Phoenix that can't smile

Chapter 463 Blood Spilled on Peony (2)
"My lord, what's the matter? Did you not sleep well last night? Are you so sluggish?" Axi asked with concern as he slowly lifted the curtain. ,

"I don't know what happened, Axi, I just feel weak all over, and I don't know what has been plotted against me." Bao Si frowned.

"What? Why did the young master say that?" Axi said in shock.

"In the past few days, I have only vaguely felt that there is a strange mist floating in the window. Could it be that someone pierced the window paper in the middle of the night and blew hallucinogens into the bedroom?" Bao Si wondered.

As soon as Ah Xi heard this, he hurried to the window lattice, took a closer look, and found that there was a gap in the window.

"My lord, if that's the case, someone assassinated in the middle of the night, do you want to tell the king about it?" Axi said angrily.

"Wait a minute, there is no proof, let's not disturb others for the time being, Axi, you send someone to watch out at night, if there is any weird person, take it down immediately." Bao Si thought over and over again, and calmly ordered road.

In the middle of the night, the inner and outer courtyards of Jianjia Palace were deep, with rustling bamboo leaves, and a cold moon hung in the sky. In the silence, suddenly a black shadow, with vigorous skills, leaned on the window and lit a reed pipe, facing the mouth of the pipe, A puff of red smoke was blown out.

"Take it down for me!" The guards who were ambushing around the palace in an instant, under the command of Baoshang, knocked the assassin to the ground with lightning speed, and the Jianjia Palace was immediately lit up. At that time, Ah Xi led the people to escort the assassin directly in front of Bao Si, waiting to be punished.

Bao Si paid close attention to the assassin's appearance, and ordered Bao Shang to say, "Lord Bao, please take the assassin to the Ministry of Punishment, and interrogate him strictly. As long as he makes a confession, it will be done."

"Yes, empress, don't worry." Bao Shang responded.

"Your Majesty, something is wrong. I heard that the person we sent to Jianjia Palace was arrested by accident last night. Not only that, but he was also sent to the Ministry of Criminal Justice to make a confession. I heard that the confession has been presented to the king. What should I do? Is that good?" After the morning break, the eunuch Chang Shun who got the news hurriedly ran to Qiu Yunxuan to report to Concubine Jiang.

"Your Majesty, what should we do? What should we do if the assassin confesses to us?" Chonghua worried.

"Don't worry, they won't get anything. The people they send must keep their mouths shut for the sake of his family. Even if they bite, they won't be able to bite us. Chonghua, continue to send people to Jianjia Palace tonight to create smoke and disturb her mind." Worry, as long as Baosi is not healthy, the king will not have time to go to her, and when the matter of the nobleman's abortion happens, she will die without a place to bury her." Concubine Jiang stared viciously.

"My lord, the Empress has come to visit." In the Peony Pavilion, nobleman Huan, who was weak, stared at his swollen belly happily, and couldn't help feeling sour and sweet. Suddenly, the maid Bao'er came in to report, nobleman Huan couldn't help eating Surprised, he thought to himself: "I have never had any contact with the queen, and I am a potential opponent, why did she come to see me?"

"My lord, shall we welcome the Empress? If my lord is unwell, the servants will refuse." Bao'er blinked her big eyes and asked.

"Bao'er, change your clothes quickly, and go with me to greet you outside the hall." Nobleman Huan made up his mind.

"Sister Huan, you're inconvenient, you'd better sit and talk, don't be too polite." After Bao Si stepped in gracefully, seeing the trembling nobleman Huan, she hurriedly spoke to each other warmly.

"Your Majesty, the slaves are really damned, you have alarmed the Empress." Seeing Baosi's kind face, Mrs. Huan quickly humbled himself a few words.

"Lord Huan, if I'm not mistaken, you just turned eighteen this year, right?" Bao Si asked softly, holding onto Nobleman Huan's hand.

"Thank you, Empress, for still thinking about my concubine. This concubine is indeed eighteen this year." Nobleman Huan said with a pleasant smile.

"Is it because you want to enter the palace?" Bao Si suddenly opened her lips and asked.

"Well, because my elder brother is the Duke Hua of the current dynasty, my concubine understands that sooner or later she will be drafted for a girl, but I can assure you that I will never covet the throne of the empress." Nobleman Huan said straight to the point.

"Well, nobleman Huan, you are a good girl. To be honest, in this great Zhou Dynasty, women are the most miserable. They are enslaved from birth and have no chance to make their own claims. This palace knows that you I also want to live a safe and stable life as a husband and a child, but I have to rely on myself in everything, if it is used by outsiders and becomes a pawn for others to seek personal gain, then my sister will be sorry for this child." Bao Si said sincerely.

"Empress, you are very good, but who are you referring to being used by others?" the nobleman Huan asked hesitantly.

Bao Si glanced at the porcelain bowl on the table, looked at nobleman Huan and said softly, "Sister Huan, is this the birth-preserving medicine presented by the Imperial Dining Room?"

"Exactly, empress, concubines take it every day." Nobleman Huan said casually.

"Axi, bring your silver hairpin." Bao Si suddenly turned her head to look at Axi, and Axi quickly took a hairpin from her bun and carefully stirred it in the porcelain bowl.

"It's pitch-black, how is this possible?" Huan Guiren, who had been staring at the hairpin with piercing eyes, suddenly turned pale with shock.

"My lord, this anti-fetal medicine is poisonous!" Bao'er hurriedly sprinkled the medicine in the porcelain bowl on the ground, and in an instant, a mist rose from the ground.

"Sister Huan, I have been staring at you for a long time. Concubine Jiang sent someone to inject slow poison into your anti-fetal medicine. In a short period of time, you won't notice it at all. As long as a certain time comes, the fetus in my sister's womb will definitely die. No protection!" Bao Si kindly reminded.

"Elder Sister Queen, what should I do? Concubine Jiang wants to kill the donkey, what should I do?" Mrs. Huan completely lost her sense of proportion, and her situation became chaotic.

"Sister, don't panic, as long as you take a good rest, strive to give birth to the king's flesh and blood, and ignore Concubine Jiang's threats, you will be fine." Bao Si comforted.

Lishan Shuilong Shuren Hall, suddenly a mighty force surrounded the inside and outside of the hall, led by a general in armor, it was the cabinet minister Cheng Rong.

(End of this chapter)