It was pouring rain at night, the window lattices were blown by the wind and the crackling sound was terrifying, the leaves in the courtyard were blown by the wind, and a few lightning bolts fell and exploded the night sky as terrifying.

Inside the house, Zhao Yuanzhi felt that his wife in his arms moved slightly, so he slowly opened his eyes and said in a worried tone: "I'm worried about Sister Chun, I'll go and bring her over." He kissed his wife's eyebrows as he spoke: "You sleep well." ”

Yang Baodai hummed softly in a daze, rubbed her eyes, raised her eyes and saw that her husband had sat up, raised her hand to lift the smoky blue bed, picked up the robe next to her and draped it over her shoulders at will, and the small candles left at night were blown crooked by the breeze that penetrated through the gap in the window frame, and pulled Zhao Yuanzhi's figure slender and long, very handsome.

Yang Baodai's head hung on the pillow, and suddenly remembered that when Zhao Yuanzhi was in the early dynasty in the previous years, she seemed to have never woken her up once, and left lightly, and sometimes came back to have breakfast with her quite leisurely.

Sister Chun'er's house is in the west wing next to it, and Zhao Yuanzhi doesn't like the child to be too sticky to her, so she arranged a place to live at the beginning of weaning.

Soon Zhao Yuanzhi hugged the girl who was scared by thunder in, he carefully held his daughter in his arms, and patiently coaxed the crying Sister Chun with a soft voice, very helpless: "How old are you still crying, isn't it just a big thunder, Xin Qi is a girl, if it's a son, don't say it's my cub if you are scared like this, okay, okay, don't cry, daddy is not dead." ”

Sister Chun was aggrieved, stretched out her hand to ask for her mother's hug, Yang Baodai hugged Xiao Tuanzi into her arms, kissed her lover twice, touched her daughter's cheek against the pillow, and said to her husband who poured tea by himself: "Didn't you say that you won't come back tonight?" Didn't you say that there would be changes in the southwest in a few days? ”

Hearing this, Zhao Yuanzhi made a shushing motion, looked at the lamp and candle left behind until the lamp festival came out, pinched the small scissors and clicked and cut it, and the room suddenly became dark and bright.

Zhao Yuanzhi pinched the cup and went to the edge of the bed, and touched his wife's head: "My ancestor, you can be quiet, it is precisely because I think that there is a fear of change, so I want to stay with you every step of the way, if something really happens, I can also protect your mother and daughter." ”

He will tell Yang Baodai a lot of things now.

He patted Sister Chun's back, the doll was already sleeping soundly and was woken up, but now she is snuggled in her father's arms, very stable, Zhao Yuanzhi remembered something, and Yang Baodai continued: "I have replaced the people in the courtyard with my cronies, Chaochao This person jumped away casually, and he couldn't control his mouth, and there were fewer things in the southwest than she said." ”

Yang Baodai is very relieved of the trusted people around her, this is an extremely fatal place, and Zhao Yuanzhi also knows that he is not allowed to put any eyes on her side, so he can only give her serious orders.

"Where did you get those people?" Yang Baodai put Sister Chun aside, covered her daughter with a futon, leaned against the pillow next to her husband, and her head was nestled on his shoulder.

Zhao Yuanzhi thought for a while, and then whispered back to her words: "Where can I get the way, I kept it useless, and I sent it back with the silver, what's the matter, there are people in it that you want to take for your own use." ”

"I still like to use it for a long time." Yang Baodai muttered.

Zhao Yuanzhi glanced at her and took over the conversation: "About the dynasty, in fact, there is indeed a good family affair, I have a young master here who has a business name shopkeeper has a good character and good looks, and his knowledge is acceptable, I will let him come to you tomorrow to take a look, if you think you can come down, but the dynasty will not be able to follow you back to the capital, and then your shop here also needs reliable people to control it for you, kill two birds with one stone, you see how it is." ”

It's just unbelievable!

Yang Baodai nodded without moving, and lowered her voice: "Then it's decided, I won't be blind, lest Chaochao know and mess with me." ”

Zhao Yuanzhi didn't take the dynasty to heart, but Yang Baodai said it, and he just kept his heart.

He heard Yang Baodai suddenly ask him: "What kind of person do you think Chao Chao is?" ”

Zhao Yuanzhi put down the cup and thought about it, his tone was serious, but his eyes were very disgusted: "Not a good person, except for being loyal to you as always, there is nothing like Biqing's girl, everything is written on her face, looking at me running fast, it makes me think you have something to do several times, in short, it is not very stable." ”

He paused as he spoke, looked at his wife with his chin leaning on his shoulder, and then rounded his words back: "Of course, if you don't want her to get married, it's good to be sent to Sister Chun'er to be a housekeeper in the future." When he passed by just now, he looked at Chao Chao and patiently coaxed Sister Chun.

"She is the maidservant of the Sheng family in the past." Zhao Yuanzhi added: "Sheng Heng chooses people, you know, honest and honest." ”

At this time, Yang Baodai is a spirit, and at the beginning of the relationship, Zhao Yuancong wanted to bury Chaochao as a spy in the mansion of the Ministry of Rites! It's just a coincidence that Sheng Heng was sent to the Zhao family to be a slave, and if he wants to be a candidate for a spy in a neighboring country like this, the only mission is to lurk well, Zhao Yuancong's current downfall can still drive him to live in the dynasty, and Zhao Yuancong is definitely not a good person.

She wanted to ask more or say more, but her eyes fell on her daughter next to her, and Yang Baodai suddenly didn't dare to act rashly.

Sister Chun was drugged, as long as she dared to reveal one or two, maybe her daughter's life would be gone.

She didn't dare to make any bets with the child's life, she just lost a child, and it took a long time to look at the body, and now her thoughts about the heir have slowly faded, and she feels that it is enough to have a child in this life.

But if Zhao Yuancong dares to blatantly threaten her, he must be 100% sure.

A person and a madman are working against each other, and there is a huge disparity in strength.

Zhao Yuanzhi turned over the bed, hugged his wife and daughter into his arms, and his voice was extremely soft: "Okay, don't talk about it, I still have important things to do, go to sleep, the southwest will be too peaceful in a few days." "He actually doesn't have any score in his heart, it's just a big deal, whoever has a hard fist is the boss! In general, the matter of the southwest mutual market must be settled before the New Year, and it is better to fight early and late, so it is better to hurry up, wait for the New Year to fight, and the imperial city has a fart at the end of the year, and the old emperor can talk to him to death.

Yang Baodai leaned sideways and hugged her daughter in her arms, feeling very complicated and heavy.

She really wanted to tell Zhao Yuanzhi everything, but her intuition told him that it was best not to be good, if something went wrong in the Southwest Mutual Market, it was held by the people who wanted to kill Zhao Yuanzhen, and I don't know how many people would be implicated to send their lives out, if Zhao Yuanzhi collapsed, there would be many dead people, and he didn't need to collapse, but if he took a wrong step, those who were angry with him, not to mention killing him, would definitely remove one of his arms!

She's going to have to think about it.

There must be a breakthrough.

When Yang Baodai opened her eyes the next day, Zhao Yuanzhi had already left, she slept groggily last night, and she had a lot of bizarre dreams in a daze, her brain was very heavy, she squinted for a long time, she felt a little more energetic, and then she slowly got up, and the sound of Sister Chun's frolicking came from her ears.

She went out with her clothes on, and saw that it was snowing outside, and Chao Chao was holding a noisy shouting and coaxing Sister Chun's girl to trot, and the two of them were having a good time, next to them were two female guards dressed as people, and there were eight guards with knives under the eaves.

None of the servants who had been arranged in the courtyard were gone.

Yang Baodai suddenly felt that Zhao Yuanzhi's silent monitoring of her before was very good.

She sighed slightly, and saw that Chao Chao had already stood in front of her with Sister Chun in her arms, and talked to her with crooked eyebrows: "The slave maid saw that the lady was still sleeping, so she took the girl to play outside, and the adult said that the southwest is early in winter, and now I have seen the beginner, and I will prepare all the winter needs as soon as possible, and the Gui'er girl in Fuzhou has also sent a letter······

Yang Baodai listened to her words silently, beckoned to a female guard and asked her to take Sister Chun away, and motioned for Chao Chao to come in.

She still can't accept that someone she has trusted for more than five years is actually a spy who pretends to be a pig and eats a tiger!

Chao Chao ordered the food to come in, personally served Yang Baodai to eat, and looked at the appearance of her chopsticks, so he smiled and said: "Madame, it's better to eat more, your daily situation in the mansion is known to adults, and the slave knows that you are not worried about your own life, but you also have to worry about Miss Chun's life." ”

"Chaochao, let's talk." Yang Baodai glanced at her deeply, pinching the chopsticks as if she was struggling with the words, she paused again, and looked at Chao Chao with a very complicated gaze: "Zhao Yuancong is no longer the prince of Beicheng, even if he can turn the sky upside down, Beicheng definitely has no place for him, now he is just fighting hard and resisting, what good is it for you to follow her, what Zhao Yuancong can give you, I can give it to you, you don't even have to pretend to be stupid, sandalwood you know." ”

Chao Chao put down the chopsticks for Yang Bao Dai Bucai, his tone was brisk, and he was not hiding, he looked up and replied: "Miss Tan is now flying on the branch and becoming a phoenix, and she is sitting on the princess with the hat of Zhao Shoufu Yimei, what does Madame want to say?" She paused: "Is it possible, do you want the slave to kill His Highness for you?" Slaves don't—"

She didn't say anything, Yang Baodai took the initiative to hold her hand, and her tone was pious: "Chaochao, what are you coming at me, Sister Chun is innocent, I don't believe that the tears you were worried about when I gave birth were fake, and when Sister Chun had a high fever, you hugged her all night and stayed awake to guard the crying pear blossom with rain is also fake, you tell me, is it Zhao Yuancong who threatened you, it must have threatened you, right." ”

"If you are really loyal to her, you won't cut the medicine you want to give Sister Chun in half." Yang Baodai lowered her voice, closed her eyes, stabilized her mind, and then continued to say to her: "There will be no Zhao Yuancong's people in the courtyard, everyone and I are clean, here are all Yuanzhu's confidants left for me, tell me what you have, while I can turn back now." ”

While everything can be salvaged now.

The more she thought about it, the more she felt that Chaochao's words yesterday were not threatening her to obey orders, but thinking about her asking for help, she actually didn't want to do this, she was forced to help a madman die, unless both of them were crazy! There is no benefit to Zhao Yuancong in the court! Zhao Yuancong is a big crime of rebellion in Beicheng, and even the jade disc is under the royal family!

Chao Chao did not speak.

This scene became a default in Yang Baodai's eyes, and she immediately thought of Zhao Yuanzhi's threat to Sandalwood to help him do things: "Do you have any relatives who have fallen into Zhao Yuancong's hands." Her mind was spinning wildly: "I remember that you thought you seemed to have a younger brother, didn't you?" ”

In fact, if you think about it now, Chao Chao has said a lot of serious things with her over the years, but she didn't care too much, as long as she thought about it carefully, it was completely different from the situation when she entered the mansion at the beginning.

The real dynasty may no longer know where he died, and the dynasty in front of him is an impostor.

"It's too late." Chao Chao's eyes were very bad, his face was very heavy, and he took a deep breath before saying slowly: "At first, the slave maid saw the symbol of the contact point of the spies in the capital, and knew that His Royal Highness had secretly entered the capital, and the slave maid did not want to participate in anything, so he pretended not to see it, and when he arrived in Fuzhou, the slave and maid looked at Shen Mengzhou and was indeed frightened, there are such similar people in the world, knowing that later, the slave maid did find that Shen Mengzhou was replaced by His Royal Highness, and he found the slave maid." ”

"You know something." Yang Baodai's eyes were like a convergence, and she guessed that Chao Chao was forced to go to Zhao Yuancong's camp because of coercion: "Chao Chao, what kind of person I am, you know best, do you think I will lie to you!" ”

Chao Chao shook his head and said calmly: "The slave and maid don't know anything, but His Royal Highness does hold the slave's life, and he also knows that the slave and maid may not be loyal to him, and he is afraid that the young master will find out something." ”

"So you don't know anything." Yang Baodai frowned slightly, she knew that Chao Chao should not hide her.

Chao Chao thought about it, his eyes tightened, and he said: "The slave only knows one thing, His Royal Highness wants you to steal something in exchange for Sister Chun's antidote." ”

Yang Baodai's eyes darkened slightly, and she looked at Chaochao: "Tell me everything you know." ”

***

Among the guards.

Zhao Yuanzhi pinched the letter secretly sent by Yang Baoyuan, frowned tightly, Luo Xuexuan propped his hands in front of the sand table, his eyes hovered over the forces outside the small city and the border pass, pinching his fingers, his eyes became deeper and deeper, and he suddenly became angry for a long time: "Damn, if Lao Tzu doesn't do it, the world is cheap and really takes advantage of all of them and their family!" Her grandmother also wants the regulatory power of the mutual market, and the tribes of the barbarian land have and qualifications! ”

Luo Xuexuan skimmed Zhao Yuanzhi next to him, who had already twisted the paper ball into a ball, and his voice was so cold that ice slag could fall out: "Just let Yang Baoyuan directly kill that foolish person, anyway, he is now fascinated by other people's little princesses, Zhao Yuanzhi, what are you thinking!" I'm talking to you! ”

Zhao Yuanzhi came back to his senses and looked at him: "What did you just say?" ”

Luo Xuanxue: "······ Zhao Yuanzhi, when did you return to Lao Tzu's iQue, everyone is going to fight in the city, why are you very forbidden to fight in this small city? Mother's affairs are not successful, there is a mess at the border, you are responsible or Lao Tzu is responsible, I can go to your ancestors, your family is around, my wife and children are in the capital! Luo Xuexuan's rough words fell on Zhao Yuanzhi's head, he just felt that this person was absent-minded today.

Zhao Yuanzhi glanced at him, and threw the twisted thing in his hand into the three-legged tripod next to him: "I always feel that something is wrong there." ”

"Nothing is right there." Luo Xuanxue replied to him angrily: "I won't give you the market now, this roll up your sleeves and fight to see which one of the soldiers is good at training and can't run away, do you want to think about whether it is the first strike or the second strike to be controlled by others, if it starts, Yang Baoyuan will have to get it back quickly." ”

Zhao Yuanzhi didn't say anything about Zhao Yuancong, now he thinks about more things, he always feels that he has pinched something very important, and after thinking about Luo Xuexuan's words, he said: "Let people send a letter to Yang Baoyuan, look at it and almost kill people back, even if they want to fight, they have to make them sit still outside and attack us, it seems that we are passive, but the initiative is here, and I have transferred some of the troops to protect the people." ”

"You still need to say that." Luo Xuanxue looked at the person who got up and stopped him: "Zhao Yuanzhi, what do you have on your mind to tell me, if you help me so far, I will definitely not betray you in the slightest." ”

"your ancestors, you just want me to marry my daughter to you."

"Lao Tzu is serious with you!"

Zhao Yuanzhi looked at him sideways: "I can solve it, and if you make a move, you will be bullying." He thought for a while: "Tell your people in the city, if someone named Shen Mengzhou appears, he will be detained first, and the person who finds something wrong will be killed directly." ”

"Shen Mengzhou? The one who almost married your Bao Dai back? When are you going to announce your personal vendetta now! ”

Zhao Yuanzhi laughed angrily at him: "Just do what I say, and besides, the person I just sent to you, interrogate me well." Although Yang Baodai is a cautious person, he will not let him guard his side for no reason, whether Yang Baodai is disguised too well or he thinks too much, it is best to judge the people in the yard clearly.

If you die, you will die, at least you will have peace of mind.