[Haha, just a friendly reminder for you]
[However, since Cheese Sauce had previously mastered the Northern Darkness Profound Art, the system reward prevented her from being eliminated once!]
"Grand Preceptor, the dishes are ready. Please wash your face first." Zhou Zhizhi finished washing her face and saw that the table was full of her favorite dishes, and her eyes lit up instantly.
Zhou Zhizhi ate heartily, then looked at Xiaoyue standing next to her and said, "What are you standing there for? Come and eat with me."
"Grand Preceptor, you flatter me. I'll just serve you the food." Xiaoyue said hurriedly.
"It's okay, come and join us." Zhou Zhizhi pulled Xiaoyue onto the stool.
Zhou Zhizhi thoughtfully handed chopsticks to Xiaoyue, saying, "Don't be shy, it tastes better when we eat together."
Xiaoyue carefully picked up her chopsticks, took the small green vegetable in front of her, and slowly put it into her mouth.
"Hey, just eat whatever you want." Zhou Zhizhi kept putting food into Xiaoyue's bowl, and Xiaoyue happily ate.
"Don't stand next to me when I eat. It makes me uncomfortable. If you want to eat, let's eat together. Where I'm from, we always eat together."
Xiaoyue was stunned. She even wondered if the Imperial Preceptor had been possessed today. "Imperial Preceptor, did no one serve you before?"
Zhou Zhizhi smiled awkwardly, after all, she was a modern person.
After Zhou Zhizhi and Xiaoyue finished eating, Xiaoyue tidied up and left the room.
As Zhou Zhizhi lay in bed that night, she kept replaying how Xiao Xiyou had defended her in front of the Empress earlier that day, and the expression on her face was quite telling.
Strange, he's a completely different person from Xiao Xiyou, who tore her apart before. Zhou Zhizhi thought, "Should I do something to thank him?"
At this moment, Zhou Zhizhi's mind was filled with Xiao Xiyou's image. She didn't like owing favors, but felt that she still had to do something, since Xu Cang's death had also affected her.
At this moment, this annoying system comes out to flirt.
【Annyeonghaseyo, Jiji Unnie】
"No, what are you doing out here?" Zhou Zhizhi said irritably. This damn idiotic system has switched to the damn Korean language again.
[I just wanted to remind you, unnie, not to have any extreme thoughts or do anything that could lead to murder.]
"Okay." Zhou Zhizhi was speechless; was it really worth reminding her?
Zhou Zhizhi thought for a moment and then said, "Can I give you money in exchange for a chance not to be eliminated?"
No, Zhizhi unnie!
Zhou Zhizhi complained about the broken system, which she couldn't hit, kill, or even scold.
I'm still thinking about how to repay Xiaoxiyou's favor.
Zhou Zhizhi tossed and turned in bed, unable to sleep, so she got up and a wicked thought popped into her head. Since she couldn't sleep anyway, she might as well go and see what Xiaoxiyou was doing.
Zhou Zhizhi giggled and said, "Hehe, that's exciting!"
Zhou Zhizhi got up and found her night clothes. Now, she completely disregarded her status as the Imperial Advisor, acting like a little girl playing pranks. (Wait, isn't she just a girl?)
After putting on her night clothes, Zhou Zhizhi tiptoed out of the mansion, thinking, "Thank goodness I didn't let Wu Da and Wu Er find me, otherwise those two lackeys would have called everyone in the mansion out."
Soon after, Zhou Zhizhi arrived at Xiao Xiyou's residence. Having been there before, she quickly located the roof of Xiao Xiyou's room.
Zhou Zhizhi climbed up the ladder to the roof. She secretly lifted two tiles from the roof, revealing the little grapefruit inside.
At this moment, Xiao Xiyou was taking a shower. Zhou Zhizhi saw Xiao Xiyou taking off his clothes and noticed his physique.
"Wow, this little grapefruit has a great figure. Those muscles, those lines, she's even better than a male model. It's a pity she's from ancient times."
Just as Xiao Xiyou was about to unzip his pants, Ma Liang suddenly called out from the doorway, "Your Highness, there is a letter for you!"
"Whoosh!" Zhou Zhizhi was suddenly startled and fell off the roof.
"Who's outside!" Xiao Xiyou warned, and Zhou Zhizhi quickly ran away from Xiao Xiyou's residence.
Xiao Xiyou put on his shirt and came out to see footprints behind the room. Judging from the footprints, they should be a woman's footprints.
Zhou Zhizhi hurriedly ran back to the mansion, quickly went to her room, took off her night clothes, and changed into her own.
Ma Liang saw the footprints at the door and wanted to chase after them, but Xiao Xiyou stopped him. It's likely that Xiao Xiyou knew that Zhou Zhizhi had just been there, and that she was probably the one who had been spying.
As Xiao Xiyou read the contents of the letter, he sensed something was amiss. Lost in thought, he returned to his room.
Zhou Zhizhi lay back down on the bed. After running for so long, she was so tired that she fell asleep. When dawn broke, Wu Da and Wu Er, the two cannon fodder, would inevitably wake Zhou Zhizhi up again. Zhou Zhizhi was used to being woken up by them.
"What is it now? It's barely dawn, I'm going to sleep..." Before Zhou Zhizhi could finish speaking, Wu Da said, "Grand Preceptor, the Second Prince has arrived and says he wants to see you."
Upon hearing that Xiao Xiyou had arrived, Zhou Zhizhi instantly sobered up, wondering if he had found out it was her who had watched him take a shower yesterday. "No way," she thought.
But she still dressed up to see Xiaoxiyou. When she arrived at the front hall, Zhou Zhizhi's heart raced, and she greeted Xiaoxiyou guiltily.
"Second...Second Prince, what is it you want to see me about..." Zhou Zhizhi stammered.
Xiao Xiyou glanced at Zhou Zhizhi but didn't mention yesterday's events. He said in a somber tone, "Laifu's family was silenced."
Before Zhou Zhizhi could even feel relieved that she hadn't been caught spying, she asked in astonishment, "Laifu had a wife and daughter at home, and they were both killed?"
Xiao Xiyou nodded.
Zhou Zhizhi slammed her hand on the table angrily: "This is obviously just to shut us up."
“There is no evidence that the Third Prince was responsible. Both of them died from a single sword strike, and no one else witnessed it. It is estimated that they were killed in the middle of the night,” Xiao Xiyou analyzed.
Zhou Zhizhi asked nervously, "Your Highness, does the palace know about this? Does the Emperor know?"
Xiao Xiyou shook his head, "Father is sick most of the time now, so he probably doesn't have the time or energy to pay attention to this matter."
"Besides, everything he knows is something someone wants him to know!"
It goes without saying who this person is.
After thinking for a while, Zhou Zhizhi said, "We should tell the Empress about this and see how she reacts."
Zhou Zhizhi and Xiao Xiyou then rushed to the palace. After arriving at the Empress's palace, the eunuch came over to inquire about their identities and went in to announce their arrival before allowing them to enter.
"Your humble servants, Your Majesty the Empress," Zhou Zhizhi and Xiao Xiyou said in unison.
The Empress walked over from the rear hall and sat on the phoenix throne in the main hall. She slowly and deliberately blew on her long fingernails and said, "You may rise. What business do the Imperial Advisor and the Second Prince have with me?"
"Your Majesty, I have come to report that Lai Fu's wife and daughters were murdered overnight." Zhou Zhizhi was observing the Empress's expression, and she seemed to react slightly.
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