The figure quickly crumpled the piece of paper into a small ball, stuffed it into his mouth, swallowed it on his neck, and then lifted his hood to cover his head, and walked lightly through the dark back house without lights and candles, and walked to a remote and barren corner.

Looking around and seeing that no one noticed this inaccessible place, the man flew up without hesitation.

The toes tapped one after another on the high wall, and the figure climbed over the high wall with a light posture and landed in the winding alley next to it.

The winding alley is long and deep, flanked by high walls, and a grayshed carriage stops at the end of the winding alley.

The figure walked quickly to the carriage without hesitation, and when he saw Jin Yu sitting on the wheel, the figure's footsteps were a little brisk, and he greeted him with a light smile, and his attitude was particularly familiar: "Chief Jin Da." ”

The figure kept her head down and did not show her face, but from the voice of "Chief Jin Daguan", it could be heard that she was a girl in her thirties, and her voice was no longer as clear as when she was young, and she had some vicissitudes of time.

Jin Yu raised his eyes, glanced at the person seriously, and then turned his head to look at the quiet carriage: "The prince is here." ”

The smile on the man's face froze, and his heart was uneasy.

In her heart, the prince is a far-sighted person, more than ten years ago, when the prince was only a teenager, the king of Annan County just died, and others did not notice that his death was strange, so she was sent to the palace of Annan County to lie dormant.

In the past ten years, she has never been summoned, and she has never sent a message outside, and when she was sent here, the prince had orders, only hibernating, and not moving without being summoned. She stayed in peace.

After one year, two years, ten years, and eight years, she almost thought that she had been forgotten by the prince, and from then on she was afraid that she would have to be a slave and a maid in the palace of Annan County for a lifetime, and when she suddenly saw the note that summoned her, she was ecstatic in her heart, and when she saw Jin Yu again, her heart was stable, the prince did not forget her, and she was still useful.

But now, when she heard Jin Yu say that the prince was coming, her heart really chuckled.

The prince has every opportunity, and it is really not normal to come to see such a little minion as her.

Those who can do insider lines are all those who have eighty heart eyes, and the seven exquisite hearts are not enough to see in front of them, they are all lacking heart eyes.

Faced with such an abnormal situation, she immediately thought too much.

From life to death, and then began to introspect, although she has been useless in the past ten years, she has no faults, at least she has not been exposed.

Thinking of this, she suddenly felt confident, straightened her back and walked to the front of the carriage, bowed and saluted, her voice was a little trembling: "Shizi." ”

The curtain of the car moved slightly, opening a gap, Han Changdui revealed half of his face, glanced at the man up and down, and said lightly: "Come in and say." ”

This is the first time that the man has seen the grown up son of the world after more than ten years, the son of the world has been cold since he was a child, and he is not close to the brothers and sisters in the palace of King Han, and now it seems that the older he gets, the more cold this character is, and the coldness of his face forced her to tremble, and it took several difficulties to do a good job of "she is not wrong, she is not afraid" The heart of the construction collapsed in an instant, and she shrunk her shoulders and collapsed into the carriage.

A dim lamp and candle burned in the car, and in the shadows, Han Changdu's calm face hid complex emotions, and he was slightly anxious.

He concealed his anxious emotions without revealing it, and asked lightly: "Sit, pick up the important ones." ”

How dare that person really sit, the rules of the palace are big, in front of the prince, she only knelt to reply to the non-part, hearing the word "sit", she carefully sat on half of her ass, although she was panicked, nervous, and a little timid, but when she came back, she was still clear and unhurried: "Shizi, today the saint is here again, it is the second quarter of the first day of the year, and he stayed in the main room for an hour and a half, and afterwards he still poured medicine to the princess of Annan County, but the princess of Annan County still picked her throat and spit it out. She paused slightly, and continued very cautiously: "Shizi, the saint has been more diligent in the past six months, in the past ten years, he has come once a month without being able to shake, but in the past six months, the saint has been less than two times a month, and more than three or five times, and the dosage of fetal medicine is also larger than before, obviously he is in a hurry." ”

Han Changdui nodded, and thought: "The princess of Annan County is already thirty-five or sixteen years old, and she has already passed the age when she is most likely to get pregnant, so it is reasonable for the saint to be anxious. ”

The man pondered and said: "But the prince, for more than ten years, the saint has sneaked into the palace of Annan County every month, except for the New Year's Festival, almost uninterrupted, and his subordinates can't figure out why the saint is so obsessed with making the princess of Annan County pregnant, and his subordinates have been watching coldly for so many years, and they really don't see that the saint has any affection for the princess of the county." ”

Han Changwei was also puzzled: "You have been in the palace of Annan County for more than ten years, but you can find something wrong with the princess of Annan County?" ”

The man stared for a moment: "She is very cautious and cautious, she has no trustworthy people in this house, and the rumors outside are not exaggerated, she does act absurdly, extravagant, and has raised countless male pets, and it is precisely because of this that the subordinates feel even more strange, if the saint really has affection for the princess of Annan County, how can he tolerate this kind of thing, or rather, if the saint wants to give the princess of Annan County a name, it is not a difficult thing, it has been planned for more than ten years, why should he put people outside the palace, Aren't you tired of sneaking around with a lot of risk for many years? ”

Han Changwan pursed his lips and was silent, this matter was endlessly strange, and he couldn't understand it for a while.

The saint's persistence in the past ten years is to let the princess of Annan County give birth to a child, but why is it so persistent.

If you want to use the child born to the princess of Annan, there is no need to be so persistent, the princess of Annan has already given birth to three children, especially a son, which can't use control, why do you have to do this kind of laborious and unknown result.

The iron-blooded Emperor Yong'an has never been a long-term lover!

Unless, unless, it is the child born to the princess and the saint of Annan who can be used!

Only the possibility that those three children were not born to the princess of Annan County, Han Changwan didn't even think about it.

The princess of Annan County's maintenance of the prince and her love for her two daughters are not fake, if they are not biological, they should be like the children born to those concubines, raised in the backyard, given food to eat, and just lived.

The man saw that Han Changdui was silent, tilted his head and said, "Shizi, my subordinates also saw someone who shouldn't have appeared in the room of the princess of Annan County today. ”

Han Changwan frowned slightly: "Someone who shouldn't have appeared? The man pondered and said: "It's the girl Leng Shaoyin just sent into the house today, the one named Yao Ji, she entered the main room at the beginning of the year, and soon after she entered, the saint arrived, and I don't know where she hid, but she was not discovered." ”

"Did she find out about it, too?" Han Changwan was extremely surprised, and frowned, "When did she come out of the room?" ”

The man pinched his fingers and calculated: "She left Zimo." ”

"That is, she was in the room for two hours." Han Changdui twisted his sleeves and said with a solemn expression.

The man nodded and said, "Yes, I don't know what means she used, she hid in the room for so long, and she was not discovered, you must know that there are first-class masters around the saint." ”

"Master!" Han Changdui sneered disdainfully: "She is the most capable of bending and stretching, and the means of saving her life are endless, and it is expected that she will not be discovered, but," he lowered his eyes, hiding the dark light in his eyes, and thought: "She must have found something in the room, and she must have seen what happened between the saint and the princess of Annan, but the strange thing is that after the saint left, why didn't she leave immediately, even if the princess of Annan was still awake, but she also had the ability to retreat without being noticed by the princess of Annanjun, In such a dangerous situation, she did not choose to leave immediately, but waited until after the hour before leaving, obviously making other discoveries. ”

"This matter is easy to handle, and the subordinates arrested the girl named Yao Qi for trial, and it came to light." That person was eager to make meritorious contributions, or rather, she had been dormant in the palace of Annan County for more than ten years, and she had long been impatient, and now there was an opportunity to make meritorious contributions, and she was unwilling to let it go, so she asked for her life with convincing words.

Han Changdui slowly raised his eyes, staring at the person with a gloomy gaze, although the voice of each word was not high, but it was extremely threatening: "This person is a member of the army of Jingzhao Mansion, and now he is working for the Internal Security Division, not someone you can move, and you can judge it." ”

The person was excited by Han Changdui's eyes, hurriedly lowered his head, and heard the meaning of Han Changdu's words, he was very familiar with this girl named Yao Ji, he valued it very much, and regarded it as his right-hand man, no one could touch this person except him, she was suddenly a little unconvinced, but her face did not reveal anything, and she still said respectfully: "Yes, the subordinate has trespassed." ”

Han Changwan glanced at the man, and said lightly: "The saint is in a hurry, the princess of Annan County naturally cannot be safe and sound, once she has any changes, it will be your chance to get out." ”

The man raised his head suddenly, his eyes flashed with sparkling light, she couldn't ask for it to leave this gorgeous cage-like Annan County Palace, and thanked her again and again: "Yes, the subordinates must be keeping an eye on the princess of Annan County, and they will never spoil the great affairs of the prince." ”

Han Changwan snorted, and a cold light flashed in his slightly narrowed eyes: "Tell me about Xia Yuanji." ”

The man coughed lightly, and said in a clear manner: "Back to the world, Xia Yuanji was indeed brought back by the princess of Annan County a few months ago, and then lived in the princess's mansion to prepare for the exam, the deep favor of the princess of Annan County, the princess of Annan County even let out the words, when the prince married and inherited the title of the county king, she was going to move out of the county palace with Xia Yuanji, this is the meaning of remarrying, the sage naturally knew, but he didn't pay attention to it, on the day the Gongyuan released the list, the subordinates watched Xia Yuanji to see the list, but until the curfew, He didn't come back, the princess of Annan County was in a hurry, and sent someone to take the waist card out to find it, only to learn that Xia Yuanji had died, and the murderer was also found, and the body was sent to the Jingzhao Mansion Office, and the princess of the county sent the guards of the county palace to Jingzhao Mansion, saying that she wanted to torture the murderer in every possible way to vent her hatred. ”

This sounds like no problem, and it is the same as the news brought back by Leng Linjiang in the next day, but Han Changwan faintly felt that something was wrong, and asked with a twisted eyebrow: "A few days before Xia Yuanji's accident, what did something wrong happen in the mansion?" ”

The man thought for a moment, suddenly his eyes lit up, and he said eagerly: "Yes, just two days before Xia Yuanji's accident, the county king's mansion was robbed at night, and it was half the night. ”

"Thief?" Han Changdu's face sank, what kind of daring thief, dare to steal things in a place like the Sixteen Princes' Mansion, and what he stole was the Annan County Palace, who in this capital does not know that the saint attaches great importance to the Annan County Palace, and the strict guards of the County Palace's Mansion are no less than the Prince's Mansion, but the emperor's grace that the world thinks is actually surveillance and detention.

He intently asked, "Do you know where the thief stole and what he lost?" ”

The man shook his head: "It's also strange to say, the first thing to say that there was a thief was the back cover room in the inner courtyard, but there was no loss in the back cover room, but a painting was lost in the main room." ”

"Lost a painting?" Han Changdui was stunned: "What painting?" ”

The man was also puzzled: "It is a picture of the four beauties hanging in the main house, hanging in the main house for more than ten years, and the subordinates have also seen it for more than ten years, there is nothing special, and it is not a famous work, at most it is worth dozens of taels of silver, only because of the charm of the four beautiful paintings on the picture, and even the love of the princess of Annan County, it has been hanging." ”

Han Changdui squinted, as if he was asking others, and as if he was asking himself: "There are valuable things in the main room, why do you want to steal a worthless painting?" He paused slightly, frowned and asked, "After this painting was lost, what was the reaction of Princess Annan County?" ”

The man sighed: "It's even more strange, it's obviously an ordinary painting, if you lose it, you will lose it, if you really like it, it's nothing to find someone to paint another one, but the princess of Annan County was furious, and detained everyone in the mansion together, searched the bottom of the sky, and didn't even let go of the house that the people in the mansion bought outside." ”

"Did you find it later?" Han Changdu's heart sank, and he asked lightly.

Princess Annan is so nervous about this painting, if there is really any ulterior secret in this painting, isn't she afraid of attracting the attention of people who care about it if she looks for it with such fanfare?

If something goes wrong, it is a demon, and the palace of Annan County may not really be nervous about this painting, but want to use this painting to cover up what is really lost.

The man shook his head: "After the princess of Annan County lost her temper, the matter was finally settled, there is no follow-up, and whether the painting was found in the end, the subordinates do not know." ”

Han Changwei asked, "Where was Xia Yuanji in the days when the thieves were making trouble?" He paused slightly, and changed his question: "Has Xia Yuanji searched the house in Zhaoguofang?" ”

The man said: "In the days when the accident happened, Xia Yuanji had been by the side of the princess of Annan County, and his house in Zhaoguofang was also searched, and there was nothing abnormal. Han Changwei already had a vague calculation in his heart, and after a moment of silence, he asked again: "I found these things in Xia Yuanji's body, and the internal guard found the food box of Guo Ji Restaurant in the room of the princess of Annan County, and went to Guo Ji Restaurant to inquire, and found that on the day Xia Yuanji died, a maid from the Royal Mansion of Annan County ordered these dishes at Guo Ji Restaurant and took them away with the food box. ”

As he spoke, he handed over the piece of paper on which those kinds of food were written, and added a line of small words on it: "Guo Ji Restaurant".

The man was stunned for a moment, looked at the words on the paper, and exclaimed: "This is impossible, the princess of Annan County can't eat crabs, and she has a rash all over her body when she eats them, so all the food related to crabs can never enter the gate of the county king's mansion!" She paused slightly, and said with some uncertainty: "Could it be that the princess of Annan County ordered the maid to order these dishes and reward them to Xia Yuanji?" ”

Han Changdui said noncommittally and lightly: "The Internal Health Department checked the account books of Guo Ji Restaurant, and the Annan County Royal Mansion will go to Guo Ji Restaurant every three or five times to order a few dishes. And the internal guard also checked several other restaurants in Chang'an City that sold these foods, and on the day of Xia Yuanji's accident, except for Guo Ji Restaurant, no one ordered these kinds of food at the same time in other restaurants. ”

The man was not surprised, and nodded: "The princess of Annan County likes the butter cherries and shengping burns at Guo Ji Restaurant, and often orders people to buy them back to the house, but this crab roe Biluo will never take it back to the house, no," she thought for a moment, and her voice suddenly became urgent: "No, Shizi, on the day of Xia Yuanji's accident, the princess of Annan County did not order anyone to go to Guo Ji Restaurant to order." ”

Han Changdui's expression was solemn: "Is it true?" ”

The man nodded: "It's true, on the day Xia Yuanji died, his subordinates had been serving in the princess's room, and they could see it clearly." She was suspicious in her heart: "Since it is not the order of the princess of Annan County, it is only the order of several other masters, after all, the food in Guo Ji restaurant is extremely expensive, and ordinary maids and maids can't afford it." She paused slightly: "Or, who has a grudge against Xia Yuanji?" Privately ordered food and poisoned it, and rewarded him in the name of the princess of the county? ”

Han Changdui said thoughtfully: "Who did Xia Yuanji offend in the County King's Mansion?" ”

The man thought for a moment, and suddenly smiled: "My lord asked this, the princess of Annan County has raised so many male pets, the old people are hostile to the newcomers, and there are not a few things that are jealous of the wind," she hesitated: "But you can't be jealous of the wind and ask for people's lives." ”

A chuckle suddenly sounded from outside the carriage.

Han Changdui also suddenly burst into a smile, and the mockery was so thick that it couldn't be dissolved.

The man was stunned for a moment, and then laughed at himself: "It's the subordinates who are naïve, the matter of the inner house is not a simple jealousy, the subordinates will investigate." ”

Han Changdui bowed slightly: "Have you seen Meng Sui?" ”

The man smiled: "I saw it, and my subordinates almost didn't recognize it at first glance." ”

Han Changwei also showed a faint smile: "He will stay in the Annan County Mansion for a few days, you discuss and investigate, this matter must be as soon as possible, and there can be no delay." He paused slightly, and asked about the old thing: "The cause of the death of the king of Annan, can you have eyebrows?" ”

As soon as the man heard this, his face fell, and when he sent her to the palace of Annan County, it was for this matter.

After the death of the king of Annan County, the statement given by the court on the surface was to save the car and die, whether it was true or not, anyway, the world believed it, and Emperor Yong'an's favor to the palace of Annan County was also real, and the world naturally believed in this statement.

But judging from the news from the people who were installed in the palace by the Han Palace, this is not the case, at least at the palace banquet on the day of the death of King Annan, Emperor Yongan was not assassinated.

Since Emperor Yong'an was not assassinated, the theory that the king of Annan was rescued and killed is self-defeating.

It's just that the world doesn't know the details of it, and as for whether the courtiers know it, Han Changdui is too lazy to investigate it.

The man said with a humble heart: "Shizi, since the death of the king of Annan has been completed, the princess of Annan has never mentioned him again, I don't know if he is avoiding something, even the people in the palace at that time have changed." ”

She didn't say it thoroughly, but the implication was self-evident, everyone who had gone through that incident was dismissed, the evidence was annihilated, and she had found nothing for more than ten years.

However, Han Changdui didn't care, he knew that there was something strange about the death of the king of Annan, and he wanted to find out the inside story, just to grab one more handle in his hands.

He didn't blame the man, but said lightly: "Okay, just do your best in this matter, and if there is nothing else to do, you can step down." ”

The man breathed a sigh of relief, looked solemn, said yes, and left the carriage with a bow.

Han Changwan leaned against the wall of the car, closed his eyes slightly, and thought for a long time.

Jin Yu sat on the wheel, rubbing the long whip in his hand, and when he heard that there was no movement in the carriage for a long time, he lowered his voice and asked, "Shizi, do you want to go home?" ”

Han Changdui suddenly opened his eyes and said lightly: "You drive the car to wait for me under the back wall of the Annan County Palace." ”

Jin Yu opened his mouth and stammered "ah", came back to his senses and asked in a low voice, "Does the prince want to visit the county palace at night?" ”

Han Changdui pursed his lips and said nothing, only lifted the curtain and flew out lightly.

He didn't have the need to visit the palace of Annan County at night, but he just suddenly wanted to see that person.

With a light tiptoe, he flew over the high wall, through the courtyard, where there was not the slightest sound of birds, or insects, until he reached the door of the east wing.

Looking through the window, the room was pitch black.

Yao Qi was originally sleeping deeply, but under the inhuman pressure of the Beiya Forbidden Army, it was no longer possible for her to really sleep without scruples like ordinary people, and it was dark.

When Han Changdui just walked under the window, Yao Qi had already woken up, she suddenly opened her eyes, and heard the familiar footsteps under the window, she lay down peacefully, motionless, and laughed playfully: "The envoy went to the wrong room, and Meng Sui was separated from the Xinuan Pavilion in the main room." ”

Han Changdui smiled through the window: "You are smart, open the door, I have something to ask you." ”

Yao Ji was stunned for a moment, put on a coat, but did not open the door.

The palace of Annan County is as rich as a cloud, the window is not an ordinary paper, but a whole piece of transparent glass, at this time two layers of gauze curtains are raised, Yao Qi stands under the window, just can clearly see the long figure reflected in the window.

In the era before Yao Qi wore it, glass was very common, but in this dynasty, it is a rare object, which has never been used only for the palace, not even the prince's mansion.