Chapter Twenty-Three: Suspicion

Although the events of that day reached the ears of the emperor, it was nothing more than that the three of them went to swim in the lake due to the summer heat, but unexpectedly they met a pair of "Tonglin birds" who wanted to escape from the golden silk cage, and the guards who pretended to be eunuchs panicked for a moment and almost dragged the three of them into the water.

A very imperfect story, full of loopholes, but unexpectedly, the emperor did not pursue it further, but just ordered the palace people to take care of it, and also rewarded many supplements and jewelry.

However, what happened that day always came to the minds of the three of them, and they couldn't calm down for a long time.

"Gongyi Fei, it was your name when you were a princess of the Han Kingdom, I don't know, what was your name when you were a prince in the Han Kingdom?"

In a drowsy state, immersed in a vain dream, unconsciously slept until dark. When he woke up, the hall was quiet, and the color was as soft and white as washing, and through a gap in the unclosed window, it penetrated, and the figure that had been waiting beside his couch for a long time was vaguely blurred.

Before he could rub his worried eyes, a pretended relaxed question instantly sobered him up.

I didn't expect to get a response, but the vague and now clear figure turned around and walked away slowly. But the moment he disappeared behind the screen, the man's voice came from a distance again, this time, not to ask him again, but to give him a word of advice.

"It's a medicine that is three parts poisonous, and it's not appropriate to use it more."

Obviously, Xuanyuan knew everything, even if not everything, and probably guessed seven or eight points. Gongyi frowned, his eyes still fixed on the direction in which the man had left.

As long as he doesn't talk about it, everything will go smoothly next, right?

Here, out of the side hall where Gongyi Fei lived, I wanted to take a few steps quickly, and quickly return to the East Palace to see Xiao Budian, but who expected, halfway, people still stopped me.

Xuanyuan Jue met Gonggong Dan near the palace road, and when he saw someone, in addition to dusting in his hand, he also carried a lamp, as if he knew that he would pass by here and deliberately waited for him here.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, the little prince is really a little scared today, the old slave has already sent someone to take Lao Liu into the palace to take care of him, you can rest assured."

With a round body, Gonggong Dan had a big belly, but he was swaggering and blatantly walking in front of Xuanyuan Jue. A dozen eyes, it doesn't seem like it's illuminating the way, and it can't even be seen who is the master.

Steady steps, walking with no one in sight, despising the royal law, obviously should have taken the road back to the East Palace, but Gonggong Dan deliberately led Xuanyuan to a remote corner.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, I don't know, when did the palace people who served the Scarlet Princess there be so unruly that a person came out and wanted to elope with the guards?"

"Oh? I don't know, Grandpa Dan, when did you have a guard in eunuch clothes and hide in the lake? ”

Words are confrontational, and words are arguing. One is a eunuch in the palace who covers the sky with one hand, and the other is a future emperor who is waiting for the situation. The two of them are well aware of what happened in Taiping Lake today. At this moment, no one let anyone, but they all asked the other party unrelentingly first.

The steps of the two stopped, and Father-in-law Dan also turned around, the corners of his mouth were pulled, and a mouth that he didn't know how much wine and food he had enjoyed, both sides were upward, bent into a big arc, and hung there. He was "laughing", but there were no fine eye lines at the corners of his eyes.

Silent confrontation, silent attention. In the end, it was a sneer from Father-in-law Dan that ended the depressed silence.

"Hey, hey, His Royal Highness the Prince, the old slave really didn't look away, I'm afraid even Your Majesty sighed at this. If you can give up, you will naturally have the people you want to protect for you. ”

Dan Gonggong said, nodding, he knew that Xuanyuan Jue in front of him had already made a choice about what he had negotiated with him before.

If you want to save Xuanyuan Qi's life, then you must let the general Xu who was in charge of the Acropolis army in the camp and dared to save them under the emperor's nose stay away from Yecheng, and it will be forever......

"Even if it is a temporary self-destruction of the Great Wall, as long as Qi'er can be safe and sound, I think it is worth it. The next thing is that there is Father-in-law Laudan. ”

A trace of resentment flashed in Xuanyuan Xuan's right eye, he knew that if he did this, he was afraid that he didn't know how many people would be implicated, but compared to that one, in his opinion, it was so worthless. The life of one person and the life of nearly 10,000 people, if he were asked to choose again, he would still choose Xuanyuan Qi.

With a flick of his long sleeves, Xuanyuan turned around and left, today, he didn't want to take another look at the disgusting face behind him. He had to rush back earlier to take a look at Xuanyuan.

"Don't! No! Wow! Yes!!! ”

The familiar voice, but not as carefree as usual, is now full of fear and screams. Because they have almost lived together and played together since childhood, and they are used to seeing Xuanyuan Qi's naughtiness, Xuanyuan knows that today really scared him.

From the assassination of Jinhe to the siege of the killer near the "Mo Huitou" forest before returning to the palace, whenever there is a scene of swords and swords and blood splashing, whether it is him, Gongyi Scarlet, or others, he will always cover Xuanyuan Qi's black and white eyes with his hands in time. All this should not have been witnessed by this innocent child.

However, what Xuanyuan didn't know was that Xuanyuanqi's fear was precisely what he was doing today.

At the moment when Xuanyuan stabbed the eunuch's throat with a broken oar, blood was dripping, gushing out along the remnants of the broken oar, and some splashed on the eunuch's face, a little bit of refutation, and soon, most of his face was dyed red, just like Guan Gong who got off the stage and was removing his makeup behind the scenes.

There was a headache for no reason, and there seemed to be thousands of silver needles on the scalp, which provoked the nerves of Xuanyuan Qi, who had witnessed all this on the ship at that time. At that moment, it was as if a snake letter had slashed past the tip of her ear and swam to her neck. Although she was not pierced by the snake's fangs, it aroused the deepest fear in her heart, and she didn't know why she was afraid.

Covered in blood, that face was in a trance, gradually distorted, and transformed into a vague appearance of another dead person in the depths of her memory, and in front of her, the fierce brother, and the handsome face of that person, in her opinion, were already Shura's evil appearance. And the boat under her was swaying unsteadily, which made her feel suffocated at a high place.

On the night when Haosheng returned from the lake, Xuanyuan Qi launched a high fever, obviously hot, but the body was still trembling, in the summer of June, in her dormitory, under the urging of Xuanyuan Xuan, the palace people brought pots of burning charcoal, even in the coldest season, it was not so. Strangely, this blazing heat did not work, and Xuanyuan Qi's body was still trembling.

She closed her eyes tightly and didn't dare to open them, because once she opened them, the cruel scene would reappear in front of her eyes, like a play, sung over and over again, lingering. She didn't know who the vague dead man was. Why did she fall from tall buildings again and again in the rather real visions in front of her eyes?

She didn't know, she really didn't know, and the only thing that was true was that she was really scared.

"The little prince is not afraid, there is an uncle here......"

Seeing such a strange Xuanyuan Qi, Liu Chu seemed to expect her to be like this, because, déjà vu, almost the same crying and struggling, as early as four years ago, he had already seen it once. On that night, Xuanyuan Qi, who was still a toddler who couldn't even speak completely, cried all night, until he cried until his throat was dumb, and he couldn't cry anymore before falling asleep with silent sobbing.

Looking at Liu Chu, who grabbed Xuanyuan Qi's entire villain like his father, Rao didn't care about it earlier, but now, Xuanyuan Qi also thought of why Xuanyuan Qi was like this.

"Uncle, I'm sorry, today, it's my fault......"

Xuanyuan Jue, who has always refused to bow his head easily, didn't know how to speak for a while, and after muttering for a long time, he was already seven or eight points weaker. In front of Liu Chu, he still lowered his head like a child who had made a big mistake.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince doesn't need to blame himself, it happened suddenly, I didn't think about it, I just received a letter from the little prince's nurse a few days ago, she and her family are almost in Yecheng, and it will only take two or three days to do so. When I poured, I hope that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can talk to the emperor, my little prince has not seen the nurse for some days, and Mrs. Yan is also very worried about the princess......"

Liu took a look, put down Xuanyuan Qi who had just been coaxed in his arms, and put it down slowly, for fear of alarming this little bit, and at the same time, he also carefully tucked the corners of the silk quilt on both sides with his hands, completely wrapping Xuanyuan Qi's small body. As soon as he settled here, he immediately bowed to Xuanyuan according to the number of etiquette.

"There is no need to be like this, there are only three of us here......"

The moment Liu Chu hurriedly helped him up, Xuanyuan glanced at it and saw the faintly gray hair on the back of Liu Chu's head.

I was stunned for a moment, and somehow I thought of the old uncle who was deceased, and who almost didn't step out of the palace all day long.

If he's still here, maybe he'll make fun of his housekeeper, it's too much work?

After a moment of stunnedness, the Lingtai was clear. Xuanyuan pondered Liu Chu's words just now, thinking that something seemed to be wrong, frowning, and still asked his doubts. "Uncle Chu, the nurse you said, but the nurse who was dismissed by you a year ago? Why did you suddenly want to go back to King Kang's Mansion again, and you still dragged your family with you? ”

When Liu Chu heard this, he smiled dumbly, and with this smile, he shook his head helplessly.

At the beginning, Princess Kang died soon after she was unable to give birth to Xuanyuan Qi, and King Xiankang also told a big lie about stealing the dragon and turning the phoenix. was supposed to be a county lord, but he became the son of the world, and later inherited the throne of King Kang. Now, in addition to the midwife and a few maidservants who were sent away by him and King Xiankang back then, the only people who are still alive in the world are him and the nurse who was resigned by him that year. It is said that he looked away at the beginning and lured the wolf into the house, this woman is arrogant and domineering in the mansion on weekdays, but he actually discovered that she was secretly putting money in the house under the guise of King Kang's mansion, and even reselling illicit salt! When he beat her out of the door, he was too merciful, and he didn't think that she would run back to her hometown, and dragged her family to threaten him in a letter. It is really a woman's kindness for a while, and the tiger returns to the mountain, and today the harm is endless!

"Ha, let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince smile, my little prince, I can't bear him as a nurse for a while, I can't help it, so I have to let the nurse come back, bring my family, and settle down in this Yecheng, which will be ......much more convenient in the future."

Liu Chu lowered his head and casually found an excuse, hoping to hide it from the past, this matter, even if it was just for Xuanyuan Jue to know a little bit, Xuanyuan Qi's true identity would be discovered sooner or later!

"Oh? Is it really just that? Ha, Qi'er is still young, and it is reasonable that he is reluctant to take care of his nurse since he was a child, I will say with my father, when the nurse comes, Qi'er and him, I will go back to King Kang's Mansion with Princess Scarlet......"

The more he deliberately covered it up, the more determined Xuanyuan became to secretly send someone to investigate. On his lips, while speaking, he turned around and retreated, and did not forget to say a few words to the palace maid who had just brought the soothing soup outside the hall.

"This decoction is too bitter, after serving Qi'er to drink it, remember to add more licorice next time." Picking up the porcelain spoon on the tray on the side of the medicine bowl, Xuanyuan Jue tasted it first, it was bitter and astringent, which made people's scalp numb, and the little guy in the hall, if it was a weekday, I am afraid that he would not be willing to drink it obediently.

What is Liu Chu hiding from him? He must check it out!