The smile on the corner of Xiao Xiwei's mouth gradually narrowed, and his eyes stared at Lu Haiyang's eyes with a deep and complicated light, "Oh, I don't know what the evidence is that Lord Lu said?" ”

Lu Haiyang looked directly into Xiao Xiwei's eyes, a proud smile rose on his lips, and slowly spit out three words from his mouth, "Ninth Princess." ”

Xiao Xi's eyebrows moved slightly, and his eyes deepened a little as he looked at Lu Haiyang.

Seeing Xiao Xiwei's demeanor, the smile on the corner of Lu Haiyang's mouth deepened a little, "The Ninth Princess is the evidence." ”

"Now that the life and death of the ninth princess are unknown, I'm afraid I can't testify for Lord Lu, right?" Yan Guifei looked at Lu Haiyang coldly.

Lu Haiyang smiled, raised his hand and waved at Yan Guifei, "What Niangniang said is very true." After that, he turned around and faced Xiao Xiwei again, "The ninth princess and the Northern Desert are very important, Wei Chen, as the deputy commander of the forbidden army, has already strengthened his vigilance at the palace gates in various places, and will definitely not let anyone with a heart sneak out of the palace." ”

"What do you mean by that......"

"Your Majesty, Weichen guarantees with a head, and the ninth princess is still in the palace." Lu Haiyang raised his hand to look at the emperor and said loudly, after thinking about it, he added, "Hidden in a corner of the palace by Princess Yan." ”

"You mean it." The Emperor stood up at once.

"Wechen begs the emperor to grant permission for Wechen to lead people to search the palace." Lu Haiyang knelt down as he spoke.

Xiao Xi's eyes were slightly susceptible, and he looked at Lu Haiyang with a smile and said, "It turns out that Lord Lu has been prepared for a long time, no wonder the Yuli Palace is on fire, my mother and I are in a hurry, for fear that the Ninth Princess will make a mistake, but Lord Lu looks like a bamboo in his chest, it seems that Lord Lu has already concluded that the Ninth Princess is not in the Yuli Palace." ”

"Weichen believes that the ninth princess is not in Yuli Palace, and Princess Yan should know better than Weichen." Lu Haiyang raised his head to meet Xiao Xiwei's gaze and also smiled.

The imperial city is heavily guarded, and the fire in Yuli Palace can certainly cause chaos in the palace for a while, but at the same time, it also makes the forbidden army in the palace more vigilant, and it is definitely not easy to take the nine princesses out of the palace at this time. Xiao Xiwei is a smart person, for the sake of safety, she will definitely hide the ninth princess in a corner of the palace, but when the news of the ninth princess's death came out, the palace relaxed its vigilance and found another opportunity to steal her out of the palace. This is indeed a good method, but unfortunately, it can't escape his Lu Haiyang's eyes.

Xiao Xi smiled, but didn't answer Lu Haiyang's words, "But there is one thing I don't understand, even if Lord Lu finds the Ninth Princess in which corner of the palace, how can Lord Lu conclude that I hid the Ninth Princess?" Xiao Xi said and smiled, "Who in the palace doesn't know that the ninth princess is addicted to alcohol, and often hides in a corner of the palace to drink, sometimes she drinks too much, and she also sleeps." Just because the ninth princess is not in Yuli Palace, Lord Lu wants to slander the concubine in front of the emperor, isn't it a bit far-fetched? ”

"Princess Yan is really articulate." Lu Haiyang smiled and said, "If this is the only one, of course, you can't make Princess Yan admit what she did, but if you find the Ninth Princess, and Yuli Palace finds the body of the 'Nine Princesses', then what's the matter?" ”

He had to admit that Xiao Xiwei was really smart.

The only people in this palace who can leave the palace are the dead. If the 'Ninth Princess' doesn't die, then Chu Zuizhi will never be able to 'live'.

Xiao Xi's eyes lit up, looked at Lu Haiyang, and did not speak for a long time.

Concubine Yan Guifei has been up and down in the harem for so many years after two dynasties, and naturally she can still calm down, but the purple smoke around Xiao Xiwei followed Lu Haiyang's words, and her whole heart was raised, although she tried her best to stay calm, but the anxiety that flashed in her eyes betrayed her mind.

The emperor's cold gaze swept over Xiao Xiwei, and an imperceptible smile crossed the corner of his lips.

It seems that everything is really developing according to Lu Haiyang's plan.

"In that case, you should immediately take someone to search the palace! Be sure to bring back the Nine Princesses intact. The emperor ordered.

"Yes. Wechen obeyed. Lu Haiyang saluted, then got up and strode towards the door.

When he passed by Xiao Xiwei's side, a very low voice pointed at his ear like the wind, "Master Lu really thinks that he has won the roll?" ”

Lu Haiyang was stunned.

What does Xiao Xiwei mean by this? Could it be that she still has a trick? The thought flashed through his mind and he immediately denied it. Before this, he had already analyzed all the situations that would happen one by one, and he would definitely not give Xiao Xiwei any possibility of getting out. The reason why Xiao Xiwei said this was just a dying struggle to shake him.

Thinking of this, Lu Haiyang didn't stop his footsteps, and went out of the door.

As soon as Lu Haiyang left, the room fell silent.

"Your Majesty, things haven't been figured out yet, whether to let Wei'er sit down and rest first." Concubine Yan got up and blessed the emperor.

The emperor's slender eyes swept over Xiao Xiwei, and finally waved his hand.

Seeing this, Ziyan hurriedly stepped forward to help Xiao Xiwei. While she helped, she said to Xiao Xi carefully, "Princess, what should I do now?" ”

Xiao Xiwei reached out and shook her palm, and a soft smile curled into the corner of her mouth.

There is never a shortage of people playing chess in this imperial city, but it is really hard to say who entered whose chess game.

"Ziyan, I'm a little thirsty." Xiao Xiwei looked at Ziyan and smiled.

Looking at Xiao Xiwei's calm and calm appearance, Ziyanzi's heart eased suddenly. She blessed Xiao Xiwei with her blessing, then picked up the purple clay pot on the table, and leisurely poured Xiao Xiwei a cup of tea.

The thick purple sand teacup lined Xiao Xiwei's fingers as smooth and delicate as mutton fat, the moment she lowered her eyes, her long eyelashes trembled slightly, and her side face was beautiful like a fairy coming out of an ink painting, exuding a faint soft light around her body. This scene, any man who sees it will not be able to help but feel pity, but in the eyes of the emperor, there is an inexplicable trace of coldness and inquiry.

Even in such an unfavorable situation, she could still drink tea leisurely as if nothing had happened, and with such composure and calmness, I was afraid that none of his sons could do it. It's no wonder that Yan Zhi and Xi Zhi will fall in love with her at the same time. This woman is truly unusual.

As soon as the cup of tea was finished, a series of footsteps sounded outside the Yikun Palace.

Compared with Xiao Xiwei's indifference, the corners of Ziyan's eyebrows obviously couldn't help jumping.

As the door was pushed open again, Lu Haiyang led several people to walk in calmly, one of whom was obviously the Ninth Princess Chu Zuizhi.

"Weichen see the emperor, the emperor ......"

"Alright, alright." As soon as he saw Chu drunk, the emperor hurriedly walked over and pointed at her, "You tell me first, what's going on?" ”

Chu Zuizhi's whole body fell crookedly on a forbidden army, his face was flushed, and there was a smell of wine on his body, obviously because he had drunk too much.

"Father, the ninth princess, she should be drunk." Xiao Xiwei said, and glanced at Ziyan lightly, "Ziyan, why don't you go and help Princess Jiu sit down." ”

Letting a guard support a drunken princess like this, spreading it is really damaging to the princess's reputation, the royal reputation. Obviously, Lu Haiyang didn't expect that the ninth princess he found had drunk too much, otherwise, he should have taken the palace maid with him.

"Yes." Ziyan answered, and hurriedly helped Chu Zuizhi to the chair next to him from the guard.

"I don't know where Lord Lu found the Ninth Princess?" Xiao Xi looked at Lu Haiyang with a slight smile.

Lu Haiyang's face stiffened slightly, and his eyes were a little more complicated when he looked at Xiao Xiwei.

The Ninth Princess was found in the rockery cave in the Imperial Garden, and at that time, she seemed to have drunk too much wine and fell asleep, and there were several wine bottles scattered on the ground, and the place did not look like it was hidden.

"What's the matter, it's inconvenient for Lord Lu to find the place where the Ninth Princess is found?" Xiao Xiwei said again.

Before Lu Haiyang could speak, the emperor had already sunk his face.

"Didn't you hear you?"

Lu Haiyang pursed the corners of his mouth, finally raised his hand, and said, "The Ninth Princess was found in the rockery in the west corner of the Imperial Garden. ”

As soon as Lu Haiyang's words came out, the last trace of worry in Concubine Yan's heart completely receded.

She knew that the person she chose would never be so reckless as to send such a big handle into the hands of the enemy.

"Imperial Garden, Rockery? It turned out that the princess had put so much effort into it, risking the great crime of the Jiu clan to burn down the Yuli Palace, and resisting the decree and bullying the monarch in order to hide people in the rockery of the imperial garden? Oh, this place is really ingenious. Xiao Xi smiled.

Lu Haiyang's face was difficult to look at all of a sudden.

Compared with Lu Haiyang's face, obviously, the emperor's face was even more ugly, and the eyes that looked at Lu Haiyang were not only reproachful, but also disappointed.

also said that he could take down Princess Yan in one fell swoop, so as to blackmail King Yan, but he didn't expect that there would be such a difference.

At this time, Lu Haiyang also regretted that his intestines were blue.

If the people he brought to the Jie Palace were all his cronies, such a thing could have been avoided now, but he thought that the matter was in his hands, and he refused to let Xiao Xiwei's mouth go here to give her a chance to quibble, so many of the forbidden troops he brought were the sons of nobles in Beijing, but he never thought that this was the situation now.

"Perhaps, Princess Yan thinks that the most dangerous place is the safest place." Seeing that Lu Haiyang's face was not good, a cronie beside him hurriedly spoke.

Xiao Xi's slightly slender eyebrows were raised, and his watery eyes looked at the man, "Lord Lu is here to teach his subordinates." ”

"The princess forgives her sins, the slave is upright, if there is something that offends the princess just now, please ask the princess to forgive her sins." The forbidden army was a smart man, and as soon as Xiao Xiwei opened his mouth, he immediately knelt down and pleaded guilty. "Actually, just because the ninth princess was found in the imperial garden can't completely prove the princess's innocence."

"Oh." Xiao Xi smiled and raised his eyes to look at the forbidden army, "Then according to what you said, how can you prove the innocence of this princess?" ”

"Didn't my lord say that you got a fake corpse to pretend to be the ninth princess in Yuli Palace, now that the fire has been extinguished, just send someone to the ninth princess's bedroom to take a look." The Forbidden Army is methodical.

Xiao Xi hooked the corners of his mouth slightly, raised his eyebrows and looked at Lu Haiyang, and said, "That's what Lord Lu mean?" ”

Lu Haiyang stared at Xiao Xiwei with dead eyes.

Xiao Xiwei was thoughtful, even if she poked her plan in front of her, she could remain silent, but the maidservants around her did not have such thoughts as her. The nervousness and panic that flashed in her maid's eyes just now he saw that it was impossible to fake, besides, he thought that his plan had not revealed a trace of wind in advance, and Xiao Xiwei could not have known in advance that a bureau was waiting for him here.

He raised his eyes and glanced at the emperor on the high seat, his expression already gloomy. By now, he was already difficult to ride a tiger, so he had to gamble.

"Nature." Lu Haiyang's deep voice sounded slowly.