Civil and military officials of the Manchu dynasty, begging me to ascend the throne

Chapter 12 The Green Branch's Secret

Outside the Bailu Hall, layers of imperial guards alternate day and night, guarding the palace strictly.The Forbidden Army here is still guarded by His Majesty's most trusted leader, Li Yancheng.

A group of people came to a stop outside the Bailu Hall, which aroused the vigilance of Li Yancheng, the leader of the forbidden army. He held down the long sword at his waist and walked over quickly.

"Do you know who Gu is? Get out of the way, Gu wants to see An Le."

The guards were forced to retreat, but still refused to give way.

"His Royal Highness?" Li Yancheng, who came in a hurry, saw that it was the prince who was aggressive, and couldn't believe it for a moment.

The prince has always been generous and benevolent, but this time he was pushed into a hurry. Seeing that the person who came was Li Yancheng, who he knew well, he quickly said, "Commander Li, I just want to see Princess Anle."

With hesitation on his face, Li Yancheng replied: "His Royal Highness, His Majesty has ordered...no one is allowed to visit Princess An Le."

"Anyone? Not even orphans?"

Prince Jiang Yi's face was a little lonely, his father had never liked him, but Anle was his younger sister after all, and the blood and blood relationship was still there, how could he ignore it.

"This...His Highness forgives sins, it is indeed not allowed."

Li Yancheng also has a good impression of the prince who has always been lenient and gentlemanly, but the emperor's order is in front and cannot be violated.

"Then...call An Le, and I will talk to her at the gate of the hall, and Commander Li will watch from the side, okay?"

"This……"

Li Yancheng knew that this was not illegal, and he could even sell the prince a favor, so his heart was already shaken.

"If Commander Li doesn't want to, he can ask his father first, and Gu will wait here."

The crown prince's words were all about this, and Li Yancheng couldn't refuse, so he sent someone to the Chongguang Hall to inform His Highness of the matter.

After a while, the young general who went to pass the message hurried back: "Your Majesty has something to say, the prince can meet Princess Anle at the gate of the palace, and Commander Li will supervise her."

Both Li Chengyan and the prince Jiang Yi breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Chengyan cupped his hands and said: "Prince, wait a moment, I will send someone to pass on Princess Anle."

After finishing speaking, Li Chengyan called a blue-clothed maidservant and went in to communicate.

After all, it is not in accordance with etiquette for a foreigner to enter the princess' bedroom.

After a while, the maidservant in blue walked to the gate of Bailu Palace, with a strange expression on her face: "Princess...the princess does not want to see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

"Anle, she doesn't want to see Gu?" Jiang Yi frowned and verified
"Yes... yes, the princess said, no one will come. If... if you want to kill her, then... please hurry up."

Hearing this, the question in Jiang Yi's heart turned into affection for his sister.

"Who dares to touch An Le? Gu is here, you go to pass on. Tell An Le, Gu will definitely save her"

Jiang Yi's face was firm, and his tone was gentle but undeniably firm.

It made the maidservant in blue blushed, and hurriedly sent a message to the hall.

……

After a while, the maidservant in blue appeared at the gate of the hall again, and with her was Jiang Sile, who was dressed in red and attracted attention.

Jiang Sile's face was pale, as if he couldn't lift his spirits for anything, he glanced at the two people at the entrance of the hall, and then stopped.

Li Chengyan's eyes were full of surprise, he was five years older than Princess An Le, because he was on duty in the palace and he often saw gentle and charming princesses, but Jiang Sile's appearance this time surprised him.

Jiang Sile was only dressed in red, and her complexion was unadorned, but it was like a gorgeous red plum, making it impossible to take one's eyes away from her.Every frown and smile is engraved in the bottom of my heart.

But Jiang Sile didn't pay attention to this 'stranger', and turned his eyes to Prince Jiang Yi: "Do you know where this is?"

Jiang Yi wondered: "This is my sister's palace."

"Wrong, this is the palace of Princess An Le who angered His Majesty, isn't the Crown Prince's East Palace here?"

"An Le, Gu is here to see you."

Jiang Yi didn't care about Jiang Sile's words of disrespect to his elder brother, but comforted him: "Don't worry, Fu Sheng has already figured out a way, and now the emperor won't do anything to you."

Because Li Chengyan, an outsider, was standing there, what Jiang Yi said was vague and general.

"Fu Sheng?" Jiang Sile was unfamiliar with this name and was also angry.

I just said why after staying in the palace for two days, there was only one poisoner, and he retreated halfway.

It turned out that this man named Fu Sheng did a 'good deed'?
"Well, this is the kid, he..."

Jiang Yi also wanted to praise Fu Sheng's achievements and make him look good in front of his sister, but Jiang Sile turned around and wanted to leave as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Anle... Anle, don't leave, let Gu see you again, the concubine mother is also very worried about your situation..."

Jiang Sile stopped in her tracks, with a sneer on her face: "Worried about me? Jiang Yi, what you should be most worried about right now...is Jiang Yuaner."

"What do you mean?" Jiang Yi asked puzzled.

Jiang Sile didn't explain, and the figure in red disappeared in front of everyone.

Kong left Jiang Yi with his head down in confusion, but he didn't see Li Yancheng beside him with a look of astonishment on his face, reluctantly leaving Jiang Sile.

……

Jiang Sile, who returned to the dormitory, looked as cold as ice and was very angry.

"Fu Sheng, right? Ruin my good deed... Green Branch?"

The trembling green branches flowed out from behind the screen, and said softly, "Your Highness?"

"Get that poisonous soup out of the ice." Lu Zhi's figure walked quickly, she was very frightened these days.

On the first night back to the palace, the princess discovered that the food was different, the color of the soup was red.

The princess said, this is the juice made from the oleander in the west hall, someone wanted to kill the princess, but the Bailu hall was guarded by the imperial army, so the poison was put into the soup.

The princess said, in order not to attract attention, you should hide this soup in the ice cellar.

There is a separate ice cellar in Bailu Hall. At night, Luzhi, who was in a panic, put the soup into a small jar and put the small jar into the ice cellar.

On the second day, Lvzhi checked the food very carefully, and found that there was nothing there, and he was relieved.But the princess was very angry, and scolded the poisoner for not knowing how to persevere.

Thinking that Lu Zhi had retrieved the poisonous soup from the small jar, he walked back to the palace in small steps.

Jiang Sile opened the jar and frowned. "No, this soup has been replaced."

"Been replaced?" Lu Zhi hurriedly looked inside in surprise, muttering, "Impossible? The servant put it in the ice cellar and brought it back in person."

"You put it down by yourself? You took it by yourself?" Jiang Sile's eyes were fixed on the green branch like knives, and he pressed on every step of the way.

"It's really the slave who let it go... slave..." Lu Zhi was still defending, but Jiang Sile's hand pressed her neck.

"Don't you want to lie to me?"

Luzhi's face was full of fear, her eyes were filled with tears, and she choked up, "I'm really not a slave..."

Jiang Sile sneered: "Then let's talk about something else, such as... who is behind you?"

Luzhi's face was pale, her lips moved slightly, but she couldn't speak.

Jiang Sile felt that there was something wrong with this green branch early in the morning.

The most obvious thing is that Lu Zhi doesn't seem like a palace lady at all.

When Hongyu combed her hair, Jiang Sile saw the calluses on Hongyu's hands from the mirror, which were the hands of the hard-working palace servants.

As for Luzhi's hand, Jiang Sile frequently held it when he was driving to the Chongguang Hall in the palace sedan chair. There was no callus on that white hand, and it didn't look like Luzhi's hand who had once been a handyman.

Also, Luzhi is well-informed, it is not unusual to know the price of food, and it is not unusual to know the story in the play.

But... how did she know that the first prince died by that sword?
Or Emperor Wu... cut it with his own hands!
(End of this chapter)