Qin Zongzhi looked over, a little curious.
"I learned how to make mixed vegetables from the previous nanny, so I made it for you today."
She glanced back at the pot and saw that the vegetables had darkened in color. She raised the corners of her lips, her face filled with joy, "It's done!"
Qin Zongzhi handed over the spoon at hand.
I watched her scoop out a large bowl of mixed vegetables and sprinkle chopped green onions and cilantro on top.
The food was so delicious that Qin Zongzhi couldn't help but give her a thumbs up and praised her without any hesitation, "Your cooking skills are unexpected."
The two of them simply ate in the kitchen.
But just as he left the kitchen, a maid came forward to report, "Your Highness, Concubine Yun, the young general of the Liu family is here."
"Your Highness, please go and do your work. I'll be back first."
Zhao Yunzhu tactfully withdrew.
"No problem, come with me to see him."
Zhao Yunzhu was stunned, and he took her hand and walked forward.
She had no choice but to refuse.
In the flower hall, there was a young man in royal blue brocade clothes with a clean face. He was looking up towards the outside.
"Your Highness is finally here. I've been waiting for you for so long!"
General Liu bowed and then his eyes fell on Zhao Yunzhu. Seeing how intimate the two of them were, he concluded in his heart that this was probably the Concubine Yun that the Ninth Prince had mentioned earlier.
"Concubine Yun."
"Young General Liu."
Zhao Yunzhu bowed slightly as a return gesture.
Qin Zongzhi gestured for him to sit down and talk, "Why isn't General Liu here to thank you today?"
"Your Highness, I came here today to express my gratitude to Your Highness."
On the way back, General Liu had thanked him many times, and Qin Zongzhi's ears were almost callused from hearing it.
Seeing that he was about to bring up the same excuse as before, he raised his hand to interrupt General Liu, "General Liu, there's no need for that. I'm only following the Queen's orders to come and meet you."
The emperor is seriously ill, and Empress Liu is worried that something unexpected might happen. The previous incident of deposing the crown prince implicated the Zhao family, and the situation in Chang'an was already unstable.
Only then was General Liu, who was stationed at the border, summoned back.
Unexpectedly, on the way back to Chang'an, bandits suddenly blocked the road, but General Liu did not take these bandits seriously.
After a battle, General Liu was actually at a disadvantage. It was then that he realized,
The people on the opposite side are not bandits at all. Such a well-trained team is just a bandit in disguise.
General Liu Xiao led the remaining troops to hide in a nearby city.
The bandits did not disperse, but took advantage of the situation to pursue them all the way to the city gate. When they saw the gate closed, the bandits surrounded the city.
It seems that they are going to take General Liu's life.
There were not enough soldiers and horses to guard the city, and the number of bandits outside the city gate was increasing day by day.
No one knows where these people came from.
The bandits outside the city had obviously made sufficient preparations before arriving.
Queen Liu felt uneasy when she saw that General Liu did not return on the agreed date.
The person sent out to gather information bumped into the person sent by General Liu to deliver the message halfway.
Only then did Queen Liu understand the whole story. She didn't know who was behind the incident and she didn't trust anyone else. After thinking about it, she thought of the Ninth Prince.
It just so happened that the Ninth Prince requested that Zhao Yunzhu be appointed as a concubine.
When the emperor was ill, Empress Liu was able to issue an edict to confer a title on someone.
But in exchange, Qin Zongzhi secretly led his generals to support,
"Does General Liu have a grudge against someone?"
Zhao Yunzhu heard the whole story and thought to himself that the bandits' appearance was so coincidental that they must have known the route General Liu would take back to Chang'an.
“No.”
General Liu answered frankly. He had not been in Chang'an much in recent years, so how could he have any conflicts with others?
His mortal enemies were all Japanese pirates outside the Great Wall.
There are so many bandits, they can't be Japanese pirates, and the appearance of Japanese pirates is very different from that of people from the Central Plains.
He checked carefully and found that the bandits all looked like people from the Central Plains.
Unfortunately, when Qin Zongzhi arrived with reinforcements, he and General Liu cooperated from inside and outside and successfully wiped out the bandits in one fell swoop.
He caught a few people alive and made them bite their tongues to commit suicide, just like Deadpool.
He sent people to search carefully, but did not find any useful clues on the bandits.
It was as if these bandits appeared out of thin air.
"Your Highness, have you found out yet?" Zhao Yunzhu turned to look at Qin Zongzhi and asked.
Seeing him shaking his head, this has become an unsolved case.
General Liu sat for a while longer, and when he saw a hint of anger on the Ninth Prince's face, he stood up and said goodbye with a smile.
"General Liu, isn't Second Master Liu usually not in Chang'an?"
Zhao Yunzhu stopped him and asked,
General Liu paused and looked at Zhao Yunzhu suspiciously, "Why is Concubine Yun suddenly asking about my second uncle?"
"Could it be that you two know each other?"
"I've never met him. I heard that Mr. Liu has been serving as an official abroad and hasn't been back to Chang'an for many years. I was just asking out of curiosity."
Zhao Yunzhu explained slowly.
But General Liu couldn't believe this.
But because of the Ninth Prince, he answered truthfully, "I have been at the border for many years, and I haven't seen my second uncle for many years."
"I heard that my second uncle used to be an official in another province, but he resigned from his position without telling the family two years ago. Now he is doing business in another province."
When General Liu mentioned his second uncle, there was a hint of unfamiliarity in his eyes.
After all, he had only seen his second uncle a few times since he was born.
After seeing off General Liu, Qin Zongzhi held her slender waist and walked back.
"Why are you suddenly asking about the Second Master of the Liu Family?"
"I heard Aunt Qing mention it in the cold palace."
"By the way, what exactly is Aunt Qing's identity? Why is she in the cold palace?"
My mind was completely on my biological mother yesterday, so I had no time to think about anything else.
"Aunt Qing is actually the Third Miss Liu, as the Liu family has spread the word, and she is the concubine sister of Empress Liu."
Qin Zongzhi was stunned, with a hint of disbelief in his eyes.
"In order to pave the way for Empress Liu, the Liu family used Second Master Liu to threaten Aunt Qing. From then on, the Third Miss of the Liu family disappeared from the world, and Empress Liu gained Aunt Qing."
"How could the Liu family act this way! I think General Liu acts uprightly, but I'm afraid he doesn't know the Liu family's secret."
Zhao Yunzhu also particularly agrees with this statement.
"Does Mr. Liu know his identity?"
Qin Zongzhi remembered that the second master of the Liu family was raised under the name of his stepmother, and outsiders believed that the second master of the Liu family was a legitimate son.
But Mr. Liu Erye has not been very close to his stepmother since he was a child.
He married a poor woman early on and took her to another province to take up a post, a position he held for many years.
Mr. Liu and his family rarely returned to Chang'an.
"Aunt Qing once mentioned that Master Liu knew his life story."
"It seems that the Liu family is quite powerful."
Qin Zongzhi sighed softly.
Suddenly remembering the Yong'an Marquis's Mansion, he turned and asked, "I heard that the Yong'an Marquis's wife took you to stay at the Marquis' Mansion for a few days?"
"Well, at that time, in order to avoid the Empress, the wife of the Yong'an Marquis invited me over, and it was also for the benefit of their eldest house."
She told the story of how Old Madam Du forced the eldest wife to adopt a son.
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