Such a bright and lifelike red peony quietly bloomed on the smooth and white back, Lin Yingxue stared at it unconsciously for a long time, and at the same time, she couldn't help but think of the peony that followed Meng Yi in her mind - the woman also had such a bright red peony tattooed on her face, and the two peonies were almost identical in other details except for the difference in size.

So, will there be any connection between the two? Or is it all just her overthinking? Lin Yingxue slowly frowned.

stayed up in the palace all day, and it wasn't until the evening that Lin Yingxue finally left the palace smoothly.

Afraid that because of the late return, she would attract the words of the Lin family, when she returned home, Lin Yingxue deliberately went around the back door to enter the house, and on the way back to Mo Yunxuan, no one really found her, but the people she saw passing by in the dark all hung their heads, looking trembling, she guessed that on the day she went out, something important happened to the Lin family that she didn't know.

"Miss, you can be regarded as back, you don't know, something big happened in the house today!" After returning to Moyunxuan, without Lin Yingxue opening her mouth to ask what was going on, Di'er couldn't help but rush up first and said excitedly.

"What's all the fuss about?" Lin Yingxue was used to the way Di'er was babbling, so she didn't take Di'er's words very seriously.

"Oh, miss, you don't know, the third master was arrested today!" Seeing Lin Yingxue's disapproving look, Di'er couldn't help but raise her tone, "The people from the Criminal Department suddenly came to the house today, saying that the third master killed someone and wanted to take the third master away, and even the second master was also affected, and he went to the Criminal Department together, and he hasn't come back yet!" ”

Discovered so quickly? Lin Yingxue raised her eyebrows, a slight surprise flashed in her eyes, and she didn't have any other reactions other than that.

And Di'er thought that Lin Yingxue would be surprised and anxious when she heard the news, but it can be seen that Lin Yingxue is so calm, she can't help but be a little anxious, "Miss, that's the third master and the second master, the second master!" Aren't you worried, miss? ”

Di'er deliberately bit the words 'second master' very hard, after all, although everyone knows that Lin Yingxue is now nominally a person from the big house, but no matter what, Lin Zhengjie is still her father, hearing that her biological father had an accident, will her own lady's reaction be too calm?

Lin Yingxue couldn't help but laugh when she saw Di'er's appearance that the emperor was not in a hurry and the eunuch was in a hurry, "Don't worry, the person was not killed by the second master, the second master will come back safely, but the third uncle may not be......"

Lin Yingxue sat down on the side with a meaningful expression - with Lin Zhengjie's current status and the power accumulated over the years, he would not fall because of such a small 'cover-up', so she naturally didn't have to be too anxious, besides, she had already reminded Lin Zhengjie not to worry about this matter, Lin Zhengjie didn't listen to it, and now he found it himself.

Seeing her young lady's relaxed appearance of strategizing and everything under control, Di'er couldn't help but show a look of admiration on her face.

Lin Yingxue was very useful for this, turned her head and ordered in a relaxed tone: "You go to the Three Princes' Mansion for a trip, I want to see Linzhi." ”

Lin Zhi thought about doing things cautiously and quickly, Lin Yingxue sat in the house for a while, and before Di'er, who went out to report the news, had not returned, Lin Zhi had already appeared in her room unconsciously.

"I called you this time to ask you to help me look into two things." Lin Yingxue didn't talk nonsense, and went straight to the point when she opened her mouth, "First, check where Xue Ji was found by the second prince, and whether there is any force behind it." The second is whether Sun Ruolan, the second wife of the Lin family, and the third concubine Room Hui'er have known each other for a long time, and whether there are other connections between them. ”

The tattoo on Xue Ji's back that she saw in the palace today made her unable to let go for a long time, she always felt that there might be a major clue in it, as for Sun Ruolan and Hui'er, she just wanted to figure out the connection between the two.

"Yes." Lin Zhi carefully wrote down Lin Yingxue's instructions, and after confirming that Lin Yingxue had nothing else for him to do, he quietly retreated.

Rong Guo thirty-one years, late autumn.

When Lin Yingxue went to investigate something about the royal family, bad news also came from the border - the Hunan State was menacing, and the three cities of Rongguo were captured one after another.

And Murong Jun also wrote to her to report his safety, saying that the troops of the Hunan State where he was located were relatively weak, and he was more than enough to deal with it now, but he planned to ask the emperor to transfer him to the place where the war was burning most hotly.

It was the real Shura field, and if you were not careful, there would be no bones.

After reading the letter, Lin Yingxue sat in the room for an afternoon before writing a reply with a few words: May you cherish and hope that you will triumph.

However, the people of the imperial city did not know such news, as for the palace nobles who knew, as long as the war had not affected the imperial city and was not implicated in them, they would not have any sense of crisis, they still eat, drink and have fun, and still fought among themselves.

- The imprisonment of the crown prince in the prison seemed to open the floodgates of a round of fighting, and new turmoil soon spread out of control like a mountain of seas.

The first to be affected were naturally the ministers under the name of the prince, most of them were caught because of their own negligence, just losing their official hats is good, and some of them are involved in the nine clans, which is really pitiful.

The second thing that was hit was Murong Xun's power, but this impact did not have much impact on him, after all, Murong Xun has always acted cautiously, and besides, he has been operating in the court for many years and his power is stable, how can he be so easy to defeat?

To sum up, the crown prince is now the most lossy, Murong Xiao is catching up and the momentum is flourishing, while Murong Xun is developing steadily and is not affected.

"Yingxue, what did you think about what I told you before?" Lin Yingxue met Lin Yingxin at a banquet.

This banquet is the 80th birthday of the ancestor of the Dingshan Hou family. The Marquis of Dingshan turned out to be a military general, and when he was young, he followed the emperor to fight on the battlefield, because he had been injured too much, and he fell ill, and several sons died on the battlefield, and there was no successor, so the Marquis of Dingshan wanted to resign and retire when he was old, but the emperor remembered the old feelings, so he gave a knighthood.

Although this title is just a name, and the Marquis of Dingshan family has no heir who can afford this glory, the Marquis of Dingshan can still say two words in front of the emperor. Therefore, there are not many people who came to congratulate the old lady on her birthday today, and such as Murong Xun, were all present in person, which can be regarded as giving face to Dingshan Hou.

Lin Yingxue and Lin Yingxin walked together, and after seeing that no one around them noticed them, Lin Yingxue lowered her voice and said: "I know that the eldest sister is in a hurry, but even if I am willing to marry, the fifth prince may not be willing to marry!" ”

The current situation is that Murong Xiao and Murong Xun are evenly divided, King Jing has been idle all his life, even if Lin Yingxin has helped behind the scenes recently, and has attracted some forces, but this force is nothing compared to Murong Xun and Murong Xiao. Therefore, Lin Yingxin desperately wants Lin Yingxue to break into the 'enemy'.

"This ...... This is also ......" Lin Yingxin heard this, and immediately let out, "The fifth prince has always liked the third sister, unless the fifth prince changes his mind and doesn't want to marry the third sister...... Phew, what am I talking about! ”

Lin Yingxin was secretly regretting that she had said the wrong thing, but Lin Yingxue couldn't help but think of the past in the Hua family - I don't know if Murong Xun knew that Lin Yingling had already been broken by the dead Hua Yuyan, would Murong Xun still insist on marrying Lin Yingling?

While thinking about it, Lin Yingxue glanced at Lin Yingxin on the side, but she opened her mouth, but she still didn't make any sound.

Halfway through the banquet, Lin Yingxue and a group of women dined in the West Garden, while the men dined in another garden.

"Yo, Second Lady Lin is still wearing the fashionable style of the previous few months. Alas, I have to say, this clothes and jewelry are always new and good-looking. "Some time ago, Lin Zhengshang was arrested, but everyone knew about it, in the past, with the support of the Lin family's three rooms, the Lin family's second room has always been very dignified outside, but now after the third room has fallen, the Lin family's financial resources are not as good as before, and others will naturally take the opportunity to sour.