Tingshui Xuan is an old scene near the lotus pond of the Imperial Garden, which has fallen into disrepair for a long time. However, the two small pavilions next to it were cleaned up, barely able to live in.

Shen Yuli entered the door, threw two linen clothes to the head of the bed, and lay down with a comfortable face: "This is also a reward from my father, and I will no longer be a homeless wild dog in the future." ”

The little eunuch next to him turned pale, and knelt down: "The palace...... Your Highness, Your Highness is angry! ”

Shen Yuli smiled: "Anger? When did Prince Ben get angry? ”

The little eunuch did not dare to speak, and only shrank his neck timidly.

Shen Yuli frowned and looked at him for a while, and sat up a little irritably: "I can't say anything, did my father send you to be a pillar for me?" Why don't you just change your name to wood! ”

"Wood thank Your Highness for your name!" The little eunuch was clever this time, and he kowtowed, even if he recognized the name.

Shen Yuli looked at him angrily and funny, and waved his hand to send him out after a while: "There is no need to serve here, you go outside to play!" If anyone comes, be smart! ”

The wood retreated in a daze, and Shen Yuli immediately got up and pushed the window and looked outside.

This place is not an independent courtyard, but the outside of the lily vine has not been pruned for many years, overlapping and impermeable, and idlers can't get in.

But that little girl was no ordinary person. If she wants to come, it shouldn't be difficult.

Thinking of this, Shen Yuli felt funny again, slapped the back of his hand heavily, and scolded: "Blind thought! ”

I don't even know the origin of the people, how dare I think she would come to this place? So far, the little girl has only shown a little kindness, and the reason for this is not clear!

He's crazy!

Shen Yuli laughed at himself fiercely in his heart for a while, and then explained to himself: I just wanted to thank her in person, and it wasn't an unsightly thought, why couldn't I think about it?

I thought about it over and over again until it was dark, and I didn't see the little girl in the pink skirt coming.

Shen Yuli was deflated, and ordered Mu Tou to go to the imperial dining room to get food to eat, and then lay back sullenly.

Now that I don't have to steal food, I finally have a bed board and bedding for sleeping, but life doesn't seem to be better than before.

I always feel that my surroundings are empty, as if something is missing.

Until—

At the second watch, there was a loud sound from the old pavilion door, and a little eunuch crept in.

It's around the forest.

Shen Yuli sat up.

The little eunuch was startled, fluttered and retreated to the door, and then deliberately increased his pace, walked to the bed, glared and complained angrily: "What's the matter with you?" You forgot me in the mountains! ”

Shen Yuli was silent for a moment.

Huan Lin didn't feel anything at first, but Shen Yuli didn't speak at this time, but she suddenly felt wronged, and her eyes slowly turned red.

Shen Yuli frowned, closed his eyes and lay back: "Didn't you come back yourself?" Such a big person, if you don't have the ability to go back to the palace and find me, what do I want you to do? ”

"You...... You are unreasonable! Huanlin was even more aggrieved, "I can be regarded as saving your life, and I am so tired that my legs are about to break after running for you!" You're fine, just slip away by yourself and leave me in that hellish place to feed the foxes! ”

Shen Yu was irritable, turned over and sat up again: "Don't force yourself to take credit, my life can't be saved by you." Also, do you need to explain to me first, what kind of disaster did you cause in the palace, causing me to come back and be tried as a thief by my father? ”

Huan Lin immediately shrunk his neck weakly, and he didn't dare to be wronged anymore.

Arrogance has always been a trade-off. As soon as she lowered her head here, Shen Yuli immediately came to her senses, and her face turned on fiercely: "You are really capable, you only have half a life left, and you can still bring trouble to your father!" Say it yourself, how are you going to solve this matter? Tomorrow I will hand you over to my father, and you will be beaten and punished? ”

"No, I'll die!" Huan Lin jumped up anxiously, "The emperor will really kill me!" He suspects that I am in league with the Assassins......"

Shen Yuli took over the conversation and said coldly: "Oh, in this way, I will be more affected by you." My father will think that you are instructed by me to plot a great rebellion. ”

Huan Lin was stunned: "Then, what should I do?" ”

"What else can I do?" Shen Yuli let out a long sigh, and lay down again with his arms on his pillow: "Sooner or later, you will die in your hands, and living a day is a day!" ”

Huan Lin was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he sat on the ground next to the bed in a daze, unable to say a word.

Shen Yuli rarely saw her so honest, of course, he had to appreciate it carefully. It wasn't until he wiped his tears from the forest that he comforted him again: "Don't cry yet." It's easy to want to die in this palace, but it's not difficult to live. ”

Huan Lin couldn't understand such words, and glared at him while wiping his tears.

Shen Yuli hesitated for a moment, took out the porcelain bottle from his arms, and handed it over: "You stupid slave, you are either in trouble or injured in three days, and you can live until now to tell fortunes." I still have two pills here, you can take them, heal the wounds. ”

Huan Lin took the porcelain vase and immediately burst into laughter.

This Shen Yuli actually remembered that she was injured, and her conscience was not clear!

Although her injuries had long since healed, the pill was not bitter at all like jelly beans, and she didn't mind taking a few more.

Huan Lin was not polite at all, he casually poured out the last two pills in the porcelain bottle and ate them, pinching the bottle and throwing it out of the window.

"Stop!" Shen Yuli suddenly jumped up, snatched the bottle in her hand dangerously, and cooled his face: "Who told you to throw it?!" ”

Huan Lin was stunned: "Can't you throw it?" It's empty! ”

"I didn't say I could throw it, so I can't throw it!" Shen Yuli carefully wiped the bottle clean and put it back into his arms.

Huan Lin squinted his eyes and looked at him, only to feel inexplicable.

Shen Yuli blushed when she stared at her, and only after a while did he say coldly: "Our life is not good, there are still useful things, don't throw them away casually!" ”

Huan Lin agreed in a daze, only to feel that this person was getting more and more wrong.

What, after going out of the palace to send a funeral, the whole person became chattering, shouldn't he be frozen stupid in the cold pool?

Huanlin couldn't sleep, leaned on the side of the bed and looked around at this pavilion, feeling that he had an unfinished heart, and the days were really difficult.

The new little eunuch Mu also has an unfinished heart.

He went to the well early in the morning to fetch water, and was ready to serve his master to freshen up. As soon as I pushed the door, I saw that the bedding on the bed was messy, and a thin little eunuch was wrapped around his highness like a tree ape, sleeping so fragrantly.

The wood staggered in fright, and the copper basin in his hand slammed against the door with a loud bang. Before he could cry, His Highness had already opened his eyes and looked at him.

"I ...... Slaves deserve to die, slaves deserve to die! The wood threw the copper basin and knelt on the ground, knocking and kowtowing.

Shen Yuli frowned, looking dissatisfied: "What's the noise in the early morning?" Get up and get out! ”

"Yes, yes, minions, get out!" The wood kowtowed a few more times, picked up the copper basin and crawled out with a rolling belt.

I could still hear a soft complaint coming from inside the door: "What's the noise?" I haven't slept enough! It was late last night......"

Wood was so frightened that his legs went limp, and he sat down on the stone steps of the doorway.

What's going on, hey! Although it is inevitable that young people have some thoughts in this regard, they can ...... That's a little eunuch! But as long as he is a little palace maid with a flat head and a straight face, he will not be scared like this!

What does that mean now? If His Royal Highness has such a habit, then he ......

Should he take the initiative to ask the one inside about the rules of serving his master, or should he get out of the wilderness in time and run away?

The more the little eunuch thought about it, the more entangled he became, and the whole person was about to twist into a twist.

God knows, he was originally just a rough servant who swept the floor in the imperial garden, and he had never encountered such a major event in the six or seven years since he entered the palace, so how could he deal with it!

Sure enough, there was no pie falling from the sky. When he received this new errand yesterday, he thought that he had worked hard to get through, but he didn't expect it to be a big fire pit......

Although the rules in the palace are not allowed to cry, the honest little eunuch Mu Tou violated the palace rules for the first time in his life, and cried very desperately.

Huanlin is also desperate.

She didn't fall asleep until almost dawn, and at most an hour before and after she was woken up by the little eunuch who suddenly appeared. She hasn't gotten angry yet, what does it mean for the other party to sit on the steps and cry first? Looks like she's bullying?

After learning from Shen Yuli's mouth that this was the new eunuch given to him by the emperor, Huan Lin felt full of bad feelings.

What's the matter, new arrival, is this a competition for favor?

Fighting for favor is still unwilling to fight openly, to play this kind of indiscriminate caution! The girls chirp, just like the unproductive concubines around the emperor!

If you want to play tricks, don't play in front of Shen Yuli, silly boy!

Huan Lin was angry, but he also thought it was funny. After getting up in a hurry, she immediately rushed out of the door and patted her hand on the top of the wood: "Hey! ”

"Huh?!" The wood was so frightened that he shuddered, hurriedly cried, and hurriedly turned over and kowtowed: "Brother, I didn't mean to see it!" Wrong...... I didn't see anything! Brother spare his life! ”

Huan Lin couldn't help it, and sneered: "Who do you call brother?" ”

The wood was so frightened that he shuddered, and he kowtowed again: "I said it wrong, my father-in-law spares his life!" Father-in-law spares his life! ”

This time, Huanlin couldn't help it even more, and laughed out loud: "Forget it, let's call my brother!" How can there be such a simple child as you in the palace? ”

Wood didn't seem to be very fierce when he heard this, and he didn't dare to be sure for a while, so he timidly raised his head and peeked at it.

Huan Lin rubbed his hand on the top of his head, and said with a smile: "For the sake of you being stupider than me, I don't blame you!" Your Highness has risen, fetch water and go in and serve! ”

The wood agreed repeatedly, but his legs were still very weak, and he didn't dare to walk.

Seeing this, Huanlin was a little angry, and jumped up: "Wow, I'm going to be lazy just now!" If you don't want to do it, tell me where the well is, and I'll hit it! I'll teach you a lesson when I'm done with my errands! ”

Frightened by her, the wood pointed out the direction of the well to her, and by the way, he picked up the copper basin from the ground and handed it over.

When he walked far around the forest, the dull little eunuch realized that something was not right.

- He is supporting His Highness's intimate people to do rough work for him!

There is no doubt that this is a typical death-seeking behavior, and there is no need to wait for that "brother" to come back to teach him a lesson, maybe His Highness will cut him down himself!

The more Mu thought about it, the more frightened he felt, and he didn't dare to take the initiative to go in to find Shen Yuli to plead guilty, so he was so anxious that he walked around the door.

Went straight to the forest and staggered around the forest and brought a basin of water into the pavilion, and the wooden head of the wood suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and came up with a brilliant idea: my brother serves His Royal Highness, and he will serve my brother, so that he should be able to make up for his previous mistakes, right?

Just do it.

After confirming that the two masters in the pavilion would not call him for a while, Mu immediately ran to the kitchen to ask for a few vegetables and vegetables, and then went to the garden to pick a few fruits, and ran to the lower room to boil the soup.

It wasn't until near noon that Huan Lin didn't want to go to the imperial dining room to get food, so he remembered that there was a new one below who could be ordered.

"Hey, wood, wood!" She asked the name of the little eunuch from Shen Yuli, and laughed as she shouted.

Hearing the sound, the wood immediately ran over, holding a box in his hand, and inside were two bowls of fragrant soup.

Huan Lin smiled when he saw it: "You are clever, you are afraid that I will beat you, so you rushed to the imperial dining room to get food to ask for sin?" Why is there only so little? Don't you eat it yourself? ”

Mu Tou knelt and put the box on the table, and said tremblingly: "The slave hasn't gone to the imperial dining room yet, this soup is boiled by the slave himself, and it is for His Highness and brother...... For body tonics. ”

"Hey, you can cook!" Huanlin was overjoyed, picked up his bowl of soup and drank more than half of it in a few sips, smacking his lips: "It tastes very good!" What's in there? ”

Mu Tou hurriedly said: "Sea clams, cuttlefish, cooked codonopsis, are all ordinary things. His Royal Highness's blood qi Fang Gang didn't have to worry too much about it, but I saw that my brother was still young and was growing his body, so I added a few more herbs to nourish qi and blood. ”

"Replenish your blood?" Huan Lin was relieved, holding the bowl and drinking in one gulp: "I have to make up for it, I have suffered a lot of losses these days!" You don't know, my ass was rotten that day, and I couldn't walk the road, it was a miserable thing! If it weren't for the good medicine, I would ......"

Shen Yuli couldn't bear it anymore when he heard it, he coughed heavily and cut off her chatter, raised his head and commanded to the wood: "A bowl of soup is not enough to plug his mouth, you go to the imperial dining room to get some full food." ”

"Yes, yes, the minion is going!" Wood couldn't wait to shrink his head into his neck, and staggered out the door with his feet in tow, and ran away with a puff of smoke.

That's a horrification.

Huan Lin watched him run away, so he turned back to Shen Yuli and smiled, "Do you think this little guy's courage is too small?" I saw him outside this morning, and he kowtowed to me! ”

Shen Yuli shook his head and said meaningfully: "It's not that the wood is timid, it's that you scared him." ”

"I didn't!" Huan Lin was not convinced, and slapped the table: "How can such a good-tempered person as me scare him!" Obviously he scared me, so he ran to the house early in the morning with a copper basin to ring the gong! Cuckoos are not as noisy as he is! ”

Shen Yuli sighed with a smile, helpless: "Falling a copper basin scares you?" You also think about that child, when he first arrived, before he could stand on his heels, he saw that you were such a 'brother' in front of the master, how could he not be afraid? ”

"Why am I not too big or small?" Huan Lin was very unconvinced.

Shen Yuli turned around and pointed to the bed, then turned back and pointed to the bowl in her hand: "Sleep on the master's bed and rob the master's food." If someone out there finds out, they're going to smash your ass again. ”

Huan Lin was taken aback: "Aren't these all good?" That...... So where do I sleep in the future? ”

Shen Yuli stood up, pushed open the window and pointed outside: "You can sleep at the door and keep vigil for me, or you can go to the lower room and sleep with the wood." ”

"I don't!" Huan Lin jumped up anxiously, "I'll go outside to sleep, I'll meet ghosts!" You don't know how easy it is for me to summon ghosts...... You don't want ghosts to visit this yard for three days, do you? ”

"It doesn't matter, I can't see it." Shen Yuli didn't care at all.

Huanlin was really anxious, and he jumped to his feet and shouted: "You don't care, I have a so-called!" Anyway, I don't care, I just want to sleep with you! If you pick me up, I won't leave! ”

A small eunuch outside hurried over and stumbled in front of the stone steps, nearly tripping.

It is also thanks to the fact that he has been waiting in front of the master for a long time, and his concentration is outstanding, and he quickly stood firm as if nothing happened, walked to the door and said inwardly: "Fourth Highness, the noble concubine Niangniang is in the Moon Pavilion in the garden, please come over." ”

Of course, this "concubine" is not the one who has just been buried. Now the palace is headed by the newly promoted Concubine Ye.

Ye Guifei is soft and cowardly, and she is also afraid of trouble. If she says summoned, there must be a reason.

Of course, it's for those things in the concubine's tomb.

Shen Yuli took the forest into the garden, and saw Ye Guifei and another beautiful concubine sitting face to face from a distance, and a eunuch knelt below.

As soon as he looked at him, Huan Lin was so frightened that he shuddered: The one opposite, isn't it the concubine who was not shocked by the emperor's side on the night she "rescued"?

She knew it wasn't over yet! She shouldn't have come today! It's all to blame on Shen Yuli!

Here he stepped forward and saluted with a stomach full of chagrin, and the concubine over there had already laughed: "It turns out that the little hero who saved the driver that night also came." Excuse me! ”

Shen Yuli got up according to his words, and hid timidly behind him, how obedient he was.

Ye Guifei covered her mouth with a handkerchief and coughed twice, and said softly: "Don't be afraid, Your Majesty and Zhaorong both told me about that night, your master and servant are both loyal and filial, and no one will blame you." ”

Huan Lin raised his head in astonishment and asked urgently: "Why has it become a heart of loyalty and filial piety again?" That night, His Majesty suspected that I was a bad person, and he wanted to arrest me and say that I would be tried together when His Highness came back...... I'm still angry and swearing! ”

"It turns out that you also know that you are presumptuous!" Qian Zhaorong shook his fan and laughed teasingly, "That night, I was almost scared to death by you!" Didn't you grow up eating tiger guts? Dare to be presumptuous in front of His Majesty! ”

Huan Lin smiled and didn't dare to answer, so Shen Yuli said for her: "It's just a wild child, Su Ri has never been taught, thank you for your father and Qian Niangniang's tolerance." ”

Qian Zhaorong shook the small fan in his hand lightly, and said with a good temper: "This temperament is indeed a wild child. Only in this way can the heart of a child be even more valuable. Although His Majesty didn't say anything about this incident, he really liked it in his heart. ”

Huanlin listened in a daze, and vaguely felt that Qian Zhaorong seemed to be praising her, but she always felt uneasy, and couldn't help but interject again: "I don't know what is innocent or not, I just don't understand, what Niangniang means, isn't Your Majesty to blame?" But why? ”

Qian Zhaorong's hand shook the fan slightly, and then smiled casually: "The matter has passed, there is no need to mention it again." Today, the concubine Niangniang summoned you here for the public case in the concubine Linghantan. ”

Shen Yuli bowed again when he heard this, and said word by word: "Concubine Niangniang, about the Hantan, Erchen has already made it clear to his father and emperor: It is true that the third brother pushed me into the water, and Erchen does not dare to lie!" ”

Ye Guifei frowned slightly and looked embarrassed, but suddenly a little eunuch over there said loudly: "You didn't lie, could it be that my Royal Highness lied?" My Royal Highness was frostbitten by the cold pool, and he has been suffering from a fever since last night, and today he is simply unconscious! Concubine Niangniang, it should not be difficult to distinguish who is right and wrong in this matter! ”

It turned out that this person was Xiao Dongzi, the eunuch beside Shen Yuyu. He knelt on the ground and cried mourning and anger, which made the soft-hearted Ye Guifei sigh.

In this way, it seems that the third prince is indeed more reasonable!

Huan Lin was the first to disagree, and shouted loudly with his waist crossed: "What kind of reason is this, the concubine Niangniang summoned us here to investigate the case, not to cry louder than anyone!" If you want to compete with the voice, I can dig two toads from the pool and win you safely! ”

Xiao Dongzi was crying vigorously, and when he heard this, he was almost angry, and hurriedly raised his head to quarrel with her.

Huan Lin didn't give him a chance to speak, and then shouted: "Your Royal Highness has fallen into the water, and my Royal Highness has also fallen into the water; My Royal Highness didn't freeze in the water, that's because he has great ability, and your Highness is frozen like that, that's because he is too bad! My Royal Highness fell into the water in front, and Your Highness fell into the water behind, this is clearly your Highness mutilating his siblings, God can't look past it, punish him for a wolf-hearted thing! ”

"You ......" Xiao Dongzi trembled with anger, and trembled for a long time before he hissed: "Guifei Niangniang, the slave is here to argue right and wrong on behalf of His Royal Highness today, not to scold others!" ”

Huan Lin was unconvinced, and wanted to quarrel with him-for-tat, Shen Yuli suddenly held down her hand.

So Ye Guifei finally had the space to open her mouth and said: "Indeed, the stakes are very high, and there must be evidence to finalize the case." What do you have to say? ”

The last sentence was not asked by Shen Yuli, but by the row of eunuchs kneeling on the ground.

It was the tomb keeper of the concubine's tomb.

These people had been warned in advance, and they did not dare to lie in front of the nobles in the palace, and they immediately told what they knew: that night it rained heavily, and the two princes did not go to the vigil, only they guarded; When he returned to his residence after daybreak, he caught the drunken little eunuch and learned from him that the fourth prince was missing; Then the third prince ordered everyone to find the whereabouts of the fourth prince; Then the third prince disappeared and was found in Hantan after dawn......

That's all there is to the back and forth, and it really can't be used as a witness for either side.

After all, they are not anyone's henchmen, and they have not had the opportunity to see anything unsightly with their own eyes.

Ye Guifei was a little disappointed and embarrassed, and hesitated: "You have been in the Concubine Mausoleum for a long time, and you always know more about that area than others. After two nights in a row, you didn't hear anything about it? ”

A few eunuchs, you look at me, I look at you, hesitated for a while, and finally shook their heads.

At this time, Xiao Dongzi suddenly sneered beside him: "You people are all hanging high on your own, for fear of affecting yourself, even the life and innocence of the prince can be ignored, right?" Don't blame me for not reminding you, this is a royal business, a prince's business! ”

The prince's business means that it may be the future emperor's business. One step further down, it's a matter of life for each and every one of them.

The faces of several eunuchs were very ugly, and one was trembling worse than the other.

Shen Yuli didn't shout like Xiao Dongzi. He just took a slight step forward, looked at one of the eunuchs and sighed: "Indeed, it is a matter of the innocence of me and the third brother, and this matter must be distinguished from right and wrong. The doctor said that the third brother's limbs were completely wasted, and his heart and lungs were damaged, and he really suffered a big loss this time. Although I have a clear conscience, I don't want to wronged the third brother. If you see with your own eyes that there is another murderer who killed me, my third brother and I will naturally be very happy. ”

His words were not serious, but the eunuch he was staring at was already trembling to his knees.

Shen Yuli recognized him, and he also knew that Shen Yuli recognized him. He was the person Shen Yuli bumped into in the middle of the road that night before he committed the murder.

Of course he can tell the truth. But, what can a prince with "all his limbs and heart and lungs damaged" give him? How long can you shelter him?

The pros and cons of this matter, the eunuch had already analyzed it very clearly in his heart. Therefore, after Ye Guifei noticed him, before he had time to ask, he had already knelt forward and crawled forward, and kowtowed: "Slaves don't dare to lie!" The concubine Niangniang, the slave saw it with his own eyes, and ...... that night It was the Third Highness who took a team of guards and threw the Fourth Highness into the cold pool! The Fourth Highness did not move in the water, and the servants looked at it from a distance and thought that His Highness was not good, until the guards of the Third Highness left the cold pool, and then saw the Fourth Highness slowly crawl out of the water by himself......"

"You lie, you lie!" Xiao Dongzi was so frightened that his face turned white.

The eunuch raised his head and straightened his back: "The slave guarantees the life of the whole family, and there is no half-word lie!" I don't know how the Third Highness fell into the water, but the Fourth Highness must have been pushed down by you! ”

If these words are spoken, it can be regarded as a coffin closure.

Xiao Dongzi didn't expect this result, he was so anxious that he cried and begged, and refused to stop arguing.

Shen Yuli looked uninterested, got up and said, "Since the right and wrong are already clear, Erchen has nothing to say." The concubine Niangniang, the son wants to visit the third brother and retire first. ”

Seeing this, Ye Guifei had no choice but to agree, stood up again and said, "Fourth Highness, you have indeed been wronged this time. And I am happy that the truth is finally revealed...... Alas, if you feel sorry in your heart, come and sit with me often. Although I am not your biological mother, I have been friends with your mother, so you don't have to see me. ”

Shen Yuli agreed one by one, beckoned to Huanlin and was about to go out.

Huanlin was unwilling, and quietly slipped to Qian Zhaorong's side while people were unprepared, and asked in a low voice: "Niangniang, the incident I asked earlier ......"

"Alas, you're so curious!" Qian Zhaorong was helpless, "Your Majesty doesn't like palace people to talk about this, you ask!" ”

"My life is at stake!" Huan Lin was cheeky and coquettish, "Niangniang praised me as a hero first, how can I be willing to let the hero scratch my heart and liver!" ”

Qian Zhaorong shook his head, knocked on the top of Huanlin's head with a fan, and smiled: "It's just a matter of ghosts and gods, you want to ask so much!" In fact, it was not the assassin who caused the trouble that day, it was a female ghost, and she was quickly caught by Chong Xuzhen! People and ghosts have different paths, and Your Majesty naturally knows that you are not in the same group as her! ”

"Why...... Caught?! "Circling the forest was shocked.