And at this time, it was also under the eaves that people had to bow their heads. Zhu Qilan took the lead, and the master and servant saluted Li Xin, but the residual royal dignity made Zhu Qilan bite her lip and refuse to call Li Xin.

Of course, Li Xin also saw Zhu Qilan's expression in her eyes, and she couldn't help but "hum" softly, but this is not a place to get angry, so she took out the eldest woman's style and ordered: "Help them clean up and follow us home." After saying that, he stopped looking at the master and servant, turned and walked outside.

Li Xin said as she walked: "A yellow-haired girl who doesn't understand the rules, she doesn't know how thick the sky is. It doesn't look like that. The husband is also going back more and more! Hum! ”

When Li Xin arrived, of course no one in the guards and mother-in-law arranged by Zhang Biao dared to stop her. Now that they heard Li Xin's orders again, the mothers-in-law immediately started and quickly packed up Zhu Qilan and Xiu'er's softness. Then they sent the master and servant into their own carriage, and then followed behind Li Xin's carriage and walked towards the outside of the mansion.

And Li Xin led a small team of personal guards around the carriage, and the guards arranged by Zhang Biao, in addition to sending one person to rush to report to Zhang Biao, the rest of the people also followed from afar, guarding the safety of the convoy.

When he was about to reach the gate of the city, a caravan of more than 100 people came to him. It can't be completely said to be a caravan, it should be said that it is a royal purchasing group sent by King Chong in Runing Mansion to Jiangnan to purchase interesting items.

Although those princes at the end of the Ming Dynasty were the most noble people except for the emperor, their lives were actually quite pitiful.

Since the rebellion of King Ning in the Zhengde period, the emperors of all dynasties have strictly forbidden the vassal king and his family to leave their fiefdoms, and even required the local government where the vassal king was located to strictly guard him. In other words, the whole family of the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty was actually confined in their fiefdoms in disguise.

Of course, those vassal kings can be powerful within their own lockdowns. is to do some things to bully men and women, kill people and sell goods, and the court is generally open-eyed. But it is absolutely impossible to get out of the four walls.

You can imagine how miserable the prince's life was! No matter how you play, you will always get tired of playing in a city, so what should you do? What King Chong chose was to go to Jiangnan to buy some interesting items and women to satisfy his hunger. Anyway, the palace has a lot of money, which is the origin of this palace purchasing group.

With the rapid rise of the Runing Army in Runing Mansion, the Chongwang Mansion and the Runing Army were in a state where well water did not interfere with river water. This is due to the fact that the royal government cannot make friends with local officials, especially local military attachés. But the more important reason is that Wu Shigong has never lived in the city, and he has never participated in the banquets of officials in the city and the banquets of Fengyue venues. Therefore, there is no way for the people in the Chongwang Mansion to get to know Wu Shigong.

Of course, the Runing Army and the Chongwang Mansion are not without friction. The implementation of the "Ban on Famine" and the strength of the Four Seas Commercial Bank and Qian Zhuang in Runing Mansion will always affect the industries of some Chongwangfu. However, due to the restraint of both sides, at least the contradictions have not been brought to the fore.

So when the two convoys converged, each side gave way and passed on the right side. However, seeing the convoy of Wu Mansion, he did not avoid it at all. Steward Zeng, who led the team in Chongwangfu, couldn't help but whispered: "It's so arrogant! ”

But the rest of the two convoys were apparently accustomed to the situation. The two sides go in the same direction as if the other does not exist. But at this time, a person named Ye Chao who was taken in by the Chongwang Mansion halfway. hurriedly squeezed to the side of the steward. He whispered to Steward Zeng, "The carriage behind is our lady's." ”

That Ye Chao was the slave of Zhu Qilan, who jumped out of the car and fled at that time. But when he escaped, he found that his prospects were quite bad, if he lost Zhu Qilan, Ye Chao would only face the word "death".

Compared with death, the crime of leaving Fengyang City without permission is also very small, so Ye Chao wants to get his young lady back. Speaking of which. It can be seen how inexperienced Zhu Qilan and Ye Chao are.

In fact, when Fengyang City was facing a broken situation, a clan like Zhu Qilan, who was not convicted of a big crime, escaped from the city, and that kind of behavior was not a crime, and it would not be pursued by the imperial court at all. Therefore, after Zhu Qilan saw Wu Shigong, she simply confessed her identity, and she may not be able to make any big trouble.

And under Ye Chao's careful inquiry, it is not a secret that his young lady was kidnapped by the Runing Army. Besides, at that time, Wu Shigong took Zhu Qilan's master and servant from the camp where the people were imprisoned in full view. And after hearing the news, Ye Chao knew that his young lady had fallen into the hands of a military attache of the Runing Army.

But then Ye Chao was cornered. weishenme? Because Runing Mansion strictly implements the "Ban on Flow", Ye Chao, who has no road guide, cannot enter the territory of Runing Mansion at all. It was also Ye Chao's luck that he happened to meet the Chongwangfu purchasing group that was in charge of Zeng.

The former steward was a relative of King Chong's side concubine, and this time he took the royal government's purchasing delegation to Nanjing to procure. However, when he returned, he heard that the peasant rebel army was raging in Fengyang, so he was so frightened that he temporarily stopped his return journey.

After the peasant rebels left, the royal purchasing group embarked on the return journey along the route of the reinforcements from Nanjing. When Ye Chao learned that Steward Zeng was a person from Chongwangfu, he immediately came to visit, and confessed his identity as a young lady in a private meeting with Steward Zeng, and asked Chongwangfu to help get back his young lady.

And Steward Zeng didn't want to take over this troublesome matter at all. However, after all, Zhu Qilan has royal blood, and it is not good to ignore it, so Steward Zeng also brought Ye Chao with him, and prepared to let his prince decide after returning to Runing Mansion.

But when Ye Chao told Steward Zeng that Zhu Qilan was in the team in front of him, Steward Zeng hesitated. Leave it alone, right? You may be blamed by the prince when you go back. Can you come forward and snatch it? You may also be blamed by the prince when you go back. The key point is that the current steward Zeng has no idea how King Chong will deal with this matter.

But the steward thought about it again: Although that Lord Wu is arrogant, in his own mansion, there should always be Chongwangfu as the boss! Besides, he also has to determine whether what Ye Chao said is true. In case Wu Shigong didn't capture Zhu Qilan at all, that kind of grudge would be a little inexplicable.

However, in his heart, Steward Zeng also had the idea of killing the prestige of the Runing Army. After all, in the entire palace under the world, only his own Chongwang Mansion swallowed his anger in front of Wu Shigong's military attaché, which would simply become a shame for the vassal king. So Steward Zeng immediately ordered to go down, and immediately several palace guards blocked the front of Li Xin's convoy.

Seeing several palace guards stepping forward, the inner house guards in charge of guarding immediately approached the two carriages to protect them, and the captain of the guard who led the team pressed the handle of the knife with his hand and said with a calm face: "This is the relatives of my family, please avoid the idlers." ”

Those inner house guards can't help but be nervous. The reputation of those vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty was so stinky that they did anything lawless. In case the female relatives in the carriage were disturbed, even the lives of these guards could not be compensated. That is, it was the people who saw the Chongwang Mansion coming, otherwise, those guards would have drawn their swords against each other.

But the palace guards were not aware at all. They were all accustomed to sitting in the well and watching the sky in the city of Runing Mansion, thinking that no one in the whole world dared to touch them. Therefore, when there is an opportunity to suppress the arrogance of Wu Shigong, the chief man in the Runing Mansion, these palace guards are particularly excited.

But the excited expression of the palace guards fell into the eyes of the inner house guards, which was frivolous. And if he came up, it was not right, and the leading palace guard casually bowed his hand to the captain of the guard, and said, "Excuse me! Two people have been lost in our palace, and we want to see the inside of your carriage. If not, then I'm sorry in advance! ”

The captain of the guard suddenly tightened his grip on the hilt of his sword, and his face burst into anger. These people dare to molest their own mistresses? But thinking that the person in front of him had the background of the Chongwang Mansion, the captain of the personal guard also had some hesitation.

But Li Xin, who was sitting in the carriage in front, also heard this. Originally, Li Xin was in a bad mood today, and when she met someone who dared to harass her, she was immediately furious, and she didn't care whether the other party was Chongwangfu or not, and immediately shouted in the carriage: "What does he do!" Who's in the way? Break someone's leg! ”

As soon as he heard his mistress speak, the captain of the guard did not hesitate to raise the scabbard with a knife and struck it horizontally in the face of the leading palace guard, beating the palace guard to the point that his mouth was covered with blood, and he half knelt on the ground, covering half of his bruised face, and spit out a few knocked out teeth in his mouth.

As soon as he saw that his captain had made a move, all the guards immediately pulled out their swords, and the guards sent by Zhang Biao, who was following from afar, also immediately stepped forward and drew their swords to join the guards.

Seeing the menacing momentum of those inner house guards, the guards of the Chongwang Mansion, who were about to step forward to make a move, immediately retreated. They can still afford to oppress some people in the city of Runing Mansion, but compared with the elite soldiers of the Runing Army, it is the head of the silver spear candle.

And the steward Zeng who was hiding behind was angry and afraid, he trembled with the flesh on his face, and kept muttering to himself: "There is no royal law!" It's so arrogant! That Ye Chao hid behind Zeng's steward, and he didn't even dare to show his head.

This movement also aroused Zhu Qilan's curiosity, she opened the curtain of the carriage and secretly looked outside. But when she saw Ye Chao hiding behind the crowd, her eyes widened.

Zhu Qilan's little head was still quite smart, she immediately suppressed the urge to shout, and kept gesturing in the direction of Ye Chao. And Ye Chao, who had been paying attention to his young lady's carriage, also quickly discovered Zhu Qilan's actions. (To be continued......)