Chapter 168: It's me who can't leave her
As soon as Ling Tiancheng heard that Zhuang Siyan was out of the palace, he immediately stood up on the dragon chair and walked out without saying a word.
Those concubines didn't know what was going on, and asked one by one, what happened to the emperor?
No one paid attention to them, Li Fu followed Ling Tiancheng to Baizhu Courtyard, and saw Lan Xin and Heping'er still sitting at the door of Qing Siyan's dormitory talking, knowing that these two people might not know what was going on?
When he turned around, Lan Xin had already seen him, and hurriedly ran over and asked, "What's the matter with the emperor?" ”
Ling Tiancheng asked her, "What about your master?" ”
Lan Xin: "I said I was tired, so I rested early." ”
Ling Tiancheng didn't want to drag her to the dormitory for verification, Zhuang Siyan's ability was very clear to him, and it was not something that these people could stop at all.
But since Lan Xin came over to speak, he also asked casually: "Recently, did your master say that he was going to leave the palace?" ”
As soon as he said this, Lan Xin's face turned white at the moment.
Ling Tiancheng's eyes were sharp, and he was staring at Lan Xin from top to bottom at this time, and those eyes were like sharp arrows, staring at Lan Xin, who had already been sweating profusely.
"Your Majesty, Niangniang, she ......"
"What happened to her? It's very chaotic outside now, if you want Concubine Wan to come back safely, it's best to tell the truth. ”
Lan Xin knelt down after a "plop", and didn't dare to say that Zhuang Siyan received a letter from Zhuang Changyuan, only that she mentioned the old house of the Zhuang family in the past.
Ling Tiancheng didn't speak again, turned around and walked outside.
While he rushed to the Zhuang Mansion by himself, he also let Wen Qing be informed.
Outside the Imperial Palace, inside Kyoto City, Wen Qing's snobbery is still very large, and it takes experience to deal with this kind of thing.
Almost at the same time that Ling Tiancheng arrived at the Zhuang Mansion, Wen Qing also arrived with his people.
As soon as he heard that it was to find Zhuang Siyan, he was unhappy: "Brother Huang, today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, you don't eat and drink spicy food in the palace, what are you doing here?"
She wants to come out to play and want to see her home, that's her business, and she hasn't been here in the past, as for you, are you so worried?
As soon as the front foot goes, you arrive on the back foot.
Let me tell you, the more you are like this, the more presumptuous she becomes, and she thinks that the harem can't leave her. ”
Ling Tiancheng glared at him: "You talk a lot of nonsense, of course you can leave her in the harem, but I can't leave her." ”
Wen Qing was caught off guard and stuffed a mouth full of dog food, didn't say anything, and took his own people in first.
But all the courtyards have been searched, and even the underground passages have been searched, until the sky is dark, and even Zhuang Siyan's shadow has been seen.
Wen Qing ran over and asked Ling Tiancheng, "Are you sure she's here?" Could it be a sound attack? ”
This is entirely possible, Zhuang Siyan's routines are inexhaustible, they are not used, and they are usually very tricky, and it is not once or twice to get away in their hands, so Wen Qing didn't realize that there was a big deal about this at all, just when Zhuang Siyan couldn't stay by himself and wanted to come out to play.
But Ling Tiancheng didn't find her overnight, his eyes were red, and his face was even more difficult to see.
He immediately ordered all the entrances out of the city to be guarded, and sent a large number of men to search the city.
Even Wen Qing dared to be idle, and inquired about the three religions and nine streams, and all the corners of Kyoto City had to be found.
A day later, still nothing.
Wen Qing reported to Ling Tiancheng: "Did you leave the capital early?" ”
Ling Tiancheng didn't speak.
This is very likely, but he would rather believe that it is not true, and he has a very strange feeling, he always feels that Zhuang Siyan went out this time, as if it was different from the past.
She didn't seem to want to go out and walk freely, but purposefully.
As for the purpose, Ling Tiancheng couldn't figure it out.
Zhuang Siyan came out of the palace and did not go directly to Zhuang's house, but went to find the informant Ah Si.
It was already the middle of the night at this time, Ah Si was lonely, and the Mid-Autumn Festival was naturally deserted, so he made two dishes of pickles and a pot of wine.
By this time, he was already seven or eight points drunk, and he was thinking about things at the table, when he saw Zhuang Siyan break in from outside.
He was in a hurry to get up from the edge of the table, hit the corner of the table, and the flask shook twice on it, and when he was about to fall, he was helped up by Ah Si again.
The person was a little flustered, looked at Zhuang Siyan and asked, "Mr. Si, why did you come so late, but what's the matter?" ”
Zhuang Siyan nodded: "I'm going to Zhuang Mansion now, the situation is not clear, three days later, if I don't come here to look for you, you take this thing to Wen Mansion in the west of the city." ”
Ah Si took the jade piece in Zhuang Siyan's hand, and the person had already walked out from behind the table: "Is there any danger, I'll go with Mr." ”
"No, you go, in case something happens, no one will report it."
Ah Si paused for a moment before saying, "Mr. Don't tell me that I also have a brother who is also in Kyoto City, and I originally fled together, but I didn't do my job properly, so I was embarrassed to see him."
Now that I have serious things, I should still be reliable when I talk to him in the past. ”
is not a person who is fully trusted, Zhuang Siyan does not dare to take risks at this time.
She rejected Ah Si and said that if it was okay this time, she would go back and invite his buddy to drink again, but this time she must listen to her.
Ah Si couldn't fight, so he could only follow her.
But after Zhuang Siyan left, he did not rest, but also followed Zhuang to the house.
So when Ling Tiancheng and Wen Qing came, he saw it.
Zhuang Siyan's identity has not been told to Ah Si, but from her words and deeds, as well as some things she has done recently, Ah Si also knows that she will definitely not be an ordinary person.
So I wasn't too surprised to see the people in the palace.
It's just that Zhuang Siyan also watched him go in with his own eyes, and after he didn't come out for a day and a night, he was already in a hurry.
I also secretly went to the Zhuang Mansion to check, but there was nothing.
After this night, the whole city of Kyoto began to be under martial law, and when you went out, you could see Dabi's officers and soldiers, passing through the streets and alleys, and they would come forward to interrogate anyone who saw suspicious.
Ah Si sensed the danger, and this danger still came from Zhuang Siyan.
He didn't wait for three days, and on the second day when Zhuang Siyan had no news, he went to the Wen Mansion with the jade piece.
I knocked on the door for a long time, only to see an old man come out of it.
Ah Si didn't say anything, handed over Zhuang Siyan's jade piece and said, "Find Mr. Wen." ”
This jade piece was Ling Tiancheng's, and later gave it to Zhuang Siyan as a token of engagement, or what happened in General Ye's mansion.
The jade piece came from the palace, and of course Wen Qing knew it.
However, he didn't invite Ah Si into the Wen house, but asked him to meet him in the restaurant across the street.
As soon as the two met, Ah Si told Zhuang Siyan about the situation, and then said hurriedly: "Mr. Si must be in danger, please Mr. Wen think of a way." ”
Wen Qing rolled her eyes in her heart.
In the past two days, they are going to turn Kyoto City upside down, but they haven't even seen the shadow of that ghost girl, Wen Qing is more anxious than him.
More anxious than the two of them, there was also Ling Tiancheng, who came out of the palace in the middle of the night to visit Wen's house and asked Wen Qing if he had any eyebrows.
However, Ah Si's words provided him with new clues, and now it can be basically judged that she didn't go out to play by herself, and it was likely that she was arrested.
For such a big matter, Wen Qing didn't dare to make a decision on his own.
Zhuang Siyan is the tip of Ling Tiancheng's heart, if something goes wrong because he concealed it, then Ling Tiancheng's heart to kill him will be born, so after separating from Ah Si, he immediately entered the palace and waited in the Chenxi Palace.
As soon as Ling Tiancheng arrived, he heard the news and rushed straight to this side.
Before Wen Qing spoke, he gave him the jade piece.
As soon as Ling Tiancheng's eyes touched the jade piece, he raised his head suddenly: "You found her?" ”
Wen Qing shook his head and said Ah Si's words again.
Ling Tiancheng's eyes became darker and darker, the color on his entire face became very weird, he stared at Wen Qing, as if he didn't see him, he just saw another place through him.
"There must be a secret passage in the Zhuang Mansion that we don't know, isn't the woman surnamed An still with you? Take her on another trip now. ”
Wen Qing took the order to come out.
Ling Tiancheng was not idle, he went to Chuxiu Palace and brought Concubine Zhen out.
Since Concubine Zhen was crowned a concubine, her life has been much better, but with the appearance of Xian Guifei, her concubine position has dimmed again.
In the final analysis, it's just a name, no one has gotten Ling Tiancheng's heart, and life is still the same as in the past.
However, she has long been accustomed to this monotonous state of life, and now that she has a reputation, she is not as troublesome as before, and she almost never goes out of the palace, and she usually just talks to Jing Guiren.
Ling Tiancheng suddenly came to see her, Concubine Zhen was directly frightened and a little dazed, and knelt on the ground for a long time without reacting.
She hadn't been by Ling Tiancheng's side for too long, she didn't know how to please him at all, and she was afraid that she would go all out as before, but she had the opposite effect and simply didn't move.
Ling Tiancheng didn't take Concubine Zhen's surface seriously, just because he hadn't come here for a long time, he let her bow peacefully.
Then he said, "Change your clothes, go out of the palace with me, and go to your mother's house." ”
Concubine Zhen's eyes are about to jump out of their sockets.
Going to her mother's house? Or did the emperor take her along? What does that mean? Is something wrong with my mother's family? Is it serious or not, to what extent?
She was in a hurry, but her legs were weak, and she fell directly to the ground.
Maybe Ling Tiancheng used to think that it didn't matter if a woman was soft and weak, but now that he had seen Zhuang Siyan's cleanliness and neatness, and he was in a state of 100,000 points of urgency, he didn't have any patience when he saw Concubine Zhen like this.
"Don't think about it, change your clothes."
After speaking, she also ordered her personal palace maid: "What are you doing standing, take the master to change clothes." ”
Concubine Zhen was taken down, most of her heart was dead, and the remaining little half was uneasy.
She wanted to send a message to her mother's family, and she wanted to ask what was going on.
But Ling Tiancheng was sitting outside, she couldn't take a word out, and she didn't dare to take it out, the whole person seemed to be soulless, and she didn't know what clothes the palace maids wore for her.
Staggering, when he was helped out of it, Ling Tiancheng's face became even more ugly, almost gloomy to the point of pinching out the water.
However, he didn't say much, and took the first step to get up and walk outside.
The sedan chair in the palace was waiting at the door, and as soon as Concubine Zhen came out, she was helped into the sedan chair and walked quickly to the palace gate.
Ling Tiancheng's sedan chair walked in front.
He didn't look back, thinking about getting out of the palace as soon as possible and finding some new clues from Concubine Zhen's mother's house.