Rebirth of marriage

After Xie Jiu guessed what the emperor might do, she stopped going to the Liaodong Palace. If her and Gu Xiao's guess was true, she didn't want to drag her ancestors and the Liaodong Palace into this whirlpool.

After waiting for three days, the three dead concubines were finally buried.

Gu Xiao took people to the concubine's bedchamber that night. Ordinary concubines would not build underground palaces on their tombs, but it was not easy to dig three tombs in a row and restore them to the original state without being discovered by the tomb guards. .

So, I drank wine and woke up, then woke up and slept until it was almost dawn, and then I waited until Gu Xiao returned home.

"How's it going?" Seeing him coming back, Xie Jiu hurriedly lifted him up.

Gu Xiao just came out and took another cold shower. His body felt wet. He didn't dare to approach her. He only pressed it with his hand and whispered, "Lie down."

After seeming to organize his words, he said, "Only one coffin contains a body, and the other two are empty."

"Are the two pregnant bodies missing?" Xie Jiu asked hurriedly.

Gu Xiao nodded, turned his gaze to her abdomen, and finally said, "There are marks on her neck. She died of suffocation. It looked like she was hanged, but there were two bruises on her abdomen. She must have been beaten hard. There are also some scratches behind the ears caused by fingernails. She was hung up."

Xie Jiu bit his lip suddenly, and after a long time he managed to say, "Could it be that she discovered something and was killed to silence her?"

Gu Xiao's eyes darkened and he nodded, "That should be the case."

"Then, are those two people dead or alive?"

If they were alive, why did the emperor say they were dead? If they were dead, why didn't they see their bodies.

Gu Xiao was silent and said, "Probably dead."

On the way back, he thought about everything carefully. He guessed that the emperor suddenly wanted to draft a draft to use those women to make elixirs.

Three people died, but only one unpregnant corpse was buried, which meant that the corpse was of no use to him and that the alchemy must be related to the woman's pregnancy.

This also explains why the emperor brought Gu Fanli into the palace. He needed a normal man who could make those women pregnant, preferably young and strong.

She was just pregnant and couldn't give birth on her own. It was most likely an autopsy. Gu Xiao had never dabbled in the so-called heavenly master's alchemy and other evil ways, but just thinking about it made him want to go into the palace with a knife and kill those people.

Xie Jiu also thought of this, her eyes full of anger, "I understand, I felt weird before about why the emperor chose the daughter of a low-ranking official in the draft.

He never wanted to keep those women alive from the beginning, so he chose those whose family backgrounds were unknown. Even if they died, their families would not be able to investigate further, let alone avenge them. "

Even for the sake of their official career, they would worry about whether their unsatisfactory daughter would cause trouble in the palace and would implicate them, so they drew a clear line with them and would not go to check the body.

There was a hint of panic in her anger, perhaps because she was about to become a mother and save others by herself, which made her body tremble slightly.

Gu Xiao felt very distressed. No one knew better than him how much Xie Jiu valued this child. There was a lot of confusion about how much she valued this child.

But what the emperor did frightened her. He held her in his arms and separated the distance between his belly so as not to press the child. He hugged her head tightly and said, "Jiu'er, don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I I will protect you."

The trembling body in his arms gradually calmed down, and Gu Xiao said hoarsely, "Jiu'er, if I become a patricide one day, will you and my daughter... dislike me?"

Xie Jiu's heart shrank.

The emperor deserves to die, but he should not die at the hands of Gu Xiao. Previously, she had been thinking that Gu Xiao would not be stigmatized as patricide.

But she never seemed to ask Gu Xiao what he thought, whether he cared about the reputation, or whether he wanted to kill that person personally.

She reached out and hugged his waist, "As long as it is what you want to do, no matter what it is, I will support you and I will never dislike you."

Gu Xiao hummed lightly.

He lowered his eyes, with suppressed emotion in his voice, "If our guess is true, he does not deserve to live, but I am almost certain that our guess is close to the truth or is the truth.

Jiu'er, I never thought that it would be me who could make him so crazy in the end. He wants to give birth to new heirs because he is not willing to let this country fall into my hands. He also wants to live forever. "

He couldn't let another innocent woman die over this.

"No, it has nothing to do with you." Xie Jiu had a hint of hatred in her eyes. She hated the emperor for torturing Gu Xiao all the time.

She withdrew from his arms, held his hand and asked him to sit on the bed, "What he did was all his own evil thoughts. If he did it because he was jealous of you, it would be something wrong in his own heart. "

Gu Xiao also understood. He lowered his head, kissed Xie Jiu's slightly cold forehead, and said distressedly, "I understand, don't worry about it, Jiu'er."

As soon as he finished speaking, he opened the quilt and lay down in it. He held Xie Jiu in his arms and covered her eyes with one hand. "You are pregnant now and you are still working so hard. You should feel guilty for your husband. Be good and be good." sleep."

Xie Jiu had something on her mind and had no sleepiness. She didn't want Gu Xiao to worry, so she closed her eyes and pretended to sleep. However, she underestimated the degree of sleepiness in a pregnant woman and eventually fell asleep in his arms.

Gu Xiao looked at the person who was frowning slightly in his sleep, and his eyes became darker and darker. Jiu'er had always been successful, and only his affairs could make her so worried.

He stood up gently and told Qingqiu to stew some soup to replenish her body, and then give it to her to drink when Xie Jiu wakes up.

Then he went to the closet, took a set of clothes and went to the cubicle to change into them, so as not to wake Xie Jiu.

When it was daylight, Gu Xiao calmly had breakfast, ordered Li Qiye to prepare a lot of gifts, and then went to the Lin family.

Without warning, he directly recognized Lin Zheng and his wife in public, revealing Concubine Yun's true life experience.

The news quickly spread to the palace.

The emperor was disheveled, drinking wine with the Yungui people and watching the dancers dance. Although he had been suppressed by the Cao family in the past few years, he only wanted to be a virtuous king, and he worked conscientiously every day.

I have been very energetic recently. After handling government affairs every day, I still have endless energy to vent, so I have tried many new things.

After experiencing the joy of playing, he realized how boring the past life was. He is the master of the world. He has worked hard for this country for many years, and he should enjoy the happiness that belongs to him as an emperor.

Therefore, with the death of the two concubines, he had three days off from court and did not have to worry about court affairs. He was surrounded by beauties, sang and danced, had good wine and delicious food, and lived a very comfortable life like a god.

But this kind of comfort was affected by Gu Xiao's incident. The reason why he didn't expose the relationship between Gu Xiao and Lin Zheng was because he wanted to see what they were going to do behind his back.

Finding a suitable opportunity, Lin Zheng was charged with forming a clique for personal gain and had him executed.

He also thought that one day in the future, he would expose Gu Xiao's ambition and show those who supported him that he was not as good as they thought.

But Gu Xiao revealed the truth on his own, which messed up his plan. He was so angry that he threw a wine glass and ordered Gu Xiao to be summoned to the palace immediately.

When Gu Xiao came, the emperor was still in the same appearance, and the Yun Gui and the dancing girl had not left either.

"I heard that you went to Lin Zheng's house to recognize your relatives?" The emperor tilted his body and had a cold face.

"Yes." Gu Xiao raised his eyes to face the emperor.

"Why don't you say hello to me?"

Gu Xiao didn't reply to him. He suddenly disclosed his relationship with Lin Zheng today to disrupt the emperor's plan and to gain access to the palace.

It's funny to say that as a prince, he can't enter the palace unless he is summoned, so he has to use this method.

Seeing that he was silent, the emperor threw another wine glass at him, "Do you really see me as the emperor in your eyes?"

Gu Xiao dodged away, still not answering, but asked, "How long has it been since your Majesty looked in the mirror?"