in the world of murder

The sun was shining brightly outside the window, but there was no warmth, and the cold wind blew on the person's body, instantly chilling his clothes.

After hearing what he said, Xi Zhen was taken aback for a moment, then sneered, "It's ridiculous!"

He looked at Prince Chongming like a lunatic, "You compare yourself with my Xi family? What is this? What does this mean? I chose you, so it shows how important you are?"

Xi Zhen sneered, "Then let me ask you, who is more important between me and Your Majesty, or between me and the imperial concubine?"

Prince Chongming didn't speak, but raised his chin, his brows and eyes getting colder.

He couldn't answer, Xi Zhen sneered, "I still want to ask Your Highness, why do you have to make trouble with my Xi family? Do I choose you, so I have to ignore my family? It's a married girl, I still have to take care of my natal family."

Prince Chongming's eyes moved slightly, and he raised his eyes to look at Xi Zhen.Xi Zhen looked at him coldly, "Besides, you keep saying that you don't want to be compared. Who compares you? Isn't it because you insist on calculating yourself, making trouble out of nothing and making trouble for no reason!"

"To put it nicely, you didn't do this back then."

Xi Zhen was so angry that he slapped the table, "Are you settling an old score with me now? I was sorry to you back then, but you didn't lie to me? Is Xie Li back then, and now Prince Chongming, alone? Let me ask." Are you the same person?"

After Xi Zhen's words fell, he suddenly felt a ringing in his ears, and his eyes turned dizzy.

"I'm so mad," Xi Zhen murmured, "I'm going to pass out."

Suddenly there was something in the ear, Xi Zhen stretched out his hand to touch it, and took a look in front of his eyes, but it was sticky warm blood.

All the surrounding voices became unreal, and the smell of blood suddenly filled his mouth, and Xi Zhen spat out a mouthful of blood with a "wow".

He fell, his eyes clouded with blood.The last thing he saw was Xie Li running towards him.

"Xie Li..." He held on to Xie Li's arm tightly, his vision completely dimmed.

It was snowing lightly outside the window, candles were lit inside the room, Xie Li was leaning against the window and flipping through a book, the dancing lights reflected on his side face.

Xi Zhen squeezed into his arms, holding snacks in his arms, reading a book with his hands.What he was reading was this travelogue, which said that the Three Gorges of Badong and Wu Gorge were long, and that apes cried three times and tears stained their clothes.

"When I went home, I just took a boat and went down the river, making thousands of miles in a day." Xizhen said: "There are apes on both sides of the bank calling, and the people who call are very annoying."

Xi Zhen fed Xie Li a piece of preserved fruit, and said, "My snacks are almost finished, go down the mountain and buy them for me."

Xie Li glanced into his oil paper bag, there was still some preserved fruit, but the meat strips were finished.

Xie Li pinched Xi Zhen's chin, a little curious, "The meat strips are so hard, don't you feel a toothache after eating them?"

"I just like to eat," Xi Zhen slapped his hand away, "Can't I use it to grind my teeth?"

Xie Li smiled softly, twitched his fingers on Xi Zhen's lips, and said, "No wonder you are so eloquent."

Xi Zhen snorted, bit Xie Li's wrist, Xie Li didn't hide, just looked at him with a smile.

Xi Zhen also laughed, just as he was about to speak, suddenly a sharp pain came from his stomach, which made him almost tremble.

"Xie Li, are you poisonous?" Xi Zhen frowned, "Why did I bite you and it hurt so much?"

But for a moment, Xi Zhen couldn't speak because of the pain, curled up and rolled.

"Xie Li, I'm in so much pain, Xie Li..."

In the East Palace, Xi Zhen was lying on the bed, his hands and feet were cramping with pain, and his head was sweating profusely.

His consciousness is not clear, and his mouth is vaguely calling someone's name.His black hair was messy and sticking to his cheeks, wet in strands with sweat.

Xie Li was sitting on the side of the bed, holding Xi Zhen in his arms, restraining his hands and feet to prevent him from moving, and said in a low voice: "It's almost over, Zhen'er, the pain will be gone soon."

The maids and eunuchs of the Eastern Palace came and went in a hurry.The imperial physicians knelt on the ground, and after discussing for a long time, they couldn't come up with a countermeasure.Everyone knew that Xi Zhen was poisoned, and no one could come up with a way to detoxify, and even the way to relieve pain didn't work.

Xi Zhen trembled in pain, tears poured from his tightly closed eyes.Xie Li kissed his forehead, "Don't be afraid, Zhener, don't be afraid."

With a sound of "crash", a vase was mercilessly smashed to the ground. Prince Chongming looked at the crowd in the hall, his eyebrows and eyes were full of anger, "Where is Fugui! What about others!"

The imperial physicians knelt on the ground, silent like cicadas.It's hard to imagine that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who has always been lazy and casual, also has such a time.

"Here we come, here we come!" Fu Gui hurried over with the medicine box on his back, took out a bottle of pills after checking, "melt it with hot water, pour it down for him, and melt some more."

Xie Li hugged Xizhen and poured bowls of soup and medicine down for him.After a few breaths, Xi Zhen vomited it all out, the filth was mixed with dirty blood, it was very frightening.

"Continue to pour medicine." Fugui asked someone to continue to pour medicine on Xizhen while administering the needles.As he spit out the medicine again and again, the dirty blood in the dirt became less and less.

Fu Gui gave him an injection, and fed him two more pills. After a while, Xi Zhen stopped crying, and fell into a deep sleep with a pale face.

Fu Gui let out a long breath, looked at Xie Li, and said: "This is a rare and strange poison called Aihongdou. This poison is colorless and odorless, and it melts in water. The poisoned person bleeds from the seven orifices and is in great pain. Only two Time can poison the heart and lungs, and the gods are hard to save."

Xie Li lowered his head and stroked Fu Xizhen's messy hair.Although his movements are gentle, his face is as sinking as water, like a mountain rain is about to come, even if he doesn't speak, he still has an unspeakable sense of oppression.

In front of Xie Li like this, even Fu Gui didn't dare to say a word.

In the Zhaoyang Palace, the imperial concubine is sitting by the couch and repairing flower branches.Behind the screen, Jing Cang quietly appeared in the hall.When the noble concubine saw him, she frowned imperceptibly.

She raised her hand and ordered the maid to go down, and said, "Why are you here?"

Jing Cang took a deep look at the noble concubine, "Xi Zhen was poisoned in the East Palace, and now his life and death are unknown."

The noble concubine frowned, "He was poisoned in the East Palace? How could such a thing happen in the East Palace?"

"Stop pretending," Jing Cang said mercilessly, "Isn't it you who poisoned me?"

The imperial concubine was slightly stunned, and understood Jing Cang's intention, she sneered, "You think it was me who poisoned you."

Jing Cang didn't say anything, but it was obvious that he acquiesced.

The imperial concubine's complexion suddenly sank, "I didn't do it!"

Jing Cang frowned, the imperial concubine waved her sleeves, turned around, and said: "If I did it, I will not deny it. Instead of questioning Bengong here, you might as well find out who hurt you Good apprentice!"

Jing Cang looked pensive, the imperial concubine turned around again, Jing Cang had disappeared.

The imperial concubine returned to the couch, and had no intention of repairing flower branches.Just at this time, the maid came to report, and the prince came down.

The imperial concubine panicked, she stood up and said, "Please come in quickly."

Xie Li entered the Zhaoyang Hall, when it snowed outside, he came in the snow, and the snowflakes fell on his black gold-woven robe.

The imperial concubine frowned and said, "It's snowing outside, and you don't wear thick clothes?"

Xie Li didn't answer, his pair of deep eyes contained many secrets.

"Something happened in the East Palace," Xie Li said, "Xi Zhen was poisoned and is still unconscious."

The noble concubine squeezed her fingers tightly, "Do you also think I did it?"

Xie Li suddenly raised his eyes to look at the noble concubine, under his gaze, even the noble concubine felt startled.

"I know my aunt has this idea," Xie Li said, "but this time it wasn't my aunt who did it."

The imperial concubine breathed a sigh of relief, then panicked.Does this mean that Xie Li knows what the imperial concubine has done, even the existence of Jing Cang has not been hidden from Xie Li.

The noble concubine didn't dare to think about it anymore, she said: "Since you already know, I won't hide it from you. I really thought about killing Xizhen, but now I have no more thoughts about it."

Xie Li nodded slightly.

The imperial concubine was upset at the moment, but she still spared some time to care about Xizhen, and asked, "What happened to Xizhen? How could he be poisoned in the East Palace?"

"The poison was in the purple bamboo shoots of Gu Zhu, a tribute tea," Xie Li said, "it happened to be drunk by Xi Zhen today. I only have the purple bamboo shoots of Gu Zhu in the palace." Xie Li raised his eyes to look at the noble concubine, "Xi Zhen did it for me. Suffered."

The imperial concubine's complexion suddenly changed, if it was as Xie Li said, then someone was going to murder the prince.

The imperial concubine slapped the armchair fiercely, "Investigate! Thoroughly investigate! All the people in the East Palace will be investigated! Who brought the tea and whose hands it passed through, let me find out! I would rather catch it by mistake than never Let go!"

This winter is destined to be difficult.The accident occurred in the East Palace, not only the imperial concubine was furious, but even His Majesty lost his temper.All the palace people up and down in the palace entered the Yeyou Court, the stone bricks on the long street of the palace gate were all stained red, a few eunuchs poured hot water on one, and swept the floor on the other, but they did it with eye-catching skills. Clean as new.

Xie Li returned to the East Palace, and Tang Zhi rushed to meet him. He was the first to clear up the suspicion, because the prince must be left alone to take care of him, so he returned to serve the prince, but he became more and more trembling.

Xie Li took off his crane cloak and said, "Let's all go out."

"Yes." Tang Zhi told everyone to leave, the bedroom was very quiet, even the sound of snow falling outside the window could be heard.

Xie Li walked into the inner hall, and saw that there was no one on the bed at a glance.His eyes suddenly sank, and then he put a sharp knife on his back.

Xi Zhen was dressed in ochre-red pajamas, his long hair like a crow's feathers hung loose behind him, the snow outside the window was bright, and so was he.

Xi Zhen held the prince's saber in his hand, and the sharp edge of the sword was facing Xie Li.

Xie Li turned around and looked at his whole body carefully before meeting Xi Zhen's eyes.

"You want to kill me?" Xie Li asked him.

Xi Zhen curled his lips, his complexion was still pale, but there was a layer of cold snow between his brows and eyes, like Aoxue's cold plum blossoms.

"Don't dare," Xi Zhen said, "You are His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, if I hurt you, how many lives will I have to pay?"

Xie Li looked at Xi Zhen, and suddenly took a step forward. The moment the sharp blade was about to touch him, Xi Zhen let go of his hand, and the long sword fell to the ground with a clang, making a muffled sound.

Xi Zhen threw down his sword, straightened his sleeves slowly, and gave a meticulous salute, "His Royal Highness is sympathetic, and I promise to stay in the East Palace, but I dare not go beyond the distance, so I will leave first."

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Xi Zhen: see you again