"Mama Han, someone outside is looking for Niangniang."

A little guy named Xiao Jiangzi hurriedly ran in and said to Mama Han, who was watering the flowers in the yard.

Mama Han raised her eyes to look at him, and put the small pot in her hand aside in a hurry, then she stood up and straightened her dress, "Don't you know that Niangniang and His Royal Highness are not in the mansion?" ”

"I know, but the girl said she had to see her mother."

Xiao Jiangzi rubbed his hands and spoke with some embarrassment.

Hearing his words, Mama Han frowned and walked out of the flowers, "She didn't say who she was?" ”

"This... She didn't say anything. ”

"Let's go, let's see."

After speaking, he walked towards the door with steady steps, and Xiao Jiangzi hurriedly followed.

"Is that you?"

After seeing the young and somewhat overwhelmed woman at the door, Mama Han was very surprised, how did this person from the clothes store find the prince's mansion?

Fang Niang looked up, and when she saw the middle-aged woman in front of her with high hair bun, good dress, and strict temperament, she suddenly felt that she didn't know how to put her hands and feet.

"Who are you?"

Xiao Jiangzi hurriedly spoke, "Girl, this is Mama Han from the Prince's Mansion, please come in and talk." ”

"Oh, good."

Fang Niang nodded stiffly, she felt that this grandmother looked very stern and not very easy to speak, and she didn't know if she could see the crown princess. But thinking of Xiao Zhi and the fat girl, who had been gone for several hours, she still mustered up the courage to follow Xiao Jiangzi into the prince's mansion.

Mama Han took her to a small room with all the twists and turns, and then asked her to sit down and talk.

"Say, what are you doing in the Prince's Mansion?"

Mama Han asked coldly.

Fang Niang didn't wonder why she recognized herself, she hesitated for a moment before she spoke, "Mama, I'm here to find the crown princess." Niangniang said that if there is anything, let me come to the prince's mansion to find her. ”

"But didn't the mother tell you that she had been out for two days?"

Mama Han said.

"What? So when will the mother come back? Fang Niang asked anxiously.

"How do we know this? She is with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and it is estimated that she will not be able to come back recently. ”

"What then? So what to do? Fat girl, they must have had an accident, the mother is not there, who can save them? ”

Hearing Mama Han's words, Fang Niang was a little lost, what should she do now? The point is that I don't know what happened to Xiaozhi yet. She thought that before leaving, Xiao Zhi told her that if she couldn't come back on time, it must be meaningful to go to Niangniang.

"What's wrong? What's going on in your store? ”

Looking at Fang Niang's appearance, Mama Han asked out loud.

"It's such a grandma, there are two girls in the store who sent clothes to the prime minister's mansion, but they haven't come back for several hours. When she left, she said that if she didn't come back in three hours, she would let me come to the prince's mansion to find her mother. ”

"Who are they?"

"Xiao Zhi and a girl named Fat Girl."

Fang Niang said.

"Xiao Zhi? You mean Shiba? ”

Mama Han was shocked, she remembered that there was a girl named Xiaozhi in the house before, wasn't that brought by Concubine Tian to her mother's family? How.... Did you go to work under the crown princess?

As soon as she thought of this, Mama Han got up and instructed Xiao Jiangzi, "Go and prepare the carriage, just say that the old body is going to go out." ”

Xiao Jiangzi hurriedly responded, "Yes, Mama." ”

After saying that, he hurriedly went out.

Fang Niang was a little puzzled, it seemed that this grandmother must have known Xiaozhi, so she would go out in person.

She didn't know that Mama Han was completely for Yun Die. Since Yundie can keep Concubine Tian's maid by her side, it can be seen that she has a reason, and if Niangniang is not there, she is in charge.

"Let's go, the old man will go to the Prime Minister's Mansion with you."

"Thank you, thank you, thank you."

Fang Niang hurriedly got up and thanked her, and followed Mama Han out of the door.

In the Prime Minister's Mansion, in a secluded firewood room in the backyard, Xiao Zhi was lying on the ground dying, her hair was scattered, her eyes were closed, her forehead was full of wounds, and blood was all over her face, and some had even solidified into dark red.

On the pillar not far from her, there was a fat girl tied with flowers, and a large piece of cloth was stuffed in her mouth.

Half of the fat girl's face was swollen and high, her head drooped and she had fainted, and her stray hair hung down, covering her big pie face.

There was a sound of footsteps outside the door of the firewood room, and more than one person could hear the sound.

Xiao Zhi's eyelids moved, and she tried hard to open her eyes, but the injury on her forehead made her eyelids ache and hurt, and the pain made her break out in a cold sweat. She wanted to move, but her bound hands and feet seemed to have lost sensation.

She sighed helplessly in her heart, and she still fell into the hands of that woman again.

Xiaozhi never expected that Tian Wanqiu would be in the Prime Minister's Mansion. However, she also believed that Tian Wanqiu failed to recognize her as Xiaozhi, otherwise, she would not have suffered as much as flesh and skin.

"Open the door!"

Tian Wanqiu's somewhat sharp voice came from outside the door.

"Yes, miss."

The sound of a maid came, followed by the sound of a key inserting into the lock hole, a "click", the lock fell, and the door opened.

A glimmer of light shone in through the crack in the door, and Xiao Zhi closed her eyes in discomfort and lay on the ground motionless.

Then, a slightly heavy footsteps slowly walked in, and even if Xiao Zhi thought with his toes, he knew that it was Tian Wanqiu who came in.

"Wake up with water!"

Tian Wanqiu covered her nose with a handkerchief, pointed at the people on the ground and ordered sharply.

"Miss, Madame said she couldn't let them die..."

A maid persuaded in a low voice, just that girl was covered with wounds all over her face, and she was about to die, so if the young lady came to toss again, wouldn't her life be in danger?

"This is dead? If you can't die, will you splash a basin of water soon? Bring the water, I'll splash it myself! ”

Tian Wanqiu said angrily.

"Yes, miss."

A maid turned around and walked out in fright, and soon brought a basin of water.

Xiaozhi didn't dare to open her eyes, now, for her, pretending to be dead is the best choice, but she doesn't know what happened to the fat girl.

"Wow~~~~"

A cold basin of water poured down on the top of Xiao Zhi's head, the biting chill made her reflexively open her eyes, her hair was all wet, the messy hair was tightly attached to her bloody face, the water droplets ran down her hair and slid down her cheeks, gradually changing color, and when it dripped from the side of her face to the ground, it was completely like blood.

"Huh!"

Xiao Zhi showed a miserable smile, and her face stained with snow water looked like a terrible ghost from hell in the faint light, looking hideous and terrifying.

"What are you laughing at?"

I don't know why, Tian Wanqiu suddenly felt that Xiao Zhi looked particularly crazy at this moment, which made people can't help but feel a chill in her back, and she could only raise her volume to hide the fear in her heart.

"I laughed at the prince and concubine, who was so small-minded, deliberately didn't want to go with me as a subordinate who gave clothes, what I knew was that I bumped into you, and I didn't know that I thought that you were suffering from madness, like a mad dog on the street, everyone bites."

Xiao Zhi is out of the way, if Niangniang can come over in time, she will definitely be saved, if she can't catch up, or Niangniang won't come at all, she is not afraid, anyway, her life was picked up by Yundie, and it is enough to live for a few more months. Moreover, even if she died, Xiao Zhi believed that the crown princess would definitely avenge herself.

"Who do you say is a mad dog?"

Tian Wanqiu was so angry that her heart and lungs were trembling, she didn't expect that the groveling girl in the store last time would be so sharp-toothed.

"Hehe, I'm talking about mad dogs, don't sit in the right seat!" Xiao Zhi sneered with tiredness.

It was pleasant to see her go crazy.

The pain from her body made Xiao Zhi couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, and Tian Wanqiu was also a little ruthless, she didn't say that the clothes they gave were not the ones her mother custom-made, and said that they were disrespectful to her, the side concubine, and let people beat her without saying a word.

The fat girl was angry, so she picked up the whip and started fighting, but as a result, a steward of Tianfu came, and when he saw the fat girl, his eyes were red, and he called more than a dozen strong family members with all kinds of weapons. Originally, the fat girl was beaten, but because she was protecting herself who was punched and kicked, the fat girl was sneak attacked.

A big wooden stick hit the back of the fat girl's head hard, and the fat girl fell on a stone table in the courtyard with a "bang" and fainted, half of her face just hit the corner of the stone table, and the face was so swollen.

"You!"

Tian Wanqiu was so angry that she couldn't speak, the feeling of fear just now had already been diluted a lot by anger, she took a deep breath, slowly walked in front of Xiao Zhi, looked down at her, as if looking at a dead person, the fierce light in her eyes flashed.

After staring at Xiao Zhi like this for a long time, Tian Wanqiu took out something from his sleeve, a small dagger.

She slowly crouched down, drew the dagger with her right hand, threw the dagger case aside, and then pinched Xiao Zhi's chin with her left hand, forcing her to look at herself.

"Miss?"

Seeing this, the two little maids who followed Tian Wanqiu were a little anxious, and called in a low voice.

"Shut up! You don't have to worry about me! ”

Tian Wanqiu turned around and roared viciously.

She raised the dagger in her hand, and pinched Xiao Zhi's chin vigorously with her left hand, even if her fingers were already stained with her blood, she was not afraid, forcing her to face herself.

Xiao Zhi's hands and feet were restrained, and the injuries on her face and body were so painful that she didn't dare to move at all, because the more she moved, the more painful her wounds became. Seeing Tian Wanqiu's dagger on her face, Xiao Zhi didn't dare to move, her face was no longer the same face she used to be, once Tian Wanqiu found out that something was wrong, I was afraid that her life would really be difficult to save.

"What the hell do you want? If you have the ability, you will kill me? ”

Xiao Zhi stalked her neck, trying to make her hair cover her face more, so that Tian Wanqiu would not take a closer look. In fact, Tian Wanqiu didn't know how to look at it at all, her face was full of blood, stained with hair, so dirty, if she didn't really want to kill this girl, Tian Wanqiu wouldn't have come here.

"Kill you? It's not that easy, although I really want to kill you. ”

Tian Wanqiu said with a smile, the dagger slowly rubbed against Xiao Zhi's face, from the cheeks to the cheekbones, to the corners of the eyes to the tips of the eyebrows, and then downward..... Every time she moved, Xiao Zhi couldn't help but tremble, and her whole heart was in her throat, she was not afraid of death, she was afraid of the terrifying feeling that she knew she would die before she died.

"You say, I gouged out your eyes first? Or do you want to make a few cuts in your face first? ”

Tian Wanqiu said softly. The cold aura in her eyes made Xiao Zhi believe that she would definitely do what she said.

"You... You'd better kill me! Xiao Zhi could hear her trembling voice, and seeing that Tian Wanqiu's hand had moved to her ear, she was so anxious that she didn't know what to do.

"Miss, Madame is looking for you."