A quarter of an hour before the palace gate fell, Eunuch Huang dressed up as an ordinary old chamberlain, came out of the palace gate, Yingui held his hands, and passed by Eunuch Huang, Eunuch Huang leaned over, and then walked out unhurriedly, Yingui came back in a circle, lifted the curtain and reported: "Huang Ye said, everything is in order, please rest assured princess." ”

"Well, go around Mahang Street, and then go to Changsha Palace." Li Xia instructed Guo Sheng.

The car followed along the root of the wall, first to Mahang Street, Li Xia got out of the car, Guo Sheng and Yingui followed left and right, and went to Changsha Wangfu, Fugui drove the car and returned the car to the coachman who worked late.

"Who does the princess want to see? The Son? Not far from the Changsha Palace, Guo Sheng took a step forward and asked in a low voice.

"Metallurgical." Li Xia replied with two words.

Guo Sheng was not surprised, he expected that if the princess saw Jin Shizi, she would probably not take this trip, but called him over.

This year, there is no need to enter the palace to participate in the Mid-Autumn Festival palace banquet, Tang Jiashan and her mother-in-law, Princess Jiang of Changsha, worked very hard to arrange a Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet, hoping to dispel some of the clouds that have been hanging over the palace since the Queen Mother's big trip.

Jin Xiang seemed to be in a very good mood, after a few glasses of wine, he was a little drunk, so he moved a bamboo chair and put it on the lakeside plank road, sat alone, looked up at the full moon as full as jade, and saw the deep night dew.

The sound outside the wall went from far to near, and from near to far, and Mrs. Min, who had been sitting in the warm pavilion not far away, and was talking to her grandson Jin Cunyan, motioned to Jin Humyan, "Let's go and call you Weng Weng back, it's late at night." ”

"Weng Weng is fine, right?" Jin Shuyan hurriedly stood up and helped Mrs. Min, looked at Weng Weng Jinxiang from a distance, a little worried, Weng Weng said that he was happy, but Weng Weng was like this, he couldn't see the word happy.

"Nothing." Old Madam Min sighed, "Even if there is something, you Weng Weng can hold on, don't worry." ”

Jin Cunyan hummed in a low voice, and helped Mrs. Min to two or three steps away from Jin Xiang, and Mrs. Min smiled: "It's late at night, it's dewy, go back." ”

"Oh, okay." Jin replied, supporting the armrests of the chair with both hands, and Jin Huyan hurriedly took a step forward and helped Jin Xiang up.

"You go back and rest, your wife and I will enjoy the moon and take a few steps." Jin Xiang stood up, patted Jin Shuyan's hand, and said softly.

Jin Zhuoyan glanced at Mrs. Min, smiled, and stood and watched Jin Xiang and Mrs. Min supporting each other, walking away slowly, before turning back.

The old servant Zhang Xi'an rushed into the courtyard gate, and heard that Xiang Ye and the old lady were still admiring the moon and had not come back, so he turned his head and walked out, and just took two steps, he saw Jin Xiang and Old Madam Min talking and coming over.

"Xiangye." Zhang Xi'an breathed a long sigh of relief and hurriedly greeted him.

"Huh?" Jin Xiang was a little surprised, "Didn't you take a day off today and have a good reunion dinner, something?" ”

"It's not a problem," Zhang Xi'an walked to Jin Xiang's side in a few steps, and his voice was extremely low, "That Guo Ye, find my house and say that the princess wants to see you, and if she has an urgent matter, she should see you immediately, and this time is outside the back corner gate on the east side of the garden." ”

"Come in, please." Jin Xiang's back was straightened, and the imposing Zhang Xi'an subconsciously took two steps back, agreed to the situation, turned around and ran to the back corner door, "Yes." ”

Li Xia followed the old servant Zhang Xi'an, and as soon as he went up the steps of the courtyard gate, Jin Xiang came out of the courtyard gate.

"Let's talk right here." Li Xia entered the courtyard gate, looked left and right, didn't go any further, looked at Jin Xiang, and looked relaxed with a hint of a smile.

"Okay, the princess came late at night, what happened?" Jin Xiang looked at Li Xia's expression carefully, and was a little surprised in his heart. No matter what her expression was, the fact that she suddenly came to him at this moment was enough in itself.

"Well, Empress Jiang took Wu Shanggong beside Concubine Yao, Wu Shanggong is a person, and she knows about it. I let Huang Daban enter the palace, about to be able to drag it out until dawn, tomorrow morning, I am afraid that you will have to stand up once, on the grounds that Zhaoyi Zhao and Sun's are pregnant and have a miscarriage, so that they die violently. ”

Li Xia paused, "There will probably be something else, please ask the Prime Minister to abolish the queen." ”

Jin Xiang looked at Li Xia in amazement, Li Xia met his gaze, "First, things are too urgent, except for being like the Jiang family, using brute force and brute force, there is no other way; Second, today's step has been retreated, the palace is completely lost, Concubine Yao is not dead, she is also a waste, and the future will be difficult ......"

Li Xia sighed, "Third, what the prince has done is against the righteousness of the world, he must gather people and people's hearts, never give up, and repay kindness, all of which are indispensable, if he abandons Concubine Yao today, he will abandon I don't know how many people." ”

"When Jiang married the emperor, the Empress Dowager Zheng forced her to make a blood oath, never harm the emperor's heirs, and protect the emperor all her life. It is not feasible after abolition. Jin Xiang's face was gloomy.

Li Xia sighed softly, it turned out that such a thing came here, no wonder the Jiang family was crazy like that in the past, and the back position was still as stable as Mount Tai.

"Then please ask the emperor to be banned in the palace." Li Xia replied quickly, "The will of the Empress Dowager Zheng and the first emperor, should Xiangye know?" ”

Jin Xiang nodded, "I have one here, the Jiang family also has one, the Zheng family also has one, and there are about other places." This is Jiang Peng's request. ”

"She's smart, she's smart." Li Xia sighed, "This fight, you can only move forward regardless of success or failure, and after a hard fight, at least the hearts of the people will not be lost." Xiang Ye was very angry and angry in the hall this time, Yu Xiang Ye must be harmful, but with Xiang Ye's accumulation and prestige, he can still bear it. ”

"Does the prince know?" Jin Xiang didn't respond, and asked rhetorically.

"He doesn't have to know about such things." Li Xia replied lightly but quickly.

Jin Xiang was stunned, and a little distracted, and for a moment, his eyes were sour, "Princess...... In the past, the mother used to say this. Okay, princess, rest assured. ”

"Hmm." Li Xia snorted, turned around and stepped out of the threshold, wrapped his cloak tightly, and went straight to the corner gate, Zhang Xi'an, who was standing in the shadow of the steps, hurriedly trotted a few steps, walked to Li Xia's side, and led her to the corner gate.

Jin Xiang stood in the threshold, with his hands behind his back, watching Li Xia's back melt into the night, and stayed for a while before turning around and slowly going inside.

Seeing Li Xia coming from the corner gate, Guo Sheng flashed out to greet him, smiled at Zhang Xi'an and owed a debt, let Li Xia go, and followed closely.

"Go to Yan's Mansion." Li Xia took more than a dozen steps and commanded without looking back.

"This way." Guo Sheng hurriedly took two steps forward, rushed to the front of Li Xia, and motioned for her to turn around an extremely narrow alley next to her, "Yan Mansion and Changsha Wangfu have to go around three or four streets from the front door, but the two back gardens are close, this alley passes, cross a street, and then pass an alley, it is the back garden of Yan Mansion." ”

Guo Sheng explained in a low voice while leading the way in front.

Li Xia didn't answer him, he just wrapped his cloak tightly and walked quickly with his head down.

The lights of the Yan Mansion have been turned off, and the door in the back corner is locked, sticking to the door, and only the chirping of autumn insects can be heard.

"Do you know where Yan Xiang lives?" Li Xia looked at Guo Sheng, saw him nod, and then said, "You go and tell Yan Xiang directly, don't alarm the subordinates." ”

"Yes." Guo Sheng responded, took a few steps back, and then rushed forward, jumped up diagonally, kicked his feet on the wall twice, and jumped over the wall that was not too low.

Fugui hurriedly pounced, pulled up his sleeves, and wiped the footprints on the snow-white wall with a snap and a jump.

Li Xia's eyelids drooped slightly, his breathing was gentle, and he listened intently to the movement on the other side of the door, while silently counting the time.

In a quarter of an hour, a rush of footsteps came from the side of the corner gate, from far to near, Li Xia opened his eyes, and breathed a sigh of relief, Yan Xiangken was willing to see her, that's good.

The corner door was opened from the inside, and Mrs. Qian stepped out of the threshold, and Li Xia had already greeted her, lifting her veil hat and smiling as usual, "Uncle." ”

"It's you, come in." Mrs. Qian was busy letting Li Xia in.

Behind Li Xia, Fugui and Yingui no longer knew where to hide, Guo Sheng smiled humbly, followed Mrs. Qian who was pulling Li Xia, and went to the main courtyard.

Yan Xiang was already dressed very neatly, standing at the door of the upper room, looking at Li Xia, who was led by Mrs. Qian and hurriedly came in all the way, Li Xia met Yan Xiang's gaze, smiled, walked four or five steps in front of Yan Xiang, withdrew his hand from Mrs. Qian's hand, and bowed his knees.

Mrs. Qian glanced at Yan Xiang and went straight into the house with the curtain lifted.

"Why are you here?" Yan Xiang let Li Xia go and entered the wing room that was used as a study.

"At the moment of life and death, I really can't care too much." Li Xia bent his knees again.

Yan Xiang's face changed slightly, "This is serious, what's wrong?" ”

"This evening, after the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet in the palace, Jiang Niangniang started to clean up the palace, and Yao Niangniang found me to entrust the future." Li Xia moved two steps, sat on the armchair, looked up at Yan Xiang, and smiled bitterly, "But a Yao Niangniang, how can it be worth Jiang Niangniang's big fight, after Jiang Niangniang's cleanup, I am afraid that I will clean up countless criminal evidence, countless criminal evidence she wants, such as the death of the Queen Mother, when the Queen Mother was on a big trip, only the prince and I were by my side."

Maybe there are others, Tang Concubine's death can be put under Yao Niangniang's name, there should be others, the death of the sixth master, no one has taken the blame, and the third master. ”

Yan Xiang's brows furrowed.

"I just met Jin Xiangye and begged him to come forward to propose the abolition, if the Jiang family's violence is not taught a lesson in the hands of the emperor, when the crown prince ascends the throne, who can still control it? The Bai family escaped, about the blessing of the ancestors, but the Feng family failed to escape, after the Qin Palace, there will be other families, the country is easy to move, but the nature of people cannot be changed. ”

Li Xia changed his words and went straight to the point.

"Jiang Niangniang cleaned up the harem, it stands to reason that ......" Yan Xiang wrinkled his eyebrows.

"It's her job to clean up the harem, but it's not the bloody harem. Jiang's temper, Xiangye should know better than me, her cleanup has always been cleaned up with blood and human life. Li Xia cut off Yan Xiang's words.

"If it is really a bloody harem, after seconding the abolition, you are in the phase, this is a matter of duty." In just a moment, Yan Xiang agreed extremely clearly and cheerfully.

If the Qin Wangfu is really to be charged with killing his mother or similar crimes, the Li family will be implicated, and the Yan family may not be able to escape, as she said, Jiang Niangniang's temper and the Jiang family's style, he is indeed extremely clear.

They have always cut down the grass and eradicated the roots, and would rather kill them by mistake than let them go.

"Thank you." Li Xia stood up and thanked him solemnly.

"I'll ask your aunt to send you out." Yan Xiang is an extremely simple person who never is polite.

"No need, Guo Sheng is outside, he knows the way." Li Xia bent his knees again and bowed, turned around to leave, Yan Xiang suddenly asked, "You came to look for me, ...... prince?"

"The prince knows that it is better for me to come than him, this is a private matter first." Li Xia stood still and looked back at Yan Xiangdao.

"It's business first, but it's really better for you to come than him, be careful on the road." Yan Xiang explained gently.

Li Xia bowed his knees, turned around and walked out of the wing, and strode away.

Out of the back corner door of the Yan Mansion, Guo Sheng locked the door from the inside and jumped out, and ran a few steps to catch up with Li Xia, "Where else are you going, or go home?" ”

"Go to the ancient house." Li Xia replied succinctly.

"Good!" Guo Sheng is full of excitement in a good word.

Accompanying the girl, walking through the streets and alleys of the capital in the dark, this alone is very exciting and pleasant.

Gu Hansheng was woken up by his henchman who was keeping vigil, and when he opened his eyes, he was just in time to meet Guo Sheng, who was leaning down to look at him, and he was so frightened that he almost screamed.

"It's me, Guo Sheng." Guo Sheng hurriedly raised his finger on his lips and motioned to Gu Hansheng, "It's really a last resort to disturb you in the middle of the night, didn't it scare you, right?" ”

"Is this Mr. Guo's old business?" Gu Hansheng's fingers were a little cold when he was frightened by Guo Sheng, and he was really angry.

"Gu Shangshu has won the award, our princess is outside the corner gate, it's a little trivial, I want to see you and say a few words." Guo Sheng leaned over to Gu Hansheng's ear and said in a low voice.

Gu Hansheng was stunned, Guo Sheng was about to speak again, Gu Hansheng waved his hand at him, "You wait, I'll put on my clothes, and I'll go." ”

"I'm going to invite the princess over, just as Shangshu is dressed, the key to the corner gate on the east side of your garden?" Guo Sheng's heart was relieved, and he stretched out his hand to Gu Hansheng.

"Keys!" Gu Hansheng was stuck for a while, and he never cared about the corner door key.

"Don't look for it, I'll unscrew the lock, and tomorrow you give an order, don't make a fuss in your house." Guo Sheng hurriedly stopped Gu Hansheng, who was patting his head in a hurry.

Gu Hansheng nodded again and again, waved his hand at Guo Sheng, and signaled him to go quickly.

Li Xia followed Guo Sheng and entered Gu Hansheng's courtyard, Gu Hansheng was already dressed and standing in the empty courtyard gate waiting.

Li Xia didn't go in further, looked left and right and smiled: "Can you talk here?" ”

"Let's go to the Hanging Flower Gate." Gu Hansheng understood what Li Xia meant, and for the sake of caution, he still pointed in.

Gu Hansheng leaned over to let Li Xia, Li Xia was in front, standing under the weeping flower gate, looking at Gu Hansheng who respectfully faced her, Li Xia had an indescribable feeling in her heart, this feeling was there before, she always felt that Gu Liu, as well as the Gu family, respected and supported her, it was simply that sentence of love that did not know what to do, and went deep.

"Disturb Mr. late at night, I came here with a request." Li Xia bent his knees slightly.

"Princess, please command." Gu Hansheng replied very quickly.