It turns out that I too have been robbed.

At the dawn of genius, Meng Shilang appeared at Qi Yunyao's residence.

He was obviously his uncle and nephew, but as soon as he stood still, Meng Shilang gave Qi Yunyao a big gift.

"Your Highness called Weichen over so early, what's the matter?"

His tone was very unfamiliar, and he didn't have the crying posture that he saw after Qi Yunyao was poisoned that day.

The young man sitting behind the tea table suddenly frowned, lowered his voice and hit the point: "That imperial doctor, have you dealt with it?" His subordinates were still pressing down a stack of unfinished copies of "The Law of the Emperor", and the writing became more and more floating. Obviously, Qi Yunyao's mind is completely out of here.

After seeing Princess Shuming yesterday, Qi Yunyao's heart became more and more confused.

After returning to the residence, he immediately said that he was not feeling well, and asked the maid beside him to go to the imperial doctor.

Unexpectedly, the maid searched around, but did not see that familiar figure.

"That imperial doctor..." Meng Shilang couldn't help elongating his voice, he was silent for a while before he said, "He was recommended by Wei Chen to the imperial hospital, and he is a trustworthy person."

Hearing this, Qi Yunyao immediately understood that instead of dealing with the imperial physician, Meng Shilang even told him to run away!

Qi Yunyao patted the table and stood up straight away.

"Trustworthy people?" The young man smiled, and said in an extremely innocent tone, "But uncle, I only trust dead people, what should I do?"

Meng Shilang bowed his head immediately.

This time, it was indeed his fault that he didn't deal with the imperial physician in time.At the same time, it was only now that he realized that the aura of this nephew could already surpass his own.

He shouldn't continue to treat Qi Yunyao like a child.

There was a sudden silence in the room, and after a few moments, Qi Yunyao finally sat down slowly.

As long as he thought of Meng Shilang cheating Pei Ruzhou by taking advantage of his poisoning, his teeth would itch with anger.But even if Meng Shilang loses power, he is his only support in the court, Qi Yunyao forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart.

On the contrary, it was Meng Shilang who suddenly said, "Your Highness is complaining about this humble minister?"

Qi Yunyao didn't answer this question, but asked out the doubt that was deeply buried in his heart a few days ago.

"Uncle said last time, what happened 20 years ago?" Qi Yunyao's tone was similar to a question.But only he himself knew how disturbed he was when he said these words.

... What is the relationship between the mother and the concubine, and the entire Meng family, and the Pei family?

The uneasiness that had been suppressed in Qi Yunyao's heart broke out the moment he asked this sentence.

I saw Meng Shilang suddenly smiled, and slowly said five words: "Feng Shui turns..."

"Hahaha, it's really a turn of wind and water!" Meng Shangshu, who has always given people a gloomy and silent feeling, couldn't help laughing. He met Qi Yunyao's horrified and shocked eyes and said, "Our Meng family was at the Rilan Pass back then. When the Pei family expelled me from Zhoulan Pass, did they ever think about such a day?!"

"Expelled from Zhoulan Pass?" Even though he was mentally prepared, Qi Yunyao's eyes widened suddenly when he heard these words.

He vaguely knew before that the Meng family was indeed a big family in Zhoulan Pass.But in Dayi, people from aristocratic families would not know how to do business easily.

It turned out that my uncle was expelled from Zhoulan Pass back then!

Qi Yunyao's face became more and more ugly.

He knew that with Meng Shangshu's personality, if the Pei family really made things difficult back then, he would never have kept the matter a secret until now... That is to say, Meng Shangshu most likely was Really doing something wrong.

Moreover, he dared not let others know what he had done.

A thin layer of cold sweat instantly seeped out of Qi Yunyao's hands.

For a boy who grew up in a deep palace, the world is not so black and white.Qi Yunyao was not shocked or frightened by what Meng Shilang did wrong, but because... he was afraid that Pei Ruzhou would know.

He didn't know how to face Pei Ruzhou.

……

In the past few days, Qi Yunyao would run to Pei Ruzhou whenever he had nothing to do.But today, when he had already reached the door of the familiar small courtyard, he was entangled in every possible way.

Qi Yunyao wanted to see Pei Ruzhou, but dared not.

"Your Highness..."

The eunuch beside Qi Yunyao wanted to go forward to report, but before he finished speaking, Qi Yunyao suddenly raised his hand and stopped him.

"Don't worry." The boy lowered his head, the shadow of the slightly longer hair on his forehead covered his eyes.Today Qi Yunyao was wearing a dark gown, and he looked particularly mature.

Qi Yunyao knew that at this moment, he looked very preoccupied... He absolutely couldn't use this state to meet Ah Zhou.

He was usually the best at disguising, but today he couldn't get rid of this negative feeling.

So he just stood outside Pei Ruzhou's residence without moving for a long time.Worried about being discovered by the people around Pei Ruzhou, Qi Yunyao even took two steps back and stood under the shade of a tree.

At this moment, there was a sound in the small courtyard.

He looked forward along the gap between the branches, and then he saw a group of eunuchs coming out of the side hall with wooden trays.If Qi Yunyao read it right, the wooden tray seemed to contain raw meat.

It's something to feed snow leopards.

The eunuchs walked to the iron cage where the snow leopard was kept. Although it had been kept here for many days, the eyes of the eunuchs could still see the deep fear. After all, no matter how beautiful this thing was, it was just a beast.

When they were struggling, Pei Ruzhou also came out.

"Don't be afraid, just put the tray aside, and I'll take care of the rest."

Hearing this, before the eunuchs could say anything, a servant girl who followed Pei Ruzhou out of the room spoke first: "Young master, you must pay attention to safety, such things should be left to the servants to do." Bar."

Originally, Qi Yunyao's attention was all on Pei Ruzhou.

But after hearing this sound, he suddenly couldn't help but move his eyes and looked at the speaking maid.

...Qi Yunyao slowly clenched his fists, he had an impression of her.

When I came to look for Ah Zhou yesterday, this maid was not in the room.Then she came in suddenly and stood by the Princess's side with her head down and didn't move.

She has been trying her best to reduce her sense of existence, but the more she does this, the more incompatible with the surrounding environment.

Especially now, when the maid opened her mouth, Qi Yunyao suddenly felt that her voice was familiar.

In fact, the people brought by Princess Shuming all have a little bit of the accent of Zhou Languan, and this maid is the same.

But besides the "sameness", there is still something that makes Qi Yunyao feel wrong...

"It's okay, Aunt Lu Ru! I fed it for a few days, and it already recognized me." Pei Ruzhou replied casually.

"Lu Ru?" Qi Yunyao couldn't help repeating these two words softly.

He was sure that he didn't know someone called Lu Ru before.

It can be clearly seen that Lu Ru is fatter than other court ladies.She kept leaning her head, but she could still see from her hands that this maid named Lu Ru had poor skin, and she shouldn't be as young as the maids around her.

To be called aunt, she must be at least as old as Princess Shuming.

Qi Yunyao once again thought of the sachet on Pei Ruzhou's body.

That day Ah Zhou said that the sachet was embroidered by the servant girl next to Princess Shuming.Presumably that maid must be very valued by the princess.

But this time, the maid named Lu Ru was the only one who had been with Princess Shuming and was extremely familiar with the Pei family.

In the small courtyard, Pei Ruzhou had already carried the snow leopard out of the cage.

A few days passed, and the little Snow Leopard's injury healed a lot.

Seeing someone approaching, it opened its teeth and claws.Seeing this, everyone around couldn't help taking a step back. Pei Ruzhou didn't move, but scratched its head instead.

Seeing this, Lu Ru who was standing beside him finally raised his head at this moment.

"Oh!" She was frightened by Pei Ruzhou's actions, and couldn't help but say, "Master, you should stay away from this thing!"

The light of the morning lightly sprinkled down, completely illuminating Lu Ru's face.

Just like what Qi Yunyao had guessed just now, Aunt Lu Ru did not look young anymore, she was slightly fat, and her face was even darker than the maids in the palace.

But even so, you can still vaguely see the outline of Lu Ru's delicate facial features when he was young.

The moment he saw her face clearly, Qi Yunyao couldn't help taking a big step back.

He widened his eyes and stared at the woman not far away.

Pei Ruzhou had already started feeding the snow leopard, and Lu Ru just stood beside him, frowning with disapproval.

The slender smokey eyebrows were tightly frowned, and he muttered: "When I was in Day Languan, why didn't I see the young master like animals. You can't even tease the cats and dogs raised by the young master." Just kidding, why did you become interested in beasts once you got here?"

"Okay, okay, Aunt Lu Ru, why are you nagging more and more?" Pei Ruzhou continued to move his hands while laughing, "It's so boring for kittens and puppies."

Lu Ru sighed, and started talking again.

how so……

How could this maid named Lu Ru look so much like me... Mother Concubine?

Concubine Xian has passed away for many years. When she passed away, Qi Yunyao was still young.After so many years, Qi Yunyao originally thought that his memory of his mother and concubine had gradually faded.

But I didn't expect that the moment I saw the person in front of me, the childhood memories that had gradually faded would come alive again.

The mother concubine was also like this back then, she always liked to nag.

Whenever she did something dangerous, she would not kill herself, but would just hold herself in her arms, exhorting her one sentence after another.

Just like this.

"No, it's impossible..."

The concubine mother is already dead, and she died in Zhoulan Pass, how could she appear in Guijin Palace and become the servant girl of Princess Shuming.

Qi Yunyao repeatedly told himself, calm down, must be calm.

The concubine mother and the maid in front of her are both from Zhoulanguan, maybe they are distant relatives?

While thinking wildly, Qi Yunyao didn't realize that he had taken a big step back just now, and had completely walked out from the shade of the tree.

Although the people behind him were frightened by Qi Yunyao's abnormal reaction and did not dare to move, the people in the small courtyard were not.

While Pei Ruzhou was feeding the little leopard, a court lady standing beside him suddenly looked up and looked out of the courtyard, then said softly, "Hey, is the one outside, His Highness the Seventh Prince?"

Seven princes.

These three words were like a thunderstorm, which exploded in Lu Ru's ear in an instant.

She was still talking to Pei Ruzhou just now, her throat suddenly seemed to be stuck by something, and she couldn't make a sound.

Lu subconsciously raised his head and looked outside the small courtyard.

After a few breaths, her gaze intertwined with Qi Yunyao's.

At this moment, both of them saw deep shock and fear in each other's eyes.

Lu Ru immediately lowered his head, turned around and ran towards the backyard.And Qi Yunyao also suddenly forgot his identity as a prince, and followed him in.

Behind him, there was an exclamation.

The Seventh Prince lost his composure today.

At the moment when he grabbed the opponent's arm, he hoarsely called out the word that had not been said for many years.

"...Are you, concubine mother?"