Rong Fei is not honored

Chapter 377

But I didn't expect that the master, who would accompany the princes and princesses first after washing up in the past, would call Nanny Li in today and ask everyone to leave.

The young master, who was gradually losing patience because he had not seen his mother for a long time, was really more difficult to control than the New Year pig. Several palace servants looked at each other and saw the despair that was about to overflow in each other's eyes.

But no matter how noisy the little ancestors made, they could only silently increase the strength of their hands, and they had to control the strength so as not to hurt the little masters.

In front, the wet nurse beside the Fifth Princess, all three clans are gone. Even she was the victim of a plot. When she was holding the Fifth Princess, she was hit in the numb point on her elbow. It was an unexpected disaster.

But it was her fault for not protecting her master. Considering the injury on the Fifth Princess' head, only the extermination of three clans was already a mercy from His Majesty.

……

Hall

Ji Nai looked at Nanny Li, who had been bowing her head since she came in, and said straight to the point, "Nanny, don't you have anything to say to me?"

Nanny Li opened her mouth, but in the end, she said nothing.

Seeing this, Ji Nai's eyes deepened and he asked, "But what happened to Cheng Rui?"

Nanny Li raised her head in shock, and when she met her master's eyes, she realized that she had lost her composure. She lowered her head again, and although she remained silent, her heart was in turmoil, and she kept thinking about where she had let herself go.

In fact, Chengrui looked a little strange yesterday after hearing Saiyinchahun think Yinreng was a disaster star. Seeing Li Ma's reaction today, he understood everything.

On the day Hesheli died, Chengrui must have been plotted against, but he was not injured. But even so, Ji Nai was still furious.

Hesheli! Damn you!

No mother can watch her child being murdered again and again. Hesheli was dead, but she was not alone.

Ji Nai managed to stay rational. The most important thing now was to find out what happened to Cheng Rui. "It's no wonder that Nanny Li kept it from me. After all, he is the Emperor. Who dares not to listen to his instructions?"

Nanny Li's eyes widened and she explained in panic, "It's not Your Majesty, Master. You misunderstood. It's not..."

It is true that she came to the master from the Qianqing Palace, but she had surrendered early on. In the eyes of Nanny Li, the master and several young masters have long been more important than the orders of the Emperor.

If one day, Ji Nai ordered Li Ma to take action against a certain prince or princess, even if Li Ma would struggle, she would eventually choose to obey orders and help conceal it.

Because she and Zhongcui Palace have been inseparable for a long time, she will naturally only recognize one master.

Nanny Li and Ji Nai looked at each other, and in the end Nanny Li was defeated.

"It was Prince Chengrui. He asked me not to tell you, fearing that you would worry. I didn't want to agree at first, but I couldn't bear Prince Chengrui's filial piety. As for His Majesty, it should have been Prince Chengrui who asked for it."

Ji Nai's nose felt sore, her Chengrui!

"So, what happened?"

Nanny Li's expression turned ugly. "On the day when the Queen gave birth, a palace maid from the Qianqing Palace suddenly ran to Prince Chengrui and told him about the fire in the Zhongcui Palace. He also specifically mentioned that the fire started from the delivery room.

Even with your instructions, Prince Chengrui was still panicked and wanted to rush to Zhongcui Palace immediately. Fortunately, I used to work in Qianqing Palace. Although the eunuch looked familiar, I didn't have any impression of him, so I immediately became suspicious.

It was just a few interrogations, but the eunuch could neither say who he worked for nor explain why the Zhongcui Palace caught fire and why it was someone from the Qianqing Palace who came to report it.

The eunuch saw that he couldn't trick the man any more, so he prepared to forcibly carry Prince Chengrui away. However, the man was not tall, but very strong, and even had martial arts skills.

If it weren’t for Xiao Fuzi who struggled to drag the other person’s feet and refused to let go even after being kicked until he vomited blood, even if the old servants tried their best to protect him, I’m afraid that Brother Chengrui would have been in trouble.”

Ji Nai couldn't help himself and smashed the things at hand. "In broad daylight, a prince of the Qing Dynasty actually had such a thing happen in his own home. It's a joke!"

"Who said it wasn't? Who knew those people would be so bold." Whenever Nanny Li thought back to what happened that day, she would be terrified.

"Fortunately, His Majesty had arranged for someone in the South Third Office, and when they heard the noise, they rushed over. Brother Chengrui was just frightened, but not injured."

"Where is the eunuch?" Ji Nai's eyes were filled with cold murderous intent.

"Dead. He committed suicide by taking poison."

Died just like that? Was it because Kangxi's methods had regressed, or was it because he... Ji Nai looked at Li Ma with suspicion in his eyes.

Nanny Li understood immediately. She knew what her master was suspecting, but she just shook her head slightly and said:

"Unfortunately, the eunuch came with the determination to die. He had poison in his mouth, and when he saw the situation was not good, he committed suicide. By the time the people sent by His Majesty removed his jaw, it was too late."

So, it was not that the man took advantage of him during the interrogation, but that he died on the spot.

Ji Nai breathed a sigh of relief. If it was really Kangxi who did it, it meant that Kangxi would rather let Chengrui suffer in order to achieve a certain goal.

Of course, Ji Nai never thought that in Kangxi's heart, they, mother and son, could compare with the Qing Dynasty and Kangxi's throne. However, if Kangxi wanted to sacrifice Chengrui even at some unimportant moments, it could only prove that Ji Nai and Chengrui overestimated their own weight.

Then, Ji Nai had to think carefully about how they would get along with Kangxi. For the sake of his children, Kangxi could not die yet, but a healthy and long-lived emperor was different from a monarch who was bedridden and had few children.

It seems that we need to find some time to let Yuan Xu carefully check the things left by the system, especially those things that Ji Nai originally thought would never be used and were harmful to people.

Nanny Li had long ago realized that her master had complicated feelings towards His Majesty: she was dependent yet wary, intimate yet distant.

Now she discovered that her master did not trust His Majesty, and Nanny Li pretended to know nothing.

"Is it still chaotic outside?"

"Before, everyone in the palace was in a panic. Later, after rumors spread that it was a disaster star, the masters in the palace did go out for a walk. However, after several concubines contracted acute illnesses and died, no one dared to go out."

"It seems that His Majesty is determined to clean up the harem."

"Yes, not only that, after the Empress Dowager fell ill, the Grand Empress Dowager did not visit her."