The partial hall of Weiyang Palace.

The little palace maid blew the clouds and lit the candle, quietly lowered her head and yawned, her eyes full of tears.

"You go down and rest first, you don't have to accompany me."

Bai Ziche sat in front of the table, holding a scroll in one hand and a rabbit pen in the other, writing and drawing on the paper in front of him, occasionally freeing his hand to dial the abacus twice. He didn't raise his head clearly, as if he had eyes on his head, and he could see the movement of the blowing clouds clearly.

"No, no, no, slaves are not sleepy." Blowing clouds waved his hand again and again.

Where is the truth that the master reads at night with the lamp, and the slave sleeps soundly? Blowing Yun is young, stupid and unwitting, and has a stupid spirit, but he has a good fate and was picked by Bai Ziche to serve. The other palace people laughed at her for being shallow-eyed, what good way out could she have with Bai Ziche? It's nothing more than a little palace maid to an old woman.

But Chuiyun felt that Bai Ziche was already a good master if he didn't take down people, didn't careless about people's lives, and didn't deduct monthly money.

Bai Ziche didn't care about her anymore.

"Your Highness, what are you looking at?" Fukumo was illiterate and asked curiously.

"Arithmetic and books." Bai Zi said concisely.

Blowing Yun was even more puzzled, Bai Ziche was still exhausted from the schoolwork left by Pei Zhang, how could he still settle the account?

"Is it the account of the palace?" Fukumo asked.

Such a question is inevitably out of proportion, but Bai Ziche raised his eyelashes slightly and looked at a little eunuch who silently pricked up his ears.

"It's not." Bai Ziche covered the account book, locked it one by one and locked it in the box, and handed it to Fuyun Dao, "This is what Miss Chu asked me to calculate, I have already figured it out, you put it away, don't lose it." ”

When blowing clouds, he helped Bai Ziche serve tea and pour water, occasionally ran errands to get something, and was entrusted with a heavy task for the first time, so he hugged the box tightly and nodded vigorously. She was too tight, and her round little face was wrinkled.

Bai Ziche patted her head amusedly, and swept to the little eunuch who touched the door and went out.

——

Three days later.

Chu Zhixia walked in the narrow and long palace alley with an umbrella, and the raindrops crackled and smashed on the umbrella surface, splashing a snow-white splash. Chu Zhixia raised the eaves of the umbrella slightly and greeted Pei Zhang, who was walking towards him.

"Mr. Pei got up early today, it turned out to be to enter the palace." Chu Zhixia glanced at the scholar behind him, "Which Highness is coming to give a lecture?" ”

"I just came out of the Yang Palace." Pei Zhang told the truth.

Chu Zhixia patted him on the shoulder out of nowhere and pulled him back stiffly, "I brought a box of good pastries for Your Majesty, why don't you go with Mr. Pei?" ”

Pei Zhang knew that Chu Zhixia had a bad stomach, and he never did useless things, and if he said useless words, there would be fraud in this trip, and he would have to be used as a knife by her. But what he said in front of him was conclusive, and the heart, liver, spleen and lungs were cut out so that she could see clearly, so it was difficult to excuse herself, so she had to respond with a wry smile.

The two entered Weiyang Palace together.

"Your Majesty is so stingy, there is such a good thing, and he even wants to take Pei Gongzi away." Chu Zhixia jokingly hooked Pei Zhang's shoulder, as if he was a good brother.

The emperor reluctantly put down the golden scissors that pruned the flowers and leaves, and said: "I am afraid that your craftsmanship is not good, and I have not formed a friendship with Wen Ruo, but I have formed a beam first." ”

Wen Ruo is Pei Zhang's word.

Intimate to the point of calling the table, it seems that Pei Zhang really wins the emperor's heart.

Pei Zhang understood when he heard it, "The pastries made by Miss Chu herself? ”

"You don't believe me?" Chu Zhixia squinted at him.

"Don't dare." Pei Zhang was strangled by her, "It's just that I didn't expect Miss Chu to be on the battlefield and in the kitchen, and she was really both civil and military, so I was a little surprised." ”

"It's not a secret, Chu is also the first time." Chu Shixia said humbly, "Isn't this rushing to appear in front of His Majesty?" ”

The Emperor laughed.

Yuzhu, who followed behind Chu Zhixia, presented the food box with a look of eyes, and when he opened it, there was a plate of seven or eight mung bean cakes inside.

The waiter who tested the poison used silver chopsticks to clip the mung bean cake, and as soon as it left the plate, the mung bean cake was loosely split into several pieces.

Chu Zhixia coughed twice in embarrassment.

Pei Zhang held back a hard laugh.

"Mo Xue, your cooking skills are not as beautiful as yours!" The emperor laughed, "That's it, it's almost time for lunch, so call Ziche over for dinner." ”

As if to ridicule Chu Zhixia, a plate of mung bean cake was sandwiched in a table of delicious delicacies. The mung bean cake is bright green in color, with a beautiful pattern, and most importantly, it will not fall apart when touched.

Bai Ziche sat beside the emperor in an orderly manner, and ate a piece of mung bean cake with his hand.

"A few days ago, I asked His Highness to calculate an account, I don't know how His Highness calculated?" Chu Zhixia spoke without warning.

The Emperor's intriguing gaze wandered between the two of them, and he asked, "When did you become so acquainted?" ”

Bai Ziche slowly wiped the residue from his lips, and answered Chu Zhixia first, "It's almost done." Then he looked at the emperor, "Father, this matter ......."

Before he finished speaking, Bai Ziche suddenly showed an extremely painful expression and covered his chest. Emperor "Huo" got up and brought a table of celadon plates to the sound of shattering. Bai Ziche's face was blue, his lips were purple, and he was clearly poisoned!

Yuzhu subconsciously wanted to protect Chu Zhixia behind her, but Chu Zhixia stepped forward first and sealed the acupuncture points on Bai Ziche's body. Bai Ziche fell heavily into Chu Zhixia's arms, and spit out a mouthful of blood with a "bang".

"Doctor Chuan!"

——

I don't know if it's because of too much thinking or poor diet, Bai Ziche is very thin. A little bit of sharp bones bulge from the wrist, a small bulge, always annoying people's friction. He slept behind a low curtain, with only one hand resting on the pulse pillow.

Chu Zhixia looked in along the wrist, and Bai Ziche fell asleep quietly.

Bowls and bowls of decoction were poured down, and Bai Ziche vomited the contents of his stomach bag cleanly, but he still didn't wake up.

"This poison is called 'ghost knocking on the door', which is a dirty poison used by people in the rivers and lakes, and it is extremely dangerous." The imperial physician, whose beard was white, knelt on the ground and said tremblingly, "As long as you take a little bit, the poison can reach the limbs and hundreds of corpses, and people will die violently on the spot." ”

If it weren't for Chu Zhixia's quick decision to seal the acupuncture points on Bai Ziche's body, I'm afraid that before the imperial doctor arrived, Bai Ziche would be gone.

"But what His Royal Highness eats, we have all eaten." Chu Zhixia was the first to object, "Why aren't we poisoned?" ”

The imperial physician looked at the emperor in surprise and did not dare to speak.

The emperor said with a cold face: "But it doesn't hurt to say it. ”

"The old minister just now, from the thumb and index finger of the fourth highness, the ghost knocked on the door. It is precisely because of this that His Majesty was spared. ”

"In the forbidden palace, how can there be such a poisonous thing?!" The emperor was so angry that he slapped the case, "How did Ziche get contaminated with this poison, and are all the servants around him dead?" ”

"Your Majesty, don't be impatient."

Pei Zhang said: "The person who poisoned him tried his best to put the poison in the hands of His Highness, presumably because he didn't want to hurt His Majesty." The minister must have a hidden secret in this matter, so it is better to call the subordinates who are waiting around the Fourth Highness to ask for a question. ”

Chu Zhixia stood aside with his hands in his hands, as if he didn't plan to take care of this matter.

——

Fuyun cried so much that he couldn't breathe, and he knelt on the ground and couldn't say a word.

In the hall sat the emperor, the eldest lady of the Chu family in the clouds, and the young master of the Pei family in Guanzhong, and Bai Ziche, the only one who was tolerant and gentle to her, was lying on the bed, life and death were uncertain.

"Don't cry, Your Majesty has something to ask you." Pei Zhang said, "If you waste a little more time, the people who murder the Four Highnesses will become more rampant." I have heard that His Royal Highness is generous, and if you have a little conscience, you can reply well. ”

"Yes." Fukumo replied with tears in his eyes.

"Where did the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone used by His Royal Highness come from?" Pei Zhang asked.

The Imperial Physician had already detected the ghost knocking on the door from the rabbit pen used by Bai Ziche.

"The tools used by His Highness are supplied by the palace."

"You're not lying?" Pei Zhang's eyes were stern.

Fuyun shuddered, a little scared, but still insisted: "Your Highness only has the monthly money given by the palace to use, no storefronts and no fields, and sometimes you have to pay money to help poor painters, newly mourned palace people at home, and they are living tightly, where do they get the money to buy these things." ”

The emperor's face was even more ugly.

The food and clothing of the prince's practice were controlled by the internal officials and supervisors of the 24 yamen. Although he didn't say it on the surface, the eunuchs in the palace were undoubtedly headed by Wang Xianfu, the celebrant and eunuch.

"What about Wang Xianfuren, is he dead?" The emperor threw the teacup to the ground with a "snap", "Let him roll over to me!" ”

"Your Majesty, don't be in a hurry to call the prince over."

Chu Zhixia, who didn't say a word when he walked in, suddenly spoke, and knelt in front of the emperor with the hem of his skirt.

"Your Majesty, please punish the ministers with capital crimes." Chu Zhixia bowed his head and said.

"What does this have to do with you?" The Emperor narrowed his eyes.

"The four highnesses are implicated by the ministers, and the ministers' sins are unforgivable."

Chu Zhixia's face was full of remorse, and said: "The minister once learned in the late spring that an official woman was imprisoned in Zhuangzi outside the city to torture and play with blasphemy, and in a hurry, he set fire to save people and got an account book. The account books were all senior members of the court, and the ministers did not dare to make arbitrary claims, so they gave the account books to His Royal Highness, begging him to sort them out and then report to His Majesty. ”

Books.

With tears in his eyes, Blowing Cloud slammed his head on the ground twice, "Your Highness is indeed settling accounts these days when you are reading at night." The night before yesterday, His Highness was stopped by the little eunuch in the painting courtyard, and His Highness made a big fire. ”

At this point, Pei Zhang figured out what Chu Zhixia was planning, and he couldn't watch from the wall with his surname Pei.

Pei Zhang added fuel to the fire and said, "Did you hear what His Highness said?" ”

"Your Highness didn't understand what the country and the land were, but the slave didn't understand." Fuyun said with a crying voice, "Your Majesty, Your Highness is a good person!" You must save Your Highness! ”

In the eyes of Fuyun, Bai Ziche is a little cabbage seedling that his father doesn't love and his mother doesn't love, Wang Xianfu is an old eunuch with teeth and claws, and he has been immersed in power for many years, Bai Ziche is definitely not Wang Xianfu's opponent.

If you don't understand what is going on, the emperor is a fool.

Wang Xianfu robbed the female officials and relatives, and plundered the land, and was recklessly exposed by Chu Shixia, and the root of his life fell into the hands of Bai Ziche. Bai Ziche refused to cling to him like those soft bones, and Wang Xianfu killed the killer.

From this, it can be explained why poison is only used on Bai Ziche.

The emperor is Wang Xianfu's reliance, and there are many people in the court who want to peel Wang Xianfu's skin and cramp, and no one looks forward to the emperor's long life and longevity more than Wang Xianfu.

These days, Bai Ziche has eaten and lived with the emperor, and he may poke this matter in front of the emperor at any time. This poison must be delicately planted so as not to hurt the emperor, and it must be planted quickly, so as not to have too many dreams at night.

"Ziche is my son, so I will naturally save him." The emperor was so cried by Blowing Cloud that he had a headache, and pointed to the door of his head and knocked out a blood-colored Blowing Cloud Saying, "You go down first." ”

Chu Zhixia was still kneeling on the ground and didn't get up.

"Mo Xue, you took the account book, why don't you just give it to me?"

"Back to Your Majesty, the ministers are also afraid."

Chu Shixia was neither humble nor arrogant, "The minister is afraid that someone with a heart will plant a false accusation, which will cause His Majesty to have a dislike with the people around him; The minister is also afraid of the friendship between His Majesty and the prince for many years, and he is suspicious of what the minister says, and the words of the Fourth Highness are more credible than the minister. ”

"Yes, my friendship with him for many years has made him dizzy and dazzled after all." The emperor's eyes became fierce, "Even my son dares to kill." ”

Chu Shixia knew that Wang Xianfu was going to die this time.

The emperor wasn't completely unaware of what Wang Xianfu was doing, he just didn't care. Whether it is playing with women or harming the people, as long as it does not reach the point of being out of control, the emperor is willing to turn a blind eye.

Even if this account book is handed over to the emperor, Wang Xianfu is likely to dispose of it lightly and severely, and then dispose of this batch of fields.

But when it comes to the prince, it's different.

Bai Ziche is not dead, it doesn't matter if the emperor likes him or not. The most important thing is that Bai Ziche is the son of the emperor and is one of his "private property". Wang Xianfu dared to put his dirty hands on the emperor's head, which the emperor could not bear.