The black-bellied princess plays the prince

Chapter 80 Master
"You don't have to worry about it, just say it if you have something to say."

He looked at me, "The injury on his body is very similar to that of our Qifeng Pavilion master."

"You mean Chu Bo sent here?" I said slowly.

"This Eunuch Hua is from the Palace of Chu. He was ordered by the Empress Dowager Chu to take Madam's life. Madam must have some clues about them, so she sent people over and over again. If it fails once, do it a second time." Gu Shao pondered. Said, "Don't you think that the man has such a high skill, which has never been seen before. The subordinates think that if it was you before, it is possible to compete with him. You also know that Chu Junhou has been secretly cultivating people. Fight against the old prince, maybe..."

Ye Xiao also nodded: "Gheyou Panzi, no matter what decision you make, I will follow. Let's go to Chu State to find out about this matter. It's not a bad idea."

I just felt a sweetness in my throat, and a hot stream gushed out... I opened my covered hand, and there were bright red blood stains on the handkerchief, the blood in my chest was surging, and my brain was buzzing, Ye Xiao didn't care much, and put Putting his palms on my back, slowly injecting internal energy into me, Gu Shao persuaded me: "Pavilion Master, didn't you say that sadness is useless, let's go to the Palace of Chu to find out."

"Okay, let's go to Chu Palace." I heard my own voice, cold and calm, like a knife out of its sheath.

Ye Xiao and Chu Bo looked at each other, the worried expression in their eyes remained unchanged, but they stopped talking and turned to pack their clothes.

Although Ye Xiao lost my internal strength for me, I still felt numb and sore in my feet. I sat on the couch and adjusted my breath for a long time before I calmed down. When I got out, Gu Shao and Ye Xiao were already waiting in the yard , before getting into the carriage, I suddenly remembered something and asked, "Is that black-glazed silver bowl still there?"

A homicide happened in the house, and the peasant couple had already gone to hide. After hearing my words, Ye Xiao turned his head away, searched the house for a while, and shook his head at me.

The bottom of my heart sank, that bowl... Mr. Hua's disgusted expression when he was looking at it before his death, the master deliberately left it behind, it appeared in Queen Jin's tea set, but now it has disappeared, as if there was a root The thread made everything jump up, but I thought about it carefully, but I couldn't figure it out.
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The Chu Palace and I have not changed much when I visited it many years ago, but Chu Bo moved from the East Palace to the Jinggan Main Hall. When we arrived, it was the season of cherry blossoms. The room at the corner of the palace was stained with a bit of tenderness. As usual, we changed into the clothes of the palace ladies and father-in-law. The silver crane lanterns in Jingqian Palace were emitting soft light, and the light and shadow were cast. Chu Bo sat in front of the desk. , a brocade robe with a gold belt, a crown-style gauze hat, and a vermilion pen in his hand, but he didn't let it fall. He didn't know what he was thinking.

There are always many people around him to protect him, but at this time, there is no one around him. We came to the Chu Palace to investigate for a long time before we grasped this rule and believed that he is self-sufficient in martial arts. Be bold.

Ye Xiao said differently. He said that Chu Bo had been looked down on all his life. He became a king himself. A dissatisfied person has a chance to try his own skills, let others vent their dissatisfaction with him, and let himself vent the depression accumulated in ordinary times.

I agree with Ye Xiao's statement of venting depression, but we have been watching for several nights, but we didn't see anyone kill him.
During that hour, he often stared at a place in a daze, and often lay down on the table for an hour, and one night, he took out an embroidery frame and looked at the unfinished patterns on the embroidery frame. , After looking at it for a long time, when it was finished, he took out the embroidery needle and made gestures on it. Ye Xiao and I were terrified in our hearts. Didn’t he learn some evil skills?

At other times, he went to the back garden and looked at a huge bamboo cage. The bamboo cage was covered above the water, and there were two teal ducks inside. The water ducks are a pair of mandarin ducks.

But after that hour, he returned to a normal person, calm and wise, stable and calm.

Because we went to the Chu Palace, it was considered a revisit of the old place. We first found the place where Mr. Hua worked, but we were told that Mr. Hua had died of illness a long time ago, and the portrait on the album was another person, who was completely different from Mr. Hua. There are no traces of the other tolerances, but the more this is the case, the more Ye Xiao and I become suspicious. This is someone trying to cover up.

As for the black-glazed and silver bowls, we searched for a long time, but we didn't see any of them again.

We sneaked into the Huashou Palace of Empress Dowager Chu and acted as little eunuchs and maids there. Fortunately, there were a lot of court ladies and eunuchs in Huashou Palace, so we slightly changed our appearance. Hua, the eunuch at the bottom of the Huashou Palace, because the place we clean is very remote, so this job gives us many opportunities to wander around. We just finished wandering outside. As soon as he entered, he saw Liu Shanggong standing beside the Empress Dowager Chu with ten female officials standing in the yard, and a court lady lay dying on the ground with scars all over her body.

Liu Shanggong is a celebrity around the Empress Dowager Chu, and he rarely comes to our place, let alone bringing so many people here?

But according to them, the court lady stole things from Huashou Palace and sold them off privately, so she was punished.

The court lady was rode with forty sticks, and died before midnight.

We have been here for dozens of days, and there is only such a single murder case in the Chu Palace, which is relatively peaceful, unlike the Jin Palace, when Queen Xiao threw cups and bowls directly at the maid at every turn. There are several.

In such a peaceful Chu Palace, although Ye Xiao and I had many doubts in our hearts, we couldn't find anything out. Recently, Gu Shao, who was responding outside, sent news again, saying that spies from the Jin Kingdom had sneaked in secretly in the capital. Therefore, we are going to go out of the palace to find out before we talk.

Because I left the palace in the middle of the night, as usual, I took a rag and wiped off the dust on the wooden railings of the corridor. The day's work was done, but at this time, the cleaning lady of the Jinggan Palace suddenly fell ill. The aunt in charge ordered me to take care of the maid. I didn’t want to go because I was afraid that Chu Bo would recognize him, but I thought he would never show up when we maids were cleaning. Extra problems... Although I have done a lot as an assassin, I usually don't do things like injuring people's lives, and I don't have any money to get them. Why should I do it?
So, I went.

Unexpectedly, he really showed up early, there was no other reason, the Empress Dowager Chu came to Jinggan Palace suddenly, and he had to come out to meet her.

I hid behind the desk, and a corner of Chu Bo's black-and-gold robe floated in front of my eyes. He supported the Empress Dowager Chu, sat on the couch, and said softly: "Mother, it has been raining and thundering recently. Are you feeling unwell? Earlier today, I asked someone to stew chicken with the best astragalus root for you, it is the best cure for consumptive disease, how are you eating?"

The Empress Dowager Chu stretched out her hand and patted the back of Chu Bo's hand lightly, "Bo'er, you still have the heart, my body has always been like this, every spring and summer, I always get sick, every year like this, you don't have to Caring."

She covered her mouth and coughed a few times as she spoke.

Her figure is as weak as a willow, and although there are fine wrinkles on her forehead, it can be seen that she must have been a delicate beauty when she was young. When Chu Bo was ordered to deal with Yu Meiren's matter, he didn't see her a few times. I heard that she didn't even care about the affairs of the harem, and she was truly detached from worldly affairs. So, I was a little curious about her coming today.

It can be seen that the Empress Dowager Chu treats Chu Bo very well. Although she is not her own child, she has been raised by her side since she was a child. She has a deep affection, which is not comparable to the meanness that Queen Xiao of the Jin Kingdom treated Li Zeyu.

She is also delicate and weak, and I feel pity and pity, and I feel protective when I see her.

"Mother, are you restless in sleep again?" Chu Bo asked anxiously.

"Yeah, Bo'er, last night, I couldn't sleep again, your father entrusted me with a dream last night, hey, you have married so many wives, but you still have no heirs, and you Refuse to marry the queen, your father..." She covered her mouth and coughed as she spoke.

"Queen Mother, you know the will of my father, and I cannot resist it."

"If you don't find the girl with the leaf-shaped mark on her elbow, you will never be a queen?" She was like a willow, stroking her forehead, "Boer, I don't care about the big and small things inside and outside the Chu palace. But it's the same, it's about Chu Guozuo's great fortune, how can I ignore it?"

Chu Bo replied slowly: "Mother, a few days ago, the tea serving lady next to my son was beaten to death by Liu Shanggong for no reason. Since the tea serving lady offended the queen, since you are I'm sick, let someone tell me about these trivial matters, and I will deal with that lowly servant girl, you are so angry, what should you do if you lose your body?"

The Empress Dowager Chu breathed even weaker: "Bo'er, why do you say that? Is it because I dealt with that lowly servant girl? She wanted to take her away privately, but was captured by the people of Shenwumen on the spot and reported to Liu Shanggong. It was handled for me, and someone beat that lowly servant girl with forty sticks, I only found out after the fact, hey... that old slave, he still acts so impulsively."

Chu Bo smiled: "Queen Mother, it's just a trivial matter, it's not worth your concern. If you die, just die. Why can't she bear forty sticks? It's just a pity that she made a good cup of tea. "

The Empress Dowager Chu also laughed: "There are also a few good tea masters in this Palace, otherwise, you can just pick one?"

(End of this chapter)