"Who are you looking for?" Hei Xuanyi walked to Wu Ruo's side.
Wu Ruo turned around and said, "I saw my friend just now, but he has already left."
"Is it your friend who went to the slave market with you?"
"Um."
"them… "
Before Hei Xuanyi finished speaking, the owner of the shadow puppet show came over with a smile: "The shadow puppet show performed by the young master just now is very good. Since I was born, it is the first time someone has played a shadow puppet show in the form of storytelling, and it seems that it is more popular with children. Welcome, it really opened my eyes, son, I have been taught."
Wu Ruo smiled and said, "I tell the story like a storyteller because I don't know how to rap."
"Daddy." Eggy threw Xiaoxiao onto Wu Ruo's lap,
Wu Ruo picked up the child: "Did the shadow play just now look good?"
Eggy giggled: "It's pretty."
Xiao Xiao also nodded with a smile.
"Really pretty?" Wu Ruo teased the child and asked, "Didn't you just make me happy?"
"It's really beautiful."
Wu Ruo looked at You Ye and the others with a smile, but found that Lou Qingluo was still standing behind the crowd: "Xuan Yi, is Master Lou looking for you?"
Hei Xuanyi looked towards Lou Qingluo.
Lou Qingluo came back to his senses, made a few gestures to Hei Xuanyi, then turned and left.
Wu Ruo asked: "What did he say?"
Hei Xuanyi turned around and said: "He said that he saw people from the old clan standing here watching a shadow puppet show just now, and he was worried that they would recognize me, so he stood here and waited for them to leave before leaving.
"Oh."
Youye walked over with Wuyou in his arms and said, "I'm going back."
Wu Ruo nodded.
Xiao Wuyou said, "Second Uncle, I want to watch your shadow puppet show next time."
Wu Ruo rubbed his little head: "If you are obedient, I will perform for you, or buy a shadow puppet troupe to come back and perform for you."
"Okay." Xiao Wuyou happily clapped her hands.
Wu Zhu asked Hei Xuanyi: "Xuanyi, do you want to tell your master that we are going back?"
"I will send another person to tell Master."
When they left, there were children and adults asking them to perform one, but it was too late, otherwise, Wu Ruo and the others might perform another one.
When Wu Ruo and the others returned to the palace, the guards reported to Hei Xuanyi that the leader of the old clan had led people to trade goods.
Wu Ruo didn't know anything about the old clan, so he asked Heixin to take the child to take a bath, and then to change the medicine for the hag.
Now the hag's face and hands are wrapped in gauze, she can't speak, and she can't use her hands at will, so as not to heal the cracks, so she can only read books to pass the time.
After changing the medicine for the ghost woman, Tailin of Hengxing Palace told him that Hei Xuanyi had left the palace to deal with the affairs of the old clan, and he might not come back until after a while, but Wu Ruo hadn't heard anything when he woke up the next day. Meet Hei Xuanyi.
After breakfast, Wu Ruo took the children to see the empress.
The eunuchs guarding outside the main hall saw Wu Ruo approaching, and hurriedly said: "Crown Princess, the Empress is busy with something, you and the two young highnesses can come back later."
Wu Ruo looked into the courtyard and asked, "Is the queen mother busy?"
The eunuch moved his steps calmly, blocking Wu Ruo's sight and said, "Yes."
Wu Ruo thought this eunuch was weird.
The eunuch looked at him with a smile, making him unable to see any problems.
Wu Ruo had no choice but to leave with the child. When they reached the compound, they heard a eunuch whisper, "I just saw Lord Mao bring a woman and a child into the palace to meet the empress."
"What's so strange? It's not like you haven't seen adults bring their wives and children to see the empress."
"The strange thing is that the woman is not Mrs. Mao's wife, and that child looks very similar to His Royal Highness."
When Wu Ruo heard this, she couldn't help but stop.
"His Royal Highness? Are you talking about the eldest son who is like a prince?"
"right."
"You said that child is the same as His Majesty? Could it be that you made a mistake, maybe that child was His Majesty in the first place."
"He is taller than His Highness, and a little thinner than His Highness. His face is not as round and cute as His Highness, and his skin is not as white as the coarse cloth that His Highness wears. He is about four years old, so I can be sure that child is definitely not Your Highness.
"You read it right, right?"
"At that time, I was afraid of making a mistake, so I hid in a corner and took a closer look. Moreover, I was not the only one who saw the child."
"If it is true that the child looks like His Highness as you said, Lord Mao brought him here, could it be..."
The eunuch quickly covered his mouth: "You speak in a low voice, it will be bad if this word reaches the ears of the Crown Princess."
"You know what I want to say before I say anything?"
"Master Mao brought a child who looks similar to His Royal Highness, anyone can think in the direction you guessed."
"It doesn't necessarily belong to the prince, maybe it belongs to other princes."
"It looks so similar to the prince, could it belong to another prince?"
"You forgot that Prince Lingxuan is somewhat similar to the crown prince. The two brothers look the most like the emperor, and the emperor's appearance is also very similar to his second brother, Prince Yuxian. However, if the child is on the side of Prince Yuxian , Master Mao will not bring children into the palace, so... "
"Okay, let's stop guessing and get to work."
When the two eunuchs turned a corner, they saw Wu Ruo holding the child standing in front. Their expressions changed, and they quickly saluted Wu Ruo: "I have seen the princess."
Wu Ruo nodded, and left with the children in her arms.
Seeing Wu Ruo leaving, the eunuch patted his chest and said, "I was scared to death.
The other eunuch's legs were shaking constantly: "Didn't the princess hear us?"
"He had a calm face, he didn't seem to have heard us talking, he didn't punish us face to face, probably he didn't hear what we said."
"That's good."
The two eunuchs didn't dare to talk about the royal affairs anymore, and hurried back to their respective posts.
On the way to Hengxing Palace, Wu Ruo kept thinking about what the two eunuchs in the compound said. Combined with the expressions of the eunuchs in the empress and empress officials, it is very likely that Lord Mao thought that the child was Hei Xuanyi, so he would bring him to the hospital. palace.
Wu Ruo returned to Hengxing Palace, let Dandan and the others come down to play, and then went to the alchemy room. On the way, she saw a palace lady with a pale face running towards the courtyard where the servants lived. Unexpectedly, she ran into the big palace lady who came out of the lower courtyard Together, the two fell to the ground hard.
The palace lady said angrily: "Who is so reckless? It's okay to bump into me now, but what if I bump into the little master?"
The official lady hurriedly stood up and helped the eldest lady up: "Aunt Fuqiu, are you alright?"
Seeing that it was Ru Lan who was always well-behaved, Fu Qiu's expression softened a lot: "Ru Lan, what's wrong with you today? You're flustered, did something happen to you?"
Ru Landong looked around, but didn't see anyone nearby, and didn't see Wu Ruo who happened to be next to the pillar of the main hall, so she said to the palace lady: "Aunt Fuqiu, I just saw someone."
"Who is it?" Fu Qiu asked curiously.
"Near Aunt Xia."
Fuqiu's face changed, and he suppressed his voice and said angrily: "How could you possibly see her? You knew that she..."
She stopped here, took a deep breath to calm down her emotions, and continued: "Don't talk nonsense, you must be wrong."
Ru Lan nervously said: "I'm not mistaken, that person is really similar to Aunt Nian Xia, and she was brought by an adult to the Qiyun Hall where the Empress lives."
Fu Qiu frowned, "He was taken to the Empress's Qiyun Hall?"
"Yes, there is a child with her."
"Child?" Fuqiu thought for a while, then hurriedly asked: "How old is that child?"
No, I don't know. "Ru Lan recalled what she saw just now:" At that time, I was only looking at Aunt Nianqiu, and I didn't pay attention to how likely the child was three or four years old.
Fu Qiu's face darkened: "Don't mention the word Qiu again, be careful not to be heard by Chief Xin and kill you."
Ru Lan quickly shut her mouth.
"Okay, just pretend you haven't seen this matter, and don't tell others that you know?"
Rulan nodded.
"Go down and get busy.
Ru Lan quickly ran to the backyard.
Fuqiu looked at her disappearing figure, and counted with his fingers: "According to the time when it happened that year, the child should be four years old, could it be..."
She shook her head quickly: "Impossible. Impossible."
Fu Qiu didn't dare to think too much, and quickly left the yard.
Wu Ruo came out from behind the pillar, squinted her eyes, and went back to the dormitory without thinking about alchemy.
Near noon, Hei Xuanyi returned to Heng Xing Guan with a sullen face, and sat down on the chair without saying a word.
Wu Ruo, who was changing Dandan's robe, asked, "What's wrong? Didn't anyone from the old clan be caught?"
Hei Xuanyi glanced at him and nodded slightly: "When we arrived, they had already successfully traded with others."
"Then how did you come back to rest last night?"
"I fought with people from the old clan all night, and I didn't come back until I encountered something in the morning."
After Wu Ruo dressed the child, Hei Xuanyi put Xiaoxiao into Dandan's arms: "Take Xiaoxiao outside to play for a while, and I'll call you back after lunch."
"it is good."
After the children left, Hei Xuanyi pulled Wu Ruo into his arms and said, "When I returned to the palace, Mother sent someone to call me to her palace.
Wu Ruo probably guessed what he wanted to say: "Is there anything Mother can do with you?"
Hei Xuanyi showed hesitation: "When I went to the palace, mother was entertaining a woman and a child for dinner, and that woman..."
Having said this, he stopped.
"What happened to that woman?"
Hei Xuanyi squinted his eyes: "That woman used to be a maid in Hengxing Palace, named Nianxia, but five years ago, she should have been executed, but she stood alive beside me. In front of you."
Wu Ruo was puzzled: "Why was she executed?"
Hei Xuanyi hugged him tightly: "She once crawled onto my bed when I was drunk."
Wu Ruo: "..."
Hei Xuanyi noticed that his body was tense, and quickly explained to him: "I was drunk at the time, but I can be sure that I didn't touch her. Later, I executed her in a fit of anger."