King Duan allowed her to kneel down, holding tea and asked lightly: "What's the matter?"
"Ru'er is incompetent..." Xue Ru lowered her head, facing the contemptuous gaze of the beautiful maid, she gritted her teeth and recounted what had just happened.
When she heard that Yu Chong suddenly turned around, King Duan's expression changed and he interrupted her explanation: "So you came here like this? Didn't do anything?"
Xue Ru was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized what mistake he had made, and hesitantly said: "My subordinate took some detours to avoid being followed."
King Duan sneered and shouted: "Here comes someone! Search the area around the palace immediately to see if there are any traces of strangers!"
The beautiful maid agreed, glanced at Xue Ru contemptuously again, and went downstairs.
Before she could reach the door, someone asked to see her again, but it was the guard. The two of them spoke briefly, and the maid led the person up directly.
Xue Ru felt nervous. It was already night. If it wasn't a special emergency, the guards would not come to the backyard easily. Could it be...
The guard looked solemn, walked up the stairs in a hurry, and opened his mouth to report: "Your Majesty, there is someone watching outside."
King Duan immediately asked: "Where are the people?"
"We didn't catch him." The guard lowered his head in shame, "The other party was very alert and ran away as soon as we got close, leaving only this one."
As he spoke, he presented a token.
King Duan only took one look and knew its origin.
The General's Mansion.
After a brief silence, the sharp sound of breaking porcelain and the dull sound of impact sounded at the same time, accompanied by Xue Ru's cry of pain.
The tea table in front of Prince Duan, the teapot on the table, and the scalding hot tea all fell on her.
Xue Ru was so hot that she almost jumped up, but she didn't dare to make the slightest move, so she could only endure the pain and kneel down.
She realized she had made a big mistake in her panic!
Yu Chong didn't know who her master was, so he suddenly changed his mind and deliberately threatened her.
Her hurried return to report the news just attracted Yu Chong's spy!
In other words, she exposed her master...
When she came, Xue Ru hoped that this matter could be remedied and it would be best to save her own life. Now she did not even dare to have this idea.
When the existence of the master is known, it means that the greatest support is gone.
Yu Chong holds the military power in the capital and has the emperor's trust. If he is determined to deal with his master, then...
Xue Ru's heart felt cold. Now it was no longer a question of whether she could save her life, but a question of whether her master could save himself.
"Master..." She trembled, but she didn't even dare to say a word of mercy.
The guard glanced at her and asked again: "Your Majesty?"
King Duan calmed down and said, "There's no need to look for it. The other party left this thing on purpose."
Yu Chong is warning him!
King Duan forced himself to calm down. Now was not the time to panic, he had to find out what Yu Chong knew.
Thinking like this, he sat down again and asked: "How did you reveal your whereabouts?"
Xue Ru heard that his voice was relatively calm, and she felt a sense of hope in her heart. She no longer dared to play tricks on her and told him the progress of the mission during this period.
"...My subordinate didn't know what he found, and he was fine when he left." When she said these words, Xue Ru felt annoyed and guilty. How could she make such a basic mistake? She didn't even understand the matter.
I hurriedly came back to find my master for help. It was clear that Yu Chong's behavior was so abnormal.
Probably over the past year or so, she had suffered too many blows. She would fail the mission inexplicably every time, and then be scolded and rejected by her master, which made her like a frightened bird. The slightest movement would frighten herself.
King Duan thought thoughtfully: "So, you didn't find much, you just inferred that Yu Chong had great ambitions."
"Yes." Xue Ru was about to cry. Why did she want to make great achievements? If she had come back early to report, the master would have new instructions, and such mistakes would not have happened.
"Since you didn't do anything unnecessary, how could he find out your identity?" King Duan thought about the matter from beginning to end and ordered the guards decisively, "Go to Deyi Building and thoroughly check the people in the backyard! Yu Chong left.
Something must have happened at that time, which aroused his suspicion."
The guard agreed, turned around and went downstairs.
The tea table was set up again, and the maid had made a new pot of tea. King Duan drank the tea slowly, staring at the deep night, paying no attention to Xue Ru who was kneeling in front of him.
Time passed little by little, and Xue Ru knelt down so dizzy that she saw the sky turned white, and the guards finally came back.
"Your Majesty, there is a little girl missing from the backyard." He was in a hurry on the road and before he could catch his breath, he unfolded a portrait and said, "This is her appearance. The manager said that she just came here a few days ago and she has been doing it.
Doing rough work."
What else didn’t King Duan understand? He felt a cold air rising from his back, and even his scalp was numb: “Someone is plotting against me!”
He has been hiding in the dark for so long and never revealed his ambitions. How could anyone target him? Who exactly knows how many secrets he has?
Wait, the other party knows that Xue Ru is his, so some secret forces in Prince Duan's Mansion have been known to others. Of course, it is also possible that the other party did not know about him in advance, but just knew that there was a master behind Xue Ru.
No matter what, the problem lies with Xue Ru, that’s for sure!
King Duan laughed angrily and looked at the trembling Xue Ru.
In the early years, this woman had made a lot of achievements and was very good at pleasing him, so he gradually entrusted her with important responsibilities.
He didn't expect that she would be such a person who failed to achieve anything but failed. Ever since she went to Nanyuan, she had never accomplished anything and now she was causing him such a big trouble!
"Master, master..." Xue Ru was so scared by his smile that she couldn't help pleading.
Prince Duan withdrew his gaze and said calmly: "Pull it down, I don't want to see her again in the future."
The guard nodded and said, "Yes."
Xue Ru's liver and gallbladder were split, and he shouted: "Master! Ru'er is wrong. Ru'er should not be self-righteous. Please forgive me, master! Master, please forgive me!"
But King Duan didn't even look at her, and soon several wolf-like guards came up and roughly dragged her down.
When it was quiet again, King Duan said: "Go and check to see when she was most likely to show up." After a pause, he added, "Focus on those houses..."
"yes."
…
At this time, Xu Yin, who was sleeping deeply, was woken up.
When she saw Xiao Sang in a panic, she couldn't help but be shocked: "What's going on? Have you been discovered?"
Xiao Sang wiped his face, and now his legs felt weak: "Miss..."
After hearing her tell the story, Xu Yin was shocked: "I told you to pay attention to your safety, how dare you do such a dangerous thing? That's all, don't mention anything else, just come back safely. Chai Qi, please remember to erase the traces
, don’t let anyone find out that Xiao Sang is from our family. Wei Jun, be careful with people outside these days and don’t show any traces.”
Finally, she said: "Remember, nothing happened tonight!"