The next day, Mingcui came in on time to serve Shumei, freshen up, and change clothes. After the cooking was done, and the attendant sent Shu Mei into the carriage parked in the atrium, Ling Li led the wind chasing horse out, his armor shining in the twilight of the morning, as awe-inspiring as if he was about to go on an expedition.

"Your Highness is not riding in the carriage today?" Cao Zhong, who came out to deliver the cloak, asked in surprise.

"Don't sit." Ling Li coldly dropped the two words, turned over and jumped on the horse.

Only then did Cao Zhong realize that Shu Shi'an's granddaughter was sitting in the carriage, so he smiled awkwardly at Ming Cui on the side of the carriage.

Afraid that Shu Mei would feel uncomfortable on the road, Ling Li ordered Bai An to sit with the coachman. After Bai An climbed to the front seat with the medicine box, Ling Li rode off on his horse.

The sky has not yet dawned, and the streets and alleys leading from Xuanwu Temple to Yongnian Palace are silent. Shu Mei closed his eyes and listened to the sound of horses' hooves and wind outside the car window, and his heart was full of sorrow. These days, she has been trying to restrain herself from seeing her vulnerability to Bai An and the others who accompany her. And today, wearing this plain clothes, the long-suppressed grief surged and hurt the heart.

I want to go to court with Brother Ling Li for a while, and I can't cry now.

Shu lowered his eyebrows and bit his knuckles, trying his best to endure.

"There are patients in our car, we can't walk, and His Royal Highness will explain the reason to the emperor when we turn around." In front of the carriage, there was Bai An's earnest pleading.

"If you are sick, you will still be sent to the palace? Zhang Ping, go to the hospital for inspection. Ma Rui, hurry up and inform the commander, just say that His Royal Highness has entered the palace! ”

The carriage had stopped at some point, and a noisy conversation could be heard outside the carriage. Shu Mei lifted the curtain and looked out, and several guards were blocking the carriage with halberds. It turned out that he had already arrived at the dismount outside the Jiuqing Hall of the Yongnian Palace. According to the rules of the court, all those who enter the palace must get off the carriage and walk here.

Ling Li had two cases of breaking into the palace on horseback, and at this moment, the guards on duty in the palace were all like a great enemy, and quickly rushed from all corners of the palace to stop him.

"Get out of the way!" Ling Li shouted.

"Your Highness, please don't embarrass the villain. If you let your carriage in, the villain will lose his head. The foreman's guards were shocked by his momentum, and immediately shortened a few points.

"Brother Ling Li, I can walk in......" Afraid that Ling Li would embarrass the guards, Shu Mei endured the faint pain in his abdomen, held on to the car door and gritted his teeth and walked down.

Ling Li turned his head when he heard the sound, and looked at Shu Mei's plain white skirt that was rolling and flying in the morning breeze, and his eyes lit up.

She actually wore plain clothes to enter the palace!

Very good!

Ling Li jumped off the horse, walked to the carriage in a few steps, bowed down and picked her up, and then walked through the swords and spears lined up, and strode towards the vertical arch hall under the stunned gaze of the guards.

In the morning light, the bright silver armor and iron clothes, the white plain clothes, were as dazzling as the frost and snow on the sunny day!

Who is that woman? How dare she enter the palace in mourning clothes?!

What is the relationship between that woman and the Third Highness? He actually carried her to the court?!

The guards speculated and had long forgotten to step forward to stop them.

Under the direct sunlight, Shu Mei closed his eyes. Listening to the soft sound of plain clothes rubbing against his armor, and listening to the pounding and powerful heartbeat in his chest, the surprise and apprehension in her heart subsided. After experiencing that fear that she will never forget, the arms of the man who had saved her life twice in her life made her feel safe and warm like never before.

There was a slight breath of heat spewing around his neck, like a feather writhing back and forth. Ling Li couldn't help but look into his arms. In the morning light, this plain woman, with a pale face and long eyelashes hanging slightly, is like a pear tree in early spring, soft and delicate. It was as if as soon as he let go, she would be scattered in the wind.

Caught off guard, he felt a trace of guilt in his heart.

"Ah Mei—"

After a sudden exclamation, on the stone steps outside the vertical arch hall, a figure dressed in vermilion purple court clothes hurriedly rushed down. This person who highlights his old state because of sadness is Shu Mei's grandfather, Shu Shi'an, the prime minister of the dynasty.

Ling Li gently lowered Shu Mei to the ground, and when he raised his head again, his eyes were already like frost, "Shu Xiang, I'm sorry, after I got the news, I led the army to attack all night, but after all, I still went a little late, and only rescued Miss Shu." ”

“……”

Shu Shi'an had already received some news from An Yuan a few days ago, and when he heard the bad news with his own ears at this moment, he was so grief-stricken that he couldn't speak.

"Grandpa, Daddy and Mother kiss them-" The moment Shu Mei saw Shu Shi'an, her long-suppressed grief completely broke the embankment, she threw herself into her grandfather's arms and cried bitterly.

"Shu Xiang, please also mourn and change!"

"There is no sorrow for a white-haired person to send a black-haired person, Master Shu must take care of his body."

"Those barbarians in Xili are becoming more and more arrogant, and they dare to plunder my Nanyue court officials for a little gold and silver......"

The grandfather and grandson who hugged their heads and cried outside the vertical arch hall disrupted the entire early dynasty. The bell chime of the previous dynasty had already sounded, but the courtiers in brocade clothes and holding wat boards surrounded Shu Shi'an's ancestors, some comforted and appeased, some sighed, and more complained and disputed.

"Xili is too much of a bully, we should have taught them a lesson!"

"You said it easily, there are 400,000 iron horsemen in the western plough, how can my rabble in South Vietnam cope with the battle?!"

"If it weren't for you foolish scumbags, why would my South Vietnamese army be here? Every year, it is said that the financial austerity will reduce military salaries, but it is quite generous to build palaces and temples......"

Seeing that the generals and the ministers were arguing, Ling Li just watched coldly and did not say a word.

There was a commotion outside the hall, so that Emperor Chengde, who was waiting for the ministers in the hall, could not sit still, he got off the dragon chair and walked out of the vertical arch hall, and saw a group of civil and military ministers arguing with red faces under the jade steps. He stood outside the hall with a dark face for a long time, and no one paid attention to the ministers below.

"The son asks his father to say goodbye, long live his father, long live long live!"

Seeing that the time was right, Ling Li suddenly knelt down and bowed. As soon as he said hello, the words were sonorous, thick and rough, and a group of ministers who were holding their own opinions and arguing about each other instantly quieted down, and they all looked sideways at Ling Li.

"The sons and daughters returned to the court privately, but it was really a last resort, and I still hope that my father and emperor will see it." Ling Lili got up and told him that after he intercepted the information about the barbarian's plan to attack and rob Anyuan in Lucheng, he led his troops to Anyuan overnight to capture the Kou, and then turned to Shu Mei and said, "This girl is the daughter of Shu Duwei and the only survivor, she witnessed the whole process. ”

When Shu Mei heard this, he immediately cried and worshipped at the bottom of the stairs, "I ask the emperor to be the master of the courtier's family——"

She had just recovered from her illness, thin and pale, and the pear blossoms were as weak and helpless as rain, which made everyone present wonder.

"Tell me the details of the day, and I will make the decision for you." The woman under the jade stairs was similar in age to Princess Yuyao, and Emperor Chengde was also a little moved when he saw it, and his words were a little gentle.

"That day was the day of the Flower Dynasty Festival, and my father still went to the government to deal with official business. He had planned to take us to the idle clouds outside the city in the evening to enjoy the flowers, so that my mother and I could prepare in advance. Shen Shi Xu someone knocked on the door, we thought that my father was back, and happily went to open the door, but we didn't know that what was hanging outside the door was my father's bloody head......" Shu Mei cried and told about the experience of that day, choked up several times, and was overwhelmed with grief.

After Shu Mei finished speaking, the entire square in front of the hall fell silent.