"Your Highness."

There was an indescribable smell in the hall, and Shen Ming could already smell it as soon as he stepped in, and he couldn't help but turn his head to look in the direction of the door.

"Zhao Shi's old puppet can be recruited?" Noticing the man's movements, Hua Zijing raised his eyebrows and spoke in a low voice.

"Never." Affirmation arched his body. "The old man bit his mouth and didn't let go, saying that the emperor had never written an edict, and he didn't know it."

"Unaware?" A heavy haze appeared in Hua Zijing's eyes, and his originally handsome eyebrows and eyes looked very gloomy at the moment. "The old man seems to be not shedding tears when he sees the coffin."

"Your Highness." Shen Ming pondered for a moment and asked. "What is Your Highness still doing with that woman?"

Hearing this, Hua Zijing couldn't help but look up at Shen Ming, his expression was full of unhappiness.

Shen Ming followed him for a short time, and when he saw Hua Zijing's expression, he suddenly understood in his heart, and bent down in fear to bow.

"Your Highness, that woman can betray the old master for some petty profits, and she will betray His Highness in the future, if she stays any longer, it will inevitably be a scourge."

Hearing Shen Ming's sincere and frightened voice, Hua Zijing's expression relaxed slightly, and he snorted coldly.

"That woman, the main hall is still useful, so you don't need to say more."

"Your Highness." Affirming his unrelenting reluctance. "If His Royal Highness suspects that the thing was hidden by Aunt Jin, his subordinates can send someone to search the old mute girl's residence in a carpet way, although it is difficult to move the Chengming Palace, but as long as the regent is lured out, it is not difficult to search at this time."

"Hmph." Hua Zijing sneered and glanced up and down at Shen Ming.

"You want to say that the main hall is obsessed with love and does not want to make progress, right?"

"The subordinates don't dare."

Shen Ming was seen by him in a cold sweat, he had been with Hua Zijing for so long, he couldn't be clearer about what Hua Zijing was, even Princess Huasang, who had raised him for nearly eight years, he could calculate, let alone himself.

Just as Shen Ming retreated, Hua Zijing reached out and grabbed a piece of rice paper from the table and threw it at Shen Ming's feet.

"Look."

Shen Ming looked up in horror and grabbed the piece of rice paper, only to see that the outline on the rice paper was a woman.

It's just that the person who wrote the pen is not good at drawing, so it is a little vague, but the general characteristics are still very distinct.

Shen Ming carefully identified it for a moment, and then heard Hua Zijing speak.

"This is a palace maid who used to follow the old mute girl, named Weiming, who went to the house half a year ago to save relatives, and never came back after that."

Shen Mingden understood what Hua Zijing meant, and the tip of his nose unconsciously broke out with fine sweat.

"The subordinates know their mistakes, and I hope that His Highness will punish them."

What the two people in the hall said later, Hua Yunzhen couldn't hear it clearly.

The things she heard tonight made her hands and feet cold for a while, and her heart seemed to have been cut out of a big hole by something, empty.

Aunt Jin, she really is....

Hua Yunzhen leaned against the wall in a slightly dazed manner.

I finally realized what I thought was wrong.

She originally thought that Li Jingrui was the culprit of all this, but now it seems that her younger brother, who is bent on assisting her superiors, has such vicious thoughts about herself since she didn't know when.

She thought, how could Li Jingrui alone so easily imprison herself for half a year without being exposed.

It turned out that this was because Hua Zijing also participated.

Thinking about it now, if it weren't for Hua Zijing, how could Aunt Jin fall into the Tao so easily, and even involve hundreds of people up and down the Zhao Mansion?

After waiting for a long time, Hua Yunzhen came back from the shock, and her hand holding the lantern was trembling a little.

Gritting his teeth and standing up against the wall, Hua Yunzhen's eyes turned red.

She will not let go of these people who hurt her, hurt her, bully her, and deceive her.

The flames of hatred devoured Hua Yunzhen's reason little by little.

She walked in the night, like a terrible ghost.

Tonight, let's start with Qiulan.

If it weren't for Qiulan who betrayed Aunt Jin first, why wouldn't she have turned over, and was personally sent to Huangquan by Li Jingrui, how could she have affected the lives of hundreds of people in the Zhao Mansion.

After Qiulan came out of the Yongning Palace, she thought about Hua Zijing's instructions, so she took advantage of the night to sneak into the room where Aunt Jin lived before, and carefully touched every corner of the room.

She has always looked at people very accurately, don't look at Hua Zijing's soft words to her before, but she knows very well in her heart that this time is just because she still has use value, but if she can't find what he wants.

Mo said that the splendid future he promised, whether he could do anything about the brocade clothes and jade food, he was afraid that he would be the first to tear her up.

Qiulan bent over the edge of the bed and banged, still muttering. "This old dumb girl is quite good at hiding things, which makes it easy to find."

For fear of being discovered, Qiulan didn't dare to light the lamp, but carefully pushed open a small window next to the bed, and rubbed the light pouring in from outside a little bit in the room.

Suddenly, the wooden window creaked.

Maybe he was a thief, and in an instant, Qiulan looked back.

Realizing that it was just a slight blow of the wind, he pushed the window open a little and patted his chest.

"This dead dumb girl, she won't be worried when she dies, and she scared the old lady to death."

Qiulan said something in her mouth, as if she wanted to use this to relieve the fright in her heart, turned around, and continued to rub on the edge of the bed.

At this moment, I heard another squeak in the direction of the window sill.

Qiulan cursed in a low voice, her heartbeat was much faster when she was frightened by this voice, and she turned around scolding, and 00 wanted to close the window.

Unexpectedly, when she turned around, the blood all over her body seemed to stagnate.

I saw a woman standing quietly on the edge of the windowsill, only a step away from her.

The woman stood motionless, staring straight in her direction.

Qiulan couldn't help but let out an exclamation, stumbled on her feet, and sat down on the edge of the bed.

The panic in her heart frightened her and she was about to scream, but before her voice could come out, it was already cut off by the quick hand of the person who pounced on her.

"Ahhh

Qiulan panicked and began to struggle for her life.

Hua Yunzhen rushed forward and covered her mouth, reached out and felt a silver needle from her waist, and reached out and inserted it into Qiulan's acupoint.

As soon as Qiulan's body stiffened, she only felt a numbness somewhere, and the paralysis ran from the lower body to the upper body little by little, and she was surprised that she couldn't move.

Facing Shang Qiulan's frightened eyes, Hua Yunzhen smiled shallowly in the dark.

She let go of Qiulan's hand, and first took out a slender dagger from her bosom and stuck it on Qiulan's face.

"Are you here, killing Aunt Jin?"

The moonlight shone in through the wide open windowsill, and Qiulan saw the eyebrows and eyes of the woman in front of her clearly through the moonlight.

"Uh-huh..."

Hua Yunzhen looked at her like this, she was slightly stunned, and immediately reacted, she didn't take off the makeup that she didn't add to her in the morning.

In fact, as long as you identify it carefully, you can find that your current face is still different from the original, but the room is dim, and Qiulan has a ghost in her heart, so she is naturally frightened.

Hua Yunzhen's lips suddenly overflowed with a soft smile, and she said in a low voice. "I'll let go, don't scream, okay?"

It's just that the softer her voice becomes, the more Qiulan feels goosebumps on her body.

"Eun."

"Good." Hua Yunzhen patted Qiulan's face. "I'll ask a few questions."

After Qiu Lan noticed that the palm touching her cheek was warm, her eyes suddenly became surprised, and she asked in a less eloquent voice.

"You, what do you want to ask?"

"What did Hua Zijing tell you to find?" Hua Yunzhen's gaze was firmly fixed on Qiu Lan.

Being looked at by Hua Yunzhen's eyes, Qiulan's breath stagnated, and she said for a while. "He said that he asked me to find Aunt Jin's thing, but he didn't tell me what that thing was."

Hua Yunzhen's eyes turned sharp, and Qiu Lan suddenly hurriedly continued. "I really don't know what he's looking for, he, he just told me, look me carefully..."

After carefully identifying Qiu Lan's expression, she felt that she didn't seem to be lying, Hua Yunzhen just responded lightly.

According to Hua Zijing's suspicious nature, if Qiulan clearly told her what Hua Zijing was looking for, she would feel that there was a ghost.

"The news of the Zhao Mansion was passed on to Hua Zijing by you?"

Qiulan breathed for a moment and nodded. "Yes."

"Where is Aunt Jin's body?" The corners of Hua Yunzhen's eyes were slightly red when she said this, and the anger surging in her chest made her breathing begin to shorten.

Qiu Lan was stunned by the question, looked at Hua Yunzhen, and asked tentatively. "I told you where Aunt Jin's body was, and you let me go?"

"Do you think you're still qualified to bargain with me?" Hua Yunzhen smiled coldly, and her eyes became more and more crazy.

"If you are honest, there may be a chance of survival, if you are still so ignorant....", Hua Yunzhen did not finish speaking, she just gently raised the dagger to the front and blew it gently.

In the darkness, Qiulan hurriedly spoke. "You'll go back on your word later."

Seeing that Qiulan was still so messing around, Hua Yunzhen's eyes flashed.

As if seeing something wrong, Qiu Lan's face turned pale, and when Hua Yunzhen didn't react, she opened her mouth to call for help.

"Help! Save...."

A glittering dagger plunged into her mouth, crushing her screams in her throat.

Qiulan's eyes widened in horror and trembled.

"Don't... Kill me...."

Hua Yunzhen sneered, her eyes darkened, and she came to Qiulan's side. "What I hate most in my life is the threat of others."

"Even if you don't say it, won't you be able to find Aunt Jin's body?"

Qiulan's stiff head, the dagger slicing her tongue, she had to speak with great difficulty. "I said, I said, don't kill!"

"Whoever kills, man will always kill him."

With that, Hua Yunzhen closed her eyes and sent the dagger into Qiu Lan's throat.

Doused by the warm scarlet blood, she stiffened, and crawled off the bed trembling, her eyes scarlet.

She trembled and found a clean dress to change into in the room, and didn't look at Qiulan on the bed, and took a few deep breaths before she could barely stop shivering.