The next day, the officials of the Miaocheng Mansion came to visit Shang Rongzhou early in the morning: "The minister pays a visit to Her Royal Highness the eldest princess, Her Royal Highness the eldest princess is a thousand years old." ”

Through a curtain, Shang Rongzhou hummed lazily behind the curtain.

Shang Rongzhou didn't say anything, and the official didn't dare to get up, the official bowed his head to the ground, and said: "Her Royal Highness the eldest princess has a noble status, and it is a blessing for Miaocheng to have the princess coming, and I hope that Her Royal Highness the princess will ......."

Before the official finished speaking, Shang Rongzhou raised his voice to cut off his voice: "There is no need to say superfluous words, this palace is tired of listening to it." ”

The official hurriedly called the mistake: "The minister should die, it's the minister who talks too much." ”

Shang Rongzhou was very tired, if it weren't for Qiushuang saying that this Miaocheng official said that there was something important to report, she wouldn't have bothered to see it: "Get up." ”

The officer stood up, his hands still in motion.

Shang Rongzhou could still vaguely see the hesitation on this person's face through the curtain, and she said bluntly: "This palace doesn't like to beat around the bush, and has something to say." ”

The official hesitated, as if he was thinking about how to speak, and the language was organized for a long time, and then he said: "The minister came to disturb the princess early in the morning, and if you have the courage to ask for help from the talented people around the princess." ”

Shang Rongzhou didn't speak, she was waiting for the official to continue.

The official said: "Recently, many young women have disappeared in Miaocheng, and the ministers sent a number of guards have not been able to investigate who is behind the scenes......

Hearing this, Shang Rongzhou asked the maid to open the curtain, and she said, "The woman is missing?" ”

Seeing Shang Rongzhou's true face, the official was busy and knelt on the ground again, and he didn't dare to raise his head.

Shang Rongzhou was used to seeing these people's trembling looks, and she moved her fingers: "Get up and speak." ”

"Yes...... Yes, yes......" After getting Shang Rongzhou's permission, the official stood up again.

patting the dust in front of him, the official continued: "Two months ago, the first person to report the case was Yang Mazi, who sold tofu on East Street, Yang Mazi's family had a thirteen-year-old daughter, at first Yang Mazi thought that her daughter was playful, but after two or three days, the daughter did not return home, and Yang Mazi and his wife came to report the case. ”

Later, more and more people came to report the case, but the men sent by the minister went to investigate the case but never caught the suspect...... The minister should die, it's the minister's incompetence......"

After Shang Rongzhou listened to his words, she asked, "No clue at all?" ”

"The guards found this in one of them." The official took out a half-broken token from his arms and handed it to the maid beside Shang Rongzhou, who handed it over to Shang Rongzhou.

Shang Rongzhou's hand hung in the air, looking at the token in his hand.

It's like a token.

Shang Rongzhou turned upside down, she looked at it again, she saw a lot of rare treasures, and she could almost tell at a glance what the thing was made of, this thing was made of dark iron, but the tokens in the palace were mostly made of gold, and the family was mostly made of jade.

"Okay, Bengu knows." Shang Rongzhou's fine eyebrows wrinkled slightly, and she called Jin Yuwei beside her: "You go back to the palace and let the palace find out the origin of this material." ”

Jin Yuwei was ordered to withdraw.

Shang Rongzhou called the second Jin Yuwei: "You take someone to the people's homes who lost their daughters to check again, be sure to search carefully, and you can't let go of any corner." ”

The second Golden Feather Guard was ordered to withdraw.

Jin Yuwei has no official rank, he is personally led by the emperor, and he specializes in investigating the ministers of the court, and I heard that even the famous Zhao family in Jizhou was found out by Jin Yuwei for rebellion, and the whole family was exiled.

When the official saw Shang Rongzhou sending away two Jin Yuwei in a row, he knelt on the ground with his mouth wide open, and kept saying in his mouth: "Thank you for the princess's great grace, the princess's great grace!" ”

"If there's nothing to do, you can retreat, the palace is tired." Shang Rongzhou moved his body, and he felt that his whole body was falling apart.

"Yes...... Yes yes yes ......"

The officer withdrew.

Shang Rongzhou yawned lazily, she was picked up early in the morning, Shang Rongzhou didn't want to go back to the room, it happened that this soft collapse was big enough, she turned around and went back to sleep.

When she woke up, it was already noon, and the pain in Shang Rongzhou's body not only did not improve, but also became more sore, she moved as if she was about to fly up and burp, Shang Rongzhou scolded and called Qiu Shuang.

Qiushuang rushed quickly, she didn't dare to say anything when she saw this situation, she only obediently accompanied Shang Rongzhou.

Shang Rongzhou suddenly thought of Zhao Chenghui, and she asked, "What about people?" ”

Qiu Shuang naturally knew who the "person" Shang Rongzhou was talking about, and Qiu Shuang replied: "Zhao Gongzi went back to his room to sleep after getting off the boat, and he hasn't come out yet." ”

Shang Rongzhou looked at the white sky outside the window and scolded, "He hasn't gotten up at noon? Go and see this palace. ”

She got up, but Zhao Chenghui didn't even get up.

It's excessive.

Qiu Shuang wanted to follow, and Shang Rongzhou thought that she was going to question Zhao Chenghui about last night, so he stopped Qiu Shuang and asked her to wait here.

Shang Rongzhou arrived at the door of Zhao Chenghui's room, and was just about to push the door in, when a guard suddenly ran over in a hurry and shouted to Shang Rongzhou: "Oh no, princess!" Zhao Gongzi was kidnapped! ”

Shang Rongzhou's hand to push the door stopped in the air, and she looked at the guard dumbfounded: "What did you say?" Zhao Chenghui was taken captive ......"

There was a burst of white mist in front of him, and Shang Rongzhou's body fainted.

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On the shore that had been deserted in the past, there was now a man lying on his stomach on a large rock, which had been washed for many years and had a smooth surface, but moss had grown on his back.

The last glimmer of light above his head disappeared in the western mountains, and in the blink of an eye it was night, and the moon followed the trail in the sky again, and in the noise of birds and insects, it was early morning in the blink of an eye.

Lao Qiao, who fishes for a living, picked up Shang Rongzhou by the river, and when he saw Shang Rongzhou lying on his back on the bank, he thought she was dead, until he saw her fingers move, and then quietly carried her back.

When Shang Rongzhou opened his eyes, he was already at Lao Qiao's house.

She looked around, the dilapidated houses, the crumbling doors, and the spiders above her head slicing their webs on the rooftops with impunity.

What is this place?

Shang Rongzhou sat up suddenly, she shook her head, and the last memory came flooding back.

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At that time, she was so weak that even her eyelids were so heavy that she couldn't lift them, and she heard a conversation between two men in a daze.

"Shall we just throw the princess into the river and not be discovered?"

"What are you afraid of, we have traveled thirty miles by boat, and no one will find out, even if it is discovered afterwards, she is already a lonely ghost, and no one knows that she is the princess of the dynasty."

"But ......"

"Do you dare not listen to the master's orders?"

"Then let's throw the princess down!"

With a loud "bang", he was thrown into the river by these two people.

The body fell uncontrollably downward, and she was completely unconscious.

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Shang Rongzhou sat on the edge of the bed in a daze, just wanted to say something, opened his mouth, but couldn't make a complete sound.

She tried several more times, but still couldn't make a sound.

No way.

It won't be so unlucky.

A low woman's voice suddenly came from outside the door: "Old Joe, what do you say you should do?" ”

…… Someone talking outside?

The thatched house is not well soundproofed, and Shang Rongzhou can clearly hear the conversation between a man and a woman outside.

The man sighed: "What to do, how do I know what to do, alas, take one step at a time...... I just secretly gave Lao Miao two fish for him to come and see, and this girl hit her head and couldn't speak. ”

The woman asked, "Can this girl recover?" ”

The man sighed twice, and he said, "Lao Miao said, maybe she can, maybe she can't, it's all up to her to create it herself." ”

Shang Rongzhou also wanted to hear the movement outside more clearly, Shang Rongzhou just moved half of his body to the side of the bed, but his body leaned forward uncontrollably, facing the ground, and his entire upper body was clubbed on the ground.

The movement of falling on the ground was not small, and a woman who ran in from outside, a fisherwoman was about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, with a kind face, but she was born dark, wearing a clean linen clothes, and when she saw Shang Rongzhou falling on the side of the bed, she hurriedly ran to help her back to the bed after a few "oops".

Behind the fisherwoman was a man with a scruffy beard and a face pulled down from the corners of his mouth.

Seeing that they had no malicious intent, Shang Rongzhou pointed to his mouth with an "ahhhh

The fisherwoman's voice was a little hoarse, and she sighed: "Girl, you should rest first, maybe you will be able to speak in a few days." ”

Smelling the faint fishy smell on the fisherwoman's body, Shang Rongzhou wrinkled her nose, she couldn't speak, so she had to gesture to the fisherwoman with her hand, and after gesturing for a long time, the fisherwoman understood what she meant.

The fisherwoman said again: "My name is Lin Xiu, you can call me Lin Niang." ”

Shang Rongzhou gestured and asked, "How did I get here?" ］

Lin Niang replied: "This is a long story, we are remote here, there are no outsiders, people here rely on fishing for a living, my old Qiao is also fishing, a week ago Lao Qiao went to the shore and was about to go to the sea to fish, but he saw you on the shore, and saw that you were not dead and picked you back." By the way, little girl, what's your name? ”

Shang Rongzhou frowned, she thought about it, picked up Lin Niang's hand and wrote two words in the palm of her hand: Xiaozhou.

Lin Niang was illiterate, and she couldn't recognize what she wrote when she watched Shang Rongzhou write it several times.

She recognized the first word, the second word, Lin Niang scratched the hair on her sideburns, and she smiled and said, "Little girl, I really don't recognize the word you wrote......

Shang Rongzhou: ......

She was illiterate, and Shang Rongzhou didn't write anymore, she pointed to the boat floating on the water outside, and then pointed to herself.

Lin Niang was puzzled for a while, and then patted her head and said happily: "Small, boat? ”

Shang Rongzhou nodded.

Lin Niang knew her name and began to ask her: "Zhou Wa'er, I see that your skin and flesh are pink, you should be a girl from a big family." As she spoke, Lin Niang's rough and chapped hand couldn't help but touch Shang Rongzhou's face.

Shang Rongzhou wanted to dodge, but she didn't have much strength now, and this woman didn't look like a wicked person, so she touched her face twice.

Shang Rongzhou made a perfunctory gesture twice, Lin Niang didn't understand what she meant, and suddenly a man's shout outside, Lin Niang agreed outside, and said to Shang Rongzhou: "I have something to do when I go out!" Yes! Zhouwa'er, are you hungry...... There are still two steamed buns in the pot, I'll go get them for you. ”

Lin Niang walked out of the door very quickly, stuffed two steamed buns into her hand and ran out in a hurry.

Shang Rongzhou looked at the two steamed buns in his hand and fell into thought.

It stands to reason that in addition to the palace, the princess's mansion, and the mansion that will be passed by during the trip, no idler will know about the eldest princess's itinerary.

So, who was the one who stunned her?

And who is the master of their mouths?

The mastermind behind the poisoning of Zhao Chenghui has not yet been found, and another "master" has come out.

Shang Rongzhou shook his head, the most important thing at the moment is to figure out the situation.

Shang Rongzhou lay down in Lin Niang's house for several more days before he could go to the ground.

The two dolls of Lao Qiao's family were digging in the yard, Shang Rongzhou walked up to the two of them, she squatted down and painted on the ground.

A circle with two adults and two villains, holding hands, as a family.

The older girl understood Shang Rongzhou's painting.

She shook her head.

"Sister Xiaozhou, our family is not two dolls."

Shang Rongzhou painted again on the ground.

"My father and mother have six children, but only me and my brother are alive."

Shang Rongzhou: [Then how did your sisters die?] ］

The little boy bit her finger and obviously didn't know: "My mother said, my sisters all went out fishing with my father and died at sea." ”

The female doll next to her retorted: "Who said that, they are obviously ......"

Old Joe came back from outside, he had a new fishing net in his hand, and as soon as he entered the door, he interrupted the words of the eldest girl: "Caiwaer, you two little beasts!" What are you doing mentioning these, I don't know if your mother will be unhappy mentioning these! ”

Old Joe picked up the stick behind the door and was about to hit the two little dolls.

The two babies were beaten and scurried around.

Lin Niang, who was in the kitchen, heard the sound and walked out, she didn't stop Lao Qiao from beating the child, Lin Niang walked to Shang Rongzhou's side, she said: "Xiaozhou baby, don't listen to these two little babies talking nonsense, they just owe a beating." ”

Shang Rongzhou looked at Lin Niang's kind smile, and she tugged at the corners of Lin Niang's mouth.

Lin Niang, who was in the kitchen, heard the sound and walked out, she didn't stop Lao Qiao from beating the child, Lin Niang walked to Shang Rongzhou's side, she said: "Xiaozhou baby, don't listen to these two little babies talking nonsense, they just owe a beating." ”

Shang Rongzhou looked at Lin Niang's kind smile, and she tugged at the corners of Lin Niang's mouth.

Shang Rongzhou asked: [Your family originally had six children? ］

Lin Niang sent her into the house, and she replied: "Originally, there were six, but the first four died, and they died when they went to sea with their father." ”

[Did they all die at sea?] ］

Lin Niang dodged this question: "Zhou Baby, your body has not healed, so you should take care of it with peace of mind first." ”

Listening to Lin Niang's answer, the uneasiness in Shang Rongzhou's heart gradually expanded.

Shang Rongzhou looked at Lin Niang and did not ask any further questions.

……

Lin Niang followed other women in the same village to work early in the morning, Shang Rongzhou walked out of the door of Lin Niang's house with a cane made of branches, and walked to the high mountain with a cane, so that she could see where she was clearly.

An isolated island, surrounded by water, most of the island is covered with mountains, and the villagers are gathered in the eastern corner, standing on the mountain, she can only see the endless sea.

Shang Rongzhou let out a sigh from the bottom of his heart