Guo Sheng was a little behind, beckoned to Ruan Seventeen, did not ride a horse, walked side by side with him, and carefully explained the details of what happened in the Li family's village that day, and finally said with a dry smile: "...... Also, the princess said, let you be busy, go to the palace, she wants to see you. ”

"I'm definitely not available today." Ruan Qiqi's cold hair immediately stood up, and he didn't want to see her!

Guo Sheng looked at him, laughed a few times, and patted Ruan Qiqi on the shoulder a few times, "Stretch out your head and stab your head, shrinking your head is also a knife, big man, take out some courage." You have an aunt at home, what can I do with you? It's better to go early, by the way, when are you going? Say it in advance, I'm waiting in the house. ”

Ruan Qiqi slanted at Guo Sheng, his slanted eyes were about to fall off, say in advance, is he good-looking and lively?

In the evening, the letter sent by Su Ye Ling was delivered to Li Xia. Li Xia was looking at the book, and he didn't raise his head, only snorted coldly.

Duan Yan, who came in to report the news, looked haggard, looked at Li Xia, who continued to read without raising his head after snorting coldly, his eyes were closed, his heart was horizontal, and he bent his knees and said, "Princess, can I say a few words to you?" ”

"Well, let's talk about it." Li Xia put down the book and looked up at Duan Yan, since yesterday, she could see that Duan Yan was worried, her soul was not kept, and something was wrong, but she didn't know what was going on, she was going to tell her now, which was good.

"What do you want to say, say it?" Li Xia had a smile on his face, closed the book and put it on the table, and motioned for Duan Yan to sit down and say.

Duan Yan sat diagonally on the edge of the kang, looked at Li Xia, opened his mouth a few times, and before he could say anything, his tears were about to fall, and he looked extremely entangled and embarrassed.

Li Xia looked at her patiently, and for a while, Duan Yan's eyes were red, and his voice was soft, "Grandma Bai is dead." ”

Li Xia frowned slightly.

Duan Yan's tears fell like balls, "I thought it ...... I have always thought that no matter how many people die in what the princess does, it is us who die...... Even if Mr. Guo is like that, like the princess, like the prince, like Grandma Bai, like ...... A noble person like Jiang Gongzi is just powerless at most, I didn't expect ......"

"What a silly boy." When Li Xia heard Jiang Gongzi's three words, his heart jumped lightly, and he handed his handkerchief to Duan Yan, "You should be playing chess, everyone is fighting for their lives, like me and the prince, not only their own lives, but also yours, the old lady's, and even the grandmother's, our lives, you and I, in the face of life and death, are the same." ”

Duan Yan tears rained down, "Grandma Bai...... Grandma Kashiwa...... It's miserable. I've been having nightmares about the princess...... Dreaming, Jiang Gongzi ......"

Li Xia looked at Duan Yan, his expression relaxed and peaceful, "Jiang Gongzi and I, either he dies, or I and the prince die, and one of them always has to die." ”

What Duan Yan wanted to say was this sentence, but when he heard this sentence come out of Li Xia's mouth, Duan Yan's face was still pale all of a sudden, Li Xia tilted his head slightly, and looked at Duan Yan's pale face with a peaceful gaze.

Duan Yan slid down from the edge of the kang and knelt on the ground, "I never thought about it, I never thought about it before, I always felt that death was the business of our subordinates, but ...... In the past, I always felt that the princess and them were just unhappy, just like Mama Huang in our house, the princess didn't need her, and no one in the mansion paid attention to her......"

Duan Yan bent up in pain, covered his face with his hands and fell to the ground.

Li Xia tilted his head slightly, thinking carefully about the past, and raised his eyebrows slightly, "You were sold to the capital by the teeth of the eighteenth month of Zhiping?" ”

"Yes." Duan Yan choked up and replied.

"When you got off the ship, you were starving, and the human teeth beat you with whips?" Li Xia's brows furrowed.

"Yes." Duan Yan raised his head, raised his tear-stained face, and looked at Li Xia with a little confusion.

Li Xia looked at her sideways, "No wonder the first time I saw you, I felt a little familiar, at that time, it was you who came out to speak for everyone, and when the whip was pumped on you, Jiang Yanshi blocked the whip for you, and beat those people Yazi hard, not allowing people to bully you like that, and said that I wanted people to look at those people's teeth, that day, you had a hot soup and a full meal." ”

"Yes, how does the princess know?" After Duan Yan was stunned for a moment, he reacted, "The princess also entered the capital that winter, and the princess saw it?" ”

"Hmm."

"Jiang Gongzi not only let us have a hot soup and a full meal, he told the man Yazi that he would make people look at him, and if he dared to abuse the people he bought and sold like that, he would make all of them have no way to live. He's so impressive.

The girl doesn't know, those people treat us with teeth, even the livestock is not as good, there are a few daughters-in-law who have given birth to children, along the way, they want to rape, pull over and rape, never avoid people, we are these, because the place is worthless.

Jiang Gongzi is real, he has always made people look at those people's teeth, and those people's teeth are afraid of him.

I know what the princess did, I know what the princess does, I know everything, but I never thought about death, it's not me, I'm ready to die, I never thought that the princess, or Jiang Gongzi, would be like us, until Grandma Bai...... I...... I've never had a second heart for the princess, I'm just ...... I ......"

Duan Yan looked up at Li Xia, not knowing how to explain the sad mess in his heart.

"I see." Li Xia looked at her and sighed, "Duan Yan, you can't follow me on an errand anymore." ”

"Princess." Duan Yan fell to the ground, crying silently.

"I don't blame you." Li Xia was silent for a long time, and then said: "It's not your fault, you are a loving and righteous person. For the time being, go to the small Buddha hall in the back garden to retreat and clear your mind.

You follow me, you know too many things, at least at this time, I can't let you out of the house, now let you out of the house, I don't kill you, you can't live. ”

Duan Yan kept nodding, she had been by the princess's side for so long, she naturally understood these simple truths, and before saying these words to the princess, she was ready to die.

"You and I are master and servant, and I will always protect you." Li Xia continued: "Live in the small Buddha hall for a while, and when the dust settles, if the prince and I die, you will probably not be able to escape, and I won't care about you, and I think you can also die calmly." If the prince and I survive, then you can tell me how you are going to spend the rest of your life. ”

"Good ......" Duan Yan choked up a good word, and the rest of the words could no longer be said.

"Go now." Li Xia bent down and pulled up the inkstone, raised his voice to call someone in, and ordered to invite General Lu.

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Jiang Yanshi returned to the capital unhurriedly, paid the decree, and inquired that the prince was discussing matters in the palace, so he returned to the mansion first, washed up, and got the letter sent by Su Yeling in front of him.

Jiang Yanshi was a little stunned for a while, and called into the maple leaf and ordered: "Let people arrange the arrangement, I want to meet my aunt, the sooner the better, tonight is the best." ”

Maple Leaf responded, and hurriedly withdrew to arrange.

Jiang Yanshi absentmindedly picked up the fan cover, and when he saw that it was almost twilight outside, he put on a silver-white cloak, and came out and went straight to the palace.

The crown prince looked very haggard, and when he saw Jiang Yanshi coming in, he was obviously relieved, and even the whole person relaxed, "You are back, I am worried about you." ”

"I'm fine. Failed miserably, made a wedding dress for others. Jiang Yanshi said that he was defeated, but his demeanor was very peaceful, and he did not have the pain of a fiasco.

"It's very small." The crown prince sighed softly, "I'll have people follow me." The prince's words paused, and after a while, he continued: "I am very worried about you when it is said to be extremely miserable. ”

"I'm fine, we folded four people's hands, and sure enough, as we expected, in that Qin Wang's Mansion, there are at least no less private soldiers than us, and their broken hands should be similar to ours. I didn't expect her to be so ruthless, and she blatantly deceived the second child into death, and then gave the second child a name for dying in battle. ”

Jiang Yanshi said with a hint of indescribable emotion.

"They expected it? You also expected them to anticipate? The prince looked at Jiang Yanshi and asked.

"When Ding Ze'an followed Bai Qiao north, I had a feeling that she should also be in the layout, but there was no movement behind her. Until there was chickenpox among the people of the Lu Mansion, Ruan Jinyu immediately took Ruan's mother and daughter and family out of the city without investigating or asking, I can be sure that she must have been prepared, probably ready, but it was too late, and she could only transfer two more people, but she still found nothing. ”

Jiang Yanshi sighed lowly, "I know too late, I have always looked up to her, but I still underestimate her forbearance." On the second child's side, I thought about it, but the life and death of the second child is not a matter of affecting the overall situation, so I didn't care, I thought that the life and death of the second child had little to do with the overall situation, I thought she must think the same way, but I didn't expect ......"

Jiang Yanshi looked at the crown prince, "I asked people to arrange it, go see my aunt tonight." I think my aunt is right, they don't want to help anyone, they want to slaughter the prince, brother and brother, so, killing the second child has little to do with our overall situation, but it has a lot to do with their overall situation. We miscalculated their purpose, so much so that we were wrong again and again. ”

The crown prince's face was pale, and he looked at Jiang Yanshi with a little struggle, "He and the emperor's mother are ......."

Before the prince finished speaking, he was stuck, and stared straight at Jiang Yanshi.

Jiang Yanshi looked at him, sighed and nodded, "I'm afraid that's it, back then, Empress Dowager Jin and Concubine Jin gave birth to children one after another, Jin Guifei became Empress Dowager Jin, and Empress Dowager Jin became the son of Jin Guifei who died at birth, ...... Alas, the Empress Dowager Jin was born as a sister-in-law and the eldest son, and there was Changsha Wangfu behind her, so Jin Guifei killed this prince who she couldn't match at all. The emperor is not a relative of the Empress Dowager Jin, but an enemy. ”

"It's been so many years...... the prince's lips trembled slightly, this is the last thing he wants to think about, since he knew that the emperor's biological mother was Jin Guifei, subconsciously, he was extremely reluctant to think about this matter, as well as countless things.

"I told Ah Niang, and Ah Niang said that killing a father and taking his wife is not worth mentioning compared to a mother who lost a child." Jiang Yanshi's voice was low, "Also, the violent death of the Empress Dowager Jin is extremely weird, the way of gods and ghosts is forbidden in the palace, but the palace believes in the way of gods and ghosts the most, I have to go to see my aunt." ”

"Ah Shi, you say, King Qin and the emperor are just different mothers?" The crown prince shrank his shoulders slightly, looked at Jiang Yanshi, and suddenly asked in a low voice.

Jiang Yanshi met the crown prince's gaze and was silent for a long time, "Empress Dowager Jin has a strong temperament. ”

The crown prince was stunned, Jiang Yanshi looked away, and looked at him from afar, "The three princes who grew up with the first emperor back then, after the first emperor became married, first led the practice, and after the first emperor ascended the throne, he ......."

Jiang Yanshi paused, his face changed slightly, "No, it is said that he fell after the first emperor ascended the throne, no, he was born after the emperor, after the death of Jin Guifei, he cut his hair, after he cut his hair, he has been living in the Great Ci'en Temple to practice, often enter the palace, when the first emperor died, he suddenly left the capital, and since then his whereabouts have been shaky......"

The crown prince and Jiang Yanshi looked straight at each other, the prince's throat rolled, and he swallowed hard, Jiang Yanshi's face was pale, the death of the first emperor, but it was too time to die.

"We, unexpectedly...... I never thought about it......" Jiang Yanshi's voice was hoarse, revealing a hint of trembling, this butcher knife had already been raised and swung down......

"You say, if the emperor is ...... Let the emperor know? The prince's tone was condensed, and he only felt that the wind was gusting in his back, which was terrible.

"The emperor's temper ......" Jiang Yanshi looked at the prince with a bitter expression, "Don't talk about the emperor, my aunt has been talking about it for so many years, why do you and I keep treating her as irritable and can't tolerate people?" You and I have never thought of it, should we think about it and look it up? That's because, it's appalling! Who can believe it? Take 10,000 steps back, even if the emperor believes that such a scandal, the first thing is to extinguish his mouth, the emperor does not pity you, the prince, he thinks that he is still young, and there will be countless princes in the future, he is only in his early forties, even if he has another one in two years, and then raises him, he thinks that he can live for a long time, everything is more than enough. ”

The crown prince looked at Jiang Yanshi with a dull gaze, he actually said this about the emperor, this is the first time he has grown so big, and he has heard someone dare to say such a thing and say the emperor in such a tone!

But that's exactly what happened.

"What should I do?" The prince closed his eyes, and the darkness of this world was like a bottomless pit.

"I'll go see my aunt first." Jiang Yanshi replied in a low voice.

The two sat opposite each other, silent for I don't know how long, the prince coughed lightly, and raised his voice vigorously, as if to dispel the gloomy smell floating in the room, "King Qin is very different from before, aggressive, protecting Ruan Jinyu, not allowing anyone to accuse, Yushi Wang Cheng folded a bullet to impeach Ruan Jinyu, and it was unfavorable to keep his responsibilities before, so that the death row prisoner escaped from prison, and then he didn't even go to the yamen." In the afternoon of the same day, Jin Moran went up to impeach Wang Chengna's official prostitute for entering a private house, and the son committed murder, and the human and material evidence was complete. ”

"Wang Cheng is Su Xiang's person." Jiang Yanshi frowned slightly.

"Su Ye lost his hair, Su Xiang was in a trance for the past two days, and his soul was not reluctant, Wang Cheng had already taken it into Dali Temple." The crown prince looked at Jiang Yanshi and showed a wry smile, "The Qin Palace's mansion is now the time to bite people everywhere with its minions, Wei Xiang said that you don't need to pay attention to it, a royal history, don't commit it." You know, I wasn't very good at talking, but now ...... Be more careful. ”

"Well, these are small things, it doesn't matter if you ignore them." Jiang Yanshi sighed lowly, and her voice was faint, "In this incident, she used our bureau to kill the second child, and used Bai Yue's death to destroy Su Ye and the Su family, the second family fell apart, they were prepared to fight, but I am afraid that they have taken away a lot of people; Furthermore, the Qin Wangfu went from dark to bright, putting on a forced and helpless posture, and shooting everywhere, which really made people have nothing to say, and I think there are others, but I didn't think of it for a while. ”

"Whether it's bright or dark, the knife of the Qin Wangfu was raised when the emperor was the emperor, and it is not a bad thing to go from dark to light." The prince's expression was gloomy.

"Well, I'll go see my aunt and discuss it tomorrow." Jiang Yonsei stood up.

"Okay." The crown prince also stood up, sent Jiang Yanshi to the door of the study, hesitated, and asked in a low voice, "Over there in Sui'an Palace, do you know?" ”

"I don't know, I used a dark line, don't worry." Jiang Yanshi replied in a pause, quit the prince, came out and got into the car, went around a few circles, and went to Tianbo Gate.