"Sister Chunfen, wait, don't go in." The maid guarding the door saw Chunfen carrying the tray and seemed to be about to go in, so she quickly reached out to stop her: "The master, the mistress and the young lady are talking inside, and they won't let anyone in."
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the sound of porcelain breaking from the room. Chunfen and the little maidservant's faces changed slightly and they took a few steps back.
The old man and his wife were very kind and rarely lost their temper. The last time they were so angry was many years ago when the Lingzhou Ming family used a little girl to pretend to be a lady.
After a long while, Chunfen finally waited for the door to open from the inside.
The old man in a green robe looked exceptionally calm, so calm that it was frightening. He adjusted his sleeves and said indifferently, "Chunfen, I just accidentally knocked over a set of tea utensils. Take someone to clean up the house."
"Okay, sir." Chunfen walked into the room and saw that the lady's eyes were red. He wondered worriedly, could it be that the young lady was wronged in the palace?
She and the maids bent down to pick up the fragments.
"Sister Chunfen, be careful with your hands." Jiuzhu noticed that Chunfen was distracted and reminded her quietly: "The broken porcelain pieces are very sharp."
"Don't worry, young lady. I'm used to doing this kind of work." Chunfen looked up at Jiuzhu and did not see any sadness on the young lady's face. She calmed down and cleaned the house thoroughly.
When I walked out of the room, I saw the young lady leaning on the lady and acting coquettishly, as if she was trying to soothe the lady's emotions.
Seeing this scene, she, who was originally a little worried, suddenly felt relieved. No matter how sad the master and his wife were, they would be relieved to have the young lady accompany them.
Over the years, the lady could not help but buy things that the little girl liked. Whenever she saw brightly colored fabrics, she would always mutter a few words about what kind of skirt would be nice.
Then there was an unusual silence.
"Sister Chunfen, what just happened in the room?" the little maid asked curiously.
"Nothing, it's just that the old man accidentally broke the teacup." Chunfen restrained his expression: "Don't just stand here, go and do your work."
"By the way, Sister Chunfen, I heard that the young lady brought us gifts from the palace, and she's waiting for you to share them with us."
Listening to the chattering and laughter of the little maids, Chunfen shook her head helplessly and smiled. Others would bring gifts for their families when they went on a long journey, but the young lady was different. She didn't even want to bring anything for everyone when she entered the palace.
Perhaps these things were given by Concubine Su Guifei.
Thinking of the relationship between the young lady and His Royal Highness the Prince of Chen, the smile on Chunfen's face became more obvious.
As long as the young lady and His Highness have a good relationship, it is better than anything else.
"Sister Chunfen." A little palace maid ran in, holding a box in her hands: "Sister, a eunuch from the palace just came in in a hurry and said that these things are what the young lady is used to in the palace. The noble concubine is worried that the young lady will not be satisfied with the matching clothes she has when she returns home, so she specially urged someone to send a box over."
When Chunfen opened the wooden box, he found that it was filled with his daughter's hand cream. The cold wind in autumn and winter was very harsh and could hurt hands the most. The girl from a wealthy family took great pains to take care of her delicate hands.
She shook her head and laughed, thinking that the queen in the palace was raising their young lady as her own daughter.
"Has the hand ointment been sent to the Ming family?" Prince Chen asked the eunuch behind him.
"Please rest assured, Your Highness, what I personally delivered to the servants of the Ming family, I also pointed out that it was something given by the empress to the Lord of Ming County." The little eunuch said with a flattering smile: "How dare I pervert your instructions."
"Yes." Prince Chen nodded. His daughter's hands were delicate and tender. She could wipe off the cream and lotion on them so that her hands wouldn't feel dry and uncomfortable.
"Your Highness, why do you say that it was sent by the Imperial Concubine?" The eunuch came up to the Prince of Chen and said, "Then the county lord must know your intentions, right?"
"What's the value of such a small thing? How can it be called a token of my appreciation?" The Prince of Chen sneered, "Don't talk nonsense. A useful thing is better than anything else."
"Your Highness." A eunuch in blue walked up to Prince Chen and bowed.
"What's the matter?" Prince Chen recognized the eunuch as a palace maid from Taiyang Palace.
"Eunuch Liu asked a servant to come and invite Your Highness, saying that he would take you to a place."
"I understand." Prince Chen was silent for a moment, then he stood up and found Liu Zhongbao, and followed him to the Royal Prison guarded by the Dragon Guards.
"Your Highness, the two escaped slaves from the Zheng family are imprisoned here." Liu Zhongbao pointed at the two people in the prison who looked timid and cowered with his whisk: "These two people also participated in the plan to assassinate you and the Royal Concubine."
Prince Chen looked at the scar on one of the men's chins, his eyes deep, "I have seen him before, he is a steward of the Zheng family."
When Jiuzhu saw this man, he looked a little strange, so he asked him to squat in the corner.
The dragon guard took Scar's confession and put it in the hands of the king. He quickly scanned the contents and finally fell on the part about killing the little girl, frowning tightly.
After staring at this paragraph for a long time, he slowly folded up the papers and asked: "Where are the Zheng family imprisoned?"
"Your Highness, please follow me." Liu Zhongbao led the Prince of Chen inside.
The further we went inside, the quieter it became. The prisoners all sat quietly, no one made any noise, and even when Prince Chen passed by, they only dared to kneel on the ground and could not utter a word.
"Your Highness, this is it." Liu Zhongbao stopped and pointed to two cells: "Your Majesty is merciful and allows them to be detained separately."
"Your Highness!" Zheng Zhen saw the Prince standing outside the cell, and he rolled and crawled out of the bed and rushed to the door: "Your Highness, we are wronged, please let us go..."
Before she could finish her words, Madam Zheng covered her mouth with her hand. Madam Zheng pulled her daughter to kneel down and said, "Your Highness, I am ignorant and have offended you. Please forgive me."
Prince Chen glanced at the mother and daughter, then turned to face the room where the men of the Zheng family were imprisoned: "Where is the naughty child of the Zheng family?"
"The Zheng family's elderly and children are temporarily locked up in the Zheng family's courtyard. They are guarded by the imperial guards until the case is fully investigated." Liu Zhongbao explained: "It is cold and gloomy in the prison. The elderly and children cannot stand it."
Prince Chen nodded. He stood in the aisle and looked at the men of the Zheng family through the prison bars.
A young man in prison clothes with messy hair ran into a corner and hid there. He remembered the man's name: "Zheng Wangnan?"
Zheng Wangnan shivered, he crawled to the prison door, and knelt down in front of Prince Chen: "Your Highness, my father is seriously ill, please arrange for a doctor to give him medicine."
Mr. Zheng had been ill for a long time. Just when he was about to get better, the Zheng family was thrown into prison again, so he lay down completely.
Looking at Master Zheng lying motionless on the stone bed, Prince Chen chuckled, "I heard that sick people feel lighter. I have been standing here for so long, but Master Zheng has not responded. Is he dead, or does he not want to talk to me?"
Zheng Wangnan's face turned pale: "Your Highness, my father is too ill to get up. Please forgive me."
"Oh." Prince Chen raised his eyebrows. "Since he is so seriously ill, I think there is no cure. You, the Zheng family, have committed such a great sin, so don't waste the medicine on a useless person who is doomed to die."
The Zheng family looked at Prince Chen with hatred but did not dare to open their mouths to refute him.
"Cough, cough, cough." Mr. Zheng, who was lying on the bed without any reaction, moved twice when the atmosphere was most tense. He coughed hoarsely while trying to get up from the stone bed.
"Your cough is loud and powerful, and it seems that you are not seriously ill." Seeing that he was squirming on the stone bed for a long time but did not get up, the Prince of Chen turned his head and said to Liu Zhongbao, "There is a saying that misfortunes last for a thousand years. I think that Master Zheng does not need to see a doctor or take any medicine. Maybe he will get better after being locked up in the prison for a while."
When the Zheng family heard this, they almost burst into tears. How could a normal person say such a perverse thing?
The squirming Master Zheng finally fell off the bed. He shrank his arms and legs, and managed to kowtow: "I, your humble servant, pay my respects to His Majesty the Prince."
"Eunuch Liu, do you think I am a panacea?" Prince Chen said with a sigh, "Look, I just stood here for a while, and Master Zheng, who was originally unable to move, kowtowed to me."
Liu Zhongbao nodded with a smile: "Your Highness is right."
Prince Chen clapped his hands twice, and the smile on his face disappeared: "Now that you are awake, tell me why you sent people to assassinate me and the Royal Concubine. Who gave you the courage to murder the royal bloodline?"
"Your Highness." Master Zheng said in a weak voice, "I really don't know who instructed that evil slave to commit such a heinous crime. All of this was framed by him. I suspect that this is the real intention of the real culprit behind the scenes."
"You mean to say that the real culprit behind the scenes spent so much effort and went through so much trouble just to make things difficult for your Zheng family?" The Prince of Chen seemed to have heard a joke: "Do you think your Zheng family has such a great status that it is worth being treated like this?"
"Why do we need to go to such great lengths to deal with your Zheng family?" Prince Chen raised his chin. "You are already locked up in the Sky Prison, and you are still so self-righteous?"
The humiliated Zheng family: "..."
Really, if they were not in prison, if the opponent was not a prince, they would push him into the mud and stomp on him hard.
How could there be such an obnoxious person in the world who speaks so arrogantly?
"I advise you to tell the truth." Prince Chen sighed, as if he was the best talker in the world: "You all know my temper. If you tell the truth, maybe I will save your face for your honesty."
"If you make me unhappy." The King of Chen raised his index finger and nodded at their heads: "People will die."
"Your Highness, I really don't know..."
"Someone come." Prince Chen raised his hand and said, "Take Zheng Wangnan to the purification room and find a skilled eunuch to help him get rid of the root of his troubles."
"Your Highness!" Madam Zheng hugged the bars, anxious, "Your Highness, Wangnan knows nothing. Please let him go!"
"Are you begging me for mercy?" Prince Chen smiled and shook his head: "Unfortunately, I'm in a bad mood today, so begging is useless."
"Your Highness, you cannot abuse private punishment!" In a hurry, Zheng Zhen shouted loudly: "The world belongs to your majesty, not to you, Yun Duqing, who has the final say!"
Zheng Zhen regretted the moment he said it, and the prison cell was filled with dead silence.
She heard footsteps behind her and looked anxiously to the end of the aisle, only to see a man in a light brocade robe and a white fox cloak walking towards her.
Getting closer and closer.
When she saw the person's face clearly, she was overjoyed: "Your Highness Prince Qi!"
"Miss Zheng." Liu Zhongbao smiled and reminded, "This is His Royal Highness the Prince of Qi, don't call her the wrong name."
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