Not to mention how Jingchen and Xue Rui entered the palace to disturb the court, after Yu Shu escaped from the cellar, he found that he was in the north of the city, and his first thought was to go to the princess's mansion for help, and there was not even a caravan on the street in the morning, she was messy, her hands and feet were bloody, and she didn't dare to take the road with scruples, so she had to run and stop all the way on her two legs, and when she touched the door of the princess's mansion, she collapsed in front of the steps, and took out the fast jade Linglong that Jingchen gave her a few days ago, and threw it to the guards who stepped forward to drive her away.

"Quick, take me to see your son"

Several guards outside the gate of the princess's mansion looked at each other, no wonder they didn't know Jingchen's token, but they were actually the people Liu Tan transferred from the annex, and those in the princess's mansion had already been sent out to find people.

Fortunately, there was someone who understood, picked up the piece of jade Linglong, let the others look at Yu Shu, and turned his head to go in to inform Liu Tan.

Liu Tan was walking around the living room, worried about Shui Yun's safety for a while, and worried about whether Xue Rui and Jingchen entered the palace smoothly, and suddenly heard a report from the guards outside, saying that it was a girl who looked embarrassed and had blood stains outside the door, and asked to see Daozi, he was surprised, and immediately asked for the jade Linglong to take it in front of him, seeing that it was a common thing in the princess's mansion, and he had eight points of guess about the identity of the girl.

"Do you see what the girl looks like?" Liu Tan pinched the jade Linglong and asked the guards who came to report in a deep voice.

The guard roughly described Yu Shu's appearance as the same, Liu Tan had seen Yu Shu, and now he confirmed who it was, his expression became complicated for a while, and he looked up at the first day outside the wall, and his eyes were far-reaching for a moment.

"Bring people here."

The guard hurriedly took the order and ran out.

Yu Shu only had one breakfast yesterday, first knocked his head heavily when he ran away from the teahouse, was tied to a sack and bumped all the way, and then froze in the cellar all night, his mouth was frozen blue, and his body couldn't bear it for a long time. Being able to run to the princess's mansion with a breath is already the limit, and I don't even have the strength to say a word, so I lay on the steps coughing and wheezing. Let the two guards step forward, one left and one right, and put her arm up, and carried her to the living room.

"Miss Yu?" Liu Tan approached quickly and called tentatively.

Yu Shu raised his head in a daze, saw the face clearly, remembered Shui Yun who was still in the cellar, and his brain was suddenly pricked by a needle. came to his senses, and shouted in a dumb voice: "Your Highness the Nine, cough cough, quickly send someone, send someone to save the water girl!" ”

Liu Tan's face changed suddenly, he stepped forward, grabbed her shoulder with one hand, helped her stand firm with the other, and hurriedly asked, "My little aunt." Where is she now! ”

"Ahem, in, in, I'll take you—" A word of going was not finished. Yu Shu's body stiffened suddenly, only to feel a sour numbness on her shoulders and back jump up her head, and she lost consciousness, and before she fell unconscious, she heard someone shouting in her ear in panic.

"Miss Yu, Miss Yu!"

Liu Tan squatted down to support Yu Shu, who had fainted, his eyes were red all night, and he glared angrily at the two guards who were standing on the side at a loss, "Hurry up and invite Lang Zhong to come!" ”

"Yes!"

***

Just when Yu Shu was unconscious, Xue Rui and Jing Chen had just taken the token and entered the vestibule of the palace, and Jing Chen opened the way along the way. No one came forward to stop him, and it was not until he was outside the Taihui Hall that he was stopped by the cold-faced forbidden army, and he shouted in a low voice, Jingchen ignored it and bluntly said that he wanted to face the saint. In addition, Xue Rui deliberately raised the volume, and many of the courtiers in the palace heard the noise outside the hall.

After some twists and turns, the emperor announced people into the palace, and saw that it was the nephew of the in-law who was the first to start, and the cold on his face subsided for most of the time, and there was still displeasure on his face, but he still allowed them to express his feelings.

Jingchen is not good at words, as soon as he opened his mouth, he pointed out that some of the princes arrested Shui Yun yesterday and asked them to release him, Xue Rui added on the side, and said what he said, including that he happened to pass by the princess's mansion yesterday and bumped into a few guards who were in a hurry to find someone, and the reason for helping was not revealed.

One is a nephew, the other is a nephew, the words of these two combined, enough for the emperor to believe seven or eight points, this is worth it!

The three hundred years of the An Dynasty respected the Tao, Longhu Mountain is a Taoist holy land, the ether is a flourish, the daughter of a real person in the door, under the emperor's nose, was arrested by his son, and it was rumored that it was not a scrape of the court's face.

Long Yan was furious, glared at his sons fiercely, and secretly scolded them for not being angry, not wanting to throw their ugliness to the top, and not being able to get off the stage.

Several adult princes were listening to the hadith in the morning at this time, and suddenly they were poked in the backbone by Jing Chen in public, and one by one they walked out of the left column of the hundred officials with red faces and red ears, and confessed.

But this matter, which is three or two sentences to say clearly, Jing Chen insisted that the person was caught by them, Xue Rui inserted a sentence or two at the right time, and finally for some reason, the emperor ordered to send people to the courtyard of several princes' mansions to search, and with a finger, this errand fell on Xue Rui's head.

A few innocent princes were already red-eyed, who didn't have any secrets in the house, so they let people search for them so loudly, how could they make it.

However, Chrysostom said that the holy decree was issued, who dared to resist the decree and disrespect, even if the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty had the persuasion, they were even more afraid of touching the mold, and they did not dare to admonish if they wanted to speak, so several unlucky princes were all left in the Taihui Palace, waiting for someone to lift their courtyard.

Liu Hao is among them, compared to the other brothers, he was suspected by the emperor, he had a lot of indignation on his face, and he also had a lot of grievances, but when his eyes swept over Xue Rui and Jing Chen, he unconsciously flashed a trace of coldness, these two people would make trouble in the early dynasty, which he did not expect, and disrupted his original abacus.

But fortunately, he had already arranged it, and someone must be planted in it this time.

Xue Rui didn't expect things to go so smoothly at all, he entered the early dynasty without announcing it, he came to report the heart of being beaten to the board, who knew that the emperor didn't even scold, and he blindly followed Jingchen in and out of his words.

Xue Rui buried a trace of suspicion in his heart, did not think deeply, glanced at his grandfather who was standing at the head of the ministers from a distance, and saw that the old man did not squint, hanging his head and standing on his own, Xue Rui secretly muttered to himself that there was a reprimand afterwards, so he knelt down to receive the order and pulled Jingchen to retreat.

***

Xue Rui and Jingchen went back and forth for almost an hour, and when they received the holy decree and returned to the princess's mansion, the sun had already risen.

Liu Tan was waiting anxiously in the front yard, and when he saw them coming back, he didn't bother to ask them if the trip went well, so he turned white with a very bad face: "Miss Yu just came back, and she is unconscious, so she can't ask where the little aunt is being held!" ”

"Where is she now?!" Xue Rui and Jing Chen asked in unison.

"It's in the back room, Lang Zhong is—"

Jingchen didn't wait for him to finish speaking, so he shoved the holy decree in his hand into Liu Tan's hand and ran to the backyard quickly.

Liu Tan pinched the scroll of imperial orders, lowered his head and was stunned, and listened to Xue Rui's deep inquiry: "Your Highness, has my righteous sister been injured?" ”

Liu Tan came back to his senses and said with a pale and bitter smile: "The injury is not much injured, but it is too frightened, and I fainted out of strength." But there are blood stains on her body, I'm afraid, I'm afraid it's my little aunt's. ”

Xue Rui heard that Yu Shu had nothing to do, and the stone hanging in his heart finally fell, as for Shui Yun, he didn't have the heart to care, here he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, glanced at the direction of the backyard, did not follow Jing Chen, but turned his mind to consider something else, his expression changed, he held down the holy decree pinched by Liu Tan's hand, and whispered to tell him what had already been going up.

Liu Tan's eyebrows trembled when he heard this, and when he reached the end, his voice changed in surprise: "Father ordered you to search their house?" ”

Xue Rui nodded, Liu Tan hesitated, "If Miss Yu is awake, it is okay, she can show the way, and you will offend people, but she doesn't know when she will wake up, if it is delayed for a long time, lest the little aunt suffer, I, I"

Xue Rui saw that he was embarrassed, frowned, opened his mouth to persuade, and suddenly remembered a few words of earnest persuasion from his grandfather Xue Lingnan, so he kept silent and waited for him to make a decision.

Liu Tan saw that Xue Rui didn't mean to answer, hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth, pushed the holy decree forward, and a touch of resoluteness bloomed between his eyebrows: "There is Cousin Lao." ”

Xue Rui looked at the young man in front of him who seemed to be a few years older overnight, and in his memory, the child next to Aunt Guifei, who was always silent and clingy, blurred his vision, he pursed his lips, his eyes flashed, took the thing in his hand, and said softly: "I'll arrange it, Your Highness will listen." ”

Liu Tan glanced at him gratefully, I don't know what to do, looking at the back of Xue Rui leaving, the previous strand of struggle and regret in my heart disappeared like this.

***

Xue Rui held the holy decree in his hand, divided several teams of forbidden troops, and searched from the prince's mansion in the north of the city, searched one house after another, plus the clues that had been there before, and waited until the evening, and finally found the dying Shui Yun in the cellar of an annex with a lot of doors.

And this annex is under the name of Liu Si, the fourth prince of Jiawang.

Xue Rui sent someone to carefully carry Shui Yun back to the princess's mansion, turned around and entered the palace to resume his life.

After the emperor heard this, he called Liu Si to the imperial study, and a piece of inkstone smashed over, Liu Si swollen half of his face, panicked, knelt down and shouted grievances, but he was unable to wash it off, the emperor was angry, took his heir, demoted to a third-class county prince, and ordered him to pack up and go to Qianzhou in the south to reflect.

At this point, the princes who had stood on the Taihui Hall for a whole day were allowed to leave the palace and return home.

After Xue Rui recovered, he took two imperial doctors and rushed back to the princess's mansion non-stop, and followed his subordinates to the backyard wing room to treat Shui Yun, and asked on the way, but learned that Yu Shu was not awake yet.

Yu Shu and Shui Yun were arranged to live in a courtyard, east and west doors, Xue Rui knew at a glance that Liu Tan was lying in the room outside the door, he glanced at the other room outside the door, hesitated, or went to Liu Tan first, and comforted a few words.

Liu Tan looked defeated, and showed a miserable smile of self-reproach at Xue Rui: "Uncle Shi is saving the little aunt inside, saying that she is only afraid that it will be difficult for her to do it again in the rest of her life, and this is thanks to Miss Yu who stopped the bleeding for her, otherwise her hands and feet will be useless." ”

Xue Rui's face sank, nodded, raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder, turned his head, and strode towards another door.