Although Ruan Yuyi didn't want to marry Cheng Rui, she didn't think about him having an accident. Seeing that Cheng Zhu's face was not good, he comforted him softly, "Auntie, don't panic, Brother Rui may be playing in a corner of the yard." ”

I can only hope that this is the case.

At this time, Cheng Zhu's hearing was vague, he couldn't get into his ears, he didn't speak, and he stared at the door.

After a while, Mu Xiang and another maid came back, the maid wringed her hands, and in such a stagnant atmosphere, she didn't dare to take a breath, "Madam, I didn't find the second son." ”

Ruan Yuyi looked at Mu Xiang, who met her eyes and shook her head slightly.

"Didn't find it?!" Cheng Zhu threw the teacup in his hand into the corner of the wall, the teacup cracked in response, and water splashed on the ground, "Where can such a big person go?" You must not have looked carefully enough, so why don't you call more people to go again!" ”

Cheng Zhu is the daughter of a small family, not very dignified and demure, but very temperamental. The maid who spoke this time was a little girl, and she was so stunned that she trembled all over her body, and hurriedly retreated.

Cheng Zhu's eyes fell on the steaming lunch in front of him. Although they are all vegetarian food, there are a lot of patterns, a plate of stacks, the color is attractive, even if you live here for a long time, you can't get tired of eating.

There were only a few masters left in the room, and it seemed a lot empty for a while.

Cheng Zhu unconsciously began to think about what if Cheng Rui was injured, would he cry somewhere and no one would pay attention; What if he strays into the forest and encounters a jackal, tiger or leopard or something like that, and he can't find it......

The more she thought about it, the more anxious she became, and she kept twisting the silk tablecloth.

"You, you should also go and find ......" She pushed Cheng Xingqiu, asking him not to delay.

Seeing his mother's anxious appearance, Cheng Xingqiu suppressed the emotions in his eyes.

Cheng Zhu has been closer to Cheng Rui since she was a child, she can laugh on Cheng Rui's lap, but every time she sees him, she only asks him how his homework is, as if there is nothing else to say except this sentence.

So he studied hard and ascended to the top in the imperial examination, so that his mother could also look at him more.

There are many monks in Shenghe Temple, and Cheng Rui has only been absent for a while, but he can make her so flustered. I don't know if Cheng Zhu cried for him more than a year ago, when his bad news came to his home.

"Mother, don't worry, I'll look for it." Cheng Xingqiu took her shoulder, asked her to sit back, and after placing Zhaorong back in the wing, he turned around and walked out of the courtyard.

Cheng Zhu didn't notice that his eldest son's mood was wrong, and he was immersed in his terrifying conjectures, and his face sank like water.

"Auntie, I'm going to take a hand too," Ruan Yuyi couldn't sit still, still comforting verbally, "The second cousin is the governor, and he won't run too far if he thinks about it." You can rest assured that you are waiting for the news. ”

Cheng Zhu waved his hand a little weakly, "Go, go, go." ”

When he walked out of a distance, Mu Xiang said to Ruan Yuyi, "The slave and maid estimated that the second son should have gone out on his own, and when we were looking for someone, the courtyard gate was half-covered. ”

It's just that I don't know why Cheng Rui, who has always listened to Cheng Zhu's words, left the courtyard for no reason, and even his wife didn't know it.

However, he said that after Zhaorong returned to his room, he did not stay here all the time, but took advantage of the fact that there was no one around him and went to Ruan Yuyi's house.

When she saw Ruan Yuyi just now, she noticed at a glance that she didn't wear the pair of Dongzhu earrings today, and she thought that she had seen it in her house once yesterday, so she came here unconsciously.

Obviously, it is the consistent and elegant repair style of the temple, which is not much different from her house, but it is this strangeness that makes her feel subtle tension in her heart, as if the next moment, the owner of the house will appear behind her.

After rummaging through a few times, Zhaorong found Dongzhu earrings wrapped in a handkerchief in the drawer on the left.

The first time she didn't look closely, but she didn't believe Ruan Yuyi's words in the hands of the vendors, so she pinched the things in her fingertips and carefully identified them by the light of the day.

When she hadn't bought it in Linglong Pavilion before, she had asked the shopkeeper surnamed Liu, hoping to know who the craftsman behind it was, indicating that she was willing to pay someone to hire someone.

That Liu Nanjun shook his head and teased with a smile, "Your Highness is a rich country, and you are not qualified to hire him, after all, the owner behind him did not agree." ”

The circle of nobles in the capital always likes to gossip about the names of some famous craftsmen, and they are proud to be able to buy their jewelry. Although it is sometimes difficult to find anything, craftsmen also have to live by their craft, and as long as the silver is enough, there is no reason why they cannot buy it.

But Zhaorong had never heard of a craftsman with such a strange temper.

The East Pearl pinched on the fingertips is round and bright, polished finely, like the tears of a merman, with the faint light of the deep sea, and the gold filament wound and inlaid on the top is also pure in color, not like a mortal thing.

Zhaorong felt more and more that this was the pair of pendants she had taken a fancy to before.

It's just Ruan Yuyi, the daughter of a declining clan, how can she have the financial resources, or face, to buy a pendant that she can't take.

Suddenly, Zhaorong's hand froze.

She inadvertently caught a glimpse of Dongzhu's underneath, revealing a slight nick. She fiddled with her fingertips.

Between the two intertwined pearls, there is engraved a palace mark the size of a grain of rice—something made in the palace for the use of the masters.

The other one has it too.

She breathed for a while, if this was the stuff of Linglong Pavilion, then why did there be a royal imprint. She thought of the owner that Liu Nanjun had said, and a thought suddenly crossed her mind that made her unbelievable.

She pursed her lips, her fingertips white. The shopkeeper of Linglong Pavilion seemed to know the identity of the owner, but he refused to sell things to her as a relative of the owner, which made her think about her closeness to Jinshang.

As the only princess, she naturally grew up like a moon in her heart, but compared to her own biological brother, she was always more willing to get close to the noble and cold youngest imperial brother, Xu felt that his attitude towards her made her feel novel.

Even Zhao Rong looked down on this little imperial brother when she was young, but it did not prevent her from getting close to him later, although it was only one-sided, it was enough for her not to blame her own brother after he was killed by him.

It's just because she knows in her heart that once the palace change fails, the three emperor brothers will not be able to escape this layer of responsibility, no matter which sword it is, there will only be one death after all.

Since then, she has been worried, for fear that the little royal brother will be angry with her, but fortunately, what she is afraid of has never happened.

But she accidentally learned about the forces behind Linglong Pavilion, but she couldn't help but recognize that Jinshang still didn't regard her as a relative.

Zhaorong's eyes were red, and he casually touched a pair of small scissors on several cases, and cut off the pair of pendants with great effort.

A few Dongzhu lost the fixation of the gold thread and scattered on the ground, jumping and rolling into the dark.

A crisp sound struck the ground.