In the Yanshou Palace, the Queen Mother closed her eyes, slowly turned the Buddhist beads in her hand, and slowly opened her eyes when she heard the emperor's voice asking for peace.

"The queen mother summoned her sons, what is the so-called matter?" The emperor asked with a smile.

The Queen Mother raised her head and said lightly: "Shicai, the girl next to Pingle came to tell me that Pingle broke his foot on the way to Yanshou Palace and couldn't come to greet me." I wondered when I summoned that girl. After a pause, the Queen Mother looked at the emperor, "Your Majesty, you say, who in this palace has the audacity to summon people into the palace in my name?" ”

Under the scorching gaze of the Queen Mother, the emperor looked away with some weakness: "Queen Mother, since you have called your sons over, you must know that this matter was done by your sons, so why bother to use these words to block your sons." ”

The Queen Mother sighed lowly: "Your Majesty, should you discuss with the Mourning family when you do this, Pingle is your imperial sister's child after all." ”

The emperor hurriedly explained: "The queen mother misunderstood, and the sons summoned Pingle with no intention of hurting her. ”

The emperor is the son of the queen mother, how could she not understand her son's thoughts: "That's right, in our opinion, it is reasonable for you to do that, as a royal person, you should put the interests of the royal family first, for the interests of the royal family, the royal family can do anything, even if it is to hurt their husband, but, the emperor, isn't it not so serious now?" Why don't you give the Shu family a little more trust and give Pingle a way back, aren't you afraid of chilling the hearts of loyal ministers? ”

The queen mother's words made the emperor red-faced, he didn't distrust Shu Heng, he was just scared of the events of the second year of the Qianyuan Dynasty, he just wanted to take precautions, lest the events of the second year of the Qianyuan Dynasty happen again.

The Queen Mother also noticed that her tone was a little heavier, so she slowed down her tone: "Yes, I don't like Pingle's girl, but she is your imperial sister's daughter after all, I still hope that she can live this life smoothly, you can think about this matter yourself, and I can't control you what to do as a mother in the future." ”

The emperor nodded, in fact, after the persuasion of the queen mother, he had temporarily put down his previous thoughts, but in a blink of an eye, he thought that Ning Xi had injured his foot when he entered the palace, so he asked: "Pingle injured his foot, but he needs some medicine from his son." ”

The Queen Mother shook her head: "No need, do you really think Pingle injured his foot by accident?" That girl has always been obedient, if she really thought that I summoned her, even if her leg was broken, she would come to me to say goodbye, and she would never send a maid to tell the mourning family that she couldn't come to ask for peace, she was afraid that she would have seen through your tricks a long time ago. Saying that, the Queen Mother also showed a rather relieved smile, "Now I know that I borrowed the hand of the mourning family to handle this matter for her, and it seems that I have become a lot smarter." ”

The emperor smiled bitterly: "Then do you think Pingle will guess that the person behind the command is a son?" ”

"No, it's not just Pingle, I'm afraid everyone will think that the king of a country summons people to be sneaky, let alone in the name of others, that girl is still complacent because of her shrewdness."

Ning Xi, who was complacent in the mouth of the Queen Mother, is now in the Zhongyi Marquis Mansion to eat the soup pot, Shu Heng looked at Ning Xi busy on the side, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but smile, when he was eating in the evening, Shu Heng asked Ning Xi why she was in such a good mood today, Ning Xi said that she avoided a calculation today and was naturally in a good mood, Shu Heng knew that Ning Xi wanted to be crooked, but in a sense, what she said was right, so she let it go.

A few days later, Shu Heng finally found some clues, the two people who died that day, one was called Li Goudan, the other was called Wang Wu, and the day before the two were killed, Wang Wu went to the largest gambling house in Beijing to gamble money, according to the people in the gambling house, Wang Wu often went there to gamble money, usually Wang Wu did not bring much money, at most two games and lost, but that day, Wang Wu was very arrogant, and bragged to others, saying that he had found a good errand, but after saying a few words, he took fifty taels of silver, but Wang Wu is very fond of bragging, At that time, the people in the gambling house only thought that he had stolen someone's things to buy, and they didn't believe that his money was earned by himself, and when Wang Wu left, he had lost all the money on his body, and he was still scolding.

The gambling house is full of people every day, and those silver taels are naturally impossible to find, but at that time, Wang Wu left the money bag at the door of the gambling house when he left, and a thug in the gambling house saw it and thought that the money bag was very good-looking, so he picked it up and used it, which was also Shu Heng's luck, at least they were not busy in vain.

Shu Heng carefully looked at the purse in his hand, the purse was a common off-white color, the fabric was ordinary, at first glance it was something used by ordinary people, and there was nothing special at all.

Shu Heng frowned, looked at the purse for a long time and didn't see anything special, and finally reluctantly accepted the purse and put it in his arms, and asked Shu Qi to follow the clues to check if anyone had seen who Wang Wu and Li Goudan had been in contact with before they were killed.

As soon as Shu Qi went out, he met Ning Xi with Shu Qing, Erui and Ming Mei coming over, Shu Qi hurriedly saluted respectfully, seeing Shu Qi, Ning Xi raised his eyebrows, and glanced at Shu Qing next to him, sure enough, this little girl had already smiled and squinted her eyes, and then looked at Shu Qi, still hanging her head, and didn't even look at Shu Qing at a glance, Ning Xi thought to herself, isn't it that this pair is a goddess who has a dream, and King Xiang has no heart.

Shu Qing seemed to be accustomed to Shu Qi's attitude, shook his hand happily, and shouted, "Brother Qi, long time no see." ”

Shu Qi looked up at Shu Qing at this time, frowned and scolded: "Madam is still here, why is it so big and small." ”

When Shu Qing heard this, he pouted, and lowered his arm in displeasure, and Shu Qi's brows furrowed even deeper when he saw this.

Ning Xi couldn't help but smile when she saw the interaction between the two, and said, "You two may not have seen each other for a long time, Madame will let you get together more today, just Mingmei and Erui and I go into the study." ”

Shu Qi subconsciously wanted to refuse, but Ning Xi walked into the study after speaking, and didn't give him a chance to speak at all, while Shu Qing jumped in front of him and said with a smile: "Brother Qi, Madam asked us to get together, you can't disobey Madame's orders, otherwise Madame is unhappy, Hou Ye will be unhappy, and Hou Ye will toss you if he is unhappy." ”

Hearing this, the corners of Shu Qi's mouth twitched, how did he think that Shu Qing had become much more cunning after following Ning Xi.

Here Ning Xi entered Shu Heng's study with Ming Mei and saw Shu Heng looking at the purse on the table in a daze, not even knowing that Ning Xi and the three of them had come in, Ning Xi raised his eyebrows, stepped forward, grabbed the purse on the table, raised it with both hands, and said while looking at it: "Tsk, I thought it was a girl's purse, so that our always cold-hearted Shu Dagongzi is guilty of lovesickness, this seems to be an ordinary man's purse, isn't it that the person you are lovesick is a man." ”

The corners of Shu Heng's mouth hooked slightly, shook his head, stood up, and pinched Ning Xi's face: "What if I say it's really a man's purse?" ”

Ning Xi Zhengse said: "Don't worry, I won't discriminate against you." As soon as the words fell, he couldn't help but laugh. Shu Heng was helpless, so he could only rub Ning Xi's head vigorously.

Ning Xi suddenly remembered the purpose of coming over this time, so he handed the purse to Ming Mei, and then took the food box in Erui's hand, and said with a smile: "Just now Ming Mei sent some fresh pears from Zhuangzi, and I asked someone to boil some rock sugar pears, you can taste them!" ”

After speaking, Ning Xi opened the food box, took out a bowl and handed it to Shu Heng, Shu Heng knew that Ning Xi was worried that he would miss the meal if he was too busy recently, so he often used the excuse of sending a lot of food over, Ning Xi's behavior made Shu Heng quite warm.

Ning Xi stared at Shu Heng when he finished using it, and then he took back the dishes and chopsticks, and patted Shu Heng's head like patting the head of a stream: "You just work hard for your uncle, I'll go." ”

After speaking, he asked Ming Mei to return the purse to Shu Heng, and when Ming Mei handed it out, he said casually: "There is a faint smell of camellia on this purse, it seems that the person who uses this purse is still a flower lover." ”

As soon as he heard this, Shu Heng's face immediately became serious, he took the purse and put it on the tip of his nose and sniffed it again, and finally couldn't help frowning, and said, "It seems to have a faint smell, but how do you know that this is a camellia?" ”

Seeing Shu Heng's cold face, Ming Mei muttered a little in her heart, but still replied respectfully: "The slave maid herself planted camellia flowers on the Zhuangzi, so she is naturally familiar with its taste. ”

Ning Xi also said: "Mingmei's sense of smell is much better than that of us ordinary people, she dares to say this, there must be no problem." ”

When Shu Heng heard this, his brows stretched a little, since Ning Xi said this, it should be right, thinking of this, his eyes couldn't help but show a little joyful light, it was really hard to find a place to break through the iron shoes, and it didn't take much effort to get it, so he immediately ordered the little guy outside the house: "Go and call Shu Qi over." ”

Seeing this, Ning Xi knew that Shu Heng had something to do, so he said hello to Shu Heng and left with the two maids.

Shu Qi was talking to Shu Qing not far from the study, and when he heard Shu Heng's summons, he immediately returned to the study, leaving only Shu Qing to stomp his feet in place.

After Shu Qi returned to the study, Shu Heng immediately said, "Go and investigate where there are large camellias planted in Beijing." Then after a pause, he heard Shu Heng say again, "The maid next to Madame said that this purse is stained with the smell of camellias, if I guess correctly, those people must be hiding in a place where camellias are being examined, or near there." ”

As soon as Shu Qi heard this, he didn't dare to delay and hurriedly retreated.

And Lord Xian also received the news that Shu Heng was investigating the two people at this time, which came from the gambling house. King Xian couldn't sit still, and ran to Ouyang Ling to discuss countermeasures.

In this regard, Ouyang Ling sneered: "Lord Wang, why are you afraid, those two have been solved by our people, and Rao is that he Shu Heng has the ability to reach the sky, and he can't find anything." ”

King Zhou was still a little worried: "Are you sure you have dealt with it cleanly?" ”

"Sure!" Ouyang Ling chuckled, "The skills of the people over there, you have also seen it, what else is there to worry about, if you are really worried, then I can send someone to kill Shu Heng, but Shu Heng's martial arts are not weak, and it is just more risky to do so." ”

When King Zhou heard this, he waved his hand: "Shu Heng is not so easy to be assassinated, it is better to be restrained, so as not to show his feet, but I don't know if this matter is instructed by his father or Shu Heng's unauthorized investigation, and I will take a look before making plans." ”(.)