Now that the emperor is in strong health, the matter of establishing the crown prince has naturally been postponed again and again, but in the court, there has already been an overt and undercurrent of competition.

The emperor never mentioned who he would appoint as the prince, and he seemed to care less for the princes than Chu Youwei.

The assassination that day reminded the emperor that someone was coveting his throne. And they couldn't wait to take it.

Therefore, what happened today is a matter of course.

Regarding the problem of concubines being infertile in the past few years, the imperial doctors have been summoned more than a thousand times, but each time they were given the excuse that the concubines were weak and difficult to conceive.

The emperor was naturally holding his breath in his heart.

Today, when I went to Zhang Meiren's place to rest, I naturally gave the queen a slap on the face to let her know that he, Chu Kuangtian, was not a sleeping lion.

As for why Zhang Meiren was chosen, perhaps only the emperor knew clearly.

Zhang Mei's family background was not good, she was just the daughter of a small county magistrate. I heard that her father was very strong-minded. Even if her daughter became the emperor's woman, she would not publicize it everywhere. Instead, she would act as a parent and official to the people.

Someone once flattered his father in the hope of getting an official position in the county town. His father scorned him in public and said that he would never be promoted again in his life and only wanted to be a parent official for the people of Baishili.

, instead of spending money to give treasures to curry favor, it is better to give money to the people and let them name them to be officials in Beijing.

There are more than fifty rooms in the Buddhist worship hall, and they are full today. Many concubines were disappointed to have a rest behind closed doors when their father went to Zhang Meiren's place.

After Chu Jinnian turned on the lamp and read for a while, he warmed his feet with hot water. He opened the window to breathe for a while to dissipate the charcoal gas in the room, then closed the window and prepared to rest.

"Help! There is a ghost!" The screams of several maids tore through the silent night sky.

I heard the doors of other rooms creaking open, and they were talking one after another.

"This ghost is screaming, what happened?"

"Yes, yes! What's wrong with ghosts?"

"That's scary. Those maids, are they okay?"

"Oh, look! Those three maids, why are their eyes and noses bleeding? It's so scary!"

"…………"

The maid only shivered a few times, then she fell to the ground and twitched in pain. The frightened look on her face was not reduced by her crying.

Chu Jinnian carefully looked at the several maids lying on the ground. One of the maids held a piece of cloth tightly in her hand, which seemed to have been torn from someone's clothes.

Chu Jinnian whispered to Shui Bi to check the clothes they brought carefully. Shui Bi quietly entered the room and looked through the clothes carefully. Sure enough, a piece of fabric was missing from the corner of her clothes.

The maidservant was still twitching in pain, and she was still muttering, "The ghost is coming, the ghost is coming."

When a maidservant looked at me carefully, her eyes widened in fear, and she pointed her finger like a sharp knife at me, "Empress Yurui!—Empress Yurui!—"

There was a flood of blood in his mouth. He screamed a few times and then died.

When everyone saw this, they all looked over.

Seeing this, Shui Bi yelled over, "Oh, Ye Zi, why did you die so miserably? What about Lady Yu Rui? You must be confused!"

Shui Bi calmly pulled the cloth strip from the maid's hand into his own hand. The guards who came in a hurry saw this and pulled Shui Bi away.

At this time, the emperor and Zhang Meiren came out hand in hand. They saw the emperor's eyebrows were like rivers, anger was welling up, and his lips were moving.
Chapter completed!