The witch comes into my arms

Half a day later, news came from Aunt Rong. Among the informants developed by Wang Changde, there was no one who missed the news about Mi Zhuting.

Xia Yuan asked her to investigate in the mansion again. After checking the front yard, there was still nothing. He then checked the backyard and found a maid who was a rough messenger. She was bribed by people from Zhennan Palace and leaked the news about Xia Yuan.

When she was arrested, the maid was cleaning Xia Yuan's yard. She knelt in front of him, crying bitterly, her forehead bleeding, and begging him for forgiveness.

Han Yue slapped her in the face and threw her away to the servants.

"My palace is simply a sieve." Xia Yuan sighed to Han Yue.

"It's because of the lax management of the servants." Han Yue's face turned pale, she was so frightened that she even changed her self-identity due to guilt.

She managed the backyard, and she even used the maid.

"There are no slaves here." Xia Yuan took her hand, "Except for the few maids in the backyard given by my mother and concubine, I ordered and bought the rest."

Half a year ago, the royal palace was newly established. According to the usual practice, the royal family or Xia Yuan's mother clan would send well-educated servants. The seventh prince Xia Yuan refused and insisted on choosing by himself.

The reason was that he heard a story from a storytelling book, saying that the former empress dowager chose concubines and daughters out of selfish desires, and she chose crooked melons and cracked jujubes.

The emperor had no intention of having children and had no children. The officials were uneasy and many of them took refuge in the prince and ignored the emperor.

Whether he had children or not, it didn't matter whether he was ignored or not. The seventh prince Xia Yuan was only worried that the maid would be ugly and disturb his interest. He did not dare to let his mother and concubine send him, so he was determined to choose one by himself.

Doesn't this give the person who has the spy a chance?

Thinking of this, Xia Yuan pressed his head, feeling a little headache, and lamented that he had so many inner dramas in this life, how could his mother-in-law pick all the crooked melons and dates...

Wait, with the character of the mother-in-law, it is really possible for her to do this!

However, he already had Han Yue and the little queen, so he didn't care what the other maids looked like.

"What do you think about changing all the servants?" Xia Yuan looked at Han Yue.

"what?"

Hanyue was frightened by this idea, but when she thought about it carefully, it was indeed a solution. But who knows if the new ones are spies from outside the house?

She quickly thought of the answer: "Your Highness is going to ask the Empress and Your Majesty for servants?"

"Let's talk about it later." Xia Yuan thought for a while and shook his head.

If it were someone sent by his father or mother, wouldn't his every move be under the supervision of his parents?

Just as he was hesitating, a maid ran into the courtyard and reported to him:

"Your Highness, the Crown Prince is here!"

A flash of inspiration flashed through his mind, Xia Yuan's eyes lit up, and he said to Han Yue: "The person who sent the servant is here!"

He didn't dare to ask for people from his mother's concubine or his father's emperor, but he dared to ask for people from the prince's side.

A servant given by his parents, with his father and mother as his back-up, it was only natural that he leaked information about him to his parents. He couldn't blame him if he found out. The people on the prince's side did not have such conditions.

What's more, he has a good relationship with the prince. The prince is an upright person and will not go beyond emotion or reason.

Wait for the prince to send someone, and then take a little photo with the Time Treasure Mirror.

It's not that he doesn't want to take pictures of everyone in the house, but driving the Time Treasure Mirror once is like a night of fun. If he wants to see it in more detail, it will be even more painful.

I hope that after he improves his cultivation, the consumption will be less.

As for when his cultivation will improve, it depends on when he can train the little queen.

It didn't take long for him to think of the location of a secret spiritual treasure these days. That spiritual treasure was just right for the little queen.

He thought as he walked to the front yard.

In the front hall where guests are being entertained, the prince is already sitting on a chair, sipping a cup of tea. He wears a pure white Confucian shirt, behaves elegantly, and has a peaceful expression.

"Brother." Xia Yuan greeted him.

The prince's name is Xia Wuya. He is the legitimate son, the eldest son, and the most orthodox heir to the throne. In the future, if he had not been attacked and killed, there would have been no fight for the throne.

However, even if he sat on the throne, he still could not defeat Xiao Lengqiu's rebel army.

Among the seven princes, Xia Yuan and Xia Wuya have the best relationship. They can complement each other in terms of personality and behavior style.

Xia Wuya was responsible for hanging beams and stabbing buttocks, while he was responsible for eating, drinking and having fun.

When he was still in the palace, Xia Wuya often got new gadgets and threw them to Xia Yuan to play with.

Every time Xia Wuya received a gift from him, there was a hint of sadness in his smile.

"Seventh brother." Xia Wuya showed no politeness and didn't even get up. He excitedly waved to him and took out a fist-sized jade from his sleeve.

Xia Yuan sat down next to him, took the jade and played with it.

The jade is turquoise, weak in color and not transparent, with spots on the inside and pits on the surface.

"What's so interesting about this broken stone?" he wondered.

"This is Fluorite."

Fluorite is a stone that can emit light in the dark. Its light is as weak as a firefly, far less than a luminous pearl.

In ordinary families, fluorite is a treasure, but in the palace, it is not cherished.

"What's so mysterious about this stone?"

"Look." Xia Wuya lifted up his long sleeves to cover the stone, shrouding it in darkness.

On the fluorescent stone, a faint green light lit up, illuminating the spots inside the stone brightly and white. The ugly stone now looked like a blue sky with white clouds.

"It's not over yet!"

Xia Wuya turned his wrist, and the white dots overlapped, forming a white deer. The blue sky turned into a pasture, and the white deer stood in it.

Xia Wuya shook the fluorescent stone at a specific frequency again, and the white deer started running on the grassland.

"Wonderful!" Xia Yuan praised.

Even though he had experienced the Internet age and had seen countless weird things, Xia Yuan was still attracted by this stone.

"I got this stone yesterday, and I brought it to you today!" Xia Wuya put down his sleeves and handed the stone to Xia Yuan.

Seeing his seventh brother's happy expression, he also felt happy. He and his seventh brother are brothers, and having played with the seventh brother is equivalent to playing with him.

After playing, it’s time to study hard. He reviewed his schedule and made sure he still had half an hour to spare.

He asked Xia Yuan again how he felt about the gadgets he had given him before. Xia Yuan explained in detail how they felt when playing with them, and also talked about some of the gadgets he had found.

Xia Wuya was so happy that he felt guilty. He had too much fun today, so he might as well do half an hour more homework in the evening.

After talking about fun, the two were silent for a while.

Xia Yuan thought, why hasn't the eldest brother asked about Wang Changde? If he didn't ask, why did he say that he wanted to replace all the servants in the mansion.

The timing of this eldest brother's appearance was too good. It must have been the queen mother or the emperor who sent him to find out the news.

Xia Wuya was organizing his words. What this younger brother hated the most was this kind of questioning. It's all the mother's fault. She didn't want to offend her seventh brother, so she let him be the villain.

Preparing to be disliked, he spoke: "I heard that your housekeeper, Wang Changde, was killed by you with a stick and his body was thrown in a mass grave to be fed to the dogs?"

What he didn't expect was that the seventh brother was not only not angry, but also looked stable.

"Wang Changde is a spy of King Zhennan."

Xia Wuya's brows jumped, not expecting to hear this answer.

He put down the tea bowl and asked seriously: "How do you know?"

"His informants have been recruited. I deliberately left two of them unkilled. Brother can ask them." Xia Yuan said, "The one who will interrogate them is Aunt Rong."

"Since it was Aunt Rong who tried it, it can't be wrong." Xia Wuya had heard of Aunt Rong's reputation. If there were difficult prisoners in the clan's mansion, he would borrow Aunt Rong from the palace.

He thought about Wang Changde's origins and frowned: "Wang Changde is from the concubine's family..."

He closed his mouth and did not continue. If his seventh brother understood, he would probably cause trouble.