No matter how the people in the capital speculated and paid attention to the affairs of the Protector Mansion, the Dragon Boat Festival passed so leisurely. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In a courtyard on the mountain behind Yuanjue Temple, there are pilgrims who come to the temple to make incense and make wishes and some family members of everyone in the capital.

Chu Jingxi walked around the capital because Rong Zheng's affairs were not good, so he reported that Princess Fu was going to come to the temple to pray for blessings, so she lived here.

Seeing that the sky was already a little dark, Chu Jingxi took a few of her maidens and mothers-in-law back to her courtyard from outside.

"County Lord." The big girl who was guarding the yard did not go out with her, and when Chu Jingxi entered the courtyard, she quietly walked over to her and whispered goodbye.

Chu Jingxi's eyes flashed suddenly, and then he ordered, "Let's all go down, just follow the cuckoo into the house and wait." ”

Entering the house, Chu Jingxi entered the east room, sat on the couch, watched the cuckoo look at the door a few more times, closed the door of the room, and came in quietly.

"County Lord, Qiao Er is back, ask the County Lord when it is convenient."

Chu Jingxi lowered her head and thought for a while, "Later, we'll go directly to the small courtyard." ”

The so-called small courtyard is a courtyard that Qiao Er has rented all year round in his own name, not far from Yuanjue Temple, and it is a small village with some land.

The cuckoo didn't answer, knowing that the county lord still had something to say.

Chu Jingxi frowned slightly, not knowing what to think, looking at the only light in the room.

Time passed little by little, and Chu Jingxi seemed to be asleep, still motionless.

In fact, her mind is a little confused right now. I will be seventeen years old now, and if Rong Zheng's side goes well, I will be able to get married next year at the latest.

Although he is a little older, because of Rong Zheng's current situation, these are understandable.

But His Majesty suddenly made such a will, which is very different from the previous life.

For what is it that Your Majesty wants to abolish Rong Zheng's position as the son? So will you return the position of the prince to Rong Zheng in the future?

There is also the most critical point, whether Rong Zheng will marry him. He knows very well what Rong Zheng is like, and if he insists on refusing, no one can control him. So how will you deal with this in the future?

Chu Jingxi thought of this, her brain throbbed for a while, stretched out her slender and tender hand, and gently rubbed her head a few times.

"Du Juan, you go and arrange manpower, I'll rest for a while, and then we'll go to the small courtyard."

After giving these orders, Du Juan waited for Chu Jingxi to rest, and went straight out to arrange the evening's affairs.

Not long after the child's time, Chu Jingxi quietly left from the back door with Du Juan and a tall mother-in-law.

When he came to a somewhat dense grove, the cuckoo whispered something, and immediately came out of the forest an ordinary carriage.

Several people quickly got into the carriage, and the driver did not speak, but quickly drove the carriage and ran up.

After about two quarters of an hour, the carriage arrived at a small village.

"Master." A man in black suddenly appeared outside the carriage.

"Talking inside." The cuckoo poked his head out of the carriage, said a word, and then motioned for the carriage to continue to the Zhuangzi.

The group got out of the carriage one after another, Chu Jingxi and Du Juan entered the house, the tall mother-in-law stood guard outside the door, and the man in black whispered a few words and flashed into the house.

In the middle of the room, Chu Jingxi and Du Juan stood quietly, not saying that they were looking for a place to sit.

The man in black entered the house, walked straight past Chu Jingxi's side and went to the back, and the two also followed into the back room.

The three of them entered the house, and after the man in black greeted Chu Jingxi again, several people sat down separately.

"Tell me what you found this time?" After Chu Jingxi sat down, she glanced at Qiao Er expressionlessly and said indifferently.

Qiao Er's eyes flashed with a trace of hesitation and hesitation, weighing where to start, whether some things should be explained in detail.

Chu Jingxi also saw Qiao Er's expression, and couldn't help but chuckle in her heart, could there be anything inconvenient or unexpected happening?

The reason for sending Qiao Er out this time is very simple, since he decided to protect the family affairs of the Protector Mansion last year, he hasn't gone out for a long time.

It was also in the autumn of last year, when I asked Qiao Er to go out to buy goods, I heard Qiao Er say that on the road to the northwest, there are often a lot of caravans. Although the scale is not large, it continues one after another, and this phenomenon makes Qiao Er a little puzzled.

At first, Chu Jingxi didn't care, but when it was almost the New Year's Festival, when she followed her grandmother out as a guest, she learned that Su Pengpeng from the Yanguo Mansion and Zheng Yunduo from the Xiaoguo Mansion had been away from home for nearly a year, saying that they had gone to Lushan Meng's family.

At this time, Chu Jingxi didn't know why she suddenly had some strange feelings in her heart, and after she came back, she asked Qiao Er to investigate in the capital, and this investigation found a very strange thing.

That is, Chu Yihao, the king of Xiao, and Chu Mao, the king of the county, have left the capital. Also leaving the capital at the same time was Zheng Ze, the son of the prince of Xiaoguo.

Chu Jingxi asked Qiao Er to carefully investigate all the officials who were no longer in the capital at that time, no matter how big or small.

This investigation made Chu Jingxi feel the seriousness of the matter, and the personnel who were no longer in the capital this time seemed to have some overlap with the mission that went to the Western Regions for the first time in the previous life.

Don't? Isn't that right? In the previous life, after Rong Zheng returned from Warat, he signed an alliance with Warat Tatar before he began to do business. This life seems to be a few years ahead of schedule.

If this is really the case, then aren't all the goods that I have worked hard to save in the past few years become waste?

It's not just that, there seem to be a lot of things that can't be said clearly, although it looks like people and things that are not related, but how do they feel like they are all connected?

In this way, Chu Jingxi, who was suspicious by nature, had some ulterior secrets, so he sent Qiao Er to take people with him in the first month of the month and went to Xi'an by chance.

Because the last business started in Xi'an.

But why did Chu Yihao follow? By the way, Chu Yihao seems to have come out of the Medicine Valley, and he should have arranged for the doctor to follow.

"Qiao Er, did you go to Xi'an to see King Xiao?" Chu Jingxi felt that she had better come up with a clue first.

"I saw it, in the Zhuangzi of King Xiao in Xi'an, my subordinates saw King Xiao." Qiao Er replied in a deep voice, but his mood did not get any better, he saw not only King Xiao, but also several characters that he couldn't think of, and ......

"So apart from King Xiao, have you seen a huge caravan?"

Qiao Er glanced at Chu Jingxi bitterly, "No, in Xi'an, those people left Xi'an in February and went to Hamiwei." In Hami, his subordinates saw a huge caravan. ”

Huge! How much more is it huge?

The wagons loaded with goods were like nothing I had ever seen before, huge wagons drawn by six horses or camels and eight horses or camels. And it's all four-wheeled. (To be continued.) )