Ruihe looked at Qin Shuhuang with bright eyes, and said excitedly in a trembling voice: "Your Highness! ”

After speaking, he knelt down and gave Qin Shuhuang a big salute.

Song Yiqiu was okay, before entering Xia Gong City, he quietly went out of the city to see Qin Shuhuang.

But Ruihe has not seen Qin Shuhuang since Qin Shuhuang left the envoy team, and when he thought that Qin Shuhuang, a weak woman, was going to southern Guangnan and Xinjiang and then turned back to Beidi, Ruihe was worried.

Now that she saw that Qin Shuhuang was all right, she really felt at ease.

Qin Shuhuang smiled and stepped forward to help Ruihe up, "Okay, didn't you see it now!" Rest assured? ”

Ruihe nodded with moist eyes, looked up at Qin Shuhuang, and couldn't stop his tears, "Your Highness, you have lost a lot of weight!" ”

"Where will you not lose weight when you go back and forth, so are you, and we will make it up together when we return to the capital."

Ruihe hurriedly wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with a handkerchief, and nodded with a smile and a smile.

"Is it going well for you to open a teahouse here?" Qin Shuhuang asked.

Ruihe nodded vigorously, "Your Highness, rest assured, everything is going well, at present, the Cao family has not found anything wrong with us, but Xu Xinsong, the second son of the second master of the Xu family, found us, and this morning, this Young Master Xu personally sent a letter." ”

As he spoke, Ruihe gave the letter hidden in his cuff to Qin Shuhuang.

Qin Shuhuang unfolded and glanced at it, the letter was very short, it was written in the tone of Xu Xinsong, the young master of the Xu family, but in the end, it was indeed the private seal of the third master Xu Zizhang.

The letter said that if she had any need, just send someone to the teahouse directly, and the Xu family would never destroy her arrangement.

Qin Shuhuang burned the letter after reading it, and laughed, it seems that the juniors of the Xu family have a good temperament, "If the Xu family sends another letter, you and Song Yiqiu will send someone to tell the palace as soon as possible." ”

"Yes, Your Highness."

Qin Shuhuang didn't stay in Gong's room for long, and came out at normal times.

Even if the storyteller downstairs said no matter how wonderful it was, the housekeeper of the Cao family didn't have the heart to listen, and after seeing it for a while, Qin Shuhuang came back, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

At noon, I had dinner in a restaurant in Xia Gong City, and after the meal, I looked at several other streets in Xia Gong City, bought some silk cloth and some dried fruits to eat, and in the evening, Qin Shuhuang took people back to Cao's house.

On the way back to Cao's house, Qin Shuhuang asked the Cao family's butler to tell General Cao that tomorrow Chinese New Year's Eve, she would entertain the officials of Xia Gongcheng at the post station on behalf of the Dawu royal family.

As soon as he returned to Cao's mansion, the housekeeper did not dare to delay in asking to see General Cao, Mrs. Cao.

Mrs. Cao asked anxiously, "What shops did the eldest princess go out today?" Where did it go? Can you see the Xu family? ”

The housekeeper took a breath and replied: "Back to the general, madam, the eldest princess went to some ordinary shops, bought some ordinary things, ate two teas in the teahouse on the way, and ate food at Hongzhai at noon. Today, the eldest princess did not contact anyone from the Xu family. ”

Hearing the housekeeper say this, Mrs. Cao let out a long sigh of relief.

Cao Jian's face also looked a lot better.

It seems that the eldest princess has no arrangements in secret.

After all, this eldest princess grew up under the care of the royal people, so she didn't need to be overly guarded.

The housekeeper saw that the general and his wife were gentle, but he was embarrassed and said, "But ...... But ......"

Seeing his procrastination, General Cao couldn't wait to kick over, "But what!" Say it! ”

Seeing that the general was about to get angry, the housekeeper didn't dare to delay, "Her Royal Highness the eldest princess will entertain the officials of Xia Gongcheng at the post station on behalf of the royal family tomorrow." ”

Cao Jian thought it was something, but it turned out to be just this.

He glared at the housekeeper, "After all, the eldest princess is the eldest princess of the imperial court, and now she has the title of protecting the country. ”

However, when the eldest princess arrived, she would see the Xu family...... Wasn't the previous obstruction of the general and his wife in vain? ”

Cao Jian smiled, where is it wasted, didn't the eldest princess make a deal with him.

Besides, as long as the eldest princess is in Xia Gongcheng, it is possible to see the Xu family for one day, does he want to lock up the eldest princess? It's simply not realistic!

Since the eldest princess agreed to cooperate with him, it means that the eldest princess no longer attaches so much importance to the Xu family in her heart.

But the regent in the capital has not fallen, and the regent still needs his Cao family.

With the Xu family, his Cao family has the meaning of existence, otherwise the Xu family is really gone, and the Cao family will immediately become the target of public criticism.

Because of this, the Cao family did not kill the Xu family all at once.

Others really think that his Cao family really only has this ability!

The move he took first was just to determine Qin Shuhuang's intentions, and now that it had been determined, he was not much afraid of Qin Shuhuang seeing the Xu family.

Mrs. Cao also looked at her husband at this time, frowning, "General, what do you think?" ”

Cao Jian's expression was calm, "Your Highness's banquet is reasonable, and it is also the rule, since Your Highness has this plan, we should help Your Highness." The conditions of the post house are average, since His Royal Highness lives in our Cao family, our Cao family should help His Highness. You will bring dozens of people over today to help set up the post house and prepare the banquet for tomorrow's banquet. ”

The housekeeper didn't expect the general to give such an order, it can be seen that the general's expression is relaxed, I am afraid that the general has a way to deal with it, he doesn't ask more, and orders to find someone to work.

After the housekeeper left, Cao Jian explained to his wife, and the couple were in a good mood, replacing wine with tea, and drank each other.

As soon as the two of them finished drinking tea, the old servant hurriedly came in to report, "General, General Liu has entered the city and is rushing to our Cao family." ”

Cao Jian raised his eyebrows, "It's finally here, do what I told before, and double the guards of the courtyard where the eldest princess lives!" Let the eldest princess's guards also go to the eldest princess's courtyard to protect. ”

"Yes, General, the old slave will go and inform you."

Today's weather is good, although the cold wind is cold, but there is sunshine, such a sunny day is rare in Xia Gong City.

In the evening, the western sky still has a beautiful orange afterglow.

Before the city gate was closed, General Liu's team entered Xia Gong City.

There were not many people in the team, and the total number of people was less than twenty.

The whole team had only one carriage, and it was still dilapidated.

After entering Xia Gong City, General Liu lifted the curtain of the carriage and jumped on the back of a horse.

His face was covered with stubble, and he was dirty and messy because he hadn't showered for days.

A pair of eyes are bloodshot and cold, which makes people feel terrible at first glance.

The rest of the guards in the team too, feeling that this group was not from the North, but had crawled out of hell.

Inside the carriage, a swarthy hand stretched out from the dirty fur.

The hand weakly pulled away the dirty fur, and a smudged face was revealed, it was not Gu Yufei who else.

Gu Yufei was a hundred times more embarrassed than when she walked with Tisan before.

She was huddled in the corner of the carriage, her body filthy and smelly, her eyes red and trembling.

It turned out that she cared a lot about the small spots of chilblains on her hands, but now she didn't care about her hands and feet because of the swelling of chilblains into steamed buns.

As if those chilblains didn't exist.

Because along the way, she has experienced something a hundred times more terrifying than chilblains.

Since General Liu caught up with her convoy, Gu Yufei has completely lost her good life.

Originally, her convoy had few supplies, but suddenly General Liu and his party were added, and the food that was originally saved was empty in a few days.

At that time, there was another snowstorm, and the people in the convoy could not find a place to stay, and there was no food.

After carrying it for a few days, suddenly one day, the maid next to her brought her a piece of barbecue.

She was amazed for a long time, the jerky in the convoy had already eaten the meat from where, and in winter, the prey was more cunning and difficult to fight, and it should not be game.

She didn't think much about it, thinking that General Liu would have a good way to do it if he was capable.

But after a few days, he noticed that there seemed to be a few fewer people in the team......

One day, the maid who was serving her disappeared......

She looked at the meat in front of her and retched.

If she didn't go to Xia Gongcheng again, Gu Yufei was afraid that she would suddenly disappear one day, and there was only a pile of white bones left behind her ears.

Fortunately, the blizzard stopped, and they finally arrived at Xia Gong City.

When they arrived in front of the gate of Cao's house, the Cao family who came to greet them couldn't help but take a step back when they saw General Liu and his party.

No matter how well the dislike in his eyes was hidden, General Liu noticed it.

He sneered and was led by the housekeeper to the guest house to rest.

Gu Yufei quietly lifted the carriage curtain in the carriage and saw the richly dressed Cao family.

Originally, she wanted to come out and negotiate with General Liu to negotiate with the Cao family, but now she is like this, and she has no face to see anyone at all.

When he arrived at the guest house, General Liu was taken by the housekeeper to freshen up.

Gu Yufei is the same.

Serving her grooming were two older maids.

The two maids changed the hot water four times before they washed Gu Yufei clean!

The first two times the water went out, it was black.

When Gu Yufei was being groomed, she saw the disgusted eyes of the two maids who couldn't help but show, and her eyes couldn't help but chill.

Because she didn't know Gu Yufei's identity, the maid prepared an ordinary women's winter coat and two silver hairpins for her.

This dress is similar to that of an ordinary maid in Cao Mansion.

Along the way, Gu Yufei accumulated a lot of depression and anger.

Just now I saw the clothes of the masters of the Cao family again, and then looked at the "rags" on my body, and my heart became more and more unbalanced.

Anyway, she is also General Liu's woman now!

General Ryu is the regent's right-hand man!

That's what these guys did to her?

After putting on clothes and applying medicine to her hands and feet, Gu Yufei overturned the tray with two silver hairpins, and the two maids who were waiting were startled and hurriedly bowed their heads.

"Get me new clothes and jewelry! These things are trying to fool me, too! ”

The two maids looked down at each other, said "yes", and went out to find the housekeeper.

It didn't take long for the news to reach Mrs. Cao's ears.

Mrs. Cao was asking the maid to remove the delicate hairpin ring on her head, and when she heard it, she let out a "huh" and asked, "Who is that woman?" What identity? ”

The cronies said: "It's the woman General Liu brought with him, but General Liu didn't tell to take care of it, when you wash, you don't know, it's all smelly, it's not as clean as those subordinates around General Liu!" Also, the old slave inquired, this woman is the daughter of the Gu family, and the former sister-in-law of Her Royal Highness the eldest princess. This sister-in-law has been a great deal of trouble with the eldest princess before......"