Lu Song looked disappointed, and his mental state was not very good when he came out of the palace study.
He was surprised by the final result.
If all this was planned by Zhu Hao, and he took the initiative to leave only after knowing that the palace wanted to keep him, then how deep-seated is this kid?
wrong.
This is just a seven-year-old child, there is no way he can have such a deep city!
If you really want to think deeper, was the entire fire designed by him? Then how could he ensure that he was okay when he came out of the fire covered in fire? He didn't expect that the door would be blocked by Jiang Maosun and others? But he didn't expect that the door would be blocked by Jiang Maosun and others?
The fire did not spread to the door at that time. Did he start the fire in the house and burn himself...
Lu Song unknowingly came to the courtyard near Chunhui Gate in the inner courtyard.
But seeing Zhu Hao sitting in the corner, the argument in the yard was not over yet.
A group of craftsmen were having a heated debate about whether Li Shun and others knew about it and who was Jian Maoluo's accomplice. The palace ordered Zhang Zuozheng to have people take notes.
Lu Songxin said: "A group of fools insist on arguing about party unity and dissent, and let the palace record it. Wouldn't it become irrefutable evidence? If a dog bites a dog, it will lead to the end of the dispute."
"Lu Dianzhan? Why did you come out? Send me out of the palace..."
When Zhu Hao saw Lu Song, he came directly to make a request.
Lu Song said with a straight face: "Yuan Changshi ordered that you continue to stay in the palace...I will arrange a new residence for you next."
"ah!?"
After Zhu Hao was briefly surprised, his eyes revealed endless fear.
Lu Song frowned and asked, "Didn't you say that when you asked the prince to leave the palace, the prince and Yuan Changshi agreed?"
Zhu Hao did not answer the question, but instead asked with a look of horror: "Lu Dianzhan, your palace doesn't want to keep anyone alive, right?"
Lu Song was startled.
What do you mean?
Could it be that our palace is going to "close the door and beat the dogs"?
"You haven't answered my question yet!"
Lu Song's attitude was indifferent. The current result was going in the direction he was most worried about. Regardless of whether it was designed by Zhu Hao or not, he was extremely wary.
Zhu Hao was so anxious that he almost cried.
"When I rescued people, I was afraid of dying in the fire. I didn't want rewards. I wanted to go home, but you went back on your word... I want to go find Yuan Changshi, and he promised me to leave..."
Zhu Hao said that he was about to rush into the inner courtyard, as if he wanted to find Yuan Zonggao to argue.
Lu Song stopped him and shouted sternly: "No matter what, you must stay in the palace now. Your bedding and bedding have been burned. I will go make arrangements for you now... follow me!"
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Lu Song was full of doubts, but he did not dare to disobey Yuan Zonggao's order.
Zhu Hao stayed, and Lu Song was uneasy. He now wanted to guard against Zhu Hao's further actions, and at the same time, he was thinking about how to report today's events to Lin Baihu.
Do you want to tell Lin Baihu that Zhu Houcong was in a fire scene? Zhu Hao didn't have to do anything, Zhu Houcong would have been burned alive, but it was the spies sent by Jin Yiwei who fought to save him?
The duty room of the Royal Palace's Yiwei Department is located on the west side of the Palace.
"Old Pictures of Xingfu" is marked as "House of Ceremony", with the main room and three east and west wing rooms, which is the same as the record of the palace in the eighth year of Hongzhi in Wanli Huidian. The building to the east is the "imperial stable" recorded in the official annals. This fashion
And it's just called the stable.
"Beddings and other things, you use mine first, they are what I use on duty...Don't walk around here casually, I will arrange a room for you later."
Lu Song looked gloomy and took Zhu Hao to the duty room. He asked Zhu Hao to use the bedding he usually used when he was on duty at the palace or resting during the day, while he himself dealt with matters such as the security of the palace and post-disaster disposal.
It is not entirely certain that this fire was caused by Jianmaoluo. Even if it was really Jianmaoluo who set the fire, we must prevent a bigger conspiracy behind it. The palace has stepped up its vigilance. Lu Song, as the official of the Ceremonial Guards Department, is busy right now.
It is impossible to do such a small thing as settling Zhu Hao personally.
After giving brief instructions to his two men, Lu Song went to the east courtyard.
More than an hour later, when Lu Song came back from finishing what he was doing, he wanted to see Zhu Hao's settlement situation. He saw no one in the duty room. When he asked about his subordinates, he looked surprised: "Boss, didn't he say
Did I go to find you? Didn't you see anyone else?"
Lu Song felt a thump in his heart.
Doesn't this kid have any other plots?
I wanted to give my men a lesson, but I didn't catch him, but when I thought that Zhu Hao was now a young fire-fighting hero commended by the palace, and that Zhu Hao had been following Lu Song before, Yuan Zonggao even asked him to give him a lesson.
Zhu Hao arranged a place to live, and Zhu Hao said he would go find him, and the guards in the Royal Palace's Yiwei Department didn't doubt it.
"Let's go and find this person!"
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Lu Song was nervous. He was afraid that Zhu Hao would break into the inner courtyard and disturb the royal family members.
But when he asked the guard guarding the door, he learned that Zhu Hao, while people were carrying things, said he was going home to get new bedding and left the house.
Just ran away?
Lu Song was really surprised.
"Lu Dianzhan, didn't you let him out?" The guard guarding the west gate of the palace was curious.
Would Zhu Hao lie about such a thing?
It’s not you, Lu Song, who said hello before, saying that if Zhu Hao goes out of the east gate of the palace, there is no need to deliberately block him. It is best not to come back after going out. Now even if Zhu Hao arrives in the west courtyard, your instructions should be effective, right?
Only then did Lu Song think that Zhu Hao had asked him to help him get in and out of the palace, and he had indeed greeted a few of his cronies, but now he was actually being used by Zhu Hao to sneak out of the palace?
Lu Song thought to himself: "With this opportunity to save people, this kid can finally gain a foothold in the palace and study with the crown prince. It can be said that he has taken a big step forward to complete the task. How can he run away? No, he is sure
Will be back!"
But after he asked, he found out that after he left the west courtyard, Zhu Hao made excuses and ran away, clearly not wanting to stay in the palace for a moment.
Lu Song had no choice but to report to Yuan Zonggao.
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Zhu Hao did go home.
Acting requires a complete performance. There are so many old foxes in Prince Xing's palace. If I don't take the road, will they believe that the fire has nothing to do with them?
If they have even the slightest doubt, they may fall into an irreversible situation in the future, so...
"Xiao Hao, why are you back? This is..."
Zhu Niang originally guarded the shop, but recently her son was away. She was without a strong helper in doing business, and she was a little overwhelmed to deal with things by herself. She saw her son suddenly return home on a non-holiday.
Zhu Hao said: "There was a fire in the palace, I almost...forget it, mother, I won't say more, go change clothes now, I won't go back today!"
Zhu Hao had another purpose in leaving the palace.
Although he was wearing dark clothes with many holes burned by the fire, in fact, the close-fitting clothes underneath were completely intact. There were still residual phosphorus powder on the outer clothes. If someone carefully inspected them, there was no guarantee that they would not notice the clues.
He stayed in the palace without even a change of clothes. When someone brings him clothes to change, the probability of discovering the secret will greatly increase.
He had to go home and destroy the evidence.
He wandered to the backyard, changed out of his tattered clothes, and burned them in a brazier until they turned into white ash and all the flaws were gone.
"Brother, what are you doing? Mom is calling you."
Zhu Ting's voice came from outside the house.
Zhu Hao said: "I'm changing clothes, tell mother, I'll be out in a minute!"
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After taking care of everything, Zhu Hao came to the front shop.
He didn't take a shower, which was too troublesome and inconvenient to clean up. But after washing his face and putting on new clothes, he became energetic again.
Aunt Li and Zhu Niang were waiting outside.
"Xiao Hao, you said there was a fire in the palace? What happened? Did you go to put out the fire?"
Originally, whether the palace was on fire or not had nothing to do with the small courtyard, and she did not think that Zhu Hao would be involved. However, out of concern, Zhu Niang still asked about the situation.
Zhu Hao sighed: "Maybe someone wants to burn me to death."
Zhu Niang was shocked and asked: "How could this happen?"
At this moment, footsteps were heard outside, and several sedan bearers came over carrying a sedan. Surrounded by them were the guards from the Palace of Ceremonies, led by Lu Song.
After the sedan settled down, a man came down. He had fair skin, a three-foot-long beard under his chin, gray hair in a bun, a square scarf, and a green Taoist robe. It was Yuan Zonggao.
"What a magnificent official sedan, they..."
Aunt Li sighed in praise, and just as she was wondering why this group of people stopped outside the shop, she saw the old man with an official look walking towards the shop, followed by a group of guards with knives, and she immediately hid inside.
Zhu Hao followed his mother out the door and said first, "Mr. Yuan, why are you... here?"
When Zhu Niang saw that Zhu Hao knew him, she quickly said: "Are you a gentleman from the palace? Sir, how are you? The dog is in the palace, hasn't it caused you any trouble? He..."
With a smile on his face, Yuan Zonggao looked up at the lintel of the shop, and then said: "As expected of a loyal and righteous general, Zhu Hao is brave and fearless. He has performed well in the palace and is well-known... I came here specially to see him, and by the way, he sacrificed himself to save others.
Bring the rewards together!"
As he spoke, he waved his hand and asked Lu Song to hand over a bulging little bundle.
Zhu Niang looked puzzled, took the baggage, opened it and saw that she was not well.
Inside were five five-tael official ingots.
"Ah? This... this..."
Although Zhu Niang usually does business and is used to communicating with people, she still became arrogant when she suddenly communicated with high-status officials in the palace.
More importantly, she had no idea what was happening.
Yuan Zonggao smiled and said, "Don't you invite me in for a cup of tea?"
Only then did Zhu Niang react and quickly made a gesture of invitation: "Mr. Yuan, please."
Yuan Zonggao didn't see anyone else. He took the initiative to come to the shop this time for the purpose of doing a home visit... Even though he knew some things about Zhu Hao before, he always heard what he heard. It was better to come and see in person whether it was true as Zhu Hao said.
There are many conflicts between the orphans and the widowed mother and the family...
"Xiaohao, is this Mr. Yuan a tutor in the royal palace? Is he a master of the Juren family?" Zhu Niang took the opportunity to quickly ask her son beside her in a low voice.
In Zhu Niang's view, Juren was a literary star, enough to earn her the utmost respect.
Zhu Hao calmly replied: "He is the chief historian of the palace, a third-rank official, and a Jinshi. If there is a real shortage, he can at least be a fourth-rank prefect."
"Jinshi?"
Zhu Niang was even more shocked.
At this time, Yuan Changshi had entered the shop and said with a smile: "It is really difficult for a chaste woman to go out to do business and to teach her son. It is better to let Zhu Hao enter the palace and let the palace help teach him carefully, and it will not be in vain for the spirit of the loyal general in heaven."