After a long night, Zhiying and Cui Yi didn't sleep, guarding a lamp, and as the sky became brighter, the wick fell down again.

Zhiying took the lamp scissors to subtract a section of the lantern flower, Cui Yi's eyes moved with her movements, and then rubbed her sore eyes, and said: "Why are you so sure that there is a hardship in getting the moon, she is not like Xie Yong, which woman in the deep palace is not deeply hidden, she is ambushed in the palace, she is a maid when she has nothing to do, and once she has something, she is a poisonous snake." ”

"I can't say it either, it's just like that," Zhiying, who hadn't slept all night, looked very tired and lay on the table weakly, "The feeling that Rongyue gave me was completely different from Xie Yong, from the time when I saw through the conspiracy of Concubine Duanfei Niangniang and the queen in the palace, I felt that Rongyue was in trouble, otherwise with her old age, there would be no need to expose the fact that she couldn't help herself when she sent me to Hanfu Palace." ”

Cui Yi still doesn't believe it, he always thinks that the mother concubine placed Rongyue in the palace at the beginning, not necessarily to be unfavorable to herself, it is very likely to calculate and hold the profit, but the profit is credible, whose intuition is right?

After the sky was dark, Xiaoqiu led someone to knock on the door: "Lord Wang, madam, the slave and maid have come in." ”

Holding Ying sighed, tilted his head and muttered, "Am I really wrong?" ”

Just when Xiaoqiu pushed open the door and was about to cross the threshold, a scream like a whistle came from the yard next door: "Ah——!! ”

Hearing this, Cui Yi and Zhiying's exhaustion all night was swept away, and they got up and ran out of the door.

In the courtyard next door live the maids and grandmothers of the main house, Langyue and Xiaoqiu have different statuses, they are both in a separate room, and the rest live together in twos and threes. On the first night, Zhiying specially told the maid who lived in the room next to Langyue to pay attention to her movements, but because there was no conclusive evidence that Rongyue would commit suicide, she did not explain her words, so there was a scream of the maid's soul scattering.

The two hurried to the scene, and saw the maid sitting on the threshold, covering her mouth with trembling hands, her face was so shocked that her face was colorless, Cui Yi stepped past her and stepped into the door to take a look, Lang Yue was hanging on the beam, grabbing the sheets with both hands, and kicking with both feet.

"Someone! Get her down! Cui Yi turned his head and shouted outside the door, and the little guys who had heard the movement before and rushed over immediately put the person down.

After Langyue was rescued, she sat on the ground with her buttocks, coughing painfully while holding her throat, tears kept pouring out, Xiaoqiu squatted down and stroked her back to help her breathe, and it took her a long time to calm down, she glanced at Zhiying with tears in her eyes, knelt down consciously, and didn't dare to lift her forehead against the cold floor.

Zhiying winked, and the maids retreated tremblingly, leaving the four of them in the house.

"I've seen everything you did yesterday," Zhiying said in an extraordinarily calm tone, "I just want to ask you one question. ”

Lang Yue curled up on the ground, nearly forty years old, her shoulders were thin, and she was trembling at the moment, looking more and more pitiful.

"Since you are already determined to do things for the emperor, why did you kill yourself before we left?"

Lang Yue suddenly burst into tears, and kept kowtowing: "The slave should die!" Slaves and maids should be damned! Slaves...... He never thought of betraying the prince to do things for the emperor, but he threatened to kill the slave's father and a few younger brothers and sisters, and the slave and maid really couldn't help it! The princess and princess are not guilty of the slave and maid, the slave and maid are grateful to Dade, and they really can't do anything to betray the lord and seek glory, and when they returned to the room last night, they regretted and blamed themselves in their hearts, and they didn't have the courage to admit their mistakes and beg for mercy to the princess and wife, so they could only die and apologize! ”

Cui Yi sighed: "You really expected it." ”

Langyue kowtowed constantly, and her forehead was blue and purple after a while, Xiaoqiu couldn't bear to see it, and threw a pleading look at Zhiying.

Zhiying asked: "Is he the emperor you are talking about, or is it someone else?" ”

Lang Yue whimpered and replied, "It's not the emperor, it's ...... It was a person who claimed to be a Banxia monk, and the slave maid had never heard of this person before, until the day before yesterday he suddenly received a letter from his hometown, thinking it was a family letter, but who knew that this Banxia monk was actually threatening the lives of the slave and maid's relatives, and asked the slave and maid to mix the poison into the medicinal materials that the prince and his wife brought back to the capital, and the slave and maid, the slave and the maid ......" couldn't cry for a while.

Banxia Jushi? Zhiying couldn't help but feel quite surprised, sure enough, there was a person he didn't expect, in his previous life he was by Cui Jie's side, and he had never heard of such a number one person, this person used tricks twice, with a distinct style, both Bailizan's foresight, and Shanjian's meticulousness, disdainful of playing with conspiracy and tricks, but like to watch you jump in knowing that it is a trap, shaking a fan on the side and complacent.

"Yanzhou is full of ginseng and snow clams, this person must have expected that if we decide to return to Beijing, we will definitely bring good medicinal materials," Cui Yi's voice was low, with a faint anger, "If you don't have the ability to convince people with virtue, you will only use some indiscriminate threatening tricks, hum!" ”

Zhiying was still thinking about the Banxia Jushi, and suddenly said, "Madam...... There is one more thing about the slave and the maid......"

Zhiying interrupted her lightly: "It's about letting Xie Yuchan go, right?" ”

Lang Yue buried her head, Xiao Qiu immediately became angry, and the sympathy just now was gone, and she jumped to her feet and said, "Did you let that shrew go?" You- which side are you on? ”

"It's probably the concubine who wrote to you, right?" Zhi Ying asked.

Lang Yueman nodded ashamedly: "Niangniang said that the Xie family has intended to take refuge in the emperor, but what ...... However, there was no concubine, so he wanted to deceive Xie Yuchan back and dedicate it to the emperor, the slave maid thought that the Xie family brothers and sisters would also cause chaos if they stayed in the house, and if they left, they would let her go, and the slave and maid really didn't expect them to kidnap Mrs. If you know, even if you cut off the hands of the slaves, the slaves and maids will never let them go! ”

At this point, Concubine Duan's serious illness and wanting to see Cui Yi were already certain to be a conspiracy, and Zhiying did not let her calm down, but turned her head to look at Cui Yi and waited for him to decide.

Cui Yi sat in a chair, with one foot on his knees, his eyes gloomy, and he was frighteningly silent.

"Lord Wang," Zhi Ying walked up to him, "Lord Wang, let's go back first, if you can't make up your mind, you might as well listen to Mr.'s opinion." ”

Cui Yi was still silent, and Lang Yue whispered: "Niangniang is in the letter...... mentioned the prince, saying that she had always been concerned about the prince in her heart, and asked the slave and maid to serve the prince well, the decision of the Xie family and the Ye family, she had no way to resist, she only hoped that the prince would be well, no illness or disaster......"

Cui Yi let out a long breath, wiped his face fiercely, and then slammed his fist on the table, with a loud "bang", so frightened that Lang Yue didn't dare to say any more.

So even Zhiying didn't know what else to say at this time.

She has always known that Cui Yi is a person who does not smile in front of a person, but has rich emotions in his heart, although as the two become more and more intimate, he will also show more and more tenderness, but most of the time, the martial king Cui Yi is still a person with an unworthy expression.

However, at this time, Zhiying read too many things from his face, he had a deep affection for the Duanfei Ye who raised him, and he may even surpass his biological mother Empress Xiaopiao, Duanfei's concern made him feel warm, and the betrayal under the pressure of the family made him feel cold, and at the same time there were some self-blame emotions, blaming himself for not waking up early and not being able to protect the current situation of his mother.

"Let's go." After this silence lasted for an unknown amount of time, Cui Yi stood up abruptly and strode out the door.

Zhiying immediately followed him, and at the same time turned back and ordered Xiaoqiu: "Xiaoqiu, go and ask someone to lock up Langyue, don't let her find a short meeting before I and the prince come back, and the rest will be arranged by Mr." "Xiaoqiu will do it right away.

Cui Yi strode back to the main house, and the rest of the maids were on standby at the door, they had already heard about the short-sighted things of the moon, and they all dared not come out at this time, and when they saw Cui Yi coming back, they knelt on the ground in an uproar.

Zhiying hurriedly caught up: "Are the carriages and horses ready?" Cuizhu and Bi Tao you two follow and serve, and the rest stay in the house, be sure to protect the young lady, if something goes wrong, you are the only one who comes back! The maids responded with a bang, and they all went to do what they should do.

The luggage had been loaded into the car the first night, Cao Qian waited outside the gate of the mansion, and saw the two of them walking out one after the other, both of them looked haggard, and couldn't help but be full of question marks, wanted to ask but didn't dare to ask, opened the carriage door and let them go.

Two carriages, accompanied by a thousand personal soldiers, went out of the city gate and went on the official road, and before they went far, Cui Yi suddenly shouted out: "Stop!" ”

The carriage immediately stopped, and Cao Qian turned his head on his horse and asked, "What does the prince command?" ”

Cui Yichong, who was sitting opposite, raised his chin: "You get out of the car." ”

Zhiying and Cao Qian were both stunned, and they didn't realize what he meant.

"Get out of the car and go back," Cui Yi looked like he had calmed down, his brows expanded, and his tone was calm, "Since you know that it is a trap, there is no reason for two people to jump down together, you go back, guard Xian'er well, if I don't go back, Yanzhou will be dominated by you, and if there is a chance in the future, I will go back to the capital to avenge me." ”

Cao Qian didn't know the inside story of this matter, and when he heard this, his face was immediately pale, and he shouted: "Why did the prince say this? ”

Cui Yi shook his head slowly: "Zhongxing sends Mrs. back, or I get off the car and ride, and you go back." Just as he was about to get up, he was grabbed by the wrist.

Zhiying had a crying and not laughing expression on her face, and said, "The prince asked us all to go back and go to the Longtan Tiger's Den alone?" What a joke! If I want to go back, General Cao will go back, and I have to follow the prince. ”

Cao Qian immediately said: "Wherever the prince's wife goes, the last general will go, not to mention the Longtan Tiger's Den, even if it is to break into hell, the last general will never blink an eyelid!" ”

Cui Yi was dragged before he got up, struggling inwardly, and pressed him back stiffly: "Lord Wang, Zhong Xing and I both understand the prince's intentions, and I really can't afford to fold it together, but what's the use of us staying?" Yanzhou without the prince is a plate of loose sand, it is useless to respect anyone as the master, the prince is not lucky, and the 100,000 soldiers and civilians in Yanzhou are not lucky! ”

"Think about Xian'er, she is still so young, can the prince bear to let her lose her father who loves her?" Cui Yi earned it, and Zhiying resolutely pressed him, "We can't go to the capital with the heart of death, but we should come back alive at all costs!" ”

Cao Qian nodded vigorously: "Madam is right!" Lord, you can't be fine! ”

Cui Yi closed his eyes and took a deep breath, and finally gave up: "Let's go." ”

The team finally hit the road again, and Cui Yi leaned his head against the wall of the car and let out a long sigh. Zhiying was also in a heavy mood, and lifted the curtains to look out.

The goose-feather-like snow flies wantonly, and the heaven and earth are carved with pink and jade, wrapped in silver, and it is as quiet as the beginning of Hongmeng, and everything is silent.

There is not a single footprint on the snow-white road, and the future is as expected.