Fu Ci sighed, Gui Yu's steps were small, and Fu Ci urged twice. Gui Yu asked with some trembling, "Master, are we really going to see the Fourth Highness?" ”

Fu Ci listened to the footsteps, looked at Gui Yu's pale face, patted her hand and said, "I forgot, you have always been afraid of ghosts and gods." If you are afraid, go to the lobby and wait for me. ”

Gui Yu didn't know why Fu Ci had to see Zhou Yi in person, but their master and servant were one, how could she give up Fu Ci and hide by herself?

What's more, Zhou Yi is easy-going, and he often goes in and out of the Xiwang Mansion, so he is more familiar with their servants and maids. Thinking about Zhou Yi's good on weekdays, Gui Yu couldn't say anything without looking at Zhou Yi, so he said: "Where did the master come from, the fourth master treats us well on weekdays, he is gone, how can we give it away!" ”

After Gui Yu finished speaking, he took the lead in front of Fu Ci. Fu Ci looked at Gui Yu's back and followed.

Shen Zihe's courtyard was in a corner of the Four Princes' Mansion. It wasn't that Zhou Yi deliberately snubbed him and picked an inconspicuous boundary for her. It's this place, the quietest place in the Four Princes' Mansion.

When I came to Shen Zihe's courtyard, the furnishings inside were similar to those of Zhou Yi's wedding. In the south corner of the yard, there is a small pond with lotus flowers in it. There is a swing in the north corner of the courtyard, which was made by Zhou Yi himself for Shen Zihe.

Fu Ci walked inside again, the door of the lobby was open, and a slight amount of sunlight was projected on the coffin.

There were two crying little girls standing in the room, watching Fu Ci come in and hurriedly go out to greet them.

"The slave and maid knocked to see Princess Xi", the two maidservants knelt down together and saluted Fu Ci.

Fu Ci waved his hand, "Get up." ”

The little maid got up and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, Fu Ci looked around the courtyard and asked, "What about the other people in this courtyard?" ”

Listening to her question, the two maids began to shed tears. The older one stepped forward and saluted, "My princess, where else are there in the Four Princes' Mansion?" The people who stayed behind were all favored by His Highness, and they were willing to stay in this house and do their best. ”

"So, the minions in this house are almost scattered?" Gui Yu stepped forward and asked.

The older nodded, and the younger one kept crying.

Fu Ci sighed, "I can't blame them, the Four Princes' Mansion is in this situation now, and it's not an exaggeration for them to plan for themselves." ”

The old man nodded, and the young maid couldn't stand it anymore, and said, "That's it." His Royal Highness is sacrificing his life for the country, why can't we set up a mourning hall for us to cry for Your Highness! ”

Fu Ci stepped forward and patted the crying little maidservant, "I have already instructed the old housekeeper to go down and set up a mourning hall for His Royal Highness as soon as possible." ”

When the little maid heard this, she was about to kneel down and kowtow to Fu Ci, but Fu Ci hurriedly stopped, "Okay, go and help the old housekeeper prepare." ”

The little maid answered, and the older one bowed with him, intending to follow the little maid to help the old butler prepare things.

"Mama stays," Fu Ci shouted.

The old maidservant answered, and saluted Fu Ci again, "What do you want from Princess Xi?" ”

Fu Ci sighed and asked softly, "Does Mama know who was originally serving the Shen princess in the Four Princes' Mansion?" ”

The old maidservant bowed, "If you go back to the princess, it is the slave maid." ”

When Fu Ci heard this, he looked left and right, and then hurriedly asked, "Have the four imperial concubines ever come back these days?" ”

"Come back?" The mother muttered, thought for a moment and then shook her head, "Slave and Xingbai, oh is the girl just now, who has been guarding this courtyard, not to mention the whereabouts of the four imperial concubines, even cats and dogs refuse to come to the door these days." ”

"There is Mama Lao", Fu Ci bowed his head to express his gratitude. Mama bowed and withdrew.

Fu Ci walked into the lobby. There was a large Nanmu coffin inside, and the coffin had been sealed, just waiting to be buried. According to the meaning of Zhou Zhi, Zhou Yi does not consider the righteousness of the family and the country, and only does it for the private affairs of his children. Now, just in time for the crown prince to ascend the throne, I can only think of it in a hurry.

In Fu Ci's view, if you can help, you can help with it. Although after death, she can't feel anything, but after all, it is her sister-in-law's heart.

Fu Ci took two more turns in the mourning hall. In a short time, the old butler came here with a group of people to set up, and after about half an hour, almost all the objects in the room were hung white.

Although he looked desolate, the old butler still smiled. He smiled desolately, Zhou Yi was finally able to mourn with dignity!

Fu Ci was very distressed when he looked at the old housekeeper, but he couldn't say anything, this was a fact.

"Princess, there is someone outside the door, saying that they are here to cry for the Fourth Highness", a guard ran to Fu Ci and knelt down to report.

"Who?" Fu Ci asked vigilantly.

By this time, it was already dawn. The courtiers who are good friends with Zhou Yi on weekdays should also go to the new emperor's enthronement ceremony, how can they still have the time to come to see Zhou Yi?

"It's a woman with a mask", the guard looked up at Fu Ci's expression after he finished his report.

"Woman ......", Fu Ci muttered, and then hurriedly said, "Please come in quickly!" ”

The guard answered, and hurriedly went out to invite, looking at the back of the guard, Fu Ci didn't forget to instruct: "Please come here directly!" ”

This person is best Shen Zihe, who Zhou Yixin misses!

Fu Ci thought silently in his heart.

After a while, the guard led the woman into the courtyard.

Fu Ci looked at the man from a distance.

The person who came was dressed in a vegetarian body, tied her hair with a wooden hairpin, and wore a mask on her face, covering most of her face, so that only people could see her eyebrows.

The woman walked towards Fu Ci step by step, each step was very slow, and her eyes seemed to be looking at the courtyard. Looking at her like this, Fu Ci became more and more nervous, and her heart rose to her throat.

Seeing that the person who came was getting closer and closer to him, Fu Ci hurriedly got out of the door with the help of Gui Yu.

"Is that you?" Fu Ci asked, and even his voice trembled.

The man didn't answer, walked straight past Fu Ci, walked to Zhou Yi's coffin, touched the coffin and whispered, "Your Highness, I'm back to see you off for the last time." ”

When she said this, only Fu Ci and Gui Yu, who were close to her, could hear her. When Fu Ci heard this, he quickly turned around and said to the three or four minions in the house: "This princess and this old friend have something to talk about, you all go to the outside of the courtyard to guard, and no one can let anyone in!" ”

After Fu Ci finished speaking, everyone received their orders one by one. The older grandmother looked carefully at Shen Zihezai and followed Gui Yu out of the courtyard after a careful look.

After these people left, Fu Ci breathed a sigh of relief and walked to Shen Zihe's side: "My good girl, how dare you come back, Zhou Zezheng sent people everywhere to track down your whereabouts!" ”

"My whereabouts?" Shen Zihe repeated, and then said: "He, the emperor, is not happy to do it? ”

Fu Ci didn't talk, but changed the topic and said, "What are you going to do next?" The Shen clan has collapsed, and the Fourth Highness is about to be buried in peace. ”

Shen Zihe didn't answer, but smiled. Through the mask, Fu Ci couldn't see her smile, but through her slightly curved eyebrows, Fu Ci could vaguely feel that Shen Zihe was smiling.

Seeing her expression, Fu Ci continued: "You don't have the idea of seeking revenge, now is not the time." ”

Shen Zihe smiled and smiled, tears rolling in his eyes more and more.

"I naturally know that this is not the time, and if I want to go, I will also leave a bloodline for His Highness before leaving," Shen Zihe said.

"Blood? Fourth Highness ......", Fu Ci muttered a few words, and then asked, "Don't you have a child of the Fourth Highness in your womb?" ”

Shen Zihe nodded, "I'm here to find you this time." ”

Fu Ci didn't interrupt and motioned for Shen Zihe to continue. Shen Zihe was not pretentious, and straightforwardly took off her mask to let Fu Ci see her disfigured face.

"What's wrong with you?" Fu Ci asked in surprise.

Shen Zihe smiled bitterly, "You understand that it is self-inflicted." ”

Subsequently, Shen Zihe explained to Fu Ci why he escaped from the Four Princes' Mansion and why he entered Huamanlou, and how he finally left Huamanlou and left this indelible whiplash on his face. In the end, why did you want to be an enemy of Zhou Yi, and why did you want that fire in the end.

What Shen Zihe said was not very logical. Fortunately, Fu Ci is a logical and thinking person, and it is not very difficult to understand these things.

It turned out that after Shen Zihe escaped from the Four Princes' Mansion, he had no choice but to throw himself into the Huamanlou because of the Heavenly Prince. In the months that she has been in Huamanlou, she has always been a geisha of many rich and noble families who only sell money and only sell their arts.

Where the mother treats her well, there is no phenomenon of scolding at every turn. However, it is true that Hua's mother is greedy for money, and she has forced her to comply several times.

The day after Cangxi looked for her, a group of people came to Huamanlou and wanted to ransom her by name. Those people were wearing masks, and they could only see the fierceness between their eyebrows.

Mother Hua is a master who sees money and is greedy for life and afraid of death. The other party gave a lot of money, and Hua's mother gave Shen Zihe to those individuals in order to save her life and money.

Later, Shen Zihe learned that these people turned out to be people from his grandfather's side, General Shen's subordinates!

Those people with Shen's blood on their bodies came to her one by one to tell her how villain Zhou Yi was and how despicable. Shen Zihe didn't want to believe it in her heart, but after being whipped three times by Cao Zhangshi, she also felt that Zhou Yi seemed to be a person who was playing with her feelings. All of a sudden, all the love in the past year suddenly turned into hate, and it was all accumulated in Shen Zihe's heart.

In order to show his loyalty, Shen Zihe disfigured himself. This is one of the reasons why she always wears a mask. Of course, there is also a layer to avoid making people who have seen her recognize her true identity.

Later, when Shen Zihe really saw Zhou Yi, she realized that she really couldn't be ruthless to this man. Even if she hurt herself and took out one of her hearts and crushed it, Shen Zihe only had resentment and no hatred for him from beginning to end!

There's such a terrible thing in this world, and there's -- the same person I love and I complain about.

The more you love, the harder it is to give up. In the end, no matter how heavy the resentment is, it will lose to love.

"In that case, why did you personally harm the Fourth Highness?" Fu Ci asked.

Shen Zihe smiled bitterly and asked, "Have you ever heard a poem called 'There are only two lines of tears in my life, half for the country and half beauty'?" ”

Fu Ci nodded. She read this poem with Cangxi.

At that time, she also joked at Cangxi and said that this poem must not be used to describe Cangxi.

Cangxi asked her why, and she only said that Cangxi was a stone man who couldn't shed tears.

She clearly remembered that Cangxi said that she didn't understand, saying that men bleed without tears, and tears must have reached a sad place!

Fu Ci thought that Shen Zihe's voice would hook her back from her thoughts.

"His Royal Highness is not a person who can abandon the people of Li, and I also know that he is not the one who will fail me, so he did the last thing he wanted to do for him."

Listening to Shen Zihe say this, Fu Ci seemed to be able to imagine the situation on the battlefield at that time.

Zhou Yi was tied to the city gate, the traitors above the city tower were arrogant, and the generals and commanders outside the city gate were in a hurry. Cangxi cared about love and righteousness, and refused to step on his brother's shoulder. Therefore, they were reluctant to attack the city.

Above the city tower, the people of the Shen clan intensified their attacks, and their verbal provocations were more numerous.

Zhou Yi asked Cangxi twice and repeatedly to understand his life.

In this way, taking the ancient city of Ci'an is as convenient as taking something in your pocket.

It just so happened that he was worthy of Shen Zihe!

Thinking of this, Fu Ci's eyes turned red, "It's hard for you." ”

Shen Zihe didn't speak.

In this world, there are some people who scold her for being ruthless and troublesome, and there are not a few who say that she is ruthless and unjust. The only one who can listen to her quietly and understand her is Fu Ci.

It's just that what's the use of him asking for this name and understanding?

Just thinking about it, Fu Ci coughed twice and asked softly, "Then what's next?" What is the intention? ”

Shen Zihe smiled bitterly, "What else?" Notices to arrest me have been plastered all over the streets, what can I do? ”

Fu Ci sighed. Yes, Zhou Ze let go of the Shen family, but only issued an edict saying that the fourth imperial concubine Shen Zihe would be arrested, and those who provided clues would be rewarded.

"How are you spending your days these days?" Fu Ci changed the topic and asked.

How is it going?

How else could she live as a widow?

Without Zhou Yi's protection, Zhou Ze ordered her to be searched again, and she was restless wherever she went. However, she didn't want to say these words to Fu Ci, so she spoke: "I want to find a quiet realm to give birth to a safe baby and raise the only bone and blood of the Fourth Highness." ”

Fu Ci nodded. For the sake of now, it can only be like this, Zhou Ze only said that he wanted to arrest Shen Zihe, but did not say what he would do after arresting her. However, it doesn't seem like a good thing. Otherwise, the word "arrested" would not be used.

After thinking for a while, Fu Ci asked, "Do you have a place to go?" ”

"The Shen family has fallen, where else can I go?" Shen Zihe said.

The two were silent for a long time. Also, according to the situation in front of him, where else can Shen Zihe go?

"I'll find you a place", hearing this, Shen Zihe hurriedly looked up at Fu Ci, Fu Ci patted Shen Zihe's shoulder, "Although this realm is remote, it can be regarded as quiet, and there are no outsiders to disturb it on weekdays." It's just that there is a man living somewhere", Fu Ci said while looking at Shen Zihe's expression, "That man is a doctor, with him taking care of you, I and the prince are also more at ease." It's an eventful time, and it's not good for you to wander around with your baby in your womb. ”

After Shen Zihe quietly listened to Fu Ci, he knelt straight in front of Fu Ci, "Thank you Sister-in-law Wang for being willing to lend a hand, otherwise I really don't know where to go with this child", Shen Zihe kowtowed to Fu Ci after speaking.

Fu Ci didn't stop it. She can afford this gift.

After a salute, Fu Ci helped Shen Zihe up, "You can accompany the Fourth Highness well, and after a while, the Fourth Highness and this coffin should enter the imperial mausoleum." ”

After Fu Ci finished speaking, Shen Zihe curtsied to her again.

Watching Shen Zihe touch the coffin over and over again, Fu Ci felt very uncomfortable.

Out of the gate of the courtyard, the servants and maidservants were still guarding. Seeing Fu Ci come out, the older grandmother seemed to have something to say, but because of others, she didn't speak in the end.

Fu Ci looked at Mama's appearance of wanting to speak and stopped, and deliberately turned her head to Gui Yu and said: "I am thinking about the spring in the Jingyi Courtyard in the Four Princes' Mansion, and I don't know if I can see it again in the future, so you can accompany me for a walk." ”

Gui Yu saluted Fu Ci and responded. And all the people saluted and got out of the way.

Sure enough, not long after Fu Ci came to the spring of Jingyi Courtyard, the elderly grandmother followed.

"You're a good eyer," Fu Ci said to the grandmother as he sat on the stone bench and turned sideways.

When the grandmother heard this, she quickly nodded and saluted Fu Ci, "Niangniang's love, Niangniang's love." ”

Fu Ci didn't talk to her politely anymore, and asked bluntly: "What are you looking for in this palace?" ”

The grandmother looked up at Fu Ci's expression and then hurriedly lowered her head, and asked timidly, "Who is the noble man who covered his face——? ”