Chapter 6 — The Enemy's Daughter

“I bought it for you.” I opened it and it was all peeled and still hot. He sat next to me, wanting to say it again. "Mother... I want to enter the Thuong Nghi Bureau." My hand stopped. "In the palace? Why?" 13 He looked at me seriously. "From now on I want to rely on myself." My heart suddenly felt empty, the child had already grown up. I was silent for a long time. "Then go." He was a bit surprised. "Mother, won't you stop me?" "If I stop you, won't you go?" "That's not the case." "So I won't waste words." He rushed to hug me. "Mother, you are so kind." I hated pushing him away. "Stop using this trick." The day he entered the palace, it was just dawn. It wore a blue dress and a small bag on its back, just like many years ago when it first entered my hospital. He walked to the door and turned around again. "Mother." "Yes?" "I will return once every ten days." "No, there are rules in the palace." "Then I'll write a letter." "Remember to write nice letters." He laughed, but his eyes turned red. "Mother." "What again?" "You have to eat and drink well." "Do you think I'm you?" "Also, don't kick the blanket at night, from now on you won't be here, no one will cover you up." "My heart is sour, but my mouth is still strong. "That's a lot of words, go quickly!" He walked a few steps, then suddenly ran back, stuffing a bulb of garlic into my hand. "When you miss me, make banh chec." He turned and ran away. I grabbed the garlic and stood in front of the door until I could no longer see its silhouette. Xuan Dao was beside her wiping tears. "Madam, you have grown up." "Yes, you have grown up." When Khuong Can was eighteen years old, something happened again. A noble person in the palace lost his phoenix brooch, and everyone in the Thuong Nghi Department was implicated. Finally, the brooch was found in Khuong Can's chest. When the news came, I was drinking tea. Before the tea even entered my mouth, the cup was broken. Xuan Dao's face turned pale. "Madam, if found guilty, you will be banished to Dich Dinh!" 14 I stood up. "Prepare the car!" The palace gate is not a place you can enter if you want to enter. I waited outside for two hours before the eldest princess sent someone to bring me in. She sat in the heavenly palace, her face was not good. "The evidence is in his chest." "He absolutely cannot steal things." "Do you trust him that much?" "My child is raised by me, if I don't trust him, who will I trust?" When Khuong Can was brought in, his hair was a bit messy, and there were finger marks on his face. Seeing me, its eyes immediately turned red, but this time it didn't cry. "Mother." I walked in front of it, saw my wrist tied with a red rope, the pain in my heart felt like it was on fire. "Who hit you?" "Mother, I'm not hurt." "I ask who are you?" A mother next to me changed her face, I raised my hand and slapped her straight in the face. Everyone in the palace was stunned. The other ghost covered her face. "You dare to hit people in the palace!" "You dare to hit my daughter, why don't I dare to hit you?" The eldest princess coughed. "Bui Thanh Loan." I withdrew my hand. "Please forgive me, Your Highness." The eldest princess rubbed her forehead. "It's still this temper." The interrogation quickly began. The person who found the phoenix brooch was a palace maid under a nobleman. She insisted that Khuong Can hid it. Khuong Can only said one sentence: "I won't do it." The maid said that two days ago Khuong Can had approached the nobleman's dressing table. Khuong Can explained: "I came to give you the clothes, and after giving it, I left." The noble laughed coldly. "You are the daughter of a god of sin, who gave you the courage to touch the palace's things?" Khuong Can's face turned slightly white. I took a half step forward. "Please, ladies and gentlemen, be careful with your words." She glared at me. "What status do you have, that you dare to teach me?" I bowed and bowed. "I don't dare." "Just ask one question, the phoenix brooch is worth thousands of gold, if it was really stolen by him,

Why would you be so stupid as to hide it directly in your trunk? "The nobleman's face sank. I looked at the other palace maid again. "When did the phoenix brooch disappear?" The palace maid was stunned. "Yesterday... yesterday." I laughed. "Two days ago when I was near the dressing table, the phoenix brooch just disappeared yesterday." "Could it know magic?" 15 The palace maid was startled. The eldest princess looked at the eunuch in charge. "Investigate again." Not long after, the above scented powder The phoenix brooch was clearly investigated. It was a private scent in the noble's palace. Khuong Can did not use the incense, but the palace maid had it on her body. After further investigation, it was discovered that she had received money from the Ta family. The fat boy who had been slapped in the family that year, now relied on the noble's brother to destroy Khuong Can and also wanted to take revenge on me. The palace maid "surprisingly" hanged herself. In the end, Khuong Can was released because he was innocent, and he was only punished for "not being strictly disciplined and being detained for a month." When I held Khuong Can's hand, it was still shaking.