The bride and I fled to a wooded area outside the city in one go, and neither I nor her could run, and seeing that there was no one around, I grabbed the bride.

-I see that there is no one nearby, and there has been no one chasing after me, so there should be no danger, let's rest.

The bride didn't speak, but she stopped, and I walked forward, found a small dirt slope, and motioned for her to sit down and rest.

I didn't expect her to plop down in front of me.

I had just sat down and stood up sharply when I saw this.

- No, what do you mean by that, hurry up.

- Thank you for the life-saving grace of the childe, the little woman Xia Hong, thank the benefactor.

- Arise quickly, and you will not be able to do so.

I hurriedly helped her up. I didn't expect her to be so liberal with me, and she grew so big, no one had ever knelt down for me, and she kowtowed to me.

-Today was in a hurry, and I didn't ask Qing'er and Mu'er's benefactor before going out.

Xia Hong sat down beside me with my support.

- My name is Tang Hanqing

- Tang Gongzi, worship the little woman again.

Saying that, Xia Hong was going to kneel down for me again.

- Don't don't, get up, sit down and rest, you bow down for a while, I can't sit down and rest.

I immediately stood up and sat her up.

-Tang Gongzi's kindness to Xia Hong, Xia Hong is unforgettable.

- Oh, it's okay, I promised you two sisters to save you, not to mention that I am friends with Miss Xia Qing.

When is Xia Qing going to be friends with me? I don't know myself, but as for why I say she's my friend, it's probably because she's quirky and cute.

-Xia Gongzi has such a great kindness to me, whether you are Qing'er's friend or not, I will remember it in my heart. This kindness, Xia Hong will repay it in the future.

Looking at the tears in Xia Hong's eyes, I saw her sincerity and determination.

-Compared to those who rode horses and masked people to re-enter the welcoming procession to save you, what I did was not worth mentioning at all, so you don't have to take it to heart, Miss Xia

I also looked at Xia Hong very sincerely, thinking of those masked people rushing into the team and fighting with the guards who picked up their relatives, these things are really not worth mentioning.

-Those people are not there to save me, how can they be said to be kind to me?

- But without their cooperation, how could I have snatched you out of the sedan chair so smoothly

At the mention of this, Xia Hong's gaze moved away from me, and his eyes were dim.

-Childe doesn't know, in fact, these people are not cooperating with you to save me.

-What? But...

So where did these people come from, could it be that Xia Mu lied to me?

-Before going out, Mu'er specially told me, let me tell you what is going on, Childe is my benefactor, and this matter should be known to you.

- Miss Xia, you are confused with these three or two sentences.

Today, from the time I opened my eyes to the present, the question mark in my mind has not broken me until now.

-I am the eldest daughter of the Xia family, my father is the head of the military academy of the dynasty, and the person I am going to marry today is Gao Yuzheng, the thirteenth prince of the dynasty.

- These Xia Mu girls told me before.

-But does Childe know why I want to marry the prince?

-Ling Zun is an important minister of the dynasty, shouldn't the marriage of the monarch and the minister be a good story?

Xia Hong shook her head gently, I turned sideways and saw the tears in Xia Hong's eyes rolling, I knew that she must have unspeakable grievances in her heart.

- To tell the truth, in fact, from the very beginning, when the Holy Decree of the Holy Decree of this marriage, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military did not support it.

- Manchu civil and military?

-Be.

You said that your father doesn't want to marry a daughter, this is understandable, this Manchu Dynasty civil and military do not agree with this is a bit too big, not to mention that the prince is at the right age to get married, what is the matter with the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military?

- Is there anything hidden in this?

-The prince may not know that when this marriage is settled, the thirteenth prince will be crowned king and made the crown prince

- The Thirteenth Prince as the Crown Prince? What about the twelve older brothers in front of him?

- The eldest prince Yu Hui, who was crowned king in his early years, was also established as the prince many years ago, but two years ago, the biological mother of the thirteenth prince, that is, the current imperial concubine, colluded with the eunuch Pei Ruhai next to the emperor to frame the prince, plus the emperor is old, and the imperial concubine and Pei Ruhai have been serving by the side all these years, so they trust the two of them very much, so they abolished the prince, and has been confined in the palace to prevent him from interfering in court politics, but the prince has made outstanding achievements in these years, and the ministers of the court and the central government are very unconcealed from the concubine and Pei Ruhai, but the emperor supports himAlthough the ministers risked their lives to admonish, it had no effect.

-And then what

-Now that the emperor is old, the dragon body is not safe, so he wants to set up a new prince. Just in case.

- But the crown prince fell on the head of the thirteen princes? How many brothers are there in front of him?

- At the beginning, the emperor wanted to set up the third prince Yu Che as the crown prince, Yu Che is the son of Concubine Shu, with a pure character, although not as capable as the prince of Yu Hui, but he can also stand in the court, but due to the intervention of the imperial concubine and Pei Ruhai, under the pretext that the prince Yu Che is not a descendant, it is not in line with the patriarchal law to establish himself as a royal family, so in the end there is no result.

- And what about the others?

I felt as if I was involved in a palace dispute, and I still liked this kind of plot, so I forgot that I just wanted to tell Xia Hong that I was not only her benefactor at the beginning, but she actually told me so much, and it was surprising that a female streamer could still pay attention to the affairs of the court.

- Later, under the instruction of the imperial concubine and Pei Ruhai, His Majesty was invited by the traitors in the court to set up the sixth prince Yu Xun as the crown prince, the sixth prince is the eldest son of the imperial concubine, although he was not born to the queen, but the queen has already existed in name only because of the implication of the eldest prince Yu Hui, and now the power of the harem is also in the hands of the imperial concubine, so the emperor also regards the six princes as his sons-in-law.

- Then why do you want to set up the Thirteen Princes now?

- The six princes have been married for many years, and now they are not confused, but they have no heirs, so the courtiers use this as an excuse and do not advocate the appointment of the six princes as the crown prince. But in the past two years, it has also been the responsibility of the six princes to act as the crown prince and take charge of the East Palace. However, due to the fact that the harem interfered with politics more and more obviously during this period, the ministers of the court and the central government were like asking the emperor to set up a new king, but there was no opportunity for a long time.

- Until last month, the emperor had a serious illness, the ministers felt that the time was ripe, and several adults led by the father of the family met with the emperor and then set up a new prince, originally the ministers supported the fourth prince Yude as the new prince, but before he could say it, the emperor used the excuse that the thirteen princes had reached the marriageable age, diverted the topic, and asked which family had not come out of the cabinet to marry the thirteen princes, and to be crowned king after marriage.

- So your father pushed you out?

- No, my father knew that the emperor intended to crown the thirteen princes as the new princes, and he was very worried, thinking that the thirteen princes were the second sons of the imperial concubines, who were debauched by nature and cruel, and it was said that the corpses of the palace maids and eunuchs pulled out of his palace amounted to fifty.

- I'll go, doesn't this daddy care?

Is this the same person as the Thirteen Princes I saw, it's really unbelievable, it looks like he's very thoughtful, but I didn't expect it to be a pervert.

-The emperor naturally won't know, plus the thirteenth prince is obedient to her mother, the imperial concubine, I'm afraid that he will have endless troubles after becoming the crown prince.

- Could it be that those masked people who cut off their relatives today want to kill the Thirteen Princes? Isn't it your father?

Thinking of this, I suddenly broke out in a cold sweat behind my back, could it be that Xia Hong's father used Xia Hong as bait? What kind of dad is this?

-It's not just my father, many ministers in the court and the central government are involved in this matter, and Mei Jiantang, the head of the Celebrant Academy, is also among them, but this matter is very important, and I won't tell the others about it.

- But if the Thirteenth Prince dies, then you...

- Accompany the funeral, so I said that Childe is my benefactor.

- But how could your father let you marry him?

It's hard for me to imagine, what kind of father is this, is it possible that a high-ranking and powerful person doesn't even care about his daughter for the so-called government and political disputes?

-Don't blame him, I have four daughters in my family, I am the eldest daughter in the family, the second sister Xia Mu and the third sister Xia Chun are already married, I can't let the youngest Qing'er jump into the fire pit.

- But why are you not another woman?

- This refers to the hasty time of marriage, the emperor is to set up a new prince to give a decree to marry, and now the woman to be married in the capital is our Xia family's two children, so there is no way, I can only choose one from me and Qing'er.

Speaking of this, the tears in Xia Hong's eyes finally couldn't hold back.

- Good thing now you're safe. I'll take you home later

- Can't go back.

-Why?

- Because my father didn't want me to live, I lived, and the whole family had to die.

This father is too ruthless

-Doesn't Childe wonder why Mu'er and Qing'er want you to save me?

- Because if I die, I die?

-That's not the case, because Childe said that he doesn't belong to any faction, even if someone sees you kidnapping me. No one knows you, no one knows your details, so no one will impose this on my father and the ministers of the court.

- So in other words, those masked people actually have one purpose, that is, to kill the Thirteen Princes, and no one will care whether you live or die?

-Those people are all killers in the rivers and lakes, they only kill people, they don't care about saving people, but they would rather die under their knives than let me live to be buried with the thirteen princes.

Speaking of which, I feel that Xia Hong's heart is broken, I don't know how to comfort her, a daughter who was regarded as an abandoned son by her father, at this moment, maybe Xia Hong is still strong.

- But the masked men didn't kill you.

-Yes, in fact, my sisters and I have known about my father's plan for a long time, but Qing'er begged my father many times, and Mu'er and Chun'er also sent someone back to the house to send a letter to my father to persuade him to save me, but to no avail.

- So you will take counsel to find someone to take you out while there is trouble.

-At first, Mu'er told me that the guard in charge of picking up the relatives was her husband, and we felt that the opportunity had come, and besides, the scene would be very chaotic at that time, and no one would pay attention to my life or death at all, so it was like giving it a try.

- Anyway, the result now is good, you didn't marry the prince and didn't lose your life.

-Well.

We ran so far, and then talked for so long, our mouths were already dry, but there was no water around, so Xia Hong and I had a tacit understanding.