"Lord Wang, let's rest early tonight, I ordered this soothing incense for you." The housekeeper glanced at Zhao Shu, who was reading a book, and slowly retreated.

When he reached the door, the butler asked the soldiers guarding the palace, "Are they all ready?" ”

"It's all ready," replied one of the soldiers, "but but, Steward Li, do you really want to do this?" ”

"Hmm." The butler nodded and said no more.

After dinner, the Queen Mother's people really acted, and a man in black took advantage of Zhao Shu's hypnotic effect of the soothing incense to sneak into the room and hide a scroll with great rebellious words and a witch doll with the emperor's birthday written on it. On the other side, those people in the palace had already prepared a statement to frame Zhao Shu for corruption and rebellion, and they could be stabbed in one fell swoop just by waiting for the matter over there to be revealed.

An hour later, the Queen Mother came to Zhao Wangfu with many ministers, saying that today is Zhao Shu's birthday, and it must be handled well. The Queen Mother deliberately made this matter known to the whole city, and was about to follow the plan, when she found something rebellious in Zhao Shu's house, she pushed the door in, but she didn't see Zhao Shu, and saw the housekeeper sitting in front of Zhao Shu's desk, playing with the incense burner in his hand.

"Bold, when you see the Queen Mother, you don't kneel, is this how Zhao Wangfu teaches his subordinates?" Duan Shi hurriedly shouted.

The housekeeper stood up slowly, then knelt down and kowtowed: "The slave sees the Queen Mother." ”

The Queen Mother frowned and asked, "What about Prince Zhao?" ”

The butler replied, "The prince is at General Cao Wei's." ”

The Queen Mother was shocked: Cao Wei is a general, in terms of military strength, his own small soldiers are naturally invincible to those many elite soldiers, if Zhao Shu is there at this time, I really can't do anything with this kid. But she thought about it again, no matter where Zhao Shu is, as long as there is full evidence, the emperor needs his life, the king wants his ministers to die, and the ministers can't not die.

"It's not a coincidence that the mourning family came," the queen mother smiled fakely, "Since it is at General Cao's place, it is not good for the mourning family to send someone to call him back, so let's see that your Zhao prince's residence is also very shabby, why don't you let someone decorate and clean your prince?" ”

"Slave Xie Empress Dowager." The butler bowed again.

The Queen Mother was secretly overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered someone to search Zhao Shu's bedroom, but after searching twice, she found nothing. At this time, when a little maid brought tea to the Queen Mother, she accidentally bumped into a chair, and the tea spilled on the Queen Mother's clothes, and the Queen Mother angrily slapped the maid, and as a result, she threw out a handkerchief with handwriting written on it from her sleeve, picked it up and checked the contents, it was actually the text that she and Duan Shi were preparing to gang up to blame Zhao Shu.

"Queen Mother......" Duan Shi was shocked and angry, where did he think that the Queen Mother was so anxious that she would carry this last notice with her.

The courtiers looked at each other, and they didn't know how to answer, so the housekeeper took advantage of the situation to kneel down and shouted for mercy: "The Queen Mother, our prince has never been corrupt and rebellious, the Queen Mother Mingjian, you can know when you knock on this humble house, our prince is really an innocent person, I don't know where to offend the Queen Mother, and provoked the Queen Mother to write such a fierce article, our prince is really wronged!" ”

"You...... You ......" The queen mother was so angry that her face turned blue and white for a while, and she pointed at the housekeeper, but she couldn't say a word. Duan Shi was also trembling with anger, thinking that he could use this only son of Steward Li to blackmail him, but who knew that this was such a loyal slave.

"Father-in-law Duan, you asked me to poison my family's prince, forgive me for not being able to do it." The butler interjected again.

As soon as Duan Shi heard this, he jumped in a hurry: "Don't spew blood, when will I let you frame Zhao Shu...... Lord Zhao? ”

The butler took out a wad of letter paper from his sleeve and said while crying: "Ministers, please comment, these ...... These are all ...... given to me by Duan's father-in-law."

Everyone circulated it, and finally someone couldn't help but speak: "Prince Zhao has always acted fairly, and he is also honest and benevolent, I don't know what kind of dissatisfaction Duangong has with the prince?" ”

"This ...... This ......" Duan Shi was covered in a cold sweat and glanced at the Queen Mother.

The Queen Mother was already so angry that she lost her mind, and pulled out the long sword of the guard next to her, stabbed it into the butler's heart, and her blood sprayed all over the ground. All the ministers were shocked, and the queen mother herself was shocked, and then immediately calmed down and shouted: "Today's matter, no one is allowed to chew the root of the tongue in front of the emperor, if there is a violator, this is the end!" Back to the palace! ”

The courtiers wanted to let people heal the housekeeper, but when they saw the queen mother say this, they couldn't go against it, so they had to leave silently, but everyone already had an idea in their hearts, and they couldn't hide it from the emperor today.

——When the Queen Mother was making trouble in Zhao Wangfu, the carriage that secretly sent Zhao Shu happened to run into Lan Yan and Li Yi.

As soon as Li saw that the carriage was strange, he immediately stopped it, but who knew that the coachman was actually a guard in King Zhao's mansion, and it was Zhao Shu who fell asleep in the carriage. After questioning, the guards told Lan Yan and Li Yi everything that had happened. Lan Yan secretly used immortal magic to wake up Zhao Shu, and after the three of them sorted out the context of the matter, they understood the housekeeper's good intentions, Cao Wei had actually received a letter from the housekeeper, and he would help Zhao Shu speak when the time came.

"Lord Wang, my father must be in danger now, forgive me for not being able to accompany you." As soon as Li finished speaking, he hurriedly rode his horse towards King Zhao's mansion.

Lan Yan frowned, and said to Zhao Shu: "I'll accompany him, if you don't worry, when the Queen Mother is gone, you will come back, Brother Li will definitely suffer a lot alone." After speaking, he followed Li Yi away.

Zhao Shu looked at the figure of Lan Yan in the distance, turned to the coachman and said, "Let's go too, the housekeeper treats me as his own, and now he is in danger for me, how can I not care?" ”

The coachman looked embarrassed and replied: "Lord Wang, it is precisely because the housekeeper knows that you are too affectionate and will never let him take risks, so he mixed the medicine in the tranquilizer incense to let you sleep, otherwise, now you will definitely be framed by the Queen Mother, and you will not be able to bring down the Queen Mother." ”

Zhao Shu hurriedly said: "Confused, do you think you can bring down the Queen Mother just this time?" It's too risky, you go down the trail first, and we'll watch the movement at the secret door before entering. ”

"Yes."

- When Lan Yan and Li Yi arrived at the Zhao Palace, they met the moment when the Queen Mother assassinated Steward Li.

"Daddy!" Li Yi's eyes were red, and he didn't care about the queen mother's courtiers, so he rushed forward and knelt in front of Steward Li, crying while helping Steward Li up.

"Who are you?" The Queen Mother glanced at Li Yi coldly. Seeing this, the housekeeper pulled Li Yi's clothes vigorously and signaled Li Yi to be patient for the time being.

Li Yiji reluctantly knelt down to the Queen Mother, and was about to speak, when a blue smoke voice came from not far away: "Do you have a problem with your ears or a problem with your brain?" Didn't you see him just call Steward Li Daddy? ”

When the housekeeper saw that it was blue smoke, he was so shocked that he couldn't speak. Everyone present sweated, thinking that this girl was too bold.

Seeing that the Queen Mother was so presumptuous, her anger came up suddenly: "Uneducated thing, come on, kill her for me." ”

"You still want to kill people in King Zhao's mansion?" Lan Yan stared at the Queen Mother, and her eyes gradually showed murderous anger, "It's a big deal, are you going to explain it to the emperor?" ”

The Queen Mother held her breath, thinking that if the emperor knew about this matter at that time, even if he didn't pursue it, how could the mouth of the world be blocked. So I had to keep my face calm and leave in a hurry. When the people were gone, Zhao Shu immediately entered the palace through the secret door and rushed all the way to the inner courtyard.

I saw the butler lying on the ground, already dying. Zhao Shu hurriedly ordered his entourage to invite the doctor, but the housekeeper waved his hand and said, "It's useless, and you can't serve the prince in the future." Zhao Shu's face was already flushed, tears flowed down in large numbers, he held the butler's hand, choked up, and said, "No, no, no, you must be fine." ”

The housekeeper sighed and said, "Lord Wang, I watched you grow up, speaking of which, I'm not afraid of you being annoyed, I have long regarded you as my own son in my heart, and you are as important as Li Yi, do you remember?" When I was bullied and scolded back then, it was the prince who stood up to help me speak, and said...... Ahem, you want to recognize me as a godfather, you are a prince, you can actually take the life of our slave so important, I made up my mind at that time to be loyal to you for the rest of my life, but unfortunately I can't wait...... Now, I am most worried about my son, I hope that the prince will not dislike him, and accept him as a confidant to take my place, so that he can continue to serve you. ”

"Dad......" Li Yi was already crying and couldn't speak.

"Son, in the future, you will be loyal to the prince on behalf of your father, do you know?" The housekeeper stretched out his hand with difficulty to hold Li Yi's hand.

"Hmmm! I will! Li Yi nodded heavily.

The housekeeper smiled tearfully and slowly leaned back, and when he was about to go, he saw blue smoke on the side again, and said another instruction: "Miss Fu, you should take care of ...... too" After speaking, he left.

"Daddy!"

"Godfather!"

Zhao Shu and Li hugged the corpse and cried, and Lan Yan also had red eyes on the side, and then quietly retreated.

Lan Yan silently walked to the courtyard where there was no one, tonight's incident must have reached the ears of the emperor, I don't know if the saint is a Ming Jun, but judging from today's situation, the Queen Mother's gang must be a group of villains. Lan Yan sighed, looked at the full moon in the sky, and suddenly remembered the words that her father had taught her, to be kind, to be loyal to the country, to be humble and courteous, to be a gentleman, and to stay with Xuan Nei for a long time, he is more and more indulgent. Now I think it's not worth it, who is loyal to, who is good, loyal to the country, you must not be good at all people, such as the Liao army who obeys Liao's orders, and good at people, sometimes they are accused of disloyalty, such as Zhao Shu. People are ridiculous sometimes......

"Blue smoke," Zhao Shu walked over and said, "Thank you for today......

Lan Yan saw that Zhao Shu's eyes were red, and she was inevitably a little distressed, she patted Zhao Shu's shoulder and said, "Say thank you, I didn't help much, you and Brother Li don't be too sad." ”

"Well......" Zhao Shu nodded and said, "I've already asked people to take care of the housekeeper's afterlife, I ......"

"What's wrong?"

Zhao Shu sighed vigorously and said, "Blue Smoke, do you know? Sometimes I really feel very tired, I have no intention of competing for the throne, the Queen Mother always refuses to let me go, remember the first time we met? The misunderstanding between me and Cao Wei was because the Queen Mother assassinated me under the pretense of the emperor's edict, and then intermittently planned several assassinations......"