Empress, she is rising step by step

Chapter 61 Fear

Zhu Ci was not sure who did it, but Concubine Bai was unlikely. She also hoped that she would join forces with her to fight against Concubine Shu, and would not attack her for the time being.

So who is it?

"As long as you do it, the trap will be revealed sooner or later. Just come up with a strategy and find the person."

Zhu Ci threw the hairpin on the table. She slowly sat down while holding the edge of the table. Zhuying poured hot tea and handed it over.

"You two, please be careful in the future. I'm worried that they won't be able to do anything to me and will use dirty tricks against you. From now on, all the tea and food I drink must be tested one by one."

If she hadn't been so courageous and didn't believe there were ghosts in the world, she would have been really frightened. There were only a few people present yesterday, and it seemed that the problem lay with them.

Zhuying nodded solemnly, "Master is getting the favor of God now, and I don't know how many people want to see your jokes. Even if you are making careful calculations and being thoughtful in everything, you can't stop those who want to harm others. I'm afraid it's you. The road ahead will be even more dangerous.”

"Since I have entered the game, I am a person in the game. Either he dies or I die. There is no third way."

Zhu Ci put down the tea cup, picked up the hosta on the table and wiped off the blood on it, then raised her head and tied her long hair up.

"But this reminds me of something. Although it was Lu Yunv who attacked me first and I fought back, I'm afraid that if she wakes up and someone else prompts her, she will turn into a sharp sword and stab me. .”

"Lu Yunv really can't stay. Now that she has lost her child and fallen out of favor, it's the best time. Even if something unexpected happens, the emperor won't care too much."

Xiao Yinzi stood aside with his head lowered, his thin figure reflected diagonally on the wall.

"What are you going to do, Master?"

"What else can I do? She just lost her child, and I can't bear to do anything to her again."

Zhu Ci lowered her eyes and touched her smooth and long nails. Her slender eyelashes fell on her pink cheeks, leaving a dark green shadow.

"Go and find me a mouse. Remember, it must be a newborn mouse, so no one can find it."

Xiao Yinzi couldn't figure out what Zhu Ci wanted a mouse for. "Master, what do you want a mouse for? That thing is dirty and likes to bite things. A few years ago, a poppy was accidentally bitten by a mouse at night and bit it off." Not to mention half a finger, I also got the plague..."

Before he finished speaking, an idea flashed in Xiao Yinzi's head, and he instantly understood what Zhu Ci meant.

Zhu Ci raised the corners of her lips, "I understand, just do as I say."

Zhu Ci originally thought that she would not be able to sleep in the middle of the night because she had been ghosted just now, but unexpectedly she fell asleep quickly.

Zhuying, who insisted on guarding her, kept turning back and forth, her whole body huddled under the quilt, only her big round eyes exposed.

Zhu Ci turned sideways and stared at the black figure on the ground, "What's wrong with you? Are you cold? If you're cold, just go back to the house and sleep. You don't have to worry about me."

"No, I'm not cold, slave." The quilt on Zhuying's body was newly made. It was fluffy and warm, and smelled of sunshine.

"This slave is just a little scared. Master, do you think the guy pretending to be a ghost will come again? It scares people to death, and I'm afraid that the guy will come again while he's asleep."

Zhu Ci laughed. Although Zhuying was usually carefree and fearless, she was only a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl after all. Even if she knew that the ghost was deliberately disguised, it was normal to be afraid. "No, if he is not afraid of death and dares to come, I will definitely let him come back with his life or death. If you are really afraid, come and sleep with me, I will protect you."

Zhuying hesitated for a while, "Then I will sleep with my sister tonight, and I will be her slave tomorrow."

She jumped out of the bed, as if there was a ghost chasing after her, and quickly hugged the quilt and got into bed.

Zhu Ci had already made a place for her. She stretched out her hand to tuck Zhuying's quilt, and stretched out her other hand from the quilt, reaching into Zhuying's quilt to hold her hand.

"Go to sleep. If I hold your hand, he won't dare to come near you."

Zhuying turned over and put her other hand on Zhu Ci's hand, nodded silently, and snuggled tightly to her side. Listening to Zhu Ci's steady breathing, she felt inexplicably at ease, and soon she felt sleepy and fell into a deep sleep.

I thought it would rain for several days, but unexpectedly it stopped raining after one day. Shen did not come to see her, but sent Li Quan to give her some supplements and gadgets to kill time.

Shen Que rested in Zhaoyang Palace for two nights in a row. He heard from Zhuying that the emperor was still sad about the child. Except for the former court and the Queen Mother, he only rested in Zhaoyang Palace.

Bai Guifeirui sent someone to invite him once, but was politely rejected. Although she felt uncomfortable, there was nothing she could do.

Zhu Ci was not in a hurry, the emperor was thinking of her, and it didn't matter whether she came or not. She just made the soup with her own hands and asked Cui Lan to send it to Zhaoyang Palace.

Zhu Ci used tweezers to cut the bloody fresh pork into small pieces and gave it to the mouse. The mouse was fluffy, only as big as a human thumb, sniffing back and forth in the abandoned wooden box covered with straw.

In the courtyard, Zhuying told Xiao Yinzi, "The rain the night before yesterday made people feel panicked. It is inevitable that there are places in the palace that are in disrepair. You can ask them to repair the walls and the like later, so as not to injure them." My lord."

Xiao Yinzi got the order and went. Although Zhuying and he were both slaves, they were still close to each other, and Xiaoyinzi always respected her very much.

Zhuying picked up the curtain and came in, "It rained a lot, and the albizia flowers in the palace bloomed. I ordered someone to pick some, which can be used to cook albizia porridge."

"You just have to figure it out." Zhu Ci raised her head and looked at Zhuying. She was wearing a lotus-colored chest-length undershirt today, and she looked very pretty.

"You look good in your outfit today. You are a young girl, but you were dressed so maturely before that you looked lifeless."

"Slaves used to carry water and mop the floor, so they had to wear dark clothes to withstand dirt. Otherwise, they would be torn after just a few washes."

Zhuying pursed her lips and smiled shyly, "Now that I follow my master, I don't have to do the rough work, so I dare to wear such fresh clothes."

Zhu Ci smiled, and Zhuying came to her side lightly.

"The palace is very busy today. Cao Baolin was released by the emperor. In order to appease her, the emperor rewarded her with many good things."

Zhu Ci made a move and said in surprise: "She was released. Could it be that the owner of the wild cat was caught?"

"No one was caught, not even a shadow. It was Shen Xiurong who discovered that Cui'er, the palace maid serving beside Wen Meiren, had secretly buried something in Chunse Garden. She ordered someone to dig it out and found out that she was searching Cao Baolin's house that day. The medicine comes out.”

(End of this chapter)