Did the Khitans sneak into the palace from the palace
Zhao Heng clenched the hilt of his sword, and turned his eyes coldly towards Guannan, where Guo Boyan's troops and horses were stationed. The guards of the palace are strictly guarded, and the defense of the palace is not much worse than that of the palace. If the Khitan people want to climb over the wall without knowing it, they must first find out the law of the guards to patrol the night, and then they must also be familiar with the layout of the back garden of the two palaces. The path leads to the secluded, and if you are not careful, you will go in the wrong direction.
To kidnap her and her daughter, it would be very difficult for a Khitan to evade the guards of the two mansions, but Zhao Heng believed that no matter whether it was his royal mansion or the Guo family's mansion, the Khitan people would not be asked to roam at night. Twice without any notice. The only explanation is that the Khitans first bribed the servants in the house, and after secretly plotting, they succeeded in one fell swoop.
"Is there a traitor?" Zhao Heng asked coldly.
The guard bowed his head and said, "The princess was kidnapped by the Khitan people in the morning. Manager Zhang and Mama Cen were interrogating the servants of the mansion. Manager Zhang personally interrogated three times. When his subordinates set off in the evening, they still did not find any clues. Your Highness, you are crowned king. It has been eight years since the mansion was opened, and there has never been any villain in the mansion, and the subordinates dared to infer that the problem lies in the government."
Zhao Heng stood with his back to him, his face was cold, and his mind was already a mess. She and her daughter were kidnapped for a day and a night. What's the use of pursuing the traitor and the guards now? He just wants to know if their mothers are suffering or not, just wants to know where the gangster took them, and just wants to go back to Beijing immediately and rescue them in person!
But he was instructed to supervise the battle, and he was not allowed to leave the barracks without an edict. If he left, his father would convict him, and the army's heart would be shaken. The war situation that had just been reversed might be once again given the upper hand by the Liao army. Tell the truth to the emperor? As soon as the thought started, Zhao Heng killed her. She was his princess. She couldn't spread any news that would damage her innocence. Unless the Khitans really used their mothers as hostages in front of the army, he couldn't. Make it public!
"The order goes on, the border will be under martial law, vehicles and goods will be strictly inspected, women and children will not be allowed, no matter how old or young." Zhao Heng said coldly, clenching fists with both hands.
Eunuch Fu immediately went out to make arrangements.
Zhao Heng then instructed the guards: "The princess is sick, she will not stay behind closed doors, and will not be visited. If the news is leaked, please wait..."
"Don't worry, Your Highness, if half a sentence of this matter is leaked, the subordinates and others will punish themselves and apologize." The guard raised his head and swore to the sky.
Zhao Henghan dismissed the guards with a face, and then ordered someone to pass on Guo Boyan.
Not far from Guannan, the horses were galloping, and within an hour, Guo Boyan rushed to the door. Eunuch Fu invited him in, and he guarded the door. Guo Boyan glanced at him, picked up the curtain and went in. As soon as he looked up, he met the sharp eyes of King Shou's sword. Guo Boyan froze in his heart, and said respectfully, "I see the prince."
He bent down, but Zhao Heng didn't tell him to be flat. He didn't stop until he walked in front of Guo Boyan, stared at the fine lines in the corner of Guo Boyan's eyes and said, "The capital came to report, yesterday morning, the princess and the princess were kidnapped by thieves."
Guo Boyan was horrified, forgot his superiority and inferiority, and raised his head sharply, wanting to ask how this was possible, but before he could say anything, he was affirmed from the God-killing look of King Shou. After the shock, Guo Boyan's eyes were full of anger, mixed with worries about his daughter and granddaughter. Although An An was not his biological child, Guo Boyan had always treated the child as his own daughter for so many years.
"The thief, come and go freely, if there is any suspicion, the palace has thoroughly investigated it." Zhao Heng continued, his eyes were as cold as frost.
Guo Boyan made sense at one point, and said solemnly: "This minister is sending someone back to Beijing. If there is a traitor in the Chen family, the minister is willing to take the punishment, but the princess and the princess are missing, can the prince have any countermeasures?"
Apart from strictly guarding the border and sending people to secretly search for him, Zhao Heng had no countermeasures.
Guo Boyan was anxious, how did he explain to Lin and his mother? The mother is too old and can't stand the blow. Last year, the eldest son was killed in the war, and the mother lost half of her life. If an accident happened to An An's wife... The eldest son Guo Xiao and stepdaughter Song Jianing flashed in his mind one after another, and Guo Boyan's body suddenly froze. , Immediately after, a cold air rushed from the soles of the feet to the heart.
Thief, will it be his Pingzhang
Guo Boyan's eyes were dull.
He had always been reluctant to believe that his son was really dead. If there was only a charred corpse and a sword of the eldest son, Guo Boyan would never admit that the corpse was his son, but some people saw his son being cut down by Liao soldiers with their own eyes. Injured, he saw his son fall into the sea of fire with his own eyes, so Guo Xiao recognized it and accepted the fact that his son died in battle. It was as if a piece of his heart had been cut off, and the pain caused him to leave his wife in the middle of the night, crying alone in the dark. .
Guo Boyan never suspected the news of his son's death, but now that his daughter was kidnapped, Guo Boyan suddenly remembered the previous scene. That year, the arrow in his son's chest was at stake. He used An An as a bait to stimulate his son to persevere and return to the capital, but he put forward conditions on his son, either to make his son completely forget about An An, or his son to fake death disfigurement, and then...
Like a dazzling lightning bolt in the dark clouds, Guo Boyan stared at the ground, suppressing the ecstasy and despair in his body, lest he be noticed by King Shou. There seems to be something coming out of his eyes, because his beloved eldest son may still be alive, Guo Boyan can't control his joy, but he is equally desperate, for the madness of the eldest son, for the innocent daughter and granddaughter who have been implicated, and for the possibility that the Guo family may be exposed once the matter is exposed. The King Shou revenge suffered.
Thinking of the close relatives in the capital, it didn't take long for the ecstasy in Guo Boyan's eyes to turn into bitterness and determination.
If he had a choice, he would rather his daughter be kidnapped by the Khitans than his Pingzhang be resurrected from the dead. A bastard who gave up his entire clan for a woman!
With so many things going on, Guo Boyan successfully concealed his uneasiness and went back to make arrangements for the time being.
Zhao Heng had no intention of fighting, and stayed alone in the study, reading every letter she wrote for a while, and reading the map of the northern border of Dazhou for a while, guessing the route that the Khitans might choose. In just half a day, Eunuch Fu was ordered to dispatch more than a dozen waves of dark guards. Go out and hunt. Another one was sent away, and Eunuch Fu turned back to the study, where he saw the prince resting on the table with his elbows, his hands touching his forehead, his face covered by his arms, and only his ten fingers pinched his forehead deeply.
Eunuch Fu was stunned there.
He had never seen such a prince before. The prince Shou, whom he was familiar with, had always been deserted, with no expression on whether he was happy or not. Even when he fought against Liao and suffered a defeat, the prince never showed a trace of decadence, like a detached one. An immortal outside the world, but at this moment, that immortal suddenly turned into an ordinary mortal body, and would be irritable, helpless, and…
There was a sudden sound of hooves outside.
Zhao Heng raised his head, his eyes were bloodshot, extremely terrifying, as if Eunuch Fu was the one who stole his wife and daughter.
Eunuch Fu was so cold in his heart that he lowered his head almost instinctively, and said as he stepped back, "Let's go and have a look."
Zhao Heng closed his eyes, but the calm disguised was shattered in an instant. The moment he heard Liu Xi's voice, Zhao Heng stood up abruptly and hurried to the outer room, his clothes draped in wind.
"My lord, it's useless to be small, the princess was kidnapped!" Seeing the lord, Liu Xi threw himself down on his knees, and fell to the ground. After swallowing the sweat medicine yesterday, Liu Xi didn't know anything, and finally woke up and found that the other person was in an inn in a small county town. The small county master was lying on the bed safe and sound, only the princess was missing. Something was strange. Liu Xi first sent the county master back to the palace, and then rushed to report to the prince in person. He ran quickly and desperately. Now lying on the ground, Liu Xi was still gasping for breath.
"What do you mean? The county master is back?" Eunuch Fu asked anxiously for the master, which was what he wanted to know.
Liu Xi nodded, looked at the prince in front of him and said, "The county lord is unscathed, just missing the princess and crying."
"Since the villain appeared, he explained his words and deeds truthfully." When his daughter came back, Zhao Heng's anger and fear remained undiminished, he squatted down and stared at Liu Xidao.
Liu Xiben didn't intend to hide it either, so he calmed down for a moment. He knelt down and started talking about the princess taking the princess and the son to the garden to relax. Everything he could remember, he would tell the master without a word. Including the carriage leaving the palace, the conversation he heard inside the car.
"The Khitan people did not agree to the princess' request to change the county owner. The princess couldn't bear the princess to fall into the hands of the other party alone, and took the initiative to ask to go with the county owner."
Zhao Heng clenched his teeth tightly. He loves his daughter, and she only cares more about her than him. In that situation, how could she watch her daughter being taken away when she was in the situation
"The other party acquiesced. The princess said that her life and death with the county master was unpredictable, and Tuo Xiao told the prince, saying that it would be worth it if she could meet the prince and marry the prince in this life. If there is an afterlife, if the prince does not dislike it, the princess still think Marry you." Liu Xi lowered his head and tried to repeat the princess's words completely. After saying this, he couldn't help wanting to see what the prince looked like, and then he caught a glimpse of the prince's tightly pursed lips. Liu Xi suddenly remembered something, and quickly He added: "By the way, before the princess said that she wanted to marry you again in the next life, that person seemed quite dissatisfied, and once reprimanded the princess and told the princess to shut up."
Zhao Heng was immersed in her "last words" and didn't hear what Liu Xi added.
Eunuch Fu wiped the corners of his eyes and scolded angrily: "Khitan barbarians, come up with such a low-level plan to break up the prince and the princess, do you feel uneasy when you hear what the princess said?"
"Say it again." Zhao Heng's eyes moved slightly, and he finally came out of his memory.
Liu Xi told the truth.
Zhao Heng closed his eyes and tried to imagine the situation in the carriage. No, what's wrong, if he is the Khitan, he will threaten the princess with the princess who has already caught him and bring the young son to the carriage, and at the same time hijack the mother and son that King Shou cares about the most to increase the stake, even if the son is too crying on the small road It is easy to expose, and he will also bring her with his daughter, instead of taking her alone.
When she took the initiative to change her daughter, the man satirized her for overestimating her weight in his heart, but in the end, the other party robbed her.
She conveyed her affection to him through Liu Xi, who could have listened to the excitement, but interrupted inexplicably.
First satirize his love for her, and then stop her from expressing affection...
Obviously he could rob his daughter, but only one of her was robbed.
He did not choose to sneak in from the palace, but took a detour from the palace. In the dark and unfamiliar night, he moved freely.
A man who is familiar with the Guo family, a man who doesn't like to hear about their relationship.
Zhao Heng stood up slowly, clenching his fist with one hand, making a clicking sound.
Guo Xiao, Guo Xiao!