slave like jade

Chapter 164 Two Dead Ends
An Lirong's tragic situation was exactly the same as what Yu Ruyan saw in her dream, except that now there were many dead mice in the room, probably because the people in the mansion discovered An Lirong's death and asked the nursing home to take the food away. The human rat was killed...

A corpse with almost only pale bones left was placed in the middle of the room, surrounded by dead rats, and the eyeballs and nose of the corpse's face were bitten off, which was extremely disgusting and terrifying!
Yu Ruyan walked out holding Yue Ya's hand, her face turned pale, her body was shaking all the time, her whole body felt as if she had fallen into a cave of ice, cold from head to toe.

Seeing her coming out, all the servants in the mansion were silent and stood in the courtyard with their hands tied, while the female family members of Yushi's mansion were crying loudly.Yu Ruyan stabilized her mind, gritted her teeth and walked down the steps step by step, instructing Mama Liu to take someone to the coffin shop to buy two high-quality coffins immediately, and immediately put the two corpses in the coffins.

At the same time, they also sent someone to the palace to inform Mu Lingzhi that a side concubine and a wife had died in the mansion in a short while, and he had to come forward for such a big incident.

After giving all these orders, the servants in the mansion became busy with division of labor.

Yu Ruyan was trembling all the time, feeling that her legs were so weak that she was about to stand unsteadily, she was about to find a place to sit down, when the flower shadow came up to her, her face was also pale, she was about to greet her, but was stopped by Yu Ruyan, she Sitting down with the help of the porch pillar, he asked with difficulty: "Sister Hua, what happened?"

Huaying's whole body was shaking all the time, her legs were so frightened as if she was stepping on cotton, she had no choice but to sit down opposite Yu Ruyan, panting heavily: "I don't know, I just heard it early in the morning. The servants came to report that there was an accident in the okra yard, so I came to have a look and it didn't scare me to death..."

Thinking of what she had seen, Huaying shivered, her expression filled with horror, she was always timid and calm, she had seen such a terrible occasion there, so until now she still has lingering fears, and when she thinks about it, she is terrified.

Yue Ya brought tea to the two of them, Yu Ruyan drank several sips of tea before she calmed down, and asked Hua Ying: "Who first discovered what happened? Where is the servant of Okra Courtyard?"

Hearing this, Huaying just remembered something, she was so scared and confused that she almost forgot.

She took out a piece of paper from her body and handed it to Yu Ruyan, saying, "The first one I found was Yuan'er next to Mrs. An, but she... she was so frightened that she lost her mind, I asked someone to lock her up temporarily Get up. This is the will written by Mrs. An found in her room, it is... for you, Wangfei."

Yu Ruyan's hand holding the paper stopped for a moment, doubts flashed in her heart, she unfolded the paper and saw that there was a large sheet of paper densely packed inside, on which was written in detail the matter of An Lirong killing her child, and in the letter The last few sentences were written specifically for Yu Ruyan.

She said that because of the Qin Xianglou incident, Yu Ruyan could not protect herself. Without her support, she felt that she had no hope of revenge for her child, and she had no choice but to perish with An Lirong...

A few short sentences made her feel cold. It is not difficult to see that An Lan's resentment towards her between the lines means that she blamed her for not being able to protect herself in the end and not helping her, so that she had no choice but to talk to An Lirong. Let's all die together to avenge her child!
At the end of the letter, An Lan asked Yu Ruyan to make the decision for her. After her death, her surname "An" was removed. She would rather be a nameless person than have any relationship with An Lirong... …

Yu Ruyan's heart was full of ice and snow, and she secretly hated, if it hadn't been for the incident of helping Qin Xianglou, and the framing of Yu Mingzhu and Mu Ziyue, maybe An Lan and An Lirong would have had a different ending, although An Lirong was You deserve what you deserve, but you won't die without a whole body. The appearance of death is so miserable...

The queen asked her to rectify the palace, but now that such a big incident happened, how would she deal with it...

Soon the nursing home brought two coffins and put the two into them respectively.People from the Yushi Mansion rushed forward unwillingly, and wanted to overturn An Lan's coffin. Judging from the description, they wished to whip the dead An Lan's body again to relieve their hatred, but the guards of the Wang Mansion got Yu Ru Yan Zhiling protected the coffin from them, and the scene was chaotic for a while.

Seeing that Yu Ruyan had people stop them, Mrs. Yushi cried to her angrily: "How dare a little lady murder the side concubine, and the palace even let her be buried in a coffin?! Such a lowly maid should be let It is right for her to expose the corpse to the wilderness and feed the wild dogs, we will not obey the princess's treatment like this!"

In the eyes of those who don't know, An Lan really shouldn't have murdered An Lirong. Not only is she lower than An Lirong, but more importantly, she used to be An Lirong's dowry girl. Master, even if she lost her life in the end, everyone still thinks that Mrs. Yushi is right, even if she dies, it is only fair that she should be punished.

But Yu Ruyan knows what the real justice is.

She looked coldly at the powerful and aggressive female family members of the Yushijia, without any intention of giving in, and said coldly: "The matter of the palace is handled by our palace itself. Does the mother-in-law think that today's matter is not big enough? ?”

She didn't believe that Mrs. Yu Shi didn't know that An Lirong framed An Lan's unborn child.

Sure enough, Mrs. Yushi's face changed when she heard the words, and her expression became embarrassing, but she still didn't want to stop here, and she didn't let the other female relatives stop.

As An Lirong's close cousin, Yu Wan also came, and accompanied her natal family who came to Yushi's mansion, wiping tears sadly.

Yu Ruyan looked coldly at the military adviser behind An Lirong, and walked in front of her, with a cold light in her eyes, and said coldly: "The concubine Yu's long hands actually stretched out to the Three Princes' Palace. Your backyard is here. Everything before is under your control, but have you ever thought that your cousin will end up like this in the end? Or in other words, have you ever thought that your plots and schemes will end up in While helping your cousin to harm others, have you ever thought that you are also putting her to death!"

Yu Wan was shocked when she heard the words, her face was flustered, she was about to open her mouth to defend herself, when Yu Ruyan spoke coldly again.

"So, you have to bear a lot of responsibility for her death today. If you really want to punish the person who killed Concubine An according to Mrs. Yushi's words, do you think you should take the first crime? ?”

Cold sweat trickled down from her forehead, Yu Wan lowered her head and dared not meet Yu Ruyan's sharp eyes.Her whole body was trembling slightly, but she was also very strong, but after a moment, she recovered from the panic, wiped away her tears and said coldly: "How can the princess buckle such a big hat without proof? Dirty hat on my head? I am in my eldest prince's mansion, so what does it have to do with me if something happens in your mansion?"

Yu Ruyan had already expected that she would say this, so she stepped forward two steps in front of her, looked at her closely, took out the paper on her body, unfolded it in her hand, and sneered at her: "Is Yu the side concubine still?" Do you really think you can do it well?"

The paper letter was densely packed with petite characters, even though they were close together, it didn't look real in Yu Ruyan's hand.Yu Wan felt guilty, and wanted to reach out and snatch the paper in her hand, but she wanted to see that it contained evidence of her tricks, but Yu Ruyan put it away.

Yu Ruyan put away the paper, and said coldly: "Now that you are dead, I don't want to pursue the past. The side concubine is still thinking about how to persuade you family members to send An side concubine to the end in peace. Yicheng, if you want to cause trouble in the palace, don't blame me for turning my face and denying others, and revealing everyone's old background, and everyone's faces will be ugly!"

Hearing this, Yu Wan's face became even more ugly. She lowered her head and thought for a while, and finally took two steps forward and whispered a few words in Mrs. Yushi's ear. Immediately, Mrs. Yushi's expression became embarrassing. Yu Ruyan silently put away the unwilling expression on her face, and walked away with the anger of Yushifu.

Yu Wan also left with the people from Yushifu.Seeing her leaving back, Yu Ruyan clasped her hands tightly into her palms——

Because of the matter between Qin Xianglou and Jing Zhaoyin, she, Mu Lingzhi and the entire Three Princes' Mansion have become the gossip and jokes of the people in the Eastern Capital, and if such a big event happens in the Royal Mansion again, it will cause troubles in the entire Eastern Capital. There was an uproar, at this time, Yu Ruyan didn't want any more twists and turns between the Prince's Mansion and the First Prince's Mansion and Yushi Mansion, otherwise, she would not want to let it go so easily!
After the people from Yushi's mansion left, someone came from the palace. Yu Ruyan thought it was Mu Lingzhi who came back, but it was the female official next to the empress, Xuan Yu Ruyan, who came to the palace and entrusted her concubine Huaying as her... Madam, you are in charge of all affairs of the palace.

Hearing the queen's decree, Yu Ruyan's whole body was shocked, her heart was clear, she led everyone to accept the decree to thank her, got up and went to Yunsong courtyard to take out the account book key and seal of the palace and handed it to Huaying Li, said: "In the future, I will have to entrust my sister with the affairs of the palace, and the funeral of the An family, please worry about it."

Facing the sudden reward and Yu Ruyan's handing over the family power, Huaying stayed on the spot in shock, and anxiously declined: "Princess, I have never been in charge of the house, how can I do this? Besides, there are funerals in the mansion." To do, this... this, I have no way of doing it!"

Yu Ruyan felt bitter in her heart, she smiled wryly and patted her hand to comfort her: "Don't worry, the people in charge of the palace are all old people in the palace, if you have any questions, please ask them, it won't be too difficult."

After finishing speaking, he tidied up his makeup a little bit and entered the palace with the female officer.

Sitting in the sedan chair, Yu Ruyan knew that what was supposed to come would finally come!

In fact, ever since Mu Lingzhi learned about the evil star disrupting the country's fortunes, she knew that Empress Xie would come to find her, so she didn't find it strange now, it was just a few days later than she expected That's all.

This time the sedan chair didn't stop in front of the palace gate, but carried her directly into Yaohua Palace. As soon as she entered, the palace gate of Yaohua Palace closed behind her with a bang.

The dull sound of closing the door shook her heart. She knew that Empress Xie was planning not to let herself go out, nor to let Mu Lingzhi break into the palace to save herself!

Her eyes were as calm as water, she straightened her chest, and followed the maids steadily into Yaohua's main hall. On the first phoenix seat, Empress Xie, who was dressed in a purple dress, had been waiting for her for a long time.

She lowered her eyebrows and knelt down, and said: "My son kowtowed to the empress!"

Before, because she and Mu Lingzhi hadn't formally married, she had been careful never to call her son-in-law in front of Queen Xie.

But today she boldly called herself a son-in-law in front of Empress Xie, but did not call Empress Xie the 'mother queen'. This asymmetric title is really surprising.

After hearing her greeting, Empress Xie's complexion sank, she could see the disgust on her face at a glance, and she refused to let her flatten, and said coldly to her: "It's really funny, since you call yourself a son-in-law in front of this palace, But you also call Bengong your empress, are you getting more and more stupid the more you live?"

Yu Ruyan straightened her back, raised her head and calmly looked at the stern empress, and said with a smile: "It's not that I've become more and more stupid as I live, it's just that I know myself. In terms of identity, I'm already the Third Highness My princess, but I also know that Your Majesty has always disliked me, and even hated me, so how dare I call Your Majesty the 'Queen Mother' without her permission!?"

Her words were reasonable, but they were particularly harsh to Empress Xie's ears. She smiled coldly and said, "You mean, no matter how much I object, you don't have to recognize this queen mother, and you don't have to. Are you going to marry Ling Zhi!?"

With an elegant smile neither humble nor overbearing, Yu Ruyan said: "The concubine is incompetent, can't change the reality, and can't persuade the empress, that's all I can do."

Seeing her appearance, Empress Xie's heart became more angry, and at the same time, doubts flashed in her heart. She didn't understand why she was still so calm and confident now. Didn't she know that because of the evil star, King Liang had murderous intentions towards her? ?
Thinking of this, Empress Xie secretly hated, and thought to herself, it seems that her infatuated and stupid son protected her very well, and he actually carried all the rumors and all the pressure from the outside world on his shoulders, and did not let her know. Don't let her hurt.

The more she thought about it, the more empress Xie felt sorry for her son who hated Yu Ruyan, so she said coldly: "Reality? What is reality? I am here to tell you the reality you are facing now."

"The reality is that you have deceived Ling Zhi and all of us. Not only are you not a jade girl, but you are an ominous person who will bring disaster to the country and the people. Therefore, for the sake of the entire Liang and Ling Zhi, there are only two roads in front of you. One road is Let His Majesty order you to be killed, one is that you leave Ling Zhi voluntarily, go back and forth from there to your Daqi, and you will never come to Daliang again in this life, and you will not be able to meet Ling Zhi again."

Her heart ached, although Yu Ruyan had expected in her heart that Empress Xie called her into the palace today, it must be because of an evil star, but now that she heard such cruel words with her own ears, her heart began to bleed——

Letting her leave Mu Ling is tantamount to letting her die, so both paths are death to her!
She was obscure, her eyes were gloomy, and it took a long time before she smiled wryly in a daze: "As a woman, does my mother believe that a woman's fate can really affect the fate of a country? Doesn't my mother understand that in our women's life, our fate is determined by the fate of a country?" It's never something I can arrange..."

"Hmph, so?" Empress Xie didn't want to look at her anymore, she lowered her head and drank her tea, with an expression that didn't give Yu Ruyan any room to negotiate and beg for mercy.

Seeing the resolutely childlike and indifferent attitude on Empress Xie's face, Yu Ruyan's expression also calmed down, and said coldly: "So, now I am identified as a malevolent star without evidence and wanting my life, do you think this is fair to me? ?”

"Without proof!?"

Hearing this, Empress Xie was not moved by her words, but became even more angry, staring at her fiercely, and said: "When you came to Daliang, there was a change in the crown prince's seal ceremony, which almost affected the relationship between the emperor and the prince. I have my life, and besides, that Prince Yi almost died at the altar in order to save you."

"Over the past hundred years in Daliang, there have only been droughts and never floods. But this year, there have been sudden floods, epidemics, people displaced, and countless deaths and injuries. And Qin Xianglou has killed so many people because of you. Now the crowd The people are angry, and countless memorials request His Majesty to kill you to quell the people's anger and obey the will of God. If Ling Zhi hadn't tried his best to block it for you, do you think you are still alive to stand here and talk to Ben Gong?"

The more Empress Xie said, the more angry she became, her eyes wished she could eat Yu Ruyan.And she just listened quietly from the beginning to the end, with a calm expression on her face.

"It's a pity that I handed over the palace to you before, but I didn't know that you were an unlucky person. You can see for yourself, when you took over the palace, what did the three palaces look like? It can't be worth a month. I see, the female family members in the back house are dying and leaving. Because of your ominousness, the house is restless and the house is flying like dogs and dogs. It has made the three princes' mansion the laughing stock of the whole East, and also made the son of the palace To become the laughing stock of people all over the world is really abhorrent!"

After talking about Ken, Empress Xie was already gnashing her teeth with hatred. Mu Lingzhi was extremely disgusted with marrying wives and taking concubines. At the beginning, the side concubines and aunts in the palace had put a lot of thought into her and forced him to accept them. Now the children She didn't keep it for a while, and it was all 'dead' in her hands, which made Queen Xie's teeth itch with hatred.

And judging by how much Mu Lingzhi loves her now, I am afraid that it will be even more impossible to take him as a concubine in the future, and she herself is not good at raising children. A man without heirs, let the whole world poke his spine and laugh at him, Empress Xie felt a heart-piercing pain.

"Okay, you want fairness, you think we, Daliang, bullied you. I will fulfill you—"

Empress Xie came down from the main seat aggressively, and forced her in front of Yu Ruyan, the sharp armor pinched Yu Ruyan's neck, forcing her to look at her, her voice was icy cold, without any warmth—

"As long as you shed a tear in front of me, I will take back what I just said to you. Not only will I agree with you to marry Ling Zhi, but I will also go to His Majesty to intercede for you. But, do you have any tears?"

The pointed armor pierced into her flesh, oozing traces of blood, that kind of sharp pain would have been so painful that ordinary people would have shed tears, but Yu Ruyan never shed a single tear except for her red eyes .

Although Empress Xie had heard that Yu Ruyan was born without tears, she was still shocked when she saw her unusual appearance, so she decided in her heart that she was an evil star and an ominous person. More determined.

"It's easy for me to kill you, and it's easier for His Majesty to kill you than to trample an ant to death, but we never killed you and kept you here. Do you know why?"

Empress Xie let go of her hand, and Yu Ruyan felt a burning pain on her neck. She raised her hand to touch the blood flowing from her neck, and said with a sneer, "Yes, your mother hates me so much, why didn't you just kill me?"

"Anyway, you saved the crown prince back then, I will remember this kindness. Therefore, I am willing to spare your life. As long as you leave Lingzhi and go back to Daqi obediently, I will definitely ask His Majesty to let you go." Way to live, like this, hello, everyone."

Regarding Queen Xie's words, Yu Ruyan didn't say a word, she knelt there blankly, as if she couldn't hear the queen's words.

Seeing this, Empress Xie lost the last of her patience. She flicked her sleeves fiercely, pointed her cold fingernails at the deep well in the Yaohua Palace outside the hall and said coldly: "I'll give you a moment to think about it. If you don't get what you want The answer that the palace wants, that deep well is your final destination!"

After all, he walked out with a flick of his sleeves.

"Does it mean that as long as I can shed tears, the empress will agree with me to be with His Highness as she said just now?"

Behind him, Yu Ruyan, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke to Empress Xie who was walking towards the entrance of the hall.

Empress Xie faltered when she heard the words. After a long time, she turned around slowly. The light outside the hall was shining behind her back, so that Yu Ruyan couldn't see the description on her face clearly. She only heard her voice coldly saying: "You still Don't you understand? Your lack of tears dooms you to misfortune, and your misfortune will bring disaster to those around you. Ling Zhi is the son of this palace, and this palace does not want...not to let him have accidents because of you, even die..."

"For you, he has lost all reason, really like a moth to a flame, desperate! Do you know that he is the most promising future monarch of Daliang, the hope and pride of this palace and his father. But ever since Gu's child had an accident, he disobeyed this palace's order for you for the first time, and would rather protect you than his own child, this palace has understood that my son is ruined, he is ruined In your hands, ruined in your relationship..."

The queen's words hit Yu Ruyan's heart like a thunderbolt, her heart was painful and numb, and she felt out of breath.

She looked up at the queen with a blurred face in a daze, and suddenly felt that her face seemed to be slowly aging, and her voice was full of helplessness and heartache——

"Sure enough, he didn't fight for the crown prince that belonged to him anymore, he would rather support his younger brother to take the position. I know that before Jiangshan and you, he chose you without hesitation..."

"A few days ago, he braved the heavy rain and knelt outside his father's palace for you. Do you know what he said?"

Speaking of this, Queen Xie's tone was filled with deep sadness and pain, and she couldn't help but take a deep breath before continuing.

"He said that when the prince's seal ceremony is complete, he will take you away from Daliang and the Eastern Capital, and he will abandon everything here, as long as you are alone..."

"Do you know how disappointed and sad his father was when he heard such words? If the palace and the crown prince hadn't finally come forward to persuade His Majesty, based on his description at the time, he would have broken with his father..."

"It is said that the Mu family of Daliang is dedicated. Lingzhi's father regretted half his life for a Queen Zhu. I don't want my son to betray his family, give up his identity, and let go of the responsibilities and responsibilities that should have belonged to him to become a queen for you. A person who has nothing and even wants to follow his father's old path."

"So, this game, I can't afford to bet on it!"

(End of this chapter)