minister wants to kill the king

The emperor was frightened during the spring hunt. Although he didn't show it at the time, he contracted a serious illness after returning. Yu, unexpectedly sick.

The courtiers all felt that the emperor's time might be numbered.

The emperor was seriously ill, and the crown prince supervised the country.

The factional struggle unexpectedly became harmonious, the second prince's party disappeared, and some neutral courtiers also defected to the prince at this moment.Although the emperor wanted to abolish the crown prince before, but now that the old dragon is in decline and the crown prince oversees the country, it is not so easy to abolish the crown prince.

Everything looks settled.

The 25 years of Chengqian is destined to be an eventful year.

At Lixia, the whole palace is filled with the fragrance of flowers.

Concubine Hui, who was five months pregnant, suddenly fell down the stairs, and the baby in her womb died before it was born. Concubine Hui was unconscious and dying. At that time, concubine Xiang was standing behind her.

Some palace people saw with their own eyes that it was the concubine Xiang who pushed Concubine Hui down.

Concubine Hui's grandfather Ruan Xueshi was an octogenarian, and he staggered into the palace, knelt in front of the imperial court and wept blood to ask for an explanation for Concubine Hui.

Concubine Xiang couldn't argue with her words, and everyone pointed out that she was the one who killed Concubine Hui.

There was a strong smell of medicine in the bedroom, and the palace servants only dared to open small windows to prevent the cold wind from blowing in.The emperor could barely sit up until now, and a heavy figure was reflected across the curtain from the crowd.

Xueshi Ruan pointed at Concubine Xiang and yelled at her, a generation of literary giants, but at this moment he used all the vicious words he knew to curse the woman in front of him to a terrible death.

Concubine Xiang said in panic, "I don't."

The emperor behind the curtain was silent for a long time, and finally said: "Enough."

His voice was weak and hoarse, and he had to use his strength to say these two words, and coughed for a long time after he finished speaking.

Everyone shut up, Concubine Xiang glanced worriedly behind the curtain.

"Concubine Hui hasn't woken up yet, and everything is still uncertain. As for whether the concubine Xiang did it, it's just a servant's words, which is too unreliable." The emperor said weakly.

"Could it be the minister's granddaughter who jumped down by herself!" Xueshi Ruan snapped.

"Concubine Xiang, tell me about the situation at that time again," said the emperor.

Concubine Xiang was about to speak, but Xueshi Ruan interrupted angrily: "Needless to say! Wasn't it because you were standing behind Concubine Hui that Concubine Hui fell by herself?" He sneered and said mockingly, "Anyway, Concubine Hui Whether you are unconscious or not, what happened at that time is all up to you to arrange."

"Yesterday, Concubine Hui invited my concubine to see flowers in Biyun Pavilion. Concubine Hui was invited to go. At that time, Concubine Hui pointed out to my concubine that the begonias in the courtyard were blooming well. Perhaps she didn't notice that her foot was unsteady and she fell down. It's strange that the minister and concubine didn't hold back," Concubine Xiang said with a frown.

It wasn't that she didn't hold back, the moment Concubine Hui fell to the ground, she quickly grabbed Concubine Hui, but only saw the astonishment in Concubine Hui's eyes.

Then, Concubine Hui stretched out her other hand and pushed her hard, so she watched Concubine Hui roll down the stairs with a big puddle of blood splashed under her body.

Ruan Xueshi sneered.

"Concubine Xiang means that Concubine Hui fell by herself, and she blamed you?" Xueshi Ruan stared at Concubine Xiang with cold, cloudy eyes. If eyes could kill, then he wished he could do so right now. Cut the concubine Xiang into pieces.

"The woman was pregnant in May, and she fell from a height. If she was not careful, she killed two people. Will Concubine Hui take her own life to frame you?!" Xueshi Ruan raised his hand and pointed behind the curtain, "Your Majesty, are you still here?" Do you want to protect this woman? This woman has a heart like a snake and a scorpion, maybe the two previous heirs of the emperor died young because of this woman who was playing tricks in the dark!"

As soon as these words came out, the people in the entire dormitory seemed to stop breathing.

"My family affairs don't bother the scholar to worry about." The emperor interrupted, and the scholar Ruan was about to speak, the emperor said again in a deep voice: "The Xiang concubine has no style of concubine, and has repeatedly lost her virtue. From today onwards, she will be reduced to Baolin, and she will be confined to the Emerald Palace. .”

Everyone's eyes widened in astonishment.

Ruan Xueshi still didn't think it was enough, "This kind of wicked woman murdered the emperor's heir, and His Majesty is just perfunctory? Who doesn't know that the Xiang concubine is extravagant and extravagant, and the Yicui Palace is as gorgeous as the queen's residence."

"Xiang Baolin will move to Jingyang Palace from now on, and no one is allowed to take care of him, and he is not allowed to take a step outside Jingyang Palace." The emperor interrupted coldly, "Is this enough?"

Jingyang Palace has been a cold palace since the Daqi Dynasty. Only empresses and concubines who have committed serious crimes will be sent there. The people inside are either crazy or stupid. Generally speaking, once they enter, they can never come out again.

Ruan Xueshi was stunned, and the emperor said: "Since you are satisfied, go out."

Ruan Xueshi knew that this was already the emperor's biggest concession, so he bowed and saluted, "I thank Your Majesty on behalf of Concubine Hui, and I will leave."

"Xiang Baolin stays here, I have a few words to say."

After everyone went out, the palace guards carefully closed the palace door, and only the emperor and his concubine Xiang were left in the palace.

Only then did the emperor clenched his fists and coughed violently. It turned out that he had been enduring it just now.

Concubine Xiang hurried forward, opened the curtain, sat by the bed and patted the emperor's back to comfort him.

From the vernal equinox to the beginning of summer, in less than two months, the formerly lively emperor lost a lot of weight, as if he had aged ten years.

Concubine Xiang lowered her eyes and sighed, "You've lost weight again."

The emperor coughed twice, and said tiredly: "I can't protect you anymore."

"I know."

"I'm old, I can't protect you and Xiaobao anymore."

"I know."

The emperor tremblingly grabbed Concubine Xiang's hand and held it tightly in his palm.Concubine Xiang's hands were larger than ordinary women's, and they were not soft. Instead, the knuckles were protruding and covered with calluses. They didn't look like the hands of a beauty at all.

"You don't blame me?" the emperor asked tremblingly, "I can't help it. If I don't, they will kill you."

"Of course it's strange." Concubine Xiang looked at him inexplicably, "No one has taken away the food in my yard."

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The emperor paused and said, "You can grow it in Jingyang Palace."

"You have to prepare all the seeds for me. I feel that the soil in Jingyang Palace is not too rich."

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Once again, the emperor was successfully choked by Concubine Xiang's words. Concubine Xiang laughed out loud when she saw the Emperor's deflated look.

She leaned lightly on the emperor's shoulder, leaned against the emperor's head, lowered her eyes and said, "I have done nothing wrong."

"I believe you."

"Concubine Hui, I obviously held her back. I don't know why she wants to push me away." Biting her lip, Concubine Xiang said with difficulty, her voice still filled with disbelief, "Why did she frame me? We are clearly related. so good"

"Concubine Hui can't wake up." The emperor said categorically, Concubine Xiang raised her head in astonishment, without even thinking about it: "Maybe the imperial doctor can." Before she finished speaking, she finally understood the meaning of the emperor's words.

"If she wakes up, she will definitely insist that you did it. When the evidence is convincing, they will definitely force me to execute you."

Concubine Xiang blinked in a daze, completely stunned.

She trembled her lips, "I, I have never provoked them, why do they I know they don't like me and look down on me, but why do Ruan Qian hate me so much because of killing me? In exchange for life?"

As she spoke, her voice seemed to be crying, "Except for you in the palace, she treats me the best. Everyone hates me, but she is the only one who is willing to talk to me. So you know that when she pushed me away and fell downstairs, I in your mood?"

"I was stupid. I didn't think so much at the time. I blamed myself for not holding her. There was a lot of blood on the ground. I even felt that she was going to bleed all the blood out of her body. I thought she was going to die."

The emperor gently put his arms around her shoulders, raised his hand to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and said in a deep voice, "I told you before that you can't trust anyone in this palace."

Concubine Xiang shook her head, closed her eyes, the tears in the corners of her eyes slid down her delicate face, and disappeared in an instant.

"It's so tiring to be on guard all day long." She said softly, "I don't want to think of others as bad, I can only blame me, I don't know people well."

"I still don't understand why Concubine Hui harmed me? Maybe she has other reasons?" Concubine Xiang had a faint hope in her heart, and she suddenly remembered that Feng Su seemed to have said that Concubine Hui is the empress's man.

But the emperor couldn't bear it, the light in Concubine Xiang's eyes was too bright, he couldn't bear to tell her these dark and dirty things for a while. "It's the empress and the prince who want to harm you, they are afraid." The emperor sighed, "It was my carelessness that made her and the prince so rampant."

Concubine Xiang still doesn't understand, what is the relationship between the queen and her?

"I'm too sick, and I can't do what I want in the court. The crown prince's wings are stiff, and I can't take care of it anymore." The emperor closed his eyes and leaned against the bedside to pant, "I need to prevent him from attacking Xiaobao. The one who can rest assured is Xiaobao. Among the three sons, the eldest is reckless and conceited; the second is prudent and prudent when it comes to small things, but he is always confused and childish; Xiaobao is the most thoughtful."

On weekdays, he pretends to be well-behaved, but he has more twists and turns in his heart than anyone else. He thinks he is good at pretending, but he doesn't think about it. His father has lived for decades, so he can't see through his little thought?

"They want to harm Xiaobao?" Concubine Xiang was stunned for a moment, and finally understood, "No wonder, I just said, I have something to be missed by others."

She said softly: "You're right, Ruan Qian can't wake up." She was still regretting the sisterhood just now, but at this moment she suddenly became a heart of steel.

"I don't understand your twists and turns, and I don't want to understand. I don't care what others do to me. If you want my life, you have to be able to take it. But they want to harm Xiaobao, this is absolutely impossible."

She stared into the emperor's eyes and said softly: "I don't want to know what you are planning secretly, but if anyone wants to harm Xiaobao, I will kill him first, and you will be the same."