The guards in Qin's mansion got the order and all of them withdrew overnight. In the empty garden of Qinfu, only the sycamores are sparse, and the cicadas are singing and the birds are singing. To Qin Nanxi's surprise, she was not under house arrest in the boudoir, and within the Qin Mansion, her movement was still free.

Qin Nanfu still rarely goes home, but now Qin Nanxi doesn't need to worry about his safety, Xiao Luomei is as affectionate as ever, but the rift has been born, and the sister-in-law naturally can't be as close as ever.

Although Qin Zi'an's illness is not serious, it is not good. Qin Nanxi restrained all the worries and worries in her heart, and on the surface she concentrated on serving her sick father, and never took the initiative to inquire about Situ Yi. Only Mama Cheng couldn't stand it, and she couldn't understand the twists and turns, and Zhenri burst into tears.

Nearly half a month has passed in the blink of an eye, and the Qin Mansion has never heard any new news, and the atmosphere in the entire Chang'an is as hot and dull as the weather in May.

On this day, Qin Nanxi was concentrating on dispensing medicine for her father in the room, only to hear Mama Cheng, who was shaking a fan for her behind her, to sigh mournfully.

"Mama" Qin Nanxi stopped what she was doing, patted off the medicine crushed on her fingertips, and called her to raise her head.

Mama Cheng raised her head, hesitated for a moment and said, "Miss, it's been so many days, and there is still no news about Yi'er's affairs, and I don't know if he is okay." Before she could finish speaking, tears were already rolling down. She only knew that Situ Yi was ambushed outside Ruoshui Nunnery, but she didn't know the details of the incident at that time, she only thought that Qin Nanxi was not involved because she was a girl, and she did not suspect that Qin Nanxi was also an accomplice in the dark as ordinary people thought.

Qin Nanxi looked at her teary eyes, sighed inaudibly, took out the silk handkerchief in her sleeve, wiped the tears on her cheeks and said: "Mama Zhen's soul is not guarding, I went to the palace for me yesterday to visit Sister Linlang and didn't reply, sister, how is she?" ”

Mama Cheng took the silk handkerchief, wiped her tears by herself, and said with a bow: "It's the slave who is confused, the slave and the maid came back last night before the house was locked, and I got up early this morning and has been busy until this time, and I forgot to reply to the young lady." Miss Linlang is in good health, but she was just forbidden by the prince to recuperate in the mansion, and there was no news of Yi'er at all, and the whole person cried into tears. Mama Cheng said with tears in her eyes.

Qin Nanxi turned around to avoid her, blinked her dry eyes, stabilized her mind and said: "The prince doesn't allow my sister to walk around, it is also for the sake of my sister and Xiao Shizi, everyone is looking forward to my sister giving birth to Xiao Shizi safely!" ”

Mama Cheng listened to her salty words, looked up at her unexpectedly, opened her head and lowered her head to wipe her tears. This anxious old lady only knew that Qin Nanxi did not show the anxiety and distress she should have because of Situ Yi's matter, but she didn't know that Qin Nanxi was forcing herself to hold back her chagrin and worry, she knew that it was useless to be distressed and sad, it was better to calm down and look for opportunities to be serious, she quietly observed for nearly half a month before sending Mama Cheng to visit Situ Linlang. This is actually just an excuse, she knows that the king of Changping County has been involved. Situ Yi had an accident, and the prince of the county naturally would not stay out of the matter for himself, and the brother and sister-in-law ignored the matter of sending people to the Changping Palace, which shows that the elder brother did not deliberately fortify the king of Changping County.

Patiently watching Mama Cheng wipe away her tears, Qin Nanxi quietly instructed her: "Mama will go and inform my sister-in-law later, just say that I am really bored and lonely at home alone, and I want to find Xiaofei to talk to and let someone in the village send her." ”

"Dumbo?" Mama Cheng repeated Qin Nanxi's unquestionable order, she ordered her to send people instead of discussing.

"Well, Xiaofei is a smart and lively person, find her to accompany me to relieve my boredom." Qin Nanxi replied lightly, she understood that since her brother and sister-in-law couldn't help her, and even treated her very kindly and tolerantly, then she must still have value that could be used in their chess game, and even so, she had to take advantage of the space brought by this value to figure out the ins and outs of the matter as soon as possible according to her own mind.

Mama Cheng took the order with a hint of incomprehension and indignation, and Qin Nanxi looked at her back and fell into deep thought.

The situation in the court is complicated, and several people who are closely related to him are precisely in the center of the storm, although there is still no news coming out of the palace, but as long as the big and small things are connected, it will slowly become transparent.

The current emperor is the son of the founding ancestor of the Great Chu, and when he inherited the unification, the emperor was already over the age of confusion, and several emperors under his knees were all adults at that time. In the first year of Shaoping, at the beginning of the current emperor's succession, he named his eldest son Zhou Xie as the crown prince, the second son Zhou Dan as the king of Changping County, the third son Zhou Huan as the king of Changning County, and the fifth son Zhou Yao as the king of Heqing County.

The prince's biological mother, Empress Xiaoyi, died early, and Concubine Long, the biological mother of the king of Changping County, also died in the early years of Shaoping, and Zhou Huan and Zhou Yao's biological mothers were just palace concubines with low status and not very favored. The emperor is always accompanied by only Concubine Xiao.

This Xiao Guifei is of noble birth and is the daughter of the Xiao family of the Hexi Wang clan, the Xiao family is the head of the Hexi clan, and the uncle of Xiao Guo can also be called the power of the government and the opposition. It's a pity that it is difficult to have perfect things in the world, although Xiao Guifei has the emperor's favor inside and the support of her brother Xiao Guo's uncle, it is a pity that she failed to give birth to a son and a half daughter. Concubine Xiao Guifei has no imperial heir to rely on, which has always been a problem for her, the Xiao family and even the entire Hexi clan.

Some people's shortcomings are other people's opportunities, and Zhou Huan, who is naturally astute, smelled this opportunity, so he clinged to Concubine Xiao and recognized her knees. The two of them hit it off, and since then one has a backer and the other has hope. Concubine Xiao has a prince, her status is more stable, and with the help of Concubine Xiao, Zhou Huan has also risen steadily, and has been a feudal official for nearly ten years.

Power can make people crazy, not to mention the prince who stretches out his hand to sit on the throne. This king of Changning County is still not satisfied with the most beautiful of the princes, and slowly covets the throne. It just so happened that the crown prince Zhou Xie was carefully cultivated and guided by Qin Zi'an since he was a child, and he was bent on advocating the innovation of Dachu, breaking down the barriers of the gate valve, and appointing people on the basis of merit. And this is exactly what the Hexi clan headed by the Xiao clan cannot tolerate. Therefore, when the ambition of the king of Changning County was exposed, Xiao Guifei and Uncle Xiao Guo, who was in power and opposition, secretly helped him succeed step by step.

On the opposite side of Zhou Huan, it was the crown prince Zhou Xie and a group of civil servants who supported orthodoxy led by the crown prince and the prince Qin Zi'an, as well as the envoy of the Hexi Province and the commander of the northern army Situ Yi. On the surface, it seems that the prince is seizing the heir, but in fact, it is a battle between a group of upstarts headed by Situ Yi and a century-old gate valve, both sides are both civil ministers and military generals, and they are really evenly matched, and it is difficult to distinguish between them, so there is a stalemate situation in which the emperor is seriously ill and the princes are sick for several months without results.

There was still no news in the palace, but Qin Nanxi guessed that at such a pass, the king of Changning County should not harm Situ Yi, who had been imprisoned by him. Because he knew that Situ Yi's personal cavalry battalion was stationed outside the city, and Situ Yi had been stationed in the northern frontier for many years, and the 200,000 northern troops were trained by him, and almost only his orders were followed. If they took the liberty of injuring Situ Yi, I am afraid that the henchmen in his army will definitely cause trouble. Rao is like that, the king of Changning County is tantamount to creating a situation of internal and external troubles for himself, and he is naturally not so stupid.

He imprisoned Situ Yi to cut off the sword in the prince's hand, and if he could persuade Situ Yi to turn against him, then he would win steadily, and he would not worry about bowing down to the Chinese Wu Qunchen. Therefore, Situ Yi is the eye of the storm of the whole thing, but Situ Yi is also shrewd and abnormal, he has long smelled the abnormal atmosphere in the palace, although people have arrived in Chang'an, they are sick and wait-and-see. If they hadn't deceived him into appearing in the name of Qin Nanxi, I am afraid that it would be difficult to break the ice in the balanced situation of the two parties.

Now that Situ Yi is imprisoned, a group of Confucian ministers led by his father Qin Zi'an are not at all scrupulous by the king of Changning County, so the guards of the Qin Mansion have been quietly withdrawn, which also shows that the follow-up drama is about to be staged.