Darkness of Rebirth

The Crown Princess knew that Dongfang Xi didn't love and befriend her, so the two raised their eyebrows and respected her like a guest, but it was because she was the daughter of Shangshu.Don't say that the children of the royal family can't decide their own marriage, even the court ministers can't decide the marriage of their own daughter.The minister's daughter either became the emperor's concubine or the prince's concubine, but both left and right entered the royal family.

The emperor relied on the daughters of the powerful ministers to control the powerful ministers, and the powerful ministers also relied on their own daughters to consolidate their status and increase the emperor's trust.And she, Qi Ying, was selected by the emperor as the crown prince's main concubine at that time. At that time, the crown prince had already accepted several concubines, but the position of the main concubine had been vacant for a long time, and she was airborne to become the crown prince's main concubine.The crown prince and concubine, the future queen, must be of noble birth, and her natal family must also be powerful and able to bring benefits to the crown prince.

The Crown Princess picked up the tray, bowed to Dongfang Xi, and said softly: "The concubine will not bother you." She is gentle and virtuous, and takes good care of Dongfang Xi, but even so, she can't get Dongfang Xi's favor. , some, but his distant and respectful.

After Qi Ying left the study, Dongfang Xi turned his head and resumed the topic that was just interrupted.

"Wuyu, in your opinion, among these younger brothers of this palace, who covets the position of the crown prince of this palace the most?"

Wuyu froze for a moment, shifted his gaze from Dongfang Xi's body to the ground, clasped his fists and replied, "Report to Your Highness, I don't know." Even if he had some comparisons in his heart, he didn't dare to casually say which prince was the most ambitious.It is true that he is a personal bodyguard, but the princes are still the prince's younger brothers, and it is clear at a glance who is closer and who is farther.

"Wuyu, it's okay to be frank. Compared with those imperial brothers, I am closer to you, and trust you a little more than them." Wuyu is his personal bodyguard and his subordinate , loyal to him, and take him as the leader.And those imperial brothers, even if they call him imperial brother, they are still jealous of his crown prince in their hearts, right? !

To gain the trust of their master is the greatest honor for them as subordinates.Hearing Dongfang Xi's words of trust and closeness, Wuyu was overwhelmed with gratitude, wishing to repay his trust and cultivation with himself.

"Your Highness trusts this subordinate so much, so this subordinate will speak directly." Because the next thing he was going to say was to say something disrespectful to his superior, Wu Yu knelt down on one knee before analyzing what happened last night from his own point of view The results obtained are presented.

"Last night, it was His Royal Highness the Third Prince who was the first to faint from the drug, and then, Your Highness, you were poisoned. At that time, what I suspected in my heart was His Highness the Second Prince, but after thinking about it carefully, I felt that this move was too much." Obviously, if His Highness really has something to do, the crown prince will be given to her naturally, isn't this telling everyone that she is the biggest beneficiary and the person who is most likely to attack Your Highness?" Wuyu said a long After a long speech, he raised his head slightly and looked at the East Seat.

"Very good, keep talking." Dongfang Xi gave a timely encouragement.

Wuyu was affirmed, and continued: "But later, His Highness the Second Prince was also poisoned, and it seemed to be more serious than your Highness. The Second Prince was weak and sick. Although he practiced martial arts, the congenital deficiency still exists. I get sick from time to time. This subordinate dares to guess that even if it wasn't for Your Highness, you would take the position of the crown prince, the emperor would not give her the position of the crown prince."

How could Emperor Qianwen feel at ease to give Donggan Kingdom to such a half-disabled sick man?Moreover, she left the palace at the age of three, returned at the age of 13, and went to Jizhou with the army at the age of 14, but disappeared for four years until she returned to the palace. How can such a prince who has hardly been in the palace sit on the throne?

"Wuyu, you have said so much, but you still haven't told me. In your heart, which prince covets the position of this palace's heir apparent the most." Having said so many things, they are all to clear up Dongfang Du's suspicion. This is not what I want to hear.

"Your Highness and His Highness the Second Prince were poisoned, but His Highness the Third Prince and the Fourth Prince were just drugged. The suspicion of the Third and Fourth Princes is even greater."

"Then is the third younger brother of my palace more suspicious, or the fourth younger brother?" One is the younger brother of the same mother, and the other is the fourth younger brother born to Concubine Liang.He already had a guess in his heart, and now he just wanted to hear Wu Yu's opinion.

"Yes...it's His Royal Highness the Third Prince." Wu Yu replied hesitantly, with a flash of sympathy in his eyes.This third prince, Dongfang Xu, is His Highness's younger brother, how could he attack his own older brother?

Sure enough, it was the same as my own idea.When he was hesitating whether to find someone to assassinate Dongfang Du, it was Dongfang Xu who helped him to find the killer.Now, he can also be hard on himself.It is too naive to think that the first one has been drugged to clear the suspicion.

"By the way, Your Royal Highness, Princess Fengling was fine last night, she was neither poisoned nor drugged, she..." Wuyu wondered why Princess Dudu was safe and sound, could it be that the prince still had a tinge of sympathy? ?Can't bear to attack the only woman in the royal family?

"Princess, she doesn't drink." Dongfang Xi solved Wuyu's doubts with a single word, "What she drank was either tea or water, and she didn't even touch a drop of wine at the banquet." down in this wine.

"Then, Her Royal Highness is also very suspicious of her." Wuyu thought for a while and said, "Isn't Nangong Anyi, the current emperor of Nanchi Kingdom, a woman?" If Princess Fengling wanted to become an empress, she would have to get rid of these four Prince.Only when the man dies can it be her turn to be the woman.

Thinking of the death of the man, Wuyu said again: "Your Highness, there is one thing I don't understand. Why did your Highness and the Second Prince get poisoned not instantly, but..." Seeing Dongfang Xi's cold face instantly, he hurriedly said: "Your Highness Forgive me, it's my subordinates talking nonsense." Dongfang Xi can live, he has a bright future as a subordinate, so how could he want Dongfang Xi to be poisoned to death.

"Forgive your innocence, get up." After Dongfang Xi finished speaking, he got up and rolled up the dry-inked map of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains and put it aside, picked up a brush and began to draw on new rice paper, and said while drawing: "You What I said happened to be exactly what I was wondering about."

"By the way, the people from the Ministry of Criminal Justice and Dali Temple, did the investigation find anything?"

Such a big incident happened, the Minister of Criminal Affairs and Dali Siqing entered the palace early in the morning to investigate the matter.This incident happened in his East Palace. The main hall and side hall of the East Palace are the scene of the crime. The two criminal investigators are either in the main hall or the side hall at this moment.

"The Minister of the Ministry of Punishment and the Secretary of the Dali Temple only stayed in the main hall and the side hall for a quarter of an hour, and then went to the imperial dining room to question the maids and eunuchs there. There was no clue about an hour ago." Wuyu replied, paused and then said : "Wuyang and Wufu have been following the two adults. If they gain something, they will come back and report back as soon as possible."

Dongfang Xi nodded, put down the brush, turned his head to Wuyu and said, "Perhaps, the slightly poisoned emperor brother of this palace should go and see the seriously poisoned second emperor brother." A slight smile, but inexplicably frightening.

Upon hearing this, Wu Yu hurriedly persuaded: "Your Highness, it's better not to leave this East Palace easily." It's not safe in the East Palace, let alone other places.

"I'm just talking, haha."

After such a thing happened, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince could still laugh. This made Wuyu, who had followed Dongfang Xi since childhood, unable to figure out the situation, and sighed in his heart, the master's thoughts were really not what they are capable of being servants now. Random guesses.

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After lunch, Dongfang Lingwu did not leave immediately, but stayed in Fengqing Palace with Chu Mi.

"Ling Wu, Sister Huang, you should go back and let me rest quietly for two days, okay?" The two stayed in her Fengqing Palace for a long time, doing nothing but drinking tea and chatting. Said to take care of her.This is not taking care of her, it is clearly disturbing the two people's world of her and Yun'er!

An Yun was quiet, sitting quietly beside Dongfang Du and watching her, his eyes were full of love.Seeing Dongfang Du frowning from time to time, wondering whether she was suffering from the poison or feeling unwell because of last night, thinking about it, the love in her eyes could not help but be mingled with pity.

Dongfang Du thought for a while, then smiled and said to Chu Mi: "Senior Sister, Doctor Lin said that I need Master to cure my poison, why don't you go to Wuya Mountain and bring Master back?"

When Dongfang Lingwu heard this, he stood up anxiously and said, "Didn't you ask Mi'er to protect my safety? Why did you let her go back to Wuya Mountain?" I don't know how long it will take to come back to Wuya Mountain!

"Ling Wu, you should go back to Wuya Mountain with Senior Sister, just to see... Mother Concubine." Their mother concubine, the real Xian Concubine, has been living in seclusion on Wuya Mountain since she left the palace four years ago. By chance, I can just go and see her.How many years have we not seen each other?In the four years since she left, she has never been to Wuya Mountain, and she doesn't know how her master is doing, let alone how her mother and concubine are doing.

Looking at the smiling Dongfang Du, Chu Mi always felt that she was planning something, couldn't help frowning and asked, "Xiao Du, you really want us to leave the palace at this time? Do you want to do something after we leave?" What is it?" It wasn't the first time she did this!After you trick people away, do something worrisome by yourself.Leaving once, never leaving a second time!

"Senior sister, you think too much, just let you put on a show, it happens that the concubine mother is on Wuya Mountain, you take Ling Wu back together, you can protect her, and let her visit the concubine mother, you can kill three birds with one stone. !" Seeing Chu Mi's expression of disbelief, he couldn't help but slander, what happened four years ago, are you still so brooding?That time, I didn't trick them into leaving, but let them go back to the capital for their safety!And that he would leave for four years was entirely a temporary idea.

Dongfang Lingwu asked: "Is there really nothing hidden from us?" She didn't want something to happen in the palace once she left.

The ins and outs of what happened last night were related to Dark Cloud, so even they didn't reveal it. It was expected that they would be worried about their own safety at this moment. Dongfang Du said in a tone that couldn't be more sincere: "Ling Wu, Senior Sister , don’t worry, nothing will happen again during this period of time.”

After being repeatedly affirmed by Dongfang Du, Dongfang Lingwu and Chu Mi left Fengqing Palace, went back to pack their bags and prepared to go to Wuya Mountain.