In front of Lianyi, it was Chen Qu, the most powerful man in the whole world and the emperor of the Daping Dynasty. He is the son of the first emperor, the third line, like the eldest emperor brother and the second emperor brother, he was born by the first emperor and queen Gao, and after the two imperial brothers, he sat on the dragon chair and mastered the empire.

When he was still a prince, Chen was indeed the captain of the purple-clothed guard of the imperial court, and all the way through the ranks, all in that yamen—responsible for supervising hundreds of officials and collecting intelligence—an institution that made everyone shudder, but it was difficult to suppress curiosity.

Therefore, he did not appear in the cold palace, which is not too strange to say.

"How do you know who I belong to?" The Emperor's voice was soft, and he asked a mediocre question.

Lianyi was still a little nervous when she faced the saint for the first time, and she didn't put away her words, and replied directly, "Your Majesty is not like a person in the forbidden army, obviously, and he is not a eunuch." ”

"Well, that's right." The emperor didn't care, he laughed, and gave a handful of help, so that Lianyi got up. "You look up."

He said.

Lianyi acted according to the order, although his eyes did not dare to look at the dragon's eyes, but he also saw that the emperor was looking at himself.

"You're the girl who just moved into the East Palace?"

"Yes."

"Like, very like."

Alas, after saying a few sentences, I went around to the topic of "lotus and lotus taste are not like each other", and now it is considered to be a jade word and stamped, and Lianyi feels that it is really annoying about this matter.

Who wants to live in the shadow of another person? Not to mention it's not!

But she stood obediently and respectfully, smiled slightly, and replied.

The emperor asked her, "How is the crown prince?" ”

Lian Yi remembered that the prince said early in the morning that he was going to see his father and queen mother. At this moment, I think it's over.

In that case, can't the emperor even see what the situation of his own son is? Why ask Lotus Will?

Chen is indeed worthy of being born in Ziyiwei, as if he can read minds, and he can see through Lianyi's words, "I saw him." has been named the lieutenant of his division, and the three recent errands on him have been stopped. also marked a mansion for him as a yamen. But you know what? The son is afraid of his father, no matter how low and worried, and even nonsense and absurdity, in front of me, he must pretend to be serious and talk about the past. You'll have to ask what he's doing in private. ”

Lian Yi replied softly: "Not good." ”

The emperor stopped the topic at this point, and without even saying "um", he began to ask the next question: "So you say, is there really a hidden corner in the palace where a skeleton is hidden?" ”

Don't think about it anymore, no matter where the emperor hid just now, everyone heard the conversation between Lianyi and Manzhu.

"Your Majesty, the slave has not sorted out these yet, so he doesn't dare to speculate."

"That's good, you sisters of the Xu family have all hung up the name of talented women in Datong. I heard that you are called a book bandit, you love to read, and I also think that you are smart and clever, so I can't help but have high hopes for you. ”

Lianyi became more and more unaware of the emperor's intentions, so she had to agree with a smile, "Inherit Your Majesty's gold award, and I dare not be ashamed." The slaves will serve His Royal Highness the Crown Prince well......"

The Emperor smiled, a little happily, "A smart and clever person should not use his strength to serve people. If you think about the question I just asked, is there an unknown skull in this palace? That's a big deal. Give you some time to think it through. ”

The emperor and the crown prince are worthy of being filial piety to their fathers and sons, and when it comes to making difficult, inexplicable, and sudden demands that are difficult for a strong man, their abilities are simply comparable.

What else can Lianyi do, continue to laugh with him, and should come down, "Slave obeys." The slave must think about it, and when the slave has some clues, he will-"

The Emperor interrupted her, "Give you five days, and in five days, on the first day of the fourth month, I will wait for you in the apricot blossom forest." You come by yourself, and no one is allowed to follow, and no one is allowed to know. No matter what you come up with or how much you think of it, don't hide it, don't be taboo, and report it directly to me. ”

Lianyi was so frightened that she immediately knelt down, "Your Majesty, although the slave family has not received the dowry and holy decree, the slave has always served His Royal Highness the Prince, and it is ...... to meet you in private."

The emperor squatted down and flicked away a pink butterfly that flew in at an unknown time from Lianyi's shoulder. touched, but he didn't touch the body of this 19-year-old young woman, but he was full of majesty and masculine aura, and he still wrapped the lotus intrinsicly.

After playing away the butterflies, the emperor's hand, like playing a piano, stirred the air next to Lianyi's sideburns, fanned the air current, and blew a few strands of Lianyi's hair, floating and drifting.

"You are so clever," the emperor lowered his voice, showing even more temptation and danger, "It is not good for the old man to secretly see his daughter-in-law. This excuse of yours almost made me unable to refute it. But have you gone to bed? ”

"Not yet."

"Have I sealed your position?"

"Also, not yet."

The emperor stretched out his hand, this time he did not "make a fuss", but directly pulled Lianyi up, Lianyi withdrew his hand and took two steps back, but did not lower his head, but looked at the emperor - he couldn't see through.

Chen did not pursue it, nor did he approach again. When he spoke again, his voice was still warm and warm, "Your father has always been loyal and obedient, and he is good at educating his children, why, he didn't tell you that the monarch gave an order, don't you think hard about how to push back, save some effort, and think about how to complete it?" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, that's how my father taught slaves."

The emperor seemed to really think that Lianyi was very funny, and laughed twice, "One mouthful, Your Majesty, it's called habitual, you can't change it, in the future, what if, I order you to be called me, San Lang?" ”

Lianyi's ears rang, and she wanted to find a mirror to reflect herself, is this the emperor amorous, not picky, or is he really bright and moving, and he is a harem? Why did her Xu Lianyi's fate gallop away in the direction of the red face and troubled water?

She laughed weakly, hastily, sadly, but on her face and under her eyes, there was a tenacity close to madness, flashing sparks that retreated and struck: "I will figure out what happened, what happened to everyone, what should I do, I will, I can." ”

It was precisely because of this spark that the lotus in the emperor's eyes became more beautiful. On his face, a flash of yin owl appeared, "In five days, if you don't appear in the apricot blossom forest, Bai Manzhu will die." Naturally, she has nothing to do with you, you don't have to be so kind, you don't have to pay attention to my threat, this is your freedom. You can rest assured, for the sake of a small apricot blossom covenant, I will not scare you with such a hole card level thing as your Xu family. Come or not, it's you, eh? ”

"Slave obeys." Lianyi blessed again, and without waiting for the order of "flat body", she heard a few birdsongs in the spring breeze, followed by Wei Qi's voice, "Your Highness, why do you salute the wall?" Finished seeing Manju? ”

Standing up straight with his body on the wrist of the Wei Fairy, Lianyi looked around, and there was no shadow of the emperor.

The thin middle-aged eunuch pushed the door of the water prison and found that it was tightly closed. He hurriedly took the key and opened it again, confirmed that Manzhu was back inside, then closed the door again, walked up to Lianyi, and smiled apologetically, "The slave is sluggish, and he came back late." I had to bother the little concubine to lock the door. Since you're done visiting, please go back, it's not warm this day, and it's humid here, so it's not good to stay for a long time. In the future, if you have something, just let the captain of the guard give orders, and the slave will do it for you. ”

Lian Yi thanked him and walked out of the cold palace with Wei Qi. When they left the courtyard behind them and entered the apricot blossom forest, Lianyi quietly asked the deputy chief of guard beside him, "Where have you been?" ”

Wei Qi replied: "The minister and that Zhao Gonggong went to the room where he was on duty, and asked about the situation of the people who followed Princess Rouxi before. A total of 8 eunuchs and 8 palace maids. As for the prince, there was no special instruction, but he came to interrogate him once the night before. But no one was present, they didn't know the purpose and content of the interrogation, and not many people knew about what they were holding here. What, that princess, didn't I still ask you? However, time is limited, and Zhao Gonggong doesn't seem to know much, so he didn't ask for any useful clues. Anyway, no one died in it, and there was nothing strange about it for the time being. What about you? ”

Lian Yi smiled at him, "Aren't all of your guards listening to the prince, listening to the tone of what you just said, it looks like my people." ”

"Hey, we are concubines, as long as you don't elope and rebel, we are your people. What about you? What did you ask? ”

Lianyi didn't say anything. She now weighed on a bigger stone in her heart.

Although she was depressed and had no direction, she didn't want to discuss it with Wei Qi.

I don't know why, she just looks forward to seeing one person - Jin Bei.

Perhaps, because she knew that Jin Bei was going to Xu's house, she wanted to hear the news of her parents.

At the end of the apricot blossom forest, a tall and straight figure appeared, wearing the black armor of the guards, and Wei Qi waved happily over there.

Lianyi walked a few steps, but found that it was empty Huanxi - it was just an unknown soldier of the guards, not Jinbei.

When the soldier saw the two of them, he hurriedly said, "I'm looking for you!" Turns out to hang out here! The crown prince has been back for a long time, and he has been looking for His Royal Highness. ”