This night, Zhang Jiusheng passed almost with his eyes open.

In a mess in his heart, he turned sideways with his back to Yun Sheng, and it wasn't until the sound of slow breathing came from behind him that he turned his head cautiously.

Yun Sheng closed her eyes, and the frost-white moonlight shone on her face through the crack in the window, outlining a soft light on her face, and her long eyelashes clearly reflected the shadows one by one under her eyes.

Zhang Jiusheng lay upright, clasped his hands in front of his chest, and stared at the roof.

The wind was whistling outside, and there was still some cold squeezing in, and the sound in the brazier was slightly commotioning.

Zhang Jiusheng remained motionless.

It's like you're out of your body.

If he hadn't opened his eyes, he would have thought he was dead.

"Yunsheng, I shouldn't be able to stay in the capital with you. Gu Li told me, your brother is still alive, and when the grievances of the Prime Minister's Mansion are cleared, you and your brother will stay in the capital, and the saint will reinstate your brother as an official, and then you can follow him to continue to investigate cases in the capital. ”

"I also thought about accompanying you, but no, I have to go back to take care of my parents. My eldest brother has been by me since I was a child, and if I wanted to stay in the capital, he would definitely not say anything. It's just that he's too tired, I know he likes Jianghu very much, he has given up a lot for me, I have to think about my eldest brother. ”

"When you settle down, it will probably be the beginning of spring next year, and we will be separated."

Zhang Jiusheng whispered softly alone, talking and talking, his voice became lower and lower, so low that he couldn't hear it clearly, and he couldn't hear Yunsheng's breathing in his ears, only the louder and louder wind outside, and Zhang Jiusheng's own heart, which was beating so wildly that it was almost painful.

"I can't bear you."

"But it can't be helped."

When Zhang Jiusheng fell asleep, the sky had already begun to be transparent, and the wind had gradually stopped.

When the first rooster crowed, Yun Sheng had already folded the quilt, and Zhang Jiusheng was still asleep, the quilt on his body was well covered, and there was even an extra blanket.

Yun Sheng cautiously pushed open the door and walked out lightly.

I saw Gu Li just carrying a basin of water and splashing it on the ground.

The two looked at each other and smiled.

"Woke up so early?" Gu Li grabbed the basin in his hand and asked, "What about the second young master?" ”

"He's still sleeping, when are we leaving?"

Gu Li thought for a while and said, "Don't worry. ”

As soon as the words fell, Gu Li turned around and went back to the firewood room, and Yun Sheng didn't pursue it, he went to the kitchen to boil some hot water and prepare to wash his face.

She had a towel hanging on her arm, tilted her head, one hand propped up on the stove, and the whole person stood there as if she had lost three souls, and she didn't know what she was thinking, until Zhang Jiusheng was already dressed and looked for her everywhere to find the kitchen.

"Yunsheng, what are you doing?" Zhang Jiusheng stood at the door of the kitchen and shouted, but saw that Yun Sheng was still facing away from him and did not react.

Zhang Jiusheng felt faintly uneasy in his heart, and when he took a few steps forward, he saw Yun Sheng with a sad face and didn't know what happened early in the morning, patted her shoulder lightly, and shouted cautiously: "Yun Sheng? ”

Still no response.

"Yunsheng!"

"Huh?" Yun Sheng was blindfolded by the roar, and looked at Zhang Jiusheng with wide eyes.

Zhang Jiusheng was also taken aback by her reaction, stepped forward to hold her shoulders, and asked, "I called you several times, what's wrong with you?" Not happy? ”

Yun Sheng's nervous shoulders were lowered, he glanced at the water that was only half boiled in the pot, and said, "It's nothing, I talked to Gu Li this morning, and he said that we are not in a hurry to go back to the capital." ”

Zhang Jiusheng understood and explained: "There are still a few days before the birthday of the saint, whether it is them or the Wu Mansion, they should be doing tricks in the palace. We are right not to enter the capital at this time. ”

"I know."

"I've been waiting for so long, so why not wait a few more days."

Yun Sheng looked at him for a long time before responding, "Yes." ”

After that, Yun Sheng didn't speak, she took a spoon, took another basin from the side, scooped hot water into it spoonful by spoonful, and seemed not to say more than half a word to Zhang Jiusheng.

Zhang Jiusheng was at a loss, and he didn't know where he had offended Yun Sheng.

Seeing her like this, she had no choice but to shrug her shoulders and say, "Then I'll go out." ”

"Hmm."

Having never seen Yun Sheng like this, Zhang Jiusheng scratched his head and left.

Listening to the footsteps gradually disappearing, Yun Sheng sighed lightly, how could she not know what Zhang Jiusheng was planning in her heart?

But this is not the time to confess.

The outcome of everything is only known in the end.

Now that it is settled, no matter how much they do after that, it will be useless.

She hopes for a good ending and a bright future.

Including her, and his.

After Yun Sheng finished washing his face, he saw Zhang Jiusheng and Gu Li and others, each holding steamed buns in their hands, drinking with multigrain porridge, and when they saw her coming, they waved to her.

Zhang Jiusheng handed her a steamed bun and said, "This multigrain porridge tastes good, you can taste it." ”

"Coarse tea and light rice, snubbing the eldest lady." Gu Li interjected.

Yun Sheng took the steamed bun, sat down on the steps with his ass, and said, "What's not to be lazy about?" I've lived all the hard days, are you still afraid of this? When you are suffering, you should be more bitter than this time, right? ”

"That's right. Sometimes, for a task, you may not be able to eat a hot meal and drink a mouthful of hot water for several days, and the days when you still have steamed buns like this are considered happy. Gu Li said, picked up a steamed bun from the table, and threw it to a brother who was walking outside the house.

The brother reacted very quickly, and immediately caught it with one hand, and then found out that it was a steamed bun, and grinned at Gu Li.

"I hope that in the future, there will be no need for my brothers to be born and die." Gu Li said, taking chopsticks and pouring a hot porridge into his mouth, followed by another bowl.

"When will we be able to enter Beijing?"

"Let's wait for news from Aei."

"Ah Rong went back for a day, right?"

Gu Li was silent for a while, and said: "Don't say it's in the palace, maybe the capital is also in danger now, and no one can be sure if we can enter the palace if we walk in so swaggeringly now." ”

Yun Sheng was silent.

"They were faster than us, we took the trails and twisted and went. They took the official road, all the way unimpeded, without any worries. The capital, the palace, was Wu Zhidun's world a few years ago. You could have escaped alive from him back then, it was the people of the Liu family who helped you, but now there is none. ”

Gu Li was right, Liu Rushuang died, and her only support in the capital was gone.

Although she and Liu Bishuang are best friends, it doesn't mean that her father Liu knows and will definitely help her.

Liu Zhizhu is a businessman.

And Yun Sheng didn't have any chips in his hands that could be traded with him.

"Will they find it here?" Yun Sheng asked.

"No, it won't."

"Why?"

"Along the way, they have many opportunities to ambush us, delay our march into Beijing, and even reduce our personnel. But so far, all of us here are safe and sound. Therefore, the danger is not outside the capital, but inside the capital, in the palace. ”

Gu Li said again: "Ah Rong has been gone for this time, and there is no news. Either something happened to him, or he couldn't pass on the news to us, something happened in the palace. ”

At that time, in the palace, Li Hongzhi was in the imperial study, pacing around with his hands behind his back, extremely uneasy.

After a while, Cai Chen came out of the inner room with a medical kit on his back.

Seeing him come out, Li Hongzhi immediately walked over: "How is it?" ”

Cai Chen put down the medicine box, and was about to kneel as soon as he lifted his robe, Li Hongzhi frowned tightly, and grabbed Cai Chen's arm: "But it's okay to talk about it, forgive you for your innocence." ”

"Back to the saint, the poison in the palace."

Li Hongzhi pursed his lips, picked up the medicine box on the ground, carried it on Cai Chen's back, and said, "You can prescribe medicine." ”

"That's ......" Cai Chen was a little surprised.

"I'm going to save his life."

Cai Chen hesitated for a moment and gritted his teeth: "Please send the general manager to the imperial hospital to get the medicine at night." ”

"Do what you can."

"Wechen obeys."

After Cai Chen left the imperial study, Li Hongzhi stood in place for a long time before slowly walking towards the inner room, but he couldn't cross the threshold, as if a thousand-pound stone was tied to his feet.

Something did happen to Ae.

"Sanyu ......"

"The minions are here."

Li Hongzhi looked at Ah Rong lying inside, his eyes were closed, his face was pale, his thin lips were blue, and the sweat on his forehead was seeping out layer by layer.

"What Imperial Doctor Cai said just now, did you hear everything?"

"The slave heard clearly, the poison in the palace."

"Check."

"Yes." Sanyu nodded heavily, then withdrew.

The people around the imperial study were all hand-selected by Sanyu himself, but now there are ghosts in it.

During the period when Ah Rong entered the palace, it was not long, it was not short, his food and the things he handled were only in the imperial study.

Li Hongzhi is fine, Sanyu is also fine, everyone else is fine, only Ah Rong has an accident.

Cai Chen said that the poison of Ayi is the poison of the mouth.

A box of plum blossom cakes.

No one knows where it came from, and no one knows how it got into the mouth of Aei.

Li Hongzhi was so angry that he dropped the inkstone.

On this day, there was a depressing atmosphere in the imperial study, and those palace maids and those attendants were standing outside the imperial study, trembling.

I've already called in a lot of people.

Some came out unharmed, but they couldn't ask anything, and some never came out.

It's cold, and people's hearts are even colder.

Until nightfall, Li Hongzhi's bloodshot eyes were open, and Sanyu hurriedly came back from the imperial hospital and fed Aei medicine again.

"Did you meet anyone on the way?"

"Returning to the Holy Place, no."

"Have you left someone for Cai Chen?"

"If you stay, you will be sent back safely, until your birthday, no one will know where Imperial Doctor Cai is."

Li Hongzhi closed his eyes, as if his whole body strength had been drained: "That's good." ”