Although Xiao Yan was trying his best to restrain his emotions from being exposed, Su Ying still noticed that something was wrong with him.

Until he lay down on the bed after washing up at night, Xiao Shen didn't say anything.

Su Ying rubbed against him, Xiao Shen felt her movement, and only subconsciously turned sideways to get out of the way for her to better lean into her arms.

Su Ying leaned close to him, but didn't hear any movement from him, she could only turn around and face him face-to-face, even in the dark, she still caught his unpredictable eyes for the first time.

"Is something wrong?"

Xiao Yan came back to his senses, held her hand and said softly, "It's okay, I'm just thinking about something in the court." ”

Chaozhong is okay one day, except for the previous Kuncheng accident until now, she has never seen anything that can make him so troubled.

"What's wrong? Don't want to tell me about it? ”

Su Ying's hand was gently placed on his chest, and under the palm of his hand was his powerful heartbeat.

Xiao Yan frowned, "It was Su Yulun who had an accident, and there was news from there today that when he went to inspect the gold mine, the mine suddenly collapsed and he was buried inside." ”

"Su Yulun will go down to the mine to inspect?"

Xiao Yan hugged her hand tightly, Anyone who knew Su Yulun knew that he would never do this.

"Someone wants his life."

Su Ying pursed his lips, Su Yulun is the prime minister, killing his mouth is a very, very dangerous act, unless the other party has to do something more dangerous than killing Su Yulun, and finding that the gold mine was not reported and mined privately, it is a capital crime to lose his head, so the other party killed Su Yulun directly without doing anything?

Su Ying couldn't figure it out, the most important thing now was to send someone over there to figure out what was going on.

"Did you send someone?"

"Well, let Zhao Neng go with five thousand elite soldiers."

Su Ying nodded, "Don't worry, I'll let the Red Devil's people check tomorrow to see if I can find some unknown clues." ”

Many of the Red Devils' killers are mixed in, and sometimes they know more than the royal spies, and some things are easier for them to find out.

"Okay."

The next day, after Su Ying had breakfast, he went to the back garden to pass a message to Motu Feiying, and asked him to send someone to investigate the affairs of Qingyang County.

Coincidentally, when the gold mine in Qingyang County was first discovered, some Red Devils noticed it, and they probably realized that it was not so simple and had been secretly observing the progress of this matter to see if they could make some benefit from it.

When Motu sent a message to the person in charge there to investigate, news soon came.

Su Ying looked at the news from Motu, which detailed the situation of the gold mine at that time.

After the gold mine was discovered, Ma Zhi immediately had a bad idea, but he didn't do it immediately, but waited for a few days, Motu guessed that he should have sent a message to the person behind him in the few days he was waiting, and he had to follow the instructions of the other party.

A few days later, Ma Zhi began to let people dig.

Before Su Yunlun arrived in Qingyang County, Ma Zhi asked people to speed up mining, and after Su Yulun arrived, I don't know what method he used to take Su Yulun to the gold mine and bury him directly.

Now Motu asked the Red Devils to trace the whereabouts of the gold mines that had been dug up.

What's more, after Su Yulun was buried, Ma Zhi also ran away, and the people sent to Kuncheng by the imperial court are now making every effort to track down Ma Zhi's whereabouts.

After Xiao Shen came back, Su Ying showed him the news.

After Xiao Yan read the news, he immediately asked Zhang Shuming to take out the map.

Kuncheng is very close to the southwest border of the Chu State, and it is easy for Ma Zhi to escape from the border, but out of the border, at least for a few hundred miles, it is deserted, at least in history, there is no record of any country within five hundred miles outside the border.

The possibility of Ma Zhi escaping from the country is very small, from this place, even if he has gold, there is no place to spend the silver, and he may die outside.

If he doesn't leave the country, then he can only go north and south to Jinling City.

Xiao Ye's slender fingertips dotted on the map.

Su Ying glanced at Jinling City's sphere of influence and said, "This is a big city, does he dare to flee here?" ”

Xiao Shen said: "This is the fief of King Jiangning, and it is now guarded by his second son Xiao Shijie. ”

"Fiefdom ......"

Since it is a fief, some things are not controlled by the imperial court.

Ma Zhizhen wants to flee to Jinling City, and it will be more difficult for the imperial court to arrest people than in other places.

"If he flees to Jinling City...... defected to Xiao Shijie, do you say Xiao Shijie dares to accept it? ”

Xiao Yan's eyes were dark, but Su Ying had a bolder idea, "Is there a possibility that he didn't escape there, but ...... What about going back? ”

Xiao Yan's pupils shrank sharply, and the air pressure around his body sank.

Su Ying felt that there was no such possibility.

"Try?" Su Ying raised her eyebrows and said.

Xiao Ember sighed, "Try it." ”

……

Heavy snow fell during the night, and the sky was not yet completely bright.

King Jiang Ning and the others were so cold outside the palace gate that they stomped their feet, and their cheeks were frozen red, but compared to the apprehension in their hearts, this severe cold was nothing.

Early this morning, the emperor sent someone to his house to spread a message to let him enter the palace, he has no official position, and the emperor must not want to see him for no reason.

King Jiang Ning went through all the things he had done recently in his mind, just to know if he had done anything wrong.

But after thinking about it, he couldn't figure out what he had done that he shouldn't have done, and it wasn't until Zhang Shuming's voice sounded that he came back to his senses.

"Lord, the emperor invites you in."

King Jiangning walked into the main hall with a nervous step, shrinking his neck.

"See the Emperor."

"Uncle Huang, get up."

King Jiang Ning stood up and glanced at Xiao Yan quickly, feeling that the emperor's mood seemed to be okay, and he looked a little easy to speak, but he didn't dare to take it lightly, for fear that he would be slapped in the face after a while.

"Uncle Huang sit down, let Uncle Huang enter the palace today because I have not been able to have a good meal with Uncle Huang since I returned to Beijing, so I took advantage of this gap today to let Uncle Huang enter the palace to gossip and gossip."

King Jiang Ning glanced at Xiao Yan quickly, and he didn't feel that he had anything to gossip about with this cold-faced nephew!

"Yes, yes, the minister also has a lot to say to the emperor, hehehehe......"

"Oh? What does Uncle Huang want to say to me? ”

King Jiangning choked, he was just polite, how could the emperor not even understand the polite words!

Fortunately, Xiao Shen didn't ask any further questions, otherwise King Jiangning would really feel that he was coming to eat a severed head meal.

The palace maid walked in with the food, adhering to the principle of diligence and thrift, the palace maid brought three dishes and one soup.

"Usually I eat two dishes, today the imperial uncle entered the palace, I also specially ordered the imperial dining room to prepare more for the imperial uncle, the imperial uncle tasted, whether these dishes are appetizing."

King Jiang Ning obediently picked up the chopsticks and took a bite, swallowed them before chewing, and nodded desperately: "It's delicious, it's so delicious." ”

"Speaking of which, I don't seem to have seen Shijie, and I don't know what happened to him in Jinling City, I calculated that next month will be the emperor's uncle's birthday, and now the emperor's uncle is his son, why don't you let him go to Beijing to celebrate the emperor's birthday?"

(End of chapter)