Father can be an enemy to the country

"Liu, Liu Bowen?" Zhu Zhen raised his thick eyebrows upon hearing this, and his eyes widened like bells: "Are you still called Liu Ji?!"

"Yes, I am none other than Liu Ji." After the old man announced his family name, he seemed to have become a fairy-like person. I don't know if it was a fan filter. "I have been teaching His Highness for a whole year."

Although he didn't attend two classes in total...Liu Bowen added silently.

But I have worked so hard and accomplished so much, so what’s the matter with my old Zhu’s family’s idle life for several years?

"Did the emperor ask His Highness to find the old minister?" Liu Bowen thought about Boss Zhu's always being stingy, and thought to himself, could it be that he no longer wants to support idle people?

"Sir, you are too worried! I came to find you myself." Zhu Zhen felt that the idol filter was showing signs of being broken.

Is this suspicious old man, who seems to be suffering from persecution paranoia, really the legendary Liu Bowen, the incarnation of justice and wisdom, who is as famous as Zhuge Liang for his miraculous calculations?

Why do you feel like a frightened bird that has been spoiled by a toy?

"You came to me yourself?" Liu Bowen looked Zhu Zhen up and down. Having been kicked in the butt by Boss Zhu for half his life, it was hard for him not to wonder if Boss Zhu was playing with him again.

"Yes, I want to ask something." Zhu Zhen said, walking to the window and looking out. As expected, one can look beyond the rockery and see the lotus pond.

"Your Highness wants to ask, did I see you falling into the water?" Liu Bowen understood.

"Yes." Zhu Zhenxin said, this is the right IQ.

"Does your Highness suspect that this matter is related to King Qi?" Liu Bowen asked again.

"That's right." Zhu Zhen nodded, looked back at Liu Bowen and said, "If you see anything, sir, please tell me."

"Sorry, it was windy at that time and the windows were not opened." Liu Bowen replied simply: "His Royal Highness has already come to ask, and the old minister also answered in the same way."

"Sir, this is the leeward side. There is no need to close the window." Zhu Zhen said.

"Prevent drafts." Liu Bowen said calmly.

"But how can you read when the window is closed?" Zhu Zhen said, closing the window on tiptoe, and the room suddenly became dark.

"It was lunch break, I was taking a nap." Liu Bowen said without changing his expression.

"There's not even a bed here..." Zhu Zhen said helplessly.

"Does Your Highness care if I sleep sitting up, lying down, or standing up?" Liu Bowen already felt that he was indeed not sent by Boss Zhu. His attitude became increasingly perfunctory.

"Your Highness, you'd better ask someone else. My eyes are dim and it's hard for me to read, let alone look outside."

"Mr. Gui Geng? You don't look very old." Zhu Zhen seemed to be still struggling in vain.

"You'll be sixty-five after the New Year, aren't you old enough?" After saying that, Liu Bowen ignored him and immersed himself in the book.

"Sixty-five..." Zhu Zhen seemed to have thought of something, and recited it silently twice, and stopped pestering him.

~~

At night, the cold stars fell and everything was silent.

‘Bang, bang…’ At Xu Zheng time, the sound of bangs sounded by patrolling troops on the West First Street.

The sound of banging can be clearly heard in Wan'an Palace. Upon hearing this signal, the eunuch who had no errands hurried out of the palace. After a moment, the palace door was locked and no one was allowed in or out.

Outside Wan'an Palace, there were patrols by the Jing Army. In the palace, the maids were on duty at night.

Mu Xiang is not the only one on night duty in the palace. There are two gatekeepers at the door, one outside the door of the secondary room and one outside the door of Nuange. They all have their own responsibilities. If the empress is there, the number of maids on night duty will be doubled.

The person who sleeps inside is the head of the palace maids at night. Only the most favored confidants can do this. If they do well, they can even be promoted to female officials. No wonder Mu Xiang would cry and beg His Highness not to kick her out.

Zhu Zhen took a bath under the service of Mu Xiang and others, then lay on the bed and asked Mu Xiang to help him dry his hair.

Mu Xiang first wrapped a piece of his hair with a cotton cloth and gently rubbed it up and down to absorb as much moisture as possible.

Then change to another piece of cotton and absorb the water from the other strand of hair.

After all the hair has been sucked, it is replaced with hollow gilt balls filled with incense and charcoal fire, and dried thoroughly.

This is a technical job, and if you don't do it right, you may burn your hair or even burn your scalp. But Mu Xiang's technique was so skillful that Zhu Zhen didn't feel hot at all, only warm and comfortable.

Well, this makes sense...Zhu Zhen finally felt that this prince was not in vain.

But when he thought of his mother and concubine still suffering in the cold palace, he came to his senses and silently reviewed today's gains.

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The biggest reward was naturally identifying the suspect who pushed him into the water!

Liu Bowen helped him narrow the scope to his own brothers. He still knows a lot about his brothers.

First of all, we can exclude the brothers in front. Because the youngest fifth brother is already fourteen and is more than a head taller than him.

As for the younger brother at the back, the only one who studied in the main hall was the seventh and eighth.

Although the eighth child is also the daughter of Concubine Da Ding, he is only six years old and has just entered school for a few days.

Therefore, there is only one Lao Qi who is half a year younger than him - Qi King Zhu Shu, who is also ten years old, and fits the characteristics of the perpetrator!

Moreover, his mother-in-law beat his mother-in-law, and he wanted to avenge his mother-in-law, which made sense in terms of motivation.

So what’s the next step? Zhu Zhen scratched his head a little.

After the other maids had retreated and Mu Xiang was the only one left, he asked, "Do you have any clues about what I asked you to inquire about?"

Although it feels like the mother-in-law is unreliable, her confidants may not be reliable either. But Zhu Zhen has no one available right now, so he can only rely on Mu Xiang to collect information.

Mu Xiang first put the gilded ball back into the copper tray, and then said softly: "My servant has inquired, and there are indeed spies in the palace these days. Those with questionable origins and those who are not of my race are all taken away. Went for questioning. No one has come back yet."

In fact, this incident caused panic in the palace, and Mu Xiang had known about it for a long time. But she intentionally stretched herself for a day before reporting it, because she didn't want to leave the impression of a talkative woman who knew everything to His Highness.

"Where is Changyang Palace? Has it been affected?" Zhu Zhen asked again.

"Of course. Da is a Tatar. There was a period before. How many innocent people were there in her palace?"

"I thought she was so favored and powerful that no one dared to investigate." Zhu Zhen said in surprise.

"She is only in charge of the Sixth Palace temporarily. She will show her true colors as soon as the queen comes back." Mu Xiang looked at Zhu Zhen, as if she saw the shadow of Boss Zhu, and said in a trembling voice involuntarily: "Besides, the emperor ordered a thorough investigation to find out who ate the bear Are you so brave that you dare to show favoritism?"

"Well, that makes sense." Zhu Zhen nodded. Indeed, who in the palace would dare to fool Boss Zhu.

The intelligence investigation is almost complete, and the next step is to formulate an action plan.

Zhu Zhen stopped talking and lay on the bed silently thinking about it.

Now there are two options. One is to go to the eldest brother or father to report the crime.

Although Liu Bowen said he didn't see anything, no other witnesses were found.

But a ten-year-old brat from the seventh district, who can threaten and deceive, can definitely make him tell the truth.

But the question is, what if the old seven tricks are used? A tiger's poison will not eat its children, so it is impossible for the father to kill his ten-year-old son. It is even very likely that the big issue will be reduced to a trivial matter, so that Lao Qi will not be charged with murdering his brother!

The reason is very simple - he is still a child... How can a child have any bad intentions...

I guess the most I can do is spread his ass and then imprison him for a period of time, right?

Maybe they would even persuade themselves to be generous and not to hold grudges against their siblings.

For Zhu Zhen, that was simply more uncomfortable than eating 10,000 flies.

Fuck you, I...oh no, I am not generous at all. I am a prince and you still ask me to be generous? Pooh!

If the prince has to swallow his anger and take the overall situation into consideration, then what else can I do as a prince? !

And that may not necessarily save the mother-in-law.

Because she stabbed her father, she became a mortal enemy of Concubine Da Ding. She will definitely refuse to let go, and may even find ways to harm her mother-in-law.

It doesn't matter if you harm others, the key is not benefiting yourself. Therefore, this method does not work well.

Then there is only one other option left...

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