slave like jade

Chapter 119
When Mu Lingzhi told Yu Ruyan that the assassin in the inn and sugar store in Guyu Town, and the person who carried her jade pendant into the palace behind him was his cousin Mu Yi, Yu Ruyan was completely taken by him. The words shocked me.

She suddenly thought of something, her expression was flustered and her face was pale.

She couldn't help thinking about it, the night when Gu Qing'er punished the family law when she first arrived at the palace, the man with the silver mask suddenly appeared in her small bungalow, called her "Five Princesses", and wanted to take her away, but it was actually Get to know what she looks like!
Then, during the Wujinsao snake incident, An Lirong imprisoned him in the woodshed and set her on fire on purpose. He was the one who came down from the sky to save her, and he also wanted to take her away.

If it was true what Mu Lingzhi said, the assassin was the former Daliang Prince Mu Yizhi, then why did he know himself?Are you still trying to take yourself away from Mu Lingzhi's side again and again?

If he wanted revenge on Mu Lingzhi, why did he take care of her so much? He was also the one who helped him escape Mu Ziyue's murderous hands when he was in the sugar shop.

It's so confusing!

The more she thought about it, the more questions Yu Ruyan had in her heart, and she couldn't help but get a headache.

However, at this moment, Mu Lingzhi suddenly looked at her firmly, and asked: "I have always had a doubt in my heart that I haven't solved. Back then, how did you sneak away from the guards with a knife, Brother An?" The city officers and soldiers searched out the city?"

Yu Ruyan didn't expect that after so long, he still remembered it.Thinking of Yue Yu's special instructions to her before, he was stunned, not knowing how to answer him!
Before, when Yu accompanied her to the battlefield to find Mu Ling, the two of them chatted along the way, and before they knew it, they talked about Yue Yu's medical skills, which reminded Yu Ruyan that he could make human skin masks. Curious in my heart, I couldn't help asking him who his teacher was, and he learned this secret technique.

However, Yue Yu told her that these human skin masks were just obtained by chance before him, and they were not made by him.

He also told her that if someone asks one day, don't say that the mask was given by him, because many people in the world are looking for this kind of human skin mask that can be disguised as a real person. Will try to ask him for it.

After hearing what he said, Yu Ruyan felt that it made sense. After all, this kind of thing is rare. If someone who is interested knows that Yue Yu has it, it will definitely cause a lot of harassment to him.

When she was thinking about this, Mu Lingzhi's eyes flashed, and he frowned and said, "Could it be that Brother Yi took you out of the city? I remembered, that time at the sugar shop, he did save Xiaoyue." you."

He fixedly looked at Yu Ruyan, whose face was a bit confused and flustered, and said hesitantly, "Do you know my big brother Yizhi?"

Yu Ruyan's heart was shocked, she knew that what she thought, he would also think of it, she couldn't help but said: "No, I was able to go out of the city because I happened to buy a few... Leather mask, we wore that to sneak out of the city. I don’t know him, and this is the first time I’ve heard you talk about his real identity.”

Hearing what she said, Mu Lingzhi solved a question that had been in his mind for so long, but then he thought about that rainy night, what Mu Yizhi said to him on the roof, he always felt that he knew Yu Ruyan, but Seeing Yu Ruyan's expression, she didn't recognize him.

He believed that she would not lie to him, but he also believed in his intuition——

Prince Yi must know Yu Ruyan, but she doesn't know him.

This can't help but make him more confused.

But Yu Ruyan, after hesitating for a moment, finally told Mu Lingzhi that Prince Yi had met her privately before and rescued herself from the fire.

She wondered: "I lived with my master in the deep mountains of Putuo Temple since I was a child. After I entered the palace at the age of eight, I stayed in the palace and seldom left the palace, but Prince Yi seemed to be very familiar with me, but I couldn't remember that I was in the palace. When did you see him?"

But Mu Lingzhi figured it out, he sighed and said solemnly: "Do you still remember those false rumors about you when you were married in Daliang?"

Suddenly hearing him mention this, Yu Ruyan was startled——

She returned to the palace this time to find out the real jade girl and the spreader of the rumors, but she has never had the slightest clue, and even the mother and daughter of Concubine Lian who she suspected at the beginning were denied by herself. Therefore, in the entire harem, she I really can't think of anyone else who would harm her like this?

Seeing the look of surprise on her face, Mu Lingzhi suddenly felt reluctance——

He already knew that the so-called rumors were only fabricated by Prince Yi to deliberately slander her reputation in order to get revenge on him.The ultimate goal is to destroy the peace between the two countries, and it is to make him kill the princess in a fit of anger, causing the two countries to fight.

And she was just a pawn who was sacrificed inexplicably, because of the grievances between them, she was innocently involved!

If she is allowed to know the truth, I'm afraid she will be hurt again!
However, he underestimated Yu Ruyan's mind——

Seeing the unbearable and reluctance on Mu Lingzhi's expression, he was as smart as her, but he already thought of something.

She felt a pain in her heart, and couldn't help but smiled wryly: "If I guessed correctly, those rumors were... spread by your cousin to deal with you!"

Mu Lingzhi's whole body was shocked and he was speechless.

"That's why he knows me, because, in order to deal with you, he has already investigated me clearly."

"It turns out that I kept a male favorite privately because I had a knife by my side. These rumors are very convincing."

Yu Ruyan smiled bitterly, and her heart was filled with endless pain. The truth she had always wanted to know was actually so cruel.

It's not that someone wanted to harm her, but that she became a pitiful pawn in the revenge between their brothers when she was ignorant!

"What about the jade girl? Rumors about the jade girl—"

Yu Ruyan gritted her teeth to hold back the chill in her heart and asked him about the jade girl.However, before Mu Lingzhi could answer, he smiled bitterly and said, "During the time I returned to the palace, I have been trying my best to find out about the jade girl. However, the news I got is that the Qi Palace has never heard of it. What kind of jade girl, even my father didn't know about the jade girl, so everything from the wedding ceremony caused by the jade girl was fake, it was all a conspiracy planned by your cousin to get revenge on you—"

"—and I was dragged into this conspiracy for no reason..."

Yu Ruyan's heart trembled. Ever since the assassin brought her jade pendant into the palace to assassinate, she suddenly felt that she had stepped into a trap designed by others, but what she didn't expect was that this trap was far away. Deeper and more terrifying than she imagined——

From the moment she stepped into the marriage ceremony, she had already stepped into the scheme designed by others and became a poor pawn!

Seeing her bitter and sad appearance, Mu Lingzhi felt pain in his heart——

Unexpectedly, the disaster ten years ago not only ruined the relationship between him and his cousin, and changed the fate of countless people, but also involved the innocent her ten years later, making her a part of this grievance. The victim of the enemy!

Although the incident was not caused by him, in the end, he was just a victim.However, compared to him, Yu Ruyan suffered far more damage than him.

He understood this truth in his heart, and also felt the same for Yu Ruyan's experience.So, looking at her sad look at this moment, I feel uncomfortable!
Gently hugging her into his arms, Mu Lingzhi's eyes were firm, and he said seriously: "Yanyan, I am the one who is sorry for you. Although our acquaintance was a conspiracy, it is rare that no matter how big the conspiracy was, it did not stop her. We love each other, so no matter what happens in the future, I will never make you sad again, and I will never let you leave my side again. In this life, I will be with you and repay everything I owe you. "

Yu Ruyan was very hurt in her heart, but she also knew that Mu Lingzhi couldn't be blamed for these things. On the contrary, after learning all the truth, she was relieved of the arrow he shot her at the beginning.

Because, she knew, she and he both stepped into the situation set up by others and followed the set trap, so who can blame whom...

Thinking of the secretiveness of Prince Yi in that layout, Yu Ruyan shuddered all over her body. She looked up at Mu Lingzhi in a daze, and said in a panic: "That cousin of yours is too vicious. We are trying to understand that he is here I don’t know if there is any conspiracy that we don’t know about. I always feel that our every move is under his control, it’s really... really scary!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she couldn't help shivering.

"Don't be afraid!" Mu Lingzhi held her tightly in his arms, and sighed, "No matter how many plots and tricks are waiting for us in the future, as long as our hearts are together, no difficulty can defeat us. What's more, you have to trust me, even if I lay down my life, I will definitely protect you!"

Gently stroking her back to calm the panic in her heart, Mu Lingzhi sighed slowly: "Go to sleep, it's already late!"

Under his comfort, Yu Ruyan fell into a deep sleep, but Mu Lingzhi kept his eyes open and couldn't fall asleep anymore——

For the past few days, he has been letting the hidden guards quietly check the whereabouts of Prince Yi, but it is very strange. Since the two met on the roof that night, they have never found any news about him. There was no news about him, even Daliang had no trace of him, and the whole person seemed to disappear out of thin air.

But Mu Lingzhi knew clearly in his heart that his cousin's hatred for his father and him would not be annihilated because of the sword that night, and based on his understanding of him, he would definitely not stop there!
Under the calm appearance, there must be more turbulent undercurrents hidden.

But now he is not most worried about his cousin's revenge, but he is afraid that his father will eventually find out his cousin's existence. According to his father's temperament of killing him, if he knows that Prince Yi is still alive, he will kill him at all costs. .

What will he do then?Could he just let his cousin die in the hands of his father again?

But if the cousin is not eliminated, he must seek revenge from his father. At the moment when the swords meet, there will be the father who has nurtured him on the one hand, and the cousin who has been guilty for more than ten years on the other. Which side will he help?
Mu Lingzhi's headache started, and he didn't close his eyes until the sky was white, and kept them open until dawn!

After breakfast, Chen Fu handed over a post, Mu Lingzhi opened the post and looked, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded!
Seeing his surprised face, Yu Ruyan couldn't help accepting the post curiously, and couldn't help laughing out loud after seeing it!
Chen Yiqing's post was of course written by Chen Fu, and he asked Mu Lingzhi for help in the post.

It turned out that Mu Lingzhi's cousin, Princess Yuhan, was forcibly ordered by Mu Lingzhi to take [-] of her own soldiers back to Daliang when the Qi army returned home. The dowry went to Daqi to find Chen Yiqing, saying that she voluntarily married to Chen Xiang's family in Qi State, and they will get married someday!
Looking at Xie Yuhan who came from afar, Chen Yiqing was happy but also a little worried. Thinking of what Mu Lingzhi had warned him, and knowing that the future father-in-law had a hot temper, he was afraid that he would blame him for hooking up with his daughter. Will kill him with a sword.

So, after much deliberation, the only option is to ask Mu Lingzhi to come forward!

Mu Lingzhi also had a headache, but it was only appropriate for him to come forward in this matter, so he had to leave the palace with a bitter face!
Before leaving, Yu Ruyan asked him to ask Chen Yiqing for help, so that he could quietly find some trustworthy midwives and doctors for her outside the palace, and quietly bring them into the palace.

Since she had promised Wu Zhaoyi to protect her well, she had to start planning!

She couldn't believe the imperial physicians in the palace, because Concubine Lian had been in charge of the harem for many years, and most of those imperial physicians were probably hers, so how to tell who was good and who was bad? !

After sending Mu Lingzhi away, Yu Ruyan led An Ge to the Yaochun Palace. Today, Concubine Shu moved to the Palace of Chunjing newly bestowed by King Qi.

The Yaochun Palace was very busy, and the same Chunjing Palace was also busy. People from all palaces and halls sent congratulatory gifts. Even King Qi came to Chunjing Palace with gifts for the first time in person!
In the evening, Concubine Shu inevitably held a banquet in Chunjing Palace to entertain all the people in the palace. Except for Yu Mingzhu, who had lost all face yesterday, and Yu Huaizhu, who was in the Empress Dowager's Palace, who did not come, everyone else was present. Looking at King Qi's face, there was a harmonious look.

Although today's protagonist is Concubine Shu, she is cowardly by nature, shy and timid, and not good at socializing. Not only was Concubine Lian easily stealing the limelight, but Yu Ruyan was able to stop the wine toast to her.

Moreover, tonight, I don’t know if it’s because of the presence of King Qi, Concubine Lian is very affectionate to Concubine Shu, and she also invites other concubines to toast Concubine Shu non-stop. Drunk with alcohol.

Fortunately, Mu Lingzhi had someone tell her that it was Chen Yiqing's kind intention to persuade him to stay in Chen Xiang's mansion tonight and would not return to the palace, so Yu Ruyan simply rested in her mother's concubine's Chunjing Palace.

The weather was too hot, and her clothes were soaked with sweat. Brother An went back to Jinying Palace to get her a change of clothes, and the little girl in Chunjing Palace obediently served her hangover soup.

After drinking the sobering wine soup, Yu Ruyan felt very uncomfortable, her whole body was swollen and aching, and her mind was buzzing. She didn't expect the wine to have such a strong stamina, and she couldn't wait for the clothes that Brother An brought to change to bathe and change , fell on the bed in a dazed state.

Someone approached her and reached out to touch her face.

She thought it was Brother An who came back, so she couldn't help muttering: "Brother An, I'll sleep for a while, and I'll get up later to take a shower and change clothes..."

Hearing her voice, the man ran out like a ghost, and when he ran out of the yard, he suddenly remembered something, gritted his teeth, went back to the house and took away the things on the table...

"What?" Yu Mingzhu thought she had heard it wrong when she heard the little girl who was trembling in front of her, she stood up from her chair and rushed to the little girl kneeling in the middle of the room, her eyes were wide open. It was about to fall out, and he dared not say it: "The poison of Jiu Yu didn't poison her to death, how could it be possible?"

One drop of Jiu Yu's poison can kill an elephant, let alone half a bottle, how could it not kill Yu Ruyan!

The little girl kneeling on the ground was also stunned. She put the medicine into the hangover soup and fed it to Yu Ruyan, but...but she was still alive!

Yu Mingzhu didn't want to believe the little girl's words at all, how could the poison of Jiu Yu, the most poisonous poison in the world, not kill that bitch! ?

She waited in the palace all night, eager to hear the news of Yu Ruyan's death, but now...

Thinking that Yu Ruyan was not dead, she angrily stepped forward and kicked the little girl to the ground.

"Say, did you make a mistake, or were you cowardly, and didn't poison her hangover soup at all?"

Seeing her ferocious look, the little palace maid trembled with fright, suddenly remembered something, and quickly took out a small celadon bowl from her sleeve, the sides and bottom of the bowl were stained with soup.

The little girl handed the bowl to Yu Mingzhu in fear, and said tremblingly: "Princess, servant girl... I obeyed your orders and brought this bowl out when I left the room. If the princess doesn't believe it, you can put the soup on it Add water to feed... to the white cat in the yard, such a heavy amount, I believe that a little bit left on the wall of the bowl is enough... it can kill the white cat!"

Hearing the little girl's words, Yu Mingzhu asked someone to catch the white cat in the yard in a panic, poured water into the celadon bowl, carefully melted the remaining stains into the water with a spoon, and poured it into the big white cat's mouth inside.

She stared nervously at the white cat on the ground, for some reason, a chill came to her heart!
The big white cat, which was alive and kicking a moment ago, turned its belly up and died silently within less than a moment after pouring the residual stain!
With a bang, the porcelain bowl in the little girl's hand could no longer be held, fell to the ground and smashed into pieces.But Yu Mingzhu stared blankly at the big white cat that was no longer breathing on the ground, she couldn't believe it and stepped forward to kick the white cat's body, but she didn't respond at all, it was already dead!

Unable to bear the panic in her heart any longer, Yu Mingzhu shook her head in disbelief, her eyes filled with horror, her legs went limp, and she fell to the ground!
How is it possible, why did she not die after drinking such a poisonous medicine?why! !

Originally thought that taking advantage of the banquet held in Chunjing Palace today, there were many people and things, and they secretly drugged Yu Ruyan and poisoned her to death in her own mother and concubine's palace. In this way, no one would suspect her, even if Mu Ling Zhi suspected her, but he couldn't find any evidence!
Obviously, the scheme is seamless, and Yu Ruyan is sure to die, but in the end...

Yu Mingzhu foolishly fell to the ground, cold sweat broke out on her forehead from the fear in her heart, the room was silent, and the dead white cat on the ground gave the whole room a strange atmosphere.

After a long time, the door of the room was pushed open suddenly, but it was Concubine Lian who came back from Chunjing Palace and couldn't wait to come to Peony Pavilion to hear the good news.

But when she pushed open the door and looked at the scene in the room, her face was slightly suffocated, and she asked in doubt: "Is the matter—is it done?"

The little girl trembled and did not dare to answer, but Yu Mingzhu, who had been in a panic all the time, heard Concubine Lian's voice, as if awakened from a nightmare suddenly, she threw herself in front of Concubine Lian in a panic, and said tremblingly: "Concubine Mother, that Slut... Slut didn't die after drinking the poison of Jiuyu. I think... I think she must have been transformed by a ghost, otherwise... otherwise why... why the poison can't kill her! Concubine mother, she is a monster , turned into a monster..."

"Nonsense!" Concubine Lian's face turned ashen when she heard her words, and her whole body felt chills, but she still interrupted Yu Mingzhu's wild thoughts with a sip.

"I saw her crawling out of that lowly maid's stomach with my own eyes. How could it be that the monster has changed. If it was a monster, we didn't see her take revenge when we treated her like that before!"

"But why didn't she die after drinking the poison? Why!!" Hearing Concubine Lian's words, Yu Mingzhu regained consciousness a little bit, but still couldn't figure out the reason, and smashed things in the house with a frantic expression.

After all, Concubine Lian is a lot hotter. After trying to take a few deep breaths, she sat down slowly while supporting the table. After taking a sip of tea, her mind cleared up. She seemed to have thought of something. Her eyes dimmed, and she gritted her teeth and said unwillingly: " It seems that the previous rumors about the jade girl are actually true—that jade girl whose blood can cure all poisons is actually that bitch Yu Ruyan!"

"What, she is... actually a jade girl?!" Concubine Lian's words seemed to knock Yu Mingzhu down. She didn't want to believe that the only and precious jade girl in the world rumored was actually Yu Ruyan!
"Yes, only a jade girl can survive drinking the poison of Jiu Yu, because she is invulnerable to all poisons!"

Concubine Lian's eyes were bleeding with hatred, and she was unwilling to believe that the incomparably precious jade girl was Yu Ruyan, whom she hated poisonously!

After listening to Concubine Lian's words, Yu Mingzhu stared at her, lost her footing again, and fell to the ground!
The house fell into dead silence again!

Suddenly, a cold light flashed in the eyes of Yu Mingzhu who had been sitting on the ground in a daze, she suddenly got up, took a heavy jade ruyi from the bogu stand, and ruthlessly threw it on the head of the little maid who was kneeling on the ground!

With a scream, the little maid's brain was smashed, she lost her breath in an instant, and died!
"You..." Concubine Lian was taken aback by the sudden change, she stared blankly at the little palace maid who had fallen to the ground, her expression full of doubts.

"Concubine Mother, we will rot about the jade girl in our stomachs forever. We must not let the emperor, especially the third highness, know. Otherwise, or even more, we will treat that bitch as a treasure. When the time comes, the jewel in the palm will be It will really become her, and it is even more impossible for me to marry the Third Highness."

"What is the relationship between His Highness the Third Highness and the jade girl?" During the marriage before, Concubine Lian only knew that Daliang had explicitly asked to marry Daqi's jade girl, but she didn't know why Daliang wanted the jade girl!

"Mother and concubine, have you forgotten that eight years ago, King Liang met his father and emperor to hunt together at Fengyang Mountain at the border between the two countries. At that time, an assassin assassinated King Liang, but the poisonous arrow was blocked by Concubine Xie of Daliang. Since then, Concubine Xie Guifei will suffer from the poison every month, and the Third Highness asked to marry a jade girl to use the blood of the jade girl to cure the great poison on his mother and concubine!"

Concubine Lian looked at her daughter in shock, and said in amazement, "Where did you get this news?"

Yu Mingzhu sneered coldly, and said: "The daughter of Daliang's wooden minister quietly sent someone to sneak into the palace to find out the real identity of that bitch, and I accidentally discovered it."

"That bitch stayed with His Highness Third Highness in Daliang as a maidservant, Xiao Qing, so I purposely found out the real Xiao Qing from among the 36 dowry maids waiting to be executed, and asked her to go back to Daliang with the people from Mufu to identify her. The status of a slut. At that time, people from the Mu Mansion also quietly inquired about the jade girl in the palace, and under my inquiry, they told me the secrets of the Daliang Palace."

"Therefore, we must not let outsiders know that that bitch is a precious jade girl, otherwise, I am afraid that I will never have the chance to marry into the Daliang Palace again."

Yu Mingzhu gritted her teeth with hatred, but her heart was filled with chills, and finally she couldn't help crying.

On the other hand, Yu Ruyan didn't know that the bowl of hangover soup she just drank contained a huge poison, and she didn't know that she had just walked through the gate of hell.

After waking up from the drunkenness, she had some headaches, and accompanied by Brother An, she went for a walk in the small garden next to Chunjing Palace.

Kankan walked to the moon gate of the garden, and suddenly a figure jumped out from the shadows on one side, wearing a cloak and unable to see his face clearly, but stopped in front of Yu Ruyan.

(End of this chapter)