National Beauty

When Chen Xiu was taken out of the Royal Palace by the people of Dali Temple, Princess Rui did not know what was going on. After learning that her husband was poisoned to death by Chen Xiu, Princess Rui was so angry that she went into the palace immediately and asked Emperor Xuande to let him go. She went to Dali Temple to see Chen Xiu.

The son died because of the dispute between his wives and concubines. Emperor Xuande hated Chen Xiu, and it was not pleasing to see Princess Rui, but as an emperor, he wanted to maintain the majesty of the emperor. It was estimated that even after eating Chen Xiu's heart, Emperor Xuande gave permission and was willing to let Princess Rui scold Chen Xiu on his behalf, and directly give poisonous wine to Princess Rui to take it with him.

In the cell of Dali Temple, Chen Xiu sat on the ground with his hair scattered, his palms on his knees, and his ten fingers were only shortly tortured. He was **** and he couldn't move with pain. She didn't move her hands, she didn't move, and her face was covered by her long hair. From a distance, she looked like a female ghost in white sitting in a wasteland.

There was the sound of footsteps outside, and Chen Xiu's eyeballs turned imperceptibly, but the guards were all walking around in the cell, nothing unusual. The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and finally stopped outside her cell. Chen Xiu moved her gaze to see Princess Rui in a white linen skirt.

Come to scold her?

Chen Xiu smiled suddenly and slowly raised his head.

When Rui Wang died, Princess Rui had the pain of losing her husband, and the desperate regret of losing her backing and ruining the queen’s dream. These pains eased a little when she saw Chen Xiu's body stained with blood, but the next moment, Princess Rui met Chen Xiu's face. Smile.

"Bitch! You bastard!" Concubine Rui screamed and cursed with her hands on the railings of the cell, her eyes flushed, she wanted to rush in and kill her.

Chen Xiu glanced at her sympathetically, then lowered his eyes.

Princess Rui was startled, and then clenched her hand tightly. Chen Xiu was about to die. What right do you have to look at her like that?

Princess Rui wanted to say something, and didn't want the maidservant to hear her, she signaled everyone to go out first, and she stood alone outside the cell. When people walked away, Princess Rui stared at Chen Xiu sarcastically: "I know you want to hurt Brother Li. Now that the prince died for Brother Li, are you happy? No one pampers you anymore, are you happy? "

Chen Xiu sneered: "I'm not happy, you are no better than me, the prince, the queen, they are all other people's."

Princess Rui gritted her teeth and snorted coldly: "So what? If I can't be a queen, I will still be Princess Rui, and I can still enjoy the glory and wealth. Without you being an eyesore in front of me, I am raising my children alone, and I have time to raise flowers and tease birds. Any more time to give you a few sticks of incense will be better than your tragic death in prison."

She may have lost to Song Jianing, but she won Chen Xiu, she is still the final winner of the Royal Palace of Rui.

Before she finished her words, Chen Xiu suddenly raised her head and laughed, her body trembling and her fingers couldn't stop her laughter. Princess Rui wants to support her life? dream!

The laughter stopped abruptly, and Chen Xiu fixedly looked at Princess Rui. She poisoned the prince to death. She admitted that the Dali Temple tried her and only tried this matter. She confessed, and those people did not ask her next to her. After all, they could not think of a Rui Wang's side concubine. The arson case of the king of Chu is related.

However, Chen Xiu remembered very clearly that after the abolition of the Chu King, the prince secretly resolved the two subordinates who were sent to the Chu King's Mansion to make sacrifices. It stands to reason that no one in the world knows the inside story except for her and the dead Guo Xiao. Now that King Rui is dead, she didn't confess that. How did the people at Dali Temple know?

Chen Xiu thought of King Shou, the man who was riding a horse and was so cold that he didn't even give her a straight eye.

The only one who really hopes that the prince will die is the Shouwang. Then why should the Shouwang deal with the prince? Because King Shou wanted to be an emperor, he also wanted to avenge his brother. Therefore, the Liangzi of the two residences of King Shou and King Rui has long been formed. Now that Emperor Xuande is still alive, King Shou is a little jealous. He can't move Princess Rui's mother and son. In the future, King Shou will take the throne. Even if you don't kill Brother Li, you won't give Brother Li the glory and wealth that a royal descendant should deserve.

Without Brother Li, how can Princess Rui enjoy life forever?

For a beautiful princess, a quasi-prince who was just one step short of her seal, there is nothing more difficult than being down and down. Death is terrible, but it's just a blink of an eye. Princess Rui has to live to bear the revenge of Shouwang. Watching her precious son being suppressed by Shouwang, she will experience the situation of her status plummeting. Princess Rui is destined to be worse than death. .

"I'm going to accompany the prince. Let's stay with your son!" Looking up, Chen Xiu laughed out again. Princess Rui was irritated and asked what Chen Xiu meant. Chen Xiu didn't answer, she just went crazy. laugh. Concubine Rui became angry from embarrassment, patted the railings and called for yamen, ordering them to pour poison on Chen Xiu.

Some condemned prisoners were unwilling to die and would struggle desperately. Chen Xiu was very calm, tilting his head up and honestly letting the Yamen fall into her mouth. Chen Xiu continued to stare at Princess Rui with the drink in her stomach. His sympathetic and ironic smile quickly became distorted and hideous. His eyes were round, but he refused to take his gaze back, as if he had become a ghost and asked for Princess Rui to settle accounts.

Princess Rui was cold all over. She thought she would be very happy to witness Chen Xiu's death, but Chen Xiu's gaze before her death entangled her like a poisonous snake, and she couldn't take her bath many times.

On the third day after Chen Xiu’s death, Princess Rui fell ill, but at this time no one cared about the widows and orphans of the Royal Palace anymore except for the bereaved concubine Wu Gui. The thoughts of the ministers were transferred to King Shou and Zhao Pu. Body.

Above the main hall, Emperor Xuande personally exposed the cause of King Rui's death, and then reprimanded Zhao Pu for teaching the girl nowhere. Zhao Pu was almost in his seventies, his hair was all white, and he knelt on the ground tremblingly, begging the emperor to confess his sins. He was a founding feat and made great contributions to the Great Zhou Dynasty. Now half of his foot is about to step into the coffin. Emperor Xuande did not want to punish him. He only used Chen Xiu's crime to dismiss Zhao Pu as the prime minister again, and ordered him to return to his homeland. township.

Zhao Pu knelt down to thank the emperor, tears streaming down.

With this retreat, he also completely dismissed the relationship between the death of King Shou and King Rui.

However, Emperor Xuande did not announce the truth about King Rui’s frame of the former King of Chu. Because the prince’s brothers and sisters would eventually damage the royal dignity, Emperor Xuande didn’t care about a son’s reputation, but he cared about his own, and he didn’t want to show off his family’s ugliness. The people laughed at him for not teaching his son.

Zhao Heng understands his father's decision, he is not in a hurry, the Rui Wang people are dead, he has the patience to continue to wait until the day when he can take control.

Rui Wang died of poison on the 16th month of the first month. In early March, the peach blossoms were in full bloom. Rui Wang was buried in a wind and fire. The burial of the imperial army was covered in sackcloth and filial piety. At first glance, they were all white. He walked out of the city gate mightily, and returned mightily. There were too many people, so no one noticed that on the way back from the honor guard to Beijing, there was a figure in the team unknowingly.

That night, in Princess Duanhui's princess mansion, someone watched over the wall and entered in the middle of the night.

The four emperor brothers, Princess Duanhui and King Rui are the closest, but they are almost two months old. Princess Duanhui’s sadness has faded early, and she rests peacefully at night, even if she tossing and turning before going to bed, It was also because of missing her cousin who died young. Sleeping deeply, her mouth suddenly became cold and heavy, and Princess Duanhui woke up suddenly.

"Don't be afraid of cousin, it's me."

It was pitch black, and someone covered her mouth and said in her ear.

That voice, Princess Duanhui will never forget in her life, she is so familiar with her bones, she misses her dreams.

is that true? Did she dream again, dreaming that her cousin came back?

Princess Duanhui lay stiffly, not daring to move, for fear that she would wake up from the dream if she moved.

But she missed Guo Xiao so much. Looking at the indistinct shadow in the dimness, Princess Duanhui murmured: "Cousin?"

"Well, it's me, I'm back." Guo Xiao slowly let go of Princess Duanhui's mouth, his voice hoarse.

It's not a hoarse pretended to be hoarse, but a really hurt throat.

Holding the hand of Princess Duanhui, Guo Xiao asked her to touch the scar on his left face. Suddenly encountering a man’s warm face, Princess Duanhui was a little nervous. However, she felt the long scar that almost penetrated Guo Xiao’s left face. Princess Duanhui forgot about reality or dreams, and cried distressedly: "How could this happen? ..."

how come?

Guo Xiao held Princess Duanhui's hand, and his thoughts gradually returned to last year.

The cliff was steep, and he pulled the soldier as a backing, although by luck he was not broken, his face was cut by a branch and the fake skin was pierced, hurting his true face and leaving this scar. It hurts and ugly, but Guo Xiao doesn't care. He doesn't even care if An An is willing to follow Zhao Heng after his death. To this day, Guo Xiao only wants Zhao Heng's life.

It was Zhao Heng who robbed him of An An, it was Zhao Heng who coaxed her to death by virtue of his identity, and it was Zhao Heng who forced him to embark on this dangerous road.

He has taken ninety-nine steps, and there is only one last step left.

Before leaving Beijing for suspended animation, Guo Xiao buried two chess pieces back and forth. One is Rui Wang's side concubine Chen Xiu, and the other is his cousin Princess Duanhui.

After the suspended animation, Guo Xiao's first plan was that he succeeded in rebelling in Shu, and when the army approached the capital and killed Emperor Xuande and his son, he would directly proclaim himself emperor. If this plan is successful, Princess Chen Xiu and Duanhui will be of no use to him. However, Guo Xiao was not sure about it, and Princess Chen Xiu and Duanhui were his retreat.

Guo Xiao had planned. If the rebellion in Shu area was suppressed, he would flee back to the capital and secretly assist Rui Wang to get rid of Zhao Heng and other princes. When Emperor Xuande died and Rui Wang became the throne, he would use Chen Xiu to poison Rui Wang to death Following the succession to the throne as a consort, for this purpose, Princess Chen Xiu and Duanhui are indispensable.

After falling down the cliff, Guo Xiao was seriously injured. He had to heal his injuries and avoid Zhao Heng's search. With the death of King Rui, Guo Xiao's plan was completely disrupted, and now he can only take the next step and persuade Princess Duanhui to help him poison King Shou.

The emperor Xuande’s body was getting worse every day, and the prince and princess often had to go to the palace to show her filial piety.

To persuade Princess Duanhui to poison Zhao Heng, she must first give her a reason.

"Do you know why the Liao army was able to make a sneak attack when I was transporting grain and grass?" Putting down Princess Duanhui's hand, Guo Xiao asked quietly.

Princess Duanhui didn't know.

Guo Xiao slowly clenched her wrists, and said bitterly: "I saw the mother and daughter of the Lin family by mistake. They wanted to get rid of me so that Brother Mao could inherit the mansion, and Jianing would blow pillows next to King Shou. Feng, King Shou naturally listened to her, but they did not expect that my life was hard enough to be captured by the Liao army. Although I was in jail, I survived."

When Song Jianing urged King Shou to harm her cousin, Princess Duanhui's voice instantly rose, "I knew..."

Guo Xiao covered her mouth in time.

His palm is hot, and people are alive. Princess Duanhui was stunned for a moment, then suddenly jumped into Guo Xiao’s arms and hugged her tightly: "Cousin, you have suffered, you wait. I will go to the palace to report to my father tomorrow. Emperor, let your father be the master for you."

Guo Xiao laughed at herself and touched her head and said: "The king of Chu was banned, and King Gong had his arm broken. Only his limbs are healthy and capable of military exploits. When the Rui King dies, the emperor can only choose the Shou King as the prince. Cousin, for the sake of stability, Even if the emperor knew about me, he would never condemn his son for me."

The truth is correct, but Princess Duanhui couldn't swallow her breath: "Is it all right?"

Guo Xiao lowered his head, raised her chin with a big hand, and said in a bewildered voice: "Cousin really wants to avenge me?"