Zhang Jiu's Zhuangzi was originally used to handle cases, except for a courtyard where he settled, the other courtyards were all private prisons, and all the eighteen torture instruments were complete.

He led Xiao Xun to a courtyard in the middle, turned the machine in the hall, and the two Duobao Pavilions under the west wall were automatically separated, and a stone staircase appeared in front of the two of them.

"Prince, please!" Zhang Jiu stretched out his hand and said.

Xiao Xun glanced at him, with a cold face, he lifted the hem of his dark robe and walked down the stairs, and the minister followed closely behind him with two dead soldiers, and Zhang Jiu fell behind the last hall.

The group walked along the stone steps for dozens of steps before reaching the entrance of the dungeon.

Xiao Xun studied under the Tiansuan Gate, his five senses were sensitive, and before he entered, he smelled a strong smell of blood, and the ministers also smelled it, so he stepped forward and pushed the stone door of the cell open.

I saw a yin and yang man who was neither male nor female tied to the torture rack, with his head drooping, without a piece of good meat on his body, and from a distance, it looked like a blood gourd.

"Wake him up." Xiao Xun sat down on the Taishi chair opposite the torture rack, and looked coldly at Mama Chun, who was tied to the torture rack, and said.

Hearing this, Laichen swept towards the ice bucket with cold water at his feet, wanting to wake people up, but before he started, he was stopped by Zhang Jiu, Zhang Jiu stopped his movements, and said in a low voice, "I'll come," The next moment, he picked up a golden hammer on the torture rack and smashed it on the thumb of "Mama Chun" sticking to the torture rack.

The dull sound of hammers and bone cracking sounded, and the "Spring Mama", who had fainted, snorted, raised her head suddenly, and stabbed towards Zhang Jiu with gloomy eyes.

Zhang Jiu saw him looking at him, and a three-point smile appeared between the eyebrows of the demon, "Since Mama is awake, you might as well explain the crimes you confessed to me before to the prince again." ”

Mama Chun was severely punished, panting in pain, and there was a ho-ho sound in his throat, he turned his head with difficulty, looked at Xiao Xun who was leaning on the Taishi's chair, and said intermittently, "It's me...... I hated the princess for deceiving me and hiding from me, and tricked me like a fool, and I didn't have a few days to live, so I simply kidnapped He Qi and set up this bureau. ”

He Qi is the little master that Aunt Wu served in the past.

Xiao Xun raised his eyebrows and looked at him with sharp eyes, "Who did you use to get on the Wu family's line?" Also, less than half a month after the Wu family entered Beijing, she didn't even know He Qi's whereabouts, where did you learn about He Qi's whereabouts? ”

When Mama Chun heard Xiao Xun ask like this, her cloudy pupils shrank suddenly, her lips tightened, and she didn't speak again.

Xiao Xun saw that he was silent, and glanced at Zhang Jiu.

Zhang Jiu understood, raised the gold in his hand, and smashed it on Mama Chun's index finger. Mama Chun gasped in pain, his eyes were red, and seeing that Zhang Jiu was going to smash the third middle finger again, he hurriedly said, "Don't smash it again, I'll do it!" ”

"Say!" Xiao Xun scolded briefly.

Mama Chun said, "Twenty years ago, I was a eunuch in the palace...... There are several eunuchs in the National Teacher's Mansion, and they have all received my favors, so it is very easy for me to ask them to bring me something. ”

"As for the prayer...... I didn't have to look for him at all, when I went to Suiga's house and was raided, he and his aunt were originally settled by me. ”

"And I, my original name is not Fuchun, but Qi Yi."

The names Fuchun and Qi Yi spit out from Mama Chun's mouth, and Zhang Jiu and Xiao Xun both changed their faces.

They have read the records of the historians, and they all know that more than 20 years ago, Fuchun was the premier eunuch in the palace, and even the sudden death of the first emperor was inextricably linked to him, and Qi Yi was the youngest son of Yichun Bofu, who was exterminated by the first emperor.

No one thought that these two people would be the same person.

But only in this way can he catch up with Aunt Wu in a short period of time to explain it.

Xiao Xun pursed his eyebrows, his expression changed for a few moments, he looked at him and asked, "You and Lu He, what's the matter?" ”

mentioned Lu He, Qi Yi's confession was even more painful, "Back then, he was willing to save me because he took a fancy to my ability to train women, and wanted me to be used by him and help him train women, and I just needed a place to hide, so I agreed to him and came to Beizhuang with him." ”

At this point, he paused slightly, and added, "He doesn't know my other identity. ”

"The emperor died violently back then, but it has something to do with you?" After a long silence, Xiao asked one last question.

When Qi Yi heard this, a frenzied coldness surged up on his blood-covered face, "It's me!" I want to cut him with a thousand knives! My grandfather and father clearly did not collaborate with the enemy, but he listened to the slander of his family, and did not even give his grandfather and father a chance to defend themselves, so he punished the whole Qi family! ”

"Do you know, how old my youngest nephew and niece are, two months, a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, only two months old, he didn't even let them go, on the torture table, the executioner's knife chopped down, and just like that, they were split in two......

"They're so small, there's blood all over the ground......"

Recalling the scene on the torture platform back then, Qi Yi's tears rushed out of his eyes, and in an instant, he seemed to have returned to that day, the nurse stood in the distance of the torture platform, hugged him tightly, covered his mouth tightly, and pointed to him, "Brother, you have to remember, your family, they all died in the hands of the dog emperor, you must come out in the future to avenge your grandfather and grandmother, father, brother and sister, nephew and niece!" ”

It was also because of that scene, because of the nurse's words, that after he was eight years old, he entered the palace with a lonely heart and without looking back.

The days when he first entered the palace were naturally difficult, and the most inferior little eunuch could step on anyone who saw it.

At that time, the little eunuchs who entered the palace with him in less than half a year went halfway, and he was the only one who was shameless, fearless of everything, and desperately climbed up.

At that time, he had only one thought in his heart, which was to avenge his family.

Fortunately, he did it later, and he fed the poison into the mouth of the dog emperor with his own hands, and when he wanted to ask for help, he used a soft pillow to suffocate his mouth and nose......

In the dungeon, Qi Yi quietly traced the past, if you want to say regrets, there are also regrets, Yichun Bofu has no successor, after he left, no one will offer cigarettes to the ancestors and ancestors.

Outside the dungeon, Zhuangzi exits.

Before getting on the horse, Zhang Jiu looked at Xiao Xun with a complicated face, "Prince, have you thought about it, what should Chun Mama do?" Having already left the dungeon, he didn't call Qi Yi again just to be on the safe side.

Xiao Xun was silent for a moment, twisted his eyebrows and said in a deep voice, "After the prince and the envoys leave, move to Dali Temple with the confession and evidence!" ”

Zhang Jiu responded.

Then the group rode their horses and ran towards the city.

By the time I got back to the inner city, it was the end of the ugly hour.

Xiao Xun took into account that it was too late, so he didn't go to Luoshen Garden, but went straight to the study to rest.

It didn't take long for the sky to get light.

A prisoner came in to serve him and change his clothes, and after washing, the courtier came in from outside.

Seeing the minister, Xiao Xun suddenly remembered that Aunt Wu in the dungeon had not been released yet, so he opened his mouth to inform him.

Laichen understood, and arched his hand, "The matter of Mama Chun is very important, my subordinates will go to it in person and explain it clearly to the Wu family!" ”

"Hmm." Xiao Xun snorted lightly.

Laichen retreated outward, and when he arrived at the dungeon of the National Teacher's Mansion, Aunt Wu was already almost thin into a handful of bones.

Hearing the sound of chains again, she struggled to get up from the ground and walked out.

Seeing that the person who came was Laichen, she blinked her eyes slightly, and then said cautiously, "Lord Lai, but the mastermind behind the scenes has found out?" ”

Seeing Aunt Wu standing staggering, Laichen held her arm and put a hand, and then frowned, and said coldly, "It has been found out, the person behind the scenes is a relative of Aunt Song of the He family, when the He family suffered, it was He Qi and Aunt Song who he settled, you can rest assured of the safety of those two people." ”

"That's good, that's good...... Thank goodness for that! When Aunt Wu heard that He Qi was fine, she breathed a sigh of relief.

Laichen glanced at her more, raised his eyebrows and said, "Thank you for what heaven and earth, if you want to thank you, you should also thank the prince!" ”

Aunt Wu listened to Laichen's words, she was stunned for a moment, and then nodded again and again, "What Lord Lai said is that I was confused, the person who found out the truth is the prince, and the person I should thank is naturally also the prince." ”

Laichen was satisfied when he heard her change his words like this.

Then, he led her out and personally sent her back to Luo Shen Yuan.

In Luoshen Garden, because of the visit of the prince of the Japanese princess, Lu Nianjin was going to enter the palace for a banquet, so she didn't have much time to appease Aunt Wu, said a few words to her, and helped her invite a doctor, so she took Yun Jiang's hand and walked to the front yard.

In the front yard, Xiao Xun was already waiting.

Seeing Lu Nianjin dressed up and walking towards him, the beauty was incomprehensible, and his eyes couldn't help but show a touch of amazement, but soon, that touch of amazement was replaced by lightness.

When she walked up to him, he gave her a critical look and said, "Why is it so slow?" ”

Lu Nianjin was reprimanded by him like this, and his brows furrowed suddenly, since he recovered his identity, he has always been kind to her, and he has not been so picky for a long time.

However, she didn't bother to bother with him, so she immediately glanced at him with a smile and said, "That's the concubine's fault, the concubine is here to compensate the prince!" ”

She looked like a fake model, Xiao Xun looked at it, and felt uncomfortable again, and his tone became more indifferent and detached towards her, "Let's go!" ”

After saying that, he turned around.

Lu Nianjin followed behind him, and the two always kept a half-step distance until they left the gate of the National Teacher's Mansion and stopped in front of the golden chariot before he turned back to her and said, "Get in the car." ”

"Oh!" Lu Nianjin agreed, and walked towards the car, and Xiao Xun also got into the car after her.

As for Yun Jiang and Yun Shu, they went to the back car with interest.

In the golden car, Xiao Xun sat there with his back straight, his eyes not squinting, and his thin lips were tightly pursed.

And Lu Nianjin, because she was worried about Aunt Wu, she didn't sleep very well last night, and she didn't feel anything outside just now, and as soon as she got in the car, she immediately dozed off.

Regardless of whether Xiao Xun was there or not, she closed her eyelids lightly and narrowed.

Xiao Xun didn't wait for Lu Nianjin to speak, he turned his head unhappily and looked at her, but found that she was already confused little by little.

Suddenly, another breath reached his throat.

He clenched his fist to his lips and secretly asked himself, how could the princes of the East Palace of all dynasties and the princesses of other families be so knowledgeable and interesting, but he ...... That's it, don't mention it!

I don't know why the ghost sent her to save her in the first place.

As a result, such a crown princess was rescued, and she didn't have the consciousness of being a husband and wife.

Thinking like this, he couldn't help but get depressed. It took a long time before he recovered.

After calming down, he looked at the woman next to him again, and then when she fell to the other side to meet the pillow, he suddenly reached out and flicked it gently, and the next moment, Lu Nianjin's head rested on his shoulder.

Smelling the scent of herbs close at hand, his awkward mood finally calmed down.

But in this way, he didn't seem to be enough, after a while, his eyes fell on the teapot on the table, his mind turned, the corners of his mouth hooked a faint smile, poured out a little white water from the teapot, sprinkled it on his arm, and nodded a few drops to the corner of Lu Nianjin's lips.

Half an hour later, when Lu Nianjin woke up, she felt that the corners of her mouth were wet, she squinted, and subconsciously wiped the corners of her mouth.

After noticing that her fingers were really wet, her sleepy insects disappeared all of a sudden, and she sat up suddenly, wiping her mouth vigorously while looking at Xiao Xun.

Finally, eyes fell on his wet shoulders.

"I ......"

"You ......"

Both of them spoke at the same time, and then stopped at the same time.

Xiao Xun glanced at her with a complicated expression, and took a step forward, "You say it first!" ”

"Uh......" Lu Nianjin got the opportunity and opened her mouth, but she didn't know what to say, she snorted for a while before she apologized embarrassedly, "I'm sorry, prince, I really didn't mean to, I didn't expect it, I ...... I used to sleep without drooling. ”

"And then?" Xiao Xun's eyebrows were deep, and he looked at her for a long time.

The chagrin in Lu Nianjin's eyes became even more obvious, she carefully tugged at the hem of her clothes, and said cheekily, "Can you forgive me?" ”

Xiao Xun raised his eyebrows: "It's just a verbal apology, and you want this palace to forgive you?" "Is he such a good-natured man?

Lu Nianjin: "......"

She simply broke the jar and said, "Then what do you say you want to forgive me?" ”

Xiao Xun glanced at her, and his tone was tactful, "This palace has found out in the past few days that my bedding clothes were all made last year!" ”

The implication is that you want this palace to forgive you, yes! Then make a new set of bedding clothes for Hongu first.

Lu Nianjin understood his subtext, but unfortunately, she couldn't be a female celebrity at all! Not to mention sewing bedclothes, she can't even cut them!

"I won't!" After pondering for a long time, she looked at him and said helplessly, paused, afraid that he would not believe it, she added very sincerely, "Really." ”

"Do you think Hongu will believe you?" Xiao Xun raised an eyebrow at her.

Lu Nianjin's face was loveless, she also knew that the original owner was a serious ancient, and she was also a concubine, she said this, which was completely unconvincing.

If he denied it again, he would definitely be considered as deliberately prevaricating and insincere, so he gritted his teeth and had to say, "Okay, I'll do it." ”

Xiao Xun was plain on the surface, but he nodded contentedly.

Who knows, the next moment, Lu Nianjin added, "But I can't guarantee what level I can achieve, and the prince also knows that since I left the Chengguo Mansion, I have never touched embroidery again. ”

That's right!

Xiao Xun bowed slightly, "The princess's concerns are understood, you can try it first." ”

Lu Nianjin raised his eyebrows, "Is it that no matter what I make, the prince is willing to wear it?" ”

"What do you say?" Xiao Xun glanced at her coldly, her face was as handsome as an immortal, but her words were no different from Shura, "If you don't do it well, then do another set, practice makes perfect, isn't it?" ”

Lu Nianjin looked at him, her expression was already a little desperate, she looked at him, and said bitterly, "Prince, if, I mean if, I made ten sets, and I still can't wear them?" ”

Xiao Xun smiled slightly, "Don't worry, the princess of this palace is dignified, the prince of the East Palace, there are not 10,000 brocades in the treasury of the National Teacher's Mansion, but there are thousands of horses, if you do it at will, you will not be left with material to practice!" ”

God has no fucking material to practice!

Lu Nianjin is irritable, is she worried that she has no material to practice? She's worried about her own hands, okay!

In the middle of the belly, the carriage stopped, and the voice of the minister came from outside, "Prince, princess, it's time to get off at the palace gate!" ”

"Let's go!" Xiao Xun glanced at her meaningfully, stood up first, and held out a hand to her.

Lu Nianjin glanced at him, took his hand angrily, and the two of them walked out with a look of affection and love.

Outside, the palanquin was ready.

After entering the palace, Xiao Xun was about to separate from her, she went to the queen's Kunning Palace, and he went to the emperor's Qianyuan Palace.

"Prince, then I'll go first," Walking to the side of the sedan chair, Lu Nianjin let go of Xiao Xun's hand and said to him.

Xiao Xun nodded, followed her into the sedan chair again, watched her leave, and then walked to the other side with the minister.

Two quarters of an hour later, the sedan chair stopped.

Before Lu Nianjin got off the sedan chair, he heard a crisp voice, "Cousin-in-law, is it you?" ”

Lu Nianjin heard it, the person outside was Jiang Rongyue.

She replied with a low "yes", and after the sedan chair was pressed down, as soon as she got out of the sedan chair, Jiang Rongyue smiled sweetly at her and said happily, "Cousin-in-law, if it's really you, I only learned that you have been detoxified this morning, so I specially waited for you here and wanted to go with you to see my aunt." ”

Lu Nianjin bowed his head lightly, followed, looked at the dress on Jiang Rongyue's body, and asked, "Why is my cousin dressed so plain today?" ”

Jiang Rongyue's face changed slightly when she heard the word Sujing, but in the next moment, she returned to normal, she stepped forward and hugged Lu Nianjin's arm, and while pulling her forward, she lowered her voice and said mysteriously, "Cousin-in-law, didn't the prince's cousin tell you that in addition to meeting the emperor, the prince who entered Beijing today has another purpose, which is to ask the emperor for marriage?" ”

Lu Nianjin naturally listened to what Xiao Xun said, but now that Jiang Rongyue asked, she didn't admit it, but said with a wry smile, "I've been lingering on the sickbed these days, and your cousin rarely comes to my yard, so how can he tell me about this kind of thing?" ”

Jiang Rongyue kept looking at Lu Nianjin's face, and when she said this, she couldn't help but wonder, "I don't know what kind of poison is in my cousin-in-law, I look at my cousin-in-law's complexion, but it looks very good." ”

When Lu Nianjin heard this, he glanced at Jiang Rongyue and said, "What's good, it's just a stack of rouge and makeup, go back and wait for you to go to the National Teacher's Mansion and show you how I look without makeup, you will know how bad my face is." ”

"Really?"

"Nature is true, what did I lie to you about!"

Jiang Rongyue heard Lu Nianjin say this, and only then did she believe that she was not in good health.

walked forward for a while, and when she was about to reach the end of the palace alley, her eyes flickered slightly, and she suddenly exerted her strength, hugging Lu Nianjin's arm tighter, looking at her with a lonely face, and said, "Cousin-in-law, do you know?" I heard my grandmother say that this time with a kiss, the emperor will definitely choose someone between me and Princess Huyang......"

"Really?" Lu Nianjin raised his eyebrows slightly.

Jiang Rongyue nodded firmly, "Grandmother learned from my aunt, the news must be true." ”

"That's ......" Lu Nianjin said thoughtfully, and there was no follow-up.

Jiang Rongyue saw her like this, and her heart cooled a little.

She couldn't help but stop, with tears in her eyes, and looked at her aggrievedly and said, "Cousin-in-law, if you have to pick one between me and Princess Huyang to kiss, you definitely don't want me to go, right?" ”

Lu Nianjin met her eyes, and after being silent for a long time, he sighed softly, "Cousin, the king's heart is unpredictable, I am the crown princess, and I don't dare to speculate on the emperor's thoughts." ”

Jiang Rongyue didn't expect Lu Nianjin to roll the hydrangea to the emperor, she was speechless for a while, and she couldn't say a word for a long time.

"The queen is still waiting, let's go!" Lu Nianjin didn't want to entangle with Jiang Rongyue anymore, she withdrew her hand and took the lead in moving forward.

Jiang Rongyue watched Lu Nianjin walk away step by step, only to feel like her heart was thrown into an ice cellar.

"Miss, let's go!" Han Xue glanced at Lu Nianjin's back with resentment, and reminded his master in a low voice.

Jiang Rongyue was pulled back to her senses by Han Xue's words, and she took steps and chased after Lu Nianjin.

And Lu Nianjin, who was already far away from her, seemed to have eyes behind her, she stopped, and waited until Jiang Rongyue walked to her side, and then continued to walk forward with her.

There was not much distance left, but after a cup of tea, the two entered Kunning Palace.

In Kunning Palace, the queen had long known that Jiang Rongyue and Lu Nianjin would enter the palace today, and she specially sent the second-class palace maid Yao Huang to wait outside to welcome people.

Therefore, as soon as the two of them entered the palace of Kunning Palace with their front feet, Yao Huang greeted them with a smile on their back feet, and said, "The slave maid asks the princess and the county lord to say goodbye, the princess and the county lord are auspicious, the mother is waiting for the two of you in the main hall early in the morning, please go in with the slave maid!" ”

"There's Miss Lao!" Lu Nianjin responded lightly, and walked side by side with Yao Huang to the main hall of Kunning Palace.

In the main hall, the queen was indeed dressed up and sat on the phoenix throne and waited.

Seeing the two of them come in, a loving smile appeared on her face, "Rongrong, Jin'er, you are here......"