The emperor did not continue, Concubine Xiao Gui said to herself: "I hope so. Speaking of which, if Ting'er can really save the Ninth Prince, this is a paper agreement, and the concubine must take it seriously."
The emperor laughed, and it happened that someone came to report, and Yuchi entered the palace in dismay.
The emperor got up and strode away, but did not take the piece of paper. Concubine Xiao smiled slightly and ordered the personal maid to keep it safe.
In the imperial study room, Yuchi Xinhan still looked like a ruffian, the greeting was a little more casual, the emperor seemed to be used to it, and asked, "I heard from the ninth brother that you have already gone south, when did you return to Beijing?"
Yuchi smiled bitterly, and replied: "Over there in the south of the Yangtze River, I have sent someone to watch over it. Your Majesty, you don't have to worry. This time, I returned to Beijing because of what the Ninth Prince said last time."
The emperor's expression changed slightly, and he waved his hand to let all the attendants go down, and then asked, "What's the matter? Is there any news from you?"
"It's not much news. I heard that twenty years ago, the National Seal should have finally fallen into the hands of the Gu family in Pingyang, but the Gu family was destroyed shortly thereafter."
"That's right, the Gu family is the ministers of our empire, but they have evil thoughts in their hearts, and they deserve death." The emperor was a little annoyed. If not, his Chu family would have been respected by five kingdoms and ten places twenty years ago.
Yuchi continued chillingly, "According to the information I inquired, there was a daughter of the Gu family who was living outside and her whereabouts are unknown."
"Do you know her name?" The emperor was anxious. No one knew where the imperial seal was buried. He had invited famous people, but he could only tell the approximate location.
It would be great if we could find the person who was the last to touch the national seal.
Yuchi nodded bitterly, "Your Majesty also knows this."
"I know him too? Who is it?" The emperor looked at him suspiciously, and was a little annoyed when he thought about what happened to Mrs. Chen Guiren back then.
snort.
Yuchi Xinhan handed something to the imperial book case, the emperor picked it up, after a quick glance, he asked in surprise: "This is it?"
"Return to the emperor, this is the woman's name and date of birth. I have verified it in many ways and confirmed it is correct."
"Gu Qianying, the word is Xiangyi, the wife of General Pingxi, but she has passed away for many years." The emperor read every word.
Back then, General Pingxi made great military exploits. He married his wife for three years without having a son. Later, his wife died of illness.
This caused a sensation in the entire imperial capital at the time.
Yuchi explained bitterly, "But they still have a daughter."
The empress dowager thought that the great general Pingxi had been loyal and brave for half his life, and the sky did not show mercy to others, so she took care of others, so she raised her daughter by her side, and the emperor named her the owner of Xiangxiang County.
"Back then, Xiangxiang was just a newborn child. She knew something, not to mention that she had been raised by the Empress Dowager for so many years, so she couldn't possibly know anything."
The emperor sighed, this hard-won clue was gone again.
Yuchi shrugged in disbelief, he was only responsible for reporting what he knew, as for the analysis, that was not his task.
There was silence for a while, the emperor asked about the Ninth Prince's coma, Yuchi Xinhan could only tell the story objectively, but did not mention Xiao Ting's pretending to be a ghost.
The emperor didn't feel much after hearing this, so he told him to go back.
In other words, when Xiao Ting and Chu Yun returned to the Ninth Prince's Mansion, Xiao Ting did not immediately save the Ninth Prince, but followed Chu Yun all the way to Jinghuayuan, and walked in openly under the horrified eyes of the two guards.
Afterwards, Xiao Ting asked Hong Shao to find rouge to smear on Ninth Prince's thumb, grabbed his fingers and pressed them on the three pieces of paper one by one.
"Well, it's finally done."
"Oh, the emperor's and aunt's two fingerprints that didn't cover the prince's." Xiao Ting was annoyed, but she didn't dare to ask for it again, so she had to admit it, and comforted herself, "Forget it, let's do it like this!"
Xiao Ting handed a copy to Chu Yun, and warned her to put it away, then ran to find the butler and asked the butler to put it away for the Ninth Prince, and then happily returned to her Lanyue Courtyard.
Chu Yun was like a little tail, following her all the way, wherever she went, and when he saw her lying there, he was exposed instantly.
"You, get up for me."
Her small arms and legs couldn't move Xiao Ting, but Chu Yun insisted on holding Xiao Ting's arm to prevent her from sleeping.
"Hey, hey, I said cutie, what else do you want, my concubine promised you to save people, so don't let me have a good sleep."
Xiao Ting flicked her sleeves and turned to the other side.
Chu Yun ran over again, "Go and save the father first."
Xiao Ting was helpless, "Don't you know that saving people is very troublesome? Don't disturb me, I will naturally save your dear father when I am full of sleep, oh."
Seeing that her eyes were closed, Chu Yun could only shut up, then went out of the room and sat down on the steps outside the door.
With his chin propped on his hands, he stared at the door tightly.
Seeing this, Hong Shao was a little surprised, when did the relationship between her princess and Xiao Shizi get so good.
"My son, there are slaves guarding here, you go back and rest!"
Chu Yun didn't give her any face, and said with a cold snort, "Hmph, I want to watch it myself, so as not to repay her debt, go away."
Fortunately, the eaves are relatively long, otherwise, the sun would be so strong outside that it would be a good thing.
Even so, Hong Shao was still worried, and went into the house to report to Xiao Ting, but unfortunately Xiao Ting had already met Zhou Gong.
Just her mosquito sound can't stop her from dreaming at all.
This time, Xiao Ting hadn't had enough sleep when she was woken up by her uncle.
Xiao Zhan hasn't seen his good girl for a few days, and he misses her very much, and he heard that his youngest son has been raised in the Nine Princes Mansion, and the two women in the family will eat him up.
Now he dare not go back to the mansion, for fear of being caught, he will have another frantic bombardment.
"Daddy, why are you here on such a hot day?"
Xiao Ting was in a daze of sleep, she sat there staggeringly, trying to pull herself together, and someone called Xiao Xin over again.
This time, Xiao Xin called her sister as soon as she entered the door, Xiao Zhan remembered that the youngest son he saw last time looked exactly like this, it should be right.
Xiao Ting pointed at Xiao Zhan, and said to Xiao Xin: "Xiao Shi, Daddy is here to see you."
Only then did Xiao Xin see Xiao Zhan sitting beside him, hesitated for a while, stepped forward to pay respects, "Xin'er has seen Daddy."
Feeling relieved, Xiao Zhan pulled his youngest son closer to him, looked at him carefully, and wanted to say something like fat or white, but found that he couldn't remember what Xiao Xin looked like before.
"Good boy, how old are you this year?" So Xiao Zhan, who was extremely idiotic, actually asked such words in order to get close to his son.
Shocked, Xiao Ting rolled her eyes and finally woke up.
Xiao Xin held her breath in her heart, unable to go up or down, her small chest heaved, and she stared at his cheap father with wide eyes.
Although I always knew that I was not favored in the Xiao Mansion, and my aunt also told him not to care about anything, just follow Sixth Sister well, but when I heard that my father didn't remember how old I was.
Xiao Xin was still very sad.
Lu Hui came over to greet him, "Master, the young master will soon be five years old."
"Oh, it's five years old, so is it time to go to school?" Xiao Zhan looked at his good daughter.
Xiao Ting rolled her eyes at him, turned her stiff neck, and said angrily, "How do I know?"
So, the father and daughter looked at Lu Hua, who was helpless, and stepped forward to reply, "Master, Wangfei, Qi Yiniang had hired a master to teach the young master in the mansion, but she resigned from that master before she left. Now the young master and the young prince are listening to Master Ji's class together."
Xiao Zhan was confused, but this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that he wants to take Xiao Xin home.
Xiao Ting smiled after hearing this. Since when did the two little ones get along so well.
Still studying together
Well, her sister is so incompetent that she didn't expect this.
Well, we need to take care of Xiao Shi more in the future, this child is too pitiful.
It's just that Yiniang Qi is really capable of hiring Xiao Shi as a master under the eyes of the eldest lady.
"Well, dear girl, it's not the same thing for Xin'er to live here, let him go back as a father!"
Xiao Zhan took Xiao Xin's hand and asked his daughter flatteringly.
Hearing this, Xiao Xin immediately broke away from his hand and hid behind Xiao Ting, timidly showing her small head, tightly holding Xiao Ting's clothes, whispering: "Sister, Xiao Shi doesn't want to go back."
He doesn't like that family, and he doesn't like his father, only his sister.
Xiao Ting felt his nervousness, patted his little head, and said: "If you don't want to go back, you won't go back. Stay with my sister, okay?"
"Okay." Xiao Xin answered sweetly with her little face upturned like a child only in front of Xiao Ting.
When Xiao Zhan saw that the good girl disagreed, he felt a little headache.
Those two women are still waiting, how can he explain when he goes back.
"Father, you also saw that Xiao Ten doesn't like it there, so let him stay by my side!"
"Don't worry, I will definitely be able to raise him." Seeing Xiao Zhan's embarrassed expression, Xiao Ting promised immediately.
The red spoon next to him was busy serving tea, water and fruits for Mr. Guojiu.
Seeing this, Lv Hua thought it was funny, the concubine misunderstood what the master meant.
The master doesn't even know how old the young son is. If the princess didn't mention it, he wouldn't even remember having such a son, so he wouldn't worry about Xiao Ting's raising him.
I am afraid that the old lady and his wife, the head of the family, asked him to come.
At that moment, Lu Hui came to Xiao Ting's side and said, "Princess, the young master is a descendant of the Xiao family. It is not appropriate to stay in the Ninth Prince's Mansion and be raised by my sister."
"Why? Isn't it the same who raises it?" Xiao Ting was puzzled, she liked Xiao Ten very much.
Lu Hui explained to her, "There are old madams and eldest madams at home. If others find out, they will definitely be suspicious. Maybe they will say that they abused the young master, and the princess brought them out."
Xiao Ting was dumbfounded, "Isn't this the truth?" When she went there last time, wasn't Xiao Ten locked up and not given food
"Oh." She came to her senses in an instant, and looked at Xiao Zhan, "It turns out that Daddy is here to be a lobbyist for them."
Xiao Ting slapped the table and stood up, "Daddy, did grandma and the eldest lady ask you to come?"
Facing the angry good girl, Uncle Xiao Guo smiled embarrassingly, and said haha: "That, that..."
"Hmph, let me tell you why you think of Xiao Shi, and why you want Ting'er to come to see me. I think you are afraid of that tigress of the eldest lady."
(end of this chapter)