When the maid Xiao Min saw that Zhao Yunzhu did not respond, she changed the subject and pointed out her identity.
Zhao Yunzhu was stunned.
Xiao Min continued to advise, "Right now, due to the incident involving the deposed Crown Prince, if this matter is allowed to pass, Your Highness will probably be impeached."
"You're overstepping your bounds."
Zhao Yunzhu lowered his eyes and his brows turned cold.
He turned around coldly, without saying a word, and went straight back to Lanxiang Garden.
Xiao Min quickly followed, not daring to say another word.
Zhao Yunzhu didn't expect that Qin Zongzhi hadn't returned home for ten consecutive days.
Two days ago, she was still able to live by herself.
But the further she went on, the more uneasy she became.
I sent Xiao Min to ask the steward, and the answer I got was that Qin Zongzhi had been living in the palace these days.
As for the reason, no one outside knows.
But some palace secrets were leaked out.
That means the emperor is sick!
The emperor was ill in the first place, so there was nothing to hide.
Unless the emperor is seriously ill.
And this matter cannot be made known to others.
Qin Zongzhi was not at home, and the housekeeper would not let her leave. One day, Song Shumin came to the house again.
The old woman and a group of maids followed the housekeeper to stop them, but who dared to really offend this master?
He could only half-heartedly agree and watch Song Shumin take her maid to Lanxiang Garden.
Zhao Yunzhu was dressed in plain clothes, and her black hair was tied up with a walnut hairpin.
She was squatting in the corner, poking the ants on the ground with a branch.
Groups of ants are moving with white ant eggs on their backs. The weather is just right today.
But since these swarms of ants are moving in such a big way, it seems that there will be a heavy rain in Chang'an.
"Zhao Yunzhu!"
Zhao Yunzhu trembled, turned around hesitantly, and saw Song Shumin coming towards her aggressively.
Frowned.
She stood up and bowed, "Princess Shumin."
Song Shumin approached, took in her attire, and snorted disdainfully. Then, a harsh remark rang out, "Zhao Yunzhu, you are truly shameless. Because of you, the Ninth Prince has been punished by the Emperor to kneel in the Imperial Study for several days. And you still have the nerve to refuse to leave?"
Zhao Yunzhu was a little confused.
That's not what the butler said.
"Ninth Prince, you haven't been home for a long time, right? The Emperor is angry because he knows that His Highness is keeping you in the palace."
"The Emperor asked His Highness to send you away, but His Highness refused and has been kneeling in the Imperial Study for several days because of you."
"Zhao Yunzhu, one should not be ungrateful."
Song Shumin's words were harsh.
The old women and maids looked at each other in bewilderment.
"So? Qin Zongzhi would rather go against the emperor's grace and keep me here. And you, an outsider, rush to his mansion and try to drive away his concubine."
"Princess Shumin, if this gets out, I'm afraid it won't sound good!"
Zhao Yunzhu's casual and relaxed temperament made Song Shumin's eyes red with anxiety.
"You, you."
I couldn't figure out how to respond for a long time.
"Princess Shumin, why don't we go inside and talk? It's really not the right thing to do to be here, arguing and bickering."
Zhao Yunzhu suddenly changed the subject.
Song Shumin snorted angrily, pushed Zhao Yunzhu away and walked towards the main house.
Zhao Yunzhu curled the corners of her lips and followed him. As soon as she stepped into the house, she turned around and stopped the servants who were about to follow her in outside.
Xiao Min was a little worried, but seeing Zhao Yunzhu's firm attitude, she could only wait outside.
After closing the door, I saw Song Shumin sitting at the desk, sketching on the rice paper.
She walked forward curiously. Song Shumin's visit today was definitely not because of the quarrel just now.
When Zhao Yunzhu walked over, she saw that more than half of the rice paper was already filled with the painting.
It turned out that Song Shumin did not want to marry Qin Zongzhi, but this marriage was now the idea of King Song.
She could not disobey the King and Queen of Song, and on the surface she was still the obedient princess of the palace.
In order to make King Song believe that she was determined to marry Qin Zongzhi, she could only target Zhao Yunzhu.
The two maids who had served Song Shumin since she was a child died of inexplicable poisoning. Princess Song became suspicious of her, and Prince Song secretly sent people to keep an eye on her. She knew all this.
If King Song finds out and she tries to escape from his control, she will only end up dead.
Even after more than ten years of upbringing, Song Shumin still has great faith in it.
If she disobeyed King Song, death would be the only outcome waiting for her.
She not only wants to live, but also wants to break free from control.
"You want to be in power?"
Zhao Yunzhu read the whole story written by Song Shumin on the rice paper and threw the paper into the charcoal basin.
Asked softly.
Song Shumin was stunned for a moment, then nodded firmly.
"I don't want to be a puppet all my life."
Song Shumin's eyes were misty, and her voice was choked with sobs. "In fact, my family carefully selected me and sent me to the Song Palace because I looked a bit like Princess Song."
"I don't want to, and my parents won't either—"
She paused, recalling the bloody scar from her childhood, which was revealed for the first time.
"There was a fire at home, my parents are gone, and I have no choice but to go to the palace..."
"The fire happened so unexpectedly that it burned down my house in less than half an hour. No one from my family came out to help, and I happened to be picked up by my second aunt that night."
She was too small, she couldn't do anything.
She could only enter the palace, but she knew that her parents were killed by them.
It’s not that she hasn’t thought about revenge, but how could she let those evil people die so easily?
She has been dormant for many years, just wanting to bury those people with her parents one day.
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