His tone was like the softest whisper in the world, and his eyes were full of affection, but the Crown Princess still felt a chill.
She was frozen there, as if she couldn't say a word.
King Ning stroked her cheek lightly and said in a low voice, "Linlang, since the day you and this king killed Xiao Heng together, you have not been able to clean it. Don't you understand this?"
The Crown Princess's eyes narrowed: "I didn't hurt him! It's you! It's you from beginning to end! It's you who followed me to Guozijian... You killed him!"
King Ning raised his hand and stroked the back of her head: "If you hadn't asked him out alone, how could this king have a chance? Admit it, Linlang, you are also an accomplice in killing him."
"I'm not! I've never hurt A-Heng!" The Crown Princess reached out and pushed him, "I don't want to see you, you go!"
King Ning's hand stroking the back of her head clenched tightly—
"Linlang! Linlang!"
"Huh? Chunying, why are you here? Where's the Crown Princess? Didn't you go to the imperial study with the Crown Princess?"
Not far away came the prince's suspicious voice.
Immediately after that, Chunying answered with a guilty conscience: "Prince Concubine, she..."
The Crown Princess looked at King Ning coldly.
King Ning said fiercely and silently: "You know what to do. Don't provoke me, you can't afford the consequences, Wen Linlang."
He let go.
The princess staggered and almost fell to the ground.
"what sound?"
Because the distance was too close, the moment Prince Ning let go of the Crown Princess, the Crown Prince walked over, and he saw the pale Crown Princess and the gentle and calm Prince Ning.
He frowned, instinctively disliking his woman standing next to another man, even if that man was his own brother.
"Big brother?" He walked over strangely.
King Ning smiled and said, "My father announced that I would enter the palace to meet him in the imperial study. It happened that the second younger brother and sister came out of the imperial study and ran into him."
It turns out that the prince secretly thought that he was over-hearted. King Ning was his eldest brother. Even if he didn't come out of a mother's womb, he was a father after all, and Linlang was his younger brother and sister. How could they have anything
The prince came to the crown prince and held the crown prince's hand, feeling the coldness of her fingertips, and his brows furrowed even tighter: "Why are your hands so cold? Gudu said that you are injured and have You can report it to the emperor in a few days."
"My father entrusted me with the girls' school, and I should take care of it carefully." The princess said, feeling the death stare from Prince Ning, she drew back the hand held by the prince without a trace, "I'm fine, I'm just a little tired, Your Highness, let's go back."
After the Moon Festival, the weather seemed to have suddenly turned cold, and the wind in the morning and evening brought a hint of autumn coolness.
King Ning stared at the two of them with burning eyes.
The Crown Princess grabbed the Crown Prince's hand, gently removed it, and took the ribbon herself: "I'll do it myself."
"Oh." The prince was a little disappointed. He wanted to do these little things for Linlang. However, with the big brother here, the two of them were too tired and it seemed that it was really not good.
He turned to look at King Ning, and King Ning's eyes had long since recovered.
He said, "Brother, we will go back first. Since we have summoned you, then you should go!"
King Ning paused, turned to look at the prince who was leaving with the crown prince and concubine, and said, "Why don't the second brother come with me to see the emperor. It seems that something happened, and the guards have been dispatched."
"Is that so?" The prince hesitated.
King Ning smiled: "Forget it, if you want to accompany the second sibling, I'll go see the father and the emperor myself."
When he said this, his eyes swept across the face of the Crown Princess, intentionally or unintentionally.
The Crown Princess felt the endless threat, she shook her hand and said to the Prince, "Your Highness, let's go and have a look."
The prince said, "Don't worry about you alone."
The Crown Princess lowered her eyes and said, "With Chunying accompanying the concubine, why is Your Highness worried?"
In the end, under the persuasion of the Crown Princess, the Crown Prince went unwillingly.
When he went, he found out that Xiao Liulang had been captured by assassins, and his whereabouts were unknown. His father asked King Ning to lead his troops to find someone. Since he also went, his father also gave him a team.
I can't go back to the East Palace to accompany Linlang in the middle of the night, and I want to search Xiao Liulang aimlessly on the street, the prince is so aggrieved!
"Really, it doesn't just look like Xiao Heng, and it's not the real Xiao Heng, why does the royal father value him so much! And let me, the crown prince, condescend to look for him!"
Xiao Liulang, whom the prince had been searching for, was lying quietly on Princess Xinyang's bed at the moment, and Gu Jiao replaced him with the last hanging bottle.
The night is deep.
Gu Jiao and Long Yi were quietly guarding him in the room, Gu Jiao was sitting beside the bed and Long Yi was sitting on the beam.
After giving Xiao Liulang the bottle, Gu Jiao lay on the edge of the bed and fell asleep, unable to resist the sleepiness. Long Yi kept his eyes wide open, like an owl that never sleeps.
After an unknown period of time, the entire Suzaku Street fell silent, and there were only a few people in the room breathing smoothly.
Suddenly, the door was gently pushed open from the outside.
A white embroidered shoe crossed the threshold and silently landed on the clean and new floor.
The elegant golden skirt is like a floating gold leaf lake, slowly passing by.
Xiao Liulang slept in a daze, but he had no strength to open his eyes.
Half-dreaming and half-awake, he felt a gentle hand on his forehead.
He didn't know whose hand it was, or if he was dreaming.
The hand sticks for a while and then leaves.
When Xiao Liulang opened his eyes completely, he only saw Gu Jiao sleeping beside him.
His hand was held by Gu Jiao, while Gu Jiao's other hand was pressed under her body.
In this position, he couldn't free his hand to touch his forehead anyway.
So, are you just dreaming
It was pitch black, and he was only half awake again. He didn't realize where he was for a while. The environment and the breath didn't bore him, nor did it make him feel unfamiliar.
He pulled the quilt over Gu Jiao's shoulder, took out Gu Jiao's hand that was under her body, closed his eyes, and fell asleep again.
Gu Jiao didn't publicize Xiao Liulang's escape for the time being. In her dream, she only knew that someone was buying a murderer and plotting against Xiao Liulang, but she didn't know who that person was. The other party didn't know that Xiao Liulang was safe. Rokuro's whereabouts.
As for Princess Xinyang, she didn't seem to have leaked Xiao Liulang's rumors.
It was dawn, and Gu Jiao went back to Bishui Hutong, always wanting to tell her family that she was safe, so she packed up a few sets of Xiao Liulang's clothes.
In fact, if they found out who was behind the scenes, they would not be afraid, but now that they are in the open and the enemy is in the dark, it is hard to guard against them.
Gu Jiao thought about it, Princess Xinyang is relatively safe here, as long as Princess Xinyang doesn't open her mouth to chase them, she will treat her as a little disgust who doesn't see her face.
What Gu Jiao didn't know was that as soon as she left, the Crown Princess came after her.
She came to visit Princess Xinyang, and at the same time, she also had one thing to confirm with Princess Xinyang.
Princess Xinyang slept late last night and closed her eyes almost before dawn, but the maids in the yard knew the princess and knew that she was someone that Princess Xinyang cared about, so she invited her into the yard.
"Slave, go and call Master Yujin." The little maid said.
The princess said: "No need, you all go to work, Ben Gong finds Yu Jin by himself."
Yu Jin is drying clothes in the backyard. She is the head of the house of Princess Xinyang, and she is the sixth grade.
Sixth rank is not too powerful in the capital, but if it is Princess Xinyang's confidant and close minister, it is another matter.
Since the crown princess can remember, Yu Jin has been by the side of Princess Xinyang, and she is one of the people closest to Princess Xinyang.
"Master Yujin." The Crown Princess walked over and greeted her politely.
As Yu Jin, she didn't need to do this kind of drying work herself, so the Crown Princess couldn't help but glance at it, and then she was stunned.
It was a man's clothes.
Princess Xinyang had a dark guard by her side, but the crown princess would not think that Yu Jin would go to wash clothes for a dark guard.
"Is Lord Hou back?"
The Crown Princess's first reaction was that the Marquis of Xuanping had returned to Beijing to reunite with Princess Xinyang.
Although the two were not in harmony, they were husband and wife, and it would not be too strange if Xuanping Hou came here.
"Ah, no." Yu Jin shook his head.
She didn't know how to explain.
This is Xiao Liulang's clothes.
After a night of thinking and observation, Yu Jin could probably determine Xiao Liulang's identity, but... The princess hasn't said anything yet, so she can't say it outside.
Seeing Yu Jin's difficulty in answering, the crown princess flashed through her mind some rumors that she had heard—Princess Xinyang and Marquis Xuanping were not on good terms, Marquis Xuanping was extravagant outside, and Princess Xinyang... also had her own face. .
Of course, this is just a rumor. The Crown Princess never believed it, but the man's clothes now...
"Don't get me wrong, it's not the princess, it's... it's me." Yu Jin decided to take the blame!
There was a very strong stun in the eyes of the princess.
Yu Jin cleared her throat and said, "I also ask the Crown Princess to keep the secret for me."
The Crown Princess came back to her senses. Speaking of which, Lord Yujin is also a strange woman. She has never been married. If she was outside, she might have been poked in the spine. It was just because she was in the Princess Mansion, and she was protected by Princess Xinyang. , no one dared to embarrass her face to face.
This is a good opportunity to win over Yu Jin.
The Crown Princess smiled and said, "Don't worry, Lord Yujin, I didn't see anything today."
"I'm relieved to hear the words of the Crown Princess." Yu Jin was uglier than crying.
Princess Xinyang was still sleeping, so she couldn't quarrel with her. The Crown Princess asked herself that she didn't have such a big face, and she decided to come back another day.
She bid farewell to Yu Jin, and when she passed by Princess Xinyang's house, there was movement in the house.
She thought it was Princess Xinyang who woke up and planned to go into the house to greet Princess Xinyang, but was blocked by Long Yi who jumped down from the beam.
(End of this chapter)