Chapter 1066: Killing Two Birds with One Stone
Before she finished speaking, she suddenly reached out and grabbed the other person's wrist: "Why are you in such a hurry to leave? I haven't said anything yet..."
Feng Ziqing was forced to stagger and turn around, and her eyes suddenly fixed on the glaring pregnant belly.
Evil thoughts are like poisonous snakes. Just pretend to stumble and run into them...
In a flash, she used the force of turning around to slam into the other person.
There was a muffled sound from the bluestone bricks, and it was Feng Ziqing who fell heavily to his knees.
Jiang Xue had already dodged, and Yun Jin's embroidered shoes were stepping on her knees: "Empress Dowager, be careful, the ground is very cold."
Xiao Zhan stepped forward and held up Jiang Xue's swaying figure: "Xiaoxue, are you okay?"
His fingertips had quietly touched her pulse, fearing that the fierce spinning kick just now would affect the fetus's breathing.
Jiang Xue sat down on the carved sandalwood table and stroked her bulging belly with her bare hands: "Don't panic, Yun Che. The imperial physician said that my fetus is three times stronger than an ordinary child."
The jade-colored palace sash hung down from the green bricks, emitting the unique cold light of ice silk under the candlelight.
Xiao Zhan's black python-patterned cuffs brushed past the gilded Suan Ni incense burner on the table, and his eyes suddenly turned cold when he turned around.
Feng Ziqing, who was kneeling on a peacock blue brocade cushion, was clutching a half-broken jade hairpin. Amid the scattered pearls and jade, a cold light was directed in the direction of Jiang Xue.
"I wanted to have a private word with you."
Jiang Xue smoothed out the wrinkles on her phoenix court gown and took out a red pill from the peony purse at her waist: "It's a pity that the Queen Mother insisted on giving us a poisoned hidden weapon as a gift."
Before he finished his words, his white wrist had already grasped Feng Ziqing's jaw, and the pill slid down his throat, bringing with it a strange fragrance.
Feng Ziqing dug her throat with her ten fingers, leaving bloody marks on her snowy skin. "Bitch! What is this... ahem...?"
The phoenix crown inlaid with oriental pearls fell to the ground crookedly, and the nine-tailed phoenix hairpin made a crisp sound on the blue bricks.
Jiang Xue's fingertips gently stroked the other person's pale cheek: "I heard that the Queen Mother likes to use red musk to harm people's offspring. This red flame Gu is a good match for it."
The cloud-patterned shoes rolled over the pearls on the ground: "Every day at the turn of midnight and noon, all the meridians feel like they are bitten by thousands of ants. After forty-nine days..."
Xiao Zhan suddenly grabbed the crazy woman who rushed over, and the dragon-patterned ring made her wrist bones creak. "If cousin comes even half a step closer, I don't mind adding more jade statues to the Imperial Temple."
His voice seemed to be chilled by ice, and his eyes swept across the Gu patterns on Feng Ziqing's neck that rose and fell with her breathing.
"I am the biological mother of the emperor!"
Feng Ziqing screamed and tore open the golden shawl, revealing the hideous old scar on her collarbone: "The golden order of immunity from death given by the late emperor before his death is still there..."
Jiang Xue suddenly chuckled and took out the gilded silver bronze mirror from the treasure chest: "Queen Mother, please take a closer look. When you forced me to drink the sterilizing soup, did you ever think about today?"
Feng Ziqing's face gradually turned pale in the mirror: "The most wonderful thing about this poison is that you need to drink three drops of blood from your own flesh and blood every day at midnight."
The moonlight that filtered through the carved window lattice gave Jiang Xue a silver edge. She stroked her pregnant belly and added softly, "The day my baby is born, the Queen Mother's skin will fester and ooze pus."
"Your Majesty, there is no need to panic."
Jiang Xue gently stroked her pregnant belly and leaned against the soft couch: "As long as you stay in the Cining Palace, I will send someone to deliver pills to suppress the toxin every day. As long as you take them on time, you will be no different from an ordinary person."
"You want to use this insidious method to restrain me?"
"Have you not understood yet, Queen Mother?"
Jiang Xue tapped the table with her fingertips, and the celadon teacup made a crisp sound.
She was tired of dealing with this old woman, so she simply pointed out the pros and cons: "All I want is for us to live in peace. You should be thankful that you still have a chance to survive."
Feng Ziqing dug her nails into her palm: "If Heng'er knew..."
"Your Majesty can only sigh at the stupidity of your biological mother."
Jiang Xue suddenly stood up, the golden phoenix on her brocade dress glowing coldly in the candlelight: "From now on, Queen Mother, please don't mention your Majesty's name anymore. You are not worthy."
The incense in the hall suddenly stagnated, and wisps of green smoke rose from the gilded incense burner. Jiang Xue's voice penetrated the smoke: "I want to live, and you want to live. If you see my carriage in the future, remember to retreat three steps."
"Okay! I'll make a note of it."
Feng Ziqing swept the scriptures on the table with his wide sleeves, and there was a poisonous fire in his eyes.
When she stepped out of the palace, she suddenly saw the copper bell on the eaves ringing gently - that was the secret signal agreed upon by Ateli, and the secret technique of the Western Regions might be able to solve the situation.
She adjusted her phoenix crown, hiding her hatred deep in its folds.
Seeing that bright yellow color disappear at the end of the palace road, Jiang Xue turned to the man in black behind the screen and said, "Yun Che should go back to the imperial study. The memorial from Southern Xinjiang is still waiting for His Majesty's approval."
Xiao Zhan twirled the black jade ring and chuckled, "Xiaoxue really doesn't want to accompany me?"
"Are you willing to let a six-month-old child suffer?"
Jiang Xue held her waist and complained, and suddenly she felt her stomach moving slightly, and her eyebrows unconsciously showed tenderness: "I have prepared your favorite crab meat lion head for dinner, remember to come home early."
When the emperor drove out of the palace, Jiang Xue suddenly opened the curtain of the carriage and said, "Fudong, let Jiang Xiaoan come to see me immediately."
She stroked the broken jade pendant in her arms, which was the evidence the secret guards found in the dry well in the cold palace this morning.
As soon as Jiang Xue stepped into the princess's mansion, Jiang Xiaoan was taken to the study.
The young doctor took off his medicine box and was about to salute, but the woman in front of the case raised her hand to stop him: "No need to be polite. I troubled you to make this trip because I want to borrow your wisdom to find out the truth."
She pushed the black jade pendant to the table. The moonlight filtered through the window lattice and created strange patterns on the surface of the jade pendant.
Jiang Xiaoan frowned as soon as his fingertips touched the warm jade: "I didn't find anything unusual when I checked it the day before yesterday. Could it be that... Your Highness has behaved abnormally recently?"
"I went to sleep with this thing under my pillow last night, and I had a strange dream."
Jiang Xuesu's hand touched her slightly bulging belly, the candlelight cast a flickering shadow on her eyelashes: "My brother said in my dream that he is well in another world, and he also asked me to believe that Yun Zhen and Su Yi Li have left."
Jiang Xiaoan tightened his knuckles upon hearing this, and suddenly turned the jade pendant over to look at it closely in the candlelight.
A few spider-like golden lines were faintly visible from the depths of the chalcedony, which was an abnormality that had not been noticed before.
He raised his head suddenly. "Your Highness, do you know that there is a kind of soul-stealing technique in the southern border? The caster can seal the spell power into a personal object and sneak into the owner's consciousness when the owner is sleepy."
Seeing the princess' pupils shrink slightly, he took out a silver needle and made a small mark on the jade face:
"Look at these golden threads. They look like natural patterns, but they are actually spells soaked in secret medicine from the Miao region. Master Yun must have calculated that you are weak during pregnancy, so he manipulated your dreams when your mind was relaxed."
The copper bell by the window was suddenly startled by the night wind, and the jade pendant made a slight tremor on the table.
Jiang Xue looked at the golden light flowing in the jade and suddenly chuckled: "What a good plan to kill two birds with one stone. Not only did he use my brother to arouse my emotions, but he also used Su Yili to lure me into the game."
She tapped the edge of the jade pendant with her fingertips, her eyes more scorching than the candlelight on the table: "Doctor Jiang, since we have seen through this situation, why not take advantage of it?"
"Are there any evidences for these inferences?" Jiang Xue stroked the edge of the teacup with her fingertips.
Jiang Xiaoan took out a half-rolled torn book from his sleeve and said, “When I traveled to Qiuci with my master three years ago, I saw similar black jade runes in an ancient tomb.
It is recorded that seven of the thirty-six nations in the Western Regions mastered the "blood sacrifice spell" which can keep dying people in a dormant state.
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