Qingteng replied "yes", took a few steps forward, opened the small tin box he was holding, and placed it in front of Yueyu. And the contents of the small tin box are obviously the remnants of burned incense.

Just one glance, Yueyu's dignified face was white.

"Grandpa......"

Zhao Zhu's gaze swept over her face, frowning slightly, and did not show too many emotional changes, but in that casual voice, the cold air seemed to be heavier, "Yueyu, you changed this from the incense burner?" As he spoke, he pointed to the delicate crane incense burner on the blackened incense table.

"Slave, slave......"

Yue Yu clenched her fingers nervously, and the long nails that had been trimmed sank into the flesh one by one, and her beautiful face was as ugly as ashes. Biting her lower lip, she looked at Zhao Zhu with a clear gaze, as if she wanted to say something, but when she swept the angry Qingteng, she lowered her head weakly and smiled.

"Yes, this incense was replaced by the slave maid......"

Admit it?

Her abnormal reaction made Xia Chuqi's eyes deepen. And Zhao Zhu's cold face still maintained his usual cold and solemn attitude, and he didn't even give her extra emotions.

"Something happened to the princess, you didn't think about how to control your speech and stop the development of the situation, but you were busy replacing the residual incense in the incense burner, if you don't have a ghost in your heart, why do you do this 'one' book 'one' reading 'novel' ybdu?"

Yue Yu's lower lip was bitten out of deep tooth marks, and her pale face was even more ugly than before. She has always given people a restrained and gentle appearance, but she is probably too panicked at this time, so that the expression on her face clearly shows that "being a thief is weak", but it gives people a feeling of discomfort.

Xia Chuqi groaned.

But Yueyu kowtowed deeply as if she had been condemned.

"The slave has nothing to say, but the prince will punish the crime."

She just pleaded guilty?

As the saying goes, "there are lice in the itch, and there are ghosts in the fear of ghosts", she admitted in such a panic that it is really difficult to understand with normal thinking in addition to other ghosts in the psyche. Looking at Yueyu like this, the seventh day of the first summer is not strange, but quite weird.

It's so different from her style.

"It's really the princess you harmed-" The Qingteng girl who was originally kneeling on the ground, the annoyance was aroused, and she didn't care about Zhao Zhu's presence, she pointed at Yueyu and scolded, her teeth grinding, "I saw you sneakily take something out, but I just felt that something was wrong, so I secretly followed you, and as a result, you buried that thing under the osmanthus tree, which makes people not suspicious, but even so, I didn't expect that it would really be you who did it...... Sister Yue, how can you be so cruel to our princess? The princess has no grudges against you, she is only fourteen years old, how can you bear it? ”

Drop by drop, Qingteng said it, all of them were tears.

If you ask who spends the most time with the princess, it's her.

Almost every day, she corrects the wrong idioms for the princess, and although the princess's temper is not good, she is not bad. Occasionally, he will fix her, but it is harmless, at most, he will paint her face and thick eyebrows when she is asleep, which makes people laugh...... But these, compared to her lying there half-dead now, Qingteng hopes that she can wake up and continue to rectify the person, and continue to say her idioms that the bull's head is not the horse's mouth-

"Your Highness, you must be the master of the princess......"

Qingteng was babbling there, but Yueyu just buried her head deeply, biting her lower lip, looking like she was going home, and she didn't say anything.

Xia Chuqi squinted at her with shallow eyes, lifted his chin again, and looked sideways at Zhao Zhu, who was silent. I saw that his deep eyes were still cold and gloomy, and no one knew what he was thinking. It seemed that after thinking about it for a while, I heard him ask in a cold voice.

"Who instructed you?"

Yueyu's hanging head was slightly raised, and her eyes were red, but she didn't cry.

"If you go back to your father, no one will instruct the slave and maid. The slave didn't know anything other than changing the incense. ”

Leng snorted, and the coldness in Zhao Zhu's eyes was even worse.

"Why do you want to change the incense?"

"Slave maid...... Slave maid ......" Yueyu bit her lower lip and glanced at Zhao Zhu deeply, there seemed to be a first-class wave rolling at the bottom of her eyes, but her voice was extremely calm, "The slave doesn't know, the slave and maid are at the mercy of the master's punishment, just begging the master...... Don't ask the slave anymore. ”

This rhythm is ......

Who is she hiding for?

Wouldn't it be too obvious?

Xia Chuqi lazily hooked the corners of his lips, looking at the woman kneeling on the ground who was pale, haggard, and choked, but in fact she had never lost her temper at all, and suddenly felt that this matter was definitely not so simple today.

While hesitating, she heard Zhao Zhu's voice faintly in her ears.

"Ah Qi, you go and see that incense."

was named by him, and she was slightly stunned when she had been watching the play.

"Oh, good."

Casually agreeing, she walked over slowly.

I have to say that she is naturally sensitive to drugs and can be regarded as her innate ability to recognize taste and distinguish things. The reason why Zhao Zhu asked her to go to see it was also because he knew this in advance. Winked at him tacitly, Xia Chuqi squatted down and picked up the small tin box on the ground, twisted the residual fragrance powder there with two fingers, put it to the end of his nose, and sniffed it.

What's going on? Her face changed suddenly.

Her eyes deepened, and she seemed to be in disbelief, so she took a little more of the powder from the tin box again, and carefully discerned it again.

This time, she was sure, but she was shocked.

"What's wrong?" Zhao Zhu's eyes swept over and asked her.

Not knowing how to calm down his mood at the moment, Xia Chuqi turned his head and looked at him in a daze, his mouth moved several times, but he didn't know how to speak.

"Straight to the point!" Zhao Jun sank his throat.

After thinking about it for a while, Xia Chuqi walked up to him with the tin box, looked into his eyes, thought about it, and thought about it before telling him clearly in a very small voice.

"The aphrodisiac in the incense is made by me. That time I cleaned up Dongfang Qingxuan in Qinggang County, and I used it. ”

Zhao Zhu's eyebrows jumped, and his eyes were as deep as an ancient well, "Are you sure?" ”

"Yes, I'm pretty sure-" Xia Chuqi reluctantly put the tin box on the kang table in front of him, raised his eyebrows again, and smiled at him self-deprecatingly, "This thing is very medicative, not only will you be unbearable if you eat it, but even the smell of smoke will also make people tricked." But, sir, do you believe it? I've always kept this thing in the ear room of Chengde Academy, and I haven't touched it since I returned to Beijing. ”

Zhao Jun squinted slightly, stared at her eyes, and said indifferently.

"Ye naturally believes in you."

These days, in order to develop penicillin to treat the syphilis of Prince Zhao Zhe, Xia Chuqi has been staying in the good medical center every night. And during the day, she and Li Miao basically went to the East Palace, so no one was in the two ear rooms of Chengde Courtyard. However, because there were guards in Chengde Courtyard, they were never locked. However, if someone really went in and took her things, it would be easy to find out.

In other words, if there were no strangers, she would be the most suspicious person.

After about a cup of tea, Xia Chuqi rushed back to Qingtang Courtyard from Chengde Courtyard out of breath.

In her hand, she carried a small empty porcelain vase.

Thrown in front of Zhao Zhu, she spread her hands helplessly, and bent the corners of her lower lip with a smile.

"The bottle is still there, and the powder inside is gone."

Zhao Zhu's dark eyes sank, and she looked at her and was about to answer, but unexpectedly, the green vine girl on the side suddenly said "ah", covered her mouth in shock, sat down on the ground, and muttered.

"How so? How could it be? ”

Zhao Zhu's eyes were a little colder, and he slashed at Qingteng's face.

"What's going on?"

Looking at her in a panic, Qingteng's shoulders shook, quite embarrassed. But under Zhao Zhu's hail-like cold gaze, he still had to explain 1510.

"If you go back to Your Highness, the slave knows this medicine bottle, and the contents of this medicine bottle are what I went with the princess to get back in Chengde Courtyard...... It's the kind of medicine that was put in your soup last time, the princess, last time, princess...... The princess didn't let the slave and maid say, and the slave didn't expect that it would be, it would be this ......"

As soon as Qingteng's words entered his ears, Xia Chuqizhen was really frightened.

Zhao Zhu was drugged last time, and when she came to the good doctor's office, she took her own medicine?

But the question is, Zhao Ziyue, a little princess who doesn't learn and doesn't know how to do anything, how could she know that this porcelain vase is filled with charm and medicine? Even if there are words on it, but the words "Xiaoyaosan" look so stylish, why can't she casually associate it with Mei and medicine, and dare to give her favorite nineteenth brother to eat casually, right?

Who the hell is it...... Instigated her?

For a while, her heart was turbulent.

But Zhao Zhu's face was always as calm as a calm lake.

"What about the rest of the medicine?"

"Medicine, where is the medicine...... Qingteng was flustered, a little face was a little whiter than that Yueyu, scratched her hair, as if she thought of something, she quickly got up, walked to the incense table, and opened a small drawer under her head. However, in addition to Zhao Ziyue's usual use of smoked spring, the small porcelain bottle containing the powder was already empty.

"No, how is that possible?"

Qingteng muttered to himself, and turned back with a frightened face, "Today, the princess came back from an argument with the concubine in the good doctor's office, and she was very angry, she dropped something, so let us all get out." The slave and maid were the last to leave, and the princess said that she wanted to smoke incense and sleep, and the slave and maid wanted to help her. But the princess didn't let her, she wanted to come by herself, could it be...... Could it be the princess...... She took the wrong one herself? ”

Sky!

Looking at Zhao Zhu's suddenly dark face, Xia Chuqi was speechless.

How could there be such an oolong incident in the world?

I ordered a flattering medicine for myself, and then I was ruined?

She thought, no matter how stupid Zhao Ziyue is, it is impossible not to even distinguish between medicine and incense, right?

looked at Qingteng's trembling lips, and then looked at Zhao Zhu's cold and waveless face, her slow gaze finally looked at Yueyu, who had been kneeling on the ground, and turned her doubts and incomprehension back.

"Sister Yue, even if these medicines are mine, even if the incense is the princess's own stupidity. So, can you talk about why you took the initiative to replace those incense? If you weren't weak-hearted, how could you have done it in advance? ”

Yue Yu pursed her lips a few times, looking at her but she wanted to speak.

"Master Pony...... Slaves and maids are, for ......"

"Say!"

Zhao Zhu slapped the table suddenly, and let out a low snort, which made her body tremble in fright, biting her lower lip, which was already bruised, and slowly leaning down.

"If you go back to your master, the slave and maid have already thought about it, even if she is beaten to death by her master today, she can't say it. But now that I know this medicine, yes, it was the princess who got it back herself, and it has nothing to do with the concubine, so it's not good for the slave to hide it anymore......"

The corners of Zhao Zhu's lips pursed a faint coldness.

"Go on!"

"When the slave and maid rushed over, the princess and the two ghosts were already like that, but the slave and maid looked at the two of them with very wrong faces...... Then the slave opened the incense burner, and found that the burned powder was not quite the same as the incense she normally used, and she became suspicious...... Before this, it was well known that the horse lord refused to marry, and before the horse lord went to the East Palace, he quarreled with the princess...... Therefore, the slave maid thought to herself, thinking that this matter was done by the concubine, and she was afraid that the matter would be big, so she wanted to hide it for her, so she secretly took the incense and buried it. The slave never expected that she would be discovered by Qingteng...... It is precisely because of the incense buried and the suspicion that the slave and maid have been thinking about it all the time, so they did not take into account the things on the side, so that the princess's affairs were publicized, and the slave and maid were guilty......"

After she finished her low choked words, Xia Chuqi was stunned again.

Dare to love Yueyu has done so much, all for her Chu Qi?

What is this called? A policeman investigates the case and arrests the culprit. Can go around and around, go around and around, and the result only happens when the mystery is revealed, it turns out that people have a high profile of crimes, and they have always wanted to maintain the police who committed crimes?

Now, she has to "lean" on!

Sister Yue is really great, compared with her glorious image of selfless dedication to others, she Chu Qi has obviously become an aggressive bastard who wants to trap her benefactor in injustice?

I thought "hehe" in my heart.

She just wanted to say that either Yueyu was the Virgin Mary, and her whole body was full of compassion that could shine on the world, or the means were too high-end, and she had already counted a few steps and expected the result of a few steps - first, if it was not discovered, this matter would naturally be remembered by the old emperor or Zhao Zhu on her head at the beginning of the seventh month. Second, even if she is detected, she can get away with it and win a good reputation for generosity. Third, even if Zhao Zhu believed her in the seventh day of Xia Chuqi, because the medicine was from her, it still did not affect the old emperor's suspicion of her.

Tut-tut!

Is it the former, or is it the latter?

Is she really kind or falsely benevolent?

Looking at her quietly, the smile on the corner of Xia Chuqi's lips became bigger and bigger. But she didn't say anything more. So far, as the biggest suspect, although she has been cleared up, she still feels that she has no position to speak. After all, whether it was Zhao Zhu who was drugged last time, or Zhao Ziyue who was drugged this time, it seems that the culprit has become herself.

"Master, no matter what, the slave and maid are responsible, please punish him."

Again, Yueyu pleaded in a low voice.

Xia Chuqi seemed to be smiling, and Zhao Zhu's cold face seemed to be a little cooler than before.

"Since you think your sin is unforgivable, go down and get ten boards, and then go to the firewood room to think about it."

I've thought about it! Ten boards?

Xia Chuqi's mind was a little confused, and he didn't know if this was a punishment.

But looking at Yueyu's suddenly pale face, as if she didn't expect Zhao Yu to punish her by pushing the boat down the river, she was stunned for a moment, then kowtowed, and said with emotion: "The slave has been by the master's side for more than ten years, and since she managed the backyard for the master, she has been trembling, walking on thin ice, and there has been almost no mistake." This time, it is indeed the negligence of the slave and maid, no matter how the master punishes it, it should be done. However, what kind of person the slave and maid is, the master should know best in his heart, and he definitely does not want to hurt Princess Ziyue's vicious heart. ”

With that, she leaned over and walked away.

Xia Chuqi smiled.

Isn't that what happened to her yet? As if she was still wronged?

Or does she think that Zhao Zhu has punished her now, and she is suspicious of her?

She pursed her mouth and didn't speak until Zhao Zhu's voice sounded in her ears.

"Ah Qi, what do you think?"

Hehe, Xia Chuqi laughed self-deprecatingly, "It seems that everyone is quite innocent, what do I think, is it useful?" If I were a bystander, I would also think that the most suspicious person was myself? ”

Zhao Zhu frowned and took her hand.

"Let Azusa wake up."

Stunned for a moment, Xia Chuqi was thoughtful!

Yes, as long as Zhao Ziyue wakes up, everything will come to light, whether she took the wrong medicine when she smoked incense herself, and even the last time she went to the ear room to steal her "Xiaoyaosan", whether it was Xie who instructed her, it will be clear.

To be honest, in the era of underdeveloped science, it is sometimes really difficult to find out what is going on.

But if Zhao Zun really suspected Yueyu, why would he spare her so easily? Does he really trust her as much as Yue Yu said, or does Yue Yu really have some "identity" that he can't do without evidence? After all, in this Jingshi City, all kinds of relationships are intertwined, and she hasn't fully figured it out yet.

After thinking about it for a moment, she looked at the bed not far away, and at the poor little girl behind the curtain, and the corners of her mouth twitched, and asked again.

"Master, is this matter just settled?"

"Naturally not."

He spoke lightly, but his voice was cold to the bone marrow.

"Those who harm Ziyue will inevitably pay the price."

Xia Chuqi frowned, looking at his cold expression, trying to find out a little truth from it. But when you look at it, you can't see anything. After thinking about it, she suddenly smiled again, "You really didn't suspect that I actually did it?" ”

Zhao Jun tightened her hand, "Don't be stupid. ”

Just when she was too moved, he scratched her nose in disgust.

"With your brain, you can't make such a big bend."

“……”

Is this a compliment or a disservice to her?

At the beginning of the summer, Qi flattened his mouth, sat beside him angrily, and almost burst out of his teeth with a word, "...... master"

"Say!"

After hesitating for a moment, she looked up at him and said, "If I say something that I don't like, you can feel it yourself, weigh it, and if you think it's wrong, just let me fart." ”

Zhao Zhu frowned and squinted, "Is there such a fragrant fart?" ”

"Go, go, no one said you were joking!" Xia Chuqi lowered his eyes and said in a low voice, "Sister Yue, she is a very good person, no matter what she says or how she acts, there is no mistake or omission, this is indeed true." She seemed to be protecting me just now, and that's right. But seriously, I may have been born a villain, and I really don't believe that there are such selfless people in the world. The so-called extreme of things must be opposed, I think, she is not simple and simple, do you believe it. ”

Raising her eyebrows slightly, Zhao Jun looked at her and said lightly, "Ye Xin." ”

"Then why are you still ......?"

Xia Chuqi was a little incomprehensible, but Zhao Zhu grabbed her hand and got up.

"Ah Qi, you're too tired today, go outside to rest for a while."

"I ......" Xia Chuqi raised her head and wanted to argue, but at that moment, she saw a flash of coolness in his eyes, as well as the clarity that had already investigated everything. After a pause, she smiled and slowly moved closer to him.

"Good. Since you believe in me, I believe in you. ”

Zhao Zhu stared down at her, and pinched her face again, "What did you eat when your master was away, and why did you lose some weight?" ”

Xia Chuqi rolled his eyes and glared at him with disdain.

"But in a day and a half, where can I lose weight? I think you're dizzy! ”

"Childish!"

"Okay, okay, I'm naïve-" Xia Chuqi sighed, "If you have something to do, just do it, don't worry about me...... I can't go outside to rest, I have to watch the moon here. Tonight, it's a dangerous time, and I can't take a single step. ”

Zhao Zhu was silent, just looking at her.

kept watching, and saw that Xia Chuqi was suspicious, so he reached out and took her into his arms.

"Ah Qi, thank you."

"Hmm......" Knowing that he was referring to Zhao Ziyue's matter, Xia Chuqi muttered, and his voice curled up a little, "What, I'm not here for you?" So sir, I owe you that money, why don't you get rid of it? Your sister's life is more valuable than five hundred taels of gold, and how about we settle it again? ”

"Slippery head."

Zhao Jun tightened her waist and buried her face in his arms.

groaned and whispered "yes".

……

……

The guards on the third floor and the outer three floors of the Qingtang courtyard surrounded the entire courtyard.

Leaving Xia Chuqi to take care of Zhao Ziyue, Zhao Bottle went out of the inner room, but did not leave Qingtang Courtyard. Instead, in the side hall, he summoned the two ghosts who had become "no human being, no ghost or ghost" in just a few hours.

"Master, my subordinates are willing to apologize for their sins with death."

The two ghosts knelt heavily on the ground, their voices low and hoarse.

"Dead?" Zhao Jun looked at him lightly, "Death is the easiest, and it is also a coward's way to escape." Ziyue: She can, but you can't. She's a woman, but you're a man. ”

"Subordinates damn it, really damn it!"

"You really deserve to die!" Zhao Zun had a cold face, strode over, and a heartwarming kick made him cough low, before he said, "Loose away, right?" Dongfang Qingxuan can endure it, and this king can also endure it, why can't you? ”

The second ghost lowered his head heavily and coughed a few times, not wanting to justify his actions anymore, nor did he want to deny all the responsibility to the "free and loose", so he only replied with a choked voice and red eyes.

"It's the subordinates who are despicable and shameless, and it's the subordinates who see the princess's beauty and have a dirty heart."

Snorting from his nose, Zhao Tuo glanced at him coldly.

"You're honest. The king asks you, what do you plan to do in the future? ”

How are you going to do it? What else can you do in the future?

The second ghost smiled bitterly and raised his head, "Master, if your subordinates commit such unforgivable sins, they deserve to die, so no matter what your subordinates are going to do, your subordinates will never say anything." ”

"You're dead, Ziyue wakes up, what should I do?"

His cold voice startled the two ghosts, and his red and swollen cheeks twitched slightly, and he didn't quite understand what this master meant.

"You mean...... What do you mean ......? ”

"The king didn't say anything."

With a cold snort, Zhao Zhu sat back on the carved chair, his eyes a little more awe-inspiring than just now.

"If you make such a big mistake, this king really can't leave you behind. Only now, Beidi has repeatedly violated my border, His Majesty has ordered Tao Jingwu to lead 100,000 troops to Jizhou tomorrow, you go, go to Tao Jingwu's pioneer camp to conquer the north, and be a pioneer soldier of the expedition to the north. ”

The pioneer battalion, as the name suggests, is the advance force that takes the lead on the battlefield every time, and the chance of death is extremely high, and the chance of survival is small.

But in fact, none of Zhao Zhu's twelve personal guards are ordinary people. Not only is Chen Jing, the chief of the guard, a martial artist, but everyone else also follows him in the wind and rain, through the battlefield, through the baptism of blood, and the gold that comes out of the waves.

These two ghosts are also the same as most of the soldiers of Dayan, born in a military household, when they were young, they were brave and witty, good at riding and shooting, and before they followed Zhao Zhu, they were already famous scouts in the Beijing army, and the highest position in the army was from the deputy thousand households of Wupin. It is also possible for a talent like him to become a general who leads the army in time, but now Zhao Zhu only asked him to be an ordinary vanguard, which is actually a disguised punishment.

Of course, for the second ghost, no matter what the punishment is, it is forgiveness.

Kowtowing heavily to the ground, he made a long gesture.

"Thank Your Highness for your grace, and your subordinates will definitely live up to expectations."

Squinting his eyes, Zhao Jun rubbed his forehead.

"Whether you come back to marry the princess after meritorious service, or die on the battlefield of Mobei, it depends on your creation."

With a sour nose, the two ghosts got up and gave up their hands, "After the subordinates leave, Your Highness should pay more attention to your body." ”

"Go ahead." Zhao Jun waved his hand impatiently.

The second ghost moved his mouth and looked in the direction of the inner room, as if he wanted to say something goodbye, but he couldn't say anything, so he had to look at Zhao Zhu, looking at the master who had followed him for more than two years, and turned around silently.

"Yes! The subordinates retired. ”

At this moment, a shout suddenly came from outside.

"The emperor has arrived—"

The second ghost felt a pang in his heart, and glanced back at Zhao Bottle, but saw that his face sank like water.

"Go through the back door."

"Yes, my subordinate Xie Ye is very gracious-!"

Kowtowing again, the two ghosts turned around one step at a time, and finally turned around at the door, striding away, and when Qingtang Yuan left the sight, he wiped his face and wiped away the teardrop from the corner of his eye.

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