Shen Dingzhu wanted to pretend to be asleep, but Xiao Langyan was standing beside the couch. She could feel her eyelashes trembling slightly, so how could she deceive him?
So, the beauty pulled the quilt down a little, covering her delicate nose, revealing only a pair of beautiful misty eyes.
"Your Majesty, please go to another palace. I am not feeling well and cannot serve you."
"I don't need you to sleep with me. I'm just here to watch you sleep. I'll leave at three o'clock. There are still some memorials that I haven't finished yet."
Shen Dingzhu lowered her thick black eyelashes, and her pretty white and charming face was written with a touch of emotion, but Xiao Langyan was keenly aware of her resistance to him from her slightly tight grip on the corners of the quilt.
Xiao Langyan sighed calmly: "Okay, then I'll go sleep outside."
The inner hall was divided into two rooms by a mountain and sea mica-colored screen. Shen Dingzhu looked at his tall figure passing by. Through the warm yellow light of the night pearl, he could vaguely see the outline of Xiao Langyan's mighty figure, lying down slowly. Next, huddled on that short, square and narrow couch.
Shen Dingzhu's eyes flashed with surprise, and then she thought, was Xiao Langyan's kindness and patience towards her for her own sake, or for the sake of the child in her belly?
She was weak recently and fell asleep quickly. Thoughts were flying in her mind like dust, and she fell asleep soon.
On the other side of the screen, the emperor's thin, dark eyes were calm, looking at the slim silhouette opposite, and saw that her breathing was rising and falling evenly, but he couldn't sleep at all.
He just wanted to hold her and fall asleep, but even this request turned out to be a luxury.
Xiao Langyan closed his cold black brows tightly, feeling an indescribable feeling in his heart that was tormenting him uncomfortably.
The next day, when Shen Dingzhu woke up, it was already three o'clock in the morning.
Shen Bi and Xiucui were waiting for her to wash up with smiles. Shen Bi chirped in a cheerful voice: "Empress, tomorrow is your birthday. When the emperor left in the morning, he also said that early tomorrow morning, your parents and the empress would be taken care of. My brothers, please come into the palace to celebrate your birthday."
When Shen Dingzhu heard this, she was slightly distracted, and her dark beautiful eyes turned to look at Geng Lu in the palace. Today in her previous life was the day she died of poisoning.
She had previously entrusted the ghost doctor to help check that there was something wrong with the Bizi soup she drank. Shen Dingzhu recalled her previous life. She happened to have served Xiao Langyan last night, so she drank a bowl of Bizi soup in the morning. Later, she It was she who fled to the ferry and died of poison.
That said, you still have to be extra careful with the food imported today, not to mention that she is pregnant now, and she will not have the opportunity to drink any child-proof soup.
Shen Dingzhu was immersed in his own thoughts, when the little eunuch from the Imperial Hospital came to deliver miscarriage medicine.
Xiucui was surprised: "Huh? Why is it you today? Where is Xiao Shunzi next to Imperial Physician Cen?"
The little eunuch apologized and said, "Xiao Shunzi followed Mr. Cen out of the palace to show the legs of the eldest brother of the queen. Before leaving the palace, he specially told the slaves to bring the pregnancy-preserving medicine to the queen and to watch her. Drink it, the empress’s dragon fetus is at a critical moment, so she can’t miss even one meal of medicine.”
As he said that, he took out a bowl of brown concoction from the food box. Shen Bi pinched her nose and said, "It's so bitter! I really admire you. How can you endure such a bitter medicine?"
Chunxi took a silver needle to test the poison. After confirming that it was correct, he allowed the little eunuch to bring the medicine to Shen Dingzhu.
"Your Majesty, please take the medicine." The little eunuch smiled with a flattering look on his face. However, when he raised his head slightly, he suddenly froze.
He seemed to see a pair of fairy-like black eyes, so beautiful that they were breathtaking and captivating.
Shen Dingzhu was wearing fine silk and satin, with a wide-sleeved robe that she gently gathered in front of her belly. Thousands of green silk threads were tied high with a red jade hairpin, revealing her snow-white and pink neck.
She didn't wear any extra accessories, but she was so beautiful that people couldn't take their eyes away, especially after being pregnant, which added a touch of softness to her sweet and mature figure.
However, when the little eunuch found Shen Dingzhu looking at him quietly, he felt panicked for no reason. He lowered his head and moved the medicine bowl forward.
"Your Majesty, please drink the medicine, otherwise you won't be able to drink it if it gets cold."
Shen Dingzhu's snow-like gaze fell as she looked at the bowl of brown concoction. The smell was exactly the same as when she went to the ghost doctor to investigate the poison before. She was almost sure that the bowl of fetal medicine in front of her was also poisonous.
It finally became clear who wanted to harm her in her previous life.
The harem in this life is slightly different from that in the previous life. This time Xiao Langyan does not have so many ostentatious concubines, so Shen Dingzhu can easily guess.
Apart from Concubine Cui De and the two nobles, there are no other concubines in the palace.
Concubine Cui De has no conflict of interest with Shen Dingzhu for the time being and will not harm her. Those two nobles do not have this ability.
The person who can take action must be Fu Yunqiu.
Shen Dingzhu had already learned that the regent of the Changliu Kingdom wanted to marry Fu Yunqiu, so she was released by Xiao Langyan and made a female official. She was just waiting for the envoy from the Changliu Kingdom to arrive and get married.
It turns out that Fu Yunqiu didn't want her to live in his previous life.
Shen Dingzhu thought of Fu Yunqiu's plan. Now Fu Yunqiu was unwilling to go to Changliu Kingdom with his wife, so she would look for opportunities to seek life and death, trying to arouse Xiao Langyan's last nostalgia for her.
Tonight is the time for Fu Yunqiu to pretend to escape.
But even though she was running away, she couldn't get out of the palace at all. She was afraid that as soon as she reached Xuanwu's position, she would be shot dead by the guards as an assassin.
Shen Dingzhu thought of Fu Yunqiu's secret plot against her in her previous life and the grudges they had accumulated over the past two lives. She tapped her nails lightly into her palms and slowly closed her eyes, her heart filled with hatred.
Revenge grew wildly like grass and vines. Shen Dingzhu looked at the bowl of brown concoction, raised his beautiful and cold face, and looked at the anxious and guilty little eunuch.
"You can drink this bowl of medicine for me."
As soon as these words came out, the little eunuch suddenly turned pale and fell to the ground bloodlessly.
at night.
Xiao Langyan was so busy that he still had many memorials to deal with, but he decided to let them go and go to Yaoguang Palace to visit Shen Dingzhu first.
But after he entered the hall, he saw Shen Dingzhu wearing a light golden gauze. There was no expression on her beautiful face, only her black eyelashes were hanging down, casting a shadow.
Shen Bi and Xiucui stood on both sides of her, each with solemn expressions, as if something terrible had happened.
"What's wrong?" Xiao Langyan looked at Shen Dingzhu, "You are not well, why don't you lie down."
As he spoke, he took a step forward. From the corner of his left eye, he finally looked past the half-open palace door and saw a group of figures slumped on the ground.
Xiao Langyan suddenly turned his head and looked.
It turned out to be a young eunuch who had died with his eyes open and bleeding from his orifices.
"Your Majesty!" Shen Bi and Xiucui knelt down and said with tears and fear, "This little eunuch lied about delivering medicine for Dr. Cen, but it turned out that the medicine was poisonous!"
Xiao Langyan's pupils tightened, and he strode to Shen Dingzhu: "Are you okay?"
Shen Dingzhu shook his head gently: "His confession is on the table over there. The emperor can see it. He has also asked people from the Taiyuan Hospital. Before he went to the Taiyuan Hospital, he was an eunuch in charge of the East Palace."
Now in the harem, it is clear who can control the relationship between the past and the east palace.
As she spoke, she raised her dark eyes. There were clearly no tears, but Xiao Langyan could tell that they were wet.
"Your Majesty, I don't need to explain who sent this medicine. If I hadn't already had a premonition and avoided it in time, what you see now is my concubine with two lives."
Hearing the words "one corpse, two lives", Xiao Langyan's dark and cold eyes seemed to have a lot of fierce killing intent.
But Shen Dingzhu said at this time: "I have a prediction that I didn't finish talking to the emperor last time. That is, tonight, Fu Yunqiu will run away to resist marrying to Changliu Kingdom. If the emperor doesn't go to find her, he will wait until she runs to Xuanwu." Near the palace gate, the imperial army will shoot her as an assassin, and the emperor will have no one to send to Chang Liu."
As soon as she finished speaking, Chunxi stumbled in outside the door: "Oh no, Your Majesty, Madam, Fu Yunqiu really escaped. I heard from the Imperial Army that he went to the direction of Changmen Palace!"
Shen Dingzhu raised her eyebrows.
To the east of Nagatogu Palace, you will soon reach the Xuanwu Gate.
She raised her watery eyes and looked at Xiao Langyan's handsome face with a solemn expression.
After many years, I returned to this watershed night in my previous life.
Only this time, she wanted to put the right of passive choice in Xiao Langyan's hands.
