Dodder Pampering Handbook

Xiao Yu has already woken up suddenly from sleep countless times.In the dream, he was on the Yuntai, surrounded by peonies in full bloom, filled with refreshing floral fragrance, and the golden phoenix flying high above the auspicious clouds with its wings outstretched.

If you just look at the imagery, this is naturally excellent.

It symbolizes that his ambition will one day be realized.

However, in the past few months, it was still that dream, but it began to be filled with a bleak atmosphere, and it was getting farther and farther away from him.As soon as he knew it, things had changed.

This feeling is like being in the dark.He knew in his heart that the throne only belonged to him, and now it was only temporarily taken away by others.Everyone feels that he is the protagonist of the world when he is young, and he feels even more so.

Xiao Yu rubbed his aching eyes, moved the woman who was pillowed on his arm aside, got out of bed naked, and poured a cup of herbal tea.

"Grandpa?"

"Sleep with you." Xiao Yu sat in the dark with an uncertain expression.He was sure that the mutation had occurred in Jinling City.Although he is in Yuzhou, he knows what happened in Jinling like the palm of his hand.

Last year, the little emperor ascended the throne for six years, and for the first time, he started to go to the early court, and slowly, he gained real power.First ransacked Liu Yan's family, then overthrew Fu Kaisheng, and supported some capable officials to go to court.The Jizhou earthquake was also treated in time.

Now, Zhuangzi is also given to Su Hetong, which spreads a good reputation of caring for poor families.

It would be fine if he was only doing things in Jinling City, but he doesn't know where the unhealthy trend came from, turning the little emperor's deeds into slang words and singing them all over the country.

It made the people really think that they had a good emperor, and they were very excited.Xiao Yu, who originally thought it was easy to seize the throne, also began to find it tricky.

Even if he intends to use troops to take Jinling, he still needs to find a just excuse to boost morale.Now that the people all over the world are full of praise for Zhao Chan, how can anyone be willing to fight?If it weren't for the affection of the Founding Princess, perhaps the people of Yuzhou would have fled to the embrace of the court long ago.

Xiao Yu was a little discouraged, but he was not afraid of Zhao Chanzhen.Although he hadn't seen him for six years, he thought the little emperor had grown up a lot, but he still remembered the child he saw at the enthronement ceremony that day.

It was a face that people would never forget when they saw him. He was as timid as a quail, and his slender and pale hands were gently grasped by King Yong'an, not so much as a support, but as a coercion.

Xiao Yu was below at that time, and let out a disdainful chuckle.Such a timid and useless idiot beauty is also worthy of being an emperor?Da Zhao is already in jeopardy.

After returning to Yuzhou, he took possession of a place and launched a rebellious attack.He does not recognize such a useless monarch.

But at the time of the Da Zhao coup, King Yong'an was the first group to raise troops. In terms of military strength and occupied state capital, King Yong'an was far superior to him.

Now Yong'an Wang ostensibly supports the little emperor, but in fact he is coercing the emperor to order the princes. Xiao Yu's banner is also "the side of the Qing emperor".

The battles in the open and in the dark have never stopped, and he has been waiting for King Yong'an to seize the throne so that he can completely wage war.

This wait is six years.

Now that the little emperor is personally in power, King Yong'an has retreated to the second line. If there is no conspiracy, no one will believe it.

As Xiao Yu thought about it, he felt a rush of anxiety in his heart.He always felt that if he didn't do something, he would lose something very important.

Suddenly the crowing of turtledoves came from outside the window, Xiao Yu lit the lamp, put a coat on his body, and opened the window.

A man in black knelt on the ground respectfully, "Master, the secret message from Jinling should be urgent within [-] miles."

Xiao Yu opened the bamboo tube, and there were two pieces of paper inside, one was a painting and the other was a letter.

He couldn't wait to unfold it, and finally, he showed the most relaxed smile in the past few months.

Isn't Zhao Chanzhen the son of the late emperor?His eyes were like cold stars, and he was born handsome and unrestrained, but now the strange madness on his face distorted his upright appearance.

"Tell Fenglou, within three days, we must find out the cause and effect of this matter!" He handed the letter to the man in black, and after a while, the man in black flew out from the roof like a black-winged bird.

"Zhong Cheng, Zhong Cheng... Let me see how you want to fight me." Xiao Yu murmured to himself, especially creepy in the silent night.

"My lord, tell me, do we want to tell His Majesty?" Di Rong raised his eyes to look at Zhong Cheng, and quickly covered up the surprise in his eyes.

He hadn't had a good night's sleep in the past few months.Has been ordered to secretly investigate His Majesty's life experience.It can be said that apart from the prince, he is the only one who knows about this matter.

Even Chen Shichun and others only knew that he was working for the prince, but they didn't know what he was doing.

Now, the letter in Zhong Ting's hand is the result of his investigation in the past few months.

Ever since he suspected that Zhao Chanzhen had alien blood, Zhong Teng ordered Di Rong to thoroughly investigate the alien nobles who were stranded in Jinling 15 years ago.

First of all, ordinary people don't even have the chance to get close to a famous singer like Bai Mudan.And being able to take advantage of the chaos to snatch a high-value singing girl must be someone who has seen her before.

According to this speculation, Di Rong first targeted the merchants at that time and the envoys who came to Dazhao.

But he didn't find anything unusual. It wasn't until he found a maid who had served Bai Mudan that he realized that there was indeed a man of a foreign race who was very close to Bai Mudan in the flower building. Unfortunately, that person was a prisoner of war. sons of the lowly born.

He was sold to a flower building when he was a child, and he did all kinds of dirty work.As he grew taller, the madam sent him to be a groom.

It seemed that something happened in the middle, the groom beat up the guest, and was almost beaten to death by the madam, and sold him to Nanfeng Pavilion.The maid said that she had just entered Hualou at that time, and these things had already passed.Bai Mudan was about 12 years old, and she was already well-known in Jinling.

Countless high-ranking officials and nobles coveted her beauty, and before reaching the age of Ji, her first night had already been sold privately for a high price of five thousand gold.

The bustard looked at her like an eyeball, and was afraid that she would melt if she held it in her mouth.It was Bai Mudan who asked the madam for a groom, and since then, that foreign man has been working for Bai Mudan.

But when asked if they had an affair, the maid subconsciously felt that it was impossible.Of those two, one was in the sky, but the other was trampled in the mud.The groom has tattoos of slaves on his neck and face.He hangs his tired hair all day long, covering his face, and almost no one knows what he looks like.Although he was born tall, but because of his inferior status, he often hunched over and his temperament was very humble.

It is impossible for such a man to have anything to do with Bai Mudan.That's what the maid told Di Rong.

But he did more research, and even went back to Hualou to find the place where Bai Mudan lived at that time.The place was surrounded by water on three sides, and was located on a high ground, so you could clearly see what was happening in the city.Ask the maid again if she still remembers the last time she saw Bai Mudan that year, the maid only remembered that she went to knock on the door to find Bai Mudan, the window was open, but no one was there.

So for so many years, they believed that Bai Mudan was afraid of humiliation, so she dived to her death early.The corpses were also washed outside the city. At that time, countless people died inside and outside the city, even though Bai Mudan was a peerless beauty before she was alive.

After death, there is no difference from others.

Di Rong didn't think so, he went to Jiuhua Mountain again, and quickly searched the whole mountain and nearby mountains, only to find a cave covered by green vines.

There are traces of people living here a long time ago.There are bowls and mattresses inside, and more importantly, Di Rong picked up a glass pendant with a right ear.

After cleaning, the preciousness of the pendant can still be seen.Glass is very expensive now, let alone back then.So Di Rong deduced that Bai Mudan was rescued by that alien groom.

He couldn't guess what happened next.In troubled times, bandits are rampant, and a groom with a beautiful woman can encounter anything.

This can explain why Bai Mudan fled to Jiuhua Mountain dying with a big belly.

And why didn't Bai Mudan tell the Empress Dowager who the biological father of the child in her womb was.Thinking about it, she also has her own selfishness.If it wasn't for Li Daitao's stiffness, the empress dowager would never have saved a beautiful woman.

In troubled times, beauty without force protection will cause great trouble.If Bai Mudan told the empress dowager that she had a child with a foreign race, the empress dowager would not keep the child.

It can only be said that a mother's plan is so deep that she loves her son.

Zhong Cheng held those few pages of investigation, feeling pitiful.He thought that when Zhao Chanzhen opened his arms and called out to a strange woman, his own mother was lying in the bamboo forest not far from him.

The wind and rain are bleak, and the bamboo leaves are shuttled.If there really is a soul in the world, the distance between yin and yang will only be farther than the ends of the earth.

Zhong Cheng lowered his eyelashes and said softly: "You don't need to let His Majesty know about this matter. If one day, he is forced to know about it, just tell him."

Otherwise, it's hard to say whether this incident will be a new blow to the little emperor.

As if thinking of something, Zhong Cheng paused, and his voice was normal: "Have you dealt with all the clues?"

There is no need for extra people to know about this matter.

"It has been cleaned up. The bones of Miss Bai Mudan, as well as the bones of the baby, have been transferred to another place by my subordinates. The maid of Bai Mudan, my subordinates also gave her a large sum of money to help her move to another place .”

"Hmm." Zhong Teng still believed in Di Rong's ability to do things. An incident 15 years ago was investigated to such an extent by him, which is not something anyone can do. He added: "You have worked hard these past few months. Now, go back and rest for half a month."

Di Rong opened the door and left, leaving only Zhong Cheng in the room.He rubbed those thin sheets of letter paper. At this time, the night and the candlelight merged, and he couldn't figure out whether he was doing right or wrong.

For the sake of the stability of the world, Zhao Chanzhen was concealed, and the embrace of his mother that he longed for could no longer be touched.

What if he still wants to get close to Qing Zhu?

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The past of Bai Mudan and the groom is enough to make up a tens of thousands of words of plot...