The night fell into silence.

Ruan Zhen leaned against the window, facing the night. Her expression was difficult to discern. Tan Yun took a cloak from the inner room and put it on Ruan Zhen.

"The girl's throat hasn't healed yet, so she can't let it freeze."

Her words dragged Ruan Zhen out of her thoughts.

Ruan Zhen gathered her cloak. Suddenly she smiled lightly, looking particularly gentle under the light: "You have been with me for so many years, and you have reached the age to get married."

"If there is someone you like, I will definitely make the decision for you."

When Leng Buding heard this, Tan Yun suddenly blushed.

"Why are you bringing this up, girl? What's so good about getting married? Isn't it good for me to accompany you, Mother Ge?"

As she spoke, she pursed her lips: "Those men and slaves have never seen a good one. There are many rich and powerful wives and concubines, and even the poor families have few who are peaceful."

When Ruan Zhen heard this, her eyes flashed.

Tan Yun was sold to an old woman when she was five years old. Her father lost all his money in the gambling shop and had already sold an older sister to her. But she was a gambler, and after a few days of restlessness, she owed a fortune again. debt.

The matter of selling his daughter fell on Tan Yun.

It was her aunt who decided to buy it out of pity and keep her as a companion. Ruan Zhen never treated her as a maid.

"Not entirely."

"You should know that my aunt has a marriage before her."

She closed her eyes and put a layer of desolation on her face.

"Uncle Chen never married until his death. The year my aunt left, he followed her."

Just as he was talking, there were the sounds of chaotic footsteps outside the courtyard, and the voices of servants reporting up and down could be heard in the distance: "The Marquis and his son are back."

The lights in each courtyard were lit one by one.

Ruan Zhen knew very well that something happened in the palace.

She lowered her eyes and slowly said something under Tan Yun's puzzled gaze.

"The affectionate ones cannot withstand the power. But they can't lie to themselves. They live casually with others and would rather be alone. The affectionate ones try to deceive everyone with their affectionate faces. Who would have thought that they would just cheat in the end? Kill yourself."

Just like Fan Kun, Ruan Zhen knows very well that what he has for her is not love, but desire.

All he had in mind was climbing up.

Therefore, he doesn't care who he marries.

It was precisely for this reason that he would choose to dedicate himself to Gu Huaizhi.

Fan Kun kept saying that he liked her, Ruan Zhen didn't believe it, but Fan Kun believed it.

Tan Yun was confused when he heard it.

She scratched her head and said, "Girl, I don't understand."

Ruan Zhen tapped her forehead with his fingertips, and she didn't expect Tan Yun to understand: "How about your favorite steamed buns for breakfast tomorrow?"

Tan Yun's eyes lit up: "I want shrimp and fresh bamboo shoot stuffing."

"Girl, why don't you take a rest?"

Ruan Zhen shook her head: "I should go out later."

As soon as he finished speaking, Ge's mother hurriedly walked in.

"Girl, the old lady wants you to go there."

"As soon as the Marquis and others returned to the house, they hurried to the old lady's place, and now they summoned people to go there. Could something have happened?"

Ruan Zhen reassured: "What big thing could happen? Don't worry."

It was just that the emperor was stabbed.

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Mrs. Fan's courtyard was brightly lit, and all the maids and wives were waiting outside, anxious and uneasy.

"The man in the Duke's Mansion was stabbed for the emperor, and there is no news from the palace so far. I think it's more serious than bad." Fan Cheng was worried.

He was not worried about Gu Huaizhi.

The Marquis's Mansion and the Duke's Mansion don't have much of a relationship.

It's just that after the Hou Mansion and the Xu family became in-laws, they became loyal to the prince, and the people who assassinated him this time were people from the prince's harem.

Emperor Hui had only a few offspring. Xu was obsessed with women when he was young and suffered from physical ailments. The boys he gave birth to either died young or died of illness. The prince was weak when he was young and grew up holding a medicine jar.

Because of this delay in his studies and the Queen's connivance, he developed his current moral character.

If you can't do it with words, you can't do it with force.

There is no construction.

However, the Hou Mansion was deteriorating day by day, and Emperor Hui did not take him seriously, so he had no choice but to seek refuge with the future crown prince.

Fan Cheng: "The prince is a bit ridiculous, but he doesn't have the guts to attack the emperor."

Fan Kun looked gloomy.

"But it was the prince's people who killed her, and it was the prince who allowed the woman to perform the dance. No matter how close Gu Huaizhi was to the emperor, he was far inferior to the empress next to him. The situation was dangerous, but the empress did not react at all.

Father asked himself, could it be that the empress didn't see it?"

Even if they were not the ones responsible this time, how can this matter be explained clearly?

The dancer was restrained by Mu Hansheng, but when she was escorted away, she glanced at the prince one more time. How could that look not make people think too much?

"The emperor is very suspicious. He only believes what he sees in front of him. The scene at that time was one after another. Father, you also saw it. If the dagger missed the target even slightly, it would have hit the heart. Gu Huaizhi would have been killed on the spot."

It was okay if he didn't say it, but Fan Cheng became even more anxious when he did.

The emperor sent all the officials out of the palace, but he didn't know what was happening to the prince now.

Thinking about it, I couldn't help but blame Gu Huaizhi.

I have never seen him as a person willing to risk his life for the emperor. Who would believe it if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes?

What can he stop?

You feel full after eating, right?

Once Emperor Hui dies, he can only support the prince to ascend the throne. By then, the situation in the prince's palace will surely rise. But now, I'm afraid...

"This is Gu Huaizhi!"

Mrs. Fan interrupted them: "Okay, you can discuss these things in private."

"The less movement there is in the palace, the less likely this matter will end well."

It was extremely cold at night, so Ruan Zhen put the thermos in Tan Yun's hand and then entered the house alone.

There was no movement in the room, and everyone had heavy expressions on their faces.

Ruan Zhen's heart skipped a beat.

She only knew that Emperor Hui was assassinated. Looking at the expressions of several people, Ruan Zhen frowned.

Did Emperor Hui make it through?

Gone?

Suppressing her suspicions, she stepped forward and was about to salute.

Mrs. Fan waved her hand and pointed to a seat: "There are not so many rules. You sit down first."

"Yes." Ruan Zhen sat down under Xu.

Fan Cheng took a sip of tea to calm down his panic and used the light to take a look at Ruan Zhen, whom he had not seen for a long time.

Looking at Ruan Zhen, he remembered Ruan Xi, whom he had married but had never had a crush on him. His attitude turned cold and hard.

Mrs. Fan's turbid eyes fell on Ruan Zhen.

"Originally I didn't need to let you go, but after thinking about it I decided to come over."
Chapter completed!