"Lord Wang. News has come from the Burning Sky Palace again. Liuli handed the bamboo tube she had just taken to Sikong Jin in the study.

"Didn't they make an appointment to meet tomorrow in the suburbs of Beijing?" Sikong Jin put down the brush in his hand, only to feel that his eyelids jumped violently, he has been restless today, I don't know what it is for.

He took the bamboo tube, took out the letterhead, and looked at it, and his handsome face was rhymed with a thin layer of anger.

He slapped the letterhead on the table, and with such great force that the ink in the inkstone on the table splattered a few drops.

Liuli looked at Sikong Jin's angry face, and didn't dare to say more.

"I'm afraid you won't be able to see the princess until a few days later." Sikong Jin sighed softly, and then said to Liuli.

"How is she?" Liuli's heart sank and asked.

"The letter didn't say it." Sikong Jin got up, "Prepare the car and go to the palace." ”

"Yes." Sikong Jin didn't say much, and it was inconvenient for Liuli to ask more, so he could only do things according to Sikong Jin's instructions.

The wheels of the carriage ran over the bluestone pavement of the streets of the capital, and the snow that had not been cleared had been condensed into pieces of ice, and the wheels would slip when pressed against them.

The carriage was very bumpy, Sikong Jin sat in the carriage, looked outside, and when he passed by the Su family's shop, he ordered the carriage to stop.

Business is not as prosperous as it used to be, with thick cotton curtains hanging from the doorway to keep out the cold. Sikong Jin paused for a while, and only two or three people entered.

It's not that the business of the Su family has plummeted, the entire capital seems to have been forced to lie dormant after experiencing a snowstorm in winter, and it looks so depressed and cold.

Even the usual bustling pedestrians on this street have disappeared, and only a few people are walking briskly. Seems reluctant to make too many stops.

"It's really cold." Sikong Jin couldn't help but sigh softly.

"If the prince is cold. The slave and maid will get another hand stove. Liuli followed the car, and when she heard Sikong Jin's words, she immediately replied.

"No need. This king is not cold. Sikong Jin shook his head slowly, "This king is saying that the weather is cold this year, and people's hearts seem to be much colder." ”

"This ......" Liuli was speechless, not knowing what to reply to.

After a long time, she heard a heavy sigh from the carriage, "Let's go." Then Sikong Jin's deep voice came.

"Yes." Liuli answered, and she also raised her eyes to look at the gold-lettered signboard of the Su family's shop that was still standing in the cold wind, which she and the princess had ordered together.

Now that the princess has been missing for almost half a month, this signboard is still as good as new, with a royal blue background and big golden characters, which are bright and bright, adding a little bright color to this dark world.

There are many things that seem to have passed for a long, long time, and there are still some things that are still vivid.

Liuli also sighed lightly and walked towards the palace with the carriage.

"Father is still groggy?" Sikong Jin entered the dormitory, and first went to greet Emperor Shunde, but he was still asleep as deeply as he had been when he came a few days ago.

"Yes." Sikong Jue's expression was solemn, and his brows frowned slightly.

Even Sikong Jue himself couldn't remember the last time he raised his brows.

Things in the court will always emerge in endlessly, if it weren't for the instability of the court now, why would he bother to do this kind of drudgery, if he could, he would rather be free between the mountains and rivers, fighting swords and rivers and lakes, wouldn't it be happy, fast.

Now just the excerpts that fly in from the provinces every day to ask for money are driving him crazy.

The household department is now under his jurisdiction, and there is a shortage of food everywhere this winter, coupled with the snowstorm a while ago, which made this situation even worse, Sikong Jue has discussed with Sikong Jin, and in the name of Sikong Jin, he revised the book to the emperor of Dajin, asking them to sell grain to Hu Guo to solve Hu Guo's urgent need.

The messenger has already set out on his way with the letter. But there is wind and snow, and the road is blocked and difficult to walk, I am afraid that the distant water will not quench the thirst of the near, and before waiting for Dajin's grain to be transferred, Hu Guo himself will be in chaos first.

And this is still in the case of Da Jinken selling grain. Dajin is also at war with Rouran, and it is still a matter of whether he can lend grain.

However, for the sake of Sikong Jin being his son-in-law, both Sikong Jin and Sikong Jue felt that Dajin's emperor would not be so ruthless.

After all, the marriage is still there, and the covenant is still there.

Sikong Jin and Sikong Jue have been checking the treasury for the past few days, and the previous three years were all managed by the second prince, they don't know if they don't check it, and the hearts of the two people have sunk to the bottom.

In just three years, the treasury was empty. Not only is the treasury empty. The royal granaries used to store emergency grain and grass in several capitals were also empty.

All the accounts and other things in these three years have been false, and all of them are false.

Sikong Jin and Sikong Jue understood that if there was a big war in the Hu Kingdom at this time, their situation would be extremely difficult.

The second prince and Queen Dugu are really a disaster to the country and the people, and now they have limited manpower, and they can't even trace where these huge sums of money have gone! However, Sikong Jin and Sikong Jue believe that most of them were transported out of Hu from the border between Hu and Rouran.

Because Sikong Jin found out that there was a caravan between the two places before, this caravan was not an ordinary business, but was established by the family of a general under General Chen. General Chen is the father of the second princess.

Sikong Jin had already issued a gold medal in the name of Emperor Shunde and ordered General Chen to return to Beijing to report on his work, but the gold medal was like a stone in the sea and was gone.

There are already people in the Dark Pavilion who are closely monitoring their movements, and the information reported back in the past few days is not optimistic.

Sikong Jin felt that he was already in full swing to mobilize the strength of his subordinates, and just waited for his grandson to arrive, and then raised troops in the name of his grandson to enter the king of Jingqin.

Pressed for time. And now Emperor Shunde has been groggy, so that Sikong Jin and Sikong Jue are both anxious.

Lu Yun had already left the palace, he left a lot of prescriptions before leaving, and also healed Feng Ling'er's feet, Feng Ling'er's feet had festered and died, if he wanted to save her life. It can only be removed.

Sikong Jin didn't want to see Feng Ling'er like this, but he had no choice but to do what Lu Yun said, Lu Yun left on the third day after Feng Ling'er woke up.

After Feng Ling'er woke up, she kept washing her face with tears.

Sikong Jin had the heart to persuade him, but he couldn't say anything else when he arrived at the Huanhua Palace.

Seeing the woman who grew up with him and once loved him with all his heart become like this, his mood is also extremely heavy.

The days when his feet were not good for walking have passed, and they are all unbearable pasts, and now they have also happened to Feng Ling'er, which makes him feel a little more pity for Feng Ling'er while feeling guilty.

Fortunately, Feng Ling'er's brother has already sent a letter, and the meaning expressed in the letter is very clear, as long as General Chen raises troops on the border, he will definitely stand on the side of Sikong Jin and Sikong Jue with a clear banner to protect the emperor.

This is the only good news among the many bad news that makes Sikong Jin and Sikong Jue happy.

What they can do now is to borrow grain from Dajin, dispatch all the supplies they can dispatch to prepare for the civil war, and make Emperor Shunde better.

The two princes and the party have now let out a storm in the court, saying that Emperor Shunde is seriously ill and has not been to the court for dozens of days, and even the important ministers in the court are gone.

There are rumors in the court now, some say that Emperor Shunde is no longer good, and some say that Emperor Shunde is now being accused by the two brothers Sikong Jin and Sikong Jue, and coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes.

In short, all kinds of bad remarks were widely circulated in the court, and Sikong Jin and Sikong Jue knew that this was the remarks spread by the second prince Yu Xin in the court, in order to confuse the public, so as to lay the foundation for them to send troops to the king in the future.

The more this kind of rhetoric is raised, the more it shows that General Chen is not far from raising troops.

If you can find Nalan Jingxue of the Burning Heaven Palace as soon as possible, get the antidote, and solve the poison on Emperor Shunde, at least this rumor can be self-defeating.

Originally, Sikong Jin was ready to go to the appointment tomorrow, but he received a message from the Burning Sky Palace today, saying that the meeting was going to be postponed.

How didn't this make him angry. The last thing he can stand now is waiting.

Emperor Shunde gets better one day later, which is equivalent to giving the opponent one more day of time!

When Sikong Jue learned this information, his brows furrowed even deeper.

"Did he say how long he was going to postpone it?" Sikong Jue asked.

"The bad is the bad thing that I didn't say." Sikong Jin frowned and said.

"What now?" Sikong Jue is also at a loss. I thought that tomorrow Sikong Jin would be able to get the antidote and let his father appear in front of many courtiers, even if he showed his face and said a few words, those rumors that were not favorable to them would be self-defeating. But now that plan has been completely shattered.

"Not so." Sikong Jin pondered for a moment and said, "We simply released the news and said that we know Lu Yun's whereabouts." ”

When Sikong Jue heard it, the method was good, but it was a bit unrighteous.

"You sent someone to follow Lu Yun?" Sikong Jue asked.

"Yes." Sikong Jin nodded slowly.

If he had to choose between his father and his promise to Lu Yun, his choice would only be his father.

He knew that this would make Sikong Jue fall into an unkind and unjust situation, but there was no way, comparing a person's life with the fate of a country was really insignificant in his eyes.

At the beginning, he could sacrifice his happiness and agree to marry Su Rui, but now he can put aside benevolence and righteousness in exchange for his father's antidote.

Sikong Jue was silent for a long time, his face was very ugly.

"I invited him." Sikong Jue said slowly, "I also promised him not to leak his whereabouts to Nalan Jingxue." Do you really want to do this? ”

"Then does the imperial brother have any other way to make Nalan Jingxue show up?" Sikong Jin asked in a deep voice.

Sikong Jue was silent.

Nalan Jingxue's temper is even more difficult to deal with than his senior brother, as long as he is unwilling, no one can force him. This is well known to everyone in the rivers and lakes. Sikong Jue is no exception.

If he provides false information to Nalan Jingxue, I am afraid that the retaliation after he finds out will be even more unbearable.

His martial arts are extremely high, and almost no one has ever seen him for what he really is. If he wants to poison you, he will make you die without knowing how.

This kind of person has to be guarded against!

If the news they provided was false and angered Nalan Jingxue, even the Emperor's House would not be able to resist a mysterious poison master like Nalan Jingxue.

Therefore, if they release such news to attract Nalan Jingxue, then the clues provided must be true.

On the one hand, the morality of the rivers and lakes, and on the other hand, the safety of his father and even the entire country, it is really difficult for Sikong Jue to decide.

Sikong Jue also understands that now that the second emperor brother is no longer there, and his son is still young, if General Chen really raises troops to enter the capital, then the world of the Hu Kingdom will definitely fall into the hands of the Chen family in the future, and they will not let the young child be the emperor for a few days, and the change of dynasty is an inevitable outcome.

At that time, the Sikong royal family will be wiped out!

If this foundation, which has been passed down for hundreds of years, has a problem in the hands of himself and Sikong Jin, then I am afraid that the two brothers will have no shame to see the ancestors and ancestors who are sleeping in the Taimiao.