The candlelight was very dim, but Zhao Yushu still found the small buckle on the back of the mirror.
When you press it in, the carved bottom pops up.
She was startled, thinking it was some hidden weapon, and subconsciously closed her eyes.
After seeing nothing strange for a long time, he slowly opened his eyes again and saw the paper in the mirror.
While feeling surprised, he took out the half-folded piece of paper, opened it and took a look, his eyebrows tightened in surprise.
"how come?"
There was a portrait drawn on the paper. The appearance was more than familiar. Apart from the fact that it was a man, the face seemed to be modeled after hers...
"man."
"Man, man..."
As she murmured, her breathing became faster and faster, and then she unconsciously recalled what her mother-in-law had said to her a few days ago.
A few days ago, the mother-in-law might have had a premonition that she was going to die.
The mother-in-law told her that she also had an imperial brother and an older brother.
At that time, she nodded and said that she knew it. Her royal brother had already passed away before she was born and died in a fire. Everyone knew this.
But the mother-in-law said no. The mother-in-law said that the emperor's brother was not dead.
The mother-in-law said that the emperor's brother was just like her, and his father used his blood to treat diseases. However, the emperor's brother was earlier than her. He was used by his father when he was still in his infancy. From one to three years old, . In order to save the emperor's brother, the mother-in-law designed a fire to make it appear that the emperor's brother was burned to death in the fire, but in fact, the emperor's brother was secretly sent out.
That day, the mother-in-law kept apologizing to her.
The mother-in-law said that since the emperor's brother was sent away, she had been taking anti-child pills to prevent herself from having another child.
Later, the father and the emperor found out about this matter, and the mother and concubine were severely punished.
The next year, the mother-in-law still had a child.
It was also that year that the emperor's father ascended the throne and gained greater power, and then entered the palace and was completely trapped. The mother-in-law could no longer plan to send her to the palace as she did before, and the emperor's father was very concerned about it, so she herself When I was young, I had a separate palace and lived with my mother and concubine, so my mother and concubine had no chance at all.
"Brother, brother?"
She grabbed the little portrait, and the paper was slightly wet with tears.
The mother-in-law said that the emperor's brother is still alive.
So...is this portrait of my brother?
"Brother, have you come to see me?"
Originally, she had planned to commit suicide after keeping vigil for her mother and concubine.
In the past, her father used the life of her mother and concubine to threaten her. Now that her mother and concubine are gone, no one can threaten her anymore.
Originally, originally...
She originally thought that she would die in front of the funeral tonight, but unexpectedly she was too weak and fainted in the mourning hall. Then the palace maid came to call her and said that her father's people came to invite her to come over. Then she secretly picked up the mirror and was brought there. here.
"You want me to hold on, right?"
"You will get me out, right?"
"Is it you?"
"Brother... my mother and concubine are dead, I'm so scared."
Tears streamed down her face, crying sadly but not daring to speak loudly.
Suddenly.
There was chatter outside.
"Did the princess bring it here?"
"Back to Aunt Yan, the princess is already inside."
"Okay, bring me the stuff."
Zhao Yushu heard the sound and hurriedly folded up the small portrait and put it back in the mirror. But on second thought, she felt something was wrong. She might be in trouble if the small portrait was discovered, so she took it out again and handed it to Huo Zhu. It must be burned beforehand.
Just before the fever hit, she stopped again.
The smell left after the paper was burned would also arouse suspicion, and she was afraid that she would not be able to withstand the torture.
With her heart pounding, she stuffed the small photo paper into her mouth.
Fortunately, the piece of paper was small, only half the size of a palm, so it was easily swallowed.
At the same time as the little statue entered his belly, the door was pushed open.
The leader was Liu Yan, the palace maid in charge next to the father. Behind her were two little palace maids, one of whom was holding a disc with a blood-drawing knife and a blood bottle inside.
"Your Highness, Princess, I haven't seen you for a few days. How are you, Your Highness?"
Liu Yan smiled at her, and even though her face was full of tears, he still deliberately used words to provoke her.
"Oh, I have forgotten. Concubine Yu is gone. How can His Highness be well? Look at how sad this little face is when she cries. But I have nothing to do. Even if Your Highness is about to leave, as long as the Emperor needs it, , His Highness also has to get up from the bed and let blood flow."
She was smiling without any respect from the palace slave to the princess.
Zhao Yushu sniffed and sat on the ground with an indifferent expression, pretending not to hear anything and paying no attention.
"Go." Liu Yan waved his hand, and the palace maid behind him put down her things and walked towards Zhao Yushu.
The two men, one on the left and one on the right, clamped down on Zhao Yushu's arms.
Then, Liu Yan stepped forward and searched her body personally.
It was all because Zhao Yushu had hidden a hairpin on her body at the beginning and pricked her while drawing blood from Liuyan, almost pricking her neck.
From then on, even if someone was guarding him, Liu Yan would have to personally search his body every time before taking blood to feel at ease.
The mirror in Zhao Yushu's arms cannot be hidden.
"This thing..."
"My mother-in-law left this for me!"
Zhao Yushu shouted at Liu Yan, making her frown.
"What's the point of keeping a worthless broken mirror? It's a thing from the past. Concubine Yu is really very ill. The emperor's eldest son has been dead for so many years, but there are still clothes that the emperor's eldest son once wore. Objects and so on, no wonder he died of illness if he got some bad luck."
With that said, she threw the mirror to the ground.
"Why are you throwing my things? You are not allowed to talk about my mother-in-law like this!"
"What can you do if I throw you down? What can you do if I scold your mother-in-law?"
Liu Yan's expression was quite ferocious. She raised her foot and stepped on the mirror. The mirror was already cracked due to that fall, and it would inevitably break even more after being crushed like this.
Zhao Yushu was being pulled away, but she couldn't do anything about it.
Only tears flowed more and more quickly, and I couldn't stop sobbing.
Even so, Liu Yan still refused to let go. He took the knife from the disk on the table and pressed the handle of the knife heavily on the wound on Zhao Yushu's wrist.
Many of the wounds were unhealed, and with such a touch, blood started to flow out again.
It was nothing more than bleeding, and it was very painful.
After all, Zhao Yushu was still only a thirteen-year-old child. Even though she tried her best not to cry out in pain, her tears were still not satisfactory after all.
In the end, she was completely groggy.
When Liu Yan left, he left behind a bottle of hemostatic medicine.
But what Zhao Yushu reached out to pick up was not the medicine, but the almost broken mirror.
The blood on her wrist flowed down her fingers and seeped into the cracks in the broken mirror. She carefully held the mirror up and comforted herself softly.
"Don't cry, don't cry, at least you still have your brother."
She wanted to live to see her brother, even just once, so that even if she died, she could still bring the good news to her mother-in-law. The mother-in-law would be very happy if she knew that she had met her brother.
"I want to live, I want to live."
*
the next day.
After getting up early in the morning, Shen Zhixi went to ask Fang Rou if she had seen Qi Yuan.
"I have never seen Qi Yuan, but I just came from the kitchen and I heard that Zhuang Yulan is taking you out to do shopping today, saying it is to prepare for the banquet tomorrow."
