Chapter 24 What did the royal father ask you to do?
"I just asked a few questions about Your Highness's daily life, and my servant answered truthfully. I don't know anything else."
The prince nodded, as if remembering something, and gave a few dissatisfied instructions: "If you want to leave the East Palace in the future, please remember to say hello to me in advance, so that I won't find you anywhere."
"good."
That night, Xiao Lezi looked at the half of the jade pendant for a moment. Apart from the exquisite workmanship, he didn't find anything special about it, so he stuffed it under the pillow and ignored it.
Unexpectedly, a few days later, someone in the servant's room lost money and shouted that the room would be searched.
When Xiao Lezi's bed was searched, the half of the Pisces jade pendant was accidentally shaken out and fell to the ground.
It happened that the prince was also present at the time. When he saw the half jade pendant, his expression changed immediately.
Xiao Lezi quickly picked up the jade pendant and explained: "Last time, I happened to see the eldest prince fainting in the garden, so I helped him. Afterwards, he insisted on giving me this half of the jade pendant..."
"This is a relic left to him by his mother-in-law. Would he give it away casually?!"
The prince's eyes were full of anger and disappointment.
Xiao Lezi opened his mouth, but found that no matter how he explained the matter, it would only become darker and darker.
Because he didn't believe her at all.
She simply shut her mouth and stopped talking. Her silent attitude fell into the eyes of the prince, but became the default behavior. The prince turned pale with anger, raised his hand and threw the jade pendant in his hand to the ground!
Only a crisp sound was heard, and the jade pendant broke into several pieces.
The slaves present were so frightened that they immediately fell to their knees, dripping with cold sweat. They wanted to bury their heads in their stomachs and did not dare to make a sound, for fear that they would be harmed.
Xiao Lezi looked at the broken jade on the ground and couldn't help but feel a little distressed. Even if this thing couldn't be sold for a few dollars, mosquito legs were still meat no matter how thin they were. It would be better for her to earn a few copper coins than to be smashed into pieces like this. This child
I really don’t know how to be frugal at all!
The prince stared at Xiao Lezi, waiting for her to apologize and admit her mistake, but when he saw her staring at Suiyu without saying a word, the anger in her eyes became even more intense. He really wanted to tear this rip-off thing into pieces and eat it on the spot!
He gritted his teeth: "Do you think I can't do anything to you if you don't speak? Come here, arrest him and put him in a dark room. No one is allowed to let him out without my order!"
Two guards came out in response, held Xiao Lezi firmly, and dragged him out in front of the prince.
Before Xiao Lezi could react, she was thrown into a dark room. The guards left quickly and quickly locked the door.
The room was not big, no more than ten square meters by visual inspection. Xiao Lezi huddled in the corner, leaning against the cold wall, holding his knees with his hands and resting his chin on his knees, feeling drowsy.
She really didn't know what had happened to her. Just now she was accompanying the prince and serving him well. How could she be sent to this hellish place in the blink of an eye?!
As the saying goes, accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger. The ancients never deceived me.
I don't know how long it took, but the door was pushed open, and the bright moonlight filtered in through the crack in the door.
Xiao Yingzi sneaked in, placed a bowl of steaming noodle soup in front of Xiao Lezi, and said softly: "Brother, my brother has brought you dinner."
When Xiao Lezi smelled the aroma of noodles, he immediately became energetic, said thank you, then picked up the soup bowl and started eating.
Seeing that she was eating in a hurry, Xiao Yingzi couldn't help but sigh: "Brother, why are you so stubborn? You won't lose a piece of meat if you admit your mistake."
After finishing a bowl of noodles, Xiao Lezi threw away the bowl and chopsticks, leaned against the wall, patted his round belly, and lazily burped: "Brother, you really think highly of me, what kind of person is His Highness?
Just one word can determine my life or death. How could I dare to be angry with His Highness? If an apology could solve the problem, I would immediately kneel on the ground and say sorry to him a hundred times. I promise that I would burst into tears with sincerity and move the world!
"
"You..." Xiao Yingzi opened her mouth. She really didn't know what to say to her, so she could only sigh helplessly, "Anyone with a discerning eye can see that His Highness is really interested in you. You shouldn't hurt His Highness."
heart of."
"His Highness's heart has been trained in the golden bell and the iron shirt. Just a little slave like me can't hurt him at all."
Xiao Yingzi looked at her confused: "What do you mean by this?"
"Think about it. Although the prince is moody, he is not so angry just for a piece of jade pendant. And even if I am favored, I am just a little slave. If he wants me to do anything, he can't control me.
It’s just a sentence, why should you be so angry? I think the problem should be with that jade pendant. If I hadn’t accepted the jade pendant this time, or if I hadn’t accepted the jade pendant given by the eldest prince, maybe His Highness wouldn’t be so angry..."
Xiao Yingzi seemed to understand: "What you said seems to make sense."
Xiao Lezi stretched out his finger, hooked at him, motioned for him to come closer, and whispered mysteriously: "Your Highness is not angry because of me, but because of the eldest prince. I am just a cover for your highness to cover up the truth. The eldest prince is the one who is angry."
He is the person he really cares about the most, do you understand?"
She had thought about this truth for a long time before she figured it out. According to the prince's awkward and arrogant character, it was absolutely normal for him to get angry at her because of jealousy, or even punish her because of jealousy!
As the number one cannon fodder in this bloody drama, she said that her body was very painful and her heart was very bloody. Forget it, if she could really bring together the couple of Prince He and the First Prince, it would be considered a great merit and she would die without regrets.
Xiao Yingzi seemed to understand something, but he didn't fully understand it, and his mind became even more confused.
He wanted to ask a few more questions, but when he saw that Xiao Lezi had completely fallen into another strange and illusory world, no matter what he said, he didn't respond, so he had to pack up the dishes, get up and leave.
I don't know why, but the prince's temper has become very bad. No matter who he meets, he has a cold face. He is also extremely demanding in doing things. If he doesn't like it at all, he will spray him to his face without any trace.
They will not take into account the identity and face of the other party.
Everyone in the East Palace is insecure. They are on tenterhooks every day and do everything cautiously. They are afraid that if they are not careful, they will hit the prince's knife edge and they will not know how they will die.
In the study room, the prince threw the memorial in his hand to the ground, looked at the shivering Minister of the Ministry of Finance, and sneered: "Do you really think I am a fool? This account is full of errors and omissions, even an idiot can see it.
How dare you report such a bad debt? I think you don’t want the title of Minister of Household Affairs anymore, are you planning to retire and return home early?!"
The Minister of Hube hurriedly knelt on the ground, sweating profusely: "Your Highness, please listen to Wei Chen's explanation..."
"Get out!"
The Minister of Household Affairs complained secretly, picked up the account book, and left the study with a dejected look.
The following basic memorials were all thrown back by the prince in front of his face, and the ministers were all severely criticized without exception. This situation continued for two days and became more serious.
The prince flipped through the memorial casually, his eyes as cold as arrows, and glanced over the courtiers from time to time. The corners of his mouth raised slightly, and he gave a sneer. Seeing the cold hands and feet of the courtiers, they subconsciously held their breath and were so nervous.
After finally waiting until the end of the court meeting, the ministers, as if they had been granted amnesty, picked up the memorials, clasped their tails and quickly fled the scene.
The prince leaned on the chair, his cold eyes gradually receding, revealing his inner irritability: "A bunch of losers who are eating the royal food and doing nothing!"
He was full of anger, his mouth was dry, and he was very irritable. He picked up the tea bowl and spit it out after taking a sip. His face became more and more ugly: "The tea is so hot, how do you do things? You can't even do this little thing.
Well, what’s the use of me raising you!”
The eunuch in the chamber was so frightened that he knelt down and said, "This slave deserves to die. I will give you a cup of tea for your highness."
After saying that, he knelt down and walked to the desk. Just as he was about to reach for the tea bowl, he was kicked away by the prince.
The prince stood up and walked around irritably: "This is the third day!"
The eunuchs and maids looked at each other and did not dare to say anything. Finally, under the look of Eunuch Xia, the manager of the East Palace, they silently exited the study.
The prince and Eunuch Xia were the only two people left in the huge room.
Eunuch Xia is the confidant of Queen Wang. After Queen Wang died, he stayed with the prince and took care of the prince as he grew up. After so many years, he understood the prince's temperament better than others. The prince lost his biological mother when he was a child.
, suffered a lot in this cunning harem, and almost lost his life several times. These experiences made him easily suspicious and insecure.
Because of the fear of being betrayed, the more the prince cares about people, the more likely he is to be suspicious of them.
According to the prince's past behavior, if he found out that one of his people was related to other princes, he would definitely deal with that person without saying a word. He would never be as anxious as he is now, just locking up the person.
Eunuch Xia was a sophisticated old man, and he could see that the prince was really interested in that little fun this time. Eunuch Xia changed a cup of slightly cooler tea and put it in front of the prince: "Your Highness, please drink some water.
, bring down the fire."
The prince picked up the tea bowl, raised his head and drank it all in one gulp. The anxiety in his chest eased slightly, but he still couldn't help complaining: "Why do you think that brat has a tougher temper than me? He was imprisoned for three whole days.
He still refuses to give in. Is it because I threw a piece of broken jade pendant at him that he really intends to get angry with me to the end?!"
Hearing these childish words, Eunuch Xia couldn't help but smile: "Your Highness is joking, Xiao Lezi is just a slave, how dare you get angry with Your Highness? The old slave guesses that she has realized her mistake by now, but she has been locked up all the time.
I couldn't see His Highness in the darkroom, so I couldn't find a chance to apologize to His Highness."
Now that there are steps to go down, the prince immediately became happy, but he deliberately tightened his face and pretended to have a particularly noble and cool look: "Well, what you said makes sense."
Xiao Lezi stayed in the darkroom for three days, doing nothing every day. He was so idle that he could only chat with Xiao Yingzi for a while when he secretly came to deliver food.
Xiao Lezi is full of talk and can talk about anything, which often makes Xiao Yingzi laugh until her stomach hurts.
Especially when Xiao Lezi mentioned that she once glued a golden toilet with glue, it made Xiao Yingzi burst into laughter: "I wonder if you are immoral. The toilet is used to hold feces. If it is broken, it will be broken."
What should I do? But then again, whoever is so unlucky will be the owner of the paste toilet!" (To be continued)