In her previous life, Chang Yue was a frail and sickly person. Especially in the later stages of her illness, she could hardly get out of bed. So when she was really idle and bored, she would do some handicrafts and learned to knit sweaters at that time.
The thread Chang Yue and the others used to knit sweaters was collected from a spider called the Hualian Xuan Spider in the Blessed Land. The silk of this spider is not only extremely elastic and soft, but also has a strong Most of its defensive capabilities will be removed if strong force is applied to it.
So after practicing, Chang Yue planned to knit a special inner armor for her little apprentice. Her little apprentice must get out of this cold palace, and he couldn't do it without some means to protect himself.
Tu Su and Xiao Bai saw Chang Yue knitting sweaters and found it very interesting, so they also shouted to learn.
Of course Changyue had no objection, so he handed over the sweater knitting skills to the two beasts.
Knitting a sweater is neither difficult nor easy. Tu Su had dexterous fingers and easily learned how to knit a sweater.
She would also be creative and take individual fiery red fox furs from her furry tail and embellished them on the snow-white spider silk, adding exquisite patterns and patterns to the knitted sweater.
Changyue wanted to weave underwear for her young apprentice, so Tu Su had to weave a better one specifically for her dear king.
I saw Tu Su flying with his hands and knitting sweater at such a fast speed that even Chang Yue, the master, was willing to be defeated.
Look at Xiaobai again. His hands are like rabbit hands. It is very difficult to even hold the knitting needle. After a lot of fuss, he only knitted a messy ball of spider silk.
"Hahaha~~"
Chang Yue and Tu Su both couldn't help laughing.
"Xiao Bai, forget it. Just study how to refine medicine. Knitting is not suitable for you."
Tu Su showed off the half-knitted but exquisitely beautiful sweater in her hand in front of Xiao Bai. The three fiery red tails behind her swung proudly, and she almost succeeded. Spiraling to heaven.
"I'm the only one who can make Wang wear a sweater!"
"What's so great, do I have to knit a sweater for Dabai, but I can't wear it myself?" Xiaobai said disdainfully.
Tu Su looked surprised, "It's not enough for you to have that hair, you also need to wear a sweater?"
"No? No?" Xiaobai became angry and threw the messy sweater he had knitted on the ground. "I can't do it if I don't knit!"
Seeing this, Chang Yue quickly comforted it and said: "Okay, okay, it doesn't matter if you don't know how to weave. You are proficient in pharmacology, which is already very powerful."
At this time, Little Bai's red eyes rolled, and the angry expression on his face disappeared. He took off the green straw hat on his head, shook it gently, and the straw hat instantly fell down. Black spider.
The Black Refining Spider has a jet black body, a slender figure, and a sense of sharpness all over its body. It is a strange beast with strong attack power.
These refined black spiders were all refined into Gu worms by Xiaobai, so they had a similar mind to him.
Xiao Bai's mind moved, and ten spiders stretched out two slender legs at the same time. Their slender, smooth and sharp spider legs were actually similar to the needles used for knitting sweaters.
Then Chang Yue and Tu Su saw that ten Refining Black Spiders simultaneously spewed out spider silk and wrapped it around the spider legs, and then began to knit sweaters quickly. Their movements were flexible and skillful, much better than what Chang Yue and Tu Su were weaving. It still looked decent, and it was knitted into a long length in the blink of an eye.
Chang Yue and Tu Su's eyes widened, and their jaws almost dropped to the ground.
Seeing the expressions of the two of them, Xiaobai looked proud, "I did it to save face for you two. I didn't want to hurt you two. Who knew you two would have to push further. Today I will let you see what level is. I can do it all by myself." I support ten of you!"
Changyue:. . .
Tu Su:. . .
While the three of them were joking and joking, a little cyan bird flapped its wings and landed gently on the windowsill.
"King, the palace maid named Jin'er has been arrested."
The blue bird is Qinglan, and it has been responsible for monitoring the movements in the imperial concubine's palace.
Zhou Chaoyuan's poison was naturally inflicted by Chang Yue.
Changyue asked Qinglan to kidnap a maid named Jin'er in Concubine Lan's palace in advance, and asked Tu Su to transform into Jin'er to replace her.
Tu Su is proficient in transformation, and has the Soul Locking Stone to cover her aura, so ordinary people can't detect anything strange about her.
In order not to discover the flaw, Tu Su also used the power of the dream-eating tapir Youmeng to invade Jin'er's dream and read her memory.
Tu Su, who is good at imitating, easily grasped the essence of Jin'er's every move.
Jin'er was the maid who helped Concubine Lan take care of her jewelry and rouge and gouache. After Tu Su replaced her, she secretly put a small amount of poison into Concubine Lan's lipstick every day.
In order to prevent Concubine Lan from being poisoned, she secretly asked Concubine Lan to take a detoxification pill specially prepared by Xiaobai. This elixir can make Concubine Lan immune to all poisons in a short period of time.
The real Jin'er was locked in the cold palace, and Youmeng weaved false memories for her through dreams.
In her memory, she had never left Concubine Lan's palace, and it was indeed her who had administered the poison in Concubine Lan's mouth.
The reason why she poisoned her was of course revenge!
In the memory woven by Youmeng, Jin'er had a very good friend, and that friend also worked as an errand in the imperial concubine's palace like her.
But her friend, like Rou Xin, was tortured to death by the imperial concubine because of her beauty. However, no one in the imperial concubine's palace knew that Jin'er had a good relationship with the palace maid who was tortured to death, so the imperial concubine kept letting Jin'er Personal service.
Of course, this palace maid who was tortured to death existed in real life, but her good relationship with Jin'er was just a false memory that You Meng weaved for Jin'er.
Anyway, the palace maid is dead. As long as Jin'er believes that this memory is true, who can say that it is false?
Under You Meng's psychological suggestion, Jin'er has firmly believed that the false memory is true, so she has a very good reason to frame the imperial concubine.
After Tu Su finished poisoning the concubine, Qinglan quietly sent Jin'er back to the concubine's palace, and then asked Tu Su to come back on his own. Everything went on quietly.
After hearing Qinglan's report, Changyue put down the half-knitted sweater in her hands.
"The time has come!"
At this moment, in the imperial concubine's palace, the palace maid named Jin'er was being pressed down by the guards and kneeling in front of Zhou Chaoyuan and Concubine Lan. With angry eyes, she told Zhou Chaoyuan the reason why she framed the imperial concubine.
This palace maid named Jin'er was chosen by Rou Xin, who was already a beauty. The reason why Rou Xin chose her as a scapegoat was because when she was working as an errand in the imperial concubine's palace, Jin'er bullied her the most.
Now that Rou Xin is considered Chang Yue's own, Chang Yue is of course willing to avenge some innocuous revenge for her.
"The noble concubine is unkind and ruthless. She has killed countless people on her hands. She should have died long ago. Now this servant is just doing justice for heaven!" Jin'er complained in a tearful voice.
The memories that Youmeng weaved were too real. At this moment, Jin'er's resentment towards the imperial concubine had seeped into her bones. She stared at the imperial concubine with eyes that were so heart-breaking that she wished she could eat her alive. The imperial concubine was so frightened that her face turned pale.
Zhou Chaoyuan asked in a weak voice: "Where did you get this poison? How did you, a little palace maid, get the ability to get such a vicious poison?"
Hearing this, Jin'er dropped his head and said nothing.
At this time, the eunuch next to Zhou Chaoyuan exclaimed, and then rushed to Jin'er and pinched Jin'er's chin, but it was too late. Jin'er was seen vomiting blood. She had already broken all her meridians. Died by suicide.
Jin'er only has the cultivation level of the third level of the Pulse Opening Realm, but it is enough to commit suicide.
"Your Majesty, I'm out of breath." The eunuch walked to Zhou Chaoyuan and whispered.
"Unbridled!" Zhou Chaoyuan patted the edge of the bed angrily. The bed made of precious wood was instantly cracked by him, but because of the excessive force, he couldn't help coughing, "Cough cough cough..." This palace maid Once he dies, all clues are lost.
Zhou Chaoyuan only believed half of what the palace maid Jin'er said. He firmly believed that there must be someone behind Jin'er. Otherwise, how could a little palace maid have the ability to get such a strange poison? I'm so poisoned that I can't do anything about it now.
Seeing that Jin'er was dead, Concubine Lan stepped forward angrily, kicked her body hard, and kept scolding: "Bloody maid! Bitch maid? You bastard, how dare you frame me!"
Because of the deep poisoning, Zhou Chaoyuan was in severe pain all over his body at this moment. He couldn't help but feel a little angry at the imperial concubine. He shouted with a white face: "That's enough!"
"Your Majesty..." The imperial concubine was so frightened that she trembled all over and returned to the bed.
"My concubine, it's time to change your temper. If you hadn't been so harsh on the palace people, why would I have suffered this unreasonable disaster?"
Concubine Lan turned pale when she heard the emperor put the blame on herself, "Your Majesty... Your Majesty..."
"Well, the imperial concubine is not managing the palace well, so she is demoted to the rank of concubine and grounded for a month!"
After saying these words, Zhou Chaoyuan ordered his personal eunuch to carry him out of the imperial concubine's palace.
A few days passed in the blink of an eye. As time went by, Zhou Chaoyuan's body became weaker and weaker. At this time, the person taking care of him in the palace was the newly promoted Xuan Meiren.
"Your Majesty, don't worry. The imperial doctors have superb medical skills and will be able to develop an antidote. I will always be by your side. Even if something happens... I will go with you..."
What Xuan Meiren said was sincere. At this time, she did not cry. Instead, she used a very soothing tone to enlighten Zhou Chaoyuan, who was depressed in his heart.
She knew that crying at this moment would only bore Zhou Chaoyuan, whose health was deteriorating. All she had to do was to stay by his side unswervingly.
Zhou Chaoyuan was so weak that he could hardly speak, but after hearing Xuan Meiren's words, he was really relieved.
Xuan Meiren is from a humble background and is helpless in this palace, and she is regarded as a thorn in the side by the noble concubine... no, Concubine Lan. If I am gone, what will she do?
At this moment, Zhou Chaoyuan could not help but feel infinite love for Xuan Mei.
Nowadays, most of the concubines in this palace came from noble families. Even if Zhou Chaoyuan really died, those who had heirs would rely on their heirs, and those who had no heirs would rely on their family background, so none of them would live too badly. After all, there was no rule in the Zhou Dynasty that concubines were buried as sacrifices.
Only the beauty Xuan is helpless.
Sure enough, people are most easily moved when they are weak.
Just when Zhou Chaoyuan was secretly moved by his importance to Xuan Meiren and Xuan Meiren's friendship for him, a young eunuch suddenly ran in from outside.
"Your Majesty, good news, the imperial doctors have finally developed an antidote."
Zhou Chaoyuan was ecstatic when he heard this, and uttered one word with difficulty, "Xuan!"
Soon the imperial doctors filed in and explained to Zhou Chaoyuan the method of detoxification. The key to detoxification was to use ten drops of the blood of close relatives as a medicine.
Heart blood is very important to people, it is the source of human essence. If a drop is missing, it will make a person extremely weak, let alone ten drops, which is really life-threatening!
Speaking of the emperor's closest relatives, there are only his princes and princesses. Not to mention Zhou Chaoyuan's parents are no longer alive. Even if they are alive, they do not leave the younger ones alone. Instead, they let the elders devote their efforts to the younger ones. .
After Zhou Chaoyuan listened to the imperial doctor's words, he was silent for a moment and then said: "Xuan...Prince, Princess...see me..."
Not long after, Zhou Chaoyuan's bedroom was filled with people kneeling on their knees. There were eighteen princes and princesses in total. This was after excluding the ignorant little princes and little princesses.
There were eight princes and ten princesses over ten years old in Zhou Chaoyuan (excluding Zhou Jinchun).
Xuan Meiren, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, looked at the rows of princes and princesses below and said, "Your Majesty is now seriously poisoned and needs ten drops of blood from your loved ones to save him. The closest people to Your Majesty are the princes. With the princess, I wonder which of your highnesses would like to..."
Hearing Xuan Meiren's words, the princes and princesses below looked at me and I looked at you. Their faces were pale. That was ten drops of their hard work. If they really had to sacrifice it, how could they still be alive?
Seeing no one said anything below, Xuan Meiren sighed deeply, "I only regret that my concubine's hard work is of no use to Your Majesty, otherwise..."
After hearing Xuan Meiren's words, the princes and princesses below buried their heads lower.
Zhou Chaoyuan looked at his group of children with their heads shrunk, and couldn't help but feel disappointed.
At this moment, someone suddenly said, "Isn't there still Jiu Mei?"
Hearing this, the eyes of all the princes and princesses lit up. Yes, there is also Jiumei. My father doesn't like Jiumei. If he asks her to give her heart and soul to him, he will definitely be willing.
As for whether the Ninth Princess is willing or not, that is not within the consideration of the princes and princesses.
When someone mentioned the Ninth Princess, the memory of Zhou Chaoyuan's death suddenly began to attack him. If no one mentioned it, he would have almost forgotten that he had such a daughter.
This was the daughter born to him by his royal queen, and the queen had been gone for more than ten years.
Seeing Zhou Chaoyuan's thoughts wandering far away, Meiren Xuan called him softly: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty! It's better to make a decision quickly. Seeing you like this, my heart is almost broken..."
Zhou Chaoyuan recovered his thoughts, glanced at the dozen princes and princesses below, and finally said with difficulty: "Xuan... Ninth Princess..."
(End of chapter)
