Yan Zhe turned his face back, a look of surprise.

"My sister said that Zhiyuan came to the house?" Yan Zhe's voice was a little floating.

Yan Feifei nodded and looked at him faintly.

Yan Zhe's heart was empty.

......

The news of Jing Ninghou's assassination spread even more on the street the next day.

It is even rumored that the assassination of the prince of Lingnan is also related to the Anwang Mansion.

It's just that the Lingnan Palace, the Anwang Mansion and the Jingning Houfu have not reacted openly to the rumors.

However, this did not affect people's ability and enthusiasm for grapevine, and soon, there was news of an update......

Jing Ninghou, who has been begging for children everywhere in the past few years to no avail, turned out to have an illegitimate child raised in Willow Hutong in the south of the city, and Jing Ninghou was assassinated that day near Willow Hutong.

In the past few days, outside the extremely clean courtyard in the autumn and blue days of Willow Hutong, there are many neighbors who probe their brains to inquire about each other's news, and even when Dong Yun and they go out, there are bold aunts and aunts who come to the front and knock on the side, so angry that Dong Yun slammed those people hard, and as a result, those people also insinuated a lot of ugly words.

......

Jing Ninghou listened to the rumors on the street and the situation in Willow Hutong in the past few days, his face was gloomy for a long time, and finally waved his hand without saying a word to let people go down.

I sat behind my desk for a long time, thinking about the things that happened one after another, and my head was throbbing for a while.

was about to lie down on the couch in the inner room for a while, and the small maid outside came over to the lady, and Jing Ninghou only felt that he had a headache even more.

Qi pushed the door in, followed by Mother Fu and Mother Guo who came from Changshan Wangfu last time.

After she entered the door, she walked slowly to the desk, glanced at Jing Ninghou, who was darkened behind the desk, smiled, sat down on the chair with elegant movements, and said to Jing Ninghou slowly: "Why doesn't Master Hou go to Zhilan Courtyard these days?" ”

Jing Ninghou looked at her with his eyebrows, the light in his eyes was sharp and cold, as if he wanted to stare a hole in her face, and after a long time, he said in a deep voice: "What are you doing here?" ”

"What, can't the concubine come?" Qi raised his eyebrows, raised his hand and gently stroked a string of beaded jade bracelets on his wrist.

Jing Ninghou's eyes slid over Qi's wrist, and the light in his eyes flashed slightly, but he quickly removed the strange color, and still stared at Qi with a sinking face.

Qi's smile became more and more gentle, and her voice became deeper and slower: "Why does Master Hou look at the concubine like this? What is Hou Ye afraid of? ”

"What the hell do you want to do?" Jing Ning asked, this woman seemed to be a different person after returning from Yuzhou, especially in recent days, every time she looked at him, it made her feel as if she was being targeted by a cold snake.

He didn't understand why he felt the way he did, and it was clear that she hadn't done anything too out of the ordinary except for her behavior during this time.

Qi suddenly leaned forward, then stretched his head towards Jing Ninghou, and slowly chuckled: "The concubine is in the inner house, what can she do?" It's just that I heard that Hou Ye has a son who is living outside and wants to share Hou Ye's worries! ”

Qi's voice was gentle and low, and there was a smile on his face, but the words he said made Jing Ninghou's heart sink and he suddenly raised his head.

Qi Shi was already sitting upright, looking back at him with a smile.

"What the hell do you want to do?" Jing Ninghou's eyes flashed coldly, and he said coldly.

"Didn't the concubine say it, the concubine just wants to share the worries of the Hou Ye, after all, it is also the only flesh and blood of the Hou Ye, this is raised outside, if it is ......" Qi Shi paused, admiring the look on Jing Ninghou's face, and smiled happily: "Hou Ye, you say, if this is just in case." This kid has three long and two short, but how is it good! ”

With a "snap", as Qi's words fell, a sudden cracking sound startled Jing Ninghou's eyelids and jumped fiercely.

Then there was a "crackling" sound of beads rolling down, and he stared at the jade beads that rolled off her wrists and smashed them on the ground, feeling that the tight and messy sound had some kind of unsettling knots falling on his heart.

"Yo! It's a pity, this string of hand beads was a love thing given to the concubine by the Hou Ye back then! Qi looked at the pearl jade that had rolled to the ground and said regretfully.

Jing Ninghou's face changed, and his voice was cold: "I warn you not to mess around." ”

"Why is Hou Ye's face so ugly? Yo! Is this a deep love for Hou Ye? The concubine didn't know that the Hou Ye still had such a side. Qi laughed and stared at Jing Ninghou with sarcastic eyes.

Jing Ninghou's expression froze for a moment, and he didn't speak!

"But my child is not as good as a wild seed who lives cheaply outside!" Qi suddenly smiled, and his voice was cold and penetrating.

"You'd better make it clear to me that you can't move their mother and son." Jing Ninghou got up suddenly, propped his hands on the desk, and bent down to stare at the Qi clan with a somewhat hideous face.

"Heh-" Qi sneered.

"Then, Master Hou had better protect it well! Don't have any more accidents. ”

Qi got up, didn't look at Jing Ninghou again, and turned around and walked out of the study directly.

Jing Ninghou stared at the door of the study for a long time, then sat down in a chair and poured down the half cup of cold tea that had been cold on the table.

"Smack-" The teacup in Jing Ninghou's hand shattered into several pieces.

"Xu Ze." Jing Ninghou took a few deep breaths and shouted out the door.

Xu Ze came in response: "What did Master Hou tell you?" ”

"Go to Liushu Hutong to send a message to the lady, ask her to prepare, and say that I will find an opportunity to send their mother and son to South Vietnam in the next two days." Jing Ninghou rubbed his eyebrows and said.

Because of King An's side of the matter, he was hesitating whether to send their mother and son to South Vietnam first, but now the Qi family made such a fuss, Jingning Houjin didn't dare to be too careless.

Although the Qi clan is not worried, after the last incident, who knows if the Changshan Royal Mansion will intervene in this matter? Moreover, he didn't want to cause more trouble during this time, so the Qi clan couldn't move for the time being.

"You do it yourself."

"Also, Zhilan Courtyard is keeping an eye on it."

......

Qi came out of the study, passing by the garden, Xiao in the second room was watering the flowers in the garden, seeing Qi coming from the direction of the study, he hurriedly gave way to the side of the road and called "sister-in-law".

Qi glanced at Xiao Shi, gave a scornful "um", and then left without squinting.

The maid who followed Xiao Shi was full of anger: "Mrs.——"

"Okay, talk less and do more." Xiao watched Qi walk away, lowered his head and continued to water the flowers.

......

At dinner, Ning Shuang received a message from Qiu Ruoshui.

After Ning Shuang put down the dishes and chopsticks, he took Xiaoru to Songshi Xuan.

Gu An was walking in the yard, not letting the scholar help him, but walking slowly by himself.

After the frost had passed, he groped his way to the stone bench in the courtyard and sat down.

The maid came up and went down with tea, leaving only the little scholar and Xiaoru to guard by the side.

Ning Shuang poured Gu An a cup of tea and handed it to him.

Gu An took the tea and took a sip gently, then put down the teacup and looked towards Ning Shuang: "But are you going to prepare?"

"Yes, it will be done in the next two days. Therefore, early tomorrow morning, I will arrange for Leng Feng to send Mr. to Yuzhou first, and after some time, I will let Leng Feng send Mr. and Xiao Gongzi back to Qizhou. The cold breeze will always be by his side these days, and he can send him with anything. ”

"It's a pity I can't help much." Gu An sighed.

"Sir's coming to Kyoto is the biggest help to Ningshuang! Besides, if this matter is not fulfilled by Mr., we are afraid that it will not be possible. Frost said seriously.

"These are what she should return, I just hope ......" He paused for a moment, swallowed the rest of the words, and only sighed faintly, his unfocused eyes looked into the distance, and his expression was a little dazed.

"......" Ning Shuang wanted to comfort him, but she couldn't seem to find any words to comfort him, she turned her head to look at him silently.

"Frost must have something to do! If you have something to do, go ahead and get busy, you don't have to be here with me. After a while, Gu An turned his head and chuckled, his face was calm again.

"Well, I still have to go to King Rui's Mansion today, so I won't bother Mr.! Rest early, sir! Ning Shuang looked at him for two breaths, then slowly got up, stretched out his hand to smooth the hem of his skirt, and said goodbye.

"Ah Yi, send me a frost girl." Gu An also got up and said to the little scholar in a gentle voice.

......

Out of Songshi Xuan, Ning Shuang took Leng Yun and Xiaoru to Rui Wang's Mansion.

Qin Moyu was writing a strategy in the study, he had been writing such a strategy for many years, and the emperor had carefully read it and then accepted it.

No one in the court knew that many of the policies implemented by the emperor over the years, as well as the appointment and dismissal of positions and the promotion of talents, were all based on the policies of His Royal Highness King Rui.

The next person came over to say that Miss Xia was here, so Qin Moyu put down the matter in his hand first, got up and cleaned his hands.

Hearing the door of the study open, Qin Moyu wiped his hands and turned around and said, "Cousin sit!" ”

"Has my cousin eaten?" After Ning Frost sat down, he sat down across from her and asked with a smile.

"I've already eaten it." Ning Shuang glanced outside and asked, "What about Second Brother Lu?" ”

The smile on Qin Moyu's face was closed, and he leaned over to her, holding his cheeks and looking at her: "What, didn't my cousin come to find my cousin?" ”

"There's business." Frost glanced at him.

"Oh! That's it. My cousin asked someone to come and find him. Qin Moyu returned to smiling again.

"Jiang Bai, go and ask your Second Master Lu to come over." He craned his neck and shouted outside.

Jiang Bai went down in response.

The subordinates brought hot tea over, and Qin Moyu consciously got up and poured the frost and handed it to her: "The emperor's newly rewarded Longjing, you can taste it." ”

Ning Shuang picked up the tea and tasted it slowly, anyway, drinking tea is better than listening to someone's nagging.

When Lu Ming walked to the door, he happened to see Ning Shuang bowing his head to drink tea, while Qin Moyu looked at Ning Shuang's scene with a quiet face.

"Tut-tut...... Ah Yu, your eyeballs are about to fall out! ”

Ning Shuang put down the teacup, looked up and said calmly: "Second Brother Lu is here." ”

Qin Moyu glanced at him and retracted his gaze even more calmly.

"Frost came looking for us?" Lu Ming didn't bother to glance at Qin Moyu, sat down and asked Ning Shuang.

"Sister Gu has news from there." Frost Road.