Chapter 1525
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Ye Zhen didn't know Lu Tingzhi, so she couldn't be sure whether it was true or false that he left the capital at this time. She let him go back. She would let others investigate this matter. Her brother was about to get married. This was something the Pei family had been looking forward to for several years. She didn't want other things to affect their mood.
Before she could find out where Lu Tingzhi went, Song Jiong sent the news that Duanmu Ya had been found dead.
This morning, a medicine boy who went to the mountains to collect herbs found Duanmu Ya's body in the ravine. It was unrecognizable and completely unrecognizable. After the medicine boy reported it to the officials, the officials and the coroner carried the body back. When Song Jiong heard the news, he went to see it in person. He found a jade pendant engraved with Duanmu's name on the body, and the clothes were the clothes he saw Duanmu Ya on the last day.
Duanmu Ya's death confirmed the fact that Lu Lingzhi was hiding behind her. Ye Zhen couldn't wait to find him immediately.
"Where is the emperor?" Ye Zhen came to the Palace of Heavenly Purity but found that Mo Rongzhan was not in the imperial study.
"Your Highness, the emperor went to the secret guard to visit Marquis Jingning." Eunuch Chang said.
Ye Zhen remembered that yesterday she had improved the formula of the poison. She heard that Tang Zhen was now awake for longer and longer periods of time.
"I'm going to the secret guard to find the emperor." She looked at Tang Zhen again, wondering how he had recovered.
Mo Rongzhan came to see Tang Zhen today to ask him about Chou Hen's life.
Last time, Murong Ke mentioned the name in his ear. After he came back, he asked people to check it out and found that Chou Hen's life was quite interesting.
"Your Majesty, you mean this Chou Hen … is the illegitimate child of the former emperor?" Tang Zhen looked at Mo Rongzhan in shock. He couldn't believe that the person who had disturbed the whole world now had such an identity.
Mo Rongzhan did not find it strange. The former Emperor was a promiscuous man. Before he ascended the throne, he already had many women outside. It was not strange for him to have an illegitimate child. What was strange was that this Chou Han was abandoned in the mountains by his birth mother. His birth mother did not want to have an affair with the former Emperor at all. She must have been forced by the former Emperor. In the end, she gave birth to Chou Han. She asked someone to throw Chou Han away and then married someone else. It was a miracle that a newborn baby could survive in the mountains.
Chou Hen also learned martial arts that he had never seen before and was even more powerful than him. This was an unsolvable mystery.
"Have you seen him when you were in the Da 'an Prefecture?" Mo Rongzhan asked.
"Your Majesty, the man in black I saw at the beginning should be Chou Hen." Thinking of that man, Tang Zhen shuddered unconsciously. He had fought on the battlefield and experienced a lot of ups and downs. He was not a timid person, but this hatred still made him feel afraid.
Mo Rongzhan's thin lips curled into a cold smile. "Is he trying to make use of the people of Jianghu to snatch Jin Nation from me?"
"Your Majesty, he seems to be able to control everyone who takes the Poisonous Pill." Tang Zhen said that he saw Chou Hen tear a living person apart and swallow him. He felt that it was not a person at all, but a beast.
"If Chou Hen is the person behind the scenes, he is an orphan. Who did he learn martial arts from and who learned how to make the Poisonous Pill?" This was the point that Mo Rongzhan couldn't understand. He didn't think that Chou Hen's martial arts were self-taught.
Tang Zhen was stunned. "Your Majesty suspects that there is someone behind Chou Hen?"
Before Mo Rongzhan could answer, Eunuch Fu's voice came from outside. "Your Majesty, the Empress is here."
How did Yao Yao come here? "Invite the Empress in."
"Your Majesty, I …" Tang Zhen looked nervously at the door. He almost hurt Yao Yao and Mingxi last time. How could he have the face to see her now? He wished he could be killed at that time.
"If the Empress cared about what happened to you in the Imperial Hospital that day, she would not have sent antidotes to you every day." Mo Rongzhan said lightly. They all knew that Tang Zhen was forced to do this and was affected by the Poisonous Pill.
Even so, Tang Zhen still felt ashamed to face the Empress.
Ye Zhen had already arrived. At first glance, she looked at Tang Zhen's complexion. "Marquis Jingning's complexion looks a lot better."
Although it was still pale and weak, it was much better than the blue-gray color of a while ago.
"This sinner greets the Empress." Tang Zhen did not dare to look up at Ye Zhen and knelt down to salute.
"Get up." Ye Zhen smiled. "I heard that the antidote these two days can suppress the toxicity better than before. How do you feel, Marquis Jingning?"
Tang Zhen stood up with his head down. "This subject feels that today's antidote seems to … make this subject more sober."
"That's good!" Ye Zhen sighed. "I hope there will be an antidote in the future to completely cure the poison in your body."
"Let the Empress worry about this sinner, this sinner …" Tang Zhen's voice choked.
Ye Zhen listened to Tang Zhen calling himself a sinner. How could she not understand that he was guilty of the incident at the Imperial Hospital? Obviously, he was such an excellent and high-spirited man, but now he was tortured to the point of no return. Who would not feel uncomfortable?
"Brother Tang, don't say that you are a sinner. What crime have you committed?" Ye Zhen said in a low voice. "What happened at the Imperial Hospital is not your fault."
"Empress, this sinner …" Tang Zhen wanted to say that his sins were not limited to the Imperial Hospital, but he did not know how to go on. Every time he recalled what he had done, it was like stabbing his heart with a knife.
Ye Zhen said, "If you feel guilty, get better quickly and find a way to make up for your mistakes."
Mo Rongzhan patted him on the shoulder. "Have a good rest."
After leaving the secret guard station, Ye Zhen told Mo Rongzhan about Duanmu Ya. "… Apart from Lu Lingzhi, I can't think of anyone else who killed him. I don't know if Lu Tingzhi was also captured by him. I told people not to tell father and mother about this. Ah Zhan, I am very worried."
"Worried that Lu Lingzhi will do something to hurt the Lu family?" Mo Rongzhan gently hugged her in his arms. "If I'm not mistaken, Lu Lingzhi should have joined forces with Qiu Zhen."
"Who is Qiu Zhen?" Ye Zhen asked.
Mo Rongzhan told her about Qiu Zhen's life experience. "I only learned about it this morning."
"The former emperor is really …" Ye Zhen simply did not know how to describe the former emperor's fatuous and romantic ways. "Is it because he was abandoned when he was a child that he now plans to retaliate against you and recapture the Jin Kingdom?"
"It should be so." Mo Rongzhan said lightly. "There is one thing I have never told you. Qi Ruoshui's son is also the former emperor's."
Ye Zhen's eyes widened. "You mean … Qi Ruoshui's grandson … Does Qi Ruoshui know about this?"
"Yes, but she doesn't want the child to know." Mo Rongzhan said calmly. That was why she resigned and left the capital. Now, she did not even know where the child was. Mo Rongzhan naturally would not force the child to return to the family. This was the best for him.
"Really …" Ye Zhen shook her head helplessly. "Let's not talk about Qi Ruoshui for now. Ah Zhan, what do you think Lu Lingzhi wants to do?"
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(Nine-headed Bird Academy)
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