Yan—Qing—Ying.?

These three words were like three red-burned needles, piercing into my heart. For a moment, my whole body was twitching, and I was even having difficulty breathing.

Shen Rou slowly finished pronunciating this name, turned to look at my pale face under the candlelight, and sneered: "What a good name. When I hear it, I think it's a beauty. I should still be a pitiful woman who is very fond of men."

“…”

"But she was unable to enter the palace to please the emperor."

“…”

"I asked someone to go to the Seoxing Temple to check it out. Now this name is a palace maid who should have entered the palace seven years ago. Like you, she came from Shu, but she died halfway through the way."

“…”

"There is no evidence, no physical evidence, not even a body, leaving only a bloody dress on the edge of the cliff. The manager at that time was worried that he would be seriously responsible for delaying the time of entering the palace, so he closed the case and brought you, Liu Ningyan, and that Song Yuer into the palace together."

Every time she said something, my heart sank, and the dusty past that seemed like a nightmare was stripped away from the dust of time, slowly emerging in front of me.

This nightmare has never woken up.

Shen Rou's voice kept echoing in her ears, as if she had passed through the whistling of a nightmare - "What's more interesting is that this woman's surname is Yan."

I slowly raised my head to look at her. She looked at her leisurely with a famous brand and said, "If you have a good memory, I should remember that on the day you enthrone, I once said that the big families that have appeared in Shu, in addition to the Xue clan of Queen Zhaolie, there is a greater force."

My hands slowly clenched in my sleeves, and my fingernails stinged my palms.

“So what?”

"I remember seven years ago, the court fought a battle with the chieftains of Xichuan, and the Yan family who provided all the war preparations for the Sichuan army! It can be said that the Yan family and the court fought that battle. The court mobilized half of the northern army to barely defeated. The Shu people sought peace and paid a lot of tribute. This palace maid should be the last group of tributes."

“…”

"This palace maid died before entering the palace, but the court did not want to have any disputes with the Shu people anymore, so the case was settled in a hurry and was not secret. She just thought she was still serving the palace now."

“…”

Shen Rou looked at me coldly and said, "Since her surname is Yan, she should have a lot of valuable things on her body. However, after the records of Xing Temple, all her belongings and valuable things were gone after her death, so she was suspected that someone was trying to kill her for money."

The clenched fist slowly loosened in the sleeves.

But Shen Rou continued, "But what I am interested in is that you really killed this woman for money?"

My breathing, which had just calmed down, became disordered again, and my fingertips were trembling and spasm. I gritted my teeth and let my breath continue, and the sound of grinding teeth sounded particularly cunning in such a quiet night.

But Shen Rou smiled sweeter: "Or, is there another reason?"

"..." I was silent for a moment, and then looked at the famous brand: "You are here tonight, not to know the truth at that time."

Seven years have passed since the beginning, and it may not be possible to find out. She has been getting the famous brand for a while. If she really wanted to check it, it would have been a long time since she would have started and would not have any noise. She came here just to consider what limit this famous brand could make me compromise.

"Then you know, what am I going to come to you for?"

"Even if I admit this, the emperor may not believe it."

"Do you think the emperor really trusts you so much?"

My face froze, Shen Rou smiled lazily and said, "Yue Qingying, women like you will never see through until they die. The emperor can keep a hundred bad women by his side, but he cannot keep a woman by his side who he cannot see through."

...

Her words were exactly what I had always known in my heart but didn't want to face. They just suddenly appeared and said it out loud. Facing these difficult things in the past, it turned out that it was not that difficult.

I sat silently for a while, felt a little strength on my body, slowly stood up and walked to her, and said, "I have another question to ask you now."

"You ask."

"I have a miscarriage, it's you, right?"

This time it was her turn to remain silent. The pair of curved eyebrows that were winding like snakes raised slightly, revealing no longer the gentle charm, but a slight trembling. She looked at me slowly, her eyes flashing a little: "You—know?"

I didn't say anything, just looked at her heavily.

No matter how painful it was at that time, it had passed. The tears that I thought were endless had already dried up in my eyes. As long as a person calmed down, he could figure out many things than when he was angry and sad.

She knew that Liu Ningyan's death was caused by me, and after experiencing Xu Youling's horse hoof cake, she must have known that I had some research on pharmacology and that ordinary medications can be easily detected by me. However, if the medicinal materials that cause abortion were put into the fireworks, the strong smell of sulfur would cover up the smell of the medicinal materials, so during that time, I had abnormal fetal movements.

But at that time, it was the time when Pei Yuanhao and I became cold. I felt a little uncomfortable and I became ordinary.

But that night at Qingyin Pavilion, it was not her letter date, but she used this excuse to reject Pei Yuanhao. After drinking some wine, Pei Yuanhao arrived at my Fangcaotang.

Then……

After hearing what I said, Shen Rou looked at me with some surprise and said, "You actually guessed everything."

"Sure enough - it's you!"

My teeth choked, and the anger in my heart almost irritated my eyes. I wish I could peel and remove her bones, eat her flesh, and drink her blood.

But this is still not enough.

My kids, my kids will not come back!

I felt my whole body trembling and my eyes were bloodshot. She was also panicked for a moment, as if she was worried that I would fight to the death with her. But when my eyes fell on the famous brand, I forced myself to move. There was nothing on the surface, but my internal organs were so tormented that they seemed to be burned by fire.

Shen Rou also seemed to have let out a light breath, and she suddenly sneered: "But I still want to tell you that it is not me who killed your child."

I stared at her: "You still want to deny it?"

She casually raised the corners of her lips and looked at me: "Do you know, how Xu Youling died?"

“…”

"The medicine sac was indeed full of heavy medicines that induce blood circulation, so she bleeded heavily during delivery, and even the imperial physician and the Wenpo were panicked. But if she was willing to stop the bleeding in time at that time, she could save her life. However, the child had already entered the pelvis at that time and might have suffocated to death."

“…”

"She insisted on not stopping the bleeding first, and she had to give birth to the child first. When the child was born, her blood was also dried up."

“…”

"She used her life to protect her children."

I looked at her blankly, but I didn't expect that Xu Youling died like this!

She could survive, but she would rather fight for her life for the sake of the child in her belly - I recall the woman who always smiled with a timid expression, and the pale body lying on the bed - she was so weak, but she had such a will.

At this time, Shen Rou said again: "And you - the medicine in the fireworks is not heavy, it is just some medicines that induce labor by contractions and will not kill you; I rejected the emperor, if he doesn't come to Fangcaotang, no one can force him to come; if he comes to Fangcaotang, if he doesn't touch you, you may not have a miscarriage..."

My face became paler and paler.

That night, the night stained with blood, I no longer dared to think about it, I didn't even dare to touch it deep in my heart, but when she mentioned that night, everything appeared in front of her eyes.

I obviously can persist.

However, when I heard the name shouting out from his mouth, all my persistence collapsed at that moment. Looking back on that night, the blood in my body could not stop flowing out, dyeing the entire mattress red. I had no choice but to shake in his arms.

Then, I lost my child like this.

Shen Rou walked up to me, looked into my eyes, and said word by word: "Yue Qingying, you are incompetent and killed your child."

.

The sky is slowly getting bright.

When the milky white morning light shone in through the window paper, Madam Wu and the others walked to the door carefully. When they opened the door, they were immediately startled.

"Talented man, why did you - have you sat all night?"

"Talented man, how can you do this?"

They were all anxious and hurriedly surrounded me, poured hot water for me, and wanted to help me to rest on the bed. I waved my hand, and the bones on my body seemed to be broken and put back in. I looked at the three of them and said something: "You--"

Before he finished speaking, a sudden burst of footsteps outside sounded and got closer.

I slowly raised my head and saw a father-in-law in the eunuch hurriedly walking in, followed by the guards outside. Madam Wu and the others were shocked and hurried to the door: "What are you doing in?"

The father-in-law still saluted me respectfully, but there was a little cold expression on his face: "Talented man, some unburned medicinal materials have been found from the stove in the kitchen of Fangcaotang. The Queen wants you to go to Jingren Palace to reply immediately."

When Madam Wu and the others heard this, they were all frightened: "How is that possible?"

"Where did the medicinal herbs come from?!"

"We don't have anything like that!"

The three of them argued anxiously, and the father-in-law just smiled: "Madam, two girls, what do you mean by waiting for Jingren Palace?"

I didn't say anything, slowly stood up and was about to follow them when I suddenly remembered something.
Chapter completed!