It's easy to be a villain, but hard to be a princess

The two flower girls went out and turned into the room diagonally opposite to serve the guests.Han Zixiao blew out the candles in the room, and watched every move outside through the hole in the window paper.

Not long after the two flower girls entered the room, another middle-aged man appeared at the other end of the aisle, dressed in luxurious clothes.Walking to the door of the room Wei Haotian entered, pushed the door open and entered.

Han Zixiao looked at Liu Qinghe and asked, "Do you know who that person is?"

"I don't know, it doesn't look like an official."

Han Zixiao said: "Whether they will come out in a while, you and I should have a glass of wine first."

The candles in the room were extinguished, but there was still some light coming in through the window paper.Han Zixiao walked to the table and was about to pick up a glass of wine to drink, Liu Qinghe said: "I heard that all the drinks in the brothel have aphrodisiac effect, Master Han, if you don't want to stay overnight, you have to think twice."

The glass of wine was put back by Han Zixiao, and he chuckled, "It seems that Mr. Liu is not ignorant of the place of fireworks."

Liu Qinghe said: "I've lived most of my life, and I haven't eaten it, but I should have heard of it."

The two waited in the room, and walked to the door and window to have a look from time to time.About half an hour later, there was finally movement at the diagonally opposite door. Wei Haotian came out first, and those who entered later hadn't come out for a long time, and they probably wanted to stay inside overnight.

Soon, Liuhua also came out of the room, Han Zixiao opened the door to let her in, Liuhua saw that the room was dark, "This... why did you turn off the candle?"

Han Zixiao said: "Just now when a gust of wind came in, the candle went out, it just happened that I didn't bring flint."

"There is flint next to the candlestick." Liuhua touched the candlestick to one side and lit the candle, Han Zixiao hurriedly asked, "Did you hear anything?"

Liuhua sat down, poured herself a glass of wine, and lazily said, "I'm exhausted, let's rest first."

Han Zixiao took out the remaining two ingots of silver from his sleeve, put them in front of her eyes, Liu Hua saw the money eyes opened, and said: "Those two guests are probably doing business, as for what kind of business, I can't tell, anyway, talk The price has been settled, and it is said that it will be delivered to the house early in the morning the day after tomorrow."

Han Zixiao asked: "Apart from this, what else did you hear?"

Liuhua wiped the wine stains from the corner of her mouth with a soft handkerchief, "It's gone."

Han Zixiao and Liu Qinghe both stood up, Han Zixiao cupped his hands at Liuhua, "Thank you, miss, farewell."

"Hey, don't the two gentlemen stay overnight?" Liu Hua twisted the handkerchief in her hand, making a cute and pitiful look.

While speaking, Han Zixiao and Liu Qinghe had already left the door and were walking downstairs.

The old bustard grabbed Han Zixiao, "Yo, my master is leaving so soon, there are many girls in the building, if you are not satisfied, just pick a few more."

"I still have something to do tonight, so it's not suitable to stay for a long time." Han Zixiao fished out a silver coin from his sleeve and handed it to the old bustard, "There's no need to look for it."

The old bustard put the silver into his sleeves and smiled all over his face, "Since I have something to do, my mother won't force me to keep it. Next time, I must come again!"

"sure."

Han Zixiao and Liu Qinghe left the brothel, Ye Qing was waiting nearby with two horses, Liu Qinghe's entourage was also there.

Before leaving, Han Zixiao said: "Tomorrow I will report this matter to the emperor, and request the emperor to assign the Ministry of Punishment to go to the Wei Mansion to ambush him early in the morning, and capture his personal stolen goods."

Liu Qinghe catered to him: "You and I are both from the Yushitai, and have no right to judge the punishment. It's better to hand it over to the Ministry of Punishment."

Han Zixiao rode his horse and Ye Qing back to the palace, everyone in the palace should be asleep at this point.Han Zixiao didn't expect that when he passed by the front hall, the candles in the hall were still on, and there was a person sitting in the hall.

Han Zixiao was slightly surprised, he didn't expect that he was still awake.Ye Qing was shocked when he saw the people in the hall.

Chu Muqing, who was sitting in the upper seat, held a cup of tea in her hand and said quietly, "Come here."

Han Zixiao stepped over and said, "It's getting late, why isn't your lord still asleep?"

Chu Muqing raised her eyes to look at him, and asked lightly, "Where did you go?"

Han Zixiao sighed, and said: "Some of the documents in the Yushitai made mistakes, the officials and Mr. Liu copied the wrong documents again, and before you know it, this time has come."

"My lord will ask you again, where have you been?" This time the voice was slightly raised.

Facing Chu Muqing's cold gaze, Han Zixiao's heart trembled, "Go, go investigate the case."

Chu Muqing's eyes were sharp, someone came to report that Han Zixiao was in the brothel just now, and he wanted to go and bring him back himself.But after thinking about it, he didn't do that. If he hadn't come back after three quarters of the Hai hour, he would go to the brothel to arrest the person himself.He asked him where he was going just to see if he would tell the truth, but he didn't expect to tell the truth after giving him two chances.

Chu Muqing paused word by word: "Han, Zi, Xiao."

"I went to the brothel to investigate the case." Han Zixiao said in one breath, "Don't worry, my lord, I really just went to investigate the case and did nothing else. This Liu Qinghe can testify."

Ye Qing also followed behind and said: "The young ones can also testify that my young master has never done anything wrong to the lord."

Their master and servant sang together, and they cooperated tacitly.Chu Muqing put down the teacup in her hand, "What kind of case do you need to go to the brothel?"

"Wei Haotian, a member of the criminal department, is corrupt, bends the law for personal gain, and shields criminals. The officials and Mr. Liu have checked for several days but failed to catch him. They learned that he was going to the brothel tonight, so they followed him."

Chu Muqing looked at him, "Do you think the king will forgive you if you investigate the case with an excuse?"

Han Zixiao lowered his head, "No, I just want to explain."

"Explain what?"

"Explain that Xiaguan went to the brothel not because of selfish desires."

Chu Muqing disdainfully said, "As far as I know, there are dozens of officials on and off the Yushitai, and going to the brothel to handle a case can't be done without you, Han Zixiao?"

Han Zixiao lowered his head and looked at his feet, like a child who made a mistake, "No."

Chu Muqing looked at him who lowered his head, and took a deep breath, "This king asks you, do you really know what your current identity is?"

"clear."

"Clear what?"

Han Zixiao said in a low voice: "Besides being Yushi Zhongcheng, the next official is also the prince's concubine."

"As a princess, should I go to the brothel?"

Han Zixiao's voice became smaller and smaller, "It shouldn't be."

"Then why did you commit the crime knowingly?"

Ye Qing, who was hiding behind Han Zixiao, weakly said something for his young master, "Young master went to work in the brothel, he disguised himself, no one recognized him."

"No one recognized it?" Chu Muqing raised her eyebrows and looked at Han Zixiao.

Han Zixiao patted Ye Qing's hand, signaling him not to speak, Ye Qing took a small step back, pursed his lips and remained silent.After a long time, Han Zixiao knelt down and said, "I know my mistake, please punish me, my lord."

Chu Muqing pondered for a long time, and said: "Kneel here for an hour, and after kneeling, go and wash off the smell of powder on your body before going back to the room."

"Yes, the officer knows."

Chu Muqing got up, bypassed Han Zixiao who was kneeling on the ground, and went back to the room.

Ye Qing also followed Han Zixiao to kneel in the hall, luckily at this time, except for a few guards, everyone else was asleep.Otherwise, the fact that Han Zixiao was punished to kneel will be known to the whole family tomorrow.

Ye Qing whispered: "My lord, I thought only the master likes to kneel as punishment."

When Han Zixiao was in Suzhou, he was fined by Han Yunyin to kneel in the ancestral hall for an hour or two because he had nothing to do all day and occasionally made a little trouble.Han Zixiao recalled back then, Ye Qing was by his side when he was punished to kneel.Han Zixiao smiled, and said to Ye Qing in a low voice: "To be honest, I really think of my father just now with his appearance."

Ye Qing smiled, "I also thought of Master."

Han Zixiao sighed, "It seems that I was born to be against brothels, and every time I go there, it will not end well."

Ye Qing said: "My lord, I think the lord seems to know that you went to the brothel early in the morning."

Han Zixiao thought of the nine-rank sesame official he met in the brothel, "It seems that someone wants to be promoted, so he came here to report."

"Who? Didn't you disguise yourself like that, did anyone recognize you?"

Han Zixiao let out a long sigh, "Forget it, this time it was indeed my fault."

Kneeling and kneeling, Ye Qing dozed off, Han Zixiao shook his body, "Go to sleep first, the lord wants me to kneel down, but I didn't punish you."

Ye Qing shook his head, sober, "I'm here to accompany you, son, in this palace, if I don't accompany you, no one will accompany you."

Han Zixiao patted his head, pursed his lips and smiled.

A purple figure outside the hall poked his head in by the door, only looked at it for a moment, then turned and left quietly.Soon Uncle Song came in and said, "Princess, the hot water is ready, let's go take a bath first."

Han Zixiao asked: "Is it enough for an hour?"

"It's almost midnight now, enough is enough."

Han Zixiao and Ye Qing got up from the ground, their feet were a little weak, Han Zixiao said to Ye Qing: "Go and rest."

"Well, let's go now." Ye Qing went to rest, and Han Zixiao went to the bathroom to take a shower.

After taking off his clothes, he found a bruise on his knees. He washed his whole body in the bathtub, put on his clothes and left the bathroom. Uncle Song was waiting outside the bathroom.

Han Zixiao said: "It's so late, why hasn't Uncle Song rested yet?"

"I'll go later." Uncle Song handed a small bottle of ointment to Han Zixiao, "This medicine has the effect of reducing swelling and blood stasis. It will be better for the princess to use it."

"Thank you."

Uncle Song had a kind smile on his face, "This old slave has been with the prince for more than ten years. Although the prince is serious on the outside, he is a gentle person on the inside. If he makes a mistake, he will soften his heart if he is soft on him. "

"Well, I know." Han Zixiao said: "You are used to getting up early, so you should go and rest quickly."

"The princess is going to rest soon."

Han Zixiao took the ointment given by Uncle Song and went back to the room. The candles in the room were still on, and the bed curtain was drawn down. At this time, Chu Muqing was already asleep.

Han Zixiao put the ointment on the table, blew out the candle and left one to burn until dawn. With the help of that candle, Han Zixiao walked to the side of the bed, gently opened the bed curtain, and gently He climbed onto the couch lightly.