This thorn, without the slightest hesitation, reveals the courage of a desperate bet.

A scream sounded, startling the palace maids who were guarding outside the pavilion.

"You promised me to serve the prince!" Chaohua shouted bitterly, turned around and ran, and threw the golden hairpin into it as he passed by the pool.

The golden hairpin enters the water, causing layers of ripples.

And soon the turquoise water swallowed up the golden hairpin and restored its calm.

At this time, those palace maids woke up like a dream and screamed.

"Someone, someone assassinated the crown princess—"

"Crown Princess, are you alright?"

The crown princess clutched her cheeks and her expression distorted, and blood gushed from between her fingers.

At first glance, it looks like a ghost.

There was a moment of chaos in the pavilion.

Unlike Yu Xuan's servant who secretly took the child-avoiding medicine and was suppressed, the princess couldn't hide such a major event as being stabbed by the palace maid in the garden of the East Palace, and it quickly reached the ears of the emperor.

The one in charge of taking care of the harem is Concubine Xiao.

Concubine Xiao Guifei took someone and hurried to the East Palace.

"How's the crown princess?" Concubine Xiao Guifei entered the door and asked Wei Qiang, who was standing outside.

Wei Qiang's expression was heavy: "The left side of the face was stabbed, and the imperial doctor just gave me medicine." Because the crown princess was a little excited, she took a soothing medicine and fell asleep. ”

"How could this happen?" Xiao Guifei thought about how a palace maid dared to assassinate the crown princess, and she felt incredible.

Wei Qiang's face became even more ugly.

Why did this happen, he wanted to know!

Before Concubine Xiao Guifei came, he had already asked the palace maids who were present at the time, but these palace maids were divided, and only said that it was the maid Cui Hong next to Yu Xuan's servant who stabbed the princess.

"Prince, has the palace maid who stabbed the princess been found?"

"Still looking."

"I heard that this palace maid is one of the prince's chosen servants?"

Wei Qiang's eyes were cold, and he nodded slightly.

Soon, an attendant hurriedly entered and reported: "Your Highness, Cui Hong is not there for the Jade Selection. ”

Hearing this, Wei Qiang's heart was inexplicably relieved, and his face was still gloomy: "Continue to search, we must find out that cheap maid!" ”

"I'm going to see the crown princess."

Wei Qiang accompanied Xiao Guifei into the inner room.

The crown princess lay quietly on the bed, the wound on the left side of her face had been covered with gauze, revealing only half of her face intact.

Wei Qiang looked at her like this, and thought of the crazy woman he saw when he heard the news.

There is no trace of the crown princess's bearing and calmness.

Maybe it's because of the hurt on the face?

The bowl of soothing medicine was forced by the imperial doctor to pour it into the crown princess.

Concubine Xiao Guifei looked at the crown princess who was asleep and shook her head secretly.

The injury is on the face, or the obvious position of the cheek, the crown princess is disfigured.

A disfigured crown princess, even if she is not at fault, I am afraid she will not be able to sit for long.

This East Palace is about to change the sky.

"The emperor instructed me to assist the prince in finding out this matter, since that palace maid is serving Yu Xuan, please ask Yu Xuan to come over."

Wei Qiang nodded and ordered someone to invite Chaohua.

Thinking of the woman who had been with him for twelve years, Wei Qiang was in a very complicated mood.

He didn't want to see her have an accident, but he didn't want to see her for the time being.

Seeing her would make him think of those pills she had swallowed, breaking his years of self-deception.

Luo'er hated him.

How could you not hate him, he ruined her home......

Wei Qiang's heart ached.

He thought that even if he reunited with Luo'er underground one day, she would not forgive him.

For so many years, living in the East Palace, which is the envy of the world, is actually not as happy as imagined.

He regretted it.

That year, he shouldn't have resisted the temptation to take that step.

He ruined his sweetheart and his ability to love someone.

From then on, he only has the identity of the prince, and he must keep this identity.

Otherwise, it would all be a joke.

In the remote and narrow yard, a field of melon seed shells has not yet been swept away.

The team of people who came to search for Cui Hong had just left, and they were so shocked that Qing'er's hands and feet were weak and her face was pale.

A hand patted her gently.

"Waiter-"

Chaohua smiled: "Silly girl, what are you afraid of?" ”

"I, I-" Even if there was no third person, Qing'er didn't dare to mention the word Cuihong.

Asaka didn't care.

She endured humiliation for 12 years, for the bracelet left by the county lord.

Now that I have lost the bracelet, there is nothing I can't do.

Or get the bracelet back, or die.

"It's a good thing to find Emerald as soon as possible, don't be afraid." Chaohua sat on the stone bench where Cuihong once sit, and gently crushed the melon seed shell on the ground with her toes.

Qing'er looked at those melon seed shells and panicked: "Master, the slave and maid clean up." ”

Chaohua nodded slightly.

At this time, there was a call for the door outside.

Qing'er held a broom, shocked.

"Go open the door."

Qing'er stepped forward and opened the door.

An attendant stood outside and said with a straight face: "Your Highness ordered Yu Xuan to serve over." ”

Qing'er turned her head with a white face.

Chaohua got up and walked over, with a faint expression: "Let's go." ”

Silent all the way.

"Your Highness, Concubine Niangniang, the jade selection has arrived."

Wei Qiang looked over and saw the familiar slender figure walking in.

"Greetings to His Highness, greetings to the noble concubine."

"Get up." Wei Qiang said lightly.

Chaohua stood up straight, hanging her head in a proper manner.

Concubine Xiao Guifei looked at Chaohua for a moment, and asked, "The palace maid Cuihong who served you stabbed the crown princess today, does the jade maid know the reason?" ”

"The concubine doesn't know." Chaohua lowered her eyes, and her tone was light, "Last night, Cui Hong revealed to His Royal Highness that the concubine was stealing medicine, and I don't think I really treated the concubine as the master, how did the concubine know why she stabbed the princess." ”

Wei Qiang's face changed suddenly: "Who made you talk too much!" ”

Chaohua pursed her lips and knelt down silently.

Xiao Guifei looked at Wei Qiang in surprise: "Prince, what's going on?" ”

Wei Qiang said with a calm face: "That cheap servant betrayed the lord for glory, and he should have been killed." I thought the crown princess would deal with it today, but I didn't expect this to happen. ”

When Concubine Xiao Guifei heard Wei Qiang say this, she knew that the prince was protecting this jade servant.

She didn't ask.

At this time, Qing'er suddenly knelt down beside Chaohua, kowtowed and said, "Your Highness, the servant knows why Cui Hong did this!" ”

As soon as these words came out, countless pairs of eyes immediately fell on Qing'er.

"Say!" Wei Qiang said coldly.

Qing'er buried her head and said in a trembling voice: "Cuihong said to the waiter today...... said that the crown princess promised her that she would serve His Royal Highness in the future......"

Wei Qiang Tie blushed and looked at the housekeeper's grandmother.

Mama Gui knelt down: "Your Highness, this is a slander of the crown princess!" ”

Qing'er secretly clenched her fists and mustered up the courage to refute: "The slave and maid didn't say anything, Cui Hong did say this to the waiter, and the slave and maid were on the side at that time." If Cui Hong has nothing to do with the crown princess, why did she stab the crown princess? ”

Mama Gui was stunned by the question.

Wei Qiang said with a cold face: "Come on, take down the palace people who were present when the crown princess was assassinated, and interrogate me carefully about what happened at that time." If there is a concealer, he will be killed directly! ”

Soon a palace maid explained: "When Cui Hong stabbed the crown princess, she said that the crown princess promised to let her serve the prince. ”