Outside the Feishhuang Palace, Liu Kang and a few servants stood a little further away, but for fear that there was a call inside, he could not hear the call, so he had to take two steps nearby from time to time to pay attention to the movement.
There was the sound of objects falling, the sound of wooden couch vibrating, and the whispering whispers of men and women, sometimes high-pitched, sometimes low-pitched, and people's faces were red when they heard it.
Two of the servants were young and thin-skinned. After standing outside the house for a while, they could no longer stand up, blushing and hesitatingly said: "Supervisor, let's, let's stay further away, everyone, we'll meet for a while. I'm afraid I won't summon..."
The voice fell, and a high-pitched coquettish voice came from the room, followed by a tremor that suddenly increased in frequency.
This time, even Liu Kang's face couldn't hold back. He rubbed his forehead with a headache, and said weakly, "That's it, you two go down, and leave me here to guard."
The two looked at each other as if they were being forgiven, and hurriedly bowed to thank them and ran away in a hurry.
The remaining few people were relatively silent for a moment, then turned their heads and dispersed.
After a while, on the winding path next to Yaoguang Tower, a figure suddenly appeared, supported by a servant. The man was walking in a hurry, and he could see his slightly staggering steps after a long distance. Seeing the appearance clearly, the servants were even more surprised.
"Lu Guogong?" Liu Kang hurriedly greeted him personally. First, he wanted to show respect. Second, he should be kept away from him, so as not to hear the movement in the hall, and he would be embarrassed. "It's so late, but what's the urgency?"
Wei Shou was supported by someone and stood in the same place, trying to calm down his rapid breathing, and nodded again and again: "Supervisor, I-I do have an urgent matter, and I want to see Your Majesty. I wonder if I can inform me?"
Liu Kang looked at him in astonishment, then glanced at the closed door from the corner of his eye, moved his footsteps calmly, took him farther, and asked, "Your Majesty is busy right now, and I don't know about Duke Lu's urgent business. Is it convenient to reveal one or two?"
Wei Shou wiped the sweat from his forehead, glanced at the closed door of the palace and a few nervous servants, and thought that Your Majesty might be inconvenient, but he didn't dare to delay this matter. After thinking about it, he could only get closer. , said in a low voice: "Don't hide it from the supervisor, this matter seems to be related to His Royal Highness."
Liu Kang's face froze, and he didn't dare to shirk immediately. He ordered the two servants to accompany him here. report."
At this moment, the movement in the house has temporarily stopped, but no one answered the call for a long time, until a rustling and whispering sound passed, and then the footsteps gradually approached.
"Let him in."
Xiao Kezhi's voice came, mixed with a bit of hoarseness that had not yet faded away.
Liu Kang paused and did not dare to let the Duke of Lu come over directly. Instead, he gently pushed the door open and saw Xiao Kezhi was sitting alone in front of the screen in his clothes. Then he disappeared, I'm afraid he was hiding somewhere, only a few messy women's dresses fell next to the steps, so that people could see what happened in the house just now.
He turned around and made a gesture to the two servants, and took advantage of the gap between them leading Wei Shou to approach, dodged into the hall, and quickly put away a few clothes.
"Your Majesty!" As soon as Wei Shou entered the hall, he didn't even think about why there was such a strange scent in the hall, and he didn't have time to look at Xiao Kezhi's untidy clothes, so he hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, "Shangyuan today, this minister should not have come at this time. It's really important to disturb, I don't know what to do, so I came to tell His Majesty!"
As he said that, he looked at the few servants around him and was not in a hurry to speak.
Xiao Kezhi waved his hand and sent a few people out: "You guys go down, the others don't have to move."
Wei Shou was stunned for a while, watching the servants go down, is there anyone else in the Hall of Heart Dao? But he glanced quickly, and indeed he saw no one again.
In fact, the phrase "other people" was referring to Chu Ning.
She was hiding behind the screen behind Xiao Kezhi at the moment, only a few inches away from him, if she got a little closer, even the breath she exhaled could linger to his ears through the gap on the screen.
She only had a coat on her body, and the bottom was empty. Although there was still a hairpin in her black hair, most of it had fallen on her shoulders, like a cloud pile. If Wei Shou took a step to the side, he would find that She was embarrassed hiding behind the screen.
Originally, when Xiao Kezhi told her to stay here without moving, she still felt uncomfortable, for fear that Wei Shou said something she should not listen to, but after a while, she stopped thinking so.
"Uncle, get up, there are no outsiders here, you don't need to be polite, sit down and talk." Xiao Ke got off the bed, personally helped him up, and let him sit on the bottom couch.
Wei Shou thanked him again and again, wiped his sweat and said, "Your Majesty, just now at the Lantern Festival, Guo'er is young and tired quickly, so the minister and his wife asked her to go back first. Who knows, she was halfway there, but she bumped into it. The prince and, and the wife of the Zhao family..."
When Xiao Keyi heard this, the movements of his hands paused, and his originally relaxed expression subsided a little: "Uncle speak slowly."
Wei Shou, a Tian Shelang who has not read many books, can't help but speak in a continuous manner, and it is such a disgraceful thing that he is hesitant. Fortunately, he understood the importance of the matter and had Xiao Kezhi to guide him from time to time, so he told the matter in its entirety.
After Xiao Kezhi listened, he was silent for a while, without giving any reply, only asked: "How is Guo'er?"
Wei Shou hurriedly replied: "The child was frightened, and the minister just came before and asked her mother to coax her to sleep first. It should be better now."
Xiao Kezhi nodded and asked again, "She heard this, was she not discovered by those two?"
Wei Shou was stunned for a moment, thought for a moment, and said, "No, she said, she came out after everyone left, so it should be no. Thinking about it when it was dark, she was thin and small, and she was hiding, so she was not seen. ."
"Having said that, you can't take it lightly." Xiao Kezhi stood up, took two steps down the steps, and said solemnly, "For the past few days, let her stay at the residence and walk around less, so as not to meet anyone, and also to avoid She feels frightened when she thinks about it again, and when this time passes, she can relax."
Wei Shou didn't expect such a thing to happen. The emperor first said not how the Crown Prince was and how Mrs. Zhao was, but concerned about Guo'er's situation.
Xiao Kezhi shook his head: "I should also thank my uncle. When I encounter such a thing, the first thing I think of is to tell me."
Wei Shou was a little embarrassed, and felt a little ashamed in his heart: "I don't know anything, if it wasn't for this kinship with Your Majesty, I'm afraid I would still be farming in Yanzhou. Your Majesty treats my family well, and I keep it in my heart. Whatever is going on, you should naturally think of Your Majesty."
Xiao Kezhi nodded, with a warm smile on his face: "Uncle doesn't need to worry about this matter, I have my own arrangements, just don't mention it to others in the future."
Wei Shou promised again and again. After telling this matter, the big stone in his heart also fell. He was about to retire, and suddenly remembered the words of leaving his ex-wife and daughter.
"Is there anything else to say, Uncle?"
Wei Shou hesitated for a moment, then hesitantly said: "This minister does have one more thing to say, please don't blame your majesty. Madam and Guo'er have been taken care of by the crown princess, so this minister wants to ask your majesty, if something really happens, can you help me? No open side to the Crown Princess... Your Majesty, this minister just said it casually, if Your Majesty has other considerations, don't take the minister's words seriously!"
When these words came out, not only Xiao Kezhi, but even Chu Ning behind the screen was stunned.
Unexpectedly, the family of Lu Guogong, when they first met, they were nervous about her identity, but now they will beg for her. She suddenly felt that her past thoughts had been answered, and she couldn't help but be moved.
"I know, when the time comes, I will deal with it as appropriate." Xiao Kezhi smiled and responded vaguely.
Wei Shou only thought that he said so, but it was because of Gu Nian's nephew's affection that it was difficult to refuse in person, so he perfunctory, a little regretful in his heart, but he did not dare to mess around, so he bowed and saluted and left.
Liu Kang kept staring at it, and when he saw someone coming out, he hurriedly sent in the warm water he had prepared, and then went out lightly and closed the door again.
Silence was restored in the hall, Xiao Kezhi stood by the couch for a moment, did not hear any movement behind the screen, so he simply got up and walked around to the back, only to see Chu Ning standing motionless, fascinated, wondering what he was thinking.
The candlelight shone on his body, casting a thick shadow that just enveloped her.
She came back to her senses, raised her head to meet his deep eyes, and showed a vague smile.
He couldn't tell what kind of smile it was, with a bit of sympathy and daze, and more, it seemed to be a little relieved and relaxed.
"He's been thinking about winning the throne," she murmured, looking at him blankly, "I didn't expect it to be this way."
"Good boy, don't be sad, it's not worth it." He couldn't help frowning, approached her, and reached out to hug her.
But the next moment, she chuckled and walked slowly outside the screen: "But I was only surprised for a moment. Now, I think that's how it should be."
"When I married me, it was because of my father's reputation. Now I'm worthless. If someone else has it, he should abandon me and marry another."
She walked to the edge of the couch, but instead of sitting on the couch, she sat on the steps below, hugging her knees with her hands, curled up into a ball.
"Your Majesty, I'm not sad, just a little embarrassed. He lied to me for more than two years, obviously killed my father, but he can still tell me over and over again that he will correct my father's name, that he will be good to me, and marry another like this. What can't you do?"
In fact, there is still a bit of loss in my heart.
Even if he doesn't have any feelings for Xiao Yu, or even has hatred, he can't help feeling shattered when he learns that he is the one who is about to be abandoned by the other party.
Fortunately, she did not sink into the love and meager feelings he occasionally showed in the past two years, and she was still sober, so that she would not fall into a situation of helplessness and self-pity.
Thinking of the strangeness she had noticed in the past few days, she slowly connected these with the things she had just heard, and everything seemed to make sense.
For Xiao Yu, the Zhao family was indeed a good choice.
She paused, then suddenly turned to look at Xiao Kezhi, who had a complicated look, and asked, "Has Your Majesty already known about this?"
She remembered that he was not surprised at all when he heard the matter from the Duke of Lu, and when he faced her, he seemed to have expected it.
He reached out and wrapped his arms around her thin shoulders, nodded first, then shook his head.
"I guessed that the prince and the Zhao family would collude, but I didn't know he was going to marry another."
He has been sending people to stare at Zhao Erniang and Xiao Yu, and their brief encounter outside the palace that night naturally did not escape his eyes.
It's just that he didn't know what the two of them said, and he could only guess based on the current situation. Zhao Erniang was probably looking for another way out, and it was indeed a choice to switch to the prince's command.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Yu'e was so unscrupulous, and Xiao Yu was even more willing to abandon his wife, and also to win over the Zhao family.
It is so easy to be manipulated, even if you sit on the throne, I am afraid that you will not be able to control the situation.
"Then the two of them are like this, but Your Majesty has already figured out what to do?" Chu Ning thought of the military power in the Zhao family's hands. Although the matter was not irreversible, it should be a little tricky.
"Naturally." He said calmly, as if he didn't care about the two of them at all. Instead, he raised her chin and asked in a low voice, "Why do you ask that?"
Chu Ning couldn't help shrinking under his focused gaze, and said softly, "I don't want the prince to get his wish."
Disappointment flashed in his eyes.
But she hesitated, and added: "I don't want to see His Majesty's troubles either..."
His eyes suddenly lit up.
"I'm fine. What about you? Do you want me to order directly to bring you into the palace?"
Chu Ning lowered his eyes without saying a word, thought for a moment, and shook his head firmly: "No. I will come by myself, I will leave him, for myself, not for others."