National Beauty

Chapter 228

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When Chen Xiu was taken out of Prince Rui's mansion by the people of Dali Temple, Princess Rui didn't know what was going on. After learning that her husband was poisoned by Chen Xiu, Princess Rui was so angry that she was about to go crazy, and immediately entered the palace and asked Emperor Xuande to let him go. She went to Dali Temple to meet Chen Xiu.

His son died because of a dispute between his wife and concubine. Emperor Xuande hated Chen Xiu and did not like Princess Rui, but as an emperor, he wanted to maintain the majesty of the emperor, so he couldn't scold Chen Xiu like a village husband. It was estimated that he would even have the heart to eat Chen Xiu, so Emperor Xuande agreed and was willing to let Princess Rui scold Chen Xiu on his behalf, and directly gave him poisonous wine and asked Princess Rui to take it with him.

In the cell of Dali Temple, Chen Xiu sat on the ground with her hair loose, her palms resting on her knees, ten fingers were only tortured not long ago, her flesh was blurred, and she couldn't move at all in pain. She didn't move her hands, she didn't move, her face was covered by her long loose hair, and from a distance, she looked like a white-clothed female ghost sitting in the wasteland.

There were footsteps outside, and Chen Xiu's eyes rolled imperceptibly, but the people in the cell were guarded yamen, nothing unusual. The footsteps got closer and closer, and finally stopped outside her cell. Chen Xiu looked over and saw Princess Rui in a white linen dress.

To scold her

Chen Xiu smiled suddenly and slowly raised his head.

When Prince Rui died, Princess Rui had the pain of losing her husband, and the hopeless regret of losing her backer and ruining the queen's dream. These pains eased a little when she saw Chen Xiu's blood stained body, but the next moment, Princess Rui turned to Chen Xiu's face. smile.

"Bitch! You bastard!" Grabbing the railing of the cell with both hands, Princess Rui screamed and cursed, her eyes were red, and she wanted to rush in and kill her.

Chen Xiu gave her a sympathetic look and lowered her eyes again.

Princess Rui was stunned for a moment, then she clenched her hands tightly, Chen Xiu was going to die, what qualifications did she have to look at her like that

Princess Rui wanted to say something, but she didn't want the servants to hear it, so she first signaled everyone to go out, and she stood alone outside the cell. When they were far away, Princess Rui stared at Chen Xiu and said sarcastically: "I know you want to harm Li brother, and now the prince has died for Li brother, are you happy? No one spoils you anymore, are you happy? "

Chen Xiu sneered: "I'm not happy, you're not much better than me, the Crown Princess and the Queen belong to others."

Princess Rui gritted her teeth and snorted coldly: "So what? If I can't be a queen, I'm still Princess Rui, and I can still enjoy the glory and wealth. Without you in front of me, I'm raising my children by myself, and I have time to keep flowers and animals. , if you have time to give you a few incense sticks, it is better than your tragic death in prison."

She may have lost to Song Jianing, but she defeated Chen Xiu, and she is still the final winner of Prince Rui's mansion.

Before she could finish her sentence, Chen Xiu suddenly raised her head and laughed, her body shaking and pulling her fingers couldn't stop her laughing. Princess Rui wants to take care of her old age? dream!

The laughter stopped abruptly, and Chen Xiu looked at Princess Rui steadily. She poisoned the lord, she admitted it, and the Dali Temple tried her, and only this matter was tried. She explained it, and those people didn't ask her. The King of Chu was involved in the arson case.

But Chen Xiu remembered very clearly that after the king of Chu was deposed, the king secretly dealt with the two subordinates who were sent to the king's palace for sacrifice. It stands to reason that apart from her and the dead Guo Xiao, no one in the world knew the inside story. Now that Prince Rui is dead, and she didn't confess that, how did the people in Dali Temple know

Chen Xiu thought of King Shou, the man who rode on a horse and was so indifferent that he didn't even give her a straight eye.

The only one who really wants the prince to die is the king of Shou, why does the king of Shou deal with the prince? Because King Shou wanted to be emperor and wanted to avenge his brother. Therefore, the Liangzi of King Shou and King Rui have long been forged. Now that Emperor Xuande is still alive, King Shou is afraid that he cannot move Princess Rui's mother and son. When King Shou ascends the throne in the future, will he not cut the grass and eradicate the roots? Even if he didn't kill brother Li, he wouldn't give him the glory and wealth that a royal descendant should have.

Without Brother Li, how could Princess Rui enjoy her whole life

For a princess who has had a good time, and a prospective crown princess who is one step away from being a queen, there is nothing more difficult than being down and down. Death is terrifying, but it's just a matter of blinking her eyes, but Princess Rui has to live to bear King Shou's revenge, seeing her precious son being suppressed by King Shou, and experiencing the taste of her status plummeting, Princess Rui is destined to be worse than death. .

"I'm going to accompany the lord, you can live with your son!" He raised his head, Chen Xiu laughed again, Princess Rui was provoked and asked what Chen Xiu meant, but Chen Xiu didn't answer, just went crazy laugh. Concubine Rui was so angry that she patted the railing and called to the yamen, ordering them to pour poisonous wine into Chen Xiu.

Some prisoners on death row were unwilling to die and would struggle desperately. Chen Xiu was very calm, and honestly let the yamen fall into her mouth with her head raised. After drinking, Chen Xiu continued to stare at Princess Rui, her sympathetic and ironic smile quickly became twisted and hideous, her eyes widened, but she still refused to take back her gaze, as if she had become a ghost and wanted to settle accounts with Princess Rui.

Princess Rui felt chills all over her body. She thought she would be very happy to see Chen Xiu die, but Chen Xiu's eyes before her death were entangled like a poisonous snake.

On the third day after Chen Xiu's death, Princess Rui fell ill, but at this time, except for Wu Guifei, who lost her son, no one cared about the orphans and widowed mothers in Prince Rui's mansion. body.

Above the hall, Emperor Xuande personally exposed the cause of Prince Rui's death, and rebuked Zhao Pu for teaching his daughters to be helpless. Zhao Pu was almost seventy years old, his hair was all white, and tremblingly knelt on the ground, begging the emperor to punish him. He was the founding hero and made great contributions to Da Zhou. Now half of his foot is about to go into the coffin. Emperor Xuande didn't want to punish him, so he just used the crime of Chen Xiu to dismiss Zhao Pu as prime minister again, and ordered him to return to his homeland. Township.

Zhao Pu knelt down and thanked the emperor, tears streaming down his face.

His retreat also completely cleared the relationship between the death of King Shou and King Rui.

But Emperor Xuande did not announce to the world the truth that Prince Rui framed the former King of Chu, because the cannibalism between the princes would ultimately damage the royal dignity. Emperor Xuande didn't care about a son's reputation, but he cared about his own, and he didn't want to make a scandal out of his family. The people laughed at him for not teaching his son well.

Zhao Heng understood his father's decision. He was not in a hurry. Prince Rui's people were all dead. He had the patience to continue to wait until the day when he could call the shots.

Prince Rui died of a poisonous attack on the 16th day of the first lunar month. At the beginning of March, the peach blossoms were in full bloom. Prince Rui was buried in a storm. There were too many people, so no one noticed that on the way back to Beijing, a figure unknowingly entered the team.

That night, in the Princess Mansion of Princess Duanhui, someone walked over the wall in the middle of the night.

The four imperial brothers, Princess Duanhui and Prince Rui are the closest, but they have been dead for almost two months, Princess Duanhui's sadness has faded away, and she will rest peacefully at night, even if she tossed and turned before going to bed, It was also because she missed her cousin who died young. She slept soundly, her mouth suddenly became cold and heavy, and Princess Duanhui woke up suddenly.

"Don't be afraid, cousin, it's me."

It was pitch black, and someone covered her mouth and whispered in her ear.

Princess Duanhui will never forget that voice in her whole life, she is familiar to the bone, and she misses it so much.

is that true? Did she dream again, dreaming that her cousin came back

Princess Duanhui lay rigidly, not daring to move, for fear that if she moved, she would wake up from her dream.

But she missed Guo Xiao so much, and looking at the unreal shadow in the dark, Princess Duanhui murmured, "Cousin?"

"Well, it's me, I'm back." Guo Xiao slowly let go of Princess Duanhui's mouth and said hoarsely.

It's not that I pretended to be hoarse on purpose, but that my voice was really hoarse.

Holding Princess Duanhui's hand, Guo Xiao asked her to touch the scar on his left face. Suddenly encountering the man's warm face, Princess Duanhui was a little nervous, but when she felt the long scar that almost ran through Guo Xiao's left face, Princess Duanhui forgot her reality or dream, and cried out in distress: "How could this happen? …”

how come

Guo Xiao held Princess Duanhui's hand, and his thoughts gradually returned to last year.

The cliff was steep, and he pulled the soldier as his back. Although he was lucky enough not to be shattered, his face was cut by a branch, puncturing the layer of fake skin, injuring his true face and leaving this scar. It hurts and is ugly, but Guo Xiao doesn't care, he doesn't even care whether An An is willing to be with him after Zhao Heng's death, until now, Guo Xiao only wants Zhao Heng's life.

It was Zhao Heng who stole his An An, it was Zhao Heng who coaxed her to give up by virtue of his identity, and it was Zhao Heng who forced him to take this dangerous road.

He had already taken ninety-nine steps, the last one left.

Before leaving the capital with a suspended animation, Guo Xiao buried two chess pieces. One is Chen Xiu, the concubine of King Rui, and the other is his cousin Princess Duanhui.

After the suspended animation, Guo Xiao's first plan was that he succeeded in rebelling in Shu, and when the army approached the capital and killed Emperor Xuande and his son, he would directly proclaim himself emperor. If this plan succeeds, Chen Xiu and Princess Duanhui will be useless to him. However, Guo Xiao was not completely sure, and Chen Xiu and Princess Duanhui were his retreat.

Guo Xiao had planned, if the rebellion in Shu was suppressed, he would flee back to the capital and secretly assist Prince Rui to get rid of Zhao Heng and other princes. Following the succession of the throne as the consort, for this purpose, Princess Chen Xiu and Princess Duanhui are indispensable.

Falling off the cliff, Guo Xiao was seriously injured. He had to recuperate and avoid Zhao Heng's search. He hid and hid. He barely recovered until the first month of the month. As a result, he came to Beijing and was shocked to hear of Prince Rui's death. After Prince Rui's death, Guo Xiao's plan was completely disrupted, and now he can only take the last resort and persuade Princess Duanhui to help him poison King Shou.

Emperor Xuande's health was getting worse and worse, and the prince and princess often had to go to the palace to perform filial piety.

To convince Princess Duanhui to poison Zhao Heng, she must first give her a reason.

"Do you know why the Liao army was able to make a sneak attack when I transported food and grass?" Guo Xiao asked quietly, putting down Princess Duanhui's hand.

Princess Duanhui did not know.

Guo Xiao slowly clenched her wrists and said bitterly, "It was I who misjudged Lin's mother and daughter, they all wanted to get rid of me, so that Brother Mao could inherit the Duke's Mansion, and Jia Ning was blowing pillows beside King Shou. Feng, King Shou naturally listened to her, but they didn't expect that my life was tough enough to be captured by the Liao army, and although I was imprisoned, I survived."

As soon as she heard that Song Jianing instigated King Shou to kill her cousin, Princess Duanhui's voice rose instantly, "I knew..."

Guo Xiao covered her mouth in time.

His palm was warm, and people were alive, Princess Duanhui was stunned for a moment, then suddenly threw herself into Guo Xiao's arms and hugged tightly: "Cousin, you are suffering, you wait, and tomorrow I will go to the palace to report to my father. The emperor, let the father emperor decide for you."

Guo Xiao laughed at himself, rubbed her head and said, "King Chu is banned, and King Gong has his arm broken. Only his limbs are healthy and he has meritorious service. Once Prince Rui dies, the emperor can only choose King Shou as the heir. Cousin, for the stability of the country, Even if the emperor knew about me, he would never condemn his son for me."

The truth is correct, but Princess Duanhui couldn't swallow her breath: "Is that the case?"

Guo Xiao lowered her head, raised her chin with a big hand, and said in a bewitching voice, "Cousin really wants to avenge me?"