In the high palace walls, Xu Rui and Princess Qixia walked briskly towards the deep palace under the guidance of several eunuchs, and the gloomy sky was drizzling, making the atmosphere very depressing.

Xu Rui didn't expect that the messenger who came to the army to pick him up would be Hu Miao, the eunuch with the palm print of the celebrant eunuch, and it was very unusual for the inner court to pick up people directly from the army outside the city, not to mention that it was the number two person in the inner court.

Yuan Zixiong felt deceitful as soon as he saw Hu Miao, and the current situation in the court is unknown, who knows what role Hu Miao plays in this?

Everyone was afraid that this was another enhanced version of the siege of Fenglei Town, and they all secretly persuaded Xu Rui not to enter the palace, but Xu Rui hesitated slightly, and decided to follow Hu Miao into the palace with Princess Qixia.

In another world, including the great general He Jin in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, many powerful ministers were deceived into the palace by eunuchs, separated from their own people, and were ambushed, thus losing their lives.

Xu Rui is obviously very risky to enter the palace in the current situation, but he has no room to retreat, there is too little information in his hand now, at least he has to figure out the situation first.

Compared with the past, the Imperial Forest Army in the palace has increased a lot, all of them are fresh faces that Xu Rui has never seen, and the few eunuchs who led the way are acquaintances, but their faces are full of solemnity, and they are no longer as relaxed as before.

Xu Rui and Princess Qixia followed a few eunuchs forward, and everyone didn't speak, only the sound of the rain made people panic.

Everyone turned a corner under the tall palace wall, and instead of going to the south study that they often went to on weekdays, they took another path, and Princess Qixia remembered that it was the location of the cold palace.

Her face changed slightly, and she was about to ask, but when she looked up, she suddenly saw a person standing at the end of the road, it was Wang Shun, the controller of the inner court.

"I've seen the ...... of my ancestors"

Several little eunuchs knelt down and saluted when they saw Wang Shun, and Princess Qixia and Xu Rui also temporarily suppressed the doubts in their hearts and waited for Wang Shun to speak.

Princess Wang Shun and Xu Rui saluted each other, still the same as in the past, and the number of courtesies they should have was not less, in strict accordance with the rules of the palace.

But for some reason, Xu Rui always felt that Wang Shun's dead face had a hint of haze that did not exist before.

Princess Qixia and Xu Rui hurriedly returned the salute, for this old man who watched him grow up, Princess Qixia and the princes regarded him as half an elder.

"Father-in-law Wang, where is my father?"

As soon as the ceremony was finished, Princess Qixia asked impatiently.

After all, it is his father, although there has been some friction, but when he heard the news of the big changes in his family thousands of miles away, he was most worried about Princess Qixia.

Wang Shun was still the expressionless face of a dead man, and in the face of Princess Qixia's urgency, the gloom on his face disappeared in an instant, and he unhurriedly let go of the way by half a step, pointing to the palace behind him and said, "In recent months, the saints have been recuperating here. ”

"Here?"

Princess Qixia frowned: "Isn't this a cold palace, why is my father here?" ”

Wang Shun said: "It's the saint himself who wants to move here, probably because it's cleaner here." ”

Princess Qixia was shocked when she heard this: "Father has woken up?" ”

Wang Shun was silent.

Princess Qixia was in a hurry, and she was about to walk towards the cold palace.

Wang Shun hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop him and said, "Your Highness, don't worry, the Holy Lord only recruits the champion Hou to see the driver." ”

"What did you say?"

Princess Qixia was stunned and looked at Wang Shun in amazement.

Wang Shun sighed and said: "Your Highness, the Holy Lord's body is too weak and his energy is limited, so let him finish talking to the Hou Ye first, you live in the palace at night, and you have a lot of time to ask the Holy Lord for peace." ”

Princess Qixia's face changed, and she was about to speak, but Xu Rui gently grabbed Princess Qixia's hand and shook her head, as if to say, "Don't worry, believe me!" ”

Princess Qixia's heart was relieved, but she was worried about Xu Rui's safety.

The current situation in the palace is very strange, completely different from before, Princess Qixia always has some ominous premonitions in her heart, but she can't say what is wrong with her.

However, reality didn't give her much time, Wang Shun made a gesture of please towards the cold palace and led the way in front of his head, turning around and walking towards the cold palace.

Xu Rui shook her hand, smiled at her, and then followed Wang Shun inside.

Princess Qixia only felt that the temperature on her hand suddenly disappeared, as if she was about to lose Xu Rui forever, and a sense of crisis suddenly surged in her heart, but before she could raise her head to call Xu Rui, Xu Rui had already disappeared from view with Wang Shun.

In the cold palace, Xu Rui looked at the surrounding eunuchs, and asked Wang Shun with a smile: "Shengshang has lived here for a while, right?" ”

Wang Shun didn't look back, and said lightly: "If Hou Ye doesn't need to set slaves, what should be said, what should be answered, the doubts that should be answered, the saint will personally answer for Hou Ye, don't be in a hurry." ”

As he spoke, Wang Shun suddenly stopped, gently pushed open the palace door in front of him, revealing a dark inner room, and said to Xu Rui: "Master Hou, please, the saint is inside." ”

Xu Rui was stunned for a moment, and glanced at the palace a few times, the windows inside were blocked by thick cotton cloth, and there was hardly any light to be seen, even ordinary people could smell a strong smell of medicine.

Xu Rui groaned slightly and slowly walked into the door, while Wang Shun stood at the door and watched him blankly, as if Xu Rui was about to enter another world alone, and the scene was indescribably weird.

There was an indescribable gloomy aura in the cold palace, Xu Rui frowned and walked in, there was no one in the empty hall, and it was not until he turned a corner that he saw a little dim yellow light.

Xu Rui hurriedly quickened his pace, and finally came to a gauze tent.

There were a few candles lit around the gauze tent, and the dim yellow light came from these candles, and in the gauze tent there was only a large bed, and an old man could be faintly seen.

"Holy ......"

Xu Rui stood in front of the gauze tent and called softly.

However, there was no movement in the tent.

Xu Rui suddenly thought of a question, if the person in the gauze tent was indeed Emperor Hongwei, but Emperor Hongwei was a corpse, wouldn't the great crime of killing the monarch fall on his head?

Thinking of this, he was suddenly shocked in his heart, and subconsciously wanted to ignore the rules and reach out to open the curtain.

At this moment, Xu Rui suddenly heard a faint heartbeat, and immediately confirmed that the person in the gauze tent was still alive!

It turned out to be a false alarm, Xu Rui breathed a sigh of relief, and secretly complained that he had been a little nervous recently, but he was a little less calm.

"You...... Is that you? ”

A faint voice came from the tent, followed by a series of coughs.

Xu Rui's heart tightened, although the voice was weak, he could still hear that it was indeed the voice of Emperor Hongwei.

"Holy Lord, the minister is Xu Rui, and the minister is back!"

Xu Rui hurriedly agreed.

There was another incomprehensible silence, and only when Xu Rui thought that Emperor Hongwei had fallen into a coma again, did the voice come from the gauze tent again.

"You...... It's back...... It's good to come back, and when you come back, I will be relieved......"

Emperor Hongwei seemed to have just woken up, and finally determined that it was really Xu Rui, and struggled from the bed to sit up.

Xu Rui wanted to open the curtain to help him, but after thinking about it, he stopped his movements, and instead of lifting the tent, he knelt down with a "plop".

"You cheat and play tricks on weekdays, if you can not kneel, you will not kneel, why are you so simple today?"

There was silence in the gauze tent for a moment, and suddenly the faint voice of Emperor Hongwei came.

Xu Rui said in a deep voice: "The minister doesn't like to kneel, and he often relies on the grace of the saint to take advantage of it on weekdays, but today the minister wants to kneel, so it's simple." ”

Emperor Hongwei in the gauze tent looked at Xu Rui silently for a long time when he heard this, and finally took a deep breath, gently put the bell in his hand back into the quilt, and said lightly: "Open the gauze tent, let me take a good look at you, I won't see you for three years in a blink of an eye, three years, ah......"

Hearing this, Xu Rui slowly got up and gently lifted the gauze tent.

He looked towards the big bed, and when he saw Emperor Hongwei for the first time, Xu Rui's face couldn't help but change slightly, as if he had a thousand words to say in his heart, but it was like a fish in his throat, and finally they all converged into one sentence.

"Holy Lord, how did you get this ......?"