In a three-entry house near the salt transportation envoy on Gyeongbuk Street, the lights are always bright.

The eldest prince Liu Jianshen sat on the top, and next to him stood Wang Zhi, a personal servant.

No one spoke in the room, and the atmosphere was a little dreary.

Wang Zhi kept staring at Gu Yanyi with an unkind face, and after a while, he said in a strange manner: "Gu Gongzi is really elegant, and he doesn't forget to save the beauty when he is driving." ”

Gu Yanyi's face did not change, and replied lightly: "The prince also said that it was easy, why not do it!" ”

Wang Zhi's feminine face twitched, and he scolded sharply, "For the sake of an irrelevant person, putting the safety of His Highness at risk, if there is any loss, can you afford it?" ”

Scholar Gu, an old fox, how could he raise such an insignificant master!

The eldest prince is too, he actually handed over such an important matter of guarding to a descendant who has not yet reached the weak crown, and he trusts him so much?!

Wang Zhi was angry in his heart, and looked at Gu Yanyi unhappily.

"Don't worry." Gu Yanyi's face was pale, "I never do things that I am not sure of." ”

His voice was shallow, but his eyes were full of confidence, which made Wang Zhi feel a little more depressed.

"That's it!" Liu Jianshen stood up at the right time to stop it, "What do you think of tonight's incident?" Yanyi, when you have been in Yangzhou for a long time, tell me your opinion. ”

Liu Jianshen was wearing a round robe with a blue ground twisted gold embroidered dragon pattern, with a prince's jade leather belt around his waist, his eyes swept over the two of them, and he was born with a sense of nourishment and self-authority.

Liu Jianshen didn't mention his dereliction of duty again, but Gu Yanyi knew that he was dissatisfied with his lack of wholehearted protection!

He smiled, "Two possibilities. One is that some people want to blame the King of Jin for the crime of assassinating His Royal Highness. The other is to shift the target, not wanting His Royal Highness to interfere in Yangzhou salt affairs. We will only know how it will be after the torture, but either way, it will be extremely disadvantageous to us. ”

Liu Jianshen nodded silently, "Yan Yi can have a way to crack it?" ”

Gu Yanyi looked at Liu Jianshen and said unhurriedly: "At this juncture, I advise His Highness to stop his actions and find more allies!" ”

Liu Jianshen wondered, most of the officials who can be used now are under his wings, is there anyone else missing?

Gu Yanyi nodded: "The British Duke Li Lie advised himself to go to the southwest, and his ambitions are not small, although the British Duke has been weak and neutral in recent years, but Li Lie's ambition is not small, and this person is available." ”

His voice is light and his face is bleak, but he has a momentum that is not inferior to Liu Jianshen as a prince!

Wang Zhi's forehead jumped, and he secretly scolded himself for being dizzy, so he would compare Gu Yanyi with the eldest prince!

He just wanted to refute out loud, but Liu Jianshen stopped him coldly, nodded and said, "Li Lie is still in the southwest, send our people to contact him first." ”

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand casually, and Wang Zhi beside him immediately understood, and skillfully unfolded the paper grinding.

waited until Liu Jianshen and Wang Zhi left, Sha Quan came in and said in a low voice: "Young master, I have caught some people, and I refuse to recruit after exhausting all methods." ”

"All those who don't recruit are buried alive!" Gu Yanyi's face was full of undisguised indifference.

These assassins have angered the young master, Sha Quan's heart sank, and he promised to go!

Jin Nian and his party returned to the house at the end of the year.

At this time, the news of the presence of assassins at the River Lantern Festival had spread throughout the Su Mansion.

The old lady, the eldest lady, the second lady and the third lady Xie were all waiting at the Hanging Flower Gate, and when they saw their group getting out of the car, they immediately rushed to check.

Seeing that the young ladies and young masters were fine, they all breathed a sigh of relief, everyone was concerned about the assassination of the eldest prince, and there was no doubt about Jinnian falling into the water, only Xie Shi took his daughter's hand and was worried, and immediately resigned from the old lady and took her back to the room to change clothes.

Jin Nian was afraid that her mother would worry about her after knowing the truth, so she suppressed the complicated thoughts in her heart, and pretended to be calm all the way back to Jinghua Xiaozhu with Xie Shi.

Changing into her wet clothes, she sat comfortably on the mahogany lap chair and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing her like this, Xie Shi distressed and handed over the brown sugar ginger tea that had just been boiled, and sent the servants around him, and then said coldly: "Tell me the truth, how did you make it like this?" ”

Jin Nian's forehead jumped, and he replied with a smile: "There are too many people, I am so tired of walking, and I accidentally slipped into the river." She said, reaching out to rub her ankle.

Xie Shi snorted coldly, "You lie now, your face is not red, and your heart is not beating!" Do you want me to interrogate the cuckoo and the warbler? Thinking that her daughter might lose her life if she fell into the water, she was so scared from the bottom of her heart that her back was cold.

Jin Nian's heart was weak, and he shook Xie's arm coquettishly, "Okay, okay, I said it's not possible?" But how did my mother find out that I was lying? In order to avoid Xie's worries, Jin Nian has already given a gag order to Du Juan and Yingge.

Looking at her as a little daughter, Xie's heart softened, "If you really accidentally fall into the water, you are afraid that you will cry with fright, how can you be as calm as now." She said as she tapped Jinnian's forehead with her fingers.

Jin Nian stroked her forehead, daring to love her, this is pretending to be too much.

But the problem is that she really fell into the water by herself.

She looked at Xie Shi a little speechlessly, omitted the assassination plot, and simply told Xie Shi about Gu Yanyi going into the water to save her.

Xie Shi felt a chill in his back when he heard this, and the hand holding his daughter couldn't stop trembling, "You monkey, if you have three long and two short, how can you teach me how to live?" ”

Now that her husband is not around, her children are her biggest support, she thought as she spoke, and finally choked up.

Thinking of the despair at that time, Jin Nian was also afraid for a while.

But when she saw Xie crying, she panicked even more, and hurriedly comforted her softly, "Mother, the inner city river is very shallow, even if there is no fourth brother Gu to save me, I can come up myself!" No matter how bad the big brother is, it's also nearby, the big brother can't ignore me! ”

Using Su Ziang to pull the banner, Xie finally stopped her tears, but she remembered something important, and she was shocked again, "Brother Gu went into the water to save you, who knows about this?" ”

"There should be no one." Jin Nian thought about it carefully for a while, and said with a smile, "At that time, Cuckoo and Yingge were present. ”

Xie Shi breathed a sigh of relief, "No, let your brother go to the Gu family tomorrow for a trip, but you can't let him ruin your reputation." "If it spreads, wouldn't my daughter have to marry Gu Yanyi.

Brother Gu is very good, but the capital is too far away, so it is not a good match!

"Don't worry, I'll tell him, he won't say it." Looking at her mother's shock, Jin Nian's face was strange, if she let her mother know that she was disliked by Gu Yanyi, I don't know how she should react?

Xie nodded, and admonished her again, "Don't have thoughts that you shouldn't have!" You're still young, and I have my own opinions. ”

Jin Nian's heart tightened when she heard this, she knew her mother's own assertion, that is, she wanted to match her and her cousin Xie Qian, if she remembered correctly, Xie Qian would be invited to Su Mansion soon.

She couldn't help but think about it, in this life, since Gu Yanyi has no intention of her, then there will be no more will to give marriage, and now she is only twelve years old, she has to keep her eyes open when talking about marriage, and she must not follow the old path of her previous life.

After making up his mind, Jin Nian responded with a smile.

Following.

The fourth old man, Su Youbai, brought back the news from the yamen, and as soon as he returned home, he went straight to Ronghua Hall.

After a busy night's work, Su Youbai spoke with a thick sense of tiredness, "...... After the eldest prince was rescued, the government arrested more than a dozen people overnight, and now they are all locked in the prison cell, and they are personally guarded by the eldest prince's people, and there is no news at all. ”

The old lady sighed and instructed Su Yousong, "Second child, restrain the people in the shop and the house more recently, don't make any trouble!" ”

Su Yousong responded, and everyone talked together again, and dispersed.