Xiao Yuexi had already stepped into the carriage with one foot, but he didn't pause when he heard the words, when Yu Jinze rushed over, Xiao Yuexi had already thrown off the curtain and said loudly: "Let's go!" ”

A hint of surprise flashed in Yu Jinze's eyes, and then he said, "Why is Mrs. Xiao in a hurry? How about Jin Ze invite you to tea? ”

Xiao Yuexi said proudly: "Don't drink." ”

It seemed that he couldn't imagine that Xiao Yuexi would really leave like this, and Prince Tortoiseshell finally couldn't hold his nerve and said: "The guards are not sensible, Mrs. Xiao doesn't have to worry about him, how about Jin Ze compensate you here?" ”

Inside the carriage, Xiao Yuexi was silent for a while, and suddenly asked, "How does His Royal Highness the Crown Prince want to compensate?" ”

Yu Jinze: "......" feelings, she has been waiting for him for a long time, right? He smiled and said, "Madame must have come all the way to ask something, right?" Why don't we go in and talk slowly? ”

Xiao Yuexi said indifferently: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will answer me a few questions first, and then I will consider whether to go in." ”

"This ......" Can this be promised? After answering a few questions, this person will definitely leave immediately and never stop.

Xiao Yuexi sneered: "Forget it, let's go." ”

Qiong Lou was already about to leave in the carriage, Yu Jinze gritted his teeth, and had to say: "The answer is okay, but these two people can't listen." ”

This is nothing, whether they listen or not, Xiao Yuexi's conversation with Prince Tortoiseshell today will still reach the ears of His Majesty the Emperor word for word. Xiao Yuexi stretched out her plain white hand to lift the curtain of the carriage, jumped out of the carriage with a light movement, turned her head to Fengshuangxue and said, "Ah Shuang, you stay here and wait for me." ”

Fengshuang Xue answered "yes", and Xiao Yuexi followed Prince Tortoiseshell away and stopped in a clearing that was enough for Ah Shuang to see. Yu Jinze said: "Mrs. Xiao can ask whatever she wants." ”

Xiao Yuexi didn't talk nonsense, and said straight to the point: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince came to my Yelan, what is the purpose?" ”

Yu Jinze said unexpectedly: "Jinze thought that what he should have said yesterday was very clear, and the purpose of this trip was to take Mrs. Xiao back to Tortoiseshell." ”

Xiao Yuexi nodded, and asked again: "If I don't want to be His Royal Highness the Prince, I'm not using me for entertainment, so ...... The reason? ”

Yu Jinze: "Why should Mrs. Xiao bother with the reason? There is nothing left or right for you to show in this Yelan country, and you have been repeatedly bullied in the palace, why don't you come to my tortoiseshell, keep you worry-free, do whatever you want! ”

Xiao Yuexi said inexplicably: "Who told you that I was repeatedly bullied in the palace?" Prince Tortoiseshell, your information is wrong! ”

Yu Jinze said with a smile: "Madam Xiao doesn't have to defend Emperor Yelan anything, whether you are really happy in your own heart, only you know best." ”

Xiao Yuexi nodded, it was indeed she who knew best, and others didn't understand it at all. She looked the flawed tortoiseshell prince up and down, and asked again, "What do you want if I don't go back with you?" ”

"So direct?" Yu Jinze seemed very surprised. "Even if Jin Ze really wants to do something, he won't be honest with you. Mrs. Xiao, Jin Ze said, do you really dare to believe it? ”

Xiao Yuexi didn't say a word, turned around and left.

Yu Jinze: "...... Huh! Mrs. Shaw?! ”

"The question was finished, and the answer didn't make me feel much better, and I left!" Xiao Yuexi walked leisurely in the direction of the carriage.

I had never seen anyone who could be cloudy and uncertain to such an extent, Yu Jinze's whole body froze, and it took a while before he reacted and raised his voice: "Mrs. Xiao, come back, I said it's not okay?" ”

Xiao Yuexi turned around and said, "But what to do?" I don't want to hear it now, why don't His Royal Highness the Crown Prince enter the palace and talk to the emperor another day? ”

Yu Jinze wanted to cry without tears and said: "I know you are checking your own background, let those people withdraw it, I can tell you." Mrs. Xiao, it's not easy for you to come out, and you will definitely not be willing to return in vain. Let's go in and sit down, and we'll talk slowly. ”

Xiao Yuexi said indifferently: "I'm afraid it's not okay to talk slowly, it's getting late, I still have to go back to the palace before the end of the Shen period, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will make a long story short." After a pause, she added as if she remembered something: "But since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince knows what I'm checking for, he must also know where my people are moving, if it's convenient, you can send the news to them directly." ”

Yu Jinze sighed and said, "Mrs. Xiao must have begun to suspect that she is not from the Yelan Country, right?" Are you sure you want to say this outside? ”

Xiao Yuexi said: "I'm not sure, so I choose to keep and let you talk to my people in private, isn't it cautious enough?" ”

Since Yu Jinze took the initiative to keep him, he has already been at a disadvantage, and he has no power to turn over. He couldn't help but regret a little, if he hadn't thought about giving her this disadvantage at the beginning, maybe the initiative would still be in his own hands at this time. After struggling for a while, he spoke: "Twenty years ago, there was a very serious civil strife in our country, and it took five full years for the war to end, during which my mother was pregnant, and she had fled to a foreign country to escape the war, and when she gave birth to a child, the royal family was at a disadvantage, and the queen mother, fearing that it would affect the newborn child, wrapped the child in swaddling clothes and placed it at the door of a family that did not look prominent and not poor. Later, the war ended, and the loss of five years was immeasurable, and the queen mother learned that the child was doing well in that family, so she thought that the national strength would stabilize and then take people back, but who knew that it would be delayed until now. ”

Xiao Yuexi listened patiently, there was no wave on her face, but her heart stirred up a thousand waves - he meant that she was actually the princess of the tortoiseshell country? Their family Mulan has read all kinds of books, have you ever seen such a legendary story?

With a calm face, Xiao Yuexi smiled lightly: "It's really a twisty and bizarre story." ”

Yu Jinze put away the smile on his face and said solemnly: "After listening to it for so long, Mrs. Xiao should also understand, right?" The family that was not prominent and not poor was the general's mansion back then. The child who was raised by the General's Mansion is undoubtedly you! ”

Xiao Yuexi said: "I think you have misunderstood, my father and mother have a son and a daughter for us, this matter is well known to everyone in Yelan Country, and now there is no other master in the Hou Mansion except for our brothers and sisters, if my mother really picked up that child back then, now the Hou Mansion should be more than our brother and sister, right?" ”

Yu Jinze looked at her meaningfully and said, "Mrs. Xiao herself has already found out about something, hasn't she?" Why pretend to be confused? ”

What he was referring to was clearly the strange place where Mrs. Xiao went to Hanshui Temple to repay her vows, Xiao Yuexi was secretly frightened, how much did this Tortoiseshell Prince know about her movements?

Xu was aware of Xiao Yuexi's surprise, Yu Jinze's face showed a touch of smugness, and he lowered his voice and said: "Mrs. Xiao, Jinze has said, you don't have to bother so much, I will tell you anything you want to know." ”

Xiao Yuexi turned around and threw down the sentence: "No need." So he hurriedly got into the carriage, and this time, he really had to go.

Yu Jinze didn't stop him, and watched the carriage go away. The guard guarding the door just now stepped forward and asked in a low voice, "Your Highness, have you just put people back like this?" ”

Yu Jinze raised his signature uninhibited smile on his face, and said amusefully and helplessly: "Otherwise, what else?" She doesn't believe me, can't you see it? ”

The guard paused, his gaze fixed on the direction in which the carriage had departed, and remained silent for a long time. Yu Jinze also looked over there and said a little stunned: "This girl looks so good...... looks good and smart, chokes people mercilessly, and at a glance, you know that the General's Mansion has never treated her badly over the years. That's nice...... If the queen mother found out, she would be very happy, right? ”

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On the way back to the palace, Feng Shuangxue couldn't help but ask with concern: "Madam, what did Prince Tortoiseshell say to you?" You are so far away that your slaves and maids cannot hear you. ”

Xiao Yuexi fiddled with the jade pendant she wore around her waist and replied casually: "He said that I am his half-sister of the same father and mother." ”

Rao is weathered and well-informed, and his jaw dropped when he was shocked by this earth-shattering answer, and his eyes came back to his senses after staring for a while, and he muttered in disbelief: "Same father and same mother...... In other words, madam, you are actually the princess of the tortoiseshell country? ”

Xiao Yuexi nodded, and said: "According to the clues found by Mu Lan before, there is some evidence for Prince Tortoiseshell's words, and it is not without reason that he wants to snatch me back." And this reason is much more reliable and convincing than what His Majesty the Emperor of her family made up yesterday.

Feng Shuangxue asked: "Do you want to continue the matter that the lady ordered Chengfeng and Mu Lan to investigate?" ”

Xiao Yuexi said: "Go on, that tortoiseshell prince may not be completely worthy of our trust, and some things can't be assured if you don't do it yourself." ”

"Yes."

Xiao Yuexi thought for a while, and said: "Next, it depends on who can't hold his breath first, he will suddenly be in a hurry to bring me back to China at this juncture, thinking that there are some variables in the country, if the situation is serious, he will definitely be more anxious than us, and look at it." ”

Feng Shuangxue felt reasonable, so he nodded, and said with some regret: "It's a pity, the natural barrier on the periphery of the Tortoiseshell Kingdom is an obstacle that we can't cross, otherwise we can know ourselves and the other by inquiring about their domestic news." ”

Xiao Yuexi smiled silently.

After returning to the palace, Xiao Yuexi unreservedly shared her conversation with Prince Tortoiseshell with His Majesty the Emperor, and at the end she asked, "Yun Qing, do you think it is credible?" ”

Mu Yun thought seriously for a while before saying: "If this is the case, many things will become reasonable, let's think about it, what is the purpose of Tortoiseshell suddenly rushing back to the princess?" ”

Xiao Yuexi smiled, because she hadn't mentioned this, but Mu Yunqing could think of a place with her at the first time. Xiao Yuexi said: "There are only two kinds, one is that the current monarch of Tortoiseshell has some kind of illness and disaster, and there is not much time to see this daughter who has been separated for nearly twenty years." The other is that something is wrong with the royal family, and they urgently need a princess to strengthen their position. ”

Mu Yunqing: "You mean marriage?" ”