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Chapter 33 Rainy Night
Chapter 32 Chapter 30 Rainy Night
When Li Zihe heard the news, his thoughts paused for a moment, and he sat in front of the desk in a daze. Things that were not planned would always make people unexpected.

Since Concubine Yan deliberately wins her over, it is impossible to make a decision on her own and change the way to deal with Concubine Yao, and she is so stupid to let Concubine Yao take advantage of it. This matter is obviously not done by Concubine Yan, so who else would think Want to get rid of the fetus in Concubine Yao's belly?If there is another person that I don't know, who plans to blame Concubine Yan and persecute Concubine Yao at the same time, this person is really powerful...

Li Zihe couldn't sit still anymore, got up and went to Yanwu Hall.Originally, the past few days have not passed in order to avoid suspicion when Concubine Yao has an accident, but it is better to go to find out what is going on when things have turned into this situation. She doesn't like this kind of passivity.

Just after leaving the Imperial Hospital, I saw Feng Zongying frowning, with a melancholy look on his face, walking slowly, brushing past Li Zihe without raising his head, as if he hadn't noticed his existence.

Li Zihe turned his head and looked at Feng Zongying's back in puzzlement. He always put his emotions on his face and would not hide his emotions. Seeing him depressed for several days, there must be something unhappy in his heart, Li Zihe He Qing sighed, and asked again when he came back from Yanwu Hall.

The heavy rain a few days ago, it just stopped for a whole day and night, the weather suddenly turned cold, indicating the coming of early winter, the palace also seemed to be washed by this rain, everywhere was clear and bright, only the palace of Yanwu was covered with gloomy clouds and the bright sunshine Even though it shines in the hall, it still makes people feel dim.

Li Zihe stopped and watched not far from Yanwu Palace. There were rumors in the palace that Concubine Yao felt unwell after drinking a bowl of tonic soup from Yanwu Palace, and she had a miscarriage. It was a bit dull, and Yun Jinyan did not see any other actions.But she hasn't delivered the medicine for a few days, so going there rashly this time, will it cause unnecessary trouble?
While thinking about it, there was a crisp sound from Yanwu Hall, the sound of porcelain smashing to the ground, followed by an even more eerie silence.Li Zihe raised his steps intently, judging by the situation, Yun Jinyan must be absent, and now that the past is over, it is a good opportunity to show his loyalty.

There was only one eunuch left to watch the door outside the hall, his face was pale and trembling, when he saw Li Zihe, he quickly sang: "Doctor Li please see me."

The hall was still silent, and it took a while to hear Concubine Yan's deep and suppressed voice: "Come in."

Li Zihe pushed open the door, a person-high vase fell on the ground beside the screen inside and outside, and the fragments scattered all over the floor, Xiaoju knelt on the ground and wept, Concubine Yan sat on the low couch, staring at Xiaoju angrily, seeing Li Zihe's face softened when he entered the door. He took a deep breath and said softly, "Li Yitong is here."

"My lady, Wan'an." Li Zihe bowed briefly, and glanced at Xiaoju who kept wiping away tears.

"Fortunately, Li Yitong dared to come to Yanwu Palace at this time. I'm afraid I can't avoid it in this palace now." Concubine Yan lowered her eyes, a trace of melancholy twitched on her brows, and she sighed in frustration while speaking.

Li Zihe said solemnly: "How can you be an ungrateful person when you receive the favor of your mother? I came here today because I am a little puzzled by the rumors in the palace and want to find out the truth of the matter."

"The truth!" Concubine Yan's eyes froze, she glared at Xiaoju angrily, and said angrily, "Tell me, what is the truth!"

Xiaoju trembled all over, ignoring the broken porcelain on the ground, she knelt and moved a few steps, the blood on her knees printed blood stains on the ground, kowtowed and choked up: "Mother, it's Xiaoju's mistake, Xiaoju's mistake! "

"What's the use of admitting your mistakes now? I took care of my family to support you and teach you. Have you ever been wronged by following me since you were a child? Now you have harmed me like this! What's the use of keeping you?" Concubine Yan said urgently, taking Picking up the teacup at hand, he smashed Xiaoju's head with one hand.

Xiaoju was still crying, but she suppressed herself and didn't dare to make a sound, only heard her choking and breathing, kowtowed and said: "Mother, Xiaoju didn't expect to become like this, Xiaoju just didn't want to see her hurting others again. , I really never thought of harming the empress."

"Isn't your life in this harem too comfortable? Just because I don't harm others doesn't mean others won't harm me! When will there be fewer resentful spirits in this harem? I've counted thousands of times, but I've counted on my master and servant. Both hearts are facing each other!" Concubine Yan's eyes were reddish, and she gritted her teeth with a few words.

From their conversation, Li Zihe probably understood that Concubine Yao might be defeated by Xiaoju, but what happened?

"I made Li Yitong laugh." Concubine Yan pulled out a smile with a stiff face, sighed tiredly, and said to Xiaoju: "You tell the whole story again! Let's see if Li Yitong still has a way to turn things around."

"Yes." Xiaoju kowtowed and bowed her head, still choked up, and said, "I... I put away the medicine given by Li Yitong that day... I didn't expect that after putting away the medicine, Concubine Yao still conceived , Really! I don't want to hurt anyone anymore, I don't want to..."

"What do you mean again? In the past few years, I have swallowed my anger and concubine Yao has never moved a single finger! If she hadn't been bullying too much, I wouldn't have made such a foolish plan!"

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty..." Xiaoju kowtowed to Concubine Yan again, raised her head for a while and whispered, "Your Majesty, you know, every rainy night, there will be crying and howling in Taoyao Palace, as if to cry into people's hearts , Your Majesty, that Taoyao Palace... that Taoyao Palace, used to be... used to be Hongluan Palace..."

"Everyone in the palace knows that bitch Yao was responsible for that crying! She can fool a fool like you with these tricks!" Concubine Yan turned pale with anger when she heard Xiaoju's words, and she gritted her teeth in the last sentence Spit it out.

With tears on her face, Xiaoju shook her head again and again and said: "No, no, my lady, Concubine Yao is usually fine, only when it rains like this, thunderstorm days... Mother, back then Ji... back then... It was also a thunderstorm day, It rained heavily for three days and nights...from that night on, there was this crying sound, and it never stopped every thunderstorm in the past six years, my lady, that's...that's...a ghost..."

"Shut up!" Concubine Yan was in a hurry, and swept away the tea set on the small table on the low couch with one hand, Xiaoju was so shocked that she couldn't say another word.

"Hehe..." Concubine Yan chuckled suddenly, glanced at Li Zihe and said: "Li Yitong is one of our own, not to mention, this matter is not taboo in the palace, so I say it is fine. Back then Ji Li was in my palace The previous kneeling all night was not forced by me, and then she died of fetal gas and dystocia, what does it have to do with my Yanwu Temple? That is destiny!"

"But...but that day..." Xiaoju looked at Li Zihe and stopped talking.

"You don't need to look, Li Yitong knows how to measure better than you. What's more, I asked myself that I didn't do anything wrong, how was that day? You said to come and see! After six years of suffering, I want to see what else you think! Concubine Yan raised her eyebrows and ordered in a cold voice, staring at Xiaoju for a moment.

"That day the emperor...the emperor was not in the Yanwu Palace..."

"Hehe, it seems that I am stupid, and I chose such a stupid girl like you!" Concubine Yan sneered even more when she heard Xiaoju's words, "This palace is not small, but it is not big, Ji Li Kneeling and begging for half a night in front of my palace, do you think the emperor doesn't know? Go ask the old man in the palace, who doesn't know?"

Xiaoju choked, knelt on the ground and said nothing more.

Li Zihe's heart seemed to be pulled by someone, and the memory buried deep in her heart was ruthlessly brought out again, Sapo knelt and begged for half a night, indeed, she has always been pampered, how could she bear to kneel down to a woman who robbed her husband ?

It rained heavily that night, she learned that Yun Jinyan was in Yanwu Hall, and rushed to Yanwu Hall alone without telling Yao Er, that night, as Ji Li, she cried for the last time, crying so heartbreakingly hysterical, she Crying and calling Yun Jinyan's name, crying about their vows, begging him to come out to see her for the last time, but the only answers to her are thunder and rain, and Xiaoju's proud sneer.

Crying so tired, crying so hurt, crying so desperately, crying so much that I want to give up, but thinking about the Ji Mansion who will be executed the next day, grief and indignation turned into helplessness, helplessness turned into hopelessness, hopelessness turned into Abandoning oneself, throwing away identity, throwing away dignity, throwing away everything, kneeling in front of the temple just to see.

"Li Yitong?" Seeing Li Zi He Jing standing aside, Concubine Yan was silent and shouted.

Li Zihe bowed his hands and said calmly, "What's the matter, Your Majesty?"

"Hey, it doesn't matter if we don't talk about Xiaoju, the matter has come to this point, what can Li Yitong do?" Concubine Yan asked kindly, sweeping away her previous gloom.

Li Zi He Gong said: "Please tell me the ins and outs of the matter in more detail, Xiaoju didn't find a chance to send the medicine to Taoyao Temple, what next?"

"That day when she came to chat with me, Xiaoju just finished stewing soup, so I asked her to drink a bowl too, but when she returned to Taoyao Temple, there was news of her abortion, and she insisted that it was because she drank my soup. Butang from Yanwu Hall said that I wanted to harm her." Concubine Yan said slowly, frowning.

Li Zihe raised his head and asked, "Is the soup available that day?"

Concubine Yan shook her head: "The soup is only for one person. At that time, she asked if there was any left after drinking it, and then asked Yue'er beside her to clean up the small kitchen with Xiaoju. I didn't know that Yueer cooked the soup with Xiaoju afterwards. The soup bowls are clean, even if the imperial doctor comes to test for poison, they can't find out why. If the emperor believes what she said..."

Concubine Yan lowered her eyes full of melancholy, staring at the tiles on the ground, she was stunned, Li Zihe was also silent, no evidence is the best evidence, Concubine Yan is the only one who is at odds with Concubine Yao in the palace, Yun Jinyan said again Whoever gives birth to the prince first will take care of the harem. If he wants to use this as an excuse to suppress Concubine Yan and even the Gu family, it is understandable.

"At this time, Rong Zihe thinks about it for two days. Don't worry about it, you will definitely find a solution." Li Zihe said with a deep breath and cupped his hands.

"Well, step back first, don't come to Taoyao Palace if you have nothing to do." Concubine Yan waved her hand wearily, lying on the low couch, she glanced at Xiaoju, her eyes were terrified again, and she said sharply: " You get out too!" Then he turned over and turned his back to the two of them.

Xiaoju kowtowed again with tears in her eyes. She wanted to get up, but her knee hurt and she staggered. Fortunately, Li Zihe helped her in time. Li Zihe smiled at her and motioned her to follow him out.

Xiaoju looked at Concubine Yan whose back was to her, smiled gratefully at Li Zihe, and let her help her out.

"Where does Miss Xiaoju live? I'll take you back." After leaving the hall, the two felt much more relaxed, and Li Zihe asked while supporting her.

"Don't bother Li Yitong, just help me rest in that garden for a while." Xiaoju said politely, pointing to the small garden opposite.

Li Zihe nodded, and supported her to sit down on the edge of a rockery. The reflections of the two people were reflected in the quiet pool water, rippled by the dead leaves that drifted by from time to time. Xiaoju sat there dumbfounded, not knowing what to think.

Li Zihe looked around and found no one else, so he also sat down and said softly: "If there is any depression in Miss Xiaoju's heart, just say it."

Xiaoju raised her eyes, looked at Li Zihe's amiable appearance, couldn't help the tears of grievance from her eyes, choked up and said: "In the past few days, I have had nightmares every night, all of which are children crying, and, and that night The shrill cry in the rain made me afraid..."

"Actually, as the empress said, those things have nothing to do with you, so there is no need to blame yourself."

Xiaoju shook her head again and again and said: "Your Majesty said before...that if you want to be favored by the emperor, you can't...you can't tolerate the existence of Empress Ji, especially the child in her womb...that's why I sent a message to lie to her The emperor is in Yanwu Palace..."

"Your Majesty also said that even if the Emperor is not in the Yanwu Palace, he knows about it..." What's more, what made her conceive was not only kneeling in the middle of the night, but also the soup that night...

"However, that night, I... I asked the guards to stop her... to prevent others from reporting..., and... also said a lot of ugly things..., if... if it wasn't like this, maybe... maybe that child... ...will not die..."

"What you said about Concubine Yao crying is related to this?" Li Zihe asked as if he didn't care.

Xiaoju nodded, and cried helplessly: "Since the night when Empress Ji passed away, Concubine Yao has been going crazy every thunderstorm. You don't know... Back then... Empress Ji liked red clothes the most. Thunderstorms...maybe...maybe...maybe Concubine Yao was possessed by a wronged spirit, maybe that child came back to her again, I dare not... dare not kill it again...it cried to me in my dream, Asking me to give it back its life is terrible... so scary..."

Li Zi understood why, before the two medicines reached Concubine Yao, they first worked on Xiaoju's body. He had done something wrong, so his conscience was uneasy, and he comforted him: "Girl, don't worry about ghosts. It's all nonsense. The girl will be fine when she goes back and rests."

"Yeah." Xiaoju nodded absently.

Li Zihe's goal has been achieved, he bids farewell and turns to leave, and then returns to Yanwu Hall.

Seeing him turning back, Concubine Yan got up and asked, "What else is there for Li Yitong?"

"Zihe thought of a solution." Li Zihe lowered his eyes and said slowly, since my child asked you to return its life, you just do it!

(End of this chapter)