Located in the opposite direction of the General's Palace, the Rui Wangfu is far from the General's Palace, but not so far from the Royal Palace.

Two well-trained sedan chair men carried the sedan chair and walked towards the Rui Wang's Mansion with a brisk pace, and it didn't take half an hour to come to the gate of the Rui Wang's Mansion.

If the gate of King Rui's Mansion was open, Zhao Yun, the big man who was like an iron tower, seemed to know that Zhan Qi was coming, and he was already standing at the gate and waiting.

Zhan Qi's sedan chair came to the gate of the palace in a hurry, and before it stopped, Zhao Yun stepped forward and saluted with his fists through the curtain, and said loudly: "The last general will participate in the general!" ”

Zhan Qi walked out of the sedan chair, stepped forward with a smile and patted Zhao Yun's shoulder vigorously, and said, "Major General Zhao, don't come to harm, right?" ”

Zhao Yun replied with a series of hearty laughter and said, "Thanks to the general's blessing, it's okay." His Royal Highness guessed that the general would definitely come to the palace today, and specially asked the last general to wait for the general's drive here! ”

Zhan Qi smiled slightly. Sure enough, the one who knows Zhan and prays is none other than Rui Wang Yu Tianzhengye.

He looked up at the open door and asked, "What about the prince?" ”

Zhao Yun made a gesture of invitation and said, "Your Highness has been waiting for a long time, and the last general will take the general to see Your Highness." ”

After entering the palace, Zhao Yun took Zhan Qi straight to the backyard.

The backyard of King Rui's Mansion is very large and special.

As soon as you step into the backyard, a sea of flowers will come to you.

In this colorful but tranquil sea of flowers, a clear stream flows through the center of the courtyard, dividing the entire backyard from west to east. On the left and right sides of the creek are large patches of grass that have begun to turn yellow, and the neatly manicured meadow is centered on the creek and expands into a circle with a radius of about ten meters, and is surrounded by a circle of brilliant begonias.

A simple, old-fashioned wooden pavilion stands alone on the open grass. The wood-colored wooden pillars and fences, and the four-cornered single-eaves and blue-tiled pavilion roofs are even more lonely and clear surrounded by a sea of vibrant flowers.

In the lonely pavilion, a man with half-eyed eyes sat on the ground. Wearing a white round-necked robe and a pale cyan round-necked wide-sleeved gauze outside, he lowered his head and fiddled with the piano on his lap, and a few strands of black hair tied to the back of his head fell on the strings and hung down on the sleeves of the painted orchid, which contrasted with the orchid.

As if for fear of disturbing the tranquility around him, his hands just stroked the strings gently, without playing a single note.

The intrusion of Zhao Yun and Zhan Qi disturbed this gorgeous tranquility.

The man opened his eyes suddenly, raised a pair of eyes as bright as stars, looked at Zhao Yun and Zhan Qi who walked towards the wooden pavilion through the sea of flowers, and smiled lightly.

Zhan Qi strode over, and before Zhao Yun stepped forward to report, he had already walked into the wooden pavilion, sat down beside the man with a grin, and asked, "Yu Tianzheng, when did you come back?" ”

The man he called by his name like this was none other than Rui Wang Yu Tianzheng, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Dynasty.

Yu Tianzheng seems to have long been accustomed to being called by Zhan Qi like this. He smiled calmly and said, "I came back the night before yesterday." ”

Zhan Qi said dissatisfiedly: "When I came back the day before yesterday, not only did I not come to look for me, but I didn't even ask someone to bring a message to me. Yu Tianzheng, you are too much of a friend! ”

Yu Tianzheng plucked the strings, made a crisp sound, and then said: "Originally, I planned to take Xiaorui around the street yesterday and then go to your house, but I didn't go because of an unexpected incident on the way." ”

"Is that a kidnapping?" Zhan Qi looked at Yu Tianzheng's face, noticing the change in his expression.

Yu Tianzheng didn't intend to hide anything, he smiled and said, "That's right, two Northern Barbarians kidnapped Xiaorui on the streets of the capital right under my nose. He was smiling, but there was a chill in his eyes.

Zhan Qi's face also changed a little. He asked, "Did you catch those two guys?" Xiaoxiao Rui is okay, right? ”

Yu Tianzheng said: "They ran away. Fortunately, Xiaorui is safe and sound, otherwise, I will definitely break those two bodies into ten thousand pieces! As he spoke, the expression on his face did not change, but with a sharp force of the hand that was caressing the strings, the strings were all broken, and a piercing final break was made.

Looking at the piano with broken strings, Zhan Qi asked uncertainly, "Are you sure that the two people who kidnapped Xiao Xiaorui are Northern Barbarians?" ”

Yu Tianzheng said: "Those two people are wearing Beiban clothes, and Xiaorui also heard them speak Beiban dialect. ”

Zhan Qi thought for a moment and said, "Based on these two points alone, we can't be sure that they must be Northern Barbarians. ”

"My father ordered me to be recalled from the northern Xinjiang to the capital, and I deliberately hid my whereabouts and returned to the capital this time. I didn't even know when my father would return, and few people probably knew when I would return to Beijing, but the kidnapping happened the day after I returned. Judging from the actions of the other side, this is not an impromptu kidnapping, but a well-planned one. Xiaorui is just a little girl who doesn't understand the world, and it stands to reason that no one will want to kidnap her. Then, the purpose of kidnapping her should be for me. In addition to being the prince and prince of Qiyang, I am also the general of the expedition to the north who drove the Northern barbarians out of the territory of Qiyang. The Northern Barbarians definitely have reasons and suspicions to deal with me. ”

Zhan Qi frowned and pondered.

Yu Tianzheng only told him the return date, and the letter was written by a code that only the two of them could understand, and he was sure that he had not leaked the contents of the letter to a third party, and no one in the capital should know Yu Tianzheng's exact return date except for him. But Yu Tianzheng returned to Beijing at night, and a kidnapping case occurred the next day, so it was indeed like someone was following Yu Tianzheng while preparing to find an opportunity to do it.

Although it is not only the Northern Barbarian State that has suffered defeats in the territorial war that wants to deal with Yu Tianzheng, but also the various dark forces in the DPRK, one of the purposes of Yu Tianzheng's hiding the news of his return to Beijing is to prevent the dark forces in the DPRK from having a chance to attack on his way back. The dark forces will only be bold enough to attack Yu Tianzheng outside the capital, and will never blatantly tie people up at the feet of the Son of Heaven. Analyzed in this way, the Northern Barbarian Kingdom is the suspect who is most likely to attack Yu Tianzheng.