Gu Yan was reminding him not to expose himself.

Fang Qian admired Gu Yan a little more in his heart.

The strength of his hand decreased, but it hit Gu Yan's body harder.

"Yes."

The pain of the whip hitting her body made Gu Yan snort.

Although Wu Dequan, who was watching from the sidelines, dispelled his doubts, he always had a reaction in his heart about the matter of snatching words in front of the room.

Shen Zhongbai had already spread the news that Gu Yan had been tortured in the Zongren Mansion, but he had never seen Shen Qianshan come once, even if he sent someone, which made Shen Zhongbai very suspicious.

Did he make a mistake? Or is it that Shen Qianshan is actually using Gu Yan.

One question after another gave him a headache.

"Your Majesty, the princess is kneeling outside again, do you want to go out and have a look?"

A father-in-law walked in, feeling that Shen Zhongbai's mood was not very good, he said cautiously.

Shen Zhongbai rubbed his eyebrows, thought of Shen Ruxue who was kneeling outside, and said, "If he likes to kneel, just kneel." ”

"Your Majesty, it's been a few days......"

"Can't you hear what I'm saying?"

The father-in-law wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Shen Zhongbai. The fierce momentum directly frightened him to his knees.

"The minions obey."

After speaking, he hurriedly left the imperial study and walked to Shen Ruxue's side, he said to her who was kneeling on the ground: "Princess, you better go back, the emperor is dealing with state affairs, and he has no time to see you." ”

Shen Ruxue didn't seem to hear his words, and shouted to the imperial study: "Father, no matter what, my daughter is unwilling to marry Zhou Ziyuan, my daughter likes Gu Suran, if you want to dispose of him, then dispose of your daughter together." ”

Her cry startled the father-in-law, and he hurried to cover her mouth.

"Princess, the emperor is angry, you collided with the emperor like this, and it is not something you and I can afford to blame the emperor for."

How could Shen Ruxue listen to his persuasion, tore his hand away, and said: "If you are afraid, let me go, if my father does not agree to me, I will kneel until he agrees." ”

"What if I just don't agree?" Shen Zhongbai walked out at some point.

Hearing the voice, Shen Ruxue raised her eyes and looked, when she saw Shen Zhongbai, her heart was still full of fear, but she still said boldly: "If you don't agree, I will come every day until you get impatient and agree." ”

Looking at the people on the ground, Shen Zhongbai only felt a wave of anger rising in his heart, in his opinion, Shen Ruxue was just a chess piece, but she didn't listen to him, disobeyed his orders, and rushed into him for a Gu Yan.

However, he now wants her to marry Zhou Ziyuan, so she can't die.

"You go back first, I will find out about Gu Suran's affairs, as for your marriage to Zhou Ziyuan...... Shen Zhongbai paused and continued: "I am a promise, you still have to marry." ”

Ben was still glad that Gu Suran was saved, and when he heard that Shen Zhongbai was going to marry her, Shen Ruxue was even more reluctant in her heart.

"Father, you don't know what kind of person Zhou Ziyuan is, they all say that she is cruel and unkind, loves beauty, and if her daughter is added, she must not be bullied by him."

Shen Zhongbai glanced at Shen Ruxue impatiently, he was just comforting her, but he didn't expect her to have to inch in, could it be that he was too kind?

"What kind of person Zhou Ziyuan is, don't you know what kind of father the emperor is? Don't believe the rumors out there. ”

After that, Shen Zhongbai didn't want to say anything more to her.

"Okay, you go back to the palace first, my father still has a lot of twists and turns that have not been approved."

After speaking, he turned around and left, not giving Shen Ruxue a chance to speak again.

Shen Ruxue, who had just opened her mouth and was about to persuade again, could only close her mouth, got up and left unwillingly.

After Wu Dequan returned from the Zongren Mansion, he locked himself in the study, and he secretly sent someone to investigate the front of this room, he didn't investigate it before because it was a person sent by Mrs. Wu, but today's matter is too weird, he has to investigate it well.

At night, in the dead of night, he sneaked out of the Wufu in front of the house and found Shen Qianshan.

"Lord Wang, my subordinates saw the second son today."

Hearing him say that he saw Gu Yan, Shen Qianshan asked, "Is she okay?" ”

Unexpectedly, he suddenly knelt down in front of the room, which frightened a few people in the room, and they all guessed what was going on.

"Please also ask the prince to condemn the slave, who beat the second son with thirty lashes today."

As soon as these words came out, everyone looked at Shen Qianshan, only to see that his face was gloomy and terrifying, but he continued to wait for the room to finish.

"Today, the slave Yu Wu Dequan went to the Zongren Mansion together, in order to tell the second son that I am your person, he went to interrogate, and then Wu Dequan asked me to beat the second son with thirty lashes, and the second son asked the slave not to be exposed, so he received these thirty lashes."

"Please also ask the prince to condemn the slave."

After speaking, he didn't forget to ask for sin before the room.

If Shen Qianshan didn't blame him, it would be unreasonable, after all, he did beat Gu Yan with thirty lashes.

Shen Qianshan glanced at him and said lightly, "What did the second son tell you?" ”

"The second prince said that all this is the emperor's plan."

His words made everyone have to admire Shen Zhongbai's good strategy, they excluded Shen Zhongbai from the beginning, if Gu Yan hadn't discovered his plan and told them, they probably wouldn't have thought that he designed it again.

"You take the punishment yourself."

Shen Qianshan said lightly.

"Yes." The front of the house was ordered to go out.

"I didn't expect Shen Zhongbai to have such a scheming, he already knew that Gu Yan was Gu Suran, and now he is afraid that he wants to lead you over by arresting her into the Zongren Mansion."

Chu Tiankuo carefully analyzed this move, which seemed to be a kick inserted by Shen Zhongbai in the middle of the road, but in fact, it had been premeditated for a long time.

The maid beside Shen Ruxue before was afraid that he arranged it, and in order to achieve the goal, he really didn't care about his daughter's life and death.

"Now that we know that Shen Zhongbai did it, it's time for us to take precautions."

It's just that when he thought that Gu Yan was still suffering in the Zongren Mansion, Shen Qianshan couldn't wait to bring her out immediately.

Chu Tiankuo naturally saw Shen Qianshan's thoughts, and he spoke: "We have to rescue Gu Chang before we can fight back against Shen Zhongbai, if we do it too obviously, he will definitely do something unfavorable to Gu Chang." ”

Gu Huai'an nodded, he was also very worried about his sister.

The next day, Shen Qianshan's subordinates walked in with a man who was dirty, his clothes were a little tattered, and his face was also scarred.

"Master, this is the one who beat the beggar."

The person who was caught raised his eyes and looked at the master who was talking about his subordinates, and when he saw that it was Shen Qianshan, he suddenly felt cold in his heart.

I heard that Gu Suran was friendly with the Nine Princes before, and now that he was caught by the Nine Princes, he had to be scraped alive, especially since he also sent Gu Suran to prison.

"Is that you?"

The cold two words spit out, and before Shen Qianshan could say what it was, the person hurriedly denied it.

"It's not me, it's not me."

His words made Chu Tiankuo laugh.

"You said it wasn't you before I asked you anything, it seems that you know what we're going to ask you."

Zhang Qiang immediately knew that he had been exposed, and he was both scared and remorseful, but he still pretended to be stupid and said, "I don't know what the master is looking for me?" ”

"You and those guys beat a beggar at our door that time, didn't you?"

"What, what beggar, I don't know." Zhang Qiang's eyes flickered as he spoke.

Gu Huai'an didn't want to make a detour with him, so he said directly: "You also know that those few of your companions are dead, although you escaped by luck, but if you don't tell the truth, you know what the Nine Princes do." ”

Zhang Qiang remembered that day he went to the ruined temple with his companions, and while waiting, he suddenly had diarrhea and left, only to see the corpses of his companions when he returned, and he was so frightened that he quickly fled there.

In the past few days, in order not to be discovered, he has been hiding everywhere in Tibet, but he always feels that someone is going to kill him, and there is no place to be at ease. Today, when I was in the thatched house, I was accidentally caught, and my heart was cold at that time.

"The prince spares his life, the prince spares his life." The tragic faces of his companions appeared in front of his eyes one by one, and he was so frightened that he kept kowtowing and begging for mercy.

"Don't tell me who instructed you to do these things."

Zhang Qiang looked at the people who were staring at him closely, and hesitated to speak: "Actually, the villain doesn't know who it is. ”

"How could you not know?" Gu Huaian said angrily.

Zhang Qiang was frightened by his anger, and the whole person fell backwards, for fear that Gu Huai'an would reach out and beat him to death.

"I really don't know, the man was masked, he just told us to do things according to his instructions, and after we finished doing things, we went to the broken temple to ask him for money."

Dodging, Zhang Qiang didn't forget to defend himself.

"Why are you breaking the temple?" Chu Tiankuo asked.

"I had diarrhea, so I left for a while, and when I came back, they were all dead, so I ran away."

Listening to his words, Shen Qianshan felt that he was not lying, now they had to protect him, and they couldn't let Shen Zhongbai know that there was such a person, otherwise they would fall short.

At this moment, the subordinates outside the door hurried over.

"Lord Wang, Lord Rong is here."

Shen Qianshan was puzzled, what was Rong Lian doing here?

"Take him down first, watch over, don't let him escape." Shen Qianshan commanded.

Then he said to the subordinate who came: "Please come in, Lord Rong." ”

After Rong Lian came in, he didn't care about the others, and rushed directly in front of Shen Qianshan.

"Shen Qianshan, Gu Yan has been beaten like that, you still have the heart to drink tea here."

Shen Qianshan looked at this person who was roaring at him in a daze, he spied on his princess, and now he actually came to him for trouble, it was really bold enough.

Gu Huai'an didn't like Rong Lian in the first place, and when he saw him shouting like this, he couldn't help but say, "My sister doesn't need you to worry about it, Lord Rong should think about our cooperation." ”

As soon as he saw Gu Huai'an, Rong Lian became even more angry, if it weren't for him, would Gu Yan still not know about him?