"I told you to answer, didn't you hear?" couldn't wait for an answer, Yin Zhen couldn't help but increase the strength in his hand, and at the same time, his slightly narrowed eyes showed a coldness.

After struggling for a long time, Ling Ruo finally made a decision, and met his gaze and said: "Ask the emperor to let the people of Tongzhou have a way to live, and please also ask the emperor to let Imperial Doctor Xu have a way to live!" ”

"Good! Good! Finally willing to speak his mind! Yin Zhen clapped his hands, looking at Ling Ruo, there was endless anger burning in his eyes.

Ling Ruozhi said that what she said just now must have annoyed Yinzhen, but she had no other way, Rong Yuan...... I owe him so much, how can I bear to watch him die for my own selfish interests at this moment; and Jing Xue, it was not easy to be with Rong Yuan.

She endured the pain in her jaw and kowtowed vigorously: "The concubine and the emperor have been married for nineteen years, isn't the emperor clear what kind of person the concubine is?" No matter what the concubine had with Imperial Doctor Xu before, it was all in the past, and at this moment, there was only the emperor in the concubine's heart! ”

"In that case, you still intercede for him and let me let him live?!" Yin Zhen said coldly, obviously not believing much in her words.

In the face of Yinzhen's suspicions, Ling Ruo was extremely sad in her heart, but at this moment, when Rong Yuan's life was at stake, she had to cheer up and said: "The concubine is indeed not for personal reasons, but she just thinks that Imperial Doctor Xu is kind and lenient to others, and she really shouldn't die in vain, not to mention that when the emperor was suffering from the epidemic, he tried his best to pull the emperor back from the ghost gate, he ......"

"Enough!" Yin Zhen slapped his palm on the square table next to him, his face was blue and red, full of anger, "Concubine Xi, you are so bold, you dare to blackmail me with the credit that Xu Rongyuan gave me the credit for saving me in the first place!" ”

Ling Ruo hurriedly shook his head, and before she could say more, Yin Zhen had already said hatefully: "You don't have to say anything, I sent Xu Rongyuan to treat the plague in Tongzhou, but he did nothing, he couldn't cure the plague, not to mention, and aroused public resentment, now Tongzhou is in chaos, and the plague is raging again, and he bears the brunt of the crime, how can he forgive!" ”

"Don't!" Ling Ruo was shocked when he heard the murderous intent between his words, and hurriedly went over and pulled the corner of Yinzhen's robe embroidered with sea water patterns and said in a mournful voice: "Imperial Doctor Xu is innocent, please forgive the emperor for his life!" ”

Yin Zhen looked at Ling Ruo coldly, disappointed, disgusted, and angry, intertwined into complex lines in his eyes, "I won't forgive him, never!" ”

He wanted to break free of her pull, but Ling Ruo held on to nothing and didn't let go, and even kept kowtowing after staying at the end, just begging Yinzhen to spare Rong Yuan's life, this is what she owes him, she must save him, otherwise there will not be a day of peace of mind in this life.

At this time, there was a knock on the door outside, followed by a delicate voice, "Your Majesty, the concubine has something urgent to see." ”

This voice is Nian's, what is she doing here at this time?

"Come in." Yin Zhen was upset at this time because of Ling Ruo's matter, and she didn't want to see her, but she heard that she had something urgent, and she came over at this time, so she patiently waited for Xingzi to see her.

The door was pushed open, Nian Shi slowly came in, and behind her was followed by Li Dequan, who looked terrified, only to see him kowtow to Yinzhen and said: "The slave has already told the Nian Guifei that the emperor is talking to Concubine Xi, and it is inconvenient to see each other, but the Nian Guifei still insists on knocking on the door, and the slave can't stop it, asking the emperor for forgiveness." ”

Yin Zhen waved his hand, twisted his eyebrows and said, "It's none of your business here, you go down first." Then he said to Nian's family: "What is the important thing to let Su Yan come to see me so late?" ”

Hearing this, Nian Shi took her eyes away from Ling Ruo, who was still kneeling on the ground, and in a faint sneer, she pulled out a letter from her sleeve and said: "The concubine just received a letter from the servants of Shoukang Palace, and after reading it, the concubine thought that the matter was very important and must be told to the emperor, so she came here and hoped that the emperor would forgive the concubine for her reckless crimes." ”

Shoukang Palace? Yin Zhen's brows tightened more and more, there are all the concubines of the first emperor living there, what can matter?

Thinking so, he took the letter handed by Nian Shi and opened it, just read a few lines, and his originally disapproving expression immediately became extremely solemn, and after reading the whole letter, his face was extremely ugly, "What about the slave who sent the letter?" ”

"Just waiting outside." Nian had expected that Yinzhen would want to see the person who sent the letter after reading it, so he would definitely bring him when he came.

"Biography!" Yin Zhen coldly spat out a word, his gaze scraped Ling Ruo like a blade, Ling Ruo could still feel a sharp pain even though he was kneeling with his head bowed. At the same time, she also quickly thought about the content of Nian's letter in her heart, Shoukang Palace...... Could it be...... Impossible, Shi Qiuci's letter was obviously intercepted by himself and burned on the spot, how could it fall into the hands of Nian's family, but if it wasn't for Shi Qiuci's letter, how could Yinzhen look at himself with that kind of gaze.

In such anxiety, a thin eunuch walked in, and he kowtowed to Yinzhen in fear and said, "Slave Xiaochunzi greets the emperor, the emperor is auspicious." ”

Ling Ruo quickly raised her head and glanced at this Xiao Chunzi, her heart suddenly cooled half at this glance, this Xiao Chunzi, she remembered that this Xiao Chunzi was the little eunuch who brought Yinqi to see Shi Qiuci that day, so he was really the person next to Shi Qiuci, so the letter ......

Yin Zhen raised the letter in his hand and said, "You gave this letter to Nian Guifei?" ”

"Yes!" As soon as Xiao Chunzi agreed, Yin Zhen immediately asked again: "It has been many days since Concubine Jing passed away, if this letter is really left by Concubine Jing, why haven't you taken it out until now?" ”

Xiao Chunzi hurriedly said: "If you go back to the emperor, there are actually two letters, Concubine Jing suffered that day, and she knew that she couldn't avoid it, so she wrote two identical letters and handed them to Juan'er and the slave, telling her that if something happened to her, she asked Juan'er to send the letter to the queen in Kunning Palace." As for the slave's letter, it was originally used just in case, if Juan'er delivered the letter to the queen's mother as scheduled, the letter in the slave's hand would naturally not be needed, on the contrary, if it was not delivered, let the slave take the letter to the concubine at a safe time. The concubine said that the person who harmed her was scheming, ruthless and insidious, and she must not be allowed to escape easily. ”

Ling Ruo's heart was shocked, what she asked Yang Hai to intercept was only the letter in Juan'er's hand, but she didn't expect Shi Qiuci to guess that she might send someone to intercept the letter early in the morning, so in addition to Juan'er, she also arranged Xiao Chunzi's chess piece, or maybe Xiao Chunzi was her real backhand, and Juan'er was just a cover to confuse herself.

Xiao Chunzi secretly glanced at Yinzhen, and said: "On the second day after the death of the concubine, Juan'er went out with the concubine's letter, and never came back since. The slave was afraid that the slave would find out that the slave also had the same letter on him, and he would do the harm, so the slave never dared to show his head, and he didn't go to see the concubine until today. ”