The carriage staggered all the way to the west, not in the direction of the palace.

Cheng Ye felt that today's event was very interesting from the time he saw Cui Xi come to invite him, if it was before, he would definitely have been unable to help but pull Cui Xi and the guards to inquire.

Since this mission, Tu Xilu has experienced so many things, he can hide his curiosity even more, so he just took tea from the small table in the car to drink.

There was some commotion outside the car, as if some dignitary was passing by, and the carriage suddenly turned a corner and stopped on the side of the road for a while.

Because they deliberately disguised themselves as civilians, the guards did not intend to reveal their identities, and of course they had to avoid officials passing by.

Cheng Ye was bored in the car, opened a corner of the car curtain and looked out, and saw that the towering door of the Yamen of Shuntianfu stood out among the eaves and shop signs in the east.

From home to the west, about the time spent on the road, and looking at the Shuntianfu Yamen, which had fallen behind him some distance, Cheng Ye smiled secretly in his heart.

It's not too far from Shunyi Gate, and I'm afraid Xiao Yuyi has already finished the matter.

Looking at the two rows of officials who had just staggered by, they were clearing the road with signs to avoid them, but the sedan chair drivers who followed behind were walking forward quickly, and they seemed to be able to hear the sound of the people in the sedan chair urging.

Shuncheon Mansion Yin Luxiang.

Like them, the people who retreated on the side of the street whispered, and when Lu Xiang's sedan chair passed, the crowd standing on the side of the street spoke louder.

"Do you know, the young master of the Wei family sent someone to beat the generals guarding the city!"

"The people of the Wei family are not so domineering!"

The man from before sneered, "You don't know, this master has bitten Zuo Wuwei's generals to death in the past......"

Cheng Ye raised his hand and knocked on the canopy hard, and said with a little impatience in his tone:

"Why don't you leave and wait to hear someone tell you?"

The coachman immediately answered, whipped his whip in the air, and the carriage merged again into the middle of the street.

"Oops!"

Cheng Ye heard a person behind the car screaming, "Who kicked Lao Tzu?" ”

Then there was another "oops".

A moment later, Cui Xi's voice sounded outside the car curtain:

"Don't be like these pranksters, where do you dare to slander adults."

A helpless smile bloomed at the corner of Cheng Ye's mouth and responded:

"Xiaoxi's father-in-law has a heart!"

After that, he sighed silently, and when the matter spread, I don't know how many people are arranging him behind his back.

However, he doesn't care, using the most direct and effective means to achieve the clearest goal, which is the law of doing things that he currently believes.

The carriage turned another corner and stopped.

The guards set up footstools next to the car, and Cui Xi even reached out to help him get out of the car.

Cheng Ye grinned, and said simply, thank you!

Stretched out his legs and jumped straight out of the car.

At the entrance of some of the gray courtyards stood a young girl, exuding a warm light in the winter shrouded in white mist.

"Sister Qiu, why are you here?"

Lin Yiqiu was wearing a Mulan green double-embroidered moire Luanniao narrow-sleeved shirt today, looking tall and pretty, she was holding a horsewhip in her hand, as if she had just arrived here on horseback.

"Tsk, I'm afraid that I'll be tired of you and freeze you, and I specially sent a carriage to pick you up, it seems that the emperor doesn't know how honest you are."

This is really his cousin who has been replaced.

He could almost hear the desperately suppressed laughter of the guards behind him.

Hearing her last sentence, Cheng Ye couldn't hold it on his face, and he endured it all when he was kneading Cousin Qiu since he was a child. If you want to say how honest he is, only this cousin really knows.

Not wanting her to say endlessly because of the carriage, Cheng Ye cleared his throat:

"Cousin, where is this? The emperor is here? ”

"This is a courtyard bought by Yin of Shuntian Mansion, and there are many wonderful people living in it."

The corners of Yiqiu's eyes flashed, and Cheng Ye began to be on guard.

From childhood to adulthood, as long as his cousin boasted about good things in front of him, most of them were scary.

Squeak.

The black lacquer door in front of him was opened, and Yiqiu didn't say anything more, and stepped in with Cheng Ye.

It is only a small courtyard, with only three upper rooms, and an empty courtyard between the main aisle and the upper room.

The emperor turned his back to them, and although he was only wearing an ordinary jacket robe, wrapped in Xuanhu's armpit fur, Cheng Ye still recognized him.

The emperor turned his head when he heard the footsteps behind him, and saw Cheng Ye and Yi Qiu walking side by side, his body did not move to them and smiled, but Cheng Ye could see the joy flashing in the depths of his eyes.

The two of them simply saluted and were pulled by the emperor to his side, and the emperor's gaze fell on the courtyard again.

Only then did Cheng Ye notice that a small offering table was placed in the middle of the courtyard, offering incense, candles, paper money and other things.

Jumping gods?

The emperor came to see this in such a small courtyard?

Cheng Ye looked around suspiciously.

Today's events are full of strangeness, just returned from Tu Xilu, although he has already delivered good news to the palace, but no one is really in a hurry to ask him what happened.

Early in the morning, Cui Xi came to pick him up, and he was mysteriously taken to this small courtyard in the car.

The emperor was also dressed in ordinary civilian clothes, and there were only more than a dozen guards behind him, all of whom were also dressed as subordinates.

Cheng Ye looked at Cui Xi, who was standing behind the emperor with his head bowed, and suddenly realized that there was one person missing.

What about Zhang Ping? Why didn't he come to serve?

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"Go and call the door."

Zhang Ping yawned, he didn't sleep well last night, and he was sent such an errand by the little emperor early this morning.

Catching a glimpse of the guard beside him, he was still unmoved, looking at him with a look of embarrassment.

Zhang Ping rolled his eyes in his heart, daring to know that the emperor sent them on this errand to offend people.

He shook the dust in his hand, raised his voice slightly, and said to the head of the guard beside him:

"Go call the door."

The guard hesitated, but still walked towards the vermilion lacquer gate of the Yanling Palace.

To everyone's surprise, a corner door was opened from within, and a butler-like figure stepped out.

As if unintentionally, he glanced at the door and found Zhang Ping and his party.

"Oops", the butler made a surprised expression, ran forward and asked earnestly:

"Old man Zhang is here, what a distinguished guest, distinguished guest!"

"By the emperor's order, I came to your mansion to interrogate the family of a criminal, Li Hu."

The butler's eyes flashed, and his expression was very puzzled:

"Old man Zhang's forgiveness, there are hundreds of people serving in our house, I don't know which Li Hu clan it is?"

What is there to pretend to be confused now, Zhang Ping thought so in his heart, glanced at the housekeeper again, and replied:

"It is the nurse of the county lord of Anren, the mother of Li Sansi, and the aunt of Hu Da, Mama Hu."

"Uh...... It's her. ”

Inside the palace of the king of Yanling.

The county lord of Anren took a sip of tea and said politely to Zhang Ping:

"Don't hide it from my father-in-law, Mama Hu died in the lake yesterday."

"Oh, the man died."

Zhang Ping's face did not see any waves, as if he had known it for a long time.

"Yes, the man is dead."

The county lord of Anren took Zhang Ping's words, repeated another sentence, waved his hand behind him, and said:

"You come on."

A fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl knelt in front of them and kowtowed, wiped a handful of tears after getting up, and said:

"Back to Zhang's husband, the maid's name is Xiaoyu, and he followed Mama Hu to do some helper work in the house. Yesterday, my grandmother came back from home and cried and told me that her son and nephew were not angry and made a big mistake, and they didn't even have the face to be disliked with her.

Mama Hu cried for a long time, and kept saying that she had no face to live, and the maid saw that she was really not good, so she came to ask the county lord to go to appease her, who knew that the county lord just said that he was going to appease her, and someone came to report that someone in the lotus pond in the yard committed suicide by throwing himself into the lake. ”