Xue Rui and Liu Tan and his party returned to Huazhen Garden, it was already afternoon, Xue Rui took Yu Shu to his place of stay, and instructed the servants to prepare a meal for her, while he went to Dongyuan alone to find Liu Tan.

Liu Tan lived in a small building by the lake, Xue Rui came downstairs, and happened to meet Jing Chen who came out of it, the two looked at each other, nodded and said hello, and then staggered away.

"Cousin, you're here." Liu Tan changed into a comfortable cotton shirt and sat in the water pavilion to drink tea, stretched out his hand to invite Xue Rui to sit down opposite, and waved his hand to Gong E, who was waiting next to him, and two of them stepped forward to fan Xue Rui and pour herbal tea with low eyebrows.

Xue Rui just glanced at too many eyes and ears in Shui Xuan, but he didn't say anything to make Liu Tan retreat.

"Today's paddock is a little strange."

Liu Tan's face sank, and he nodded: "I thought about it carefully on the way back, and there is indeed a problem. There is a hunting team parade in the Xishan enclosure every year, but whenever there is a fierce beast, it is either hunted and killed, or driven into the deep mountains, and the fierce tiger encountered today is likely to be led out of the deep mountains in advance. ”

Xue Rui pondered for a moment and said: "According to what you said before, you met the tiger near Qiupinggang, the Xishan enclosure is so big, it happened to be bumped into by you, and it chased you all the way to the periphery before it came up, this tiger is really 'hearted'." ”

Liu Tan's eyes narrowed, "Cousin is saying that someone deliberately lured us to Qiupinggang today, and then lured the tiger to catch up with us?" ”

Xue Rui didn't answer and asked, "Who do you think it is?" ”

"It is doubtful that the twelfth brother did not go with us, but he didn't have that means, the seventh brother didn't come to worship his ancestors this time, he was in the capital, but his hand may not be able to reach Huazhenyuan. Starlings are timid and can't do such a risky thing. ”

Liu Tan analyzed them one by one, although he didn't say who he was, but there were already suspicious candidates outside the words.

Xue Rui smiled silently and said in a low voice, "It won't be King Ning." ”

Liu Tan frowned, and said with some displeasure: "Why can't it be him?" ”

Xue Rui's dry and slender fingers tapped lightly on the coffee table, and his eyes were uncertain: "I met him when I was six years old, and I have been known for more than ten years, I know very well what kind of person the Seventh Prince is." If he had let go of this tiger today, then Your Highness, you would not be able to sit here and talk to me in peace and sound right now. ”

Hearing this, Liu Tan's face flashed with disapproval, he knew that compared to himself, the son of a noble concubine who had been neglected a few years ago, Liu Hao, who had been loved by his father since he was a child, was indeed better than their brothers.

But after the double yang meeting. He successfully overpowered Liu Hao, and felt that this imperial brother was not something he couldn't deal with, and he faintly felt some contempt.

Xue Rui's evaluation of Liu Hao is, in his opinion, exaggerated.

"Then cousin, who does you think it will be?"

Xue Rui glanced up at him, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and Chun Chun was kind and seductive: "Why don't you go and check it yourself?" Who are the people accompanying me today, who are they who got lost on the way, why did the twelve princes have a good stomach? ”

Xue Rui just pointed out a direction. There is no meaning of overstepping the slightest.

Liu Tan thought that with his current ability, he couldn't help Xue Rui to help him do things, so he nodded at him reservedly, indicating that he would send someone to investigate.

After talking about business, Xue Rui tasted a few sips of Liu Tan's cold drink. As if casually, he asked:

"When did Daozi arrive at Huazhen Garden, and he didn't see anyone else in the past few days."

"I don't know much about this, Uncle Shi should have come earlier than us, and he won't tell me. It may be that the father has other arrangements. ”

"We didn't hear you talk about it when we met yesterday, why did you get together today?" Xue Rui was just curious.

Liu Tan didn't hide it from him: "We drove back this morning, Uncle Shi came to find me, so I invited him to hunt together, fortunately he was with him, otherwise I really don't know how many will be bitten to death by the tiger." ”

The tone of his voice was not overly afraid, because even if Jingchen didn't make a move today, he still had a way to save himself, but he couldn't save the people around him.

Xue Rui asked about the details he wanted to know, and then he passed it over without continuing the topic.

The two cousins talked in Shui Xuan for half an hour before Xue Rui resigned.

Liu Tan looked at the direction he left, glanced back at the slaves around him, and said in a cold voice:

"Take care of your mouth, and know what to remember and what not to remember."

He returned to Beijing for less than half a year, and there were very few loyal subordinates around him, and there were some things that could not be heard by others, but he deliberately wanted them to listen to them, so that he could leave those who could be used in the future.

***

Yu Shu stayed in Xue Rui's residence, much more relaxed than the six-person courtyard, someone served the warm soup and bathed, and the meal was put on the table after the bath, and there was a maid shaking a fan on the side during the meal, which made Yu Shu think that she had returned to the Wangji Building.

When Xue Rui came back, Yu Shu was lying on a rattan chair in the inner hall on his feet and napping, and he didn't hear him enter the door.

Xue Rui didn't wake her up, walked over slowly, asked for a fan from the maid's hand, waved her hand to make people retreat, sat down on the soft stool next to Yu Shu, looked at her with a smile and dozed off with her neck, and then fanned her.

Yu Shu slept lightly, woke up after a while, squinted his eyes, and was not very surprised to see a handsome face in front of him, he stared at him for a while, then sat up with a yawn, rubbed his face and asked him:

"You're back, have you eaten?"

Xue Rui watched her lazy movements, and couldn't help but reach out and sweep the scattered hair on her sideburns, hanging behind her ears, and said with a smile:

"I ate it at the prince's place. Don't sleep, talk to me, rest well at night, and we'll leave for Beijing tomorrow. ”

Yu Shu suddenly sobered up, "Will you go back so soon?" ”

"Well, the thirteenth princess was frightened, and King Ning wanted to take her back to Beijing, so it was inconvenient for us to leave alone, so we went with them."

"Oh," Yu Shu looked at Xue Rui with a little regret on his face, and said honestly: "It's nothing else, it's just that I can't eat the game you hunted, it's a pity." ”

Xue Rui smiled, "What's so difficult about this, didn't those pheasants and rabbits come back, and we will take them to the lake to roast and eat them in the evening." ”

"Ha, that's fine." Yu Shu got up again, crossed his legs and changed to a comfortable sitting position. He took the fan from his hand and shook it between the two of them, saying strangely:

"How did such a big tiger run to the edge of the paddock, doesn't it say that fierce birds and beasts of prey are more hidden than people?"

Xue Rui told her calmly: "Either it ran out on its own, or it was led out by someone." ”

Yu Shu's face was strange, and when he heard his words, he had a guess in his heart - it was nothing more than someone with bad intentions and murder.

As for whose life and why she was plotting, she hardly had to think about the answer. There is a result. In the fourteenth year of Zhaoqing in Da'an, several princes have come of age one after another, the queen has no children under her knees, and there is no owner in the East Palace. The princes who are expected to succeed to the throne are pinching each other, who doesn't want someone to die?

Not to mention today's stubble, Yu Shu was implicated once before, that was during the Shuangyang Meeting, she was calculated by Shui Yun, and let the people under Liu Hao's hands tie her up and lock her in the basement. Afterwards, Liu Hao successfully planted the blame on the heads of the four princes, making one person out.

On the way to seize the heir, there were piles of corpses and bones, and even though Shui Yun had a talent for thaumaturgy, he was still used as a raft. It can be seen how dangerous these two words are.

Xue Rui watched her stop the fan, looked at her expression quietly, and asked softly, "Scared?" ”

Yu Shu looked up at Xue Rui, who was very talented, and his eyes were clearly extinguished. I can't help but ask myself in my heart——

Does Liu Tan want to be the emperor?

This is undoubtedly a nonsense, and in turn asks: Why doesn't Liu Tan want to be the emperor?

Based on Liu Tan's performance at the Shuangyang Conference alone, she should also see that the young Nine Emperor Princes are not without ambition.

So as Liu Tan's maternal line, the Xue family will naturally become his dependence, Xue Rui, as the eldest son and grandson of the Xue family, will inherit the huge family business in the future, and all kinds of current situations show that Xue Rui must participate in this battle for succession.

Yu Shu didn't understand this cognition, but it was the first time she thought about it so clearly and saw it so clearly.

"Ashu." Xue Rui called out lightly at the right time, held Yu Shu's wrist holding the fan, and had some worries in his heart that he couldn't even explain, but he still said to her gently:

"Don't overthink it."

Yu Shu withdrew his thoughts from running away, met Xue Rui's reassuring gaze, and said in his heart: He doesn't know where he came from, but he doesn't know that with the vision of a modern person, she can see through this battle for succession now.

However, he told her the truth that the cat in the paddock was tired, probably saving three points of temptation, in case she figured it out in the future, and then regretted falling in love with him.

After all, the two have gotten along day and night, Yu Shu took a little opportunity and touched Xue Rui's heart half-thoroughly, and immediately didn't know whether to cry or laugh-

This guy knows that Lu Dao has a heart set on her, why don't you think about what kind of person she is, she can only share happiness and hardship, not weal and woe?

He also underestimated her.

"Well, I don't want to." Yu Shu leaned back on the recliner funny, pulled his wrist back, swayed the wind slowly, and said in his heart, he thought she was ignorant, so she continued to pretend to be confused, and when he wanted to talk about it one day, she would talk to him "well".

***

Early the next morning, it was too early to leave for Beijing with a cadre of people who stayed in Huazhen Garden.

When Yu Shu came, he and a group of people squeezed a carriage, but when he went back, he was lying sideways.

Xue Rui sat opposite Yu Shu, watching her hold half a book, crookedly and wanting to lie down, so he said to her:

"If you sit up straight, your eyes will squint when you lie down and read."

Yu Shu let out an "oh" and sat up reluctantly, Xue Rui liked to care about her, if she didn't listen to this, he could talk to her all the way.

Last night, Xue Rui took her to the lake to eat a game meal, and when she was happy, she drank some wine, and both of them fell asleep in the middle of the night.

The carriage stopped several times along the way, and the way back was faster than when they came, and at dusk, they arrived at Anling City, entered the city through the west gate, and parted ways.

Xue Rui sent Yu Shu to the door of the house and left, as soon as Yu Shu entered the door, someone ran into the backyard to report, and when she walked into the second door, Kidney Bean trotted out to greet her, stepped forward to pick her up the bag, and said happily:

"The girl is back, and Madame is talking to the old lady about you."

Yu Shu left Beijing for a few days, and when he came back to see his little maid, he felt close, so he went back to the room with someone to wash his face, changed his sweaty clothes, and went to the big house to see the elders

In the hall, Mrs. He was holding her grandson, Zhao Hui was sitting in the lower seat, patting Yu Shu's palm and talking, this mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are both kind people, and they don't inquire about the ancestor worship ceremony, so they care about whether she is doing well these days.

Yu Shu also likes to listen to people gently, and patiently talked to them for a while, seeing that dinner was coming, Zhao Hui urged people to arrange dinner, and He Fangzhi and Yu Xiaoxiu had not come back yet.

"Why hasn't the godfather seen anyone here?" Yu Shu looked out the door.

Mrs. He answered: "It is said that there are many patients in the hospital these days, and they are too busy to get out, and they often go home after dark. ”

He Fangzhi's medical ethics, there is nothing to say, Yu Shu admired: "Godfather is a benevolent and righteous heart. ”

Although Mrs. He was dissatisfied with her son being in the hospital all day long and not at home, she had her grandson who was full of everything, and when she heard Yu Shu's praise, she smiled.

Zhao Hui took Yu Shu's hand and said: "This is the plaque given by the emperor earlier, your father is not convinced when he first arrives, and his reputation has become bigger and bigger these days." I didn't have time to tell you that two days ago, someone from the General's Mansion asked him to go for a consultation. ”

As soon as he said this, He Fangzhi led Yu Xiaoxiu home together.

"Sister, sister, you're back!"

Before entering the door, he listened to the sound first, and Yu Shu turned his head to see Yu Xiaoxiu blowing in like a gust of wind.

Yu Shu smiled and pulled Yu Xiaoxiu to the other side to sit down, and gave way to He Fangzhi, who came in behind.

"Why did you get out of school at this time? Isn't it where to play? ”

Yu Xiaoxiu scratched his head and turned his head to look at He Fangzhi, and He Fangzhi explained for him: "No, this kid is well-behaved, and he came to the hospital early after school to help me." ”

Yu Shu's nose moved, and sure enough, he smelled the smell of medicinal herbs on Yu Xiaoxiu's body.

The family sat at a table and had a reunion dinner, and the conversation and laughter were more lively than usual.

At night, Yu Shu was sitting at the table reviewing the homework of the Taishi Library, when he heard Yu Xiaoxiu knocking on the door outside.

"Sister, I want to talk to you."

"Come in."

Yu Xiaoxiu pushed the door and walked to Yu Shu'er, with a trace of hesitation on his little face, and said, "Can I ask you something?" ”

Yu Shu buckled the book, turned around and put his arm on the back of the chair, and said with a smile: "Say it." ”

"Yes, it's Hu Tian'er," Yu Xiaoxiu frowned, "He hasn't come to the school for several days, yesterday Mu Xiu I went to visit his house, and saw that he lost a lot of weight, he told me that half a month ago his mother took him to the Dayi Pavilion to see his life, and a gentleman said that he had a bloody disaster recently, so his mother locked him up at home and did not allow him to go out, and also said that he would go home for a while to ask his master to teach him, and not let him go to Baichuan Academy to study." ”

Yu Shu is not unfamiliar when he hears it, the Hu family is a wealthy family, Hu Tian'er is such a delicate young master, like a baby pimple, where can his mother tolerate the slightest mistake, in order to avoid trouble, he is not allowed to go to school, and the Hu family can't afford to hire a few masters.

Yu Xiaoxiu then said in a muffled voice:

"But Hu Tian'er didn't believe it, he said that the gentlemen in the Yi Pavilion were all liars, and they made up nonsense in order to fool his mother, sister, I know that you are very good, can you give him a divination, see if he has any bloody disasters, don't let him even go to the academy because of a nonsense."

Yu Shu raised his eyebrows and said, "It's okay to count him, but he doesn't believe in the gentleman in the Yi Pavilion, so he believes in your sister and me?" ”

Yu Xiaoxiu hurriedly said: "Why doesn't he believe it, sister, you are a female operator!" ”

Yu Shu wanted to say that the name of this operator and Master Yi didn't match each other, but seeing Yu Xiaoxiu's proud look of her, he couldn't bear to refuse this child's request, raised his hand and stroked his head, and said:

"Then I learned that Lu Dao had his birth date." (To be continued.) )

PS: (Hehe, Yu Operator's talent will be revealed soon.) ）