Baisui’s face turned red like a shrimp and he opened his mouth: “I, I, I, I…” He muttered for a long time but couldn’t utter the rest of the words.
"Stutter later." Qing Wu gently kicked his shoes and said, "Hurry up and get to work."
Baisui immediately got up, lowered his head, and did not dare to look at Qingwu.
Now I just want to slap myself in the face!
He hid and smashed the old eunuch's head not to stand up for Qing Wu.
In fact, what the old eunuch said was that Princess Yan was not a serious person at first glance. She had a face that brought disaster upon herself and looked like a witch, and did not look like a lucky person.
Why is there such a big mess in the Eastern Palace? Maybe it’s because of her, this disaster star...
Baisui got angry when he heard this. To insult Qingwu was to insult his own prince!
Yes! Rounding it off means Cursing the Yan Palace!
He did it for the sake of his own prince, not because he acknowledged her as a princess, and certainly not because of any kind of female worship!
The centenarian deputy commander was a stubborn and hard-nosed person until his death.
Qing Wu didn't have time to take care of the boy's awkward mood, so she continued, "Quick, just point the way. Which direction is the old emperor's bedroom?"
"I can point, but how do we get there?" Baisui was shocked. This is the palace after all.
"Is that something you need to worry about?"
He shut up under Qing Wu's contemptuous gaze and silently served as a compass.
A moment later, Baisui, who was standing outside Taihua Pool, was shocked.
He didn't know how Qiu Qingwu did it. She just pinched the back of his neck, took a step forward, and arrived outside the East Palace.
One more step and you'll be through the palace.
It is just like the legendary shrinking the distance into an inch!
This is not the scariest thing! The imperial guards were only one meter away from her, but these people couldn't even see them!
Baisui noticed that both himself and Qingwu were shrouded in a layer of faint green light, and the light source was the lamp in her hand.
Baisui swallowed his saliva. This was a great experience.
"Your Majesty's bedroom is in Tianshou Palace, just across Taihua Pond. Aren't we going to go there?"
Qing Wu looked ahead and said, "I can't get in."
"Ah?" Baisui was surprised.
Qing Wu shook her head and didn't explain.
As expected, the invitation from the Crown Princess was still not enough, and this was the limit.
Tianshou Hall was the place where the fortunes of the Yong Dynasty gathered. She wanted to observe the old emperor up close, but was restricted by the broken order of the world of the living.
However, it wasn't a wasted trip.
She pointed to the northwest and asked, "What's that place over there?"
Bai Suiyu: "That's the harem. I've never been there."
When Xiao Chenyan was the eldest grandson of the emperor, he followed him around the palace, but the rules in the harem were strict, and even if he was a close follower, he had to wait outside.
Qing Wu raised her eyebrows and asked curiously: "The old emperor's harem wasn't there before, right?"
Baisui nodded: "It is said that the palace was moved once in the early years, and the palaces where the concubines lived were converted into a place for your majesty to practice."
Qing Wu laughed with an ambiguous meaning.
"Princess, what did you see?"
"This royal ancestor of your prince is so lowly."
Baisui: “…” He shouldn’t have asked this question.
Although he didn't like the old emperor in his heart, he was the emperor after all!
Qing Wu said as she pinched him back, but this time she didn't shrink an inch: "There aren't many concubines in the harem who live long."
"I really don't know about this, but the Empress Dowager and the Imperial Concubine are both alive, but it was the Virtuous Lady who passed away a few years ago."
"Lady Xian? The mother of the Seventh Prince?"
Baisui nodded.
Qing Wu frowned. Before her death, Concubine Xian was still a concubine. Was she demoted?
The old emperor had nine sons. The late crown prince was the eldest, born to the late Empress Huizhen. The crown prince Ruzhen was the third, and his mother was the empress dowager.
The empress dowager gave birth to two sons and one daughter. There was also a second prince above the crown prince. Originally, he was not ahead of the eldest son in terms of the legitimate wife. Unfortunately, the second prince was born with a congenital defect and suffered from a disability. The crown prince, the third son, got a good deal for free.
Speaking of the Seventh Prince, Xiao Chenyan's seventh uncle, Qing Wu remembered that the former Crown Prince had a very good relationship with this seventh brother, and Xiao Chenyan was also very close to this seventh uncle.
"Speaking of which, where did the Seventh Prince go?"
"After Concubine Xian passed away, the Seventh Prince asked to leave the capital for his fiefdom." Baisui sighed, "When the prince was banished to the northern border, Concubine Xian was the only one among the concubines who pleaded for the prince and sent him a lot of money. Not long after, she was demoted from Concubine Xian to Concubine Xian."
Qing Wu said "oh", not surprised, but curious about something else.
"When Xiao Chenyan went to the Northern Territory, he didn't even have the money for the journey?"
Baisui remained silent, his expression sinister, and after a long while he said, "The former crown prince died in the old residence, and that fire killed more than a hundred people in the Eastern Palace."
"The prince was banished to the northern border for his crimes. His Majesty was furious and made him walk barefoot on the ground, in shackles and handcuffs."
Qing Wu paused and her eyes turned cold.
It was more than ten thousand miles from the capital to the northern border. How could Xiao Chenyan have walked there in shackles like an exiled criminal?
This is more than a humiliation!
What’s the difference between this and asking for his life, letting him die on the road!
When talking about this past event, Baisui could not hide the hatred in his eyes and his eyes became red.
"The prince narrowly escaped death on the road, but he survived. However, it was really too difficult..."
Baisui took a deep breath, looked at Qingwu, suddenly knelt on the ground, and kowtowed heavily: "Please, Princess, help the prince!"
They witnessed how Xiao Chenyan came here, and knew what kind of blood feud he carried on his shoulders.
They wanted to help, but their strength was limited. Even if they tried their best, how much could they help Xiao Chenyan?
After the death of the former crown prince, the old emperor wanted to execute the secret guards as well, but Xiao Chenyan found a way to save their lives. Even at the age of a hundred, he still remembered how the eldest grandson of the emperor, who was of noble descent and dressed in fine clothes and riding a horse, was dragged out of the Dali Temple with wounds all over his body.
He had never seen Xiao Chenyan in such an embarrassed state.
But he will always remember Xiao Chenyan at that moment. He was like a lone wolf with its skin peeled off and covered in blood. Even though there was a hell of thorns under his feet, he remained calm and kept moving forward.
A body of iron that has never been broken.
He will always remember the look Xiao Chenyan gave him when he left the capital.
If a wolf looks back, it is not to repay a favor.
It's revenge!
"Don't underestimate your master." The woman's voice sounded faintly.
Baisui raised his head and met Qingwu’s lowered gaze.
"He was able to survive and make a comeback. If he were like this, no one would be able to stop him."
"You should believe this more firmly."
Qing Wu raised her hand and tapped Bai Sui on the forehead: "Little brat."
There was a slight pain on his forehead, and in a trance, Baisui seemed to see the shadow of another person in Qingwu.
When he was a child, he was kidnapped by a beggar and a group of children were thrown into a cave in the dense forest.
That day, a little girl was also kidnapped and thrown into the cave. The girl was dressed in luxurious clothes and it was obvious that she was from a wealthy family.
They were a group of little brats who had been scared by the beatings and scoldings from the beggars and had given up hope long ago. But the little girl never gave up. She tried to climb up again and again, but fell down again and again, becoming very embarrassed.
But she never gave up and she climbed out of the cave by herself.
At that time, the other children were all excited. Some saw hope, some were afraid that she would run away alone, and some, for some unknown reason, actually shouted to call Paihuazi over.
Baisui got so angry that he rushed over and hit the kid. Sister Hong and Sister Lu also rushed over to cover the man's mouth.
The young lady did not hesitate. She dropped the vine, and Sister Hong and Sister Lu urged her to go up quickly.
Baisui grabbed the vine and climbed up. As soon as he climbed up, Paihuazi heard the noise and came to catch them.
The little girl grabbed him and ran away. She was not much older than him. It was very dark that night and the road in the dense forest was very difficult. How could two children escape from the adults' pursuit?
At the critical moment, it was the young lady who gave him a push.
——Little brat, run! You’ll find them once you get out of the woods! I’ll lead them away!
——Don't look back, little brat! Run!
——There’s nothing to be afraid of!
Baisui stared at Qingwu in a daze, and something flashed through his mind so fast that he could hardly catch it.
At this moment, after many years, he heard those familiar words again.
"There's nothing to be afraid of."
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