Although Xiao Mubai didn't say what happened next, Xia Chu also knew it in his heart. When the cold poison occurs, the body is like ice clinging to snow. The cold is so cold that it corrodes the bones. When exposed to water, it becomes even colder to the bones. It attacks the limbs and bones and makes them extremely painful. Not to mention that Xiao Mubai jumped into the lake to save him.
Thinking of this, Xia Chu felt love and pity in her heart, and her hands hugging him became a little tighter, wanting to rub him into her body.
Xiao Mubai coughed twice and patted Xia Chu on the back: "Ah Chu, you are about to strangle me to death."
Only then did Xia Chu let go of her hands, and Xiao Mubai tapped her eyebrows teasingly: "Back then I was almost dragged into the bottom of the lake and drowned by you, and just now I was almost strangled to death by you. You have to remember to come find me in the next life. "
Xia Chu recalled the scene when he was deep in the lake and suddenly grabbed a life-saving straw and pulled down desperately. His face was embarrassed, and then he changed the topic and asked: "Isn't Pang Weiguang your mother-in-law's wedding guard? Why would I kill you?"
"I was in coma for too long. When I woke up, the matter was tried by the emperor himself and had been closed. Later, I heard my mother and concubine mention it, and I roughly knew the reason, saying that he was colluding with Concubine Wan." Xiao Mubai What I know is not very detailed.
After all, it is a royal scandal, and every time it is mentioned, the mother-in-law will think of his blood-stained white robe that day, and she will burst into tears. The emperor will be angry every time. It is indeed a shame for him. .
Therefore, Xiao Mubai stopped wearing white clothes and never mentioned this matter again.
"Concubine Wan?" Xia Chu searched all his memories and couldn't remember that there was any Concubine Wan in the palace.
"You don't know, and it's not surprising. The emperor found Concubine Wan's silk handkerchief in Pang Weiguang's mansion, and convicted them of colluding with each other to murder the prince. Pang Weiguang got his mother's plea and spared his life, and Concubine Wan was put on death row. But she was given a white silk ribbon at that time. You were only eight years old and still on the mountain when she died, so naturally you didn't know about it." When Xiao Mubai saw him asking, he explained.
Xia Chu nodded and sighed: "I didn't expect that Pang Weiguang followed your mother and concubine all the way from Lianglai to Xiaoguo, but he didn't even think about the slightest bit of love, and he was willing to inflict such cruel poison on you."
Xiao Mubai had a complicated look on his face: "Although there were many witnesses and physical evidence at the time, now that I think about it, it probably wasn't him."
Xia Chu'ah? ’ After a sound, he was stunned and then asked: “Isn’t it going to be tried by the emperor himself, and the evidence of the crime is conclusive?”
Xiao Mubai nodded: "That's true, but the mother-in-law said that he refused to confess until he died. It was because the evidence of the crime was solid, so she thought that if he confessed, he would die, so he gritted his teeth and never spoke. But if it is according to what you said, If this poison was poisoned by me as an infant, it couldn't have been Pang Weiguang. When I was thirteen years old, Concubine Wan had only been in the palace for seven or eight years, so how could she have colluded with Pang Weiguang to poison me at that time?"
Xia Chu had never even heard of the title Concubine Wan, so she certainly didn't know how many years she had been in the palace. Now after hearing Xiao Mubai's words, the two of them looked at each other and had the same idea in their hearts, to go to the death row of the Ministry of Punishment and ask questions. Pang Weiguang.
Seeing that he coincided with her, Xiao Mubai immediately stood up and prepared to go to the prison to find out what happened. However, Xia Chu grabbed him and said, "It's too late today. Let's disguise ourselves and go in tomorrow."
"Why are you disguising yourself?" Xiao Mubai raised his eyebrows, showed his identity openly and walked in. Who else dared to stop him
"Let's investigate secretly to avoid alerting the enemy." Xia Chu thought in his mind that since the murderer was able to hide behind the scenes and let Pang Weiguang take the blame, his power was naturally not weak.
Now after all these years, the real poisoners should relax their vigilance. If they go to the Ministry of Punishments openly tonight, there will definitely be a big scandal tomorrow.
Xiao Mubai also suddenly learned that someone else was responsible for the poisoning today. He was eager to know the truth and was so anxious that he did not pay attention to it.
At this time, Xia Chu nodded slightly, and he understood clearly in his heart: "It's because I didn't think well."
Xia Chu smiled, pulled him to sit down again, and then spoke: "You have suffered from the ice poison for many years, and you have just learned that you have wrongly blamed others. It is reasonable to be less careful than before."
Xiao Mubai chewed on the meaning of his words and glanced at him: "Your ability to comfort people is really not that good."
Xia Chu looked stunned. He really wasn't very comforting. The most he could do to someone else was pat him on the shoulder.
Xiao Mubai suddenly came forward and said to her: "You might as well try kissing me, maybe it will make you more..."
Before Xiao Mubai finished speaking, Xia Chu leaned forward slightly and kissed him on the lips.
This time, Xiao Mubai's face was startled. Although he and Xia Chu had already made a lifelong commitment in Daliang, Xia Chu rarely got close to him at that time. Xiao Mubai always felt inexplicably that there was an invisible barrier between them. , making him feel lonely.
But since last night, that barrier seems to have disappeared...
"Is this kind of comfort useful?" Xia Chu asked him with eyes filled with autumn water.
Xiao Mubai's gaze deepened and he was about to kiss her. Xia Chu quickly put his hand in front of his lips and said, "Let's talk about business first."
Xiao Mubai looked dissatisfied, and Xia Chu smiled: "I'll go say hello to Kong Changhui later, and we'll disguise ourselves and sneak in tomorrow."
Xiao Mubai said 'Okay', and when Xia Chu saw him, he didn't ask anything about his relationship with Kong Changhui, so he took the initiative to explain his relationship with Kong Changhui: "Actually, Bingwen is mine. Before I left Beijing, I asked him to take care of the four of them. , respectively..."
"Xie Jiming, Kong Changhui, Yin Guangbo and Shi Zhongfei." Xiao Mubai went on to say one by one, and also praised him by the way: "Good vision."
Xia Chu looked surprised: "How do you know?"
Xiao Mubai was very satisfied that he could take the initiative to explain, and a narrow smile appeared on his lips: "When I left Beijing, I bumped into Bingwen at the North City Gate. At that time, I was only interested in the person behind Bingwen, so I stayed here. If you find someone, follow him."
"I didn't mean to hide Bingwen's matter from you." Xia Chu said this with a guilty conscience.
"When I saw him in the carriage when I returned to Beijing, I knew that the person behind him was you." Xiao Mubai looked like he had known it for a long time.
Xia Chu recalled that Xiao Mubai and Bingwen met for the first time after returning to Beijing. They made an appointment to go to Yixiang Tower, and went to Mingxiang Garden to pick up Bingwen. But along the way, the two of them also No flaws have ever been exposed.
Therefore, he looked at Xiao Mubai with a suspicious look on his face, curious about how he gained such insight.
Xiao Mubai, on the other hand, had a loving expression on his lips and a pair of extremely beautiful phoenix eyes, filled with intoxicating amorous feelings. He said to him with a full smile: "Everyone of you seems to be wearing a sachet, that fragrance." The sacs have a special taste.”
When Xiao Mubai said this, he nodded his tall nose: "Of course I know."
(End of chapter)