The prince and the guards searched the enclosure for nearly half a month, but they did not find Emperor Changsheng.

But the southeast of the paddock is connected to the mountains, where the ancient trees are forested, inaccessible, and even infested with fierce beasts......

Many people think that Emperor Changsheng is still alive, and his sons, including the eldest prince, have not given up and are still looking for people in the mountains.

The eldest prince already has the title of the crown prince, but the father of Emperor Changsheng is really good to him, he never thought of taking over the throne so early. Not to mention the rest of the princes, they also agreed that their own father was still alive and could only expand the scope of search.

Wang Linzhi also didn't believe that Emperor Changsheng would die like this, and two-thirds of the guards in the princess's mansion spent time looking for Emperor Changsheng, but they still found nothing.

She really wanted to find this emperor's uncle, if she had such a great credit in her hands, her father and brother would simply not need her to speak, and they could go back to Beijing directly.

The wish is very beautiful, but the reality is very cruel, Emperor Changsheng simply can't see anyone alive or dead.

Princess Yongfu even proposed to go to find someone herself, but as soon as she opened her mouth, she was interrupted by Roujia, "I heard that there are wild people in the mountains who snatched you away, maybe we will save you!" ”

It's not that she doesn't want Yongfu to go, the question is that Yongfu is going, do they want to go?

Princess Zheng hurriedly spoke up, "You just take care of the Queen Mother, let's let those guards come when it comes to finding people." ”

Wang Linzhi also wanted to go, but when she saw the second prince coming over to greet Empress Dowager Liu, she quickly dispelled her thoughts.

When a few princes went, they were just a little haggard, but when they came back, they were almost unrecognizable, their faces were full of scruffy beards, their hair was like a chicken nest, and their stone blue princes' regular clothes had turned rat gray, not to mention, they couldn't even see the dragon pattern on them, they were scratched everywhere, their boots were broken with several holes, and the exposed skin was full of cuts, some were scabbed, and some were still newly wounded, crisscrossing them.

It really makes those who see it sad and those who hear it cry.

What's worse is that the second prince has too little experience in surviving in the wild, and he doesn't bring much water, and after drinking the mountain spring in the wild, his stomach is not good, and he is already too thin to be human.

This look, if you want to find Emperor Changsheng, it's good to say, but you haven't found it!

Empress Dowager Liu's tears almost fell, this is the only person who is related to her by blood, and she naturally feels different from others.

"You kid, don't worry, you'll find it." Although I feel that crying at this time is too unlucky, the Empress Dowager Liu is still in tears.

"The second prince is also tired, so let's go and rest first." Princess Zheng spoke.

This old lady, doesn't she just want everyone to know that the second prince is seriously looking for Emperor Changsheng?

Her two sons are not the same!

Not only did the queen mother see this situation, but even the officials who followed her, and they all felt that the princes were very hard, but they didn't get the emperor back. But it is not a way to continue like this, and everyone can only return to the capital with complicated feelings.

Even if the most honorable person is missing, the lives of others will go on.

Wang Linzhi knew the news that Concubine Wu Hui was killed by lightning a few days ago, and Princess Qingyang had already told her daughter about the eyeliner in the palace before she left for the northwest. In the past, I didn't dare to use it for fear of affecting the queen mother in the palace, but now the queen has become a princess, and when she dies, there is no one in the palace to take a look, so there is nothing to taboo.

"There are rumors everywhere outside, saying that Concubine Wu Hui was struck by lightning because she did something rebellious and angered God." Xiao Liu'er's mother told Wang Linzhi the news outside.

"Concubine Wu Hui slandered and framed the queen to death, so she was struck by lightning." Wang Linzhi told Zhang Lixing like this.

Queen Wang has been deposed and has become a princess, but whether it is in the palace or the people in the market, when this is mentioned, she is still the "queen mother", because everyone believes that she will not use the art of disgust to harm Concubine Hui's children, and Wang Linzhi is even more so, so she has never changed her title.

The last thing that Princess Qingyang could not let go of was her daughter who stayed in the capital, so when she left, she only brought a few good guards, and the rest of the people stayed in the princess's mansion and told Zhang Lixing to "completely obey the orders of the county lord".

After Zhang Lixing agreed, he did not leave immediately, but said very meaningfully: "The prince issued a notice, if anyone can find the emperor, he will be crowned the marquis of ten thousand households." ”

This reward is indeed quite tempting!

But there must be that life, the person who came back from the princess's mansion is even more miserable than the second prince.

This notice Wang Linzhi already knew.

"This is the filial piety of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." After Wang Linzhi finished speaking, she couldn't help but glance at Zhang Lixing deeply, "Does Master Zhang have a way?" ”

Zhang Lixing hesitated for a moment, and then said: "The horse used to be a general, and after he took charge of Jin Wuwei, he handed over a group of people brought back from Yanzhou to the lower officials to manage, and the lower officials specially asked them about their origins, three of them were scouts, and then two experienced hunters were found to follow ......."

As soon as Wang Linzhi heard this, she immediately sat up straight and responded quickly, "Okay, just do as the adults say." ”

Whether it is a prince or a guard, they have no experience in surviving in the mountains and forests, but scouts and hunters are different.

Wang Linzhi began to be full of hope for the search for Emperor Changsheng again.

The king of a country disappeared for no reason, and it would definitely be no problem to hide it for three or five days or half a month, but it would not work for a long time.

Before the prince posted this notice, he also discussed it with the adults, and they couldn't find a better way, so they could only agree.

At this time, the four seas were leveled, and although there was a disaster in the capital, it was not serious, that is, the house was destroyed, and there was a lack of food and drink.

Because before this, Wang Linzhi had warned Emperor Changsheng in the name of Bodhisattva's dream, so the imperial court's disaster relief work has been doing well, using lime water everywhere to eliminate poison, burying the dead animal and human corpses, arranging the living to a unified place for treatment, and opening a Taiping disaster relief, and also transported a lot of grain from Jiangnan to Beijing to help the collapsed houses to rebuild their houses......

It should be said that Meng Zhili, Jing Zhaoyin, did a good job, and the most picky imperial history did not find the slightest fault, but the news of Emperor Changsheng's unexplained disappearance had long before the eldest prince posted the notice, and it had quietly flown over thousands of mountains and rivers and reached the ears of the leaders of various tribes outside the Guan.

Back then, the ancestors of the Zhao royal family were also very brave and good at fighting, but at the beginning of the reign of Empress Dowager Wu, civil strife continued, and the tribes outside the customs took advantage of the fire to rob, and I don't know how much food and money were robbed of the customs.

Now, when the leaders of these tribes heard that Emperor Changsheng had disappeared, they began to stir up.

Yumen Pass is guarded by the Marquis of Changxing, and those marauders have not taken any advantage over the years, so they chose Xiguan, which is adjacent to it.

On the day when everyone in the palace returned to Beijing, Xiguan was in an emergency, and they had no choice but to turn to Yumen Pass, the Marquis of Changxing, who made the enemy fearful.

The Marquis of Changxing entrusted the matter to General Sun and his apprentices.