Outside the palace gates.

Xu Jian and Shan Shen got off the sedan chair before and after.

Not long ago, someone from the palace came to deliver a message, saying that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had returned to the East Palace, and the two of them came over.

Master Shan took an umbrella and looked up at Xu Jian.

Fu Guogong also played an umbrella, the umbrella surface was pressed low, and Shan Shen couldn't see his expression, but he felt that even if Grandpa Guo was embarrassed, he looked taller than himself.

"You really don't have to pack up?" Shan Shen was not sure, and while asking, he shook his wet sleeve that could drip some more water.

The case was urgent, and the rain was not light, so he didn't care about these things before.

As soon as the palace urged, he himself was in a hurry, so he came.

It wasn't until I arrived outside the palace gate that a wave of unease came out of my back.

He has been an official for many years, how could he have entered the palace so untidy?

Soup chicken, can you enter the palace?

"Don't worry," Xu Jian said, "Your Highness is also embarrassed at the moment, Master Shan is tidy up, but it is not the case that is handled." ”

Shan Shen thought about it, and it was right.

But unexpectedly, Xu Jian followed with a sentence: "When the adults saw the prince early in the morning, it was worse than now, right?" The prince should not be surprised. ”

Shan Shen: ......

He also saw His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in the middle of the night last night, should he be surprised no matter what His Highness wears in the future?

Xu Jian's original intention was to have fun, but when he saw Master Shan's helpless face, he laughed again and went to the palace gate with an umbrella.

The palace people led the way in front and led them all the way to the outside of the East Palace.

Shan Shen was the first time to come to the uterine room, and when he looked left and right, he always felt that something was not right.

"So few people?" He muttered to Xu Jian in a low voice.

"The original guards have all been called to Shuntian Mansion by adults," Xu Jian also glanced twice, "There are indeed fewer palace maids, and they are quite eye-catching." ”

Saying this, both of them know it.

The manpower of the East Palace has been replaced.

Those who only protected the prince and said half and kept half when they reported the prince's condition to the saint were replaced.

Now those who are replaced should be the elite soldiers selected by Cao Gonggong's father-in-law.

An attendant came up to greet him: "Fuguo Gong, Master Shan, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is bathing, and the two of you will sit for a while." ”

Xu Jian looked at him.

The chamberlain looked like he was in his early forties, not tall, and his eyes were small.

Xu Jian recognized him.

His surname is Guo, and he is very trusted by Cao's father-in-law.

Xu Jian and Shan Shen waited for almost a quarter of an hour.

Guo's father-in-law's tea was brewed well, but he asked the kitchen to bring ginger tea and snacks, which was the craft of the imperial dining room.

Shan Shen was full of thoughts about the case, ignoring his hands, one by one, and when he found out, most of the dishes had already entered his stomach.

"Ha-ha-ha......," he smiled awkwardly.

Xu Jian took a sip of ginger tea and said, "My lord has been busy since last night, and he hasn't bothered to fill his stomach, right?" ”

Shan Shen's face was flushed.

It's really hungry, it's really fragrant, but that's not the reason why he eats so much in the East Palace.

That is, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is too slow......

Just thinking about it, Li Shao finally came out.

He changed into clean clothes, his long hair was draped, and as he walked, he wiped the water from his head.

"I've kept you waiting," he sat down, "I didn't feel well when I returned to the palace, and I hurried to wash it for fear of getting cold after the rain." It doesn't matter how you ask for a doctor on weekdays, this is not like saying 'sick' at the moment. ”

Shan Shen hurriedly said: "Your body is important. ”

In any case, this is the precious son of the saint.

After being drenched in heavy rain, he asked the case like this, he really had a pain, and he was cautious and troublesome.

It's like Wantang, rampage, so powerful that he can throw Liu Xun out to sober up in the rain, but he doesn't dare to touch the prince.

Li Shao woke up, and he had to hurry up to serve ginger tea in Shuntian Mansion.

Thinking like this, Shan Shen said again: "Dry your hair first, then drink some ginger tea to slow down, and ask if things are okay for a while." ”

Li Shao picked up the tea bowl and drank it in one gulp: "Let's ask, I can't delay your investigation of the case any longer." ”

Shan Shen nodded and asked the ins and outs of the case again.

Xu Jian sat beside him and didn't say a word.

I have to say that Li Shao is too honest at this time.

He will answer whatever the adult asks, and if he can't answer, he will directly say "I don't know".

With such an attitude, there is a sense of transparency after falling hard and suddenly waking up.

But Xu Jian knows that these are all appearances.

Because Li Shao is hopeless.

His gaze fell from Li Shao's sometimes tense and sometimes soothing eyebrows to his sitting posture, and then to his hands hidden under the table.

Due to the angle, Shan Shen couldn't see His Royal Highness the Prince's hand, but Xu Jian saw it.

Li Shao's hand clenched into a fist, extremely hard.

That's restraint.

It's not about irritability, irritation, it's about getting excited.

In the interval between drinking tea and moistening his throat, Xu Jian opened his mouth: "Your Highness, where did you go before?" ”

"Yongji Palace," Li Shao said, "I said the same thing to my father, I was scolded by my second uncle, and I knew that I was in trouble, so I simply went to Yongji Palace to see what kind of prince made mistakes." ”

Xu Jian asked again: "Have you seen that one in Yongji Palace?" ”

"See, a madman, I won't listen to him." Li Shao said it once before, and when facing Xu Jian at this moment, he naturally said the same thing.

After listening to this, Xu Jian bowed his head slightly, and did not ask anything more.

After Shan Shen finished asking, the two got up.

Li Shao sent them out of the main hall, stood under the corridor and looked at the rain curtain, and said, "If I cause you trouble, I won't send it, let Gonggong Guo send you." ”

Xu Jian saluted, held an umbrella and walked out.

Li Shao watched them leave, until the two of them left the East Palace, and he hooked the corners of his lips and sneered.

The chest is concussive, and the rest of the emotion is called "joy".

Look!

He is the crown prince, the most valued and favorite son of his father, but he has only been grounded for a while.

For once again, he withdrew from the imperial study.

Recalling the scene from Yongji Palace until the scene just now, Li Shao thought that he had handled it perfectly.

The father didn't question him, and he asked and asked him back and forth, and even Xu Jian, who didn't have a good word in his mouth, couldn't help him.

Drying them for a quarter of an hour before, what could Xu Jian and Shan Shen say?

Don't you want to persuade him to take care of his health?

The fear had dissipated the moment he stepped out of the study, but the excitement had continued, and until this moment, it still stirred his heart.

Li Shao laughed again.

Li Jun is undoubtedly a madman.

What the madman taught him, he didn't have to listen to or believe.

But a madman will also have a sentence or two that is right.

I was scared to death, but the excitement and excitement with goosebumps all over my body was really exciting.

He loved it too.

It's a pity that I have to rein in for a few days.

It will be a while longer before I want to taste this again.

How long will his father keep him?

Li Shao is not sure now, the only thing he can be sure of is that it will not be later than September 25.

It was the death day of the Queen Mother.

On the other hand, Xu Jian and Shan Shen were walking on the palace road, and no one had any intention of talking.

There are many people in the palace, and it is not a good place to discuss.

It wasn't until he returned to Shuntian Mansion that Shan Shen relaxed his tense spirit, moved his sore muscles and bones, and asked, "Judging from the prince's words, the person behind the curtain is hiding very deeply."

In the yamen, it seems that more than eighty or ninety people have been arrested, but they are all outcasts, and they can't say anything about adding a piece.

If Lao Wan doesn't have any harvest in the house, I don't know what someone will answer tomorrow morning. ”

"It's no wonder that Master Shan and Commander Wan," Xu Jian said, "That person is insidious, he came prepared, and he has been planning for so long, so it is naturally difficult to grasp the loopholes." ”

"That's what I said, but I have to give the result that should be given," Shan Shen looked through the confession sorted out by the master again, and asked distressedly, "If I don't know if I don't know anything, I won't make any progress, and I won't be able to pay the difference." Grandpa Guo, I can't take the matter of the guards around the prince trying to kidnap people when the time comes, right? ”

Xu Jian smiled hesitantly: "If Master Shan doesn't want to be the Yin of Shuntian Mansion, you can try." ”

He responded calmly and casually, as always, with the meaning of watching the excitement and not thinking it was a big deal, not at all like having the slightest connection with the kidnapping case.

Of course, Shan Shen didn't see it, and only smiled bitterly twice.

While the two were talking, Zhang Yuan walked in quickly, his face not very good.

"There is also a dancing girl who has not woken up yet, and it is still hot, and it burns badly," Zhang Fucheng said, "I knew that I had asked the security court to check it before, and I only cared about the prince at that time, and I didn't care about the side, and I just asked someone to ask for a doctor again." ”

When Shan Shen heard it, the bitter smile completely turned into bitterness.

Killing someone, and not killing someone are two different things.

Xu Jian flipped through some case files and got up to go to Chenmi Hutong.

The staff of the two yamen were still busy, Wan Tang greeted Xu Jian, pointed to the tall trees in the courtyard and said, "I hate to uproot them." ”

Xu Jian thought for a while and said, "If it doesn't work, let's pull it out, I'll go around." ”

Wan Tang sighed and motioned for Xu Jian to turn around casually.

Xu Jian walked around the house for an hour, but he didn't get anything.

He wasn't surprised by this either.

The severed tail thrown out by the people behind Dao Heng must have been cleaned up, and the clues that they don't want to detect will definitely not be left at all.

And what stays is the "bait" that was deliberately fed to him.

Those hands have always been like that.

Before it gets dark, the rain stops, and judging from the sky, there should be no more rain until dawn tomorrow.

Xu Jian returned to Shuntian Mansion and told Shan Shen about the situation in the house.

Shan Shen was very distressed.

"Is Maihime awake?" Xu Jian asked.

"Feed her a little water in a daze," Shan Shen shook his head and said, "The burn is very fierce, and I went to ask the security court to judge it again with a thick face, and he said that he was not optimistic, so he would see if he could survive it himself." ”

This kind of thing, where did you dare to bother the hospital?

It's not even worse to see the wind and rain in the city, and then let the outside know that someone is dead.

Shan Shen looked at the paperwork spread out on the table, and only felt that he had never handled such a difficult case in his life.

The people involved are very troublesome.

There is no clue behind it.

He has the ability to handle cases, and he can't do it everywhere.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, Shan Shen looked up and looked outside, it was Samchen who came with a cloth bag.

"What's that?" He couldn't help but ask.

"Clean clothes," Xu Jian took it from Shenchen's hand, and said to Shan Shen, "I'll borrow it from the next room to clean up." ”

Shan Shen raised an eyebrow.

Fuguo Gong has been raining a lot today, he really cares if he is wet or not, and he can't hold on to it now.

But since it's all here, is it necessary to change into a new one in the yamen?

In the past, in Shuntian Mansion, Grandpa Guo sat with him as late as he wanted, and never left early, even if he wanted to rest today, wouldn't it be right to take a hot bath and change his clothes when he returned to the mansion?

Shan was puzzled, and after a while, he saw Xu Jian dressed neatly and come out from next door.

Clean and noble, it is completely different from the soup chickens they have been running around all day.

Seeing that Master Shan looked at it, Xu Jian chuckled: "The county lord has done her a favor and invited her to have a meal, it's not a matter of being sloppy and sloppy." ”

Shan Shen choked.

Xu Jian said again: "It's not far, I'll bring some back to Master Shan in a while." ”

"You're polite," Shan Shen heard this, his mind much smoother, "then I'll wait." ”

Xu Jian walked out of Shuntian Mansion.

Liu Jing arrived just in time.

After going down, after he finished talking to Xu Yi, he went back to the Thousand Steps Corridor.

It's not that he doesn't care about his son, he is worried that Liu Xun is worried.

But that's all he can do.

If you don't do your job properly and look for relationships everywhere to intercede, not only will you not be able to help Xun'er, but it will become worse and worse.

The saint did not suspend his position, he is still the secretary of the Honglu Temple, so he must do a good job in government affairs.

A courtier like a fly without a head cannot enter the eyes of the saints.

Now, he can't make a mistake every step.

The hatchback took a picture.

The situation is different, Liu Jing is very restrained when he speaks, and he has no intention of causing trouble.

"Is Xun'er okay in Shuntian Mansion?" He asked, "Is there any useful information to be given?" ”

Xu Jian said: "Lord Liu can go and ask Master Shan, relatives care about the case, as long as they can say something, the yamen will definitely inform them." ”

"You let your mother and Ah Wan live in the temple?" Liu Jing said again, "It's okay, I can't take care of them these days, and the temple is cleaner." ”

Xu Jian had no intention of talking to Liu Jing, and when he saw that the carriage was ready, he put away his umbrella and got into the car.

Seeing this, Liu Jing turned around and entered Shuntian Mansion.

In the backyard of Taohezhai, Mama He is preparing food.

Lin Yunyan arrived first, took the hand stove out of the study, asked Mama to add some charcoal, and tested the temperature.

Entering and leaving the palace, it is Shuntian Mansion again, and it is Chen Mi Hutong again, she is sure that Xu Jian is not good at it today.

It's raining and cold today, and my legs and feet are definitely uncomfortable.

As soon as it was put together, Xu Jian also arrived, looking at Lin Yunyan through the kitchen door.

When the grandmother of the He family saw him, she smiled and said: "Lord and the county lord will wait, the hot dishes can be served as soon as they are fried, and some ginger tea is boiled on the low fire, you can use a little first." ”

Xu Jian responded, and said, "I drank a lot of ginger tea today." ”

Lin Yunyan walked over to him, leaned sideways from the door out, and stuffed things to Xu Jian: "There must be no good stove today." ”

With that, she went to the side of the study.

Xu Jian gently rubbed the hand stove.

Hot air.

The little county lord is also angry.

I had to change my clothes to come, otherwise, some would have been coaxed.

Thanks to the book friend Xu Bicheng's official girlfriend and the charming lazy cat who loves to bask in the sun.

(End of chapter)