Liu Mingzhi gently shook the wine bottle a few times, and just as he was about to walk towards the royal study room, his heart skipped a beat when he stopped.
"You...when did you come?"
Chen Jie was dressed in loose pale white palace clothes, her hair was tied casually with ribbons and hung down to her waist. She stood at the door of the palace, the lantern in her hand was dim.
Hearing Liu Mingzhi's somewhat hesitant words, Chen Jie did not answer, but stared at the wine bottle in Liu Mingzhi's hand without saying a word.
Liu Mingzhi followed Chen Jie's eyes, glanced down at the wine bottle in his hand, pretended to put it casually on the table aside, and slowly walked towards Chen Jie.
I kept questioning myself in my heart, how far away had I just been, not even noticing the arrival of a weak woman like Chen Jie.
Seeing Liu Mingzhi stop in front of her, Chen Jie shifted her gaze to Liu Mingzhi, with a hint of disbelief in her eyes.
"You are so pretending to be like me. I have been mourning for you for several months, but it turns out you...
What did you put in your drink? Is it poison? "
"What poison? What did you say? Why can't I understand?"
Chen Jie listened to Liu Mingzhi's continuous denials and evasive words, and the mist in her eyes gathered and kept from falling: "Let me ask you, what did you put in the drink? Is this drink prepared for Ye'er?"
"Don't be like this. You can't get angry while you are pregnant with Liujia. Be careful of the child in your belly."
Chen Jie dodged Liu Mingzhi's attempt to help her, and stared at Liu Mingzhi's stunned look with sad eyes.
"Child? If you have a child in your heart, how can you let the Liu family send me saffron?
Since you haven't cared about me or my children at all, why are you here asking for help?
Let me ask you something, what did you put in your drink?
Is this drink prepared for Ye'er? "
Liu Mingzhi looked at Chen Jie's sad expression and sighed helplessly: "Have you opened the medicine bag and looked at it?"
"No!"
“Then how do you know that the medicine package is really saffron and not an anti-fetal medicine?
At that time, in a situation where the lives of my wife, children, children, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers were at stake, I had to make a choice, but I would never do anything vicious that would hurt you or the flesh and blood in your belly.
Saffron is just a pretext for me to use my tricks. Only by letting the court know that I don't care about you will they not do anything to harm you, you know?
There really is an anti-fetal medicine in there! "
"The imperial court? It's Ye'er, right? You're doing this just so that Ye'er can't use my safety and the safety of my children to threaten you to seek power and usurp the throne, right?"
Liu Mingzhi felt Chen Jie's cold gaze, pursed his lips and remained silent for a long time, nodding silently.
"Yes! But you know I had no way out at that time!"
"Ye'er has agreed to make peace with you. Are you unaware of this matter?"
Liu Mingzhi raised his hand and rubbed his temples, then supported Chen Jie's shoulders and looked downcast.
"Since Li Ye went to you to persuade me to stop fighting and make peace, you should know what his true intention is.
Stopping the troops and making peace was just a tactic to delay the war. He just wanted to temporarily appease me. When General Yun's army returns to the court, I, Liu Mingzhi, will die without a burial place.
I have been assassinated once in Fengyundu and almost died. Do you think I will wait for death honestly a second time?
Chen Jie, you know and I know that as long as I reconcile with the court, there is only death waiting for me.
When you questioned me like this when we first met, does it mean that in your heart, my life is so worthless compared to Li Ye's? "
Liu Mingzhi looked at Liu Mingzhi staring at him with questioning eyes, and looked away with evasive eyes.
"Ye'er is my son, what is the relationship between us? Of course I care more about my son's life!"
Liu Mingzhi smiled. He already got the answer he wanted from Chen Jie's expression.
It's not in vain that I have always been concerned about the safety of her and the fetus in her belly.
I don’t insist on whether I admit it personally or not. I am content when I have the answer in my heart.
"Jie'er, no matter what embarrassing status we are in in reality, in my heart you are my wife!
Although I, Liu Mingzhi, don’t want to admit it, I have to admit that I am a passionate person.
Not just you, there are many ladies in my family who I never imagined that one day I would fall in love with them and get married.
But when something happens, I can only apologize to Yun'er to make up for all of you who have a relationship with me, and I won't owe any of you. "
Chen Jie's body trembled slightly when she heard Liu Mingzhi's solemn words.
"Mother...mother!"
"Yes, lady!
How is the child? Let me see quickly..."
As he spoke, Liu Mingzhi touched Chen Jie's abdomen. However, the flat and fat belly made Liu Mingzhi's eyes startled, and he looked at Chen Jie blankly: "Child... child Woolen cloth?"
"It's you...it's you who sent the saffron!"
Liu Mingzhi looked at Chen Jie's evasive eyes, staggered back two steps, and his eyes became dull: "You... Saffron!"
Suddenly, Liu Mingzhi's eyes became gloomy. He walked up to Chen Jie again and grabbed Chen Jie's shoulders with excitement and shook her.
"You crazy woman, what have you done? Where is the child?"
"Don't you already have the answer?"
"Impossible, you are lying to me, right? The child is my child and your flesh and blood. How can you be so cruel?"
Chen Jie was a little panicked when she saw Liu Mingzhi's flawless expression. She had never seen Liu Mingzhi look so crazy before, not even when he used force on her in the old palace of the prince. He had never been so crazy before.
"Let me ask you one last time, where is the child?"
"No...no more!"
"You..." Liu Mingzhi suddenly raised his palm, looking at Chen Jie's eyes that were closed in a panic, his arms were trembling and did not fall down.
There was a muffled sound and the slap fell heavily on Liu Mingzhi's own face.
"Scorpion-hearted! Snake-hearted! Child, my child! Chen Jie, you are so cruel. I misjudged you!"
Chen Jie opened her eyes slightly and looked at the red and swollen palm prints on Liu Mingzhi's cheek with complicated eyes.
"What's in the jug?"
Liu Mingzhi walked towards the table with a gloomy face, and picked up the wine bottle on the table: "There's nothing!"
"I don't believe it. I clearly saw you putting something into the wine flask. Are you going to give Ye'er some poisonous wine?"
"You are wrong. Things in the palace have come to an end. You should not stay in the palace now. The loss of the child will also have a great impact on your body. You should go back to the prince's old mansion to recuperate first. You are done. I’ll see you again!”
Chen Jie looked at Liu Mingzhi's gloomy expression and raised her hand to snatch the wine bottle from Liu Mingzhi's hand.
"Since you didn't buy anything, I will believe you if you ask Yijia to take a sip!"
"Are you sick? You just had a miscarriage and you drank. Are you going to die? Go back to the prince's old mansion!"
"If you don't let me drink it, you've poisoned it. I can't just watch you poison my son to death!"
"Then why are you so cruel to the child in your belly..."
Liu Mingzhi breathed out heavily, picked up the bottle, poured the drink in his hand into his mouth, and swallowed it happily.
"You can rest assured now!"
Chen Jie's mind flashed, and she hurried towards Liu Mingzhi, raising her hand to press Liu Mingzhi's abdomen.
"Spit it out, spit it out."
Liu Mingzhi felt warm in his heart when he saw Chen Jie's panicked behavior, but he still couldn't let go of the fact that she aborted the child.
He broke away from Chen Jie's support, walked past Chen Jie with the pot in his hand, and walked towards the imperial study room.
"Liu Mingzhi! If something happens to Ye'er, I won't survive!"
"There is no poison in the wine. Although I have vajra skills, I also have the heart of a Bodhisattva!
You go back to take care of yourself first! "
Liu Mingzhi's figure gradually disappeared into the night, and Chen Jieruan sat on the carpet and choked silently.
A figure walked out from the corner of the apse holding a baby in his arms with a cautious expression, and hurriedly helped Chen Jie who was sitting on the ground.
"My queen, get up quickly. The ground is cold. If you have just given birth and have some hidden disease, it will be very troublesome! Why don't you tell him about the child?"
Chen Jie took the swaddling clothes from Gao Jin's arms with a depressed expression and looked at the sleeping baby in the swaddling clothes.
"He didn't give Yijia a chance!"
