The gate of Jinlan Palace was closed tonight, and no one was allowed to enter or exit the palace. Many people thought that Concubine Hong was embarrassing the newly arrived Gu Guiren in the palace and did not want others to see her.
In fact, Gu Guiren was grilling fish for the Red Concubine in the yard. Today the emperor rewarded her with sea fish with less spines, and she was looking for a cook who knew how to cook it. Unexpectedly, Gu Guiren volunteered after hearing about it, saying that she was from a small town.
Fishing village, grilled fish.
Hong Yu left it to her, leaving only a few close maids who knew the details, and asked other palace people to withdraw and guard.
The two of them were chatting while grilling, and Tang Yue put in the peppers, and the aroma filled the air instantly, making people greedy.
Hong Yu praised, "It smells so good, I can't wait to try it."
"Just wait a little longer." She also roasted some vegetables, pasta and the like. These things cook quickly, so she took them out first and gave them to Hong Yu to taste.
After eating her food, Hongyu got closer to her and took the initiative to talk about his own affairs.
"You also listened to my story, wandered away from home, and met Prince Duan. You thought you were a good man, but you didn't expect that you were a bastard. He not only defrauded me of my body, but also wanted to defraud my family wealth!"
When Hong Yu talked about this, he filled a glass of wine for himself to drown his sorrows.
Tang Yue was curious, "How did you find out that King Duan was deceiving you?"
"This is all thanks to your master. That day I heard that King Duan was going to marry another man, so I had a quarrel with him, ran out of the house, and met your master."
Hong Yu has been holding back in the palace for a long time, and has always wanted to find someone to talk to, but she is surrounded by either close confidants who obey orders or palace people who cannot reveal the details.
She was so depressed that she finally met someone who was not so frightened and could speak a few words and told everything that happened.
After Hong Yu ran out of the house, she met Prince Rui who was waiting outside the house. He invited her to a tavern and said he would make a bet with her.
They bet whether King Duan is a mercenary villain and not worthy of trust at all.
He asked Hongyu to accidentally reveal in Prince Duan's palace that he had an astonishing amount of treasures from the previous dynasty, and he also gave her a real treasure from the previous dynasty's palace.
King Duan was an upper-level figure in the Great Shang Dynasty. He knew that there were indeed rumors circulating among the powerful: after the founding emperor and the generals entered the palace, they found that the entire palace was empty.
The treasures of the previous royal family disappeared. The emperor, concubines and clan members all committed suicide and died for the country. They failed to obtain the royal property.
As a result, the royal family of the Dashang Dynasty had to live frugally for decades and slowly accumulate wealth before they could build their own palaces.
Emperors of several generations would send secret guards to search for these treasures. At this moment, he suddenly heard the clues about the treasures of the previous royal family. His eyes flickered, and he calmed down for a second. This treasure must be his.
King Duan tricked Hong Yu into telling her what he had made up with King Rui before: she was from Jiangshui Town and the treasure was under her house.
She also told King Duan his specific address, which King Rui also told her. There lived a human trafficker who abducted women and children and had made a lot of money through illegal business in the past few years.
The family bribed local officials, who turned a blind eye to their atrocities.
It was also because they committed too many sins that their children always died young and could not be raised well. Their son, who finally raised him to 16 years old, also died of illness this year.
This family wants to find a ghost marriage for their son and wants to use a living person, which is too sinful.
Hong Yu personally went to verify that King Rui rescued the abducted women and children. He was convinced that the family was an accomplice of criminals, so he agreed to use this family as a trafficker to set up a gambling game.
King Duan thought about it carefully and found out that Jiangshui Town was a retirement home for powerful people in the capital in the previous dynasty and was very close to the imperial city.
If you want to transfer the dynasty's wealth in a short time, this is the most suitable place. Such a large amount of wealth cannot be transferred to a farther place silently. It is easier to find a place to bury it nearby.
As expected, Prince Duan sent people to raid the trafficker's house that night. The family thought the government was too corrupt and wanted more.
He became so angry that he actually fought against the officers and soldiers. King Duan cold-bloodedly ordered the officers and soldiers to kill the whole family, saying that they intended to rebel and killed them on the spot.
Then King Duan sent people to dig three feet into the ground to find the treasure, but they dug all night and found nothing.
Hongyu appeared at the scene the next day, feeling sad when he saw the trafficker's mansion that had been turned into ruins.
Although he knew that the trafficker's family was unforgivable, King Duan thought in his heart that they were her family members, so he still acted cruelly.
King Duan stayed up all night, staring at his men digging for treasures, but found nothing. He felt irritable and wanted to walk out of the ruins to get some fresh air.
I saw Hong Yu standing at the door, and I was a little surprised. Why did she just come back?
Prince Duan put on a sad and helpless look, "Hong'er, I received a secret message saying that this family was rebelling, so I brought my men to search. I don't want to do that either."
Hong Yu smiled sadly, "I wonder if His Highness Prince Duan has found the treasure?"
King Duan quickly denied it. He still had some affection for Hong Yu and had some patience in making up lies:
"It's not that I'm looking for the treasure. This matter concerns the imperial court and is nothing to play with. I received a secret order from my father."
Hong Yu laughed: "His Royal Highness Duan Wang, I lied to you about that treasure. This is not my home either."
King Duan understood that he was being played, "Kuyu, what do you mean by doing this?"
"You are a ruthless villain just to see love."
"Do you know that you have harmed an innocent family like this?" King Duan became angry because no one had ever dared to lie to him like this.
"If this is really my family, aren't our family innocent?" Hong Yu asked loudly.
King Duan took a step forward and said, "Don't think that I can let you go if you do such a thing."
"Have you finally taken off the mask of hypocrisy and warmth and revealed your true face?"
"Get her!"
King Duan ordered his men to capture Hong Yu, but unexpectedly, Hong Yu was so agile that hundreds of people could not catch her, so she escaped.
Only then did King Duan realize that Hong Yu was actually a martial arts master who could escape from hundreds of soldiers, and he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.
If she was unhappy and assassinated herself, wouldn't it be easy to succeed?
After he returned to Beijing, he was not concerned with dealing with the matter of killing his family for no reason. He was also afraid that Hong Yu would turn around and take revenge, so he strengthened the guards of Prince Duan's Mansion.
He did not expect that Hong Yu would not retaliate at all. When they met again, the other party turned out to be a noble concubine in the palace, and he had to bow when he saw her.
Prince Duan wanted to scold Hong Yu. She had become his woman, so how could she marry his father again? It was ridiculous.
However, Hong Yu scolded him, telling him to respect himself and not to be disrespectful to the imperial concubine.
After that, King Tuan also thought about embarrassing Hong Yu and making her father dislike her, so that he could take the opportunity to take her out of the palace, or kill her, at least not to gain his father's favor again.
But all the people he sent failed, and most of them died. A few of them were still tortured in prison and questioned the mastermind behind the scenes.
He was so busy trying to silence these people that he had no time to embarrass Hong Yu anymore.
A few months later, Hong Yu directly conferred the title of concubine and became the master of a palace, so Prince Duan could not take action.
Every time he saw his father and his former woman kissing each other, he would think that they had slept with the same woman.
Coupled with the guard's eyes that were not too obvious but really changed, a sense of shame came to my heart, and I wanted to draw my sword and kill.
After hearing this, Tang Yue felt that he was indeed not as good as Zangxian in making troubles. No wonder he couldn't become the Young City Lord.
She poured a glass of wine for Hong Yu, "Sister is also wronged and has to serve a man she doesn't love."
Hong Yu waved his hand, "It doesn't matter, I have the secret technique of hypnosis passed down from my family. Every time the emperor spends the night, he doesn't do anything with me, but he will feel that he spent a good night."
"Furthermore, this secret technique can put the emperor into a deep sleep, allowing him to get the best rest. The next day, he will be full of energy and energetic. I thought it was the effect of sleeping with me, and he likes to come to my Jinlan Palace even more."
Wow, then she felt that the emperor had really made a profit. He could have a good rest while having erotic dreams, and be satisfied both physically and mentally. He killed two birds with one stone, and she wanted to learn from it.