Jing Xuan's eyes flashed, shook his head and said, "Don't talk about this." Xing'er, you ran out of the city early in the morning, I'm afraid you'll be scolded when you go back. Let's go back. ”

Lai Xing'er heard the clues of some things, so she was willing to leave it halfway, and hurriedly asked: "Since Mama Xia said in public that someone was plotting against the Wang family, why didn't she expose Liu Cairen in front of the emperor and empress, but committed suicide herself."

Niangniang, now you are in front of Mama Xia's grave to tell what she couldn't say clearly when she was alive, her old man knows in heaven and is relieved, isn't it? ”

"You little devil, you can talk! If it weren't for the fact that you have worked hard to teach me and Jinping to ride horses in the past two years, I would definitely not have told you the key to it. ”

Jing Xuan secretly pondered the ins and outs of this matter more than a hundred times in her heart, but there was no one to say, although Xing'er and Jinping couldn't do anything for her at the moment, they were trustworthy.

Therefore, she continued, "The Qingning Palace has set up this situation, and the real difficulty is that whether it is the prey they want to capture, or the tools they use to capture the prey, they are all from the East Palace, and there is an inseparable relationship between the prince and these people.

Mama Xia, Liu Cairen, Shang Jing, and even you...... As long as these people are involved in the reverse case, they will make the emperor, down to the hundreds of officials in the court, and the people in the capital suspicious of the prince.

What's even more terrible is that the queen has not known how many eyeliners have been placed in the East Palace for many years, according to the people in Yichun Palace told me, two years ago on the fifteenth day of the first month, the prince personally went to Yichun Palace early in the morning to meet Liu Cairen, but at night, Liu Cairen made up such a paragraph in front of the emperor for no reason to frame the prince.

Mama Xia must have seen through the insidious and vicious aspects of the other party, so that she decided to die, so that even if she couldn't help the prince get out of trouble completely, at least she had no proof of death, and it would be difficult for the queen to realize the prince's intention to participate in the rebellion. ”

Jing Xuan finished telling the ins and outs of Mama Xia's suicide, took a long breath, leaned down, and gently brushed away the incense ash scattered on the tombstone cornerstone. Jinping and Lai Xing'er stood silently behind her, not knowing what to say for a while.

At this moment they heard the neighing of horses, and the three horses they had ridden heard this cry and became restless. Lai Xing'er raised the whip in his hand high, waved it twice at the "Snow Green", and was about to shout to stop, but saw four or five horses rushing up to Gaogang with a gust of wind, and the leading one actually went straight to Lai Xing'er.

"Chasing the wind!" Lai Xing'er shouted happily, "Niangniang, it's the horse of our East Palace." ”

The people on the horse got off their horses one after another, and one of the leaders came to Jing Xuan, bowed down and saluted: "Xiaguan Zeng Qing has seen Niangniang." ”

"Lord Zeng, ...... you guys?" Jing Xuan seemed to have guessed something, but he didn't dare to believe it.

"The prince was edicted to return to Beijing, and the lower officials took people first. Before entering the city, I deliberately took a detour to worship in front of Mama Xia's grave, Niangniang, ...... you too? ”

Jing Xuan nodded, glanced at Lai Xing'er, and asked, "When will the prince arrive in Beijing?" ”

"Mother, please take a step to speak." Zeng Qing led Jing Xuan to a place more than ten steps away from everyone, and Fang said in a low voice, "The prince and the lower officials set off from Tongzhou together on the fourth watch today, and they may have entered the palace to face the saint at this time." ”

"Even if you are ordered to return to Beijing, why do you need to do this? Lord Zeng, is there anything hidden in it? Jing Xuan's eyes flashed in front of him the scene when the East Palace was first inspected two years ago, and his heart couldn't help but tighten.

"Niangniang didn't know that something strange happened in Tongzhou yesterday: within one day, the prince actually received two edicts, and the content of the first edict was 'Holy bow violates peace, and the prince is sent to return to Beijing immediately.'" The first edict had just been issued, and then the second edict arrived, specifically stating that the prince would hand over the troops and horses he led to Yu Chengen before returning to Beijing. The prince was worried about the changes in the palace, and after discussing with Lin Shu and me, he decided to leave Lin Shu in the same state to handle the handover matters, and I immediately returned to Beijing with the prince. As soon as we left Tongzhou City this morning, we found that a group of unknown people had been following us, so the prince and one of the guards changed their clothes, and took another road back to Beijing alone while the sky was still dark, while Xia Guan led the others to deliberately detour to the east of the city to here, trying to hold back the group as much as possible and buy more time for the prince. Niangniang, please look at ......" Zeng Qing said, the horse whip in his hand pointed to the west, Jing Xuan looked in the direction he pointed, and sure enough, next to the official road more than two miles away from Gaogang, there was a team of more than a dozen horsemen and horses who were fighting and resting.

"Master Zeng, what are you going to do?"

"Niangniang lives in the East Palace, have you heard of anything happened in the court and the palace recently?" Zeng Qing asked with a deep groan.

Jing Xuan thought about it and shook his head.

"His Royal Highness went back to Beijing and entered the palace, after all, it was reassuring, this team of people followed all the way back, most of them had bad intentions, and our actions were very inconvenient. The lower officials shook their hearts, and Lao Niangniang immediately returned to the city and tried to find out the news after the prince entered the palace. Xiaguan will stay here for a while, and then detour to the south of the Anyuan Gate into the city, around noon, Xiaguan will enter the East Palace to see Niangniang, and then make a calculation. I wonder what the mother thinks? ”

"That's very good. Without further ado, let's go back to the city. Jing Xuan waved his hand and rushed to Xing'er and Jinping to signal, the three of them walked quickly to the horse, turned over and got on the horse, and the three horses rushed down Gaogang with each other.

Three horses from the group of men and horses who were resting next to the official road immediately followed.

"Mother, what happened? Who's in the back? Lai Xing'er urged the "Xue Liqing" under his crotch to pick up Jing Xuan, who was running in front, and asked.

"Xing'er, I remember that you have a few friends in the forbidden army, can you ask them about the current situation in the palace?" Jing Xuan saw that there was a tail behind him, so he didn't care to explain the reason to Lai Xing'er, so he asked directly.

"Are you talking about my brother Luo San'er, or Qian Dashun and Cui Jiu, what do you want me to ask them about?" Lai Xing'er looked back and saw that Jinping had fallen five or six feet away, and deliberately tightened the reins, which made "Xue Liqing" slow down.

"The prince has entered the palace alone, I am worried about changes in the palace, and I need to know the news after the prince enters the palace. It doesn't matter who it is, as long as you can find out the news. Seeing this, Jing Xuan had to tighten the reins and let the horse slow down.

Lai Xing'er listened to Jing Xuan's urgency, and knew that something big had happened, his eyes rolled, he already had an idea, and whipped twice on the ass of "Xue Liqing", and the horse immediately rushed forward like a whirlwind.

"Niangniang, you just go back to the palace and wait, I'll go back."

Before the people on the three horses following them could react, "Xue Liqing" had already carried Lai Xing'er and ran away without a trace.