"The eldest princess brought Cai Shu into the palace to investigate." Nie Yuan came back from outside to inquire about the news and told everyone.

They are in a beautiful courtyard at the moment, the courtyard is temporarily rented, there are only five people, it is much safer than the guest house, and it is also more conducive to hiding their identities. In addition, there are shadow guards arranged by Xia Zimo on the periphery, so there will be no danger for the time being.

"The eldest princess and Prime Minister Cai Cheng have been safe and sound for so many years, will they really turn their faces because of this incident?" Su Muyi asked.

"It's hard, unless she's running out of ways." Xia Ziyan replied.

"Did you secretly do something unsightly behind our backs?" Qiu Luoxue asked rhetorically, looking at Xia Ziyan's confident look, she knew that he was tired.

Xia Ziyan hooked his lips and smiled, drank a cup of tea unhurriedly, and then said slowly: "It's just that Prime Minister Cai Cheng mistakenly thinks that the eldest princess is allied with us."

"How do you get him to believe?" Su Muyi asked.

"Then it's up to your royal brother." Xia Ziyan raised his eyebrows and said.

Su Mufei entered the palace of the eldest princess under the leadership of the eunuch, this was the countermeasure he discussed with Xia Ziyan, he asked to see the eldest princess as the sixth prince of Nanliang, and Cai Chikun's eyes and ears in the palace would soon get the news.

"It's so late at night, I don't know why the six princes came?" The eldest princess asked.

"I'm here to pay this back." Su Mufei stretched out his hand and handed the eldest princess a silver palace bell, which was beautifully crafted and small.

The eldest princess knew at a glance that it was her belonging, and she had always carried this palace bell with her, which was a very important gift she received when she was a child, and she never thought that she would lose it today.

Although she was grateful in her heart, the eldest princess still said without showing emotion: "It's just a palace bell, and it's too late tomorrow, so why rush today?"

"It will bother me." Su Mufei replied.

"It's mainly put in one place and don't move it, this palace bell won't make a sound, why did it disturb the six princes?" The eldest princess said.

"Its owner, disturbs my heart." Su Mufei said.

When the eldest princess heard this, she felt her heart skip a half-beat, and the man in front of her, in the moonlight, said that she disturbed his heart. There was something strange in her heart that she had never felt before. For a while, she didn't know how to answer Su Mufei's words.

Seeing that she didn't speak, Su Mufei pulled her arm, put the palace bell into her hand, and then turned to leave. What he wants to do is to let Cai Chikun misunderstand the eldest princess, and he doesn't need to stay for a long time. Gong Ling is nothing more than an excuse.

"So you stole someone's palace bell? Hey...... I hate you. Qiu Luoxue said after listening to Xia Ziyan's plan.

"I also have one of the palace bells, I can lend them to you." As she spoke, Su Muyi took out the palace bell she carried with her, and looked at its style and workmanship, which was the same as the eldest princess's.

Xia Ziyan had seen the palace bell, and when he saw the palace bell in Su Muyi's hand, he naturally recognized it, and asked, "How can you have this palace bell?"

"This is given to me by my mother when she is alive, and I and the six emperor brothers each have one. However, the one of the Six Emperor Brothers was lost. Su Muyi's words carried some regret.

"In the future, if you come to me with this palace bell, I will definitely recognize you." A little boy handed the palace bell in his hand to the girl opposite and said with a shallow smile.

The eldest princess sat on the edge of the bed and remembered the past in her childhood, looking at the palace bell in her hand, many years have passed, its color is still the same, and it has not changed at all.

Looking at the palace bell in her hand, she muttered: "I still hold this palace bell, but you can't recognize me."

Qiu Luoxue walked from the room to the courtyard, and saw Nie Yuan standing under the magnolia flower tree with his back to him. Before you know it, the time is approaching autumn, and this is probably the last time for the magnolia flowers to bloom this year. Compared with the daytime, Qiu Luoxue sees more magnolia flowers at night, and the frost of the moonlight is sprinkled on the petals, which sets off the elegant and clean temperament.

A breeze blew, and along with the fragrance of flowers, the petals that had lost their fragrance fell one by one, leaving the branches on which they depended, and they staggered down. Maybe the petals are too white, or maybe the frost of the moonlight is too bright, and Nie Yuan, who was standing on the side, also shines.

Qiu Luoxue thought about it carefully, Nie Yuan seemed to have a good relationship with the magnolia flowers, killing the assassin under the flower trees in the courtyard of the Xiangfu Mansion, and carrying her to enjoy the magnolia flowers blooming through the wall in the streets and alleys where no one was there at night. At this moment, there is such a quiet standing under the flower tree with his back to him, accompanied by the petals blowing off, there is a beautiful and quiet feeling like snow.

"It's obviously a man with a knife, but standing under the flower tree is so compatible, it's really eye-catching." Qiu Luoxue looked at Nie Yuan's back and said with a smile.

Hearing Qiu Luoxue's voice, Nie Yuan turned to look at her, and saw Qiu Luoxue looking at him with a smile on her face, and in an instant, a warm current rose from the bottom of her heart, flowed through her heart, merged into the blood, and spread throughout her body. It turned out that it was not only Qiu Luoxue's soft hands that could make him feel warm.

The white magnolia petals fell from the branches of the tree, and with the wind, they blew to Qiu Luoxue's side, and she was also included in the beautiful and quiet picture. The moonlight dragged the shadows of the two for a long time, and at some point that was difficult to notice, they merged into one.

There are shadows of flowers, trees, and lights on the ground...... There is also the shadow of Xia Zimo, who is sitting on the stone bench in Qiu Luoxue's small courtyard, not knowing what he is thinking.

Recently, he will come here to sit and sit all night, sometimes into Qiu Luoxue's bedroom, sometimes to her study to sit, and also sit quietly in the courtyard like now, these places have Qiu Luoxue's footprints, all of which can comfort him with lovesickness.

He walked from the palatial palace through the long corridor to the Xiangfu and into the world of autumn snow, although he has been here countless times, there is still a wonderful feeling.

Xia Zimo seemed to think of something, and unconsciously laughed.

"Your Majesty is smiling so happily, but you think of Prime Minister Qiu?" Jin Fu, who was on the side, asked.

Xia Zimo said with a smile: "I thought that when he first learned about that secret passage, he thought that it was cultivated by his father and the first prime minister. Now that I've used that secret passage to have a tryst with him, I wonder how he will feel? ”

"Your Majesty's mind is clear, but will Prime Minister Qiu be the same as you? If he doesn't want to do this, what should His Majesty do? Jin Fu asked.

Xia Zimo didn't worry about these at all, and said very confidently: "No, he likes me."

Then he hooked his lips and smiled and said, "Besides, he is very satisfied with my face, hands, voice, and figure."

Speaking of the question of figure, Xia Zimo recalled the scene of soaking in the hot spring with Qiu Luoxue that day. Qiu Luoxue looked at the muscles on his body and sighed, "Wow, Your Majesty, you are in good shape."

Xia Zimo, who heard Qiu Luoxue's praise, smiled confidently and asked rhetorically, "Are you still satisfied?"

"Satisfied, of course satisfied." Qiu Luoxue replied.

"I've said that there's more than one or two things about me that will satisfy you." Xia Zimo hooked his lips and said with a smile.

"Yes, I have a good face, a good voice, good hands, and a good figure. I don't know if there are any other advantages in the emperor that I haven't discovered. Qiu Luoxue said very cooperatively.

"You say, did the emperor receive the letter I wrote to him?" Qiu Luoxue couldn't sleep at night, so she talked to Nie Yuan. Because she had written several letters to Xia Zimo, but she didn't receive a single reply, which made her very puzzled.

"The shadow guard has already forwarded the letter to the emperor." Nie Yuan replied.

"But why haven't I received a reply?" Qiu Luoxue asked.

"Because the emperor didn't reply." Nie Yuan replied very bluntly.

Such a straightforward answer made Qiu Luoxue speechless for an instant, how could she not know that there was no reply to the messenger because the other party did not write the reason. That's not what she wanted to ask. It seems that it is still necessary to cultivate a tacit understanding between Nie Yuan and himself.

"I didn't mean that, I mean, why didn't the emperor write me a reply?" Qiu Luoxue reexplained her question.

"Maybe it's because I'm busy with government affairs, so I don't have time to write letters." Nie Yuan speculated.

"I arranged for the shadow guards to protect us secretly, and also mobilized troops to escort us, but I didn't have time to write to me, which is really excessive." Qiu Luoxue was a little angry and sat up from the bed with a bang.

"Why do you have to reply? Everything is fine in the capital, you don't have to worry. Nie Yuan said, "Besides, the matter in Beize is almost over, and we will be able to go back soon." ”

As Nie Yuan expected, things in Beize were progressing very quickly. Su Mufei's trip to the palace to find the eldest princess was soon known to Cai Chikun, and the eldest princess kept Cai Shu in lockdown, which led to a sharp deterioration in the relationship between the two. The eldest princess was also determined to regain the rights of the royal family this time, and before Cai Chikun made further moves, she took the initiative to find Su Mufei and Xia Ziyan to form an alliance.

"As long as the eldest princess makes up her mind in this matter, the rest will be easy to handle." Xia Ziyan said.

"What are the plans of Lord Yan? Let's talk about it first. The eldest princess asked.

"Isn't Cai Shu in the hands of the eldest princess? As long as you make good use of him, you won't have to worry about finding a breakthrough point. Xia Ziyan replied.

"Take advantage of him?" The eldest princess didn't understand at first, but after she finished speaking, she suddenly realized, but after thinking about it carefully, she said, "Are you trying to use the kidnapping case that day to involve Prime Minister Cai Cheng?"

"That's right, kidnapping royals is not a trivial matter in itself." Xia Ziyan said.

"But it is impossible for Cai Shu to push this matter onto Prime Minister Cai Cheng, although he is a straw bag, but he is not stupid." The eldest princess showed a hint of concern.

"It doesn't matter what Cai Shu said in this matter, but what everyone thinks he said." Su Mufei, who had not spoken, said suddenly. His words were nodded in agreement by Xia Ziyan.

"Using Cai Shu to publicize Cai Chikun's ambition to the world is only the first step, and the next step is to use him to stimulate Cai Chikun's anger." Su Mufei added.

The three people in this room who discussed the countermeasures were all shrewd people, and the countermeasures they came up with were naturally not bad, and after planning each step, it was time for the official implementation stage.

The first step was to get Cai Shu to confess that the kidnapping of the eldest princess was instigated by Cai Chikun. This is also the easiest step, as Su Mufei said, it doesn't matter what Cai Shu himself said.

"Let Cai Gongzi draw a charge." In the cell, the eldest princess put a confession in front of Cai Shu and said in a calm tone.

Then two jailers forced Cai Shu to confess and put fingerprints on the confession.

"What is this, this son has never written this kind of thing, this is fake, Mu Qianqian, if you want to frame me, my father will not let you go." Cai Shu said while struggling not to draw a charge. But all this was in vain, and in the end a bright red handprint was left on the confession.

"I didn't think he would let me go." The eldest princess said.

After that, the confession drawn by Cai Shu was announced to the world, the handwriting was Cai Shu's (forged by someone), and the fingerprint was also his. This confession caused quite a stir in both the government and the opposition and the royal family.

The second step is to arouse Cai Chikun's anger, so that he will make a move without reservation. The eldest princess did this mercilessly.

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency...... The second son committed suicide in prison. "Cai Fu received news from prison, and Cai Fu was shrouded in a mournful atmosphere.