The emperor always wants to promise himself

Chapter 49
The matter had to start before Xiao Yuchuan came over.

Prior to this, the relationship between Xiao Yu and Zhen Xuetian had never been far or close. It couldn't be said to be very good, but it couldn't be said to be very distant. Compared with the four maidservants, it was far from enough, but compared to ordinary people, it was still close. He is much closer than Xiao Yu's brothers.

The concubine intentionally or unintentionally asked Zhen Xuetian to walk around in front of Xiao Yu more, the original Xiao Yu probably knew it well in his heart, for the sake of his mother, he would take care of her more or less.

It had just snowed heavily that day, and the servants were busy sweeping the snow in the front and back yards. The garden side simply swept the corridor, enough for people to walk.

Zhen Xuetian was called by the princess early in the morning, Xiao Yu saw that it was about the same time, and planned to visit her mother after Zhen Xuetian came out.

Although the concubine treats her badly, Xiao Yu still has a secret expectation in her heart. After all, she is her own mother, so of course she wants to get closer, so every morning and evening, she will save herself, unless the concubine does not want her to go and sends someone to tell her. , otherwise she will definitely go for a formality.

She walked to the lake in the garden, just in time to meet Zhen Xuetian coming from there, seeing tears on her face, Xiao Yu went up hesitantly, "Xuetian, why are you crying?"

Zhen Xuetian's eyes were red, and she pursed her lips tightly. She could hold it back, but when Xiao Yu asked, her tears kept falling like pearls with broken strings. Xiao Yu quickly took out her handkerchief and handed it to her. To her, "Don't cry, it's windy outside, be careful to hurt your face."

"Thank you, son."

Zhen Xuetian took it with her hand, pressed it at the corner of her eye, choked up and said, "The princess told me just now that she wants to send me back to Dingguo's mansion. .”

Xiao Yu was surprised: "But it wasn't my mother who said she would betroth you to me—"

Zhen Xuetian raised her eyes to look at her, her eyes were full of water, and a few traces of sadness flashed in her, "Perhaps I feel that my status as twins is not worthy of the world."

She lowered her eyes desolately, and squeezed the brocade handkerchief tightly in her hand, "Thank you for the handkerchief, Shizi. I will wash it and send it to you when I get back. I will take my leave first."

Saying that she turned around and was about to leave, Xiao Yu hurriedly said: "Don't worry, I'll go and talk to my mother, Duke Ding's Mansion is not a good place for you, I will try my best to let you stay."

Zhen Xuetian paused, turned her face to look deeply at Xiao Yu, complex emotions flashed away, and finally she only said softly: "Your Majesty."

Looking at the back of Zhen Xuetian going away, Xiao Yu shook his head with emotion, and was about to go to the courtyard of the princess when a man suddenly rushed out from behind the rockery beside him. Coming over, Xiao Yu turned sideways to hide, but when she saw someone coming, it was too late, she rushed over from diagonally behind, and pushed Xiao Yu straight to the lake on the other side!

The two of them hit the ice together, there was a muffled sound of "boom", followed by the sound of the ice cracking, and the sound of "click, click" falling in Xiao Yu's ears was no different from the sound of death.

The moment she fell into the water, she realized that it was a rough woman who was pressing on her. She struggled hard, but how could her congenitally deficient body be as strong as an old woman who had been doing rough work all year round?

At this time, the servants were busy sweeping the snow in front, no one would pass by, and the only living person had already left.

No matter how Xiao Yu yelled, no one paid any attention to her. She was pressed tightly into the water, her voice was fragmented, her whole body became cold quickly, and she soon lost consciousness.

And the old woman who was pressing on her also slowly closed her eyes...

This memory is so deep that Xiao Yu's hands and feet immediately became cold when he recalled it, and his body trembled involuntarily. Even if Xiao Yu wanted to control the body's instinctive reaction, it was not so easy.

"In the end, when the woman and I were fished out, we were both frozen stiff. Maybe it was because I held her tightly that we didn't die."

Xiao Yu's fingers on the table trembled slightly when he was talking, Han Yi hurriedly poured a cup of hot tea and walked over, he put the hot tea in front of Xiao Yu, forcefully opened Xiao Yu's hand, said in a deep voice Said: "Master!"

"Ok?"

Xiao Yu came back to his senses suddenly, raised his eyes and looked at Han Yi in a daze, Han Yi reached out to pick up the teacup, and put it in her palm, "It's okay, it's all over."

"It's passed..."

Xiao Yu let out a long breath, lowered his eyes to look at his hands, his long eyelashes trembled slightly, "I'm sorry, I lost my composure."

Han Yi shook his head, "Whoever it is, it's hard to let go of this experience."

Xiao Yu pursed his lips, took a sip from the teacup, and after he calmed down, he said to Han Yi: "It's okay, just keep talking, what did you find?"

Han Yi walked back to the opposite side of Xiao Yu, his eyes darkened, "That woman has been doing odd jobs in the kitchen before, her eyesight is not very good, and she can hardly see anything a few days ago, the housekeeper asked her to rest in her own yard. She was very anxious during the time and always slipped out in the middle of the night, and then she met someone."

"Who?"

Xiao Yu's eyes suddenly became sharp, "Is it the person next to the princess?"

Han Yi was startled: "How does master know?"

Xiao Yu's bloodless lips curled slightly, "Oh."

Her laughter contained too many things, and Han Yi couldn't tell the difference, so he had to continue: "It's Qiu Ling who is next to the princess. I didn’t care too much…”

Han Yi felt a little guilty when she said that, but Xiao Yu smiled and said: "It's okay, you have your mission, and you were not mine at that time, and no one knew what she was going to do, it has nothing to do with you, if it was me , and won't mind your own business."

"Well, I didn't expect that they were planning to murder the master. Xuan Yiwei just took a look and let it go. He didn't know what they were plotting. Then the master fell into the water on the third day."

"After this incident happened, the prince also sent someone to investigate, but the investigation was not careful at the time. He only believed that the woman was blind and suffering from hysteria, so she pushed the master into the water. A little trace of oil was found on the side stone."

"Oil?"

Xiao Yu narrowed his eyes, "Someone put oil on the road, so I was pushed down so easily?"

"This subordinate thinks so. It can be said that the other party has calculated every point. It stands to reason that it was colder in the past few days. The ice should be thick and not so easy to break, but the master fell into the water all at once. It is really strange. But now that the ice surface is frozen again, even if there are any traces, they are buried under the water and cannot be detected."

Han Yi paused, lowered his head and cupped his hands and said, "This is all I found. The blind woman's room was searched by my subordinates. The prince also sent people to search back then. There is no evidence."

(End of this chapter)