When Palace Lady Yuxi mentioned that there were secret guards coming to spy on her, his heart skipped a beat and he knew he couldn't let her say anything anymore.
He stopped her quickly and slowly but failed to stop her. It was all because his men were too slow and Palace Maid Yuxi was too agile and couldn't catch her in time.
If that would catch her, her mouth would be blocked and she wouldn't be able to hear the rest of her words.
He knew that it might be true that the palace maid said that the emperor looked familiar to her, because now he also felt that the palace maid's appearance looked familiar.
I didn't have time to think about it before, but now I remembered it.
Although he has a low position in the palace, his father has a high position. He knows some secrets, but he cannot let others know that he knows them.
He regretted it, why didn't he scream out loud just now? Now that he was tied up, how could he still have any image?
Forget it, regretting is useless. Since your skills are not as good as others and someone else has taken advantage of you, then just live with it for now.
The two reached a united front.
Peng Hu responded, "Yes, you are very cruel. Mine is the same, and I can only move now. This palace maid must be the disciple of some master in the palace, her kung fu is so good."
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Zihua checked outside Qiu Si Hall and found nothing unusual.
Guard A and Guard B rolled up the blanket again and rolled up Nanny Huang's body inside.
Now that Grandma Huang cannot be buried, we need to find out what kind of poison she was poisoned with.
The poison is odorless, colorless and fatal, and not just anyone can get it.
So, if Nanny Huang is going to be buried, she will have to wait until tonight at least.
tonight……
Not far away, He Rui was looking around.
Zihua saw it and called him over.
He Rui wanted to pack the food box. This meal was not a special meal. No one from the kitchen would come to pick it up. He had to pack it and return it himself.
"I'll be back soon. Come to Qiu Si Palace to help. Call Yu Gui and Zhang Cheng."
He Rui was unwilling in his heart, "Yes, yes, I will definitely call them both."
He quickly entered the pavilion, cleaned up, and left with the empty food box in both hands.
Zihua felt that the four-corner pavilion was nice. When the windows were closed, it turned into a room. The windows and doors were hollow and not airtight, so one could see what was going on inside from the outside.
She decided to live here today.
There are soft couches for sleeping in the pavilion, which can be used as beds.
Her body needs rest, it depends on how long it takes.
Things are getting more and more interesting.
She originally simply wanted to find out the origin of the original owner.
The original owner, the palace maid Sasao, did not have enough identity and had some secrets, so she adopted the method of knocking on the mountain to shock the tiger.
But she found that when the original owner was disfigured, Cui Ru became anxious and came to poison her in broad daylight.
Upon hearing the report from Guard B, the Captain of the Guard became anxious and came directly to arrest her.
When she mentioned that the emperor looked familiar to her, Captain Chang became anxious and wanted to grab her to gag her. After she grabbed her instead, Captain Chang chose to stay on the spot.
Captain Chang obviously knew something about her appearance, but he would rather hide it and pretend not to know anything.
More and more things are being shaken out.
Zihua went back to the original owner's room and came back with a large suitcase.
I saw an outsider at the entrance of Qiusi Hall.
Zi Hua knew him as Pang Shun, the young eunuch next to Manager Guo.
Pang Shun saluted her and said, "Miss Yuxi, our manager asked me to pass on some words to the girl."
"You come with me."
Pang Shun followed Zihua into Tingxuan.
Zihua put the large box and cage beside the couch and sat down.
Pang Shun then stepped forward and said, "Miss Yuxi, the manager said that he has found out some of the girl's life experience, but the investigation was not very comprehensive in a hurry. If the girl waits, she can find out more in three to five days."
"I'm not in a hurry. Let's talk about what we found first."
Pang Shun got Guo Su's suggestion and said without any disrespect to Yuhua, "Yes. Our manager said that the girl's original surname was Yu, with the single word "xi". After entering the palace, she was renamed Yuxi.
The girl entered the palace at the age of fourteen. She is now nineteen years old. She was previously in the Clothing Bureau, was assigned to the Xiutang Palace three years ago, and was transferred to the Jingfang Palace more than two years ago.
Your father's name is Yu Dewang, and your mother's name is Zhang Sanniang. The capital you came to when you were born was originally from a village a hundred miles away from the capital.
One sister is married, and brother Yu Kuan is married and has a son and a daughter.
Not long after you entered the palace, the Yu family sold their tea shop and left the capital with their whole family. They did not return to their place of origin and their whereabouts were unknown. You were able to enter the palace as a palace maid because of the support of Mingzhu Trading Company."
Zhang Cheng lied about Mingzhu Trading Company. Yuhua asked, "Whose path did Mingzhu Trading Company take to become an imperial merchant?"
It can't be Uncle Changyang. An uncle's house doesn't have such great capabilities. Besides, Mingzhu Trading Company has been around for three generations. If it worked the way Uncle Changyang did, he would have left long ago.
Pang Shun was impressed by his manager. The manager said that Yu Xi would ask about this matter. He thought that a low-level palace maid who had been stupid for two years would not have such knowledge. The manager was better to judge people.
Pang Shun had already prepared the answer, "It's the Weiyuan Hou Mansion. Weiyuan Hou Shizi and the head of Mingzhu Trading Company met in their youth and have always been good friends and have a very close relationship."
"Are the two engaged?"
"No. The head of the family needs to recruit a new wife."
There is no way that the Crown Prince of Weiyuan would marry into a merchant's house. "What are the interests of the two of them?"
In this era, it is possible for a young man and a woman to have a good relationship for a while without getting married. If they have a good relationship for a long time, it is mostly driven by interests.
"Back then, the Zheng family wanted to adopt a child to the old head of Mingzhu Trading Company. It was Weiyuan Hou Shizi who intervened in the matter, and Zheng Huijun successfully became the head of the trading house.
It is said that some of the novelties of Mingzhu Trading Company came from the hands of Prince Weiyuan Hou, so he became a shareholder of Mingzhu Trading Company, but the matter of the shareholding was nominally entrusted to an outsider."
Zi Hua found the bright spot in it and asked, "What novel thing?"
"Soap, transparent glass..."
Yu Hua took over, "Are there any mercury mirrors? Cheaper and easier-to-use paper?"
"Yes. The mercury mirror is a new item launched by Mingzhu Trading Company this year." Pang Shun was not surprised that Yu Xi knew about the mercury mirror. Many ladies in the palace had one. No one in the palace had seen or heard of this thing.
Traveling through the three treasures, soap, mirror, and papermaking, everything remains unchanged, and his personality and behavior have changed drastically. Nine out of ten of the ten princes of Weiyuan Hou are not original.
As long as it's none of her business, Zihua doesn't care whether he is his original self or not.
But, it might really be none of her business.
"The year the Yu family came to the capital when I was born, was it after I was born or before I was born?"
Pang Shun thought for a moment, "The palace records indicate that the girl was born in March, and the Yu family entered the capital in August. Afterwards, they rented a tea shop at the south gate and sold some tea and snacks to make a living."
Nothing could be asked about her apparent identity, so Zihua asked other questions, "You know I don't remember many things, right? Tell me the general situation in the palace. There is no need to say anything secret. What can you tell me?