The night was falling, and in the wide study, Zhu Ningxiao under the candlelight squinted and listened quietly to An Weixue's narration, his brows furrowed from time to time, and his face was thoughtful.

"Lord, it doesn't seem like Song Nan sent someone to do it, and the lower official deliberately used words to test that the prince was going to put a long line to catch a big fish and let the thief leave the palace, but Song Nan was not nervous. Do you think, if Song Nan ordered someone to do it, once the thieves who entered the mansion got out of trouble, they would definitely return to Guanxue Tower as soon as possible, wouldn't it be revealed that Song Nan instructed them? After the official said goodbye and left, he deliberately stopped near Zuo, wanting to see if Song Nan would make any changes and prevent the people who had entered the mansion from returning to Guanxue Tower, but there was no change, which showed that Song Nan was not worried about this. ”

Zhu Ningxiao straightened up slightly and said, "If it weren't for him, who else could it be?" Who in Ningxia town has so much courage? ”

An Wei learned: "Maybe...... Maybe it's really a poor and crazy thief, but there are a lot of people who have taken risks in recent years, and the governors and yamen of the lower officials have all been robbed......"

"Jokes." Zhu Ningyan shouted: "That's your incompetence. The thief dared to steal the palace and did not dare to enter my Qingwang Mansion, this matter must be related to Song Nan's house, he pretended to be calm Maybe he knew that we didn't catch the thief, and it was impossible to find him by touching the vine. I don't understand, is this thief born wings? Thousands of guards searched for more than ten hours but couldn't find anything, either the thief had escaped, or there was someone in the palace who should hide his whereabouts for him, otherwise why couldn't he be found? ”

Zhu Ningxuan angrily hit up, slapped the armrest and shouted: "Baoyi, Baoren, you two go to spread the words of this king, and call all the guards in the palace, and this king wants to ask them how they searched, a group of rice buckets." ”

Two of the ten personal guards standing behind Zhu Ningxiao's seat came out, these two men had slightly different faces from the Han Chinese, and they promised in strange accents, if Song Nan was here, they would have recognized the identities of these two men at a glance, these two guards were the two Uighur guards who had a relationship with Song Nan that day, who were pretending to be scholars; Both of them were surnamed Ye and were given Chinese names by the king of Anhua, one was called Ye Baoyi and the other was Ye Baoren.

After a while, the three guard commanders and the nine deputy guards in the palace all looked panicked and followed Ye Baoren and Ye Baoyi to the small courtyard where Zhu Ningxiao was, and stood tremblingly bowing their heads under the corridor.

Zhu Ningxiao got up and came to the door, looking at the guards who had been busy all night and didn't dare to take a breath for half a day, and snorted coldly: "A group of rice buckets, what do you want?" The palace is so big, and you can't find two of them, so tell me, how should this king punish you? ”

More than a dozen commanders and deputy commanders fell to the ground one after another with weak legs, and the prince said that he would be punished, at least he had to take off his skin, how could everyone not panic?

"Zhou He, tell me, how did you all search?" Zhu Ningxiao said coldly.

This Zhou He is the commander of the Southern Guardian Battalion, and when he heard this, he said in a trembling voice: "I am incompetent, but Lord Wang, we have almost turned the area under our jurisdiction upside down, and we have also turned over every grass, tree, and soil, and we have indeed not seen thieves, so I am happy...... The thief has really escaped. ”

"Get out? Where to get out? Will they be able to get out? You're talking about it. Baoxin, pulled him out and slapped his mouth for thirty, but there is a hand in shirking responsibility, but the director is not in a good position. Zhu Ningxuan scolded angrily.

A big man came out of the ten guards, and dragged Zhou He down the corridor with him, Zhou He didn't even dare to beg for mercy, and was pulled up by the guard called Baoxin's neck crossed, and after the sound of snapping, he was knocked unconscious in the snow as hard as he could, and more than a dozen teeth in his mouth were lost.

Everyone was silent, and they didn't dare to come out, Zhu Ningjiao coldly patrolled the gang leaders, and suddenly stretched out his hand and pointed at the crowd: "Wang Xingren, what's wrong with you?" Why do you wrap your head and face? ”

Wang Xingren almost peed his pants, hurriedly crawled forward, took off his mask, and said in a leaky voice: "Lord Wang, the little one is injured." There was an obstacle on his face, and he was afraid of staining the eyes of the prince, so he covered his head and face. ”

Zhu Ningxiao frowned and said, "How did you get hurt?" You look like you've been beaten and wounded, and how dare you beat the guards in the camp? ”

Wang Xingren hurriedly said: "The prince is angry, this injury was caused by the servant girl in the county lord's room when the thief arrived in the west building last night, the villain only cared about the thief, did not care about the rules of the house, and offended the county lord, this is the villain's own fault." ”

"Oh? Was it beaten by the county lord's handmaid? Zhu Ningyan frowned: "What the hell is going on." ”

Wang Xingren was busy telling him about last night's events, and he didn't dare to miss half a minute, Zhu Ningyan listened carefully, and said with a gloomy face: "Wang Xingren, I'm afraid you don't want to live anymore, and it is a capital crime for you to break into the master bedroom of Ping'an County." ”

Wang Xingren kowtowed like garlic and said: "The villain is just to check the thief, but he has no other ideas, the prince has issued a death order, how dare the villain not do his best?" That's why I'd rather be slapped and humiliated, but also find out the dead ends, in case the thieves are hiding, the prince is clear. ”

Zhu Ningxiao snorted and said, "Let's talk about this later, do you mean that you took people to watch the figure of the thief into the courtyard of the West Building last night?" ”

"There is no doubt that my brothers met the thief in the east, and three brothers were killed, and everyone saw the thief fleeing to the west building, and the villain led people to chase him, but there was no trace of the thief; I searched upstairs and downstairs, and I also searched the yard, and the villain had to offend the county lord and entered the county lord's house to check it, but there was no thief. ”

Zhu Ningxuan was silent for a while, then turned his head and asked, "How many maids are there in the county lord's west building?" What's their name? ”

An old man with monkey cheeks appeared from under the porch and said, "Back to the prince, there are nine mothers-in-law, seven maidservants, and only three maidservants in the room serving the county lord and the outer room on the third floor; Only Qingluan was able to enter the room to serve. ”

"Then who is this Chunhua? Wang Xingren was slapped like this by her a few times, and this spring flower was also in the county lord's house at the time of the incident, why is this? Zhu Ningxuan asked.

The old man with monkey cheeks frowned and said, "Spring flowers...... Chunhua, it doesn't seem like there is such a person. ”

Zhu Ningyao's eyes were sharp, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, it turns out that it is a family thief who is difficult to prevent, why can't I find the thief, but it turns out to be very strange." Immediately go to the West Building to see who this maidservant named Chunhua is, and ask my good niece to introduce her to this king. ”

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The county lord of Ping'an seemed to be touched by Song Nan's words, and he had been thinking about it from afternoon to dinner, and he seemed to be struggling in his heart.

Song Nan fully understands her feelings, on the one hand, there is a blood relationship between King Qingfu and King Anhua, the late old prince and King Anhua belong to half-brothers, speaking of which are both family, and it will be a little entangled emotionally to deal with King Anhua with the help of outsiders.

But on the other hand, King Anhua occupies the Qingwang Mansion, as if he is already the master here, whether it is the little prince Qingding King or the Ping'an County Lord's survival state is already very bad, this palace is no longer a place where they can give orders, and this will definitely cause the dissatisfaction of the Ping'an County Lord, but the young and mentally retarded little prince and the Ping'an County Lord, a weak woman, are really powerless to fight. Because of this, Song Nan's words had a great temptation to the county lord of Ping'an.

After dinner, Song Nan didn't disturb the county lord who was sitting at the table, he asked Qingluan to help, and under the cover of the night, he tied up Li Laoba, who was like a zongzi, with a long rope and slowly fell down from the back window, and then climbed down and moved him to the dilapidated flower house in the corner of the courtyard with Qingluan, and let him eat something and drink some water, Song Nan continued to gag his mouth, tied his hands, and hid him behind a pile of damaged tables, chairs and benches.

After returning upstairs, Song Nan immediately got into the quilt in the corner of the wall and fell asleep, he wanted to sleep well, tomorrow is the Shangyuan Day, whether he can get out of the palace smoothly will be tomorrow, no matter what, he will talk about it after recuperating his spirits first. Song Nan covered his head in the quilt, so as not to feel embarrassed when the county lord of Ping'an slept, and due to mental fatigue, he fell asleep after a while.

I don't know how long it took, Song Nan felt that someone was shaking his body, and he hurriedly opened his eyes in shock, the room was pitch black, and a black shadow whispered in his ear: "Lord Song, wake up, wake up." ”

Song Nan hurriedly sat up and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Qingluan's voice whispered and said anxiously in his ear: "The report outside says that the prince is here, adults get up quickly, you can't sleep here, it's hard for the prince to come into the room." ”

Song Nan was shocked and said, "What about the county lord?" ”

In the darkness, the voice of the lord of Heian came from the bed: "I'm here. ”

Song Nan quickly got up, rolled up the cover and stuffed it into the cabinet, and said in a low voice: "County Lord, the prince is afraid that he has already entered the building with people, where is Lord Song hiding, the maid is worried that the prince will definitely enter the room." ”

The county lord of Ping'an was silent for a while and said: "Old way, Lord Song went to bed, and if the uncle wanted to see me in a while, he said that I had a headache and it was inconvenient to get up." ”

Song Nan hurriedly said: "Don't ...... I'd better pull out the window and hide under the porch. ”

The county lord of Ping'an said in a low voice: "Do you want to kill us? The retinue of the uncle is hugging back and forth, and when he comes, there will be guards between the front and back porches of this house, where can you hide? ”

Song Nan was speechless, so he heard the sound of the stairs, and a maidservant's voice came from outside: "Sister Qingluan, Sister Qingluan wake up." ”

Qingluan pretended to have just woken up, and replied with a yawn: "Xiao Zao'er, what's the matter, it's noisy in the middle of the night." ”

"The prince of Anhua is here, sitting downstairs, I want the county lord to go down to see him, my sister quickly wake up the county lord and go down to see someone."

"Oh, got it." Qingluan responded.

The footsteps outside left, Song Nan's heart tightened for a while, it should be almost the third watch now, at this time, the sudden visit of King Anhua must not be a good thing, could it be that his whereabouts have been exposed?

"Qingluan, when you go downstairs, you will say that I have a headache and it is inconvenient to get up to greet you, please forgive me for my rudeness." The county lord of Ping'an said in a low voice.

Qingluan agreed in a low voice, came to the door, opened a crack and looked outside, turned around and walked out of the door and went downstairs.

"Come up." In the darkness, the county lord of Ping'an urged in a low voice.

Song Nan knew that there was no other way, as soon as the king of Anhua arrived, there must be guards around the west building, and it was impossible to hide his whereabouts, the county lord's bed was still the safest place, the county lord was very smart, pretending to be sick and not leaving the house, the prince's guards could not come in and search when the county lord left the room, this was the only way to confuse the past.

Song Nan didn't think about it anymore, reached out and stuffed his shoes in his arms, reached out and touched the curtain next to the bed, bowed his body and touched it up, there was a soft and warm feeling at the tentacles, and the warm wind was blowing on the palms of his hands, and he hurriedly shrank his hands and said, "I'm sorry, I can't see clearly." ”

"Quick...... Come on. The county lord's breathing was a little short, and his face was burning badly.

Song Nan hurriedly climbed into bed, crawled over the county lord's body and went inside, lifted the quilt and got in, and when he crawled, his hands, feet and feet touched many high, low, low and soft places, and the two of them gasped nervously.

After entering the bed, Song Nan deliberately maintained a distance from the county lord of Ping'an, not daring to touch her body, and the warm and fragrant breath on the tip of his nose made him almost breathless.

"You're so far away from me, won't you be seen at a glance that there's someone else in my bed when the lights come on?" The lord of Ping'an said in a low voice.

"But ......"

"If you want to be discovered, you can twist here, the slaves are not afraid, what are you afraid of as a man?" The subject of Ping'an County is sarcastic.

Song Nan's face turned red, yes, it's not the first time, I slept in this bed last night, and I still pretend to be serious here, I was worried that the county lord would be disgusted so that he would make some gentlemanly gestures, since the county lord said so, what else do you pretend.

"Offended!"

Song Nan moved his body tightly against the county lord's back, and his hand naturally wrapped his arms around the waist of the county lord of Ping'an, and the bodies of the two of them were tightly together, and the county lord of Ping'an's heartbeat thumped, and said in his heart: "As long as you get closer, I didn't let you hug it so tightly, this ...... This man is very dishonest. ”

Song Nan's heart was also pounding, the county lord of Ping'an was only wearing a thin nightgown, although he was wearing clothes, he could still feel the touch of the plump and soft body, especially between the palms of the county lord's lower abdomen, the flat, smooth and soft lower abdomen made people can't help but touch it gently.

Neither of the two dared to speak for a while, the room was silent and could hear each other's heartbeats and breathing, and the close bodies were slowly getting warmer, and the stiff skin gradually relaxed and became soft, Song Nan felt that he was going to be strange in some places, which was sticking to the county lord's buttocks, this time it was more direct than last night, at least the county lord was still wearing clothes last night, but now there is only a thin layer of pajamas.

Song Nan took a deep breath, forced himself to transfer the discomfort caused by the beautiful woman in his arms, and asked in a low voice, "County Lord, how did you know that King Anhua was coming here?" ”

The county lord of Ping'an tried his best not to pay attention to the discomfort caused by the hard object against the gluteal cleft, and gasped: "Qingluan...... Not...... Qingluan arranged manpower at the entrance of the courtyard and was her best sister Yun'er; What I was afraid of was being suddenly searched, and when Yun'er saw the figure of the prince, she came up to sue Qingluan, otherwise how would she know. ”

Song Nan sighed and said in a low voice: "It seems that the county lord has already taken precautions. ”

The county lord of Ping'an said angrily: "You thief is hiding in my room, how can I take it lightly? Uncle Wang is not an ordinary person, if you underestimate Uncle Wang, then it is a big mistake, a little carelessness will definitely see the flaws for him, always be prepared for a good thing. ”

Song Nan said in a low voice: "Thank you for maintaining me like this, and I will repay it in the future." ”

The county lord of Ping'an was silent for a long time, turned his head and whispered: "Scatter my hair and cover your head and face, otherwise you won't even be able to show your head." ”

Song Nan slowly stretched out his hand, pulled out the thick green silk of the county lord of Ping'an from under the pillow, and spread it on his head and face like a fan, only to feel the soft silk surface, and the nose was full of elegant fragrance, as if he had returned to the arms of his wives and concubines at home, he couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief.

There were a lot of footsteps outside the door, there seemed to be a lot of people coming upstairs, Song Nan and the county lord of Ping'an suddenly became nervous, Song Nan didn't need to greet at all, his arm passed through the chest and abdomen of the county lord of Ping'an, hugged the two tightly together, narrowed the area occupied by the bed, and one foot also put on the thigh of the county lord of Ping'an.

The county lord of Ping'an wanted to break away, but after sighing slightly, his body moved, making the posture between the two more comfortable.

"Lord Wang, when the maid entered the house to turn on the lamp, the county lord had a fever and was irritable, afraid of the dazzling lights, so he didn't light the lamp just now." Qingluan Road.

"Hmm." The majestic voice of the King of Anhua came.

The door opened, the lights outside the house were dazzling, and a large group of people stood at the door with King Anhua, Qingluan's small figure got into the room and said softly: "County Lord, the prince is here, can you still hold it?" ”

"It's still holding on, please come in." The county lord said calmly.

Qingluan lit the red candle on the candlestick, came to the door and bowed his head and said: "The county lord invites the uncle and the prince to come in, the prince, the county lord is sick, it seems inappropriate for others to come into the room, you see ......"

"Stand at the door, and the king will go in alone." King Anhua turned his head and commanded.

"Lord Wang, be careful, in case the thief really ...... in the room," one of the guards whispered.

"Baoren Baoyi, you two followed this king in, this is the county lord's boudoir, if you look at it randomly, this king gouges out your eyeballs." King Anhua said coldly.

"Don't dare." Bao Ren and Bao Yi held the iron folding fan in their hands and bowed.

The door opened, and the king of Anhua stepped in, and the tall figure was reflected by the lantern at the door with a huge shadow, shaking and projecting in the room, and the red candle in the room suddenly seemed dim.