Of course, Xiao Lu was unhappy about his disgraceful behavior, but the old eunuch would rather be punished by Xiao Lu with a stick than to anger Yu Zizhen, the evil star.
Anyway, the eunuchs around Xiao Lu were all his godchildren, and they didn't dare to really beat him up before he lost power.
Just taking a few beatings just for the sake of courtesy will calm down Mrs. Lu's anger. He can still do whatever he wants in the future. Isn't it better than directly angering Yu Zizhen?
Xiao Lu, who failed to drag Yu Zizhen into the water, was angry for a while, and then she sent out the people she had sent to find trouble with Yu Zizhen to look for the second prince.
Upon receiving the news from the palace, Lu Tong hurriedly sent his capable subordinates to search for the person everywhere.
If he wanted to push the third prince to the throne, the second prince would definitely not be able to continue living. He even planned to get rid of Xiao Shaoke and Lu Tong, who were kept in the palace as backup pawns by the empress dowager.
Now that the second prince has disappeared, Lu Tong's plan to support the young emperor has added many variables.
He suspected that those who were ambitious for the throne wanted to take the second prince away, intending to follow his example and use the emperor to control the princes after the current emperor passed away.
Of course, Lu Tong couldn't give others such an opportunity. He was very anxious and sent a lot of people to look for people everywhere.
However, with the guides provided by Yu Zizhen wholesale and the disguise skills she exchanged from the system, it would be strange if Lu Tong's subordinates could find the second prince with the abstract painting in their hands.
Not to mention the other palace servants who didn't even have portraits. Even if Lu Tong's subordinates wanted to find them, they didn't know where to start.
He had his men search the entire capital and questioned the soldiers guarding the city gates, but he was unable to find the Second Prince and the low-ranking palace maids in his palace.
Lu Tong became extremely anxious because of this. He paced back and forth in the room for almost an hour before he gritted his teeth and asked his wife to go to the palace to pass on a message to Xiao Lu.
He planned to take advantage of the fact that the Empress Dowager was not on guard against them and his daughter and have someone kill her and Xiao Shaoke.
As for the emperor and the eldest prince, Lu Tong estimated that the food poisoned by Concubine Ning had most likely been eaten by the emperor and the eldest prince. Then, all Lu needed to do was to pin the blame of murder on Concubine Ning and the Fan family, and he could then lead his troops to capture Fan Ting's family.
While anxiously waiting for news from the guards who escorted his wife into the palace, Lu Tong was wondering how to deal with the matter of the second prince's disappearance without a trace.
At this time, he didn't know that the Empress Dowager Da Lu not only suspected him and Xiao Lu, but also had witnesses and evidence that they wanted to kill her.
As soon as his wife entered the palace, she was detained in the Empress Dowager's Cining Palace together with Xiao Lu.
The Queen Mother, Lady Lu, was never a soft-hearted person, but in order to control Lu Tong, she could not kill his wife and daughter at this time.
All the people at the Empress Dowager's disposal were being ordered around by her, and no one cared about Xiao Shaoke, who only came to pay his respects occasionally.
Xiao Shaoke, who realized that something was wrong and had overheard some words, took the opportunity to shake off the spies planted in his palace by the empress dowager and sneaked to the eldest prince.
He knew that the emperor would come to have dinner with the eldest prince every day, so he wanted to come and persuade the emperor to escape.
He was bolder than the second prince. The second prince did not think of escaping even though he knew that he would not have a good ending after selling out Xiao Lu. Instead, he just hugged his knees and cried. However, Xiao Shaoke could not leave the palace or the city because he had no token or pass. So he directly set his sights on his royal brother who was in the same precarious situation.
Although the emperor rarely left the palace, he had several passes on hand that allowed him to pass through various checkpoints without any hindrance.
Xiao Shaoke didn't dare get involved in the internal struggle of the Lu family, and the Queen Mother looked like she didn't have many days left to live, which made him have no hope of her winning.
He knew that if the Queen Mother lost, then he, the youngest son of the late emperor who was raised by the Queen Mother, would eventually die.
He didn't want to die, so he encouraged the emperor to run away with him.
As long as the emperor has the intention, he can follow the emperor.
Xiao Shaoke had a nice idea, but the emperor didn't want to run away at the moment.
Although he was just a mascot emperor, he did not want the Great Qi Kingdom to be so easily taken over by the sinister Lu Tong and Xiao Lu.
Xiao Shaoke had no idea that Yu Zizhen was now playing the role of the eldest prince, and he had no idea that the person who had previously swaggered back to the Zhenbei Palace in a carriage was not Yu Zizhen herself, but one of her private soldiers who had smuggled in through the secret passage.
These people were responsible for taking Zhang Niangzi, Jiang Yunshan and other trusted subordinates of Yu Zizhen out of the palace in her name, and returning the indentures to those servants of the Zhenbei Palace whom she did not intend to take away.
They had learned a lot of skills in the palace primary school before. In times of chaos, not to mention charging into battle to win military merit for themselves, at least the chances of saving their families would be much greater.
Although Yu Zizhen never let them know about the things she did in private, they did a lot of chores in public. So in addition to their personal indentures, she asked Madam Zhang to leave them ten taels of silver each.
As soon as Madam Zhang and the others leave tomorrow morning, the people at the palace will find that the place is empty, including her. With their cleverness, they will definitely take their indentures and evacuate immediately.
As for Mr. Jiang and others, her disappearance and the fact that she was well prepared would definitely serve as a warning to them. At that time, Mr. Jiang would definitely take their visible personnel away from the capital and return to the northern border.
Yu Zizhen felt that he had done his best by reminding them in this way.
As for Xiao Shaoke, who had become attached to the emperor, Yu Zizhen, who was impersonating the eldest prince, interrupted his rambling and gave him a very useful suggestion, "Uncle, if you really want to leave the palace, you should first change into ordinary clothes made of ordinary fabrics that are neither new nor worn. Also, your accessories are too high-end. You should change into something less conspicuous."
Xiao Shaoke was stunned. As a member of the royal family who had been imprisoned in the palace for nearly twenty years, surrounded by civil and military officials even when he occasionally went out, and had never carefully observed ordinary people, Xiao Shaoke really didn't think too much about it.
He was about to nod and say he understood when he heard the "First Prince" say, "Also, take some of the gold and silver jewelry you saved up."
This is not the palace outside, where food, drink, clothing and housing are all free. When you go out, even if you just want to drink a bowl of tea, you still have to give copper coins to the tea stall owner.
How could the late emperor's youngest son, who had never experienced the sufferings of the world, understand these things? After listening to the "eldest prince's" advice, he foolishly asked back, "Can't I just take what I have with me?"
He really didn't want to go back to his own bedroom.
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