It rained heavily all night.

At the end of the hour, the bed curtains in the West Conservatory of the Palace of Heavenly Purity were lifted, and Ying Zhu lay naked on the bed. He picked up the long gown from the ground, tied it with a tie, and quietly opened the door with bare feet.

The palace people outside heard the movement, looked up, saw that it was him, immediately lowered their eyes and didn't dare to look any further.

Ying Zhu listened to the sound of rain hitting the window and asked, "How is King Chu?"

The palace man replied: "I fainted in the rain, look... I didn't move for a while."

Ying Zhu frowned and said: "Send the king of Chu to the ear room to warm his body, feed some ginger soup first, go to the imperial hospital and ask Zhou Yuan to judge, and send him back to the rain at the end of the ugly time."

The palace man said in embarrassment: "But Your Majesty has an order not to control the King of Chu."

Ying Zhu sneered and said sarcastically, "I'm coming down from Your Majesty's couch. If you don't believe what I tell you, you can ask Your Majesty."

The palace servant was so frightened that he knelt down on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly: "I don't dare, I beg Eunuch Ying to forgive me."

Ying Zhu said sharply: "Hurry up!"

The palace people rolled and crawled to the ground.

Yan Zhener didn't sleep all night.

At the end of the hour, he sat in front of the mirror and asked the palace servants to wash and dress up.

Today he put on the most gorgeous court attire and put on a very charming peach blossom makeup. Under the candlelight, he was so beautiful.

Even the court ladies who put on makeup for her every day stared straight at her.

Yan Zhener stared at the impeccable makeup in the mirror, suddenly grabbed the comb and slammed it hard at the bronze mirror.

The bronze mirror was smashed and dented deeply.

Lu Fu, who was cooking the corner of his skirt, was startled for a moment, and quickly knelt down to plead guilty.

All the ladies in the palace clattered and knelt down.

"What's the use of being beautiful? Who should look at the beauty?" Yan Zhener looked at the black and white people, feeling extremely depressed, and shouted: "All back down."

Because Yan Zhener was always dignified and gentle, when he suddenly got angry, everyone thought that something terrible had happened, and trembled in fright.

Lu Fu knew the inside story, she got up and led everyone back out, Zizi walked at the end, when she was about to close the door, she heard Yan Zhener say, "Is there any news about him?"

Lu Fu closed the door, turned around and said, "The King of Chu knelt outside the Palace of Heavenly Purity all night, and His Majesty is about to wake up at this time, and it is estimated that there will be a decree soon."

Listening to the worrying sound of rain, Yan Zhener was silent for a while and said, "It has been raining all night."

Lu Fu felt sad when she heard it: "I don't know what happened to King Chu..."

Yan Zhener clenched his fingers tightly, his nails penetrated into his palm, dripping with blood.

Seeing the blood, Lu Fu rushed to Yan Zhener, she burst into tears and said: "Master, if you are worried, go and have a look, or ask the King of Chu to get up first, if you continue to drench like this, you will be ruined."

Yan Zhener stared blankly at the smashed bronze mirror and said: "Your Majesty punished Xiaoxu to kneel in the rain in public, just for people to see. Your Majesty has probably already guessed something. If I go now, I will cast myself into a trap."

Lufu was worried all night, and at this moment she was in a state of confusion: "But master..."

Yan Zhener said: "We still have an old man hiding in the Palace of Heavenly Purity. Let him find a way to persuade the people above to intercede and make the King of Chu more comfortable. If there is anything wrong with the King of Chu, please report it in time."

The internal response of the Qianqing Palace was someone who had been buried by the late Emperor. This person could not be moved easily. Lu Fu never thought that Yan Zhener would use it just because of the rain.

She nodded quickly and went out to explain.

Yan Zhener sat alone in the hall.

The sound of rain covered the sound of his blood dripping, and he closed his eyes forcefully.

Time is running behind him.

Yan Zhener doesn't regret not pleading for Yan Xu before, who understands the times is a hero, Yan Zhener plans his life, and will never do things that he knows are useless and will cause trouble.

For the two princes of the Xiao family, sacrificing Yan Xu is far less expensive than sacrificing him.Yan Xu was punished and interrogated, and he still had a chance to make amends; if something happened to him, Yan Xu would be really upset every day, and the world would not work.

Moreover, he absolutely must not be exposed. Once he is exposed, not only will he suffer the humiliation of his body and the world will ridicule him for dressing up as a man, but his many years of planning will be in vain, and even the late emperor's survivors and many forces behind him will be implicated.

The consequences could be disastrous.

In comparison, sacrificing Yan Xu is a matter of course.

Yan Zhener still feels that he made the right choice.It is impossible for Emperor Tianxi to kill Yan Xu, no matter how hard the crime is, as long as he survives, there is always hope.At worst, he turned around and coaxed more, Yan Xu always listened to him, and could always be coaxed to change his mind.

Left and right are just getting through the day.

If it weren't for this torrential rain.

Kneeling all night in this torrential rain will definitely ruin your legs; and the weather is so cold that even a person who has been exposed to the cold rain for a long time will not be able to bear it.

More than two hours have passed, and normal people have reached their limits, let alone a pampered prince.At this juncture, every time Yan Xu spends in the rain, he becomes more dangerous.

Yan Zhener suddenly thought, Yan Xu is very afraid of suffering, and he has to coax him to take medicine when he catches a cold.But now such a golden and precious prince is about to be ruined by the rain.

Time passed extremely slowly.

Yan Zhener's eyes were reddened by such torment, he was not a grass, and at a certain moment, only the hidden bed curtain in his mind was calling him a boy in a hoarse voice.

He got up, didn't even take an umbrella, and rushed out the door, into the rain.

Lu Fu cried with tears all over her face, and at this moment she showed a relieved and excited smile, and she chased out with an umbrella in her arms.

The master and servant rushed into the rain.

After passing through two doors, I saw two people going to the Palace of Heavenly Purity in the rain, and the words "Tai Hospital" were written on the shaking lanterns.

Yan Zhener stopped slowly, and the master and servant looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief, and then Lu Fu remembered to open an umbrella, and they returned to Chonghua Palace.

Yan Zhener returned to the palace, took a bath and freshened up again, and it was almost morning time when he put on his makeup again, he gradually calmed down, repeatedly calculating in his mind what Emperor Tianxi might give him.

Yan Xi, who was far away in Yuedong County, was seriously injured, and his heart was wounded. Even if he was cured, he would be useless. The remaining fourth and fifth children were all mediocre. Now that Emperor Tianxi's heirs are withered, it is unlikely that he wants Yan Xulife.

He told himself repeatedly, yes, it must be so, there was nothing wrong with his decision.

Counting the time was about the same, Yan Zhener heard the news of Lufu's return.

Yan Zhener got up holding the handkerchief, and when he saw Lu Fu staggering open the door, his heart was half cold; and when he saw the tears on Lu Fu's face, Yan Zhener turned pale and sat back stiffly, forced to calmly ask: "How?"

Lu Fu burst into tears and said: "Last night, news came from Yuedong County that King Qin was seriously injured. Today, Long Yan was furious. When he went out and saw King Chu kneeling there, he ordered the King of Chu to die immediately."

Yan Zhener trembled, and the golden steps on her hair fell off.

When Lu Fu saw Yan Zhener losing his composure, she couldn't help crying like rain: "Master, don't worry, there may be a turning point, King Chu is His Majesty's beloved prince, it is impossible to just disappear like this!"

Yan Zhener's eyes were red, he turned around, and said to himself: "There must be something wrong. If Yan Nan doesn't even keep Xiao Xu, then the fourth and fifth children will have no chance. Yan Nan must leave someone to inherit the big family."There are only three of them in Beijing. Outside of Beijing...Yan Xi...but Yan Xi has been disfigured and seriously injured. I don't know if Yan Xi can survive it. It's hard to justify Xiao Xu's death at this juncture. Unless...It was Yan Xi who was fine, but that arrow was actually shot in. Then, there is only one possibility, the injured Yan Xi is a fake. If it is true, where is the real Yan Xi..."

Lufu could no longer understand what Yan Zhener said, seeing Yan Zhener gradually going crazy, she was afraid and worried, and kept calling: "Master."

Yan Zhener waved his hand in a stop gesture.

Lufu didn't dare to scream anymore, she just stared at Yan Zhener.

Yan Zhener's eyes flickered, and at a certain moment, when he thought of something, he stopped suddenly: "Xuan Yin!"

All the rapid promotion and successive disasters have changed from unreasonable to reasonable.

Xuan Yin is Yan Xi!

He was also nineteen years old, had the same face that resembled Tang Yaoxue, and was also favored by Emperor Tianxi.

This is black under the lights!

In order for Xuan Yin to appear reasonably, Emperor Tianxi set up such a big game!

This answer made Yan Zhener suddenly enlightened and hopeless.

Since Xuan Yin is Yan Xi, then Yan Xu really has no way out.

Yan Zhener laughed grinningly and said: "Yan Nan, you forced me. Since you can even kill your own children, don't blame me for being cruel. As long as you don't have any princes, then I can be Yan Nan again."Zhen."

Prince's office.

Not long ago, the two new kings of the county, the fourth son Yanran Yuzhang and the fifth emperor Yantao Liangzhou King, still live in the prince's residence because the new palace that conforms to the county king's regulations has not been tidied up.

There are only two princes living in the prince's house now, and it is much deserted and empty.

On this day at Maoshi, in the main hall of the Fourth Prince Yanran, breakfast had just been laid out on the table.

Yan Ran is a lover of books, recently asked someone to buy a batch of new books from outside the palace, because they are some fun books, they have to be carefully hidden when they are bought.

What he thinks in his heart is that he hopes to go out and start a mansion as soon as possible, so that he can buy things according to his own preferences, and he doesn't have to hide even when he reads a book.

Yan Ran dug out the most up-to-date vernacular outside the palace, and read it with relish even though she didn't have time to use it.

After turning two or three pages, there was a sound of hurried footsteps outside, Yan Ran raised her head and saw that the chief eunuch Qingxi who was close to her came back, she looked away again and continued to read.

With a nervous expression, Qingxi dismissed the palace servants serving in the palace, and even closed the door specially.

Yan Ran felt something was wrong, raised her head from the book and said, "Why are you so flustered?"

Qingxi's face turned ashen and said: "The king of Chu was ordered to die this morning, he just drank the poisoned wine, he is gone!"

The book fell to the ground, and Yan Ran said with a pale face: "Go? There is no room for change in this matter?"

Qingxi shook her head worriedly: "The decree has been made, poisoned wine is also used to drink people, the Tai Hospital has checked and said that it is indeed gone."

Yan Ran burst into tears sadly: "The sixth younger brother just left..."

Qingxi cried along with her: "The Sixth Highness is very popular in the palace. Many people know about it and cry secretly."

Yan Ran wiped her tears silently, and after a long time, she suddenly thought of something, sat up straight in shock, and asked anxiously, "Is it my king's turn?"

In fact, this is exactly what Qingxi has been worrying about all along. He was still thinking about how to remind his master who only cared about studying, but seeing that Yanran had scared him enough, he quickly comforted him: "Your Highness, don't panic,The people in our palace have always been law-abiding, and if we don’t make trouble, we won’t get into trouble.”

"But, does Xiaoxu have to commit a crime?" Yan Ran usually ignores things other than studying, not because he doesn't understand those conflicts between people, but he is just tired of those gossips, and hides in the fragrance of books to deceive himself and stay out of it.

But as soon as Yan Xu left, he was the first to bear the brunt, Yan Ran murmured, "I am the same as the previous ones, and I am also the prince of a family, no different."

Qingxi was also worried, so she had no choice but to comfort her with a strong face: "But the master has never committed any crime. A tiger's poison does not eat its children. Now the emperor has two princes left in Jingdu. Your Highness will be fine."

"But didn't you notice?" Yan Ran suddenly thought of something, clenched the book in his hand tightly, and said in panic, "So many things happened, and everything pointed to the prince in the end. Especially the death of the second brother and the third brotherHow can there be such a coincidental accident? In these things, it is obvious that someone else is pushing. That person knows the palace very well, and has connections with the outside of the palace. He seems to have a butcher knife in his hand, trying to killKill anyone."

Qingxi felt her body go cold, and her lips trembled as she said, "How can there be such a person?"

Yan Ran pondered: "Yes, how can there be such a person?"

At this moment, the porter came to report: "The eldest princess is here!"

"The eldest princess is here! As long as she is willing to help, then we will be safe." Qingxi stood up excitedly to greet her.

Yan Ran also showed joy, urging him to hurry up.

The hall fell silent, leaving only Yan Ran alone.

Yan Ran suddenly felt a subtle chill in this early morning, and he couldn't explain why, and he felt a strong sense of anxiety in his heart.

He comforted himself by saying that he was frightened by the news of his brothers' death recently, as long as he did not do anything wrong in his life, he would not be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night.

Just thinking of knocking on the door, she heard Qingxi announce at the door: "Your Highness, the Eldest Princess is here."

Yan Ran got up to greet her, and saw that Yan Zhener was dressed very gorgeously today, with a pair of golden steps swaying faintly, and was being supported by Lu Fu as he walked into the gate of his palace.

As the morning light slanted, Yan Zhener's pretty face sank from the light into the shadows, and the beautiful face in the shadows suddenly showed a strange ferocity, and Yan Ran's heart trembled suddenly.

The book in his hand fell to the ground.

He thought: Yan Zhener and Yan Xu are on good terms, and Yan Xu has an accident at this time, shouldn't Yan Zhener go to Longyu Palace to make arrangements for the funeral?

But he came here.

The early morning after the summer rain is a rare time to be comfortable and refreshed, but Yan Ran suddenly feels cold all over his body.

That night.

The fourth prince Yan Ran and the fifth prince Yan Tao died suddenly.

When Yan Xi heard the news of Yan Ran and Yan Tao's death, he had just returned to Xuan Zhai.

He stopped by the door, and asked with a gloomy expression, "Why did you die?"

Wei Chifeng replied solemnly: "Physician Zhou went to examine the corpses, and the two princes had neither trauma nor signs of poisoning. Physician Zhou said in private that they might have used some kind of colorless and odorless strange poison.After a certain moment of cardiac arrest, Gods can't know, ghosts can't see."

Yan Xi listened with a sullen face, and slowly frowned.

In just a few words, he heard his chest tumbling, and suddenly felt a strong nausea. He leaned against the door and almost vomited.

To kill people like this is really disgusting and disgusting.

Yan Xi didn't need to think about who it was, he said: "Go to Ming Zhong and send a message, reminding them to try to test the Eldest Princess."

"Eldest Princess?" Wei Chifeng asked in confusion, "What is the test?"

Yan Xi said coldly, "Check your body."

Wei Chifeng's jaw dropped in shock.Who would dare to test the body of the eldest princess?Moreover, the Eldest Princess has not yet left the cabinet, even for the sake of her reputation, she cannot be tested.

The daughter of an ordinary family, even at a certain age, is not even seen by outsiders. Who would dare to test whether she is a virgin, the eldest princess of the late emperor?