After Situ Rui and Situ Nan returned to the palace, they parted ways. Coming to Liu Xinru's face, Situ Rui, who was full of alcohol, made Liu Xinru frown involuntarily.

Situ Rui looked at Liu Xinru's frowning appearance and asked in a low voice, "Call me over so late, what's going on?" ”

Liu Xinru glanced at Situ Rui, lowered her head and played with the Buddha beads in her hand. "I heard that Zixuan took Yun You out of the palace that night?"

"Hmm." Situ Rui nodded, a little annoyed that Liu Xinru mentioned this matter again.

"Rui'er, tomorrow you go investigate Ye Zixuan. My mother suspects that he is the shadow. After a slight pause, Meng Yuqing continued before Situ Rui could ask questions: "Meng Yuqing is gone, and the entire Prime Minister's Mansion is looking for her now. You also sent someone to help you find it, and if you find it, notify me immediately. ”

"Yezixuan...... Is it the Shadow? Situ Rui repeated Liu Xinru's guess, and his eyebrows were full of surprise and disbelief. Calmly recalling the fragment of the battle between himself and the shadow, Situ Rui gritted his teeth, looked at Liu Xinru, and asked, "Can Meng Yuqing's disappearance have anything to do with him?" ”

"It's still uncertain, but if you can't find it and there is no news of your whereabouts, it's very likely that he did it." Liu Xinru sighed faintly, and said with a lonely expression: "Yuqing knows a lot of things about her mother, and her mother doesn't want to touch her until she has to." But if she was really taken away by Ye Zixuan. Then Rui'er, Meng Yuqing, we have to kill. ”

Liu Xinru's words made Situ Rui's body startle suddenly, and then nodded quickly and replied, "I understand." ”

Leaving Liu Xinru's residence, Situ Rui only felt that his mind was blank, and his mood was extremely complicated.

Could that waste be a shadow in Yezixuan? He took Shen Yunyou out of the capital, does it have anything to do with Meng Yuqing's disappearance? If this is really the case, then he and Shen Yunyou ...... Will it be back?

This thought made Situ Rui so irritable that he was about to go crazy, and instead of going back to Rui Wang's mansion directly, Situ Rui came to Situ Nan's dormitory and dragged Situ Nan, who was already preparing to go to bed, from the bed.

"Sixth brother, what's wrong?" Situ Nan sat up with a confused expression, looked at Situ Rui with a gloomy face, and asked, "Has the emperor trained you?" ”

Situ Rui glanced at Situ Nan sullenly, snorted coldly, and asked, "Do you say that Yezixuan is a shadow?" ”

"How can you ......" Situ Nan shook his head reflexively, but before he finished speaking, he automatically stopped. Looking at Situ Rui's serious expression, Situ Nan stood up from the bed vigilantly, and his eyes met Situ Rui's eyes sharply, "Why are you so suspicious?" ”

"It's not impossible, isn't it?" Situ Rui lowered his eyes and said coldly: "I never thought about this before, because Ye Zixuan's performance over the years has been too bland, like a lost dog. But now there are some things that make me have to doubt this. ”

As soon as Situ Rui's words fell, Situ Nan's mind instantly remembered the excessive scene when he was a child, Ye Zixuan, which made everyone praise, and even his father was different from him and other princes.

Since Ye Zixuan was a child, he has been surrounded by words such as smart and highly perceptive, so when Situ Nan saw Ye Zixuan's extremely down-and-out appearance, he had a feeling in an instant that Ye Zixuan would not be like this. But as time went by, year by year, Ye Zixuan disappeared from their sight little by little. Occasionally, when I saw Ye Zixuan, I was just scolded and insulted by my father Xuan's entry into the palace.

Over time, Situ Nan had almost forgotten what the Yezixuan he first knew was like. But after Situ Rui said this, Situ Nan also felt that it was not impossible for Ye Zixuan to be a shadow......

If Ye Zixuan was really a shadow, then could the matter of him taking Shen Yunyou away be a plan that had been in place for a long time?

"What are you going to do if the Shadow is really him?" Situ Nan slowly opened his mouth and asked in a low voice.

"What was decided before, what is done now." Situ Rui sat on the chair, stared at the teacup on the table, and said, "The shadow has interfered in my affairs again and again, even if he is not Ye Zixuan, I have already decided to deal with him." ”

"Then why don't we start from the Prime Minister's Mansion, wouldn't it be easy?" Situ Nan raised his eyebrows, and made a plan for Situ Rui: "Whether we want to deal with Shadow or Ye Zixuan, the first target we want to attack will be Shen Yunyou, there is no doubt about it." And although Shen Yunyou doesn't have any handle in our hands, the people in Xiangfu have always been very important to her, especially her mother. Sixth brother, why don't we do something to deal with the Prime Minister's Mansion, what do you think? ”

Situ Nan's words made Situ Rui sigh heavily, and he also somewhat understood the reason why Meng Yuqing disappeared.

"Shen Yunyou's mother is gone, and now the entire Prime Minister's Mansion is looking for her. As for the Prime Minister's Mansion, we can't move casually now. Just as Ye Zixuan said, after all, this time he took Shen Yunyou away, with the permission of his father. So until the deadline given by the father, if they don't act, we can't do anything. And the Prime Minister's Mansion, you don't need me to say more, you also understand what's going on. The dragon chalcedony jade can be described as the dragon vein of our royal family, and we can't move the prime minister's house until we have to. ”

The matter implicated the dragon chalcedony jade, and it was not just a simple trivial matter. Therefore, as soon as Situ Rui's words were finished, Situ Nan immediately rejected his previous proposal.

"In that case, let's send some more people to track down the whereabouts of Ye Zixuan and Shen Yunyou." Situ Nan sighed secretly, feeling a little helpless about the current situation. Because he didn't expect things to turn out the way they are before, no matter what. "If the people under him are unreliable, they will find a reason with my father and say that I am leaving the palace. I'll take care of that. ”

After discussing with Situ Nan, Situ Rui's mood also changed slightly. Back at Rui Wang's Mansion, Situ Rui lay on the bed tossing and turning, unable to sleep. After finally falling asleep, he dreamed of Shen Yunyou and Shadow together, and he was defeated. This made Situ Rui involuntarily sober up.

Opening his eyes suddenly, Situ Rui reached out and wiped the sweat droplets from the corners of his forehead. Frowning in annoyance, Situ Rui couldn't figure out why he dreamed of such a scene.

Sleepless all night, as soon as it dawned the next day, Situ Rui immediately sent people to block the gate of the capital, and everyone who entered and left the capital had to be checked. Then he divided the rest of the people into two groups, one group went to track the whereabouts of Ye Zixuan and Shen Yunyou, and one group went to the Prime Minister's Mansion to help find Meng Yuqing's whereabouts.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, four days have passed. And in the past four days, although there was some news from Ye Zixuan and Shen Yunyou, there was no movement on Meng Yuqing's side.

Busy and busy, Situ Rui has been anxious about Shen Yunyou's affairs. It wasn't until he was summoned into the palace by Liu Xinru again, and when he heard Liu Xinru say that he had found out the whereabouts of Ye Zixuan and Shen Yunyou, Situ Rui's heart that had been hanging fell to the ground.

"Later, I will ask the people who investigated them to go to the Rui Wangfu to find you, they are all mother's henchmen, if there is anything, you can ask them to do it." Liu Xinru elegantly drank the tea in the cup, smiled and talked to Situ Rui. Glancing at Situ Rui's somewhat tired face without a trace, Liu Xinru continued: "Shen Yunyou's matter, Rui'er, you don't have to worry too much, my mother will help you." Now you should be most worried about when your father will make you the crown prince, and what will pass on the throne to you. ”

"Queen Mother, my father has refused to give me the crown prince for a long time, how can he pass on the throne to me?" Situ Rui could only sneer at Liu Xinru's words. Because he didn't believe that he would sit on the dragon chair in his father's lifetime.

"You don't have to worry about this matter first, I will find a time to talk to your father. And what you need to do now is to get all the ministers in the court to stand on your side and support you. And then there's the fight against other opponents who might threaten you to become the crown prince. ”

After speaking, Liu Xinru glanced at Situ Rui meaningfully, and said softly: "Rui'er, my mother knows that you have always had a good relationship with Situ Nan's people. But my mother has to tell you that in front of the throne, anyone can become your enemy. So even if you have a good relationship, if you become your enemy, you must not hesitate to eradicate it. As long as the enemy is alive and against you, you will do whatever it takes to strike until he becomes a waste with no ability to resist, you know? ”

Liu Xinru's words made Situ Rui's heart feel heavy, and he wanted to refute, but when he saw Liu Xinru's cold eyes flashing, he consciously swallowed all the words back. I could only speak sullenly and say, "Got it." ”

Liu Xinru looked at Situ Rui's appearance, nodded with satisfaction, and only let Situ Rui leave after explaining some things to Situ Rui.

"Mother, may I ask you a question?"

Situ Rui turned around and walked in the direction of the door, but before he could take a few steps, he stopped. Then he turned to look at Liu Xinru and asked such a question.

"Just ask." Liu Xinru nodded with a smile on the corner of her mouth, but after Situ Rui asked that question, the smile on the corner of her mouth gradually changed.

"Shen Yunyou's mother, that is, Meng Yuqing. As a palace maid in the palace, according to the regulations, it is impossible for her to marry Shen Zhiyuan. Why did the queen mother help her with this? According to the queen mother's style of acting, if Meng Yuqing really knew something, wouldn't the queen mother have killed her a long time ago? ”