Fish Memoirs: Revenge of the Two Heroines (End)

"Kill him and I'll give you the antidote." Gu Yunting's voice with a seductive meaning sounded in my ears.

"I... Can't do it. Lord, you let me go... I really can't do it."

I crawled humbly toward him, unable to tell whether it was sweat or tears on my face.

"It's a good look of sincerity." He lifted my chin, "Guess, if he knew you were sent by me, would he still trust you?"

At that moment, I thought, I can't escape the established fate, nor can I escape the palm of this man's hand.

1.

The day I first saw Gu Yunting was a cold winter night.

I was dressed in rags, shackles and shackles, my hair clumped like dry grass on the top of my head, and my face was dusty like a dish.

No need for others to say, I know it myself, it must be very ugly.

He was at the other extreme, and the silk satin on his body seemed to glow in the light of the candlelight, and when he asked me to look up, I saw his face that was indistinguishable from the country.

I have never seen such a person, a smile between the narrow peach blossom eyes as if with a kind of wind, for a moment to see the stunned, he laughed, when he opened his mouth soft as the April spring breeze.

"Are you Lu Jingmei?"

I nodded in amazement. He looked at me for a moment, "The bottom seems to be good, but it's too haggard." After he finished speaking, he waved his hand and instructed his subordinates, "Take it down to freshen up and clean up, and raise it well, and don't bring it to see me if you don't raise it."

Because of his words, I was carried down by his men and began a long recuperation.

At that time, I was a sinner exiled with the General's Mansion, I didn't have enough to eat and wear, I didn't have warm clothes, I was vain for too long, my body was broken, my face was frozen, my hands were rough like tree bark, and it was not an overnight effort to raise them back.

During this time, I could not take half a step out of the box, I did not see him once, and the people who served me came and went in a hurry every time, never saying a word to me. So for more than half a year, I still don't know who his surname is, what kind of character he is.

By the time he saw me, it was already autumn. I was brought before him and knelt on the ground.

He walked up to me and picked up my chin with a folding fan in his hand: "It is really beautiful to raise white, and it is said that the daughter of the great general was born exquisite and beautiful, and it is true."

I didn't dare to look at him with my eyes down, nor did I dare to ask more, he bent down to approach me: "Frown, do you want to overturn the case for the General's Mansion?"

I didn't make a sound, he seemed to be impatient to wait, withdrew the hand holding the fan, and my head suddenly hung down.

I suddenly felt a lot of trepidation. Although I don't know his identity, I am not a small person who can save me from the exile team. Now that I am the daughter of a sinner, death and life are only in his thoughts, if he thinks that I have no use value, what will happen to me?

Thinking of this, I fell to the ground and said, "Ask the prince for guidance."

I only said this, did not say whether I want to overturn the case or do not want to overturn it.

Because I don't know what answer he wants.

"If you want to overturn the case for the General's Palace, I have in my hands the ironclad evidence that the Prime Minister framed the Great General, and as long as you do something for me, I will present it to the Emperor to ensure that your Lu family is full of grievances."

After he finished speaking, he paused for a moment: "Naturally, if you don't want to, the evidence will be gone, where you came from, where you will go back."

I let out a breath in my heart.

As long as I still have value.

I lifted my head and straightened up, "I don't even know who my son is, how can I trust you?" What if you don't have any evidence at all? What if you don't keep your promise?"

He laughed, "I Gu Yunting never reneged on my word."

Gu Yunting.

It turned out that he was Gu Yunting.

Everyone in the world knows that no one knows, Jinyi Wei commanding envoys, framing Zhongliang, controlling the emperor, eyes and ears all over the world, countless unjust cases through his hands, I don't know how many lives there are, and the evil is full of evil.

Looking at his appearance, I really can't relate him to this identity. Such a number one person, it is difficult to say that the Lu family's unjust case has nothing to do with him.

As if he could see through my thoughts, he took up his teacup and sipped it: "I know what you are thinking, I think your father's death has something to do with me, and I think I did the collapse of your house." If it were really me, there would be no reason to save you and raise a scourge around you."

I knew very well that I could not fully believe what he said, but at the moment I had no second way to go, so I had to come down: "I don't know what the adult wants me to do."

"When you were a child, you saved the life of King Yu, and he still remembers it to this day. It's just that you were taken by your father for many years at the border, and he never saw you. When something happened to your family, he was more anxious about your whereabouts than anyone else, but he couldn't find it."

I was hidden here by Gu Yunting, and he naturally couldn't find it.

But when he said that, I understood.

"Then you go to him." There is a childhood kindness, he will not treat you thinly. I think you're going to like this face."

"And then what?"

"Then?" Gu Yunting put down his teacup and looked at me and smiled, but there was no smile in his eyes, and he was extremely cold, "Kill him."

I was shocked by the fierceness in his eyes, and I could not speak for a while.

I think this is him, gentle and warm as the spring breeze are illusions, people who can sit in this position, the bones are cold.

But what he said afterwards made me feel even more chills all over me.

"But, frown, just in case you have a distraction, I have to use some means."

2.

I was dressed in tatters and was thrown on the only way back to the house of King Yu, and I was covered in wounds.

The injury was gu Yunting looking for someone to do, saying that it was so real, I thought that if this is so, why do you have to let me raise it back, he said that he always has to see how I look, if I look ordinary, even if there is a juvenile love, I am afraid that I will not be able to enter the eyes of the Three Princes.

Luo Yijing, the King of Yu, was the third prince of the dynasty, and the name of Kuan and Xianming was known all over the world. I was worried that his carriage would run directly over me, but Gu Yunting was sure that he would stop.

He was right.

The carriage stopped beside me, and I heard Luo Yijing's voice, and let people pick me up and take me back to the palace for healing.

I struggled to get up when someone approached me, and tears rippled: "I don't need healing, please take me to the Three Princes' Mansion, only he can save me."

The curtain lifted, and Luo Yijing leaned out, and he looked at me and asked, "Who are you?"

"I... I can't say..." I was in so much pain that I spoke intermittently, this is not pretend, Gu Yunting's hand is really half merciless.

"I am the Third Prince, and what you have to say to me is."

Hearing this, I climbed to the side of the carriage, grabbed the wooden frame, and lowered my voice: "You really... Is it really the Three Princes..."

"It really is."

"I'm frowning... Lu frowned."

As soon as he lifted me up, I didn't know as soon as I fell into his arms.

Not pretended, I really fainted.

After all, Gu Yunting really can not hesitate to lay down a dead hand, before being thrown in, I have not entered the water meter for three days.

He was so good at torturing people, when he hit me, when he was hungry, and he choked that force with precision, so that I could neither die nor half-die.

The notorious Jinyi Wei commander is worthy of the name.

3.

I am the daughter of a sinner, the name Lu Ningmei can no longer be used, Luo Yijing gave me a new name, called Lu Wanqiu.

I sniffed the name and liked it tightly.

He treated me very well. He didn't bother with women, he didn't even have a concubine in the house, and I was the only woman he brought back to the house. Therefore, although I have no serious status in the Yu King's Mansion, everyone in the palace serves me as a master, and whatever is good and rare, he has sent me here.

I asked him why he treated me so well, and he said that when he was a child, he fell into the water, and I saved his life, and if it were not for me, he would not be where he is today. He reads my grace, the one who loves me.

He stayed in my room every three or five minutes, treating me very gently, and he treated me so preciously and seriously that I felt guilty.

Because I was sent by Gu Yunting to kill him.

This thought weighed heavier and heavier on my mind day by day, and I was overwhelmed. After a day of warming up, he stared at me and asked, "I've seen you lately and I always think you have something on your mind." What are you thinking?"

I shook my head and smiled at him as if nothing had happened, "Just think, you're so good to me, I don't know how to repay you."

He took me into his arms and said softly, "You don't need to repay me, just stay with me."

I felt even more guilty. He said he was going to leave Beijing for three days to tour the fields and told me to take care of myself. I didn't want him to leave, but on the other hand I was happy.

Tomorrow is the day I poison my hair.

Gu Yunting poisoned me, once a month, the pain of a hundred poisons eroding the bones, there was no medicine. If I listen to him, he will give me the antidote, and if I don't listen, I will die. Over time, the interval between attacks will become shorter and shorter, and the symptoms will become more and more severe, until they occur day by day, and finally describe the death of the withered tree.

Now that I have been in the Yu King's Mansion for more than three months, I have countless opportunities to kill Luo Yijing, but I have been slow to do so, so Gu Yunting stopped my antidote last month, and I had to hide it from Luo Yijing.

When I had poisoned my hair, I locked the doors and windows, and curled up on the bed and bit the quilt, and the cloak was like a mad demon. Suddenly, a man sat down on the edge of the bed.

Then I heard Gu Yunting's voice.

"Don't you want to do it yet?"

I opened my mouth to spit out the quilt and replied, "How did you get in?"

He reached out and brushed my sweat-soaked hair, "Is there a place under the sun that I can't get into?"

He held out his hand to me, and in his palm lay a bottle.

is the antidote.

I reached out and grabbed it, but he withdrew his hand, "Kill Luo Yijing, I'll give you the antidote."

I lowered my hand, and I couldn't tell whether it was sweat or tears on my face: "I... Can't do it. Lord, you let me go... I really can't... It should not be difficult for you to change your hands and eyes to the sky, and it should not be difficult for someone to do this... Isn't it?"

"Wrong, frown." He was followed by good hands, and when the idle assassins could not succeed, the people sent to his house would be checked, and they would not be able to enter if they were slightly inappropriate. Only you, he will not check your bottom line. You have to do it."

"If... What if I don't... Are you going to kill me?"

"Anyway, as long as there is no antidote, you will die sooner or later, and I don't need to do anything more." You don't want Luo Yijing to save you. If he knew you were sent by me, would you think he would still trust you?" He said, picking me up, "I don't know how good Luo Yijing is, and you've lost your mind, but don't you want to overturn the case for the General's Mansion?"

Well, as long as he wouldn't kill me immediately, I confessed.

Even if my life is short, as long as I can be with Luo Yijing in the last time, I admit it.

Even if Luo Yijing liked Lu Ningmei, it wasn't me at all, I recognized it, and I was willing to do it.

Yes. What does the General's Mansion have to do with me? I never thought of overturning the case for the General's Office.

Because I am not Lu Ningmei at all.

4.

I am not Lu Ningmei, I am Su Shuqiu.

That's why I love the new name Luo Yijing gave me, Lu Wanqiu. Whenever he called me Qiu'er with tender affection, I always felt that at that moment, the person he loved was me, the real me, not Lu Ningmei.

General Lu was stationed at Biansai, and his only daughter, Lu Ningmei, was taken with him. Lu Ningmei I have seen, she really can afford what Gu Yunting said is exquisite and beautiful, compared with her, I am nothing.

I grew up in the largest Qinglou in the border city, my mother was a prostitute in the building, I inherited her beauty, but it was still not as good as Lu Ningmei.

The border city is extremely chaotic, there are Han people and Hu people, there are also beautiful Orchids in the building, I am doing miscellaneous work in the building, only when I get old, I will go on stage like my mother to entertain people.

But General Lu redeemed me and my mother. While I was still thinking about how to serve the general, he told me the truth.

The General's Mansion was victimized by the traitors, and the gas was exhausted. He knew that he and his sons would be beheaded, and that if they asked, they would be able to verify their bodies, and he would not have to flee. But the female dependents were only exiled, and he hoped that no matter what, at least Lu Ningmei would be saved.

So he bought me to exile for Lu Ningmei.

He promised me that as long as I obediently raised my eyebrows for Lu Lu, my mother would get a lot of money, and she would be able to live a peaceful birthday in the future, and she would no longer have to serve israel.

I said yes. Since then, I have become Lu Ningmei. It didn't take long for me to be exiled with the general's mansion and others.

Sometimes I am grateful to Gu Yunting. Without him, you can imagine what I would have encountered during the exile. But sometimes I hate him too. He only saved me to take advantage of me, to let me kill a person I did not want to kill at all, and to torture me with the poison of bone erosion.

People like me have the ability to control their own destiny, but in the last time, I want to live by my heart.

I grew up in the Qinglou, I saw a lot of men's dirty faces, never knew that there was a man like Luo Yijing under the sky.

More importantly, he treated me so well that I couldn't stop him.

Three days later, Luo Yijing returned to Beijing. He asked a question I didn't even want to face.

"Frown, do you want to overturn the case for your family?"

At this time, he asked me to frown, not Qiu'er. Frown must have thought, but Qiu'er didn't want to.

I knew he might be suspicious if I said I didn't want to, but I told the truth anyway.

Don't want to.

He was silent for a moment, hugged me and said, "I know that you may be worried about the reversal of the case, but you have harmed the people who are still alive and harmed yourself." But do you believe me? I have found out the truth about the Case of the General's Mansion."

I don't want to listen, I don't want to know the truth, I'm not Lu Frown.

But he couldn't possibly hear the plea in my heart, and he went on: "Do you know the Jinyi Guard? This was done by Jin Yiwei, who commanded Gu Yunting, and Presumably you have heard about it."

I was silent.

Originally, Gu Yunting said that he had ironclad evidence that the chancellor had framed the General's Mansion, and now Luo Yijing's spearhead was pointed at Gu Yunting.

Naturally, I believed in Luo Yijing.

He went on to say, "Father means that the case is decided and not asked again, but there is no other way. As long as you hang on the city gate and tell the world, the fierce public opinion will naturally make your father dispose of Gu Yunting, and you can also avenge your father and brother."

I still didn't speak. Xu was not very good at seeing my face, did not continue, and ordered people to eat.

There are a few dishes of meat on the table, I love to eat on a vegetarian day, but this day I don't know how, I smell it and I feel sick and want to vomit. Luo Yijing hurriedly let people withdraw and asked a doctor to diagnose my pulse.

I'm happy.

The moment I heard the news, I was so happy that my whole body almost floated up. Even if I don't live long, I will definitely survive until the day my child is born. This is Luo Yijing's child, and I want him to be born in peace.

I looked up at Luo Yijing and asked him if he was happy. He smiled happily, but then a sad look appeared on his face.

I asked him what was wrong, and he sighed and said, "Qiu'er, I want to give you and your children a name, but I can't marry the daughter of a sinner." There are so many people who know you, and the day this matter is poked out, it will not only involve you and me."

My joy was suddenly knocked down and I fell to the ground.

I suddenly figured it out.

I use the identity of the landing eyebrow, then I am her. I am the daughter of a sinner one day, and I cannot marry Luo Yijing for one day. I don't care, but I can't make my children nameless.

I asked him, "If my family overturns the case, will you be able to marry me?"

He took my hand and said, "The day your family overturned the case, I'll marry you."

I nodded, "You take out the evidence, I'll hang it."

5.

The accusation and the evidence were hung at the city gate together, and I did not reveal my identity, but this notice still stirred up a thousand waves with one stone. If nothing else, there was Gu Yunting's unique seal on it.

He is very cautious, in case someone makes a fuss about it, the stone he makes the seal is a special material, with a natural texture, stained with ink and printed with a unique pattern, which cannot be carved, even if the same kind of stone is used, it cannot imitate the exact same grain. The seal was his, and he could not deny it.

When he first came to me, Gu Yunting swore that the General's Mansion was not his victim, the evidence was in front of me, and I had no half trust in him.

The people's opinion was surging and Luo Yijing advised, and heard that even the admiral of the West Factory had also asked the emperor to thoroughly investigate the matter. As a result, Gu Yunting was released from prison, and the case of the General's Mansion was handed over to the Ministry of Punishment for retrial.

I expected this result. I believe in Luo Yijing, he said that if he can succeed, he will definitely succeed. After that, no one would threaten me to kill Luo Yijing, and the only regret was that I would never be able to get the antidote again.

The children in my belly are growing up day by day, and I am full of joy waiting for Luo Yijing to marry me.

But I never expected that he had married the daughter of the prime minister.

Qin Ruoshan, the daughter of the Chancellor, is a knowledgeable scholar and has a matchless appearance. The day she passed the door, everyone in the house celebrated. I've never seen such a bright and warm red, paved all over the house.

It makes people envious, but also makes people despair.

And I was locked up in the room, and I could only listen to the clamor of gongs and drums and the clamor of the feast. I went to the door to try to hear more realistically, but I heard the little guy who was guarding me scolding and scolding, because he wanted to watch over me, he couldn't go to have a drink with someone.

Yes.

Qin Ruoshan was the master mother of the house, and with her, I was nothing.

I just can't figure it out. Is Luo Yijing saying that loving me is fake? Didn't he ask me to overturn the case in the General's Mansion to marry me? What are those two tender feelings?

I even forgot about the anger, I just wanted to meet him and ask, if he said it was all false, I would die.

True or false, all belong to Lu Ningmei, what qualifications does Su Shuqiu have to be sad?

At two o'clock, the wedding feast dispersed, and the small house snoozed at the door. I quietly left the compartment and ran straight to where Luo Yijing was.

I knocked desperately on the door, and the door opened, but out was not Luo Yijing, but Qin Ruoshan, who was dressed in red.

Qin Ruoshan looked at me with a smirk, "You are that stalker Qiu'er?"

I was on the spot.

Stalker. Is this the identity that Luo Yijing arranged for me?

As soon as Qin Ruoshan waved his hand, a family member pressed me left and right, telling me to kneel.

She looked at me condescendingly and chuckled, "Whoever you are, you are a stalker in the Yu King's Mansion." I heard that you also have a child of Wang Ye, and I can't tolerate it."

When she finished, a maid behind her came forward with a bowl of medicine and opened my mouth to pour it in.

I struggled desperately. I can suffer anything, but my child can't be so ignorant and disappear. Luo Yijing treated me so cruelly, even her own children?

Qin Ruoshan said, No matter who I am, I am only a servant in the Yu King's Mansion. This shows that she clearly knows that my identity is not simple, but she still has to dispose of me.

I slammed my head over the medicine bowl, "You killed Wang Ye's child privately, aren't you afraid that Wang Ye will know about his anger tomorrow!"

She laughed sarcastically, "Not only can I not tolerate this child, but neither can Wang Ye tolerate this child." To keep your life is the last mercy of the prince."

After listening to her words, I suddenly lost the strength to resist and let her maid pour the fetal medicine into my mouth.

Even if he changed his mind, or never loved me, I would rather say it himself than hurt me by someone else's hand. In the past, he seemed to have suddenly disappeared, a person can be so cruel to his own children, where can he be a generous and good person?

Qin Ruoshan asked someone to throw me out of the Yu King's Mansion, and I had abdominal pain like a hanging, and there was nowhere to go.

The world is so big, I don't know where to be home.

I was not familiar with the imperial capital, only recognized the road to the Yu Wangfu and the road of the Gu Mansion, and in the confusion of consciousness, when the sky was dawn, I stumbled and climbed to the door of the Gu Mansion.

However, in the middle of the moonlight, the Gu Mansion courtyard was sparse.

Yes, Gu Yunting was already in prison.

No one can save me anymore.

And I hurt him when he went to jail.

Remorse, resentment, shame, sorrow, sorrow, and sorrow, all kinds of emotions rushed into my heart. I only hated that I had been blind in the past and didn't listen to Gu Yunting's words to kill Luo Yijing sooner. Even if he tortured me and used me, at least he wouldn't lie to me.

In a trance, someone stood in front of my face. I heard the man ask me, "What's wrong with me, girl?" Why come to the front of the Gu Mansion early in the morning?"

It was a strange male voice, and I had no time to think about who he was, so I curled up in death: "I did something wrong..."

I rolled over and lay flat on the ground, my hands touching the ground that seemed sticky and warm.

It was my blood, my child.

It's my heart.

"But I... I'm afraid it can't be made up. If only I could do it all over again... I'll listen to him."

6.

I don't know how long I slept, but I woke up in a simple room. I don't know where it is, I just feel desolate.

Anyone is good, anyway, I'm going to be swept forward again, aren't I?

I hated Luo Yijing very much, but I didn't know how I could get revenge on him, I had nothing, only the identity of a daughter of a sinner, and it was even more unfortunate to show it out. I grew up in the Qinglou, I have no vision and no knowledge, I even hate people so much that I am confused and have no direction.

At this moment, I thought, if I really lu frowned, it would be good.

Maybe then I can do a lot of things.

The door opened, and a maid stood outside the door, saw me awake, and ran to pass the message. Not long after, a man walked in.

I looked at him coldly, "Did the prince save me?"

He nodded, "The girl is young, how did she lose her fetus and hurt her body?"

He was born well, but he looked warm and dull. But I don't hate him for being gentle.

It's better to be stupid than to calculate me.

I couldn't answer where this child came from, and why he was gone, so I could only turn my head away: "I don't know who the prince is, but the prince saved my life, and I will repay him in the future."

He laughed and looked very honest, "My name is Luo Yizhang."

My heart sank.

This name reminds me of Luo Yijing.

If ordinary people can collide with the relatives of the emperor and the state, there is only one answer. He was also the Crown Prince, the brother of Luo Yijing.

I cried out tentatively, "Are you the prince?"

He nodded, "I'm King Rui."

I don't know what to say. What was the emperor thinking when he decided the title? Mastering the wisdom of the wise, Luo Yizhang's appearance and this word are really not related at all.

"Why did the prince save me?"

He reacted for a while before he said slowly, "I saw you faint, and I can't see you die without saving." You also say you did something wrong, what did you do wrong to hurt so badly?"

I laughed bitterly.

"I misbelieved people who shouldn't have believed, didn't do what I should have done, and hurt others." If I end up where I am today, I am to blame myself."

He looked confused and asked me who I had killed.

I looked at him with a simple look and suddenly felt hope.

Horizontal vertical he is also a prince, can you help me?

Anyway, no matter how bad it is, it is only my death, and Gu Yunting is also dead. With or without this, Gu Yunting would definitely not be able to live.

If I came to this point, I still couldn't figure out that Luo Yijing and Gu Yunting had a big festival, and it would be too silly. They all wanted to put each other to death, and they all used me, the difference was that Gu Yunting used me to assassinate Luo Yijing, and Luo Yijing used me to make a fuss.

I can't tell which of them is less straightforward, neither of them is bright. But at least Gu Yunting did not deceive my feelings, did not kill my children, did not feed me a bowl of fetal pills on his wedding night and threw me out of the house to fend for myself.

Thinking of this, my heart crossed: "If I confess, can the prince guarantee not to say it to the outside world?"

Luo Yizhang nodded emphatically, "I will definitely not say it to the outside world."

"Gu Yunting." I hurt Gu Yunting."

Luo Yizhang reacted for a long time: "That Gu Yunting who went to prison some time ago?"

I nodded.

He didn't speak, as if he was thinking something, and I asked, "Can the prince help me see him?" I think I should apologize to him personally. I killed him."

He was a little embarrassed, and this embarrassment was a long time, and it seemed that he was really not smart.

I anxiously waited for his answer, and although he was embarrassed, he still agreed: "Well, I will help you see him, it is a little difficult, but you are so pitiful, I will try my best to help you."

I think that if anyone can take down Luo Yijing, it should only be Gu Yunting, and I only know Gu Yunting. Whether it was for myself or to compensate him, I wanted to save him.

Although I didn't know the grudges in the court, and I didn't know if I could do it, I still wanted to try.

7.

After leaving Xiaoyue, I disguised myself as a house slave and was taken into the big prison by Luo Yizhang, and Gu Yunting sat in the corner of the cell with his eyes closed. He was once so rich and handsome, he had been worn thin by prison life, his face had deteriorated, and his prison clothes were worn on him like hanging on a skeleton shelf.

I crouched outside the cell and grabbed the railing.

"Adult."

He opened his eyes and looked at me, his eyes cold.

Yes, he should have hated me, I would rather die than help him, and I hurt him to this point with my backhand. He must have regretted saving me.

He didn't pay any attention to my meaning, closed my eyes again, and I hardened my scalp and said to myself, "Now I realize that I am wrong, but I can't make up for it by apologizing a thousand times, I know."

"If I had known today, I should have listened to you and killed him sooner." But people in the world know so much, I regret it too late, just want to ask me if I can do anything for you, just in case.

"If I were really Lu Ningmei, I would have killed him, but I am not." I'm sorry, my lord, I didn't tell the truth for the sake of survival. I'm not Lu Frown. So I don't want to overturn the case for the General's Office."

He opened his eyes suddenly.

I shuddered.

Although he could not get out of the prison inside, the intimidating aura of the past was still there, and besides, it was my fault, how could I not be afraid.

He stared at me for a long time, so long that I wondered if I had to die before he could take this breath, and he spoke.

"I knew you weren't Lu Ningmei."

I looked at him in disbelief, he tickled the corners of his lips, and smiled quite sarcastically: "Jinyi Wei TiannanhaiBei investigates the case, two years ago I went to the border pass, I saw General Lu and Lu Ningmei, I know what she looks like."

I took two steps forward and stared at him with burning eyes, "Then why didn't you stab him?" Why did you send me to the Yu King's Mansion?!"

"Because I don't have a choice." Why I chose you, the reason I have already said, only Lu Ningmei can kill him. When I saw that you were Lu Ningmei, I knew that the real Lu Ningmei must have already run away. The heavens and the earth are big, I can't recover her, time can't afford to delay, I can only use you. If you don't confess, I'll pretend to be confused."

He knew that I was not Lu Ningmei.

But he still sent me into the Dragon Pond Tiger Den.

Luo Yijing is not a good person, and he is definitely not a good person.

It doesn't matter who I am, my life doesn't matter, anyway, in the eyes of these dignitaries and dignitaries, it is something that can be practiced at will.

It's ridiculous.

I laughed sarcastically and bitterly, and he was indifferent: "It's just that I underestimated Jiang Wu, I think they also saw that you were not Lu Ningmei, when I went to see you, they stole my seal, otherwise how could they grasp my whereabouts, how could they succeed?"

Gu Yunting wanted to use me to kill Luo Yijing, but Luo Yijing and Jiang Wu countered the army and was imprisoned. And I was used by both ends, but I didn't know it. Both of them knew that I was not Lu Ningmei, but they briefly recognized my identity as Lu Ningmei and made up a beautiful dream for me to use for them.

If I had been exiled in the first place, would my life have been better than I am now?

He closed his eyes, "Since you came to me, you thought that you had suffered a calamity at Luo Yijing, and you were also poisoned by the erosion of bones, and you also harmed me and put me in prison, and no one owes anyone anything, and you and I are both clear."

How can this be clear? I am passively caught up in these right and wrong that I do not understand at all, what I suffer, what he suffers, so that it can be cleared away so easily? It is not a market transaction, giving money to take away the goods, money and goods, the debt between people has always been a bad debt, as long as it is entangled, it is no longer clear.

I took a deep breath, "What am I going to do to get you out?"

"By you?" You don't have the ability."

"Only you can bring down Luo Yijing." Kill him."

"It was to avenge yourself, so I said you weren't so kind."

I'm speechless. I have selfish intentions, but it is not bad for him.

He came over suddenly, close to me.

"You have been following king Rui ever since. You can't save me, he can. Ask him what he wants you to do."

I was stunned.

The one with the head that doesn't shine, Rui Wang?

8.

I came out of the big prison and left with Luo Yizhang. I sneaked a look at him, still with that gentle look.

Maybe these rights centers are all too good at disguise. For example, when I first met Gu Yunting, he was full of spring breeze and warmth; and like Luo Yijing, he could make a look of wideness and kindness and infatuation. And Luo Yizhang in front of him must have hidden the sharp edge.

I asked him, "Prince, can you save Lord Gu from coming out?"

He still looked embarrassed.

I simply pointed out: "Gu Yunting said, I can't save him, only you can, he told me to follow you."

His gentle and dull appearance suddenly converged, as if he had changed into a person in a flash, and his eyes were clear: "It seems that he trusts you."

I laughed bitterly, "If I hurt him like this, will he believe me?" But there is no way to go, the dead horse is a live horse doctor, I am Lu Ningmei, this identity can be used well to make an article, just like Luo Yijing. He handed me over to you, not expecting me to do anything, but just to make you use me as well."

He chuckled, "You're not stupid either."

I hate the feeling of being cheated on. I was a fool before, and it turned out I was. But I couldn't help it.

I asked him what was going on in the General's Mansion, and what was the festival between Gu Yunting and Luo Yijing, and he said a few words briefly. The emperor's health was getting worse and worse, but he had not yet made a crown prince, General Lu supported the late empress's second prince Duan Wang to inherit the unification, the Western Factory Governor Jiang Wu and the Xiangfu both supported Luo Yijing, and Jiang Wu and Xiang Xiang made this unjust case, and then there were those things.

I asked gu Yunting how he could get mixed in, and Luo Yizhang asked me, if you ascended the throne, there was such a person who specialized in dirty work and had amazing power in the former dynasty, would you keep him?

I can't help but wonder, are they really happy?

Back at the Rui King's Mansion, he arranged an identity for me, and his personal attendant followed him from then on.

Usually he was still that dull look, and I looked tired for him.

Half a month after I entered the Rui King's Mansion, someone from the palace said that he wanted to hold a big banquet. Luo Yizhang asked me if I wanted to enter the palace, and I said no. But he said that it was good for me to go into the palace and recognize more people, and in the future, it was not necessary which was the enemy and which was the ally.

I followed Luo Yizhang into the palace, and the banquet was covered with a scarf, anyway, it was just a maid, and it didn't matter if she didn't show her true face.

Luo Yijing's seat was next to Luo Yizhang.

But ironically, he didn't recognize me.

Qin Ruoshan also accompanied him into the palace, and she didn't look at me at all. After all, who cares about a maid?

I don't know whether to rejoice or grieve.

After everyone arrived, the emperor came out with a concubine and listened to the briefing. It is called a soft concubine. The emperor was not young, and his hair was white, but this concubine was young and bright. Red-faced crane hair, wherever you go is a matter of iniquity, but in the palace is a matter of course, how ironic.

The concubine's seat was shorter than the emperor's, and she sat down, and when she looked up, I saw her face.

I froze for a moment, and when I reacted, I whispered to him while pouring wine for Luo Yizhang: "What is the surname of that soft concubine?"

"It seems to be surnamed Jiang."

I put down the wine jug, "She's not surnamed Jiang."

Luo Yizhang looked at me doubtfully, and before he stood up, I said softly.

"She's Lu Ningmei."

9.

Lu Ningmei's beauty was the only one in the world, and he couldn't forget it once he saw it. When I was exiled, I resentfully thought about where she would be, maybe living a dull life, and the disaster had nothing to do with her. When I got involved in the dispute as Lu Ningmei, I hated her even more.

But I couldn't have imagined that she actually entered the palace and transformed herself into a concubine of the emperor. The emperor's life is short, what does she want?

Thinking about it, there was only one motive to avenge her father and brother.

I suddenly panicked, and I always felt that tonight's feast was only afraid of uneasiness. When the wine was hot, the emperor said that rou concubines are good at dancing, and if you want rou concubines to dance to help, she should go down to change clothes, I was even more panicked, and I greeted Luo Yizhang and quietly followed out.

She changed her clothes and came out of the side hall, and I stopped her on the path.

She frowned at me, "Who are you to dare to stop hongu privately?"

I lifted the veil, and the amazement in her eyes was no less than half a minute less than when I first recognized her.

We met, and naturally she knew me. She grabbed me and said, "Why are you here?"

"To put it mildly, Lu Ningmei's identity has brought me nothing but disaster. Why did you enter the palace?"

After a brief silence, she let go of me: "It's my Lu family who can't stand you." I knew that my father wanted me to live well, but I really couldn't live and steal, and I had to avenge my father and brother. If the emperor dies today, I will not be able to live, and I hope you will give me incense on the pillars of incense for my father and brother."

I exclaimed, "You're going to assassinate the Emperor?!"

She nodded and walked forward.

I quickly grabbed her, "It's useless for you to kill the emperor!" The general's mansion is full of doors, he is not the mastermind!"

She stopped and stared back at me, "Didn't he instruct Gu Yunting to destroy the doors of my General's Mansion?"

"No!" I hurriedly shook my head, "It's Xiangfu and Xichang, Gu Yunting was framed." I am involved in the cause and effect, I know that I do not need to protect Gu Yunting, you believe me. Qin Jingming, the Minister of Finance, and Jiang Wu, the Admiral of the West Factory, do you know these two people?"

Her face suddenly changed, and her face turned pale for a moment.

"You say, Jiang Wu?"

Why does Lu Ningmei react this way?

I suddenly remembered that Fang Cai Luo Yizhang said that this soft concubine was now surnamed Jiang.

She suddenly grabbed me by the shoulder, "You didn't lie to me?!"

"I don't have to curse you." I took a deep breath. Today's situation is too complicated, if she turns around and assassinates Jiang Wu, it is okay if she succeeds, but if she fails, she is afraid that it will be more difficult to deal with.

And it's more likely to fail. The martial arts of the Admiral of the West Factory did not need to be questioned, and if he did not have some real skills, he would have died a thousand and eight hundred times.

I had to steady her.

"But I also saw the evidence, and there was Gu Yunting's seal on it, which was unique and could not be imitated."

"With the ability of Admiral Ezekiel, it's not hard to steal a seal, isn't it?"

She was silent, I don't know what she was thinking, listened to it or not, could only continue to speak.

"Miss Lu... No, Concubine Rou, by you and by me, you can't pull down Jiang Wu, you can't pull down Xiang Xiang, only Gu Yunting can do it."

"Gu Yunting..." She chewed on the name.

"The only one who can compete with Xichang is the Jinyi Guard." Concubine, the emperor loves you, and you have to think of a way to save him."

10.

Nothing happened on the night of the feast, and after a month of the feast, Gu Yunting was released from prison, and the officials were reinstated to their posts, and their power was as old as ever.

I don't know what Lu Ningmei did with the emperor, in short, the result was good.

Gu Yunting and Luo Yizhang met in the private room of a tea house, and I followed them. Gu Yunting looked at Luo Yizhang, "You are moving fast." Jiang Wu and Qin Jingming were difficult to deal with, and I thought it would take a year and a half."

Luo Yizhang shook his head, "Not me."

"Huh?"

"I'm still working on it, and I don't know how you were released."

Gu Yunting's eyes rolled, and finally landed on me.

I looked into his eyes, "It's me."

Both were a little surprised. In prison, Gu Yunting also said that I did not have this ability, but in the blink of an eye, it was up to me to come out. Luo Yizhang understood after a little thought.

"When you went out on the night of the feast, you begged Lu Tonmei?"

"Not asking." I calmly corrected him, "Lu Ningmei understands the pros and cons, she wants to overturn the case for the General's Mansion more than anyone else."

Gu Yunting just came out, still not knowing anything: "Lu Ningmei? Found her?"

Luo Yizhang took a sip of tea: "I don't know why she changed her surname to Jiang and entered the palace, and now she is a concubine."

I brought out and discussed the conversation between me and Lu Ningmei on the night of the feast, and at the end, I said, "She reacted like that when she learned that it was Jiang Wu, and now that she is surnamed Jiang, I think it is always related to Jiang Wu."

"I did hear that Jiang Wu would send someone to the palace." Luo Yizhang was not in a hurry, "After all, he is from the palace, and it is always convenient to send people to the harem." However, does he know the identity of Lu Ningmei?"

This matter had to be found out by Gu Yunting, and it was not difficult for him to find out the countless Jinyi guards under him, and it was not difficult to find out something.

A month later, Lu Ningmei's matter was found out. She moved to the imperial capital and took up residence in a green building, under the pseudonym Hengbo. Somehow, she met Jiang Wu in the Qinglou, won his favor, was taken out of the building, and then somehow, she was surnamed Jiang, named Yunluo, became Jiang Wu's sister, and entered the palace.

Clouds falling is fog, and this name is a match.

It's just that I can't help but sigh a little. In the past, I was born in Qinglou, and she was the concubine of the general. Later, I put on Lu Ningmei's name, but she fell into the Qinglou. No one was able to get along.

Creation has always been so dismaying.

11.

But apart from ourselves, no one else will grieve for our upside-down fate. They turn their hands to the clouds in the center of power to cover their hands as rain, and the ups and downs of other people,000 mistakes, love and hate, all have nothing to do with them.

Only I thought about it myself, and their topic quickly changed.

"Recently, there seems to be a wind coming out, saying that the emperor's health is getting worse every day." Gu Yunting drank tea slowly, and his face did not see the color of worry about the emperor at all, as if he was just saying the most common thing.

"It's not bad that even the dynasty is not up." Luo Yizhang's words were not salty or light, and I secretly looked at his face. That was his father emperor, Gu Yunting was not worried, and he was not worried?

"Once the emperor does not pay attention to government affairs and does not summon him, it will be less convenient for me to see the emperor than Jiang Wu, after all, there is no name to see, compared to Jiang Wu, it is better to be a close minister."

Compared with Gu Yunting and Jiang Wu, Jiang Wu is indeed a close minister.

Because Jiang Wu is an eunuch.

Jinyiwei and XichangDongchang are almost inseparable, what they do is not very bright, and there are countless unjust, false and wrong cases handled. They only listened to the emperor's words, and no one could support them, could not move, and did not participate in the imperial meeting. However, the Jinyi Guard was created from the founding of the country, and it was always much more positive than the West Factory from the source stream, which was set up by the current emperor himself, not only to supervise the hundred officials, but also to contain the Jinyi Guard.

It is precisely because it is set up by the emperor himself, so this factory official chose a close minister, the first choice is Jiang Wu, rather than saying that this west factory is basically set up for him.

At that time, Jiang Wu was serving in the imperial study, and he was clever and sensitive, and he was good at guessing the intentions, so he was very pleasing to the emperor, and gradually, if the emperor had something that was not good to pass through other people's hands, he would leave it to him to do. He also did everything beautifully and neatly, and gradually, the emperor felt that it was inconvenient for him to serve in the study, and it was okay to serve anyone with pen and ink, and what Jiang Wu could do, others could not do. Moreover, the emperor did more things in private, and the courtiers were more aware, and sooner or later one day they would be put on the surface. In this way, there is the West Factory.

He was originally a eunuch around the emperor, and after becoming the viceroy of the West Factory, he saddled the emperor's front horse, entering the palace was a common thing, and he often sent beauties to the harem with his own understanding of the harem and the emperor's preferences. It is reasonable to say that the woman he sent was essentially an intermediary, how could she be favored, but now the six palaces have no master, and there is not even a person who can advise.

In other words, the former and harems of the emperor were in fact controlled by Jiang Wu.

The Duke of the East Factory was imprisoned shortly after the establishment of the West Factory, and the East Factory also existed in name only, and the Jinyi Wei could stay until now, all thanks to Gu Yunting's circumvention.

Of course, I didn't know this on my own, and this was what Luo Yizhang said and listened to me when Gu Yunting was not yet out of prison.

I'm just a little puzzled. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he asked out his mouth.

"When there was no West Factory, why were those things that were inconvenient for the emperor to put on the surface not entrusted to Lord Gu to handle, but to a small eunuch?"

Gu Yunting smiled, and I couldn't see what emotion was in his smile: "Because some things are not good things, I don't want to do them." You also think that Jinyi Wei has no evil and does not frame Zhongliang, don't you?"

I was silent.

Who in the world doesn't think so?

He didn't care about my reaction, and said to himself, "But the emperor made up his mind to do it, so I couldn't do it, and if I didn't do it, I would let someone else do it." If I had known that I would have cultivated such a fierce rival as Jiang Wu and Xichang, I would have done all the things that should be done and should not be done."

In the evening, Luo Yizhang said goodbye to Gu Yunting, and I returned home with Luo Yizhang.

Now I am nominally his handmaiden, and he has granted me permission to ride with him. On the way, he asked me, "Do you also think Gu Yunting is a bad person?"

I thought about it for half a day, and I didn't know what to say about this person. Saying that he is good, those unjust cases that have passed through his hands are known to the whole world, are they the ones that others have put on his head? It is also true that he used me regardless of my life and death. But if you say that he is evil, he still left me the antidote after he went to prison, and let Luo Yizhang send me away. I have only been in the imperial capital for more than a year, and I have seen many things that I cannot fully understand. The same person can be different on every side, every side is mixed, and every side is incomprehensible to me.

After all, I couldn't answer that question either.

Or maybe I thought I shouldn't have cared too much. In order to achieve the goal, Gu Yunting can not ask me who my surname is, then in order to achieve the goal, I can also not ask him whether he is good or bad.

If this is the law of survival that revolves among dignitaries and dignitaries, then I think, I have learned.

12.

Although Gu Yunting could not enter the palace, Luo Yizhang could still. It was only right for a son to visit his father. He returned after a visit to the palace, bringing with him exact news of the emperor's condition.

The emperor was seriously ill and bedridden, and it was difficult to even get up, and at the moment he was hanging on to his life with medicine, at most it was only half a year.

But what was even more unexpected was that he brought news from Lu Ningmei.

The note she carried out read that the emperor had intended to set up Luo Yijing as a reserve, she wanted to intervene but could not, let us think of a way as soon as possible.

Luo Yizhang threw the strip into the charcoal brazier, looking at the jumping flame thoughtfully, not knowing what he was thinking. In the middle of the night, he suddenly opened his mouth.

"We need news from the palace, but when I enter the palace frequently, Luo Yijing and Jiang Wu are bound to be suspicious, and Concubine Rou can't take the initiative to deliver the news around Jiang Wu's eyes and ears."

I seemed to foresee what he was going to say next.

Sure enough, he paused and continued, "It is best if someone draws a link from it. This man must be someone we can trust, and he must be clever."

I sighed in my heart.

"Would you like to enter the palace?" If you want, I also have some ways in the palace, and I can send you to the palace of the concubine niangniang to become a palace maid."

I don't want to, I don't want to. But I have no choice.

"Even if I want to, I can't go."

"Why?"

"My face." I pointed to myself, "Luo Yijing and Jiang Wu both know my face." Didn't Jiang Wu check on me?"

Luo Yizhang thought silently for a while, and then opened his mouth lightly: "Just change your face, it should not be difficult in Gu Yunting."

After saying this, I understood that it was a foregone conclusion that I would enter the palace to be this informant, and Luo Yizhang was not asking for my opinion at all, he was just telling me.

Life has been misplaced into such a situation that it is not enough to even change the face.

Maybe this is the person who can't help himself in it, in the past my identity was not myself, and now even this face, I have to give up.

13.

Jinyiwei has a transfiguration secret technique, which only takes a month to change my face, but once I change my face, I can't change it back.

If I die in the palace before the plan is accomplished, who in the world knows that I am?

The name Su Shuqiu is probably like a strip in a charcoal brazier, turning into ashes, and as soon as the wind blows, it disperses.

Before the face change began, Gu Yunting drew a portrait of me, and at this time we knew that he would also paint. The bony fingers twisted the paintbrush, causing people to forget that those hands also killed people.

I looked down at myself in his pen, and I felt that I was more beautiful than myself in that painting, quiet and thoughtful, and his painting skills were really good.

And I myself have died of no glory.

I look like I'm dead, and I look like I'm alive in the painting.

The painting was done, he showed it to me, and I looked at the strange and familiar self on the painting, and I just felt unreal.

He asked me, "Like you?"

I nodded and shook my head again, "Shaped, God is not."

He didn't say anything, put away the paintings, and after a month, I had changed my face.

Looking at me in the mirror, I never felt real.

A very ordinary face, not ugly, just unable to make people look. For example, women can be seen everywhere in the market, and when they pass by, no one will look at them more. To save my life in the palace, I must be cautious and unobtrusive, so I was doomed to look like this.

Luo Yizhang sent me through his doorway into the palace and stuffed me into Lu Ningmei's palace as a palace maid. As I brought her the tea with her eyes down, she glanced at me.

"Look at the eyes, are you new?"

"Yes." I respectfully replied, "Slave Qiu'er, I was just assigned to serve Niangniang this morning."

She looked up at me a few more times, "Listening to your voice, I always feel familiar."

I bowed my head and didn't speak, and she asked two more questions, "What was your original last name?" Does it have a name?"

"The name is not worth mentioning, the slave's family name is Su."

There was a hidden shock on her face, but in the end she had been in the palace, and her emotions were extremely well suppressed, so she looked at the other palace people who were serving her silently and stood up: "The palace is sleepy, you serve the palace to take a nap."

I answered and helped her into the inner chamber.

There were only two of us in the inner room, and she stared at me with burning eyes and lowered her voice, "What's your name?"

I broke away from the obedient slave appearance and raised my head, "Su Shuqiu."

She looked at my face in disbelief and stared at me for half a moment before asking, "How did you change your appearance?"

"The Secret Art of the Kinnai Guard." In the future, if you have any words, you can give them to me, and I will transfer them to Rui Wang."

She looked at me for a long time and sighed.

"Is it worth it?"

Is it worth it?

I've asked myself too.

And the answer I came up with in the end was that many things, it was best not to think about whether it was worth it.

14.

After staying with Lu Ningmei for seven or eight days, I gradually realized that something was wrong.

In the past seven or eight days, the emperor has not summoned her once. The other concubines took turns serving the sick and never had anything to do with her.

I asked her, why didn't she have to go to the sick?

She smiled indifferently and couldn't see the emotion, and asked me, don't you see it, I have already fallen out of favor?

I shuddered.

Yes. She was a pawn sent by Jiang Wu to the palace, but she managed to fish out Jiang Wu's sworn enemy. How could Jiang Wu need a disobedient chess piece, and it was already benevolent to keep her alive.

There are so many beautiful people in the world, it is not difficult at all to find a person, or even many people, to replace her.

I have no time to grieve for her, or maybe she herself is not sad. How could she genuinely like the faint emperor who was old enough to be her grandfather?

It's just that she fell out of favor and couldn't do anything, so did it make sense for me to change my appearance and enter the palace?

I wanted to change the status quo, but I couldn't help her regain the emperor's favor. The emperor was seriously ill and bedridden, and he was unable to spoil his concubines.

But soon, Luo Yizhang brought a message that made me have to help Lu Ningmei regain favor.

15.

On that day, Luo Yizhang came into the palace again to visit the emperor, and asked me to meet in an abandoned palace garden that was rarely visited, and I arrived as promised, and without saying anything, he handed me a small porcelain bottle.

"What is this?" I looked at the bottle and asked him.

"Highly toxic." He closed his thin lips one by one and spat out these two words.

I suddenly felt that the bottle was dangerous and looked up at him, "What are you doing with me?"

Poison must kill, who is the person he wants to kill?

"The emperor does not take care of government affairs, and he is no longer able to manage the government, and the government is completely controlled by Jiang Wu and Qin Jingming, and we cannot take them down."

I thought for a moment, "You can't get past them and bring them down, so you've thought of something else... Who do you want me to kill?"

"Emperor."

I looked at him in shock, there was no half expression on his face, and I couldn't see the sadness and joy.

Only then did I realize that he was unwilling to even call out to the emperor.

He smiled, "Why react so much, this is the best choice at the moment."

"I don't understand." I honestly admitted my doubts, "The government is already controlled by Jiang Wu and Qin Jingming, if the emperor dies, won't the power fall into their hands even more?" At that time, Jiang Wu will naturally welcome Luo Yijing to the throne, what other way can we stop it?"

"The emperor has collapsed suddenly, as long as he has not yet officially established the reserve, then anyone can sit in that position." Luo Yijing has river fog, and I also have Gu Yunting. We also hope to be able to go up without bloodshed, and when this may not be achieved, we will have to draw from the bottom of the barrel. As soon as the emperor dies, it will change from a struggle for power to a battle of soldiers, and the palace will change on the same day, and who wins will sit on the throne. If you fail, it will be a conspiracy that will not be done in the world, and there will be no complaints in life and death."

I suddenly felt strange to him. Such a risky plan, I don't think it is like what he and Gu Yunting would do. With my shallow knowledge of them, they all seem to be cautious people.

"I didn't see it before... Wang Ye gambled so well that he could even bet his own life into it."

"Of course, I have the certainty of winning before I dare to make a desperate bet." His expression became more serious, "Gu Yunting has privately contacted the commander of the Forbidden Army. Once the palace changes, none of the people in the West Factory can run."

His tone was very flat, but I heard a fierceness in it out of thin air. If the West Factory does many evils, it is also countless lives, but in their eyes, it is the least valuable thing and can be sacrificed at any time.

When I thought about it, I suddenly realized that from the moment they sent me into the palace, I had been sacrificed.

Poison the emperor, and I will not be able to retreat completely. Even if the palace changes that night, I am afraid that I will not be able to survive.

How did I get to understand it today?

As for how they pulled the commander of the Forbidden Army to their side, I didn't ask, and he didn't elaborate, but there must have been countless fights and exchanges in between, so it wasn't something I should worry about.

I clutched the medicine bottle in silence, and for a long time, he opened his mouth.

"This is a highly toxic secret made by Jinyiwei, only one, and if you take it for a quarter of an hour, you will die, but there will be no symptoms of poisoning, and even the palace doctors can't see the flaws." As long as you do things in secret, it won't implicate you."

I raised some hope again.

It seems that they still left me a way back.

When I returned to the palace, I brought a box of peach blossom puff pastry as a cover for me to go out for so long. Now the question is in front of me. If I want to poison the emperor, then I must first be able to see the emperor, at least I must be able to contact the emperor's food, but it is really difficult for me to do it as a palace girl.

I thought about it, if I want to succeed, there is only one way, Lu Ningmei must regain favor, she sees the emperor, I can accompany to see the emperor, and then find an opportunity to take medicine.

Xu was too distracted, and Lu Ningmei saw the hint. There was no one in the inner room, so she asked me, "Do you have a heart?"

I was speechless for a long time, but finally I came out with the disk.

I didn't want to involve her, but the fewer people who know about it, the better. But if I want to succeed, I need her to regain favor, and can I still hide from her the thing that helped her regain favor?

I showed the bottle of medicine: "This is specially made by Jinyiwei, after taking it, it will die in a quarter of an hour, there are no symptoms of poisoning, even the tai doctor can't detect it." It's just that I can't touch the emperor's food."

She kept staring at me without speaking, and her eyes were complicated. I was a little flustered by her staring, asked her what was wrong, and she said it was okay.

The more hidden, the more troubled it is. I'm still very clear about that. But she didn't say it, and I couldn't ask.

In the middle of the night, she took out a bracelet from her makeup and gave it to me, and the bracelet was so emerald green that it seemed to drip down, and I had never seen anything so good in my life.

She handed me the bracelet, "The last time I went to bed was three months ago, you went to the Tai Hospital to find a trusted Tai Doctor, take this to take care of it." To avoid the envoys and judges, those are Jiang Wu's people."

I was stunned, and she added, "Now the emperor can no longer favor concubines, and wants to see the emperor unless there is joy." This is a big deal, and it won't even be impossible to see the emperor's side."

"But if it is found to be false..."

"What did you find?" She looked up and asked me, "When we meet, he's going to die, who will find out?" If King Rui and Gu Yunting win the bet, will someone calculate the whereabouts of this former emperor's widow in my belly?"

I admired her fierceness, nodded, and took the bracelet to the hospital. Today, when I caught up with the quarterly examination, the court judge and the court envoy went to preside over it with the ceremonial department, and I did not have much trouble to find a young doctor.

He had just been admitted to the Tai Hospital two years ago, and his face was still quite immature, not like those who were old and exquisite. The older people are, the more difficult it is to fool, I was born in the Qinglou, and even if I am a person of all kinds of people in the Three Teachings and Nine Streams, I have seen it and know this very well.

On the way back to the palace, I handed him the bracelet, and he was so shocked that he pushed it away, but I still stubbornly tucked it into his hand.

"Dr. Lin Taiyi, our mother-in-law has not seen the emperor for a long time, and whether or not niangniang can see the emperor regain her grace depends on your diagnosis today."

He didn't know whether he didn't understand what I meant or was pretending to be confused, and he nodded his head repeatedly: "I understand what Aunt Qiu'er means, we doctors should act cautiously, and if Niangniang's health is really bad, I will certainly not hide it, and I will report it truthfully."

"You don't see what I mean." I didn't squint, only the voice drifted into his ear, "Now that the emperor himself is sick, who cares about whether these people in the harem are sick or not?" What you diagnose has to be a good thing, a great thing."

He finally understood what I meant, his voice trembled a little, and quickly returned the bracelet to me: "This is a great sin of deception..."

I pushed the bracelet back again. Obviously, it is a rare treasure, but when it carries a certain mission, it becomes a sin that everyone avoids.

"Rest assured, this child will not be born and will not be prosecuted." You also have a number of the emperor's body, and it is difficult to survive until the melon is ripe."

He panicked even more, and hurriedly stopped me from saying, "You can't say this nonsense!"

I ignored his efforts: "Then our mother-in-law will be overly sad, and this child will be gone." Niangniang just wants to see the emperor, won't you fulfill it?"

No matter how much I persuaded him, he was still stubborn and refused to go along with the flow, but he did not stop the pace of returning to the palace with me.

I really wanted to refuse, so I turned around and left. Isn't it?

People always have something to want, I haven't made an offer yet, he's waiting.

"If our mother-in-law regains the favor of the emperor, then a few kind words for you, you can rise step by step, and our mother-in-law has made a wish, which is a matter of mutual benefit." Ten thousand steps back, such a good thing can be taken out at will to reward people, and our mother-in-law will not treat you badly."

He finally let go and accepted the bracelet.

Sure enough, it is people who have weaknesses. It's just that his weaknesses are so exposed that even my shallow eyes can really see it. It doesn't happen that his weakness is the one that is best grasped and the hardest to give up.

Looking at his young white face, I suddenly felt sorry.

He couldn't wait for the step-by-step ascension he longed for.

I'm just sorry, but I don't have compassion. Because over the course of time, I have come to understand that sometimes human life is something that can be sacrificed for what must be done.

This is what Gu Yunting and Luo Yizhang taught me.

16.

After entering the palace gate and taking a pulse, there was no need for Lu Ningmei's instructions, and Lin Taiyi came up with the diagnosis of Youxi March and immediately went back to the emperor. Although the emperor was ill, after this period of recuperation, his spirit had improved a lot and he was able to get up. Just when the weather was good today, the emperor left the palace under the service of the left and right, and turned to Lu Ningmei Palace to see her.

This was the second time I had seen the Emperor, and the last time was at a palace banquet. The emperor was much more emaciated and haggard than then, if it was fashionable and could see the majesty of the Nine-Five-Year-Old Man, then the difference between him and the ordinary twilight old man was only the bright and brilliant dragon robe, even if he held up the spirit and momentum, the only thing that came out was a deep sense of wind and candle.

Did he know that his life was short? Maybe you know, just self-deception that you are a true dragon heavenly son who has the destiny to protect him and will not die. It's just that the Mandate of Heaven may be sick and chronic, but it can't control me.

I served tea for Lu Ningmei and the emperor. Lu Ningmei's cup was the usual hair tip before the rain, but the emperor's cup was added.

He did not know that his death was coming.

The emperor happily listened to Taiyi's arguments, and greeted Lu Ningmei with a warm greeting, she vainly pandered to it, and ordered me to send Taiyi out.

It was exactly what I wanted, and even if she didn't give the order, I would send it.

Sending him out of the palace, I told him that my wife still had something to give him, and asked him to follow me to the secret place.

When he got to the secret place, there was anticipation in his eyes. In the palm of my hand was a medicine hidden in it, which was poured out of the bottle that Luo Yizhang handed me. Along the way, I squeezed the veil and was afraid, not afraid that he would find out, but afraid that even if it just touched the skin, it would kill me.

I pretended to approach him, and when he was not defensive, I quickly opened his mouth and poured the medicine into it.

He reacted quickly, but in the end he was defenseless, and the medicine entered his mouth. I covered his mouth deadly, he struggled desperately, wanting to spit out the medicine, looking at me with disbelief and resentment in his eyes.

This is the first time in my life that I have exploded with such strength. Extreme situations can stimulate human potential, and I can't let him escape, can't give him a chance to vomit. As long as I let him not open his mouth, even if he did not swallow, the medicine would slowly seep under the infiltration of the jin in his mouth.

"I'm sorry, Doctor Lin, you have to die, only the dead can keep secrets forever." The secret that needs to be kept by you is, of course, not the birth of the mother-in-law, but something bigger that is about to happen."

The medicine worked much faster than I had imagined, and within a quarter of an hour he was on the ground. Rao was so I didn't dare to let go, for fear that he was making a play to make me relax my vigilance. But suddenly, he coughed violently, and some warm liquid sprayed on the palm of my hand.

I slowly took away my hand, and the side of his mouth, and on my hands, were stained with black blood, sticky, with the ominousness of death.

No matter how I wipe it, I can't wipe it clean. Looking at his dead face, I realized that I was not as indifferent to human life as I thought, and I was still afraid of death.

He is also afraid of creating his own self in the death of others.

I fled the place at a high speed and ran back with my hands wrapped in a towel. I didn't even forget to find luo Yizhang's person who stayed in the palace and asked him to deliver a message to Luo Yizhang, saying that the matter was done.

After doing this, I calmed down, and on the way back to Lu Ningmei Palace, I suddenly remembered something.

Luo Yizhang said that when taken with this medicine, there would be no symptoms of poisoning, and even the tai doctor could not detect it.

What is that look of Dr. Lin Taiyi?

Thinking about this, I felt that his wide-open eyes were right in front of my eyes.

Lingering.

17.

At this time, there were two roads in front of me, one, just find a place to hide, and after the emperor poisoned Gu Yunting and the commander of the forbidden army promoted the palace change, as long as they succeeded, I would survive.

The second was to return to the Lu Ningmei Palace as usual. But the emperor's death is different, I am a person in her palace, and I will not be able to get rid of the fool who knows how to choose.

But I went back.

I'm not even a fool.

I remembered the complicated look in Lu's frown when I put this plan and plan out, and Presumably she knew that this would be the situation she is today. Yes, since it is a severe poison, it is bound to erode the internal organs, where in this world is there a severe poison that makes people unable to see the symptoms, if there is, whether it is JinyiWei or Xichang, if you want to kill people, you still use such a big effort to set up a name? A pill is poured in, and people kill god unconsciously, is that not good?

But such a clumsy and obvious lie, I did not react at that time.

I've never been a human being like them, able to navigate the center of power with ease. I thought they would leave me a way to live, but in the end I was the one who was sacrificed. The killer can't be without a price, I am the scapegoat.

I suddenly felt ridiculous, I knew what kind of people they were early in the morning, but I still had a glimmer of expectations for them, forgetting for a moment that my life was also between their hands, and I was calculated beyond reckoning.

Lu Ningmei had already foreseen the outcome, but she still helped me, probably because she really hated the person who killed her father and brother, and was willing to sacrifice her own life to stir it up. But in the end, she broke me up and delayed me.

Is it worth it? I want to ask her that. The plan was meant to be brought with me, it was meant to be something I was going to do, and if I was left in the palace, she could push everything onto me, and that was rightfully so, wouldn't it?

The person who should be sacrificed in Gu Yunting and Luo Yizhang's plan is me, she is innocent.

If I go back, maybe I can save her life, I think.

18.

When I returned to the palace, it was already a mess. The emperor's mouth and nose were all black blood, the body was moved to the bed in the inner chamber, the person who handled the matter behind the emperor had not yet arrived, Lu Ningmei and a group of palace people stayed in the main hall waiting for the established fate. When she saw me go and returned, there was an unconcealed shock in her eyes.

Sure enough, she deliberately broke me up and created a way for me to live.

Now, I give her back this path of life.

She saw me and pulled me into the inner chamber. The emperor's body lay there, and if his soul had not gone, he would not have been able to hear our conversation.

"Why are you coming back?" She asked me in a low voice, with anxiety in her tone.

"To bear what I owe." My voice was faint, "Someone has to be responsible for this, if it wasn't for me, it would have to be you." I can't drag you down."

She frowned sadly, "Do you think that even if you come back, I will be able to run?" You are a person in my palace, and I can't get rid of it."

"I'll take it all in."

"If my father hadn't bought you, you wouldn't have had to get to this point and mix in these things you shouldn't have mixed." After she finished speaking, she paused, "From the day my father and brother were beheaded, I was determined that as long as the great vengeance was repaid, I would go with them and never live."

I was speechless for a moment, and I never thought that she was actually with the belief that she would die.

Also. If it were not for the belief that she would die, how could the former concubine of the general be willing to commit herself to the Qinglou, and how could she willingly serve this faint and elderly father-killer.

"I can't look back, you know?" She looked at me, "What if Rui Wang succeeds?" I am the concubine of the former emperor, is there anywhere else to go? Can I still get out of the palace? Not dying is also just the old death palace, it is better to die. But now you are only a palace maid, and you are also a person of the Rui King, and after he ascends the throne, maybe you can still leave the palace."

We didn't spend much time together, and I never thought she would think about me like that.

She went on to say, "You still have a chance to change your life, but I will never have such an opportunity."

I smiled bitterly and shook my head, "How could Gu Yunting and Rui Wang let me survive such a big thing as The Executioner?" I only figured it out on the way back. King Rui told me that this poison would not have any symptoms when I took it, and it was clear that he wanted me to poison recklessly without hesitation, so that I would not think about how I would get out when the emperor died. His plan never allowed me to survive this link. People who know too many secrets are damned."

I am to Luo Yizhang as Dr. Lin Taiyi is to me.

While I was in control of other people's lives, others were in control of me.

The person at the top of the power can get out of this hopeless cycle, and the person at the top will certainly not be me.

19.

Soon, the people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Rites, the Tai Hospital, and the West Factory all arrived.

I didn't run when I was able to run, and now I don't have to run even if I want to. Everyone was closely guarded, Lu Ningmei knelt in the main hall, I knelt behind her, I could not see her face, only her straight back.

I don't know if she is afraid or not, but I am cold-hearted.

Gu Yunting did not arrive.

When I knelt behind Lu Ningmei, I saw Jiang Wu looking into her eyes. It's not as complicated as I thought, there's no pity, no reluctance, not even anger, just inquiry.

I had also seen Jiang Wu once at the banquet before, but at that time, my identity was Luo Yizhang's entourage maid, and I had to avoid being recognized by Luo Yijing and Qin Ruoshan, and I kept my head down the whole time, and I had no time to observe him. At this moment, the overall situation is uncertain, but I have the opportunity to peek at him twice.

To be sure, he wasn't born like a eunuch. If I hadn't known that he was Jiang Wu, the Admiral of the West Factory, I would certainly not have been able to associate him with the identity of the eunuch. He listened to the reports of many parties, methodically gave instructions, and there was no emotion on his face.

When the people around him dispersed, he walked over to Lu Ningmei.

He looked at her condescendingly, and she didn't look up.

"You're bold." Jiang Wu had no respect for tianzi concubines at all. Also, if the son is dead, he has nothing to avoid.

"You're teaching." I heard Lu Ningmei's cold voice.

"When will I teach you to kill the King?"

I wanted to stand up and say that this matter had nothing to do with her, but Lu Ningmei's hand swung at me behind my back.

"I heard that you were pregnant with Emperor Daxing's child, and you wouldn't think it was your death-free gold medal, would you?" His voice was neither light nor heavy, nor did he have any sadness when he uttered the four words of Emperor Daxing.

When the emperor died, he became the emperor of Daxing, and perhaps this was the result he had long wanted.

When Lu Ningmei was about to say something, there was a mountain of footsteps outside. Jiang Wu's face changed suddenly, and he turned back to look out.

I couldn't help but look up at the past, the black oppressive army was standing at the palace gate, standing in the front was Gu Yunting and a person I didn't know, thinking that was the commander of the forbidden army.

I suddenly felt that I had been saved, if Luo Yizhang and Gu Yunting would not insist on killing me.

20.

I don't know if it was my delusion or not, but I seemed to see Gu Yunting glancing in my direction.

He strode forward and walked to the front of Jiang Wu.

Jiang Wu did not have the slightest panic in the face of the approaching army, and stared at him with a smile of unclear meaning: "Lord Gu, this is to be a chaotic thief."

Gu Yunting looked as old as ever, and did not have any special reaction to the heavenly hat of the chaotic courtiers and thieves: "The former emperor suddenly collapsed, did not leave a single word about the events behind him, and did not appoint a prince before he died, and when the overall situation was doubtful about the undecided position of the former emperor, I, as a close subject of the former emperor, had to clean up the side of the emperor and correct the country."

"Didn't the Emperor leave a single word?" Really?" Jiang Wu slowly took out an edict and unfolded it, "The first emperor will, the courtiers kneel to receive the edict."

Gu Yunting's face changed, but he still knelt down with the others.

"The Testament of the First Emperor: Since ancient times, the emperor has inherited the Mandate of Heaven, the Royal Four Seas, when the prudent construction of the reserve, the encouragement of the country, in order to protect the emperor Zuo forever, the rivers forever." Feeling that the destiny of heaven is near, there are no regrets in life, and only worries about the country. The third son of the Emperor, Yi Jing, is gifted, generous and gentle, diligent and filial, deeply popular with all, and providence belongs. After His death, Yi Jing succeeded to the throne as a king, and when he tried to govern with great efforts, he inherited the emperor's mandate of heaven, adhered to the virtue of the land, followed the aspirations of the ancestors, prospered the future generations, continued the temple of The Emperor, and became the blessing of the society. The first day of April in the 27th year of Qiping."

The people of the palace were silent.

This change I never expected. How could the emperor have a will?

Jiang Wu looked at Gu Yunting with a smile, "Emperor Xian's will, look at it."

He handed over the will, and Gu Yunting quickly swept it over.

"But the emperor himself wrote it, right?"

Gu Yunting did not answer, but his heavy face seemed to have revealed the answer.

He stood up and looked directly at Jiang Wu, "If you can't prove it alone, how can I know if this testament was forged for you?" How will the will be in your hands?"

"I am entrusted with the love of the former emperor, and I am ordered to keep the will, and Lord Gu wants to resist the will?"

Gu Yunting said nothing with a calm face.

Without a will, he was a purging villain who helped the new king to ascend to the throne; with the will, he was a chaotic thief who had brought calamity to the chaotic country.

I believe that maybe at that moment he had a tangle in his heart, but Jiang Wu did not give him the opportunity to tangle.

Jiang Wu waved his hand.

"Jin Yiwei commanded Gu Yunting to join forces with the commander of the Forbidden Army, and when the former emperor died in doubt, he ignored the intentions of the former emperor and raised troops to cause chaos, which made the soul of the former emperor Nine Springs uneasy - to take it."

21.

The people of the West Factory rushed straight up, not with their bare hands, and each one of them raised their knives.

They wanted to take down Gu Yunting, and it was clear that they wanted him to die on the spot.

I knelt behind Lu Ningmei, my hands clasped tightly, my palms all sweaty, and the clothes behind me were all wet with sweat.

I gritted my teeth and thought in my heart that Gu Yunting must not die, I knew that it would be difficult for me to live from the moment I was poisoned, but if he and Luo Yizhang became successful, I always had some hope of living, and I did not want to die.

He didn't choose to tie his hands. In the past, I only knew that he was very skilled, but I had never seen him with my own eyes, but now when I see him, I know that this is true. He drew his knife out of its sheath three or two times before repelling the close-up West Factory guards and killing them from the main hall.

The commander of the Forbidden Army saw this situation and knew that it was difficult to ride the tiger, even if there was a will, he and Jiang Wu would always have to die. Anyway, the army has already started, instead of being tortured to death by Jiang Wu inexplicably, it is better to let go.

The Forbidden Army, the West Factory Guard, and the Jinyi Guard, the three sides fought inside and outside this small palace, from the palace garden to the palace road, all of them were people in various armor and robes. This is the first time I have seen such a big scene, and Presumably it will be the last.

Jiang Wu did not stay in the temple. If he did not go out, the people of the West Factory would inevitably feel abandoned, and after the two sides of the Jinyi Guard and the Forbidden Army joined forces, the number of people in the West Factory would not be superior, and if he did not go out to command the war situation again, he would be in a situation of inevitable defeat.

The moment he rushed out of the temple door, Lu Ningmei suddenly stood up, stumbled to the palace gate, closed the main hall gate, and tightened the latch.

Then the murderous battle formation outside became a vague silhouette on the door.

She leaned back against the door, gasping for breath as I pulled her back.

"Don't stand there, maybe the knife will cut in."

I helped her sit down and poured her a cup of tea.

I saw her hands trembling.

She looked up at me and asked, "Are you afraid?"

I nodded honestly.

"I thought you were out of the woods, you weren't afraid of anything."

"But I'm still afraid to die." I honestly admit, "I thought I wasn't afraid of anything, but when that moment really came, I was still afraid of death." What about you? Scared?"

She trembled and picked up her teacup and was silent for a long time before she answered two words in the midst of days of shouting: "Afraid."

This was unexpected. She is the daughter of the gatekeeper, she has seen everything, will she be afraid?

"In the border city, I've seen a war bigger than this one, I've seen a hundred thousand troops on both sides, and it's nothing at all. But I'm afraid of the outcome. I was afraid that Jiang Wu and Luo Yijing would win, and I would never be able to take revenge.

"Do you know how Jiang Wu promised me?" He was really good to me, when I was in the Qinglou, he ransomed me, pulled me out of the dark days, let me see the hope of revenge, he needed a person to enter the palace to inquire for him, I said I was willing to do it, but do you know what he said?" 」

I shook my head.

"He said but as soon as you enter the palace gate as deep as the sea, I don't want you to go."

I was silent.

Men are so good at deceiving people. The world often says that women are vicious and women will deceive people, but compared to them, we are really small witches. In order to achieve their goals, they can do anything, they can say anything, they approach purposefully from the beginning, and things turn out and leave us struggling.

She looked at me sadly, "But I didn't expect him to use me." In fact, he is not the only one, everyone is using others and using each other. Just look back at the end of the song and see what we get? I can't go back, if I don't get even the results I expected..."

Her voice grew quieter and quieter, looking straight at the silhouette on the door.

"But after figuring it out, what about being used?" I also looked over and couldn't see who was who, I couldn't see which side was better, I could only guess, I could only gamble, "In such a situation, everyone is using each other, it's not a big deal." It's better to be open than to cheat, so... I'd rather follow Gu Yunting and Luo Yizhang. They are using me, and I don't use them, but the points of use are different, they use me to do things, I use them to avenge snow and hate."

"But Luo Yizhang also lied to you, otherwise he wouldn't have let you poison you."

"Yeah, but I can't." I lowered my eyelids and stopped looking at the shadow on the door, "If a person without power stirs into the vortex of power, he can only be willing to be used to get the results he wants, even if he is used, it is better than letting the mermaid die silently... Even if it's just a kind of self-deception, I have to continue to deceive, otherwise how can I live. But no matter what, I also thank Luo Yizhang, if he hadn't saved me, I would have died a long time ago."

I told her everything about the time I was rescued from the exiled team by Gu Yunting, in the incessant sound of swords and soldiers.

As we talked, we all seemed to ignore what was going on outside. She listened quietly and did not interject, which was more effective than any comfort, there was no such thing as empathy in this world, no one could really comfort me.

Until it was dark, the other palace people shrank in the corner and shivered, and no one dared to hold the lamp, for fear that people outside would catch a glimpse of the light and hit them. I lit a dark lamp and placed it on the table in front of Lu Ningmei.

The bloody battle went from day to night, and from night to the dawn of the morning, the people in the palace who were curled up were asleep, but Neither Lu Ningmei nor I could sleep.

All they care about is whether the new emperor will pursue the sins of the former emperor in our palace when he ascends the throne, only me and Lu Ningmei, and the wins and losses outside really affect our fate, our lives, and whether we can get what we want.

At dawn, the sound of soldiers stopped. A knife came in through the crack of the door and knocked down the latch, the door of the temple was pushed open, lu ningmei and I were both shaken open by the bright sunlight of the early morning, and the thick bloody gas was blown into the store by the morning wind, which frightened me.

My eyes adjusted for a while, and even though I was already well, I didn't dare to open them.

I was afraid that the person standing outside the door would be Jiang Wu.

Then I heard Gu Yunting's voice.

「...... It's all right."

I just opened my eyes, and Gu Yunting's figure in the backlight was blurred, and I shed tears.

Is it because of the glare of the sun or because of the rest of my life... I don't know.

22.

When I opened my eyes, Gu Yunting collapsed in the doorway, almost becoming a bloody man.

We hurried to drag him in. Emperor Daxing was still lying on Lu Ningmei's bed, the black blood oozing from his mouth and nose had already coagulated, and Lu Ningmei did not hesitate to drag his body down and lift Gu Yunting up.

Is the Emperor really the Son of Heaven? Without the admiration of others, he is nothing.

I rushed out to ask the Tai Doctor, full of blood, and even stumps, the strong smell of blood made me sick, I endured the desire to vomit after staying up all night and asked the Tai Doctor to come back, after the Tai Doctor saw Gu Yunting's condition, he said that he did not have the risk of life, but he was seriously injured and lost blood, and his left arm was broken, and he needed to recuperate.

As soon as the Tai Doctor was sent away, Luo Yizhang came with a coffin, and after seeing Gu Yunting's situation, he ordered people to carry emperor Daxing's body out. Lu Ningmei completely ignored the fact that the person in front of him might be the future emperor, and pulled him aside: "What about Jiang Wu and Qin Jingming?"

"Jiang Wu was imprisoned in the Jinyi Wei Prison, and Qin Jingming was placed under house arrest at the Xiang Mansion." After speaking, Luo Yizhang looked at me, "Luo Yijing is under house arrest in the Yu King's Mansion." I'm here to take you out of the palace."

Lu frowned.

Her surprise was written on her face, and it seemed that she really did not think that she could still go out of the palace in this life.

Luo Yizhang threw two sets of palace clothes: "Change into them and follow me."

Lu Ningmei and I changed our clothes and followed Luo Yizhang out of the palace among the attendants.

Luo Yizhang is still living in the Rui King's Mansion, but will soon move to the Palace. He arranged two rooms for me and Lu Ningmei, and now I am not his personal maid, so naturally I don't have to live in the lower room.

But after putting me in the box, he didn't ask me. Just when it was getting dark, I really couldn't hold back, and took the initiative to look for him, just when the commander of the Forbidden Army and a few unknown officials came out of his study, thinking that there was still something to deal with. When he sent these people out, he saw me standing in the doorway and beckoned me in.

I walked in and suddenly felt a little uneasy.

He didn't tell me the truth about the poison, which meant he wanted me to die, but now that I'm alive, what would he do with me?

Maybe seeing that I didn't speak for half a day, he opened his mouth first: "Scared?"

I was silent for a long time, but I decided to ask myself clearly.

Even if you die, you have to die plainly.

"That bottle of medicine..."

"I was really surprised that you weren't executed on the spot by Jiang Wu." Before I could finish speaking, he admitted without any burden, "Don't blame me, this is too big, as long as people are alive, there is a possibility of leaking secrets, and I have to make every preparation."

Although I already knew that this was the answer, I somehow calmed down when I heard him say it himself.

If he defends himself at this moment, I will fall into confusion and uneasiness.

"I told him that if you were not dead when he entered the palace, kill you." But—" he said, turning his eyes to me, "he pleaded with me, saying that if you were not dead when he entered the palace, he hoped to keep you alive, and he said you would not leak secrets."

he? Who is he in Luo Yizhang's mouth?

Gu Yunting?

He interceded for me?

Luo Yizhang wants me to die, and he will be the new jun that Gu Yunting will assist, Gu Yunting is at odds with him, and he is not afraid of the gap in the future? Does my life matter to him?

I suddenly remembered the question That Luo Yizhang asked me that day.

"Do you also think Gu Yunting is a bad person?"

23.

I don't know how I got out of the study, I haven't slept all day and night, I am obviously very tired, but I can't sleep when I lie on the bed, and Gu Yunting's face suddenly appears in front of me.

I think that when I first met him, he was in power in the hands of the Yushu Linfeng, when he threatened me, when he was angry, when I met him in prison, when I remembered his bones, when I remembered the way he was covered in blood in the morning, and I remembered the painting he painted for me.

Only now do I realize that my feelings for him are complicated. I thanked him for rescuing me from the exile team, and I hated him for knowing that I was not Lu Ningmei and still using me, I thanked him for giving me a chance to avenge my hatred, and I hated him for changing my face and sending me into the palace, if I hadn't entered the palace, I wouldn't have been caught up in the whirlpool of the emperor, but he begged for my life from Luo Yizhang's hand.

A man's good or bad can be so indistinguishable, and even my feelings for him are so obscure. Who we owe to whom, this confused account is really difficult to calculate, and I choose not to think about it anymore.

I fell into a deep sleep until the next day when it was bright and still washing, when Luo Yizhang came knocking on my door.

I opened the door to welcome him in, but he didn't come in, he just asked me a word.

"Are you going to see Luo Yijing?"

24.

Of course I'm going.

I want him to know how he lost, to let him know how he cocooned himself. Although the decisive person in this game is not me, I will say that I am extremely important and tell him that this is called karma.

I am his retribution.

What does it mean if revenge is silent? From ancient times to the present, the people who are not too exposed are those whose emotions are not exposed, the city government is deep, do not smile, mood and anger are not colorful, if too exposed, they will be considered shallow. But I just want to be a shallow and formless person, let him see his own end, regret the harm he has done to me, and regret it too late, there is no chance of remedy.

This hurts the most.

Being used by Gu Yunting and Luo Yizhang was my own choice, but being used by Luo Yijing was the one who deceived me. But it is not good to deceive me, but to deceive feelings and deceive my heart.

But if only he hadn't been so desperate for me in the first place... Or don't be so nice to me that I fall in love with him, maybe I won't want to kill him.

But then, I will never wake up.

It's just that the price of awakening is often a bone-to-bone injury.

When I entered, I almost suspected that I had gone to the wrong place, the prosperity of the past was no longer seen, the doors were full of withering, the people in the palace were imprisoned, the dismissals were dismissed, and the only two people left in the great palace were Luo Yijing and his princess Qin Ruoshan.

My memory of the Yu King's Mansion is still stuck in the overwhelming red of their wedding day, and seeing the scene now, it is like a world away.

The burrow was empty, and the bed was full of wat at that time. The grass is withered, and it was once a song and dance venue.

I pushed open the door of the study, and Luo Yijing sat down behind the desk, as if she had aged many years overnight, and her face was no longer as warm as jade and full of spring breeze, only unwilling and resentful.

He heard the movement and looked up at me, his face cold.

Yes, I had changed my face and he couldn't recognize who I was anymore.

He squinted at me for a long time and smiled, "Are you here to proclaim your will?" It's just that the proclamation should not let a maid come. Did he come to deliver poisoned wine?"

I stared at him for a long time and whispered, "I have changed my face now, it is not yesterday, And His Highness the King of Yu does not recognize me."

When he heard my voice, his eyes widened suddenly.

"Qiu'er?" Is it you?!"

I was silent.

I am Su Shuqiu, who briefly served as Lu Ningmei and used the name Qiu'er twice. The first time, he named me Lu Wanqiu, and he would gently call me Qiu'er, and at that time I felt that even if I died, I would be willing.

Later, the tenderness was no longer there, and it was difficult to harvest the water, in order to take revenge, I entered the palace as An inter-person of Luo Yizhang, also called Qiu'er, but it was completely different from before.

"It's me." I approached the table and looked down at his face, "It's Qiu'er, it's also Lu Ningmei."

He burst out laughing, laughing maniacally and bitterly. While laughing, he held out his finger to me.

"You're not Lu Frown at all."

"Yes, I'm not Lu Ningmei, I'm Su Shuqiu." And you already know that, don't you?" I looked at him expressionlessly, "When I was thrown out of the palace by Qin Ruoshan, I thought I was going to die, but there was no way out of heaven, and I survived." From that moment on, I lived with only one thought, to avenge me, and for my children."

He stopped laughing and stared at me, his eyes complex and bottomless: "Not only do I know that you are not Lu Ningmei, I also know where the real Lu Ningmei is."

"I met Lu Ningmei when I was a child, she saved me, and when I saw her on the day of the feast, I recognized her. I only hate not telling Jiang Wu early, I only hate that I should not read her grace to save me when I was a child... Hahahahaha... She is the person jiang wu sent into the palace, if Jiang Wu knows her true identity, how can she live... But the father died in her palace..."

I didn't expect that. So much has happened so far, occupying all my mind, so that I have long forgotten that he is thinking of kindness to Lu Ningmei, I only think that is an excuse for him to plan, but I did not expect that there are people like him who can't let go. If he had told Jiang Wu about this incident in the morning, would the current situation be different?

But there is no such if.

"Do you know who saved me?" It's Luo Yizhang."

His laughter stopped, and a look of surprise appeared on his face.

Such an expression makes me feel happy.

"Didn't you ever think that the dull prince could do anything?" But he used me to make things happen. I found someone to rescue Gu Yunting from prison, and I was changing my appearance and giving him a roommate in the palace, and even, I killed the emperor."

The consternation on his face was completely deepened.

Most people only know that the emperor died suddenly in the Rou Concubine Palace, but no one knows how he died.

He stood up and looked at me, his lips fluttering, as if he wanted to say something, but Half-Heart could not speak.

"Without me, Gu Yunting would have died in prison that day, so there would be no such thing as today." Without me, the emperor could have lasted at least half a year, and there would have been no mutiny so quickly. Without me — maybe you wouldn't have lost."

I have exaggerated my role infinitely, in fact, I know very well that without me, it would be someone else. Lu Ningmei did not intercede for Gu Yunting, and Luo Yizhang would also find a way to save him. Without me, Luo Yizhang also had someone in the palace. It just so happens that the person at that key point is me, which makes me so important.

He sat back down and sighed, "Underestimate you."

"I'm not underestimating me." I corrected him, "To underestimate hatred, to underestimate a man's determination to take revenge." This kind of determination does not distinguish between high and low, noble and low, male or female, as long as it has been thoroughly hurt, it will have this determination."

"Yes." He didn't seem to care what kind of power was responsible, anyway, the overall situation was decided, he couldn't turn over, "It seems that you really hate me to the bone."

He took a deep breath, "On that day, I really didn't expect you to be so determined, and you threw yourself back at Yunting to calculate me." If I had known you had such ability, I might have left you for my use."

"If it weren't for your fierce heart and desperation that day, there would be no me today, and even if I were left, it would be just the ignorant and ignorant Su Shuqiu of the past."

Now I don't want to ask or care if he has ever loved me, I just want to know if Qin Ruoshan had even a moment of sadness when he drank the fetal pill, not for me, but for his children.

"At that time, did you think I had your child in my womb?"

After a brief silence, he said, "I will have another child, and your child cannot be born."

To this day I remember the pain of my child peeling off my body alive. Before he could see the world, his father wouldn't let him live.

"If you want to be a prince, virtue is also very important. I can't have an unknown child before I even marry, especially since the child's birth mother is as unclear as he is. Whether you are Lu Ningmei or Su Shuqiu, which identity is the same is not clear.

"And if I want to marry Ruoshan, she can't bear this grievance." She is the daughter of the Prime Minister, I can't treat her lightly, I need the Prime Minister's Mansion behind her.

"This child came unexpectedly, if there was no child, would you hate me so much?" 」

His explanation ended with me asking me back, but I didn't know the answer.

Who can say what has already passed?

I turned and walked outside, and as I was about to go out, he suddenly shouted at me from behind.

"Autumn."

I wasn't his qiu'er anymore, but I still stopped.

I didn't turn around, just tilted my head slightly and waited for his next step. Then I heard his slightly hoarse voice.

"Maybe you won't believe it." But at the time, I really liked you."

I didn't speak and walked out of the study.

True or false, it has long since become meaningless.

Loved it.

Nor has it ever been loved.

But I'm pretty sure he certainly doesn't love Qin Ruoshan either, he doesn't love anyone, he only loves himself, he only loves power.

But there is no use, but it is even more hateful, even if he likes it, he can use it without intention to abandon it.

Heavenly love is cold and thin, never like this, only hate me for seeing it too late.

25.

In the evening, I returned to the Rui King's Mansion.

When I went back, Luo Yizhang was eating and invited me to join him. If it is the past, I will agree, but at this moment, in the face of a future new monarch, I dare not make a second.

Or rather, I didn't really see his fierce side in the past, and now he is the one who almost killed me, and I really can't be happy.

He didn't force it either, putting down his chopsticks.

"The ceremony of the enthronement is already in preparation. There will be no coming back here soon, and there is still some reluctance."

I didn't answer.

In fact, it is clear that the reluctance in his mouth is only a kind of artificiality, and the joy of ascending the throne is definitely enough to dilute this reluctance, and even I think he has no reluctance at all. In a way, this means for him that he must pretend to be a dull Taoguang to cultivate an obscure and burdensome past, which should be heavy and unbearable, how can anyone miss such a past?

He didn't seem to care that I couldn't talk to me, and then he said, "Before, I couldn't look at you, thinking that you were weak and had no insight, no brain, and no right and wrong. Even if it is occasionally useful, it is a small and inconspicuous thing."

I have no opinion on this belittling of him.

Because before, I was like that.

But his words did not end with a belittle of me: "After this incident, I have changed my mind a little. Even if you have deficiencies, you can go out open-mindedly, and you really dare to do it. With this courage, it is already extraordinary."

If my life is a little better, even if it is only a little better, who is willing to throw himself into this bloody mess? The so-called courage, the so-called open-mindedness, are all forced out.

But no one can understand this involuntariness, and he regards this as a trait that I am born with.

"Now that things are over, you have nowhere to go." If you wish, I can give you a place to raise well in the palace. You can rest assured that I have no interest in you, but to make you more stable for the rest of your life as a reward for your efforts. The position will not be too high, but it is also a golden food."

Did the prince and emperor have any misunderstandings about the so-called retribution? Old death in the dark deep palace, this is the reward?

His reward for me is to imprison me?

Of course I knew he wasn't interested in me, he was a prince no matter how bad he was, what kind of woman hadn't seen it? There will be more women in the future. My only strength is the face of the past, and now that face is gone, and it is not innocent, and he certainly will not be interested in me.

As for what makes me more stable in the second half of my life, it is just a scaremonger.

I am no longer the man I used to believe in whatever others say. He was only afraid that I would leak out the secret of the emperor, and promised Gu Yunting to keep me alive, so he wanted to lock me up in the palace and watch over me under his eyes, only in this way could he not leak secrets in this life.

I have already seen the deceitfulness of the emperor. In any case, I don't want to be in it for the rest of my life.

"Forgive me for not accepting the kindness of the prince." I bowed my head and refused, "I just want to live a calm life, I have forgotten all the things in the past."

Forgot everything. Love forgets, hate forgets, and the king also forgets.

He was silent for a long time, and then picked up the chopsticks again: "Since this is the case, I will not force it."

I breathed a long sigh of relief.

If he had an iron heart to put me in the palace, I really wouldn't have been able to resist.

"I'll give you some silver to settle down, just a little more."

I blessed myself: "Then it is better to be respectful than to obey the order, and thank the prince."

Only a lot more silver, of course I have to accept, why don't I accept it?

If I don't accept it, what will I live on for the rest of my life?

It was something I deserved, even though in the very beginning of everything I wanted not to be at all. But what I really wanted, I couldn't get it for a long time.

26.

Luo Yizhang kept his promise and indeed gave me a lot of silver and two treasures. Before leaving, I went to see Lu Ningmei first, and I asked her, "When you were young, you saved Luo Yijing's life, do you remember?"

Lu Ning frowned and looked at me blankly, "Luo Yijing? Yu Wang? Did I save him?"

I suddenly felt ironic. Luo Yijing could abandon anything, but she couldn't forget her life-saving grace, and even hid her true identity from Jiang Wu, but she had long forgotten who he was.

"He once fell into the water, and you saved him."

Lu Ning frowned and recalled for a long time before he slowly spoke, "It seems that there is such a file, it was before I left the imperial capital with my father, and I have forgotten that the person I saved was him... Is it him?"

I nodded, said goodbye to her, and went to Gu Yunting's mansion.

Gu Yunting was raised in the palace for a few days, and after his condition stabilized, he moved out of the palace, and when I went to see him, he was asleep, and there was no blood on his face. The people who served him told me that he was injured and had been asleep most of the day, and that even if he healed, it would be difficult to be the same as before.

I suddenly had an ominous premonition, shallow and faint, but haunting in my heart.

Luo Yizhang originally wanted me to die because she was afraid that I would leak secrets, but I was not the only one who knew the secrets.

There is also Gu Yunting.

I've seen his fierceness. He can sacrifice me that day, can he also sacrifice Gu Yunting in the next day?

There are often powerful subordinates, not that Gu Yunting must be indispensable, not to mention that he has been seriously injured and can no longer recover from the past, he is not irreplaceable. Kill him in exchange for a secret that lasts forever...

If I were Luo Yizhang, I would also feel that this deal is worth it.

I waited by Gu Yunting's bedside for him to wake up. He slept until the afternoon when he woke up, and the first thing he saw was me was somewhat unexpected.

He was going to sit up, and I hurried to let him lie down.

"How did you get here?"

"Come and see you." I paused, "I'm leaving."

"Leave the imperial capital?"

"Probably, it's all over, and there's no need to stay."

"It's pretty good. Imperial Is Not for You."

Just by saying these few words, he already seemed weak and weak, and he wanted to be injured in the bloody battle of that day and night. I just wanted to say goodbye, but in the end I couldn't resist asking the question.

"Rui Wang, will he kill you?"

He pulled out a weak smile: "If he really wants to kill me, now is the best time to say to the outside world that I am seriously injured and incurable, and you can directly blame Jiang Wu and add a crime to him, right?"

That's true, and I understand the reasoning.

It's just that......

"Now he remembers your merits... What about after ascending the throne?"

He was silent.

"After ascending the throne... Power can change a lot of things. He is not a good person, he can sacrifice me in the first place, and he can sacrifice you in the future. Those who know his secrets, besides me, are you."

"But he let you live."

"I have no power, no power, no one to rely on, and if there is a rumor, it will not be difficult for him to find me and kill me." Besides, even if I tell the secret, I'm afraid no one will believe it, only if I slander the Holy One, but what about you?"

"I once asked Rui Wang why Jiang Wu wanted to support Luo Yijing but would involve you, do you know how he answered me?"

He motioned for me to say with a look in his eyes.

"He said, if you ascended the throne, there was such a person who specialized in dirty work and was incredibly powerful in the former dynasty, would you keep him?"

That was his answer.

"At that time, he said it from Luo Yijing's point of view, and now the person who is about to ascend the throne is him."

The maid served hot tea, sat up with difficulty, leaned over the bed, took a sip of tea, and his lips were a little bloody.

He was silent for a long time and put down his teacup: "I chose him that day, it was nothing more than self-preservation, I and Jiang Wu are not the same person, he has wanted to get rid of Jinyiwei for a long time." Although King Duan was born, he was really useless, and King Yu was a person of Jiang Wu, so I chose King Rui, and all I wanted was to get rid of Jiang Wu and King Yu first, so as not to be eliminated by them."

"But perhaps, in fact, there is no essential difference between Rui Wang and Luo Yijing."

"I don't know." You just can't help yourself, do you think I can go back to my hometown?"

Involuntarily, everyone can't help themselves, and I understand that this kind of involuntariness.

I turned the subject away.

"Then why did you save me?"

"Didn't you already know that?" I want you to replace Lu Ningmei to kill Luo Yijing."

"I'm not referring to this." I looked him in the eye, "After the poisoning, I was damned, why did you save me?"

"Who knows." He looked straight into my eyes without the slightest evasion, "Maybe at some point my conscience suddenly found out and felt ashamed of you." It's just a momentary ghost that makes a decision sent by God, and you don't have to go to your heart."

In an instant, the ghost made God's decision to make him rebel against Luo Yizhang, and could he ask me for a life?

I didn't puncture this obvious lie.

"Actually, you're not a bad person."

"Really?" He seemed to have heard something funny, "This is the first time I've heard such an evaluation since I was in charge of the Jinyi Guard." Your definition of good and bad is really simple, and when I save you once on a whim, you forget all the grievances in front of you."

I haven't forgotten. Anyone who has experienced it cannot forget.

But that didn't delay me from coming to the answer to this question, and I felt that he was a good man.

He pointed to a wooden box on the table and said, "Since you're leaving, that's my gift."

I went to pick up the wooden box and open it.

Inside is the painting.

The picture he drew before I changed my face.

Today I have an ordinary face, but this painting records my past appearance, and I was once a beauty, although the appearance on the painting can never be returned.

"I really don't have any way to get you back to where you were before." If you're sad to see this painting, just stay. If you think you can make a souvenir, take it."

I closed the wooden box.

"I'll take it."

He nodded, said nothing more, and closed his eyes wearily.

Luo Yizhang once praised me for my courage, and I thought that I should not live up to his praise.

I want to be bold again.

"Lord Gu."

"Huh?" He opened his eyes.

"If I still hate you to this day, there's a perfect reason, right?"

27.

GuFu was burned to the ground.

The person who set the fire was me. I hate him for involving me in these things, and before I left, I put a fire on his residence under the pretext of seeing him. The whole Gu Mansion was drowned in a raging fire, Gu Yunting was seriously injured and physically unable to run out of the fire, but when he caught me on the set fire, even if he broke an arm, it was still more than enough to deal with a weak woman like me, and stabbed me to death with a knife. So I cocooned myself, I wanted to take revenge, but I put myself in it, and Gu Yunting and I both died in the fire, and he became a scorched corpse with a broken arm, and I was not only a scorched corpse, but even a knife that was burned and deformed.

This is the story That Luo Yizhang will hear.

28.

Half a month later.

A restaurant in Teikyo quietly changed its owner, but no one knew, and even if they knew, no one cared. Because the boss was a woman with no good looks, no one would look at her when she walked down the street, she was alone, and no one knew where she came from.

Today is the day of Luo Yizhang's ascension to the throne.

Whether he would believe that story, I don't know, I'm not sure he will believe it, he's not stupid. But we did everything we could in disguise, and he believed it or not, and he resigned himself to his fate.

And this story, or the whole story, has long since changed shape when it reaches the people. There was Mr. Storyteller in my restaurant, and in my spare time I sat in the private room and listened to him tell stories that seemed to be true and false, and I learned that the stories were completely different.

In his later years, Emperor Xian was dazed, and the traitorous minister Jiang Wu and the chancellor Qin Jingming controlled the imperial government, intending to establish Luo Yijing, the prince of Yu, as the king. To this end, they eliminated General Lu, who had advised the emperor to make Liduan the crown prince, and framed Gu Yunting, the commander of the Jinyi Wei who impeached Jiang Wu. But King Rui, who was the son of a contemporary child, risked his life to save Gu Yunting from prison. This made Jiang Wu and Qin Jingming have a sense of crisis, and their plan was early, killing the king with severe poison, and the former emperor died suddenly. However, Jiang Wu did not expect that Emperor Xian left a will, which stated that he would be succeeded by Luo Yizhang, the Rui King. Jiang Wu was dissatisfied with the edict and mobilized all the factory guards in the West Factory to cause a palace change, and the Jinyi guards and the Forbidden Army desperately resisted, captured the traitor alive, purged the Qing Dynasty, and welcomed the King of Rui to succeed to the throne. However, Gu Yunting was seriously injured in the bloody battle and his life was in danger. Although Jiang Wu was captured alive, the worm with a hundred feet died but did not stiffen. The xichang minions who were lucky enough to escape could not move Luo Yizhang, so they found Gu Yunting and burned fire in Gu Mansion, and overnight, Gu Mansion was reduced to ruins, Gu Yunting was seriously injured and unable to flee, and a generation of loyal and upright ministers were burned alive in the fire, the beams were destroyed, and the country was martyred throughout the ages.

Yes, this is what everyone knows as the story looks like.

In this story, there is no me, and there is no Lu Jingmei.

29.

In fact, Gu Yunting was the one who died without stiffening the hundred-footed insect. He didn't stay in my restaurant, he said he had a place to go, and he also had a lot of land to keep himself covered for half his life.

I have no regrets about that.

To fall in love with a man who has caused me so much trouble and doom, I have not yet reached that point. Even if I decided he wasn't a bad guy, even if he saved me in the end, it wouldn't be.

To say why he ended up saving me, I don't think it's because he had any special feelings for me. He's not so abusive and I'm not so special. He's going to save me, just because he's not a bad guy.

That's all.

We also don't have enough life and death friendship to support each other for the rest of our lives, so this result is good.

Life is long, and we walk side by side for a short time, and then pass each other when we should be separated. In this lifetime, there will be many such passers-by, and if each of them is read for a long time, the mind will not be enough.

Today is Luo Yizhang's enthronement ceremony, I climbed to the top of the restaurant, leaning on the railing to look at the palace. I could see the red walls and green tiles, and I could hear the music of celebration, straight up into the sky. Presumably, he was wearing a dragon robe at this time, and in the kneeling of the courtiers and the cries of long live, he slowly walked up to the DanQi, onto the throne, walked to the highest point of power, and escaped from the reincarnation of that person.

It's just that it has nothing to do with me anymore.

I hung the painting that Gu Yunting had painted for me in my exclusive private room, and the tea-serving hall once asked me curiously who the person on the painting was.

I said that it was a past that one could never go back to.

Original Author: Hundred Mile Wind (End of Text)