Chapter 245: Deliberation
Xiao Xuan looked at the envelope that Xiang Dong respectfully presented to him, but he didn't stretch out his hand to accept the envelope immediately.
Xiao Xuan and the Hu family have a lot of private interactions, she knows that Xiangdong is the most trusted person in front of the Hu family, and what is said in this envelope must not be an ordinary thing, otherwise the Hu family would not have sent Xiangdong out of this letter.
"Princess." Sui Hong, who was waiting beside Xiao Xuan, saw that Xiao Xuan had not moved, and called her in a low voice.
As soon as Sui Hong reminded her, Xiao Xuan came back to her senses, and immediately smiled at Xiangdong.
"Okay, I'll take it." Xiangdong kept holding the letter in both hands, until Xiao Xuan took the letter from her hand, and Xiangdong breathed a sigh of relief and straightened his waist. "I'll look back at the contents of the letter, but no matter what is written in my heart, remember to thank you princess on my behalf when I go back."
After saying that, Xiao Xuan turned his head sideways and glanced at Sui Hong. Sui Hong took out a purse from her sleeve that looked very weighty, and stuffed it into Xiangdong's hand with a smile.
"The slave thanked the princess for the reward." Xiangdong hurriedly saluted and said. "The slave will definitely bring the message to the princess of the county when she goes back."
Xiao Xuan asked Suihong to send Xiangdong out of the house, and she walked into the room, she tore open the envelope and pulled out a piece of envelope from the envelope.
Xiao Xuan recognized the handwriting on the letterhead, and it was indeed written by Hu himself.
After confirming the handwriting, she concentrated on the contents of the letterhead.
The content on the letterhead is simple and straightforward, but it is just a sentence.
'King Jin sent a secret letter to Jiangnan before King Yi left, the content of the letter is unknown, please be careful. ’
Xiao Xuan's hand holding the letterhead froze in mid-air and stiffened, and his heart suddenly hung up. She hurriedly moved the letterhead to her eyes again, and read it back and forth several times, eager to open the words one by one and read them carefully.
After a while, Xiao Xuan's hand trembled slightly, and he folded the letterhead again and stuffed it into the envelope.
"Spike Red!" Xiao Xuan suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, took a deep breath, raised his voice and called outside.
It just so happened that at this time, Sui Hong had sent Xiangdong out of the house and had already returned to the courtyard, and when she heard Xiao Xuan shouting her name in the room, she hurriedly trotted all the way in.
"The slave is here, does the princess have anything to tell the slave to do?" As soon as Sui Hong entered the room, she saw Xiao Xuan standing in the center of the room holding Fang Cai's letter.
Sui Hong naturally noticed that Xiao Xuan's complexion was different.
"Prepare the carriage immediately, I will enter the palace." Xiao Xuan immediately commanded.
"The princess wants to enter the palace?" Spike asked. "But now the palace gate has been keyed."
"Even if I get the key, if I want to enter the palace, will anyone dare to stop the carriage in my house." Xiao Xuan said. "You send someone to the Qin Palace, and invite my eldest brother to enter the palace as well."
Sui Hong didn't dare to say anything more at this time, and hurriedly went out to arrange a carriage for Xiao Xuan.
The carriage was ready, Xiao Xuan hurriedly went out, and happened to bump into Duan Shaolan who came back outside the mansion gate.
Duan Shaolan saw Xiao Xuan and hurriedly stopped her down.
"It's all this time, and you still have to go out?"
"I have an urgent matter and need to go to the palace." Xiao Xuan glanced at Duan Shaolan and said to him in a trance. "Dinner has been prepared in the house, you can use it first."
"But what's wrong?" Duan Shaolan rarely saw Xiao Xuan like this, so he grabbed her and asked. "There's no hurry about dinner for the time being, do you want me to accompany you into the palace?"
"I don't need you to accompany me, you're tired from being out all day." Xiao Xuan said to Duan Shaolan with a calm smile. "I just have something to say to my mother in the palace, and I'll be back in a while."
"Okay." Duan Shaolan saw that he couldn't stop her, so he had to turn over and send her to the carriage carefully, and told the groom who was driving to be safer. "Be careful on that road, I'll wait for you at home."
Xiao Xuan nodded at him, Duan Shaolan lowered the curtain of the carriage with his own hands this time, and stood at the gate of the mansion to watch the carriage leave.
When Xiao Xuan's carriage arrived at the palace gate, a palace guard who was guarding stepped forward to stop her carriage, but was stopped by a colleague beside her.
The rest of the people hurriedly opened the palace gate and let the carriage in.
"I'm going to die, what are you stopping for?" Colleagues scolded. "That's Princess Zhaoyue's carriage."
The carriage on Xiao Xuan's mansion has the princess's mansion badge given by Emperor Chu himself, and it is unimpeded all the way in the palace, directly in front of the palace gate of Yihua Palace.
When Xiao Xuan rushed into the palace of Emperor Liu's concubine with his head down, Concubine Liuhuang, who didn't know in advance that Xiao Xuan was coming, was also startled when she saw Xiao Xuan rushing in in a hurry.
"Why did you enter the palace at this time?" Concubine Liu Huang was originally eating, but when she saw Xiao Xuan coming, she hurriedly put down the chopsticks in her hand and asked. "They didn't even give me a word in advance."
Xiao Xuan rushed directly to Concubine Liu, and handed the envelope that she had been holding tightly in her hand to Concubine Liu, who took it for some reason.
"Look at it." Xiao Xuan sat down and said to Emperor Liu. "This is the second sister-in-law sent her own henchmen to my house."
Concubine Liu glanced at Xiao Xuan, quickly opened the envelope and took out the letterhead, and quickly read the contents of the letter.
"Is Hu's words credible?" Emperor Liu Guifei looked at the contents of the letterhead, her face changed slightly, and she asked in a deep voice.
"I think the words of the second sister-in-law are credible." Xiao Xuan looked solemnly at Emperor Liu's concubine. "The second sister-in-law is afraid that the second brother will do something in the future to implicate herself and the children, so she will warn us in time and let us be vigilant, so that the second brother will not succeed easily."
"Hmm." Concubine Liu nodded and asked. "Did you inform your eldest brother?"
"Before I entered the palace, I had asked Suihong to send someone to send a message to my eldest brother and let him come to the palace as well." Xiao Xuanjing took the teapot himself, poured himself a full amount of tea, and drank it all in one gulp. "Count the time, and the big brother should be there in a while."
"Okay, let's wait for your eldest brother to come." Emperor Liu put the letterhead back in the envelope. "Have you had dinner yet?"
"Nope." Xiao Xuan shook his head and said. "I knew this and was in a hurry to enter the palace, where could I take care of this?"
"If it's useless, use some more at my place, don't be hungry, eat something lighter." Concubine Liu was used to seeing the wind and waves, and the little panic when she first read the letterhead had completely calmed down. "When you're done, it's almost time for your eldest brother to arrive."
Sure enough, Xiao Xuan drank a bowl of porridge, and Xiao Yu, who got the news, hurriedly came.
"Xuan'er, what's going on?" Xiao Yu walked in, saw Xiao Xuan and asked.
"Don't be in a hurry to ask questions yet, come and sit down." After Emperor Liu's concubine asked her to remove all the food on the table, she asked the palace maids who were waiting in the palace to go down first, and then handed the things in her hand to Xiao Yu. "This is the letter Xuan'er received today, take a look."
"Yes." Xiao Yu took it, opened it and glanced at it, then raised his head to look at Xiao Xuan. "Xuan'er, where did this news come from?"
"This news is from the second brother's mansion." Xiao Xuan looked at Xiao Yu and replied. "The news was passed on to me after the second sister-in-law inquired. I thought that the second brother would send his henchmen to send a secret letter to Jiangnan before the sixth brother left, and most of the things written in his secret letter were inseparable from the sixth brother's trip to Jiangnan. ”
"I should know, with his heart and strength, I asked the sixth brother to come forward and rob him of the errand he likes, and he will definitely have a plan in the future." Xiao Yu subconsciously clenched his hands, and the originally flat letterhead was instantly nested into a paper ball. "It's just that his henchman left the imperial capital a day earlier than the sixth brother, and now he is afraid that it will be too late to send someone to chase him."
"But does he still have people in Jiangnan?" Emperor Liu asked. "After the Jiangnan case before, so many people were dug up, haven't you cleaned up his subordinates?"
"Among the many things in Jiangnan, the people under Xiao Jin almost never came forward, and they were all dealt with by the former Jiangnan prefect, and most of the people used were also from the Yongchang Earl's Mansion. In order to protect the Yongchang Earl's Mansion from being implicated too deeply, the old Yongchang Uncle took the initiative to find his father and give out all the people he had planted in Jiangnan. Xiao Yu recalled. The father got the list, and it was easy for the pennant guard to deal with it. It's just that Xiao Jin's subordinates are extremely hidden, although the Jinqiwei also found out two people who had exposed some horses before, but the others couldn't find them. ”
"Hey, I don't know what he's arranged, and there's no way to defend against it." Emperor Liu said. "Although your sixth brother has a pennant guard by his side, it is good to give him a hint to keep an eye on it. In this way, you sent someone close to you, hurry up with Jun'er's team, talk to him, and let him know what to expect. ”
"Yes, when I return home today, I will immediately arrange for people to chase after the sixth brother." For the sake of today's plan, since I don't know what Xiao Jin will do, I can only take more precautions.
"Mother, big brother." At this time, Xiao Xuan, who had been quiet for a while, suddenly opened his mouth and said. "I can probably think of some stupid trick that the second brother will do."
"What? You say come and hear it. Xiao Yu asked.
"The second brother must know that the sixth brother is protected by the pennant guard, and the second brother may not have the courage to do the assassination of the sixth brother." Xiao Xuan is much calmer now than before. "But the sixth brother's temperament of pity and cherishing jade, don't the mother and eldest brother still know? If the sixth brother really met such a woman in Jiangnan, and the woman showed favor to the sixth brother many times, how long do the mother and eldest brother think the sixth brother can hold on? ”
Xiao Xuan's words immediately woke up Xiao Yu and Concubine Liu.