The thin agarwood was burning in the golden stove with three legs. The crane's mouth spit out the gray-white and twisted smoke, which gradually spread in the air, and the whole room was filled with a faint fragrance.

When Gu Si first saw Chu Huaiyu, she was like a little beast with fangs and claws, holding a piece of broken porcelain that had cut her own palms, trying to pierce his neck. Even if he was imprisoned, he dared to slap him hard.
He was obsessed with it for a moment, and suddenly he grabbed her head and kissed her hard.

1,

The fine agarwood was burning in the golden stove with three legs. The crane's mouth spit out gray and twisted smoke, which gradually spread in the air, and the whole room was filled with a faint fragrance.

A bird sings outside the window, and the beauty in the room opened her sleepy eyes and called out, and a maid came over to change her clothes and wash her.

"Mother's Mother! Mother's Mother's!" A little girl with a horn bun rushed into the room like a whirlwind, pounced on the beauty's knees, tilted her head and hugged her waist, and said coquettishly: "Mother's Mother's lotus in the lotus pond is blooming, it's swaying, so beautiful, let's go to appreciate the lotus together."

"Mother's mother has been a little happy recently, otherwise she will go there in a few days?" The beauty touched her head lovingly.

"Oh, the imperial doctor said you should walk around in moderation. Besides, the lotus pond is not hot, Huaiyu fans you." The little girl acted coquettishly and reached out to make a fan.

The beauty rubbed her round little face again and finally nodded.

"You really can't do anything to you, little girl."

"Okay!" The little girl jumped up suddenly, "I'll ask my father again."

"Hey, Huaiyu is back." The beauty quickly grabbed her, "Your father is busy with everything, don't always make trouble for him."

"The father said that I can make a wish for my birthday!" The little girl flashed flexibly, avoided her mother's clamp, and ran out of the door jumping.

"This child." The beauty shook her head, smiled helplessly.

The next second, the beauty suddenly frowned and covered her face.

Two dark tears of blood flowed down her face, making it particularly dazzling on her fair skin.

"Why can't I see it? Red Carp, Red Carp!"

The palace maid, known as Red Carp, hurried over and saw such a horrifying scene, couldn't help but scream "ah".

With this scream, large amounts of purple-black blood also flowed out of the beauty's nostrils and ears. The blood flowed along her fingers to her arms, and then dripped from her arms on the bed, like blooming plum blossoms .

"Ah——" The beauty covered her face at a loss, trying to block the continuous flow of dirty blood. But as soon as she opened her mouth, a large pool of blood vomited out of her mouth, splashing all over the ground.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid." The red carp was almost scattered. She forced herself to calm down and called a few little palace maids to guard the imperial concubine. She ran out and shouted, "Come on! Help!"

Not long after, the people who rushed over hurriedly surrounded the palace and were in a mess.

Huaiyu was held tightly in the arms of the red carp through the human wall. She cried and made a fuss to go in to see what was wrong with her mother. However, Hongli and another little palace maid grabbed her tightly. She saw a bloody man from a distance from the crack of the man, covering his already bloody face and rolling on the ground, his hair was scattered, like an evil ghost crawling out of hell.

The people around him avoided her randomly stretched out hand. Wherever she rolled, people would take a few steps back. So she saw the figure gradually lost her anger, and finally curled up into a ball and stopped moving.

"Stop looking, stop looking at the princess." Hongli was already crying, and she signaled another little palace maid to drag Huaiyu away.

, Huaiyu was stunned at this moment, and suddenly remembered another thing.

When she came to find her mother this morning, she accidentally saw the big palace maid next to Empress Xiao 号 talking to the little palace maid who was delivering tonics to her mother. While lifting the lid and stirring it into the bowl with a spoon.

She was still secretly laughing at her mother in her heart, saying that she was so old that she had to put a lot of candy in it when taking medicine. Then she immediately forgot about this and ran to the garden to catch butterflies.She thought that after a while, when her mother woke up, she would act coquettishly towards her and asked her to accompany her to enjoy the lotus.

2,

Chu Huaiyu was locked up by the red li.

The red carp covered her mouth, and she bit her hand so bloody. She struggled to open the door and run out, but was pulled back by Hongli. In the end, she was tied to the pillars of the side hall, with a thick veil stuffed into her mouth, and her angry and resentful words could only turn into low whimpers.

She heard footsteps coming and going outside the door, and not long after, she heard a familiar "The Emperor is here!"

Her red and swollen eyes suddenly lit up because of tears. She raised her head and stared at the red lily, as if she wanted to say: Do you dare to tie this princess? When your father helps me and my mother preside over justice, you can wait for death without a place to bury it!

She stopped moaning, holding her breath and listening to the movement outside.

She heard the voice of her father: "Since you are infected with a bad disease, then you will be buried in peace. The imperial concubine was very happy during her lifetime, and she should be buried in a grand manner after her death."

She suddenly widened her eyes.

No, no, what kind of evil disease can occur so rapidly? What kind of evil disease can make people bleeding in the seven orifices instantly? If you see her death, how could you think she was killed by a serious disease?

She shook her head, tears kept falling. She twisted her body and wanted to break free from the ropes tied up to open the door. She wanted to jump to her father in person and revealed to him everything about how the queen poisoned her mother's tonic and how her mother passed away desperately and helplessly. Her father loved them so much, he must have been blinded by the mediocre people in the Imperial Hospital. As long as she went out to explain everything, he would definitely preside over justice for her -

"Princess." Hongli put one hand on her shoulder. She shrank reflexively and glared at her in disgust.

Hongli sighed: "Princess, do you still want to go to find the emperor?"

What does this mean? That is her father! The father who loves her the most! When her brothers and younger brothers fought for a nod or a compliment from their father, she could sit on her father's knees and sit in the pavilion with her mother, grinding him for the whole afternoon of the story, or pestering him from the east of the imperial garden to the west, and then from the west to the east. He built snowmen for her in summer and found watermelons for her in winter. She acted coquettishly and said she was afraid of the darkness. He lit the most expensive sesame oil all night, making her palace like daytime.

The father loves her so much! She loves her mother so much! Not to mention, the mother's mother still has an unborn dragon heir in her belly. Wouldn't her father help her? !

But when Hongli said that she was already alone and helpless.

"Princess." Hongli spoke slowly. "When the Empress was poisonous, she told me that if she couldn't survive, I would like to protect you."

Huaiyu thought of the tragic situation of her mother's blood in her seven orifices, and she couldn't help but feel a soreness on her nose and shed tears.

"I followed the Empress into the palace at the age of twelve. I don't know how many open and secret arrows the Empress suffered along the way. The Empress's mother clan is just a small clan, not as good as the big clan like Xiao clan and Chen clan . However, the Empress has been favored over the years and has long been regarded as a thorn in the eyes by the people in the harem. Now the Empress is pregnant with the Dragon Heir again, and I think we know what happened today, and it must have been a traitor." Hongli gently patted Huaiyu's back and said sadly, "Princess, did you see who harmed the Empress?"

Huaiyu nodded quickly and twisted his arms to signal her to take out the handkerchief.

Hongli shook her head: "Not yet."

asked again: "Is that the person who harmed the Empress, is it Empress Xiao?"

Huaiyu nodded even more violently.

Hongli sighed deeper, turned to Huaiyu and said seriously, "Princess. I can take out your handkerchief, but you have to agree to my request."

"After taking it out, you can't cry, and you can't tell me the story of the empress being assassinated by Empress Xiao."

"No matter what you see or hear, it's rotten in your stomach, just treat it as if you never know it."

"Why!" Chu Huaiyu widened his eyes in shock. She blocked her handkerchief and still made a "whimper" questioning from her throat in resentment.

"There are some wars on the border, and the court urgently needs troops. On the front line, the Northwest Army is in the hands of starting a family with a relative in-laws with the Xiao family. In the rear, the power of money and grain is controlled by the Xiao family. Now the emperor has to rely on the Xiao family. No matter what Empress Xiao does, the emperor will not easily touch the queen."

"The reason why Empress Xiao dares to kill people directly and plots to murder the emperor's heir is because the emperor wants to use the Xiao family now. If the empress really gives birth to a prince and favors the empress, she I am afraid that the position of the prince will change. "

" Since Empress Xiao dares to kill the empress, you are the most dangerous now. Since the empress has entrusted you to me, I will protect the princess even if I try my best to do my best."

" Listen to my advice, the princess will survive in this palace first. It is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge."

In the darkness, Chu Huaiyu opened her dark eyes in a daze, not knowing how much she understood.

But she suddenly understood one thing: eight-year-old Chu Huaiyu lost her mother and her father. What she had to do was to survive alone and without shelter in this palace where people eat and don't spit bones.

Then, let them repay a hundred times.

3,

Chu Huaiyu became more and more arrogant.

If she used to be just a child who was harmless and willful, now she can be considered arrogant and domineering. The people of the concubines who once loved her innocence and lovely gradually avoided her like a snake and scorpion, and even the father who had originally loved her the most came to see her less and less. As she grew older, her sinister and eccentric personality increased instead of reducing. By the time she was a teenager, she had become a disgusting existence in the palace. Everyone in the palace said that a good little girl would go crazy and turn herself into a lonely family, not even a person who could talk.

She has a gloomy temperament. She would smash things in the palace at any time, causing the eunuchs and maids to hide away. She dared not wander in front of her for fear of being vented. After she realized this, she actually came up with a variety of ways to torture the palace maids around her.

ordered them to walk on stilts with their eyes blindfolded, and used to scare them with toads, rats and other terrible animals to scare them. She also applied strange oil paint on their faces, not to wash them off, and walked around the palace. Once I met Sun Changzai on the road, and even scared him to the point of being afraid to go out for half a month.

After years of torture, the palace maids in her palace were dead, and there were only a few left.

Someone reported the princess' usual vicious behavior to the queen, saying that the princess was making such a fuss, and the whole palace was panicked. At that time, the queen was drinking the Anshen Tea with a teacup. After drinking it leisurely, she said, "The princess lost her mother when she was young, and her personality was inevitable. The emperor and I both felt sorry for the princess. She just sent a group of new people to her place. As for each palace, take care of her own affairs." When the queen's order came, Chu Huaiyu smashed the vases one by one in the hall, as the size of the head, and heard that the queen did not blame her, so she bent her mouth and used all her strength to smash the last vase to the ground.

is broken.

The splashed fragments even made a small hole in her hand.

She stared at the mouth blankly for a while, then suddenly raised her hand and sucked it.

A little fishy and sweet smell permeates the mouth.

It turns out that human blood tastes like this.

When she raised her eyes again, she saw a person standing at the door of the palace.

A green long gown with a flowing white crane painted on it, with a tall figure. He stood under a flowering peach tree, the petals blowing down by the wind were too swaying and burned her eyes.

How can there be men in the harem? She thought, maybe it was a prince who didn't recognize his way and mistakenly entered this place that could make him lose his head.

Her eyes swept over and said coldly, "If you don't want to die, get out of here."

The man was silent for a while, and suddenly spoke with a smile: "How to get out? I won't."

"If you don't know, I'll teach you." She had never been confronted like this before when she grew up so old, and she suddenly became angry and picked up a piece of fragments from the ground and ran towards him, regardless of whether her hand was cut or not.

She wanted to cut through his proud, smiling, and uncomfortable face that made her look as if everything was in control -

Her hand raised high and fell heavily, but the man quickly leaned back and avoided the blow, one hand wrapped around her waist, clamped her tightly, and the other hand grabbed her raised arm and snatched the fragment. When she realized that the fragment had already hit her neck.

She finally felt scared afterwards, but she still did not show weakness on her face. She glared at him angrily and threatened, "Let me go! Do you know who I am!"

"Let me guess," he tilted his head, with a cynical smile on his face that made people want to punch him when they saw it, "I guess you are the little princess who hates gods and ghosts."

Chu Huaiyu's face turned a little darker when she heard this comment. She said, "Since you know who I am, why don't you let go quickly? ! Or I'll call someone! "

" Oh?" He blew a sigh of relief into her ear, "Guess, is the guards in the palace coming quickly, or is the fragments in my hand scratching fast?"

" By the way, I heard that Princess Huaiyu loves to abuse palace people the most. You call people now, guess, will they do their best to save you, or will they accidentally let me kill you?"

4,

" Then what do you want?" She gritted her teeth and compromised.

"I came here to make a deal with the princess." He smiled so hard that his eyebrows were curved, revealing two tiger teeth.

"What transaction?"

"I will help the princess take power and take revenge."

"I don't understand what you are saying..." Her eyes widened, then turned her head and avoided his gaze.

"Does the princess really not understand?" He let out another breath, raised his hand and threw the fragments in his hand, gently stroked the broken hair in her ear behind his ears, "The princess can't even lie. If it weren't for the support of the other side, it would be difficult to live in the palace for a long time."

"What do you want?" She asked after a long stalemate.

He smiled again and looked at her for a while.

"What do I want? I had already thought about it before coming." He counted with his fingers, "Of course, it is a high-ranking official and generous salary, and the military power of the Pinghuai King and the Northwest Army."

"However," he suddenly leaned closer to her face, "I met the princess today, and I suddenly wanted to add a bargaining chip."

"I help the princess become the empress, how good is the princess marry me?"

"Ha." Chu Huaiyu sneered and suddenly raised his hand and slapped him.

"You don't even look at what kind of help you have now, just a fool here."

This slap was caught off guard. Because she didn't know how to defend her martial arts, he still had five light red fingerprints on her face even though she dodged.

Chu Huaiyu realized it and remembered that the palace maids and guards had been scared away by her. At this moment, she was isolated and helpless, so she should not anger the uninvited guest. Thinking of this layer, she looked up at him nervously again.

"I was quite arrogant just now, do you know you're scared now?" He stared at her for a while, suddenly pressed her in his arms and lowered his head and kissed her lips.

His offensive was gentle and fierce, and Chu Huaiyu was shocked. When she remembered to struggle, he had let her go.

He raised his hand and didn't care much about geography and clothes: "Since the princess suspected that her minister Meng Lang gave her a slap, wouldn't she suffer a loss if she didn't really do anything?"

He looked up and looked at the sky in a pretentious manner: "Ah, it's getting late, I should take my leave."

"I hope the princess will consider what I have planned with the princess today. It doesn't matter if the princess doesn't believe in me now. In a few days, I will prove my sincerity."

said that, he gave a graceful salute and walked out of the palace gate.

"Wait!"

"What's wrong? Are you reluctant to leave me?" he turned around and teased.

Chu Huaiyu suddenly calmed down and said:

"Since you want to cooperate with me, I naturally have to know your power... You haven't told me what your name is."

He smiled again, as if he thought she was very interesting.

"You might be the princess who wanted to turn around and sold me."

"You guess." she said.

"..." He was silent for a while, and finally put away the smile in his control on his face.

She wanted to ask a few more questions, but saw him kneeling on one knee and performing a serious courtesy of the monarch and minister.

"I am pacifying the prince of Huai, Gu Si, and pay homage to the princess."

"If the princess agrees, I will dedicate my life to the princess from then on, and go through fire and water, and I will never refuse."

He raised his head, his serious expression on his face, and he did not seem to be a fake.

If you ignore the bright red salmon on his mouth, he looks like a loyal guard, or a courtier who will hit the pillar if he doesn't agree.

But he is clearly a smart fox , a cunning wolf, lurking in the darkness, not missing any chance to bite the prey's throat.

She thought, it wasn't that she couldn't agree to him.

But -

After things are done, he will die.

5~7

5,

5,

0 She found out the background of Gu Si through some joints.

Gu Si is indeed the concubine's son of King Pinghuai, but there are many concubines of King Pinghuai family. He has ordinary literary and military skills. He lives in a quiet place and does not make friends with outsiders on weekdays, so he has no sense of existence. Gu Feng, the heir appointed by King Pinghuai, went to the military camp to practice at the age of thirteen. Now he is a small leader in charge of thousands of people. When he makes contributions on the battlefield, he can inherit the throne. Gu Si is just a idle and unpopular family. Apart from looking for flowers and Wenliu, who is famous in the Beijing playboy circle, can be said to have nothing to do.

Why does he think he can beat them and even help her get revenge? Chu Huaiyu smiled contemptuously. However, she thought of his eyes and suddenly she was a little expectant.

Unconcealed look full of ambition and desire. She saw him as if she was looking in a mirror.

Soon after, Gu Si's gift was indeed delivered.

Xu Yun, who sent poison to her mother's mother back then and now has become a first-class palace maid in the harem, was found to have an affair with the guards and died after touching the pillar. He was pregnant for several months at the time of death.

When the harem was dealing with her, she accidentally discovered that she used the title of a first-class palace maid next to the queen to deduct the food, clothing and expenses of the concubines at low positions and put them all into her own pocket.

"That's all?" Chu Huaiyu looked at the person sitting on the recliner she often sat in without seeing at all, and said dissatisfiedly.

"Eat the rice one bite at a time." The person who came to teach her patiently as if he was coaxing a child, "Now it is just a cut in the Queen's stable body. Now it may be only a small crack, but when we want to destroy it, it will start from here and collapse."

"Besides," he changed his words and looked at her with a smile, "The princess hasn't promised me yet. I can't do anything to the end, so as not to have no way out."

"If you have a way out, you won't look for me from the beginning." Chu Huaiyu ignored his smiling face and said coldly.

"Your mother is the eldest daughter of the Qin family in Moyang, and her husband and the queen's brother Xiao Qi's wife are cousins. But the Qin family in Moyang has never been as powerful as the Qin family in the capital, and its relationship is not as close as the outside world thinks. Therefore, your mother did not receive attention when she married Queen Pinghuai. Later, after the Xiao family was established, the father and the emperor often suppressed King Pinghuai, and the situation of you, mother and son, who had a relationship with the queen, was even more difficult. And you," her beautiful phoenix eyes swept across his face, "It would be fine if it was a mediocre person without talent and virtue, but he was an ambitious person. So a person like you was destined to be—"

She stretched out her fingers like peeling spring onion and pointed at the tip of his nose, and paused word by word: "Can, minister, thief, son."

He suddenly laughed, as if he was pleased by her words, and it took him a while to stop. He reached out and grabbed her finger, and put his other hand around her waist, causing her to turn half a circle and fall into his arms.

"The princess is really smart. It seems that I have really found the wrong person when I am looking for the princess to cooperate with me."

6,

"Take me out of the palace." Shortly after confirming the cooperative relationship, Chu Huaiyu asked Gu Si.

"Leave the palace? Where do you live? If the queen finds out, I can't protect you." Gu Si raised his eyebrows.

"I've only been out for half a day.Where to go "

"? "

" The place you go most often. "

" Where do I go most often? "Gu Si turned his head and thought seriously, "Isn't that Qinlou Chuguan?" Why, the princess is interested in this? "

" is right. "To his surprise, Chu Huaiyu met his gaze and nodded, "I am very interested in this." "

Gu Si shook her head and smiled helplessly.

" The princess is really a wonderful person. "

He stretched and stood up.

" I will arrange this matter, but if the princess wants to see Qinniang, she may have to be sincere. "

" I get it. "

Chu Huaiyu looked at Gu Si's departure back and his face became cold.

She got up and went back to the room, stepped back to the palace servant, opened the secret lattice under the bed, took out a small powder box from it.

But it was not filled with rouge and water powder, but house deeds and silver notes .

The reward of the father could not move, and the silver and money in the palace could not move, and it would be discovered as soon as it moved. Therefore, shortly after her mother passed away, she went to her grandfather's house where she was doing business under the name of visiting her relatives, and obtained several shops and some principal.

Since then, she went crazy in the palace during the day, but at night she was carrying the lamp and studying hard all night, studying Learning about business. After the first few years of bleak operation, the shop finally improved a little, so she sent several confidant palace maids out of the palace to run the shop by pretending to die. Over the years, although it could not be compared with the big wineries in the capital, those small shops were also quite popular, and she accumulated a lot of money in her hands.

Her eyes were stumbled on those real estate deeds, and finally fell on the "Zui Xing Wine Floor".

This is the largest industry she operates, and now it has become the third largest winery in the capital.

Chu Huaiyu disguised herself as a man, wearing a brick-red brocade robe, and walked into Tianxiang Pavilion with her arms around her.

"Oh, it's Mr. Gu, please invite me inside. "As soon as the girls at the door saw him, they all rushed over.

"This young man is so handsome. Which young man is from? "The sharp-eyed girl saw Chu Huaiyu's face and asked Gu Si while leading them in.

"A relative from the countryside, I will bring him to see the world." "Gu Si patted Chu Huaiyu's shoulder, "He has a little lady waiting at home. Don't say that you have seen him today, girls. "

" That's natural. "The girls said together.

"What do you call the little boy? "As he spoke, a girl handed Luo Pa to Chu Huaiyu and said softly.

"Xiaosheng... Yu Chu. "Chu Huaiyu's hands and feet were tied with a thin red color on her face, as if she was a little shy country boy.

"Young Master Yu is still shy~" The girls were still trying to make trouble for her, Gu Si put her shoulder strap on her and went to the second floor.

"The spring night is short, I will take You to the second floor first, and I will play with the girls next time! "Gu Si waved her hand casually, turned around and pushed her into a small door.

There was another staircase in the small door. They climbed about three floors and finally arrived at the entrance of a small pavilion.

Gu Si was familiar with the hidden weapon device at the door and sounded the small bell at the door.

"Qinniang, someone is here. "

7.

The door opened with a "creak" sound, and the dim light and the aroma of rouge powder were revealed. As soon as Chu Huaiyu walked in, the door behind her was closed again.

A woman sat in front of an exquisite small table. In terms of her temperament and dress, she should be over forty years old, but Chu Huaiyu looked at her face like a twenty-year-old girl, with smooth and moist skin and no wrinkles at the corners of her eyes.

"Qinniang. "She nodded slightly and greeted her.

Qinniang also got up from her seat and bowed slightly to him: "Young Master Yu." "

She knew her identity, but the one who came here today was Mr. Yu, and the one in front of him was Mr. Yu, not the princess who went crazy in the palace all day long.

" Mr. Yu came, what's wrong? "

" Gu Si often buys news from you. "Chu Huaiyu didn't beat around the bush," I also want a copy of the news about the nobles in the capital. But don't hand it over to my people through Gu Si."

Qin Niang smiled: "Young Master Yu is a straightforward person. But you asked for all the news about Tianxiang Pavilion in one sip, which made you feel too loud. "

" I want it all. You offer a price? "Chu Huaiyu looked straight into her eyes.

Qin Niang lowered her head and thought for a while, and said, "Since it is someone introduced by Mr. Gu, it should be the same as Mr. Gu's price. "

She raised three fingers.

"Three thousand taels? "

" is 3,000 taels per year, and it is paid in one lump sum at the beginning of the first year. After that, you can pay in installments, but interest will be charged. "Qinniang said, "These are ordinary information about the nobles in the capital, including clan relations, closeness and distantness, and the operating model of subordinate industries, and profit and loss. "

" If the information you want is too secret, or if you want our girls to inquire about specific information, you need to add a price. "

Qinniang raised her eyes: "How? "

Chu Huaiyu calculated in his heart and finally nodded.

" OK. "

" However," she changed her mind, "I must ask for all the information you collect in daily life. If there is less, I will terminate the cooperation at any time. "

" When doing business, I am sincere and I will naturally not deceive Mr. Yu. "Qinniang nodded with a smile.

Chu Huaiyu and Qinniang talked about how to deliver messages again, and finally finalized the matter.

"I will send you three thousand taels this year in a few days. "Chu Huaiyu said.

She suddenly stood up, leaned close to Qinniang, lowered her head and said something in her ear, and then stuffed a piece of paper into Qinniang's hand.

"What does Mr. Yu mean..." Qinniang frowned slightly.

"I know that the account of Tianxianglou was investigated a few days ago, and it took a lot of effort to settle it. Now it is the time to lack money. "

" I invest in your Tianxianglou with Zuixing Wine House. "Chu Huaiyu said in a low voice, "Help me raise a group of people." "

" Who is "

"? "

" assassin. "

Chu Huaiyu looked at Qin Niang's slightly wide open eyes, and then looked outside the door vigilantly.

" Only you know about this, I know, no third person is allowed to know about it. "Her slightly cool fingers stroked Qinniang's neck, "If anyone else knows... Even if I am an unpopular princess, I am still a princess after all. ”