Tossed **, whether it was Xiao Jinxuan or Xiaozhu Xiong Tuanzi, they slept very heavily this night.

And they are in this secluded town, sleeping very sweetly, but far away in Changping, Beijing, but some people can't sleep at night because they can't be sure whether they are still alive.

I saw that in the palace of Prince Tai, it was already past midnight, but Zhou Xiantai was still sitting in the study, and even Ji Lingfeng, who was about to take the imperial examination in the autumn, was not reviewing the books, but sitting on the side, his brows were tightly knit and difficult to stretch.

And Zhou Xiantai also asked anxiously in his voice:

"Ling Feng, the people we sent out, did they find the seventh brother and the trace of Xiao Jinxuan, even if they fell off the cliff and died, there should always be a body to be found, and if they were lucky enough not to die, there should have been news back to the Jingshi, such an uncertain life and death, it really makes His Highness feel uneasy."

Originally, he just wanted to call Feng Hualong and dispose of Xiao Jinxuan, where would Zhou Xiantai have thought that Zhou Xianyu would be involved.

Now Emperor Ming has fallen into a coma after hearing the news that Zhou Xianyu fell off the cliff.

The 60,000 troops in the Beijing military camp are also ready to move, forcing the imperial court to give them an explanation, if Zhou Xianyu is like this, there is no news, and these 60,000 people will disobey the order and go to find the whereabouts of the other party on their own.

And besides, on the side of Rui Wangfu, Zhou Xianrui was also completely provoked, and Emperor Ming was under his exclusive authority to investigate the robbery of Xiao Jinxuan and Zhou Xianyu's fall from the cliff.

As a result, the most iron-faced and selfless virtuous king of the Great Zhou Dynasty not only killed his relatives in righteousness, but directly pressed Gu Qingge, his cousin, into death row.

After learning that the black armor guards were involved in this matter, he took the imperial guards assigned to him by Emperor Ming and surrounded the palace of Prince Tai, and all the people involved in the case were arrested and returned to the criminal department for trial.

Because of this incident, Zhou Xiantai was extremely suspicious, Emperor Ming was furious, and even ordered that Empress Xue be grounded in Fengxiang Palace, even if Prime Minister Xue Cheng died and pleaded, Emperor Ming did not give face, and reprimanded Prime Minister Xue and drove him out of the palace.

The Xue family is deep-rooted and powerful, and Emperor Ming has always been quite jealous, so he has to give three points of face.

But now it is obvious that the death of his beloved son has really forced him to be anxious, and even has a momentary impulse, Emperor Ming wants to ignore the instability of the political situation and directly destroy the Xue family, so as to relieve the hatred in his heart.

Therefore, although Xiao Jinxuan and Zhou Xianyu only fell off the cliff and disappeared for a short period of three or four days, there was an undercurrent surging in the Beijing Division, and all the forces of all parties were mixed together.

And at this time, whoever can find Xiao Jinxuan and Zhou Xianyu first will naturally have the first opportunity, and this is also the reason why Zhou Xiantai is so restless now.

Because he didn't think about rebellion, but he wasn't sure that Zhou Xianyu would die before his death, he didn't dare to move at all, otherwise he would take advantage of the turmoil in Beijing and send troops to force the palace.

As a result, Zhou Xianyu came back on the back foot, and when the other party had 60,000 soldiers in the Beijing military camp, he would raze his palace to the ground in an instant.

And Ji Lingfeng heard that Zhou Xiantai was no less than ten times tonight, and when he asked him if he had found Zhou Xianyu's body, or if it was news, he knew that his master, he really couldn't wait.

"Your Royal Highness should calm down, although the Holy Lord has fallen ill now, there is still the crown prince to build the country, and there is King Rui to assist, Ling Feng knows that His Royal Highness is worried that Xiao Jinxuan was captured, and the king fell off the cliff, so he wanted to take the first step to raise troops. But it's really not the time yet, please don't worry, we're still waiting. ”

Seeing that although Zhou Xiantai didn't refute, he didn't listen to the persuasion at all, Ji Lingfeng had to continue to persuade in a hurry:

"Your Royal Highness, although the political situation in Beijing is now in chaos, as long as the Holy One lives, there will be no chaos, and you should know that in a few days, the Western Prince of the Great Liang Kingdom, the three princes of the Beirong Kingdom, and many small countries will come to congratulate the Holy Saint's birthday, this is a major event for the whole country, if you do it at this time, once we are in chaos, it will give other countries a chance to take advantage of, which is more important, I think you will be able to weigh the pros and cons."

Emperor Ming's birthday is in November, and it is indeed approaching in a blink of an eye, although there will be confrontation between countries, but in the face of politics, there is no eternal enemy at all, and some will only be eternal interests.

Therefore, even the Beirong Kingdom, which had just finished fighting with the Great Zhou, should now come to congratulate, and they will come to congratulate, which can show the bearing and etiquette of a great country, as for whether to fight or not in the future, that is a matter of the future.

And Zhou Xiantai saw that now Empress Xue was grounded in the palace, and he was also detained in the prince's palace by Zhou Xianrui, almost under house arrest, and now Zhou Xianyu's life and death are uncertain, and Emperor Ming is also ill, he is indeed a little anxious, and he doesn't want to miss this great opportunity.

What about rebellion, history has always been in the hands of the victor, as long as he can ascend the throne and become emperor, who dares to disobey, he is confident that he will suppress it all.

But seeing Ji Lingfeng, the analysis is also reasonable, now that the envoys of various countries are coming, they will enter Beijing one after another in the near future, he can suppress the Manchu Dynasty civil and military forces of the Great Zhou, but he can't block the mouth of the world, and Zhou Xiantai doesn't want to make all countries think that he is a cold-blooded and murderous person as soon as he ascends the throne, which has a very bad impact on him.

After weighing the pros and cons immediately, Zhou Xiantai had to sigh secretly, knowing that the time had indeed not come, so he only instructed Ji Lingfeng to continue to step up the search for Zhou Xianyu's whereabouts, no matter whether he was alive or dead, as soon as there was news, he would report back quickly.

In the palace of Prince Tai, Zhou Xiantai was restless because he was under house arrest, and even moved the idea of forcing the palace to rebel.

In fact, in today's Rui Wang's Mansion, at midnight, the same lights are bright, the door of the mansion is wide open, and there are rumors about suspected Zhou Xianyu and Xiao Jinxuan, excerpts of news, and even flying pigeons, all of which are sent to the palace in a hurry.

And Zhou Xianrui, who was dressed in a dark purple dragon pattern, sat in front of the bookcase, concentrated, with a solemn expression, carefully browsed, and thousands of copies of various intelligence news in front of him, hoping that he could find something useful in it, so that he could at least know whether Xiao Jinxuan and the two were still alive in the world.

Thinking of Xiao Jinxuan, Zhou Xianrui's right hand couldn't help but clench into a fist, and the purple slender figure of the other party appeared in his mind all the time in the past few days.

How many midnight dreams have come back, Zhou Xianrui was all broken by the other party's falling off the cliff, falling to pieces, and the bloody and blurred dreams woke up in a cold sweat.

and Zhou Xianyu, his good brother, Zhou Xianrui actually can't accept it until now, Da Zhou, the legendary young war king, would die so young and die tragically under the Rabbit Ridge.

Since Xiao Jinxuan and the two fell off the cliff and disappeared, Zhou Xianrui has basically been in a state of extreme work.

The prince is benevolent, Emperor Ming fell ill again, and the court said that it was the prince who was in charge of the government, but all things, big and small, were basically inseparable from his deployment and review.

Zhou Xianrui, who was busy with the affairs of the court during the day, returned to the mansion exhausted, and also collected and sorted out the news to find out the whereabouts of Xiao Jinxuan and the others.

Every time there is a nearby local government office, there is news that when the body is salvaged in the water, it is Zhou Xianrui's most worried moment, for fear that the floating corpse will be Xiao Jinxuan and the others.

After taking a sip of tea, Zhou Xianrui felt that his headache had eased a little, and looking at the teacup in his hand, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Because the ginseng tea he is drinking now is still the one that Xiao Jinxuan personally sent from Baizhu.

has long been accustomed to drinking this flavor of tea, Zhou Xianrui thought that maybe in this life, there will be no chance again, ask Xiao Jinxuan to configure tea for him from scratch, a sense of loneliness that is difficult to hide, in his heart, quickly spread, and his heart is aching faintly.

At this moment, suddenly there was a slight knock on the door outside the study, and then a man in a night suit walked in with a respectful expression.

"Your Royal Highness, my subordinates have come back to my life, according to your orders, I am lurking near the Prince of Thailand's mansion, closely monitoring the other party's every move, and sure enough, I saw that there are hidden guards of the other party, entering and leaving the palace from time to time, although Prince Tai is now under house arrest, but the subordinates can be sure that the other party must also be closely searching for the whereabouts of His Royal Highness."

Hearing this, Zhou Xianrui's eyes flashed with a hint of understanding, and then he said in a deep voice:

"Don't pay attention to it, Prince Tai will send someone to search, which is also expected by this king, although he was the first to find the two of Xianyu, which is very unfavorable to us, but as long as we pay close attention, the people of the prince's palace are not a share, help us find the king's favorable helper, as long as you see them, show a little bit to explore the movement of the emperor, you immediately report to the king, then we will send someone to follow, we can easily find the king."

Zhou Xianrui is not Zhou Xianyu, and he does not have tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in his hands, although Emperor Ming transferred him to the imperial guards, but the people in front of the emperor cannot leave Beijing.

Therefore, the only people he could mobilize to search for the whereabouts of Xiao Jinxuan and the others were his own three hundred palace soldiers.

So the Prince's Mansion is also looking for people in private, even if Zhou Xianrui knows, he doesn't plan to be in the column, he is just going to make a move, the praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch is behind the strategy, so that the other party will search for it, and he will wait and see.

As long as the other party finds Zhou Xianyu, no matter whether this seventh brother is alive or dead, he will send someone to take it back directly.

On the side of Jingshi Changping, the atmosphere is extremely sword-rattling, but as the key figures in this matter, Zhou Xianyu and Xiao Jinxuan, they will sit at the wooden table, very leisurely, eating the breakfast prepared for them by Zhao Laohan.

As for the sudden appearance of the little bamboo bear dumplings, Zhao Laohan's grandfather and granddaughter, although they were startled, they couldn't understand where Xiao Jinxuan got this little thing.

But seeing that the dumplings are young and docile, they don't attack people mainly, so Zhao Laohan also took out the remaining bamboo shoots at home and fed them to him.

But just as everyone was eating, they saw a noise outside the house, and then the two servants pushed the door open and broke in with a fierce face.

Xiao Jinxuan, who was eating half of the rice porridge in the bowl, saw this, immediately put down the chopsticks, and then said with a cold voice:

"The officials of this Zhuluo Town are also interesting, they always pick others to come in and disturb them when they are eating, and this thing of trespassing on the residents and disturbing the people is really unscrupulous, do you still have the royal law in your eyes!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she heard a very proud laugh outside the door, and then a man wearing the official uniform of Qipin County walked in.

This man wears a black gauze hat, his face is wide and flat, his eyes are small, his nose is large, and his body is extremely short and fat.

And when the county magistrate came in and stood firm, he saw that he raised his huge head very arrogantly, and then said with a sneer:

"Wang Fa? In this territory of Surabaya County, the county lord is Wang Fa, yesterday my yatou died tragically here, you people, all deserve to die. Come on, take them all down for me. ”