"Take the people down and leave them to the palace for disposal." King Chen didn't even have to see what the two eunuchs looked like, and directly asked for an order.

"Your Highness Chen, forgive me, I will never dare to do it again." The two eunuchs hiding in the dark reacted and kowtowed and bowed.

"Your Highness, the young men are just angry about this and have said a few more words."

"There are also the Zheng offended the Empress, and the young people have always felt unfair for the Empress."

"Yes, yes, the young people are just dissatisfied with the crimes committed by the sinful concubine Zheng and the Zheng family, so they can't help but feel angry and beg your highness to forgive me."

"When Zheng was still Concubine Ning, I didn't see you dissatisfied. When the Fourth Brother was still King Qi, I didn't see you hiding and talking nonsense. Young Master was making a mistake in front of me, let alone tell the Queen of Mothers. Zheng and the Zheng family have been punished. The Fourth Brother has a father and Queen of Mothers discipline. Who are you? How dare you joke with the prince?" King Chen was too lazy to listen to their defense and asked the servant to drag the person down.

The two eunuchs were dragged down with their mouths. King Chen reached out to cover Jiuzhu's eyes: "Don't look at these things, their eyes are dirty."

Jiuzhu blinked and her long eyelashes swept through the palm of Chen Wang.

King Chen took his hand back because he was so itchy that he looked down at her eyes: "Is your eyelashes a brush?"

Jiuzhu went to pull his hand: "Your Highness, let's go back."

"Will you be afraid?"

"What?"

"The hearts of the palace."

Jiuzhu stopped and shook her head at King Chen with a smile: "What is the difference between the hearts of the people in the palace and outside the palace?"

King Chen raised his eyebrows and said that Jiuzhu was very novel.

"What happened in the palace will also happen outside the palace. The only difference is that the people here have more noble identities." Jiuzhu said with a smile: "If you are in the world, you will be ordinary people in the world."

"It makes sense for you to say that, it seems that everyone in the world is the same."

"That's still different." Jiuzhu murmured in a low voice: "The hearts of some people in the capital are dirty."

"I just said that everyone is a commoner, but now I'm talking about the hearts of some people in the capital. Ming Xiaozhu, Ming Xiaozhu, I didn't expect you to be discriminated against the region." King Chen reached out and hugged her shoulders: "The whole world belongs to the emperor. As the royal daughter-in-law, do you have to correct your thoughts and understand?"

"But some of them say bad things about Your Highness." Jiuzhu was unhappy: "No one except the capital city said that Your Highness is bad."

When King Chen heard this, he chuckled, lowered his head to fight against her forehead, and said softly: "Ming Xiaozhu, I will accept it if I will fall into your hands in this life."

She prejudged the whole city because of him.

The wind blew across the uninhabited palace and the surroundings became quiet.

The Golden Armored Guard who was on duty passed by, noticed something was wrong in the darkness, and pulled out the sword in his hand: "Who is there?!"

"It's me." Yun Yanze walked out of the darkness. He was wearing a black outer robe. If it weren't for the Golden Armor Guard's alertness, no one would have discovered him.

"I have met the fourth prince in my hand." Jinjiawei quickly put his knife in the sheath and apologized to Yun Yanze.

But they were also muttering in their hearts, how could the Fourth Prince not bring his servants or lanterns when he went out?

"You continue patrolling, I'm walking around." Yun Yanze glanced at the end of the palace and slowly lowered his eyelids.

He could hear clearly the words of the two eunuchs just now. This method of deliberately provoking trouble must be the work of a concubine in the palace.

Want him to hate Empress Su because of these words and attack Empress Su?

He originally wanted to use these two castrated goods to make things worse, so that his father could see that he could bully even eunuchs, and make him feel pity for him.

Unexpectedly, Yun Duqing appeared at this time and disrupted his plan.

What a pity.

Turning back to Zhangliu Palace, as soon as he walked to the gate of the courtyard, he heard Sun Caiyao's vomiting sound. He looked at the shadow behind the window expressionlessly, stood there for a while, walked into Sun Caiyao's house, poured her a glass of water: "Caiyao, take a sip of water, why do you vomit so much?"

Sun Caiyao smiled weakly and covered her mouth with a handkerchief: "It's okay, am I clamoring for Your Highness?"

"No." He put a soft cushion behind Sun Caiyao's waist: "You have never been able to eat in the past two days. I heard that there are several cooks with good cooking skills in my fifth brother. I will borrow them from him tomorrow."

Hearing the word "Fifth Brother", Sun Caiyao was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Why bother with the fifth brother? I am not that delicate, it will be fine in a few days."

"Prince, the sour plum soup is ready." Bai Shao came in with a bowl and saw Yun Yanze also present, and bowed to him: "Your Highness."

Sun Caiyao drank the sour plum soup, and her stomach felt uncomfortable and vomited all of them.

Yun Yanze looked down at the tip of his shoes, with a few tiny drops of water splashed on it.

He coaxed Sun Caiyao to sleep and returned to his house. The eunuch was waiting for him to take off his shoes.

"Give it a throw."

"Yes." The little eunuch took his shoes and left the house.

He looked at the flashing candlelight with a gloomy face, and his mind was echoed with what the two eunuchs said, lifting his sleeves and revealing his arms with several scars.

He took out the dagger and cut the flesh and blood, and the pain calmed him down.

There was a cat's cry outside the window. He opened the window and saw a small cat crawling on the window.

He reached out and grabbed the kitten's fluffy neck, and the cat's moist eyes looked at him innocently.

These eyes reminded him of Ming Jiuzhu.

"Your Highness." Bai Shao stood in the yard outside the window and gave him a little blessing: "Which princess should have this cat raised by me? I'll send it back now."

Yun Yanze slowly let go of his hand and handed the cat to her through the window.

Bai Shao saw dry blood on his fingertips and hugged the cat and said to her blessed body: "I will leave."

"Bai Shao." Yun Yanze sorted out his sleeves and said calmly: "I keep you because you are smart."

"Yes." Bai Shao lowered her eyebrows and lowered her eyes: "I am loyal to the Empress and also to Your Highness."

"Go."

Bai Shao walked out of the yard with the cat in her arms, and her tight shoulders relaxed slightly.

"Thank you, Aunt Bai Shao." The little palace maid took the kitten from her: "If you lose this cat, the princess will definitely lose her temper with me."

"From the cat to the future, the princess is pregnant. If something happens to be scared by these cats and dogs, none of us can afford it." Bai Shao noticed that there were scattered blood stains on the cat's ears. While the little palace maid was not careful, she pretended to touch the kitten's head and wiped off the blood stains.

When the little palace maid walked away with her cat in her arms, Bai Shao looked down at the handkerchief in her hand and sighed.

Jiuzhu and King Chen returned to Qilin Palace, and the first thing they did was to take a shower and change their clothes.

After taking a shower, the two of them sat cross-legged on the bed in loose bed clothes, placing the box left by Concubine Zhao in the middle.

"Open it." Seeing Jiuzhu's serious expression, King Chen reached out and rubbed her hair: "Don't be nervous."

Jiuzhu shook her head: "Your Highness, I'm not nervous. It's just that these things were specially left by Concubine Zhao, and I want to be more serious."

Open the lid and put a few pairs of jade bracelets on the first floor.

"There are customs among the people. The elders will leave the good things they accompany you as family heirlooms for the younger generation. Concubine Zhao treats you as her own younger generation." King Chen was a little moved when he looked at these pairs of jade bracelets.

Jiuzhu pursed her lips and carefully moved the partition away. The second layer was placed... an old phoenix hairpin, which was a style that was popular in the palace a few years ago. No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like an old concubine could wear it.

King Chen frowned and looked at this hairpin. There was only the official concubine in the harem to wear this kind of six-tailed phoenix hairpin. Now, except for the mother and queen, there are only Concubine Xu and Concubine Min who are the main concubines of the palace.

Concubine Zhao left this specifically to them, for some reason.

There are so many secrets that a woman who has been in the harem for more than 40 years.

"There is another layer below." Jiuzhu lifted the partition and found a stack of paper underneath.

On these papers, there is a winemaking recipe and a letter.

The handwriting on the letter can only be considered neat, and the font is relatively large, so it should have been written by Concubine Zhao.

Jiuzhu knew that Concubine Zhao didn't read much in her early years, and she only started to read and practice calligraphy after entering the palace. When she was older, she didn't have a good look, so she would subconsciously write the characters larger so that she could identify them herself.

This is a letter with a very ordinary content, urging Jiuzhu and King Chen to take good care of themselves and thank Emperor Longfeng and Empress Su for their care.

"The cuckoo is slow and there will be a time to go."

The cuckoo is slowly...

This seemingly elegant sentence is extremely awkward to read, which is completely different from the simple style of the first half of the letter.

"Your Highness, what's wrong with this sentence?" Jiuzhu noticed that there was a small ink dot under the character Xu. I wonder if the concubine accidentally dripped it on it.

"There's a big problem." King Chen sighed and put away the letter.

Things with black and white words can easily reveal secrets. With Concubine Zhao's cautious attitude, she neither wants to implicate other consorts in the Concubine Palace, nor wants to remind them of some things, and she will definitely use a hidden way.

"I still remember that day we painted in Taolin. Concubine Zhao said that Du Qingke had painted peach blossoms at a banquet held by the late emperor." King Chen said: "After that day, I sent someone to check. The banquet held by the late emperor was twenty-seven years ago."

Jiuzhu held her chin with her hands: "Yeah, then what?"

"After that banquet, the Empress Dowager asked Concubine Xu to be her father's concubine."

"Hmm?" Jiuzhu was confused: "What does this matter have to do with Concubine Xu?"

"Forget it." King Chen packed the wooden box, touched Jiuzhu's hair, and after confirming that it had been dry, he pulled Jiuzhu into the quilt.

"How can I forget it?" Jiuzhu pushed him: "Your Highness, please continue talking."

"Peach blossoms have always been a symbol of love. The old concubine is hinting that Concubine Xu and Du Qingke have an old age." King Chen did not have a taste of Jiuzhu: "Go to bed quickly, I will ask someone to check tomorrow and you will know if this matter is true or false."

"Who will check it?"

Jiuzhu felt that no one in the entire Qilin Palace could do this.
To be continued...