Seventy-fourth bowl of soup (1)
[She should have died in that catastrophe, and has never had a relationship with him since then]
[And after he ruled the country, he became bloodthirsty, brutal, ruthless, and alone.]Ah Chou couldn't believe that he had such courage. A major event happened last night, His Majesty passed away, and before they recovered, the Ninth Prince had led the Imperial Forest Army to surround the Prince's Mansion heavily, using the reason that "The Prince murdered His Majesty, the crime should be punished, and he was ordered to come here to kill Prince's Mansion". A Chou is just a rough maid in the kitchen. She is called A Chou because of her ugly appearance. She doesn't even have her own name, but the good thing is that her name is not on the killing list. In the stove, this escaped a catastrophe.
She didn't dare to act rashly after the Ninth Prince's soldiers and horses left, and she didn't know how long she had been hiding in the stove before Ah Chou struggled to get out, and immediately smelled a pungent bloody smell.
She happened to be helping to wash the vegetables when the Imperial Forest Army killed everyone in the Prince's Mansion. When they heard the movement, everyone went out to watch, but she was flustered, especially because she was born with a keen sense of smell, and she had already smelled the smell of blood in the air. He immediately climbed into the stove and hid. Although he was covered in ashes when he came out, he saved his life.
This life is cheap, but she cherishes it very much.
She originally wanted to leave directly, because she didn't know what was going on now, and the Ninth Prince might bring someone to search again. She was hiding in the kitchen before, and she could still hear the servants outside begging for mercy and crying, as well as the deep laughter of the Ninth Prince.
Although it was very light, Ah Chou was sure that he could hear it very clearly.
She shivered for a while, she was not lucky enough to meet that Ninth Prince, she only glanced at him from a distance across the pavilion, and knew that he had a deep brotherhood with His Royal Highness, but if it was really a brotherhood, how could she order someone to go to him? Will His Highness be found, dead or alive? Although A Chou is not smart, she is not really a fool either. She heard about His Majesty's death and thought it was because of that position. If you think this way, it is doubtful whether His Highness really poisoned His Majesty.
If His Majesty dies, the throne will belong to His Majesty sooner or later, why should His Majesty make such a fuss
The footsteps she wanted to leave were attracted by a thin scent of ink hidden in the blood.
That is the smell of His Highness.
Ah Chou is naturally not lucky enough to serve His Royal Highness close by. Prince Yongan has been gifted and intelligent since he was a child, and he is virtuous and benevolent. Everyone says that he will be a wise king in the future. Everyone thinks that His Highness the Crown Prince is superior, but Ah Chou knows that His Highness the Crown Prince is the most gentle person in the world.
It was because of her face that she was able to enter the mansion to be a poor envoy girl, otherwise her parents, who only had eyes for her younger brother, would probably sell her into a brothel. A Chou was born with a palm-sized birthmark on the left face, dark red, dark, and ugly, but she grew up called Ugly, A Chou, A Chou, A Chou, everyone called her that, she didn't even have a name No.
Once you enter the Prince's Mansion, you will inevitably be bullied. His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince, has a way, but since there are people in this world, there will be oppression and bullying. A Chou was sent to pour Yexiang because of his ugly birth, but he had a keen sense of smell and a meek and introverted personality, so he was very unlikable.
That day when she brought her lunch back to her room, she was bumped into by a group of boys who insisted that she had stolen it, snatched the steamed buns, broke them into pieces and threw them on the ground, asking her to kneel down to eat, but Ah Chou was naturally unwilling, so he had to Being punched and kicked, she looks ugly, and she does menial jobs, how can anyone treat her as a human being.
But His Royal Highness passed by for some reason, saw this scene, Ah Chou knelt on the ground, and he actually reached out to help her. Such hands, slender as jade, are exquisite and beautiful, which is completely different from her rough hands that are used to rough work. Her body was stained with dust and steamed buns, but His Highness helped her up, asked a few nice words, and asked her name, and ordered someone to bring her another meal, and even transferred her to the kitchen as a helper.
After those bullying boys were punished by His Highness, they behaved well when they saw her again, and Ah Chou was never bullied again. She had enough food and warm clothes. Although she worked harder every day, she could still save some monthly salary.
So His Highness is her great benefactor.
She will never miss the smell of His Highness.
Ah Chou followed the smell all the way to the study room. The dead people on the ground hadn't been cleaned up yet. She knew many of them, but she didn't dare to look again. Hundreds of people from the Prince's Mansion are all dead now.
If the Ninth Prince wants to kill His Highness, it is absolutely impossible that he has not been to the study, and the files and books in this place are the best proof. Ah Chou was illiterate, and she didn't know if there were any important items. She didn't even know that there was a mechanism in the study. The only way for her to find the prince was her amazing sense of smell.
The fragrance of ink became the strongest at the place closest to the bookshelf, and when she walked to the side, it immediately faded away, so Ah Chou stretched out his hand to grope around, but for some reason, the bookshelf suddenly opened to both sides, revealing the tunnel inside.
The Ninth Prince is a smart person, he must not be reconciled if he was not found the first time, and there will be nothing hidden here again.
Entering the tunnel, one can see the prince who is leaning against the wall and has not moved.
"Your Highness." She called out in a low voice, and ran over to try to see if he was breathing, but when she lowered her head, she felt ashamed. His Highness was wearing a white robe, but she was covered in a rough gray cloth, so she was afraid of getting dirty. Defiled him, defiled him.
But if you wait any longer, you will die. Ah Chou called out a few more times, but His Highness still didn't respond, she gritted her teeth, squatted down in front of the prince, and carried him on her back with all her might. She didn't dare to walk back and forth, for fear of meeting the Ninth Prince who might turn back, so she had no choice but to go forward along the tunnel.
Although His Highness the Crown Prince is gentle and elegant, he is also a martial artist. A Chou is no bigger than his shoulders and is very thin. It is really hard to carry him on his back, but she doesn't know where the strength comes from. Even though the tunnel seems to be endless, she never thought about it Put him down and run for your life alone.
If she ran away by herself, she would be able to find a job no matter what, and it would not be a problem to support herself, but she couldn't leave him behind.
If she could carry His Highness on her back like this, even to the point of death, she would be willing.
I don't know how long it took, and finally came to the end. Ah Chou crawled out along the entrance of the cave, and then dragged the prince. After a lot of hard work, he found that this was a deserted house, and the exit was an ancient well. She breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to leave when she turned her head and saw plowshares and barrels piled up in the yard of the deserted house. After thinking about it, she moved them again and filled them into the well.
Can't stay here for long.
She didn't know where to go, but she knew she had to go to a hidden place, otherwise it would be too unsafe. Once the Ninth Prince found her... She was stupid and couldn't think of a way. She only knew to hide the prince. When His Highness woke up, he Being so smart, there must be a way to turn the tide.
A Chou has almost blind admiration for the prince, so she continued to walk with the prince on her back. Fortunately, it was dark and there were no people on the street. She kept walking until she reached an abandoned temple, and she was exhausted.
The prince still didn't wake up, A Chou hid him behind the Buddha statue and covered him with straw. She had seen his wounds, they were all on his legs, she was not smart, there was nothing she could do, but the bleeding had stopped long ago, and she didn't know what to do, so she went to the nearest creek to fill a handful of water with leaves, Come back to feed the prince, then kneel carefully and wait for him to wake up.
After the prince was injured, he thought that he had already treated the wound, not only stopped the bleeding, but also bandaged it up, but he was unconscious. At this moment, Ah Chou began to regret why he didn't carry a steamed bun when he crawled out of the stove. What if His Highness woke up but was hungry
Before she could think about what to do, the prince moved a bit and slowly opened his eyes.
Ah Chou hurriedly kowtowed: "Your Highness, you are awake."
The prince did not respond to her. He hadn't recovered from the shock and pain before he fell into a coma. It took him a while to realize what had happened. His father was seriously ill. But the younger brother suddenly turned his face and denied him, not only stabbed him, but also prepared a false imperial decree to usurp the throne. Under the protection of his personal guards, he broke through the siege and returned to the Prince's Mansion. He just entered the secret passage to treat the wound, and then he didn't know anything.
"Who... are you?" He tried to see clearly the black object in front of him, but felt a sharp pain in his legs.
"The maidservant is the rough servant girl in the kitchen, her name is A Chou."
She wasn't sad at all, he didn't recognize her for granted, he was a star in the sky, how could he remember the gravel in the ground? Ah Chou was not sad at all, she looked at the prince eagerly: "Your Highness, what should we do next? The Ninth Prince will definitely come to catch you again, this place...is not a place to stay for a long time."
The prince was stunned for a moment: "Ninth Prince? What happened after I returned to the Prince's Mansion?"
Ah Chou said hesitantly: "... the slaves don't know too well, I only know that the Ninth Prince led people to raid the Prince's Mansion, and said..."
"say what?"
"Say... said that His Highness poisoned His Majesty, and his crime should be punished, so he came to copy and kill... all the people in the mansion died, and the servants hid in the stove, so they escaped the catastrophe."
The prince closed his eyes and clenched his fists.
Ah Chou stared at his hand, and after a long time said in a low voice, "Your Highness..."
"What kind of Highness do you call me? What kind of Highness am I?" The prince laughed at himself, "I can't see his true face, and I haven't even seen my father for the last time. Now this life may be on the line. "
He knew this brother very well, since he could bear it for many years, he must have already had a perfect plan. At dawn tomorrow, the news that the prince killed the king and absconded in fear of crime will surely spread throughout the world, and by that time, he will be doomed forever.
Brothers who have been brothers for so many years, even though they have the same father and half mother, but he treats the ninth brother as a brother and sister, but what happened, it ended like this in the end.