The first thing Xu Shu did when she woke up was to touch her sleeves. As expected, she was completely upset. She was careless. She turned over and sat up, touching the wound on her knees, and suddenly grinned her teeth in pain.

"Are you looking for this?" Zhou Jin weighed the things in his hand, looking a little proud.

Xu Shu did not answer, but asked, "Am I in Taichang Palace?"

"You guess?" Zhou Jin's answer was very ungrateful.

Xu Shu had no choice but to reach out and "Give me the things back!"

Zhou Jin took the thing away and shook his head, "Give it back to you? Is it yours?"

"I picked it up!" Xu Shu gritted her teeth, but seemed to be inconfident.

Zhou Jin smiled, "I picked it up too, so it's mine now!"

Xu Shu took a deep breath and tried her best to keep calm, "What do you want?"

"I don't want to do anything!" Zhou Jin looked at the flying fire bomb in his hand, full of exploration, "You want this thing, I want this thing too. What do you think should I do?"

Xu Shu's heart sank, knowing that she would not come back, she suddenly felt very sorry for Zhuang Li, but she had no intention of entangling Zhou Jin anymore. She stood up and wanted to leave, but she was not convinced, so she said coldly, "Young Master Zhou can come and go freely in the palace in broad daylight. There must be unknown secret passages in this palace? Maybe it's also connected with Prime Minister Fu's family!"

Zhou Jin's eyes flashed, obviously because Xu Shu said it, but she covered up her smile, "I thought you would threaten me with medicine!"

"I am a person who keeps my promise. Since the young master fulfilled his promise to help the Song family, I will also abide by the agreement between us. I will definitely abide by the agreement about medicine!"

After saying that, Xu Shu was about to leave, but she couldn't touch the door and wanted to pull the string of Buddhist beads on her wrist. Zhou Jin then pointed to her left front and said, "Go to the left!"

Xu Shu thought for a moment that she had followed Zhou Jin's instructions and walked over. Sure enough, she touched the door. Just as she was about to open the door, Zhou Jin said again, "What would you think if you go out from here now and the Empress Dowager sees her?"

Xu Shu stopped her hand pressed on the door frame. It was true that Zhou Jin mentioned what she was most worried about. The Empress Dowager had already suspicious of her before. Today, no matter what the purpose of the Empress Dowager was, it was obvious that she still had value in using it for the Empress Dowager. Therefore, the Empress Dowager's suspicion of her was temporarily put aside. It was not a wise move to arouse suspicion again. In the end, his hand still hung down, and stood at the door with his sleeves and "started" and folded Zhou Jin.

Zhou Jin was a little furious when he was seen. It would be fine if Xu Shu was a person with normal vision, but Xu Shu couldn't see it, but she could capture him so accurately. Moreover, the pair of ancient Jing Wubo's eyes stared at him motionlessly, as if she could see through him. This feeling made Zhou Jin feel extremely insecure.

"I'll take you through the secret passage!" Zhou Jin could not bear to surrender.

Following Zhou Jin into the secret passage, a chill came towards him. Xu Shu subconsciously hugged her arms tightly. Seeing this, Zhou Jin said, "Honestly, it's not too far!"

Xu Shu nodded, touched the wall with his fingers and scraped it slightly, then leaned to the tip of his nose and sniffed it gently. A wave of dampness mixed with the smell of oil smoke penetrated into his heart and lungs. Xu Shu knew that this secret passage had been built for many years and the breath of lamp oil used for lighting had been immersed in the wall. But doesn’t the emperor know such a secret passage that has existed for many years? Xu Shu was very curious.

"This secret passage was built just in case it was used, only emperors of all dynasties knew about it!" Zhou Jin seemed to know what Xu Shu was thinking, "Uncle did not succeed to the throne by orders, so of course he didn't know!"

The late emperor died suddenly, and the Empress Dowager covered the sky with her own hands in the palace. The people had no idea what the death of the late emperor was. As for whether there was a last order, no one knew. The people only knew that not long after the late emperor passed away, his younger brother succeeded to the emperor and changed his title to Prince Pingning, and he was appointed as the prince after leaving the pass.

Zhou Jin was still young at that time, how did he know the existence of the secret passage?

"It was the Queen Mother who told me! The Queen Mother was the person her father trusted the most during his lifetime!" Zhou Jin's eyes showed a hint of warmth, not knowing whether it was because of the late emperor or the queen mother.

The Empress Dowager told Zhou Jin all these that clearly had no reservations about Zhou Jin, but Xu Shu remembered that Zhou Jin was the son of the late emperor, Zhen Concubine, and was not the biological daughter of the Empress Dowager. Although Xu Shu didn't understand the Empress Dowager, the time when the Empress Dowager and Zhou Jin got along was like a mother and son, which was really enviable...

It turns out that even if you don’t have blood ties, you can get close to you. However, even if you have blood ties, some people are not as good as strangers...

"Bang!" Xu Shu, who was in deep thought, hit the corner wall, her eyes striking, and she retreated repeatedly, almost unable to stand.

Zhou Jin reached out to support Xu Shu, looking surprised, "Can you stop your ears from falling when you get underground?" Zhou Jin didn't remind Xu Shu because he saw Xu Shu walking very smoothly on the ground before, but he didn't expect to hit him when he got underground.

Xu Shu touched her slightly swollen forehead and sighed secretly. She shouldn't have been distracted. The collision just now touched the injury on her knees again, and it was so painful that she was exhausted. "I just thought about something and was distracted!"

After letting go of his forehead, Xu Shu touched her knees again. Suddenly she felt something strange. She touched her carefully again, as if there were signs of applying medicine, so she looked at Zhou Jin.

Zhou Jin was embarrassed once, "Uh...uh...what, seeing that you have bleeding from your legs, I helped you treat the wound. I didn't mean to take advantage of you!"

Xu Shu also blushed, stood up straight in a hurry, and forced herself to calm down.

Zhou Ji was still explaining to himself, "I was the one who hurt you, so I will make up for it!" After turning around, Xu Shu had already left and hurriedly followed her.

After walking for a while, he finally got out of the way. Zhou Jin went out to explore the situation first, and saw that there was nothing abnormal, so he pulled Xu Shu out, "This is Jiang Xuexuan, next to the Queen's Kunning Palace. You go out and go directly to Kunning Palace. Your maid is probably waiting for you in Kunning Palace!"

"You've been there all the time?" Xu Shu suddenly asked in a daze.

Zhou Jin understood what she was asking, "Almost, I was there when you came, so you didn't see me!"

Xu Shu suddenly seemed to think of something, "You did the two guards being tripped?"

Zhou Jin nodded, "I hit the numb tendon on one of the legs!"

Xu Shu felt a little embarrassed. She just now asked Zhou Jin for something with confidence and completely lost her courage. She thought she was lucky and picked up a missing flying fire bomb without any effort. However, she didn't expect that all this was actually planned by Zhou Jin. She picked up something that belonged to someone else. Xu Shu was no longer embarrassed to look at Zhou Jin and hurriedly pushed the door out.
Chapter completed!