Aijia Kefu: Your Majesty, please avoid

Chapter 135 Why Do I Want Her Life?
The battle last night was brutal, so there are naturally many things that need to be dealt with today.

Lu Li and the civil and military officials had been discussing in the imperial study until noon, and finally came up with some things that should be dealt with.

The rebels have never taken advantage of it, but they are still besieging the city. Obviously, there is still hope.

There is no doubt that their "hope" is pinned on Beiyan's cavalry.

There is still no news from Luoyun City, for some reason.

Calculating the time, there shouldn't be much difference between the time when Beiyan and Xiliang's troops arrived in the capital.Lu Li and all the generals were a little bit guilty, and they were extremely vigilant about this matter.

Beiyan's wolfish ambitions are well known to all passers-by, but as for Xiliang—who knows?
The tunnel in the palace has been leaked, and it is obvious that it can no longer be used in the future.

Lu Li immediately ordered to go down, ordering the Jinjiawei to block the entrance of the tunnel immediately after the search was completed, so as to prevent the same mistakes from happening again.

All that is left is to regroup to prepare for the next battle, and by the way, investigate the inner ghosts and find the missing persons.

After finally negotiating, Lu Li drove away all civil and military officials, and called Xiao Yingzi, "What do you think about the eunuch taking advantage of the chaos to rebel?"

"Isn't the emperor already aware of it in his heart?" Xiaoyingzi lowered his eyebrows and spoke calmly.

Lu Li fell silent.

This thing is really strange.But there are only a handful of people in the palace who are capable of manipulating this matter, and they are all people he trusts very much, which is a bit disturbing.

Xiaoyingzi bowed his head and said: "If you want to investigate the eunuch's rebellion, there are always some clues to follow; it is a genuine matter, which is really difficult to understand."

Lu Li has always kept the map in person, except for himself and Duan Ran, only Xiaoyingzi hastily read it.Although those Golden Armored Guards knew the entrances to the various palaces, they didn't know the secret passages that criss-crossed inside. Of course, it was even more impossible to lead the rebels to find Yuxiu Palace and Yanxi Palace accurately in just one or two hours. Two exits!
So, what is the problem?

Although a special person has been arranged to investigate this matter, Lu Li still has to think about it.

At this time, the soldiers of the Jinjiawei came to report, saying that some bandits had been found in the tunnel one after another.

Lu Li hurriedly called someone to escort him over.

There were two or three hundred bandit soldiers, all of them pale and dejected.

Lu Li couldn't help standing up, "You guys also sneaked into the palace to sneak attack? The war is over, why did you stay in the tunnel?"

The captured soldier seemed to have been tortured, and he told the truth without any trouble: "We are under the order of the general, and we are waiting for a rabbit at the exit of the tunnel in the garden of Chen's Bieyuan..."

Lu Li's face darkened, and the soldier quickly changed his words: "...they were waiting at the exit to capture our Fourth Miss and King Ding'an. Later, Fourth Miss said that a bottle of life-saving medicine fell into the tunnel, and the general sent us I followed the imperial doctor into the tunnel to look for it, but I didn't expect that there were too many forks in the tunnel, so I got lost..."

Lu Xin's heart tightened, and he couldn't help but interrupt him: "A Yuan is in your hands? How is she now?"

Just as he was asking, another group of soldiers came back and said they had caught an imperial doctor.

It was Yu Shen who came in.

When he saw Lu Li, he knelt down on the ground and burst into tears.

When Lu Li saw him crying, he was scared out of his wits: "A Yuan, she..."

Imperial Physician Yu hurriedly wiped away her tears, and briefly explained what she knew.

In fact, he didn't know much.

It's nothing more than dystocia, fleeing, being captured, in short, nothing is a good thing.

After listening, Lu Li sat down on the chair: "You mean, the child was not born until almost dawn, and Ah Yuan fell into the hands of the old thief instead?"

Imperial Physician Yu hurriedly raised his head and said: "This is all I know, but things may not have turned around. The lady seems to be the one who used magic to control the general of the bandits, and then lied about looking for medicine, and deceived most of the bandits. After entering the tunnel—afterwards, there are only more than [-] bandit soldiers guarding the empress, and the empress and Mr. Duan are both people who are good at maneuvering, and maybe they can think of a way to escape!"

The captured armored soldiers heard that the "search for medicine" was completely false, and all of them turned blue with anger.

Lu Li's complexion didn't look any better, "She still dared to use spells after a difficult labor all night? Isn't that..."

Imperial Physician Yu lowered his head, speechless.

Indeed, if a body that is already at the end of its strength is forced to use secret techniques, the consequences will be disastrous!
"So, the empress is no longer in the tunnel!" Xiaoyingzi was the first to extract useful information.

Lu Li was startled, and hurriedly said, "Immediately send more people to search everywhere in the city, and at the same time strictly guard the city gates, no one is allowed to sneak out of the city!"

Xiaoyingzi immediately went out to deliver the order.

Lu Li looked at Imperial Physician Yu, still full of doubts and dared not speak out.

Imperial Physician Yu knew his worries, but could only pretend not to know.

How he wished he could tell a good news.But no.

After a long silence, Lu Li called Imperial Physician Yu to stand up, and waved to him: "Let me ask you, A Yuan, did she... say anything?"

Imperial Physician Yu hesitated and shook his head.

"Did she ever blame me?" Lu Li continued to ask.

Imperial Physician Yu thought for a while, then said cautiously: "When I was in the Fanghua Palace, the empress was always looking forward to the emperor's arrival. Later in the tunnel, the empress became a little delirious and said a few capricious words - not to be taken seriously. "

"Yu Shen, do you have something to hide from me?" How could Lu Li fail to see that the other party's words were insincere.

Imperial Physician Yu didn't dare to speak, and almost knelt down again.

Lu Li looked up at him, "Kneeling is useless, tell me everything you know."

Imperial Physician Yu didn't dare to hide any more, so he had to tell the truth: "Your Majesty has been depressed for the past two months, and the dystocia may not be accidental."

Lu Li immediately looked up at Xiaoluzi: "Don't you always say that she is fine?"

Xiao Luzi hurriedly knelt down: "Every time I go to Fanghua Palace, the empress is not unusual, I think..."

Lu Li collected himself, knowing that there was nothing to blame for this matter, so he waved him to get up.

But Xiaoluzi insisted on kneeling: "There is one thing, the slave didn't have time to tell the emperor - when the empress came here yesterday afternoon, she stood in front of the door for a long time, the words I heard were probably not very good... ...When Niangniang was walking down the steps, she walked very fast, Danyue was beside her and almost missed her..."

Lu Li thought about it carefully, and asked uncertainly: "Did I say anything too much? Jing Min often speaks freely in front of me, and A Yuan knows it."

Imperial Physician Yu's complexion changed slightly: "I'm afraid that the empress is really overwhelmed. Yesterday, the empress said some strange things, and I just thought she was talking nonsense due to an old illness, and didn't think much about it at the time..."

"What did she say?" Lu Li hurriedly asked.

Imperial Physician Yu hesitated and said, "Your Majesty repeatedly asked if I had a knife with me, and she said that I can't wait any longer, otherwise if something unexpected happens, I will have been busy working these past few months for nothing."

Lu Li was confused.

Imperial Physician Yu had no choice but to add: "Miss Luoxia said that the empress was ill, but Miss Danyue said...that the emperor wanted a child, and also wanted the life of the empress."

"What do I want her to do!" Lu Li panicked and stood up abruptly.

Xiao Luzi suddenly thought of something, but he didn't dare to speak.

Lu Li turned his head and looked at him: "Speak up if you have something to say!"

Xiao Luzi had no choice but to lower his head and said: "The empress suddenly changed her face yesterday when she heard you said that the imperial concubine should take care of the child."

"Just for this? It's just a joke..." Lu Li couldn't believe it.

"Is this really just a joke?" The hall door was suddenly pushed open, but Duan Ran walked in with Lu Junnuo in his arms.

Behind them were Lu Junnuo's two nuns, a wounded eunuch, and several guards who were covered in blood and barely recognizable as human beings.

Lu Li hastily turned around to meet him, "You guys are back—where's A Yuan?"

He quickly shook Duan Ran's hand, then rushed to the door and looked out.

Duan Ran said indifferently: "Don't look for her, she is not with us."

Lu Li's smile froze immediately: "You...are separated?"

"We didn't get separated. We escaped, but she couldn't escape." Duan Ran said in a deep voice.

Lu Li's face changed drastically, and he immediately reached out and grabbed Duan Ran's collar: "What do you mean by that? I told you to protect her..."

Duan Ran raised his head, confidently: "If I don't take Jun'er away, the final result will be just a few more lives and more hostages for the old thief! Jun'er is the blood of the late emperor, if it falls into In the hands of the old thief, the old thief can justifiably support him as emperor! When the time comes, there will be no shortage of emperors in the world, who cares about your life or death! On this point, that woman is much more sober than you!"

Lu Li let go of his hand slowly, and asked after a long time, "Is... is she alright?"

Duan Ran shook her head slowly: "Her life hangs by a thread. But she is very clear-headed, she will not let herself and her child become the old thief's bargaining chip to blackmail you."

"What do you mean..." Lu Li fell to the ground and muttered to himself.

Duan Ran knew that it was not that he didn't understand, but that he just didn't want to believe it.

Imperial Physician Yu and Xiao Luzi also knew about it.Therefore, no one responded to Lu Li's words, and he was left to sit in a daze.

Lu Junnuo was obviously terrified, and kept nestling in Duan Ran's arms, neither speaking nor crying.

After an unknown amount of time, Lu Li finally raised his head: "When you two separated for the last time, she..."

Duan Ran said in a deep voice, "He's still alive."

Lu Li clutched his sleeve tightly, and did not speak for a long time.

Duan Ran sat down on the chair next to him, and said in a deep voice, "You don't have to. She won't cause you trouble, you know."

"You think I'm just afraid of trouble?" Lu Li suddenly raised his head, furious.

Duan Ran looked at him coldly: "Isn't it? You gave up on her two months ago, so why do you have to look so heartbroken today?"

"Nonsense! When did I ever give up on her?!" Lu Li suddenly sat up straight, his face full of anger, as if he was going to rush out to fight someone desperately in the next moment.

Duan Ran frowned, and looked at him probingly: "You didn't give up on her? So, the explosion in the Beiyan Posthouse was purely accidental? You took away the guard of honor, and left me and her in the posthouse Is it also an unintentional loss?"

Lu Li slowly stood up straight: "Dropped at the post house? You didn't come back with the guard of honor? As for the explosion... Isn't that what we arranged for?"

Duan Ran stared at him for a long time, and finally asked in a hoarse voice: "When we made the arrangements in advance, we confirmed repeatedly that there was a special person following Yuan'er and me at the banquet that day, and after knowing where we were arranged, we unplugged the one. The lead at - right?"

Lu Li nodded blankly, then his eyes widened suddenly: "Could it be..."

Duan Ran looked at him deeply: "It exploded."

"Impossible!" Xiaoluzi next to him yelled and stood up.

When arranging the explosives that day, no one could predict where Su Qingyuan and "Qin Jiao" would be taken, so the guards buried explosives under every palace and pavilion.In order to avoid accidental injury, they specially arranged for two groups of people to follow Su Qingyuan and Duan Ran respectively. Once they confirmed the place where the two rested, they would destroy the explosive barrel there-this link is very important, and it is impossible to make mistakes of!

Duan Ran shifted his gaze to Xiao Luzi: "Did you not receive the news sent back by the guards that day?"

Xiaoluzi stomped anxiously: "How could it be that I didn't receive it? It's the pavilion on the north side of the garden rockery, right? The guard unplugged the lead wire there and came back and told me, so I dared to order the fire..."

Duan Ran stared at him for a long time, then turned to look at Lu Li, and asked in a shy voice after a long time, "Did the guards lie to you, or did you lie to me?"

Lu Li raised his hand and grabbed his shoulder, his eyes gradually turned red: "You said... the place where you are is bombed?"

Duan Ran took two steps back, dodging his hand, and said sadly after a long time: "If it wasn't for her worrying about your safety, she ran downstairs to find you at the risk... She and I have already been killed in that pavilion. It was blown to pieces.”

"Why didn't you tell me about such a big thing!" Lu Li's eyes were red, and he stood still against the stone screen, trembling all over.

Duan Ran looked at him across a table, and said after a long time, "I dare not."

"Don't you suspect it's me..." Lu Li was furious.

Duan Ran was silent.

After a long time, Lu Li asked in a shy voice, "Did Ah Yuan think so too? She suspected that I was going to kill her——since then she began to suspect me?"

Duan Ran raised his hand to wipe the corners of his eyes, and said after a long time: "That day, she sat on the rockery in the garden for more than an hour, and she was afraid to hide when she heard people's voices. Later, when we left the posthouse, there was no one there. .”

"I'm not going to leave you guys behind," Lu Li said anxiously, "The miasma was poisoned in the flower hall that day, and I and the civil and military officials present felt a little uncomfortable..."

Xiao Luzi couldn't help but grab the conversation, and said anxiously: "It's not just 'discomfort'! The emperor passed out in the flower hall, and when he left the post, he was already unknown! The people below wanted to cover up the news of the emperor's poisoning, and they had to be in a hurry I rushed back to see the imperial doctor for diagnosis and treatment, but I missed it in my panic..."

"Poisoned? Is it serious? Why didn't you say it?" Duan Ran stood up worriedly.

Lu Li shook his head and said nothing, Xiao Luzi had no choice but to answer for him: "The current situation, the emperor and several adults are poisoned and sick, how dare this kind of thing spread to the outside world! Afraid that the empress would see the clues and worry about it, she didn't even dare to go to Fanghua Palace, who knew there would be so many misunderstandings!"

Duan Ran sat down again, and patted his forehead hard.

Lu Li walked to his side and grabbed his hand.

After a long while, Duan Ran raised his head slowly: "I shouldn't doubt you...but, when I stood in front of the Beiyan posthouse that day with those dead Beiyan warriors, I I really thought... After all, only the dead don't need to return..."

Lu Li leaned against Shi Ping and closed his eyes: "So, since that day, Ah Yuan always thought I was going to kill her?"

Once you become suspicious, you will be like a bow and a snake, and you can associate bad things with anything you hear.

She hasn't seen each other in the past two months, and her heart is probably already filled with doubts, plus the few "jokes" yesterday...

Lu Li pressed his chest, speechless for a long time.

Xiao Luzi had no choice but to say from the side: "Someone must be obstructing this matter! The servant immediately asked someone to question the guards of the day, and when the empress comes back, the emperor will explain in detail, there is nothing impossible!"

Lu Li nodded, but a terrible thought flashed in his mind.

What if she doesn't come back?
He didn't dare to think deeply.

Duan Ran stood up slowly and collected herself: "I'll take someone to help you find her."

Lu Li stretched out his hand to hold him back, "I've sent someone to look for it. You're exhausted, take Jun'er down to rest—the Fanghua Palace can't accommodate people now, and Jun'er asks you to take care of it for a few days."

"Brother Huang, will the queen mother come back?" Lu Junnuo sniffed and asked pitifully.

Lu Li turned his head to avoid his gaze, and said after a long time, "Yes."

Duan Ran finally led Lu Junnuo back down.

Lu Li stood there thinking for a while, then gritted his teeth and said, "I'm going to the Chen Family Garden to take a look."

Xiao Luzi hurriedly stopped him: "Your Majesty, it's getting late, and you won't be able to see anything in the past now... Besides, the Golden Armored Guard is coming back soon!"

Looking at the sky, it is indeed almost evening.

Lu Li was so anxious that he couldn't sit still.

It's been a day and a night—how can she not be worrying when the gate of hell is closed?

Afterwards, several teams of golden-armored soldiers returned, but all they brought with them were rebel soldiers who had lost their way in the tunnel.

Lu Li experienced countless times of torture from hope to disappointment, and when the sun set, he finally rushed out the door.

Just then, another group of golden armored soldiers came back.

The people brought back this time were all Lu Li knew.

Luoxia, Danyue, Xiaolinzi...

There were fifty or sixty people in total, but no more than ten were alive.

Among the living people, the least injured were stabbed several times, and the seriously injured were naturally dying.

It just so happened that Imperial Physician Yu was here, so he immediately turned this imperial study into a medical clinic, and it would be cheap to apply medicine and bandage.

Before the wound was healed, Luoxia struggled and knelt down in front of Lu Li, crying, "Your slave is incompetent, you didn't protect your mother..."

Seeing that there was still no Su Qingyuan among this group of people, Lu Li already knew the answer.

At this moment, he didn't even have the courage to ask for the details, so he just stared straight at him, waiting for Luoxia to speak.

Luoxia sobbed hoarsely: "My lady took control of the bandit general and then fell asleep, and didn't open her eyes until it was dawn... At that time, the general was already awake and was about to kill him. We traveled lightly, and it was the empress who threatened them with death to spare our lives... We were thrown back into the tunnel, but the empress was taken away by those damn thieves!"

Lu Li was silent for a long time, and finally said hoarsely, "Where did they escape?"

Luoxia bit the corner of her lips and shook her head.

"They only took A Yuan away?" Lu Li continued to ask.

Luoxia thought for a while, then hesitated and said: "It seems that there is still a midwife... But the midwife has been scared to death long ago, and it is useless at all! At that time, it was already dawn, the child had not yet been born, and the empress had no strength... ..."

Her tears fell again.

Lu Li sat in a daze, no longer having the courage to ask for details.

The man is still in the hands of the rebels, and Jin Jiawei is still looking for him.

Other than that, he couldn't do much.

An unprecedented sense of powerlessness weighed on his heart, making him fall into an abyss.

A venomous gaze pierced towards him coldly, Lu Li shuddered, and followed that gaze.

pale moon.

The girl seemed to have hurt her waist, and she didn't even have the strength to sit up, but she turned her head stubbornly and stared at Lu Li.

Lu Li avoided her in fear, not daring to meet her eyes.

When Danyue saw her, she sneered "hey" and gritted her teeth: "Why do you have to act like a mourning concubine! Isn't it just what you want when she dies? It's a pity that the child is gone. You and the imperial concubine are the same Aren't you very disappointed? Your imperial concubine wants to have a child, but she won't give birth by herself? Why bother, Long Live Your Majesty, your old man hypocritically accompanied my lady to perform so long in a play..."

Her voice was choked, and she fell on the ground and coughed violently.

At this moment, Lu Li naturally had no intention of explaining anything to her.

He could only stare helplessly at the door, expecting a miracle with humble expectations.

The sky gradually darkened.

When the lights first came on, the "miracle" finally appeared.

Xiaoyingzi rushed in stumblingly, holding a small baby in her arms.

Lu Li stood up suddenly with a "huh", "Where did you come from?"

Xiaoyingzi's face was pale, and she knelt down with a "boom".

"What's wrong?" Lu Li staggered, and suddenly began to panic again.

Xiaoyingzi hesitated, and said in a trembling voice: "It was sent in from outside the palace, and the token is a Zhaojun suit from the empress..."

Lu Li conveniently hooked Zhaojun over, and at a glance he knew it was indeed Su Qingyuan's.

His gaze immediately returned to the swaddle, and he stretched out his hand tremblingly.

But Xiaoyingzi hesitated and shrank back a bit.

Lu Li frowned, and stretched his hand forward again.

Xiao Yingzi had no choice but to put the swaddling baby in his hands, but at the same time said in a low voice: "My Majesty, please mourn."

Lu's heart sank.

In the swaddling baby, a small round face was exposed—it was obviously a newborn baby, but...

The little guy was dry and thin, his eyes were closed, his face was black and blue, and he was out of breath.

"Impossible! No..." Lu Li lightly touched the child's small face, and felt his eyes go dark, and his feet immediately softened.

Xiaoyingzi and Imperial Physician Yu rushed forward, and they all stretched out their hands to support him.

Lu Li fell to the ground, hugged the child tightly, and remained in a daze.

"What's wrong? Isn't that kid okay?" Danyue put her hands on the ground and crawled over with her hands and feet.

Seeing the little baby's face, she immediately screamed: "Impossible, my lady's child will not die! She has been looking forward to the child for so long..."

Luo Xia hurriedly said: "Is there any deceit? Maybe the thief deliberately used a dead child to deceive the emperor, so as to make you sad..."

Lu Li's eyes lit up, he hurriedly put the swaddle on the ground, and tore it apart forcefully.

When the little baby's naked body was exposed in front of everyone, there was a sound of breathing in the hall.

It turned out that the child's neck was actually a frightening black-purple color - it was clearly the marks of fingers pressing!

The child was strangled to death!

Lu Li was stunned.

Seeing such a tragedy at first sight, even the eunuchs who had already lost their relationships couldn't help but have red eyes, not to mention that Lu Li had something on his mind!
He stared fixedly at the child, only to feel a fishy throat and a severe pain in his chest.

Luoxia's eyes were sharp, and when she saw that there was a delicate silk handkerchief lining the swaddle, she boldly pulled it out.

Lu Li recognized at a glance that it was Su Qingyuan's handkerchief.

At this moment, it was dripping with blood, and there were eight scarlet and glaring characters written on it:
Father's debt is paid by son, it's only right and proper!

(End of this chapter)