After the old emperor asked, he saw that Di Xin's clothes were completely soaked with sweat just like the previous eunuchs and maids.
"Oh!"
He chuckled softly and said, "That's all, I'm not in a hurry."
"This room is not suitable for ordinary people. It's because I didn't think carefully. Xiaowu, please go out first!"
Di Xin didn't mind if the old emperor continued to call himself Xiao Wu. After all, he was still using the body and identity of King Yu at the moment, and would continue to do so for a long time to come.
He could hold on for a while longer, but he couldn't show off his profound cultivation.
"Thank you!"
After thanking him, Di Xin turned around and retreated into the palace.
Outside the palace, in addition to the old eunuch and the two young eunuchs guarding the door, there was a group of eunuchs and maids wearing thin clothes.
Under the influence of the nine coal stoves, the temperature in the old emperor's palace is the same as that of a stove. The wooden palace has always been average in terms of heat insulation, so even if you stand outside the palace for hundreds of years, you will still feel very warm.
.
But only at the entrance of the palace.
In this late autumn season, these eunuchs and palace maids, who only had one piece of clothing that could almost see their skin color, were forced to wait in the middle of the courtyard, shivering.
Under the old emperor's order, anyone who dares to approach the palace will be punished with death.
At this moment, when they saw Di Xin coming out, the eunuchs and maids standing there with their eyes lowered all breathed a sigh of relief.
The breathing sounds of dozens of people could be heard clearly.
"Come in!"
The old eunuch didn't reprimand him, he just said a simple sentence.
"yes!"
After the eunuchs and maids bowed and saluted, even though their bodies were still trembling, they still entered the hall in an orderly manner without violating any etiquette.
After the door of the palace was closed, the old eunuch said to one of the eunuchs at the door: "Go and prepare some ginger soup that can clear away heat and dispel cold, otherwise these people will be sick when they come out."
"My slave obeys your orders."
The little eunuch bowed and retreated.
At this time, the old eunuch said to Di Xin: "If you don't mind, we will still call you the Fifth Highness."
Even through the thick walls of the palace, he could confirm that the old emperor was in the same state as usual at the moment, and that the person in front of him did not attack his majesty as he feared.
Therefore, the old eunuch also let down some of his wariness towards Di Xin.
Ignoring the surprised look in the eyes of the remaining young eunuch, he continued: "Your Majesty, Fifth Highness, the royal meal has been prepared in the side hall, please come with me."
"It's time to work."
Emperor Xin nodded slightly and followed the old eunuch towards the side hall.
On the way, he said with a smile: "Since we were worried that those people would get sick due to the sudden cold and sudden warmth, why didn't we let them wait at the door in the first place? It's not cold in that place."
"We are His Majesty's servants, so naturally we cannot disobey His Majesty's orders. If someone approaches the palace door and then forces his way in, if we are unable to stop him, then I will be derelict in my duty."
The old eunuch led the way and sighed and said: "But we are all slaves. We should be considerate and take care of each other. Preparing some ginger soup afterwards is the limit of what the old slave can do."
"My father-in-law is interested."
Di Xin chuckled lightly and did not continue to ask.
But the old eunuch obviously still had something to say.
"Five...Fifth Highness!"
He hesitated for a moment and asked: "Are you really not that Fifth Highness?"
Di Xin was stunned for a moment, then reacted.
The old eunuch would ask this, obviously his mentality was different from that of the old emperor.
To be able to become an emperor, his ability to accept things is inherently different from ordinary people.
For the old emperor, even if the truth was unbelievable, after eliminating all the impossibilities, he could still accept the remaining answer no matter how outrageous it was.
But the old eunuch was different.
In the current state of the old emperor, he was unable to go through the collected information himself, so all the information must have passed through the hands of the old eunuch in front of him.
Not surprisingly, he should have read those materials to the old emperor word for word.
However, he was accustomed to the mentality of being a slave, but he did not think as far ahead as the old emperor did. He was not even able to "easily" accept a setting that was completely different from the life he had lived in the past few decades like the old emperor did.
He believed this, on the one hand, because Di Xin himself admitted it just now, and on the other hand, the main reason was that this was the conclusion reached by the old emperor.
As a loyal slave, he does not need to consider whether it is reasonable or not, he only needs to obey and be obedient.
Even Di Xin suspected that if the old emperor hadn't asked this question himself, but Di Xin himself had admitted it, the old eunuch might have thought it was a mental problem.
Since he had already admitted it in front of the old emperor, he did not deny it again at this moment.
There was no one around, so Di Xin also smiled and said: "Lying about this matter won't do me any good, so why should I fabricate it?"
Hearing this, the old eunuch sighed again.
"What about the original Fifth Highness? Is he dead?"
"The original owner of this body is indeed dead."
As an old eunuch who had watched these princes grow up with his own eyes, he still had some feelings in his heart. Di Xin naturally saw this, and after hesitating for a moment, he explained in a broad voice.
"But that was before I came into this body!"
The old eunuch was a little confused and asked in confusion: "What do you mean?"
Di Xin explained: "I don't know what is happening to the others, but the original owner of this body did not die because of me."
"Before I descended into this body, he was already dead. What I occupied was just an empty shell."
When the old eunuch heard this, a flash of surprise flashed in his eyes.
"So the assassination of His Highness the Third was really successful?"
Emperor Xin nodded slightly.
Emperor Xin was not surprised to find out about King Jing's assassination of King Yu before the old emperor could bring him down.
He can even find out some of the identities of outsiders like them. Wouldn't it be easier to investigate a murder case?
Thinking like this, Di Xin's thoughts went back to the time when he first went to Northern Xinjiang.
At that time, due to a whistleblower in the capital, the arrival time and route of the latest batch of supplies shipped by the imperial court to northern Xinjiang were obtained by the Turks.
After Emperor Xin found out, he sent people to report the matter to the court at an accelerated speed of 800 miles.
However, this investigation was discontinued in the follow-up.
Di Xin thought that it was not investigated, and since the matter had been resolved, he was beyond his reach and stopped paying attention to the matter.
However, it now seems that the imperial court may not have investigated, but if the old emperor wanted to know, he could not hide it from him.
And the reason why this incident disappeared later was probably related to a certain prince.