The cold wind blew like a bayonet on the cheeks of passers-by, showing the blush of frostbite.
In the Nuan Pavilion of the Huiyin Hall in the Imperial City of Jinling, Luo Qingzhi was lying on the bed with a flushed face. The palm of her left hand was clenched, and bright red blood flowed from between the fingers to the ground. The ticking sound made Luo Qingzhi feel harsh.
The man standing in front of the bed was wearing summer clothes. He was thin and frail. His face was as beautiful as a woman's, with red lips and white teeth. He seemed to be looking at Luo Qingzhi anxiously.
The man opened his mouth, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Aluo, what's wrong with you? What should I do?"
Luo Qingzhi's eyes were covered with water mist, and she could not clearly see the man's expression. She did not dare to speak, fearing that she would be unable to stop moaning as soon as she opened her mouth. She just shook her head continuously, still knowing that she had been hit by a love potion.
Luo Qingzhi looked at her left hand and clenched it hard again. The pain in her palm made her wake up a little. She struggled to get up. Just as the man stretched out his hand to help, Luo Qingzhi said sternly: "Don't touch me!
"
The man's hand trembled and he took it back silently. Luo Qingzhi took a breath and said with difficulty: "Your Highness, you can't stay here. You leave quickly and go to Taiji Hall to find Feng Zinan and tell him what happened here.
He'll know how to do it."
After listening to Luo Qingzhi's words, His Highness the Prince nodded dully, turned around and left.
"The Emperor has arrived."
The sound coming from outside the palace made Luo Qingzhi smile helplessly, thinking, "The northern guard general and the prince Gao Zhen who are about to get married are having an affair in the palace. If such talk spreads out, the officials at the Yushitai must let themselves be
Resign and apologize."
She spread her bloody left hand, and the pieces of the tea cup immediately fell off. She began to figure out that the person who framed her just wanted her to be stigmatized and have her power reduced. But with His Majesty's love for her, there are thousands of ways to get rid of this.
She escaped from a scandal. Thinking of this, she raised her eyes and looked at Gao Zhen, frowning slightly, wondering who the Prince had offended to kill him like this.
Luo Qingzhi looked at Gao Zhen, then thought of her young sister who was about to become the crown princess, and sighed.
"This feeling of being held up is really unpleasant." Luo Qingzhi said indifferently.
Gao Zhen also frowned slightly, but only for a moment before he looked puzzled and said, "Aluo, why are you being held up?"
Luo Qingzhi shook her head, feeling that a new round of hot flashes was about to begin. She gasped slightly and said softly: "Your Highness, please help me."
Gao Zhen didn't answer, but walked towards Luo Qingzhi step by step, with a slight blush on his face, lowered his head, and said softly: "How can I help?"
This round of waves swept over, Luo Qingzhi took off her hairpin, and a strand of hair fell off, then she held Gao Zhen's hand and stabbed her thigh with his strength. The severe pain made her feel
Luo Qingzhi suddenly woke up.
Almost at the same time, the door of Nuange was pushed open.
When Emperor Gao Yan entered the house, he saw Luo Qingzhi in disheveled clothes, with blood dripping on her hands and legs. Gao Zhen stood beside him, holding a white jade hairpin, with a panicked look on his face.
Gao Yan, who immediately came to his senses, took off his black cloak, wrapped it around Luo Qingzhi, and said gently: "A Luo, don't be afraid, the second brother is here."
Listening to Gao Yan's voice, Luo Qingzhi was in a trance for a moment, then silently closed the distance between the two of them, and responded calmly, "Your Majesty, I am fine with you."
"Huang Si, the imperial physician." Gao Yan seemed to have not heard Luo Qingzhi's words and roared angrily.
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Queen Yang who arrived later looked at the scene and couldn't help but exclaimed. Without any hesitation, she called the people on the left and right and said: "Come here, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has assassinated the Princess. Go and protect the Princess and Your Majesty."
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Luo Qingzhi lowered her head slightly and thought to herself, "It seems that there is no way to make the matter as small as possible. I remembered that Mr. Fan's signature for himself before leaving was "like a bird throwing a cage", and it turned out to be true."
Luo Qingzhi raised her eyes and looked at Gao Yan, and just called "Your Majesty." Gao Yan raised his hand to stop him, his eyes were as fierce as that night ten years ago.
Gao Zhen was captured by two guards and escorted to his knees on the ground, unable to raise his head at all.
The open door, the cold wind blowing in, made him shiver in his thin clothes, while everyone in the house, including the small yellow door next to him, were all wearing winter clothes.
No one raised any objection, or maybe everyone is used to it.
Luo Qingzhi said: "Your Majesty, it is not what the Queen said. Not only did His Highness the Prince not harm me, he also saved me."
"Qin Min from the Imperial Medical Office, here with orders." A voice sounded outside the palace.
"..."
Luo Qingzhi immediately felt something was wrong. This Huiyin Palace was the most remote. It took a quarter of an hour to get here from the Imperial Medical Office. Now it was just a cup of tea. Why did the Imperial Doctor come here so quickly?
"Come in." Gao Yan said.
Qin Min came in with a medicine box. Just as he was about to perform a full salute, Gao Yan interrupted and said, "No more courtesy. Let's show it to the princess."
Qin Min nodded and said: "Your Highness, please show your hand and bowl, and I will diagnose your pulse."
Luo Qingzhi did as she was told, while Qin Min covered her with a handkerchief and checked her pulse.
"Did the princess eat lilies at the banquet?" Qin Min asked.
"Eat." Luo Qingzhi replied.
Qin Min nodded and continued to ask: "Have you ever smelled an aroma similar to sweet-scented osmanthus on the way from Taiji Hall to Huiyin Hall?"
Luo Qingzhi thought for a while and continued to nod.
Qin Min nodded, as if he understood. He faced Gao Yan and said: "Your Majesty, Your Highness the Princess is poisoned. It is the Hundred Days of Spring in the former Qin Dynasty. It is a charm medicine. This medicine is based on osmanthus. It is poisonous.
strong."
When he heard the word "love medicine", Gao Yan frowned, raised his voice and asked, "Can this poison be cured?"
Qin Min lowered his head and answered: "I can figure it out, but Wei Chen needs time."
Gao Yan breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Very good. No matter what medicinal materials are needed, just report them and they must be developed as soon as possible to detoxify the princess."
Luo Qingzhi said: "Thank you, Imperial Physician Qin."
Qin Min resigned. Gao Yan looked at Gao Zhen who was kneeling on the ground and then at Luo Qingzhi, with an indescribable meaning in his eyes.
Luo Qingzhi thought that Gao Yan probably wanted to know if the two of them had crossed the line. She shook her head slightly, and Gao Yan seemed to exhale and call.
"Yuan Ying."
The guard in armor stepped over, knelt on one knee and said: "I am here."
"Tonight, all the slaves in the palace, except Huang Si, will have their tongues cut out and be sent out of the palace."
After Gao Yan finished speaking, voices for mercy could be heard in the hall.
Luo Qingzhi seemed to have lost too much blood, and her lips had turned white before she could speak to defend the innocent person.
Empress Yang was the first to say: "Your Majesty, you can't. The honor of the princess is naturally important, but sending a large number of palace people without any reason may be controversial."
Gao Yan smiled contemptuously and said, "Then, in the Queen's opinion, how should we deal with it?"
Empress Yang seemed to have already thought of her answer, and she spoke very fluently word for word: "My princess has guarded Yuzhou in the north for ten years. She has worked hard and made great achievements. Moreover, this year is already twenty and five. It is time to discuss the marriage long ago. My concubine."
Thinking that the prince is about to marry the princess of Anyang County as the crown princess, the princess of Anyang County and the princess are sisters, so why not."
"Why not?" Gao Yan actually started to smile.
Seeing that Gao Yan was not angry, Empress Yang continued, "Why don't we let the prince marry the princess as the crown prince, and the princess of Anyang County be changed to Liang Di, so that we can have a double happiness."
"..."
Luo Qingzhi listened to Empress Yang's words and couldn't help but sigh. This person in the capital actually wanted to reduce power in this way and became the crown prince. As a wife of the royal family, how could she hold military power again.
Gao Yan smiled contemptuously and said, "We have been married for ten years, but I didn't know that the queen is such a smart person."
Empress Yang listened to Gao Yan's compliments, but she didn't understand the emperor's meaning at all. She continued: "The princess has been away for ten years, and she is the only flesh and blood of King Pingbei. It is time for her to put down her sword and pick up the sword."
The round fan continues the incense of King Pingbei's lineage."
"King Pingbei." Luo Qingzhi muttered silently in her mind, thinking, "I haven't heard this title for ten years." She looked down at the blood on the palm of her left hand, as if she was holding her father's hand that year, and she felt emotional for a moment.
Fluctuations, discomfort rising from the stomach, and a mouthful of blood gushing out.
Before she closed her eyes, Gao Zhen, who was kneeling on the ground, suddenly raised his head, looking at her with eyes that seemed distressed and anxious, but they were not as "clear" as when they first met.
Ten years ago, ten years ago in Suining, it was the same cold winter season.
Pingbei King Luo Huaiyi brought Luo Qingzhi, who was only fifteen years old, back to Beijing to report on his work. In the imperial garden, he met the ten-year-old prince Gao Zhen. When they first met, Gao Zhen was holding a cold winter plum in his hand and accidentally bumped into it.
Arrive at Luo Qingzhi.
Luo Qingzhi was stunned, looking at the smiling child with deer-like eyes, young and clear. She tilted her head slightly and looked at the palace man who led her. The man nodded slightly and said: "County Lord, this is
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."
Luo Qingzhi bowed her hands and saluted, "Join His Royal Highness."
The young man Gao Zhen looked at Luo Qingzhi who was saluting, shook the wintersweet in his hand, and said in a childish tone: "Sister, you are so beautiful, Nuo, I will give you flowers."
Luo Qingzhi stretched out her hands and took the wintersweet respectfully. Some snow stubbles were still hanging on the flower branches. As soon as Luo Qingzhi took it, she trembled involuntarily.
Gao Zhen noticed all this immediately, took off his cloak and handed it to Luo Qingzhi. Luo Qingzhi shook her head and said, "My lord, it's not cold. Your Highness can wear it yourself."
Gao Zhen stubbornly wanted to give her the clothes, but Luo Qingzhi was a little embarrassed. In the end, she could only stretch out her hand and said respectfully: "Thank you, Your Highness."
Gao Zhen smiled and stood on his toes, putting his cloak on her. He grinned and said, "In the future, A Zhen will buy a lot of beautiful clothes for my sister, so that she will look good every day."
His childish words made everyone around him laugh silently.
"Haha, they get along very well."
The rich male voice was accompanied by hearty laughter. Luo Qingzhi looked back, first grinned, and then bowed and saluted.
"My maiden attends His Majesty the Emperor's visit."
But Gao Zhen was like a frightened rabbit, taking a few steps back. The palace attendant coughed, and Gao Zhen reacted and saluted.