Help! The innocent prince always tries to seduce me clumsily

When Xuan Changji was checking on Xiao Shuanzi, he also checked on Xiao Yanzi.

Xiao Yanzi's bed was very clean, so clean that it was abnormal. It was normal for the palace maids and eunuchs to secretly keep some gold, silver or valuables. Those who had served in the palace for many years and survived were either rewarded or had dirty hands. In short, no one's belongings were clean.

He must have packed his luggage in advance and taken all his valuables with him to ensure that he would not have to come back here after this incident, so there was no need to leave valuables here, which is why he dared to do this.

It is difficult for people who are reluctant to spend money to achieve great things.

Chu Shitong did not expose him, nor did he let anyone stop him.

She fell asleep peacefully, waiting for a huge fire to break out.

Little Yanzi was very patient. He waited until late at night before he brought a barrel of oil and poured it in the yard and lit a fire.

Xuan Changji was originally arranged to follow Xiao Yanzi all the way to see where he was going to escape, but when the fire gradually grew bigger, Xuan Changji and Bishui noticed something wrong, that is, Chu Shitong did not come out at the originally agreed time.

After the two rushed in and brought Chu Shitong out, Chu Shitong urged Xuan Changji to chase Xiao Yanzi, and Bishui helped Chu Shitong out of the East Fifth Office.

When the fire broke out in East No. 5 Institute, Xiao Yanzi ran out of the back door with all his belongings in order to save his life. He was so terrified that he was afraid of being discovered, so he hid all the way.

Xuan Changji did not catch up with Xiao Yanzi immediately, but Chu Shitong always had a backup plan. She sent Bishui to deliver the message to Wang Zexu in advance, so Wang Zexu invited Chu Shiyu over as soon as he saw the fire from the East Fifth Building in the imperial study.

Wang Zexu also instructed many eunuchs in advance to wander around the palace road, especially on the road from the East Fifth Office to the palace gate.

Xuan Changji didn't know where Xiao Yanzi was at first, but later, looking at the direction the eunuchs' gazes were looking along the way, he guessed it.

Later, Chu Shiyu led everyone to Dongwuso, where the leader of the Imperial Guards was investigated. His Majesty ordered him to find the murderer within three days.

Although the leader of the Imperial Guards was from the Queen's mother's family, the fire in the palace was related to his position. If he couldn't find the arsonist, he would have no chance of continuing to hold this position.

In order to protect Zhang Chunying, the queen will certainly ask the people in the harem to cooperate fully, and by then capturing Xiao Yanzi will be a must.

As for the fact that he was inexplicably given a house in the west of the city, it was also an unexpected gain.

……

Bishui was sent away by Chu Shitong to rest. After Chu Shitong finished bathing and walked out from behind the screen, he saw Xuan Changji standing in the room.

The dilapidated window frames and the gradually brightening sky, the moon has not yet set and the sun has not yet risen.

He stood at the window, looking at the sky, not knowing what he was thinking.

Chu Shitong said: "I heard from Bishui that you came back a long time ago."

Xuan Changji came back to his senses, turned around and lowered his eyes and said, "Yes."

If he hadn't acted so respectful, Chu Shitong would have found it hard to remember that he was actually a slave.

There is still a difference between slaves and servants.

Chu Shitong walked past Xuan Changji and went straight to the bed, pulling up two layers of snow-white gauze in front of the bed to cover himself.

"How's it going."

Xuan Changji said: "The leader of the Imperial Guards has sent people to investigate overnight. No witnesses were found at the East Fifth House, but Zhang Chunying has already started to check among the servants of the East Fifth House. As expected, Xiao Yanzi's sudden disappearance caught his attention. Now the Imperial Guards are strictly investigating Xiao Yanzi's whereabouts."

"Well, where did he go?"

"Little Yanzi followed the palace road all the way to the side door, entered the storehouse inside the side door and never came out again."

Chu Shitong sat cross-legged on the bed, their figures vaguely visible through two layers of gauze.

"That kerosene should not be from the palace. It is not easy to get so much kerosene in the palace. If I am not mistaken, I already know who is behind Xiao Yanzi."

Xuan Changji asked, "Your Highness, do you want to take action in advance?"

Chu Shitong pulled the quilt over him, laid on the bed, breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "No need, there will be someone to settle accounts with him."

……

Chu Shitong slept until the next afternoon.

"Bishui, what time is it now?"

Chu Shitong rubbed his eyes and asked casually, but strangely, he did not hear Bishui's answer.

Logically speaking, Bishui should have woken up long ago and was standing guard at her door. Could it be that she was cleaning such a large yard by herself?

Considering Bishui's intelligence, it's not impossible.

Chu Shitong had no choice but to get up and change her clothes. After she fetched water to wash up, she realized something was wrong.

It seemed that not only did he not see any clear water along the way, he didn't even see Xuan Changji.

Chu Shitong wiped the water off his hands, put down the towel and walked around in the yard.

This yard is big, divided into four courtyards: east, south, west and north. I slept in the east courtyard yesterday. Each courtyard has four entrances and exits, including a small garden.

Chu Shitong turned around and seemed to hear some movement in the north courtyard.

The North Courtyard is the entrance.

As he got closer, Chu Shitong listened to the noise more carefully.

"The Queen said that although His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince can set up his own residence as an exception, His Royal Highness is still too young to control the entire residence, so she specially ordered me to come here to be the nanny in charge, that is, the nanny appointed by the Queen. Not to mention you, even His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince would not dare to say anything to me. If you glare at me like that again, I will give you a beating! Don't think that you can show off in front of me just because you were His Royal Highness's personal maid. When I was serving in the Queen's bedroom, you, a little girl, didn't even know where to play!"

Chu Shitong watched quietly at the door.

A group of palace maids and guards stood in the center of the north courtyard. In front of them, there was a nanny who was about forty or fifty years old, who was lecturing Bishui. Bishui was not good at speaking and was certainly unable to win the argument. She could only stare at her to express her clumsy anger.

Seeing that Bishui still refused to listen after talking for so long, the nanny simply gave up and gave the order directly.

"Someone, bring the stick over here. Bishui dared not listen to the order of the powerful nanny. Give her thirty lashes as a warning to others!"

The servants in front looked at each other, and finally a few guards left to get the boards.

Bishui was shaking with anger, pointing at the nanny and said, "How dare you hit me? Even if the Queen asked you to come to His Highness, His Highness didn't say he was going to hit me, so why did you give me a stick!"

The nanny smiled, and her already harsh look became even more fierce because of the smile.

"Why? Just because I have the final say in the Seventh Prince's Mansion from now on. I was sent by the Queen! Even if His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince protects you, so what? Can the Seventh Prince openly defy the rules of the palace?"

Chu Shitong glanced around and did not see Xuan Changji among the crowd.

I don’t know where this guy ran off to, leaving Bishui alone here.

The guards brought over a long bench and two boards as thick as wrists. Bishui had followed Chu Shitong for many years, and the most severe punishment Chu Shitong had ever given her was not allowing her to eat. Bishui had never heard of being beaten since she was a child.

Mammy clapped her hands, a smug smile appeared on her face, and said, "Miss Bishui, please?"

Then several guards came up and tried to hold Bishui down. Bishui was so scared that she stepped back repeatedly. The guards were strong, so they went up and held her thin shoulders and dragged her to the bench.

Bishui was so scared that she kept shouting, "Your Highness! Help! Bishui is going to be beaten! There's a bad woman trying to beat people up!"

The nanny looked towards the east courtyard with a guilty look on her face, then stepped forward and slapped him hard.

"Snapped!!"

"You little bitch! Can't you tell who is more powerful, your Highness or the Queen?! And you dare to cry for help?"

The nanny said angrily, "Shut her mouth! Beat her to death! I'm here to enforce the palace rules on behalf of the Empress! I want to see what the Seventh Prince dares to say when he comes! Beat him!"

Several guards were looking for something to cover Bishui's mouth, and Chu Shitong slowly walked out from behind the door.

"Who is so powerful in this prince's palace?"

Her voice was neither hurried nor slow, but it was like a heavy and huge iceberg suddenly appearing before one's eyes, causing one to tremble instantly.

Several guards stood there in a daze, not knowing whether to do as the nanny asked or release the clear water.

When Bishui saw Chu Shitong, she took advantage of the guards' distraction and quickly broke free from their hands on her shoulders, and ran towards Chu Shitong like a savior.

When I ran over, I was already crying like a loser.

"Your Highness, help me!"

Chu Shitong patted her shoulder, then protected her behind him and continued to look at the nanny calmly.

The nanny looked flustered for a moment, then coughed twice, straightened her body, and made a common courtesy to Chu Shitong. She raised her head high and said in a pretentious manner: "Your Highness the Seventh Prince, I am the nanny sent by the Empress. From now on, all matters in the Seventh Prince's mansion will be under my control. Just now, the maidservant beside Your Highness did not follow the rules and was disrespectful. According to the palace rules, she should be punished with thirty strokes of the cane. Please don't bend the law for personal gain. Otherwise, if the rules are disrupted in the mansion in the future and the Empress blames you, I'm afraid it will be difficult for Your Highness to explain."

Chu Shitong looked at her expressionlessly for a second, then shifted his gaze to look at the clear water.

"Xuan Changji ran away?"

Bishui shook her head and whispered, "Brother Xuan went out at noon. He said that His Highness had previously ordered him to visit someone in the clinic every day."

Chu Shitong then remembered that when he bought Xuan Changji, he gave him a task, which was to go to the clinic to check on Han Zijun every day to make sure he was still alive.

"Oh, remember to tell him to go back next time in the evening."'

"This slave will remember it."

When the nanny saw that Chu Shitong completely ignored her and started chatting with Bishui and his servant in front of her, she instantly became furious.

"Your Highness!" She said in a serious tone, "The palace rules are strict. Even if Your Highness is not in the palace, the rules cannot be broken. Please hand over Miss Bishui!"

Being bullied by a slave like this, Chu Shitong was beginning to feel a little restless.

When Chu Shitong raised his eyes, a flash of scarlet anger flashed across his light brown eyes, but was covered up without a trace in the blink of an eye.

She asked, "May I know your name, Madam?"

Nanny suddenly couldn't figure out why Chu Shitong asked this, but she guessed that Chu Shitong might want to get along well with her, so she snorted coldly and said, "My surname is Tian, ​​my humble name is Huiying, and I used to work in the Queen's palace. The Queen herself sent me here."

Chu Shitong seemed to have suddenly realized something and continued to ask, "Then may I ask Aunt Tian Huiying, do you know where this place is?"

Tian Huiying looked at Chu Shitong strangely and said, "His Majesty has not yet conferred the title of king upon Your Highness, so this is now the Seventh Prince's residence."

Bishui looked at Chu Shitong in confusion, not knowing what Chu Shitong's intention was in asking these questions.

Chu Shitong said: "So Mammy knows that this is the Seventh Prince's residence, not the Imperial Palace, nor Tian Huiying's residence, right?"

Hearing the words "Tian Huiying Mansion", the guard next to him couldn't help but burst out laughing. Although he tried hard to lower his voice, everyone still heard it clearly, and some even laughed along.

Tian Huiying's face turned green and blue. "What does your Highness mean by this? Does your Highness not have to abide by the palace rules when he is not in the palace? The Queen Mother knew that your Highness was young and could not control the servants, so she let me be the nanny in charge."

Chu Shitong ignored her words and continued to ask: "So you also know that you are a servant sent by the queen, right? You also know that you are just a servant, and this prince is the master here, right?"

When Tian Huiying was asked this by Chu Shitong, the expression on her face became as ugly as if she had eaten a fly.

No matter how powerful she is, she is just a slave. How can she be compared with her master?

But in order to maintain her dignity, Tian Huiying said, "I know that Your Highness is the master, but rules are rules. The Queen sent me here..."

Chu Shitong asked: "What rules? Where are the rules?"

Tian Huiying said, "It's the palace rules! Miss Bishui is committing an insubordination. She is just your personal maid, and I am the nanny in charge of the Seventh Prince's mansion. If she doesn't follow the rules, I can punish her."

"This is not the imperial palace, my prince. Why should I follow the palace rules?"

"Even if this is not the Imperial Palace, Your Highness is not old enough to be granted a mansion. His Majesty made an exception and granted Your Highness a mansion. Even if Your Highness is in the mansion, you should abide by the palace rules because you are not old enough."

"How come this prince doesn't know there is such a rule? Who told you this?"

"Of course it was the Queen who said that!"

Seeing the guilty look on her face, Chu Shitong suddenly laughed and said, "Did the Queen say that? This prince is not allowed to enter the harem, so I don't think I can ask the Queen."

Tian Huiying's guilty face finally showed a look of relief.

"In this case, I can only ask my father and see what the Empress means."

After Chu Shitong finished speaking, he took Bishui and was about to walk out, which frightened the nanny and she immediately stepped forward and said, "Your Highness, please stay!"

Chu Shitong said, "Why are you staying? I just want to ask why the mansion that father originally said he would give me was in the south of the city, but now it has become in the west of the city. A king's words are not a joke. Did father change his mind halfway, or did the queen do something that father didn't know about? I'm afraid I have to go to the imperial study to find out."

Tian Huiying was so scared that she broke out in a cold sweat, "It's so late, Your Highness should not disturb His Majesty..."

"That won't do. There are some things that need to be clarified."

Chu Shitong stopped and turned to look at Tian Huiying, with a hint of mocking smile in his calm eyes.

"It's just right. It also gives Madam an opportunity and reason to punish Bishui. Bishui is still young and was rude to Madam. It would be better to let the emperor personally order the punishment. It will also give Madam a chance to vent her anger."

Tian Huiying's heart almost broke. If she really told the emperor about this, wouldn't she be beaten to death because of his favor for the seventh prince? The queen would definitely not protect her. Maybe she would even kill her directly for fear of being implicated if she acted on her own.

Her old face changed, she smiled like a ghost, and said in a gentle voice: "Forget it, Your Highness, it's okay for me to suffer a little grievance. Your Majesty is busy with all kinds of things and has no time to care about such trivial matters. Miss Bishui is still young, it is normal for her to make small mistakes. I just scared her just now so that she would not make mistakes in front of Your Majesty in the future. After all, she is your personal maid, how dare I really punish her."