Xiao Hou didn't take the carriage, and galloped straight towards the palace.
Because he has Xiao Xu's **** order in his hand, he can ride on horseback after passing the palace gate.
I had never seen His Royal Highness King Yi who was so anxious and unsteady, and the guards of the palace immediately opened the palace door as soon as they saw it, for fear of delaying the important event.
So Xiao Hou traveled unimpeded all the way to the imperial study.
As early as the moment Xiao Hou entered the palace, Xiao Xu received the news and was waiting here.
Because Xiao Xu believed that unless there was an urgent matter, the third child would not use the **** order.
Although it is to make it easier for him to enter and leave the palace, he has never seen him use it.
As soon as Xiao Xu put down the memorial in his hand, a panting man appeared in front of the desk. The father-in-law beside him pleaded guilty to him with a sullen face, "This old servant didn't stop His Highness King Yi, this old servant is guilty."
Xiao Xu raised his hand to let the father-in-law go down, and looked at the person in front of him with surprise, "What happened? It's not your style to be so panic."
Xiao Hou didn't intend to beat around the bush, and asked bluntly, "Brother Huang, I have something I want to ask you, the assassination I planned on Phoenix Mountain last year, and the Fire Spirit appeared nearby because you knew about my plan. Or is there something else?"
"Why do you ask that all of a sudden?" Xiao Xu had a guess in his heart.
Xiao Hou's eyes met his gaze sharply, "Brother Huang, I want to know if Zhi Jing is still alive."
It was rare to see him take off his warm coat, revealing such a sharp-edged appearance, Xiao Xu felt a little admiration in his heart, it seemed that Pang Zhijing's matter was his inverse scale.
"I can't answer you about this, but I can show you someone."
As soon as Xiao Xu's words fell, Xiao Hou's eyes lit up instantly. Unlike the usual Yingying's smile, the light that seemed to have been extinguished lit up again. The former is alienated without closeness, while the latter is joyful with hope.
"good!"
Seeing this, Xiao Xu sighed in his heart, and took him to Yan Xu Palace.
Chu Qingyan had already received the news, and was half-sitting in front of the couch waiting for the two of them to come over, only knowing that Xiao Hou had something to look for her, but Big Ice didn't have time to say what happened.
But when Xiao Hou entered the inner hall and saw the person on the couch, Chu Qingyan clearly felt that the light in his eyes suddenly dimmed.
"Third, what's the matter with you?" Chu Qingyan was a little confused.
It turned out that the brother-in-law brought him to see the sister-in-law, not her.
This gap made him feel depressed all of a sudden.
Xiao Hou cheered up, pursed his lips, and said, "Sister Huang, can you tell your brother, Zhijing, is she still alive?"
Yes, at the time he heard the little rascal say that he wanted to let the imperial sister-in-law help leave. At that time, he was too confident that she could not escape from his palm, so he never took it to heart, but he thought of Huo Ling. Appearing under the cliff, and the attitude of the emperor just now, the hope in his eyes rekindled, and he stared intently at the person in front of him.
Chu Qingyan was stunned for a while. She didn't expect Xiao Hou to come to her because of Zhijing, and she didn't expect that after so long, he was able to find her head. He had to admit his obsession and see his infatuation from the side. .
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"I remember when you found Zhi Jing's body at the bottom of the cliff, haven't you confirmed it?" Chu Qingyan raised her eyebrows and looked at him.
Xiao Hou was stunned for a moment, with a hint of stubbornness and temptation in his eyes, "Sister-in-law, isn't that corpse of Zhijing?"
Seeing that he was holding on, his hands hidden in his sleeves trembled slightly. If it was confirmed that Zhi Jing had passed away again, she believed that this man might be ruined, and he would no longer have the courage to live.
Chu Qingyan smiled, "The third child, I'm very happy that Zhijing's feelings for you can be responded to."
Saying that, she called Jasper to step forward, and Jasper walked to Xiao Hou and handed a letter.
"Third, take a look, maybe you'll have the answer after reading it."
If this matter was put before yesterday, she still wasn't sure whether Zhijing survived or... It is estimated that her answer would be she doesn't know.
But it just so happened that she received a letter from Yanluo today.
The letter was plain, with scribbled handwriting on the cover, and it looked like it was written in a hurry, but in Xiao Hou's eyes, that letter seemed to carry a very heavy weight.
He took it, opened the seal, and took out the paper with only one line on it.
Zhijing passed the dangerous period safely, please don't read.
It was just a few short words, but Xiao Hou looked at it for a long time, until the heat in his chest spread to his eyes, and he imprisoned himself in the cage, as if a hole was torn open, and the sun suddenly poured in, the long-lost warmth and joy, The five flavors are mixed, and it is not clear whether it is joy or sigh.
Seeing him like this, Chu Qingyan felt even more confident.
"At first, I promised Zhijing to send her out of the capital, but on the day she left, she just learned that you were attacked, so she went to the mountain to look for you, and finally fell off the cliff. You know what happened during this period, and Huo Ling immediately mobilized when she found out that she fell off the cliff. The people nearby went to search, but when they found her, her life was already on the line, and it could be said that only one breath was left. Do you remember Yanluo, she was the one who hung Zhijing's life, if she stayed in Kyoto, Zhijing will surely die."
Hearing this, Xiao Hou tightened his fingers and his face turned pale.
"Later Yanluo thought of her father, who is Luo Shenyi, and took her out of the city overnight with a glimmer of hope. Before we designed Zhijing to leave, we wanted to fake an accident and make people think she died in a crash, and pretending to be her corpse would also be a good idea. I found it, but no one expected such a change to occur."
"So you replaced her with the fake corpse and left it at the bottom of the cliff?" Xiao Hou wanted to cry and laugh, his emotions were extremely complicated.
"Yes, because the situation was urgent, we didn't know the relationship between the two of you, and I made a promise to Zhijing not to let her get involved in the political disputes between the two countries, so everything was logical."
Chu Qingyan felt sorry, but given the original situation, she had to do it, and if Zhijing was sober, she would have done it.
"The reason why I didn't inform you is very simple, Zhi Jing was too seriously injured at that time, and you were not there at the time, otherwise you would definitely feel distressed, even a genius doctor can't guarantee whether he can snatch someone with Yan Wangye and be able to rescue him. It's good, if it can't be rescued... So it's useless to tell you, I'm afraid it will give you hope, and then hope will be annihilated, then it will only be the second and heavier blow to you."
Xiao Hou understood what she meant. It was only after a year that the little rogue was out of danger. It was conceivable how much he was injured at the beginning.
"It's good to live. As long as she lives, no matter how much torture I suffer, it will be worth it, and it will be regarded as an atonement."
All of this was done by himself. If he hadn't set up the plan, if he hadn't insisted on revenge, if he hadn't intentionally involved her, none of this would have happened, and she wouldn't have suffered so much.