Ah Piao looked at Lord Hei and shook his head silently.
"I don't know how long these people have been staring at His Highness, what relationship His Highness has with them, and why His Highness believes them and is unwilling to open up to us."
"One more thing, when did His Highness know them? If His Highness didn't know them, he wouldn't believe them."
"That's right." A Piao nodded, "This is also the most important point. They imitated His Highness so successfully that they can fool old people like you and me who have been with His Highness for more than ten years. Not to mention they are masters." Ah Piao looked at Master Hei, "What do you think?"
"Indeed." Master Hei nodded, "When I heard that it was a counterfeit, I felt as if I had been struck by lightning, and I didn't recover for a long time. I carefully reviewed these days. I checked it again and found nothing wrong or any loopholes.”
"Right? Then, here comes the question."
"Where are they staring at His Highness? If they don't observe His Highness very close, they can do this and imitate His Highness so vividly." Lord Hei sighed, "And when they were staring, they were following Why didn’t we notice when His Highness was around?”
"Yes!" Ah Piao nodded, "The thing that puzzles me the most right now is this, because being able to imitate His Highness into the bone marrow is not something that happens in a day or two. It must be done through years of observation. .”
"Yes, that's what it means."
"When the accident happened, like you, I felt like the whole world had collapsed. This absolutely impossible thing happened to me. I never thought about it. In the days after I was released from prison and recuperated, I carefully I recalled whether there were any strange people around His Highness."
"How do you remember?"
"I'm different from you, sir. I'm not thinking about the funds these days, but in the years since I've been with His Highness, have any strange people appeared and then disappeared?" A Piao said calmly towards Lord Hei. Smiling, "Sir, you might as well guess, have I gained anything?"
"There should be." Master Hei smiled slightly back at her, "If there hadn't been, the deputy general wouldn't have asked me that, right?"
"Since you are so smart, let me continue to guess, who is more likely to be suspected?" Ah Piao stared at Master Hei, "Maybe you know something that I don't know? We are all in the same boat now, and there is nothing wrong with hiding it. That makes sense."
"Hmm..." Mr. Hei thought for a moment, "Let's think about it. We both have doubts, so we might as well write them down and see if we are thinking about the same person. How about that?"
Ah Piao stared at him quietly for a while, nodded slightly, and said, "Okay, let's see if we have a tacit understanding."
The two of them reached out at the same time, dipped their hands into the tea in the bowl, and wrote the word "aunt" on the table at the same time.
"Ha, as expected!" Ah Piao looked at what she had written, then looked at Master Hei's writing, and raised her eyebrows at him, "Tell me, how did Master come to suspect her? What is she? Origin? Is she really His Highness's aunt?"
"This is certain. The dowry girls of His Highness's biological mother can prove that she is indeed His Highness's aunt. However, one thing you said is wrong. It's not that I doubt her, but His Highness doubts her."
"Your Highness doubts her? Why? Hasn't the relationship between the two of them always been very good?"
"Don't worry, listen to me slowly. When His Highness was still young, she had been using the excuse of revenge for her biological mother to constantly sow discord between the father and daughter of the late king and His Highness. His Highness was young at that time, and his biological mother passed away very soon. Early, and there were so many old people around who proved that the late king was indeed sorry for her biological mother, and the late king himself admitted it, so..." Master Hei spread his hands, "Before the late king passed away, this aunt was not too conspicuous. Later, the late king also admitted it. After passing away, this aunt could have enjoyed her old age in peace, but I don’t know why..."
"Just what?"
"Have you stayed with His Highness for so long, haven't you noticed that every time Auntie comes to see His Highness, the two of them have secret conversations alone?" Seeing A Piao nod, Master Hei continued, "The two of them are carrying someone behind their backs. After the conversation, if aunt succeeds, she will leave happily; if aunt is embarrassed by His Highness, she will hate her and scold her as she goes."
"It seems..." Ah Piao narrowed her eyes and thought seriously for a while, "This is really the case, but how do you know, sir? Have you ever encountered it?"
"Not just once, but every time." Mr. Hei sighed, "I bumped into him many times when I was on duty. When I was not on duty, my brothers also bumped into me. That aunt took out the door of the palace when she didn't get her way. When brothers go out, they will either be scolded or slapped for no reason. Not only my brothers, but also the servants and maids in the palace should have similar experiences."
"This... Ah Piao shook her head gently, "I haven't heard them say that. "
"There will definitely be such a situation. You have to ask carefully. If they don't complain to you, it's probably because they are afraid of affecting the relationship between you and His Highness, or because they don't look up when they meet you. They always meet this person when they come to the palace, and why? I have to serve you respectfully, and if I complain to you later, it will only get worse if I fail to protect you, right?"
"It's possible." Ah Piao nodded, "But isn't it the same as complaining to you?"
"Of course it's different. She probably thinks that the guards at the palace gate are all foreign ministers and there is no way they can enter the inner palace to complain!"
"She is also thinking blindly. They can't enter the inner palace, but adults can."
"If she could think of this, she probably wouldn't be so careless, right?"
"So, they complained to you, and you complained to His Highness?"
"That's for sure!" Mr. Hei sneered, "Once or twice, I can just comfort him, but I can't bear to do it every time, right? I also have a temper, and I will definitely fight for my brothers. It’s unfair, and besides, I didn’t complain behind her back, I complained in front of her.”
Ah Piao opened her mouth wide and stared at Lord Hei for a long time, then slowly stretched out her thumb.
"Isn't that person scared to death?"
"It's not that I'm scared to death. It's true that I'm angry when I'm embarrassed." Master Hei bared his teeth at Ah Piao and showed a wicked smile, "Before I could finish my words, she pounced on me and grabbed my bun."
"Then what?" Ah Piao frowned, "Why don't I remember this?"
"It seems that you were not here and left the palace on His Highness's order. Fortunately, you were not here so I didn't hear the aunt's shrewish curses. It was from that time on that His Highness had different thoughts about this aunt."
