Chapter 425: The Man Who Served the Concubine
"You... Who are you? Lu Jia leaned against the innermost corner of the cell and looked at the fierce and vicious people with a frightened expression.
"Who? You're going to die anyway, so it doesn't hurt to tell you. One of them pressed the cell head and walked to the door: "You are here, you are a threat to our master!" You're dead, everybody's safe, understand? β
Lu Jia's eyes widened: "You are the second prince's people?!" β
"You said it yourself." The masked man sneered, and the knife shining in the darkness was pointed against the cell head: "Open the door!" β
"Don't, don't open, someone! Help me! "Where has Lu Jia seen this kind of formation, she was so frightened that she was frightened, she wanted to retaliate, yes, but she didn't expect to lose her life! I thought about cooperating with the second prince, isn't it simple to clean up a Zhao Mansion? Who knew that when something happened, she was the first to attack herself! Blame her for being naΓ―ve.
"No! You want to kill criminals? What a guts! I advise you to hurry up and arrest you, or someone will notice it in a moment, and none of you will be able to escape! β
"Fuck, that's a lot of bullshit!" The masked man scolded and complained, took the knife horizontally, and the cell head snorted and slowly fell to the ground.
"Ahh Lu Jia trembled with fright, shouted that he was dead or not, and amplified his voice: "Come on!" Kill! Help me! β
"Find the key!" The masked man commands the man behind him.
The man in black found a bunch of keys on the cell boss, but there were too many keys, so he had to try them one by one, and in Lu Jia's frightened eyes, the lock clicked... Finally opened.
Just when she thought she was dead, a team of officers and soldiers suddenly rushed in from outside: "Dare to come to Dali Temple to rob the prison?" Arrest them all! β
The three of them were surrounded in an instant, and they were all caught without a few fights, and Su Lijiu came in from outside: "Strengthen supervision and send more people." Then he walked to the door of the prison and looked at Lu Jia, who was still unconscious: "Miss Lu is okay, is it?" β
Lu Jia raised her teary eyes and said tremblingly: "I have something to say, I want to testify!" β
Su Lijiu was overjoyed, and it was really useful: "Miss Lu wants to say it?" β
Lu Jia stood up against the wall, in the current situation, if he said it, he might be able to make the second prince be punished, but if he didn't say it, the second prince would not be at ease with himself, but it would be more dangerous.
Su Ze opened the hall in the middle of the night, Lu Jia told everything he knew, and finally signed the painting before returning to the cell, although no one really wanted to kill her, but in order to make her feel at ease, Su Lijiu still sent a lot of people to guard outside the prison door.
"Got it!" Su Lijiu took the confession to Wu Zhan and Zhao Yuan, who had been waiting for the result: "Now I can finally breathe a sigh of relief, I don't believe that his second prince can escape!" β
Zhao Yuan came over to see it together, the dare was really planned by the second prince, of course, the other Lu Jia didn't know, what she said, only the second prince's people found her and hoped to cooperate, that is to say, from beginning to end, Lu Jia only provided the key, and the rest were all sent by the second prince, who went to steal the money, and where the money went, she didn't know.
"Keep this." Wu Zhan also gave Su Lijiu: "Just such a little thing, although it will definitely make the emperor angry, but if you want to say that the second prince will hurt his bones, it is not necessarily." β
"But we don't have anything else on our hands right now!" Su Lijiu put it in his sleeve: "Is it difficult to wait slowly?" β
"Maybe soon." Wu Zhan got up: "It's hard work, rest early, let's go first." "He has already sent a message to the people of the Wei Mansion, if he can find out something at that time, and then hand it over to the emperor together, it may be more weighty.
Hu Man is very busy in the palace, she has a good personality, there are many new things, and now she has to be favored in martial arts, many people like her, like to listen to her tell interesting things, and some physical problems, I have heard that she treats the queen, but she has never had a chance, and this time they all came up.
"This is a prescription, once every two days, slowly recuperate." Hu Man handed over the written recipe.
"I'm sorry for you." Mama Xiao, who took the prescription, thanked her with a thousand thanks: "This leg is already old, the older it gets, the more serious it gets, and I am not qualified to find a doctor, the general doctor can only let the old slave pay more attention to himself, and it doesn't work to put some plasters on it." β
"It's rheumatic bone disease." Hu Man turned around and said, "But it's rare to be so serious, you must have suffered a serious injury or a cold when you were young, right?" β
Mama Xiao sighed: "Who said it wasn't! In late autumn, I went down to the cold pool, and then I fell into this problem, the old slave is also old, I wanted to tell the old man to leave the palace, but unfortunately there is no family outside, go out and don't work, how to live! β
The ancient people were divided into three, six, nine and so on, and the people at the bottom lived too hard, Hu Man got up and poured her a cup of tea in person: "This kind of medicine alone can't do it, you usually have to pay more attention to keeping warm, even in summer, you have to wear a few more layers, and it is best to have less contact with cold water." β
"Well, the old slave knows." Mama Xiao looked at Hu Man with a smile: "No wonder everyone says that Mrs. Wu is very kind!" If they hadn't asked me to come, the old slave wouldn't have bothered Mrs. Wu. β
"It's okay." Hu Man said: "But Mama Xiao is indeed old, and she can do more leisurely work, so it's better to do less, I see that many people are your age, and the masters will generally treat them more preferentially, right?" β
Mama Xiao smiled bitterly: "Hey, it's different, it's different." β
Hu Man looked at her expression, and his heart moved: "You said that you were serving in Concubine Lian's courtyard?" Hasn't Concubine Lian always been lenient and gentle? β
"Well, yes......"
She said this, but Hu Man always felt a little insincere, and asked with an indifferent look: "How long have you been with Concubine Lian?" It should be her old man, right? β
"Well, it should have been more than twenty years, speaking of which, since the death of the concubine, I have been staying with Concubine Lian."
Hu Man's hand holding the teacup shook slightly: "Concubine? Concubine Zhen? Could it be that you used to serve Concubine Zhen? β
"That's not, the old slave used to serve in front of the emperor, and then for a while, Concubine Zhen said that she would go out of the palace to recuperate for a year, and then the emperor let the old slave go out of the palace to serve, but the old slave didn't stay long, and the concubine passed away.
Hu Man tried his best to hide his inner restlessness, he was really a palace man who had stepped on iron shoes and had nowhere to find it, and he was inadvertently diagnosed, and he actually witnessed the death of the concubine back then? !
Hu Man exhaled deeply: "I heard that the concubine committed suicide back then? β
"Yes." Mama Xiao sighed: "Although the old slave has not served for a long time, I feel that the concubine is a very kind person, but it's a pity, she said that she wanted to be quiet, and we didn't think much about it, so who could know that she would suddenly dive?" As a result, when she heard the voice rushing over, the concubine was already hopeless. β
Separate others first? So, is it really suicide? Hu Man nodded: "Then you were transferred back to the palace later, and you followed Concubine Lianniang?" β
"It was Concubine Lian Niangniang who asked the emperor to go over the old slave, saying that the old slave was diligent and clever, but in fact, it was ...... Hey, when I went there, Concubine Lian didn't pay much attention to it, and just kept doing some rough work. β
This is delicate, Hu Man bit her lip, for fear of arousing her suspicion, and it is not good to ask more, anyway, no matter how much, she should not know, according to what Mama Xiao said, she should have been after the concubine gave birth, and she had already sent the child away to serve, and she should not know what happened before, otherwise where would she still live until now.
"Oh, it's not early, the old slave hurried back." Mama Xiao got up and took the prescription, and then took out a few taels of silver from her sleeve: "This, the old slave knows that Mrs. Wu has good medical skills, but she really doesn't have much savings, so she should be a little thank-you." β
Hu Man hurriedly pushed back: "Since someone asked you to come, have you heard that I collected money from them?" It's just a gesture for me, you can keep it for medicinal use! β
"W-how embarrassing it is."
"Nothing." Hu Man smiled: "I only come to live once in a while, and I don't rely on this to support my family." β
Seeing that Hu Man really didn't want it, Mama Xiao took it back and sighed: "It's really rare to have such an identity like you, to be so good!" β
"You praise me too much, to put it bluntly, I am also a child from the mountains, where there are so many rules, they are all the same people." Hu Man sent her out before exhaling, although there was not too much useful information, but it made her more sure that the matter of the concubine might not be inseparable from Concubine Lian!
Otherwise, why did she have to ask Mama Xiao, who had served the concubine, to come to her, but she didn't reuse it, and she didn't give her a placement fee to let her out of the palace?