Seeing Su Muling's eyes flashing with horror, Xiao Wenxuan turned his head and hugged her by his side, lowered his head and smiled at her and comforted: "Don't worry, I'm here." ”

At this time, several screams came one after another, and there seemed to be more people outside the door, Su Muling couldn't bear to listen anymore, and buried his face in Xiao Wenxuan's arms.

Outside the door, the sound of rain was accompanied by shouts and shouts, and Xiao Wenxuan quietly covered Su Muling's ears with two hands.

Half an hour later, the voices outside the house faded out. After another moment, Shadowless came and knocked on the door. Xiao Wenxuan let go of Su Muling in his arms and stepped forward to open the door in person.

Outside the door, the pouring rain turned into a drizzle at some point.

In the courtyard, dozens of people were lying horizontally. Fang Ping and others were picking out people in civilian clothes and rescuing and bandaging.

There were also men dressed in ordinary people's clothes who were tearing out the wounded man in black, tying him up with ropes, and kneeling on the ground.

"Lord Wang, all the attackers inside and outside the courtyard have been captured." The rain with no shadow on his face smiled wantonly.

"Interrogate immediately."

"Yes."

Without a shadow, he took someone into a room at the entrance of the courtyard.

"Who are these?" Su Muling looked at the courtyard through the open door and was surprised to see that there were many more people in the courtyard.

"It was sent by the emperor to protect us." Xiao Wenxuan whispered in her ear.

Su Muling's big eyes turned to look at him and asked, "Secretly?" ”

Xiao Wenxuan nodded.

The day before yesterday, he went to the palace, and the emperor clearly gave him fifty imperial guards to protect his safety, and secretly sent people to disguise themselves as pilgrims and lurk all over Fule Temple.

Xiao Wenxuan was extremely smart, and when he saw through the window that the dozens of people dressed up in the latter were agile and martial arts, he guessed that he was an undercover agent arranged by the emperor.

As he was talking, a man around thirty years old stepped forward and saluted Xiao Wenxuan: "Wang Jue, the deputy commander of the Royal Forest Army, was ordered to come to protect Prince Ning's safety. ”

Xiao Wenxuan stretched out his hand and told him to get up.

"The king is hard. Fang Ping, take someone down. ”

Fang Ping came and led Wang Jue and the others to the place where the guards lived to clean up and change clothes.

"I'm going to go out and deal with it, and let Pomegranate stay with you."

Su Muling nodded, she picked up the umbrella by the door and handed it to Xiao Wenxuan. Xiao Wenxuan took it and entered the room where Wuying was.

In the courtyard, all the men in black have been taken away, leaving only a piece of blood and water.

Pomegranate closed the door in disgust, picked up the fire and lit a lamp and placed it at the head of the bed.

"Miss, it's still early in the morning, you can sleep a little longer."

"I don't know what's going on in Xichun."

Su Muling took off his shoes and got into the quilt, and stood on the ground for a long time, his feet were cold. Delang and Imantha had been secretly sent away by Xiao Wenxuan on the eve before, and in order to take care of them, Xichun also left with them.

"Don't worry, since they found here, it means that they are still safe there."

Pomegranate said, refilling the hot soup woman and putting it into Su Muling's quilt.

Su Muling put two frozen feet on the soup woman to warm up. Also, if they knew that Xiao Wenxuan had transferred people, then no one would attack tonight.

The interrogation lasted until dawn, and Xiao Wenxuan hurried back to Beijing without breakfast with his confession and witnesses.

Because Su Muling had an extra layer of protection, her worries dissipated, and she slept until nearly noon.

Pomegranate waited for her to get up, and after freshening up, Sifeng arrived with lunch.

"Miss, my uncle left a message when he left, saying that Miss woke up and had lunch and could go back to Beijing."

Su Muling sat at the table, drinking the three fresh mushroom soup made by Sifeng, warming her hungry stomach.

"When will the prince arrive?"

"I took people away before dawn." Pomegranate quickly packed Su Muling's luggage.

"Didn't have breakfast?" Su Muling put down the bowl in his hand.

"Nope. Uncle left in a hurry. ”

Su Muling couldn't eat it anymore. Since Xiao Wenxuan came here, he often goes out early and returns late, and he can't eat in time, and he has lost a lot of weight.

Sifeng, who was waiting on the side, saw that Su Muling only drank half a bowl of soup, and asked in frustration, "Why did Miss eat so little?" Isn't it unappetizing? ”

Sifeng couldn't see that the food she worked so hard to cook was not affirmed.

Su Muling knew that Sifeng had been working hard to improve her cooking skills, and she had already improved a lot compared to in Songjiang. In order not to dampen her enthusiasm, Su Muling picked up the dishes and chopsticks again and stuffed all Sifeng's thoughts into her stomach.

……

At this time, in the Qianqing Palace, the emperor looked at the confession presented by Xiao Wenxuan, and glanced at Hou Donghai, who was kneeling on the ground with five flowers tied up and down his body.

Xiao Wenxuan stated the facts to the emperor in the palace: "...... According to Hou Donghai's confession, the attack on the Di State mission was done by the second prince. The second prince wanted to kill Delang and blame the minister, but he didn't want Delang to be saved by the minister. This night attack was also instructed by the second prince, mainly to find out the whereabouts of the prince of Di Guo in order to strike again. ”

The emperor's face became more and more ugly, so gloomy that people didn't dare to look at it directly. Hearing Xiao Wenxuan finish speaking, the emperor said in a cold voice: "Take it down and pass on the second child." ”

"Yes." Two Imperial Guards entered and took Hou Donghai down.

The emperor stood up from the dragon chair, walked back and forth in front of the dragon case with his hands in his hands, stabilized his mood, and then asked, "Where is the prince of Di Guo now?" ”

"Back to the emperor, the minister had quietly transferred the crown prince and the crown princess of Di Guo the night before, and now they have returned to the capital and recuperated in the minister's palace."

Already transferred? The emperor's originally annoyed face cleared a lot.

"Thanks to your careful care, you have already made a plan."

"The emperor handed over the crown prince of Di to the ministers, and the ministers should do their best to protect him."

Xiao Wenxuan knew that the emperor was uncomfortable at this time, and if the crime of the second prince's assassination of the envoy of the prince of Di Guo was confirmed, even if the emperor wanted to let him go, he was afraid that it would not be possible.

The emperor glanced at him, sighed and waved his hand at him: "You have also worked hard for a few days, go back and rest." The prince of Di Guo will stay in your mansion for the time being, and I will send someone to protect your safety. ”

Xiao Wenxuan looked decadent, suddenly like the emperor who was ten years old, hesitated for a moment, and retired.

……

Xiao Wenxuan came out of the Qianqing Palace and bumped into the second prince who came in a hurry.

The second prince didn't sleep all night last night, and he didn't wait until dawn to wait for news from the East China Sea, and the second prince secretly felt bad in his heart.

He couldn't hold back and sent someone to Fule Temple to inquire about the news, but the person who inquired came back and said: Last night, someone attacked the courtyard where Prince Ning lived in Fule Temple, and it was taken down by the emperor's imperial army, and Prince Ning took people into the palace early in the morning.

The second prince was so angry that he was about to vomit blood. He only asked Hou Donghai to find out the news, who would have thought that Hou Donghai would take chicken feathers as arrows and lead people to sneak attack, but as a result, stealing chickens and not being able to lose the rice was held by Xiao Wenxuan, isn't this rushing to send a whip to Xiao Wenxuan to beat himself.

Xiao Wenxuan must have gone to the palace early in the morning to complain, and the second prince paced in circles on the ground, thinking of countermeasures.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the emperor to announce his entry into the palace.

The second prince didn't dare to delay and hurried over.

"Second Prince!" Xiao Wenxuan bowed his hand to him politely.

The second prince replied mechanically, and did not forget to ask: "Prince Ning entered the palace early in the morning, I don't know what is important?" ”

Xiao Wenxuan straightened his waist, looked at his pretending to be calm, and smiled faintly: "The second prince will know when he goes in." ”

After saying that, he ignored him and strode away.

The second prince looked at Xiao Wenxuan's departing back, and suddenly felt a chill coming. He tightened the cloak on his body and followed Gonggong An, who greeted him at the door, into the main hall.

In the main hall, the emperor squinted slightly and half leaned on the dragon chair, and the idle people in the hall had already avoided it, and only Gonggong An was on the side.

The second prince stepped forward tremblingly and knelt down for the emperor: "The son and the emperor see the father." ”

The emperor opened his eyes and looked at the second prince for a moment, and then asked him: "Jing Yue, do you think my father is old?" ”

The second prince thought that the emperor would open his mouth to ask the master for sin, but he didn't expect the emperor to ask him this question, so he hurriedly flattered:

"My father is not old, my father is at the peak of the Spring and Autumn Period, and he is in the prime of life, how can he say that he is old?"

The emperor took a deep breath, squinted his eyes and asked, "If I want to make a prince, who do you think is the most suitable?" ”

The second prince felt that this was a proposition, saying that he was suitable, and it was a little inappropriate. said that others were suitable, but he was unwilling in his heart.

He secretly glanced at the emperor's face, and the emperor's face was obscure and he couldn't see joy and anger. The second prince secretly speculated about the emperor's heart, and weighed how to answer in order to satisfy the emperor.

"Huh?"

The emperor waited for a long time, but he didn't see the second prince speak, and opened his eyes dissatisfiedly to look at the second prince who was still kneeling on the ground.

The second prince was a little flustered, hurriedly leaned over to the ground, and replied respectfully: "According to what the sons and daughters can see, my father is in his prime, so there is no need to rush to establish the crown prince." ”

"Oh? Not in a hurry? ”

The emperor straightened up and stared at the second prince.

The second prince didn't dare to raise his head, and said in his mouth: "Yes, Erchen thinks it's not in a hurry." ”

"Hmph, duplicity, I see that you are in a hurry. Dare to rob and kill the Di Kingdom Mission, blame You'an, you...... Are you clearing the way for your Prince Prince's Path? ”