Bongjun's Life and Death Tribulation

As soon as He Lan Ruoming entered the Yonghe Palace, he saw Chu Xiran and Concubine Zhuang who had just come out of the East Nuan Pavilion.

"Emperor Saint Ann."

The two bowed together to salute, Chu Xiran then asked: "The emperor came to Yonghe Palace in the middle of the night, but what happened?"

"Hmph, the queen doesn't know yet?" He Lan Ruoming flicked his sleeves and walked into the East Nuan Pavilion with a cold face. After a short glance, his expression became more gloomy.

There was a small kang table on the imperial concubine's bed by the window, two tea bowls were placed on the table, and a few messy fruit dishes were placed in the middle.

"The empress and concubine Zhuang are really having fun." He Lan Ruoming stared at Chu Xiran coldly.

"Could it be that the emperor and Concubine Xiang also want to come to the Yonghe Palace to join in the fun?" Chu Xiran pretended to be stupid and waved, calling: "Xiao Shunzi, hurry up and serve tea to the Emperor and Concubine Xiang!"

"Queen! Do you know the crime or not!" He Lan Ruoming was furious, and swept the tea bowls and fruit plates off the small kang table. Unused snacks were scattered all over the place.

"I don't know what crime the concubine has committed?" Chu Xiran replied neither overbearing nor humble.

"Do you still have the face to ask me? Chu Xiran, do you not take me seriously, or do you really think of yourself as a woman!" He Lan Ruoming raised his hand and pointed at the tip of Chu Xiran's nose, eyes full of viciousness meaning.

Chu Xiran's heart sank when he heard the second half of the sentence, and he stared at He Lan Ruoming with a cold face, "Is the emperor here to catch rape?"

"It's best to know!"

"Know? Concubine Zhuang and I chatted very happily, so we will inevitably forget the time. Is this also a crime?"

Chu Xiran smiled mockingly, and continued: "Did the emperor see us hugging each other, or did our clothes roll on the couch disheveled?"

"As a male queen, you should know how to avoid taboos in the harem. You are alone in the bedroom with a female concubine in the middle of the night. Who knows what you are doing secretly! Chu Xiran, can you bear the crime of adultery in the harem? ?”

The more He Lan Ruoming spoke, the more serious his tone became, and the complacent mood that he was about to ask for guilt was shrouded in layers of inexplicable anger. Even he himself didn't understand where the unknown fire burning in his heart came from?

"If you want to commit a crime, why don't you have a word?" Chu Xiran said calmly.

Concubine Zhuang, who had been silent all this time, continued: "Your Majesty, it is always said that wind is rain in the harem. You are a wise monarch, you should not believe in rumors, and you should not accuse the queen without evidence."

"Even you want to rebel!" He Lan Ruoming said angrily.

"My concubine dare not! I just don't want the emperor to believe rumors." Concubine Zhuang knelt on her knees and replied.

"Your majesty, you can't take it seriously, unless the emperor has evidence, then the concubine has nothing to say." Chu Xiran still did not kneel down, held her head upright and straightened her back, looking straight at He Lan Ruoming.

"I have no proof, and I can't abolish you as a queen, but I can take precautions!" He Lan Ruoming suddenly approached Chu Xiran, and whispered in his ear: "I ask you, in the six palaces of this thing, except Besides me, are the other men all eunuchs?"

Chu Xiran was startled when he heard the words, and then glanced at Xiang A Duo who was standing aside, only to see that the other party supported his waist with one hand, looking at him with a face full of complacency.

"In order to prevent things from messing up the palace, all the men who can enter the harem to serve need to purify themselves, so that they will lose their fertility. In the harem, it is inappropriate to be with a bunch of women every day, so the empress should also be clean! I believe that the ministers should have no reason to object to this suggestion!"

"He Lan Ruoming, are you crazy!" Chu Xiran felt a chill pouring from his head to the soles of his feet.

"Queen, I'm not crazy, I can't destroy you, but I still have a way to rule you! Don't say I treat you badly, I will give you two choices, one, you take the initiative to give up the position of queen, two, you continue To be a queen, but I must personally cleanse you!"

"you dare!"

"I am the Son of Heaven, why dare not?"

Chu Xiran glanced around the room, only He Lan Ruoming and the eunuchs and imperial guards brought in by Xiang A Duo were left in the small East Nuan Pavilion, Concubine Zhuang on one side was covered by the two eunuchs and restrained with their backhands, unable to move , and Xiao Shunzi was also dragged out at some point.

"It seems that the emperor came prepared?" Chu Xiran sneered at He Lan Ruoming who leaned in front of her face, "How come the emperor didn't think of such a wonderful idea before? Could it be that the noble concubine came up with the plan for the emperor? "

"So what if it is? So what if it's not? Empress, you'd better choose quickly!" He Lan Ruoming pinched Chu Xiran's neck with his other hand, his fingers tightened tightly without any hesitation.

"I'm afraid that if I choose, you will regret it." Chu Xiran calmed down, but there was a determination in his eyes, "I will choose the second one, you can do it!"

"You think I dare not?" He Lan Ruoming laughed wildly and pushed Chu Xiran to the corner, and called three or four eunuchs to restrain his hands and feet.Xiang A Duo came up from the side and handed him a small and sharp dagger.

He Lan Ruoming took the dagger, kissed A Duo's face, and said softly: "I will see blood, do you want to avoid it?"

"The concubine doesn't want to leave the emperor."

"Okay, then sit aside and take care of your body." He Lan Ruoming fondled Xiang A Duo's face with nostalgia, and when she saw her sitting on the imperial concubine's bed, she turned around and drew out a gleaming silver dagger to face Chu Xiran.

Unexpectedly, Chu Xiran smiled instead of anger, with the corners of her eyes narrowed into crescent moons, sighed and shook her head, and said in a relaxed tone: "When I think of your stupid appearance of crying tears and snot in the future, I feel very sad. Take it easy!"

He Lan Ruoming was a little puzzled, but he quickly came back to his senses, picked up the tip of the knife at will, and cut off Chu Xiran's belt.

The soft belt fell to the ground, and the skirts were immediately loosened to the two sides. He Lan Ruoming gave a wink, and the eunuchs on both sides immediately pulled off Chu Xiran's jacket, revealing his naked chest in front of the eyes of the whole room.

"I remember that the empress used to be smooth skinned, why is she so ugly now?" He Lan Ruoming fixed his eyes on Chu Xiran's chest, looked at him carefully, and suddenly pressed his left hand on the right side of his abdomen On a pale scar, he said contemptuously: "Not only is the skin rough now, but there is also such a painful scar, I don't even have the slightest interest in hugging you."

"The emperor hasn't looked at the backs of his concubines yet. There are more scars there, all of which were bought with their lives on the battlefield. The emperor has touched and kissed them one by one. Has the emperor forgotten?" Chu Xiran sneered nonchalantly He let out a cry, and urged again: "Aren't you going to castrate me yourself? Then hurry up, don't dawdle!"

After speaking, he looked at Zhuang Concubine and blinked. Although Zhuang Concubine was angry, she had no choice but to close her eyes.

Seeing this scene, He Lan Ruoming's eyes darkened, his lips were slightly pursed, he stretched out his hand and pulled off Chu Xiran's pants, and shouted, "I want to see how hard your mouth is!"

Chu Xiran looked at He Lan Ruoming whose facial features were gradually distorted, felt a pain in his heart, and closed his eyes in relief: "Your Majesty, let's do it."

As soon as he finished speaking, he felt a chill on his neck, followed by another burst of pain. It turned out that He Lan Ruoming stuck a dagger in his throat in order to vent his anger. The blade cut the skin, and immediately blood oozed from the wound .

"I really want to just cut it off like this!" He Lan Ruoming evoked a cruel smile, and the two menacing gazes seemed to be nailed into Chu Xiran's body alive.

"The emperor hates me that much?" Chu Xiran opened his eyes, but there was still no trace of panic in them.

"Yes!"

"why?"

"Why?" He Lan Ruoming looked at Chu Xiran in confusion, but couldn't find the reason after thinking for a long time.

"Your Majesty, it's late at night, hurry up!"

Xiang A Duo's soft voice sounded, and He Lan Ruoming's dim eyes immediately burned again, cruel eyes flashed, he stretched out his tongue to lick the blood on the dagger, and ordered: "Squeeze him!"

His left hand fixed Chu Xiran's waist, and his right hand held the dagger along the skin on his chest to stroke Chu Xiran's lower body little by little, leaving a curved and extended blood-red wound.

The burning pain spread from her body, Chu Xiran subconsciously bit her lower lip, ready to face the pain and humiliation that followed.

He Lan Ruoming took a step back, and was about to swing his right hand down vigorously, but when he saw the blood on Chu Xiran's body out of the corner of his eye, his wrist flicked and he froze.

Reflected in his eyes, Chu Xiran was pinned to the wall with his hands and feet stretched out in an awkward and humiliating posture, with messy clothes hanging on his arms, and his trousers were pulled down to his knees and intertwined.

The most glaring thing is the red trace, where the tumbling flesh is hideously exposed.He subconsciously took another step back, and the dagger fell to the ground with a bang.

He clutched his throat and retched, and the pictures in his mind flew one after another, the same face, the same posture, the same bloody flesh, his heart burned like a fire with the chaotic memories.

"Your Majesty?" Xiang A Duo stood up nervously, stepped forward to grab He Lan Ruoming's hand, but was thrown away immediately.

"Get out! Get the hell out of here!" He Lan Ruoming shouted almost hysterically.

Xiang A Duo's face was stiff, and he ordered the eunuchs who suppressed Chu Xiran: "Take him out!"

"Who dares to touch him!" He Lanruo, with red eyes, rushed forward and hugged Chu Xiran tightly, "I tell you to get out!"

His chest heaved violently, he was gasping for breath, the cramping pain in his heart and the little bit of clarity in his mind were at odds with each other, but he refused to let go of the arm holding Chu Xiran.

"Who dares to touch him!" He Lanruo, with red eyes, rushed forward and hugged Chu Xiran tightly, "I tell you to get out!"

His chest heaved violently, he was gasping for breath, the cramping pain in his heart and the little bit of clarity in his mind were at odds with each other, but he refused to let go of the arm holding Chu Xiran.

"Get out!" With a final yell, everyone in the room looked at me and at you, and then all looked at A Duo.

"Your majesty, what's wrong with you? Is your heart hurting again? Let my concubine help you back to the palace!"

"I told you to go away, didn't you hear? I don't want my head anymore?!"

Chu Xiran recovered from He Lan Ruoming's roar, but it was a pity that He Lan Ruoming hugged him so tightly that he couldn't put on his clothes, so he could only stare at him dumbfounded.

"Your Majesty!" Seeing that all the eunuchs and guards were about to leave, Xiang A Duo was extremely unwilling.

"Concubine, don't you understand what I mean? Pull the concubine out of the Yonghe Palace!" He Lanruo gave an order, and the guards who had been guarding the door stepped forward, and walked out towards A Duo one by one.

"Don't touch me!" Xiang A Duo was very angry, she threw off the guards on both sides, and left the Yonghe Palace with the help of the maid Xiao He.

The concubine Zhuang who was let go was still in shock, and her body hadn't stabilized yet, and she was pulled out by Xiao Shunzi who rushed through the door.

So, in the East Nuan Pavilion, only the half-naked Chu Xiran and the trembling He Lan Ruoming were left.

"What's wrong with you?" Seeing that He Lan Ruoming was sweating coldly on his forehead, but his body was extremely hot to the touch, Chu Xiran's heart that had just let go was raised again.

"Hee Ran..."

The hoarse voice brushed against Chu Xiran's ears, and the long-lost kiss instantly made his eyes blush. Regardless of his embarrassment, he hugged He Lan Ruoming with his backhand, and pressed his face against his cheek, " you……"

Before he could say anything, the person in front of him suddenly leaned back and passed out.

"Ruoming!" Chu Xiran grabbed his arm in time and lifted him up, carrying him back, "Xiao Shunzi, Xiao Shunzi!"

"Here we come!" Xiao Shunzi and Concubine Zhuang who were outside the house pushed the door open at the same time and entered.

"Quick, pass on to the imperial physician!"

"Yes!" Xiao Shunzi got the order and hurriedly ordered someone to go to the imperial pharmacy to call someone.

Chu Xiran hugged the unconscious He Lan Ruoming, but because he was also injured, he couldn't exert his strength at all, so he called Concubine Zhuang and said, "Come and help!"

After waiting for a while and seeing Concubine Zhuang stepping forward, Chu Xiran had no choice but to turn her head and shout out again: "What's wrong with you?"

"Empress, you should put on your clothes anyway!" Concubine Zhuang stood aside with a blushing face, twisting the corners of her clothes.

It was only then that Chu Xiran realized that she was still dressed in the same disheveled way as before, so she could only free one hand to pull it casually, and gathered up her pants a little, without even fastening her belt, she called Concubine Zhuang over.

The two helped He Lan Ruoming to the bed together, Chu Xiran sat on the side with no strength, and suddenly heard Concubine Zhuang shout: "Queen, your clothes are bleeding!"

Chu Xiran lifted one side of his clothes, and saw that the wound from his chest to his lower abdomen had burst open again, and the blood from the wound stuck to his underwear, revealing layers of blood.

"The wound is open!"

"It's okay!" Seeing Concubine Zhuang worried, Chu Xiran comforted her with a smile: "When I fought in the war, I was injured much worse than this! It's not a girl with delicate skin and tender flesh, so it's okay!"

"Aren't you in pain?"

"If a little blood can bring back his clarity, it's worth it!" Chu Xiran stunned himself with a casual remark, and seeing Concubine Zhuang's equally puzzled expression, the two looked at He Lan Ruoming on the bed at the same time .

"Is it really related to my blood?" Chu Xiran said to himself.

"We don't understand Miao Jiang's witchcraft, so it's useless to guess. Now we can only find out our brother as soon as possible."

Concubine Zhuang's words reminded Chu Xiran, he nodded and said, "You immediately write a family letter to the Taifu, so that I can send someone to fetch your brother's portrait as soon as possible."

"Yes!"

Not long after, Xiao Shunzi led the imperial doctor to Yonghe Palace, and Concubine Zhuang also returned to Jingren Palace.

The imperial doctor first only said that the emperor's pulse condition was chaotic, but his current condition was no different from falling asleep, maybe it was caused by physical fatigue, and after waking up, he could recover with a little adjustment.

Chu Xiran never thought that the imperial doctor could cure He Lan Ruoming, so he ordered him to prescribe some prescriptions to strengthen the foundation and cultivate the vitality, and asked him to apply medicine to bandage the wound, and then let him retreat.

Xiao Shunzi followed him out of the East Nuan Pavilion and closed the door, just as he came out, he saw Xiao Linzi running in with sweat on his face.

"I heard that the emperor is in the Yonghe Palace?" Xiao Linzi asked Xiao Shunzi when he saw Xiao Shunzi.

"Where have you been? I haven't seen you just now!" Xiao Shunzi felt strange that he hadn't seen Xiao Linzi before.

"Concubine Xiang ordered me to leave the palace to do some business. I came back late, but fortunately I had a token to get in. But before I arrived at the Hall of Mental Cultivation, I heard that the concubine was losing her temper. Only after I inquired did I know that the emperor is here. , and ran quickly.”

"The Emperor is resting here tonight, you and I will stay outside." Xiao Shunzi chuckled, and told Xiao Linzi what happened just now in a soft voice.

"There is such a thing?" Xiao Linzi rolled his eyes and said with a smile, "No wonder Xiang Guifei wants to lose his temper!"

"Just watch over the masters tonight, I don't know what will happen tomorrow!"

"Yeah, we haven't guarded them together for a long time." Xiao Linzi also let out a long sigh, and looked back at the East Nuan Pavilion where the candles were still lit, and his long-standing anxiety was finally relieved.

When he was ugly, He Lan Ruoming woke up in a daze, turned his head and saw Chu Xiran who was half leaning beside him, and couldn't help stretching out his arms to wrap his arms around his waist.

Chu Xiran, who was in a light sleep, immediately opened his eyes, and looked down at the person who circled him childishly. He smiled and asked him, "Are you awake?"

"Yeah." He Lan Ruoming nodded and said, "Lie down too."

"Okay." Chu Xiran obediently took off her coat and lay down next to He Lan Ruoming.

"It's been a long time since we slept together like this." He Lan Ruoming turned sideways, and put one arm under Chu Xiran's head and neck as before, and wrapped the other arm around his waist, making the two of them stick tightly together.

"Are you the Helan Ruoming I know now?"

"I'm sorry." He Lan Ruoming lowered his eyes and said guiltily, "I hurt you again."

"It's just a flesh wound." Chu Xiran said lightly.

"I'm not talking about this." He Lan Ruoming said in a low voice, "I'm talking about Xiang A Duo's pregnancy, I'm sorry."

There was a flash of pain in Chu Xiran's eyes, and he said in relief: "Let's not talk about that, since you are sober now, let's talk about Xiang A Duo. Xiao Lin said that you disappeared after being assassinated, but why did you appear? In Miao Village? How could you marry Xiang A Duo? Also, your temperament has become very strange recently, do you know that?"

"During this time, my memory has become very fragmented. The only thing I remember is that I was seriously injured after being assassinated, and I woke up in Miao Village. It got to the point where I couldn't help myself, as long as I couldn't see her, I felt bad.

"And my memory of you is becoming more and more blurred. It's like being covered with several layers of paper. I can't see or remember anything clearly. Until today, when I almost attacked you, a lot of things suddenly flashed in my mind. This is when I wake up from the past.”

"Did your heart hurt at that time?" Chu Xiran asked.

"Yes, every time I think about something related to you, my heart hurts and my head swells unbearably."

"Does it still hurt now?"

"It's all right now, isn't it alright?"

"You must have been hit by a Gu, and it is absolutely impossible to recover easily. I am worried that you will return to your previous appearance after a few hours."

"Then why are you okay now?"

"It would be great if I could know." Chu Xiran sighed, and wanted to tell the story of Concubine Zhuang's brother, but seeing that He Lan Ruoming's situation was not stable, she swallowed the words again, "Don't worry, I'll be with you."

He Lan Ruoming buried his face in Chu Xiran's neck. After a while, Chu Xiran felt a few drops of warm moisture. He hugged him back, and his voice was a little hoarse, "What's wrong with you?"

"I have been waiting for the past four years. Every year I said to myself, it's okay, you will come back next year. But on the other hand, I told myself that all the waiting is just wishful thinking, since you left I should have known from that day on that you would never look back, I never thought I could hold you like this."

"I never thought I would come back, but when Xiao Linzi told me that something happened to you, I couldn't convince myself not to come back."

"I seem to be missing a word from you."

"Huh?" Chu Xiran lowered her head, and was slamming into He Lan Ruoming's black eyes filled with tears. The two of them looked at each other quietly, and more than ten years passed before their eyes, whether they loved it or hated it , all the emotions condensed on the picture of the final separation, and all the grievances gradually faded away during the four-year interval, leaving only the longing for each other.

"I'm glad you returned to the palace, my queen!" He Lan Ruoming's hand stroked the mature man's face in front of him, four years of longing turned into the warmth of his hand, and he was reluctant to leave, "Xi Ran, I miss you very much."

"I know." Chu Xiran nodded proudly, but tears welled up in her eyes, "I knew it, this should be the first sentence you said when you saw me!"

Chu Xiran's tears rolled down the corners of his eyes and fell on He Lan Ruoming's arms. The scalding heat made his heart ache, so he finally lifted up and kissed the person he was thinking of.

During the entanglement of tongues, everything around them is still, and the lust is churning in the body. Both of them just want to use the temperature of the body to confirm what was lost and what is gained now.

The clothes of the two fell to the ground in a mess, and the panting breath sounded vaguely in the dark and ambiguous room. Chu Xiran clung tightly to He Lan Ruoming's body, and the place he hadn't endured for a long time felt like being cut by a sharp knife. However, he still catered to the person on him unrestrainedly, allowing uncontrollable tears to fall into the quilt and disappear.

When Chu Xiran opened her eyes again, the sky outside was slightly bright.

He couldn't help shivering, only to realize that the quilt on his body was not covered properly, most of his body was exposed outside, and the people around him had long since disappeared. He touched the temperature of the quilt beside him, and it was cold.

Holding his sore waist, he sat up, wrapped himself tightly with the quilt, and then called out the door: "Xiao Shunzi."

Xiao Shunzi pushed the door open and came in, holding a basin of hot water in his hand.

"Xiao Shunzi, when did he leave?"

"He suddenly said he was going to leave before dawn, which made the slave and Xiao Linzi baffled." Xiao Shunzi wrung out the handkerchief in his hand and handed it to Chu Xiran.

Chu Xiran didn't answer, but just frowned, "I want to wash my body, you ask them to boil more hot water in."

Xiao Shunzi shook his head and said, "Master, you still have injuries on your body. You can't touch the water these few days. Let the servant wipe your body."

"No wonder I always feel a little pain." Thinking of He Lan Ruoming trying to keep some distance from him several times last night, he realized that he was afraid of touching his wound. and asked Xiao Shunzi, "When he left yesterday, was there anything strange?"

"This..." Xiao Shunzi stammered.

"Say it!" Seeing Xiao Shunzi's expression, Chu Xiran knew it would not be a good thing.

"The emperor rushed out before dawn and took Xiao Linzi away, still cursing."

"Oh? What did he scold?"

Xiao Shunzi lowered her head and stared at her toes, looking a little embarrassed: "The emperor said, he said...he said 'really disgusting', and then he yelled to go back to the Hall of Mental Cultivation."

"Xiao Shunzi, what is your expression? Do you think I will be sad?" Chu Xiran smiled nonchalantly, "It's more sad than this. I have endured it in turn a few years ago. What is that? "

He was clear in his heart, but he didn't feel anything at all, and continued to comfort Xiao Shunzi, saying, "If this is what he really said, I'll pack up my things and leave immediately. ; But you and I both know that what he says and does now is not his intention at all, so how can you be more serious with him?"

Speaking of this, Chu Xiran sneezed suddenly, and Xiao Shunzi hurried forward and said, "Master, be careful of getting sick. This servant will help you wipe and dress first, and I will ask about the rest later."

This morning, Chu Xiran naturally didn't make it. He waited until the afternoon when his body was not so sore, and he took people to the imperial study.

The screen turned back and forth, there was a strange fluctuation in the silence of the room, Chu Xiran raised his eyes with a little feeling, and saw He Lan Ruoming hastily lowered his head.

After a while, He Lan Ruoming propped his chin on his left elbow in a state of distress, squinting at Chu Xiran secretly, full of doubts, why did he sleep in the Yonghe Palace last night?And when he woke up, his arm was still on the queen's waist, and the queen was nestled in his arms?After thinking about it, his eyes fell on Chu Xiran's loose collar again.

The summer weather made the room a bit stuffy, Chu Xiran was focused on the memorial, and didn't notice that she pulled the neckline loosely with a few tugs, revealing a few purple hickeys on the collarbone.

He Lan Ruoming was fascinated by it out of nowhere, the male queen under her nose was not outstanding in terms of appearance and appearance, she was quite old, and she didn't see the slightest frivolity of a masculine seductress under her awe-inspiring uprightness. No matter how you looked at it, she was refreshing Man, how could I make him queen?But his eyes were glued together and refused to leave, moving along his collarbone to his sweaty neck, then his chin, nose tip and slightly frowning brows.

"Your Majesty, have you seen enough?" Chu Xiran finally raised his head, stretched his waist, and then imitated He Lan Ruoming's posture and sat on the chair with his head propped up. "The memorial in your hand is upside down. .”

He Lan Ruoming took a closer look at the memorial book held in his right hand, it was indeed upside down, he quickly threw it aside, and took out the notebook casually.

"Is my face blooming or fruiting? Can the emperor look at me for a long time?" Chu Xiran asked him jokingly.

He Lan Ruoming turned his face away awkwardly, pretending to ask unintentionally, "Why was I in Yonghe Palace last night?"

"The emperor forgot?" Chu Xiran was somewhat disappointed.

"I don't remember exactly."

He Lan Ruoming hadn't finished speaking, but Xiao Linzi said outside: "Your Majesty, please see the imperial concubine."

"Aifei? Xuan!"

"Wait a minute, has the emperor forgotten the rule that concubines are not allowed to enter the imperial study room?" Chu Xiran said sharply.

"Queen, this concubine asked to see the emperor because of the case of the prince being poisoned. The concubine has found the murderer, I beg the emperor to make a decision!"

Before the noble concubine Xiang arrived, the voice broke into the door first, and then the double doors were pushed open from the outside. She was wearing a purple imperial concubine dress, covered with a layer of gold silk gauze robe, and her long purple skirt dragged the floor , with a double-knife bun on her head, and a golden step rocker inserted obliquely on the side, her gorgeous body set off a delicate and beautiful face, and she looked even more imposing than the queen Chu Xiran.

"The concubine pays respects to the emperor and queen."

He bowed slightly to A Duo, and was immediately helped up by He Lan Ruoming.

"Concubine Xiang found the murderer who poisoned the prince?" Chu Xiran looked at Xiang A Duo with some surprise, wondering what kind of medicine she was selling in her gourd.

"Yes." Turning his eyes to A Duo, he said to Xiao He beside him, "Bring him up."

After a while, the embarrassing noble concubine Mu Yun was escorted into the imperial study by several eunuchs.

Chu Xiran looked at Mu Yun suspiciously, and saw that she was lying on the ground with disheveled hair and bruises all over her body. Her original vigor was gone, and only a low whimper was left.

"What's going on?" Chu Xiran was furious.

"Your Majesty, this is Concubine Mu's confession, please read it." Xiang A Duo took a confession from Xiao He and handed it to He Lan Ruoming, "Your concubine, for poisoning and murdering the crown prince, and attempting to marry I have confessed that the misfortune was caused by my concubine."

"The harem has never abused lynching. Even if the concubine is guilty, the concubine should report it to the palace, and I will make a decision!" Chu Xiran walked up to Xiang A Duo, and sternly shouted: "Concubine Xiang, there is still something in your eyes Is it my palace?"

"This matter is related to the safety of the prince. The concubine is impatient. I hope the queen will forgive me. Besides, the emperor has mentioned the case of the prince's poisoning to the concubine. The concubine just wants to help the emperor and queen to share their worries." Concubine Xiang did not show any weakness, Instead, he said aggressively to He Lan Ruoming: "Your Majesty, the fact that Concubine Mu murdered the crown prince is extremely vicious, please give her the death penalty."

When Mu Yun heard the word "capital crime", he cried to death, and kept shouting in a hoarse voice: "The concubine is wronged! I beg the emperor to investigate clearly!"

Chu Xiran was also surprised, and gave A Duo a meaningful look.

Not to mention that the person he and Concubine Zhuang suspected was Huo Feier and not Mu Yun, even if she really murdered the crown prince, she could not order her to be executed arbitrarily.After all, behind Mu Yun is the entire Mu family. Although her grandfather Mu Shuo, the great general of Fengguo, is old, he still has prestige in the army, and his disciples are all over the place. He Lan Ruoming would make Mu Yun his concubine. For this reason.

If Mu Yun died in the palace two years after entering the palace, how could the old General Mu who loved her not complain?How can the intricate relationship here be so simple?

Thinking of this, he suddenly sympathized with Mu Yun.The self who was the only heir of the Chu family but had to enter the palace back then was somewhat similar to Mu Yun's situation in the palace now, the only difference is that the old general Mu has no real power, so what the emperor wants is to win over him; And his father held the military power enough to rebel, so the emperor couldn't keep him.

As soon as his thoughts drifted away, Chu Xiran's bitterness that had been buried in his heart for many years rushed to his heart again, and he looked at He Lan Ruoming with a bit of resentment in his eyes.

He Lan Ruoming on the side looked at Chu Xiran's sudden sad expression, felt inexplicably panicked, waved his hand in agitation and ordered: "Give Concubine Mu Gui the death penalty."

"Wait a minute!" Chu Xiran stood up, half-kneeling in front of He Lan Ruoming, and said, "Your concubine poisoned the crown prince, she should indeed be punished with death, but fortunately, the crown prince is fine. The concubine has the courage to ask the emperor to see the old general Mu's military exploits." For the sake of honour, spare Mu Yun’s life. Otherwise, how could the emperor have the heart to send old general Mu a white-haired man to a black-haired man? How will the officials treat the emperor?”

"The empress is too merciful. If you can survive the murder of the prince, then wouldn't the harem be in chaos?" Xiang A Duo sternly said.

"Noble concubine, don't forget that you will be a mother, so you should accumulate virtue for the child in your womb. Besides, the emperor and this palace will decide on this matter, and it's not up to you to intervene!" Chu Xiran looked at her. With a hesitant face, He Lan Ruoming repeated: "Your Majesty, don't you want to accumulate some blessings for your unborn child with the imperial concubine?"

He Lan Ruoming looked from one side to the other, and was about to speak, but was overshadowed by Chu Xiran's voice.

"It is passed down to the imperial edict that Mu Guipin murdered the prince and should have been executed. In memory of his grandfather Mu Shuo who fought for Tiancheng for many years as a soldier, he pardoned Mu Yun for his death crime, relegated him to a dressing table, and imprisoned him in the cold palace."

"Thank the emperor and the queen for not killing me." Mu Yun lowered his body, lay on the ground crying and thanking him, and then was dragged out of the imperial study room with his arms crossed.

At this moment, Xiang A Duo was already blue with anger, and left with a cold snort, and He Lan Ruoming chased after her anxiously, leaving a table of unapproved memorials, which made Chu Xiran shake his head again and again.