Wei Yanting refused, only shook his head and said: "My mother is definitely not dead, Uncle Fourteen, if you want to see people and die, you have to see corpses, how can Uncle Fourteen make judgments in vain." ”

Wei Mingxu said: "Even if she is not dead, she should be punished for escaping the palace without permission! You still hope that she will not come back." ”

Wei Yanting didn't let it go at all: "What evidence does the fourteenth uncle have to say that my mother fled the palace without permission, I just entered Jingren Palace to search, Jingren Palace turned over the cabinet, and there were mottled handprints and footprints on the accumulated dust, which was very fresh." It's obviously a trace of someone breaking in not long ago, and my mother must have been kidnapped by gangsters. In the deep palace, there are villains in the forbidden palace, and the fourteenth uncle is not worried about the safety of the empress dowager and the emperor?

This matter should not be underestimated, and when the responsibility of the Minister of the Interior of the Guard is asked, he should be ordered to solve the case, arrest the assassin, and recover the concubine. Instead of perfunctorily announcing that the mother concubine is dead, the sons and daughters are also for the sake of the empress dowager and the emperor. The Empress Dowager is kind-hearted and forgives her mother's guilt, how can her sons put the Empress Dowager in danger!"

Wei Mingxu looked at Wei Yanting, who was meticulous in his words, and sure enough, he came prepared: "Jingren Palace turned over the cabinets, but I don't know that it was not done by Concubine Mu herself before she escaped from the palace." ”

Wei Yanting continued: "What about the footprints? Uncle Fourteen, those are obviously men's footprints." ”

Wei Mingxu stared at Wei Yanting for a long time before he sneered and responded with a "good" word: "Check, let Wang Jingsheng check." ”

Several royal relatives discussed, and this matter did not declare that Concubine Mu was lost.

It is only said that there are assassins in the palace, and in order to protect the safety of the empress dowager and the emperor, the people entering and leaving the palace are strictly checked, and additional palace guards are sent to patrol and carefully search for assassins from palace to palace.

Wang Jingsheng also said that since this assassin was going to assassinate Concubine Mu, then Wei Yanting and the people of the Lin family outside the palace were also monitored by Zuo Leizong, nominally for fear of assassination by the assassins, but in fact, it was to search Mu Huashang in the palace, prevent her from escaping the palace, and let her not have the opportunity to exchange news with the Lin family and Wei Yanting.

Wei Yanting was really scared this time, and he was a little uneasy.

Lin Zhixuan was equally worried: "What if Wang Jingsheng's people accidentally find out?"

Wei Mingxu said: "Among the guards of the Forbidden Palace, the old fifteen people have been arranged, and once they find that they do not match the roster, they will all be killed as assassins." If you investigate it afterwards, you will only say that the guards entered the palace late, and they don't know that it is Concubine Mu. ”

Lin Zhixuan nodded.

Although there was such a very strange disappearance case, Wei Yanting's marriage still began to prepare in an orderly manner.

The Zhenguo Mansion originally felt that it was not good for such a thing, and went to the Sujun Mansion to find Wei Yanting and discuss whether to postpone the marriage.

Wei Yanting said: "This day was selected by Qin Tian, it is an auspicious day of the zodiac, if you miss it, I am afraid there will be no such good day this year." I don't want to delay my marriage with Miss Liang because of the assassin in the palace, so that the world will have all kinds of speculations about it and criticize Miss Liang. ”

Zhen Guogong thought about it, and Wei Yanting said the same, after all, Wei Mingxu controlled the news about the disappearance of Concubine Mu, and only a few clan relatives and people who participated that day knew, and others only thought that there was an assassin in the palace.

If this is the case, rashly changing the marriage date will really damage Miss Liang's reputation and arouse suspicion.

praised Wei Yanting once, and comforted him not to be careful, Concubine Mu would definitely be found back safely.

But the investigation in the palace did not relax for a moment.

The three palaces and six courts, all the concubines and even the queen mother's palace, the seven divisions and three courts, all the eunuchs and palace maids were counted one by one according to the roster of the internal affairs office.

Outside the palace, the people sent by Zuo Lei Zong to patrol the yamen secretly followed up and investigated the people of the Lin Mansion and the Sujun Palace, but they did not find any traces.

It's really weird!

Lin Zhixuan and several princesses and princesses went to the Sujun Mansion to help Zhang Luo Wei Yanting's marriage during the day, and Wei Yanting has always been by Lin Zhixuan's side and has not been in contact with others.

It's just that he is often distracted and sad.

When I asked him, he only said that he was worried about his mother, and he didn't know what kind of gangsters he was caught by and whether he could be rescued safe and sound.

The love is sincere, and Wang Peizhen persuaded him that if he was so sad, he would let go of the marriage matter a little, but Wei Yanting was responsible for the sake of Miss Liang.

Wei Yanting's marriage is approaching, and the palace and the palace are as quiet as a pool of stagnant water.

The palace is deep, the entire palace is regulated, all the eunuchs and palace maids are recorded in the file, only the cold palace that seems to be forgotten forever, but there are bursts of restlessness hidden in the coldness.

Many of those guilty concubines of the first emperor, and even the concubines of Emperor Taizu, died, but there were a few who survived in such a place.

In the cold winter wax moon, there are trembling figures in the grass, among them, a woman, with her hair scattered, her temples are white, and her face is withered, but her eyes are staring at the locked palace gate of the cold palace, her eyes are from trance to firm, and finally she can't help but almost rush out, but she is pulled by an old man in ragged clothes on the side: "Where are you going?"

Her voice was as cold and piercing as the friction of broken iron, listening to the human ear, inexplicable fear, just one word, as if to wake up that impulsive woman.

"I ...... I'm going to get out! Now, I'm just escaping from one cage to another! and still ...... see the light of day."

"Oh," the old man sneered coldly, "if you want to see the light of day, be patient and wait! ”

The woman also responded to her with a sneer: "I don't want to be like you, in this kind of place for the rest of my life!"

Hearing this, the old man laughed loudly, as if he had heard the funniest joke, and the woman looked at the madwoman with disdain, but she never thought that the old man suddenly stopped howling and grabbed the woman's gray hair.

"Ahh

As he spoke, he loosened her hair violently, but the woman staggered to the ground.

The woman's arrogance didn't seem to be as arrogant as Fang Cai, but she was still very unwilling, but she asked with a little trembling: "Then when can I go out?"

The old man hid in the grass on the side to keep warm, and only said indifferently: "Wait for when your son has opened his mind and grown his brain." ”