The tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, which is what Lu Youzhen is talking about now.

Su Xi went to the next door to learn to dance with great interest after breakfast, Lu Youzhen originally wanted to take advantage of the cool morning to deal with some things outside, but she heard Aunt Hu come to report that there was a guest.

When he went up to the front hall, he saw that it was the second prince Situ Yelin.

The men of the Situ family are actually good-looking, and when Lu Youzhen went back to find the portrait of the prince, he also found the portraits of several other princes by the way, otherwise he would not dare to believe that this person is the prince by a name.

Situ Yelin is quite handsome, and his peach blossom eyes are full of inexhaustible amorous feelings. I don't know if it's the reason for going into the water last night, this romantic temperament is not prominent.

Today, he wears a purple and gold crown and a purple shirt, showing the romantic temperament of a royal nobleman.

"Meet the Second Prince." Lu Youzhen saluted respectfully.

"Brother Lu doesn't need to be polite, but after a few hours, Brother Lu and I are separated." Situ Yelin personally helped Lu Youzhen up, and his demeanor was very close.

"There is a difference between the monarch and the people, and the number of courtesies cannot be abolished." Lu Youzhen didn't know the intention of these two princes, so he could only deal with it carefully.

"There are no outsiders here, it doesn't have to be like this." Situ Yelin took Lu Youzhen's hand and said, "Speaking of which, you are the nephew of Zhen's mother and concubine, the cousin of the seventh brother, and you are relatives. ”

This Situ Yelin said that the wind is the rain, so if Lu Youzhen called him his second brother, although Lu Youzhen didn't want to have anything to do with him, he couldn't let him lose face in a grand manner, so he had to call "second brother" along the way.

Situ Yelin was very happy, patted him on the shoulder and called him "cousin" directly.

Suddenly there was a princely cousin, Lu Youzhen was worried in his heart, worried that the next moment this cheap cousin would ask him to do something embarrassing.

Fortunately, Situ Yelin didn't mention anything, drank tea, chatted some gossip and left.

Su Xi didn't come back with the smell of sweat until lunch, she secretly leaned next to Lu Youzhen, Lu Youzhen felt uncomfortable when she smelled it, and was about to get angry, when she looked back and saw that it was Su Xi, her raised eyebrows immediately bent down.

Said pitifully: "Xi'er, you're back, go wash up, Aunt Hu has prepared the meal." ”

"You don't want to know what I learned today?"

Su Xi deliberately rubbed against Lu Youzhen, and when Lu Youzhen saw her getting closer, he stepped back a point and begged for mercy: "Okay Xi'er, don't make trouble, I'll ask Vanilla to prepare hot water for you." ”

"You dislike me?" Su Xi lowered his face, showing a pitiful look, blinked and tried to squeeze out two cat tears, accusing Lu Youzhen: "You dislike me!" ”

"I'm not, I don't, I-" Lu Youzhen couldn't argue, could he still open his eyes and say that Su Xi was fragrant? In front of Su Xi, he always couldn't say those perfunctory words against his will, although he knew that it would make Su Xi very happy.

If you can't say it, don't say it, Lu Youzhen turned his heart sideways, stopped dodging, picked up Su Xi and kissed him. Hmm—what does that taste like? Lu Youzhen said that it was really salty.

The two rolled from the flower hall to the clean room, and came back for lunch after they were washed and cleaned, and it was already past noon. Fortunately, this is Sanqi Hutong, if you are in the Lu Mansion, you may not know what others say about them behind their backs.

Su Xi's face flushed, she lowered her head to pick up the rice, and didn't dare to look at Lu Youzhen. Lu You was really in a very good mood, he asked the maid to step back, personally served Su Xi vegetables, and carefully served her a bowl of soup.

Su Xi lowered her head and ate, Lu Youzhen what kind of food she saw, what kind of dish did she eat, she would eat white rice if she didn't clip it, anyway, she refused to look up.

"Xi'er, have you ever heard of such an animal?" Lu Youzhen said, "This animal is called an ostrich, and it is usually fine, but when it encounters something, it loves to bury its head in the sand, which is very cute." ”

Su Xi didn't react for a while, she was still eating the meal, and then she realized that Lu Youzhen was saying that she was the ostrich. Su Xi swallowed the last bite of food, pursed his mouth, put down his chopsticks and went back to the inner bedroom.

Lu Youzhen was laughing heartily outside.

At this time, Aunt Hu and his wife came, Aunt Hu carried two paper bags, and Uncle Hu held a bamboo basket.

"What is this?" Lu Youzhen put down the dishes and chopsticks and asked.

"This is sent by the prince in the morning, saying that it is a specialty of the north, and that he will try it for the prince and the young lady." Aunt Hu replied.

Su Xi heard the sound and asked suspiciously, "The son who came in the morning?" ”

"Situ Yelin," Lu Youzhen replied, and asked Aunt Hu to put away the dishes and chopsticks.

The two opened the paper bag and saw that it was filled with all kinds of dim sum and dried fruits, all of which were northern characteristics, which were very different from the common dim sum in Sifang City, and the bamboo basket was full of apricots, sweet and sour.

Su Xi ate two and liked it very much. After obtaining Lu Youzhen's consent, he sorted out some of the baskets of apricots, sent some to Yuliu's house next door, and sent some to Su Mansion, and his father-in-law and mother-in-law were also indispensable.

Originally, he wanted to leave some for Jiang Wumeng, but Lu Youzhen said that he would not come to Sifang City recently, so he gave up, and asked Vanilla to take some points for the people who were waiting below.

"Why did the second prince come here and send so many specialties?" Su Xi asked.

Lu Youzhen shook his head, told Su Xi about Situ Yelin's coming over in the morning, and said, "I have no power or power, and those properties are now in your name, why are these two princes so enthusiastic about me?" ”

Lu You really felt that this was unusual, but after thinking about many things, he might not be able to come up with a reasonable explanation, is it really like Situ Yelin himself said, "at first sight"? This is significantly less credible.

After thinking about it, he decided to ask Lu Feng to inform his subordinates to send all the news in the capital this month, maybe he could find something, in the past, his subordinates were screened and only sent to him what he wanted.

The carrier pigeons in the capital came quickly, and Lu Youzhen received the news the next evening.

The secret agents he laid out in the capital were very conscientious, and he wrote several small notes about the recent events in the imperial court and the homes of major officials.

Even the seventy-year-old Hubu Shangshu Xin's eighteen-year-old concubine is clearly written.

However, there is nothing that Lu You really wants to know.

"Can you see anything?" Su Xi asked.

Lu Youzhen shook his head and said: "It's all trivial, I can only see that the emperor hasn't sent an errand to any prince recently, whether it is the crown prince or the second prince, they all came to Sifang City privately, but whether there is the emperor's intention is unknown." ”

Su Xi looked at those small notes, she was very curious about this magical flying pigeon message, she asked: "This place is so far away from the capital, won't your pigeon fly to the wrong place?" ”

"There are people who specialize in training pigeons, and the pigeons they train can only be shot down and roasted and eaten, and they will never admit the wrong door." Lu Youzhen still trusts his subordinates very much.

Su Xi nodded, and asked again: "Then if someone shoots it down, won't your news be known to others?" ”

Lu Youzhen picked up a small note and showed it to her, in addition to the text there were many strange symbols on it, Lu Youzhen said: "This is the ciphertext I use to send messages with them, only our own people can understand it, you can read this." ”

Lu Youzhen handed Su Xi a few more pieces of letterhead, which were the news that Lu Nian had parsed.

Su Xi read a few at random, from what the emperor had discussed in the early court, to what things the official family had discussed very clearly, and he admired these spies very much, and of course he admired their master Lu Youzhen even more.

"Hey-this guard is too miserable, but he was split up by five horses after colliding with the emperor." Just thinking about that picture, Su Xi couldn't help but have a cold war.

Lu Youzhen hugged Su Xi, patted her back to comfort her, and said: "A companion is like a tiger, the words of the ancients are always good, you should not look at these bloody things." ”

He took the letterhead from Su Xi's hand, but his eyes glanced at the line of words that Su Xi was staring at, the name to be exact.

Bai Chao, once the most mysterious guardian of the emperor's side, few people have seen him, but there are many legends about him.

It is said that he is the number one master in the world and has the ability to be a hundred. He was by the side of the emperor and resisted one hundred and eight assassinations for the emperor.

It is said that he also served as the leader of the martial arts alliance, provoked the battle between the rivers and lakes and the court, and was finally impressed by the charm of the first emperor, so he retired from the position of the leader of the alliance and bowed his head to be a guard beside the emperor.

It is said that when the northern Tatars invaded our dynasty, they were fierce and almost hit the foot of the imperial city.

There are many legends about Bai Chao, this is a heroic figure who combines strength and fighting spirit, and is the king of fighting. However, after the death of the first emperor, he disappeared.

If it weren't for Su Xi being frightened by the "Five Horses Splitting the Corpse" and paying attention to this news, Lu Youzhen might not have paid attention to the life or death of a guard, after all, many people would die every day in the imperial city.

He had also guessed whether Bai Chao had left the palace to live in seclusion after the death of the first emperor, but now it seems that he has always been in the palace, working as an ordinary guard.

But why was he suddenly given death by the emperor? And it's still five horses splitting the corpse, presumably the emperor should be very angry when he gives the order.

If you look at the date, it's 20 days ago, so that the time can be aligned. Bai Chao was given death for some reason because he angered the emperor, and then the emperor privately sent his son to investigate some things for this reason.

The crown prince and the second prince arrived in Sifang City in four or five days, and it was only ten days to travel from the capital to Sifang City along the waterway, and they set off twenty days ago and traveled in fifteen days, which was about the same in time.

So what did Bai Chao do to anger the emperor?

Lu Youzhen guessed that it might be related to the affairs of the former emperor, he thought for a while, called Lu Feng, and instructed: "You inform Lu Nian, ask him to pick a few good hands, keep an eye on two people for me, and tell them to be vigilant." ”

Lu Youzhen instructed carefully, and reminded him: "Tell them, it's better to lose than wake up, and never alarm these two people." ”

Lu Feng nodded yes and went down to do things.

Su Xi on the side didn't expect that he could really help Lu You, he was very happy, and read the pages carefully with great interest, thinking that maybe he could find some other clues.