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Chapter 27 Concubine Rou

Grand Tutor Xiao was very reluctant to mention more about Concubine Rou, Fuwan questioned her several times, and Fang said a few more words.He mentioned that Fuwan and Chunnv don't look alike, except for their voice.

He said: "Concubine Rou is originally a female official in the palace, and she is quite appreciated by the queen. When I was at home, I always heard her talking about the queen with a look of admiration. It was only later that I found out that she had an affair with the queen."

When Fu Wan heard this, she was only surprised: "A female official? If she and the queen are lovers, why did she become a soft concubine?"

——Furthermore, concubine Rou gave birth to the emperor's heir, wouldn't it prove that she and the emperor were married?

Taifu Xiao said coldly: "Oh, maybe it's the trick the queen used to keep her in the palace."

He seemed to have a lot of prejudice against Empress Chen who is now proclaimed emperor, so Fuwan couldn't ask more questions, so he just suppressed the questions in his heart.

She thought of another thing: "Since you know, then Prime Minister Lin must also know about it?"

Xiao Ran was silent for a moment, then nodded.

Fu Wan gritted her teeth slightly, raised her hand to press his shoulder, and asked forcefully, "Then what does he mean by choosing Chu Heng to enter the palace?" Seeing Taifu Xiao bowing his head in silence, her tone became more severe, " I asked you a question, why didn't you answer?"

Taifu Xiao turned his face away, and said vaguely: "Your Highness..."

Squeak.The door was pushed open.

Fu Wan turned around, but saw Lin Ruhui with a gloomy face standing outside the threshold.Standing in the shadows, she slowly withdrew her left hand that pushed the door. She was wearing a light yellow dress, a thin cape with a white fox collar, and a red rope jade pendant hanging around her waist.

Originally they were all lively colors, but when the dim candlelight flickered, it brought out the gloom.

Lin Ruhui said calmly: "Master Tai Tu, it's none of your business here."

Fu Wan let go of Mrs. Xiao, stood up straight, pursed her lips and looked at her.

I saw Lin Ruhui's fox eyes raised: "Your Highness, shall we talk?"

The room was silent, except for the flickering lights.Mrs. Xiao hesitated for a moment, then retreated, and closed the door for them.

Hearing the footsteps walking away from the corridor, Lin Ruhui seemed to want to explain, but was interrupted by Fuwan: "You just need to tell me that Chu Heng is similar to Concubine Rou, do you know?"

Lin Ruhui pursed his lips, and said for a long while, "I know."

"The reason why the Lin family chose her to enter the palace was because she looked exactly like Concubine Rou, who had died early—even more like me, wasn't it?"

"……Yes."

"Heh, what if the empress really 'sees' her?"

Lin Ruhui paused for a long time, and swept the eyelashes that were gathered at the end of the eyes carefully, and then swept again, gathering all Linglong's thoughts in the shadow, so that no one could see the slightest wavering.

After a long time, she raised her eyes to look at Fu Wan, and even smiled: "Of course...whatever you want, just do what you want."

Fu Wan: "You—"

At the same time, there was a soft sound outside the wooden door.

Lin Ruhui seemed to have sensed something, looked sideways, and his cynical expression suddenly changed.She hurriedly took two steps, opened the door, and stopped the woman who was about to flee in a hurry: "Stop!"

Sure enough, the black figure stopped in his tracks, and slowly turned his face—the same gloomy iceberg face as before, unable to tell whether it was joy, anger, or sadness.

Lin Ruhui's heart skipped a beat, and he felt inexplicable irritability.

Chu Heng realized that he was still carrying the food box he bought for her, and hid it behind his back at a loss.

Fu Wan followed and went out, seeing this scene, she was also slightly taken aback, only to hear Lin Ruhui say coldly: "What are you doing here?"

Chu Heng rolled his throat lightly: "I bought something and brought it to you."

"Have you heard?"

"..."

The north wind blew the festive lanterns under the corridor, turning countless shadows, and the three of them faced each other speechlessly for a moment.

After a long while, Chu Heng lowered his eyes and said softly: "That year Lord Lin saved my life, and then let me pretend to be a beggar and sneak in among the refugees in the capital, and squeeze in to beg when His Majesty leaves the palace. I didn't understand it at first. His intentions seem to be somewhat clear now."

Lin Ruhui pursed her lips into a line and said nothing.

Chu Heng looked at her: "I didn't mean to eavesdrop. I'm not as smart as you, and I can't figure out those big principles. I only know that the kindness of a drop of water will be repaid. Master Lin saved my life, and I should repay it. You...don't worry about it, it doesn't matter whether I know or not about these other things. "

Hearing her mentioning repayment repeatedly, Lin Ruhui became more inexplicably irritable, and smiled meanly: "He saved your life, so no matter what you are asked to do, you will do it?"

"..."

"Anything...willing to anything? Even if you are asked to accompany the one on the throne? Talk."

Chu Heng trembled and turned his face away.

Lin Ruhui took a step forward.Although she was half a head shorter than Chu Heng, she had an astonishing aura. She raised her hand and grabbed the other's chin to force her to look at her.

"Don't look away." She ordered hoarsely.

Chu Heng's eyelashes trembled, and he looked at her as he said, and closed his eyes as if they were burned.

Lin Ruhui sneered: "You regard life as precious, and if you save your life, you are willing to pay it back like a dog, huh?" She shook off her hand and said indifferently, "It's a pity that such a precious life is called to live Degraded."

Chu Heng gritted his teeth for a moment.

She suddenly turned back to stare at Lin Ruhui, and said word by word: "You are right, I am a scumbag."

At that moment, Lin Ruhui's beautiful face was almost distorted.There was an unknown fire in her heart, and she rushed all the way up to the Tianling Cap along her spine, causing the strings in her brain to snap.

She sneered and said, "Yeah, what's the point of being humble? After following the empress, do you want glory and wealth? Chu Hengze, you've long been eager to post it, haven't you?"

Fu Wan frowned, and was about to step forward to stop her, but saw Lin Ruhui's movements froze.

——Chu Heng knelt down straight.

Kneeling on the hard, cold stone bricks, she raised her eyes.

This look is so dull, but there is deep despair hidden in the depth of the dullness, like the sparks under the ashes, jumping up and down, ready to burn at any time.

Fuwan felt a tingling pain just by looking at it, but she didn't know what Lin Ruhui was thinking.

Chu Heng gritted his teeth, and his voice was tight: "I have always been a dog by your side. If you are happy, just coax a few words, and if you are unhappy, kick it away. Humans always have extravagant thoughts, dogs No, even if I was sent to a human being, it would be fine if I screamed sadly for two days. I wish I was a dog so that I wouldn’t be sad, but you still want me to be a human being. Why? It’s you! Gifts to others, why?"

In memory, she has never said so many words, every word is clear and urgent.

Lin Ruhui staggered back half a step, a little out of breath, his nails dug deeply into his palm.

She said: "I never thought you were..." She couldn't say that word no matter what, as if she would burn her mouth.

After a long time, Lin Ruhui smiled wryly and said: "Whether you believe it or not, I have never looked at you like that. These years, even if you are not in the Lin residence, do you really not know how I treat you?"

Chu Heng's expression relaxed a little.

Lin Ruhui slowed down, and said again: "At the beginning, I really thought that it was just a coincidence that my father chose you. After I found out the reason, you were already too deep in the palace, and even I couldn't protect you from getting out."

She tried to raise the corners of her lips, showing a twisted smile, and reached out to her: "Don't be afraid of me, Heng Ze. Don't be afraid, tell me, you don't want to, right? You are angry with me, because I can't save you You, in fact, you don’t want to stay in the palace, do you?”

Chu Heng looked up at her, but didn't take her hand.After a while, she lowered her eyes and nodded slightly.

Lin Ruhui's tone was much lighter: "I knew it. Heng Ze, you wouldn't treat me like that. You are so kind. I was wrong earlier. Are you still angry?"

Chu Heng lowered his head and said nothing.

Lin Ruhui didn't care.She turned her gaze to the night sky, as if intoxicated in her own world, and murmured, "Heng Ze, you know, I really want to kill that person. If she dies, you can come back to me. As long as she dies , as long as she dies..."

She was muttering to herself, but it made Fu Wan feel chills in his heart.

"You can just say these words here, don't let other people listen to them."

Lin Ruhui came back to his senses.She smiled slightly, glanced at Fu Wan from the end of her eyes, and said lazily: "What are you afraid of? Your Highness, I still remember that day when you asked me if I knew that the drug hair puppet was tampered with."

Fu Wan's heart skipped a beat, and an ominous premonition arose.

Lin Ruhui laughed heartily, and even narrowed his fox eyes as if he enjoyed it: "Ha, I know about it. It's a pity I couldn't blow her to pieces, ah, what a pity."

Fu Wan's brows were tightly furrowed, only to feel a throbbing pain in his forehead: "That's treason!"

"Conspiracy? How can it be called treason?" She retorted seriously, "The empress is not worthy, and the people below are ready to move, but they are all filthy waste. I just pushed the handle secretly."

"Are you crazy? So, the poisoning of Liu Xun—"

Lin Ruhui showed an intriguing smile: "No, if I want him to shut up, I won't alarm you." The light cloak was slightly puffed up by the night wind, and the smile in her eyes was like poppies full of malice. Said: "The murderer used poison, I reminded you."

She said... Poison poison is a common trick in the palace.

Empress?Fuwan's first reaction was that Lin Ruhui was biting at random - the empress did it for no reason, why did she poison Liu Jianzheng?It doesn't make sense.

Lin Ruhui said coolly, "Maybe what Your Majesty wants to bury is 'that old thing'?"

that thing?

The two looked at each other, and Lin Ruhui made a lip-synch.

...Dingyuan Hou.

Fu Wan clenched her fingertips tightly, and her thumb unconsciously dug into the skin of the index knuckle.

Explosion, poisonous killing, treasure map.No matter what she investigates, she always returns to the treason case 16 years ago, as if caught in a never-ending vicious circle.

Fuwan knows that the birth of a small conspiracy usually needs to be covered up by more and more vicious conspiracies. In the cycle of this conspiracy, the malice will grow bigger and bigger like a snowball, until finally the avalanche collapses and the entire capital city is destroyed. Buried in a vast snow.

But empress, no, she was just a queen 16 years ago, she had no reason or motive, why did she take action against a weak Dingyuanhoufu?

Lin Ruhui rolled her eyes, and said: "Concubine Rou died of dystocia, and the queen misses her old friend. If she hears that there is a dragon vein map that hides the secret of reversing life and death, do you think she will be willing to try it?"

Fu Wan only thought it was absurd. Others might go to the doctor in an emergency, but the Chen family also had a dragon vein map passed down from generation to generation. Just to get a plausible treasure map.

And she remembered that after Bai Chan escaped from the capital, she concealed her identity and became a teacher at Yijian Peak.Jianzong has an old relationship with the Chen clan, if the queen is behind the scenes, since she has already slaughtered the entire clan of Marquis Dingyuan, why did she not eradicate the roots, but instead protected the only blood of Marquis Dingyuan?

Fu Wan frowned: "This matter cannot be judged rashly."

Lin Ruhui chuckled, "Your Highness, don't you believe me?"

Fu Wan looked up at her: "You want me to believe you so desperately, don't you also have selfish intentions?"

"Yes." Lin Ruhui readily admitted, "I just want her to die. But Your Highness, don't you think that the empress doesn't know about you and Bai? Well, it's her, right? Did you find Dingyuanhou Xiaohounv?"

Fu Wan didn't say anything, and acquiesced.

"Your Majesty sees through but doesn't tell the truth, and even connives you to approach that person. What do you think it means?"

Fu Wan suddenly felt impetuous: "Just say what you want!"

"That white girl cultivates the way of ruthlessness." Lin Ruhui's lips curled into a sarcastic smile, "Do you know what will happen if she falls in love?"

Fuwan's expression finally changed slightly.

Lin Ruhui praised: "Even though I loathe Your Majesty, I have to boast of such a good strategy, that such a long-term revenge has been brewed."

"By the way, Your Highness, you don't know why Concubine Rou became Concubine Rou back then?" She said with a smile, "I planned to feign death and lure you into Dali Temple just to investigate this old case."

The whirling wind in the corridor seems to be suddenly stronger, rustling the dead branches and bumping against the eaves, the ferocious and jagged tree shadows are like struggling palms, crowding around to scratch the three lonely figures in the stone corridor.

Chu Heng, who had been silent all this time, twitched his eyelids, and suddenly took a few steps on his knees, grabbed Lin Ruhui's skirt and begged her: "Stop talking!"

Fuwan glanced between the two of them, and sneered: "What's wrong with Gu? You just let her say it."