readytorunbook Chapter 106 Half-killed Red Pearl
Chapter 106 Half-killed Red Pearl
When Hongzhu heard what Zhao Fangyu said, her face turned pale and she fell to the ground in a daze, as if she had already anticipated her future.
She could never have imagined that Zhao Fangyu had secretly suspected her for a long time, and even sent people to her hometown to secretly investigate her background...
With such a skill, how could she escape? Even if she escaped now, how could the people behind Zhao Fangyu let her go?
Hongzhu was unable to struggle. She felt as if her soul had been taken away from her in an instant. She lay on the ground crying in a daze.
Seeing this, Zhao Fangyu curled his lips and pressed the cold and sharp hairpin against Hongzhu's neck.
As long as Zhao Fangyu applied a little force, the silver hairpin would pierce into the fragile neck and take the person's life.
"There is a very important tendon here. Once it is cut, even if the imperial physician stands in front of you, he can't save you."
"The blood can fly several feet high. After a while, all the blood in the body will be drained out."
"Even if you don't tell me, I know who is behind this."
"After I entered the palace, the only person I offended was the eldest prince."
Hongzhu's pupils suddenly shrank and she stared at Zhao Fangyu in horror again.
Zhao Fangyu waved to Ms. Yang and Lan Ye in the dark. The two walked out from the shade of the tree and calmly saluted to Zhao Fangyu in the face of Hongzhu's increasingly frightened eyes.
Zhao Fangyu washed the hairpin and put it back on her head, with a calm expression: "My two sisters have seen it too. It's not me who caused the trouble. I'm just unlucky. Someone wants to kill me out of nowhere."
The round pearls sparkled in the sunlight, without any sign of the blood stains just now.
"The clerk wants to send the red beads to the Empress. Someone in the palace is trying to kill the daughter of an official. This is no small matter."
Lan Ye was a member of Zhao Fangyu's family, so she naturally agreed. The facts were before her, and Lady Yang would not spoil the fun.
Zhao Fangyu borrowed two people from Yanyun Palace and waited until midnight before taking Hongzhu to the Queen's bedroom.
I didn't meet many people along the way. It was unexpectedly quiet, as if the garrison of the entire huge imperial city had been disbanded overnight.
Zhao Fangyu drove straight in and didn't see a few maids and old women guarding the gate until he reached the Queen's Fengyi Palace.
Zhao Fangyu was brought into Fengyi Palace by an old nanny, holding a solitary lamp.
"Are you the female official from Longxi that day?"
After Zhao Fangyu kowtowed, he did not dare to stand up and knelt down to answer yes.
"You came here at night, what important matter must you report at this time?"
Normally, the Queen would have gone to bed by this time.
Zhao Fangyu kowtowed and handed over a petition, kneeling humbly with her slender waist. Her soft black hair was shiny and smooth, and her whole posture was as docile as the cat slave kept at the feet of the imperial concubine.
The queen looked at the girl in front of her, whose appearance was so outstanding that half of the harem was extremely wary of her. The more she looked at her, the more she realized how beautiful she was.
His temperament and appearance are both top-notch. His only shortcoming is probably that he is not smart enough.
A truly smart person would have used the evidence against this palace maid to ask the Crown Prince to save Meng Yanzhen's fetus.
But it doesn't matter if it's a little stupid, a toy like a cat doesn't need to be very smart.
Unfortunately, the eldest prince and the third prince did not understand this truth, and insisted on chasing after an unknown woman and causing a stir in the city.
The maid took the complaint and presented it to the queen.
The lights in the hall were bright, and the words on the white paper were written clearly in black.
"I don't know how I have offended His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and now things have come to a point where we have to fight to the death."
Zhao Fangyu knelt for a long time, unable to get up, with his palms pressed against the ground. Although his forehead did not touch the ground, the feeling of humiliation in Zhao Fangyu's heart did not diminish in the slightest.
She suppressed the injustice in her heart and said word by word: "I came to the palace to do my duty, and I just want to leave the palace safely at the age of 25."
"But the eldest prince wanted to kill the minor official three times just because of a quarrel!"
When he looked up again, his clear eyes were filled with tears and his face looked helpless, as if he was a poor little thing who had been forced into a desperate situation with nowhere else to go.
Zhao Fangyu imitated Hongzhu's behavior during the day, slowly grabbing the corner of the queen's skirt and knelt to beg for protection.
The queen looked at her for a long time, then suddenly realized something, and personally helped Zhao Fangyu up, holding her hand and saying, "Good child, don't worry, since you have come to me, I will never ignore you."
"Your testimony is weak after all. Are you willing to wait?"
Zhao Fangyu kowtowed again, looking extremely grateful to the queen. It was as if a weak dodder had finally found a good tree to live in.
Meng Yanzhen was only a fourth-rank beauty in the palace. The emperor meant that after she gave birth to a child, she would be directly promoted to a concubine. But even a concubine could not protect Zhao Fangyu.
From then on, Zhao Fangyu often went to the Queen to show his courtesy, but most of the gifts he gave her were purse handkerchiefs he had made himself.
The Shangyi Bureau quickly arranged for a new palace maid to come over. The palace maid was similar to Hongzhu, with a round face, and looked extremely festive.
But she was much more discerning than Hongzhu, and basically all the work was done in advance without Zhao Fangyu having to touch her. Zhao Fangyu also gave her pearl cream as he did before.
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Since the flower banquet, Zhang Yingying's life has been particularly bad.
People often say that she is a witch, and even blame her for their menstrual period being two days longer than usual!
They said it was because she was dressed inappropriately that day and disrupted social order!
Even if Zhang Yingying changed back into the round-necked robe of an ordinary female official, there were still people pointing fingers at her behind her back. The flower crown she wore that day would no longer be fresh after a day. The beauty of flowers was obvious, but it was not eternal. After just three or five days, it would begin to smell rotten.
All this happened differently than Zhang Yingying had expected!
She saw Zhao Fangyu become a popular figure in the palace. Everyone said that although Zhao Fangyu was not as good as her in writing poetry, she had a kind heart and understood the difficulties of ordinary people. Such a woman was truly kind.
The famous verses she recited shocked the whole city and even spread thousands of miles away, but for a while they were also regarded as a way to gain fame and reputation...
She refused to accept it, and she recited famous lines from ancient times one after another. The literati and scholars believed that since she could make such a decision in the poems, she would not have a vicious heart.
But the common people don’t understand, they are not good at writing, and poetry is too far away from them. They only know that their hard work and difficulties are also seen by the upper class.
Zhang Yingying was praised by literati, and Zhao Fangyu was widely known among the people, especially the military generals from Longxi and those from the border areas, who all had a very good impression of Zhao Fangyu!
Zhao Fangyu met the Third Prince several times in the Sutra Hall. The Third Prince tried to talk to Zhao Fangyu, but he was often called away by Zhang Yingying on some pretext before he could say a few words.
Zhao Fangyu wished to stay away from the princes, but the opposite happened.
Zhao Fangyu was filing the books returned by the ladies when suddenly a shadow appeared in front of the palace gate.
Zhao Fangyun followed the light and saw that the man outside the hall was wearing a dark brocade round-necked robe and a jade belt around his waist. On his shoulder was a huge unicorn that stretched from his shoulder to his chest, with its fangs and claws bared, and a powerful aura.
The next second, the man put his hands in his folds and stepped into the Sutra Hall.