In the richly decorated palace, the maiden put her legs on the railing of the chair, and the maid on the side desperately glanced at her, but she pretended not to see. The palace maids stood on both sides of the main hall, and the whole palace was quiet.

A team of palace maids and eunuchs came in from the outside, and they also moved into the main hall with a few large boxes.

The girl finally stopped dangling her legs in the chair, and jumped straight down from the chair as soon as she saw the gesture, ready to see what they had brought.

A sycamore wooden lyre, a pair of fine chess sets, ten boxes of unique books, and paint, paper and pen for painting. Wei Yu plucked the strings and listened to its whining sound. asked: "This is the imperial sister's Mingyou, what is my aunt doing with it?" ”

Qionghua walked in from the outside, and the voice came from far and near: "When Your Majesty was enlightened, the first emperor searched all over the country and finally got this piano in a deep mountain. ”

Peiyu waved her hand to let the palace maid and eunuch who was carrying the box go down, and then stood aside and asked respectfully: "There are qin, chess, calligraphy and painting here, I don't know what the princess wants to learn?" ”

Wei Yu sat on the chair and swallowed melon seeds and said, "What kind of thing does my father want to learn?" ”

A smile appeared on Qionghua's face, but her smile didn't reach the bottom of her eyes: "I'm afraid this can't be up to the princess, Your Majesty will explain the slave maid, and the princess must choose to study the same." At the same time, at the spring banquet five days later, the princess needs to prepare a talent. In addition, ten pages of Buddhist scriptures must be copied every day, and after copying, they are sent to Huguo Temple for worship. Without His Majesty's will, from now on, you are not allowed to leave the palace without permission. ”

Wei Yuzhu, the palace maid, was extremely surprised when she heard this, and thought silently in her heart, I am afraid that His Majesty is really angry this time. His Majesty loves the five princesses, and the world knows that as long as it is what the princess wants, His Majesty will snatch it back for the princess even if he robs it.

When the princess was young, she was bullied by the son-in-law of a minister's family, and His Majesty, who was only ten years old at the time, went directly to the council hall to sue the minister fiercely. As a result, the emperor was furious, and this adult, who should have a bright future, put his official career on his own son. was degraded by the emperor and became farther and farther away from Shengjing, and spent the second half of his life in misery.

It was also because of His Majesty's astonishing behavior in the Council Hall that the ministers agreed to discuss the current affairs of the country with them. That incident was almost spread in the palace, and the emperor didn't want His Majesty to show his edge, so he ordered the ministers present at the time and the insiders in the palace not to spread it, so this matter was rarely known outside the palace, but it was privately spread in the palace.

Yuzhu recalled that His Majesty loved the princess in the past, and couldn't help but sigh that His Majesty was really angry this time.

Although Wei Yu knew that there would be punishment this time, he didn't expect it to be like this. She is now thinking in her heart, if she goes to her imperial sister to admit her mistakes, will she be able to write off these sums?

She thought about it, as if she was like this every time she made a mistake, but the premise was that the imperial sister had always been a small punishment, which meant it. This time it seems to be serious, and it's not easy to intercede.

Thinking of this, Wei Yan immediately pretended to be pitiful. "Auntie, you also watched Jiahui grow up, my mother left just after birth, and my father thought I was unknown for this. I didn't like it since I was a child, and my brothers left the fiefdom very early, and they could only see each other once in a few years. My closest person is you, except for the imperial sister, you are willing to see me suffer here every day? ”

Qionghua's eyes changed, and for some reason Wei Yu could see from her eyes that she seemed to feel a little guilty, and... I couldn't bear it, Wei Yan felt that she seemed to be a little inexplicably weird.

Qionghua suppressed the emotions that suddenly appeared, thought for a while and said softly: "The princess prepares talents and daily copying first, and you can wait for the spring banquet to learn anything else." ”

What's the difference? Doesn't it mean that after waiting for these days, I have to learn piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and I have to learn talents and copy Buddhist scriptures in these five days. Wei Yan looked aggrieved: "Auntie, isn't this the same?" ”

"The princess doesn't want to?" Qionghua returned to her usual serious appearance.

Wei Yu thought that he could delay for a few days, so he hurriedly replied: "Yes, yes!" ”

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The curtains in the room were closed, and the light from outside made it difficult to enter the room, and from time to time there was a noise, but the bustle outside seemed to be incompatible with the atmosphere inside.

A young man with the characteristics of the Western Regions stood in front of the window. "Second Prince, now that Shengjing's defense has more than doubled, I heard from them that there are officers and soldiers searching their bodies no matter how they enter or leave."

In front of the thick curtain stood a man in red, dressed quite differently from Shengjing's costume. He was holding a snow-white cloth in his hand and was seriously polishing a sword. The spike of the sword went back and forth in midair, with a strangely shaped shell in the middle.

His face was hidden in the shadows, and the young man could only hear his determined voice: "As this king expected. ”

The young man didn't understand what he meant: "My subordinates don't understand..."

"What this king wants is that this Shengjing City is impregnable, the people inside can't get out, and the people outside... Can't get in. The man said slowly in a deep voice.

"Also, now people are talking about the Empress Patriot's move to punish the forbidden army."

The man's sword rubbed for a moment. The boy heard his laughter and looked at him strangely, as if he didn't understand what was so funny about what he had just said.

The man laughed twice. "This woman, this king underestimates her too much. There are five days left, and this king can't wait to see her, it's really exciting... I can't forget it. ”

He pulled the curtains open with a bang, and the light from outside shone into the room, and the sword reflected a cold light of compassion, and he whispered, "Soon, we will meet soon..."

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Guogong Mansion.

In the pavilion of the bamboo forest in the backyard, a chessboard is placed on the stone table, black and white, and it is already the end.

The bamboo forest obscured the sun, and there was a cool breeze in the pavilion, and the two sat opposite each other, one leaned forward, holding a white seed in his hand but did not move, and the other hand grabbed his hair, staring at the chessboard, as if he had a bitter hatred with the chessboard.

The other person is dressed in white and is leisurely, forming a scenery of his own in this bamboo forest, like a person in the painting. He patiently drank tea and waited for the opponent to play chess, and when he saw the opponent's embarrassed expression, he reminded loudly: "Zhuo Shizi, if you don't play again, you won't be able to catch up with lunch." ”

Zhuo Yuan was relieved and casually played the chess pieces that had been pinched for a long time. Sure enough, as soon as the chess pieces were put up, the person on the opposite side calmly put a chess piece as well. "Zhuo Shizi, you lost again."

Zhuo Yuanan picked up the teacup and poured a cup of tea, and said angrily: "You can't let me order, I tell you that your chess skills are not good, and you still pull me to play chess, I think you are a heart." ”

The sound was so loud that Ji Yu, who was lying on the pavilion, was woken up, and he showed a head down. "Zhuo Shizi is really embarrassed, my son-in-law made you regret playing chess five times, you changed the chess pieces three times, and you exchanged black and white halfway through the play twice, this can't win, your chess skills are really stinky enough."

Zhuo Yuanan pointed at him and said, "You actually peeked at us playing chess!" ”

Ji Yu lay back down. "It's not funny, I've been here since you started the second game, but you didn't notice it. If you don't believe me, ask my son-in-law, he will definitely know when I come. ”

Zhuo Yuanan knew that Ji Yu's skills were above him, and he also knew that although Ji Yan had never shown it, it could be seen from the light steps of his walking that his skills were unfathomable and very comparable. But Zhuo Yuanan was still a little suspicious, and couldn't help but look at him.

Ji Yan saw what he was thinking, and only smiled lightly. "Indeed, he came over at the thirteenth pawn of the second game, and it was my time to play."

Zhuo Yuanan has always known that Ji Yan has an excellent memory, but he didn't expect to be able to even say the first few chess pieces, but now he has a little impression, at that time, Ji Yan didn't play with the chess pieces, as if he was running away, and he also reminded him.

Zhuo Yuanan's face was full of admiration. "Why didn't my father give me such a brain, I want to be half as powerful as you, and now maybe I can have the name of the second son in the world."

Ji Yu said on the top of the pavilion: "Then you just wait for a good birth in the next life." ”

Ji Yan looked at Zhuo Yuan's angry jumping, couldn't help but smile, and then suddenly asked, "Ji Yu, have you found out everything?" ”

Ji Yu jumped down from the pavilion and took out a piece of paper and handed it to Ji Yan. "Hui Gongzi, it has been found out, this poison is produced in the country of Yan, there is a big snow mountain that stretches for hundreds of miles in the country, and there is a poisonous weed called Broken Soul growing at the foot of the snow mountain, this poison is condensed by broken soul and several other poisons, so it is called Broken Soul Pill. The effect of the medicine has an hour, and if the antidote is not obtained within an hour, it will be poisoned and killed. ”

Ji Yan carefully swept the piece of paper, and then asked, "What about the antidote?" ”

Ji Yu: "Hui Gongzi, the antidote is refined from the thousand-year-old red lotus at the peak of the Snow Mountain. ”

Ji Yan looked at the piece of paper with a deep gaze.

Zhuo Yuanan was confused, when he heard the poison, he remembered that Ah Zhao had captured two assassins at that time, and he died of poison soon after being imprisoned in the prison, and he couldn't help asking, "What are you guys investigating?" ”

Ji Yan handed the paper to Zhuo Yuan'an and began to narrate the ins and outs of the matter: "I encountered an ambush on the way back to Beijing, and those assassins died suddenly and inexplicably in the end. The assassin Your Majesty met reminded me, so I asked Ah Zhao and Ji Yu to check the drugs under the assassin's service..."

What is written on the paper is the analysis and speculation of the fabrication, as well as the information of the Soul Breaking Pill. He asked, "So, the two groups of Assassins are actually the same force?" ”

Ji Yan disagreed with him: "Now I only know the origin of the poison, and I can't make a decision." ”

Zhuo Yuanan: "I'm quite worried about the spring banquet in five days now, and I hope those barbarians from Qi Country won't mess around with any moths." ”

Ji Yan smiled faintly: "Then the answer will be revealed." ”

Zhuo Yuanan was stunned for a moment, and said approvingly: "That's what I said, let's go, it's time to eat, I'm so hungry!" ”

Ji Yu rolled her eyes when she heard this, and said mockingly: "Zhuo Shizi, if you eat in the Guogong Mansion for a few more days, our son-in-law will be eaten by you!" ”

Zhuo Yuan'an said without changing his face: "Don't worry, I will write to Your Majesty tomorrow and ask her to give your son-in-law a boost." ”