Chapter 22: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
When the guests dispersed, Xue Fengying appeared at the door of the Luyun Palace supported by two little eunuchs.
Xue Rui turned to the two of them and said, "You two go back together, I'll follow later." ”
Shen Yu pursed his lips, this guy didn't say it just now, didn't let the two of them stand in vain for a while.
"Let's go."
Chen Anyi pulled Shen Yu's sleeves, and the two of them went outside the palace gate, and got into the carriage one after the other.
In the car, Shen Yu squinted his eyes and took a nap, and Chen Anyi said without a beginning or an end, "Your Highness only left you and me, because I don't want to give you the opportunity to be alone with the prince." ”
Shen Yu opened his eyes and sneered, "The heart of a villain." ”
"Do you really dislike the prince?" Chen Anyi's eyes were very sincere, Shen Yu was stunned for a moment, and replied weakly, "I don't know much, I don't like it." ”
The atmosphere seemed a little awkward, Chen Anyi wanted to ask something, but he also looked elsewhere and stopped talking.
Here, Xue Rui stepped forward to replace a little eunuch and affectionately helped Xue Fengying back to the dormitory.
After a few people left, under the shade of bamboo branches, a young man in a black robe and a lonely little eunuch hid behind the rockery and began to exchange clothes.
The two are long and very similar in size, and if they don't look at their faces after changing their clothes, they can't find the clue at all.
What everyone didn't expect was that the He family, who had never needed to fight for power and profit, would actually participate in this open and secret struggle.
"Let's go, old way, don't let anyone see your face until you get to the house, and come to change me tomorrow when the rooster crows."
Who can tie his belt and come out of the rockery, the little eunuch tremblingly pointed behind him, "Gong, princess......"
Who turned around in a hurry, Xue Wenxin held a bunch of dog's tail grass, tilted his head and looked at the two of them curiously.
"When did she get here?" Who can frown and look at the little eunuch.
The little eunuch shook his head in a panic.
These days, because Lin Li followed Xue Wenxin, the queen also turned a blind eye and no longer forbade her feet, and at this time Lin Li went to the palace gate to send Xue Ling, Xue Wenxin set up a chair and pulled off the door bolt and ran out, and happened to see this scene.
"Here you go." Xue Wenxin stepped forward and handed the bunch of dog tail grass to the little eunuch.
"I heard that the princess began to recognize one or two people a few days ago?" Who can look at the coquettish and smiling face of the person in front of him, and then ask the little eunuch.
"Probably, probably. His Royal Highness had previously arranged for the small one to be the companion of the princess when he was monitoring the mother in the Luleek Palace......"
The little eunuch took the dog tail grass in Xue Wenxin's hand, Xue Wenxin happily clapped his hands and circled around the two, and jumped away like a rabbit.
Who stared at her back for a long time without saying a word.
"He Gongzi, this ......"
"According to the original plan, I will report the matter of the princess to His Highness."
"Your Highness, will Your Highness do anything to the princess?" The little eunuch stared at the dog's tail grass in his hand and muttered softly.
"You'd better not say such things in front of Your Highness, otherwise your life will not be saved."
Who can bow down and walk to the emperor's bedroom, and the little eunuch also bypassed the crowd and went in the direction of Hefu.
Xue Fengying lay motionless on the soft couch, lifeless, Xue Rui sat on the edge of the bed and tried his best to knead his shoulders and thighs for him.
At this time, who can also lightly mix the soul incense behind the bookshelf, it is difficult to mix this smell into the palace incense unconsciously, there are many incense masters in this palace, and if they don't grasp the proportion of dosage, they will be found to have lost their efforts.
Cautious as he is, he has always been present at the scene, and he is now equipped with and destroyed.
Since Xue Rui has not returned to Beijing, he has remotely controlled who can communicate in the palace for himself, if it were not for this trick to urge his life, maybe Xue Rui is still fighting with the enemy and wolves on the border at the moment.
A few years ago, Xue Fengying was still healthy and had keen senses, and it was difficult for anyone to start, so the dose was extremely small, but now Xue Fengying is so weak that his heart and lungs have failed, and with Xue Rui's cooperation to support others, he even dared to stand directly behind the bookshelf with incense.
Who can finish the incense, put it in his sleeve pocket, and glanced at Xue Rui before going out, Xue Rui nodded knowingly.
"Father, it's getting late, so my sons will retire first, and I'll come to the palace to see you in a few days." Xue Rui went down the steps and made a big salute to the weak emperor on the couch.
"Hmm." Xue Fengying made a sound similar to not waking up.
Xue Rui turned around and left, and at the moment of going out, he still said loudly to the eunuch standing at the door, "The incense can't be broken." ”
"Have a safe journey." Behind him, Xue Fengying's crumbling voice came.
Xue Rui subconsciously turned his head to look at the white-haired old man who was only fifty on the couch, and inexplicably felt like he was like an old lion, and let out the last lion roar.
Xue Feng, who is weak and incompetent in the world's mouth, wins, and it's time to end.
Xue Rui didn't look back all the way, and Wu Xuan had already been waiting in a carriage outside the palace gate for a long time.
"Your Highness, something's wrong."
"Hmm." Xue Rui got into the carriage and took the note handed over by Wu Xuan.
The carriage was bumpy all the way, Xue Rui rubbed the corners of his sore eyes, slowly unfolded the note, and wrote a beautiful line of fly-headed letters: Conspiracy to meet the princess.
"Xue Wenxin?"
Xue Rui's temples jumped suddenly, and the next second he crumpled the note.
"What's wrong, Your Highness?" Wu Xuan turned his head and asked.
"Stop!"
"Huh-" Wu Xuan stopped the car, lifted the curtain and waited for Xue Rui's order.
"Wu Xuan, you sneak back to the palace and probe Xue Wenxin's reality, if you are really stupid, you will waste her throat."
Xue Rui got up and sat down in front of Wu Xuan, Wu Xuan pursed his lips, "If it's a fake ......"
"If you can already recognize people, then let her fall into the well." Xue Rui gritted his teeth and said.
At this point, he would not take any risks.
Wu Xuan turned over and got out of the car and flew to the palace, he never asked much about things, he only completed the task with quality and quantity, which is one of the reasons why Wu Xuan can sit firmly at the head of the prince's personal guard all year round.
"Drive!" Xue Rui pulled the reins and returned to the prince's mansion.
As soon as he entered the door and threw the reins to his subordinates, Xue Rui sent his subordinates to warm a pot of wine, and everything today was successfully achieved as expected, but he always felt that he could not feel at ease, and his hand holding the reins was trembling when he returned home.
Xue Rui sat under the gazebo among the flowers and drank alone, and he couldn't get the back of Xue Fengying's dying back in his mind.
The few glasses of wine at the banquet were negligible to him, who had been in the sidelines. After two pots of wine and another stomach, Xue Rui thought that it was almost time for Wu Xuan to come back and resume his life.
Sure enough, within a moment, a dark shadow turned over the wall of the Prince's Mansion.
"Your Highness, poof."
Wu Xuan limped down in front of Xue Rui, and vomited a mouthful of blood as soon as he opened his mouth.
"Wu Xuan! What's going on! Xue Rui put down the wine jug and hurried to help Wu Xuan, who was obviously seriously injured.
"By the princess's side, there are masters around to protect ......"
The man in black in front of him was rarely embarrassed, and since he returned to the capital, Wu Xuanhe had been seriously injured like this.
"Martial arts are above you? When did Xue Wenxin have more such characters around him? ”
Xue Rui said as he helped the person into the room, and said to the sweeping maid who was standing stupidly, "Please come to the doctor!" ”
"Wu Xuan, don't worry, you recuperate from your injuries first, and then talk about them when your injuries are healed." Xue Rui held Wu Xuan's hand with a serious expression.
Wu Xuan followed him from the battlefield to the officialdom from birth to death, never abandoning him for so many years, and was the only person who dared to leave Xue Rui's back to him.
"Your Highness, Liangdi asks to see you." There was a small servant outside the door to report, Xue Rui patted Wu Xuan on the shoulder, led the door out, and instructed the maid who passed the message to take good care of Wu Xuan before leaving.
Xue Rui walked out of the round door, Chen Anyi stood under the bamboo and waited for her, a few steps away, Xue Rui said: "What are you looking for me, don't you want to see me?" ”
He was already troubled, and his tone was naturally not good.
"Your Highness, don't you want to know why His Royal Highness King Ling wears those pair of magpie climbing branches day and night?" Chen Anyi sighed, seemed to have made a great determination, and approached Xue Rui.
Xue Rui put his hands behind his back, his eyes closed and opened, "Because...... Shen delirium? ”
Chen Anyi acquiesced.
"You mean, that pair of waist pendants was given to him by Shen Yu?"
Xue Rui's eyes were splitting for a moment, that day in the palace Xue Ling lied to him that it was given to Zhao Rouyi, obviously refusing to marry on the spot in the banquet hall, but wearing a jade pendant related to her, isn't it a contradiction.
"Shen Yu—" Xue Rui gritted his teeth and viciously squeezed out the man's name from between his teeth.
Although Xue Ling was interested in Shen Yu, he had already seen seven or eight points, but he didn't know that Shen Yu had also made a heart-to-heart agreement with his brother.
It's a great irony that his wife and his opponent are in love!
Chen Anyi attached himself to Xue Rui's ear and exhaled like an orchid. "Shen Yumai bought that pair of waist pendants that Anyi was also present that day, she lied to the general and his wife and said that she bought it for His Royal Highness, I originally believed it, but I didn't want to see it on His Royal Highness King Ling today."
Xue Rui buried his head in Chen Anyi's shoulder, the fragrance penetrated into his nostrils, and his heart calmed down a lot.
"Your Highness, don't be too tired." Chen Anyi obediently stroked Xue Rui's back, just like when the two of them depended on each other before.
After a long time, Xue Rui raised his head and said to her: "Anyi, you send someone to spread this matter, especially the control of public opinion near the General's Mansion must be done well, presumably tomorrow, the general will come to the door." ”
Chen Anyi nodded obediently and was very obedient.
After Xue Rui left, Chen Anyi returned to the Anyi Palace alone, dressed up and went out to do errands.
Today, the queen mother secretly passed a secret order to her, telling her to find an opportunity to kill Shen Yu in the prince's mansion and index the line to the prince.
This was the only time she didn't tell Xue Rui about the queen's secret order, and she had to admit that she was selfish, she didn't want to kill Shen Yu, and she didn't want her to stay in the prince's mansion......
"Your Highness, I'm sorry, if I told you, you wouldn't let her go."
She didn't dare to gamble, and she didn't dare to imagine what kind of situation Xue Rui would fall into after falling in love with Shen Yu.
The best way is to help Shen Yu leave the prince's mansion as he wishes, and Xue Rui is still her highness alone, and everyone is happy.
When she returned home after finishing her errands, Wu Xuan's injuries were basically stabilized, and Xue Rui was sitting on the round table in front of the bed combing through the secret orders from various dark lines.
"Ahem, Your Highness."
"Wu Xuan, you're awake, you don't have to get up, just lie down and say." Xue Rui put down the fold and sat on the side of Wu Xuan's bed.
"Your Highness, that man is using the Immortal Sword."
"Immortal Sword? Could it be the one from Cirrus Temple? Xue Rui frowned.
"No, much younger than that, you and I have seen it, it is Lin Li, the attendant of His Royal Highness King Ling."
"Lin Li? The guard who was kidnapped by Shen Yu last time? Xue Rui's tone was surprised, "King Ling is actually Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, it seems that Prince Ben still underestimates him." ”
"That person's swordsmanship is exquisite, and it should have been ten years since he reached the Immortal Sword Ninefold." Wu Xuan clutched his chest, and he had some difficulty speaking, today's sword slashed at his chest, if it weren't for the pile of rune paper in his sleeve pocket, I was afraid that he would have returned to Huangquan at this moment.
"How could King Ling's people be guarding by Xue Wenxin's side, couldn't it be that the queen arranged to go to King Ling's mansion."
"It's not like, that person is eager to protect the master, I was just tempting, and he used the posture of wanting my life, it seems that Xue Wenxin is very important to him."
"Xue Wenxin, Lin Li, Zhao Yue, Xue Ling......" Xue Rui repeated the names of several people, and really couldn't understand what connection these people could have.
"Your Highness, I suspect that this Lin Li is the wandering hero of Cangzhou back then-chivalrous and courageous Lin Changli." Wu Xuan leaned on the head of the bed, staring at Xue Rui sincerely.
"Lin Changli happens to be an old friend of the Cirrus Cloud Temple, maybe he is the immortal sword he practiced."