Chapter 726: Strategy for the Blind Villain (22)
Hua Jinxiu woke up from a nap in the Qinzheng Palace, and her ears were filled with the sound of weeping.
"What happened?" She was in a very bad mood after being woken up by the noise, after tossing and turning until four o'clock in the morning when the emperor finally let her go.
"What happened? Wang Baolin, you are so dissolute and you are plotting to murder the emperor. You deserve to die!" Ji Yun's face turned black with anger.
The emperor actually died from the aphrodisiac. If it got out, he would definitely be ridiculed by the world!
Lin, the imperial physician who treated the emperor, tried his best to reduce his presence. Who could have thought that the emperor would lose his life because of his lust for pleasure?
"What happened to the emperor?" Hua Jinxiu was completely confused. She looked at the bed. The man had a pale face and black lips. She boldly reached out her hand, but could not feel any breathing. She screamed, "The emperor, the emperor, wake up."
"Wake up? Even if the emperor can wake up, you can't save your life!" Ji Yun raised her hand, ready to call the eunuchs to beat her to death.
Hua Jinxiu, sensing her murderous intention, jumped off the bed and grabbed the sleeve of Ji Jingrong, who had been silent, "Qu Jingrong, save me, save me, I am Hua Jinxiu."
Hua Jinxiu was not sure whether he would help her. After all, the emperor died next to her. If he helped her, others would doubt him. But she had no other way out now. She only hoped that he would save her this time for the sake of their past relationship.
Ji Jingrong stood silently beside Ji Yun, his eyes no longer as clear as before, and suddenly said, "Wang Baolin still has a dragon heir in her belly, so leave her in the cold palace."
When he reminded her, Hua Jinxiu remembered that she still had a life-saving talisman in her belly, and her voice became sharper, "I am pregnant with a dragon seed, and the dragon seed has not yet been born, so no one is allowed to touch me."
Ji Yun looked at Ji Jingrong deeply, and it seemed that Wang Baolin had a close relationship with him. Did he have anything to do with the emperor's death? After a long while, she retracted her scrutinizing gaze and said, "Send Wang Baolin to the cold palace."
Hua Jinxiu fell to the ground and exhaled several times.
Who would have thought that she almost lost her life just to blow pillow wind.
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Hua Jinxiu was pushed into the cold palace by the palace people.
The cold palace, as the name suggests, is cold and lonely.
Hua Jinxiu lifted her skirt and walked in boldly.
There were spider webs everywhere, and rats as big as fists were running around. A blind rat actually climbed up her instep. She wanted to shake it off, but she didn't expect that the rat had become a spirit and actually climbed up along her hem. She screamed, "Help, help..."
"Who is making a noise here?" The slovenly woman lifted the white spider webs and her voice was full of impatience.
"There are rats. Rats." Hua Jinxiu thought that there would be no one here. Seeing a living person at this moment was like finding a savior. She pointed at the big rat that was tightly holding her sleeve and stayed there, not daring to move a step.
"What a fuss." The woman pulled a few straws from her head and hit her sleeve. The big rat fell down in fright and ran away along the abandoned grass.
"Who are you?" Hua Jinxiu, who drove away the rat, relaxed her mind.
"Me?" The woman pointed at herself and laughed, "Me, you don't even know?"
"I don't know." Hua Jinxiu felt a pain in her stomach, and she supported her stomach and walked towards the stairs.
"I'm the same as you." Seeing her in such pain, the woman offered her a hand, but was pushed away cautiously.
"I'm different from you. I have a dragon seed in my belly. I will get out." The moment she approached, Hua Jinxiu smelled the sour smell on her body and almost vomited. She wished she would be farther away from her.
"You have a dragon seed in your belly?" The woman seemed not to see the disgust in her eyes and the resistance in her actions. She approached her again and even boldly stretched out her hand to touch her belly.
Hua Jinxiu didn't want her to touch her, so she dodged to the side. Who knew that by such an unfortunate coincidence, she missed a step and fell on her back.
"It hurts, my stomach hurts~" She groaned, "Call the imperial physician, call the imperial physician~"
The bright sunlight in the sky was blocked by the woman, who looked down at her, "It hurts, I want to call the imperial physician, beg me. Beg me, I will help you."
"Please, help me, I promise to take you out of here after the prince is born." Hua Jinxiu was still struggling, but cherry red blood slowly flowed out from under her.
"It's so pitiful, the heir seems to be lost." The woman squatted down to look at her, and her hands stained with yellow mud were placed on her fair cheeks, rubbing them inch by inch.
Many years ago, she was as fair as her, but she was locked up in this cold palace for a long time. In order to survive, she gave up her original beauty.
"I have no grudges against you, why do you want to hurt me." Hua Jinxiu couldn't understand how she could be so bad and watch herself get into trouble.
"Harm you? Don't you know that in this harem, you must be on guard against others?" The woman's palm fell on her slender neck, and she said regretfully, "If you were not so arrogant, maybe we could still be neighbors."
"Please let me go. I promise that I will not affect you. The heir is gone, it's gone." Hua Jinxiu begged with a strong desire to survive.
"Alas, why didn't you say it earlier?" The woman grabbed her hair and quickly dragged her forward all the way to the dry well blocked by weeds. This dry well is very hidden. Even if you come over, you can't see it without brushing away the weeds and looking carefully.
"Ah... Help, help, help..." Hua Jinxiu couldn't figure out how she could be killed by this crazy woman the second before she fell into the dry well.
"Wang Baolin, I'm sorry, who told you to provoke someone you shouldn't provoke." The woman patted her wrinkled palms, gathered the weeds again, and restored the traces left by the dragging.
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The emperor passed away, and the whole country mourned. However, the court officials argued endlessly about the issue of succession.
Although the princes were all mediocre, everyone in the court had their own network of relationships, and everyone wanted to push the prince they supported to the throne.
The officials argued for a whole morning, but could not come to a conclusion.
Duke Cheng, Lord Bai, and several old ministers including Grand Tutor Qu formed a united front and supported Ji Jingrong to be the emperor. The reason was that the late emperor welcomed Ji Jingrong back to the East Palace of the Crown Prince to train him as the Crown Prince.
Princess Ji Yun also spoke out at this time, saying that the late emperor had mentioned Ji Jingrong to her several times, saying that he was capable of taking on important tasks.
There were also several stubborn old ministers in the court who clung to the excuse that Ji Jingrong was born with a disability and believed that Ji Jingrong could not inherit the throne. However, when they went to court the next day, these old ministers met with accidents one after another and died silently in their own homes.
The wind direction in the court changed suddenly, and Ji Jingrong was pushed onto the throne of the emperor.
(End of this chapter)
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