Empress Dowager Empress Dowager

Chapter 221
This Sulu was here to deliver food to Huo Mingzhu, seeing that Huo Mingzhu ate little for dinner, she was afraid that she would be hungry, so she specially made lotus seed porridge and brought it over.

Huo Mingzhu was a little moved in her heart, so she asked Su Yu to eat some herself, and then asked Su Yu to pack up her things and go down, telling her not to come over to wait on her, but to go to bed first.

As soon as Sulu left, Huo Mingzhu took out the jade pendant from the dressing box. She didn't know what the man in black was doing for her, but the jade pendant was very delicate, so she put it in the jewelry box .

She remembered earlier that this jade pendant might be a clue to the treasure, but even the Wuliang Taoist Temple, thousands of miles away, couldn't take it out and ponder it carefully.

If the man in black hadn't come to remind him tonight, Huo Mingzhu would not have thought of this incident.

I took the jade pendant in my hand and thought about it carefully, but I didn’t see the reason. This is an exquisite jade pendant. The totem in the front should be the totem of the Hanhai Kingdom. They are in the desert, the most majestic in the desert. The species is the painting on the jade pendant—the eagle.

As for the back of the jade pendant, it was an exceptionally beautiful flower. Huo Mingzhu had never seen what kind of flower it was, even if she had been to the Hanhai Kingdom in her previous life, she had never seen this flower.

The rope that is tied to the jade pendant is even more ordinary, there is nothing to see. If we want to say that the jade pendant is unique, it is only that the pattern is peculiar, the workmanship is exquisite, and the texture of the jade is also very good. A clue to what treasure.

After looking over and over again for a long time, she still didn't see anything, and she was also sleepy, so she put the jade pendant away, and went to bed to rest.

She didn't know that outside her boudoir, the man in black hadn't left yet, he was looking in the direction of Huo Mingzhu's boudoir, the tenderness and love in those eyes made him look a bit dark The gloomy look was softened a little.

"Ajin, don't let me down."

His words can only disappear in this boundless darkness, disappear between the sky and the earth, and no one can hear them.

The man in black looked at Huo Mingzhu's yard for a long time before turning around and disappearing into the thick night.

At this time in the Ninth Prince's Mansion, Baili Zonglu was in the study room listening to the news brought back by the people who had been sent out to handle errands, among which was the mention of Situ's family.

"Elder Situ Ge has never given up on investigating the murder of Young Master Situ. He wanted to find the mastermind behind the scenes and avenge Young Master Situ. Recently, he found evidence for him. The evidence pointed to the general's wife in General Huo's mansion."

Baili Zonglu snorted and raised his eyebrows: "Go ahead."

"It's a coincidence that Mr. Situ's hands will be cut off. The general's wife just wanted to stop General Huo from taking a concubine, so she hired someone to intercept the carriage of the concubine's Yu's parents who came to Beijing. Mr. Situ happened to be in the carriage. .”

"Is this your ability to handle affairs?" Baili Zonglu heard this, and suddenly looked at the man with a gloomy face.

The man hastily begged for mercy: "This subordinate deserves to die, this subordinate should immediately go down and continue the investigation."

"What about you?" Baili Zonglu looked at the other person.

The man said respectfully: "In this election of the crown princess, the daughters of famous families have all made marriage arrangements. Therefore, the queen mother changed the election of the crown princess to the crown prince's choice to accompany her. The queen mother belongs to the second lady of the Huo family."

"Are you sure it's the second lady?"

"Yes, absolutely."

"Okay, this king knows."

Baili Zonglu raised the corners of his mouth slightly, the crown prince chooses a concubine, hum, choose to choose a concubine for the crown prince when he is not around, what is the queen mother's idea, moreover, the queen mother actually gave up on the prince's favorite Huo Mingzhu and chose Huo Huaiyu, just right, He doesn't need to make a move.

Originally, he thought that the prince liked Huo Mingzhu, so he just wanted to fulfill him, but Huo Mingzhu's various performances made Baili Zonglu feel that it was too cheap for the prince to just give Huo Mingzhu to the prince. Mingzhu, Baili Zonglu wants to discover those places in her that are not the same as others.

The Huo family decided to let Huo Mingzhu enter the palace as the prince's accompanying student, but they didn't send Huo Mingzhu in directly. The prince's accompanying student is not so easy to do, so they have to go through layers of selection before entering the palace, because, This accompanying reading is the candidate for the crown princess in disguise, so it's not prudent.

Because Taoist Baimei wants to make alchemy for the emperor, he needs medicinal materials, which are not so easy to collect, so Huo Mingzhu accompanied Taoist Baimei to search for them in the medicine shop in Shangjing.

No, but he happened to meet Jin Wuhuan.

"If I hadn't happened to visit this shop today, I wouldn't have seen you. After all, where have you been recently?" Jin Wuhuan looked as if he wanted to settle accounts with Huo Mingzhu.

Huo Mingzhu looked at Jin Wuhuan and saw that he was still wearing such an unscrupulous appearance, but he really couldn't put it together with the image of Mr. Wuhuan, so he said: "Everyone is just like you. Flirting with women all day long?"

"Oh, I said that you are a girl, and that's what you said in such a mouth. Which eye of yours saw me flirting? Aren't I being serious?" Jin Wuhuan also didn't see Huo Mingzhu for many days. I heard that Huo Mingzhu I went to a Taoist middle school to learn art, and now I saw her with a Taoist priest, so I asked this question, but Huo Mingzhu didn't expect Huo Mingzhu to say such a sentence directly.

Huo Mingzhu said: "This is my master, Taoist Baimei, and this is Mr. Wuhuan, this medicine shop belongs to Mr. Wuhuan."

Jin Wuhuan and Taoist Baimei didn't know each other, but Jin Wuhuan was more resourceful than Taoist Baimei. He knew how to have both sides. No matter what the Taoist priest's status was, Jin Wuhuan just put on a smiling face and said with a familiar look: "Mingzhu and I are old friends. Judging by the Taoist priest's appearance, he must have come to the pharmacy to look for medicinal materials. Feel free to mention any medicinal materials you need. I dare not say anything else. As far as medicinal materials are concerned, I can handle them even if they are rare medicinal materials." found."

Her tone was serious, but Huo Mingzhu understood that Jin Wuhuan had this ability, so she stayed silent.

Taoist Baimei was very happy: "If this is the case, that would be great, and it will save our families from asking."

"Miss Huo is a noble person, so she forgets things. She even took the Taoist priest to look around, but I didn't remember that I have them here." Mingzhu, seeing her now, can't help complaining.

Huo Mingzhu pretended not to understand and ignored him.

"If that's the case, I'll have to trouble Mr. Wuhuan." Taoist Baimei just wanted to find suitable medicinal materials so that he could prepare a potion of medicinal pills for the Ninth Prince first. He didn't care about anything between Jin Wuhuan.

"No trouble, this way please."

Jin Wuhuan brought Taoist Baimei to the storeroom and asked the housekeeper to take Taoist Baimei to look for him. He pulled Huo Mingzhu to the side, and said at the beginning: "You took that Ye Mingzhu, and the Situ family has been looking for me for a long time. For the trouble, you are fine, you ran away without a trace."

"Oh? Then you told the Situ family that I took the Ye Mingzhu?" Huo Mingzhu raised her eyebrows. She was not afraid that the Ye Mingzhu would become a clue for the Situ family to find her, but that Jin Wuhuan would actually help her block it. Now, it's really strange.

"Definitely not, although I don't know what you did with Ye Mingzhu, but Situ Tiannan's hands were cut off, and then the Situ family found my head, I expected to know, you must have done something shameful. "Jin Wuhuan looked like I knew it.

The old god Huo Mingzhu was there, and he didn't panic because of Jin Wuhuan's words, but looked at Jin Wuhuan with a half-smile: "I'm very strange, I returned the night pearl directly to Situ Yue Son, the reason is that Situ Yueer and I have a fairly good relationship, knowing that her family's treasures have been leaked out, I kindly returned them back, but I did something shameful when I came to you."

"Don't fool me with anyone. The one who came to look for me that day was Situ Yueer." Jin Wuhuan acted as if you were just talking nonsense.

"Young Master Wuhuan likes to talk nonsense, I have seen it today." Huo Mingzhu knew very well that Jin Wuhuan must have just used words to deceive her.

That day, she took Ye Mingzhu back to Situ's family, borrowing the name of the Ninth Prince, and then Situ's family was in chaos, how could Situ Yueer think that Ye Mingzhu was the key to her brother's accident this time.

Jin Wuhuan said this because he felt that something happened to Situ's family and that she took his Ye Mingzhu was too coincidental.

"Hey, don't hurt me. It would be best to say that it really has nothing to do with you. If it really does, I will be implicated by you." Jin Wuhuan looked guilty.

Huo Mingzhu glanced at him: "Come on, if you are a mere Situ family, you are afraid, you are still a son of Wuhuan."

"Hey, Mingzhu is the one who knows me. Don't worry, even if they find out that Situ Tiannan's hand was cut off by someone sent by your general's mansion, it has nothing to do with you, at most it has something to do with your mother." It doesn't matter, don't thank me too much for telling you this news, as long as you think of ways to make money for me, I will give you more news you want." Jin Wuhuan looked as if he was very grateful to Huo Mingzhu.

Huo Mingzhu said: "Thank you so much." There was a funny look on his face.

Jin Wuhuan waved his hands indifferently, acting as if I was rich and arrogant: "It's okay, it's okay, money can't settle anything."

While Huo Mingzhu was relieved, he also secretly observed Jin Wuhuan. If he was a simple businessman, how could he easily understand that this matter was related to her, and helped her suppress the temptation that Ye Mingzhu attracted? Some clues.

Then, Huo Mingzhu chatted with Jin Wuhuan for a while, and said that he went to learn the art of medicine and stone from a teacher this time. What happened to Ye Mingzhu saved her a lot of trouble, so she kindly made him a good pill that could survive the golden gun after eating it. After saying these words, Jin Wuhuan was so scared when he looked at Huo Mingzhu. It's like watching a monster.

Taoist Baimei appeared in front of the two of them at this time, and his medicinal ingredients had already been selected, as long as the housekeeper sent the medicinal ingredients he needed to the General's Mansion.

Huo Mingzhu left his pharmacy with Taoist Baimei while Jin Wuhuan was staring at her with wide eyes. After Huo Mingzhu left, Jin Wuhuan patted his chest and said, "This kind of woman should not be provoked." OK."

(End of this chapter)