slave like jade

Chapter 66
It was the first time she was being tricked like this without knowing it, she couldn't help feeling ashamed and angry, and raised her palm to hit Yu Ruyan in the face, but unexpectedly, Mu Lingzhi in front suddenly turned around to look at the two of them and asked: "What are you talking about so speculatively!"

Mu Ziyue was so filled with hatred, she gritted her teeth to suppress the overwhelming anger in her heart, and lightly placed her slender hand on Yu Ruyan's messy hair by her ear, helped her remove a dead grass from her hair, forced a smile and said: "It's just something about my daughter's family, so don't worry about it."

Yu Ruyan's heart was clear, her guess was indeed correct!

After affirming the answer in her heart, she didn't bother to pester her anymore, and she felt sick even if she stayed with her for a while.After slightly saluting, he walked away.

Once the Ziluo Courtyard was disturbed by Wu Jinshao, Gu Qing'er never dared to go back to live in it. Mu Lingzhi was also worried that there were other hidden dangers in her courtyard, so he agreed that she would temporarily live in Yunsong Courtyard until Ziluo Courtyard was closed. After removing all hidden dangers and repairing Luo Yuan, it will be moved back.

Tong Qian vacated the room on the east side of the main house for Gu Qing'er to live in, while Yu Ruyan was still left in the main house by Mu Lingzhi.

After the fried medicine came out of the small kitchen, Yu Ruyan ran into Gu Qing'er who was going to the main house, she deliberately slowed down two steps and stayed behind, but Gu Qing'er stopped in front of her and looked her up and down , slowly said: "I have to say, you are really fateful, Wu Jinshao can't be bitten to death, and it can't be burned to death, hehe, I really disappointed those who are eagerly looking forward to your death!"

Yu Ruyan looked at the medicine bowl in her hand, smelled the incense on her body, and said with a smile, "I wonder if there is your wife among these people?"

Gu Qing'er never expected that she would be so direct, she couldn't help but look cold, and sneered: "Don't worry, I just want to have a safe pregnancy, and I don't want to get involved in other dirty things. I live under the same roof, I just want to remind you , think about who pushed you from the steps to Wu Jinshao's mouth that day? And who lit the fire in the woodshed? You shouldn't be so stupid as to believe that everything was just a coincidence. The person who wants to kill you I will definitely attack you again." Her big charming eyes were flickering, and she suddenly stepped forward and whispered in her ear: "Why don't we work together to find out the evil hands in the Violet Courtyard, so that both you and I can Peaceful."

Yu Ruyan sneered in her heart, but the expression on her face was indifferent, and said: "Didn't Madam just say it herself, she didn't want to get involved with dirty things, I think Madam's thoughts are right, after all, you are pregnant now , I have to do a good job of accumulating virtue for the child in my womb, so I don’t have to worry about my affairs.”

After all, he took the medicine bowl and went straight past Gu Qing'er and went back to the house.I only heard Gu Qing'er say coolly from behind: "It is impossible for a person to be lucky forever. If you escape once, you may not be able to escape the second time. Are you so confident that you can handle it alone?"

No matter how many dangers are waiting for her in the road ahead, she will not be so stupid as to seek skin from a tiger and leave more dangerous explosives by her side!
That day in Ziluoyuan, after she accidentally knocked down Zhuzhu, she clearly smelled realgar on her body.Ordinary people would wear realgar on their body for no reason, this matter only shows one point, Gu Qing'er and the others knew about the poisonous snake in Ziluo Courtyard long ago and took precautions.

At first, she also had doubts in her heart. If Gu Qing'er knew that there were poisonous snakes in the water and jumped into it, betting the fetus in her womb with her own life, such behavior would be too stupid and the stakes too high.At that time, she thought that Zhu Zhu was someone who had been placed beside Gu Qing'er and had betrayed Gu Qing'er. It wasn't until the copper coins came out of the pool that she smelled the rotten muddy smell on his body——

Gu Qing'er didn't fall into the pool at all!
Because there is no smell of mud on her body at all, she just co-directed and performed a trick of falling into the water with the people around her.

So, did she plan all this carefully to attract Mu Lingzhi and then make Wu Jinshao make trouble by accidentally killing someone?Or is there a bigger conspiracy in Ziluoyuan?
Mu Lingzhi frowned unconsciously when he saw her coming in with soup and medicine. He was not afraid of anything, but he was most afraid of taking medicine.

Seeing him turn around and walk towards the inner room, Yu Ruyan couldn't help speeding up her pace to catch up and said, "Your Highness, the medicine is ready..."

"Let's drink it after cooling down!" Someone fled into the room.

"It will be even more bitter when it's cold." She could see all of his expression, and she couldn't help but laugh in her heart. The third prince, who is cold-blooded, ruthless and decisive, is afraid of this?
"Your Highness, this servant has a way to drink medicine without bitterness, do you want to try it?" Liu Guang's watery eyes sparkled, as if possessing some kind of magical power. A good idea?"

You should just admit that you are afraid of taking medicine!

"How dare my servant lie to Your Highness, Your Highness is this servant's great benefactor!" Her long eyelashes fluttered and her eyes were extremely sincere.

Mu Lingzhi looked at her half-believingly, only to see her smile, turned around and made a cup of tea and handed it to him, "Your Highness, take a sip of the tea before taking the medicine, and you won't feel so bitter."

What she made him was a cup of Kuding tea. Although this kind of tea was bitter, Mu Lingzhi didn't dislike it. He picked up the teacup and took a sip. Seeing this, Yu Ruyan quickly handed him the decoction for him to drink.

With the bitter taste of Kudingcha left on the tongue, the bitter taste that makes you want to vomit will no longer be felt after drinking Chinese medicine.After Mu Lingzhi drank it in one breath, he really felt much better than before.

After all, he also thought the smell of traditional Chinese medicine was too bad to swallow.

Mu Lingzhi took the mouthwash she handed over and rinsed his mouth, squinted at her and said, "You have a lot of weird methods in your mind!"

Yu Ruyan smiled slightly.At this moment, copper coins came in.

Copper Coin has been ordered to search in the Ziluo Courtyard for the past few days. At this time, he came in with a small cloth bag in his hand, with a somewhat flustered expression. It seemed that he had found something in the Ziluo Courtyard.

Gu Qing'er followed him into the house, looked at the things in his hand and asked curiously: "What did you find in my yard?"

Seeing her urging, the copper coin had no choice but to open the wrapping cloth, and the other three couldn't help but be shocked when they saw what he was holding!
After a while, An Lirong and several other concubines were called to Yunsong Courtyard, and the masters all entered the house, and the outer courtyard was full of servants from the house, whispering one by one, not knowing what happened what happened.

As soon as An Lirong and the others entered the room, before they had time to greet Mu Lingzhi, they were frightened by something on the table in the room.

I saw a small wooden figure covered with mud on the sandalwood table. Although the birth date engraved on the wooden figure could not be seen clearly, the wooden figure's head and stomach were covered with dense steel needles, one by one. The sharpness pierced everyone's eyes.

Daliang Kingdom has always strictly prohibited witchcraft, and Mu Lingzhi hated witchcraft extremely, but he never expected that someone in his family would do such dirty things.

His deep phoenix eyes narrowed dangerously, and his handsome face seemed covered with a layer of frost. He pointed to the wooden figure on the table and asked coldly, "Who made it?"

Everyone in the room was silent, only Gu Qing'er sobbed loudly, don't think about it, she is the only one who is cursed.

She covered her face with her hands and wept endlessly: "Your Highness, since I was pregnant, I have been disturbed by nightmares every night and can't sleep peacefully. I didn't expect, I didn't expect that someone performed a witchcraft behind my back. Look at the pierced stomach. Steel needle, this is killing our child."

Her voice was sharp and high-pitched, making everyone's hearts skip a beat - murdering the emperor's heir is a serious crime of beheading!

Seeing this, Yu Ruyan was confused again. If Gu Qing'er knew about Wu Jinshao, then what about this little wooden man who cursed her?Could it be that she directed and acted on her own?
Impossible, how could she play with the child in her stomach!

If the matter of the little wooden man has nothing to do with her, then what is going on?

Her cold eyes slowly flicked across the faces of several wives and concubines, but apart from shock and fear, everyone showed no strange expressions.

After hearing Gu Qing'er's cry, Mu Lingzhi's expression became even more gloomy. He asked the copper coin: "Where did you find this dirty thing?"

"Returning to the master, I found it from the hole in the rockery."

Hearing the answer from the copper coin, An Lirong's complexion changed drastically. Before she could react, Gu Qing'er had already thrown herself on her and began to fight: "Poison woman, I knew it was you who wanted to kill my child!"

Gu Qing'er has always been pungent, but now because of her pregnancy and the fact that An Lirong was the one who wanted to harm her, she is even more confident, she is merciless in her attacks, her sharp nails scratched An Lirong's face, and she clung to her hair.After all, An Lirong came from a famous family, and her quality is much better than her. In addition, she was worried that she was pregnant, so if she dared to fight her, she could only let her bit and bite, and dodged embarrassingly with her face protected.

Everyone was stunned by the sudden change, and when they reacted and pulled the two away, An Lirong was disheveled and extremely embarrassed.

The dignified side concubine was bullied like this in public by the wife below. She felt so wronged that she couldn't care less about her reserve, she fell down at Mu Ling's feet with a cry of 'wow', and said tremblingly: "Your Highness... please be my minister!" The concubine upholds justice!"

When the incident got here, everyone became more and more confused. Both An Lirong and Gu Qing'er cried and begged Mu Lingzhi to do justice for him. She was still kneeling on the ground, and said coldly: "There is no proof, why do you say that the side concubine hurt you? You hurt people like a shrew. You have stayed in the palace for so many years, and you are getting more and more presumptuous! "

Gu Qing'er never expected that Mu Lingzhi would stand by An Lirong's side at this time. She straightened up and wiped away her tears and said, "How can I wrong her wrongly. This fake rock is the one she arranged for me in the early stages of pregnancy." It was placed in the pool, and the wooden figurine was found from the rockery, who else could it be if it wasn’t her? Thinking about it this way, she might have put the deadly Wujin shoot in early in the morning.”

As soon as this remark came out, everyone looked at An Lirong at the same time. Her face turned pale before she had time to turn around. To buy a rockery, I will find a craftsman to help her build one according to what she said, as for the wooden figures inside, I don’t know anything about it.”

She herself felt that her defense was feeble.The whole family knew that she had always disliked Gu Qing'er and often reprimanded her in public, who would believe such an explanation now?
Yu Ruyan kept furrowing her eyebrows and stood aside silently sorting out all the clues in her heart, and her intuition told her that An Lirong really took the blame this time.

But she has no intention of defending her, because she is not a kind person. When the firewood house caught fire, she saw with her own eyes that Xilian led the people from Furongyuan to set fire around. Now there is no chance to see An Lirong being cornered and cornered.

Just because she doesn't seek revenge doesn't mean she doesn't hold grudges!

Therefore, she still needs to find out who pushed her under Wu Jinshao's sharp teeth in Ziluoyuan that day?
Yu Ruyan's gaze slid across everyone's face quietly, and finally stopped on An Lan——

Today, An Lan is wearing a lotus blue floral skirt. I don't know if it's because of the color of the skirt. When I look at it from Yu Ruyan's side, I just feel that her face is a little paler than before!

It's strange that An Lirong, who usually protects An Lirong the most, didn't speak up to defend her former master today!

At such a time, it's understandable that she chooses to be wise and protect herself, but isn't she afraid of losing An Lirong, a big tree beside her?

In fact, Gu Qinger's words seem reasonable, but they are not watertight, and although An Lirong is at a disadvantage, it is not without the opportunity to refute, it's just that she was in a hurry and forgot some obvious things.

For example, if she really wanted to use Gu to harm Gu Qing'er, why did she choose to put the wooden man who performed the spell in Ziluo Courtyard, wouldn't it be better and less likely to be noticed directly in her Furong Courtyard?

Moreover, she arranged for someone to release the rockery, which seems to be the best evidence against her, but it is also the best place to defend herself.If it was really her place, there are so many wooden figurines that can be hidden in the Ziluo Courtyard, how could she put them in the rockery arranged by herself, isn't she asking for her own death?
Gu Qing'er cried even more heartbroken when she got the reason. That description meant that she would not stop until An Li was punished.Mu Lingzhi frowned, and he thought of what Yu Ruyan thought of, so he looked suspicious, and did not order An Lirong to be dealt with for a long time.

At this moment, Gu Qing'er hugged her stomach and hummed, cold sweat trickled down from her forehead, she grabbed Mu Lingzhi's lapel with a pale face and cried, "Your Highness, please, don't worry about it." It doesn't matter whether I live or die, but we have to give an explanation to our flesh and blood, our child has suffered so much before he was born, it is really pitiful!"

Gu Qing'er was pregnant with his first child, he still became nervous after all, he quickly picked her up and put her on the bed, and hurriedly ordered someone to invite Dr. Wu.Looking back and seeing Gu Qing looking at her earnestly, she had no choice but to deal with it ruthlessly and decided to An Lirong to calm her heart.

He concentrated for a moment, and was about to speak when suddenly the little wooden figure on the table fell to the ground, Yu Ruyan stooped to pick it up and couldn't help but smile, her cold eyes suddenly sparkled.

No matter how much doubt there was about the witchcraft, Mu Lingzhi finally punished An Lirong for this matter, degraded her status as a side concubine, and demoted her to wife, and was punished for a full month!

When An Lirong was taken away, her face was full of despair, her eyes were so gloomy that she couldn't see any light, her hot heart also cooled down, and she looked at Mu Lingzhi with deep resentment.

Does he not believe in himself that much?

Heh, when did he trust her and protect her?After all these years of marrying into the palace, she didn't get any affection from him. She worked hard to get a foothold in the palace, and worked hard to take care of the whole house for him, but in the end?

For a little wooden man of unknown origin, for a few words from other wives and concubines, he completely abandoned himself!

Seeing her face full of despair, Mu Lingzhi felt guilty, but thinking of the child in Gu Qing'er's womb, and the increasingly serious battle for the throne, he could only wrong her temporarily to stabilize Gu Qing'er's emotions, Let her successfully give birth to the emperor's eldest grandson to help her ascend to the throne as soon as possible!

Originally thought that after this incident, His Highness would kill An Lirong if he was punished heavily, and if he was punished lightly, he would have to put her out of the house. What Gu Qing'er didn't expect was that His Highness just lowered her status and punished her.

She was dissatisfied and was about to speak again, but someone in the crowd shook her head lightly at her without a trace, she thought for a while, and had no choice but to swallow back the words unwillingly.

Yu Ruyan has been carefully paying attention to Gu Qing'er's every move, and she couldn't help being surprised when she saw that she was about to speak but suddenly stopped. She glanced at the little wooden figure in her hand, and smiled coldly in her heart——

It seems that everything in Ziluo Courtyard was directed and acted by Gu Qing'er, but, based on her observation and understanding of her, she does not seem to be such a meticulous and thoughtful person.

Following Gu Qing'er's gaze, Yu Ruyan saw the three people staying at the side: the glamorous Kuang Qinqin, the gentle Huaying, and the plain An Lan.

A cold light flashed in her cold eyes. Although An Lirong was punished for not caring about her own affairs, it can even be said that she deserved what she has done today. Let this be her punishment for arson and murder!

But Yu Ruyan wanted to figure out, who was the person who pushed her that day?

The mistress of the house was punished, but the palace cannot be leaderless!

Mu Lingzhi's deep eyes swept across the faces of the crowd, and finally stopped on An Lan, who had a peaceful face. He thought for a while, thinking that she has a gentle personality, has a sense of proportion in dealing with people and doing things, and has been by An Lirong's side for so many years. She also has experience in managing the palace together, so she said: "Mrs. An is grounded. From now on, Auntie An will take care of the big and small households in the palace."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone couldn't believe it, thinking that Aunt An has always kept out of the limelight in the mansion, quietly guarding her side concubine, no different from when she was a girl, and she rarely received favors at ordinary times. In one leap, she became the mistress of the palace.

An Lan raised her head in surprise, her pretty face was flushed with excitement, she couldn't believe that Mu Lingzhi would hand over the entire palace to her, but she usually kept a low profile and got along well with everyone. , no one objected.

She knelt down in front of Mu Lingzhi to thank Mu Lingzhi, and said in a trembling voice, "Thank you for trusting my concubine, Your Highness will definitely live up to His Highness's entrustment, and I must do a good job."

Standing aside, Yu Ruyan looked at her quietly, and then turned her gaze to Gu Qing'er. She never expected that she, who had always been at odds with the two of An's family, would acquiesce in the head of An Lan, who was lower than her.

Seeing this, the truth became clearer in her mind.Liu Guangshui looked calmly at the sincere woman on the ground. For the first time, she felt that it was not a sad thing for her to fight alone without friends in the palace.

I went to the garden to find Uncle Chen, and asked him to leave the house to take care of Brother An. On the way back, I met An Lan in the gazebo at the corner, drinking tea with Kuang Qinqin and Huaying.She thought for a while and walked around.

"My servant greets the three aunts!" Yu Ruyan saluted obediently, and the three who were chatting were slightly taken aback when they saw it was her.

An Lan asked, "Your Highness, have you finished your medicine today?"

Yu Ruyan smiled slightly at her and said: "His Highness has recovered, Dr. Wu showed him this morning, and said that the remaining poison in his body has been cleared, and there is no serious problem."

Hearing what she said, An Lan's expression became much more relaxed, and she said with a smile, "I've really worked hard these days, my sister. If I hadn't had a younger sister serving His Highness wholeheartedly, I'm afraid His Highness won't recover so quickly." Covering her mouth with a veil, she said with a coquettish smile: "I also heard that His Highness, who has always hated taking medicine, got a good idea from his sister, and it is much smoother to drink medicine.

"My aunt is ridiculous!" Yu Ruyan looked at her with cold eyes: "In the end, His Highness suffered this disaster because of the servant. So the servant is willing to ask the aunt to be the master, and ask someone to check the day. Who deliberately pushed down the servants, causing the servants and His Highness to almost die in Shekou."

She looked at An Lan for a moment, for some reason, every time she saw her recently, she found that her complexion was not good, even after applying rouge to add color, she was still very pale.

Hearing Yu Ruyan's request, An Lan's face instantly turned paler.She paused for a moment, the panic in her eyes flashed past, and she took a sip of tea before returning to Yu Ruyan's words: "Your Highness didn't ask for a closer look at Wu Jinshao's matter, why don't you just let it go, I know my sister is involved in this matter. I have suffered a lot of grievances, and I ask my sister to bear with me!"

Hearing this, Yu Ruyan smiled slowly, her watery eyes gleaming, but with a hint of coldness, she said slowly: "It's okay for the servant to be wronged, it doesn't matter even if this lowly life dies in Wu Jinshao's mouth. It's just—" She said with a firm tone, looking into An Lan's eyes word by word: "This matter involves the safety of His Highness, and I heard that all the concubines and empresses in the palace were furious because of this. If Auntie doesn't investigate such a big matter clearly I understand, if you find out who is behind the scenes and punish them severely, I'm afraid it will be difficult to convince the public!"

An Lan looked at her with a gloomy face, the hand holding the cup turned pale, and said coldly: "What does my sister mean, is there someone who is dissatisfied with your Highness asking my housekeeper?"

"How dare!" Yu Ruyan showed a smile, her face was peaceful and her eyes were clear, "I just feel that such a big thing happened in the palace, not only the whole palace is suspicious, even the imperial concubine and empress want to know the truth. Wouldn't it be a good time to convince His Highness and Empress that His Highness can find out this matter?"

An Lan was at a loss for words for a while, and the expression on her face was even more difficult to look at. Hua Ying who was sitting on the side was afraid that Yu Ruyan would offend An Lan who had just taken charge of the family, and was about to speak out to persuade her, but was held back by Kuang Qinqin.

She held her hand under the table and motioned her to keep quiet!
Huaying looked at Kuang Qinqin in confusion, the latter just gave her a wink, Huaying suddenly understood that Yu Ruyan probably had suspicions in her heart by doing this, and she forced An Lan to come forward, fearing that there was something inside .

Seeing her master being forced, Yuan'er said angrily: "Miss Xiaoqing, although you are deeply loved by His Highness, my master is the mistress promised by His Highness, how can you talk to her like this? It's so unreasonable! "

Her eyes sank, Yu Ruyan was not angry, she took two steps forward to look at the dark blue dress on Yuan'er's body and said with a smile: "Sister Yuan'er has fair and delicate skin, she really looks good in any clothes, but I still like to see you Wearing that light yellow dress, the shirt made my sister look rosy, it is really unforgettable!"

"Bada!" The teacup in An Lan's hand accidentally slipped out of her hand and fell onto the table, splashing the tea all over her body.Yuan'er was startled by her words, her heart skipped a beat, her little face turned pale, and it took a long time before she recovered and went to help An Lan wipe off the tea stains on her body.

That light yellow shirt was exactly what Yuan'er was wearing when the accident happened in Ziluoyuan that day!

(End of this chapter)