Gu Hengzhou's words were quite suggestive, and Shen Bai bent his eyes and smiled: "Then your third brother is really ignorant, and he didn't even wait for you, the eldest brother, to get married first." ”

"Hmm." Gu Hengzhou responded, looked at Shen Bai with sparkle eyes, and said, "Not only did I get married earlier than me, but I will also have children before me." ”

Shen Bai leaned over and kissed him, and said with a smile: "It's okay, he looks unhealthy, and he may die before you if he overindulges in excessive desires." ”

Gu Hengzhou hugged Shen Bai and didn't speak, enjoying the time alone with her at this time.

Shen Bai also stopped talking, and the sheng flute singing outside was very lively, but it was not as quiet and reassuring as this, but this silence was quickly broken by the screams.

Gu Hengzhou subconsciously hugged Shen Bai tighter, Shen Bai patted him on the shoulder and said, "It seems that something happened outside, let's go and take a look." ”

Gu Hengzhou took Shen Bai to the window to take a look, a two-story boat on the river caught fire, I don't know what was on the boat, the fire quickly became very big, the people on the boat were jumping down in order to escape for their lives, and the boats next to them were afraid of being affected, so they all rowed to the shore, and the river was in chaos for a while, and at this time someone suddenly shouted: "Prince Xiao is on the boat, save the prince!" ”

Hearing this, Gu Hengzhou frowned, and said to Shen Bai: "Stay on the boat, I'll be back soon." ”

After Gu Hengzhou finished speaking, he let go of Shen Bai and rushed to the boat with his feet on the water.

Shen Bai lay in the cabin and watched, there were too many people, Gu Hengzhou quickly disappeared, Shen Bai subconsciously glanced back at Gu Hengxiu's boat.

The boat was quite far away from the painting boat at the beginning, and as soon as the fire broke out, the boat docked very calmly, and Gu Hengxiu didn't leave after getting off the boat, just watching the farce on the river on the shore.

He was really thin, standing in front of the crowd, as if he would be pushed into the river at any moment, but his expression was indifferent, unaffected by the noise around him, as if he was enjoying a farce that had been rehearsed a long time ago.

The people from the Night Patrol Division soon heard the news and rushed over, and Gu Hengxiu left with the flow of onlookers.

Shen Bai retracted his gaze and waited for a while, Gu Hengzhou returned to the boat with Zhao Xian, the prince of filial piety.

Zhao Xian was wearing a navy blue brocade robe, the jade crown that bound his hair rolled somewhere, the ink hair was scattered, the hem of his clothes was burned off, embarrassed, and more importantly, he had injuries on his arms, and his sleeves were already wet with hot and sticky blood.

Shen Bai hurriedly used a silk handkerchief to help Zhao Xian cover the wound, Gu Hengzhou asked the boatman to rock the boat to the shore, and the people from the Night Patrol Division rushed to see that Zhao Xian was injured, and immediately knelt down and said loudly: "The subordinates are late, let the prince be injured, and ask the prince to forgive him!" ”

At this time, where can I take care of the guilt.

Gu Hengzhou ordered in a cold voice: "The prince is injured, first send the prince back to the palace for the imperial doctor to diagnose and treat, and immediately notify the people of Dali Temple to find out the cause of the fire." ”

The people of the Night Patrol Division quickly prepared the carriage, Shen Bai took care of Zhao Xian in the car, Gu Hengzhou drove in person, and the group returned to the palace in a hurry.

The wound on Zhao Xian's arm was quite deep, and the wound was still poisonous, but fortunately, he sought medical attention in time, and the imperial doctor helped him drain the poisonous blood, and there was no danger to his life for the time being.

Affected by the toxin, after bandaging the wound, Zhao Xian soon fell into a coma.

Zhao Che rushed over, and after making sure that Zhao Xian was fine, he summoned Shen Bai and Gu Hengzhou to the imperial study.

Zhao Che's face was ugly, and he held back his anger and asked Gu Hengzhou, "What's going on tonight?" How could Prince Hyo get hurt? ”

"Someone stabbed him." Gu Hengzhou replied, "But when I arrived, the assassin had already fled, so it is not clear who the assassin is." ”

Zhao Che's face became even more ugly, and Shen Bai spoke at the right time: "The assassins shouldn't know that Brother Gu and I will be there tonight, their purpose is obviously to want Prince Xiao's life, if it weren't for Brother Gu, Prince Xiao would have become a corpse by now." ”

Zhao Che clenched his teeth, his jaw muscles tightened, and his expression was cold.

Shen Bai continued: "Although Your Majesty is the rightful crown prince to succeed to the throne, the four princes before the succession to the throne were wiped out along with the Li family due to rebellion. This matter has not been widely publicized, but there are all kinds of speculation among the people, and His Majesty has ordered a lot of reform measures in the past three years on the throne, and many families have suffered from the interests of this family. ”

Anyway, he had already exposed his identity in front of Zhao Che before, and Shen Bai had no scruples about speaking now.

"Presumptuous!"

Zhao Che slapped the table and scolded angrily, in the past three years, the court has changed blood, he has been cultivating his own strength with his heart to weaken the strength of the family, but he didn't expect these people to be so blatant, first murdered the prime minister's young son, and now they dare to assassinate the prince.

Zhao Che couldn't wait to pull out the people behind the scenes and eat them raw, Shen Bai took in his expression, and he wanted to laugh a little.

People are like that, and they only know how much it hurts when things fall on their heads.

Gu Hengzhou rarely dealt with these ghosts in the court in his two lives, and he was not good at these, he was silent and did not speak, Shen Bai knew well what was wrong, and said softly: "The reason why the people behind the scenes dare to do this is also because they feel a huge threat, if they don't do something, they will be eradicated by Your Majesty." ”

Zhao Che said coldly: "I never thought of harming their lives, they couldn't sit still. ”

Shen Bai immediately said: "So the current situation has been formed because Your Majesty is too merciful. ”

In the previous life, Zhao Che also cared about the love of the blood, so he never was ruthless to Zhao Chou, and later Zhao Chou forced the palace, Shen Bai almost died, and Zhao Che erased this bit of benevolence.

In this life, Zhao Che went more smoothly than in the previous life, and the means naturally did not have the iron and blood of the previous life.

"What do you mean by that?"

Zhao Che looked at Shen Bai and asked, Shen Bai subconsciously glanced at Gu Hengzhou, these things were taught to her by Zhao Che in the previous life, she actually didn't want Gu Hengzhou to see her like this.

Cold-blooded, cruel, and scheming to put others to death.

Gu Hengzhou has been listening very carefully, his expression has not changed, Shen Bai took a deep breath, and said calmly: "The more presumptuous these people are, the more horses and feet will be exposed, we can't be led by their noses, Your Majesty might as well take a plan and see how many people in Beijing have ghosts, just to catch them all." ”

Zhao Che didn't interrupt Shen Bai, signaling her to be more clear, Shen Bai avoided Gu Hengzhou's gaze, and said meaningfully: "Prince Xiao went to see the Oiran Tournament this time, and he didn't bring a single guard, which gave the assassin an opportunity, and this assassination is likely to be his bitter trick." ”

Zhao Che frowned and immediately denied: "He won't do this." ”

Zhao Xian and Concubine Shu have always been indisputable, Zhao Xian has also supported Zhao Che in the past three years as a prince, if it weren't for this, the people behind the scenes would not have sent someone to assassinate him, Zhao Che still has a good faith in Zhao Xian.

Shen Bai nodded and echoed: "Prince Xiao will indeed not do such a thing, but if Your Majesty has a dislike for Prince Xiao, the people behind the scenes should be very happy, right?" ”

In a word.

Zhao Che pursed his lips and lost his voice, and began to think about how to implement this matter, Shen Bai then said: "Your Majesty now relies on Prince Xiao and my father, only Brother Gu and the Wei family are left, Brother Gu is guarding the border on weekdays, these people's hands can't reach that long, Zhenguo Gong's body is still quite healthy now, Your Majesty values the Wei family very much, they have no chance to start."

But if you don't have a chance, it doesn't mean that they don't dare to start, if Your Majesty wants to get rid of the troubles forever, this time the play must be played bigger. ”

The two stayed in the imperial study for half an hour before being released, and it was already past the time when the palace gate was locked, Zhao Che asked Gu Hengzhou to stay in the palace, and Gu Hengzhou sent Shen Bai back to Nanchen Palace.

The two of them were silent on the road, they didn't talk much, and when they were about to arrive at Nanchen Palace, Shen Bai couldn't help but ask Gu Hengzhou: "Brother Gu, the real me is like this, do you still like me like this now?" ”

Shen Bai asked a little cautiously, she really didn't want Gu Hengzhou to see her side.

"Didn't you see it when I killed innocents indiscriminately?" Gu Hengzhou asked gently, Shen Bai shook his head and said, "That's different, at that time, you were controlled by the sad and happy side." ”

Gu Hengzhou raised his hand and rubbed her head, and said in a deep voice: "It's no different, we all have our own missions and responsibilities on our shoulders, you use your brain to kill, I use my sword to kill." ”

Shen Bai was dumbfounded, and Gu Hengzhou continued: "But if I can, I hope to bear all the bloody killings for you." ”

So that you can ignore nothing.

Gu Hengzhou didn't say the next words, but Shen Bai knew it.

The news of Prince Xiao's assassination soon caused a stir in Hanjing, and there were so many people watching the Oiran competition by the river that day, even if the government wanted to suppress the news.

Prince Xiao was injured in the arm, and the news that the wound was also contaminated with poison also spread.

First the Prime Minister died of the little master, and then the assassination of Prince Xiao, and two bad things happened in the spring just this year, and everyone is speculating that the year is not good.

When Zhao Xian was the prince, the Queen Mother was not very close to him, this time he was injured, the Queen Mother was very concerned, personally took care of him for two days, and gave him a lot of rare medicinal materials to recuperate. Let's read the book

After the death of Emperor Hengde, Concubine Shu was promoted to concubine, and stayed in her palace all day long, this time Zhao Xian was injured, and Zhao Che personally went to the palace to make amends.

After the death of the first queen, Emperor Hengde did not stand again, and Zhao Che also called Concubine Shu a concubine.

According to the people who served in the palace of Concubine Shu, His Majesty and Concubine Shu had a very unpleasant meal, as if Concubine Shu asked him to punish the murderer severely, but he questioned why Prince Xiao brought so few guards to watch the Oiran Competition, whether he deliberately staged a bitter meat scene, and Concubine Shu was so angry that she cried.

On the third day after Concubine Shu quarreled with Zhao Che, Shen Bai received a summons and was taken to Xinchen Palace by the palace people to see Concubine Shu.

Emperor Hengde is deceased, and the furnishings everywhere in Xinchen Palace are very simple, and there are not many palace people waiting, only five or six, all of whom are dressed plainly.

Passing through the front hall, behind is the exquisitely designed rockery landscape pavilion, the concubine is wearing a light gray palace dress and leaning on the edge of the water pavilion, even if she is under the name of the concubine, she is now a widow, the concubine has no luxurious jewelry at all, only the faint silver filigree trim on the clothes shows the luxury.

The weather has warmed up, there is no charcoal fire in the water pavilion, only two pastries and a pot of hot tea, and the palace people whispered: "Niangniang, the Oriental girl has arrived." ”

Concubine Shu turned her head and saw Shen Bai, a smile immediately appeared on her face, and she greeted eagerly: "Come and sit down, there is no one here in the Ping Sakura Palace, it's strangely deserted." ”

Shen Bai walked to Concubine Shu and sat down, Concubine Shu took her hand and looked at it, patted the back of her hand and said, "You know that you are a good girl by looking at your face, and this palace will call you Kite in the future." After speaking, he moved the two plates of pastries in front of Shen Bai, "These are what this palace likes to eat on weekdays, you can taste it and see if you like it." ”

Shen Bai tasted a piece obediently, and said truthfully: "It's delicious." ”

"If it's delicious, you can eat more, it's quite boring to stay alone in this palace, and you can come over to accompany this palace more when you have time in the future."

Concubine Shu was really happy about Shen Bai's arrival, and it seemed that no one had spoken to her for a long time, and she had never stopped since she saw Shen Bai.

Shen Bai was quickly half-fed, remembered the matter, and asked, "Is there something wrong with Niangniang calling me here today?" ”

Concubine Shu stopped feeding at this time, and said: "Two days ago, His Majesty came to Xinchen Palace, saying that His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince of Nanxiang Kingdom wants to choose the princess and concubine in our Zhaoling, His Majesty has not yet been established, and the Queen Mother's age is also high, and it is not suitable to work, so this matter will be handed over to the palace to manage, the Internal Affairs Office sent a portrait and a brochure yesterday, and it is inconvenient for the palace to directly let the Five Highnesses choose, so please come over to the staff and staff to see what kind of girl the five princes like." ”

The Internal Affairs Office is moving fast.

Shen Bai smiled and said, Concubine Shu asked people to bring up the portrait.

There are many marriageable girls in Beijing, and there is a box full of portraits alone, and the booklet is two or three thick.

Concubine Shu looked at the booklet and said gently: "I haven't been out in the palace for a long time, and now I don't know any of these little girls in the capital, but since the Internal Affairs Office dares to send portraits, I guess my background and character will not be bad." ”

Shen Bai looked at a few scrolls of portraits, nodded and said, "They are all beautiful girls." ”

"But as the old saying goes, marrying a wife is a virtuous one, it's useless just to be good-looking, this palace heard that Nanxiang also has beautiful women, presumably the fifth prince has not married because he doesn't care about skin, just wants to find someone who has the same heart with her, and is old with a white head." Concubine Shu's words praised Murong Xuan to the sky, and Shen Bai put the album aside and said, "Actually, this matter also depends on chance. ”

As he spoke, Shen Bai walked back to Concubine Shu and said as if unintentionally: "At the Lantern Festival banquet before, the fifth brother was drunk and saw a girl, but he was not lightly drunk, and only saw a back, and he has been dreaming of this girl's back recently, I don't know if there will be this girl on these lists." ”

"It's easier that way." Concubine Shu smiled and said, "Those who can participate in the Lantern Festival banquet are all girls with good family backgrounds, let the Internal Affairs Office copy a copy of the list of the banquet and send it, and the palace will invite them to a banquet in their own name again, and then let the Fifth Highness identify them well." ”

Concubine Shu made a decision to shoot the case, and she didn't read the brochure and portrait, and directly asked people to go to the Internal Affairs Office to spread the word.

Shen Bai was left for lunch, Concubine Shu didn't want her to go, so the two of them talked and rested in the soft room, and in the afternoon, Zhao Mingxi came.

Concubine Shu asked the palace people to let her in.

The weather was warm, Zhao Mingxi wore a bright red riding suit, his hair was braided into several small braids, the tail of the braid was decorated with red coral beads, and he was pedaling deerskin boots on his feet.

"Xi'er has seen the concubine Niangniang, please say hello to the concubine Niangniang."

Zhao Mingxi saluted respectfully, Concubine Shu liked her outfit very much, called out to the good treasure, pulled the person in front of her to look carefully, and couldn't stop saying: "I haven't seen it for a long time, why has it jumped again, and the eyebrows and eyes have grown a lot, it's so beautiful." ”

I could hear that Zhao Mingxi was pitiful when she came to Xinchen Palace, she was praised with a shy smile, she didn't know how to respond, and unconsciously set her eyes on Shen Bai.

Shen Bai asked her softly, "Is the princess going somewhere when she is dressed up so beautifully?" ”

Zhao Mingxi said happily: "The imperial brother will go out of the palace to pray for the people in some time, and I can also go out to play, this is the clothes specially made for me by the Ministry of Internal Affairs." ”

Yes, at the beginning of the year, it is necessary to pray for blessings.

Concubine Shu didn't have a chance to leave the palace, so she helped Zhao Mingxi straighten her collar and advised: "Outside the palace is not as good as inside the palace, it's not safe, don't walk around after Xi'er leaves the palace, you must follow Your Majesty." ”

Zhao Mingxi had heard these words hundreds of times, and said nonchalantly: "I know it, there will be a lot of guards accompanying him at that time, and Brother Gu is also here, so there will be nothing wrong." ”

"What's the use of having more guards? Look at your second imperial brother, he has only been back to Beijing for a few days, and he almost lost his life. Concubine Shu took Zhao Xian as an example, and Zhao Mingxi blurted out: "The second emperor brother was stabbed in order to watch the Oiran competition, and he didn't bring an escort to go." ”

As soon as Zhao Mingxi said this, Concubine Shu's eyes instantly turned red, and she said hatefully: "Yes, he is such a big person, and he still learns from those gentlemen to go to see what Oiran competition, and now he is injured, and he is suspected of acting as a bitter trick, he really deserves it!" ”

Concubine Shu said and wiped the corners of her eyes with a silk handkerchief, Zhao Mingxi didn't expect that her words would cause Concubine Shu to have such a big mood swing, and she didn't quite understand what Concubine Shu said, she asked suspiciously: "Who is Niang Niang talking about, does anyone suspect that the assassination of the second emperor brother is fake, but why did the second emperor brother do this?" ”

It's okay that Zhao Mingxi didn't ask, the more she asked, the more wronged Concubine Shu felt, she couldn't stop wiping her tears, and muttered in her mouth: "That's right, his prince has done a good job, and he has endless glory and wealth, why do you have to eat enough and have nothing to do to act in any bitter love drama, isn't this obviously looking for death?" ”

Although Zhao Mingxi had no idea of seeking power and seizing the throne, after experiencing Zhao Chou's incident, her heart was still very sensitive, and after being quiet for a while, she reacted and asked tentatively: "Is Niangniang talking about the imperial brother?" ”

Concubine Shu hurriedly wiped away her tears, shook her head and said, "No, it's just that there are palace people who are talking a lot and are heard by this palace, no one." ”

Now it's a bit of a taste of wanting to cover the mystery, Zhao Mingxi frowned, but Concubine Shu quickly cleaned up her emotions and said to her and Shen Bai: "Fang is the palace is out of shape, it's really embarrassing to make you unhappy, I'm weird and lonely here, there's nothing to treat, I'm also tired, you go back." ”

The palace people who were waiting on the side immediately stepped forward to send Shen Bai and Zhao Mingxi away, and as soon as the two left, Xinchen Palace returned to its usual coldness, and the palace people came back to see Concubine Shu leaning on the beauty couch with her forehead propped up, as if she was extremely tired and overwhelmed.

The palace man walked to the couch and whispered: "Niangniang, the sixth princess and the Oriental girl have left, Niangniang go to bed and sleep." ”

Concubine Shu lazily replied and did not move, and the palace people hesitated for a moment to persuade beside her: "Your Majesty also said angry words that day, don't worry too much, the prince and your majesty are brothers and sisters after all, and Your Majesty will never do anything to the prince again." ”

Concubine Shu opened her eyes and looked at the palace people, her eyes were still red, but her eyes were not weak, but they showed Leng Rui who knew everything, the palace people were startled, their legs were weak and they knelt down directly, raised their hands and gave themselves a few slaps, and kept saying: "The slave has a lot of mouths, the crime deserves death, please forgive the mother." ”

These slaps didn't spare any strength, they crackled, Concubine Shu bent down to help her up, and said softly: "Get up, this palace knows that you are used to being loyal, in this Xinchen Palace, if you don't talk to this palace, it will really be meaningless for this palace to live." ”

The palace man lifted his eyes and glanced at Concubine Shu quickly, seeing that her expression was full of trust, he breathed a sigh of relief, and said softly: "This is what the slave maid should do, don't worry, the slave and maid will always be by the mother's side." ”

Shen Bai and Zhao Mingxi went out of Xinchen Palace together, thinking of Concubine Shu's reaction just now, Zhao Mingxi's interest was not high, and when he was about to arrive at the Imperial Garden, Shen Bai took the initiative to speak and asked, "Her Royal Highness the princess made a special trip to see the concubine today?" ”

Zhao Mingxi stopped, looked back at Shen Bai, she vaguely sensed what these adults were going to do, instinctively resisted, hesitated for a moment and said: "Brother Huang said that Sister Kirsky's riding skills are very good, let me practice more riding skills with Sister Kirsky, and will take me out of the palace in a few days." ”

Shen Bai said: "I can teach the princess riding at any time, does the princess have to learn it today?" ”

Zhao Mingxi nodded, and the two of them went to the Imperial Horse Prison to pick horses first.

Zhao Mingxi has his own foal, which is a black horse with a very shiny coat, and Shen Bai chose a jujube red horse, which looks very similar to the horse that Gu Hengzhou is riding now.

Shen Bai has been explaining the skills of picking horses to Zhao Mingxi when he picks horses, Zhao Mingxi listened absent-mindedly, and when Shen Bai picked a horse and was about to go to the school, Zhao Mingxi couldn't help but say: "I lied just now, it was the imperial grandmother who said that the concubine was in a bad mood these days, so I went to Xinchen Palace." ”

"It's okay, I'll just ask." Shen Bai said with a light smile, checked whether the saddle was stable, and then looked at Zhao Mingxi and said, "Good riding skills are practiced, today the princess will go to the school with me to run thirty laps." ”

When the words fell, Shen Bai grabbed the saddle and stepped on the stirrups and turned over on the horse.

Her legs were straight, her long skirt drew a very beautiful arc in the air, and her black hair swayed twice with the wind, heroic and sassy, Zhao Mingxi had learned riding from the martial arts master of Tai Academy before, and he had never seen a woman riding a horse as neatly as Shen Bai, and she was stunned for a while.

Gu Hengzhou and Zhou Jue also went to the Imperial Horse Supervisor today to pick out the horses to be used in the next few days, as soon as they entered the door, they saw this scene, Gu Hengzhou stopped, Zhou Jue bumped his arm and said: "Tut, I haven't seen you for three years, this kid's riding skills don't seem to have regressed at all, when she was in Tai Academy, she was obviously the last in line, who did you say she learned her riding skills from?" ”

Gu Hengzhou kept looking at Shen Bai without looking away, and said casually, "Me." ”

The tail note rises, a little proud, and a little proud.