It took a stick of incense for this group of people to put on their armor. Wei Duoyou was impatient with waiting and quietly asked Zhao Bohu: "Are we going to stay here tonight?"

"I guess it's necessary. I'll have to inspect all the battalions later. I'm afraid I'll have to linger for a few days." Zhao Bohu deliberately teased him: "What? You are a person who is used to staying in the army, why are you so anxious to get it?

Going into the city?"

The look on Duoyou's face was quite unnatural: "Of course, I have heard about the bustle and bustle of Luoyi and the wealth in the world, so I can't wait to see it. Who can bear to stay in this ghost place with the people of Weiguo?"

Zhao Bohu stared at him with a profound look: "You------don't like Crown Prince Wei, right?"

When Wei Duoyou was about to retort, the person he didn't like had led his subordinates to bring Hu Lala into the tent and stood there. Zhao Bohu saw that he was really restrained, so he waved his hand to let him do what he wanted. Duoyou relaxed.

With a tone of voice, he left the tent as if he was running away.

Zhao Bohu asked about the military drills and preparations for war. Wei Yu and his generals responded fluently, which was indeed a sign that they had put in a lot of effort. Zhao Bohu was always worried about the scheming Prince Li of the Song Dynasty.

Although they agreed verbally, once the situation changes, the possibility of recurrence cannot be ruled out. The Eighth Division of Chengzhou must be on guard to prevent Song and Qi from joining forces to rebel against Zhou again. Because of this, Prince Wei cannot be held responsible for the defeat. Instead,

He was entrusted with important tasks and allowed to perform meritorious service and protect Luoyi.

In fact, they said they would stay in the camp for a few days just because Zhao Bohu was teasing Wei Duoyou. In fact, they only rested in the camp for one night and drove straight into Luoyi City the next morning. For Duoyou, Zhao Bohu also stayed in the camp for a few days.

Wei Yu's request to personally escort them into the city was resolutely rejected.

Luoyang is indeed worthy of being the eastern capital of the Zhou Dynasty. The bustling and noisy streets are comparable to the Haojing Market, with pedestrians walking shoulder to shoulder and a constant flow of people. It is very lively. Zhao Bohu is used to it, and he only closes his eyes in the car. After all, Wei Duoyou

With a young man's nature, everything he sees feels new. From time to time he would go to the car window and ask questions.

Although there is a palace, it was specially used for the king of Zhou to stay when he was on tour; the post was to provide convenience for the envoys of the princes to travel, and Zhao Bohu was the king's envoy, so the most suitable place to stay was the royal office.

This place is specially designed to provide convenience for the work and rest of the members of the Zhou royal family and the royal ministers who hold the emperor's mandate.

As soon as he walked into this gorgeous yet simple building, Zhao Bohu bumped into Taishi Zhen, who was also a minister of the King of Haojing. Meeting an old friend in a foreign land, the two chatted for a long time.

It has been nearly two months since he left Haojing. Zhao Bohu couldn't wait to ask about the situation in the court: "Master Taishi, how are the queen and the prince? Can the king lift their confinement?"

"Although the king has not lifted the ban, he has moved into the middle palace with all the beauties. It will come soon if you think about it. Although the prince cannot leave the palace, he will be protected by Duke Guo, so he will be safe. Don't worry, sir." Taishi Zhen stroked his long hair.

There must be neither illness nor slowness.

"Then, which country are you going to on this mission?" Zhao Bohu was a little disappointed, but he still wanted to find out more information.

"Let's go to the country of E. Your Excellency has been away from Beijing for many days. I don't know that there is some unrest in the Jianghan Plain recently!"

Zhao Bohu raised his eyebrows: "Oh? Could it be that Chu State has started to cause trouble again?"

"Exactly. Xiongqu has been unwilling to give in since his last defeat. Recently, he has been harassing the borders of various countries to the north. Fortunately, the new Ehou is quite brave and won several battles in a row. He even defeated the Jingchu barbarians.

The army was defeated and has now returned to Danyang. The king was very relieved and ordered his old minister to go out as an envoy to commend the Marquis of E."

Unexpectedly, E Yufang had such ability, Zhao Bohu was also very happy: "This is so good! I didn't expect that the E country was almost destroyed by Xiong Qu, but now it can be resurrected and become the southern barrier of my Zhou Dynasty."

"Who says not?" Taishi Zhen seemed to be very proud of this mission: "The country of E has now expanded its territory, guarding the Suizao Pass and watching over the Nanyang Basin. The King of Wei Dao is doting on Empress E Sui more and more!"

"How do you say this?" Zhao Bohu asked.

"Before the old minister went on an envoy, the king just ordered Empress E to assist in the affairs of the harem. Oh, by the way, I'll give it back to you ------" Taishi Zhen slapped his head and shouted: "Oh! I forgot about this.

Congratulations to the Duke! The day before my departure, Mrs. Zhao just gave birth to a son, and I haven’t congratulated the Duke yet!"

"Really?" Zhao Bohu looked surprised: "Madam gave birth to a son?"

"It's absolutely true! Lord Guo, please hurry back to Haojing. Maybe you can catch up with the young master's full moon!"

There was a "squeak" sound on the door, and accompanied by the howling biting north wind, Nianyangsi stumbled into the house. She seemed to be unsteady on her feet and almost fell to the ground. Fanji was startled and quickly helped her up, but

Seeing that her head and face were covered with injuries, and her legs and feet were a little clumsy, she hurriedly asked: "Nanny, what's wrong with you?"

The wrinkles on Luoyangsi's weathered face were like knife carvings. She was wincing because of the pain. She said with red eyes: "Mother, I went to draw water from the well and was beaten by a few bitches.

, insisting that I jumped into their team."

"Is this happening?" Fan Ji looked in disbelief: "Don't the ladies in the palace use mountain spring water from outside the palace? Only the well water in the palace is used for washing, and there is water in the palace.

Three wells. They rarely use the nearest well, so why did they come here to fetch water today?"

"Who says it's not? This well was originally used by the palace maids and chamberlains who live in the terraced houses. Since they left the palace, we are the only ones using it. But that guy said that the other two wells have run out of water, so they have to come here to draw water.

.They kept beating bucket after bucket, and the servants could only argue a few words, but they came up and started to fight." Naoyangsi was also a middle palace order who had been famous for many years, but now she was reduced to the point of being bullied by a little palace maid, and she also had a look on her face.

resentment.

"Nanny, can you tell who these people are?" Fan Ji asked in a deep voice.

"I don't know the others very well. The little palace maid in charge is from Fox Princess's side. This is not the first time she has caused trouble for a slave, so I know her."

Fanji pondered for a while, frowned and said: "This matter is not simple. Nurse," she said with an apologetic tone: "After all, I have the title of queen, and I don't go out on weekdays, so they can't find me.

I have set my sights on you because of the trouble. Nurse, I am the one who has caused you trouble."

"What do you mean by not being involved?" Naoyang Si panicked: "The empress is the slave's child since she was a child. For so many years, she has been like a biological mother and daughter. Now they are even more dependent on each other. Talking about these births

What should I do? But, there is no water in the tank, how can we cook at noon?"

"I'll go," Fan Ji said as he went outside to the yard, picked up the pole and hoisted the two barrels with iron hooks. His movements were not very skillful and a little clumsy.

Naoyang Si limped to grab the pole: "What's so good about this? How can the empress fetch water by herself? The empress's body - let the slaves do it!"

"Nanny," Fan Ji patted her shoulder and comforted her softly: "What are you afraid of? Do they still dare to make things difficult for me? It's okay. I'll fetch half a bucket of water. It doesn't matter if you go slower."

Seeing that she was very strong-willed, Naoyangsi had no choice but to let her go.

In fact, this well is located at the back of the terraced house. It is in a remote location and rarely visited by people on weekdays. Fanji thought he would encounter a big battle, but unexpectedly when he came to the well, he saw that there was no one there. There was only the well.

The trampled grass nearby told her silently that a not too fierce fight had just occurred here.

Fan Ji shook her head, put down the bucket, rolled up her sleeves and shook the windlass, filling two and a half buckets of water. After all, it was her first time carrying water, so she was not confident in her skills. Anyway, she would spill at least half of the buckets.

Buckets, it would be better to get half a bucket from the beginning! After carefully adjusting the weight of the two buckets of water, she loaded up the water and walked to the small courtyard carefully step by step.

It was actually only a hundred steps from the well to the small courtyard, but it seemed like she had walked for half an hour. She finally entered the courtyard. When Fanji saw that only a little water was spilled in the bucket, she felt a sense of pride.

. shouted loudly: "Nanny, come and see, I've brought back the water!"

After shouting several times but no one answered, Fanji felt an ominous feeling in his heart: something must have happened!

"Empress!" A woman emerged from the bushes outside the courtyard and called softly.

Fan Ji recognized her as Dong'er, Huang Ying's former maid, and now she was also selected as a beauty to enter the palace. He immediately approached and asked: "Dong'er, have you seen Aunt Si?"

Dong'er looked panicked, and came closer and whispered: "Your Majesty, please stop shouting. Just then, Shu Diao, who was next to the Second Concubine, came over and took Aunt Si away. They also went into the house and rummaged around for a while, and took it.

I didn’t know what the contents were in a bag, so I took them away together.”

Fan Ji was startled and rushed into the house, rummaging inside and outside for a while. Dong'er followed him in and asked, "Mother, is there anything missing?"

"Silver charcoal. All the silver charcoal has been taken away by them." The house was surrounded by walls, and with just one glance, Fanji knew what was missing.

"What are they doing with the silver charcoal?" Dong'er asked in confusion.

"What else can be done? Of course, I have to accuse Aunt Si of stealing, either me or Auntie Si. Now it seems that Ji Jiang is going to frame Auntie Si for stealing silver charcoal from other empresses in the palace, so as to get rid of the problem.

Get rid of her, so as to isolate me and leave me with no one to rely on." The situation was critical, but Fan Ji was still clear-cut, Dong'er secretly convinced himself.

"Dong'er," Fan Ji suddenly pulled her sleeves, his eyes full of pleading: "I want to find them now, and I can't let the wet nurse suffer. Now I can't tell the difference, so you can find Jia, the chambermaid next to the king, for me.

Sir, please inform him of the situation here. Aunt Si and I are like mother and daughter, and I ask him to save her no matter what, please!"

Dong'er nodded: "Don't worry, Madam. Madam Huang Ying has told me that I must try to protect Madam here. I will definitely find Mr. Jia, the chamberlain, and live up to my mission!"
Chapter completed!