Late at night.
In the huge palace, a few lights are not enough to add much temperature to the dark and lonely palace.
In the abandoned courtyard not far from Qingfang Palace, Zhu Xu put his hands behind his back, looked at the sturdy tied up on the ground expressionlessly, and looked at the palace maid trembling all over.
The Wu Qing and Wu Rou sisters both held a short dagger in their hands, and their pretty faces stood not far away.
The already deserted abandoned yard added a chill.
Zhu Xu couldn't see a trace of fluctuation on his face, and he didn't know how long it took, he suddenly looked up at Wu Qing and Wu Rou, and said indifferently, "Didn't I ask you to arrange for her to be replaced before?"
” Zhu Xu's voice was as follows, and the maid trembled again.
Wu Qing glanced at her sister and replied, "She is the old man of Kunning Palace, and Sister Huan'er is not reluctant." ” Zhu Xu frowned, looked at the maidservant and said, "What's your name?"
” The maid kept her head down, trembling all over, and when she heard this, she looked up at Zhu Xu, and hurriedly lowered her head again, and said in a trembling voice: "Ai Ai'er." ” "Age."
"Sixteen."
"Origin."
"I was sold to the palace since I was a child, and I don't know where my home is."
"Which ladies have you served?"
"It's been in Kunning Palace."
"How to be bought by Hakka......"
This Ai'er opened her mouth to answer, but in an instant she closed her mouth very tightly, lowered her head, and didn't say a word.
Zhu Xu looked indifferent, and said lightly: "Since you are an old man in the palace, you naturally know the rules and murder the queen and prince, such a crime, even if I let you go today, do you think that the Hakka family, who is difficult to protect now, can protect you?"
” Ai'er still didn't say a word, knelt there, her head bowed, and couldn't see any expression.
Zhu Xu frowned slightly, and said, "Since you don't speak, it's of no use to me."
Wu Qing and Wu Rou, you throw her into the dry well behind her, and then seal it. ” "It's Your Highness!"
Wu Qing and Wu Rou agreed, and stepped forward to pull this Ai'er and drag him out.
Suddenly, Ai'er shouted, looking at Zhu Xu with a frightened face, "Your Highness, Your Highness, I have something to say......"
Wu Qing and Wu Rou's movements immediately stopped, Ai'er struggled to kneel, calmed down, and said loudly to Zhu Xu: "Your Highness, the ancestor has returned to the palace, you can't do anything to me!"
” Zhu Xu smiled coldly and said, "You don't know?
I don't know how many palace maids and eunuchs disappear in this palace every year, there is no more than you, and there is no less than you!
” Ai'er knelt there, her head bowed, her expression frightened, biting her lip, her eyes flickering.
Zhu Xu's eyes flashed with a cold light, and said, "I'll give you one last chance to say something that is useful to me, otherwise you will go and fill the well!"
” Ai'er bit her lips, looked up at Zhu Xu and said, "Your Highness, if you can promise to let me go and arrange for me to leave the palace, I will tell you a big secret!"
” Zhu Xu raised his eyebrows, the people who followed the Hakka were really not good people, and they were quite scheming at a young age.
Zhu Xu said coldly: "It depends on whether this secret of yours is enough to buy your life." ” Ai'er sat there on her knees, her body seemed to be cold, she shrunk her neck from time to time, pursed her lips, looked at Zhu Xu and said: "This is definitely a big secret, it must be enough to buy my life, you swear, you will send me out of the palace." ” Zhu Xu walked a few steps, leaned over and looked at her with squinted eyes, and said with a smile: "You can bet now, either don't say it, I will directly fill in the well and bury you, or you say that I will send you out of the palace." ” Ai'er looked at Zhu Xu, her face was pale and trembling.
Zhu Xu straightened up, looked down at her and said indifferently, "Say it." ” Ai'er was still struggling, and after a long time, she gritted her teeth and said, "Okay, if you don't let me go, I won't let you go!"
” After speaking, she looked back and forth, bit her lip, and said, "Ancestor, she, she raised more than a dozen fake eunuchs in the Xian'an Palace, and in the secret room inside the bed, I inadvertently appeared." ” Zhu Xu's eyes suddenly narrowed, and he looked down at this beloved.
Sure enough, it's not an ordinary thing, even knows such a secret, and has lived to this day.
If it weren't for his mental calculations, it is estimated that she would have succeeded.
However, the secret of the Hakka family is indeed not simple for Zhu Xu, and it is very meaningful.
He has been worrying about how to deal with the Hakka family.
Whether it is the previous court turmoil or the previous discussion of leaving the palace, it is not the Hakka family itself, either Wei Zhongxian is obedient, or out of etiquette.
These are insignificant to Zhu Youxiao, and they do not damage the status of the Hakka family in his heart, no matter how big the turmoil in the court is, as long as Zhu Youxiao thinks about the Hakka family, then she will always have a way to come back.
But this time is different, the relationship between the Hakka family and Zhu Youxiao is special, and this kind of thing is particularly sensitive.
Zhu Xu thought for a long time, then turned his head to look at his beloved son who was still kneeling there, looking at his beloved child with anticipation on his face, and said in a deep voice, "You go back, today's matter should be nothing, you think about how to explain it to the Hakka family." ” After speaking, he looked at the two sisters Wu Qing and Wu Rou and said, "Let her go back, not a word of today's matter is allowed to leak out." ” The two sisters didn't know why Zhu Xu let go of this maid who murdered the queen and the prince, so they hesitated and said, "It's Your Highness." ” That Ai'er was untied from the rope and fell to the ground limply, and when she remembered that she was going to leave the palace, she no longer saw Zhu Xu's shadow.
Not long after returning to Jinghuan Palace, Zhu Xu was happy.
Because Feng Guiren had a miscarriage.
Cao Huachun stood in front of Zhu Xu, a little frightened.
He is also an old man in the palace, but it is the first time that he has so openly murdered the prince.
"The old witch's methods are really powerful."
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Zhu Xu had to admire, although Feng Guiren was a transparent person in his eyes, but even the queen didn't know this kind of news, and the old demon woman let her miscarry directly, and I am afraid that there is no other way to infiltrate the harem.
However, I still have to clean up Zhou Yingqiu first. ’ Zhu Xu secretly said that there was an unpredictable Zhou Yingqiu outside, if he didn't calculate him when he didn't realize that the person behind him was him, I'm afraid it wouldn't be so easy.
Regarding Feng Guiren's affairs, he was also powerless, waved his hand at Cao Huachun, and said, "Let the imperial brother worry about this matter, go back to sleep." ” Cao Huachun could also guess that this matter was estimated to be over, so he agreed and went down.
Zhu Xu didn't feel sleepy, came to the study, and just about to sit down, he saw a line of delicate small characters on the white paper on the desk.
'Yesterday's flute sounded, early morning makeup, dazed and uncaring, and tears again. ’ Looking at this little poem, Zhu Xu secretly shook his head, Yao Qingqing had a deep affection for Bi Maokang, but both of them were cautious and did not dare to take a step forward, so that it dragged on until now.
"Looks like we'll have to arrange for her to go on a business trip."
Zhu Xu thought that the arsenal on the mountain was under secret construction, and it was time to meet the future flint gun.
Zhu Xu picked up the paper, folded it and put it aside, took out a book by himself, and looked at it slowly.
The comparison between simplified and traditional Chinese is very troublesome, some words are easy to recognize, and some are completely unrelated, and he still occasionally struggles to read them.
Zhu Xu looked at it for a while, and suddenly thought of the allusion of the red sleeves and incense, and couldn't help but say to himself, "Yao Qingqing probably hasn't slept, do you want to call her up and read it to me?"
” Immediately shook his head again, Yao Qingqing was not his red sleeves.