At the same time, Ayu and Ahou, who were standing not far away, also came over quickly. The two guards saw this and hurriedly handed over the silver they had just received with both hands and began to explain nervously.
"General Ayu, General Ahou, we don't want it, but she insists on giving it to us..."
Ayu glared at them and said, "I didn't see you refuse. You took it quite easily. You do this a lot, don't you?"
"I dare not..."
At this time, Ah Hou came to the window, poked a piece of window paper and looked inside.
Zhuhua put the lunch box on the table, took out a bowl of soup, and pushed it in front of Xiaohui.
"Miss Xiaohui, you must eat and drink well. I heard that the princess wants to starve you to death. If you don't want to die, then eat."
Xiaohui frowned and looked at her.
"Who are you?"
"I'm here to help you. In this entire palace, I'm the only one who can bring you food. Don't hesitate. If you're discovered, you won't be able to eat. Come on, eat."
Xiaohui looked at Zhuhua with a bit of fear in her eyes, and she immediately looked at her alertly.
"We don't know each other, yet you take the initiative to bring me food? Who are you? What's your intention?"
Zhuhua saw that Xiaohui was quite shrewd, so she lowered her voice and whispered in her ear:
"Prince Xi asked me to bring you food. He asked me to take good care of you. Now you can rest assured."
After hearing the three words "Prince Xi", Xiaohui nodded with relief. Looking at the delicious food in front of her, she picked up the chopsticks and was about to start eating when the door was pushed open.
Hearing the sound of the door opening, Zhuhua was startled and turned to look at the door. Xiaohui was also frightened and put down her chopsticks.
Ayu stood at the door, looked at Zhuhua, and shouted:
"The princess has ordered that no one except her and the prince is allowed to enter here. You are so brave, girl."
Zhuhua knelt on the ground in panic, crying and begging,
"General Ayu, I was wrong. I felt sorry for Miss Xiaohui and wanted to give her some food. I was wrong."
At this time, Ah Hou's voice came in.
"Pathetic? Do you think it's pitiful?"
As he was speaking, he appeared here with a mouse in his hand. Xiaohui took a few steps back in fright. Zhuhua's face turned pale and she shook her head vigorously, not knowing what to do.
At this time, Ah Hou placed the mouse on the table. Seeing the delicious food, the mouse immediately started eating...
Ayu and Ahou looked at the mouse with fierce eyes.
Zhuhua pinched the corner of her clothes nervously, as if she expected that she would be exposed today.
Xiao Hui swallowed hard. She felt sorry for the food and hated the two generals. She couldn't help but swung her sleeves and started cursing.
"I can't believe the lives of the people in Prince Yu's Mansion are worth less than the life of this pest. You'd rather give this good thing to it than let me have a bite. You're really hateful!"
Before she could finish her words, the mouse suddenly fell straight onto the plate and died.
Seeing this scene, Xiaohui was so frightened that she covered her mouth and looked at Zhuhua in horror.
"You want to kill me?"
Zhuhua hurriedly shook her head to explain,
"No, no, this mouse must have died of illness. This food is not poisonous."
"No poison?"
Ah Hou looked at the dead mouse and asked suspiciously,
"Since it's not poisonous, go and have a bite, and we'll pretend that what happened today never happened."
Hearing this, Zhuhua became anxious instantly. She knew in her heart that if she ate these poisonous foods, she would die on the spot like the mouse.
She swallowed, lowered her head and said nothing, thinking about how to say it without revealing her identity as a Beihai person.
At this moment, Xiaohui seemed to react suddenly and screamed.
"Leng Xi asked you to kill me, right? Is that right? He wanted to silence me, right?"
When she mentioned Lengxi, Ayu and Ahou looked at each other, with a smug look on their faces as if they had accomplished something.
Zhuhua bit her lip and came up with an idea. After all, it was Lengxi who asked her to kill Xiaohui. In that case, why not take advantage of the situation and say that she was ordered by Lengxi. She would not kill the person and would be locked up for a few days at most. It would not be a big deal.
Thinking of this, she simply stiffened her neck and nodded stubbornly.
"Yes, it was Prince Xi who ordered me to kill you. You are lucky this time and didn't die."
Seeing that she admitted it, Xiaohui suddenly gritted her teeth, took a few steps back, and started throwing things on the bed.
Ayu and Ahou had no intention of watching her throw a tantrum, so they directly instructed Zhuhua:
"Get up and go see the prince."
Zhuhua stood up from the ground tremblingly and followed the two of them to the main hall of the palace.
The door of the room where Xiao Hui was imprisoned was closed again. Xiao Hui sat on the bed with an angry face, tearing the handkerchief in her hand vigorously, muttering,
"Leng Xi, you are so cruel! I have done so many things for you and won over so many people, yet you actually want to kill me to silence me..."
But no one could hear her angry voice except herself.
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Leng Yu originally wanted to wait in the room, but unexpectedly Zhuhua showed up halfway. He asked Zhang Yuan to bring people to secretly guard his door, and he went to the front yard to interrogate Zhuhua.
Zhuhua knelt on the ground, pretending to be panicked and frightened, and kept begging for mercy.
"Your Majesty, I was wrong. I shouldn't have been deceived and used by others. Please spare my life, Your Majesty. Please spare my life."
Leng Yu looked at her, his eyes slightly wrinkled.
"I heard that you were ordered by Leng Xi to kill Xiao Hui? What conditions did he offer you? Did you meet him at Prince Yu's Mansion, or did you know him before?"
On the way to the main hall of the palace, Zhuhua had already made up her mind that as long as she did not admit the matter, Leng Yu would have no way to deal with her.
Now that he asked, she might as well try to fool him. If she couldn't fool him, she would talk about it later.
Thinking of this, Zhuhua swallowed hard and explained casually,
"I... I'm just a little girl. How could I have had the chance to meet Prince Xi before entering Prince Yu's mansion? This incident... was yesterday when I went to the street to buy incense. I met a stranger. He said that if I just followed his instructions and poured a packet of medicine into Miss Xiaohui's food, he would give me 100 taels of silver. I didn't know that the medicine was poisonous. I really didn't know. If I had known, I wouldn't dare kill anyone even if I died."
Seeing that she wanted to refute the facts, Leng Yu frowned, "You just said that Leng Xi asked you to kill Xiao Hui. Is that true?"
Zhuhua quickly shook her head in denial.
"No, it was Xiaohui who suspected that, and I just agreed without thinking. Actually, I didn't know who the stranger was. I didn't know him."
Seeing that she was lying with her eyes open, Ayu pointed at her angrily and scolded her:
"You just admitted that it was Prince Xi who ordered you to kill Xiaohui. Why are you changing your words now?"
"I didn't admit it. Xiaohui said that, so I just made it up. I don't know who asked me to kill her."
Seeing that Zhuhua was unwilling to do anything, Leng Yu suddenly shouted,
"Someone, bring Xiaohui here and confront her face to face."
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