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Chapter 96
Chapter 96
Lan Ling took a few steps back, and the gust of wind stopped in front of her.
"Why are you here?" Ling Chen's voice was rough and stiff, and he reached out to hug Lan Ling.
Lan Ling went to Changxin Palace to pay homage today. Before she took off her clothes, she was dressed in white like a moon, with blue silk tied with silver hairpins draped over her shoulders. She opened her mouth slightly, as if she was frightened.
"Concubine Ling, why did you come here alone without a girl?" Wen Heng's voice.
"I, I have nothing else to do, and I don't want to disturb you. I just want to ask if there is any result of the matter of Changxin Palace getting away..." She turned around and walked back.
"Tian Ming, send Concubine Ling." Ling Chen's hand didn't catch her, he stopped, he clenched his fist, and said loudly to Tian Ming who was hiding behind.
"No need! I know the way." She ran in a panic.
"Let's go, you can also go back to the palace, take care of raising your baby, it's getting cold, don't come out at night if you have nothing to do." Ling Chen turned around to support Wen Heng, and walked towards her Yongan Palace.
Ling Chen accompanied her in Yong'an Palace and waited until she fell asleep before leaving.
For a few days, Ling Chen withdrew from the court and went back to the Yongan Palace to accompany Wen Heng.
Moreover, the emperor has just issued an order that until August 15th, all other concubines in the palace will not be harassed by Yongan Palace, and people in Yongan Palace cannot go out at will.
Everyone was surprised. It was reported that the emperor was praying for the child in the belly of the imperial concubine these days, so please don't disturb him.
Everyone understands that the emperor has always favored Concubine Yi, and this Concubine Yi is pregnant again. No one can compare this favor.
However, today Forsythia heard something that made her very frightened.
She panicked and ran back to Yongan Palace.
"Emperor Concubine!" Forsythia was pale and incoherent.
"What's the matter, why are you so flustered?"
Forsythia looked at the girl next to her.
Wen Heng understood, "You all go down."
"What's the matter?" Wen Heng asked in a low voice.
"The slave servant went to the big kitchen just now, and heard Lingzhi secretly say that now there are rumors outside and in the palace that the water in the Changxin Palace was made by Niang Niang, who colluded with people outside..."
"What?" Wen Heng stood up.
"Don't worry, Niangniang, they all heard about it, and said that Niangniang has actually been grounded. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, just..."
Forsythia could not speak.
"Just what? You said it." Wen Heng became anxious.
"I'm going to be punished! But the slaves saw that the emperor came to our Yongan Palace every day, and he was very concerned about the empress. It's not what they said." Forsythia comforted Wen Heng.
"But who would say these words for no reason?" Wen Heng wondered.
Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival. For dinner today, Yang Shu came to inform Wen Heng that the emperor was not in Yongan Palace today.
Knowing that he couldn't come to accompany him every day, Wen Heng ate dinner alone and sat on the stone bench in the yard.
Suddenly a stone hit the stone bench, Wen Heng was startled, and picked up the note wrapped on the stone: Tonight at the third watch, the former site of Changxin Palace.
Wen Heng looked at the handwriting and panicked.
She was uneasy, and finally made it to the third watch.
Wen Heng instructed the girls to go back to their rooms. She put on plain clothes, picked a secluded path, and came to Changxin Palace.
Walking into the ruins of Changxin Palace, Wen Heng saw a black shadow standing there.
"Why are you here again? Didn't you say you won't meet? Although no one from the Changxin Palace came, it is still in the palace, it is not safe!"
The man slowly put down his cloak, "Who is Heng'er talking about?"
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty? Why are you?" Wen Heng took two steps back, panicking.
"Who does Heng'er want to see?"
Wen Heng's face was pale, "You know it? You imitated his handwriting to deceive me? I forgot. You imitated his handwriting the most since you were a child."
She smiled sullenly, "What are you going to do with me?"
"What kind of deep hatred do you have with Lan Ling? You want to set fire to her Changxin Palace! How did you meet Fan Xing? What else did you do with him?" Ling Chen asked her quietly.
Lan Ling and Li Xia waited until the night was quiet, and secretly came to Changxin Palace with burning paper and incense.
Li Xia said that the Mid-Autumn Festival of ghosts can't be with people for a day, and it has to be one day in advance. The palace is not allowed to burn paper without permission, and can only dare to come over so late.
In the distance, Li Xia saw shadowy figures.
Li Xia immediately pulled Lan Ling and quietly ducked behind the tree, "Niangniang, am I confused? Why do I see several figures in Changxin Palace?"
Lan Ling also saw it, "Or, someone came to pay homage to them?"
"Let's be careful and see who it is, don't let them find out." Lan Ling bent down and moved forward quietly with Li Xia.
Walking behind the ruins, he saw that standing there was the Emperor Ling Chen, who was dressed in black and wore a long black cloak. Standing opposite him was Wen Heng.
Lan Ling stared closely.
Ling Chen pulled out the soft sword in his waist, the cold light at the tip of the sword pointed directly at Wen Heng.
A person knelt down next to him, "Your Majesty, Concubine Yi Gui has never had a second heart for the Emperor, the Emperor thinks twice."
That was Lei Ze, the former emperor's bodyguard and now the general.
Wen Heng's face was dead silent, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth little by little. "Achen, are you going to kill me? For Lan Ling? I have been in love with you for twelve years. You have known her for only a year. You actually want to kill me for her?"
Ling Chen's hand trembled slightly, "You are wrong. I didn't do it for her. I wanted to kill you because you deceived me, or you used so much scheming in front of me. I kept telling myself to trust you! "
Wen Heng slowly slid down and fell to the ground, "Do you know why I am like that? Because you have changed your mind! You have long stopped loving me! You only have Lan Ling in your heart, and you are only an obligation and a promise to me!"
Ling Chen frowned lightly, "A change of heart? Wen Heng, no matter if you have Lan Ling or not, I will give you whatever you want. If you are in danger, I am willing to pay you back with my life! The promise I made to you when I was ten years old, I will give it to you. It will still be honored, but only when I met Lan Ling did I realize that I had never had anyone else in my heart before. Do you understand?"
Wen Heng's expression changed greatly, his face was sad, in this world, who is the passer-by, and whose destination is who?
She pushed away Lei Ze who was supporting her, "I understand, Wen Heng finally understood today that you never loved me! Never!"
She covered her face and wiped away tears with her hands. "But I hate Lan Ling! Hate her! Without her, you would treat me like before, even if it wasn't love! Kill me, if you don't kill me, I will kill her!"
Ling Chen's hand holding the sword trembled slightly.
Lan Ling was horrified. It really is the Changxin Palace burned by Wen Heng! She hated her so much.
"But how did you discover it? When did you discover it? Wen Heng feels that he has done it flawlessly."
Ling Chen sneered, "It's seamless? As long as you do anything, there will be traces. Bai Shaoting and Huo Jingyun have already investigated it clearly in the past few days. You got the bomb from Lei Ze, right?"
Lei Ze knelt down, "Your Majesty, Wei Chen didn't know that the imperial concubine would use them to do this..."
"You killed her with the bomb that Lan Ling taught you to make!" Ling Chen's voice was cold and severe.
Reze sweated like rain.
"That night, you made Fan Xing an assassin. To be exact, Fan Xing set the fire, right? You placed the bomb in a certain position in advance, and Fan Xing did the rest, right?" Ling Chen asked.
"The emperor really understands us, yes." Wen Heng replied.
"Your heart disease is also fake, right? The doctor you asked Lei Ze to find, and I asked someone else to look for it later. You didn't take care of the aftermath. I believe Lei Ze didn't know about it. You took advantage of Lei Ze's treatment of you. Feelings."
"What? Could it be that that person is fake?" Lei Ze was surprised.
Wen Heng smiled bitterly, "Yes. I lied to you. That doctor is someone I arranged for a long time ago. I deliberately asked others to tell you. I know you care about me and will definitely go to him."
"Your Qiushui sword isn't yours, right?" Ling Chen's voice rose, his anger uncontrollable.
Wen Heng paused, "You know that too?"
"I don't know how you changed the Qiushui sword from Lan Ling, but what I can confirm is that you didn't have the Qiushui sword before. We grew up together, I can be sure of this."
"You can conclude that this is Lan Ling's sword? Why don't you think I got the sword from somewhere else?"
"Yes, I can be sure. The biggest difference between Lan Ling and you is that she never hides her emotions, she never uses her mind, and she never lies to me!"
Wen Heng laughed, "So you see her that way."