"Princess, what did you hear when you were in the Plum Garden?"
Zhu Sijia regained consciousness. She opened her eyes, and her chin was gently pinched by a jade-white hand. The cool touch made people wake up instantly.
His eyelids were heavy, and every time he blinked, the scene in front of him would appear as multiple shadows, making it easy for him to fall asleep again.
But she didn't dare to close her eyes again. She was afraid that she would never wake up from this sleep. She couldn't die yet because her mother-in-law still needed her.
His eyes followed this hand, and he faced a face that looked sick but could not hide his elegance and elegance.
That was her husband, Yan Xing, the current regent of the Qin Dynasty.
Two lines of clear tears fell silently. Zhu Sijia was shaking really hard under his hands. She shook her head desperately: "Your Majesty, I will never tell anyone anything."
At the end, she begged and added: "I beg you, Your Majesty, for the sake of following the rules and observing myself for so many years, please... let me go this time."
"My lord, didn't you agree that you will live a good life with me from now on?"
Yan Xing gently let go of her, with a somewhat complicated look on his face: "This time, she wants your life."
Two hours ago, the Plum Garden of the Prince Regent's Mansion.
Whenever it snows, Zhu Sijia will go to the plum garden in person to pick flowers and add fresh snow to make wine.
Today is no exception.
A woman's low sobs suddenly came from the small pavilion in the southwest corner, followed by a man's gentle and reassuring words of comfort:
"Huan'er is the reincarnation of Ziweixing. He has the sacred destiny and will be fine."
"But his fever is very serious this time. The doctor said that if he can't survive tonight, I'm afraid...I'm afraid..."
Hearing this, Zhu Sijia held her breath and stopped, standing quietly in the plum forest, letting the snow on the plum trees fall on her shoulders.
She has long been used to this situation. Even if the two of them were intimate in front of her in the past, she would help them close the door without a heartbeat.
It's better not to disturb the two of them.
The couple in the pavilion, who were as affectionate as newlyweds, were her sister-in-law, the current Empress Dowager Zhaode of the Qin Dynasty, Zhu Siyi, and her husband.
Today is young and the country of Qin is in turmoil. Zhu Siyi and Yan Xing have naturally become the real leaders of the empire. One listens to the government behind the curtain, and the other assists in the government.
All the highest privileges are in the hands of these two people.
"Yuanzhi, is this my retribution? I often dream back in the middle of the night. The late emperor comes to me in my dream and demands my life, asking me why I let a bastard take over his country. If he wants revenge, he will take revenge on me! Don't Go take revenge on Huan'er!"
"Huan'er is only ten years old! He has been sick one after another since he came to the throne. Is it the ghost of the late emperor who is causing trouble?"
Zhu Siyi became emotional and choked with sobs as she was buried in Yan Xing's arms.
bastard?
The north wind passed by, carrying a bone-chilling chill, which made Scarlett's scalp tense and numb.
Yan Xing gently stroked Zhu Siyi's broken hair on the temples and said softly:
"Huan'er is our child, an upright royal bloodline, how can he be a bastard? The emperor's brother has been dead for three years and has long been reduced to a pile of bones in the imperial mausoleum. Siyi, don't worry."
The only bloodline of today's young emperor and emperor Wu is actually that of the regent.
It is not advisable to stay here for a long time.
Zhu Sijia lifted up her skirt and tried to sneak away quietly, but she accidentally bumped into the branch of a snow-covered plum tree, and the sound alerted the two of them.
Then, she lost consciousness until she opened her eyes and woke up.
Yan Xing sat her down on the sandalwood chair and pressed her hand tightly on the table: "But don't worry, I begged her for a long time, and she finally relented and agreed not to take your life."
"Scarlett, be good, bear with me for a while and it won't hurt anymore. Since I promised you that I will live a good life with you, I won't let you down again."
Zhu Scarlett was extremely frightened: "What, what are you going to do?"
Yan Xing was in a dilemma: "Only dead people will not reveal secrets. Apart from that, there are only people who cannot speak or write."
He actually wanted to cut off his own tongue and rip off his own limbs!
Zhu Sijia wailed loudly and begged for mercy: "Yan Xing! You can't do this to me! I know you hate me, hate me for losing my virginity before marriage and marrying you, blocking the way for you and the Queen Mother, but I was framed back then too!"
"I beg you! My mother-in-law is still lonely in Prince Yan's Mansion, and I am the only one left in the world who can be filial to her! If she knows that I have become a cripple, she will be miserable!"
Yan Xing decided to tell the secret he had kept from her:
"Scarlett, there is one thing I can't bear to tell you. Two years ago, my mother-in-law learned that your brother died of illness while being exiled to Lingnan. She couldn't bear the blow and passed away at that time."
My mother has been dead for two years.
Her last blood relative in this world also left her.
Is this the reason why Yan Xing has imprisoned her for the past two years and not allowed her to step out of the house?
Zhu Sijia's mind went blank, and the roaring sound lingered endlessly.
And Yan Xing took advantage of her distraction to pull out an extremely thin knife, cut her hand open without hesitation, and severed her tendons!
Their fingers connected to their hearts, and in a moment, both of Zhu Sijia's hands were covered in blood and flesh, and the muscles and bones were turned out. She saw with her own eyes that her hands were cut to pieces, and the huge pain flooded her whole body again and again.
"Yan Xing...why...why do you do this to me."
"Kill me! Kill me!"
Bright red blood stains were all over their bodies. Zhu Sijia curled up in pain in Yan Xing's arms, and her screams were so shrill that they resounded throughout the mansion.
After picking off her hand tendons, Yan Xing poured a whole bowl of hot medicine into her. His eyes were half confused and half painful, and he comforted her:
"Drink this bowl of medicine, and I will say whatever you want to say for you from now on."
Dumb medicine?
What kind of mute medicine can cause all the internal organs to twitch with pain?
Yan Xing has not noticed anything unusual about the person in his arms.
I wish Scarlett a wonderful life. Even though her face was distorted by pain, in his eyes there was a fragile beauty of being abused and dying.
"Scarlett, your sister-in-law and I personally sent you to the royal brother's bed. At that time, I hated you so much that I wanted to break off the engagement with you."
"You have always refused to say it, but I have always known that it was the imperial brother who touched you."
"Later on our wedding night, I wanted to kill you, but you lifted your hijab and told me truthfully that you had lost your virginity and wanted me to divorce you. The moment I let you go, your face was really beautiful under the candlelight. I Suddenly my heart softened."
Yan Xing held her and talked to himself, while cold tears fell on Zhu Sijia.
He didn't even notice that the person in his arms was gradually losing body temperature.
The sky in the east had turned white. He was imagining the future with her, but little did he know that the bowl of dumb medicine had been replaced by poison by the Queen Mother.
Her body was completely cold, colder than the snow outside the window.
Zhu Sijia stood in a sea of red flowers. At the end of the sea of flowers were her mother, younger brothers and sisters waving to her. There was a thick fog in front of and behind her, but the faces of her relatives in the fog were clearly visible.
The soles of her feet floated and she flew towards them.
There was an invisible barrier in front of her that separated her from her relatives. Outside the barrier, they shook their heads at her and told her:
Let's go back.
