Shen Yan said: "If you keep screwing with me, the Prime Minister, his wife, and the people in the mansion will inevitably keep an eye on us at all times." Since you yearn for freedom, why don't you use a smarter way to get it? If we get along well, the adults and the lady will be relieved to hand you over to me, and they will no longer keep an eye on the affairs in the boudoir, and it will be much easier for you to do what you want to do when the time comes. ”

"Are you courting me?" Qianyou still can't trust Shen Yan.

"Why do I have to show favor to you, maybe if we leave Pang Mansion, we will never see each other again in our lives." Shen Yan lowered her head and stroked the kitten gently, and said in a softer tone, "I just want to know how bitter and painful your heart is, I can understand a little more than others, and if I can do anything to make you happy, it is also my responsibility as a master." ”

"What master, not a few years older than me?" The shallow momentum is weakening, Shen Yan's words let her see a glimmer of hope in this life of bound hands, Mr. 's smile is so demure and gentle, much more sincere than the politeness of brothers and sisters-in-law, she has no way to go anyway, this road, maybe you can give it a try.

"You say you can pass a word to my brother on my behalf? Then you go and tell him, I want to enter the palace to visit Xian ......" Qianyou said without scruples, suddenly remembering that everything in the cold palace was a secret, and quickly changed his words, "I want to go to the palace and let him fulfill me, I drove away those daughters for him, he owes me." ”

Shen Yan bowed: "Do your best." ”

A rain in the evening brought the late autumn to an end, and the girls were so cold that they wore their padded jackets on their bodies, and the flowers were not beautiful. When Shen Yan left Jane's Mansion, she actually brought a few new winter clothes that her cousins hadn't wore, and Pang Mansion hadn't had time to make it at this time, she was wearing her cousin's rose-red brocade jacket, and the two huge butterflies on the skirt were lifelike, a very lively and aura of clothing, but it didn't match Shen Yan's temperament, and when she saw her again, she couldn't help but say: "I have a plain jacket that I haven't worn, do you want it?" ”

Qianyou asked the maid to take out her clothes and give them to Shen Yan, and Shen Yan brought her hot sweet soup, the two of them got along quietly for an afternoon, and Qianyou, who had not eaten seriously for several days, ate the sweet soup cleanly, and asked Shen Yan strangely: "Your family is also a nobleman in the south, why does Miss Qianjin cook?" ”

Shen Yan was taking a big character written by Qianyou to dry it next to the charcoal stove, and when she heard the eldest lady ask, she smiled and said, "Is it delicious?" ”

Qianyou nodded: "Sweet but not greasy, much better than my cook, I thought you were a nerd." ”

Shen Yan walked to the desk, flattened the text panel, and responded very lightly: "It is a truth that the woman is the one who pleases himself." ”

Qianyou didn't hear it clearly, the sound of rain outside crackled, covering up Shen Yan's words, and at this time, Juan'er came in and said, "Miss, they said that Pang Gongzi is here, did you invite you?" ”

Shen Yan said: "I invited it, please ask the son to stay in the study later." ”

The rain in Gyeonggi caused the water level of the river on the edge of the hunting ground to rise, if the rain did not collect, the hunting ground would be flooded by the river, and the emperor had to decide to return to Beijing in advance.

And since the assassination of the third prince, the vigilance around the emperor is stricter than before, although the prince's power in the imperial city can directly reach into the Mingde Palace, but when he goes out, surrounded by ministers, or the forces headed by the prime minister, control the situation here, Concubine Li and the three princes are completely protected, and the emperor also takes him with him all the time in order to prevent the prince from having different intentions.

In this way, Qi Hui finally had free time to check the clues of the Mu family's whereabouts given to him by Shifeng, but he would not act impulsively alone, recklessly exposing his whereabouts to the eyes of the prince, and it was impossible for Shi Feng to let him drive alone, there were already people arranged by Shi Feng to check the traces of the Mu family, and at this moment the camp was in chaos, Qi Hui was reinforcing the carriage in the rain with other guards, doing the work in his hands, and the people around him had spread all kinds of disappearances to his ears. Naturally, it reached the crown prince, and Qi Hui was just with the guards as usual.

Shifeng's news is not wrong, the so-called Feng Gongzi did appear in that town, but he was not found to have left, and it was impossible to find out where he lived at all, as if he had disappeared out of thin air, similar to the Mu family twenty years ago. As for Hengfeng Qianzhuang, there is no suspicious place, the only thing worth continuing to explore is that no one in the capital has seen Hengfeng's young owner before, and this clue should be investigated in the northeast.

On the way back to Beijing, Qi Hui, who seemed to be indifferent to everything around him, had actually been thinking about the purpose of the man surnamed Feng leaving the fragrance, whether to simply tell them that the Mu family still existed, or to imply that Qi Hui took the initiative to find it, his mother once said that he had a cousin, who was about the same age as Feng Gongzi, if everything was as he thought, this Feng Gongzi who spent a lot of money in the capital should be his cousin Mu Qing. If the secret grid of Xiangxiang can be hidden in the cold palace, the Mu family does have the ability to disappear out of thin air, but to build a place that is enough to hide the entire family, could it be that from a very early stage, they planned to "leave" the world?

All this can only be solved when Qi Hui finds someone from the Mu family, but he still has one thing to do, Pang Jun can't get through here, he can know what happened more than 20 years ago from the mouths of other old ministers, but to do all this, it depends on Xi Niang to deal with it, Qi Hui hesitated again and again, and decided to discuss with his sister after returning to Beijing.

The holy car walked slowly due to the heavy rain, but it also returned earlier than the scheduled day, and when the palace maid of Furong Ju came to tell Emperor Jingshu to return to Luan, Jingshu's face suddenly changed. She promised the prince to find out Xiangxiang and bring her to her side in the past few days, but not only did she fail to be ruthless, but she was full of hope that Xiangxiang had left the palace, but the prince came back, how could she explain?

Once, the emperor's tyrannical preferences made Jing Shu's life worse than death, but gradually she found that physical torture was nothing at all, on the contrary, the prince who once made her see hope, now completely controlled her heart, Jing Shu now thinks of the prince, but she will be frightened, and she is more and more unable to see what road she is taking.

At this moment, the prince sent the emperor to the Mingde Palace, because of the heavy rain on the road, lest the emperor be infected with the wind and cold, he invited the imperial doctor to call the pulse, when the imperial doctor gave the emperor the pulse, the prince whispered with another person on the side, and the old emperor frowned and asked dissatisfiedly: "What are you talking about, sneaky?" ”

The prince walked up with a frightened face, lowered his head and said, "My son is asking the imperial doctor, how is the health of the virtuous concubine in the cold palace." ”

The emperor's eyes showed a look of disgust: "It's okay, what are you doing with her?" ”

The prince said timidly: "The queen mother said on her deathbed that she was young and had mistreated the virtuous concubine and the second prince, and hoped that the sons could compensate for it, so these days, the sons often sent people to take care of the virtuous concubines, but the virtuous concubines were terminally ill, and the imperial doctor said that she would die soon." ”

The emperor raised his eyebrows slightly: "She's going to die?" That ......"

The crown prince understood that the emperor wanted to ask the second prince, but he wanted to pretend to be confused, so he replied promisedly: "Concubine Xian, I'm afraid I won't survive the winter." ”

The emperor closed his eyes impatiently, and after the imperial physician and the crown prince had gone down, he called the attendant to his side and asked, "How old is the evil obstacle born to the lowly woman of the Mu family?" Or is it crazy? ”

The eunuchs had long been the prince's men, and the prince expected that the emperor would ask afterwards, and he had taught them how to answer beforehand. At this moment, the emperor knew that few people had seen the second prince crazy or not, but it was a fact that he was not in the cold palace.

In the words of Concubine Xian, the crazy and stupid second prince escaped and ran around, and there are also legends that the sloppy and foul-smelling second prince was sent to the cold palace from the horns, but most of them are legends, and very few people have actually seen them. The old eunuch said to the emperor even more quietly: "I heard that the second prince likes to hide in the dark and secretly watch others, maybe he has also been to this Mingde Palace." ”

The emperor felt a chill on his back, and hurriedly ordered people to add charcoal to the fire, and suspiciously looked at the corners and corners of the palace, and ordered: "Send someone to clean the Mingde Hall tomorrow, don't let go of any corner, if I see a little dust, I will ask for your head." ”

The old eunuch took the order and left, and when he turned around, he heard the emperor muttering to himself: "It's good to kill them, it's good to kill them all......

All this quickly reached the ears of the prince, he was worried that Song Jingshu did not find Xiangxiang, that was the only person he didn't want to rob head-on, but Jingshu was not in a good position, obviously Xiangxiang was still in the palace, how could she say that there was no one in the cold palace. Fortunately, the emperor's reaction satisfied him, for the crown prince, it was easy to kill the emperor now, but he wanted to use other people's hands to eradicate all forces that might threaten him in the future before he became the emperor. He wants to ascend to the throne cleanly and be a wise monarch of the ancients.

At this moment, Qi Hui has left the prince, and after everything in the palace is settled, he went to the hospital to get medicine for his mother, but he didn't know that the prince deliberately mentioned their mother and son in front of the emperor, and when he returned to the cold palace, his mother was lying on the sickbed as weakly as always, but Xiangxiang was nowhere to be seen.

Concubine Xian said that Xiangxiang was there just now, and she didn't know why Xiangxiang was gone, Qi Hui immediately turned around and came out to look for it, Xiangxiang was not in her house, and there was no trace of life here during the day like usual.

When he ran back to his house, he saw that he had been tidied up, and everything was not what it was usual. Just when he was wondering, he felt someone approaching behind him, Qi Hui turned around in surprise and grabbed it, tying Xiangxiang's arm behind his back, who reached out to cover his eyes.

Xiangxiang trembled in pain, but she didn't dare to scream loudly, and when Qi Hui found out that it was her who let go of her hand, her body fell down softly, and she fell into the crook of her strong arm, her face was wrinkled, and she said bitterly: "The shoulder seems to be broken......

Qi Hui hurriedly touched a few handfuls, found that there was no dislocation, breathed a sigh of relief, and when Xiangxiang stood firm, he couldn't help but lecture: "Don't make this kind of joke next time, if I really do it, I can pull your arm off." ”

Xiangxiang rubbed his shoulder, but looked at his angry face sweetly, he finally came back, what could be more reassuring than him by his side?

"I miss you so much, and I look forward to your return every day." Xiangxiang fell into his arms, Qi Hui put his arm around her, but smiled deliberately, "There are too many things outside, I can only think about you a little when I am free." ”