On the ice field outside the royal city there was a medium-sized courtyard, surrounded by a high granite wall that covered everything in the courtyard.

Mao Zhiruo stood in front of a gray-white stone door, reached out and knocked on the iron ring on the stone door a few times.

It didn't take much effort, and an old man with a stiff back appeared in front of Mao Zhiruo's eyes, "Girl, who are you looking for?" ”

"I'm looking for the owner of this house!" Mao Zhiruo looked at the unfamiliar face and felt a pain in her heart, presumably the previous family members left the Mao family after her father was deposed.

"What's that girl's name?" The old man pressed against the stone door hard, and since he was approached by his master to look at the door, there were always people who came here to do nothing, so he could only be more careful.

Mao Zhiruo didn't answer when she heard this, but untied the jade pendant around her neck, "You give this to them, and they will naturally let me in." ”

"Okay, girl, wait a minute!" The old man carefully took the jade pendant, then closed the stone door and walked slowly inside.

Mao Zhiruo looked around, she could only find a tree stump and sit down, she had walked for nearly two hours, and she had reached the limit for not walking often.

Because she came out of the palace of Ferrand, she walked out of the royal city in one breath, and when she walked to the empty ice field, when she saw this mansion, she couldn't help but feel the ups and downs of her heart, and she finally returned to the place where she grew up as a child after suffering all the humiliation.

"Ruo'er!" A middle-aged woman with a thin figure and a cloth dress hurriedly walked out.

"Mother!" Mao Zhiruo hurriedly stood up and rushed towards the middle-aged woman, this is her longing mother, whenever her father wants to punish her, her mother will spare no effort to protect her.

"Good boy, I've made you suffer!" Mrs. Mao hugged Mao Zhiruo tightly, and tears flowed down her eyes.

Since Mao Zhiruo was arrested, she didn't think about tea and dinner all day long, and in order to prevent her from dragging around, Mao Ge Lao also locked her up.

"Everything is fine with the daughter, the mother suffers!" Mao Zhiruo couldn't help but blame herself for looking at her mother's emaciated face, if it weren't for her own will, her mother would not have become what she is now.

"As long as you can come back safely, it will be worth it for your mother to suffer!" Mrs. Mao wiped her tears with one hand and pulled Mao Zhiruo with the other hand and walked slowly towards the door.

"Madame!" The rickety old man looked at the mother and daughter, and only opened a gap, "The master instructed that the young lady should not be allowed to step into the mansion, and please don't embarrass the villain." ”

"This is my home too!" Mrs. Mao said angrily: "My son finally got out of the cage, why don't you let my son go home?"

"But this is the master's order!" The rickety old man had a sad face, on one side was the lord and on the other side was the lady, and he didn't know how to deal with it?

"Let us in!" Mrs. Mao pushed the old man aside vigorously and scolded angrily: "I have my own deal with the master, it's a big deal that our mother and daughter leave this house together!" After speaking, he pulled Mao Zhiruo and walked in.

"Mother!" Mao Zhiruo looked at her mother's angry appearance, and called timidly, in the dungeon, she would always think of her previous life, and a comfortable and comfortable life was like heaven.

"Don't be afraid!" Mrs. Mao patted Mao Zhiruo's hand and pulled her towards the main hall, where the furnishings were still the same as they were more than ten years ago, and a set of rattan tables and chairs were facing the entrance of the main hall.

"Ruo'er meets his father!" Mao Zhiruo looked at Mao Ge Lao who was sitting on the rattan chair, and knelt on the ground with a plop.

"Who's your father?" The old man Mao Ge threw the scroll in his hand on the ground angrily, pointed at her and said: "My Mao family doesn't have unscrupulous descendants like you, you get out of here immediately!"

"Father, Ruo'er knows that he is wrong!" Mao Zhiruo looked at her father with tears in her eyes, her father no longer had the vigor of the past, and his gray face was wrinkled.

"If you know your mistake, leave here immediately, you have already harmed me and lost my official position, do you still want to harm me and lose my life?"

"The father spared his daughter this time, right?" Mao Zhiruo looked at her angry father, and her heart trembled, the father who used to make herself happy and regarded herself as the pearl of her palm had disappeared without a trace.

"I spared you?" Mao Ge's old facial features were entangled in pain, "Because your poisonous snake heart not only killed your uncle's family, but also caused me to lose my official position and abandon my lordship, pity your uncle's only son who has just completed the moon!" also died because of your involvement, that is the only root of our Mao family! ”

"It's been so long, what are you mentioning him for?" Mrs. Mao looked at Mao Zhiruo's painful appearance and took two steps forward, she trembled and pulled Mao Ge's sleeve and said, "We only have this one daughter, and we still expect her to give us a pension!"

"Retirement to the end?" Mao Ge Lao raised his hand, and Mrs. Mao immediately fell to the ground, "You woman who doesn't know whether to live or die, you still expect her to give you a pension and send you to the end of your life, I'm afraid that from the moment she entered the mansion, our neck has been locked on His Majesty's sleeve!" ”

"Father, this is the daughter released by Her Majesty herself." Mao Zhiruo looked at her father's angry appearance and quickly explained that if it weren't for Her Majesty's pity for her, she would definitely die in the dungeon.

"Your Majesty's pity for you?" Elder Mao Ge was furious when he heard this, "You don't know how to live or die, I have been an official for thirty years, and I have gone through two monarchs, and I have never seen them have pity!" ”

"Master, Ruo'er has been well-behaved and sensible since she was a child, maybe Her Majesty really pities her!" Mrs. Mao got up from the ground and looked at Mao Ge Lao with tears in her eyes, her daughter is all she has, she can't live without this daughter.

"Whew!" Mao Ge Lao kicked Mrs. Mao fiercely, "Go and dream your fucking Spring and Autumn Festival!" I'm waiting to see how you die! ”

"Mother!" Mao Zhiruo helped her mother up with a shocked face, because in her memory, her father had never beaten her mother, and he would only obey her mother's words.

"You fight!" Mrs. Mao climbed to the feet of Mao Ge Lao, raised her face and cried: "As long as you agree to let Ruo'er stay, even if you kill me, I am willing!"

"Then I'll kill you!" Old Mao Ge looked back and picked up the feather duster, and slammed it towards Mrs. Mao, "It's all a good daughter raised by you, a slut, not only to cut off our Mao family, but also to pay for my life!" ”

"Father, don't fight!" Mao Zhiruo looked at the blood marks on her mother's cheeks and shouted hoarsely: "Daughter, get out of the house, and ask my father to spare my mother!"

"Get out!" Mao Ge Lao raised his feather duster and shouted with a hideous face: "Get as far away as possible, and don't enter the gate of my Mao family again!"

"Get out of here!" Mao Zhiruo stomped her feet and ran quickly towards the door, she never dreamed that her father, who had always been tolerant, would be so ruthless, could it be that she was really so unbearable?

"Ruo'er!" Mrs. Mao rushed out with a crawl, she finally saw her daughter who had entered the dungeon, how could she let her daughter wander in the ice field?

"You come back to me!" Mao Ge took a few quick steps and dragged Mrs. Mao back, he let Mrs. Mao tear her up, pushed her into the bedroom and locked her.

There was a fir tree outside the bedroom door, with lush and thick foliage, and he walked over, stood under the tree, and looked at the door in a daze, the gray-white door was gradually closing, and the old man with his back was struggling to drop the bolt.

He knew that there was his helpless daughter on the other side of the stone gate, but he could not be a woman with her, for he knew better than anyone else what Her Majesty was like, and Her Majesty was waiting to put him to death!

The last rays of afterglow had disappeared from the gloomy firmament, and the heavens and the earth had suddenly darkened, and it was time for the day to end, but there was a lingering sorrow in the night today......

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"How's it going?" The queen, who was admiring the flowers in the gardenia garden, looked at Steward Zhou who walked in and asked.

"It's all done!" Steward Zhou hurriedly brought Her Majesty's tea, "Mao Zhiruo has returned to the old residence of Mao Ge, and now she should be celebrating the reunion!" ”

"Impossible!" The queen sneered and said, "How could that old fox let Mao Zhiruo enter the door, he would definitely drive Mao Zhiruo out."

"Why? That's the only daughter of Mao Gelao? Steward Zhou asked suspiciously.

"Do you think the elders of his two dynasties are in vain! If he didn't know how to judge the situation, how could he stand tall and not fall? The queen said disdainfully.

"Can His Majesty's plan be realized?" Steward Zhou asked tentatively.

"Of course you can!" The queen said confidently: "I didn't ask her to accept Mao Zhiruo this time, but let Mao Zhiruo lead Rong Yu, as long as Rong Yu is captured in one fell swoop, the old fox's death will come!"

"The old slave is stupid!" Steward Zhou looked at the queen with a blank expression, he couldn't figure out what the relationship between Rong Yu and Mao Ge Lao was, not to mention that Mao Ge Lao was cautious everywhere.

"If Mao Zhi is the murderer who planned to kidnap Yun'er and Yuwei, then where will Mao Ge Lao flee?" The queen smiled brightly, picked a gardenia and held it in her hand, the white gardenia revealed a pale pink stamen, and the thick fragrance made people linger.

"Your Majesty Shengming!" Steward Zhou hurriedly stretched out his thumb, the queen of all opportunities is a superior head.

After returning from the dungeon, the queen asked him to release Mao Zhiruo in person, at first, he thought that Her Majesty had compassion for Mao Zhiruo, but later he learned that it was a game set by Her Majesty.

"Where's Hong'er?" The queen sniffed the gardenia in her hand and asked unhurriedly, Hong'er is indispensable in this bureau, otherwise how could she find a chance to invite Yuwei back?

"It's supposed to be back to Mengbei Snow Mountain!" Steward Zhou replied affirmatively that the cronies he sent had reported to him that Hong Shizi had returned to the courtyard of Mengbei Snow Mountain.

"You go and tell Chen'er, just say that Mao Zhiruo has escaped!" The queen played with the buds on the branches, revealing a look of intoxication.

"But?"

"But what?" Steward Zhou, who was full of puzzlement on the female dynasty, glanced at her.

"What does the old slave mean is that the dungeon is heavily guarded, and how can Mao Zhiruo, who has no power to restrain the chicken, run out?"

"That's your problem, isn't storytelling what you're best at? Besides, Chen'er doesn't have a good impression of Mao Zhiruo, so she shouldn't ask so much! The queen looked at the embarrassed Steward Zhou and smiled disdainfully, "Go quickly!" The show is about to begin! ”

"The old slave obeys!"