"No...not my father!"
The moment Zhu Gaochi's voice fell, the room suddenly became eerily silent.
But at the same time, everyone's expressions are very rich.
Xu Huizu frowned slightly, while Chang Sheng and Lan Chun stared directly at Guo Guanseng. Anyuan Hou Wangde lowered his head and took a few steps back towards the door.
Only Xi Laodao seemed to be fine, happily admiring Zhu Gaochi's newly sutured belly, as if he had seen some extraordinary work of art.
"What nonsense are you talking about!" Zhu Yunxi smiled, picked up the handkerchief and wiped the stains on Zhu Gaochi's face, "Of course I know it's not your father!" He said with a smile, "Besides, you were also there at the time, and those assassins didn't care about you.
Keep it!"
"I..." Zhu Gaochi said intermittently, "I'm afraid you think it's a trick!" He said with a sad smile, "After all, your Majesty, sometimes you think a lot!"
Suddenly, Zhu Yunxi felt his face getting hot.
"Damn fat man!" Zhu Yunxi thought to himself, "You are scolding me for being suspicious! What about me?"
Thinking of this, he pressed the wound on Zhu Gaochi's shoulder with a little force, "Don't think too much, just take good care of your injury!"
"Ouch!" In an instant, Zhu Gaochi was so painful that he burst into tears.
"Don't cry, don't cry. A good man bleeds and doesn't shed tears!" Zhu Yunxi smiled again, "What do you want to eat? I'll have someone cook it for you."
"You can't just eat anything!" Xi Laodao said from the side, "It's hot right now. If you eat anything, it'll be terrible. You'll be hungry for a few days!"
"That's fine!" Zhu Yunxi nodded, looked at Zhu Gaochi's bulging belly and said with a smile, "If I'm hungry for a while, I might lose weight!"
"Your Majesty!" The next second, Zhu Gaochi suddenly took Zhu Yunxi's hand and whispered, "I want peony!"
"Okay!" Zhu Yunxi smiled and patted the back of his hand, "Let someone call me now!"
"Is she that pretty girl in your house?" Xi Laodao added, "She's already here. You didn't wake up just now, so Master Dao didn't let her in and asked her to wait in the side room!"
"Peony..." Zhu Gaochi called with a grin.
"Pass it quickly!" Zhu Yunxi also said.
A moment after the words fell, a timid and slightly rich young woman came in from the outside with tears in her eyes.
"Your Highness!"
When you open your mouth, it is filled with soft and glutinous rice that makes your bones feel crispy.
Then he threw himself at Zhu Gaochi's window, took his hand, and rubbed it on his face.
Zhu Yunxi couldn't help but look at it a few more times. This woman's figure was a bit rich. But she was not fat, but thin in places that should be thin, such as her waist. She was bulging in places that should be bulging... Viewed from the side, there were mountains and mountains.
Ups and downs.
She has an oval face with small dimples and big eyes with long eyelashes. She is pure and charming, but also very charming.
Especially the skin, which seemed to be covered with a layer of starch, so white and translucent.
For a time, Zhu Yunxi glanced at it several times.
"Don't cry, don't cry, I'm still fine!" Zhu Gaochi held Shaoyao's hand and said with a smile, "Crying too much is bad for your eyes!"
Suddenly, he turned his head slightly and his eyes suddenly became alert.
"Your Majesty, go and do your work! I'm fine, don't worry about it!"
"Well! Ahem!" Zhu Yunxi's face turned red again, "Take good care of your injuries!"
After saying that, he deliberately glanced at Shaoyao, stood up and walked out the door.
~~
As soon as I walked out of the door, I saw He Guangyi, who was beyond recognition and walked over in a hurry.
"What are you doing?" Before the other party could salute, Zhu Yunxi said first, "What did you do? Are you injured?"
"Yes..." He Guangyi knelt down on one knee, the bridge of his nose was crooked, and he opened his mouth and said, "I accidentally fell off the horse just now!"
Hearing this, Zhu Yunxi frowned slightly.
He Guangyi knew in his heart that he could not hide the fact that he was beaten.
But this matter could not be brought out of his mouth. Such a big thing happened, and Duke Zheng Guo and Duke Bao accidentally beat him in anger. Although it was inappropriate, it was excusable.
Who let someone be the emperor's uncle?
And if he didn't say anything, he would not only save Chang Lan's face, but also prevent the emperor from being embarrassed. In a way, at this point, it was actually a good thing for him in He Guangyi.
"Your Majesty!" Seeing that Zhu Yunxi was a little confused, He Guangyi said hurriedly, "We found the person!"
"Where is it? Take me there!" Zhu Yunxi said angrily.
"No, Your Majesty, with your wealth of gold, how can you put yourself in danger?" Lan Chun said hurriedly, "I'll wait for you!"
"That's right!" Chang Sheng also said, "I will handle the matter of arresting people. Don't worry, they are all alive!"
After saying that, he turned around and said, "Brothers, cheer up!"
"No!" Zhu Yunxi shook his head and said, "I want to see it myself!"
~~
The traces of the assassins were finally found.
It was Jin Yiwei's hound that made the crime. He Guangyi had people take off the shoes from the assassin's body. After the hound sniffed it, they searched along the street.
Not far from the scene of the incident, in front of a secluded house, the barking continued.
After the Jin Yiwei and officers and soldiers stormed in, they found that there was no one in the yard...
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"Woof woof woof!"
"Roar...woo..."
Zhu Yunxi rushed to the assassin's house and found a dozen hounds in the yard, roaring desperately at the vegetable garden.
There were countless soldiers around, all swords unsheathed and bows strung. The torches they held lit up the night sky, making it as bright as day.
In the vegetable garden, more than a dozen Jinyiwei took long tools like Luoyang shovels and explored the ground like a carpet, and soil was constantly being dug up.
Others took white ash and scattered it in circles after the entrance from the gate. Inside the circles were blurred footprints.
"Report to the Emperor!"
Jin Yiwei Qianhu He Ping'an stepped forward and said, "The assassin should be under this vegetable garden!"
Suddenly, a burst of cheers erupted from the vegetable garden, "There is a brick path down here!"
Zhu Yunxi quickly stepped forward, "Where are you?"
There is a grape trellis in the vegetable garden, and there is a well in the grape trellis.
A thin and slim guard climbed out of the well with a rope and shouted, "There is a secret passage in the well!"
"Are you looking at people?" He Guangyi asked hurriedly.
"It's so dark that I can't see clearly!" The Jin Yiwei drew a picture on the ground with his finger. "Going down from the well mouth, about half a man and a half high, a passage was cut out in the wall of the well. It was half a man high and one wide. The humble servant touched it with his hands.
I touched it and found that the soil inside the tunnel had been tamped down, and there were wooden stakes supporting the tunnel!"
"He's not running away!" Chang Sheng shouted loudly, "Come here, put on my armor and go down and catch the ones alive!"
"Wait a minute!" Guo Guanseng, who had been standing behind Zhu Yunxi, said, "Zheng Guogong, please wait a minute!" As he said that, he looked along the well mouth into the distance, "The discovery of a secret passage does not mean that the assassin is hiding in the secret passage.
It is very possible that this secret passage extends in all directions underground and is equipped with countless traps. It is even more likely that the assassins have fled along the secret passage at this moment..."
"What a moji!" Lan Chun said angrily, "Whether they have escaped or not, we will only know if they go down..." After saying that, he turned around and shouted, "Follow me!"
"Master!" He Guangyi said bravely to stop him, "In terms of fighting, the Jin Yiwei are not as good as the brothers in the Beijing camp, but when it comes to doing these jobs, people with low-level positions still take advantage of them!"
"Hmph!" Lan Chun snorted, "Yes, you are the best at these crooked ways!"
His hostility was not unreasonable. Back then, the Lan family masters had all learned the methods of the Jin Yiwei.
He Guangyi smiled awkwardly and looked at Zhu Yunxi, "Your Majesty, please allow me to use firearms!"
"Just as you said!" Zhu Yunxi said and made the final decision.
~~
"Kuroko!"
"Erhua!"
"Tiger girl!"
After three whistles, three thin Shaanxi dogs wagging their tails came close to several Jinyi guards. Since the Tang Dynasty, these dogs have been the hunting dogs of dignitaries and even the royal family, used for hunting and pursuit.
"Explore the path well!"
A guard in Jinyi grabbed a few handfuls of dried meat that he had obtained from somewhere, stuffed it into the mouths of the hounds, and then fondled their necks.
Then one person got down first and used a rope to lower the hound.
"Woof woof!"
From the bottom of the bottomless well, several dogs barked.
Another guard in Jin Yi, carrying several short muskets and military crossbows, went down along the mouth of the well.
This chapter has been completed!