"My Royal Highness, you are finally back." After Guixing took care of Liang Zhaoyi's bath, she kept waiting for Zhao Yao at the door. After waiting for a long time, Zhao Yao finally came back. If Zhao Yao doesn't come back, she will go out to look for him.
Seeing that Zhao Yao was the only one who came back, she asked hurriedly: "Your Highness, how come you are the only one who is happy?"
"I asked him to go do something and he will be back soon." Zhao Yao said and smiled at Guixing, "Guixing, I have something good for you."
"Good stuff?" Guixing asked curiously, "What good stuff?"
"You will know soon." Zhao Yao asked, "Where are the mother concubine and the second mother concubine?"
"The beauty and the princess have gone back to their rooms to rest. The empress is reading a book." Guixing asked, "Your Highness, where have you been? My servants went to Chaoyang Palace and Xingde Palace but couldn't find you. Didn't you encounter anything?"
"Something happened, otherwise I would have come back a long time ago."
"What happened?" Guixing asked hurriedly, "Did His Highness Ninth Prince bully you again?"
Zhao Yao waved his hands hurriedly: "No, I'll tell you later, go find the concubine now." As he walked inside, he shouted loudly, "Concubine, I'm back!"
When Liang Zhaoyi heard her son's voice, she smiled helplessly and fondly, and then put down the book in her hand.
After a moment, Zhao Yao ran in.
"Concubine, I have brought you something good."
Seeing her son's proud look, Liang Zhaoyi asked funnyly: "What good thing?"
"Qiang Qiang Qiang..." Zhao Yao took out a package of things from his arms and handed it to Liang Zhaoyi like a treasure, "Mother, look at what this is."
Liang Zhaoyi smelled the fragrance and said with surprise: "Beef?"
"Yes, it's beef." Zhao Yao opened the oil wrapper to reveal the beef inside, "I secretly hid it. Concubine, it's still hot. Hurry up and eat a piece."
"Hidden it secretly?" Liang Zhaoyi asked in surprise, "How did you hide it?"
"I picked up two pieces of beef at once, eat one and hide one." Zhao Yao said with pride, "Fourth brother and eighth brother also helped me hide it. Mother, am I very clever?" He secretly hid one piece. Big package of beef.
After Liang Zhaoyi and Guixing listened, they both had dumbfounded expressions on their faces.
"Concubine, I hid it specially so that we can have more meals." Zhao Yao said, picked up a piece of beef and fed it into Liang Zhaoyi's mouth, "Concubine, this beef is delicious, hurry up and take a bite .”
Then, he gave the piece of beef to Guixing and showed off, "Guixing, this is what I call good food, you can eat it too."
As a slave, Guixing could not eat beef, whether on ordinary days or on important days. She has never eaten beef since she was a child, and this is her first time eating beef.
"Thank you, Your Highness."
“Isn’t the beef delicious?”
Guixing nodded hurriedly and said with red eyes: "It's delicious!" She didn't expect that His Highness would secretly hide the beef and bring it back specially for them to eat.
"Yeah, I said beef is the most delicious." Zhao Yao picked up another piece of beef and gave it to Guixing, "It's delicious, you can eat another piece."
"Your Highness, one piece is enough for this slave."
"One piece is not enough, you can eat a few more." Zhao Yao picked up a few more pieces of beef and gave them to Guixing, "Eat a few more pieces so you can know the good taste of beef."
"Your Highness..."
Zhao Yao ignored Guixing and turned to look at Liang Zhaoyi eagerly: "Mother, is it delicious?"
Liang Zhaoyi reached out and touched her son's little face, and said with a gentle smile: "It's delicious, especially delicious. This is the most delicious beef my concubine has ever eaten."
"I knew the beef in Chaoyang Palace was better than the beef in Qionglin Garden." Zhao Yao picked up a piece of beef and started eating it himself, "Concubine, you must not have eaten much."
"I haven't eaten much." Liang Zhaoyi took Zhao Yao's hand and sat down on the couch. "Why do you think of hiding beef?"
"I suddenly thought of it." Zhao Yao said with a grin, "When I thought about eating this beef and not having another meal, I thought about eating some beef secretly so that I can still eat it tomorrow. Am I very smart? "
Seeing her son's expression begging for praise, Liang Zhaoyi smiled and praised: "Very smart."
"Your Highness, you are not only smart, but also good at living." Guixing also praised.
"I also think I'm extremely smart." Zhao Yao was very proud of being praised, "Guixing, give some beef to others to try."
"Your Highness, you should keep this beef for yourself."
"I'll just save a few pieces to eat tomorrow, and you can share the rest."
"Your Highness..."
Zhao Yao couldn't refuse and said: "Take it and share it."
"I thank you, Your Highness, for everyone." Guixing bowed and walked out with half of the beef.
Liang Zhaoyi asked: "Why did you come back now? What happened?"
"I rescued an eunuch when I came back..." Zhao Yao told Liang Zhaoyi about Tong'an.
"Mother, I really didn't expect that the third brother would be a broken sleeve."
Liang Zhaoyi was also shocked: "I have long heard that the children of the aristocratic family are good men, but I didn't expect that the third prince would also..."
"If my father knew that Third Brother was a good man, would he beat Third Brother to death?"
"I won't be beaten to death, but I will be disappointed in the Third Prince."
"If I hadn't met Tong'an, no one would have known about this hobby of the third brother." Zhao Yao said, "The third brother hid it very well."
"There is no airtight wall, don't you and I know it now?" Liang Zhaoyi said, "Others will also know it in the future."
Zhao Yao rubbed his chin and suddenly smiled very treacherously: "If third brother harms me in the future, I will tell my father about it."
Liang Zhaoyi frowned, and her expression became solemn for a moment: "Tongan disappeared suddenly, the third prince will definitely look for him, and the third prince will never let him go."
"That's why I asked him to go to the Cold Palace." Zhao Yao mistakenly thought that Liang Zhaoyi was worried about the secret passage in the Cold Palace, "Mom, don't worry, Tong'an will not know about the secret passage in the Cold Palace. Also, the Tongle Association will keep a close eye on him. of."
"I'm not worried about this, but I'm worried that your rescue of Tong'an will be discovered by the third prince." Liang Zhaoyi did not blame Zhao Yao for saving Tong'an, "Did you leave any clues when you rescued Tong'an before?"
"No. Tongan himself was very cautious. The location where he jumped into the well was very remote and inaccessible." Zhao Yao would not rush to rescue Tongan and then catch him. He knew very well the situation he and Liang Zhaoyi were in, and would never do anything to put them in danger. "If they hadn't come to lead the way, I really wouldn't have been able to find Tong'an."
After leaving Chaoyang Palace, Zhao Yao did not go to Xingde Palace with the Eighth Prince and others, but returned to Kunde Palace. On the way back to Kunde Hall, one of them flew to him and told him that Tongan was going to commit suicide by jumping into the well.
The last time they met Tongan, although Zhao Yao told Tongxi not to mind his own business, Zhao Yao still asked Laiyi and the others to keep an eye on Tongan.
Lai Yi is as much a sparrow as Lai Qian. They often fly into the palace to look for Zhao Yao.
Zhao Yao didn't want to meddle in other people's business, but if he encountered someone, he couldn't just ignore it.
"Tongxi took Tongan to Leng Palace by taking a small path, so no one would find him."
Hearing what Zhao Yao said, Liang Zhaoyi felt relieved.
"How do you plan to arrange Tong'an?"
"I will examine him for a while. If there are no problems, I plan to reuse him." Zhao Yao tapped the table on the couch with the index finger of his right hand. "He is good at painting. This is an advantage and will definitely come in handy in the future."
"He can't be in the palace anymore." Liang Zhaoyi said seriously, "We can't let the third prince know that he is still there."
Zhao Yao nodded and said: "I know this. After he passes my inspection, I will send him out of the palace and let him find his second uncle."
"When he passes your inspection, you bring him to see me."
"good."
"What happened in Chaoyang Palace?"
When mentioning what happened in the Chaoyang Palace, Zhao Yao suddenly became energetic and said with some excitement: "Mother, what happened in the Chaoyang Palace is wonderful."
Liang Zhaoyi asked curiously: "What happened?"
"Concubine, let me tell you that Duke Zhen Guo's methods are really high..."
Zhao Yao told Liang Zhaoyi vividly what happened at the celebration banquet in Chaoyang Palace.
Liang Zhaoyi was stunned for a while. After listening, my face was full of disbelief.
"Concubine, you didn't see that the ministers looked at the second brother with suspicion, and the second brother's face turned dark." Zhao Yao couldn't help laughing when he thought of the scene at that time, "Tomorrow morning, the whole capital will There will definitely be news that the second brother is not good."
Liang Zhaoyi exclaimed: "The Duke Zhen's move is really cruel."
"It's evil. It directly ruined the reputation of the second brother, and also ruined the glory of the second brother's victory in the war." Zhao Yao said with a smile, "The protagonist of tonight's celebration banquet is the second brother. Originally, he should be proud of the victory banquet. , but unexpectedly, he was severely tricked by the Duke of Zhen. From tomorrow on, the second brother will become a joke in the whole capital."
"This move by Lord Zhen Guo really kills three birds with one stone." If it were her, she would not have thought of using this move to counterattack King Dai and Marquis Xuanping.
"Actually, the biggest purpose of this move is not to ruin the second brother's reputation. After all, there will be good news about the second brother's house soon." With King Dai's temperament, he is afraid that he will start sowing seeds desperately from tonight. There will be good news in as soon as a month, and then the news that Dai Wang will not be able to survive will be self-defeating.
Liang Zhaoyi continued what Zhao Yao said: "The main purpose of Princess Zhenguo is to sow discord and make Marquis Xuanping fear Kong Taichang."
