It is not easy to start with the government, and the local officials protect each other, like iron buckets, impermeable.

"It's a long-term matter." Fan Qingjun wrinkled his eyebrows: "What is in front of us now is disaster relief, the affected people are waiting to eat and drink porridge, and the case of the White Lotus Sect will be postponed for the time being." ”

Jiang Banxia was noncommittal, he couldn't eat enough to talk about what beliefs, the most dangerous thing now was those homeless people, people could do anything if they were forced to do anything.

*

On the fifteenth day of July in the twentieth year of the Great Ming Qingwen, the sky fell on fire, the heat gradually subsided, and the huge Forbidden City also cooled down.

Cao Yu was wearing a brown cloth robe, without a crown, standing in the inner hall of the Qianqing Palace with low eyebrows, he stared at his toes, his eyes did not move, like a piece of wood.

The lights were shining in the depths of the veil in the hall, and there were two shadows that seemed to be one.

This is difficult for a eunuch, but Cao Alcohol ignores it.

The little eunuch was anxiously looking for Cao Yu's figure on the door of the outer hall, but no matter how he looked around, it was only the closed door of the inner hall.

In desperation, he pursed his mouth and learned to call the bird twice.

When it is inconvenient for the eunuch to deliver the news, he will use the bird's call to notify the people on duty that there is an emergency.

Cao Yu glanced into the depths of the heavy veil after hearing the bird's call, and lightly turned out of the inner hall from the corner.

"Godfather!" The little eunuch's voice was full of anxiety: "Oh no, something big has happened!" ”

Cao Yu raised his hand and motioned for the little eunuch's voice to be lower.

"What's the matter, panic."

"Three... Three... The Three Princes fell into the water tank! The little eunuch clutched his sleeves and stumbled: "It's out of breath to save it." ”

"What?" Cao Yu's voice suddenly rose.

The little eunuch had a sad face: "The concubine asked the slave to come and ask you to come over and get an idea." ”

The sudden death of a prince is not a trivial matter, Cao Yu's brows furrowed, he grabbed the little eunuch and asked, "When did the third prince not have it?" ”

"Just now." The little eunuch lowered his voice: "Except for the palace people around the concubine, no one knows." ”

Cao Yu looked inside the hall, and then looked at the black hole outside the hall.

The night has just begun.

He immediately decided: "You are guarding here, if the emperor asks, it will be said that I am in a hurry to go out." ”

"It's... That's not right. The little eunuch was a little afraid, he didn't dare to lie in front of Emperor Qingwen.

Cao Yu had his back to the light, half of his body was hidden in the dark, and he could only see his eyes that were as cold as a cold pool: "If you want to live, you'd better do what I say." ”

The little eunuch trembled, and nodded with a shaking mouth.

Chengqian Palace is very close to Qianqing Palace, and Cao Yu is familiar with the road from the small door to enter the Qianqing Palace.

When the palace maid who was guarding the door saw him, it was like seeing a living Bodhisattva, and she hurriedly let Cao Yu into the palace.

According to the rules of Chengqian Palace, Cao Yu stretched out his hand and motioned to the palace maids to help him change his clothes, and those palace maids hurriedly put on him.

In a hurry, a palace maid rubbed off the cloth towel on her head, revealing a shaved head.

Cao Yu was not surprised, he reminded loudly: "The headscarf is off." ”

The palace maid groaned, covered her head and retreated from the side.

In Buddhism, shaving their heads means that they are determined to escape into the empty door, but these palace maids are not, they voluntarily shave their heads not to escape into the empty door, but to survive a good future.

There were so many palace maids who wanted to be errand girls under Jiang Guifei, so Jiang Guifei spoke, whoever was willing to shave his head, she would let him be an errand boy in Chengqian Palace.

This sentence itself is a joke, but some palace maids believe it, so the concubine is happy, thinking that these people who have shaved their heads are loyal to her.

Of course, this is only what the concubine thinks.

These palace maids who voluntarily shaved their heads were all spurned in the palace, Cao Yu didn't think so, half a catty to eight taels, but one was missing the lower \ face, the other was missing the top, and no one was more noble than the other.

"Lord Cao, inside." The palace maid lifted the curtain and let Cao Yu into the inner hall.

Chengqian Palace is smaller than Qianqing Palace, and through the jade-colored gauze curtains, the first thing Cao Ol sees is Jiang Guifei's pair of heavenly feet, and her round nails are deeply sunk into the snow-white fox skin.

The layers of snow fox fur were still soft, and Cao Alcohol stood still in front of the veil and asked in a low voice, "The minister has entered?" ”

Jiang Guifei beckoned through the veil, and Cao Yu immediately leaned down and lifted the veil and got in.

"I thought you wouldn't come." Jiang Guifei stretched out her hand to take a closer look under the lamp, the Kodan on her fingernails met the light, and the color was like blood.

Cao Ol chuckled and said, "Niangniang is in a hurry, and the minister doesn't dare not come." ”

"Less flattery here! I came to you to give you an idea! Jiang Guifei threw a pillow over and smashed it on Cao Alcohol's body.

He lowered his eyes, still smiling on his face, but his expression was cold.

"Where is the Third Prince now?" Cao Jun asked.

The concubine raised her eyes and motioned to the palace maid to pull open the bed curtain, and on the huge mahogany lacquered bed lay a small person, who was thin and small, like a frozen kitten.

Cao Alcohol reached out and touched it, and it was the child's cold limbs.

The child's eyes were closed as if he were asleep, but Cao Ol knew that he was dead.

An indescribable feeling came to Cao Yu's heart, human life is really not valuable, the child chased him and shouted godfather a few days ago, and today he became a cold corpse.

"This evening, the palace maid who usually takes care of small things went out to look for him, but I couldn't find him when I searched through Chengqian Palace." Jiang Guifei said helplessly: "I just found someone from the blue and white vat that stored water, and I lost my breath when I rescued it." ”

In the courtyard near the palace, there will be more or less one or two large vats used to store water and fight fires, and the three princes drowned in the water storage vats.

How can a child climb such a big tank?

"Don't look at me like that." Jiang Guifei tilted her head and said, "I didn't kill this short-lived little thing." ”

These days, she has kept this little thing good to eat and drink, and now she has died suddenly, and she feels uncomfortable.

"What are you going to do?" Cao Yu stood beside the bed with his hands copied, his eyes completely fell on the body of the third prince, the concubine's favorite red brocade silk was spread under him, red and glamorous like a fire, but he was so small a person lying on such a big bed, as small as an insignificant grain of sand.

The person died at the hands of the concubine, if the news spreads, Jiang Guifei will definitely be impeached by the government and the opposition, and she can guess what the content of her impeachment is.

jealous, vicious, and cruel to the emperor's heir......

In the past, she would have had the courage to confront these courtiers, but now she doesn't dare.

Because Emperor Qingwen, who was protecting her, had changed, his heart was all tied to Cao Huifei's cheap maid, and with a woman's intuition, Jiang Guifei thought that Emperor Qingwen would no longer protect her like before.

Emperor Qingwen's sincerity, she didn't dare to bet and couldn't afford it

"Cover up, of course." Jiang Guifei nodded her forehead and said in a cold tone: "You also know the situation in this palace, this news must be covered." ”

"Mother, do you want to?" Cao Alcohol said tentatively.

Jiang Guifei stretched out her hand to hook Cao Alcohol's chin, and slowly spit out word by word in a voice that could only be heard by two people: "Naturally, naturally, yes, raccoon, cat, change, too, son." ”