When someone handed the warm ginger soup to Zhao Xiu's mouth, she almost couldn't wait to lean over and gobble it up. The hot ginger soup brought heat to the cold body, making her feel like her whole body was warm.

The wet clothes on her body were taken off by a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl, and she was replaced by a cotton shirt with a very wide collar, very clean, not new, and a little like a boy's clothes. Before she could see clearly, she was wrapped in a small quilt and carried to the fire.

Grandmother Zhang and brother Zhao Wei are not here, Zhang was probably relaxed at the moment when he was rescued ashore, and fainted after only saying "save my son", and has not woken up yet, Zhao Wei has been suffering from a fever, and they were sent to a clean carriage and taken care of by a special person.

This group of kind-hearted travelers seems to be a very large team, not only with a large entourage of men and women, but also with a coachman to escort the little maid and the girl, and also to bring a doctor. They also brought very complete travel equipment, and at night, it was wind and rain, and they did not go to a populated place to stay, but camped in a place near the river beach where the high tide could not reach it, and set up a few simple tents in the open space, and formed a circle, and the guards lived, and the master and maid lived in a wide and firm carriage in the middle, which was sheltered from the rain. In the dry area on the periphery, they also lit two fires, one for cooking and one for the subordinates to keep warm, and Zhao Xiu was placed next to the latter.

The fire was warm and dry, and the thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl just now brought another bowl of hot porridge, a simple white rice porridge, but it was a supreme delicacy for Zhao Xiu, she felt that her body was warmer, and the feeling of cold emptiness and faint pain in her abdomen quickly disappeared, and sweat broke out on her forehead. The girl wiped her sweat with a dry cloth towel, and she glanced at the other party gratefully: "Thank you, beautiful sister." ”

The girl smiled and gently twisted her little face: "The little mouth is so sweet!" Are you a lot? What is your name? He asked as he helped her wrap the little quilt tighter.

"My name is Zhao Xiu, and I'm two years old this year!" Zhao Xiuxin said that she didn't lie, she had already passed her first birthday, and it could be said that she was two years old. Although she is also very young at this age, her unhindered appearance is less shocking when she is two years old, at most she is more precocious.

"That's smart!" The girl really didn't suspect it, just exclaimed, and left with the empty bowl.

After a while, she brought a middle-aged woman over. The middle-aged woman's dress was a little different from hers, she combed her bun, the light green muslin dress on her body was simple and neat, except for the small pearl studs the size of rice grains on her ears, there was no jewelry at all, although the woman was also wearing muslin clothes, but on the cuffs and hem of the royal blue gown, she embroidered chic flowers and plants, combed a smooth bun on her head, inserted two silver hairpins inlaid with jasper, and the earrings were also made of jasper beads, the style was low-key and gorgeous, and she knew that her identity was not ordinary at a glance.

Zhao Xiu looked at her and guessed who this woman would be, but looking at the reaction of the guards around her when they saw her, they were more polite than respectful, so they guessed that she was probably not the hostess.

The middle-aged woman looked round and dignified, and her eyebrows and eyes were crooked and kind: "Little girl, is your body warmer?" Do you feel any discomfort? Then he asked the girl, "Yanxia, has the child ever had a fever?" ”

The girl named Yanxia replied: "My forehead was very hot just now, I drank ginger soup, I ate a bowl of hot porridge, I sweated, and I was already better, but she was still a little feverish, but she was sober and articulate." ”

Zhao Xiu was in a trance, it turned out that she also had a fever? That's right, she also fell into the water, the wind blew for half the night, her body was also cold, and it was not surprising that she was sick, she was still a child, and her body was very weak. But she didn't even notice it, and thought it was the ginger soup and the fire that made her feel hot.

The middle-aged woman listened to Yanxia's words, bent down and touched Zhao Xiu's little face, tried her forehead, and then said, "It's still a little hot, let Mrs. Jiang ...... Dr. Jiang came over to take a look. "The smoke answered.

Zhao Xiu hurriedly asked: "This mother, how are my grandmother and brother?" ”

The middle-aged woman smiled: "Both of you are safe, but they are sick, and they will get better soon after taking medicine." Then he probed as if nothing had happened: "Is that lady your grandmother?" Look at the clothes, it's not an ordinary family, I don't know where you are? ”

Zhao Xiu thought about it, the possibility that this group of people and the uncle are accomplices is very small, otherwise they would not have saved their ancestors and grandchildren, even if they have a good relationship with the uncle, the uncle wants to kill their little second room The matter is not something that can be publicly sued by the uncle, after all, the emperor's affection for her grandfather is not a lie, she might as well explain her identity to the other party, in order to get more help, if the other party's identity is confirmed, and then tell them the uncle's evil deeds.

She immediately said to the middle-aged woman: "We are from the capital, we are from Jiannanhou Mansion, my grandfather is the county prince, my uncle is Jiannanhou, and my father's name is Zhao Zhuo." My family sent my grandfather's coffin home, and at night someone scuttled through the bottom of our boat, and the boat sank, and everyone fell into the water. Ask mom to save my mom and dad's family! ”

The woman's face changed, and she said solemnly, "I know." He turned around and instructed Yanxia: "Carry her into the carriage, wait for her life, and I'll report it." Yanxia was also shocked, and quickly nodded: "Yes, Mother Cao can rest assured." When Cao's mother left, she squatted down and picked up Zhao Xiu, her attitude had changed, and she no longer teased her like before.

Zhao Xiu was carried away from the fire and quickly sent into the carriage of a carriage, which looked inconspicuous on the outside, but was very comfortable inside, covered with plain felt, the pillows were silk, embroidered sachets hung on the wall of the carriage, and a brass foot stove was placed in the corner. Yanxia smiled and placed her in the pile of soft pillows, put the foot stove next to her, and said, "You can sleep for a while, I see that you must be very tired, and when Ming'er wakes up in the morning, your grandmother and brother will be fine." ”

Is it? Are you sure? Zhao Xiu felt a little bottomless in his heart, but his eyelids couldn't help but fall. She is indeed exhausted, sleep, sleep and wake up, maybe everyone is saved.

Cao's mother got into the largest carriage, there were two people in the carriage, a handsome man in his early twenties dressed in a moon-white moire straight jacket, lazily leaning on the big pillow, holding a volume of poetry and looking at it, there was an oil lamp placed on the small table in his hand, but the main way he read was the light emitted by a night pearl hanging on the wall of the car, which illuminated the carriage as if it were day. Opposite him sat cross-legged a young woman, wearing a bamboo blue embroidered gown, a white horse skirt, like a cloud of hair only dotted with a white jade phoenix head pearl hairpin, the white jade is flawless, the carving is exquisite, and it is extraordinary.

Seeing that Cao's mother was coming, the young woman looked up and looked: "How?" Can you ask where their ancestors and grandchildren come from? ”

Mother Cao hurriedly stepped forward and whispered what Zhao Xiu said word for word. The young woman was slightly shocked and looked at the handsome man: "Lord Wang? What do you think? ”

The prince asked Cao's mother: "Mom also met the Duchess of Jiannan County with the princess in the past, how are you?" ”

Cao's mother hesitated for a moment: "Don't hide it from the prince, although the old slave saw the duchess of the county a few years ago, but although the lady described the wolf bèi, she can vaguely recognize the appearance, and she is wearing a plain dress of filial piety, and now she is unconscious, and she has never said her identity from beginning to end, and how old is that little girl?" Who can you fool? Presumably, the identity is not fake. ”

"That's weird." The prince's expression was solemn, "Since the family of the prince of Jiannan County sent the spirit back to his hometown, how could someone scuttle a boat and harm people?" He called several guards and ordered them to lead people up the river to search for the people who had fallen into the water and the remains of the sunken ship, and asked Cao's mother: "How is the county duchess and her two children doing?" ”

Cao's mother hurriedly said: "Imperial Doctor Jiang has already diagnosed and treated, the old lady fainted after exhaustion, and soaked in the river water in the middle of the night, infected with wind and cold, and needs to be well conditioned, but she seems to have lost maintenance when she was young, and she is afraid of endless troubles." As for the two children, the older boy has a cold and is having a fever, if the fever can be reduced before dawn, it will be fine, and Imperial Doctor Jiang will always stay by his side; The girl also had a little fever, but it was okay, and the old slave had ordered Yanxia to take care of it carefully. ”

The prince nodded solemnly and instructed his wife: "The princess and grandson of the princess are unconscious, and the princess will go to take care of them, and when the princess wakes up, you might as well reveal our identities so that we can ask the truth about the cause of the matter." The most important thing is, what is the whereabouts of the coffins of Jiannanhou and the county grandfather? ”

The young woman hesitated: "The prince is traveling in a micro-service on the order of the emperor this time, if he divulges his identity......"

"Fine." Wang Ye Zhengse said, "The county duchess knows the measure, and the old county prince is different from others, if there is no direct advice from his old man, my father would not have been able to ascend the throne as the emperor, he has great kindness to our father and son, after his death, my father and the emperor took a few of our brothers to pay homage in person, and vowed to protect his family. ”

The young woman hurriedly straightened up and responded solemnly: "The prince is right, the concubine knows what to do." ”

The search of this prince's subordinates was very efficient, and soon found the wreckage of the ship floating on the river, several corpses were found by the river, and more importantly, they found the fleet of Jiannanhou. It's just that I stepped forward to inquire, but the people in the fleet said that they were indeed the people who escorted the coffin of the county grandfather back to their hometown, but there was no one who overturned the boat and fell into the water, and everyone stopped the boat to avoid the wind and rain last night, and there was no accident, if someone fell into the river, it must be an irrelevant passer-by, and they rushed on the road, and they had to set off at dawn, and they had no time to deal with others.

The guards who went to inquire did not say the identity of the prince, only said that they were passing merchants, and they rescued the victims not far downstream, and looked at the servants who seemed to be large families, and saw that their fleet was here, and they waved the banner of the Hou Mansion, so they would ask a question, and when they replied like this, they were surprised in their hearts, but their faces were not revealed, and they soon returned to their lives.

The prince got the news, and his face was gloomy. His princess had seen the Duchess of Jiannan County, how could she not recognize it? Since the person is right, the Marquis of Jiannan, who claims that no one has an accident, is extremely suspicious. After dawn, his subordinates found the wreck, and the lantern of Jiannanhou's Mansion remained on the wreckage, which further confirmed what Zhao Xiu said.

Zhang has not woken up yet, Zhao Wei's condition has improved, but he is still sleeping, the search and rescue work on the river is still ongoing, more and more corpses have been found, and what is even more strange is that some of them are dressed as boatmen, soaking wet, lying on the river, but there are knife wounds on their bodies, all of them are killed by a knife. Since the shipwreck fell into the water, where did this knife wound come from? Could it be that someone really wants to harm the family of the county grandfather? Then why is Jiannanhou safe?

The prince was puzzled, and suddenly a guard came to report: "Prince, it seems that there is a bad intention to arrest two unknown people!" ”