Accidentally Married Miss Empress

The snow stopped outside, and the sky turned dark immediately. Gong Yu, who was hugged in her arms, looked at Dai Ruyan so boldly, and saw her eyes turn lightly, and her eyes flowed on the book. It feels like she is in a paradise where there is no competition with the world, and the troubles outside are irrelevant.

The hall is very quiet, there is no sound of firecrackers from time to time, no sound of anyone talking, just like in a desolate place.

Or suddenly the wind came in from the slightly open window, and the light of the candlestick shook violently. Gong Yu reached out and closed the window, so as not to disturb Dai Ruyan's reading.

Unknowingly, the inside of the hall was getting dark, so she closed the book on behalf of Ruyan, looked around and said, "Is the sky dark already?"

"Yeah." Gong Yu was lying on her back in Dai Ruyan's arms and responded, "It gets dark very early in winter. Thanks to me, I still came early in the morning."

Dai Ruyan put down the book, rubbed Gong Yu's hair on Gong Yu's temples with her fingertips and smiled, "I just said that I am no longer a child, but I always like to talk about children."

"Where is it?"

"Sooner or later, when it gets dark, it's time to set the number. It rises with the roosters and sets with the birds, but what you said is like a race against the setting sun."

Gong Yu sighed like an old man: "But as things become more and more, I can't come to Ayan's side every day."

"You are old now, and you are a prince again. No matter how bad you are, someone will stare at you. If you really come to me too diligently, I am worried that someone will attack you soon."

"It's okay, I have guards by my side at all times, and some guards are secretly followed at any time, so nothing will happen."

Dai Ruyan smiled and said, "You said this to me so clearly, you are not afraid that I will leak it out."

"I believe Ayan won't hurt me." Gong Yu grabbed Dai Ruyan's hand and asked, "Right?"

"That's not necessarily true." Dai Ruyan scratched the nose of Xia Gongyu with her index finger, and said with a smile between her eyebrows:

"Maybe one day Xiaojiu is not good, and I will..."

"What will happen?"

"I will punish you not to eat meat and only eat vegetables."

Forehead…

The night shrouded the courtyard, and Gong Yu had to leave no matter how much she thought about Lai Hui.

When the maid came in with tea from outside, Gong Yu was already sitting on the side.

The little rabbit was held by Gong Yu in the palm of his hand, and he drank the tea on behalf of Ruyan and said, "I will not go to the palace banquet on the day of Shangyuan Festival."

"Why?" Gong Yu asked while holding the little rabbit.

"The Dai clan also has banquets, and my grandmother asked me to do some trivial matters, but I couldn't get away."

Gong Yu put down the little rabbit, got up and straightened the folds of her robe and responded, "Well, I see."

Dai Ruyan put down the teacup and said softly, "It's colder outside at night. I'll ask my maid to prepare a cloak for you, so that you can keep out the cold."

Seeing Dai Ruyan finish speaking, no matter how Gong Yu arranges the folds of the robe, it won't take much time.

Gong Yu had no choice but to turn around and leave the hall. The snowstorm had stopped outside, and it seemed that the surroundings were much quieter.

The maid led the way with a lantern, Gong Yu felt really warm in her big white cloak.

The corridors are intertwined and complicated. Gong Yu looked back at the window in the palace, and asked curiously, "Sister Dai, why doesn't she return to Daifu to live alone, but lives in this remote courtyard alone?"

The maid looked at her face, but did not respond, as if she could not hear.

Gong Yu guessed that it was probably a deaf-mute maid, so she stopped asking questions, and had to think about someday when she was free, she might as well ask the maid who called Jasper.

That maid seemed to be one of the few maids beside Dai Ruyan who could speak normally.

Although a bit too violent.

When Gong Yu rode a horse and left the courtyard with the guards, the night and the thick fog covered the courtyard, making it unreal.

The sound of horses' hooves sounded, Gong Yu couldn't help laughing at herself again, what did she look back at when she couldn't even see the yard?

You can't rely on Dai Ruyan's courtyard, the status of this prince is sometimes a bit inconvenient.

The wind and snow stopped and fell again, and the capital city seemed to have become a world of ice and snow, but it did not diminish the enthusiasm of the people of the palace for the Shangyuan Festival.

At the royal banquet, Gong Yu wore a vermilion robe and a jade crown, although she looked a little thin among the princes.

The Shangyuan Festival banquet was not as stunning as the New Year's Eve banquet. Gong Yu ate a few glutinous rice **** and watched the dancing girls. The hall was brightly lit.

Gong Yu felt extremely boring, but found that the Third Highness still did not attend the banquet.

I heard that the Third Highness has been locked in the Dali Temple since the indictment, and has not been released until today.

Obviously, the emperor did not really want to kill, but he was just annoyed at the time.

This time, the third highness was imprisoned and the regime of the court disintegrated. I am afraid that it is impossible to fight for power again.

After three rounds of drinking, Gong Yu was almost full of tea in her stomach. The grand master on the side was as strict as always, while Gong Yu's fifth highness was drinking wine with the sixth highness. The friendship between the two was in Gong Yu. It does look a little different.

In the past, before His Highness Gongquan was deposed as the Prince, the Fifth Highness and Sixth Highness were all of the same faction as Gongquan.

Later, Gong Quan was suddenly deposed and banned for a year. One retreated behind the scenes, and the other remained calm in the courtroom.

Now that Gongquan has returned to the main hall, the three of them seem to have their own ghosts. They can't get along with each other indifferently, but they can't get close.

Or Gong Yu's gaze was too obvious, so His Highness the Sixth Highness raised the wine glass, and Gong Yu had no choice but to take the wine glass with the tea and drink it together.

At the end of the banquet, Gong Yu returned to the mansion in a sedan chair, and the old butler was busy in the mansion with a servant of the mansion.

Gong Yu rewarded the servants, rectified the expenses of the house, and exchanged the money earned in the shop for a part of the banknotes, thinking that if Dai Ruyan really didn't want to leave the capital.

After that, the cost of food and clothing will be huge, so you should save some or you have to save it.

He has raised a large number of people under his hands, and every festival requires a lot of silver for drinks.

In the early spring, when the snow melts, the wickers along the riverside of the capital have buds, showing a little spring.

But Gong Yu, who was in the early morning, felt that the situation was very difficult. Chen Ming, the minister of Dali Temple, reported that the Third Highness committed suicide in the prison.

Hearing these words fall, His Majesty's face sank instantly, and all the officials in the hall did not dare to breathe.

It was not until the end of the early morning that Gong Yu breathed a sigh of relief after leaving the main hall. Although it was cold outside, it was much better than the silent hall.

I saw His Highness and Zhou Wencai walking from one side of the stone steps, the two of them seemed to be in a hurry, and something seemed wrong.

On the contrary, the fourth highness, who was the mortal enemy with the third highness, seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and left unhurriedly.

That Zhou Wencai was the new champion in the last scientific examination. He was recently promoted to a fourth-rank official. He is now in charge of the general examination that the people who go to Beijing to take the examination will take soon.

Gong Yu only felt that the current relationship between these scattered characters was really a headache.

If what Qin Hua said is true, then this time the meeting may be another time when various forces secretly arrange contacts.

The Third Highness suddenly committed suicide.

So what are these people going to do?

Gong Yu did not take the sedan chair back to the house, but walked alone on the streets of the capital.

The street was still lively, and the pedestrians looked in a hurry. When Gong Yu arrived at the door of His Royal Highness's mansion, he saw a white banner with funeral preparations hanging on it, and happened to meet Qin Hua who came out of it.

"Why are you here, sir?" Gong Yu asked in confusion.

Qin Hua saluted and said, "I heard that the Third Highness committed suicide in prison, this minister is here to investigate the situation."

"How's the situation there?"

The two walked around the street and entered a teahouse. Qin Hua then said, "His Royal Highness cut his neck and meridian and died. The murder weapon was a broken tea bowl and porcelain."

Gong Yu leaned against the window and looked at the servants who were hanging white lanterns in front of the mansion of the Third Highness. After thinking about it, he asked, "Does this seem strange, sir?"

"The prison guards of Dali Temple are all first-class masters, and no one should be able to sneak in quietly to assassinate the third highness and escape safely."

"I thought so too." Gong Yu looked at the beggars in front of His Royal Highness's mansion and said, "But I wondered why the third brother committed suicide yesterday. He has been imprisoned for several months. I can't bear it in my heart, it should be the desolate and lonely New Year's Eve, or the day of Shangyuan Festival."

"What do you mean, Your Highness?"

"I don't know, it's just intuition." Gong Yu smiled and said: "Why don't you send someone to check the Dali Temple Secretary Chen Ming?"

Qin Hua nodded and said, "Okay."

"By the way, I'll go to the mansion later to summon the three knights who are known as the best in the world."

"What is your Highness doing?"

"Do the experiment."

At first, Gong Yu thought that the third highness had committed suicide. After all, a prince who was full of criticism and who was already harmless in the struggle for the throne, why should he be killed?

After thinking about it, of course, there are still two possibilities. One is that the third highness has always attacked with viciousness. Maybe some enemy took advantage of his weakness to kill him. You must kill him to protect yourself.

No matter what the motive is, but one thing needs to be taken into account. If you want to kill someone in Dali Temple, and you are still a prince, this is not something that can be done only by virtue of martial arts.

The Dali Temple prison is the highest standard of guarding in the palace country, and in modern terms, it can be said to be a powerful legal department.

In this heavily guarded prison, the guards and guards in it definitely know each other, and those first-class guards who suddenly break into a stranger are not fools.

Moreover, it is said that the prison of Dali Temple requires a key for each floor, and the key to each door is in the hands of Chen Ming, the secretary of Dali Temple.

This means that whoever wants to kill the Third Highness must contact Chen Ming first, and may even have to kill Chen Ming first, before they can open the door of the Third Highness's prison.

But His Highness Chen Ming didn't show any other possibility at all. Maybe he hid the lost key well, or maybe the murderer took his key and returned it before he found it.

But no matter what kind of Third Highness really died, and died at the hands of others, this kind of sudden accident, Chen Ming could not be so calm.

Of course, all these assumptions are based on the premise that His Royal Highness was really killed. If he was not killed, then Chen Ming's reaction would be normal.

Gong Yu looked at the white lantern in front of the mansion of the third highness, and saw that the door was getting colder and colder, and suddenly thought that there might be another possibility for the murderer.

A possibility that does not require stealing the keys, nor returning them.

After pondering, Gong Yu felt that she was frightened and said to herself, "Let's look at the specific situation on Chen Ming's side first."

At night, Gong Yu set up a banquet in the mansion, and when the three big men heard that they had a mission, they immediately touted each other.

"What are we three but Jianghu wants us to do?"

Gong Yu drank the tea and said, "I want you to divide your troops into three separate ways, sneak into the Dali Temple Prison, and find the Dali Temple Secretary Chen Mingna to investigate the news for me."

"No problem! Isn't it the Dali Temple?" The bearded and strong man drank with a big mouth, and responded with a boldness.

"Okay, let's set off after drinking this glass of wine."

When the night was dark, the three jumped over the roof and disappeared in front of Gong Yu. Gong Yu held the hot tea and asked, "How many hours do you think they can last?"

Qin Hua got up and stood aside and said, "These three people are good at fighting, but not good at hiding. I'm afraid they will be discovered soon."

"Assuming that all three of them are found, at least one point is that the guards of Dali Temple's prison are well-deserved." Gong Yu turned around and entered the hall and said, "I wonder if Mr. Chen can detect Chen Ming's relationship?"

"Chen Ming, the minister of Dali Temple, whose father is a veteran of the two dynasties and a loyal minister, his mother is the sister of the Taifu, but Chen Ming has never married and has no children under his knees."

"So this means that nothing was found on Chen Ming?"

"Yes, Chen Ming is busy with official business, and rarely has close friends with people."

Gong Yu returned to the low table and was a little hungry and filled the soup, and suddenly asked, "I don't know if you are Gui Geng this year, sir?"

Qin Hua was stunned for a moment and said, "This minister is already twenty-three."

"Is there a marriage?"

"We already have a wife and daughter at home."

"According to Mr.'s opinion, a man who doesn't get married and doesn't marry a wife, or even lives in a secluded place, is busy with official business all day, is it possible that he will be bought off?" Gong Yu asked while sipping a sip of hot soup.

Qin Hua hesitated: "It's difficult."

"I think so too."

Gong Yu took another bite of the ribs and asked, "Where was Chen Ming that night when Brother Sanhuang committed suicide?"

"According to the guard's investigation, Chen Ming happened to be at Dali Temple that night."

"So coincidental?" Gong Yu wiped her mouth with the handkerchief and asked, "When was the Third Highness found to have committed suicide?"

Qin Hua said seriously: "It was about 100 hours when the guard who delivered the meal found out."

Gong Yu was in a predicament for a while, so he stopped thinking about it and ate the white-cut chicken with chopsticks.

Qin Hua on the side was a little surprised: "Is Your Highness hungry?"

"No, I just gave up thinking about it because I didn't understand it." Gong Yu looked at Qin Hua who was sitting beside him and said, "This chicken is tender and juicy. You don't have to be restrained to eat it, sir."

"Tonight may have to wait for the three of them to come back before they can rest."

Qin Hua took a sip of the tea in front of him and still didn't move his chopsticks. He just looked at Gong Yu and said, "No matter what the reason for the suicide of the third highness, there is one less opponent for the children of the royal family. Why does your highness care so much about the cause of death of the third highness?"

"Because I want to know whether it was suicide or not. If so, the murderer may not just want to get rid of the third emperor."

"Your Highness means this is a game?" Qin Hua was surprised just now.

Gong Yu held the soup bowl in his hand and sipped, while the wind was blowing outside, making the doors and windows smashed.

On the contrary, the inside of the hall seemed a little too quiet, and a little sound could be made loud.

After the body gradually warmed up, Gong Yu couldn't sit still, got up and walked a few laps. Seeing that Qin Hua seemed to be in deep thought, he didn't bother.

Until Qin Huatu said: "If according to His Highness's guess, then there must be a flaw in Chen Ming's body."

"Yeah, so I'm waiting for what kind of news the three will bring."

"The minister will send someone to investigate Chen Ming's affairs again." When he was about to be ugly, the outside was already black and he could not see his five fingers, and Gong Yu yawned one after another.

I saw that the three strong men supported them into the hall, their bodies were stained with blood, apparently they had been discovered.

"His Royal Highness, there are hundreds of hidden organs in this Dali Temple. Except for the eldest brother, both of us have been recruited."

The strong man at the head pulled out a sachet from his arms and said, "This is the official hiding in the most secure secret compartment. We happened to bump into it, and thought it might be useful, so I brought it here."

Gong Yu held the sachet in his hand and said, "There are three strong men."

"Come on, send three strong men to bandage the wound."

It's just that there is nothing special in this sachet, except for some herbs, nothing else can be found.

Gong Yu said puzzledly: "What's the mystery of this sachet?"

Qin Hua approached and said, "Your Highness, why don't you let this minister take a look?"

"it is good."

I saw this Qin Hua holding the sachet and looking at it carefully: "The silk of this sachet is of high quality, not the standard used by ordinary ministers."

"Really?" Gong Yu took a closer look and said, "This sachet feels no different from what I usually touch."

"That's right!" Gong Yu immediately looked at Qin Hua and said, "Is this sachet belonging to the royal family?"

Qin Hua nodded and said, "It should be."

So in the middle of the night, Gong Yu realized that this might just be the object of Chen Ming's secret love or first love.

However, he still needs to go to court the next day, and the poor Gong Yu is basically standing by his own willpower.

After finally going to court, Gong Yu lay down on the bed and went to sleep.

After another day, there was still no useful information. Gong Yu was lying on the low couch in the pavilion. It was raining lightly outside, and the weather was already very cold. Gong Yu didn't even want to move.

I was thinking about whether to check the corpse of the Third Highness. After all, if I want to know what the Third Highness experienced before he died, then there should be new discoveries when checking the corpse.

While thinking about it, Gong Yu vaguely felt as if something was pulling his sleeves and opened his eyes.

There was a little rabbit wandering beside Gong Yu's hand, while the beauty who put the rabbit was in Gong Yu's pavilion.

Gong Yu blinked and thought she had an illusion, and after a while, she called out, "Why are you here, Ayan?"

Dai Ruyan turned around and looked at Gong Yu, who was still lying on the low couch, she frowned slightly and said, "If you don't get up, the snow still hasn't melted, you probably know how to sleep on this low couch. cold."

"I didn't sleep, I was just thinking about things."

"Ayan, you haven't told me yet, why are you free to come to me today?" Gong Yu said while reaching out and gently pulling on Dai Ruyan's drooping skirt.

Dai Ruyan sat helplessly aside, raised her hand to pick up the book that Gong Yu had placed everywhere, and asked, "Xiao Jiu has been busy these days?"

"It's okay." Gong Yu dawdled close to Dai Ruyan, with her head resting on Dai Ruyan's knees: "I just think that even if every royal minister uses the same material of silk and gauze, there are different weaving methods. It's different, it's really hard to go to the sky to find someone with a sachet."

"Xiao Jiu is looking for someone?"

Dai Ruyan stroked Gong Yu's brow with her fingertips, and asked in a soft voice, "Is it possible that Xiao Jiu has a crush on some charming and charming little girl?"

"Yeah, that girl is as beautiful as a flower, she is like a fairy, I can't wait to be with her every day." Gong Yu said with a smile.

"In that case, why doesn't Xiao Jiu let someone come to propose marriage? Let's save the fairy-like character being taken away by others."

"Where do I need to look, I'm lying in the arms of a fairy right now."

Dai Ruyan pinched Gong Yu's earlobe with her fingertips and smiled lightly, "Xiao Jiu, he just likes to talk nonsense."

Gong Yu smiled and didn't speak. She lay on her side and touched the sachet in her hand, letting Dai Ruyan rub her earlobe.

"This sachet doesn't seem to be used by women."

"How did Ayan see it?"

Dai Ruyan reached out and took the sachet in Gong Yu's hand and looked at it, "Most women embroider peony, sweet-scented osmanthus, etc., but this one is embroidered with an eagle."

"So this is a man?"

It's really unexpected that Chen Ming actually collects a man's sachet, it's hard for Gong Yu to think about it.

"What are you thinking about in your head?" Dai Ruyan glanced at Gongyu, reached out and put the sachet aside.

Gong Yu smirked and didn't speak, just grabbed Dai Ruyan's hands and put them beside the temples and said, "Ayan, help me rub it."

"Headache?"

"No, it's just comfortable to press."

Dai Ruyan rubbed her fingertips lightly, looked at the sachet on the side, and then looked away.

"I heard that you spent most of the night with that Mr. Qin in the palace the day before yesterday, and then you left that Mr. Qin to spend the night in the mansion."

Gong Yu's head twitched, almost forgetting that Dai Ruyan was well-informed.

It is not very honorable to send his own servants to steal things, and this is still in front of Dai Ruyan, Gong Yu naturally wants to be a good boy, so he said: "I was reading a book in the middle of the night and encountered an intractable confusion, so I wanted to find Come to Mr. Qin to help me solve my doubts, but it was too late, so I asked Mr. Qin to stay."

"So that's how it is." Dai Ruyan whispered: "But there are differences between men and women. It's better for Xiao Jiu not to get too close to this Mr. Qin."

"And I heard that Mr. Qin was a guest of His Highness before, and then His Highness was dismissed, so Mr. Qin left."

"What is Ayan trying to say?" Gong Yu asked while looking at Dai Ruyan.

Dai Ruyan stopped and said: "The host and guest fled in danger, this person can't be trusted."

Gong Yu sat up halfway, and his contemporaries Ruyan looked at each other and said, "I had such doubts at first, but then I asked someone to check his origins."

"Mr. Qin is full of wealth, but he disdains the imperial examinations. His family has a wife and daughter, but due to poverty, the eldest brother at that time was unable to attract more customers. It should be understandable that Mr. Qin found another way out for his wife and daughter."

The sound of rain outside the pavilion gradually sounded, Dai Ruyan was wearing a light blue dress with her back straight, looking at Gong Yu very seriously.

After Gong Yu finished speaking, she was a little worried about Dai Ruyan, and said quickly, "But it's true that I didn't think carefully about keeping him overnight. Don't be angry, Ayan, it won't be like this next time."

But Dai Ruyan just looked at Gong Yu and didn't say a word, Gong Yu asked hesitantly, "Ayan, why don't you speak?"

"Did I say something wrong that made you angry?"

"No." Dai Ruyan shook her head and replied, "Xiao Jiu is very thoughtful."

"I'm just a little surprised."

Accident?

Because she was lying down before, Gong Yu's robes were a little messy. Gong Yu tidied up the thin belt and asked, "Is there any surprise?"

"This thin belt has to be looped around to be tied." Dai Ruyan stretched out her hand and gently pulled Gong Yu's wrist, pulling Gong Yu in front of him and approaching him.

Gong Yu was half-kneeling on the low couch, looking at Dai Ruyan in front of her, her cheeks could not help but get hot.

I saw Dai Ruyan stretched out his hand to straighten the collar for Gong Yu, holding the thin strap with his fingertips, he easily passed the tie through the loop of the robe and fastened it.

Gong Yu stared blankly, scratched her head and said, "This dress is a bit complicated, and I don't quite understand some things I've put on recently."

Dai Ruyan smoothed out the folds on Gongyu's robe and said softly, "Now that you're older, your clothes will naturally have to be changed. Is it still accustomed to wearing this crown?"

"Not used to it at all."

Gong Yu said angrily: "It's like a stone on your head. Although it looks good, it's a big panic."

"You always have to get used to this." Dai Ruyan said with a smile, then released her hand and sat upright.

"Does Ayan also think I'm not good enough?"

"No, you did a good job." Dai Ruyan looked at Gong Yu and said, "It's just that most of the courtrooms are messy, so there's no need for Xiaojiu to get involved."

"And I don't want you to be involved either."

Gong Yu sat on the side, poured tea and handed it to Dai Ruyan, and then poured a cup of tea by himself.

The rain was falling outside, Gong Yu sipped the tea and said: "But the death of the third emperor is too strange. If it is a murder, if the murderer dares to kill the prince so boldly, maybe something will happen."

"But none of this has anything to do with you."

Dai Ruyan stared at Gong Yu and seemed to calm down her airway: "Xiao Jiu, just let it go."

"His Majesty never wanted to investigate, it means that the third highness committed suicide. Besides, it is wrong for you to send someone to investigate the Dali Temple privately. If it is used by someone with a heart, it will become your handle."

Gong Yu fell silent, lowered her head and replied, "Well, I see."

The hand that was hanging down in the wide sleeved robe was gently held by Dai Ruyan, Dai Ruyan stretched her arms around Gong Yu's drooping head, put it in her arms and said softly, "Xiao Jiu is obedient, I know you I want to find out the truth, but sometimes once the truth is naked, it can’t be covered up by pretending to be safe.”

"Does Ayan know who the murderer is?" Gong Yu asked while listening to Dai Ruyan's steady heartbeat.

It was as if the sound of rain outside was blocked by Dai Ruyan's steady heartbeat.

Dai Ruyan caressed the back of Gong Yu's neck with her palm, her eyes flashing slightly, "I don't know, but I can probably guess."

But this sentence made Gong Yu even more confused. Does Dai Ruyan know or not?

The more this is the case, the more concerned Gong Yu is, especially when Gong Yu looked through the books on the specifications and regulations of the royal family's clothing, and found that the needle and thread on this sachet is only the money thread dedicated to the royal family and the Dai clan who have been married for generations. Only then did I understand why Chen Ming wanted to hide the sachet in the dark compartment.

Whether it is the royal family or the Dai family, Chen Ming chose to cover up, so he hid the sachet.

Gong Yu felt that she was one step closer to the truth, but the mourning hall where the body of the Third Highness was placed suddenly caught fire, and the fire burned up all the evidence.

In the early spring, when the rain is flooding, and the weather is not dry, it is too time for this fire to start.

Obviously someone was destroying the evidence, and maybe someone even noticed that Gong Yu was following the whole case.

In any case, Gong Yu really had no way of knowing the real cause of death of His Highness the Third.

It was as if the cocoon was finally peeled off to the last layer, but the cocoon suddenly disappeared in front of him.

After the early morning, Gong Yu held an umbrella a little decadently, walked slowly along the palace road, and happened to meet the little princess when passing the imperial garden.

"Little princess, this flower is so beautiful." The maid on the side praised.

"Will the mother like it?" the little girl asked with big watery eyes.

"Yes, the Empress will definitely like it."

This little princess was originally born by a noble person, but her physical strength was too weak during childbirth, and she was raised by the queen not long after the child was born.

Gong Yu watched the little girl being carried away by the palace maid, only to see an eagle embroidered on the sachet that the little girl was wearing.

"Wait." Gong Yu stepped forward and called the maid who was holding the little princess, her eyes stopped on the little girl's sachet, as if her breath was being choked.

The little girl smiled and called, "Ninth brother is well."

Gong Yu regained his senses, touched the embroidery on the sachet and asked, "Why is the eagle embroidered on the sachet?"

The little girl probably didn't know much, so she only said, "This is a gift from the mother to Pearl."

The palace maid on the side said, "His Royal Highness, the Empress has never liked flowers, but prefers eagles, so she embroidered this by herself."

"That's it." Gong Yu responded slowly, watching the palace maid walk away with the little princess in her arms.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, but Gong Yu suddenly felt very cold, and the cold could not stop soaking Gong Yu's whole body from the bones.

The empress is a royal family, and she is also a Dai clan, so she can have the money thread, and this kind of embroidery method is unique, so Gongyu searched all over the capital to embroider the girl but couldn't find who it came from.

In particular, the Empress is also Dai Ruyan's aunt. How could Dai Ruyan not know what this eagle represents? The only explanation is that Dai Ruyan is deliberately disturbing Gong Yu's judgment, and she is covering up her aunt.

Therefore, Chen Ming is also covering up the Empress. No wonder the murderer can enter the Dali Temple freely, and even Chen Ming took the initiative to open the door of the Third Highness.

Gong Yu accidentally staggered forward a few steps, stretched out his hand to support the palace wall, but the umbrella fell to the side.

Thinking of what Dai Ruyan said in his ear that day, Gong Yu suddenly didn't know which ones to believe were true and which ones were false.

"Why is your Ninth Highness in the rain here?"

Gong Yu turned around and saw the Empress beside her, followed by the palace maid.

"These clothes are soaking wet, and the spring rain is the most likely to hurt the body." The Empress held an umbrella full of worry and said, "I heard that Jiudian's son has never been good. If Ayan knew about this, she would definitely be worried. ."

Gong Yu stepped back in shock and replied, "Xiao Jiu...Thank you for worrying about the Empress."

The Queen Mother smiled and didn't mind Gong Yu's retreat at all, but just sent the palace maid to hold an umbrella for Gong Yu and then left.

Gong Yu, who was soaked in the rain, only felt that her head was a mess, and she returned to the house in a sedan chair.

Unexpectedly, the fever started, Gong Yu frowned tightly and couldn't figure out why the Queen Mother wanted to kill the Third Highness?

The cause of death of the Third Highness was the slitting of the throat, not the fatal knife. If a living person's throat is slit, the blood will spurt out and even splash on the wall, but that person will not die immediately, only in pain and despair. Drained with blood.

The high fever did not subside, and the sound of the rain outside kept beside her ears. Gong Yu slept for a long time, and only woke up from thirst when her mouth was dry.

It was a bright sunny day outside, even a little dazzling, but Gong Yu felt pain all over her body.

"Awake?" Dai Ruyan's voice rang out in his ears.

Gong Yu blinked and stared blankly at Dai Ruyan in front of her. The windows in the house were open, so the warm sunlight happened to fall on Dai Ruyan's dark blue clothes.

It is rare to see Dai Ruyan wearing such dark clothes, and the already fair skin is even more unreal.

Dai Ruyan put on heavy make-up, and put on the peach-like earrings beside her ears. Gong Yu said in a slightly nasal voice, "Ayan... This is also very good-looking."

"Do you like it?" Dai Ruyan smiled, reaching out and gently supporting Gong Yu's head, so that Gong Yu half sat up.

Gong Yu lowered her head weakly, her forehead lightly rubbed against Dai Ruyan's warm cheeks and said in a low voice, "I know who is the murderer of the Third Emperor Brother."

Dai Ruyan's hand holding the soup medicine paused slightly, and then handed the spoon containing the medicine soup to Gong Yu's mouth and said softly, "The medicine is a bit bitter, I asked the maid to prepare candied fruit."

"Do you want Xiao Jiu to eat one first?"

"I'm... thirsty." Gong Yu said with a slightly hoarse voice:

"Okay, I'll pour the water right now."

The water in the entrance eased the dryness of Gong Yu's throat, Dai Ruyan held the water cup, and gently stroked Gong Yu's back with her palm and asked, "Do you want to drink more?"

"That's enough."

Dai Ruyan wiped the cold sweat from Gong Yu's cheeks with a handkerchief in her hand, and the warm back of her hand lightly touched Gong Yu's hot forehead, and said worriedly:

"Let's drink medicine first."

The medicine was very bitter, and even Gong Yu wanted to vomit. After eating most of it, Dai Ruyan also saw that Gong Yu was uncomfortable, so she stopped and handed a candied fruit to Gong Yu's mouth.

"If you hold it, you won't want to vomit."

In fact, Gong Yu could feel that she was still uncomfortable, her head felt a little heavy, and her breathing was not smooth.

It's just that Dai Ruyan is too gentle, so Gong Yu didn't say anything, and still let Dai Ruyan hug her.

It was very bright outside the window, Gong Yu squinted slightly and sniffed the faint fragrance of Dai Ruyan's body and asked, "Did Ayan already know that the Empress is the murderer?"

The fingertips rubbing the acupoints next to Gong Yu's forehead stopped slightly, and Dai Ruyan said softly, "I just guessed when I saw Xiao Jiu holding the sachet."

"I don't understand a bit."

Gong Yu stretched out her hands and held Dai Ruyan's slightly cool fingertips in front of her and said, "Why did the empress want to kill the three emperors?"

The color of Dai Ruyan's nails is very beautiful, Gong Yu kissed the fingertips of the next generation Ruyan like a child.

"Because the third highness killed the unborn fetus in my aunt's womb." Dai Ruyan looked down at Gong Yu who was curled up in her arms, and gently touched Gong Yu's dry and peeling lips due to heat and lack of water with her fingertips. valve.

"Didn't A-Yan say that it was the Dai family who killed the Empress's child?"

Dai Ruyan took back the fingertips that rubbed Gongyu's lips, and then lightly stroked Gongyu's hot side face and replied, "Because it was the poison of the Third Highness himself."

"The Dai family is just like a behind-the-scenes pusher, guiding the desired results, and the Dai family generally doesn't let their own hands be stained with blood."

Gong Yu clasped Dai Ruyan's drooping sleeves tightly, and pressed her cheek against Dai Ruyan's palm and said, "Why did Ayan lie to me?"

Dai Ruyan hugged Gong Yu from the back, clasped Gong Yu in her arms, lowered her head and lips slightly close to Gong Yu's ear and said softly, "I'm worried about you."

"My aunt and the Dai family are already on the same page. If you rashly step forward, you will put yourself under power, which is too dangerous."

"Isn't imperial power the highest power in the palace country?"

"Xiao Jiu is still too simple." Dai Ruyan's cheek was pressed against Gong Yu's cheek, and the tip of her nose rubbed against Gong Yu's side face and said affectionately: "Xiao Jiu thinks that the Dai family can always marry the royal family?"

"Is it just beauty? Or smart?"

"The Dai family is a heavy shackle of the royal family and also a sharp sword. Even as the emperor of the palace country, you can only rely on the power of the Dai family to control the government."

Gong Yu now understands that perhaps Chen Ming took away the sachet dropped by the queen, not necessarily to protect the queen.

He was protecting the royal family. If the emperor knew that the prince died at the hands of the Dai family, it would be tantamount to starting a war.

And this is also what the Queen Mother wanted, she just wanted to ignite the flame of the power struggle in the palace country.

Dai Ruyan stretched her arms around Gong Yu and said in a low voice, "Don't think about it anymore, it's all over."

"What about Chen Ming?"

"It's natural that the Dali Temple Secretary Chen should be in the courtroom early in the morning."

Gong Yu was close to Dai Ruyan's arms, not only fortunate that Chen Ming was still alive.

"Xiao Jiu, don't think about it any more. If you sleep again, you might get better."

Dai Ruyan said softly, "When you feel better, the weather will warm up.