Chapter 75 I'll give him some trouble!
Rouge Tower
Bu Ruo sat in her own room, legs crossed and munching on some fruit...
"Bao'er, have you found out who the prince's biological father is?"
Mo Bao drank his tea while looking at the account book without even looking up: "Of course I found it out, but... Master, please wait a little longer."
Bu Ruo angrily threw the fruit core over: "What on earth are you and Xiao Yulan playing at? You keep asking me to wait, one by one, but what exactly are you asking me to wait for?"
Mo Bao turned his head away and said, "Of course I'm waiting to see the show. Doesn't the master love watching shows the most? If I tell him in advance, the master's surprise will be gone."
"Master, please wait a little longer. I guarantee that the result will satisfy you."
Bu Ruo snorted, "That's better. By the way, what did my third brother mean when he said we'd see each other soon?"
This time, Mo Bao raised his head. "The Southern Xia Kingdom will send an envoy to the Great Zhou in a month, and your third senior brother will be the envoy."
Bu Ruo raised an eyebrow: "A prince of a country is an envoy? Isn't that a bit too much of a compliment to the Great Zhou?"
Mo Bao smiled and poured Bu Ruo a cup of tea. "That's all because of you, Master. When the War King was critically ill, he said he only had a few months to live. Your Third Senior Brother was worried that you would be buried alive with him, so he came here to support you."
"By the way, General Bu, I have some clues about the whereabouts of Madam and the two young masters, but we still need to continue investigating."
Bu Ruo stood up quickly: "Where are they?"
"Beining."
"Now all clues point to Beining, but the people I sent out in the past few months have searched almost every city in Beining and still haven't found any trace of them. The only way is..."
Bu Ruo frowned, a bad feeling rising: "Only what?"
“There are only some ancient tribes in Bac Ninh.”
"Is it really in Beining? Is it possible that I checked it wrong?" Bu Ruo asked with the last glimmer of hope.
"No, if it were in the Great Zhou, with the martial arts and connections of the four generals, they would have returned long ago. As for Nanxia, your third senior brother sent people to investigate and found no trace. The only one left is Beining."
Mo Bao didn't know how to comfort them, so he could only tell them the truth: "The general and his men died in the war with Beining, but their bodies have not been found to this day."
"After the Madam and the Second Young Master died in battle, the local people saw a strange group of people near the border. They were all dressed in black with indecipherable totems embroidered on them. They were leading three men and one woman towards Beining. Because their clothing was different, they still had some impression of them after all this time."
Bu Ruo raised an eyebrow and sat back in the chair... and started to pinch her fingers non-stop. Mo Bao and Bi'er didn't dare to disturb her and could only quietly do their own things beside her, one looking at the account book and the other choosing jewelry.
After a long time...
"I won't let that bastard father and son off!"
Bu Ruo's sudden roar startled Mo Bao: "Master, have you figured it out?"
Bi'er: "It must be that there is none. If the master could figure it out, he would not scold people, but would kill people."
Mo Bao: ...
After cursing for a long time, Bu Ruo calmed down and showed a beautiful smile on her face. It was this smile that made the two of them feel cold all over.
really……
"Bi'er, let's go to the palace tonight, and Bao'er will come with us."
Mo Bao opened his mouth wide and said, "You want to enter the palace? No, no, don't look at me like that. It's not difficult to enter the palace, but you must at least tell me what you want to do. If you want to assassinate the emperor... can you wait a little longer?"
"The Emperor is surrounded by many people. After you kill him... even if I risk my life to protect you, I'm afraid it will be difficult to escape unscathed."
Bu Ruo gritted his teeth and said, "I won't kill him, I'll just make things difficult for him!"
…
That evening at midnight, in the study of Prince Zhan's mansion.
"Your Highness, the princess and Miss Bi'er climbed over the wall from the backyard and left. It looked like... they were heading west."
Xiao Yulan paused, holding the secret report. "West? There are mostly refugees and ruined temples there. What is Ruo'er doing there? Tell the secret guards to only protect the princess's safety. Don't let the princess know of their presence unless necessary. I don't want Ruo'er to think I've sent people to monitor her."
"Yes, I will arrange it right away."
Looking at Cen Nan who was about to leave, Xiao Yulan seemed to suddenly remember something: "Wait! Are you saying that the princess went west?"
"Yes, the secret guards saw it clearly, it was indeed heading west."
Xiao Yulan's fingers kept tapping on the table. After a few breaths, he stood up and said, "Tell the secret guards not to go. I will go myself."
Cen Nan followed Xiao Yulan and advised, "Your Highness, there's no need to go there in person. Perhaps the princess was angered by the Bu family's second wife at the gate during the day, so it's not impossible for her to go there to take revenge at night."
"I heard that the Bu family's second wife used all her money and connections to rescue her son. She even sold her house a few days ago. Now the couple is living in a dilapidated house to the west."
Xiao Yulan walked out quickly with Cen Nan: "It is certain that Ruo'er will go to the second branch of the Bu family, but... I am afraid that she will not just go there to vent her anger."
"A few days ago, I received news that General Bu and his family might not be dead, but are in Beining. And all of this is definitely the work of my good brother."
"I think you must have already known about Ruo'er's abnormal behavior today..."
Cen Nan followed Xiao Yulan quickly to the ancestral hall at the back: "If the princess knew... then the princess would not sneak into the palace tonight to assassinate the emperor."
Xiao Yulan glanced at him and said, "No, Ruo'er should have guessed that this matter was related to the emperor a long time ago. She probably wouldn't assassinate General Bu's family before finding them, but she would at least collect some interest first."
Bu Ruo was wearing black clothes and a mask. After beating Erfang until he screamed in pain, he followed Mo Bao to a land temple in the west.
"Bao'er, are you sure it's here? This place is so dilapidated that there aren't even beggars here. How could there be a secret passage?"
Mo Bao kept circling around the dilapidated temple, stomping his feet here and touching there.
"Master, you built Rouge Tower single-handedly. Don't you know the reliability of the information? This secret passage was secretly dug by the second emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty after a palace coup. After the secret passage was completed, he had all the craftsmen executed, even the cook."
"But he didn't expect that there was a craftsman whose wife suddenly died of illness and had no one to take care of the child. He had to bring his eight-year-old daughter to work and let her help the craftsmen wash clothes and do odd jobs. The leader took pity on him and acquiesced."
"When the emperor sent people to kill them, the little girl happened to be ill and was placed in the clinic, so she escaped."
"When the little girl grew up, she wanted to enter the palace to seek revenge, but she didn't know any martial arts and knew she would die. So she drew a map of the secret passage and told her descendants to kill the emperor if they had the chance."
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