That night, everything inside and outside the palace was uneventful.
Concubine Gu was in pain all night, and all the imperial doctors were helpless. It was not until dawn that the pain eased slightly.
Prince Chen outside the palace also stayed up all night. The lights in the study were on all night. Several staff members were urgently summoned in the middle of the night. The guards were dispatched in batches. In the end, Qianqi's whereabouts was not found. The person seemed to disappear out of thin air. Same.
King Chen was so angry that he ordered his staff to punish all the guards who failed to make a successful start. Wailings were heard one after another at night. By early morning, most of the palace guards had been damaged, and all of them were seriously injured and unable to move.
Several staff members in Prince Chen's Mansion would beg for mercy at first, but when Prince Chen couldn't restrain his anger and killed two of the guards with a sanitary stick, the staff turned pale with fright and no longer dared to say a word.
That night there was so much noise in Prince Chen's palace that even Princess Jiang Ying did not dare to go to the front yard. After coaxing her daughter to sleep, she lay in bed without closing her eyes all night.
In addition to the heart-wrenching anger of King Chen, the fact that Qianqi's disappearance was like a stone sinking also cast a shadow over people's hearts involuntarily.
She didn't know what was going on recently.
The development of all things is contrary to their hopes, one after another, nothing is satisfactory.
On the contrary, Rong Cang and Chu Yunfei, after the divorce incident that initially alarmed the imperial city, completely ignored the jokes and criticisms of others, not only unexpectedly repaired their relationship, but their status in front of the emperor also became higher and higher, and they were completely overwhelmed by the limelight. She and King Chen.
Even... there is even a faint tendency to compete with the imperial concubine and King Chen.
Rong Cang is the son of a noble concubine and the younger brother of King Chen. Why should he compete with his mother, concubine, and brother?
Because of ambition?
It's not enough to hold an army of 400,000, but Rong Cang also has ambitions that he shouldn't have?
Jiang Ying lowered her eyes and looked at her daughter's sleeping face, and couldn't help but think of the child in Chu Yunfei's belly. If her child was born safely, and if Chu Yunfei was so lucky to give birth to a boy, would they be even more prosperous in front of the emperor? ?
Jiang Ying's eyes turned cold.
She must not watch Rong Cang take away King Chen's position as crown prince, just like she cannot tolerate Chu Yunfei becoming the crown prince, while she can only be a princess.
She is the legitimate daughter of the Prime Minister's Palace, and she is many times more noble than Chu Yunfei since she was born. The position in the imperial palace must belong to her, so the position of crown prince can only be occupied by King Chen, and no one else can even think about it.
So she would agree to Qin Zhilan's proposal and agree to enter Prince Chen's palace as a concubine, because Qin Zhilan promised to make Prince Chen's wishes come true.
Jiang Ying closed her eyes gently. With the support of two powerful backers, the Prime Minister's Mansion and the Taifu Mansion, as well as the backing of the Gu family, how could King Chen not be able to sit on the throne of the prince?
My thoughts were floating until the white fish belly appeared in the east.
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After Rong Cang returned to the palace last night, he did not mention the poison to Chu Yunfei. He just sent secret guards to the Chu family at dawn to knock out the steward who had been in contact with King Chen. In the dim light of the early morning, he quietly brought people to Prince Zhan's Mansion.
The interrogation did not take half an hour, and it only took a cup of tea to basically confirm that the poison had not yet had time to enter Chu Yunfei's food.
"The villain is worried... I'm worried that the poison will be exposed in the tea..." After a few whips, the steward screamed for mercy and told the story in detail, "The villain thought about putting it in the food for more..." It was easy to succeed. I didn’t expect...I didn’t expect that His Highness the War King and the Princess did not stay to eat. The villain did nothing. He really didn’t do anything. His Highness the War King, spare your life, spare your life! Everything was ordered by King Chen..."
Rong Cang's eyebrows were cold and hard, and his voice was indifferent: "Leave his whole body." He turned around and left immediately.
"His Royal Highness the War King! Your Highness the War King spare your life—ah!"
After a scream, the begging for mercy stopped abruptly.
Rong Cang arrived at Jinlin Courtyard and found that Chu Yunfei, who was dressed in a moon-white dress, was standing in front of the court at some point. She looked at him quietly and waited until he approached before speaking: "What happened?"
Rong Cang was silent for a moment: "He was ordered by King Chen to poison you in order to threaten me into submission. However, because of the assassin incident yesterday, we did not stay at the Chu family for dinner, so his plan failed to succeed."
"So it's all thanks to the assassin?" Chu Yun raised his eyebrows slightly and raised the corners of his mouth with a happy arc, "King Chen's plan didn't succeed, but my plan succeeded."
Rong Cang pursed his lips and looked at him.
"Let's go." Chu Yunfei turned around and walked towards Shuanghua Courtyard, "Don't you always want to see the side room and know what secrets are hidden inside? I will take you to see it."
Rong Cang followed Chu Yunfei without saying a word, with a steady voice: "I've already guessed it."
Chu Yunfei didn't say anything, and took Rong Cang all the way to the side room of Shuanghua Courtyard. She took out the key and unlocked it, then pushed the door open and entered.
When she walked to the corner, she opened several calligraphy and painting scrolls, took out a sealed jar from a large round-bellied vase, and turned to hand it to Rong Cang.
"Open it yourself and take a look. Be careful and don't be scared."
Rong Cang's expression was subtle for a moment, and he raised his hand to open the lid. When he saw the contents of the jar, his pupils shrank, and for a moment he felt his scalp was numb - not because of fear, but because he thought of Chu Yunfei, a delicate pregnant woman. He has been exposed to such disgusting things from time to time these days, and he finds it really incredible.
Rong Cang frowned slightly and raised his eyes to look at Chu Yunfei: "Aren't you afraid?"
"What's so scary?" Chu Yunfei smiled lightly, with a hint of coldness, "Is it more scary than the human heart?"
Rong Cang silently looked into the jar. He saw a black mutated centipede that was obviously much larger. It should have been the result of swallowing scorpions, spiders, and poisonous snakes. There were some tiny eggs at the bottom of the jar. If you didn't look carefully, it would be easy to miss it.
"Actually, it's not difficult to raise poisonous poisons. What's difficult is the complicated poisonous poisons." Chu Yunfei took the lid, took the jar from his hand, covered it, and wrapped it with wisps of cloth, "I don't have it." The Gu Master in Prince Chen's Mansion has unpredictable and profound abilities, but he can still do it by raising some simple Gu insects."
Chu Yunfei said and smiled casually: "The Zimu Gu is to control and threaten others, but my Gu is simply to make people suffer, and there is no way to undo it."
Rong Cang pursed his lips, hesitated several times, and finally said, "You are not suitable for this."
"Why?" Chu Yunfei smiled lightly, "Do you think this thing is too vicious? Or are you worried that I will use it on you?"
"None of them." Rong Cang took the jar from her hand, turned around and walked out, "Evergreen."
"exist."
"Take care of this." Rong Cang handed the jar to Changqing, "Burn it with fire. After burning, find a place where no one is and bury it. The deeper the better."
"Yes." Changqing held the jar and took the order.
