Four palaces.
In the bedroom of Shushuiyuan, Ling Xueman was lying on the bed. Doctor Du carefully diagnosed his pulse, and after checking his throat, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Chao Mo Lixuan clasped their fists, and replied respectfully: "Give it to the princes, the Fourth Queen’s injury is okay, after all, Miss Liu is a woman, her hand strength is not strong, the Fourth Queen’s throat is slightly damaged, and there are red marks on her neck. For skin trauma, apply some medicine to remove blood stasis for a few days. Don’t talk too much, drink plenty of water, and take medicine on time. The diet should not be greasy, mainly light, and porridge is best. Eating dry snacks and meals that are hard to swallow, and taking care of them will be no problem."
After speaking, prescribe the prescription and hand it to Mo Lixuan. Mo Qilin still worried and asked, "Is the doctor sure?"
"The next official is sure." Doctor Du took a surprised look at Mo Qilin, who was too concerned, and said.
"Okay, you go back and file the medical record, and submit it to this king tomorrow!"
"Yes, the official understands!"
After Doctor Du retired, Mo Lixuan sat beside Ling Xueman's bed and asked softly: "Mother, may I ask the dining room to make porridge for you? Do you have almond porridge today?"
"Skin, cough cough... I want to eat preserved eggs..." Ling Xueman coughed again when he said, Mo Lixuan hurriedly said, "Is it porridge with preserved eggs and lean meat?"
Ling Xueman nodded, Mo Lixuan smiled, and said, "Chuntang, immediately order the dining room to do it."
"Yes!"
After hearing the report from the housekeeper, Mo Qihan finally let go of his holding heart, but still struggled, "Sikong, the fifth prince and the seventh prince have been here for so long, why don't they leave?"
The butler lowered his head and said with difficulty: "Go back to the master, the minds of the two masters, the slaves don't know."
"Okay, as soon as they leave, I will try to persuade the little prince to go back and rest." Mo Qihan drank a cup of tea in annoyance, and said.
"Yes!"
However, Mo Qilin and Mo Qiyu have not left yet, but Mo Qiyan, Mo Qichen, and Mo Qiming came from the palace, as well as Concubine Mo Ya.
The housekeeper broke down and called his mother, but he dared not show it on his face. He respectfully welcomed the noble priests into the water garden, served tea, and waited on the side.
"Manman, how are you? I am so anxious to death. When I heard my second brother said, my soul was scared by you! I said Liu Wutong is not a good person and hates her, why are you still with her? "As soon as Concubine Mo Ya entered the room, she rushed to the bed, shedding tears anxiously.
"Ya Fei..." Ling Xueman's voice was very dumb, pointing to her throat in pain, "Don't scold me, I...know it's wrong...I can't talk..."
"Well, don't talk, I won't scold you, I'm just angry for you! That damn woman, who lost the fourth brother, made the fourth brother go away sadly and desperately, what is she going crazy now?" Mo Ya puffed up Breast panting.
Mo Qiyan curled his eyebrows, "Ya Concubine, don't talk about it."
Concubine Mo Ya glanced at Ling Xueman and closed her mouth in surprise.
Mo Qiming stared at Ling Xueman's face with a complicated expression, "Four Queens, Liu Wutong has no idea where to hide, and the father has ordered Manjingcheng to search for her. After catching her, he will let Dali Temple review and convict according to law. ! Tell us, why did she choke you?"
"She...cough, her nerves are abnormal, and she insists that my husband is not...not dead, and I say dead...she lost control and would strangle me...Don't let me say death...but my husband is obviously dead...how can I lie? "
When Ling Xue stopped talking and hurriedly pointed to the water cup, Mo Lixuan hurriedly handed it to her mouth and let her drink a few mouthfuls to moisturize her throat.
Hearing this, Mo Qiyu stood up excitedly, and cursed: "What a madman! When the fourth brother was alive, she wanted to marry her, so she refused. The fourth brother married Manman and died. Are you regretting it again? I think she is mad!"
Mo Qilin frowned deeply, and said for a long time, "Sure enough, he is a lunatic!"
"The fourth brother has been ill for several years, we can't understand it best, and watched him pass away with our own eyes. The woman saw her dancing quite normally, why did she go crazy at once?" Mo Qichen couldn't help but said.
Mo Qiming's thin lips pressed into a straight line, staring at Ling Xueman for an instant, wanting to see any strange clues in her expression, but unfortunately, her expression was normal, and she was so calm that people couldn't see it. The slightest sign of lying.
Normally, if the person is alive and she knows, then there is no reason to say that the fourth prince is dead when she is about to be strangled to death, or that she has no idea that the person behind her is dead. Maybe it's the four princes
Liu Wutong!
Eyebrows picked up, Mo Qiming's mouth overflowed with a sneer, and his deep eyes were dark and bottomless.
At dusk, Mo Qiyan and others finally left, Ling Xueman tossed for a day, and fell asleep early.
Mo Lixuan guarded for a while, and only returned to Liu Xiangju after confessing Chuntang and Qiuyue.
When Mo Qihan heard Qiuyue's report, he came out of the secret tunnel anxiously, walked a few steps to the bed, and stretched out his hand to caress Ling Xueman's face heartily, bent down, hugged her, and felt her familiar breath.
"姘...姘头...is that you?" Ling Xueman was awakened by the weight of her body, and asked dumbly.
"Yes, it's me. Manman, I'm almost dying!" Mo Qihan half hugged Ling Xueman's body, buried his head in her pink neck, and blinked vigorously to force the heat in the eyes back, but his voice couldn't help it. "Manman, if you really have an accident, what should I do? Fortunately, fortunately, the second prince saved you. I am so grateful for him today. I am grateful that he saved my Manman, Manman..."
"Concubine, I...I have a sore throat, I don't speak anymore..." Ling Xueman wanted to comfort Mo Qihan, but she couldn't do her best.
"Don't say, don't say, tell me when your voice is better."
Mo Qihan sucked his nose heavily, loosened his hands, took off his boots and outer shirt, got on the bed and lay down, hugging Ling Xueman tighter in his arms, and whispered: "Long Man, holding you at this moment, I really have The excitement of regaining the loss, why are you so stupid? Liu Wutong said that the fourth prince was not dead, and you coaxed her to say that she was not dead. Why did you put yourself in such a dangerous place?"
"Manman, you have to remember that nothing is as important as your life. At any time, you must learn to save your life first, you know?"
Mo Qihan warned, but there were tears in his eyes that he could not hold back, for fear that she would feel that her jaw was against her shoulders, and the hands holding her body were tightening unconsciously, and Ling Xue was panting. Out of breath, I had to speak: "Let go."
Mo Qihan relaxed hurriedly, "I'm sorry to make you feel uncomfortable."
Ling Xueman didn't hear the right thing, and put one hand on his face, her palms were very wet, and she said in surprise: "Concubine, you...cry?"
"No, the sand was blown into the eyes by the wind." Mo Qihan blurted out a very lame reason, like fooling a three-year-old girl. He is not good at telling lies, his tone is unnatural. Great. After finishing speaking, the corners of his mouth twitched twice. What did he say
Sure enough, Ling Xueman was very rude to expose his lie, "You have been in for a while, why...why can the wind be blown by the wind? Besides, where is there...cough cough sand?"
"Do you have to explain?" Mo Qihan frowned depressed, raised his sleeves and scanned his eyes. He was awkward and uncomfortable. After 24 years of life, he never shed tears. Only once, it was in Master. When it was found out that the eldest brother was not dying of a disease, but was as colorless and tasteless as him, he hated his negligence when he could lie in the human body for five years, but he never thought that the target of the poisoner was not just him, but also It was his prince and eldest brother, who hated him for failing to ask the master to check his eldest brother earlier, causing his eldest brother to poison him and die!
In the middle of the night, he wore a night gown and covered his face. He knelt down in front of his elder brother's coffin, swearing that he would find the black hand behind the scenes to avenge the blood and tears. That night, he held the coffin and cried out for the first time in his life...
A vivid memory suddenly came to mind, Mo Qihan involuntarily took a deep breath and exhaled to calm the excitement. Ling Xueman felt that something was wrong with him, and instinctively thought that his own frankness embarrassed him. After all, it was like him The iron-blooded man is certainly not easy to cry, so while regretting, his heart was deeply touched, he cried for her, his nervousness and anxiety all show that he loves her, even if he never He said the word love, but his words and deeds were expressing love to her...
"My head..." Ling Xueman murmured, straightened up from Mo Qihan's arms, faced him, raised his hand and wiped the remaining tears in the corners of his eyes. There are too many things to say. Now, because of his throat, he swallows them all. After entering the stomach, she responded to him with actions, telling him that she also loved him, and she had already unknowingly, deeply into the bones...
"Man..." Mo Qihan's voice became even more choked. Ren Lingxueman's slender fingers depicted his facial features, and she heard her say, "Xiaotou, do you know? Cough cough... I dreamed of you several times, but... cough I can’t see your face clearly... and then you suddenly become... the fourth prince, the fourth prince said he is my husband..."
Mo Qihan was startled, the complex expression in his eyes flashed away, and he hooked his lips pretending to be laughing, and said casually: "Manman, you really can dream, if I were the four princes, I would sleep in I’m in the coffin, can I still stay warm with you in bed now? Fool, all day long thinking, and those who don’t sleep well, you know?"
"Really? But my dream is so real!" Ling Xueman frowned suspiciously.
"You have encountered too many thrills recently, long, don't worry me, don't think about it, okay?" Mo Qihan said softly and comfortingly.
Ling Xueman nodded, "Oh." Maybe it's really crazy, is it affected by Liu Wutong's fantasy
Mo Qihan held Ling Xueman's shoulders, laid her down, and embraced her gently, "Manman, every time you get sick or injured, I can't be by your side to take care of you for the first time. I only have to wait and wait. I can only see you at night, this kind of suffering is really heartbreaking!"
In the deep night, a dark shadow quietly jumped out of the bedroom window and headed towards an abandoned warehouse in the back garden not far from the lake.
Taifu’s Mansion was originally the residence of ordinary officials, so there was not much warning. Sombra easily avoided the two guards who were on duty at night. They arrived at the warehouse before they fell together, and looked around. As soon as the broken window turned over, he squatted down near the wall and lifted up a square plank. Looking down, a long slender wooden staircase stood below, and underneath it was a small basement.
The black shadow went down the stairs without any hesitation. In the darkness, he frowned, took out a fire fold from his arms, lit it, took a picture of it left and right, and saw that he was curled up in the dark. The sleeping woman in the corner stepped in and whispered: "Little sister? Little sister?"
"Yeah..." Liu Wutong slowly opened his eyes and followed the light to see the person squatting in front of her. He cried out with a "wow" and threw himself into the arms of the dark shadow. He couldn't cry, "Brother, you are finally here. Now! I have been waiting for you, I know you will guess that I am hiding here."
"Sister, tell me, why are you strangling the Fourth Princess? How can you bear to pinch a woman like Xueman? Are you really crazy? Don't say her identity is there, even if she is one Ordinary people, how can you be so evil? Are you still my gentle and kind little sister?"
Liu Shaobai questioned in a painful voice. When he heard what the Second Prince said personally, he was shocked for several minutes before reacting. His closest little sister hurt the woman he admired infinitely!
"Big brother, I don't know, I really don't know, don't ask me..." Liu Wutong knelt on the ground, shaking his head constantly, the whole person collapsed to the extreme.
When Liu Shaobai saw this, he was extremely angry. He clasped Liu Wutong's shoulders, forced her to look at him, and shouted, "Do you want to kill the whole family? Do you want 50 or 60 people from Liu's family to be buried with you? Do you know the number of charges for murdering the princes? What's more, the four queens are still the concubine of the four queens most beloved by the emperor! Besides, are you blind? You can’t see how the two princes and the five princes are overly treating the four princesses. Do you care and care about it?"
"Indus, are you really stupid? Do you know that these princes are arresting you in Manjing? Even if your father pleads with the emperor, or the emperor Nian is sentenced to a felony for liking you on weekdays, but that The five princes will not give up! They will play together and force the emperor to condemn you to death. If you don’t succeed..."
Liu Shaobai took a deep breath and continued, "I'm afraid that they will kill you with their scheming methods! Fortunately, the Four Princesses are not dead, Wutong, if you really choke her to death, the Liu family will be smashed. , Do you understand? Also, when you treat the Fourth Princess like this, the eldest brother hates you so much, so hate!"
"Big Brother..." Liu Wutong looked at Liu Shaobai foolishly, with tears in his eyes, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry Liu family, why do you ask me? I really don't know, I didn't have anything in my mind at the time, I said Brother Han was not dead, she was about to say that she was dead, I was angry, there was nothing but anger in my mind, I wanted her to stop talking, and somehow, I choked her neck...Big brother, you should hate Mine, I humiliated the Liu family, embarrassed my father...makes big brother sad..."
"Little sister..." Liu Shaobai closed his eyes fiercely, "Why do you have to live in the past? The Fourth Prince is dead, and he won't survive, so why can't you face reality soberly? "
"Big Brother, I feel it. I feel that Brother Han is still alive. He must be hiding in a place I can't see. I want to find him, but I don't know where to find him?" Liu Wutong said anxiously.
Liu Shaobai gritted his teeth angrily, "Sister, are you really sane?"
Silent, Liu Wutong had no words, just bit her lip lightly and looked at her lower face dullly.
It was cold in the basement, and she wrapped her arms around her body and shrank.
Liu Shaobai was bitter and bitter. The blood was thicker than water. He couldn't bear to take off his black gown and wrapped her body. Then he remembered, and hurriedly took out an oil paper bag from his arms and said, "Little Sister, you haven't eaten from this afternoon until now, so hurry up and eat some snacks to fill your stomach."
"Big Brother, am I inevitable to die?" Liu Wutong raised his head and looked at Liu Shaobai with a grudge, and asked softly.
Liu Shaobai's hands were stagnant while picking up the snack, and his complexion said, "No, big brother won't watch you die, eat snacks first." The corners of his lips curled slightly, squeezing a smile, and delivered the snack to Liu By Wutong's mouth, Liu Wutong's nose was sour, tears rolled down, and his mouth opened with tears.
"Sister, stay here these few days, I will try to give you some food, and then find a way to send you out of the capital, now the wind is very tight outside, you must avoid the eyes and ears of those princes It's not easy, I have to think about it long-term, you have to be patient." Liu Shaobai said slowly.
Liu Wutong was taken aback, and asked hurriedly, "Sent out of the capital? Where to go? If I leave, wouldn't it hurt you and dad? The emperor will offend you!"
"Do you want to die?" Liu Shaobai asked calmly.
"...I..." Liu Wutong looked at Liu Shaobai hesitantly, then shook his head, "I don't want to."
"That's right, listen to the big brother. I left the capital and went to the south. There is a big brother in Qi County who is a life and death friend. You take my letter and he will take care of you. If possible, Don't come back, and find a good man to marry a child." Liu Shaobai smiled pretentiously and said in a serious tone.
"Big Brother!"
"Promise elder brother, forget the four princes, and do it again! Okay?"
"Ok."
The next day, the sun was shining, and the blue sky was as bright and clear as washed by water.
Ling Xueman looked out through the window, and his mood became clear.
Soon, Ling Beiyuan and his wife came to visit, and when they saw Ling Xueman's appearance, tears filled his eyes again. Ling Xueman just listened because of the inconvenience of speaking. Fang Yulan said in small pieces. Ling Beiyuan said very few words, occasionally interjecting. A word or two, soon, the butler came to invite Ling Beiyuan to drink tea, saying that he wanted them to chat more with their women.
Ling Xueman felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell, so he had to watch Ling Beiyuan and the housekeeper leave one after another.
After leaving the water garden, the housekeeper led the way, but instead of walking the road leading to the main hall, he went around the back garden and walked through a long corridor. The housekeeper stopped in front of a dilapidated red lacquered wooden door and stretched out his hand. Pushing it away, some sawdust fell from the door frame because it was uninhabited for many years, entrained in dust bursts, and made a "squeak--" sound.
"Master Ling, please!" The butler's expression remained unchanged, and he stretched out his hand in a "please" gesture.
"Butler, where is this going?" Ling Beiyuan halted and asked in confusion. He didn't expect that the Four Princes' Mansion would be so big!
"Master Ling don't have to worry too much, you will know when you come in." The butler smiled slightly and took the lead and walked in.
Ling Beiyuan's brain turned quickly, and within a few seconds, he gritted his teeth and raised his steps. There is a way, if you don't enter the tiger's lair, you won't be a tiger!
Entering the door, Ling Beiyuan was surprised to find that this was not a house, but an entrance to another place. The housekeeper stopped at the back door, opened it, and took the lead in. Ling Beiyuan hesitated again, and still followed firmly. Entering, the two doors behind him suddenly closed automatically. Ling Beiyuan was taken aback, turned around, his face suddenly turned pale.
"Master Ling, please continue!"
The butler made a sound and stretched his fingers forward, without any change in his voice.
Ling Beiyuan's machine turned around and followed mechanically. On both sides of the bluestone road, weeds were overgrown with snow, which seemed to have not been cleaned for a long time, and he went further and further, where he could see. , Not even a half-person figure.
"Butler, where are you going to take this official?" Ling Beiyuan felt a sense of fear and couldn't help raising his tone to become official.
The steward didn't stop, and said without turning his head: "Master Ling, don't panic, he will be here soon."
Turning a stone wall, a small attic suddenly appeared in front of him. The housekeeper took out the key from his body, opened the lock, and faced Ling Beiyuan, still smiling like that, "Master Ling, please come in!"
Ling Beiyuan stared at the housekeeper and slowly said, "Is there any purpose for the housekeeper to invite the officer to visit his daughter today?"
The butler’s complexion remained unchanged, but the corners of his lips raised, with a little sneer, "Why, Master Ling dare not go in? Today, Master Ling entered the Fourth Palace to visit the princess. Everyone knows that Master Ling is still afraid of not being able to get out of the Fourth Palace. The palace?"
Ling Beiyuan froze, and smiled the same, "The official is an official, he thinks he is worthy of the conscience of heaven and earth, and his body is not afraid of shadows!"
After speaking, step inside.
The butler's eyes flashed, followed in and closed the heavy door.
In the attic, there is also a hidden pavilion, but it is hidden behind a stone wall, which can also be called an agency dark room.
In the ten-square-meter dark room, there is only a round table and four chairs. At this time, there is also a set of tea sets and a pot of hot tea on the table.