Deng Ming's scary thing is that she doesn't know what it means to be afraid.

Maddened audacity, reckless cruelty.

She wanted to burn Wang Yinnu, so she did it immediately, not into the tiger's den, but to get the tiger. Of course, she was not stupid enough to do it herself, and ran to the suburbs to set fire to the imperial village. She ordered her henchmen to bribe the palace maid who was serving in the imperial village at a price that could not be refused, and asked her to take advantage of Wang Yinnu's sleep at night, pour fire oil on the bedroom, and get rid of this stumbling block.

Wealth is moving, for the glory and wealth of the second half of her life, the palace maid's heart is horizontal, it is better to choose a day than to hit the day, and she will do it that night.

Since Wang Yinnu married to the princess of Qin, she often cries and talks in her dreams, in order to retain the last bit of ** and dignity, she never wants the palace people to be on duty outside the door when she sleeps, which brings convenience to the palace maids.

In the middle of the night, the midwinter is approaching, the spring water of the rockery pond of Niushou Mountain Huangzhuang has formed a thin layer, and the water under the thin ice is still flowing slowly, making a difficult and low, whimpering and choking sound, like a woman's crying.

As the north wind became stronger, the ice became thicker and thicker, the sound of whimpering gradually stopped, disappeared, and the flowing water was tamed by the cold wind, as if it were like a wild horse on a halter, forced to abandon the prairie, and from then on it was still driven by man.

A pair of embroidered shoes broke through the hoarfrost that had condensed on the ground.

"Meow!"

A wild cat, awakened by the sound of shredded footsteps, jumped up and landed on the ice of the pool.

Boom!

Following the direction of the wild cats, the ice of the pond began to crack, forming cracks like spider webs, and the water took the opportunity to break free from the shackles of the ice and start flowing again.

"Damn cat!"

The maid's embroidered shoes slipped on the hoarfrost, cursed in a low voice, and quietly carried a barrel of fire oil into the palace, and the princess's bedroom was in the east room, and the bedroom was covered with a thick carpet of Persian wool, warm and dry.

The palace maid poured a bucket of fire oil on the carpet, and the greasy slowly penetrated the fish-shaped pattern on the carpet, and the fish twisted and struggled as if they were stranded.

At this time, the palace maid was already so frightened that her hands and feet were out of strength, but halfway through the matter, there was no turning back, the palace maid gritted her teeth and kicked over the brazier.

The brazier contained smokeless red coals, which rolled on the carpet a few times, and the flames spread silently in the direction of the oil spilling.

Taking advantage of the fact that the fire was still small and could not see the movement clearly from the outside, the palace maid quickly hid her face and ran back to the podium where the next person lived, she climbed back to the bed, because she was too nervous, she forgot to take off her shoes, she pulled up the quilt to cover her head and face, seemed to be able to hear her heartbeat, and waited anxiously.

When waiting, I always felt that the time passed very long, and the palace maid secretly thought: Will the princess be choked up and run out? Or was it a sudden heavy rain that extinguished the fire? Or the little chamberlains who were on patrol at night found that there was a fire in the bedroom and put it out together?

Just when she considered nearly a hundred possibilities, and even regretted that she was greedy for money and risked doing such a murderous and arsonous thing, an urgent gong sounded outside.

"Hurry up, the princess's palace is out of water!"

The palace maid was overjoyed, lifted the quilt and jumped out of bed, and the cat waist looked for shoes under the bed.

Squeak!

A palace maid who lived next door pushed the door in, "Oh, what are you rubbing?" Hurry up and put out the fire, go one step too late, be careful of punishment! ”

The palace maid hurriedly said, "Where are my shoes?" My shoes are missing. ”

The companion pointed to her feet and said, "Confused? You're already on! ”

"Oh, it's not a hurry, let's go."

The palace people in the Grange carried buckets and basins to extinguish the fire, and some brave soldiers even desperately broke into the fire with soaked quilts to save Princess Qin.

"Princess!" The guards shouted loudly, and searched for Wang Yinnu in the sea of fire, but when the palace burned and collapsed, the princess was never seen. Everyone suddenly despaired, and looked at the burning palace in amazement.

The eunuch, the chief manager of the imperial village, shouted angrily: "What are you doing there, hurry up and put out the fire, the dignified princess of Ming is burned to death in the grange, you will be exiled at the lightest, and beheaded at the worst!" ”

The crowd came to their senses and continued to water and extinguish the fire.

There has been no news, the princess should be burned to death in the bedroom! The maid was fetching water from the pond next to the palace, and she was restless, her eyes were purring, and she always felt that someone had seen her strangeness.

Suddenly, the palace maid's body seemed to be frozen by the cold wind, and she stood stiffly by the pond with water. She saw a figure wearing a black fox fur walking quickly, the man was wearing a hood, and he couldn't see his face clearly, but only one person in the entire Huangzhuang was qualified to wear the precious big fur clothes like fox fur.

It's the princess!

The fire was so fierce, how could the princess be safe and sound? The figure was thin and weak, as if only a skeleton was left to support the black fox fur, and it walked silently, as if it was floating on the ground.

The palace maid was so frightened that the bucket fell into the pond and shouted, "There are ghosts! There are ghosts! ”

The "ghost" stopped, and glanced at her coldly, her pale face was unusually charming and cold against the background of the black fox fur, like a ghost crawling out of hell.

The palace maid's heart was weak, and her sharp cry pierced the night sky, "Ghost! The unjust ghost asks for his life! ”

The "ghost" did not come forward to ask the palace maid for her life, she continued to walk towards the burning palace. The palace maid's screams caused everyone's eyes to turn to the ghost, and they were all shocked.

"I'm not dead." Wang Yinnu put down the hood on her head, and when she spoke, she could clearly see the white breath exhaled from her mouth, since she was breathing, she should be a living person.

Everyone put down the bucket, and they all had a sense of escaping death, the princess was fine, and they would not be punished. Everyone flocked to Wang Yinnu to the side hall to rest, and no one noticed that the sluggish palace maid standing next to the pond was pressed into the cold water by a black shadow......

Early the next morning, Jin Yiwei commanded Mao Xiang to enter the palace and tell Queen Ma the whole story of the fire in Huangzhuang, "...... The palace was already in ashes, but fortunately the princess went for a walk in the gardens of the Grange in the middle of the night and escaped. ”

Queen Ma asked unhappily: "I don't sleep in the middle of the night, what is the princess doing when she goes out alone?" ”

Mao Xiang said: "Princess Qin claimed that she couldn't sleep, so she simply got up and went for a walk outside. I heard from the palace people who have been serving the princess that Princess Qin has the disease of lack of sleep and can't sleep a few times at night. Especially after the rebel king King Kong betrayed the Ming Dynasty this autumn and fled to Fengyang Jiushan with the prince of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, the bones of the bombed were gone, and the princess often lost sleep all night and didn't sleep all night. ”

Queen Ma said: "The Huangzhuang of Niushou Mountain is an ominous place. Tell the Zongren Mansion to find another neat grange to house Princess Qin,

Although her second brother is a despicable and shameless traitor, she is the princess and my daughter-in-law after all, so don't insult the royal family, and you can't slack off. ”

"Yes." Mao Xiang took the order and left. Returning to the Jinyiwei station, Mao Xiang instructed his subordinates to spy on him, "You go and check who was near Huangzhuang last night?" Also, go to the house of the drowning palace maid or the house of a relative to secretly check to see if there are any suspicious people or money. ”

"Yes." The spy took the order and left.

The next day, the subordinates replied, saying that on Niushou Mountain that night, next to the Huangzhuang was the annex of the Xu family of the Duke of Wei, and the Duke of Wei Xu Da took the whole family to hunt there, in addition, there were several noble children in Jinling City who hunted in Niushou Mountain, and Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou in the royal family, also went up the mountain to hunt, and also participated in the family banquet of the Xu family that night, and stayed in the courtyard of the Xu family, and left the courtyard early the next morning, and went straight to the pharmacy as a doctor.

As for the maid who drowned in the pond, she was an orphan and had no home, and searched the cage of her bedroom, but found nothing suspicious.

Others are just that, Mao Xiang heard the name of Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, and sighed in his heart, it turned out that Zhu Hu was also in Niushou Mountain that night, and he also stayed overnight in the courtyard of the Xu family, next to Princess Qin's imperial village...... Is this just a coincidence? King Zhou and Princess Qin used to be a little couple.

Mao Xiang immediately went to Baicaotang Pharmacy to find Zhu Hu, and asked his questions straight to the point.

I smelled the aroma of rice porridge from afar, and even the cold wind blew it away. A group of unclothed wanderers, shivering in the autumn breeze, lined up in a long line to the west of the Baihetang Pharmacy, waiting for the pharmacy to give rice porridge.

Mao Xiang rode on his horse and looked at the porridge bucket condescendingly, it was the cheapest aged brown rice, but it was cooked very thickly, and the chopsticks could not be inserted, enough for the wanderer to feed his stomach.

Mao Xiang, who was separated from his parents as a child and worked as a homeless child, understands very well what a bowl of rice porridge that does not cost money means to a homeless person.

It's life, and it means that you can go on living.

Baihetang has been giving porridge all year round, and some poor people are sick, and the medicine money is also exempt. Among the many princes of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, was the most benevolent and generous. He has a crystal heart, pure and immaculate, crystal clear, but he is also easy to be bullied and broken.

Zhu Hu was drying herbs in the backyard, and said without raising his head: "You came to me for the fire in Huangzhuang last night." ”

Although Mao Xiang was cold-blooded and ruthless, he admired Zhu Hu's kindness very much in his heart, and he couldn't bear to set up a trap to hurt this prince, so he said straight to the point: "Yes, His Royal Highness King Zhou." His Royal Highness has always only studied medicine in the pharmacy, except for entering the palace to greet the emperor and queen, he treats patients in Baicaotang on weekdays, why did he suddenly go to Niushou Mountain yesterday? ”

Zhu Hu skillfully shook the bamboo dustpan, sifted away the dust on the medicinal materials, and said lightly: "I encountered an incurable disease, so I went to ask the eldest lady of the Xu family for help." She is a skilled doctor and a guide to the maze. After that, it was late and the mountain road was difficult to walk, so Wei Guogong and Xu Zengshou, the second son of the Xu family, both kept me to have dinner in the other courtyard and spend the night. The roast rabbit at the dinner was roasted by Xu Zengshou and me. If you don't believe it, you can ask Miss Xu and Xu Zengshou. ”

Before Zhu Huan came back, he had already confessed with Xu Miaoyi, no matter how bold Xu Miaoyi was, she didn't dare to say to Mao Xiang bluntly that King Zhou was here to question me, the future fourth sister-in-law.

Mao Xiang hurriedly said: "His Royal Highness King Zhou's words are firmly believed. Coming to disturb His Highness today is just a routine matter, and Your Highness should not be angry. ”

Zhu Hu gently took a bite of the licorice slices and tasted the taste, the sweet taste of licorice made him stretch his brows, "Oh, it's okay, you just ask, it's important to investigate the case." Last night, the fire in Huangzhuang, I was also shocked, I was originally carrying a bucket with the Xu family and wanted to go to Huangzhuang to support, and the eunuch who walked to the door to guard the manor said that the princess was fine, and the fire was about to be extinguished, so we all returned to the courtyard to continue sleeping. ”

"Mao Xiang, I have found out so far, the fire in the main hall of Huangzhuang, is it a natural disaster, or **?"

Mao Xiang observed King Zhou's expression and said, "It's a natural disaster, and it's also **." ”

Zhu Hu paused with both hands, "Oh? How to explain it? Could it be that someone wants to harm Princess Qin? ”

Mao Xiang said: "Perhaps, Princess Qin is the lord of the Northern Yuan Dynasty and has a special identity. Many of the palace people who served in Huangzhuang died under the iron hooves of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and they wanted to burn red basket charcoal in their bedrooms in winter to keep warm, take the opportunity to set fires, destroy corpses, and avenge their relatives. ”

Zhu Hu didn't have much of a city government, and there was an anxious look on his face at this time, "Princess Qin is the princess of the Ming Dynasty, and a woman is innocent when she marries her husband." ”

Mao Xiang nodded and said: "Yes, the queen mother also commanded, the mother ordered me to investigate the case thoroughly, and send people from Jinyi to protect Princess Qin, so as not to put the princess in danger again." ”

Zhu Hu put his mind at ease.

Mao Xiao then said goodbye, rode through Suzaku Street, and saw Song Xiuer's rouge shop from a distance, the shop was not open today, and there was a long ladder on the street, and Luan Balang, the account office, wore a short dozen clothes, stepped on the ladder and climbed to the roof to replace the broken tiles.

Song Xiu'er crossed her waist and shouted to Luan Balang: "You repair the roof well, if it rains and leaks and floods my incense powder, I will deduct your wages and pay compensation!" ”

Luan Hachiro sweated like rain on the roof, "Okay, if it really leaks again, you can deduct it." ”

Song Xiuer said: "Then I really deducted the money!" ”

Luan Balang nodded and smiled at Song Xiu'er, "Well, buckle it." ”

Song Xiu'er said: "My incense powder was transported from the Western Regions, and the gold is expensive, and your five-year salary is not enough to deduct it." ”

Luan Balang smiled: "Five years is not enough, then ten years." ”

Song Xiu'er smiled like a flower, "Then ten years is not enough?" ”

Luan Balang said: "Then deduct ...... for a lifetime"

Seeing this scene, Mao Xiang turned his horse's head as if he was fleeing, and bypassed Suzaku Street from a small alley, his heart ached, like someone holding a rusty blunt knife, and a knife cut his heart.

Feelings are really the hardest thing in the world to break! No wonder Zhu Hu and Princess Qin couldn't help but meet in private in the middle of the night! Zhu Hu is a transparent heart, and after some questions and answers, Mao Xiang, who is good at observing words and feelings, confirmed that he had met Princess Qin that night.

The love is hard to break, and it destroys the heart! Mao Xiang rode his horse and whipped his whip and galloped down the alley, as if he could leave the pain behind him if he ran faster. 166 Reading Network