Mu Rao forced herself to calm down, she knew that crying was useless.
Her father died early, and the royal family of the concubine's mother took special care of her.
The Wang family is a general family, and most of the men in it practice martial arts, and most of them have joined the army.
Since she was a child, Mu Rao had frequent contacts with those cousins who practiced martial arts in the Wang family. She seldom embroidered with the ladies in the inner house. , I have done stupid things like poking a hornet's nest with them.
Wang scolded her for being naughty, she didn't look like a daughter, and stopped her behavior in time, not letting her associate with those naughty boys of the Wang family, so she was sad for a while.
Later, these cousins all joined the army and were conferred official positions by the court. Some became generals, and some served in the Ministry of War.
When they saw her, they would still call her Ah Rao just like when they were children.
It's just that after all, men and women have defenses, and they will no longer hang shoulders with her like they did when they were young.
Very few people know the real her.
Her heart is not as gentle and weak as her appearance.
-"say."
Seeing that Murao was silent, Tuoba Yu raised her chin again with a dagger, and ordered in a cold voice.
With tears on Mu Rao's face, her tone had regained her composure. She asked Tuoba Yu back: "It's the second time I've seen you, Your Majesty. Your Majesty should know that I have no grievances or enmities with you, and I have no intention of harming you." thought."
Tuoba Yu rolled his eyes, and asked again: "Mu Huai asked you to do this, right?"
Mu Rao didn't say a word, which was regarded as a kind of tacit consent.
Tuoba Yu smiled cruelly, and said again: "Even though Mu Huai asked you to do this today, you almost killed me. Even though Mu Huai was the one who did it, I will still take your life."
Mu Rao's envoy struggled to crawl towards Tuoba Yu, but Tuoba Yu noticed it in time and kicked the envoy hard again.
Seeing that the envoy was seriously injured, Mu Rao lay down on the ground and stretched out her hand to her master, and finally fell to the ground dying.
Her clear eyes also gradually turned cold.
Tuoba Yu had already removed the dagger from her jaw, and he was staring at her, as if he was planning how to kill her.
Mu Rao's voice trembled slightly: "You should know my identity, if you kill me, neither the prince nor the emperor will let you go."
Tuoba Yu sneered, and replied: "Oh, what Mu Huai did in the first place was very sinister. He killed me, and even killed me behind his back. Tell me, does Mu Huai dare to tell the emperor of Qi that he Want to secretly send someone to kill me? Does he, Mu Huai, dare to confront the Maharaja of the Falcon Kingdom and me, Ayeluolu Khan, right now?"
Cold sweat dripped from Mu Rao's forehead.
Mu Huai did not dare to kill Tuoba Yu in the Ming Dynasty, so he asked her to keep today's matter a secret.
Moreover, Mu Rao vaguely felt that the last thing Mu Huai wanted Rong Xi to know was that he was going to kill Tuoba Yu.
Mu Rao turned his eyes slightly, and could hear water dripping from the corner of Tuoba Yu's clothes, only to hear him say again: "As for the princess, you are unlucky. Who asked you to work for Mu Huai? Almost killed me. You should be acquainted with the Crown Princess of Qi, so I will give you a happy death without causing you too much torture."
Seeing that Tuoba Yu was about to cut her neck artery with a dagger, Mu Rao raised her voice slightly, and said to Tuoba Yu: "My son! Before Mu Rao dies, can I tell you one more thing? The remarks."
Tuoba Yu withdrew the dagger a little, and said in a cold voice: "Hurry up, I don't have much patience for you."
Mu Rao blinked, she winked at Tuoba Yu, and said: "My lord, look, after you climbed up from the lotus pond, you left footprints on the shore, and in this bamboo forest, It's also the traces of you and me chasing each other."
Tuoba Yu looked around, but everything around him was as Mu Rao said.
Mu Rao said again: "You killed the prince's two female attendants, they didn't return in time, the prince will send someone here to check the situation soon, and then they will find that you are not dead, and you have killed them." His attendant. According to the prince's personality, he might even beat him up, saying that you killed his attendant, and take this opportunity to trouble you again."
Tuoba Yu's eyes were slightly gloomy, and he moved the dagger a little away from Mu Rao.
Mu Rao took the opportunity and said again: "In short, since the crown prince has attacked you, he will never let you go easily. Someone will come to check the situation in a while, and you don't know the way in the palace, so you can't escape. "
Tuobayu's pupils turned slightly, and he put the dagger on Mu Rao's snow-white and slender neck, and said in a deep voice: "It doesn't matter, I can't hide anyway, it would be good to kill you and go to the underworld with me."
— "I can help the prince escape this disaster!"
Mu Rao almost shouted these words.
Tuoba Yu said disdainfully: "Help me? Don't lie to me, I want to kill you, you are still Mu Huai's sister, why do you help me?"
The last two words of this sentence are extremely accentuated.
Mu Rao shuddered at the shaking of the silver blade.
Up to now, limited to the predicament in front of her, she is becoming more and more dissatisfied with Mu Huai in her heart.
Mu Rao didn't want to just let Mu Huai dictate her life.
She knew that Mu Huai intended to marry her to Tuoba Jing, but he sent two beauties to Tuoba Jing's palace.
This move is really disgusting.
She didn't want to marry that lustful dude Tuoba Jing, let alone do such harmful things for him, and be threatened by Tuoba Yu to take her life.
Mu Rao calmed down his beating heart, and said again: "I didn't kill you for the prince, he will definitely trouble me. Besides, you should have heard that he wants to marry me to the Hu country The third prince, Tuoba Jing. But I don't want to marry him. You live with him, you should know that Mu Huai has already given him two beauties."
"So?" Tuoba Yu asked.
Mu Rao quickly grabbed his hand holding the dagger, and Tuoba Yu lowered his head to look at Mu Rao's slender and fair hand, only to see Mu Rao pulling the dagger a little towards her.
Her gentle voice was slightly eager: "My lord, we don't have much time left. I heard that you have some lightness skills. Can you climb over the palace wall opposite the lotus pond?"
Tuoba Yu turned around and looked at the red palace wall, he could climb over this height.
Mu Rao said again: "At this time, the guards of Yongxi Palace are not very strict. After you climb over the wall and go out, go straight north and go to Changning Gate to find the carriage of the Prince's Mansion."
She remembered again that Tuoba Yu didn't know the way, so she pointed to him with her hand which direction was north.
Tuoba Yu frowned and looked at Murao comparing gestures, only to see that she tore off Yingluo from her waist and handed it to him.
After Tuoba Yu took it, Mu Rao said again: "You pass this gem to the driver, and he will let you get in the car."
Tuoba Yu frowned, and he asked again in doubt: "What about you?"
Mu Rao didn't reply him, instead, she held Tuoba Yu's wrist, and slashed the dagger in his hand heavily on her arm.
When Tuoba Yu was slightly startled, blood was already oozing from Murao's Qingluo Juyi.
He was puzzled: "What are you doing?"
Mu Rao frowned, put her hand on the lower part of the wound, and replied in a low voice: "I want to pretend to be hurt by you in front of the prince, and then lie to him that you jumped over the wall and escaped outside the palace. Then, I will take you back to my mansion, just to wrong you first, and temporarily pretend to be my maid... The crown prince will not go to my mansion to look for you. Safe. What to do in the future, we will discuss it after you and I have settled down."
*****
The news of the disappearance of the prince of the Ukrainian Kingdom spread all over the palace very quickly.
Some palace people said that it was the heir of the Ukrainian Kingdom who wanted to belittle Shen and the princess.
Princess Shenhe and the female envoy insulted him a few words, and he became furious and hurt Princess Shenhe.
Fearing that his deeds would be exposed, the son of the Ugh kingdom used lightness kung fu to climb over the wall and escape from the siege of the palace.
But there are also rumors that it was the prince of the Hu Kingdom who fell in love with Princess Shen He at first sight. The two had a private meeting in the purple bamboo forest and were caught by the prince's attendants.
Fearing that his deeds would be exposed, the prince of the Ugh kingdom killed the two attendants, and feared that the crown prince would blame him, so he escaped.
There are different versions of the rumors in the palace, but it is an indisputable fact that the eldest son of the Ukrainian Kingdom has disappeared.
Mu Huai did not find Tuoba Yu in Bianjing City, so he expanded the scope to other prefectures and counties. The tea and horse trade between Qi and Hu was postponed for several days because of Tuoba Yu's disappearance.
Emperor Zhuang specially called Mu Rao into the palace, knowing that she was frightened, he specially gave her many valuables to comfort her.
Mu Huai ordered that no one in the entire palace be allowed to discuss the matter of the son of the Ukrainian kingdom in private.
Rong Xi was also not allowed to step out of the East Palace, he was afraid that after she learned about this, she would become pregnant.
Rong Xi has been kept in the dark, caring for the baby carefully, looking forward to the birth of the child with full of expectations.
In the evening of that day, she and Dan Xiang went for a walk in the Eastern Palace.
Because the moon was too old, she felt tired after walking for a while. Dan Xiang helped her to sit down at the stone table behind the lake stone rockery, ready to rest for a while.
As soon as Rong Xifu sat down, he heard two young eunuchs discussing something in a low voice behind him.
— "I heard that the center of the lotus pond was stained with blood. Neither of them survived. They died terribly."
Dead in the palace
Rong Xi's beautiful eyes were slightly surprised, why didn't she hear about this.
Dan Xiang secretly felt something was wrong, hurriedly found the two eunuchs based on his voice, and reprimanded them: "The Crown Princess is resting, you two should go back to the ear room quickly, don't hinder the Crown Princess' rest."
After the words fell, Dan Xiang lowered her voice a little more, and said, "Don't forget the prince's advice, don't you two want your head?"
The two little eunuchs immediately fell silent, and after bowing to Dan Xiang, just as they were about to return to their anteroom, Rong Xi called Dan Xiang to bring the two little eunuchs to her.
Dan Xiang had no choice but to wink at the two young eunuchs all the way, telling them not to talk too much.
Rong Xi has often been restless these days, always feeling that something happened to his brother.
Then he asked the two young eunuchs: "Who is dead, and what happened in the palace recently?"
The two little eunuchs looked at each other, Dan Xiang took a step forward, and said to Rong Xi: "Master, these two little eunuchs are talking about the past in this palace, no one has died in the palace recently."
Rong Xi's usual soft voice was a little cold, she said: "I'm asking them, so don't answer."
Dan Xiang immediately fell silent.
The two young eunuchs spoke the same words, and said to Rong Xi: "Back to the princess, no one died, but as Miss Danxiang said, the servant is talking about the past in the palace."
When Rong Xi saw that the little eunuch's eyes were dodging, he knew there must be a ghost in it.
She ordered Dan Xiang to help her up from the stone bench, and walked out of the East Palace with a little eagerness.
Just in time, Mu Huai was returning from the Political Affairs Hall.
As soon as he came back, he saw Rong Xi with cold sweat dripping from his forehead.
She has been delicate recently, and she wears thin clothes in summer, and the night wind in Bianjing is slightly cold.
Mu Huai was afraid that she would catch a cold, so he was about to lead her back to the bedroom.
But Rong Xi walked towards him quickly, and when she came in front of him, she asked with a trembling voice: "... Husband, Ah Hui... Is there something wrong with Ah Hui?"
Mu Huai's complexion did not change, and the servant who knew that there was still a broken mouth passed the news to her ears.
He didn't know that Rong Xi actually didn't know now.
Mu Huai thought that Rong Xi already knew about Tuoba Yu's disappearance, so he replied truthfully: "Gu is still looking for him, don't worry, Gu will find him whether he is dead or alive."
After Rong Xi heard this, her delicate face immediately turned pale.
She staggered back a few steps, Mu Huai was afraid that she would fall, so he immediately supported the woman's slender arms.
Rong Xi was in a complicated mood, and felt a sudden dull pain in her abdomen, her breathing gradually became weak, and she didn't even have the strength to speak.
Seeing that she was obviously different, Mu Huai's heart tightened, and he was about to ask.
Dan Xiang exclaimed at this moment, and said to Mu Huai: "...Prince Princess...Princess Concubine, she is popular."