Yu Zizhen glanced at him and said, "It doesn't matter who I am. What matters is that today you all have to pay for the sins you have committed with your lives."
The Second Prince is recognized by many as the heir to the throne. Even if Xiao Lu doesn't treat him as a human being, these people should not have any psychological burden about beating up the Second Prince.
The fact that they were so treasonous showed how they treated and bullied the Second Prince behind his back.
Although this old lady is definitely the culprit, those who are willing to be accomplices are by no means innocent either.
Yu Zizhen no longer held back. She threw the old woman into the house and smiled a wicked smile at everyone. "The Second Prince made me rich, and I will help him wash away his shame. This is only fair."
Her words were tantamount to directly admitting that she was not the second prince. Seeing that the situation was not good, the palace maids ran away in different directions.
The door was locked and the wall was too high, so they had no way to get out. So these people chose to hide in the nearest house.
What they thought was that as long as they blocked the doors and windows, Yu Zizhen would definitely not be able to get in, and then they would be safe.
However, before they could run into the house and close the door, Yu Zizhen had already relied on the light-weight skills developed by his system and swept through the courtyard like a gust of wind.
In her hand she held a thin, white, but extremely strong rope. With her intentional manipulation of the long rope, she tied the necks of the thirteen people running around and dragged them to the center of the courtyard.
The thirteen people were dragged violently by her. Not only did they feel short of breath, but the pain in their bodies and necks was what made them panic the most.
They could feel that they were seriously injured during the dragging process.
The old woman had just used all her strength to endure the pain and climbed up when she suddenly saw this horrifying scene. She was so scared that her legs went weak and she sat back down.
They dragged all the people in front of the old lady like dead dogs. Yu Zizhen smiled and grabbed her collar and pulled her over.
"Originally I didn't want to kill anyone, but you guys are so ignorant." If the old nanny had handed her the key obediently, or if these black-hearted palace servants hadn't rushed up to beat up the "Second Prince" when she was dealing with the old nanny, Yu Zizhen would not have had the intention to kill.
But now, she decided not to take the second prince's things for free.
After hanging all fourteen people on the beams, Yu Zizhen clapped his hands and walked to the center of the courtyard without looking back.
"Does anyone know where the old hag put the key?"
Hearing her question, the palace servants at the lower levels, who were trembling and clinging to the wall, wishing they could become invisible, trembled constantly and silently pointed in a direction to Yu Zizhen.
Yu Zizhen followed the direction of their fingers and saw a room with a half-open window.
It was the room with the best orientation and the largest area in the palace except for the main hall, and it was where the old lady lived.
Yu Zizhen smiled, turned around and strode into the old nanny's room.
Yu Zizhen took a quick glance at the furnishings in the room and found that they were not much inferior to those of the Second Prince's bedroom. The system even scanned out the boxes and secret compartments containing the old nanny's private money. The amount of gold, silver, jewelry and banknotes stored in them was even greater than that of the Second Prince.
Yu Zizhen clicked his tongue twice, then put all of them into the system warehouse without any hesitation.
After collecting all the things, she found the key to the second prince's private vault, took a walk in, and when she came out, the vault was so empty that even a mouse wouldn't go in.
She found the lower-ranking palace servants who dared not flee, let alone go out to inform the emperor. "Now you have two choices. One, stay here and wait to bear the Queen's wrath. Two, go and loot the gold and silver left behind by the dead. Prepare to leave the palace with me and start a new life from now on."
Of course, the palace maids would not choose to stay and face Xiao Lu, because she was a ruthless person who would take people's lives at any time.
It is better to live a miserable life than to die a good death. If they can live, they certainly don’t want to die.
Everyone expressed their choice to leave the palace.
Yu Zizhen nodded, "Then go look for things. Don't be too greedy. Everyone should pick something valuable but not conspicuous."
She deliberately emphasized the word "everyone" because she didn't want anyone to bully those who were more honest than them.
Everyone was able to survive in the palace because they had the instinct to seek benefits and avoid harm, so when Yu Zizhen said this, those who originally had some ulterior motives immediately gave up the idea of making some small moves.
They were quite friendly and fair, dividing up the banknotes, gold, silver, pearls and jade left by those people. As for the brocades and silks that were valuable but could not be taken away, they took them out and handed them over to Yu Zizhen.
Yu Zizhen: ...
She wasn't so greedy that she would even covet the things of these minions.
"Pack these in boxes and help me take them to the eldest prince."
Upon hearing this, everyone hurriedly went to get a few valuable sandalwood boxes to pack the cloth.
Seeing that they had finished their work, Yu Zizhen took out a porcelain bottle from his sleeve pocket and handed it to the young palace maid in the lead. "Each of you take one, so that when we get out of this door, some of you won't be so upset that you won't cause trouble for me."
Everyone was afraid but dared not refuse to eat. The low-level palace servants, led by the little palace maid, stuffed the pills into their mouths with trembling hands.
What made Yu Zizhen feel relieved was that this group of people all took their medicines obediently and did not try to cheat her.
When the medicine bottle was passed back to her, she looked around at everyone with a smile, "It seems that everyone is really sincere. Then come with me and leave now."
Upon hearing this, everyone hurriedly carried the wooden boxes and followed Yu Zizhen closely.
Yu Zizhen opened the lock and took the low-level palace servants who had taken poison and went straight to the eldest prince.
When the eldest prince saw these people and the boxes they were carrying, he almost dropped the brush in his hand.
He asked Yu Zizhen with a headache, "You... also found someone to help you carry things?"
Yu Zizhen sighed, waved her hand and asked Yuheng and the guard who pretended to be her to settle these people, while she briefly told the eldest prince what had happened.
The eldest prince frowned after hearing this, "Then take them out of the palace now, and go directly back to the northern border. Don't come to the capital again."
Just as Yu Zizhen was about to shake his head, he heard Xiao Yuanjin's trusted eunuch report that the emperor had arrived.
The emperor came to have dinner with his son, which had been his regular habit for many years.
"I won't leave." After paying his respects to the emperor, Yu Zizhen said to the eldest prince, "I will have someone escort them out of the palace and take them to a place where Xiao Lu can't find them."
The eldest prince disagreed, "No, this is too risky. Even if you deliberately took a detour when you came back, it's not certain that no one saw you going in or out. What if Xiao Lu frames you and says you killed my second brother? Then you'll be in danger."
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