In the spring of the twentieth year of Chengji, the sixteen countries of Dongjun invaded the border, and the emperor ordered the second prince Xie Lan to lead the troops to battle.

However, on the eve of the expedition, Emperor Chengji changed the deputy general, leaving the original deputy general Jin Qi and ordering Chu, the son of the Taiwei of Chu, to resign as the deputy general and follow the army.

On the day of the army's expedition, sacrifices were made to the gods of heaven and earth, praying for the army's victorious return.

The people who were planted in the palace by Yunyan Pavilion spread the news that Emperor Cheng Ji summoned the deputy general of Chu in Hanyuan Palace and gave him a secret edict to open it after the victory in the war.

As for what the content of the secret edict is, no one knows now except Emperor Chengji.

Master Xuan said that he was no longer surprised: "Since it is a secret edict, I'm afraid it won't be a good thing." ”

"Could it be that the emperor will let Chu Ci and others assassinate the second prince after the victory?" Xuan Jinhuan was surprised.

"It's unbelievable, but it doesn't have to be, after all, that person is a madman." Master Xuan snorted and said unhappily, "After all, open guns are easy to dodge, but hidden arrows are difficult to guard. If Xie Lan made meritorious contributions to the rebellion in Dongjun, he would be rewarded after the class teacher returned to the court; He couldn't tolerate Xie Lan with that person. ”

I have always heard that the heavenly family has no family affection, but I didn't expect it to be so ruthless, and the father calculates that he wants his son's life.

If it was really just because of Empress Xuan that the emperor was jealous of Xie Lan, and Xie Lan was only a few years old when Empress Xuan died, in fact, the emperor could have many ways to make Xie Lan never succeed to the throne even if he was the queen's concubine. But now it seems that it is not so simple, and there seems to be something hidden in it.

Xuanjin thought about it for a while, and then mustered up the courage to ask Master Xuan: "Mother-in-law, do you know, why does Emperor Chengji hate Empress Xuan so much?" If it's just because of fear, there's no need to take your life, right? After all, a husband and wife for a hundred days, even if there is no kindness, the second highness is his own flesh and blood after all. "Unless there's something hidden in the know.

Master Xuan looked at Xuan Jinhuan for a long time, and asked slowly, "Do you really want to know?" ”

Is there really a secret? Xuan Jinhuan nodded immediately.

"In fact, it was a scandal more than 20 years ago, and the face of the Xuan royal family was lost by her." When Master Xuan mentions it now, there is still a faint sense of hatred for iron and steel, "Xie Jia, the son of the Marquis of Ningyuan, is young and promising, studied under Mr. Gu, and at the age of twelve, he followed his father Marquis Ning Yuan to kill the enemy, and was called Fu Xie Xiaoyingjie together with Fu Min, the son of Fu Fei at that time. When Xie Jia was fifteen years old, Emperor Jingmu secretly granted marriage, and the marriage book is still enshrined in the Xie ancestral hall. After another five years, Princess Yixing admired the name of the prince of Ningyuan, and after the palace banquet, she led Xie Jia to the harness to take medicine and become husband and wife, and then asked the palace people to attract people to find her, which happened to be seen by everyone, which forced Xie Jia to marry her. At that time, the Marquis of Ningyuan was powerful, and Xie Jia was even more reluctant to do this family business, so he forced Princess Yixing to promise to welcome the daughter of the Yan family into the side room at the same time on the wedding day, so that it was over. ”

Hearing his stepmother tell such a story about the past, Xuan Jinhuan was so shocked that his jaw dropped.

Isn't Princess Yixing a royal princess? Why would she do such an outrageous thing?

Looking at Xuan Jinhuan's expression, Master Xuan had already guessed what she was thinking: "This is an ugly thing after all, so I will enter your ears from my mouth, don't let the third person know." ”

Xuan Jinhuan nodded again and again, but he still couldn't help asking: "Then, stepmother, who was the wife that Emperor Jingmu gave him to marry at that time?" Could it be the Yan Clan? Although he asked like this, Xuan Jinhuan felt in his heart that it could not be Mrs. Yan; The Yan family was born as a concubine, and the Marquis of Ningyuan at that time was a century-old marquis, it seems that the Marquis of Ningyuan was still one of the ministers of Emperor Jingzhao at that time, and it was impossible for the Marquis of Ningyuan to match a concubine who was not obvious.

Master Xuan didn't want to say any more, but said, "You don't need to know this." ”

Since the stepmother said so, Xuan Jinhuan put away her curiosity and stopped asking.

For Xie Lan to fight in Dongjun, if Emperor Cheng Ji really got in the way, he really couldn't prevent it, and he could only take one step at a time.

Master Xuan thought about the matter very completely, contacted the people in Dongjun, and acted on the opportunity; But after all, the royal capital and Dongjun are separated by 108,000 miles, and there will really be nothing beyond the reach of the whip at that time.

And not only did they see the problem, but General Zhu Huanshan also felt that it was inappropriate, saying that the emperor transferred the Fengtian general Zhu Jiming to guard the Nanguan of Dongjun and let them wait for the imperial order in the Nanguan.

But before Zhu Jiming and Princess Guanghua got married, the horse set out on the expedition, which seems to be too urgent!

Emperor Chengji's arrangement is really incomprehensible.

However, if Zhu Jiming is in Nanguan, Dongjun, he can be unprepared.

General Zhu Huanshan sent a secret letter to the master of Xuan, and after the master of Xuansi read the letter, he asked Xuan Jinhuan to go to Dongjun in person, and take Zhu Huanshan's letter to Nanguan to see Zhu Huanshan. At the same time, Master Xuan also handed Xuan Jinhuan a waist card, which was the waist card on Xie Lan's mansion.

"Mother-in-law, what is this?" Xuan Jinhuan took the cold waist card and looked at Master Xuan very blankly.

"You put on a man's costume and claim to be a personal soldier in Xie Lan's mansion; When the time comes, you show General Zhu Hanshan's letter to Zhu Jiming, and he knows what to do. "Chief Xuansi made a long story short, and looked very anxious.

When Xuan Jinhuan took the things given to her by her stepmother, she still felt that her head couldn't turn around, but looking at the tone of her stepmother, it seemed that she was very urgent, and it was estimated that her stepmother knew the exact news from General Zhu. Just weighing the waist card in his hand, he was a little worried and anxious for no reason.

changed into the men's clothes hurriedly prepared by the master of Xuansi, and tied up the green silk; Xuan Jinhuan felt that he was constrained, and there was nothing wrong with his body.

Yi Yu joked: "I have never seen such a beautiful young man." ”

Xuan Jinhuan touched his arched hair a little unaccustomedly, and then showed a somewhat green smile: "Sister Yiyu, don't make fun of me." "It's just that at that moment there was an illusion that it seemed good to be a boy.

Coming out of the Yunyan Pavilion, the royal capital was on alert, and it was said that a thief entered the palace and stole the emperor's beloved things, and now the whole city is searching for them.

The emperor didn't need to look at it at all, Xuan Jinhuan knew that it must have been his stepmother who sneaked into the palace that night to bring out the Cold Shadow Sword, and now it has been discovered.

However, the emperor did not dare to say what was taken away by the thieves, only said that it was a beloved thing, which I am afraid did not dare to say at all.

According to the righteous mother, it was originally a very strange thing for the Chengying Sword to appear in the palace, but now Emperor Chengji's reaction corresponded to what the righteous mother expected.

What secrets are hidden in the palace, and what does this secret have to do with the stepmother?

Now that the officers and soldiers are searching for the whereabouts of the Cold Shadow Sword throughout the city, will the stepmother be in danger?

Xuan Jinhuan passed by the Huangbang and thought about all kinds of nonsense, but because she was going out of the city before the gate of the city, she really didn't have time to think too much.

At dusk, she rode away from the royal capital.