In the dark night, outside the imperial city, in the secluded woods.

After Li Changqing escaped from the cottage, he did not go to the place of exile, but sneaked all the way back to the imperial city.

Leaning against the tree with a disfigured and tired expression, he has suffered a lot these days in order to hide his identity and avoid searching.

But all the tiredness was swept away when he saw the figure in the distance.

Li Changqing lifted his spirits and knelt down.

"I've seen Your Highness!"

Mai cloth shoes, gray sideburns, walked quickly, looked like an old man in his fifties or sixties, but when he spoke, his voice was young and powerful.

"Mr. Li doesn't have to be polite, for the sake of this prince, you have suffered!" Nie Zhixuan stretched out his hand to help Li Changqing up.

Under the moonlight, the face that did not pretend to be old was angular, with sword eyebrows and thin lips, and there was a ghostly light in the narrow eyes.

Li Changqing looked at Nie Zhixuan carefully, "Your Highness, I haven't seen you for two years, and you really look different from before." ”

He has been by His Royal Highness's side for many years, and when he was competing for the throne, although His Royal Highness had the highest voice in the court, it was precisely because of this that His Royal Highness was arrogant, more or less with a sense of invincibility.

I haven't seen him for two years, and now His Highness looks deep and sharp, especially a pair of eyes, which even he can't see through.

"Thank you Jing Heng for that." Nie Zhixuan smiled faintly, his eyes were cold, "Three thousand miles of exile, this prince will never forget it in this life!" ”

"Your Highness, now that you have returned in disguise, I am afraid it will be difficult to hide it for a long time, and you have really decided to cooperate with Lin Zhenghong when you venture back?"

Although Lin Zhenghong was indeed a great help to His Royal Highness in the past, he was Nie Shiyu's uncle after all, and whether he could sincerely and completely surrender to His Highness, this matter may still be doubtful.

"Mr. Li, rest assured, this prince is not a reckless person, as for Lin Zhenghong...... Regardless of whether he sincerely took refuge because of Nie Shiyu's injury, or if he had other plans, the power in his hands could be used by this prince. ”

Nie Zhixuan's tone was calm, and he already had a plan in his heart.

Seeing this, Li Changqing didn't say anything more, Yu Guang swept the grass on the side, and said, "Your Highness, I also brought a piece of news this time." ”

Pushing aside the grass, the boy who had disappeared on the Tibetan Cui Mountain was lying there unconscious.

"What is this?" Nie Zhixuan frowned and was puzzled.

"This is a child on Zangcui Mountain, named Xiao Wu, when he escaped from the cottage, he ran into him by chance, and wanted to kill him to prevent him from revealing his whereabouts, but he told him in the next news......"

At that time, Xiao Wu saw that he had murderous intentions, probably to save his life, saying that he had seen his sister who had escaped.

As long as he doesn't kill him, he can be a hostage to himself, and said that he helped her escape at that time, and the other party will definitely save him.

"Sister who ran away?" Nie Zhixuan didn't know why.

Li Changqing narrowed his eyes and lowered his voice to speak: "Your Highness, the person who escaped from the cottage at that time was the emperor. ”

Nie Zhixuan was stunned for a moment, "Are you saying that this little five treats Nie Shiyu as a woman?" ”

Thinking back to Nie Shiyu's face, Nie Zhixuan felt in his heart that it was not too outrageous.

"Your Highness, if it's just like this, why bother to bring people all the way down."

"What do you mean, sir?"

"Don't you think there is something wrong with this matter, I asked him carefully in Xia Zai, and the appearance he depicted was indeed the same as that of the emperor. And according to what he said, the emperor was not only dressed in women's clothes at that time, but also looked like a woman. ”

Although it is also possible that the emperor escaped from the cottage pretending to be a woman, his intuition told him that this matter may not be so simple.

Nie Zhixuan understood what Li Changqing meant, "Sir, your kind of conjecture is absolutely impossible, how can Nie Shiyu be a woman, this is simply ridiculous." ”

"Your Highness, I also know that this speculation is very absurd. But if you think about it carefully, Nie Shiyu has been weak since he was a child, and he rarely has contact with other princes, always hiding and going alone. Also, Weichen had heard about the rumors that the emperor had a habit of breaking sleeves. Nie Shiyu himself not only swaggered with the man, but also sabotaged the selection of concubines. To this day, there is still not a single concubine in the harem......"

Li Changqing stopped and looked at Nie Zhixuan seriously.

"Your Highness, one or two strange things may just be due to your character, but when so many doubts are added together, people have to be suspicious, and there is another reason for it."

Xiao Wu's words were like tearing a hole open, and a new possibility suddenly appeared in front of them.

Although it sounds extremely ridiculous, if Nie Shiyu is really a woman, then everything in the past seems to have a reasonable explanation.

Nie Zhixuan was silent.

Nie Shiyu is a woman......

The thought made his heart go crazy.

If Nie Shiyu is a woman, it is simply God helping him!

A woman disguised as a man, pretended to be a prince, and ascended the throne as the emperor, which was a heinous crime......

The courtiers and the common people are enough to crush Nie Shiyu and Jing Heng!

Even if he kills them in public, it is also a Kuangfu ritual law, and he kills the evil spirits!

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Nie Zhixuan's eyes fell on the unconscious Xiao Wu.

"Wake him up!"

Xiao Wu, who fell to the ground, opened his eyes weakly, and the moment he saw Li Changqing, his face instinctively showed fear.

"Say what you said again and leave nothing unnoticed." Nie Zhixuan spoke coldly.

Xiao Wu trembled, and repeated the words that he had already said many times.

In fact, he didn't know if that sister would save him, he just wanted to save his life when he said this, and then find an opportunity to escape.

But he didn't expect that the other party fed him poison, and along the way, he had no chance to escape.

"Are you really sure the person you saw was a woman?" Nie Zhixuan asked again.

"I, I can't be mistaken, she's my sister."

Saying that, Xiao Wu begged Li Changqing again: "Please let me go, I will never tell others your whereabouts." ”

Li Changqing glanced at Nie Zhixuan, and the latter's expression relaxed, and the expression on his face was much softer than just now.

"Get up, just let you go."

Xiao Wu hurriedly struggled to get up, and stretched out his hand to Nie Zhixuan, "Thank you, can the antidote ......?"

Before the words fell, Nie Zhixuan suddenly made a move, clicked, and directly broke Xiao Wu's neck.

The unfinished words were completely engulfed in his throat, and Xiao Wu didn't even have time to resist, and his body fell down as soon as he became weak, and he was breathless.

"Your Highness, ...... you"

"Regardless of whether Nie Shiyu is a woman or not, it is useless to rely on a child's words. And he has seen His Highness, so he doesn't want to leave alive. But ......"

Nie Zhixuan looked at Xiao Wu's corpse and squinted his eyes, and his eyes became even more narrow.

"Because of him, things seem to be more interesting all of a sudden, and this prince can't wait to verify it!"