The sky was overcast like a lid, and the rain had been falling from midnight to the present, and there was no intention of stopping, and people's moods seemed to be dull with the weather.

Du Wenbo got up early in the morning, but he was in a good mood, and even a little excited, and instructed his subordinates to prepare a carriage, and did not want a coachman, wearing a hat, and personally drove to a restaurant near the Sifang Pavilion "Ruyi Building", and set a private room, this private room is closest to the back door, he looked at it with satisfaction, parked the carriage in the backyard, gave a little money to the guys who did chores in the backyard, and told him to take care of the carriage, and then return to the house when everything was ready.

Father went to the court, he changed his clothes, so he waited patiently, and last night he said that he accompanied his father to the Sifang Pavilion to see the four princes of the Zhou Kingdom, and prepare to enter the palace in the afternoon to face the saint.

Soon, my father came back, did not get off the carriage, and asked the next person to call Du Wenbo. The subordinate ran in with an oilcloth umbrella, and after a while, Du Wenbo came out and got into the carriage.

The two didn't talk much in the car, and Du Shangshu closed his eyes to recuperate. The carriage stopped, Du Wenbo lifted the curtains, and the Sifang Pavilion had arrived. He got out of the carriage first, turned around and helped his father down, and the subordinates who followed him hurriedly put the oilcloth umbrella up, for fear of getting wet.

The fourth prince and Xin Yao were drinking tea, and they heard the entourage report that Du Shangshu had arrived. Xin Yao hurriedly got up and blessed the four princes: "Your Highness, if you have something, I will retire first." ”

The fourth prince understood, and immediately nodded.

Xin Yao put on a veil, and as soon as she went out, she ran into Du Shangshu who was about to come in, followed by Du Wenbo. She paused, hurriedly lowered her head, and turned sideways.

Du Wenbo didn't expect to see Xin Yao so soon, it was really a godsend, he just had a note prepared in advance in his belt, so he quickly took it out and pinched it in his hand, took the opportunity to accidentally bump into Xin Yao, stuffed the note into her hand, looked at her meaningfully, and said: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I hit you." Xin Yao looked up at Du Wenbo, stepped back, holding the thing Du Wenbo gave her in her hand, frowning slightly, he recognized it, but he still didn't dodge.

Du Shangshu heard that Du Wenbo was paying compensation outside, so he turned back through the curtain and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Du Wenbo hurriedly opened the curtain and came in: "It's nothing." ”

Du Shangshu made a look, and Du Wenbo hurriedly stepped forward to greet his father, "I have seen His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince." ”

"Excuse me, who is this?" The fourth prince had never seen Du Wenbo and asked.

"It's the dog Du Wenbo, the current Tai Changqing."

"It turned out to be your son-in-law, he is really young and promising, Du Shangshu is so blessed!" The fourth prince smiled.

"The dog is not talented, His Royal Highness has praised it falsely, and before coming down, it is to discuss the matter of meeting the saint in the afternoon, and it is necessary to perform a ceremony." Du Shangshu made a gesture.

"There is Lao Du Shangshu, please sit down and watch the tea."

Lu Chuan answered, "Yes." ”

Du Wenbo sat down, thinking that the note had been handed out, time was pressing, don't miss the hour, Xin Yao didn't see anyone leave, and he couldn't listen to his father's nagging here.

Du Wenbo listened to it for a while, then stood up and saluted the four princes: "Your Highness, I remember that there are some things to do, can you say goodbye first?" ”

Du Shangshu wondered, you said you were coming last night, and today this ass is not hot yet, and you are about to leave without saying a word, what's going on? At the moment, he said: "Is there anything that can't be postponed, is it so important?" ”

Du Wenbo hurriedly said: "Father, it was the emperor who asked the child to do it, I just suddenly remembered, I was afraid of delay, so I asked my father to forgive me, and asked the fourth prince not to blame." ”

The fourth prince smiled: "It's okay, it's okay, since it's the emperor's errand, it's naturally important, Du Gongzi, please take care of yourself." ”

Du Wenbo hurriedly said: "Your Highness Xie." Then he said to his father, "Thank you, father." After saying that, he retreated, and hurriedly turned to leave.

Xin Yao returned to the house and opened Xiaozhen, opened the note in his hand, and wrote: I know it's you, please see you, half an hour later, the autumn lotus room in the east of the Sifang Pavilion "Ruyi Building", see you or disperse.

It's Du Wenbo's words, he recognizes himself, what should I do, whether to go or not? What if it's a trap...... No, he did this because he didn't want to expose himself, for fear of attracting officials, otherwise he would just report to the official to arrest him, why bother so much. However, the mission was about to enter the palace in the afternoon, and what he had planned could not be delayed...... If you don't go to see each other, Du Wenbo won't wait forever...... He wanted to see himself, did he have something to say, or was it ......

Xin Yao calculated the time, it was not yet noon, and there were still more than two hours before Shen Shi, so it should be too late, but if he went out like this, he would definitely not be able to, and he couldn't let the four princes know. Xin Yao rummaged through her Qiankun bag, took out a bottle of drug, and called Xiao Zhen, "You go to find a girl in the Sifang Pavilion, I have something to ask her." ”

Xiao Zhen said: "Got it." ”

After a while, Xiao Zhen brought in a small envoy girl. Xin Yao stood up and took a look, tall, short, fat and thin were about the same as herself. The girl thought that she had come to work and maybe a reward, so she was happy, and she bent down and saluted, saying, "Madam, if there is any work, even if you are told, the slave and maid do their work very quickly." ”

Xin Yao smiled and threw the drug out of her hand, and the girl fell to the ground without saying a word.

Xiao Zhen looked stupid and stammered, "Girl, why is this?" ”

Xin Yao sighed: "Xiao Zhen, I have no choice but to do this, His Royal Highness is going to enter the palace in the afternoon, there are many things and busy, I want to go out, but I don't want to bother him, I am afraid that he will be distracted and take care of me, so I want to sneak out by myself and come back in a while." ”

Xiao Zhen said: "Girl, you go, what's the use of fascinating this girl?" ”

Xin Yao: "I changed into this girl's clothes, no one paid attention, and naturally no one would tell His Highness, Xiaozhen, I will be back in about half an hour, His Highness and Du Shangshu are talking about things, so don't disturb him." ”

Xiao Zhen had no choice, so she and Xin Yao moved the girl to the bed, took off her clothes, and Xin Yao changed into them.

Xiao Zhen asked, "Girl, what do you want to go out at this time?" ”

"Go to see an old man, you don't follow, I'll be back soon, don't tell Your Highness about this, you know."

"If you don't take me, that's not good, if Your Highness knows, you won't kill me."

"I'm here, and I'm going to hit you unless I hit me first." Xin Yao patted her, "Don't worry, you stay in the house and don't go out, I'll be back in a while." ”

"No, Your Highness has instructed that the slave and maid must follow wherever the girl goes." Jane insisted on going.

"Why, you don't even listen to your master? You can do whatever I tell you to do, don't say it's you, even if Your Highness is here, he can't stop me wherever I want to go. Xin Yao pulled down her face and said unceremoniously.

Xiao Zhen hurriedly knelt down: "Yes, no, Your Highness asked me to follow because I was worried about your safety, girl, I don't mean anything else, girl......"

Xin Yao opened the door and said, "Don't follow!" Xiao Zhen watched her leave, there was no way at all, so she had to calm down and wait for her, hoping that she could come back soon.

Because she was wearing the clothes of a maidservant and holding an oilcloth umbrella, Xin Yao pressed the umbrella very low, and walked through the side door, no one asked her, not even the secret guards of the four princes did not notice. After going out, she didn't go far to Ruyi Building, Xiao Er led her to the door of the private room named Qiuhe, and said, "Guest officer, this is the private room you are looking for, what else do you have to order?" ”

"No, thank you, little brother."

"You're welcome." Xiao Er left, Xin Yao just wanted to push the door, the door opened, it was Du Wenbo.

"Xin Yao, it's really you, great, quick, come in." Du Wenbo looked at Xin Yao's excited incoherent speech.

Xin Yao entered the house and put down the umbrella and said, "Du Wenbo, is there something wrong with you inviting me to come?" ”

"What's the name? In the past, you called me Brother Wenbo. Du Wenbo wanted to pull Xin Yao's hand.

Xin Yao hurriedly dodged, "That was all in the past, and now you know that I am a prisoner." ”

"No, you will always be that lovely, kind and noble princess in my heart, I don't care about this." Du Wenbo said eagerly.

"I know, otherwise you wouldn't have asked me to come here...... Xin Yao was a little moved, it seemed that he really wouldn't denounce me, and he thought of so many ways to meet him.

Xin Yao sat down, and Du Wenbo also sat down.

"Xin Yao, drink tea, I asked you to come today, in fact, I want to take you away." Du Wenbo said his thoughts and waited for Xin Yao to agree.

"Take me away?" Xin Yao shook her head, "Where are you taking me?" ”

"Xin Yao, I am already too Changqing now, and I have a lot of money, and there will be an official residence in the future, you go back to the house with me now and hide temporarily, and when I buy a courtyard in the city, you will be incognito, as long as we can ...... together"

Xin Yao interrupted him, "This is the matter you asked me to come?" ”

"Yes, Xin Yao, you don't know, I think you're going crazy, as long as you want, I will depend on you for everything."

"No, I still have something to do, Du Gongzi, let's stop here today, let me go back and think about it." Xin Yao shirked, feeling that there was no need to say any more, she wanted revenge, and Du Wenbo's thoughts were simply worlds apart, I thought that he would be upset for himself, he would be heartbroken by watching the people of Chu State being oppressed, and he would find a way to do his part, but he didn't expect to be Tai Changqing, who was the dog emperor, and all he thought about was how to hide Jiao in the golden house, so is there any need to talk about it.

When Du Wenbo heard that Xin Yao rejected him, he was annoyed, "You don't want to be with me, is it because of the fourth prince?" ”

Xin Yao replied: "It's not what you think." ”

"It's not what I thought, you are his wife, I thought we were two childhood sweethearts, you should love me very much, so I don't care about you losing your life with him, I just want to be with you, just let you suffer a little grievance, I will treat you very well in the future, I didn't expect you to reject me, do you dislike me, don't you dislike me, don't you have the identity of the fourth prince, dislike me can't give you the glory and wealth you want!" The more Du Wenbo spoke, the more excited he became, and he stood up and stared at Xin Yao.

"Where do you want to go, don't say it, I want to go back quickly, there is still something to do." Xin Yao couldn't stand his eyes, so she got up and left.

Du Wenbo saw that Xin Yao rejected him with an iron heart, which would let her go out and block the door, "For such a short time, you don't even want to listen to my words, why?" ”

"What, what, it's not what you said at all, Du Wenbo, it's already passed between us, you let me go." Xin Yao wanted to pull Du Wenbo out.

"It's gone, but I'm not over, you don't love me, don't want to go back!" Du Wenbo said, not giving Xin Yao a chance at all, raising his palm and slashing at Xin Yao's neck.

Xin Yao was defenseless at all, and fell softly. Du Wenbo grabbed her and put her to the ground. Afraid that she would wake up in a while, she simply took out the porcelain bottle from her arms, poured it into the teacup on the table, and mixed it with the tea and fed it to Xin Yao. Then picked up Xin Yao and walked out of the private room.

Because it was raining, there was no one in the yard in the corridor, Du Wenbo braved the rain to put Xin Yao into the carriage prepared in the backyard, and was about to drive out, the guy who watched the carriage saw that someone was going to drive the carriage, and he hurriedly called out: "Hey, who are you, dare to move the carriage." ”

Du Wenbo turned around, and the guy saw that it was the owner of the carriage in the morning, and hurriedly haha: "It's you, I should be stealing the carriage." ”

Du Wenbo took out a silver ingot from his purse and threw it to him: "Don't tell anyone that you've seen me." ”

The guy took the silver, looked stupid, so much silver, and immediately nodded: "Got it, got it."

Seeing that Du Wenbo was about to drive away, he hurriedly trotted over and opened the backyard door.