The little dark guard who travels between two lives

The palace was released from the ban and gradually quieted down, and the concubines from various palaces came to pay their respects to the Empress. The concubines in the harem were all terrified, not just because they had just experienced a turmoil.

More importantly, the concubines were even more frightened when they heard that the emperor was still unconscious. They heard that it was Concubine Shen who poisoned the emperor, and everyone in the harem hated Concubine Shen with a vengeance.

Concubine Shen, who was usually favored and arrogant in the harem, was hated enough for not taking the concubines in the harem seriously. Now she dared to poison the Emperor and ruin the good days of the concubines in the palace. Naturally, the concubines in the harem were united in hatred and denounced Concubine Shen in front of the Queen, and insisted on convicting and punishing her immediately.

The Queen felt unhappy when she saw these concubines who claimed to care about the Emperor and the Queen but were actually trying to take advantage of her misfortune.

Especially Concubine Xi, who used to be seen serving Shen Yining and doing everything to fawn on her, and never cared about currying favor with the queen.

Ever since Shen Yining was demoted to Concubine Shen, Concubine Xi immediately distanced herself from Concubine Shen. Now, she was taking the lead in being indignant towards Concubine Shen in front of him.

Although the Queen disliked Shenpin, she also knew that Shenpin was only used by her father, and the Emperor was not poisoned by Shenpin. The Queen did not want these concubines to quarrel here.

The queen's face darkened and she said, "Alright, the emperor hasn't woken up yet, so don't bother him. The emperor will naturally decide whether Shenpin is guilty or not. I have several patients here who need to rest, so you can pay your respects and leave. Don't disturb the emperor unless he summons you in the future."

When the concubines saw that the queen was unhappy, they stopped talking and bowed and left.

Concubine Xi saw that the Fourth Prince was still in the Queen's palace. It seemed that General Shen's incident had not affected the prince, and the Queen was still very kind to the Fourth Prince.

Xibin was secretly indignant. Why could the traitor and the guilty concubine still be by the queen's side? Wasn't the queen afraid that she would be poisoned?

The Queen saw that all the concubines had bowed and left, except Concubine Xi, who was still staring at the inner room where Xinhe was, with an indignant look in her eyes.

The queen didn't like her look and called out to her, "Xipin, what are you doing?"

Xipin was startled and quickly retracted her gaze. After hesitating for a moment, she took a step forward and whispered, "Empress, why are you still keeping the Fourth Prince here? His grandfather and mother are both criminals. I am worried that he will harm you."

The Queen's face darkened. "Whether the Fourth Prince's grandfather and mother are guilty is not up to you. The Emperor will make the final decision. Moreover, no matter what the Fourth Prince's mother's family is like, the Fourth Prince is the son of the Emperor and me. The Fourth Prince is a good boy. How could he harm me? You worry too much. Go away."

Xipin didn't expect that her words would annoy the queen, so she quickly put on a smile and said, "I am also thinking about the queen. By the way, I see that the crown prince is very busy these days, so why not let the second prince do something with His Royal Highness the crown prince and help the emperor and the queen."

The Queen disliked Concubine Xi, but she didn't want to implicate the Second Prince. The child was calm and steady. The Queen looked at Concubine Xi and said, "There are many things to do in the palace now, and it's time for the brothers to work together. When the Crown Prince needs the Second Prince, he will naturally call the brothers to join him. We in the harem will not interfere in their affairs."

Concubine Xi heard the implicit sarcasm and warning in the Queen's words, and felt ashamed. She had no choice but to bow to the Queen and take her leave.

The Queen sighed as she watched Concubine Xi leave. She turned around and was about to check on the Emperor and Xin He, when she saw the Fourth Prince standing by the inner door with tears in his eyes, looking at the Queen pitifully.

The fat boy Xinnan looked at the Fourth Prince, pointed at Xibin's back and angrily complained to the Queen: "Bad woman, you said bad things about your brother and made him cry." He didn't know what Xibin meant, but the child had already heard the malice in Xibin's words and immediately stood up for the Fourth Prince.

The fourth prince looked at the queen crying, "Mother, my grandfather and mother are both wrong, but I won't hurt you. I am not what she said."

The Queen did not expect that the Fourth Prince would hear what Concubine Xi said. Looking at the child's increasingly thin face, she could not help but walk over with heartache and hugged the Fourth Prince in her arms.

The Queen touched the Fourth Prince's head and said softly, "Mother knows that our Fourth Prince is a good child. Mother believes in you."

The little fat girl Xinnan also stretched her head over: "Your Majesty, please touch Nan'er too. Nan'er is also a good child!" The tearful Fourth Prince and the Queen were amused by Xinnan.

This little fat boy is just like Xinhe when he was a child. He likes to be touched on the head and likes to compete for the favor of the elders. Looking at the similar smiling faces of Xinnan and Xinhe, the queen thought of Xinhe again, and she didn't know when the child would wake up.

Fortunately, the antidote of Prince Cheng was prepared very quickly and finally delivered to the palace. The prince asked the imperial physician to test the medicine, and it was indeed the right antidote, so he immediately arranged for the emperor and Concubine Shen to take it.

The antidote was indeed very effective. Within two hours after taking the medicine, the emperor and Shen Fei woke up from their comas. The emperor thought he had woken up as agreed with the crown prince and Yu Huaian, but when he woke up, he was faced with the fact that he was actually poisoned and Shen Tuo had failed to force the emperor to abdicate.

The emperor was shocked and angry. He was shocked because he thought he was well prepared and safe. He even wanted to pretend to be poisoned to lure the emperor into a trap. However, he didn't know that while the mantis stalks the cicada, the oriole is behind. Someone in his palace could actually poison him without anyone noticing.

When the emperor thought of this reality, he was filled with shock and anger. He was on high alert as there was still a thief in the palace.

After hearing the queen tell the emperor everything about the thrilling scene on the day of the coup, the emperor couldn't help but grab the queen's hand and said, "If it weren't for Xinhe, I would never see my queen again."

The emperor did not expect that Xinhe would make such a choice at the critical moment. In the past, when he saw the little girl patting her chest and saying that she wanted to protect the emperor and the queen, he always treated it as a child's joke and never took it seriously. He always laughed it off.

Unexpectedly, in a critical moment, the little girl had the courage to rush forward to protect the queen from the arrow. The emperor hurriedly asked about Xinhe's injury with concern.

Hearing that the little girl was fine but had not yet woken up, the emperor was still worried and ordered the imperial physician Zheng to go and take another good look at Xinhe. He also ordered Zhang Dequan to take out a lot of precious herbs from his private storehouse to nourish the little girl.

The prince stood in front of the emperor's bed and reported to the queen how he had handled the follow-up matters in the past few days. The emperor was very pleased that his son, who was not very old, had handled the situation properly in this thrilling palace coup and was worthy of being the crown prince of a country.

The prince fell to his knees and said, "I am incompetent and failed to protect you, the Queen Mother. That is why Sister Xin'er got hurt. Please punish me, Father and Queen Mother."

The queen immediately stepped forward with a distressed look on her face and helped the prince up. The queen knew that the prince had been busy in the palace day and night these days, and even Yu Huaian and Qin Mingxuan could not help but urge the prince to rest, but the prince turned a deaf ear to them.

The Queen knew the Crown Prince was feeling guilty and consoled him repeatedly. The Emperor also smiled and said, "Know that you still have shortcomings and make up for them. Your sister Xin'er has practiced martial arts before, so she is naturally faster than you. You, the weak Crown Prince, should also practice martial arts well in the future!"

The prince lowered his head in shame and said, "Yes, I only knew how to study before. I must practice hard in the future and protect my father and mother like my sister Xin'er."

The Queen whispered, "Your Majesty, since the death of General Shen, my mother has been ill in bed. You must go and visit her."

The emperor bowed his head for a long time and said, "Tell the Imperial Hospital to take good care of our mother. I don't think she wants to see us for the time being. When she is better, we will go visit her."

The prince then reported: "Father, Lord Yu and Lord Qin have made great contributions to the elimination of the traitors this time, and Uncle Wang has also made great contributions. Not only did he go to the palace overnight to expose the traitor Shen Tuo, but Uncle Wang also prepared the antidote for Father and Concubine Shen." The emperor was a little surprised and looked at the queen. The queen nodded slightly: "Brother Cheng usually looks quite idle, but I didn't expect that this time, thanks to Brother Cheng, Shen Tuo threatened us with the antidote. If it weren't for Brother Cheng's mother's family from Southern Xinjiang and left the secret medicine of Southern Xinjiang, we wouldn't have been able to get the antidote so easily."

When the emperor heard that Prince Cheng's mother's family fell silent, he thought of the late emperor's Concubine Mei, who was the most beautiful concubine in the harem. If it weren't for what happened to Concubine Mei later, it's hard to say who would be sitting on the throne now.

The emperor sighed. At that time, he only knew that Concubine Mei was the most favored concubine in the harem. The little prince she gave birth to was extremely loved by the late emperor, which aroused the jealousy of many people in the palace.

The emperor only remembered that the Empress Dowager at that time only warned him to stay away from them, mother and son. He also remembered that Shen Tuo also relied on the Empress Dowager to get a job in the palace. Once he saw Shen Tuo reporting to the Empress Dowager complacently that the matter had been accomplished and that the stinky woman would not live long.

When Shen Tuo came out and saw him, he greeted him strangely and seemed to say something as if he should wait for good things to happen.

Sure enough, not long after, something happened to Concubine Mei and she died in the cold palace. The favored little brother then quietly became an invisible figure in the palace.

The Queen Mother soon ascended the throne, and he was named Crown Prince. From then on, Shen Tuo rose rapidly and gradually gained power in the court.

Thinking back to the past, if the emperor was young at the time, he would not be able to notice the weirdness of this matter. Later, the emperor, who was accustomed to the unpredictable situations in the palace, thought carefully that the matter of Concubine Mei and the rebellion in southern Xinjiang that year always revealed a hint of weirdness.

However, times had changed, and the emperor felt sorry for his younger brother, so he specially conferred the title of Prince on him, making him a rich and powerful prince.

Unexpectedly, when there was unrest in the palace, this usually quiet prince actually stepped forward at the critical moment and made great efforts to quell the rebellion.

The emperor nodded and said, "After I recover and go to court, I will definitely reward those who have made contributions and punish those who have committed crimes." After that, he looked at the queen again and said, "The palace is still not clean. We still have to clean it up."

The Queen thought of Zi Yuan and said with guilt: "Zi Yuan, who was beside me, committed a serious crime this time, but I still ask the Emperor to spare her life because she finally listened to Xin He's advice and did not attack the Crown Prince."

The emperor was a little tired after talking for so long. He coughed lightly and looked up to see the queen looking at him eagerly with pleading eyes. He finally sighed and said, "You are too soft-hearted. For the queen's sake, I will spare her life, but she cannot stay in this palace. Expel her from the palace."

Being expelled from the palace was already the best outcome for Ziyuan. The Queen breathed a sigh of relief and quickly helped the Emperor lie down to rest.

The emperor was still thinking about Xin He: "After I rest a little, I have to go see that girl Xin He." The queen chuckled and said, "Didn't the imperial physician just come to report that Xin He's pulse is stable and there is no sign of deterioration. She should wake up in the next two days."

At this moment, Xinhe seemed to have floated back to the Prime Minister's mansion in her previous life. She felt like a wisp of smoke returning to her own mourning hall.

The self of the previous life was still lying in the coffin. As the lights flickered, the wife of the prime minister in the previous life, who was also his own sister, was holding a long nail and a talisman in her hand, cursing him with gritted teeth in front of his coffin.

Xin He kept shaking her head: "No, no, sister, I am your biological sister!"

In a trance, Xin He landed in a small courtyard again. A beautiful woman was laughing wildly in the courtyard: "Ji Wanran, you bitch, you died too early, otherwise you could have seen how your two daughters killed each other."

"Yu Shen, that bastard, married my Xin He and yet he still fell in love with that bitch Thirteen. I can't let her go."

"Ji Wanran stole my beloved, and now that bitch Thirteen has stolen the heart of Xinhe's husband. I will make both of you, mother and daughter, die together, and never be reincarnated."

"You two, mother and daughter, were both confused until your death! I was already kind enough to let her sister send her off. Hahahaha..."

Xinhe looked at the beautiful woman who looked like a madman, and finally saw her face clearly. It was actually the bad woman Su Peiyun. It turned out that her sister was instigated by this woman to harm her.

She wanted to pounce on her, but she felt a sharp pain in her head. In a trance, she found herself back in the mourning hall. Madam Xinhe from her previous life was holding a long nail and was about to drive it into her head.

Xin He rushed over to stop her, but her soul was powerless against her. Just as she was in despair, she heard a loud shout, "Stop!"

Xin He was overjoyed when she heard the voice and looked towards the door. It was Yu Shen, the former Prime Minister of the Yu Dynasty. The elegant man in plain clothes stood at the door, looking coldly at the stunned Madam Yu.

Mrs. Yu in her previous life shuddered with fear, and the long nail in her hand fell to the ground with a jingle. Xinhe's soul was about to approach Yu Shen, but was suddenly pulled away from the mourning hall by a strong force.

Xinhe shouted anxiously: "I don't want to leave, Brother Shen, she is going to hurt me!" Xinhe shouted, suddenly opened her eyes, and looked blankly at where she was.

I heard several surprised voices: "Xin girl, you're awake!" "Xin'er sister is finally awake!" "Sister, sister is finally awake!"