Mr. Xu didn't know about me sneaking out of the palace, but he complained a lot about not letting the sons serve me, until I proudly told him that I would never have to drink human blood in the future, and said that if I didn't drink human blood, it wouldn't hurt, and asked the golden-faced master to testify to me, and he was shut.

I didn't tell anyone about the secret passage leading to the outside of the palace in the secret room, and I only told the golden-faced master that I went out of the secret room to get something, and I saw the charming night, so I played in the courtyard for a while, and he happened to be pressed to the ground as an assassin.

Of course, Jin Mian didn't believe that Gu Tianba was captured by himself as an assassin when he came out of the room to watch the night, because Jin Mian clearly saw that she flew in from outside the East Palace. Gu Tianba's martial arts were superb before, but he couldn't learn only light skills. But now, she can fly in the sky like a free bird, and if she hadn't been defenseless, he would never have been able to hold her back.

Jin Mian actually always knew that there was a secret passage leading to the outside of the palace in the secret room, because it was Gu Tianba's mother who was afraid that Gu Tianba would be in danger one day, so she ordered someone to build it secretly, and even Manager Xu didn't know about it. Now that Gu Tianba has come back from outside the palace, it seems that she already knows about the secret passage, why didn't he come back directly from the secret passage, but instead came back from outside the palace at the risk of being discovered? Could it be that she got lost in the mountains and forests through the secret passage? With Jin Mian's observation of Gu Tianba in the past two days, only this reason makes sense.

"Your Highness!" Jin Mian took out a silver whistle and held it in front of Gu Tianba with both hands, "Your Highness, if you have something to do in the future and your subordinates are not by your side, you can blow this silver whistle, and your subordinates at the ends of the earth will rush to your side as soon as possible!" ”

I took the little silver whistle, which was no bigger than my little finger and only two little fingers long, and tried to blow it, "It's not as loud as I speak." Don't talk about the ends of the earth, I'm afraid I can't hear you outside when I blow in the room! ”

"Your Highness doesn't know that there is a small Gu worm in this whistle, as long as you blow it, the Gu worm inside will wake up and be restless. And there is also a silver whistle here, there is also a Gu worm living in it, the two Gu worms are a pair, as long as one of them wakes up, the other will wake up no matter how far away it is, and the same restlessness will hit the whistle that traps it with his body, making the silver whistle sound. ”

Seeing Gu Tianba's disgusted expression, Jin Mian added, "Don't worry, the Gu worm will only wake up temporarily when the whistle is blown." And you will never be able to break free from the shackles of the silver whistle, Your Highness can rest assured. ”

"Okay! Then I'm relieved. "What I'm most worried about is that the little worm crawled into my mouth when I blew the whistle, how disgusting it was, but after hearing what the golden-faced master said, and seeing that the Gu worm was separated from the whistle at the end of the whistle, I carefully hung it around my neck.

As early as the morning up, the Ministry of Industry said that more than half of the canal leading from the Canghe River to the outside of the city had been dug, and that the water from the Canghe River would be able to be brought into the fertile fields outside the city tomorrow, and the Ministry of Household Affairs had already prepared seeds and labor. It seems that they are doing their best. Except for the fact that I said that there was not enough manpower for them to go to the military headquarters to borrow troops, and General Chonghua led the collective protest of the military department and did not implement it, everything else went smoothly.

As for why the military department did not borrow soldiers to help dig ditches and cultivate the land, General Chonghua's view was that the responsibility of the soldiers was to kill the enemy on the field to protect the family and defend the country, while the craftsmen were to build bridges and pave roads, dig soil and dig wood. Farmers plow the land and farm the fields. If the soldier does all the work of the craftsman and the farmer, can the craftsman and the farmer help the soldier to kill the enemy?

I couldn't talk about them with one mouth, so I borrowed the army to use it for this matter, but in the end it didn't pass.

My mood was slightly affected, but when I returned to the palace, I saw Qing Yu standing at the door waiting for me with a large bouquet of moon flowers, and my whole body became bright.

I was about to take Qing Yu's hand and go to the side hall to have breakfast together, but I didn't want a large group of people to come in the distance, and when I looked closely, it turned out to be the sons of the East Palace. Looking at the many more heads than when I first woke up, I was so shocked that I almost retreated, so many people, two or three times more than the officials who had gone to court earlier, which was also too shocking.

"Get up!" I said to the people who were kneeling on the ground, "In the future, there is no need to come to the palace to ask for peace." "There are so many handsome guys, Gu Tianba won't include all the good-looking men in the entire Tianyu Kingdom into the East Palace.

"Oh! By the way, none of you should have entered the palace voluntarily, if anyone wants to leave, just talk to Manager Xu, and then pack up and let Xu Jieguan send someone to send you out. ”

Originally, I had good intentions, anyway, these people are not willing to enter the palace, if anyone wants to leave, they can leave at any time, if they have nowhere to go for the time being, they will live first, and then think of a good place to go. Unexpectedly, as soon as I said this, the handsome guys were so frightened that they all lost their faces and knelt on the ground again.

"What's the situation?" I muttered, "Don't all men dream of marrying their daughter-in-law and being a groom every night?" ”

"Your Highness, the sons are dedicated to serving Your Highness, how can you bear to drive them all out of the palace, how can the sons live without you......" Manager Xu said emotionally, and he was almost speechless.

I really admire his ability to open his eyes and tell nonsense! "How can the sons live without you", it is clear that Gu Tianba tortured them to death all day long, and only by leaving Gu Tianba can they live well.

"Hongu really wants everyone to go back to their previous lives!" How do you explain it to them? "Hongu ...... Hongu ...... "Say I like women?" Or is it enough for me to have Qingmu alone?

Just as I racked my brains to think about how to express myself in order to convince these sons that I really wanted to let them go, Qing Mu suddenly opened his mouth: "Everyone, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is kind-hearted, seeing that all the brothers are good men and pillars of talent, I can't bear to hide you in the inner courtyard of this deep palace, so I amnesty you brothers to go home, and you still don't deduct the grace of His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

Qing Yu is Qing Yu, just a few words, it actually caused a commotion among this group of handsome guys, I faintly heard them seem to be saying "What Qing Yu Gongzi said will not be false, maybe the prince is really merciful and willing to let us live". Then, I saw several handsome guys glance at each other, and then knelt down to the front row, "Your Highness, the concubine is willing to leave the palace!" ”

"That's right! When to go? Let Manager Xu give each person two hundred taels of silver, and then send a carriage to send you. "I know that most of these sons in Gu Tianba's harem are from famous families, and now they have been robbed into the palace to be Gu Tianba's male pets, and I am afraid it will be difficult to be accepted by the family when they go back, I will give each of them two hundred taels of silver, if they can't enter the house after leaving the palace, or the house has been destroyed by Gu Tianba, they can also use the money to buy a house and survive well.

"Back to Your Highness, the concubine wants to leave today!" The person who said this seemed to be afraid that I would repent

"Okay, okay!" I wish they had left early, "Manager Xu, go and arrange it." Who else wants to leave, together! ”

With the leader, the team kneeling in front of me quickly shrank by nearly half, but the remaining half was kneeling on the ground without moving.

"Why didn't they leave?" I wondered.

Qing Yu told me that some of these people came to this East Palace at a very young age, cut off contact with their families, and were also estranged from the outside world, and they might be even more at a loss if they left the palace rashly; Some are the sons of Tianyu courtiers, and in order to please Gu Tianba, they sent their handsome sons into the palace; Some of them were collected by the eunuchs from all over the place to be sent to the palace, and most of these people were forced to sign the deed of sale. Even if you leave the palace, you won't be free......

"Qingyu, can you help me deal with this matter?" I have a fundamental understanding of Gu Tianba's complicated harem, it seems that these sons are very convinced of Qing Yu, and Qing Yu knows more about them than I do in the East Palace for two years, so I believe that they will be able to handle this matter properly.

"Yes!" Qing Yu agreed without thinking about it.

Before, Gu Tianba only ate all kinds of "meatballs" at each meal, and I asked the imperial dining room to prepare normal food for me, who knew that they actually prepared one hundred and eighty dishes for me at once, and said that this was the standard for His Royal Highness the Prince's meal. Now that I said that it is standard, why didn't Gu Tianba mention the standard match with her when he ate the balls before?

I am alone, plus Qing Yu is only two people, how can I eat so much, looking at such exquisite food at the same table, a wasteful and shameful mentality made me take the initiative to invite those handsome guys to eat together.

They saw that Qingyu sat next to me naturally, and a few of the bolder ones also came to the dining table tremblingly, tremblingly picked up the chopsticks, and trembled to pick up the food closest to them.

"You! Come here! I pointed to a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy in the crowd who looked like he was sixteen or seventeen years old hiding at the back of the crowd with his head down, "Sit down and eat." ”

The kid obviously didn't expect me to click on him, and looked at me with a pair of big clear and innocent eyes, and his body trembled like a sieve.

"That's you!" I walked up to him, took his hand and pulled him to the table, "Let you eat and not let you eat!" Why are you afraid of being like this? He also took a piece of crispy and delicious sesame candy cake and stuffed it into his food, I think children of this age should like to eat sweet.

Sure enough, he took the sesame candy cake and was stunned for a moment, and then shyly took a small sip.

"And you! You! You ...... "Everyone has the so-called love for beauty, and beautiful men with beautiful eyes and delicious eyes when eating are definitely good for appetite!" So I ordered a few handsome sons to eat together, and when I saw that they only sandwiched the food in front of them, I kindly helped them put the food farther away into the bowl. Although they still looked genuinely frightened, they were obviously not as uneasy as they had been when they first sat down.

"Your Highness, drink some lean porridge!" Qing Yu held a bowl of freshly prepared porridge in front of me.

I quickly hid away, waved my hands vigorously and said, "I don't drink pork porridge!" "When I was a child, my family used to raise pigs, which were raised on feed, so I always smelled the smell of pig feed in the pork. Although there was no pig feed to eat for pigs in this era, it has become a physiological reaction for me to feel sick to my stomach when I see pork

"Your Highness, what's the matter?" Qing Yu asked with concern.

"It's okay! Pour me a cup of sour plum soup! "Drinking something cool should make you feel a little better.

"Drink this!" Qing Yu took the tray in the little eunuch's hand, and saw a ceramic teacup in the ice basin in the tray. Qing Yu took the teacup and opened the lid, "Yesterday, His Highness said that he wanted to drink grapes, so I tried to make some, I don't know if it suits His Highness's taste." ”

The juice was pale green, and I took a sip of it, it was sour and sweet, with a faint grape fragrance. This grape juice must have been squeezed just before Qing Yu came here, and the grape skins and grape seeds were carefully cleaned before squeezing. Otherwise, the color of the grape juice should be purple, and the taste will be bitter, even if you add more sugar, you can't hide it.

"It's delicious!" I happily took one sip after another, and I drank a glass of grape juice before it was ready, "Anything else?" I asked Qingyu.

"Yes!" Qing Yu took out a white jar from the ice basin like a trick, it turned out that the jar was just buried in the ice, I didn't pay attention to it just now.

Seeing that I drank two more glasses in a row, Qing Yu hurriedly persuaded: "Your Highness, the grape juice in this cold town is too cold, you are weak, so drink less!" ”

"One last cup!" I looked at Qing Yu pitifully, this teacup is so small, I usually drink half a bottle of grape-flavored Mirinda in one go.

"One last cup?"

I nodded hurriedly, for fear that he would regret not letting me drink it, but seeing that he only poured me half a glass of grape juice and stopped, I hurriedly urged: "Pour more, it's not full!" ”