Is the system pissed off today?

Chapter 157 157. Endless Nightmare.
The imperial concubine's bright red nails brushed the grapes casually, and with a smile on her mouth, she gave the second prince a look.The princess of Hulan Kingdom grew up in a cold-hearted palace since she was a child. With the status of her biological mother, she has developed a good ability to observe words and emotions since she was a child.At this time, she saw the look in the eyes of the imperial concubine, followed by the handsome face of the second prince, and concealed the calculation in her eyes, and the smile on her face was also true.

"Hulan country is short of materials and sparsely populated, but Daqin has a vast land and rich resources. Today, I saw countless rare treasures. Only one banquet gathered half of the world's treasures. On behalf of Hulan country, I would like to present thousands of horses as gifts for mutual trade. , so that the two countries can repair the old good forever." The princess of Hulan Kingdom smiled, and looked at the second prince with a thousand colors in his eyes, full of friendship, and was seen by all the people on and off the stage, but in the eyes of the princess, it was inevitable. Determination.

What Daqin lacks most now is horses, and the horses of Hulan Kingdom are strong. If the trade channel between the two countries can be opened, it will be beneficial and harmless to both countries.She was ordered to marry this time, and she also came with the determination to win.

The second prince's eyes glanced over Jing Jue's body, holding a blue-white feather fan in his hand, and shook it slightly, but what he said made Princess Hulan's face turn pale.

"There is still a shortage of four concubines in the father's palace. The princess is beautiful and beautiful. I feel like old friends with the second daughter of the Jing family at first sight. Why don't you have a double happiness today." The imperial concubine stopped peeling the grapes and swept With one glance at Jing Jue, the smile on her face remained unchanged, making it impossible to guess what she was thinking.

But the emperor who was sitting in a high position had an extra smile on his face.Except for the pale face of the princess below, everyone present was smiling.Because everyone knew that Hong Luan was the adopted daughter of the Jing family, so it was impossible for her to be concubine, so the second prince's concubine and the remaining daughters of famous families still had to fight for it.

"Okay." The highest emperor said, "Who is the second daughter of the Jing family, come up and show me."

Hongluan wore the gorgeous costume she had chosen earlier, with a graceful figure, she stood upright and knelt down beside the princess. For a moment, the two beautiful women were so indistinguishable that people couldn't take their eyes off them.

"It's a sign of appearance." The imperial concubine put down the tea and said.

The emperor nodded when he heard this, and immediately settled on the two marriages.

Hongluan and the princess thanked at the same time, but the smiles on both of their faces were slightly forced.

When she returned to her seat, the princess even staggered a bit.Jing Jue was not surprised by this scene. During the emperor's questioning before, Jing Jue knew that the princess had no other way out except entering the palace and becoming a concubine, unless she voluntarily married into an ordinary family, because here is close to the center of political power people, she has only one choice.

After more than half an hour, the banquet was coming to an end, and a familiar smell appeared in Jing Jue's nose.

Jing Jue frowned, and found that the smell came from her waist.

Jing Jue sighed in his heart, a faint fragrance wafted from the finely-sleeved girdle, and at the same time there was a commotion at the banquet.

"Master Deputy Envoy? Please wake up, Mr. Deputy Envoy. This is a banquet, so you can't sleep."

"Master Deputy Ambassador, Deputy..."

"what--"

A man in blue screamed. They were sitting on the left side of Jing Jue. At this time, the smell of wine was pervasive, making people's eyes dim. The next second, those people fell down.After several people fell down in a row, Jing Jue's mind was clear, he slightly brushed his forehead, and made a gesture of physical exhaustion. If she guessed right, it was that person who started the attack. .

"It's not good, it's dead!"

The Princess of Hulan Kingdom sat there blankly, not understanding how the situation had turned into this.

"Ah, why do you have bugs on your hands, don't come near me." Hongluan suddenly looked at the princess and shouted in horror, and a group of guards rushed up in an instant, surrounding the Hulan princess.

In history, there was a murder case in which an envoy of the Hulan Kingdom poisoned and killed people at a banquet, so everyone began to be on guard.

"Both Hulan Kingdom and Southern Xinjiang are good at witchcraft. This bug looks exactly like the one I saw a few days ago." Jing Jue said with a pale face, and everyone sitting away immediately moved away from the princess. some.

Those who fell happened to be sitting next to Hulan Kingdom, how could it be such a coincidence!

Suddenly the face of the emperor who was sitting on the seat changed greatly, he only felt a fishy smell gushing out from his throat, followed by a mouthful of blood.Jing Jue noticed the surprise in Hongluan's eyes, as if she didn't know anything about it, but glanced at Princess Hulan's hand from the corner of her eye.

The blood-red bugs, the familiar scent of flowers on the girdle, the Gu insects, and the old affairs of the royal family, all these messy things were rapidly surging in Jing Jue's mind.He overturned the cup in his hand, and instantly the scent in his waist was covered by the strong smell of alcohol.

Jing Jue's eyes locked on a trembling person holding a food plate. If nothing else happened, he was the one who did the fainting.

Jing Jue's expression was slightly cold, and he went straight to the man. The man's eyes were slack, he suddenly dropped the plate, and shouted, "I don't want to die, help me, I don't want to die, no, I can't kill her, um—— "As soon as he finished speaking, his body twitched and he died in front of Jing Jue.

At this time, the lively banquet became quiet.

It wasn't because people were calm, but because the loud voices were all hoarse, and they all died suddenly just like Jing Jue's previous trial.

A guard beside him was a person who had followed Jing Jue to interrogate the case. Under Jing Jue's gaze, he stabbed the dead man's neck with a knife at a jumping place, and a red worm was exposed.

"This bug and the one in your hand..." Hongluan burst into tears and opened her mouth.

Hongluan is not a crybaby. When Jingjue rescued her, she did not forget that the girl had a hairpin in her hand and had a fierce look on her face.Even when he came to Jing's house, where he was well-clothed and well-fed, he never showed any signs of frailty, let alone his pear-blossoming appearance.When things go wrong, there must be a demon. Jing Jue almost already knows the mastermind behind this scene. No one can order Hong Luan to do things except her.

"Bring me that witch!"

"Jing Shilang, give me a good interrogation!" Except for the people of Hulan Kingdom, the ministers of Qin Kingdom are already dead. This kind of thing can be done by foreign enemies, and they really can't think of anyone who would do such a crazy thing. up.As soon as the emperor heard Hongluan's remarks, he immediately turned his eyes on the princess, and hurriedly called a few imperial doctors to come up, while several aged imperial doctors stood below, looking at each other with sweaty heads.

This Gu worm is not something they can cure.

Hongluan and Jingjue looked at each other for a moment with teary eyes, then turned away hastily.Jing Jue passed by her and whispered, "You were also deceived by her."

Hongluan's face suddenly turned pale.

Jing Jue had almost sorted out the matter. The eldest lady had been in love with the late emperor before, but who knew that Lord Jinghou would come out halfway to propose to the late emperor.Afterwards, the eldest lady saw the great love between the former emperor and the empress he married day by day, and even the harem was left empty for many years, leaving only the empress alone, unconditionally bestowing all the love she had promised to herself on another woman, and the eldest lady's psychology became more and more distorted. She absolutely cannot accept that her friendship is wrongly given to others.

Then Jing Jue learned that the death of the eldest lady's children seemed to be related to the empress appointed by the former emperor, because the empress had sent people to visit the Jing family many times, and made the eldest lady unhappy, so it can only be said that it was a A war among women.In the end, both sons died.Under the double blow of her lover's betrayal and the pain of bereavement, it is unreasonable for the eldest lady to still have a perfect personality of a good wife and mother. There is an explanation in my heart for my behavior.For some reason, she always felt that she was somewhat cut off from this world, as if she was not from this world.

At this time, an unexpected person also appeared here—the eldest lady.

"You, why did you come here?"

The emperor on the stage looked at the woman below, and suddenly his complexion became ugly. It was an extremely terrible thing for a woman to freely enter and leave the palace without being notified.This shows that in the palace, someone joined hands with people outside. Thinking of the emperor's face, he looked at the people around him with a bad face.

"Wu Lang also died here." The lady looked at the people who fell to the ground and said with a soft smile.

As we all know, the first emperor also died suddenly and strangely.And Jing Jue knew that Wu Lang was the nickname the eldest lady gave the emperor when she was young and passionate through the letters between them given by the second prince.

"You are lucky." The lady looked at Jing Jue, who was looking normal, and smelled the aroma of wine from Jing Jue's waist, and a hint of understanding appeared in her eyes.

The eldest lady did not come alone, but a group of guards followed her.

"Mother, what are you going to do? Even if you don't come, she will die, I have already done as you asked." Panic appeared in Hongluan's eyes, and what he had to do today was to marry into the royal family, and then put the blame on The princess of Hulan Kingdom, avenging her mother's dead child, how could things suddenly develop like this.

"Of course she has to die too! If it weren't for these sluts who provided the prescription back then, she wouldn't be the queen, and I wouldn't lose my child!" The eldest lady looked at the people who fell to the ground, followed by a group of people. Strong and strong soldiers, Jing Jue noticed that General Puma on the right and one of his subordinates were also standing upright. Under the watchful eyes of everyone, they walked to the side of the lady and expressed their position.It turned out that the great general was also under the command of the great lady.

"Brother..." Hongluan looked at the person standing beside the general and came out from the shadow, and shouted with wide eyes.

"Look, does he look like Wu Lang? He is also Wu Lang's child." Jing Jue frowned. Unlike the royal people on the stage, it looks more like the dead Jinghou.But when she connected with what had happened before, she suddenly had a bold guess in her mind.She remembered that she was able to save the two brothers and sisters because of Jinghou's order.

"Ahem." Jing Jue covered her mouth and felt a dull pain in her chest. After returning here, her body gradually became weaker and weaker. Jing Jue had asked someone to check the meals in the house in private, but there was nothing. Discover.It was as if her body was accelerating death under the urging of some inexplicable force.

At this time, the eldest lady was still expressing her resentment, calling out Wu Lang one by one, and a large number of people at the banquet had already poured out.

At this time, the eldest lady was crazy, holding a wooden sign in her hand, Jing Jue hadn't noticed it before, and Jing Jue didn't see what it was until the eldest lady threw it on the ground.

The lunatic threw half of the first queen's tablet to the ground, and the other half of the tablet didn't know where it went.

The emperor who was sitting in a high position spat out a mouthful of dark blood, while the imperial concubine was sitting there with a normal expression, surrounded by people around the second prince, they were the only normal people in the high position.The emperor looked at the glamorous imperial concubine with pain in his eyes, "You, you are confused."

The imperial concubine ignored the emperor, just smiled, and slowly threw down the phoenix hairpin that symbolized imperial power in her hand, "I just want to keep my mother's family safe." The emperor looked at the imperial concubine with exhaustion in his eyes, he is the emperor , Many things have to be weighed against the pros and cons, otherwise all will be lost, weakening her mother's power is just to balance the imperial power, he thought she would understand.

The imperial concubine looked at the emperor's changing expression and did not speak. A woman loves a man even more if she doesn't love it. She is a lowly thing.

Only she knew that she married into the royal family to strengthen the power of her mother clan, but the behavior of the emperor was completely opposite to what she expected, so she could only act preemptively.As for the woman at the bottom, it will not be too late to solve it later, the imperial concubine sits on the upper seat and watches the play leisurely.

"Your child will never forgive you." Jing Jue said suddenly.

The eldest lady turned her head in doubt, as if she didn't know why Jing Jue said this. She knew in her heart that this child was just rescued by Jing Jue halfway, and had nothing to do with her at all.

"How could there be someone who looks so similar to me in the world." Jing Jue took out a handkerchief, threw the smoked handkerchief away through the handkerchief, and suddenly said with a smile, "Mother can see her child's face back then." Corpses? Can you see their appearance clearly?"

The movement of Da Furen's hands suddenly stopped, as if thinking of something, she asked word by word, "You, say, what, what."

"These two people were specially entrusted by my father to send someone to look after them. He said they were the sons of an old man and he was kind to him. But I once sent someone to check the person who raised them. He was an ordinary merchant with a wealthy family. Acquaintances. Tell me, why did my father entrust someone to take care of them?"

"You have hatred in your heart, but you hate the wrong person! You shouldn't have killed my father. Even if your son ascends to the throne, his name will be unfair."

Both Hongluan and the eldest lady were shocked by Jing Jue's words, how could this happen.

The eldest lady looked at Jing Jue and sneered, "Impossible."

"If you hadn't listened to other people's slander, maybe you'd already found your lover and your children would be perfect. But because of a blind eye, you not only killed the person you love the most, but also the person who loves you. You keep saying that you love that The so-called Wu Lang, then why did he play Xiangsiyin at night after Jinghou died, and his soul returned?"

Xiangsiyin is a song written by a boudoir for the one she loves, while Soul Guidu is a song written by a woman after her husband died in battle.After Lord Jinghou died, the eldest lady often played the piano at night.Jing Jue said that when he listened to other people's slander, his eyes fell on the second prince and the imperial concubine. If the eldest lady can carry out the plan so smoothly, she must not be able to do it by herself, and this incident may benefit The biggest one is the mother and child above.

If the second prince hadn't shown his flaws when he presented the letter that day, Jing Jue would not have identified the murderer so quickly.Because the letters from the second prince were too instructive, it was as clear as to make her doubt the eldest lady's motives.

"Shut up!" Da Furen was so anxious that she was about to slap her. Seeing Jing Jue dodging, she picked up the long sword beside her and was about to stab at the person.

"Mother!" Hong Luan grabbed the unsheathed sword, Jing Jue quickly pulled Hong Luan aside with his quick eyes, and deflected the stabbing sword.The eldest lady didn't kill her, she just wanted to punish Jing Jue, so the stabbing sword could be easily pushed away.

The second prince sat on his seat, covering his painful head. At this time, an invisible thread appeared on the bodies of all the people present, but the thread on Hongluan and the second prince began to tremble wildly.

The moment Jing Jue pulled Hongluan away, the thread on Hongluan's body broke.

"you……"

When Jing Jue heard Hongluan speak, she glanced at her, but Hongluan stopped talking, and just lowered her head, leaving only a dark head.

"You hate the people around you so much, have you never thought about finding out the truth? Or are you afraid that you won't be able to face the truth after you know it, so you keep running away?" Jing Jue continued to ask.

"shut up!"

"You don't love him. What hurts you the most is that you lost all your children, but the person who said he loved you did nothing, so you killed him too. But have you ever thought about it, if all this is not the same as before your eyes? It's the same as what you see."

"Shut up!" At this moment, the eldest lady's eye circles were red, because of lack of sleep all year round, there was a circle of bruises under her eye sockets, and her eyeballs were bloodshot all over. She just stared at Jing Jue like a sharp knife. knife.

"No matter what you say, today you will die here like them." Da Furen suddenly smiled and said, "This is your fate."

"Fate?" Jing Jue heard the word, and the guard next to her held a knife and walked to her side. At this time, the knife was already on her neck.

"I don't believe in fate." Jing Jue lowered his head and smiled, her neck moved a little closer to the knife, and the eyes of the eldest lady trembled.

"You don't want me to die, I was raised by you, mother." Jing Jue looked into the eyes of the eldest lady and said, "The so-called fate is often just a mistake of human beings. If you kill me now, won't you regret it. Or are you going to kill me like you killed Jinghou, and then kill your own children with your own hands?"

As soon as Jing Jue finished speaking, the lady's hand went limp, and the sword fell to the ground.

"Hahahaha, it's just a difference in one thought, what a difference in one thought." The lady covered her mouth like this, lowered her head, smiled like this, and turned to look at Hong Luan with red eyes, "Then you know what I have been through, I I can't wait to smash them into ten thousand pieces, I want those who betray me to never stand up!"

"What do you know, what do you know!" The eldest lady seemed to be trapped in some kind of magic barrier, talking to herself, with a particularly ferocious expression on her face.Until he looked at Hong Luan who was looking up, but saw Hong Luan avoiding his gaze with cold eyes.

Although the eldest lady has taken care of her for many years, the treatment of adopted daughters and biological daughters is naturally different, and there are many harsh words in them, and the eldest lady who is the adoptive mother is just watching coldly.

(End of this chapter)