The night was dark, and the huge palace was like a huge monster lying prone and silent under the night sky.

The palace is very large, but there are not many people, only dotted with lights. If you listen carefully, you can see that in addition to the subtle sounds of insects, it is the neat footsteps of the guards when they are patrolling.

In the spacious courtyard of the council hall, Jiang Chuan was lying on a bamboo recliner, dressed in light clothes, with his eyes closed, and a small tune in his mouth, no one knew what it was, only he knew that it was a point in his memory of his past life that was getting farther and farther away.

There was silence around him, and there seemed to be no one around. However, Jiang Chuan knew that as long as there was a little wind and grass, Bai Mu and a group of heavily armed guards would appear in front of him for the first time.

He believed that no one would be able to override the heavy guards to assassinate him, not to mention that the best skill in the entire palace was none other than him, the King of Qin himself.

It's just that there are too few people in the outside world who know Jiang Chuan's skills, and it can even be said that there are basically none.

It's just that Bai Mu has to insist, and Jiang Chuan will follow him. After all, it's his job to protect himself.

There was a slight sound of footsteps, but it felt as if it was a little heavy, Jiang Chuan's eyebrows moved, his eyes still did not open, and he continued to hum a small song.

The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and when he came to Jiang Chuan, a soft and timid voice said softly: "Lord Wang, the slave is waiting for you to soak your feet." ”

As soon as he heard the voice, Jiang Chuan knew that it was the beautiful maid Deng Xiaojin.

He hummed, straightened his feet, and let Deng Xiaojin remove his shoes and socks for himself.

Jiang Chuan's feet used to wear riding boots, so naturally they had some taste. When he opened his eyes, he couldn't help laughing when he saw Deng Xiaojin frowning and trying to hold his breath, carefully helping him take off his shoes and socks.

Deng Xiaojin's face turned red all of a sudden, and his movements became nervous and flustered, and it took him a long time to take off his shoes and socks.

Putting his feet into the warm water, Jiang Chuan groaned comfortably, looked at Deng Xiaojin, who was squatting in front of him to wash his feet, and asked, "This is the first time you have washed someone's feet, right?" ”

Deng Xiaojin hesitated for a moment, then nodded lightly.

"You told me in the carriage during the day that if you don't serve the king well, the emperor will want you to die, what is the matter? Don't hide it from me, you say you want to take it with me, you must hide it from me. Jiang Chuan continued to ask.

Jiang Chuan's voice was not high, but with a sense that he could not refuse, Deng Xiaojin's face changed slightly, and he finally said it after hesitating for a moment.

"Does the prince know that Zhou Yunyi, the Qintian Prison Supervisor who was killed by His Majesty's staff on the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month?" Deng Xiaojin didn't say it directly, but asked first.

There was news about this incident in the Black Ice Platform, Jiang Chuan was impressed, nodded and said: "Naturally, I know that Zhou Yunyi is an official who dares to speak out, and he died too unjustly." ”

Hearing Jiang Chuan say this, Deng Xiaojin's smoke ring turned red all of a sudden, and he whispered for a while: "Zhou Yunyi is actually my adoptive father." He was close friends with my father. ”

Jiang Chuan paused for a moment and asked, "What about your father?" Zhou Yunyi annoyed the emperor, how could it affect you? ”

Deng Xiaojin said in a low voice: "My father's name is Deng Baichuan, and he was originally a county magistrate under Xi'an Mansion in Shaanzhou. When the Liukou raised an army to attack the city of Xi'an, my father was killed by them. At that time, my father sent my mother and me out in advance, and asked us to go to the capital to find Uncle Zhou Yunyi, saying that he would take us in. ”

"After arriving in the capital, Uncle Zhou really took in our mother. But my mother was bumpy along the way, and she was frightened, and she couldn't afford to get sick when she arrived in the capital. Although Uncle Zhou has been helping my mother get a doctor, my mother eventually left. ”

Speaking of this, Deng Xiaojin couldn't help but sobbed in a low voice.

Jiang Chuan didn't comfort her, after more than a year of killing and fighting, his heart had already become hard and cold, and he wouldn't easily believe other people's words, so he just listened quietly.

Deng Xiaojin sobbed for a while, put away his tears and continued: "After my mother died, I became an orphan girl without a mother and a father, and Uncle Zhou adopted me and became my adoptive father. He said that in another year, he would find me a good family to marry. But he didn't expect that in less than two months, he would suffer a catastrophe. His family and I were all connected, Uncle Zhou's son was imprisoned in the Shuntianfu prison, and my adoptive mother and I were assigned to the Jiaofang Division. A few days ago, someone from the palace found the slave and said that the slave and maid should prepare to serve the prince, if the prince is not served well, not only will I return to the sect division, but the adoptive father's family will also be executed. ”

When Jiang Chuan heard this, he understood why this girl's reaction during the day was so great.

I didn't expect there to be such a one, but there are still some details that need to be verified.

"Do you remember who the people in the palace came to you at that time?" Jiang Chuan asked.

"I don't know the slave maid, but at that time, I heard the steward and eunuch of the Jiaofang Division call him Huang Gonggong, and let us call that father-in-law ancestor." Deng Xiaojin said in a low voice.

Huang Gonggong? Ancestors? Jiang Chuan remembered one thing that Zhang Shun told him during the day: the eunuchs and maids in the palace all called Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch with palm prints, the ancestor. The other four eunuchs are called ancestors.

According to this way, this Huang Gonggong should be one of the four great eunuchs.

It's just that Jiang Chuan doesn't know much about the things in the palace, and he will check with Chen Zhaojun tomorrow.

"Then Huang Gonggong came to you, did he say how to let you serve this king, didn't you tell him all about this king's actions?" Although Jiang Chuan was still lying on the recliner, his tone was a little heavier when he spoke, and Deng Xiaojin was so startled that Deng Xiaojin hurriedly took a step back and knelt on the ground, and said urgently:

"Lord, the slave and maid dare not hide the prince, then Huang Gonggong did say so, he said that if the slave and maid did not obey, they would kill the adoptive father's family, and the slave and maid had to agree to him, but the slave and maid knew that this was a capital crime, so they did not dare to deceive the prince, and asked the prince to spare the slave and maid!"

Deng Xiaojin looked frightened, his face was pale, his body trembled, and he looked like he was about to cry.

Jiang Chuan raised his head and looked at the sky, he was wondering if Wei Zhongxian knew about this matter. If you know and you don't tell yourself today, then obviously everything today is a performance, and you can go directly to the birth of an actor.

If you don't know, then who instigated this Huang Gonggong to do this? Emperor or is he on his own?

But it is obviously unreliable for them to arrange such a little girl who seems to be obviously ignorant of the world and has poor psychological quality to be an eyeliner by their side, or is it just a smoke bomb, the real purpose is to divide Wei Zhongxian?

This thing is interesting, I didn't expect that as soon as I entered Beijing, these people began to calculate.