In the early morning of the next day, Xu Han followed Xiao Wei back to the city, and the Lin family was handed over to Lord Zhou for his protection.

Unlike when he came, when he went back, there was an extra person in front of him.

Xu Han's hands were wrapped in the same as zongzi, where would Xiao Wei let her ride alone.

"You said you, I didn't look at it for a while, and I hurt myself, what did you promise me? I'll take good care of myself. ”

Xu Han in front said obediently, "If I want to protect myself, can you still count me?" ”

"......" Xiao Wei was blocked by her and said angrily, "You...... You...... I'm really. I'm obviously worried about you, look at it, even the hooves of the old Wang family in Sweetwater Lane are better looking than yours. ”

Xu Han smiled and glanced back at her,

"That's right, when I go back to the city, I will go to Lao Wang's house to buy some hooves and go back, and make up for it."

She softened her tone, "Are you okay?" ”

Originally, because she was angry that she didn't cherish her own Xiao Wei, she was swept away by these words, and even the flame disappeared in an instant.

"Okay, as long as you want."

"I want you to give it all?"

"As long as you want."

Xu Han was silent and didn't speak.

Xiao Yan tightened the hand on her waist, not knowing why.

Xu Han suddenly turned sideways, stretched out his arm to stop his neck, and leaned up.

A dragonfly kiss in the water.

Xiao Wei was stunned for a moment, and he didn't know what to say.

"Fool ......"

When she was young, she relied on her high martial arts skills and always pressed her to fight.

Who would have thought that just like that, he would still be obsessed with her.

Obviously, in the eyes of other men, she is just a strong man's wife, why is he so rare.

Xiao Wei snorted, his face slowly dyed red, and said viciously,

"Who is stupid...... Who is stupid...... I'll tell you......"

Before he finished speaking, he saw Xu Han's head turned sideways, and his eyes were shining at him.

He coughed slightly, a little embarrassed,

"Why are you looking at me like that? Doesn't your neck hurt? ”

"Because you're good-looking!"

“……”

Xu Han finished laughing and said, "How is the progress of your assassination?" ”

Xiao Wei said, "Before leaving the city yesterday, I asked people to send the bodies of those assassins to the East Palace, and to see the reaction of the East Palace, those assassins were indeed sent by the East Palace. ”

He lowered his head, rubbed on the top of Xu Han's head, sighed, and said,

"Speaking of which, although I have never responded to the solicitation of the East Palace, everyone is very harmonious on the surface, and besides, the prince has a gentle personality and a benevolent heart, I really can't think of why he sent someone to assassinate me."

"It's clearly a harmless thing."

Xu Han was silent, she had a lot of things she wanted to say, and she had countless complicated emotions, but in the end, she knew how to say, "Don't be afraid, throw the corpse over this time, no matter what, it will always shock the East Palace, and there should be no small movements in the near future."

Moreover, Donggong will definitely give you a satisfactory answer. ”

It's just that I don't know what this reply is.

……

The prince sat in the study of the East Palace until the third watch, until his body stiffened, then he slowly got up, went to the princess's bedroom, and when he arrived at the Qiwu Palace, he stood under the two magnolia trees in front of the palace gate and paused for a moment.

In winter, only the leaves of the branches rustle in the wind, just like his heart, hesitating.

He shook the wind chill on his body, waved off the personal palace people, and just entered the palace, just after entering, he saw the surprise on the face of the crown princess Ma,

"Didn't you say to rest in the study? It's so cold outside, running so far. She stepped forward to help the prince unload it, and touched his hand, which was cold.

"Bessy, quick, let the small kitchen boil a bowl of ginger soup."

The crown prince shook the princess's hand back, "No need, it's so late at night, why haven't you rested?" ”

Xu was because the prince came over, the princess's heart was relieved, and she replied briskly, "I just took the medicine and was about to lie down and rest, when you came." ”

She glanced at the prince with disgust, "I didn't let the person pass it on, and I came over quietly." ”

"Did you use the supper?"

The prince took the princess's hand, entered the inner room, sat on the edge of the bed, and said warmly,

"Don't be busy, let's rest early."

The crown princess took out a red sandalwood interstitial from the low cabinet on the side, and said with a light smile, "This is the picture of the hundred sons of the concubine herself, and the weaver has installed five interstitial screens, and the concubine can't help you with anything else, only this one can be handled, or put it in your study?" ”

The prince glanced at it and said,

"These things hurt your eyes, don't do it, I have everything everywhere."

Seeing that although she looked happy, her brows were furrowed, she reached out and stroked it, and said with pity,

"If you want to take those medicines, you can take them, and if you don't want to take them, don't take them, because the medicine is poisonous, and after such a long time, since it can't be regulated, that's the problem of those medicines."

The crown princess put down the interstitial screen in her hand, her eyes were slightly red, "It's all useless concubines, you are under such a lot of pressure as before......"

She paused, and suddenly knelt in front of the prince, "Otherwise, you can stop the concubines' children's soup." ”

"Now the three princes are eyeing each other, although there is no good news from the three princes' mansions, we can't keep dragging it out like this."

"The concubine is useless, so, Your Highness...... Don't be empty under your knees for me anymore, Your Majesty really has to pity the concubine, and wait until which sister has a child, regardless of gender, just let the concubine raise one, and it can be regarded as a mother. ”

The prince raised his hand and stroked the bead hairpin on the princess's head, and hummed casually,

"Since you know that the third prince is eyeing Lone Tiger, then why are you so close to Anping? She is the sister of the third prince, and I don't see her give me a good face on weekdays. ”

The crown princess's face suddenly froze, and it took half a sound to understand the meaning, and she also knew that the prince was really angry, usually when the two were alone, he rarely called himself 'lonely', she took two steps on her knees, trembling her lips, and said,

"Your Highness, where is this talking, the concubine is good with Anping, Anping is arrogant, even the fifth prince, and he has never given a good face."

Tears fell on her face, "The concubine also thinks that His Royal Highness has always been benevolent, and if she really ignores An Ping, it will make outsiders criticize." ”

The prince looked at the woman with pear blossoms and rain in front of him, and tapped his fingers twice on the edge of the bed.

"Today, the prince of Chengen sent someone to send something to Lone, guess what?"

The crown princess slowly raised her head and said, "Your Royal Highness has always wanted to win over the eldest princess of Shuyang, and now the prince of Chengen has sent things to the door, does it mean ......?"

The prince smiled meaninglessly, his fingers lightly swiped over the embroidered surface of the red sandalwood interstitial, and the hundred sons embroidered with silver filigree stood in front of him as if they were real.

With a slight poke of his perfectly trimmed nails, a long silk thread was raised, and suddenly, Baizi's face became blurred.

The prince threw away the thread in his hand without paying attention, bent down slightly, and said almost like a whisper,

"In the past, I didn't understand why you and An Ping had a close relationship, but you never met other people from the three princes' line, but now, I know."

"You said that the prince of Chengen sent something to the door, maybe it means that he is close to Lone, right?"

"Then Gu can tell you clearly that Xiao Wei will never be used by me, because what he sent was the corpse of the private guard of the East Palace."

"The corpses of the guards who assassinated him......"

The crown princess's eyes widened involuntarily, her body shook slightly, and the pendant on the hairpin on her head that had not had time to be removed made a crisp sound.

The prince pulled a white handkerchief from his arms, wiped his fingers one by one, as if stained with something unclean, for a long time, the originally gentle and smiling face showed a sneer,

"You tell Lonely, just like that, will he still be of use to me?"

"Ma Minghui, when I was alone outside the palace, I took a fancy to you at a glance, so I insisted on marrying you into the palace regardless of your humble status."

"Lone is protecting you, for so many years, you have nothing to do, Lone is blocking for you, in order to keep you from being embarrassed in the future, you have nothing to do, and Lone will not allow those concubines to be pregnant."

The crown princess looked at the prince in a daze, her expression was in a trance, how many years, how many years has the prince not called her name.

She woke up after a pause, her knees moving uneasily on the ground, and said,

"Your Royal Highness's deep friendship, Minghui has always remembered it, why did I feed a bowl of medicine and a bowl of medicine? Isn't it just that you can't live up to the friendship of Your Highness? ”

"Over the years, I have taken more medicine than I have eaten and drunk. Am I willing? ”

"I don't know what's going on with Your Highness today, if you have something to say, you might as well say it directly."

The prince raised his eyebrows, as if he was a little surprised by the princess's questioning, and after looking up and down a few times, he suddenly said,

"Lone saw that Anping was willing to get close to you, so I was happy to see you together, in the future, Lone will always inherit the throne, even if the third prince and I don't get along, but Anping is innocent, I won't treat her harshly.

It's just that Lone doesn't know that you would collude with An Ping and do such a terrible thing. ”

"Anping has now gone to the Imperial Temple to reflect, what about you? How do you want to? ”

The crown princess opened her mouth and was about to speak, but was interrupted by the prince waving her hand,

"Bis next to you is probably overwhelmed, do you want me to tear off the last bit of skin to ask you?"

The crown princess slowly straightened up, her face unchanged, and asked gently, "The concubine doesn't know what His Highness is talking about." ”

The prince carried the rosewood interstitial screen of the hundred sons, and suddenly smiled, "I heard people say in the past that some people are talented and can learn anything. ”

"It's a pity Minghui, you, all these years in the palace, because of loneliness, you have been trapped in the inner palace and can't do anything."

The crown princess looked up and looked at the prince in slight surprise, "Your Highness has been talking about it for a long time, what do you want to say?" Concubines have always been people who keep their duties. ”

"Because of His Royal Highness, he can soar into the sky, and the concubine is stupid, His Highness is like this, and I ask His Highness to give the concubine a clear word."

The prince looked at the woman kneeling in front of him almost with appreciation, but sighed in extreme disappointment.

Since he has said it so clearly, he still has the ability not to change his face and not admit half a point, which is also a good ability.

He raised his hand and patted it lightly, and the personal eunuch who was waiting respectfully outside the palace gate made a gesture, and the two little eunuchs immediately escorted a woman in an embarrassed manner.

It is clearly Biss who was still serving by the princess's side before the prince came.

She looked at Beth in astonishment, then turned to look at the prince.

The prince's eyebrows moved slightly, "Why, you don't know the maids around you anymore?" On that day, she took a fake token and went to the private guard commander beside Gu, and ordered him to send someone to assassinate Xiao Wei, don't tell me you don't know. ”

The woman was forced to suppress herself, but her eyes still unconsciously revealed a trace of unease.

The prince sighed, "Do you want me to give you a reminder, the lonely study, other people can't get close to it, but you, in the past, you would often go there to find some books such as travelogues and wild histories, and the people who guarded the door would never stop you from entering." ”

He took out his token from his purse and pointed to the red dot in the corner.

"This is rubbing red clay, not ordinary red clay, your mother's family gave you a box of red clay that day, the materials are different from others, it is used for you to play."

The crown princess hung her head slightly, her eyes swept over the token, "The concubine doesn't know what Bisi said, the world is bustling for profit, and the world is bustling for profit."

"Bisi is a palace person sent by the concubine into the palace and the Internal Affairs Office, and I think she is also climbing indiscriminately in order to survive, Your Highness must distinguish between right and wrong."

didn't hear the answer he wanted, and the prince's face was not very angry, but he waved his hand slightly, and the embarrassed Beth knelt on the ground, and said in a hoarse voice,

"The mother forgives her sins, and the slave also wants to bury the matter in her heart and take it to the coffin in the future."

"It's just that the slave and maid are really scared, in order not to be divided by the five horses, the slave and maid have to say anything."

The prince smiled, "Bessie was still waiting for you before Lone came, and then Lone has been with you all the time, and it is too late to listen to what Bessie says, so let's listen to it together." ”

Beth didn't dare to hesitate any longer, and said busily,

"The rubbing token was made by the crown princess, and she had already done it, but she put it away.

It wasn't until one day that Princess Anping came to see Niangniang, and Niangniang took out the token, rubbed it for a long time, and then handed it over to the slave maid, and went to find the commander of the private guard of the East Palace. ”

Beth didn't know what kind of punishment she had received, and her wheezing was thick and thin, as if she was going to die at any moment, which made people feel extremely uncomfortable to hear.

The prince sneered, "Ma Minghui, what else do you have to say?" That fake token must be reluctant for you to throw away, you said that Lone is now letting people search the palace, inch by inch, will it be found? ”

"For so many years, you have been playing the role of husband and wife in front of Lonely, are you afraid that you have been too deep in the drama over the years and it is difficult to extricate yourself?"

"Don't you know whether you are the daughter of a small family in the capital, or the daughter of the Ma family who is from the same origin as the commander of the horse."

It was like a thunderclap exploding, and everyone in the hall who had ears was silent.

The crown princess stood up slowly and methodically, and smiled at Bess who was kneeling on the ground.

"You have been sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to serve me for some years, I think I am good to you, there is no affection in the palace to talk about, but I still want to believe you, I didn't expect you to repay me like this."

Perhaps it was about to snow, and the cold wind outside was howling, hitting the window lattice, blowing and shaking the unclosed window, making a 'clang' sound.

It seems to be beating on the heart and liver, and it hurts and hurts.

The crown princess suddenly burst into tears, and her tears fell down like a lake that couldn't close the floodgates, and she staggered down in front of the prince's knees, her voice choked,

"Your Highness, I am indeed the daughter of my younger brother who was sent out of the house by Commander Ma, but if I want to say that I rubbed the token, and then assassinated the prince of Chengen in your name, I don't agree."

"I have no grievances with the prince of Chengen, why did I assassinate him? Besides, what's the use of assassinating him? ”

She fell to the ground on her knees and mourned again and again, "Mrs. Ma sent my father away as soon as he was born, saying that the Ma family couldn't support him." ”

"Later, my father sent me to a friend's house in Beijing as an adopted daughter."

"I resented them for sending me away, but my father had passed me away. Say it's for my good. ”

The woman cried with tears on her face, and when she cried so hard, she sobbed one after another, which made people feel love and pity when she heard it.

"Your Highness doesn't know, Your Highness can take a fancy to me and bring me into the palace, and the concubine doesn't know how happy she is. Let's ask, the concubine's honor and disgrace are tied to His Royal Highness, how can the concubine destroy the Great Wall and put herself in danger. ”

"As for my ink, it was long before it was gone."

Speaking of this, the crown princess couldn't help gritting her teeth, her beautiful face turned out to be a little hideous, and she raised her head sharply and shouted,

"The concubine never thought of harming people, but she didn't expect that this palace maid would frame the concubine."

The woman's hot tears fell to the ground, and one bare hand rested carefully on the prince's knee, looking helpless and docile, and there was an irresistible weakness.

The prince seemed to be a little moved, and moved slightly, "Lone can't believe you." ”

"Whether it's red mud or this maid, it's all yours, so ......"

Seeing that the crown prince still insisted, the crown princess suddenly heard that this person had everything by himself in the past, and he took meticulous care of herself, and she felt a little confused.

"The concubine didn't do anything, if you don't believe it, go ask Anping."

"Her temperament, she doesn't know what to come out of in the imperial temple, she is definitely going to blow up, I really haven't done anything."

The prince, who was originally a little loose, his eyes became a little red, and his hands struck each other, and he sighed,

"Anping? Why do you want to ask Anping, what you are asking about the assassination of the prince of Cheng'en, what does it have to do with Anping? ”

He reached out and grabbed the cold and delicate jaw of the crown princess, and the force made the woman's face almost deformed, and sighed slowly,

"You are lonely with all your heart, and you love loneliness wholeheartedly, not only others believe it, but you believe it, I'm afraid even you believe it yourself."

"In order to protect this love, you eat a bowl of medicine and a bowl of medicine, Lone is really moved, and he never thinks of you in a bad way."

A look of rage rose on his face for so long,

"But I didn't expect you to stab a lone person in the back, tell me, over the years, what have you done in addition to secretly rubbing tokens?"

"Or is it that you approached Lone, and it was planned, just to give Lone a thunderous blow one day?"

"But Skynet is magnificent, didn't you expect Lone to recognize you so early?"

"You can't even imagine that Xiao Wei was assassinated, and against the norm, he threw the assassin directly in front of Lone, and asked Lone for an answer in disguise."

"Did you do this, did the third prince ask you to do it just so that Lone could go down from the position of the crown prince?"

The crown princess's expression changed, her delicate throat slid a little, and she smiled bitterly again and again,

"I don't admit any of Bess's accusations, she climbs indiscriminately in order to survive, I won't admit this grievance."

The prince laughed, "What does it matter if you recognize it or not?" You can't do anything in the future, just give Xiao Wei an answer. ”

The crown princess looked up in disbelief, her eyes widened, and she screamed, "You mean you want me to die?" ”

The prince sat on the edge of the bed, his eyes were calm and steady, without the slightest wave, and looked condescendingly at the princess under his feet.

The crown princess seemed to be unable to stand the news, her eyes went dark, and she fainted.

The prince's hand clutched the edge of the bed tightly for a long time before he said in a deep voice, "Call the imperial doctor, do you think you can avoid it in this way?" ”

……

Outside the palace, after Xu Han returned to Beijing, he did not pay less attention to the case that happened in Dongshan Daying, and listened to Wei Ting's news all the time.

"The woman who deceived the Lin family is from the capital, she was originally a matchmaker, but she somehow developed some time ago, and she doesn't do much to protect the media."

"Neighbors privately talk about it, thinking that her money is coming from something wrong, but they don't know how it came from."

Lord Zhou sent a lot of officials to change their clothes, and wandered around the place where the Lin family met the woman, and sure enough, someone knew her, and found the woman's residence.

"That woman's surname is Qu, and she has only one son under her knees, and she heard that she is a good gambler, but she has also gained a lot of money during this time."

"Mother and son recently bought a little girl to make at home."

"Now, Lord Zhou has sent someone to arrest the woman, and soon, it should be clear."

Xu Han nodded, only hoping to find the person behind the curtain earlier, so that those dead could rest in peace and avoid more women being killed.

At the same time, this horrific tragedy was finally told to the people, and one was to let the people go and claim the lost women in their homes.

For a time, the entire capital of families with pregnant women was like a great enemy, and they easily did not dare to let the woman go out, and the whole capital was panicked because of this case.

From the common people to the dignitaries and nobles, they are all talking about this matter.

Xu Danxiu naturally heard people sigh about this matter, and after Xu Han returned from the yamen, she suddenly told her about the crazy woman she met when she went to Funing Temple to offer incense.

Xu Han's face was a little ugly, if it was really like that, then I don't know how many miserable people there were, like this, it is better not to find it, at least there is a thought if I can't find it.

She looked at Xu Danxiu and saw horror in her eyes.

Xu Han sent someone to find the crazy woman and asked her family to go to Jingzhao Mansion to recognize people.

Over there, there was suddenly good news in the palace that the crown princess was pregnant!

At the same time, the mother of the crown princess outside the palace received the news and went into the palace to congratulate.

It's just that her complexion is a little bad.