Chapter 358: Cut the Grass at Its Roots
"I guess so."
"Really?" Qiu Lu asked in surprise.
She didn't want a new master, she liked Zhou Yunshu to be their princess.
"Aren't the prince and our master doing well now?"
"But they are not together. When will the princess bring the little princess and the other young master back to the palace?"
"Your Highness can also bring the young master back to our place."
"But the prince is the prince, he has to guard the northern border."
"My master is still the head of the Zhou family, and there is no way he would give up his family for the prince."
"Oh." Qiu Lu sighed deeply when he heard this.
Chunque didn't feel Qiulu's melancholy, and simply hugged her arm and said, "It's so boring to stay in the palace. Come with us!"
"Let me think about it."
Nanny Jiang in front was afraid that Zhou Yunshu would get tired from holding the baby for too long, so she wanted to help hold the baby.
Zhou Yunshu waved her hand and said, "I'm not that delicate."
Nanny Jiang withdrew her hand and asked after hesitation, "Master, is the princess okay now?"
Nanny Jiang has watched Xixi grow up since she was a child. When Xixi left with Zhou Yunshu, Nanny Jiang was the person in the palace who was most reluctant to let her go.
"She's doing very well. She has a lot of friends now. Every day she's either playing with them or going to class and studying with them. She's very happy."
Zhou Yunshu's face was filled with smiles when she thought of Xixi. "She asked Mammy several times before, and I told her that she could come to the capital to find you when she grows up. She misses you."
When Nanny Jiang heard what Zhou Yunshu said, her eyes turned red.
"The princess still remembers me, and I am very happy."
She looked at Zhou Yunshu, her voice choking with sobs, but her face was full of smiles. "This servant has prepared a lot of clothes and shoes for the princess. They are all made according to the princess's current size. Can Chunque take them with her when she leaves?"
"There is another young master whose clothes are exactly the same as Master Jun Yi's."
"good."
Zhou Yunshu stayed with Pingping in the back garden until he fell asleep, and then she carried him back to the bedroom.
During this period, apart from the two wet nurses who were said to be Ji Sheng's confidants, Zhou Yunshu did not deliberately go to see the wet nurse who met Cao Zhengxing last night.
Since Ji Sheng has his own plans, Zhou Yunshu will not act rashly to disrupt his plans.
Just because she doesn't take the initiative to cause trouble doesn't mean Cao Zhengxing will just sit there and do nothing.
When Zhou Yunshu put down the sleeping Pingping and walked out of the bedroom, someone came from the front yard to report that Cao Zhengxing had come to visit specially with gifts.
Zhou Yunshu glanced at Nanny Jiang beside her and said to her, "Didn't they say His Highness is not in the palace?"
"Yes, but the military supervisor said he wanted to see you."
Zhou Yunshu looked at the person in front of her helplessly. It was probably not her that Cao Zhengxing wanted to see. He wanted to see the imaginary beauty who was kept in the backyard of the palace by Ji Sheng.
"princess."
Well, even though the divorce of Zhou Yunshu and Ji Sheng was known to the entire Great Zhou, the people in the Prince of Wei's Mansion remained the same as before.
"Just say you don't want to see him. If there's anything, let him talk to your master."
"yes."
Not long after the messenger left and Zhou Yunshu returned to the main hall, the man came again.
"He said that since the princess didn't want to see him, he would wait in the outer study and invite the prince and princess to dinner together when he returned."
Zhou Yunshu: “…”
So you won’t give up until you see her today, right?
"What did you tell him?"
She wouldn't be called Princess, right? Then she would be exposed to Cao Zhengxing.
"I said the master has something to do."
Zhou Yunshu nodded, "Since he is willing to wait, then let's wait."
Even if she found Ji Sheng, it would be useless. Ji Sheng couldn't do anything to her about what she didn't want to do, not to mention that Ji Sheng wouldn't let Cao Zhengxing see her.
When Zhou Yunshu returned to the bedroom to accompany Pingping for a nap, the officers and soldiers who were searching the Cai family also found the two children who had disappeared from the roster.
The eight-year-old boy was disguised as a maid and detained in the servant's room, while the baby in swaddling clothes was placed in a wooden basin, hung up with a rope and sent to the bottom of the well.
Perhaps they were afraid that the child's crying would attract the attention of the officers and soldiers, so when the officers and soldiers found the child, his mouth was tightly blocked with a handkerchief. When the child was pulled up, his face was blue and purple, and he was dead.
Everyone on the list was found, and after their property was seized, Ji Sheng rode to the Huang family with a few guards.
Among the several families to be sealed off today, only the Cai and Huang families were sentenced by Ji Sheng to be executed, regardless of gender or age.
Ji Sheng has always been merciless to those who betray their master.
In other words, Ji Sheng always believed in a saying: Wildfires cannot burn it all, and it will grow again with the spring breeze.
Hatred is something that will grow stronger as long as it takes root. In order to prevent future troubles, he likes to cut it off at the roots and burn it to ashes, leaving them no hope of resurrection.
When Ji Sheng arrived at the Huang family, there was a small dispute.
It was not a dispute with the Huang family, but a dispute between Zhou Yunqi and Zhou Jianying.
Ji Sheng brought people in without informing anyone, so he happened to see the scene.
Zhou Jianying clutched the list tightly and said to Zhou Yunqi, "As long as the crime doesn't involve women and children, they can be arrested. Can't they just turn a blind eye?"
Zhou Jianying's voice was very low and there was no one around. If Ji Sheng didn't know a little bit of lip reading, he wouldn't have known what she was saying.
He couldn't see Zhou Yunqi's appearance, but it was not difficult to guess from Zhou Jianying's reaction that Zhou Yunqi and Zhou Jianying had different attitudes towards these women and children.
"Zhiyue and I have known each other since childhood. It was our Zhou Jiabao who arranged the marriage between her family and the Huang family. The child and she are innocent. Now she is begging for death, and we..."
The rest of Zhou Jianying's words were swallowed when she saw Ji Sheng standing behind Zhou Yunqi.
Zhou Yunqi turned around immediately after seeing Zhou Jianying's expression change. When he saw Ji Sheng looking at the two of them leisurely, he felt his legs go weak.
"Your Majesty."
Zhou Jianying also bent down when Zhou Yunqi saluted.
Ji Sheng walked towards the two of them, but the guards behind him did not move.
He came to Zhou Yunqi and asked, "Is this task difficult? Or is it that you just can't bring yourself to do it?"
Zhou Yunqi gripped the hilt tightly and said, "No, Your Highness."
"Bring the roster."
After Ji Sheng finished speaking, Zhou Yunqi took the list from Zhou Jianying's hand.
Ji Sheng opened it, looked at the half-crossed-out name, raised his head and said to Zhou Yunqi, "Go and bring this person here."
After Zhou Yunqi saw the name clearly, he took a deep breath and asked his men to carry out a little boy who was only three or four years old from the house.
The little boy's eyes were red from crying, and he was either calling for his mother or his wet nurse.
Ji Sheng said to Zhou Yunqi beside him: "Let's make a bet."
Zhou Yunqi looked at Ji Sheng without saying anything.
"If he remembers, we'll kill him."
"What if he doesn't remember?" Zhou Jianying knew that Ji Sheng had discovered her, so she stopped pretending and asked him directly.
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