Chapter 390

Wrapped in the middle of the note was a small strand of hair.

It was only the length of a thumb, very light in color, and very soft.

Mo Wansheng recognized it as Lu Yan's hair at a glance. Because of congenital deficiency, Lu Yan's hair was born light in color. She, Madam Jing, and the wet nurse carefully nurtured him for more than half a year before it improved slightly.

So the person who sent the note was in the mansion?

The more she thought about it, the more frightened she felt. Mo Wansheng hurriedly asked Madam Jing to bring Lu Yan over.

After a while, seeing Lu Yan safe and sound, Mo Wansheng had the heart to continue reading the contents of the note.

There was only a short sentence on it -

If you want Lu Tingyu and Lu Yan to live, just wait for death peacefully.

The handwriting was neither sloppy nor beautiful, it could be said to be quite standard, which meant that it was difficult to guess the identity of the person who wrote the note, but it was certain that Lu Tingyu's several assassinations were inseparable from this person.

The content on the note was not bluffing. Since he could get Lu Yan's hair without any effort, he could also easily... put Lu Yan to death.

Thinking of this possibility, Mo Wansheng felt that the blood in her body suddenly turned cold.

She would not allow anyone to hurt Lu Yan!

"Mammy, when you went to the nanny to pick up Yan'er just now, did you find anything unusual?"

Mammy Jing nodded seriously, "The nanny was drugged and just woke up."

So... that person can really come and go freely in the mansion?

Mo Wansheng's face turned cold, "Mammy, thoroughly check the mansion, and make sure not to leave any suspicious people behind!"

Mo Wansheng could not gamble with Lu Yan's life, so he could only remove all possible hidden dangers.

Mammy Jing acted quickly, and Mo Wansheng was equally determined. At noon that day, she sent two maids and three girls to the farm in the countryside.

The five people were all the rough maids and second-class girls who looked after the yard. If we were to ask who could best knock out the nurse and put the note on her without attracting any attention, then they were undoubtedly the most suspicious.

That night, Mo Wansheng did not leave Lu Yan with the nurse, but kept him by her side. Nanny Jing was afraid that someone would hurt Mo Wansheng, so she specially found a few guards to patrol the yard all night.

It was a peaceful night, except that Mo Wansheng had a nightmare related to the five people.

Mo Wansheng rubbed his eyebrows with tired eyes, and smiled relaxedly when he saw Lu Yan's sleeping face.

Perhaps because he felt that the danger had been lifted, Mo Wansheng ate two more bites of breakfast, and in the morning he was quite interested in letting Nanny Jing take her to the yard to bask in the sun.

But at noon, Mo Wansheng received the news that the five people who were sent to the manor yesterday had jumped into the well and died.

Mo Wansheng felt like she was falling into an ice cellar. She was the one who killed those five innocent people...

Looking at Mo Wansheng's pale face, Madam Jing knew what she was thinking, and immediately comforted her: "Miss, don't think too much. The people behind the scenes are insidious and vicious. This matter has nothing to do with you."

Mo Wansheng shook her head, with guilt about to burst out in her eyes, "It's all my fault. If I hadn't insisted on sending them away, they wouldn't have died. I killed them, Madam, I killed someone..."

Mo Wansheng looked at Madam Jing in panic, and the panic in her eyes was like a fragile child.

Madam Jing quickly held her in her arms and comforted her, "Miss, don't be afraid, Madam is here, Madam will always be with you."

But this time, Mo Wansheng didn't get better for a long time.

The moment she learned that she had indirectly killed someone, Mo Wansheng's faith collapsed, and her hands, which only held flowers and books, were still stained with blood.

Tears of regret and helplessness flowed down her eyes, like a flood that could no longer be suppressed.

At night, while Mo Wansheng was asleep, Madam Jing wrote a letter to Lu Tingyu without telling her.

At this moment, the only person who could make Mo Wansheng feel at ease was Lu Tingyu.

After handing the letter to the guard in the mansion and giving him a solemn explanation, Madam Jing turned back to the room to continue taking care of Mo Wansheng and her son.

Because she knew that the guard was Lu Tingyu's confidant, Madam Jing didn't think much about it, and naturally didn't see the disdain and disgust that flashed in his eyes.

At night, Mo Wansheng had another nightmare.

In the dream, the five people walked towards Mo Wansheng with steam all over their bodies. Their pale faces were filled with hatred, and their eyes without whites were empty like an endless abyss. "Princess, why? Why do you want to hurt us? We are all for you!"

"The well water is so cold. Killing someone means paying with your life. Please come down to accompany us, Princess..."

"You are a disaster! If it weren't for you, those guards wouldn't die, Yuan Yuan wouldn't die, and we wouldn't die either. You, the evildoer, should be the one to die!"

The five people's dense accusations came into Mo Wansheng's ears. Mo Wansheng felt that her head was about to explode, but the five people had no intention of letting her go. They rushed towards her with their teeth and claws bared...

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you--" Mo Wansheng woke up suddenly, and kept apologizing. Her pale face became even more bloodless.

Madam Jing patted her back gently, "Miss, did you have a nightmare? It's okay, Madam is here."

Mo Wansheng raised her eyes and met Madam Jing's bloodshot eyes, "Madam, tell me, only if I die... those innocent people will not be harmed again?"

Seeing Mo Wansheng's intention, Madam Jing was immediately shocked, "Miss, don't think like that. Think about the prince and the young master. What will they do without you!"

Hearing the names of Lu Tingyu and Lu Yan, the pain in Mo Wansheng's eyes was slightly relieved. She held Lu Yan, who was awakened by her scream, in her arms and coaxed him softly, but the tears in the corners of her eyes deepened involuntarily.

The double torture of body and mind day after day was about to break Mo Wansheng's whole body.

Another sleepless night until dawn, looking at Mo Wansheng's increasingly dazed look, Madam Jing felt distressed but could do nothing, and could only pray in her heart that Lu Tingyu could come back earlier.

Little did she know that Madam Jing's life-saving letter would never reach Lu Tingyu's hands. In addition, Lu Tingyu knew nothing about the current situation of Jing'an Prince's Mansion in Shengjing.

As the spring breeze warmed up, all the dead branches on the rose garden in the courtyard were blown away, and one after another, the pleasing buds sprouted.

Unknowingly, Lu Tingyu had been away for four months.

After waiting for Lu Tingyu's return for a long time, and even without a reply, Madam Jing began to get anxious, because Mo Wansheng's situation was really bad.

Madam Jing couldn't help asking the guard who delivered the letter, but the response she got was that the letter had been sent out long ago, and there was no reply so far. There were only two possibilities: one was that Lu Tingyu was running around and the letter had not been delivered to him; the other was that Lu Tingyu might have found some clues and hoped that he would come soon, so he resisted and didn't come back.

Madam Jing also thought it made sense, so she didn't ask too much.

At the end of April, the roses in the courtyard bloomed in large patches, adding a bit of freshness to the depression of the courtyard, but Mo Wansheng had no time to appreciate them.

Because the nanny also died on the way home to visit relatives.

She was stabbed five or six times, and blood was all over the floor.

At the same time, a note that had not appeared for a long time appeared again in front of Mo Wansheng's door -

You will kill everyone in Jing'an Palace, including your husband and son.

The exact same handwriting made Mo Wansheng more and more collapsed.

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Who is hiding in the dark and waiting for an opportunity to calculate her and Lu Yan, and who is trying to kill Lu Tingyu again and again?

And why, only her death can end all this?

Mo Wansheng, who was already holding on to her body, became completely ill.

She began to be afraid of the night, afraid of sounds, and afraid to see anyone except Aunt Jing.

Mo Wansheng subconsciously felt that as long as she didn't contact anyone, no one would be hurt.

Until one day, when Nanny Jing was attacked for no reason on her way out of the mansion and almost died, Mo Wansheng began to see no one.

The housekeeper and guards of the Jing'an Palace had gone crazy, turning the mansion over and over again, until they confirmed that there was indeed no one with ulterior motives, and then they were slightly relieved.

After confirming that there was no danger in the mansion, they began to guard against the outside of the mansion. Unless necessary, no one in the mansion could step out of the mansion.

In addition to the Jing'an Palace, the Jingzhao Palace was also constantly investigating the death of the wet nurse, but the identity of the wet nurse was indeed too humble, so after a few days of not finding out, no one paid attention to the matter.

...

Fengyi Palace.

When Chu Nanchen came over, Jiang Lingyi was watering the peonies that were blooming in the courtyard.

Large patches of bright red looked like a pool of blood from a distance.

Seeing Chu Nanchen, Jiang Lingyi slowly handed the watering can to Yun Lan beside her, and saluted Chu Nanchen with a smile, "Your Majesty, I greet you."

Chu Nanchen looked at the smile on Jiang Lingyi's face and felt strange for the first time in his life.

After returning to the palace, Chu Nanchen sent all the palace maids and eunuchs away until only himself and Jiang Lingyi were left in the room, and then he asked with a curious look on his face: "Has the queen heard about the two assassinations of A Yu when he was looking for medicine outside?"

"Yes, I heard about it. Has your majesty investigated who actually did such a treasonous thing?" Jiang Lingyi's face was normal, with just the right amount of concern in her eyes.

Lu Tingyu was the King of Jing'an of the Great Chu, but he was almost plotted against twice. This was not a trivial matter. Even if it was to stop the world from talking, Chu Nanchen would investigate.

Chu Nanchen took a sip of the tea in front of him, then put it down and turned to look into Jiang Lingyi's eyes, "I checked, Queen, guess who I found out in the end?"

Jiang Lingyi shook her head calmly, "I don't know."

She looked calm, as if she really had nothing to do with the matter.

Chu Nanchen chuckled: "If the queen really doesn't know, then I will tell you! Xiao Henian found out that it was the Duke Jiang's mansion!"

Jiang Lingyi was shocked, but she didn't show it on her face, "Your Majesty, my brother has no reason to do such a thing."

"Duke Jiang has no reason, what about the queen?"

Disappointment gathered in his heart, and Chu Nanchen finally told Jiang Lingyi everything.

Jiang Lingyi pursed her lips, not knowing how to explain, and she couldn't explain, because Chu Nanchen was right, everything was done by her.

Seeing that Jiang Lingyi didn't say anything, Chu Nanchen continued to question, "Let's not talk about A Yu for now. I want to ask the Queen, how did Yuan Yuanshou, the servants of Jing'an Palace, and the invited wet nurse provoke the Queen to make the Queen so cruel? Those are seven lives!

The Queen is the mother of the Great Chu Kingdom. The people under the sky should be your subjects, but you actually killed people for your own selfish desires!

Jiang Lingyi, what else are you afraid to do?"

Looking at Jiang Lingyi's indifferent eyes, Chu Nanchen felt that the breath in his heart was about to burst out of his throat, "Jiang Lingyi, do you really hate Mo Shi that much? Hate her so much that you would rather stain her hands with blood than let her suffer?"

Seeing that Chu Nanchen had said so much, Jiang Lingyi no longer concealed anything. Perhaps, from the moment she took action, Jiang Lingyi had anticipated today's outcome, but she never thought that it would come so quickly.

"Your Majesty is right. I hate her and any woman standing next to A Yu, because that position should have been mine."

The tone was neither hurried nor slow, but it revealed the madness that went deep into his bones.

Chu Nanchen could no longer bear it, and stood up and pressed Jiang Lingyi's shoulders, his eyes red, "What about me? Jiang Lingyi, we have been married for six years, what am I in your eyes?"

Jiang Lingyi smiled, "What is your Majesty? Your Majesty is naturally my husband, the husband who will live and die with me."

At the end, the sarcasm in Jiang Lingyi's words could no longer be concealed.

Chu Nanchen laughed suddenly, laughing at himself for being ridiculous, trying to warm the heart of a cold-hearted person without knowing the meaning.

Perhaps he didn't know how to continue facing Jiang Lingyi, and Chu Nanchen walked towards the door of the palace in a daze.

Jiang Lingyi didn't know what Chu Nanchen meant, and asked with a frown: "How is your majesty going to deal with me, a vicious person? Will you depose me from the position of queen? Or will you simply give me a cup of poisoned wine?"

Chu Nanchen's response came quickly, "You will always be the queen."

If Chu Nanchen really wanted to punish Jiang Lingyi, he would not come to question her, but would directly decide everything with an imperial decree.

Looking at the bright yellow color gradually fading away in front of her, Jiang Lingyi frowned even more. Is Chu Nanchen so lenient to her?

Why did he do this, just because... he liked me?

How could Jiang Lingyi not know that Lu Tingyu's assassination ended without any result, which meant that Chu Nanchen took the blame on himself. Whether it was lax governance or an open investigation of assassination, it had nothing to do with Jiang Lingyi.

Although Chu Nanchen did not pursue Jiang Lingyi's guilt, he still stopped her a little.

She was confined for two months for the crime of talking back, and no one was allowed to visit her.

As soon as the decree came out, the whole harem was shocked. After all, everyone in the six palaces knew that Chu Nanchen favored Jiang Lingyi, and almost all the best things in the whole palace were sent to Fengyi Palace. Even Chu Nanchen's childhood sweetheart, Concubine Shu, did not have this treatment.

But now she was confined for talking back. Could it be that Jiang Lingyi was going to fall out of favor?

If so, their chance had come.

The harem was deep and deep, and once you entered, you would never leave the palace. Fighting for a higher position and having a son or daughter was their only hope.

Perhaps he was really heartbroken by Jiang Lingyi, and Chu Nanchen's number of visits to the harem really increased gradually. In just two months, Concubine Xie, Concubine Shu, Concubine Liang, Concubine Yu and other six concubines broke the news of pregnancy one after another.

The situation of Jiang Lingyi being the only favorite in the six palaces was directly broken.

However, as soon as it was broken, it was instantly restored.

Jiang Lingyi has been pregnant for three months. She kept it a secret during the confinement and didn't let the news out until after the confinement was lifted.

No matter how upset Chu Nanchen was, it had mostly dissipated in two months, not to mention that Jiang Lingyi was pregnant with his child again, so the last bit of resentment was completely dissipated.

Chu Nanchen, who felt bored after wandering around the flowers, finally went to Jiang Lingyi with joy.

In two months, Jiang Lingyi had figured out a lot and showed some regret to Chu Nanchen, who immediately forgave her for what she had done before.

Everyone says that being with the king is like being with a tiger, but for Jiang Lingyi, coaxing Chu Nanchen is just a matter of being submissive.

People who are favored are always fearless.

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