- Half a year has passed since such a superficially peaceful day. In the past six months, Luo Xing'er was nervous every day, but during the house arrest, she ate well and slept warmly, in order to cut off her opportunity to contact others, she didn't even have a chance to do things, she only needed to stand by the prince's side, not far from five steps away. Despite this, her figure is gradually thinning.

In her eyes, the second prince still lives a life that is not much different from before, except for occasionally meeting with the guards who arrested her that day. She would be temporarily isolated when the second prince talked to the guards, but each conversation between their master and servant was very short, but sometimes this kind of thing happened in the middle of the night. After half a year, the second prince was also a lot haggard.

Half a year later, on a somewhat sultry summer night, the second prince suddenly changed into a guard uniform and appeared in front of her and took her out of the palace. In a closed room outside the palace, with no windows and only one door, the prince showed her some hand-copied files. She knew that in the past half a year of peace, the prince had actually been investigating with that account book as a clue for a moment.

Of the 51 former officials involved in the account book, in addition to the six who died of natural causes in the past decade or so, the general information of the other 45 culprits was almost all recorded in the file spread out on the table in front of him. It is conceivable that such a huge and complex information can be found out in half a year, and the workload is huge. And to act so vigorously to investigate so many evils, if it weren't for a prince using power, just relying on her little slave and maid to use that little bit of effort to climb over the wall, I don't know which year to find out? By the time she found out the culprits, was she too old to carry a knife?

In front of the public case, personal grievances suddenly became insignificant; And she herself once again deeply felt the strength of the weak prince, compared with herself, it seems that she is really only enough to be a slave who serves tea and rubs her shoulders.

That day, in the private house where the secret investigation file was placed, Luo Xing'er had these realizations that made her sweat cold on a hot summer night, and the second prince finally opened his mouth and sued her. The reason why he put her under house arrest for half a year.

Many clues that can be found in the old years prove that although there are fifty-one evils in this account book, Luo Xing'er's father Luo Yungeng is also among them. Originally, when the prince got the account book, he was still thinking about whether to overturn the case for Luo Yungeng. But in the middle of investigating corruption, the prince has realized that even if he is determined to overturn the case and punish those corruption despite Luo Yungeng, he can't do it.

Of the wickedness found in the account books, there are thirty-one who are still in office. Although the dynasty has changed now, most of the remnants of the previous dynasty have been retained after the performance evaluation. The thirty-one people who are still in the account books, even if the twenty-four officials stationed in the local areas are not counted, but only the seven important officials who remained in Gyeonggi. To uproot these seven people at once is an extremely sinister test for the stability of the dynasty.

After Luo Xing'er listened to the prince slowly set aside this relationship and explain it slightly, she felt that she wanted to take revenge on her own. How naïve.

Not to mention that she can't shake this big tree, these lists still rely on the power of the prince to find out in front of her so quickly. Even if she knew the names of these people at this moment, what could she do, even if the prince was willing to let her go at this moment, with her little wall climbing technique, she would not be able to enter the mansion of those evil officials.

The last years of the previous dynasty. The dynasty is eroded, and there are countless private cases like her Luo family. In such an environment, a kind of head buying and selling is gradually becoming popular. Most of the so-called rangers are under the guise of fighting righteousness and eliminating evil, and most of them are due to the high price of the head. They will take the risk to cut. For this reason, the imperial court also acquiesced to a rule, no longer the nobles can raise private soldiers, the official family has soldiers, and then the rich family. They also began to increase the number of nursing homes to settle down.

After the change of dynasty, Jinzi did not order this kind of behavior to be stopped, but only restrained, and only dismissed the kind of private soldiers with thick armor and crossbows raised by the officials. In the private residences of officials below the fifth rank, only sticks can be used, while in the private residences of officials above the fifth rank, they can stay in the private homes of officials with swords and armed guards, but the number of people is limited, and the equipment used is also inscribed with insignia and reported records.

Without heavily armed private soldiers, in order to protect their own safety, they can only improve the security personnel. There are so many martial arts halls in Kyoto that are open to accept disciples, which is inseparable from the needs of these officials. Luo Xing'er didn't know how powerful these enemies with official status would be among the people who served around them, but she knew the sinister here.

The intention is to assassinate halfway, in the public house, it is even more unlikely. You must know that although the rulers of the new dynasty have confiscated the private soldiers of the official family and limited the number of military guards in the private house, they have done a good job in ensuring the personal safety of the officials during their tenure. The overall level of the guards stationed in the public mansion is several times higher than that of the soldiers who were privately raised by officials in the past. In addition, the officials who reported on their work in Gyeonggi were escorted by these guards on the way from their official residences or government offices back to their private homes every day.

If it weren't for such a conditional return, the emperor would probably not be so easy to convince when he confiscated their private soldiers.

In short, when these lists of greedy enemies were found out in advance with the power of the prince, and when they were placed in front of him, Luo Xing'er was angry and sad to find that even if the prince couldn't move them lightly, even if he still decided to kill them regardless of the decision, it was impossible to kill one.

After suppressing her voice and suffering for a while, Luo Xing'er suddenly stopped her tears and set her eyes on the second prince who was quietly watching her cry, but in fact, in her heart, she also put the last trace of hope for revenge on the second prince.

When the son of heaven is the emperor, doesn't he regard corruption as an evil and will not tolerate it?

This kind of thing, in front of the emperor's son, what choice will the prince make?

The second prince in front of him, regardless of his weak and sick body, spent half a year to find out all the people involved in the world in the dirty account book, instead of stopping it when he realized that this force was strong and difficult to touch. Such a determination is still only a matter of preparation, but it seems to have confirmed some possibility.

But Luo Xing'er quickly lowered her head again, not daring to look at the eyes of the second prince.

Because she suddenly realized that if one day, the second prince waited until the time was ripe and really started to handle this matter, the Luo family would still be inseparable.

Many years ago, his father died in prison, and in his own hands it turned from a public case into a personal vendetta. And now, I found that this personal vendetta could not be avenged, and my state of mind has changed again, and it is no longer the same as before. only wants to kill the enemy, but only wants to be able to keep the Luo family.

That night, in the private house outside the palace, Luo Xinger read the file on the table in order. Just thinking about the entanglement of interests and interests, I feel like a mountain above my head, and I am sweating behind it.

And that night, the second prince was also sweating thoroughly in his single clothes, which was caused by his physical collapse. Leaving the comfortable environment of Huayang Palace, the hot summer night in the windowless house was really a kind of torture for his already weak and sickly physique.

On the way back, he wrapped another layer of guard clothes to cover his identity outside his sweaty single clothes, and arrived at Huayang Palace. The second prince fell ill. In Luo Xing'er's opinion, this matter is almost not suspenseful.

When leaving the house, the prince did not let her go, but after returning to Huayang Palace, the prince lifted her house arrest.

However, she still pulls the identity of the personal maid in the eyes of others. Carefully take care of him when he is sick, out of active inseparability. It wasn't until he recovered that she suddenly realized that there was something more in her heart.

The prince had lifted her house arrest during her illness, and the guards seemed to have retreated, or at least she could be sure that the masters were not in the house. There was only one prince by her side, who was sick and drowsy, and she had the best chance to escape. Although she will still take some risks, if she tries to escape when the prince recovers, she will have to take even greater risks.

But at that time, she did not escape. In hindsight. In those days when she took care of the prince, she didn't have the idea of escaping in her heart!

This may be because she has faintly realized that she wants to kill all those greedy enemies, which only this seemingly weak second prince can do. There is also the prince's illness this time. Most of them were burdened by her family's affairs, and she felt a little pity for it.

Putting aside family feuds and identity, this prince usually treats her, but he is actually not thin. People are animals that will continue to feel in their hearts, not cold-blooded machines. If you change your background and life experience, meet such a warm man, and get his help, even if this help is not very thick, you will have some feelings in your heart.

And when this person shows his weak side in front of himself, there is always some pity in his heart, right?

Although Luo Xing'er infiltrated the palace for revenge, she only had a grudge against the bureaucrats who falsely accused her father back then, and although she could not be called a passionate admirer of the current rulers of the new dynasty, she had no resentment.

In fact, in the past few years since returning to Kyoto, watching the changes in life in Beijing, Luo Xinger has unconsciously had an awareness in his heart that he is a monarch of a country who can make ordinary people place their hopes on him.

Could the same be true for the emperor's son?

After the second prince recovered from his illness, he told Luo Xing'er a truth that made her mood extremely complicated. It turned out that the relaxation of control on her during the prince's recuperation was actually a temptation. If she really wants to escape, then she will completely lose the opportunity, on the contrary, if she stays obediently, the prince will consider trying to pardon the Luo family when the case is overturned in the future.

No one likes to be deceived, Luo Xing'er had a moment of anger.

But she quickly suppressed this anger again, because after being deceived by this, what she could gain afterwards was too generous.

Even if the "future" mentioned in the prince's words may need to wait for more than ten years, but in the current environment she is in, if she can exchange for the stability of the entire Luo family, what is it to wait for her whole life by herself? You must know that when she was first caught by the hidden guards of Huayang Palace, she was preparing to seal the Luo family forever with a death.

Now it seems that the case of the Luo family is hopeful, and those evil officials who falsely accused their father will finally be severely punished. For this reason, he may have to stay in Huayang Palace as a slave for the rest of his life, just as the price he paid for revenge! If he hadn't met the second prince, he might not only not be able to kill an enemy, but he would have to accompany him for nothing.

The peaceful days of Huayang Palace continued like this, and the second prince did not let Luo Xing'er go free, nor did he put her under house arrest again, but the title of the close maid he had given to monitor her before was not taken off. And Luo Xing'er continued to stay by the prince's side in the name of "Xiaoxing", serving more carefully than before, and naturally had the posture of being a close servant for the prince.

She seems to have ignored that unlike the princess's personal maid, the so-called prince's close maid has the duty of warming the quilt in addition to daily service, food and daily life. In the harem of the former dynasty, the maidservant was thus occupied by the prince, and was secretly aborted after accidentally becoming pregnant. and expelled from the palace and no longer retained, and the examples of servant girls often falling into women's diseases for this reason are innumerable.

At first, the second prince brought Luo Xing'er as a close maid for the purpose of spying on her. Later, the monitoring power gradually slowed down, and Luo Xing'er's service was closer and more delicate than before, even though the second prince, who was only thirteen years old at the time, still had a vague concept of love, but he was in the initial stage of cuteness, and he still felt a little strange when men and women get along.

He began to get used to combing his hair, rubbing his shoulders, grinding ink, and following him as long as Luo Xing'er was alone...... For this reason he began to drive the eunuchs he used to call out of the inner hall, and he also liked the hometown tunes she sang in fragments, and sometimes fell asleep on her shoulder, and unconsciously slipped to her soft chest, and the faint fragrance of flowers and plants came out of her clothes, which was very comfortable.

Sometimes he had insomnia at night. That's how I nestled in her arms and slowly fell asleep. And she always climbed into his bed for this, held his head in her arms, and waited for his breathing to calm down, and then dragged her numb legs down.

I don't know when it started. There are two people who are used to each other's breath and dependence.

I don't know when it began, a lowly servant, both a little afraid and a little happy, always took advantage of the prince's sleep, gently shook his hand that was not too warm, as if she had stolen a candy in her heart.

The days seem to pass smoothly like this. Neither of the master and servant felt that this way of getting along with each other with a strange feeling was any different from the normal master-servant relationship, but they enjoyed it silently.

In the past two years like this, a turmoil has made the two of them finally begin to admit their true intentions.

On the second prince's fifteenth birthday. The emperor held a banquet in the Jinhua Hall to celebrate, as well as to receive congratulatory gifts from neighboring envoys and princes. At that banquet, there was an assassination incident, and the target of the assassination was the second prince.

It was a pair of twin sisters and dancers sent by the Ryuki Kingdom. The two women twisted their flexible and soft waists like water snakes. Dancing in the spacious hall of the Jinhua Hall, at first it was just dancing in the hall. After the tea, the two women began to approach the banquet guests who were feasting around the main hall, maintaining their dancing posture while pouring wine or serving dishes to interact with the guests. Sure enough, this dance posture, which is known as the characteristics of the Ryuki country, quickly stirred up the atmosphere in the field.

However, no one could have imagined that the reason why these two dancers were agile was that they originally danced with martial arts, and the reason why they did their best to stir up the atmosphere of the entire Jinhua Hall was to create a cover to anesthetize everyone's nerves for the subsequent assassination success rate.

When a dancing girl's rainbow-like colorful silk long sleeves seemed to inadvertently touch the side of the second prince's face, he felt a slight abnormality. There was a deceitful aroma that spilled from that sleeve. It was a smell that the dancer had not had seen when she had danced past him before.

However, the Assassin who played as a dancing girl did not give the second prince time to react. Including all the guests present, they haven't come back to their senses yet. Everyone just thought that the whisk was just a part of the interaction, just like the dancing girl just now dancing and toasting with them.

Only Luo Xiaoxing, who was standing behind the second prince, felt the strangeness in his sleeve at the same moment as the second prince. She is a person who practices martial arts, and she can vaguely see that the dancing posture of the two dancers has a hidden foundation that is different from the embroidered legs of the flower fist.

It is precisely because she has more agile skills than ordinary slaves and maids, so when the dancing girl waved her long sleeves and rolled down the hairpin on the head of the VIP at the table next to her, before the hairpin stabbed, the second prince was violently lifted aside.

The golden hairpin in the dancer's hand sank into Luo Xiaoxing's shoulder blade, and the blood didn't flow much, but the pain of piercing the soft tissues of the joint made half of her body numb.

The second prince rolled over and stood up, narrowly dodging the second stab of the dancing girl, and then the two assassins disguised as dancing girls were hacked to death by the silver-armored guards who broke through the wall of the dark room on the side of the palace. This birthday celebration banquet, this assassination, ended with two graceful dancers smeared with blood on the ground.

In order to save a servant girl, the second prince summoned the imperial doctor of the Imperial Medical Bureau. It was also to let the servant girl recuperate safely, the second prince still kept her in Huayang Palace, and sent two of the maidservants who were supposed to serve him to her room.

In this regard, the emperor did not refuse, but he did not give much reward. Everyone has seen what happened in the Jinhua Palace, but in the emperor's opinion, if the son likes this maidservant, then he likes it! But that's the only thing that doesn't give any promise to you.

The second prince and Luo Xing'er themselves also understood this, but after this incident, the vague feelings between the two finally lifted the layer of fog on the surface.

After the imperial doctor took care of the wound and bandaged it with medicine, in the first few days, Luo Xing'er was still in cold sweat with pain, and it was even more difficult to sleep at night. In those days, the relationship between the prince and her master and servant seemed to be reversed, often she grabbed the prince's arm, and finally slowly fell asleep in his arms.

The mint sachet he often hangs on his waist gives him a faint and cool aroma. This was usually used as a refreshment, but when she got into his arms and smelled this cool breath, it seemed to be able to anesthetize and relieve the pain in her shoulder blades, which was very comfortable and fascinated her.