Episode 26: Xiao Changmin was murdered

Shen Xihe was guarding the fire in the small kitchen and cooked several of her favorite side dishes for Bu Shulin. As soon as they were brought to the table, she saw Bu Shulin covering his lips and bending down, his face suddenly turned pale.Her heart tightened, and she immediately signaled her maid Mo Yu to step forward to check her pulse secretly. As soon as her fingertips touched her wrist pulse, Mo Yu's eyebrows suddenly raised - Bu Shulin was already two months pregnant.At this point, Bu Shulin could no longer hide it, and confessed everything to Shen Xihe with lowered eyes: he unexpectedly spent that night with Cui Jinbai, and after getting along day and night, he had already been sincerely moved.

Shen tide and Shen Xi were silent for a long time, and finally patted her shoulder, and decided to give in. Shu Lin's substitute Shen Jiu came forward to attend all public occasions for her, protect her behind him, and avoid all open and covert attacks.Xiao Huayong watched Bu Shulin leave in despair from a distance, and turned to ask Shen Xi and the truth. The pain and struggle in Cui Jinbai's eyes just now had clearly brought the entanglement between the two to the table.When Yebu Shulin took the initiative to make an appointment with Cui Jinbai, his fingertips were trembling slightly when he arrived, looking flattered.

Bu Shulin looked up at him and admitted frankly that she had already been pleased with him. However, as a female general in southern Shu, she carried the burden of the entire clan on her shoulders. She must go back to marry the aristocratic family as planned, and she must not let the military power in southern Shu fall into the hands of others.She clearly drew the line with each word. After hearing this, Cui Jinbai turned pale and said nothing. He only turned around and left sadly with the chill of late night.Shen Xihe specially prepared a soothing incense for Bu Shulin. With the warm fragrance, Bu Shulin finally expressed what she had been worrying about for a long time. She asked Shen Xihe if she wanted to train Shen Jiujiu to replace her from the beginning.

Shen Xihe did not deny it, only said softly, it is precisely because you are my best friend in life that I have to keep this back-up - if something happens to you on the battlefield one day, Shen Jiu can stabilize the situation for you and protect thousands of people in southern Shu.As he spoke, he took out the pomegranate red gold woven dress that Bu Shulin had spotted at the Silk Shop and handed it over, hoping that besides being a female general wearing armor and going into battle, she would always retain a little daughter's love for beauty.That night Xiao Huayong found Cui Jinbai and told him that Bu Shulin would leave to return to southern Sichuan in the near future. From now on, Shen Shijiu would stay in the capital for her. After saying that, he put a token to enter and exit the Marquis Mansion into his hand, and handed the choice to him, asking him if he dared to take a brave step to pursue his own happiness for this purpose.

At the same time, Gu Qingshu's informant in the Hou Mansion sent back news that there was a secluded courtyard in the mansion specially used for fetal resting, and that Bu Shulin had often gone out in disguise in recent days, which was full of suspicions.Bu Shulin changed into light women's clothes. As soon as he walked to the dock, he found that he was already surrounded by killers.She pulled out the soft sword from her waist and fought hard with the guards around her, but there were too many opponents. During the struggle, her arm was cut with a bone-deep wound.

When Cui Jinbai hurried over with the token in hand, the killers all over the place had fallen into a pool of blood, and Bu Shulin was holding his wound and leaning against the side of the ship to breathe.He rushed over and held her hand, his fingertips covered with blood, and bandaged her wound with red eyes.Bu Shulin hardened his heart and made countless excuses, saying that he was constantly licking blood from his knife and was not suitable to live a stable life with him, and urged him to return to Beijing immediately, but Cui Jinbai seemed to have taken root at the dock and was determined not to leave even half a step.

Bu Shulin looked at the red bloodshot eyes, and finally relented and told him that he was pregnant. Cui Jinbai froze on the spot, and then uncontrollable ecstasy broke out on his face.The assassination plan failed completely. Gu Qingshu knelt in front of the master of the man in black to plead guilty. The master did not punish her and only handed her a bottle of colorless poison from Hu Shang.A few days later, Xiao Changmin complained that he was ill and could not go to court. Gu Qingshu broke into the house and accused him of being so decadent. He was not even half as courageous as Xiao Changqing. During the argument, she even got into a fight with the singer in the house. Xiao Changmin pushed him hard in anger. Gu Qingshu staggered and fell on the stone steps. The emperor's eldest grandson, who was still unformed in her belly, was stillborn.

A few days later, Gu Qingshu personally cooked a bowl of tonic soup for Xiao Changmin, sat by the bed and cried, as if she missed her dead child day and night.But she didn't know that Xiao Changmin had already seen everything clearly - from the beginning to the end, he was just a pawn in her attempt to seize power, and the death of Hu Ningrao was also a conspiracy planned by her.He had already looked down upon all the hypocrisy in this palace, so he picked up the bowl of poisoned soup and drank it without any hesitation.