"Sister Chunfen, wait, don't go in." The maid guarding the door saw Chunfen carrying a tray and seemed to be about to enter, so she quickly reached out to stop her: "The master, the mistress, and the young lady are talking inside, and no one is allowed to enter."
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 master and his wife have very good personalities and rarely lose their temper. The last time she was so angry was many years ago, when the Ming family in Lingzhou 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 master in blue 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 room."
"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 had been 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 comfort the lady.
Seeing this scene, she, who was originally a little worried, suddenly felt relieved. No matter how sad the master and mistress are, they will feel much more comforted having the young lady by their side.
Over the years, the lady could not help but buy things the little girl liked. When she saw brightly colored fabrics, she would always mutter a few words, asking what style of skirt would be the best.
Then there was an unusual silence.
"Sister Chunfen, what happened in the room just now?" the little maid asked curiously.
"Nothing, the master just accidentally broke the teacup." Chunfen restrained the expression on his face: "Don't just stay 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 is waiting for you to share them with us."
Listening to the chattering and laughter of the little maids, Chunfen shook her head and smiled helplessly. Others went on long journeys to bring gifts for their families, but the young lady was different. She didn't even bother to bring anything for everyone when she entered the palace.
Probably these things were given by Concubine Su.
Thinking of the young lady's relationship with His Royal Highness Prince 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 hand: "Sister, just now a eunuch from the palace came in hurriedly and said that these things were what the young lady was used to in the palace. The imperial concubine was worried that the young lady would not be satisfied with the matching ones she had when she returned home, so she specially urged someone to send a box over."
When the Spring Equinox came, he opened the wooden box and saw that it contained his daughter's hand cream. The cold wind in autumn and winter was very harsh and was most harmful to the hands. The girls from wealthy families took great pains to take care of their delicate hands.
She shook her head and laughed. 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. I personally delivered it to the servants of the Ming family, and also pointed out that it was something that the Queen gave to Princess Ming." The eunuch smiled flatteringly, "How dare I be perfunctory about your instructions?"
"Yes." Prince Chen nodded. A girl's hands are delicate. She can wipe them with creams and lotions, and her hands won't be uncomfortable and dry.
"Your Highness, why do you say it was sent by the Imperial Concubine?" The eunuch approached the Prince of Chen and said, "In this way, doesn't the County Lady know your intentions?"
"How can such a small thing be considered as a token of your appreciation?" Prince Chen sneered, "Don't talk nonsense. A useful thing is better than anything else."
"Your Highness." A eunuch in blue clothes walked up to Prince Chen and bowed.
"What's the matter?" Prince Chen recognized the eunuch as a palace servant from Taiyang Palace.
"Eunuch Liu asked me to invite you, Your Highness, and said 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 his whisk at the two people in the prison who looked timid and cowered. "These two people also participated in the plan to assassinate you and the imperial 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 Prince Chen's hands. He quickly scanned the contents, finally landing on the part about the murder of the little girl, and frowned tightly.
After staring at this content for a long time, he slowly folded the paper and asked: "Where are the Zheng family members being held?"
"Your Highness, please follow me." Liu Zhongbao led the Prince inside.
The further you go inside, the quieter it becomes. The prisoners all sit quietly and no one makes any noise. Even when Prince Chen passes by, they just kneel on the ground and can't utter a word.
"Your Highness, this is it." Liu Zhongbao stopped and pointed at the two cells: "Your Majesty is merciful and has separated the men and women."
“Your Highness!” Zheng Zhen saw the Prince standing outside the cell, and crawled out of bed, rushing 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 Zheng family's male members were imprisoned and asked, "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 investigated." Liu Zhongbao explained: "It is cold and gloomy in the prison, and the elderly and children can't 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 dirty and messy hair, hid in a corner when he saw him. 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 get him some 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, and he fell ill forever.
Looking at Master Zheng lying motionless on the stone bed, Prince Chen chuckled, "I heard that sick people sleep lightly. 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 was 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. Your Zheng family has committed such a great crime, so don't waste the medicine on a useless person who is destined to be incurable."
The Zheng family looked at Prince Chen hatefully but did not dare to open their mouths in rebuttal.
"Cough, cough, cough." Master Zheng, who was lying unresponsive on the bed, moved twice when the atmosphere was most tense. He coughed hoarsely and tried to get up from the stone bed.
"Your cough is loud and powerful, it seems that he is not seriously ill." Seeing that he had been squirming on the stone bed for a long time but could not get up, the Prince of Chen turned his head and said to Liu Zhongbao, "There is a saying that evil can last for a thousand years. I think Mr. Zheng's illness does not require him to see a doctor or take any medicine. Maybe he will get better after being locked up in the prison for a few days."
When the Zheng family heard this, they almost cried. How could a normal person say such a perverted theory?
The squirming Master Zheng finally fell off the bed. He shrank his hands and feet 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 sighed, “Look, I just stood here for a while, and Mr. Zheng, who was originally unable to move, was able to kowtow 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: "Since you are awake, then tell me why you sent people to assassinate me and the imperial concubine. Who gave you, the Zheng family, the courage to murder the royal bloodline?"
"Your Highness." Master Zheng said weakly, "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 murderer behind the scenes."
"You mean to say that the real culprit behind the scenes went through so much trouble and went through so much trouble just to make things difficult for your Zheng family?" Prince 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 I need to go to such great lengths to deal with your Zheng family?" Prince Chen raised his chin and said, "You're already locked up in the Sky Prison, and you're still so self-righteous?"
The humiliated Zheng family: "..."
Really, if they were not in prison, if the other party was not a prince, they would have pushed him into the mud and stepped on him hard.
How could there be such an annoying person in the world who speaks so arrogantly?
"I advise you to tell the truth." Prince Chen sighed, as if he was the most talkative person 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 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 prison bars, anxiously saying, “Your Highness, Wangnan doesn’t know anything. Please let him go!”
"Are you begging for mercy from me?" Prince Chen smiled and shook his head: "Unfortunately, I'm in a bad mood today, so begging for mercy 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 towards the end of the aisle, only to see a man in a light-colored 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 the Prince of Qi!"
"Miss Zheng." Liu Zhongbao smiled and reminded: "This is His Royal Highness Prince Qi, don't call the wrong one."
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