24, Ruyi (1)
Chu Ning waved his hand to the prince, pointing at his throat and then at the pottery bottle.
The prince looked puzzled, not knowing what she meant. Chu Ning said silently in her heart, it's right if she doesn't understand, she just makes a few random gestures, and they can guess what they mean by themselves, sandwiched between these two people, and it is wrong to say more at the moment, so they can only be confused for a while and see the situation.
Ji Chongguang also saw the things in Chu Ning's hand clearly, and there was a hint of ruthlessness in his slightly narrowed eyes. His curvy face obviously didn't move, but Chu Ning seemed to hear his heart, and felt that he was saying to himself: "What a cunning little thing......"
At this moment, a person dressed in the official costume of the palace walked in in a hurry, bowed in front of the prince, and whispered a few words with a respectful expression.
There was so much commotion, and it was so close to the palace, that the queen sent someone to ask what was going on.
The crown prince seemed to feel that the victory was in hand, and even straightened his back a little straighter: "Ji Chongguang, the queen has arrived, give you a stick of incense and time to get dressed, if you don't want to talk to the prince, then leave it in front of the queen and say okay." ”
Before going out, he said to Chu Ning quite meaningfully: "The queen is the most lenient and generous, whether you are coerced or deceived, as long as you identify the real ill-intentioned people, the queen will definitely give you justice." But the queen also hates deceitful and cunning people above all, understand? ”
He thought he had made it clear, and Chu Ning nodded cooperatively, and the prince withdrew satisfied.
The door closed, and Ji Chongguang stood up from the bathtub without hurry, his hair as black as night fell in front of his sturdy leopard, just covering his eyes. With a swipe of his arm in midair, droplets of water flowed down his hair and body to the ground, and in no time, his body was completely dry.
Two palm-sized emerald green birds, with a black robe in their pointed beaks, spread out in front of him, like the most dexterous maids, serving him to dress and wear crowns.
But in a blink of an eye, the evil temperament on his body was completely restrained, and at this moment, under the backdrop of his clothes, he was clearly a dignified and gentle royal son, even if he was expelled from his home country and had to live in a foreign country, he still maintained his identity and behaved calmly.
The light and shadow outlined the contours of his face more and more deeply, Chu Ning was stunned, and even doubted in a trance that this was not the person who wanted to open her mind to see inside.
Ji Chongguang took a long feather from the tail of one of the emerald green birds, and with a shake of his hand, the feather turned into a soft, wide cloth. As soon as he reached out and grabbed it, he fished Chu Ning out of the water, like countless little hands, wiping her body quickly, with a warm temperature.
A broad and powerful hand slapped her on the back, and the small beads in her mouth flew out uncontrollably and fell back into Ji Chongguang's mouth.
Chu Ning originally wanted to say that he was still saliva, so he wanted to wipe it, but seeing that his expression was natural, he seemed that his thoughts were too unbearable, so he swallowed back the words that came to his mouth.
She saw the corners of Ji Chongguang's mouth, which seemed to be slightly hooked upward......
Then, she was wrapped in a piece of cloth and threw it straight out.
Crash!
Bang Dang!
In the sound of gasping cold air, Chu Ning fell in front of everyone like a freshly wrapped dumpling. She raised her head slightly, and what she saw was a neat array of armored guards, not those people brought by the prince just now.
A little farther away, there were six girls dressed identically, holding handkerchiefs in their hands, standing with their heads bowed and their brows down. In the middle of them sat a noblewoman in fine clothes, with a tassel hanging from a golden hairpin on her head, and she did not move at all. Chu Ning knew in his heart that this must be the queen who heard the movement and rushed over.
Ji Chongguang walked out after him, bowed to the queen, but did not bow down, and said in a loud voice: "Queen, in the middle of the night, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince brought someone to break in, and he was going to search indiscriminately, saying that I was hiding something evil. That's it, now I can't find anything, and I sent someone from the No. 1 family in Dongqi to break into my inner room, is it trying to frame me? Or do you want to simply assassinate me? Dongqi is also a big country, if you don't want to take me in, you can say bluntly, I can find another place to live, why be so persecuted? ”
Chu Ning was dumbfounded when he heard it, what does it mean to be open-mouthed and unashamed? That's it! She deeply felt that she still lacked tempering on the road of shamelessness.
Ji Chongguang said righteously and strictly, but the prince couldn't listen to it anymore: "Queen Mother, I also got a secret report, and I was worried that Gongzi Chongguang would be used by people with ulterior motives, so I led someone to search." Now the evidence is conclusive," the prince pointed in the direction of Chu Ning, "that thing is in her hand, who ordered her to come, it will be clear when asked." ”
Speaking of this, the prince thought about Ning's actions indoors at first, as if signaling that he could not speak for a while, and said: "It is already very inappropriate for the queen mother to come here late at night, so it is better for me to bring people back and report them after the interrogation is clear." ”
Ji Chongguang said lukewarmly: "It's okay, take it back, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will be tortured and forced to confess, it will be more convenient." ”
"In front of the queen mother, you dare to talk nonsense?" The prince was a little angry, but in front of the queen, after all, he didn't dare to be too presumptuous, "She said that her voice was hoarse just now, and now the interrogation is inconvenient, so I proposed to take it back for trial." ”
"'Say' your voice is hoarse? Oh, that's a strange story. The prince's slip of the tongue for a while, he was caught by Ji Chongguang, and he was mocked again.
"There is no point in these verbal quarrels," the prince turned back and instructed the man he had brought, "go and bring the messenger of the Nine Question Pavilion that you have caught." ”