treacherous world

Zhan Zhao and Gongsun followed Bao Zheng into the palace. On the way, Bao Zheng told them that Hui Ying said just now that Zhao Pu entered the palace and wanted to persuade Zhao Zhen with the Eighth Prince, but found that something seemed wrong with Zhao Zhen.

After a while, he said nausea and dizziness, and finally passed out.

Zhao Pu hurriedly called the imperial physician, but the imperial physician couldn't see why, Zhao Zhen's complexion was pale and his breathing was weak, so Zhao Pu asked Huiying to quickly find Gongsun.

Zhao Zhen's symptoms seem to be poisoned, but he lives in the palace, who can poison him?Reminiscent of Taishi Pang being murdered at the banquet last time, Bao Zheng brought Zhan Zhao to find out who poisoned him.

After Gongsun entered the palace, he rushed to Zhao Zhen's bedroom. He saw Concubine Pang sitting aside serving Zhao Zhen. Zhao Zhen woke up and leaned weakly on the bed.

Gongsun went over to salute him, and stretched out his hand to check his pulse.

Zhao Zhen's pulse was calm, it didn't look like he was poisoned or something happened.

Gongsun was slightly taken aback, glanced at Zhao Zhen, and saw Zhao Zhen also looked at him, and there seemed to be something in his eyes.

Gongsun's heart moved, he leaned over, complained, and pretended to roll Zhao Zhen's eyelids, but felt something slippery covered Zhao Zhen's face.

Gongsun understood that his pale face was because Zhao Zhen had put a thin layer of incense ash on his face, he was pretending to be sick.

Gongsun was very puzzled, why did Zhao Zhen, the king of a country, pretend to be sick?

Later, Gongsun thought again... Zhao Pu and the Eight Kings have been in the palace for a while, why are they calling themselves now?If Zhao Zhen was really that sick, with Zhao Pu's temperament, Hui Ying would probably have brought him here and waited for Mr. Bao to change his clothes?

Gongsun looked suspiciously at Concubine Pang next to Zhao Zhen.

Concubine Pang didn't suspect that Zhao Zhen's illness was faked at all, she just sat beside him with a worried face, looking at herself anxiously, as if asking——Is he saved?

Gongsun didn't know what to do for a while.

At this time, Zhao Pu walked in, and Gongsun was at a loss. Zhao Pu knew that he already knew the situation, so he coughed and said to Concubine Pang, "I heard Xiangxiang crying."

"Uh..." Concubine Pang knew that Xiangxiang might be hungry, so her heart sank, but Zhao Zhen was like this again.

"Go." Zhao Zhen patted her, "Mr. Gongsun is here, I'm fine."

Concubine Pang looked at Zhao Zhen again.

"Go, bring Xiangxiang here in a while, I haven't seen her all day."

"En." Concubine Pang nodded, retreated, and hurried to see Xiangxiang.

Gongsun looked at Zhao Pu, and Zhao Pu looked at Zhao Zhen.

"Okay." Zhao Zhen got off the bed.

"I told Bao Xiang, and now Ying Wei and Zhan Zhao have started looking for it." Zhao Pu told Zhao Zhen.

Zhao Zhen nodded with a smile and asked, "What do you think of this method?"

Zhao Pu shrugged noncommittally, "I hope there will be progress."

Gongsun looked at the two of them, and when he saw Zhao Pu walking out, he also said goodbye to Zhao Zhen and followed them out.

"Alas!" Gongsun grabbed Zhao Pu, "What is this for?"

Zhao Pu sighed, "At first my starling and I were also taken aback by him, thinking that he had been poisoned, but it was his idea... No, to be precise, someone taught him that he could Find the person who secretly harmed the Grand Master."

"Who? What method?" Gongsun was confused.

"Tsk, who else could it be? That Mrs. Luoxin." Zhao Pu shook his head, "Brother Fazi told Bao Xiang, and we will see the result in a while."

Gongsun frowned, "Is that so..."

Zhao Pu sighed, "I guess it will become more and more troublesome in the future, and Zhao Zhen doesn't know what his plan is."

Gongsun showed a very annoying expression on his face. He knew that there would be big troubles this time. If he had known, he would not have returned to Kaifeng. It was fun to walk the little four all day in Xiaoyao Island. Anyway, Bao Zhengzhan Zhaobaiyu The church is here, and the sky will never collapse.

But the most depressing thing now is Zhan Zhao and the group of shadow guards.

Zhan Zhao never expected that Zhao Zhen would do such a troublesome thing by pretending to be sick and let them find the murderer. He really didn't understand why he would use such a method.

Zhan Zhao sighed, the list Bao Zheng gave him was a few eunuchs in charge, and a few maidservants.Zhan Zhao squatted on the roof near the steward's room where the servants lived, and looked down patiently. On the other corners, there were several shadow guards who were equally boring.

With one hand on his chin, Zhan Zhao felt the night wind was blowing cool, the roof of the imperial city was also high, and the scenery outside was not bad.Zhan Zhao suddenly thought that if Bai Yutang was here, it would not be so boring, and he would have brought him with him.

Thinking of Bai Yutang, Zhan Zhao felt a sudden spicy taste in his mouth, and his face subconsciously became hot. When he thought of going back tonight and going back to sleep on a bed, he was probably even more embarrassed... or squatting here Blow the cool air, and by the way, you can think about what to do next.

Guard Zhan felt very stressed and anxious.

And at this moment, a figure sneakily ran over from below.

Zhan Zhao was taken aback for a moment, isn't this Mr. Chen, the servant of the Ministry of Industry?Why did you sneak up here?Besides, ordinary people can't get in here!But when he took a closer look, Zhan Zhao was a little bit amused, why is Mr. Chen so well dressed as a guard?Where is there a guard with a white beard, it's too heartless!

But a discerning person could tell there was a problem at a glance, so Zhan Zhao looked at the shadow guards.

Huiying and the others also looked at each other, feeling strange.

Jumping off the roof, Zhan Zhao performed lightness kung fu and followed Master Chen silently.He slipped into a small courtyard and knocked on a door on the west side.

After a while, someone came to open the door, it was an eunuch next to the emperor, Zhan Zhao remembered that his surname seemed to be Liu, Eunuch Liu.

Dodge to the door and stick to the door to listen.

In the room, Lord Chen grabbed Eunuch Liu's arm, "You...you gave the emperor medicine?"

"Tsk, how is that possible?!" Eunuch Liu stomped his feet, "Master Chen, what are you doing here?"

"I... I heard that the emperor was also poisoned, and I suspect you missed it!" Master Chen said, waving his hands, "Oh, let's not talk about this, where is the medicine I gave you last time?"

Eunuch Liu took out a small medicine bottle from under the pillow.

Master Chen reached out to take it, "Bao Zheng is leading people to search from room to room, you know what you say carefully?!"

"Uh... good!" Eunuch Liu nodded. Just as Mr. Chen was about to leave, the door was kicked open. Zhan Zhao leaned against the door and sighed, "Mr. Chen, do you know what it means to get stolen goods?"

Lord Chen and Eunuch Liu were shocked, and then they saw the shadow guards coming in behind Zhan Zhao, and the imperial guards guarding the door, and they knew that disaster was imminent, and sat down on the ground, shaking like chaff.

Zhan Zhao had them arrested and sent them to the emperor, he yawned himself, and walked back, not to mention...although it was a bit of a mess, it was quite effective, good luck.

When everyone returned to the palace, Zhao Zhen wiped the ashes from his face and sat in the study to interrogate the two.

It turned out that Master Chen had a thousand pieces of gold and wanted to send it to the palace to show to Zhao Zhen, but Zhao Zhen was so focused on Concubine Pang that he couldn't do anything, so he wanted to solve the Pang family.

At first he made Grand Master Pang embarrassing, but recently he heard that Zhao Zhen had gradually become indifferent to Concubine Pang, thinking it had an effect.The reason why Eunuch Liu kept the medicine was to find a chance to poison Concubine Pang to death.Hearing that Zhao Zhen had been poisoned, he thought that Eunuch Liu had lost his hand, so he rushed in to help him dispose of the stolen goods.

Grand Master Pang was so angry that his nose was twisted, "I said, old Chen, we have been officials in the same dynasty for 20 years, and you are too good at it! The person who wanted to kill Yu'er two days ago was you ah?"

Master Chen was stunned, "Why should I kill Pang Yu?"

"It's not you?" Taishi Pang frowned, who is that?

Zhao Zhen also heard it, "Why is someone trying to kill Pang Yu?"

Grand Master Pang nodded, "Yes, Your Majesty, Yu'er is currently in Kaifeng Mansion."

"Oh." Zhao Zhen nodded and asked Eunuch Liu, "Do you know anything?"

Eunuch Liu trembled like he was sifting chaff, "Slaves... Slaves don't know."

Zhao Zhen nodded, and said to a guard beside him, "Call me."

The guard came up and slapped him twice, Eunuch Liu couldn't stand the beating, his mouth was full of blood, and he confessed honestly, "Yes... a slave."

"Ah?" Eunuch Chen was also taken aback, "You?!"

Pang Ji became even more anxious, "I said, Eunuch Liu, how did my Yu'er offend you?"

"Pang Yu once humiliated me in public. I...I just want to take this opportunity to get rid of him and hire murderers to kill him. If something happens, I can still blame Master Chen."

"You... you eunuch, you dare to frame the old minister." Master Chen was also impatient.

Zhao Zhen waved his hand and said to Bao Zheng, "Bao Qing, I leave everything to you."

Bao Zheng seemed to be still in a daze, after a while, he nodded, "Oh, good!"

Zhao Zhen smiled and said to Pang Ji, "Grand Master, now that the danger has been lifted, you and An Lehou can return home." After speaking, he patted the handle of the chair and stood up, asking Zhao Pu, "How can I do this?" ?”

Zhao Pu laughed dryly, "Very good..."

"Hmph." Zhao Zhen smiled with satisfaction.

At this time, Concubine Pang hurriedly ran outside with Xiangxiang in her arms, and when she looked inside, she saw that Zhao Zhen's face had already recovered, and she was just taken aback.

"Hey!" Pang Ji was startled. The harem is not allowed to engage in politics, and the concubine is not allowed to come to the study. This is the rule. This girl is stupid, so she quickly waved her hands.

Zhan Zhao looked at Concubine Pang, and saw that she was worried and puzzled.

Zhao Zhen frowned slightly, neither smiled nor got angry, just said to Concubine Pang, "I'm fine, you go back, go to bed early tonight, don't wait for me."

Concubine Pang froze for a moment, nodded, and left with Xiangxiang in her arms, looking a little disappointed.

Zhan Zhao looked at Gongsun who was at the side, Gongsun's hands were behind his back, he was pointing his middle finger at Zhao Pu, and Zhao Pu was holding his forehead.

Pang Ji was a little distressed, so he said his farewell and went to comfort him. Bao Zheng took people back to the mansion for interrogation.

Zhan Zhao also wanted to follow Bao Zheng, but Zhao Zhen sighed quietly, "Sigh, compared to her, Concubine Pang still lacks wisdom in some places."

Zhao Pu looked up at the sky, and saw Gongsun raised his middle finger at him with the other hand, and was about to say a few words, when Zhan Zhao said, "Caring is nothing but chaos, isn't it good to be loved foolishly? "

Zhao Pu and Gongsun opened their mouths wide, and a few eunuchs were so startled that they almost dropped the quilts and bowls they were holding. They thought that Zhan Zhao was too kind, and this was a blatant confrontation, wasn't it... a taunting of Zhao Zhen?

Zhao Zhen was also stunned for a while, looked at Zhan Zhao, and asked, "Guard Zhan, what do you think of Concubine Pang?"

"En." Zhan Zhao nodded with a smile.

"No shortcomings?" Zhao Zhen asked again.

"Yes!" Zhan Zhao then nodded with a smile.

"Let's hear it." Zhao Zhen seemed very interested.

"Oh, compared to her, is there a lack of wisdom in some places?" Zhan Zhao finished speaking, cupped his hands at Zhao Zhen, "Farewell, Your Majesty~" After finishing speaking, he turned around and walked away.

Zhao Pu still stayed where he was, when he saw Gongsun bowing his hands to the emperor, "Farewell, Your Majesty."

Zhao Zhen opened his mouth and saw the two walking away one after the other, looking back at Zhao Pu.

Zhao Pu looked left and right, and bowed his hands to him, "Farewell, Your Majesty..."

Before he finished speaking, Zhao Zhen waved his hand, "Go quickly, he is not easy to offend in Kaifeng Mansion, so go back and kneel on the washboard carefully."

Zhao Pu touched his neck and had no choice but to follow. On the way back, Gongsun ignored him. Zhao Pu felt innocent and was dragged into the water by his nephew.

After everyone left, Zhao Zhen returned to the desk and sat down. Behind the screen, Chen Banban came in and whispered, "Your Majesty, everything is done."

Zhao Zhen nodded, "Next, we still have to be careful."

"Yes." After Chen Banban finished speaking, he wanted to resign, but after thinking about it, he seemed to have something to say, "Well, Your Majesty..."

"Huh?" Zhao Zhen looked at him.

"Will Concubine Pang misunderstand?" Chen Banban was a little worried.

Zhao Zhen waved his hand lightly, "She has followed me for many years, she understands what others don't understand."

As soon as the words were finished, Xi'er, Concubine Pang's personal servant girl, poked her head in from outside the window, holding Xiao Xiangxiang who was fed and sleeping in her arms.

Zhao Zhen was overjoyed, and hurried over to bring Xiangxiang in, kissed him hard, and saw a piece of paper hidden in the little guy's arms.Slightly twitching the corner of his mouth, Zhao Zhen sat back behind the desk and opened it... only one sentence was written on the paper, "Be careful, don't worry about me."

Zhao Zhen smiled dumbly, shook his head and burned the paper, and asked Chen Banban beside him, "Do you know what the smartest woman looks like?"

Chen Banban shook his head foolishly, thinking that the emperor made fun of him?He has been a eunuch for 60 years, who knows what a woman looks like?

"Even the smartest person can't see that she is smart!" Zhao Zhen squeezed Xiao Xiangxiang's chubby cheeks, and then said suddenly, "Zhan Zhao is really interesting, as expected, like attracts like and divides into groups. .”

Chen Banban nodded, couldn't help reaching out, and squeezed Xiao Xiangxiang's chubby little hand.Xiangxiang moved twice in her swaddle, grabbed Zhao Zhen's sleeve with her small hand, and opened her small mouth twice, making Zhao Zhen very happy.

But the harem was in a mess at this time, the queen mother stomped her feet angrily, saying that it must be the vixen's idea to Zhao Zhen, the eighth prince was dragged away by her, and the calluses came out of his ears.

In Concubine Pang's palace, Pang Ji was running around in a hurry, saying repeatedly, "This is too bad, what should I do?"

Concubine Pang is sitting in front of a large table of delicacies, continuing to nourish her body, eat more, the milk is fragrant enough to gain weight.

"Good girl, don't be sad, you should eat and drink!" Pang Ji said to Concubine Pang, who was eating deliciously, "It's good for the man to pass the heat for a while, don't let it go!"

Concubine Pang chewed a large plate of cashew nuts and nodded, "Well, I know, Dad, do you want to eat, and you can go after supper?"

Pang Ji stomped her feet—it was over, the girl was too sad and turned her grief into appetite!

……

In the Kaifeng mansion, Bai Yutang was lying on the bed so tired after taking a shower.

On the bed, the fourth son was rolling with his arms around the big tiger and the little tiger.

In this world, the only one who can command Bai Yutang is Xiaosi. He just helped the scissors and the stone to take a bath. God knows that the two clawed civets are so good at swimming but hate bathing so much. They ran around the yard and dug. Fortunately, he It's easy to catch them all.

After finally washing, seeing the two civet civets snuggling up to the bed and secretly licking each other's fur, Bai Yutang felt more tired than a day of practice.

Lying on the bed panting, I saw the fourth son holding Xiaohu and leaning over to ask, "For nothing."

"Huh?" Bai Yutang looked at him.

"Huanghuang is really empathetic, don't you want to be a fat aunt?" The fourth son pinched Xiaohu's tail and muttered.

"What do you think?" Bai Yutang didn't see Zhao Zhen, so he couldn't draw a conclusion.

The fourth son seemed a little sad, and asked in a low voice, "Then, will there be a day when Jiujiu doesn't want Daddy anymore, or you don't want Miaomiao anymore, and you will also empathize with each other."

Bai Yutang laughed, "How is that possible?"

"You mean, Jiujiu wouldn't want Daddy, and you wouldn't dislike Miaomiao, would you?" the fourth son asked.

Bai Yutang thought for a while, "Zhao Pu and your father will never change their minds, and neither will I. That cat is not that kind of person either."

The fourth son blinked, "But they say men are fickle, and everyone is a man!"

Bai Yutang shook his head with a smile, "Whoever has a heart will naturally have a heart."

"Here!" Little Four jumped up suddenly, "You just admitted that you really like Meow Meow, right?"

Bai Yutang was taken aback for a moment, and then remembered to ask the fourth son to formulate words.

"Meow Meow also likes you, right!" The fourth son grinned at Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang pinched his nose, dumbfounded, "Who did you learn so much from? Zhao Pu?"

"Hey." The fourth son rested his chin on his hands and leaned on Bai Yutang's belly, "Bai Bai, when will you explain it? Marriage or something like that?"

Bai Yutang pinched his nose, "Do you know what it means to be too impatient to eat hot tofu?"

Little Sizi blinked and looked up, "The tofu is delicious when it's hot!"

Bai Yutang didn't know what to do with him, he stuffed him under the quilt, "Sleep."

The fourth son poked his head out from under the quilt, "The emperor will definitely not want Auntie Fat!"

"Why are you so sure?" Bai Yutang asked.

"Because Huanghuang is Jiujiu's nephew, even the brother of the fourth son, the fourth son will not change his mind! He only likes Xiao Liangzi."

The two people in the room were chatting lively, and then looked outside the courtyard gate.

Unfortunately, Zhan Zhao, who came back a little early, hid behind the courtyard wall and rubbed his face. It was still very hot. When will it cool down?It's so embarrassing to go in like this!The two of them in the room were really serious, and they were still talking about such things before going to bed.

Turning around, I saw Xiao Liangzi standing behind another wall, rubbing his face too.

The two looked at each other and sighed together.

In the front yard of Kaifeng Mansion, when Pang Ji lazily came back, he saw Bao Zheng coming out and asked, "When are you leaving?"

Pang Ji pouted, "It's your honor for me to live here!"

"Heh." Bao Zheng laughed dryly, "Why don't the Grand Master leave tomorrow?"

"Hey, old Bao, you're being unreasonable!" Pang Ji hesitated for a while, "I'll stay here for another month! At worst, I'll pay you for food."

Bao Zheng smiled, "You old fox, think about who you offended, this time it's not a pawn!"

Naturally, Pang Ji knew it too, heaved a long sigh, turned and went back to the house.

Bao Zheng went back to the study with a gloomy expression. It was too risky and far-fetched for Mr. Chen to prescribe medicine to deal with Grand Master Pang!It's even more far-fetched for Eunuch Liu to hire a murderer to kill Pang Yu!This method of solving the case is unreasonable!There is a problem with the timing of this case!

In short, at first he thought it was just out of jealousy or a harem seizure of power, but it seems... It seems that it is not that simple.

When I returned to the study, I saw the lights were on in the library.Bao Zheng walked over, looked in through the courtyard door, and saw files spread all over the floor in the room, Bao Yan, Bao Fu, and Pang Yu were flipping through the files among the piles of books.

"Ha..." Pang Yu yawned, "I'm so sleepy."

"Don't sleep if you don't find it!" Bao Yan focused on searching.

"Why should I help Kaifeng Mansion? I'm not from Kaifeng Mansion." Pang Yu complained.

Bao Yan raised his eyebrows, "Because you are the only one who is free!"

"Cut." Pang Yu was dissatisfied, "The place name Wufen Village is so biased. When did you find out? Why don't you just ask your father, he is so knowledgeable."

"No, if you ask him, he will look down upon you! I must find out with my own strength!"

"What about asking Gongsun?" Pang Yu reminded, "He is also very knowledgeable!"

"No!" Bao Yan continued to shake his head, "He is a genius and I am a genius, so I will ask him if I can't find it tonight!"

Bao Zheng nodded in satisfaction, and stroked his beard—knows how to order people, has principles and persistence, and doesn't like to ask for help, a child can be taught!

But this Wufen Village... I seem to have heard of it somewhere!