Fingers of crossing

Stepping down the tower, Yan Yilan lowered her head and saw a plain figure waiting outside the stairs.

It's rainy in spring, and the drizzle makes the inside and outside of the palace hazy and elegant.Jiang Ningzui was wearing a light-colored palace attire, covered with pink and white gauze, and the silk belt on her elbows fluttered with the breeze, revealing an elegant and dust-free temperament.Hearing the sound, Jiang Ningzui raised her head, her usually indifferent eyebrows and eyes were stained with the moisture after the rain, making her look extraordinarily cold.

Stepping out from the umbrella held by Qingfu, Jiang Ningzui unfolded the cloak in her hand and handed it to Yan Yilan.

Yan Yilan has always been afraid of the cold, although it is now spring, but the rainy weather still can't wipe away the damp and cold breath, I heard that Yan Yilan only wore single clothes and left the palace, Jiang Ningzui always remembered her injury, that's why I came here made this move.

"It's rainy and cold, why don't you stay in the palace?"

Although she had roughly guessed Jiang Ningzui's intentions in her heart, Yan Yilan still asked in a low voice. Seeing Jiang Ningzui's hand holding the cloak stiffen, she couldn't help but curled the corners of her mouth and smiled narrowly.

"It's boring in the palace, so I went out for a walk." Jiang Ningzui put the cloak on Yan Yilan, turned around and was about to leave. "It so happened that Bi Yuan asked me to send a cloak to the eldest princess."

She has seen Jiang Ningzui's ignorance a lot, and now her duplicity is something new, Yan Yilan laughed softly, and said noncommittally: "Bi Yuan is getting more and more courageous, how dare she send the Crown Princess work?"

Jiang Ning was stunned drunk, and then said indifferently: "...It's just a little effort."

Seeing that Jiang Ningzui was still covering up, Yan Yilan simply didn't bother to go around in circles, and exposed it mercilessly: "I don't know when even Bi Yuan has learned to be lazy, I just sent her to the Shang Palace Bureau to take care of it an hour ago. affairs, I don’t want her to learn how to obedience and obedience.”

At this time, Jiang Ningzui realized that her lie had already been seen through by Yan Yilan. She stopped slowly and looked back at Yan Yilan, but she didn't want to see Yan Junyao walking down the tower. She looked back. Facing Yan Yilan's gaze, he turned around and saluted, "Meet the prince."

If the crown prince meets someone who is elegant and outstanding, he will depose Ning Zui at a certain time.

Yan Yilan's words had been ringing in his ears before, but now seeing Jiang Ning drunk, Yan Junyao just felt uneasy for a moment, he concealed the weird emotions in his heart, raised his hand and said: "There is no need to be polite."

The three of them had their own thoughts, and now they are forced together, which is really awkward and weird.Against the dead silence, Jiang Ningzui turned her head and glanced at Yan Yilan, but saw that the guy looked relaxed and content, not at all uncomfortable.

Secretly planning an excuse to get away and leave, she suddenly heard footsteps behind her, accompanied by hurried panting sounds, Jiang Ningzui instinctively turned her head to look away, and saw Yan Junyao's personal eunuch Zhang Shiquan hurriedly approaching, saw them Then he knelt down and bowed down.

After saluting one by one, Zhang Shiquan wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, turned to face the prince tremblingly, and said: "His Royal Highness, the side concubine has woken up, but..."

Hearing Liu Huanxue wake up, Yan Junyao's eyes lit up, but seeing Zhang Shiquan's hesitant expression, his heart sank, and he said, "Say!"

"The imperial physicians were uncertain, so they asked the servants to come and ask His Royal Highness, whether to save or not to save the side concubine?"

It's really weird to ask this question, Liu Huanxue is finally waking up now, Yan Junyao naturally wants to save, according to his love for Liu Huanxue, even if all the medicine stones in the world are spent, Liu Huanxue will definitely be safe.These imperial physicians are not ignorant, but they still ask this question, obviously there must be some unspeakable secret hidden in it.

Yan Yilan also noticed something strange, she held down Yan Junyao who was about to speak, pondered for a while, then turned her head and told Zhang Shiquan: "Don't worry, I will make a decision with the crown prince after I have consulted the imperial physician." Yilan looked at Jiang Ningzui, "You come too."

Knowing vaguely that this matter might not be trivial, Jiang Ningzui wanted to shirk it, but finally nodded and said nothing more.

In Mingde Hall, all the imperial physicians looked strange and pale. When they saw Yan Yilan and his party walk in, they knelt down while saluting.

Yan Junyao grew up in the palace, and when he saw the appearance of the imperial physicians, he immediately understood a little bit. His heart was suspended in the middle of the place, as heavy as iron, but he couldn't land on it.He looked solemnly at the group of imperial physicians, unconsciously clenched the armrest of the seat, and said in a deep voice, "Tell me honestly, how is the side concubine?"

"Returning to the prince, the side concubine has now woken up, and her condition is under control. She only needs acupuncture several times to force out the toxins in her body one by one, and then she will be cured. It's just..." the leading imperial physician said, and couldn't help wiping the toxins. Wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, his voice gradually dropped.

"It's just what?" Yan Junyao's heart sank and heaved when he saw the imperial physicians hesitant to speak, he couldn't help but slapped the table hard, and scolded: "You useless slaves, what are you doing? What are you hemming and hawing, don’t you want to live anymore?!”

Hearing the words, the imperial doctors shouted "Prince, please forgive me" several times in a row, finally regained their composure, and said truthfully in a trembling voice: "It's just that when I waited for the pulse of the side concubine, I found that the illness of the side concubine is very similar to that of a Chinese concubine. It's a sign of being poisoned by purple eggplant flowers."

Yan Yilan was originally holding a teacup, lowering her head and gently blowing the dense tea mist, but now that she heard the words of the imperial physician, she raised her gaze from the misty mist, her phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, and the light in her eyes gradually condensed.Jiang Ningzui also noticed Yan Yilan's cold expression for a moment, she recalled carefully what the imperial physician said, although she didn't understand what the imperial physician said that offended Yan Yilan, but her heart slowly tightened unconsciously.

"Purple eggplant flower?" Yan Junyao had never heard of the name of this kind of flower, let alone the fact that it is poisonous, but this is obviously not what he really cares about, his face gradually turned dark, and he said: "You Does it mean that someone poisoned the side concubine?"

The imperial physicians were silent again, looking at each other, no one dared to answer.

Glancing coldly at the silent faces of the imperial doctors, Yan Yilan understood why they dared not speak out, so she threw the teacup in her hand on the table and said in a deep voice, "Go on."

With Yan Yilan's consent, the leading imperial physician said tremblingly: "As the eldest princess and the crown prince say, purple eggplant flowers are produced in the Western Regions, and they are non-toxic if eaten in small amounts, but if they are dried and ground into fine powder, they can be served with rice wine. However, although this method is very effective, overdose in the long run will not only damage the vitality, but also produce toxicity. Therefore, the flower grows in the Western Regions all the year round, and people who know the effect of this flower are not So much, so I don't think this is someone else's intentional murder..."

The implication is that they don't think it's someone else's idea.

Before the imperial physician could finish his words, Yan Junyao's livid face was so frightening that he dared not speak any more. Seeing this situation, the imperial physicians beside him buried their heads even lower one by one, and dared not raise them again .

No wonder the imperial physician came to invite Yan Junyao to play.At this moment, Jiang Ningzui understood completely that Liu Huanxue was not a drunk person, and this kind of chronic poison that needs to be taken for a long time, if it was not Liu Huanxue's own intention, how could others be able to deceive it and succeed?She thought, and looked at Yan Junyao, who was in silence at the moment, very much like the calm before the storm, his eyes were red, he looked so shocked, but he didn't want to believe it, it didn't look like the past The prince with the jade tree facing the wind, on the contrary, looks like a defeated soldier who lost the last city.

Liu Huanxue doesn't love him, not only doesn't love him, but also hates him to the bone.She hated so much that she would not even give him a child, and hated so much that even if she enjoyed thousands of favors, she was still unwilling to leave a little bit of blood for him.

Jiang Ningzui didn't know whether to sympathize with Yan Junyao, who looked devastated and battered, or Liu Huanxue, who would rather drink the poison that slowed down to the bone marrow than leave an heir for Yan Junyao.Maybe they are all pitiful, but three years ago, Yan Junyao still had the right to choose, but Liu Huanxue did not.

The dead silence was like the cruelest Ling Chi in the world. The leading imperial physician finally couldn't bear it anymore, and bravely asked in a trembling voice: "So..." The words were aimed at Yan Yilan. After all, compared to the red-eyed Yan Junyao , Yan Yilan looked calm and calm, like a bystander who stayed out of the matter.

"I can't decide this matter," Yan Yilan's voice was not as calm as her surface, the words she spoke were so cold, even dangerously cold. "To save or not to save is the prince's choice."

Yan Yilan's words pierced straight into Yan Junyao's heart. He pulled himself out and found that his heart was in pain, and every breath seemed to shatter his chest.

He thought that dripping water could still penetrate rocks, and as long as he had the heart, Liu Huanxue would forgive him one day.But I never thought that what I got was such a result.He couldn't figure out which step he did wrong, which caused Liu Huanxue to get farther and farther away from him. Even if they faced each other day by day, they still couldn't get back the distance between them.

Huanxue, do you really hate me that much?Hate so much that you won't even leave me a child?

"Save..." Yan Junyao closed his eyes silently, his voice hoarse and helpless. "I don't care what method you use, you must cure her."

He wanted to ask her personally why she was so cruel and refused to even give him a chance to make up for it?He had to ask her, ask her...

Hearing Yan Junyao's words, the imperial physicians retreated one after another. Yan Yilan silently glanced at Yan Junyao, then got up and left.

Jiang Ningzui followed Yan Yilan's figure and stood up from the seat. When she passed by Yan Junyao, she couldn't help but look sideways at Yan Junyao, but she saw Yan Junyao with her head slightly lowered, all expressions hidden in the shadows, Nothing is real.

Concealing the emotions in her heart, Jiang Ningzui did not stay any longer, turned around and left with Yan Yilan.

The rain stopped, but the weather was still cold.

It was late at night, but Yan Yilan was still discussing matters with the ministers in the Xuanzheng Hall.After returning from the East Palace in the afternoon, Yan Yilan secretly summoned the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, and did not return until late at night.

Jiang Ningzui sat by the window, letting the cool night wind blow into the empty Qiluan Palace, Qingfu reached out to close half of the window for her, and whispered: "Mother, it's cold at night, I don't know when the eldest princess will come back, how about Ma'am, let's rest first."

"I'm not sleepy." Jiang Ningzui looked sideways at Qingfu and said, "You should step back first."

Jiang Ning is not sleepy when drunk, and dare not sleep.She understood that when she woke up, she was afraid that everything would be different.

The Ministry of Punishments is in charge of criminals in prisons. This time, Yan Yilan specially summoned the Secretary of the Ministry of Punishments to go there secretly. I am afraid that the case of Chi Wei will finally be finalized.

Liu Huanxue, when will you understand the truth of the phrase "the majesty of the king is not to be seen"?The majesty of the sky is mighty, how can you cover the sky with one hand and try to hide it between applause?Maybe you did this because you didn't want to let Chi Wei down, and you didn't want to let yourself down at first, but it's a pity that paper can't contain fire after all, and you will be let down on both sides.

Sitting all night until dawn, Yan Yilan should have already gone to court by this time, Jiang Ningzui stood up from the soft couch, moving her stiff body.

Just getting up, Jiang Ningzui saw Qingfu walking into the Qiluan Hall with a dignified expression, and happened to bump into her indifferent eyes when she looked up.

Hurriedly closing the door, Qing Fu whispered: "Your Majesty, the news just came from the Xuanzheng Hall that Guard Chi was sentenced to death and will be executed at Chongyang Gate tomorrow at [-]:[-] noon."