"Princess, it's not very difficult to find the colt, as long as the princess answers the question, she will be humiliated, and the humiliation will guarantee to find the colt!" Yang Xiaoyu frowned, self-confidence arose, and he replied without being humble or arrogant.

"What do you want to know?" Princess Shouning pondered for a moment and asked.

Yang Xiaoyu nodded and said, "According to the lowly speculation, the concubine may have been kidnapped by the enemy, so the princess needs to tell the lowly position, who did the concubine have a grudge with?" Who did you have a quarrel with? ”

Princess Shouning, who was behind the curtain, sat down slowly, thought for a while, and said softly: "The horse is modest, he has never quarreled with anyone, let alone a grudge with anyone, if he has a bad relationship with anyone, it is only the mother-in-law Wang who was taken out just now!" ”

Yang Xiaoyu smiled bitterly, Princess Shouning's words were equal to nothing!

Who will go with a colt who has never had a grudge against anyone, nor with whom has he ever quarreled?

"Excuse me, princess, who does the colt usually associate with?"

"The horse and the literati of Yingtianfu have dealings with each other, and also have dealings with the literati of Yangzhou, and he came to Yangzhou this time to meet friends!"

"Does the princess know who the concubine will meet in Yangzhou this time?"

"I don't know much about this palace!"

Yang Xiaoyu was speechless about Princess Shouning's words, thinking about it, the princess and the concubine are disciplined by the evil woman on weekdays, and it is difficult to have a chance to meet, even if they meet, they are also in a hurry to love each other, how can they have the leisure to say something inconsequential.

"Xia Guan will send people out of the city in batches tomorrow to find the horses, and the princess can wait for good news!" Yang Xiaoyu bowed and said solemnly.

"Well, Lord Yang go down and rest!"

Princess Shouning commanded lightly, and then remembered something, and said, "Granny Wang is old. Bad temper, don't be like her, let her come back, this palace needs someone to serve! ”

"Princess, the wicked woman is fierce, if she is not punished. In the future, she will deceive the lord, and the princess should teach her a lesson, lest she rely on the princess's prestige to collect wealth everywhere and destroy the princess's reputation! Yang Xiaoyu pondered for a moment and said.

Princess Shouning, who was behind the curtain, was not surprised when she heard this, she thought about it for a while, and suddenly asked, "Your mother's surname is Fang." But Fang Shoufu's daughter? ”

"Exactly!" Yang Xiaoyu chuckled and replied.

Princess Shouning thought about it, it turned out that Lord Yang's mother was Mrs. Fang, and Granny Wang was in trouble, and she dared to be Mrs. Fang's son as an old lady, isn't this bullying Mrs. Fang?

Fang Congzhe had a high prestige in Jiangnan, and his daughter married the Yang family, who had guarded Zhejiang for generations, and was named the second-rank lady in her early years. Granny Wang is in a catastrophe this time!

"What are you going to do with Granny Wang?" Princess Shouning asked softly, she didn't believe that Yang Xiaoyu would really throw Granny Wang into the pig cage!

"Back to the princess's words. Deal with it according to the law of the Ming Dynasty! Yang Xiaoyu replied neither humbly nor arrogantly.

Princess Shouning chuckled behind the curtain, she wanted to see how Yang Xiaoyu was punished according to the law, so she waved her hand and said, "You go down!" ”

"Retire from your duties!"

Yang Xiaoyu bowed, bent down and retreated.

Outside, four handmaidens were carefully guarding the door.

Cao Tai took Tiqi to patrol the left and right of the floor, for fear that someone would be unfavorable to the princess.

Yang Xiaoyu went downstairs to the lobby. Pulled a chair and sat down, and ordered someone to bring Granny Wang, as the saying goes, the wicked have their own wicked grinding.

An old woman who is accustomed to being a tiger in the palace goes out of the palace to take care of the words and deeds of the princess and the concubine. The behavior was even more rampant, and it was even scolded on his head.

If he was an ordinary official, he might be able to endure this, but he is not an ordinary person, he is a five-grade official of the imperial court, he was humiliated by a wicked woman for a day, and he was already full of anger, and she dared to call herself an old lady arrogantly.

Yang Xiaoyu smiled and ordered someone to bring Granny Wang.

The sturdy Tiqi escorted the crying Granny Wang to the lobby.

"Pull it out, break your legs, and throw it in the pig cage!" Yang Xiaoyu commanded casually.

"My lord, the old slave knows that you are wrong, don't worry about the old slave!" Granny Wang lives in the palace all the year round, and she knows how to bully the soft and fear the hard, and seek perfection.

"Pull it out!" Yang Xiaoyu commanded impatiently.

The riders pulled left and right, pulling the miserable Granny Wang and striding outside.

In a moment, a miserable howl of pain resounded through the silent night.

Immediately afterward, there was another terrible scream.

Yang Xiaoyu shook his head and cleaned up the evil woman beside the princess, at most, the court would reprimand him, and he would not do anything to him.

It was late at night, Yang Xiaoyu instructed Cao Tai, Cheng Yun, and Zhou Tong to protect the princess, and he rode a fast horse with a few guards to ride back to the mansion.

……

Return to the mansion.

Zhu Ningmeng was embroidering under the lamp, and when she saw Yang Xiaoyu coming back, she got up and said, "Why did you come back so late today?" ”

Yang Xiaoyu couldn't cry or laugh, he felt that Zhu Ningmeng was about to become his wife, waiting for him to eat and sleep every day, and even his clothes were all learned by Zhu Ningmeng.

After getting along for more than half a month, he had a little more indescribable affection for Zhu Ningmeng, and even he didn't know why.

The daughter lord who once disdained him was trained by him to become a gentle and virtuous wife!

But this wife is not a real wife!

Yang Xiaoyu let Zhu Ningmeng take off his coat and said in a deep voice: "I saw your father today!" ”

Zhu Ningmeng, who was folding her clothes, trembled slightly, and then said softly, "What do you want to eat tomorrow morning?" ”

"You can eat anything!" Yang Xiaoyu knew that Zhu Ningmeng was avoiding this topic, and he didn't want to say more, and when he heard her ask what she wanted to eat, he shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Zhu Ningmeng was like a little wife, packed up her husband's clothes, and waited for her husband to fall asleep before she blew out the lights and candles, went to bed and lay down.

After a long while, Zhu Ningmeng suddenly asked out loud, "Have you seen Miss Shen?" ”

Yang Xiaoyu was thinking about the horse, and when he heard this, he suddenly remembered that he was in the Shen Mansion when he first saw Zhu Ningmeng, and said, "I haven't seen it!" ”

"Do you want to know why the concubine called your name by the Moon River that day?"

"Why?"

"Miss Shen told the concubine!"

Yang Xiaoyu thought for a while, and suddenly smiled: "It turned out to be her!" ”

If his guess was correct, among the three women he met in the Shen Mansion that day, the woman in the middle who spoke softly and beautifully was Miss Shen.

It's just that he didn't look carefully that day, if it was Miss Shen, he must have taken a closer look at this future wife.

Yang Xiaoyu was secretly happy for a moment, and under the excitement, his hands began to be dishonest again, and Zhu Ningmeng's pretty face was full of spring, and the pink face that could be broken by blowing was all crimson.

Nothing to say all night!

Early in the morning of the second day, Zhu Ningmeng personally cooked and made a meal for Yang Xiaoyu.

To be honest, the food cooked by Zhu Ningmeng was really hard to swallow, and Yang Xiaoyu still ate some of it in order not to make Zhu Ningmeng unhappy.

Today, he was busy looking for a horse, Yang Xiaoyu changed into civilian clothes, with a sword hanging from his waist, and walked out of the mansion with a tiger.

These days, the affairs of the Thousand Households Office are almost handled by Chen Yingren, and the affairs of the account books and money are taken care of by Hu Chenghe.

He shook his hand and been the shopkeeper for many days, and he couldn't be lazy anymore today, and when he came to the Qianhu Office, Yang Xiaoyu hurriedly asked Chen Yingren to send a message to the secret pile in the city, so that they could find ways to find out the news of the horse.

Yang Xiaoyu found a native of Yangzhou Tiqi from Qianhu Institute and asked him about the bandit forces in the mountains and forests near Yangzhou.

This Tiqi said in detail, he knew almost all the bandits in Yangzhou, and even some forces that were good citizens during the day and killed people and set fires at night.

Early in the morning, Yang Xiaoyu listened to this Tiqi talk about the bandit forces in Yangzhou.

Yangzhou borders with Nanzhili, many bandits do not dare to entrench near Yangzhou, they build cottages in Yangzhou to some remote places must be on the road, if the guards come to suppress bandits, they will become good people, scattered down the mountain.

As soon as the guards left, they came back to rebuild the cottage and did the bad things of robbery.

These robbers will also look at the robbery, and if it is a businessman on the rich side, they will not rob.

Since the merchants were not holding their goods themselves, once their goods were robbed, the merchants only had to give some money to the nearby guards, who attacked the bandit cottage like crazy.

Most of the robbers were from outside the country!

Robbed the money of the literati, the good-faced literati would not talk about such a humiliating thing, and the bandits were not afraid of the officers and soldiers to suppress them.

Some cottages have no silver taels, they will step into Yangzhou outside the city to rob money, because, Yangzhou City literati too man, many literati come out to travel, they only need to come forward to show the sword soldiers to scare a bit, the scholars will be in a hurry to give the silver, the robbers only rob once, no matter how much silver they rob, they will withdraw to the cottage, will not continue to stay outside the city and wait for the next wave of robbery.

Yang Xiaoyu thought about it for a while, and ordered Tiqi to tell all the bandit cottages within 500 miles outside Yangzhou City.

There is a scribe on one side who specially records it!

After Ti Qi finished speaking, Yang Xiaoyu took the roster and counted it, within a radius of 500 miles from Yangzhou, there were more than 60 litters of bandits, only two of them numbered thousands, and most of the other bandits were more than 100 people.

Yang Xiaoyu screened and set the target in Changlin Village, Silver Gun Village, and Hutou Village, the three bandit dens are the closest to the place where the horse disappeared, of which there are more than 300 people in Changlin Village, more than 200 people in Silver Gun Village, and more than 200 people in Hutou Village.

Most of the bandits in Sanzhai are armed with iron guns, long knives and other weapons, and there are a few good knife skills in the hands of the master, and they are also considered to be 'famous' in Yangzhou!

At noon, Yang Xiaoyu ordered seven hundred households outside the city to advance to the city at sunset, and if it was delayed, it would be dealt with as a snub official!

When the hundred households outside the city received this news, they rode fast horses one after another, and galloped all the way, not daring to delay in the slightest, for fear that the thousand households would give them an imrespectful official with a staff of thirty. (To be continued......)