The Crown Princess is reborn and returns to subvert the world

Guo Ziyi frowned, "You don't want to leave the palace?"

"I just want to stay and serve you, sir. I know I don't have the ability like sir, but I'm not afraid of hardship or dirt. As long as sir is willing to keep me by your side, I'm willing to do anything."

Guo Ziyi's cloudy eyes suddenly brightened up, "Are you willing to do anything for our family?"

"Yes, I am willing to do anything!"

Guo Ziyi touched his beardless chin and slowly smiled, "Okay, right now my family has something for you to do."

In the imperial study, Situ Changqing placed a cylindrical object wrapped in paper on the ground.

Jixiang looked at it with a serious expression, "How many are there in total?"

"I have roughly counted what has been dug out, and there are probably more than a thousand."

"They are so bold. If all of these are set on fire, I'm afraid most of the houses in our palace will be destroyed. Has Eunuch Rong been caught?"

"I am following your Majesty's instructions and sending people to keep an eye on it."

"Bring him here, I will interrogate him myself."

"Yes!" Situ Changqing turned around and walked out, carefully picking up the cylindrical object on the ground and taking it away.

After Situ Changqing left, Jixiang paced slowly in the room with a frown, thinking for a long time.

Suddenly, Jixiang stopped and shouted to the door, "Someone come!"

A guard came in immediately.

"Have all the people from the Widow's Palace left?"

The guard replied, "According to the Queen's order, the maids and eunuchs serving Madam Lan have been asked to leave the palace."

"Has the eunuch called Little Table left too?"

The guard thought for a moment and said, "According to past practice, eunuchs generally don't like to leave the palace. After leaving the palace, Eunuch Xiaozhuo should go to the chief eunuch Guo to ask for help."

"Guo Ziyi?"

The guard nodded.

"Has Eunuch Guo come today?"

"Here I come, here I come. This old servant is here." Just as Jixiang finished speaking, Eunuch Guo hurried in from outside and knelt down to Jixiang as soon as he entered the room.

"Please forgive me, Queen. I don't know what I ate today, but my stomach got upset. I have to run out every now and then."

"Did anyone from the Widow's Palace come to look for you?"

Eunuch Guo was stunned for a moment, then replied, "Yes, Aunt Chuntao has been in the palace for nearly twenty years. This time she wanted to take the opportunity to return to her hometown to retire. So I followed the Majesty's wishes, gave her a bag of silver for retirement, and sent her away."

"Where's the little table?"

"The little table boy deserves death!" Guo Ziyi kowtowed, "Please punish me, Madam! Please punish me, I deserve death! I shouldn't have kept a man like that in the palace. I should have beaten him to death long ago!"

Seeing Guo Ziyi suddenly like this, Jixiang's face did not change: "What happened to the small table?! Eunuch Guo, please stand up first and talk slowly."

Guo Ziyi then slowly stood up and stood aside in a proper manner, "Madam, the young master has committed a serious crime."

Jixiang's expression remained unchanged.

"He had previously lost a lot of income because he followed Lady Lan to the Widow's Palace. In addition, the people who used to surround him no longer looked at him with respect. He felt very uncomfortable, so he started thinking of crooked ways to make money."

Jixiang turned and looked at Guo Ziyi.

Guo Ziyi continued, "Most people rarely go to the Widow's Palace, but the palace guards and servants in charge of flowers and plants must go there, so Xiao Zhuo tried every means to contact these people."

"He used the little money he had left to bribe them and asked them to help him find a way to make money."

"What does he want people to do for him?" Jixiang said in a cold voice.

"At first, he asked them to help sell the embroidery made by Chuntao and others, and he earned some hard work fees from it. Later, he felt that the money was not enough, so he stole some valuable items from Concubine Lan and gave them away to sell. Later, later..."

Guo Ziyi looked at Jixiang with some concern.

Jixiang sneered, "Did he later help the people outside to bring things into the palace?"

"Your Majesty, you knew this a long time ago?" Guo Ziyi was stunned.

"I don't have such great ability, but I know this matter. It was Xiao Zhuo who told me secretly. Eunuch Guo, where is Xiao Zhuo now? I want to see him."

Guo Ziyi was startled, and a look of panic flashed across his face.

"Why, has he also left the palace and returned to his hometown to live?"

"No, no, he, he... I will send someone to bring him to the palace right away."

Jixiang glanced at the guards beside him and said, "Let the guards follow you back to bring him back. If he refuses to enter the palace, break his legs first! But he must be alive. If he dies, you guys..."

The guard immediately replied, "We will definitely bring the person back alive!"

When Xiao Zhuo was kneeling in front of Jixiang, Jixiang saw that he was trembling with fear, and she couldn't help but have other thoughts in her mind. She glanced at Eunuch Guo who was standing beside her with a guilty look on his face, and asked,

"Little table, look up at me."

The little table had no choice but to look up at Jixiang.

"Tell me, do you know about the explosives hidden in the Widow's Hall?"

The little table was stunned, and then looked at Eunuch Guo next to him.

Eunuch Guo looked up at the ceiling of the imperial study and didn't even look at the small table.

"Small table!" Jixiang raised his voice.

The little table was frightened and said, "Your Majesty, I know, I know everything."

"Then do you know how much explosives are there in total?"

"I, I,..." Xiaozhuo suddenly didn't know how to answer and looked at Eunuch Guo again.

Eunuch Guo was finally unhappy this time. "Hurry up and answer the queen's question. You are not allowed to look at me! I followed the late emperor on his southern tour and I know nothing about what you are doing!"

The little table was stunned, then kowtowed to the ground, "Reporting to the queen, although I have been serving in the Widow's Palace, I did give benefits to the guards and Eunuch Rong to help resell the embroidery made by Aunt Chuntao, but I did not hide any explosives in the store."

Guo Ziyi was stunned. "You told me today that Eunuch Rong asked you to help him hide something in the Widow's Hall."

"I saw that the guards found something in there today, so I said this on purpose, hoping that you would keep me here. I don't want to leave. There is no one left in my hometown. If I leave the palace, I am afraid I will die halfway."

He kowtowed to Jixiang and said, "Please don't drive me out of the palace. I am willing to be a horse and serve you well."

Seeing that Xiao Zhuozi was suddenly trying to find a new way out in front of the Empress, Eunuch Guo's eyes showed contempt and disgust. He suddenly felt that he had been fooled by Xiao Zhuozi and could not help but step forward.

"My Lady, Xiao Zhuo, as a eunuch in the Widow's Palace, it is impossible for him not to know what happened in the palace. So many explosives were found. When they were hidden, it could not have been done in one day. It would have been impossible without the support and cover from the people inside."

"Please understand, Your Majesty, I really know nothing!" The little desk kowtowed again.

"How could you not know?" Eunuch Guo said sternly, "You just told me that it was you who hid those things in the Widow's Hall!"

The little table didn't even look up, just kowtowed to Jixiang, "Please understand, Your Majesty, if I knew there were explosives hidden inside, why didn't I tell Madam Yu clearly? I didn't know about it until now."

Seeing that Xiaozhuo did not speak to Jixiang as he had agreed before, Guo Ziyi was so angry that the flesh on his face twitched. Just when he was about to refute Xiaozhuo's words, Situ Changqing came in with Eunuch Rong.

"My lady, Eunuch Rong is here."

As soon as Guo Ziyi saw Eunuch Rong, his face turned pale instantly.