Many times, Su Ke wants to ask God what fate is.

She was careful with every step she took, weighing the pros and cons, not hurting anyone, and leaving herself a way out. She knows that things can't be perfect, and if her intervention and the change of her mind will bring disaster to the people and things around her, she will not hesitate to cut off her own interests and correct it as much as possible.

But fate always doesn't talk about any affection, and as soon as she stepped into this mud, she could never pull it out, and could only watch as the other foot also fell in, then her knees, waist, neck, and finally covered her.

The more she struggled, the more fate dragged her down.

Before she could recover from the shock brought by the virtuous old woman, Su Ke received another fatal blow from King Jing.

"I thought that the prince and the marquis were good brothers......" Su Ke couldn't suppress the cold trembling that made the voice drift in the cold air, fluttering, like dandelions, and scattered when he touched it.

King Jing listened hard, but he still understood what she meant.

His palm grabbed Su Ke's arm with all his might, and he felt like his fingers were going to sink into the flesh. He restrained her like this, forcing her to look into his eyes, "If it weren't for this, you think I'd wait until today?" It's been five years, do you know how I've spent those five years? ”

"Don't hurt him, everything has nothing to do with him." Su Ke almost collapsed, she didn't feel the pain, she sobbed and shook her head, she didn't know what she was talking about, "Why did it happen to him?" He has done nothing, so he has to bear it. Is it because of me? Could it be that without me, everything would not have happened? I have invisibly become a pawn for all of you, threading the needle, because of my hubris, which has contributed to this good show......"

Speaking of the back, Su Ke couldn't support his body and slowly slid down. King Jing let go for a while, and Su Ke knelt down against his body. She begged him, but when she opened her mouth, she didn't know what to say.

Everyone has a hard time, and any one of them is a bitter hatred.

But one after another, even if Shao Linghang misses one thing? If you want to say it, it's just to pull her into the outsider, and then hurt him even more incompletely.

Seeing that Su Ke was on the verge of collapse, King Jing reached out to pull her, "Su Ke, you get up first." ”

But Su Ke really couldn't bear so many things, she pulled the corner of King Jing's robe, like a beggar begging for kindness. But she couldn't say a word. In such a stalemate, the cry of collapse became more and more intense, and at a certain moment, Su Ke suddenly broke out, "He is the person I like, I can't let you hurt him." ”

King Jing twisted his eyebrows and looked around, there were people's eyeliner everywhere in the palace, he reached out to cover Su Ke's mouth, and an oppressive force emanated from his body, "If it really comes to that point, I will protect you and Ling Hang's thoughtfulness." ”

Protecting both of them?

Su Ke laughed miserably, because his mouth was covered, the voice whimpered, like a child's cry.

The famous families in the capital, the princely family, but if there is any involvement, which one is not a loss. King Jing wants to attack the concubine, and the Hou Mansion will not be spared. She is still trying her best to keep Shao Linghang's home, but on the other hand, she can overthrow the nest. The home is gone, what's the use of leaving the two of them thoughtful? Is Gou alive?

Su Ke cried and laughed, seized an opportunity, opened his mouth and bit on King Jing's tiger's mouth.

King Jing throbbed and withdrew his hand suddenly, and Su Ke got up and was about to run. But before he could take the second step, there was a sudden dull pain in the back of his neck, and his eyes went black, and he fainted.

……

The New Year's Eve banquet was extravagant, and although no one could really eat enough, the atmosphere was still there. finally survived until the end of the banquet, Shao Linghang was worried about the old lady's body, did not drink more with everyone, quit early, and waited at Shunzhenmen.

Seeing that Wushuang had been tiptoeing around, not as calm as before, Shao Linghang walked a few steps over, "What's wrong?" ”

Wushuang looked worried, "In the morning, the old lady went into the palace with her front foot, and Fang Siyan led Su Ke in with someone on the back foot, saying that she was going to see the old lady Xian." But seeing that it was getting dark, Su Ke still didn't come back, and Fang Siyan also came out to look for it, saying that the two palace maids who accompanied him said that Su Ke sent them away halfway, and they didn't know where the people went. At this point, there is still no whereabouts. ”

Shao Linghang exhaled a big gulp of white gas, feeling incredible, "You mean, Su Ke is missing from the palace?" ”

Shao Linghang's temper, Wushuang is still clearer. His appearance of smiling rather than smiling is the expression before his anger. Wushuang dodged his gaze and said in a low voice: "Fang Siyan has already gone to the old lady to return to him, maybe the Empress Dowager and the noble concubine can find it soon." ”

Will it?

When these two words poured out in Shao Linghang's heart, he instantly gave birth to a deeper fear than before.

Su Ke is not a person who does not know the depths, how could he walk around the palace at will. Besides, she has been here for nine years, and she is in charge of the matter of entering the palace, so she doesn't know anywhere. Why didn't you come back at this point?

Isn't it, can't come back?

A shock flashed on Shao Linghang's back.

This is the Forbidden City, the palace walls are majestic, he is just a hereditary marquis, even if he is the younger brother of the noble concubine, this is not a place where he can be presumptuous in the slightest. It's a cave, it's a swamp, and it's too easy to lose someone.

"Master Hou, the old lady has come out." Wushuang tugged on Shao Linghang's sleeve and turned his head to look, but his face darkened.

The old lady walked very slowly, with the third lady beside her, and behind her was Fang Siyan, who was also pale and pale.

What about Suke? Still haven't found it?

Wushuang took a breath and stepped forward to help the old lady. Approaching the carriage, the old lady looked at Shao Linghang Tieqing's face, and said coldly: "Go home." ”

The old lady stepped on the footstool, and the moment the person entered the carriage, Shao Linghang held the door, "Mother, ......"

"You don't listen to me, do you? I said, go home first. The old lady's face was very stern, and her tone was like a thunderclap in the air, which shook people's ears and hurt. She stared at Shao Linghang with a dazzling glare, tightened the corners of her mouth and said: "There is a noble concubine, there is Fang Siyan, if you can find it, you can find it, if you can't find it, it is also her own creation." ”

Shao Linghang wanted to say more, but the third wife accosted her, "Yes, Master Hou, let's talk about it when I go back." There are many people here, and the news is suppressed and there may be life. ”

The sentence is still alive, like a sharp blade □□ Shao Linghang's heart.

The third lady helped the old lady into the carriage, Wushuang carefully folded the door curtain, looked at Shao Linghang who was motionless beside him, pulled his sleeve again, and then pointed to Fang Siyan a few steps away.

Shao Linghang understood, and hurriedly walked over, "Fang Siyan, Ke'er was brought into the palace by you?" ”

Fang Yan blinked, as if she understood something, and covered her mouth with her hand. Shao Linghang nodded to her, admitted something, and then took out a purse from his arms, "I can't do anything about the affairs of the palace, I hope you can do your best to help." You need to take care of everything everywhere, you use it first, if it's not enough, I'll send someone to send it. ”

Fang Yan hurriedly excused herself, "I have savings, there are too many people here, and it is not good to accept it." Hou Ye rest assured, Sister Su once treated me like a sister, and I will definitely do my best to find her. ”

"Where is the concubine......"

Fang Yan whispered: "The noble concubine suppressed the matter, and only sent the head of the person around her to arrange it." ”

Shao Linghang took a breath, "If possible, help me bring a message to the concubine." He Chen Chen and said coldly: "I want to see people alive and dead to see corpses, even if it is a tablet, I will welcome her into the door." ”

Fang Yan's eyes were red, she choked her throat twice, and her voice was unsteady, "Sister Su will be fine, maybe she stumbled somewhere." ”

"Old Lady Xian still needs Fang Siyan to explore the truth and truth." Shao Linghang didn't show too much affection, maybe the previous wind and rain made him more bearable, or maybe he already had some thought in his heart.

This is the place where he can't get his hands on, and it's the only place where he can only watch Su Ke disappear, but he can't do anything.

Who arranged it? Who's going to do it? And who is indifferent?

Shao Linghang's heart was as cold as a thousand-year-old piece of ice, he gave Fang Yan a solemn hand, and turned back to the carriage of the Hou Mansion.

The carriage made a sound of rolling on the bluestone slab, and out of the Shunzhen Gate, Shao Linghang turned over and got on the horse, looking back at the Forbidden City, his lips moved slightly, "Su Ke, we can't end it like this." ”

……

Su Ke sank into the sea like this, and completely disappeared in the palace.

Before Fang Yan went to the concubine, she first went to Shou'an Palace to talk to the old lady about Su Ke. The virtuous old lady was a little angry that hatred of iron could not become steel, and the person fell down in an instant, and the imperial doctor was busy treating it for a long time before he breathed a sigh of relief a little, and pulled Fang Yan to tell him carefully.

-- Watch the movements of the concubine.

So Fang Yan took the entrustment of the virtuous old lady and Shao Linghang's words, and went to Chengqian Palace. What is surprising is that the delicately painted face of the concubine turned out to be a look of anger that hates iron and steel, but there is a sigh of beauty in her anger, and the helplessness of the old man in the anger of the virtuous old woman.

After that, things were lost in the Chengqian Palace, the wind was released, and soldiers were strengthened everywhere. The head of the matter also followed all kinds of reasons to look around in the palace.

The incident alarmed the emperor and the queen mother, and the old lady suddenly became seriously ill, so it was the concubine who disturbed the old man. The emperor is not angry, but his temper is not good, let the concubine be more restrained, what is a big deal, if you lose it, you will lose it.

Later, in order to appease, he sent someone to send a half-human-high jade tree to the concubine.

Five days have passed, and not half a shadow has been found in the palace.

When the news came back to the Hou Mansion, Shao Linghang's haggard eyes shone with sparkling water.

"Mother, it's been five days, and there are many people who are lucky, and we can't delay it any longer. Son, please, tell your son the truth, what the hell is going on? ”

The old lady's newly turned body was almost unable to support it because of Shao Linghang's suspicions.

She endured the hoarseness in her voice, and said hatefully: "The person was brought in by Si Yan, and it was Shou'an Palace that went to Shou'an Palace, how many people are worried about your sister in the palace, even if I really want to rectify Su Ke, it is impossible to be in the palace." She took a breath and wept silently, "Ling Hang, you disappointed me so much, I don't treat Su well, but look at it now, because of her, what has become of the relationship between our mother and son?" You come to suspect me, doubt me, you make this look like life is worse than death to show me, you might as well take my life alive and go. ”

Shao Linghang's appearance is indeed ugly, his hair is loose, and his face is haggard. I haven't shaved for days, and the whole person is decadent, like a walking corpse.

"Before the accident, she also told me that you were too worried to get sick. In the few years that I was not at home, you supported the Hou Mansion alone, without the eldest sister and second sister by your side, and there were old aunts and concubines in the house, and your hardships and hardships were not for outsiders. I only hope that I will be glorious and bright, and marry the daughter of the family to become your right-hand man. She says she doesn't have a prominent family and is old, but she has the confidence to help you take care of your household affairs. He told me not to interfere, she can win your consent on her own. Mother, I only have her in my heart, such a good person, why can't I carry a big sedan chair and ask her to come over? The son does not need the support of a foreign family to make the Hou Mansion stand tall. Is the gossip of others that important? When my wife said it, she never took it to heart......"

After the New Year, Shao Linghang is already twenty-six.

The mighty general on the battlefield, the heroic Xuanping Marquis in the court, is not inferior to others in everything, but he will never recover in the love calamity.

The old lady remembered the firmness when Su Ke lay on the side of the bed and showed her the note that night, she kept saying that for Shao Linghang's sake, when she talked about leaving, she was not lying or pinching, she could afford to put it down. She said that when the day came, she would be the first to go.

"Go to your uncle, although he has already become a minister, he has many protégés."

Shao Linghang knelt down and kowtowed to the old lady, lifted his robe and left.

The elder brother of the old lady, Tang Zhuoning, served as the commander of the pro-army when he was young, and he held 26 guards. Later, the emperor increasingly relied on the celebrant supervisor, and Tang Zhuoning was overwhelmed and returned home. Now, although he has not been concerned about the government for many years, most of his protégés have been on errands in the forbidden army and the 26th guard, and most of the soldiers and horses in the five cities have received rigorous training from Tang Zhuoning.

Now with the approval of the old lady, Tang Zhuoning is polite to Shao Linghang, and he has introduced Jiang Haifei, the current commander of the forbidden army.

With Jiang Haifei's assistance, the guards at the gates of the Forbidden City, the guards on patrol, almost all of them were secretly inquired, except for Shunzhenmen, none of the other places had seen the woman mentioned by Shao Linghang. After the concubine's forces were withdrawn, Jiang Haifei secretly deployed, and even sent people from the cold palace to investigate, but there was not even the slightest trace of Su Ke.

When there was nothing to check, Shao Linghang found that King Jing was also investigating the matter.

Seven days after Su Ke's disappearance, King Jing's relatives came to the Hou Mansion to invite Shao Linghang. In the Ten Princes' Mansion, King Jing looked depressed and took a blood-stained robe to Shao Linghang.

"My people found it in the firewood room of the five institutes in Qianxi."

Shao Linghang recognized that the clothes were the usual winter clothes of the Xuanping Marquis Mansion. There was a hole in his chest, and blood stained the entire placket.

King Jing came over with a brocade box and choked up twice, "There are people in the palace who are reselling, I found out, and now I have detained people back." He said that he had been ripped from the dead man who had been sent out of the palace. ”

Shao Linghang opened the brocade box with trembling hands, and a polished pocket watch inside was shining brightly......