Yanque ordered the housekeeper: "Are there no other servants in the palace? How can I ask the young master to serve the visitor personally? Send a few more maids over here!"
But as soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Ci said to him: "No need, Your Majesty. When I was sick in the past, Chu Luoci also took care of me and reciprocated with courtesy. Now that she is sick, I should be by my side to take care of her. And those maids did not
I’ve served her and I don’t know what she likes, so let me do it.”
Yanque sneered and said: "Okay, it seems that I am the king who beats the mandarin duck. Since you want to serve him, then serve him!"
After saying that, he walked away.
As soon as he left the courtyard door, Yanque could no longer maintain his apparent calmness, and his entire face had turned completely dark.
He called the secret guard and asked, "What is Zhou Ci talking about?"
The secret guard replied: "What should be said is that after returning from the brothel that night, my young master was in poor health due to the spring hunt. He fell ill in the middle of the night, and Miss Chu Luoci went to take care of him."
After hearing this, Yanque frowned very much, "It was already midnight after returning from the brothel that day, right? She was a woman in the middle of the night, and she went to serve her young master in her cousin's room? Are you all dead? Don't you know how to let others serve you?
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The secret guard lowered his head, not knowing how to answer.
Yanque asked again, "This is not the first time that Chu Luoci has treated others. Is it worth remembering Zhou Ci for so long?"
This time the shadow guard answered.
"Perhaps it's because Chu Luoci takes care of her more attentively. After all, not everyone can be around to take care of her all night long."
When Yanque heard this, he quickly extracted the key points from his words.
"Take care of her all night?! Then Chu Luoci was in Zhou Ci's room the whole night?!"
The secret guard did not dare to hide anything and answered truthfully, "That's true. It wasn't until dawn that Miss Chu Luoci came out of her cousin's room."
Although Yanque didn't want to admit it, when he heard these words from the secret guard, something called jealousy took root in his heart and sprouted crazily, almost making him unable to maintain his expression!
In the middle of the night, a man and a woman alone...
The two of them drank so much wine in the brothel!
Chu Luoci actually stayed in Zhou Ci's room all night!
This is an ordinary woman. It would be unreasonable for the two of them not to get married!
"Is it really just taking care of me all night long and nothing else?"
"This..." the secret guard hesitated for a moment, "Miss Chu Luoci and Mr. Biao are both respectable people, so there shouldn't be any dirty things, right...? Because it happened in Mr. Biao's yard, so we also
I just paid a little attention..."
"If the prince wants to know the details, my subordinates should go to the young master's courtyard to investigate. There will always be some people who know the inside story."
Rationally, I know that this approach is inappropriate.
It is not polite to inquire into the private affairs between two people.
And by doing so, it seemed as if he cared about Chu Luo Ci.
But he couldn't control himself and wanted to know what happened that night!
It's not that he doesn't believe in the innocence between Chu Luoci and Zhou Ci, it's just that the closer relationship between the two people makes him unable to help but have many dark thoughts.
"Keep your mouth shut about the matter that I asked you to investigate, and be sure not to let others know!"
The secret guard nodded, "I understand!"
In Chu Luoci's courtyard.
Zhou Ci felt heartbroken when he saw Chu Luoci's face flushed with heat.
"Why are you so careless? Why did you suddenly have a fever?"
Chu Luoci really couldn't answer this question truthfully.
The reason why she had a fever was purely because that night in the palace, she had to go back and forth between the banquet hall and the side hall. The wind was very cold at night, and he and Yanque had gone through that incident again, and they were disheveled...
I caught a cold all of a sudden.
She really couldn't explain the real reason to Zhou Ci, so she could only find any excuse to excuse it.
Zhou Ci said a few more greetings, then suddenly hesitated and said to Chu Luoci, "Can you trust the people in the yard? I have a few words to say to you."
Seeing his serious expression, Chu Luoci thought for a while and said, "Wait for Yinghong to come with the medicine later, and I will arrange for him to call everyone out in the yard."
After a while, Yinghong came back.
Chu Luoci ordered: "The young master and I also have a few important words to say. Get everyone out of the yard and leave no one around the yard."
Yinghong knew that there must be an important conversation between the two of them, so she didn't ask any more questions, put down the medicine, told Chu Luoci to drink it on time, and then left.
After a while, the only two rough servants in the yard were also taken away by Yinghong.
Chu Luoci held his breath and felt that the yard was indeed clean, and then said to Zhou Ci: "If there is anything important, please tell me."
Yanque made sure there was no one around, so he took out a flat box from his arms.
"Do you still remember the brothel we went to before? That night, the prince blocked me in the brothel. Later, when I left the house, I passed by the brothel. Unexpectedly, the brothel opened as usual as promised."
Chu Luoci smiled and said, "Yanque only went there to arrest those officials. Moreover, in a place like a brothel, there are nine out of ten high-ranking officials as guarantees behind it. Isn't this normal?"
"It's indeed normal, but when I was passing by, a girl from the building suddenly came out of the building and intercepted me. She also handed me something like this, saying that this is very important to you and asked me to give it to you personally.
Is there anyone you know in the brothel?"
Chu Luoci frowned and searched the memory of the original owner, confirming that the original owner was a real lady, who rarely even went out, let alone go to such a mixed place!
So he shook his head and said, "No, I don't know anyone inside."
"That's weird. I think that girl was waiting there to block me!"
He handed the box to Chu Luoci.
"I have never opened this box, but I studied its appearance. You see there is a wooden lock here. I don't know who made it. It is so ingenious that it cannot be opened without some method."
Chu Luoci took the box in his hand and felt that it was heavy and made of fine wood. He also saw the lock on Zhou Cizhi and suddenly felt very familiar.
In an instant, the memory of the original owner came to my mind.
She remembered that the original owner had seen this kind of lock when she was young!
The original owner's father, who was a general, learned it from an old carpenter, and specially made a small box for the original owner to put the jewelry in!
Chu Luoci held the box in his hand, recalled how to open it, fiddled with it a few times, and the box opened with a click!
Inside the small box was a blood-stained handkerchief.
The handkerchief must have been a bit old, as the original color had faded a lot, and most of the entire goose-yellow handkerchief was soaked in blood.
Because of the passage of time, the blood has turned dark brown, which is shocking to see.
However, these are not what Chu Luoci cares about the most.
What Chu Luoci cared about was the orchid showing in the corner of the handkerchief.
These familiar flowers, as well as the detailed and special embroidery techniques...
This square veil must have been made by the mother of the original owner!
Who on earth would send such a handkerchief?!
With doubts in her heart, Chu Luoci gently took the handkerchief in her hand. As the handkerchief was taken out, a piece of paper fell lightly from the bottom of the box...
There are two words written on the piece of paper: Jiangnan.
