The rest of the people didn't think like Jiang Lingran, and they all wrote letters to report the good news without knowing whether the people sent by the emperor could catch up with Yan Qi.

Therefore, except for Jiang Lingran, all the people in the know went to Shuzhong to write.

And as Jiang Lingran thought, the two guards did not catch up with Yan Qi.

By the time they arrived at the Shuzhong realm, Yan Qi had already arrived for seven days.

However, the guards waited in the trading house for a full day, and they didn't see Yan Qi's shadow.

They didn't dare to slack off, and once again asked the steward on duty in the trading house: "Steward Xun, where did Mr. Qi go?" When will I return to the city? ”

Steward Xun frowned slightly when he heard this: "I have already sent people out one after another to look for it." ”

"It's just, this... There is still no news coming back. ”

"I really don't know where Childe is going in the lower class."

The two guards couldn't stop the fear of this no-brainer.

Even they had already thought of the worst.

It is said that they should immediately send a letter to Beijing, or ask the local governor for help with a token, but they are afraid that they will think too much about it, and they dare not make a fuss rashly, so they have to let the business house continue to look for it.

Under the repeated urging of the two guards, Steward Xun couldn't help but think about what they thought, and his heart trembled with fright for a while.

There is no time to take care of the affairs of the trading house, and all the manpower that can be deployed is used to find Yan Qi's whereabouts.

After another day of fear, the news of Yan Qi came back.

The guards and Steward Xun were all relieved.

Not daring to delay, the two guards immediately went to the place where Yan Qi was.

It is an inconspicuous courtyard outside the city, and two Taoist priests, an old man and a young man, walked in front of the house gate.

It wasn't their outfits that caught the guard's attention, but the bruises on their faces and the way they walked uphill.

Is this being beaten?

The little Taoist priest supported the old Taoist priest who walked three times, and vaguely heard the old Taoist priest say in a lack of energy: "... Heavenly Machine, I don't know in the future... It is not advisable to stay for long, so find your own way out. ”

The little Taoist priest cried when he arrived, wiping away his tears and not speaking.

Three or five small men walked out of the corner door next to him, and when he saw the two Taoist priests, he whispered: "Hey, isn't this the Zheng Zhenren who was beaten up by Ren Zhizhou?" Why did you come to our house? ”

Another little guy sneered and said, "He was so wild on the street a few days ago, how can you blame Zhizhou for beating him?" ”

A small guy said: "I heard that he found it himself and insisted on asking to see our family master." ”

"What? Do you still want our family master to support him? ”

Hearing this, several people shook their heads and smiled and walked away.

The two guards looked at each other when they heard this, and they both felt a little strange.

They searched for two days before they found Yan Qi's whereabouts, how did this Taoist priest know that Yan Qi was here?

Without waiting for them to think and look more, Baixiang walked out of the house.

When the two of them saw Baixiang, they were completely relieved, and hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Can Mr. Qi be in the house?" The emperor has a message! ”

Baixiang led the two of them to the house, all the way to the outside of the study.

The doors and windows of the study were closed, and Baixiang stepped forward and knocked on the door, and said respectfully: "Childe, the emperor has sent an edict here." ”

The voice in the study suddenly stopped, and after a while, the door opened, and seven or eight men walked out, arched their hands with Baixiang, and left with each other's ears.

Yan Qi's voice came from the study: "Come in." ”

The two hurriedly followed Baixiang and walked in, saluting Yan Qi behind the desk.

Yan Qi buried himself in the first case, didn't look up, and only said, "What kind of message?" ”

The guard in charge of delivering the message raised his head, and vaguely saw that what Yan Qi was pressing on his hand seemed to be a map? He muttered in his heart, but he didn't dare to look at it more, lowered his eyes and said, "The emperor has a message, let you go back to Beijing as soon as possible." ”

Yan Qi paused and looked up: "Something happened in Beijing?" ”

"There is peace in Beijing." The guard said: "It's Wen Jinghou, she..." ”

Yan Qi's eyes shrank, stood up rubberly, and asked nervously, "What's wrong with her?" ”

The guard was so frightened by Yan Qi's roar that he was silenced, and the rest of the words were stuck in his throat, he stretched his neck and swallowed his saliva, and then said: "Childe is relieved, it is a great joy." ”

"Wen Jinghou, she's pregnant."

Yan Qi's eyes lit up, and the whole person was stunned.

The guard continued to speak, but Yan Qi couldn't hear it, he looked down at the map that was spread all over the table, and his covered palms slowly closed.

After the guard finished speaking, he saw Yan Qi standing silently, and couldn't help but be puzzled, but he didn't dare to ask, just looked at Baixiang with his eyes.

Baixiang took two steps forward and called in a low voice: "Childe? ”

Yan Qi came back to his senses and nodded thoughtfully: "I know." ”

After saying that, he sat down behind the desk and stared at the messy paper on the table for a while, and his trance-like expression gradually became distinct.

"You're here just in time, I have news to send back to Beijing."

As he spoke, he picked up his pen and began to write something.

The guards said they were waiting.

Look at Yan Qi wrote three or five pieces of paper before putting down the pen.

Yan Qi said while painting the envelope: "Send it back to Beijing quickly, this letter can't be delayed!" ”

The guard took the letter and asked hesitantly, "When will you return to Beijing?" ”

Yan Qi paused and said, "I'll do it as soon as possible." ”

Because the emperor only sent an edict to Yan Qi to return to Beijing as soon as possible, and did not force Yan Qi to return to Beijing immediately, so the guards heard the word "as soon as possible", so they could only respond and did not dare to disobey.

took the letter and hurried back to Beijing.

In early August, the two returned to the capital.

The emperor read Yan Qi's letter and immediately found the prince.

After the prince finished reading the letter, the emperor said: "Does the prince think this letter is credible?" ”

The crown prince frowned, with a deep contemplative expression, shook his head lightly when he heard the words, and said, "Erchen doesn't know. ”

"What is written in this letter is too unbelievable... However, Zi'an is not a foolish person, and he must rely on it to write such a letter. ”

The emperor and the crown prince are one mind.

The crown prince saw that the emperor's eyebrows were full of confusion, and he couldn't help asking, "What does my father plan to do?" ”

The emperor pondered for a while and said, "Can there be an excerpt from Shuzhong?" ”

For more than a month, the emperor had less and less time to correct the excerpts, and most of the political affairs were taken care of by the prince.

The prince shook his head: "I haven't received it." ”

As he spoke, he looked down at the letter in his hand again, frowned, and said, "Is it possible that what is written on this letter is true?" ”

On top of this kind of catastrophe, it is better to believe that it exists than to believe that it does not exist!

The emperor wrinkled his eyebrows for a moment and said, "Don't make any public announcements about what is written in the letter for the time being. But you immediately send a proper person to Shuzhong. ”

If there is no nature, it is the best, and if there is, he can also take his imperial order as soon as possible and summon local officials to carry out the rescue.

The prince nodded in response, and immediately went to command.

On the same day, a group of people set off from Beijing and rushed to Shuzhong.

But two days later, a letter came from Shuzhong.