concubine on top

Chapter 81

In the more than 20 days after the night visit to Qinglufang, several cities in the north handed over reports one after another, saying that things are gradually turning for the better. Hong showed his kindness and made a concession in the sense of battle. Of course, the real reason for this was that Helian Kun was restrained, and the true and false news was sent back, which made him misjudge, and made him be punished by Helian Chasing Day. Got the handle.

Seeing the little emperor's sad face for many days finally showing a sincere smile, Hu Qian also pursed his lips in relief: "The emperor's methods are so clever, it's really the queen mother's blessing."

"Thanks to the noble concubine. If he hadn't reminded me, I wouldn't have learned the etiquette and customs of Beishuo. Now it seems that it is really useless." The little emperor suppressed the smile on his face when he said this, " Is there news from the south?"

"It is said that it will officially arrive tomorrow." Hu Qian said, "However, the imperial concubine has used some of the money to buy several carts of borneol cream and insect-proof gauze, and has them sent to the surrounding cities quickly, which can be regarded as stabilizing the morale of the army. .”

The little emperor nodded deeply, remained silent for a long while, and inadvertently frowned.Seeing this, Hu Qian comforted him and said: "The imperial concubine is a thoughtful person who doesn't follow the rules. If Wu Zan meets him, he will definitely be caught off guard."

"That's right. I think when he first entered the palace, he would clean me up. He would take some snail powder-flavored sachet and act in front of me." Recalling the past, the little emperor gradually opened his brows, " Now he has to face the poisonous bee again for me, and I have to do something for him."

Having said that, the little emperor waved at Hu Qian.

Hu Qian hurriedly listened to it.

"Next, I'm going to use the hands of Beishuo people to dig out Wuzan's secret." The little emperor smiled secretly, with a rare danger in his expression, "I think they've been dormant for so long, it's almost It's time to come out and dance."

At the end of autumn and the beginning of winter, there was a rare sunny and warm day, and when there was nothing to do after finishing the paperwork, the little emperor sent someone to move a rocking chair, and sat in the backyard, basking in the sun as much as he wanted.

He raised his head against the sun, his chin was pointed, and after worrying for a month, he lost a lot of weight, his face faded from immaturity, and only when he dozed off would he reveal the innocent expression of the past.

It's a pity that the winter sun is extremely rare, and he walked to the other side of the sky without being warm for a long time.The little emperor touched his fur collar, which was warmed by the sun, and went back to the warm pavilion with his arms folded.

After dinner, he went back to his bedroom. The courtiers were still fuming the hall and mattresses. The ambergris came out from the hollow on the top of the incense burner, spreading in the air, sweet and fragrant.

The little emperor wandered to the center of the hall and shook his head at Xiao Fuzi, who swept the whisk and drove all the palace people out.

"Tired, let's settle down."

The little emperor pouted, lay down on the bed drowsily, followed Xiao Fuzi to play with himself, wiped his face and feet, took off his shoes and clothes, and stuffed himself into the bed.

After finishing the work, Xiao Fuzi turned off the lights and went out to watch the night.

Soon there was a slight snoring sound in the bedroom. The person on the couch was obviously sleeping soundly, so deep that he didn't even notice that someone approached quietly.

The black shadow squatted on the ground, moved towards the bed little by little, and stopped when it was three steps away from the bed.

Suddenly, a little warm light came on in the dim palace, the snoring of the person on the bed stopped abruptly, and he flew out of the tent, taking down the person beside the bed on the spot!The captured person was dressed in the ordinary clothes of the Palace of Mental Cultivation, his hands were tied behind his back, and his face was firmly pressed to the ground, so it was impossible to tell who it was.

However, at this time, a person holding a torch came out from behind the heavy curtain: "I knew it, you must be among the palace people, and come in with your face covered to kill me. Don't you, Concubine Tong?"

Huo Zhezi took turns lighting the candles on the chandelier, and the flames dyed the little emperor's snow-white coat with a layer of golden light.After lighting the lamp, he turned on the torch, and said to Hu Qian who had searched Concubine Tong and taken away all the sharp weapons and medicines, "Let her sit."

After receiving such an order, Hu Qian finally acted with pity, but he "put" the person on the ground onto the velvet stool by the table like a chicken cub, and took off a silk handkerchief covering his face by the way. .

Under the silk handkerchief is a gentle and sweet face, but the light from the two eyes is full of indifferent hatred, and after one glance, she turns her head away, as if she doesn't want people to stare at her face: "Huh."

This thin hum was acquiescence, a disdain to communicate with him, and a reduced speech of "fight or kill as you please".

After looking at it like this, the little emperor couldn't help but sighed: "After all, we also sat together and drank tea and chatted. Don't you have anything to say to me?"

"What do you want me to say? Why did you kill you? Do you have feelings for you?" The candlelight reflected on Concubine Tong's face, which was as cold and hard as an ice sculpture, and she didn't appreciate it at all. "What's the point of asking these things now? "

"Why doesn't it make sense?" The little emperor looked at this face that he had never had the opportunity to examine seriously, as if trying to find some familiar look in it, "You know my heart is very soft."

"Hahahahaha..." Concubine Tong let out a cold silver bell-like laugh as if hearing some joke, and moved her eyes to the ground.

There was a pile of gadgets on the ground that could kill someone in an instant. After Hu Qian searched her body, he basically threw them far away. Among them were the hairpins on her head and other jewelry that could stab people.

The little emperor glanced at her, and his expression was still calm: "I treat you well, even if you come to kill me, it's not a vendetta, right?"

The smile on Concubine Tong's face faded away, and her expression was still full of sarcasm: "Tang Di, born in the royal family, you shouldn't have such thoughts. People in the royal family are always bound together by national hatred and family hatred." Just because you Taihong oppressed Wuzan, causing my father to vomit blood and die in anger, is enough for me to hate you."

The little emperor stared into her eyes, unwilling to believe her words: "But as far as I know, your father didn't treat you very well."

Concubine Tong twitched the corner of her mouth coldly: "Oh, if you treat me well, don't you also die in the palace?" "Are you talking about the palace man who died in the fire instead of you?" The little emperor said, "She looks very similar to yours. As far as I remember, her name seems to be Bo Xi...isn't it?"

"Of course I do. In order to protect me, she often pretends to be me, and she has been like this since the day I came to Taihong." Concubine Tong turned her face to the little emperor expressionlessly, but her eyes were red, "Why? So, I'll give you the answer you want."

Her appearance was familiar to the little emperor, and after a while he suddenly realized that the palace maid crying at the gate of Qiulu Garden was the concubine Tong in front of him.

The little emperor frowned: "I'm not the one to kill everything. It's Wu Zan who wants the goddess to die, not me. You have no reason to blame me."

Concubine Tong sneered: "Is it unreasonable? There have been screams in the Punishment Department recently, don't talk like your hands are very clean."

After hearing this, the little emperor did not refute.

If blood on his hands is considered unclean, then he was already unclean when he was in the Prince's Mausoleum.But he felt that it was impossible to make a conclusion about what was not clean. He did not do many things for his own ability, and he did not have the addiction to torture and kill others.But it is really unnecessary to use this reason to argue with Concubine Tong.

"Okay, if you have time to talk about this, why don't you let me be a fool." Concubine Tong looked at him and leaned sideways on the edge of the table, "Since when did you find out that I'm still alive?"

"When I heard about your Wuzan etiquette about women wearing veils."

"Oh?"

"Shen Yanchuan told me that in Wuzan, only girls who have not left the court wear veils. At that time, I became suspicious of you wearing a veil, because you have always abided by Wuzan's etiquette and refused to change your clothes. "

"It's far-fetched. I never considered you a husband, and we haven't lived in London. Is it necessary to take off the veil?"

The little emperor nodded: "If that's the case, you who have been veiled off after being stabbed should also turn your face slightly to avoid suspicion when talking to me just like you did just now."

Concubine Tong lowered her eyes, and said in a bad tone: "My life is almost gone, who remembers to avoid suspicion."

"This point only arouses my suspicion. The important issue lies in what Bo Xi said to me before he died." The little emperor narrowed his eyes and recalled, "Although she told me in advance that you and Bei Shuo had colluded, but when she said this , you are all ready to act, and when the report is handed in, it will be too late for me to deal with it. In addition, after she died, Uzan directly raised the army, and everything went according to plan. What meaningless words? When she said it, she turned her face directly to me from the beginning to the end? There is only one answer, that is, she wants me to believe that she is Concubine Tong when she is lying on the bed. Wearing a golden bell on her chest is the same. This intention...otherwise, who is still wearing jewelry when he is seriously injured?" Concubine Tong shrugged needlessly after hearing this: "That's it?"

"There are also poisonous bees." The little emperor continued to analyze, "The weather in Wuzan is hot and there are many poisonous insects, so except for winter, the clothes in the other three seasons are covered with hard gauze or multi-layered soft gauze, and this veil is basically the same. It is a kind of protection. Therefore, when there was a poisonous bee sting in the palace, I thought that you must have kept poisonous bees in the palace. If Concubine Tong wants to repent before she dies, the most important thing to say is the whereabouts of the poisonous bees , this will prevent someone from continuing to control the poisonous bee after she dies. Since she didn't say anything, it means that the person who can control the bee is still alive."

"Then why didn't you send someone into Qiulu Garden to search for my crime?"

"First of all, how many poisonous bees there are, where they are, and how to control them are hard to predict. Judging from Bo Xi's removal of the veil, it is unlikely that the poisonous bees are in Qiulu Garden; secondly, I don't want to take the lives of other people in the harem Adventure. Ever since I knew that the poisonous bees were attracted by a special kind of pollen, I thought of those sachets and snacks you gave to the concubines in the harem earlier."

When the little emperor said this, he felt sad in his heart, paused, and said again: "There is also the tranquilizing incense that you gave me a long time ago."

"It's more than that." Concubine Tong said, "The embroidered pouch hanging beside your bed is also stained with pollen."

"But you told me the solution a long time ago." The little emperor repeated the words on the note at that time, "You can just swallow or sniff with ice flakes."

"So you think I still can't bear it, right?" Concubine Tong tilted her head and looked at him, "Ice chips can only relieve temporary difficulties, but if you use too much, you will be poisoned, and you will twitch and lose consciousness. You should worry about Shen Yanchuan them."

"After a while, the sky will change in the south, and they won't need that much." The little emperor stared at her, "And the bee you hid in the palace, I'm also in the imperial concubine's palace." found it."

"To be honest, you shouldn't be aware of this." Concubine Tong looked at the little emperor and said slowly, "Because of this, I don't have to kill you myself."

Just as the little emperor was about to speak, a cold light appeared in her mouth, and a needle shot straight at him!

It was too late to say it, but at the same time as he bent over and flashed, Hu Qian also knocked the needle away with a hidden weapon, and then pushed Concubine Tong to the ground again.

The little emperor stood up in a panic, not daring to go forward, but his eyes were firmly on Concubine Tong: "You really want to kill me!"

His voice trembled, and it was difficult to accept the reality in front of him.

Once, because of Shen Yanchuan's warning, he was shocked when he recalled every detail of getting along with Concubine Tong—for example, it was obviously raining, why did Concubine Tong fly a kite, and let the palace servants run out to pick up the kite?By the bamboo bushes by the river, what was Concubine Tong doing to take off the bell on her body, causing him to be unprepared and collide with them?

The person in front of him gently guides him to make every foolish decision from beginning to end, and continuously transmits news from the palace to Uzan, which is so different from the image in his mind.

But he also remembered Concubine Tong's depressed and lonely voice and eyes when she recalled her hometown, which reminded him often of Sister Huang.As princesses, their situations are so similar, but their positions are different.However, when the two figures were stacked together, he couldn't tell who the reluctance in his heart was aimed at.

But when he faced Concubine Tong, he had never been more distressed, more lost, and more mixed feelings than at this moment.

"Why are you so surprised? I came here to kill you." Concubine Tong was crushed by Hu Qian on her legs and back of her neck, her face twisted in pain, her mouth gasped, and her voice changed its tone, " Why are you still hesitating? Kill me, and the last hidden stake that Uzan buried in Taihong Palace will be gone."

"..." The little emperor felt cold when he heard her death-seeking remarks.

The relationship between the two of them has finally reached the point of life and death.

Concubine Tong saw him standing still like a stone sculpture, and said again: "Why are you in a daze? You still want me to talk nonsense with you? Then don't blame me for saying things that make you feel heartbroken."

"For example, did you command someone to assassinate Shen Yanchuan on Luanyu?"

This is the most terrifying thing that the little emperor can think of, suspect.

"It's so obvious that you tortured several people to know it, so I don't need to say it." Concubine Tong's expression changed unsteadily, like the reflection of the moon on the water, "Do you know that Shizhi is It is used to paint alchemy cauldrons, and a car can be scraped out of the alchemy cauldrons in Qinglufang?"

The little emperor's heart skipped a beat.

"Also, I have a lamp made of the night pearl of the Underground Palace of the Prince's Mausoleum. The light is silver and looks very beautiful at night. It's a pity that it must have been burned out together with the Qiulu Garden."

The little emperor clenched his fist behind his back.

At the same time, Hu Qian put more effort into his hands. Under the severe pain, Concubine Tong's body couldn't help shaking, but she was still saying: "Speaking of the prince... my unfavorable husband, you Do you want to know how he died?"