The Ruan family was shoddy, and the matter of replacing the real thing with fakes spread quickly, and Shen Rui did not shy away from helping, and put all those who went to the Ruan family to make trouble in the prison, Shangguan Tianyu, the king of Dingnan, was going to pass through this place soon, and he couldn't let Shangguan Tianyu hear any rumors that were unfavorable to him.

Although Shangguan Tianyu is just returning to his hometown to worship his ancestors, who knows if this is the minister arranged by the emperor. For Shen Rui, he wants to annihilate all traces. However, just as he was about to bury everything, Shangguan Tianyu's frame actually arrived at Cui Ying City in advance.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Shangguan Tianyu's frame entered the gate of Cui Ying City, he was stopped and shouted injustice, saying that the city lord Shen Rui harbored and connived at his wife's mother's family, and put the plaintiff in prison as a defendant.

Shen Rui had the heart to explain, but Shangguan Tianyu didn't seem to have the intention of listening to his explanation. Just when Shen Rui was scratching his ears and cheeks anxiously, Ruan Shi offered to let Chu Lixue help talk, Shangguan Tianyu and King Chen have a very good relationship, this is something that the entire court knows, if Chu Lixue comes forward to help, maybe Shangguan Tianyu will turn a blind eye and turn the page on this matter.

But whether it is Shen Rui or the Ruan family, they all think too highly of themselves, not to mention that Chu Lixue has no friendship with them in the first place, the so-called friendship is nothing more than based on business cooperation, not to mention, even the cooperative business is also done to attack the Ruan family.

Chu Lixue was in the Yanyu Pavilion to explain to Ning Xiang and the others and began to pack up their gifts, this trip originally did not bring much, a few changes of clothes, some silver tickets and a few sets of simple head and face jewelry. Whoever takes it out and brings it in will not be noticed.

When Ruan Shi came to Yanyu Pavilion, the lights were on in the house, and there was a conversation between Chu Lixue's master and servant, she didn't like to listen to people in the corner, but when she was about to knock on the door, she heard Chu Lixue's master and servant talking about her family.

"Princess, now that the mining rights of the Jade Mine in Emerald Studios have changed hands, should we go and meet the new partner?" Ning Xiang said softly.

"Well, prepare some gifts tomorrow, let's go to the Yunlai Inn to visit that Murong Gongzi." Chu Lixue said lightly.

"Yes, Princess. Well......, there is another thing for the slave maid, I heard that Lord Shen put those troublemakers in prison, and the king of Dingnan will soon go to Cui Studios, Lord Shen is really causing trouble for himself by doing this. ”

"Yes, princess, if Lord Shen or the Ruan family come to intercede, you must not agree, so as not to embarrass King Dingnan." Remnant Xue said lightly.

"I know this, and I won't interfere in the affairs of the court." Chu Lixue said lightly.

The master and servant were chatting, but the people outside me hated it when they heard this, they really only have eternal interests, no eternal friends, originally thought that she could also use her life-saving grace to Chu Lixue to help their family in this matter, but when she heard Chu Lixue's words, she was sober, Chu Lixue would not help her because of some kindness at all, she was really an ungrateful guy. Immediately, Ruan gave up his desire to ask for help, turned around and walked out of the Smoke and Rain Pavilion.

"Princess, people have already left the Smoke and Rain Pavilion." Wanyue whispered in Chu Lixue's ear.

Since Shen Rui put all those troublemakers in prison that day, Chu Lixue was ready to leave at any time, and those words of Fang Cai were also said to the Ruan family.

Ruan Shi returned to Juxiang Pavilion and saw Shen Rui sitting at the table drinking tea, and said the words in his heart unconcealably, "I went to Yanyu Pavilion just now, I wanted to ask that Princess Chen to help say good things, but she didn't care at all. Nguyen said with resentment.

"Did she tell you herself?" Shen Rui said in a deep voice.

"No, before I entered the door, I heard her talking to the maidservant, and she was talking about these things about us."

"Hmph, Mingzhe is really a smart woman, but she can't help it."

Hearing this, Ruan's eyes flashed, "Husband, is there any good way?" ”

"King Dingnan will arrive tomorrow night, if I put forward conditions, King Dingnan can let us go, and it will be fine, if he refuses, then exchange Princess Chen's life for it."

"Husband, has it really come to this point?"

"What do you think the emperor will do with the embezzlement of state funds? Your Ruan family is really too greedy, if you are willing to give the mining rights to others for a few years, it will not attract the jealousy of others. ”

"Don't encounter anything to your Ruan family, don't you have no selfishness? If you don't have the wealth of the Ruan family, can you eat and wear as much as the palace? Nguyen said unhappily.

originally thought that this man would handle this matter in order to take care of her and her family, but he didn't expect that the husband and wife of more than ten years would still not be able to see him through. Now that he is in danger, he still wants to sacrifice her family to protect himself, and he is really a selfish man.

For such a selfish and shameless man, she categorically would not believe that he would save the Ruan family, listen to his meaning, he would sacrifice the Ruan family to protect himself, although she and Shen Rui are husband and wife, but the Ruan family is her own blood-related family after all. Thinking of this, Ruan also had other plans in his heart.

The next day, the king of Dingnan asked Shen Rui about putting the merchants in prison.

"Lord Shen, this king shouldn't have asked about the affairs of the place under your jurisdiction when he passed through this place, but now someone has stopped in front of the king's carriage and shouted grievances, this king can't sit idly by, this king advises the city lord, it's better to deal with it impartially, it doesn't matter if you ruin your own reputation, don't take the reputation of the old Yue king's life." Shangguan Tianyu said lightly.

Hearing this, Shen Rui fell into deep thought, it was not that he didn't care about his father's reputation in his life, but now what he is doing is to be relegated to the army, and at worst beheaded to show the public, and even his father and the son who has been forgotten by him for a long time are afraid that they will not escape the doom.

"King Dingnan, do you know that Princess Chen is a guest in the mansion, if you can let go of the official horse, then Princess Chen will be safe, otherwise ......" Shen Rui sneered and threatened.

"Princess Chen? How dare you take Princess Chen as a hostage? You know it's a capital offense. Shangguan Tianyu said angrily.

Shen Rui saw Shangguan Tianyu's anxious face, and knew that his treasure was bet, and King Dingnan was worried about Princess Chen, if Princess Chen had three long and two short, then King Chen would not be able to explain it, and perhaps it would hurt the friendship between the two.

"King Dingnan, don't say that, if I can be safe, I will naturally treat Princess Chen as a guest, if not, then on Huangquan Road, there is Princess Chen as a companion, and the officials will not lose." Shen Rui said in a deep voice.

Hearing this, Shangguan Tianyu narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "This king will not let you hurt Princess Chen." After speaking, he stood up, dusted himself off, and turned to leave.

Shen Rui didn't know what King Dingnan meant by the sentence that he wouldn't let you hurt Princess Chen, looking at the surface meaning, it seemed that he agreed to his request, but there was no accurate answer, which made him a little pecked.

That night, the king of Dingnan transferred a team of soldiers and horses from the nearby military camp to surround the city lord's mansion, Shen Rui got a report from the housekeeper, and also came to the gate with the soldiers in the house, the two sides confronted each other for a while, Shen Rui knew that he was in a catastrophe today, and immediately said coldly to the housekeeper beside him: "Go to the Yanyu Pavilion and bring Princess Chen." ”

The housekeeper took the order, walked quickly towards the backyard, and when he came to the Yanyu Pavilion, he saw that the lights were on in the house, as if Princess Chen's master and servants were staying in the house, but they couldn't hear any movement.

The housekeeper waited at the door for a while, and finally led someone to break in, and when he entered the house, he saw only a few wooden figures, and the four masters and servants who stayed in the house had long since disappeared.

The housekeeper had a calm face and walked back with a few soldiers, Shen Rui looked at the figure of Chu Lixue behind him at all, and then said coldly: "What about people?" ”

"I don't know, when the servants broke in with people just now, their masters and servants were not in the house, and Princess Chen's carry-on luggage was also gone." The butler lowered his head and said. His back was already soaked in cold sweat, and he was wondering, he still saw the master and servant at dinner, but it was only an hour or two of effort, and the building was already empty.

"What? How so? When did they leave? Shen Rui's eyes swept over the little guy who was guarding the door, and the little guy was so frightened that he knelt on the ground with a puff, "City Lord, the little ones don't know, Princess Chen was still there during the dinner in the evening, and the little ones really didn't see them go out from the door." ”

If you don't go out from the door, you can only go over the wall, but there are always soldiers patrolling the house, and it is not easy for a few women to go out over the wall, unless they ...... Unless she is good at martial arts, but he has carefully observed Princess Chen, she definitely doesn't know martial arts, so there are only three girls left around her.

Suddenly, Shen Rui seemed to have thought of something, Princess Chen had three maids by her side, and the one who always appeared in front of people was Ning Xiang, and the other two seemed to rarely appear in front of them, could it be that all this was related to those two girls?

Just thinking about it, a slender figure walked out of the crowd, Shen Rui saw that it was really Chu Lixue, he never thought that such a delicate woman also had the style of a general, seeing her standing in the crowd, there was no sense of disobedience.

"Princess." A guard standing in front of him clasped his fists.

"Well, Li Ping, it's really hard for you to hide in the shadows for so long, what about those people?" Chu Lixue said lightly.

"Those people have already been escorted to Cloud City by Liuyue and them, presumably the emperor already knows about it today." Li Ping said lightly.

Hearing this, Shen Rui raised the long sword in his hand, "If you follow me to kill these people today, the treasures in the secret room of the mansion will be yours, and the glory and wealth are endless." ”

Shen Rui began to buy people's hearts, but those people were not even moved, just stood aside, watching things continue to develop, Shen Rui was furious, and pierced a soldier next to him with a sword, seeing this, the rest of the soldiers retreated one after another, for fear that the next one would be the candidate who was killed by him.

"You are all the emperor's soldiers, not his Shen Rui's personal soldiers, if you take him down today, the king of Dingnan will definitely tell the emperor truthfully, and the concubine will also ask the prince to help intercede, and some of the things you have done before may be pardoned, but if you want to take advantage of the fisherman, then the soldiers and horses of the king of Dingnan are not something that you people can resist." Chu Lixue said coldly.

Hearing this, these soldiers looked at each other one by one, they had already received the silver given by the eldest master of the Ruan family to help the Ruan family tide over the difficulties, otherwise their affairs would be exposed, which was also the reason why they refused to help Shen Rui, Shen Rui just said that he was very good to them, but he never saw actual action.

But now that I heard what Princess Chen said, and there was also the presence of King Dingnan, it seemed that the other party's conditions were even more attractive, thinking of this, those soldiers threw down the blades in their hands one after another, which was to show goodwill to Shangguan Tianyu and Chu Lixue, Shangguan Tianyu saw this, and said coldly: "Come on, take Shen Rui down." After speaking, two soldiers stepped forward and escorted Shen Rui down.