When Xiao Muhong asked this question, Xiao Mubai and Xia Chu froze at the same time. The two looked at each other with embarrassment on their faces.
Xia Chu was thinking about how to fool him, but Ai Yang came back in time with supper.
Xiao Muhong had no choice but to return to the table and responded: "Come in."
Xiao Mubai and Xia Chu both breathed a sigh of relief. After a while, Xiao Muhong lost her temper and pretended to be angry, and led Ai Yang to the dining room.
Xia Chu was finally able to come out of the entrance, stretched his muscles, and turned around to see Xiao Mubai still squatting there.
"You don't mind holding it in too much, come out quickly." Xia Chu stretched out his hand to Xiao Mubai.
"You, go and eat yours first..." A strange blush appeared on Xiao Mubai's face.
Why didn't he want to get up? It was not convenient for him to get up for the time being.
The two of them were so close just now, and Xia Chu was the only one who was distracted...
"If you don't come out and pull me down..." Xia Chu was attracted by the fragrance of the dishes on the table, curled his lips, took back his hand, walked to the table and sat down, and started to make a fuss.
After a while, Xiao Mubai also came out. Seeing that he was eager to eat, he served him a bowl of hot soup: "Slow down, you haven't eaten just one meal, why are you so hungry?"
Xia Chu chewed the food in his mouth and replied vaguely: "If that guy comes back soon, he won't be able to eat, so you have to hurry up."
Xiao Mubai handed over the bowl of hot soup and said calmly: "Eat slowly, that Ai Yang is mine."
Xia Chu almost spit out the food in his mouth: "Your people?"
Xiao Mubai nodded: "I am stationed in Yucheng all year round. Only by putting some trustworthy people in the palace can I feel at ease."
Xia Chu swallowed the last mouthful of food and her voice became louder: "Then why did you pull me to hide just now?"
"Well." Xiao Mubai shifted his gaze and looked out the window: "If less people know, then don't make it public."
Xia Chu saw at a glance that his eyes were wandering, and it was obvious that he was doing it on purpose. He also rebuked him for what happened before: "You knew it was me as soon as I came in!"
"I am very familiar with the smell of you." Xiao Mubai looked back and smiled, and the room was filled with light.
"Then you keep giving me tricks!" Xia Chu glared.
"To be honest, you still don't follow martial ethics. You guessed that I wouldn't kill you, but you took the opportunity to kill me..." Xiao Mubai coughed lightly and lowered his eyelids.
"I don't have a nose as sensitive as yours." Xia Chu complained, remembering that he had indeed had murderous intentions just now, and his tone softened.
"What happened that allowed Emperor Father to put you under house arrest in the palace?" Xiao Mubai stopped his playful expression and asked with a frown.
"You don't know?" Xia Chu looked stunned.
He thought that Xiao Mubai appeared here and everything was under his control, but it turned out that until now, he had no idea.
Xiao Mubai glanced at him: "Not long after I returned to the Hou Mansion, I saw someone from the palace delivering a message to the Marquis. The Marquis entered the palace in a panic all night. It made him so anxious, and you haven't returned home yet. I I guess it has something to do with you."
"How did you enter the palace?" Xia Chu was panicked. He wouldn't have entered the palace so arrogantly to meet the saint, would he
"Enter the Marquis's carriage, ask about the situation and pretend to be his attendant." Xiao Mubai looked like I was stupid.
Xia Chu breathed a sigh of relief. At present, Yue Fengwan didn't know that he was Xiao Mubai, and Li Fei didn't know that he had returned to Beijing. This should be their only advantage.
"How do you put on this face?" Xia Chu looked at his face. Even if it was dark, the palace guards would not fail to recognize this face.
"Of course I came in in disguise. I just washed it off after entering the Yulian Palace. If I come to see Honghong like that, I'm afraid I'll scare her." Xiao Mubai tapped his eyebrows lightly, maybe she felt that he was so The question is actually a bit silly.
"So, you don't know where Lan Yuying is now and what her situation is like?" Xia Chu's face hardened, but she had no intention of playing around with him. Xiao Mubai didn't know the current situation yet, but he knew it.
It's not the worst, but it's not much better...
"What does it have to do with Lan Yuying?" Xiao Mubai looked stunned.
Xia Chu told the whole story of the incident in detail, but omitted the part about vomiting blood, but Xiao Mubai still accurately grasped the key points, carefully checked whether there were any external injuries on his body, and then asked: "Father, how could he Did he attack you?"
Xia Chu calmed down now, and even defended the emperor a few words: "After all, it is the crime of regicide. If it were not for my mother's relationship, I am afraid it would no longer be as simple as house arrest."
Xiao Mubai frowned: "This happened so suddenly, Lan Yuying may have been taken into the palace."
Xia Chu held his hand and comforted: "It's not necessarily a bad thing. In the past, I thought the emperor's attitude towards Lan Yuying was very strange. Now I can confirm that it is because he is too similar to her mother. Although the emperor killed her mother, Dear, but I feel that the emperor will not attack her for a while, otherwise he would not say the words that he originally planned to reveal."
Xiao Mubai did not relax after hearing his words. Instead, his face became more and more condensed: "You two grew up together in the mountains. Didn't you never feel that her blood was strange?"
Xia Chu looked startled: "Weird? What's strange?"
Xiao Mubai looked grim: "I have a bold idea..."
Xia Chu looked confused, recalling what he said was strange. He had always thought that Lanlan had been poisoned, so his blood was poisonous. Could it be...
"You mean she has had poison in her blood since she was born?" Xia Chu looked shocked. If Xiao Mubai hadn't reminded her like this, he wouldn't have thought about it at all.
After he mentioned it now, he thought about it carefully. He sent Bian Zhao to protect Lan Yuying secretly, and there was no abnormal news. In addition, the Xu Mansion is also the residence of the Minister of the Ministry of Finance. If Lan Yuying was... After being poisoned, it was impossible for her to be the only one who was poisoned quietly, and the whole government was still unaware of it.
"There is a rumor..." Before Xiao Mubai finished speaking, Xia Chu interrupted: "What rumors are there now!"
After Xia Chu finished speaking, he saw that Xiao Mubai was silent and looked very ugly, so he couldn't help but asked tentatively: "Is it related to Lan Yuying?"
Xiao Mubai pursed his lips: "I don't know if it's related, and no one has verified this rumor."
Xia Chu saw that his expression was extremely solemn, but his words were ambiguous, so he couldn't help but urge: "Since it may be related, let me hear what you say."
Xiao Mubai's resolute and handsome face was unusually solemn and tense. He looked at Xia Chu with a solemn expression. He seemed to be extremely hesitant. After several attempts to speak, he finally spoke: "It is said that people from the royal family in the Western Regions are born with The blood is poisonous. If the rumors are true, Lan Yuying might... "
(End of chapter)