On this day, Gu Song returned home, he looked much darker, and he became more and more tough, standing there as tall and mighty as a green pine. When Gu Song returned to the mansion, the old ancestor held a reception banquet for him, and praised a few words without pain, saying that he had won glory for the Jingguo Mansion.

Everyone at the table didn't talk much, because everyone also knew that now that several princes were competing for the throne, they were really not happy at this time.

After the banquet, Gu Song followed the third wife back to the main house of the third room, the third wife first hugged him and cried for a while, in the end, she was worried about it for so long, those fame and fortune were secondary, what she was most afraid of was that this son would never come back! Now that she came back, she was really crying and laughing.

Ah Yan also helped persuade from the side, and after persuading for a while, the third wife pulled Gu Song to ask questions about the east and west, and after asking for most of the time, she kept looking at the sky too late, so she let Gu Song go back to rest.

When Gu Song came out, he gave Ah Yan a look, and Ah Yan also came out when he saw this.

When he arrived in the courtyard, Gu Song avoided Xiqing and the others, and whispered to Ah Yan: "I received the letter you sent me. How do you know that there is something wrong with this Shen Congjia?"

Ah Yan has also been worried for so long, and hurriedly asked, "Is he really a problem?"

Gu Song nodded: "I received your letter and showed it to the Nine Emperor Princes, and the Nine Emperor Princes looked in a very good mood after reading the letter." I only knew at that time that he had already sent someone to lurk beside Shen Congjia, but in fact, everything was under his control. ”

Ah Yan was slightly surprised: "So, my letter was sent for nothing?"

Gu Song smiled proudly: "It's not for nothing, I see that the Nine Emperor Princes are very happy to get the letter." He also praised Cousin Armand, I think that if the four princes really succeed in the future, they don't need our help, and the position of the imperial merchant in my uncle's house is gone. ”

Ah Yan pursed his lips and smiled, looked at his brother and said, "I didn't expect my brother to be thinking about the long term now." ”

When Gu Song heard this, he lowered his voice and said, "Now that the prince is in trouble, the ministers in the court and the central government know that this is a critical juncture, and they are busy with the team." We can't stand in line with the Jingguo Mansion, so we can only bet on the four princes. ”

Ah Yan's eyes flashed slightly, but he asked his brother: "How big does my brother think the four princes have to win?"

Gu Song frowned: "It's hard to say, let's do our best." ”

It's hard to say, because the four princes are really lackluster except for their military exploits. His mother was only from a small family, and died after giving birth to the Nine Emperor Sons, and now the princess she is married to is still in decline Jingguo Mansion, he really has no foreign aid to support, and he relies on his own hard work.

However, the biggest advantage of the four princes is that they have military merits, and there are not many soldiers and horses under his hands that he can command, even if some soldiers and horses have been taken away now, but if he speaks, I am afraid that there will still be people who swear to follow, which is his bargaining chip.

Ah Yan looked at his brother's heavy appearance, knowing that he was also afraid that if he lost the gamble, their family would suffer from now on. For a moment, she suddenly wanted to tell her brother that in fact, the Four Princes would win, and the Nine Emperors would also win.

They're the ones who have the last laugh, so there's really no need to worry.

From the moment you took the line of the Nine Emperor Princes, the glory of our family has been doomed.

But she didn't say anything.

Everything is not much different from the previous life, this year, the emperor died, and he did not even leave a will, so he went. It is said that before he died, he moved a few times to the mouths of several old ministers, trying to say something, but in the end he didn't say it.

So the third prince and the fourth prince began the battle for the throne.

Their battlefield suddenly happened in one night, and everyone did not expect it, even Gu Song, who was the confidant of the Nine Emperor Princes, did not participate in it because he was outside the palace.

Their fight started in the imperial palace and then quickly spread to the entire Yanjing City.

All of a sudden, there was chaos in Yanjing City.

Many nobles began to flee the city in a hurry with their carriages, and the Jingguo Mansion was no exception.

The eldest lady cried and shouted that she was going to find Princess Ning, her eldest girl, but she was held by the eldest young grandmother and said: "If you don't leave at this time, it will be too late! Seeing that the city gates outside are blocked! Besides, our eldest girl is in Ning Wang's Mansion, how many pairs of eyes are watching, she can't get out!"

So the eldest lady wept and got into the carriage.

Now in a hurry, the Jingguo Mansion has prepared a total of four carriages, which are mighty before and after.

Ayan's mother, the third wife, was with the ancestor at that time, so she also followed the first carriage.

The second carriage is for the young masters in the house, the second is for the girls, and the third is for the aunt and others.

Ah Yan looked at this piece of panic quietly from the side.

In the previous life, she was originally on the third carriage, but at that time, her cousin, the fourth girl, said that the third lady seemed to have just gotten out of the carriage and went to the house to get something. Seeing that the first carriage had already driven out, Ah Yan was skeptical, but she was afraid that her mother would be left behind.

The fourth girl said, "Go to the third lady quickly, our carriage is waiting for you." ”

So Ayan really stupidly went to find her mother, but when she ran to the third room, she found that there was no one at home.

She ran so hard that her legs were weak, and her throat was full of fire, and when she ran back to the gate, she saw that the front of the house was already clean, and only the two dilapidated stone lions standing at the door stood silently.

The cold wind of the deep winter blew and blew some messy things on the ground, and she didn't know where the carriage in the house had gone.

As a pampered girl since she was a child, she was so frightened that she could only sneak back into the house to hide.

At that time, the servants in the palace could run away, and the huge Guogong Mansion was quiet, and there were gold and silver hairpins, jewelry, and some clothes and handkerchiefs on the ground that had fallen when they fled in a hurry.

Those things, which may have been put away by their owners as good things, were now lying there quietly, and no one cared about them anymore.

At that time, Ah Yan carefully returned to the third room, curled up in his room, and waited there quietly.

Later, she was so hungry that she got up by herself, went to the stove room, rummaged around, and found some cold glutinous rice and lily porridge, and some hibiscus cakes from yesterday, and she munched on them in embarrassment.

For the next few days, she spent alone in the cold and dreary darkness, and sometimes in the middle of the night she would hear the sound of soldiers and horses killing outside, and she would hide in a corner and tremble softly.

I always couldn't sleep well in the middle of the night, and as soon as I fell asleep, I would have nightmares, dreaming that I was being caught and about to be killed, and sometimes I dreamed that someone was going to kill my mother and brother with a knife.

After several days of suffering, Ayan fell asleep in a daze in the evening clutching a stiff hibiscus cake, and when she woke up, she seemed to hear a noise. Unlike in the past, the sound was so close that it sounded like it was in the house, not on the street outside.

She was so startled that she quickly crawled under the bed.

Those people walked around, as if searching for something, and Ayan was so frightened that her legs and stomach cramped, but she gritted her teeth and didn't dare to say a word.

She prayed to her fathers and fathers, asking them to bless them and let the group run away.

But everything didn't go according to people's wishes, and there were chaotic footsteps to come to the third room, and then those people were searching for something, and the last person seemed to be standing in front of her bed.

She could see the man's feet, wearing leather boots with cloud dragon patterns, and a black robe embroidered with gold trim.

The man stood quietly for a while, and then suddenly said in a deep voice, "People under the bed, come out." ”

Ah Yan was so frightened that her legs trembled, but it was useless to hide at this time, she trembled and crawled out from under the bed.

Lying on the ground softly, she raised her head with all her strength and looked at the tall figure standing in front of her.

It looks familiar.

Ah Yan carefully identified it, and immediately almost cried: "Nine, Nine Emperors?"

I saw him when he was a child, he was born so handsome, it's hard to recognize him.

She knelt in front of the Nine Emperor Princes, burst into tears, her voice trembled, and she was very aggrieved: "The Nine Emperor Princes ......"

Thinking of everything in his previous life, Ah Yan looked at his four sisters and sneered.

In fact, when I think about it, although she suffered a crime that time, it was not bad later. At that time, the Nine Emperor Princes personally escorted her and placed her in a separate courtyard, where there were special people to guard and protect her, and there were people who ate and drank well to serve her.

On the contrary, it was those people in his own house who went out and didn't know how much they suffered, and I heard that the eldest lady also got an illness because of this, and almost died.

His mother was okay, but after leaving the city, after a meal, she was separated from everyone. At that time, the elder brother escorted his mother and gradually went to the north to hide, but he did not suffer any crime.

If he had followed his mother and them out at that time, maybe my brother wouldn't have been able to take care of himself and his mother at all, maybe he would have dragged them down.

At this time, Ah Yan thought of this, and looked at the fourth sister mockingly, thinking about what would happen to her this time?

Just as I was thinking about it, I heard the fourth sister say: "Hey, I suddenly remembered that the third wife seemed to have forgotten something just now, and got off the carriage and went to the house! Now that the carriage in front of me has left, I'm afraid she won't be able to catch up." ”

The fifth sister on the side was surprised, but when she looked at the four girls, she closed her mouth and didn't say anything.

Ah Yan sneered more and more, but he was extremely speechless to himself in the previous life.

Such an obvious scam, why didn't she see it.

But since her sister has tried her best to deceive herself, then she will be reluctant to do it again.

So she nodded and said softly: "In this case, the fourth sister must remember to let the carriage wait for me, and I will go down to find the third wife." ”

When the fourth girl heard this, she naturally nodded violently: "Okay, you go, come back quickly!"

The fifth girl frowned, looking at Ah Yan with a little pity, her lips moved, and she wanted to say something, but she didn't say anything after all.

Ah Yan looked back and swept the expressions of the five girls, and when the five girls saw Ah Yan looking at themselves, they hurriedly turned their heads and snorted coldly.

Ah Yan walked into the door of the Guogong Mansion, but smiled lightly.

Although the fifth girl hated the third room the most in the past, but with the pitying eyes of the fifth girl to herself just now, she was better than the fourth girl, I don't know how much.

If Ayan has that beautiful day one day, she will definitely be grateful for the mercy of her five girls.