Chapter 120: Dead End

The letter that Martha brought back was written by Cui Xiaojun.

A few days ago, when the tired marquis did not return all night, Cui Xiaojun had an ominous premonition. Early the next morning, Du Chuanyun came back drunk, still not tired, Zhang Youcai was in a hurry, poured a basin of cold water on his head, and Du Chuanyun finally came to his senses.

"It's impossible to lose the tired Hou, he is with Chai Xiaohou and Zhang Yanghao." Du Chuanyun sat on the ground and said blankly.

Zhang Youcai immediately went to Chai Mansion and Zhang Mansion to inquire about the news, and the results brought back made Cui Xiaoqun even more worried: there are six people in total, and they didn't go home last night, and the other families are not in a hurry, these gentlemen often go crazy for several days, and Chai Mansion is only worried about one thing, how to explain to the Lord of Hengyang that his grandson did not come to ask for peace.

Cui Xiaojun can't feel at ease, he has a special status, and he is not a gentleman, so he will never leave home without saying a word.

Zhang Youcai continued to go out to inquire about the news, Du Chuanyun fell asleep, and after waking up, he was also anxious, and went out to look for clues everywhere.

In the afternoon of the same day, Zhang Youcai brought back the news that Tihou and others had been to Cui's Mansion last night and had a fight with Cui Teng's gang in the back alley.

Cui Xiaojun couldn't wait for news any longer, so he immediately ordered someone to prepare the car and go back to his parents' house to ask for an explanation.

Cui Teng, who was frightened in the deserted garden, hadn't come back to his senses yet, he was lying on the bed humming and chirping, and he was furious when he saw his sister, "Your servant at home injured me, and you still dare to come?" Stinky girl, dead girl, elbow turned out, I want to tell Lao Jun and mother, the Cui family will not recognize you from now on......"

Cui Xiaojun cried, crying not because his brother was humiliated, nor because the Cui family didn't recognize him, but because the whereabouts of the tired marquis were unknown.

Cui Teng was schadenfreude at first. It quickly became embarrassing. "Oops. What is there to cry about? I'm just talking, I didn't dare to talk about these things to Lao Jun at all, her old man's temper, you know. ”

Cui Xiaojun was still crying, Cui Teng had to get out of bed to comfort his sister, "Okay, okay, for your sake, I don't care." This is the hatred between me and Chai Yun, and I seek revenge on him. Hey, you're still crying, it's hard for you to ...... with Chai Yun"

"Phew." Cui Xiaojun stopped crying, sobbed and said, "Tired Hou last night...... didn't go home, and they didn't know where they went with Chai Yun and Zhang Yanghao. ”

Cui Teng slapped his thigh, "Do you still need to check?" Chai Yun is a playboy who specializes in stealing incense and stealing jade, and he doesn't return home at night, not staying at a prostitute's house. Whose lady is it with...... It's over, and my brother-in-law was taken badly. ”

Cui Xiaojun shook his head firmly. "No way, Tired Hou is definitely not that kind of person."

"Haha, silly sister, no matter how tired you are, you are also a man, you have been married for more than a year, he must be tired of his family, and he went out to pick wild flowers."

Cui Xiaojun's face was red, but he still shook his head and asked, "You didn't do anything to the tired marquis, did you?" ”

"What can I do? But they were ...... last night Oh, you're here to see me for this. Cui Teng jumped back on the bed, covered the quilt, and looked angry.

Cui Xiaojun stepped forward and said, "Second brother, how could I not care about you?" But I know that you are the second son of the Cui family, even if Chai Yun has the courage to do so, he is just joking with you, and he doesn't dare to be cruel to you. ”

"He didn't dare." Cui Teng sat up, feeling a little better, and then sighed, "As soon as you get married, you will be different from before." Let me tell you, my brother-in-law did come with Chai Yun last night, and provoked outside the door, but he didn't have the courage to fight, and as soon as we chased him out, they ran faster than rabbits, and they didn't even leave a single hair. ”

Cui Xiaojun was a little relieved, although the second brother was reckless, he would not lie to her.

Cui Teng got out of bed and said seriously: "Sister, this is not a big deal, ordinary people still have three wives and four concubines, my brother-in-law has been the emperor anyway, I can't guard you for the rest of my life." ”

didn't want to listen to the second brother's nonsense, Cui Xiaojun turned around and left, went to the inner house to see her mother, and begged her mother to help her inquire about the news, she was still worried that someone in the Cui family would attack the tired marquis.

She didn't go to see her grandmother, because Lao Jun's impression of the tired marquis was really bad.

When I went home, it was almost dark, and there was still no news from the tired marquis, and several other families began to be anxious, although they had the experience of not returning for several days, they would send someone to say hello to the family, and the six noble sons, even without a single servant, this is an unprecedented strange thing.

The search team quickly expanded, and soon the night patrol soldiers who had encountered the six people were found, thus greatly narrowing the area where they had disappeared.

The next morning, the surprising news came that the Guiyi Hou family had disappeared inexplicably, and the Guiyi Hou's mansion happened to be in that possible area.

For a while, rumors spread that the daughter of the Jin family, "Hu You", was frequently mentioned, and Chai Yun's body was buried and had not yet been found.

Cui Xiaojun was even more worried.

In the evening of this day, the Tihou Mansion welcomed a very special guest.

The first to arrive were a few eunuchs, who ordered the Tired Marquis Mansion to prepare to welcome the nobles in the palace, and scared the Mansion Cheng and the Mansion Lieutenant into distraction, and immediately prepared the corresponding ceremony, but they didn't know how to explain that the Tired Marquis was not at home.

The nobleman's sedan chair did not stop at the door, but was carried directly into the back house, and did not ask the whereabouts of the tired marquis.

The person who came was Han Ruzi's biological mother, Wang Meiren.

Cui Xiaojun was surprised, but he still held the courtesy of his daughter-in-law and respectfully invited Wang Meiren into the room.

"It's too bad for me to disappear." Wang Meiren went straight to the point and didn't even drink tea.

"You've heard that, too?" Cui Xiaojun was embarrassed and a little scared.

"Well, I heard about it yesterday, and at first I thought it was nonsense, but now it seems that things are not simple."

"What should I do?"

"What to do? You should be optimistic about him. ”

Cui Xiaojun's face flushed, feeling aggrieved in his heart, but he didn't dare to say a word.

Wang Meiren stepped forward, held one of Cui Xiaojun's hands, and said softly: "You are a good wife, and it is a blessing for his son to marry you." ”

Cui Xiaojun's face turned even redder, "But I'm still ......"

"No, no, I don't blame you, I'm the one who doesn't hold back for a while." Wang Meiren sighed, "The widow is in danger, only the two of us are willing to save him sincerely." ”

"Dangerous?" Cui Xiaojun had an ominous premonition.

"The Queen Mother has a speculation. I thought that the son was ...... The Cui family took it away. ”

"I went back to Cui's house and asked...... Oh. The Queen Mother was suspicious of my father. ”

"Hmm. The Queen Mother suspects that Mrs. Cui kidnapped the widow to take the opportunity to cause trouble, and she will soon make a counterattack, no matter who wins or loses on both sides, it is a threat to the widow. ”

Cui Xiaojun bit his lip and thought for a while, "Tell me, what should I do?" ”

"It was not easy for me to ask for the consent of the Queen Mother, and I came out of the palace to see you, just to tell you one thing: you must find your son. Let him get out of the way, and don't get involved in this fight. ”

Cui Xiaojun has nothing to say, she doesn't even know where the tired marquis is, how to get him out?

Wang Meiren also knew that this task was too difficult, "Maybe you can ask Yang Feng for help, but I don't think he can help much." ”

"Someone in the house went to look for Yang Gong, but ......"

Wang Meiren couldn't stay too long, and soon returned to the palace in a sedan chair, leaving a huge problem to her daughter-in-law.

Cui Xiaojun is a smart person, and it didn't take long to understand why Wang Meiren valued herself so much: if the tired marquis was really taken away by Cui Taifu. Indeed, she is the only one who can get people out.

Cui Xiaojun came to her parents' house again, looking for only one person. That is the King of the East China Sea.

As expected, the king of the East China Sea was not in the mansion, although everyone said that he was somewhere, but there was no place for him, which proved that Wang Meiren and the queen mother's guess was probably correct.

Early the next morning, Cui Xiaojun went out of the city to see his father.

This meeting was very difficult, the southern army camp was heavily guarded, and the titles of daughter of the southern army and Mrs. Tihou were useless, even if the queen mother came in person, she had to have a formal will to enter the gate.

Cui Xiaojun had a persistent energy, but he refused to leave, and after guarding outside the gate for three hours, Cui Taifu finally summoned this disobedient daughter.

"The Queen Mother asked you to come, right?" Cui Hong has already guessed the truth, "She's using you to test me, say, what does the Queen Mother want to say to me through you?" ”

"I don't care about anything else, I just want the tired marquis to be safe."

Cui Hong said helplessly: "It's useless to look for me, no matter what the Queen Mother says, the tired marquis is indeed not in my hands." ”

"The Queen Mother has been prepared for a long time, and if she can't find the Tired Marquis for a long time, the Queen Mother will act in advance."

Cui Hong laughed, "If the Queen Mother really has the ability to defeat the Southern Army in one fell swoop, how can she let you remind me?" The soldiers are not tired of deceit, and the Queen Mother is bluffing. But whether it's fiction or reality, the Queen Mother is mistaken, and you are also mistaken, what am I doing with a deposed emperor who has abdicated for half a year in my hands? Even if I have the ability to abolish the Son of Heaven, the person I want to push is the King of the East China Sea. ”

Cui Xiaojun felt that his father's words were quite reasonable, "What about the King of the East China Sea? He's not in the Cui family, he must be here, I want to see him, the king of the East China Sea has a lot of ghost ideas, maybe it's him......"

Cui Hong shook his head and said to his daughter: "I have made an exception for you, the tired marquis is definitely not with me, as for the king of the East China Sea, that is my business, don't ask more, if you are still my daughter, don't mention him to anyone when you go home, understand?" ”

Cui Xiaojun reluctantly said goodbye, and went home in despair, not knowing what to do next, everyone seemed to have a problem, but she couldn't see through what the problem was.

"Yang Feng......" Cui Xiaojun thought about the eunuch again, maybe only he could see through the smoke.

Du Motian, who had been sent to find Yang Feng before, had returned home, and the news he brought made Cui Xiaojun even more uneasy.

Yang Feng's opinion is the same as that of Wang Meiren: Tired Marquis must not intervene in the struggle between the Queen Mother and the Cui family under any circumstances, Cui Taifu has a conspiracy, and the Queen Mother will never be unguarded.

Sitting in the room and thinking about it carefully for a while, Cui Xiaojun understood that she had been deceived by her father, and the tired marquis was in the hands of Cui Taifu, but she was not in the southern military camp.

On one side is the Cui family, on the other side is the tired marquis, Cui Xiaojun was forced to a corner, ordered the maid to find a sword, tomorrow she has to go to see her father, if there is no result, she would rather die before the tired marquis.

Early in the morning, before Cui Xiaojun set off, a strange guest came to the house, knocked on the back door, and changed Cui Xiaojun's plan.

The news that the Great Chu army was defeated by the Xiongnu had spread at that time, and it was said that many nobles had to serve in the army, and Cui Xiaojun, who only knew a little about the court, had a whim, and wrote a simple letter to the tired marquis:

The border war is chaotic, the palace is prepared, the husband should write to ask for war, and he must not take risks.

In her opinion, this is the only way to get out.

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