Qingcheng Yao looks at each other

"Do you know who it is?"

I asked aloud.

Uncle Wang hesitated to speak, his eyes were a little frightened.

"Miss, the master is in a high position and always threatens some people...and those who have the ability to poison..."

Uncle Wang didn't continue talking, only said that he still had something to do, and left in a hurry.

I stood where I was, for a long, long time, without returning to my senses.

When my father was alive, he was above one person and under ten thousand people in the court, with great power, and there were countless people who wanted to harm him.

However, over the years, those who wanted to harm my father never harmed my father even in the slightest.

So, who would have the ability to poison their father's soup without being detected?

For a long time, my father's food has been tested with silver needles, and he will only eat it after confirming that it is not poisonous. These days, in order to get the best treatment for my father, I have hired the best imperial doctor in the palace to take care of him. he.

I suddenly didn't dare to think that Qingcheng might be the only person with such great power.

I don't want to think about it, I think, Qingcheng will definitely not do that, as long as he still wants us well, he won't do that.

There are still so many people in the court who want to marry their father to replace them. It must be the actions of those who are eyeing their father's position as prime minister.

I tried my best to control myself and not let myself lose my composure too much.

"Yao'er, why don't you sleep a little longer?"

It was Qingcheng, he walked to my side, and subconsciously took my hand.

I felt the warmth of his palm, but suddenly I was a little scared. Without any thought, I pulled my hand back.

Qingcheng's hand fell to nothing, and his sword eyebrows frowned slightly.

"Yao'er, what's wrong?"

I also realized my gaffe, and hurriedly said, "No, it's nothing."

Looking deeply into Qingcheng's eyes, I asked, "Qingcheng, if there is something wrong with my father's death, will you investigate it?"

Qingcheng was a little surprised, and asked: "Is there something strange? What's wrong?"

His eyes were full of doubts, without a trace of panic.

I stared at him blankly for a long time, but I still didn't find any difference in him.

A big rock hanging in my heart fell, I thought, it must not be Qingcheng, it must not be.

He has already agreed that if he finds an opportunity, he will leave the palace with me.How could he harm his father when he was far away?

After my father's funeral, Qingcheng and I went back to the palace.

I could hardly sleep a wink for several days, my physical strength was seriously overdrawn, and I fainted to the ground as soon as I returned to Kunning Palace.

When I woke up again, it was already two days later.

Opening my eyes, I saw Qingcheng guarding my side.

"Yao'er, you finally woke up."

Qingcheng's face was haggard, and he even had stubble.

"Qingcheng, did I have a dream? In fact, my father is still alive at all?"

The sudden death of my father hit me hard.

Anyway, he was also my father.Even if I am in the palace, it is difficult to meet him, but if he is alive, that is good.

But he passed away, even inexplicably.

Qingcheng caressed my cheek with distress, and wiped away the tears from the corners of my eyes.

"Yao'er, you still have me, I will always be with you."

I am speechless, I am not sure that Qingcheng really did not do this.

But I didn't dare to think about it, what should I do if he really did it.

Xiao Dezi came in and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, you haven't slept for two days and two nights, and now the empress has woken up too, so go and sleep for a while."

Only then did I know that Qingcheng guarded me for two days.

Qingcheng nodded in agreement, Xiao Dezi felt relieved.

So I took care of Qingcheng and fell asleep in the dormitory. I stayed by his side and watched him fall into a deep sleep. Wen Yuan and I left the dormitory.

When I got to the study, I asked Wen Yuan to close the door.

"Wen Yuan, go and secretly send someone to interrogate the imperial physicians who treated my father, and see what they say about the poison."

Wen Yuan responded, and then said: "Miss, do you really have to investigate this matter? What if..."

How could I not know her worries?

She was afraid that Qingcheng would be the last one to be found out, and the relationship between me and Qingcheng might never go back to the way it was before.

"Check it out."

Regardless of the truth, I will investigate.

If Qingcheng really did it, then, I think, he doesn't really love me as he said, so why should I force it?

Wen Yuan sighed and said nothing more.

In the next few days, Qingcheng stayed with me, talked with me, and tried various ways to make me happy except for the morning time.

It's just that I can't be happy anyway, and I'm depressed every day.

A heart is also uneasy.

In the twinkling of an eye, half a month has passed. On this day, when Qingcheng went to the morning court, I was practicing calligraphy in the study. Wen Yuan walked in and bowed to me.

I saw that her expression was not right, so I asked, "What's wrong?"

Wen Yuan looked at me anxiously, hesitated to speak.

I don't know why, but my heart becomes restless.

"Father's death, have you found the murderer?"

Wen Yuan nodded, but said nothing.

"who is it?"

The simple two words seemed to weigh a thousand catties, and I tried my best to ask them.

A heart came to my throat, I hope that what Wen Yuan said was an official of the court.

"Is it from the Gao family? Or from the Murong family?"

The two of them are the most suspected.

Gao Jingya doesn't get much favor from Qingcheng in the harem now, if her father can be the prime minister, then her status will be greatly improved.

As for the Murong family, Murong Xue and I are incompatible, if my father falls, then I will lose my support.

Wen Yuan still didn't speak, and my heart became more and more uneasy.

"Is it Qingcheng?"

Wen Yuan lowered her head and said nothing.

But when I saw her like this, I was sure that Qingcheng really did it.

The brush in my hand slipped, and I couldn't help but took two steps back.

The truth that I least want to believe and want the least, but it just happens to be.

"Speak quickly."

My voice was a little hoarse, but it was full of anger and deep wounds.

Wen Yuan fell to her knees with a plop, and cried, "Miss, the servants sent people to the mansions of the imperial physicians to ask them to death, and they all said that the emperor gave the order to secretly poison the master's medicine." ."

My mind went blank.

At this point, I don't know what to do with myself!

Qingcheng, he really couldn't tolerate his father.

But he clearly said that he would not even want the country for me.

So, what he said were all just words to coax me?

The so-called going out of the palace is all empty talk?It's just that I foolishly believe that a king of a country can give up his country for a woman.

I was too stupid, too naive.

Thinking about it carefully is also the case. For so many years, the prime minister's mansion has been impenetrable. No one can infiltrate the mansion and do anything to harm his father. Even if he goes out, his father will bring his cronies to protect him. Can harm him.

but.If the emperor wanted him to die, he had to die.

Suddenly, I felt that there was darkness in front of my eyes, and then I couldn't see anything or anyone anymore.

In a trance, I heard Wen Yuan crying and calling me, but I didn't want to wake up.

The person I love the most killed my father and I don't know how I'm going to face him.

I want to sleep like this forever and never wake up again.

Sleeping all the time, you don't have to face the cruel reality.

I don't know how long I slept, it seemed that Qingcheng came, he held my hand, and called my name over and over again, telling me to wake up quickly.

The imperial doctor checked my pulse, but couldn't find the reason for my drowsiness.

Qingcheng lashed out at the imperial physician several times.But what's the use of being angry with them?They are innocent too, I just don't want to wake up and face him!

Qingcheng abandoned the government, stayed by my side every day, and talked to me a lot about the good things we had in the past, and how we would live and how many children we would have after we left the palace.

I could hear every word he said.

But listening to those words, I felt so ironic.

He killed my father, can we still be together like before?

I can't be as loving as if nothing happened, and I don't know if I can smile at him.

On this day, Qingcheng left, and Wen Yuan was crying beside me.

"Miss, wake up quickly, my aunt has fallen ill, and now my aunt has only you as a relative, if something happens to you, what should my aunt do?"

Wen Yuan's words woke me up from this long sleep.

When I opened my eyes, I saw Wen Yuan's teary-eyed face.

Wen Yuan saw me wake up, wept with joy, and said: "Miss, you finally woke up, do you know that you have been comatose for a month."

a month?Has a month passed like this?

I don't want to say more.He asked directly, "How is Ben Gong's mother?"

After hearing this, Wen Yuan hurriedly replied: "There is news from outside the palace that my aunt has fallen ill due to overthinking."

"Serve Ben Gong to change clothes and make up. Ben Gong has to leave the palace immediately."

Now, all I have left is my mother, and I can't lose her any longer.

But when I just got up, I felt weak all over.

Wen Yuan said that I didn't eat anything for a month, and that's why I was too weak, so I asked someone to go to eat and let me eat.

I didn't have any appetite, so I ate some and hurried out of the palace.

When I arrived at the former Prime Minister's Mansion, I went directly to my mother's bedroom.

My mother was lying on the bed, and Nanny Liu was waiting on her. When she saw me coming, she hurried over to salute, but I stopped her.

I walked to my mother, looked at her pale and thin face, and asked anxiously, "Mom, why did you suddenly fall ill?"

As he spoke, tears fell uncontrollably.

"You are the only daughter now, if you have something to do, what will you do if you leave your daughter alone in this world?"

Yes, now I have only my mother.

And Qingcheng... we may never go back to the past.

My mother held my hand and said, "Silly boy, I am getting old. I will leave you sooner or later. You have the protection of the emperor now, and you will have a good life in the future."

I was speechless, I didn't want to tell her the truth of the matter.

If she knows the real cause of her father's death, it will only make her suffer along with me.

"Mother, you must get better, otherwise my daughter will really not feel at ease."

But she sighed and said, "Don't worry, I will take good care of myself."

She pondered for a moment, then continued: "It's just that your father must be very lonely in another world."

I always knew that my mother loved my father deeply.It's just that her father didn't care so much about her.

Presumably, her illness this time was also due to the heavy blow she suffered from her father's death.

I persuaded: "Father has a spirit in the sky, and he must hope that you can live a good life, mother, instead of worrying about him all day long."

I stayed with my mother all day in the prime minister's mansion, and I didn't return to the palace until nightfall.

The carriage had just arrived at the gate of the palace, but it stopped. Qingcheng got on the carriage and sat down beside me.

When I saw it was him, I had mixed feelings in my heart.

Now he is so close to me, but I can no longer lean on him and talk to him a lot.

The revenge of killing the father.After all, the distance between us will be further and further apart.

This, maybe it is our fate, it is destined that we will not be able to be together well in this life.

I moved my body subconsciously, and deliberately moved away from him.

Qingcheng's eyes were filled with surprise and disappointment.

"Yao'er, why didn't you come to find me when you woke up?"

His tone is gentle.

I sneered and asked, "Your Majesty, since you have already made your choice, why do you still pretend to be innocent on the side of your concubine?"

Could it be that he killed my father and still requires me to treat him like I did in the past?

Qingcheng frowned tightly, and asked, "Yao'er, what did you say?"

He acted so innocent, as if that thing really wasn't his doing.

However, Wen Yuan will not lie to me.

"What have you done yourself, don't you know yourself?"

After I finished speaking, it suddenly occurred to me that Qingcheng asked me this sentence in such an aggressive manner a long, long time ago.

Life is really a wonderful thing, maybe in just a few days, two people who love each other can become enemies.

Qingcheng looked at me helplessly, I turned my head away and didn't want to look at him.

The carriage stopped at the gate of Kunning Palace, and I got out of the carriage, regardless of what happened to Qingcheng.

Back to Kunning Palace, I saw that the huge Kunning Palace is extremely luxurious, which many people dream of, but this is my cage, destined to lock up all my freedom and happiness.

I want to escape from here and never come back.

But, do I go alone?

Qingcheng chased me in and asked me, "Yao'er, what happened? Why did you say such strange things?"

I sneered, he still pretended, so I said it directly.

"I've done an investigation. My father died of poisoning, and the person who poisoned him was the imperial physician. I also questioned those imperial physicians, and they all said that you ordered them to do it."

"Qingcheng, no, maybe I should call you the 'emperor', you keep saying that you love me, but if you really love me, why did you kill my father? Have you ever thought that if I knew about this, How are you going to face me?"

My tears fell silently, and I continued: "You said that you can give up the throne for me, and fly away with me. You said that you are planning for our future and killing my father. Is this your plan?"

Qingcheng shook his head weakly, and said: "Yao'er, it's not like this, it's not like this. I didn't let someone poison the prime minister, it must be framed by others, trying to provoke the relationship between you and me."

I sneered and said, "Who dares to slander the king of a country? Are they dying?"

"Yao'er, don't believe in the conclusion of this matter, okay? Let me investigate, and I will give you the real truth."

"You investigate? Will you give me the truth?"

"Yaoer."

He suddenly shouted loudly.

"Would you rather trust someone else than me?"

I am speechless!

Who should I trust?I do not know.

My brain was in chaos, I turned around, turned my back to him, and said, "I don't want to see you, you can go."

"Yaoer."

Qingcheng's voice reveals deep wounds.

I took a deep breath and said, "Go, let me be alone for a while."

Qingcheng sighed softly, and said, "Okay, Yaoer, I'll go."

After pondering for a moment, he continued: "Yao'er, no matter what, I hope you can trust me, I have been working hard for the life you want."

I trembled and turned around, only to see that Qingcheng had already left.

His back is lonely, so lonely, I look at it, and my heart feels like a knife.

We clearly agreed to always trust each other unconditionally, but I still doubt him.

Maybe, the trust between us is too fragile, maybe there are always people behind us who control us, so that we can't let go of our suspicion of each other.

In the next few days, Qingcheng would still come to Kunning Palace every day, but I didn't know how to face him, so every time, I chose to avoid him.

In this way, half a month passed in the blink of an eye, Murong Xue's father, Murong Yi, sent out good news from Rouran, but Murong Yi was accidentally injured when the two armies were fighting.The injury was still a little serious, Qingcheng ordered him to recuperate well, and don't care about the rest.

Because of this incident, Qingcheng's favor for Murong Xue has become more and more, almost reaching the point of monopoly.

Qingcheng and I have always been in such a stalemate, and there is still a glimmer of expectation in my heart. I expect him to really give me the real truth, but I have never waited for it. What I waited for was to make me give up my last sliver of expectation. Cruelty to be cut off.

On this day, I went to Yongshou Palace to pay respects to the Empress Dowager. When I came back, I felt a little bored, so I walked aimlessly with Wen Yuan, and before I knew it, I came to the vicinity of the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

I looked at the gate of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, feeling sad in my heart.

I saw Murongxue wearing a pink cloak and being supported by Yingluo into the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Seeing this scene, I just felt glaring, turned around and left.

I stumbled and walked, not knowing where I went. I passed a rockery, but I heard a familiar voice in a trance.

"Eunuch De, those imperial physicians have already been dealt with."

"Those imperial physicians who treated the former prime minister were disloyal and dared to reveal the emperor's order to poison them. They deserve to die."

Hearing these words, Wen Yuan and I looked at each other with fear in each other's eyes.

Wen Yuan almost exclaimed, I hurriedly covered her mouth, and then quietly hid in a more secret rockery with her.

Through the small gap, we saw Xiao Dezi and a man in black looking around and leaving.

We didn't come out until they really left.

All the expectations, the last self-comfort I gave myself, and the little bit of waiting were completely broken after hearing those words just now.

Xiao Dezi is the most trusted chief eunuch in Qingcheng, he will order him to do many things, naturally he knows everything he does.

Qingcheng still lied to me. He obviously did it, but he still didn't dare to admit it in front of me.

A heart completely desperate.

I think, between me and him, there is really no way to continue.

I staggered back to Kunning Palace, Wen Yuan tried to help me all the way, but I refused.

I think, this time, I really don't want to stay in this palace anymore.

Sure enough, many things are constantly changing.

In the past, Qingcheng wanted to send me out of the palace, but I didn't want to.

However, now, I really want to leave here, because there is no longer the Qingcheng I want here.

I don't know how I returned to Kunning Palace, but after returning to the palace, I lay powerlessly on the imperial concubine's couch in the study, full of despair.

I thought, I was really wrong, I shouldn't have come into the palace.

If I hadn't entered the palace, maybe a lot of things wouldn't have happened, maybe my father wouldn't have died, and I wouldn't have had to go through so many injuries.

Qingcheng came, and he walked to me and sat down.

"Yao'er, can we stop torturing each other like this?"

His pleading tone made me feel mocked.

Is it that I want to torture each other with him?It was he who couldn't let go of his throne, for fear that my father's power would affect his throne.

"Qingcheng, let me out of the palace."

Leaving this palace, the grievances and grievances will be cleared from now on.

Qingcheng trembled, and almost blurted out: "No, I won't let you out of the palace, we finally solved all the misunderstandings between us, I can't let you go."

"But I've given up on you. I can't be with a murderer who killed my father."

"I didn't kill the prime minister."

"That's what you ordered to kill, too."

"I don't."

Even now, he still doesn't want to admit it. I don't know what's the point of his denial.

"Give me time and I will let you know the truth."

the truth......

Almost a month has passed, and he didn't give me an explanation because he couldn't find the so-called truth at all.

If there was, he made it up.

However, after this conversation, there are twice as many guards at the gate of Kunning Palace. No matter where I go, someone will follow behind, as if they are afraid that I will sneak out of the palace.

In the end, it's still fate.

On this day, I was eating breakfast, and suddenly felt a little nauseous, and couldn't help retching.

Wen Yuan was worried about me, so she called Imperial Physician Fu to come and check my pulse.

After taking my pulse, Imperial Physician Fu showed joy, knelt down and said, "Congratulations, empress, you are nearly three months pregnant."

When I heard this, the handkerchief slipped off in an instant, and I looked at Doctor Fu in disbelief.

"Doctor Fu, what did you say?"

"Empress, you are three months pregnant."

It suddenly occurred to me that I hadn't received a monthly letter for more than two months, and it was just because there were too many things that I never paid attention to.

Wen Yuan wept with joy!

However, I have mixed feelings.

This kid, it's not the right time.