Winner in life

The old lady's faintness shocked Wanshi, and she quickly called the doctor over. The doctor took a pulse and breathed a sigh of relief. He said that the old lady fainted because of exhaustion, anxiety, and excessive fright. Fortunately, the old lady took good care of herself, so she was not in trouble. She could just take medicine and rest.

Wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes, Wan looked at the dark sky and murmured, "The sky should be brighter soon. Lord Marquis, you have to come back quickly."

The Marquis Mansion of Wu'an was in turmoil, and other places were no exception. The queen left the palace, and the Taiyuan Hospital was mobilized. This movement was really quite big. Coupled with the recent rumors that someone in the Hanlin Academy was poisoned, this stormy future atmosphere is really worrying.

Many families in Yanjing City were very anxious that night. The princes' spies were dispatched in droves, but the house of Imperial Physician Gao was empty, leaving only a chaotic pharmacy. The curfew has begun, but there are often shadows moving around in the dark places, sending messages in series.

In a vegetable garden on the outskirts of Beijing, Detective Jing Zhaoyin spent the night holding a torch and fished out a putrid corpse from the pond.

"That's him!"

The vegetable vendor who had an unusual private conversation with the Hanlin Academy kitchen worker in the early morning turned into a rotting corpse in the pond late at night.

"Get the mat, wrap it up, and take it away. Call the widow over here!"

Marquis Wu'an did not return to the Marquis Mansion until early the next morning.

"I arrived last night and waited until the city gate opened today. What happened? Where is Shan'er? Haven't you found it yet?" Marquis Wu An opened his arms and asked the maid to change his clothes. Wan Shi gave him a warm handkerchief. He wiped his face and neck and said distressedly, "Look at you, you are covered in dust. Why don't you take a shower first."

"It's okay." He took the handkerchief and wiped his face quickly. "Whatever the situation is, I'm worried to death!"

"Don't worry, a chamberlain knocked on the door last night. He came in disguise and talked to mother for about a quarter of an hour. Later, the chamberlain left, and mother told me that Shan'er was fine, and asked me to wait for a few minutes with my uncle's family and the Gu family. Relatives and friends said there was no need to look for Shan'er anymore. After that, my mother fainted and is still asleep. Don't panic! The doctor has looked at her and given her medicine. The doctor told her to let her sleep to rest her mind. Condensation is a good thing!”

Marquis Wu'an hurried to Mingde Hall and saw that the old lady was still asleep. He gently touched her forehead and felt relieved.

"How did Shan'er's matter get involved with the chamberlain? Whose order did the chamberlain come under?"

Wan shook her head, "Only mother knows this."

The old lady woke up in a daze after sleeping until Chencai. After she regained her energy, she asked Cuiping to lead the other maids down. Only Marquis Wu'an and Wan were left in the room.

"Ahem, I have to tell you about this. After all... you are Shan'er's parents." The old lady's expression showed a strange confusion and sadness, which greatly shocked Marquis Wu'an. A bad premonition arose in his heart, "Mom, didn't you say that Shan'er was fine? Why are you still acting like this? My son is really uneasy when he sees you."

"Mother..." Wanshi grabbed her handkerchief, "Is Shan'er really okay?"

"Shan'er, the queen has taken her into the palace."

"Ah?" Wu Anhou and his wife exclaimed at the same time.

"Mother, what's going on?"

"Mom, could it be that Shan'er was poisoned because of the Queen?"

"Listen to me. The chamberlain came over last night and said that Shan'er had indeed been poisoned. Thanks to the empress, who brought all the doctors from the Imperial Hospital for treatment, Shan'er was cured of the poison. In order to take better care of Shan'er. Son, just take the person into the palace."

Wu'anhou became even more confused after hearing this. Their family had no friendship with the Queen, and they had nothing to do with the Chengenhou Mansion.

"The entire imperial hospital? Last night I heard that the queen came out of the palace and brought many imperial doctors with her. Is it for Shan'er?!" Wanshi was shocked. When she heard the news, she didn't rely on her family at all.

Marquis Wu An frowned and said, "Mom, do you still have some secrets?"

"The chamberlain also said that Shan'er is the child of the late prince, so our family should be prepared."

Bang.

After the teacup fell to the ground, Marquis Wu An suddenly stood up and said, "Mom! How is this possible!" The next moment he turned to look at his wife. Wan was so shocked that she was speechless.

"Handing! You don't have to look at Rou Niang, Shan'er is not Rou Niang's child."

Wan finally realized what she was doing and looked at her husband in disbelief, "You, you were just doubting me!"

The surprise in Marquis Wu's eyes was still there. Faced with his wife's question, he took a deep breath and turned around without answering. He knelt on the ground and grabbed the old lady's hand, "Mom, what's going on?"

"I don't know what's going on. That's what the chamberlain said." The old lady's face turned pale. "I thought and thought and thought, but I can't figure it out." She started coughing.

The atmosphere in the room was solemn.

"Mom, where is my child? Where is the child I gave birth to in ten months of pregnancy?" Wan finally thought of the key and rushed forward to grab the old lady's hand.

The old lady doesn't know anything, how can she answer her?

"Children, good children, don't panic. The truth will be revealed when the news from the palace comes back. That's Tianjia. All we can do is wait. It's not appropriate to make too much publicity about this matter. Do you understand? "

Otherwise, what if the chamberlain wanted to see her by name last night, instead of meeting the wife of the Marquis of Wu'an and Shan'er's nominal biological mother?

"Mom, this matter should have something to do with my father-in-law, and it must have something to do with the Wan family." Marquis Wu'an's mind was racing, "My father-in-law was a young master of the prince, so the son of the former prince must be related to my father-in-law in our family!"

"Wei Defianping, you are talking nonsense, how can you drag my father into this?" Wanshi refused.

"Otherwise, how can you explain it? Your child and I have disappeared, and the former crown prince's child has become our eldest son. How can that child still fall from the sky? And it is consistent with the time. The year Shan'er was born was when the former crown prince went to During the time in Yucheng, the situation of the first prince was not good at that time. My father-in-law and the first prince were in harmony with each other. Isn’t it natural to hide the child for the first prince? "

"impossible--"

"Ahem! Just stop arguing now. What's the use of arguing now? Han Ping, Shan'er's disappearance yesterday troubled many relatives and friends. Now that you're back, you have to come and thank them. Don't let anyone say We, the Marquis of Wu’an, have no etiquette.”

Wu Anhou opened his mouth and lowered his head, "My mother is right."

In the palace, Ruihe opened his eyes. He coughed a few times, and his throat was filled with the smell of blood. A pair of hands lifted up a corner of the bed curtain. He turned his head and saw the surprised face of the palace maid, "Your Highness is awake! I will go and report to the Queen."

After a while, the queen came in holding the hand of the palace maid. Her eyes turned red when she saw him, "I finally woke up, but do you feel uncomfortable somewhere?"

"I've seen the Queen—"

"Forgive me!" The Queen stopped him and helped him sit up against the pillow. "Are you hungry? You have hurt your stomach and intestines. You can't eat for the past few days, but the doctor said you can drink some rice oil."

"Empress, why am I in the palace? I remember that I was poisoned in the Hanlin Academy."

"Good boy, you drink the rice oil first and then the medicine. I will explain it to you in detail."

Half an hour later, Rui He learned from the queen everything that had happened from noon yesterday to now. He thanked the queen for saving his life, and asked hesitantly, "My existence has been known to your majesty, then from now on - —”

"Silly boy." The queen looked at him lovingly, "This time you have to accept it no matter how reluctant it is. Your Majesty cannot let the royal blood flow outside, and the clan mansion will not agree to it. Over at the Wu'an Marquis Mansion, I I sent someone to report last night. The Wei family knows that you are in the palace and that you are of royal blood. When you are well, I will summon them to the palace to see you. Do you think so?"

Ruihe's face looked ugly, "Have you told my family?"

"Don't worry, just tell your grandmother the reason. Otherwise, Wu'anhou Mansion and the Relatives and Friends' Home will send people all over the city to look for you. It will take a lot of time."

"...Thank you very much. I wonder if the person who poisoned me has been caught? I am usually kind to others, even if I have conflicts occasionally, it is just a trivial matter. How could someone want to poison me?"

"It must be one of those princes." The queen's eyes showed hatred, "Maybe Ning He."

"Princess Ninghe? I have always been on good terms with the British Duke. How could the princess--"

"You don't know, but she has big ambitions in her heart. Forget it, I don't need to tell you these."

Ruihe lowered his eyes, "What are you going to do next?"

The queen took a deep breath to suppress her anger and said softly, "Of course I have recognized you back. Don't worry, I have made an agreement with Your Majesty for you to recognize your ancestor and return to the clan. I know what you are worried about and afraid of, but you are bleeding The blood cannot be changed. Look, you said that you just want to be the prince of the Hou family, but others will not let you go! Are you willing to be bullied and hurt by them? You are so close to losing your life. All the doctors in the hospital said that you survived because of God's blessing. No one has ever been able to survive the poison." As she spoke, she became excited again, "Am I going to harm you? All the good things are in your hands! What is the best thing in the world? Sitting on that high position, everyone is at your mercy and no one can bow to you anymore. I am so happy and contented that you are not moved at all?"

"Mother, I have a headache." Rui He whispered.

The queen did not dare to push him too far, so she left after a few words of persuasion.

The bed curtain was put down and Ruihe continued to recuperate. He felt his pulse and slowly breathed a sigh of relief. This move was too risky. Before eating the poisonous food, he took the antidote pills produced by Zihuan Exchange System, but he was still forced to faint by the poison. He didn't wake up until Dr. Gao performed acupuncture to seal his meridians.

The poison had indeed hurt his body, and the poisonous blood he vomited was real. His physical fitness would definitely not be as good as before in a short period of time, but the only ten years left to live that Dr. Gao said was just an illusion. He has been playing tricks on his pulse to slowly "detoxify" himself, and then make his pulse show signs of vitality failure.

This is the only way to escape, this is just the beginning.

Will the Queen give up her great cause of seizing the throne because his lifespan is shortened after he is poisoned?

Facts have proved that the queen did not know how to do it, and instead became more urgent.

As soon as the queen left, she sent someone to teach him the court etiquette. The court etiquette also said considerately, "Your Highness is ill and can't work hard now. Then listen to the slave first. Just treat it as if the slave is telling a song." Son, just listen to it while you close your eyes and relax.”

In the evening, there was a senior eunuch who knelt on the footstep and said that he was "telling him about the past and present", so that he could understand the history and current situation of the palace, as well as other nobles in the palace. He would not be confused when he meets the saint in the future. "Losing sense of proportion made His Majesty displeased."

The next day, when the queen came to see him, she mentioned a few words about the progress of changing his name. When she became interested, she asked someone to write and write for him one by one.

"In your generation, you should learn from the word '英'. Do you think Yingchen sounds good? Chen, stars, sun and moon, good times and beautiful scenery, all have excellent meanings. By the way, it might as well be changed to the word "Morning", which means "Morning Light", Yan Ying Chen, Yan Yingchen, sounds great when you read it, what do you think?"

Ruihe didn't speak, just looked at the queen quietly.

"Shan'er, why are you looking at me like this?"

"Empress, these are not the names you really want." Ruihe took the pen, wrote a word on the paper, looked up at her, "This is what I see in your heart."

The Queen stared at the sharp word "Chen" on the paper. After a moment, she smiled and said, "I'm not that stupid to give you such a name. This is to roast you on the fire."

With a slight exertion on the pen tip, the word was blurred, leaving only a black ink mark on the paper. Ruihe threw away the pen and said nothing more.

The queen's cleverness and planning were always only half, and he shouldn't have expected too much from her.

In the Hanlin Academy, he was smuggled into the imperial city and into the ancestral temple while he was unconscious, and there were many risks involved. Without any definite evidence, they decided that he was the son of the former crown prince and Yunzhi based only on the words of the maid. This move could be called decisive and heroic, but it was also too crazy. If someone accidentally discovers it, the consequences will be disastrous.

Wan Zhengzhang suddenly fell seriously ill, and the queen wanted to help. Ruihe didn't believe that the queen couldn't find a more suitable candidate for the imperial physician, so he tried to do a good job to avoid suspicion, so he chose the imperial physician Gao instead. Who doesn’t know that Dr. Gao is the Queen’s maternal cousin? He has been serving the Queen and the East Palace since he entered the Taiyuan Hospital. He once served as the director of the Taiyuan Hospital. Now he is in a semi-retired state. He takes care of himself at home and occasionally goes to the palace to ask for peace of mind for the Queen. He is truly the Queen's person.

After that, Ruihe was tested several times by people, asking what his relationship was with Dr. Gao. How could he invite the old doctor who was already recuperating at home? You must know that Li Meiren’s mother-in-law, who gave birth to the emperor’s youngest son, the Thirteenth Prince, has been very arrogant in the city of Yanjing in the past two years through Li Meiren’s help of one person. Li Meiren’s sister-in-law had fetal abnormalities, and Li Meiren’s eldest brother sent someone to invite her. Dr. Gao came to see a doctor, but the door of the Gao family was not even opened. Li Meiren's eldest brother was so angry that he sent a letter to the palace to complain. Li Meiren went to His Majesty to cry and complain, holding her big belly and being pampered, but was grounded by His Majesty for half a month. At that time, it became a joke of many people. Without friendship, even if Marquis Wu An came to invite him in person, he would not be able to invite Dr. Gao!

Then, on the way to Jinlan Paddock, the Queen suddenly called him to tell a history story. At that time, there were countless prying eyes behind him. During those few days in the paddock, at least five people came to him to chat and inquire. If he wanted to give him a warning, couldn't he let an old Yao who was following him convey it to him?

Even if the queen loses her biological son and grandchildren, her status as the mother of a country is still unshakable, and her every move attracts the attention of many people. After Ruihe made it clear that he didn't want to acknowledge him, her untimely attention would only bring trouble to Ruihe. Of course, it is more likely that the Queen did it on purpose, to force him and push him in her direction. But this method is not very clever and brings more dangers.

Now that she has chosen a name with the same pronunciation as Chen, who can't see the deeper meaning in it?

The ambition is obvious!

The current queen is walking on a tightrope excitedly, between sanity and madness, and danger cannot be touched.

Seeing that the atmosphere was awkward, the Queen had no intention of continuing the topic of names. She signaled the palace servants to withdraw their pen and ink, and turned to Ruihe and said, "Your Majesty has been busy with the assassination case in Jinlan Paddock these days. He doesn't have time to see you for the time being. Wait. Now that he has some free time, you should put it on the agenda to recognize your ancestors."

"Empress, Your Majesty is visiting the harem, and all the history of the harem is recorded. If a concubine in the harem is pregnant, the Taiyuan Hospital will also create a special file to record all pulse changes during pregnancy, from pregnancy to delivery, all are recorded in detail, to eliminate all confusion about the royal bloodline. Maybe. The same goes for princes. My dear, you firmly believe that I am your grandson, but others may not believe it."

"..." The queen's face twisted, and she spoke after a long time, "It's all Wan Qingyan's fault. If only he hadn't hidden you and your biological mother back then, I would have sent Bi Xuan to teach your biological mother the rules. , just waiting for her to learn it, he took her to the East Palace to be your father's concubine. According to the time, she would be one month pregnant at that time. If Wan Qingyan didn't hide it, how could your parentage be so embarrassing? "

"Is there really no evidence at all?"

"No, I told you last time. My people searched all the mansions and their Zhuangzi, and finally found a person who might be your biological mother. That person gave birth to a child on the Zhuangzi. It is said that she did not have to work and was cared for, but she died in childbirth. I originally wanted to find her body, but unfortunately I couldn't find it... You are also familiar with Zhuangzi, it is the place where Wan Lin'en's wife and children paid filial piety after his death. You escorted them there at that time, but remember? Not only my people, but also many people went there. Wan Linen's death was too strange. It was said to be a vendetta, but it turned out. The murderer has not been caught so far. He died in the study. The empty secret compartment shows that he had hidden things that were stolen by the murderer. I suspect that is the evidence to prove your life experience, Your Majesty and your emperors! Uncle is also investigating, but they must think that it is the secret left by Wan Qingyan about the prince. It is funny to say that your father was killed by them together. What do they care about Wan Qingyan, the former prince's junior master? I feel guilty and uneasy! I’m just afraid that the things in the secret room are harmful to them!”

When it came to the prince, the queen became emotional and changed the subject. "They are such capable people. The prince couldn't fight them when he was alive. How could he leave any secret weapons to harm them after he died? How ridiculous!"

Ruihe tried to persuade her, but the queen lost control of her emotions and continued to curse, "Wan Qingyan is really incapable of success and is more likely to cause trouble than success. He failed to teach the prince well and has no responsibility as a teacher! Yes, your brothers and sisters did not survive. Just think of him as a precaution to protect you, but why didn't you let me know? He hid everything secretly and didn't even tell me the truth when he died. He must have told his son the secret. As a result, Wan Linen died and all the evidence about your life story disappeared. I hate him so much when I think of him. I can't forgive him! I know what he was thinking. He just wanted to hide you and ask the prince for a reward later. If I intervene, his contribution will not be shown. His selfishness hurt you. What if he died? I will not let the Wan family go in the future-"

"My queen, no matter what my grandfather thought at the time, I did rely on him to survive." Ruihe also felt that Master Wan and Wan Linen were both egoists. Master Wan's purpose of hiding him was not simple. He was just a long-term investment. Even the birth of the eldest son of the Wu'an Marquis's Mansion was one of the additional investment projects.

But so what?

From the results, all the children of the former prince died, while "Wei Zhenshan" survived. He had a decent and noble birth, and elders who loved him. His childhood and youth were worry-free and happy. These were the actual benefits and the life he enjoyed.

Ruihe was grateful to Master Wan.

Among the Wan family, Ruihe only hated Wan Linen and had killed him for revenge.

As for Wan Zhengzhang? Ruihe saved his life, but who knew that he would be another "Wan Zhengzhang" after waking up. To this different Wan Zhengzhang, all he did was to watch him choose a path of no return, without intervening at all.

It was not rational for the queen to deal with the remaining people of the Wan family.

"He is not your grandfather." The queen looked at him.

Ruihe lowered his head and coughed twice, "My queen, can I see my grandmother? She is in poor health, and I am afraid that she will worry about me and fall ill."

The topic turned very abruptly, and the queen replied after a while, "You can see her if you want."

The next morning, the old lady came to the palace. m.,Please remember:,.