Xiao Yuchen was accompanying Wen Jin and his daughter.
The palace maid Xiang Qian was taken by the eunuch to the most remote place in the palace, where people who violated serious palace rules were specially dealt with.
"Gag your mouth." The eunuch ordered expressionlessly.
Xiangqian's eyes showed fear and she struggled violently.
The great eunuch looked down at her with no pity in his eyes.
"When you first entered the palace, what did the nanny who taught you say?
"In the palace, be careful with your words and actions, think more and speak less! Have you learned the lesson?"
Xiangqian was gagged and speechless. She could only moan and shake her head vigorously.
"You are not unjust," the great eunuch sighed, "Wise or foolish...it's all the master! How can you, a little palace maid, make irresponsible remarks?
"When a person lives in this world, having a gate on his lips is the most important thing!
"It's better to be stupid than to be too cheerful! Alas..."
The big eunuch shook his head, turned around, took a few steps away, "Hit!"
The stick hit the meat, making a muffled sound.
Accompanied by the muffled humming of the little palace maid... it made people feel muffled in their hearts.
Yu'er is collecting poisonous insects and weeds nearby.
These insects and grasses also seem to have intelligence. The more poisonous they are, the farther away they grow from people.
It's hard to find this kind of thing in the palace. You have to go to a place where there are few people and few people come to find it.
He just discovered such a good place a while ago.
He was afraid that the palace people would trample on his "treasure", so he asked the palace people to stand at a distance and wait for him.
As he was introducing a poisonous insect into a small bottle, he heard a strange noise coming from the wind.
Yu'er stood up straight and looked in the direction of the wind.
"Do you know what the sound is?"
Not far away, someone suddenly asked him.
Yu'er turned around suddenly and looked at the Taoist priest in gray robes suspiciously, "Who are you? What are you doing here?"
"I'm here to cultivate, and I don't want to be disturbed by others." Zhou Lingfeng paused, and then explained, "I am not disturbed by His Highness, but by the person who kills people."
He also turned his face and looked at the direction from which the sound came.
"Killing?" Yu'er frowned.
Zhou Lingfeng stared and said, "Over there, a little palace maid was killed with a stick. Does your Highness know why?"
Yu'er's eyes narrowed slightly, "She must have made an unforgivable mistake."
Zhou Lingfeng smiled and said, "You royal people are always so confident, confident that you have the right to live and die. If others are different from you, should they die?"
When Yu'er heard this, she didn't show any doubts.
He smiled slightly and suddenly took out a tiny crossbow from his sleeve.
The crossbow was cocked, and the tip of the arrow was pointed directly at Zhou Lingfeng's throat.
"I am wandering here, and you, Taoist, are here to practice. We don't disturb each other. This is a different way of saying things."
"But Taoist priest, you don't distinguish between right and wrong, and you attack my royal family regardless of the reason. This is called provocation.
"I will use my powerful crossbow against you, and I can kill you at any time. This is called fighting, and it is also called showing strength."
Yu'er did not activate the crossbow.
He looked Zhou Lingfeng up and down and put away his crossbow.
"How come you, a Taoist priest and a foreigner, appear in the palace? I have never heard that my father is a Taoist priest... Oh, you are from Grandpa Huang's palace, right?" Yu'er said, "You are not in Taihe Palace. Stay here and come here? Is the palace a place where you can break in? "
"There is no circle without rules. The palace rules have been established a long time ago. Anyone who violates the palace rules must be punished.
"The same is true for the way of heaven. You are a Taoist, but you don't even understand this? Are you a fake Taoist?"
Zhou Lingfeng looked at the child in front of him in surprise.
His Royal Highness is seven or eight years old this year?
Is such an older child so smart and good at debating?
It seems that the gentlemen who teach the prince to read every day are not just idlers.
Zhou Lingfeng put away his arrogance and bowed to Yu'er, "The prince's words are so enlightening..."
"You don't need to flatter me. Don't believe me, you don't understand this. It's just that I deliberately misinterpret the facts because I am young and want to mislead me!"
Yu'er snorted, "Wherever you are, you must abide by the rules. Since the Taoist priest is not willing to live aloof from the outside world, he has entered the mortal world.
"If you want to gain fame and fortune in this Vanity Fair, you must abide by the rules of 'Vanity Fair'.
"Someone is coming..."
Yu'er wanted to call the palace people to come forward and send the smelly Taoist priest back to Taihe Palace.
Zhou Lingfeng said, "Pindao is here just to wait for the prince."
Yu'er's expression had both the coldness of his father and the indifference of his mother.
He looked at the Taoist priest in front of him calmly.
But Zhou Lingfeng felt that... what he was facing didn't look like a child.
"Prince, do you know that the death of this palace maid is because of His Highness!" Zhou Lingfeng was trying to make things up.
Yu'er looked indifferent.
His words seemed to have no effect on him.
Zhou Lingfeng continued, "Has the prince heard that a few days ago, there was a sign of purple energy coming from the east over the imperial city?
"Not only is the purple energy coming from the east, but the purple star is shining brightly! It's impossible for the officials of Si Tianjian not to see it! But no one is talking about it at this time. Does the prince know why?"
Yu'er didn't speak, just looked at him coldly.
Zhou Lingfeng suddenly felt unsure... Even when he faced the Supreme Emperor, he never felt so unsure.
He frowned and said in a very cautious tone, "Because Ziwei Star is the emperor star! Ziwei Star shines brightly, which shows that a wise king has come to the world!
"And that night was the night when the little princess was born!"
Zhou Lingfeng's words fell to the ground.
He thought he was speaking eloquently.
But Yu'er's unmoving expression... made him feel that his words were light and fluttering, as if a gust of wind could blow them away.
"Prince...don't you care?
"There have long been rumors that the Queen is 'Sichen'.
"Now that another princess is born, Ziweixing is flourishing...Don't the prince feel that his position is in jeopardy?" Zhou Lingfeng was a little anxious.
How smart is this kid? Still stupid? Did he not understand?
Yu'er's expression remained indifferent from beginning to end.
It wasn't until Zhou Lingfeng became anxious that he suddenly smiled.
"Is this your purpose? To instigate discord in my family?"
Yu'er chuckled lightly, "On the night my sister was born, how many children were born in all of Kyoto, all of Daliang, and even the entire Tianlong Continent?
"According to your opinion, in order to secure my 'position', should I kill all the children born that night?
"You said later that the little palace maid was killed with a stick because of me.
"A moment later, you started to create fear by saying that 'other people will threaten Gu's status'. What is your intention? Are you afraid that the world will not be in chaos?"
Zhou Lingfeng was startled when he heard this.
This... this kid is so smart that he is almost a demon!
"Your Highness has misunderstood Pindao. Pindao just wanted to..."
"What you think has nothing to do with me! Stop talking about my sister! Since you are from the Taihe Palace, I won't argue with you today.
"But there's no next time." After Yu'er finished speaking, she took a deep look at Zhou Lingfeng.
He asked the palace people to keep an eye on Zhou Lingfeng until he returned to the Palace of Supreme Harmony and then came back to resume his life.
"His imperial grandfather's people, don't push him, just look at him." Yu'er specifically warned.
Zhou Lingfeng always felt that these words... were not just polite, but seemed to have other meanings.
But he never understood the meaning.
Until he was itching all over his body, itching terribly.
