mu Zishi was very tired: "Biluo has left the palace, there are many people in the palace, don't mention her in the future, or you will cause trouble for nothing."

After hearing this, Xiao Fuzi still had doubts in his heart, but he obediently said: "The slave understands! Master, go back to the house to warm up. Xi Luo has prepared ginger soup."

Xi Luo is the second most important court lady after Bi Luo, with a gentle, stable and good temper, she waited for Mu Zishi to lie down, then retreated silently, Mu Zishi touched the mother-of-pearl that Bi Luo said by the pillow by a satin lamp in front of the bed The box is more than a foot long, made of red sandalwood, ivory dotted with luminous snails, extremely exquisite and gorgeous, but there is a poem engraved on the box cover: Returning on a snowy night.

"Returning on a snowy night..." Mu Zishi murmured softly, his figure was reflected by the lamp, his figure was alone, lonely like a soul, half-bright and half-dark, shadowy, wandering in the pale and empty The wind and snow night is above the five characters.

After a long time, Mu Zishi opened the mother-of-pearl box, and inside lay a short knife and a golden sharkskin scabbard, which were gifts from Qi Wushang back then.

Qi Yupei knew that Mu Zishi really liked this knife, so he specially asked Bi Luo to put it in the box and returned it to him.

Mu Zishi touched the scabbard, and the prince took the bone beads with him, treating it as his own company, his intention was self-evident, and the sudden kiss that night also quietly emerged, and all kinds of feelings lingered in his heart for a while.

Holding the knife in his arms, he rolled around in the bed, his heart ached slightly from the cold scabbard, as if a handful of chili noodles had been sprinkled in the ice and snow.

Bi Luo's eager voice before he died seemed to be still in his ears: "...there is something left to you by His Royal Highness, he said that he would take the bone beads with him, as if he was with you... Also, he knows , he willingly..."

Mu Zishi opened his eyes suddenly, as if a ray of lightning struck down from the sky, and his whole body froze like a vulture for a moment.

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