The Hou Mansion was in chaos, the officers and soldiers showed no respect on their faces, instead they rushed towards a place with a hint of evil spirit. Yu Xiang followed the crowd, and just rounded a pavilion, she saw her brother's study, and saw a dragon scale guard coming out holding an inconspicuous box, and shouted loudly, "The guilty minister Yu Pinyan colluded with the Xiyi people to plot the imperial court." The evidence of usurping the throne is conclusive now! Come on, arrest everyone!"
Colluding with the Xiyi people to usurp the throne? Wait, what's going on here? My elder brother was clearly shot into the river by Xiyi people, and his life and death are unknown, so why did he become a criminal? Where did you find the evidence? If you want to add a crime, there is no excuse!
Yu Xiang rushed forward, trying to snatch the wooden box. When her finger touched the Dragon Scale Guard, everything in front of her eyes instantly turned into smoke and dissipated in the air. government.
The mansion was also in chaos, many dragon-scale guards surrounded the prince's study, after a while, the prince came out with a miserable face, two dragon-scale guards pressed their swords and halberds against his back, and then another person came out, but Ao Ping, the deputy commander of the Dragon Scale Guard, is the most powerful subordinate of his elder brother. Holding a dragon robe in his hand, he announced loudly, "The crown prince made the dragon robe privately, intending to rebel. Immediately, he will be sent to the prison to await trial!"
A group of dragon scale guards swarmed up and took away everyone in the mansion.
Yu Xiang stood on the spot and watched all this dumbfounded, feeling her hands and feet were cold, and her mind was split. She desperately told herself that this was just a dream, but the fear spread round and round in her heart until it engulfed her.
"Hey..." With a foul breath in his throat, Yu Xiang struggled to wake up from the dream, waking up Tao Hong and Liu Lu as well.
"What's the matter, Miss? But you're having nightmares again?" The two felt like they were facing a formidable enemy.
"I dreamed that the Marquis Mansion was raided. The charge was colluding with Xiyi to usurp the throne. There was a dragon robe hidden in the Crown Prince's Mansion. Many Dragon Scale Guards wanted to arrest people. I'm afraid even cats and dogs would not let them go."
Before she finished speaking, Liu Lu covered her mouth and asked in a low voice, "Miss, what shall we do? Turn around and go back?"
"No, I can't go back!" Yu Xiang pulled her palm away and refused without hesitation. Her brother was waiting for her not far away, and she must not disregard her brother's life or death.
"Then what about the Marquis Mansion and the Prince's Mansion? Let the officers and soldiers copy it?" Liu Lu asked with a pale face. Tao Hong was so frightened that she was shivering as she hugged the quilt. In just one and a half months, she felt that the sky was falling.
"Write a letter, and then buy a fast horse for the great monk to send back all night long."
"Hou's mansion is alright. Once you say that the old lady will believe it, what will the prince do? You can't say that you had a dream, can you? The Tian family is suspicious, let's forget about it, and it's hard to guarantee that you won't be regarded as a monster!" Liu Green said worriedly.
Tao Hong jumped out of bed to search for the package, and was frustrated to find that they didn't bring pens, ink, paper and inkstones, and it was midnight, and there was nowhere to buy them, let alone trouble others.
There was a broom in the corner of the room. Yu Xiang broke off the branches of the broom, put it on the candle and burned it into black charcoal, then tore up his underwear and spread it on the table, explaining while writing, "I am a demon in my dreams, the sea of bitterness Master’s dream is an early warning from the heavens. Don’t forget, he is a great Han monk, and he can attract countless people to kneel down with just a few Buddhist verses. It’s an urgent matter, so let me use his name. When the matter is over, I will kneel in front of the temple to pray. He forgives."
It's not that Yu Xiang never thought of using cryptic words to hint to the prince to be more on guard, but she was so soft-spoken that the prince might not listen, and she also saw Ao Ping involved in this matter in her dream. Ao Ping was highly valued by the Crown Prince and Emperor Chengkang. If she didn't expose Ao Ping's true face, even if she avoided this catastrophe, the Crown Prince who had no sense of defense would still follow him. Therefore, there should be no ambiguity in the letter, and if you want to say it, you should say it clearly and clearly.
"You plan to use the name of Master Kuhai? This is a good way." Liu Lu heaved a sigh of relief.
Yu Xiang wrote while burning the branches, and wrote three letters two quarters of an hour later, rolled them into thin strips and hid them in the hem of the package. Because there are so many people in the prince's house, she is afraid that the letter will be snatched halfway; All the letters were given to Shen Yuanqi, and he was asked to deliver the message on his behalf.
She and Shen Yuanqi had already agreed in the letter that they would never reveal her dream in front of the prince. With Shen Yuanqi's help, the Hou Mansion should be able to avoid this calamity.
Early in the morning, Yu Xiang asked Liu Lu to buy a fast horse, and handed over the package to the thinnest monk, and asked him to take it back to the capital. On the other hand, he headed into the wide water forest where the limit could not be seen without hesitation.
Ever since Mama Ma gave her advice, the old lady has been living in anxiety. She walked to the door with a cane several times, stood still for a while and then turned around. After all, she couldn't get over the hurdle in her heart.
On this day, two fast horses rushed into the capital one after another, one of them headed for the imperial city, and the other one arrived at the capital an hour late and went straight to the Shen residence. Shen Yuanqi was in Xiumu, and when he heard that the visitor was a monk from Zhenguo Temple, he hurriedly invited him in.
The monk handed the package to Shen Yuanqi, touched the hem suggestively, then took his leave and left. Shen Yuanqi couldn't wait to untie the thread, took out three letters and read them one by one, his expression changed from anxiety to disbelief, and then to fear.
Before he could recover, the housekeeper quickly ran in and whispered the news that General Yu had died in Wujiang in his ear. It turned out that the first fast horse was an urgent report from Xijiang, and it was this sad news that brought it.
Falling into the Wujiang River, this scene is exactly the same as that described in my sister's letter. At that time, my sister was in the capital, and the incident had not yet happened. Is there really anyone in the world who can foresee the future? Or was it a warning from heaven? Then one has to believe the dream about the confiscation of Prince's Mansion and Yonglehou Mansion.
Shen Yuanqi threw his letter into the brazier and burned it, and went out with the other two. Because the matter was of great importance and could not be delayed, he first went to the Prince's Mansion to seek an audience.
The prince has a very close personal relationship with him, and the two of them often get together, but they don't pay much attention to each other. When Shen Yuanqi asked for an audience, the crown prince had just returned from the palace, and the two sat down in the study. The crown prince got Shen Yuanqi's hint, sent all the servants away, and asked in a low voice, "Are you here for Yi Feng? But Xiang'er is worried? I begged my father to issue an imperial edict, ordering all the troops in the western borders to search and rescue Yi Feng with all their might. He is an invincible general of our Han Dynasty, and he will not die in the hands of mere Western barbarians."
Shen Yuanqi nodded silently, put his fingertips in his sleeves, rubbed the letter repeatedly, and finally took it out and said, "The humble post is indeed for Yu Dutong, but it's not just for him. Please take a look at the prince."
In the letter, Yu Xiang detailed three dreams, and then pushed all of them on the head of Master Kuhai, saying that she rushed to Xijiang with the mentality of "I would rather believe what is there or not believe what is not". On the way, I found that the dream came true. After much deliberation, he decided to tell the prince the truth, so that the prince would take precautions.
After seeing the prince, he remained silent for a long time. Ao Ping led the dragon scale guards to raid the prince's mansion; the dragon robe was hidden in the prince's mansion; Yi Feng's study found evidence of collaborating with the enemy and treason. , yet so real.
Shen Yuanqi saw that his expression became gloomy, and was about to speak to comfort him, but he suddenly got up, opened the secret door behind the bookcase regardless of the presence of outsiders, and rummaged through many private things.
The prince's breathing was very heavy, like a beast that was wounded but had to run away. After a while, the heavy breathing stopped abruptly, and the rummaging movement also stopped suddenly. He turned around slowly, holding a bag in his hand. The lid of the brocade box has been opened, and there is a dazzling golden light shining inside, which is the bright yellow color unique to dragon robes.
Shen Yuanqi was dumbfounded, unable to recover for a long time.
"Okay, when Yi Feng was in Gu's mansion, even a fly couldn't get in. Once Yi Feng left, even such a deadly thing entered Gu's study. The person behind this is really powerful!" The prince sneered, the dark There was a murderous look in his eyes.
He pondered for a moment, then continued, "Yifeng's Marquis Mansion is not under the Prince's Mansion, and the person behind him is able to put these things into Gu Yu's study, which shows that he has already bought off the most trusted people around us." After saying this, he completely believed in those three dreams.
"Prince, what should we do with this thing now?" Shen Yuanqi was calm on the face, but secretly smiled bitterly in his heart. For his sister, he had to wade through this muddy water.
"How to deal with it? Naturally, leave it to the royal father. As for the Yu family, you don't want to report the letter, but you have to see what the people behind are trying to do." The prince closed the lid of the box and laughed coldly.
What a clear person is self-cleaning, and the turbid one is turbid. He rushed to secretly report to the emperor before the people behind the scenes made troubles. He turned from the bright place to the dark place, from the prey to the hunter. Only the prince who was deeply trusted by the emperor dared to act so frankly.
Shen Yuanqi was quite relieved, and reminded, "If that person moves, the Hou's house will be full of women and children, and I'm afraid he will be implicated..." If his sister hadn't repeatedly asked him to take care of the old lady and Yu Siyu, he would not have opened his mouth.
"Women and children will be fine. Mr. Shen didn't know that the old Marquis Yongle used a gold medal from his grandfather in exchange for the promise of 'no crime is as good as women and children'. If the matter breaks out, the family members of the Hou family will not be implicated. Wait. Gu and father find out who is behind the scenes, and Yi Feng will be cleared."
The prince thought for a moment, then added, "This matter will not implicate Xiang'er and Master Kuhai. Gu only said that he caught a spy next to him, and he was lucky enough to ask such a shocking secret. Gu Quan has never heard of any letters or dreams. Search Yi The matter of Feng will not stop because of this, so the solitary handed down a message, saying that if you are alive, you will see the dead. Master Shen feels at ease with Gu’s arrangement like this? If you have any concerns, please speak up.”
The crown prince's arrangement was so thorough that Shen Yuanqi had nothing to say, so he immediately got up to leave. The prince was anxious and didn't want to keep him. As soon as he left, he jumped on his fast horse and galloped towards the forbidden palace.
Yongle Hou Mansion
The old lady fainted on the couch when she got the news that her grandson had died in Wujiang. As soon as she was woken up by Mama Mama, she burst into tears, "I hurt Yan'er! If I had thought of his untimely death earlier, I would not have driven Xiang'er away. If I hadn't driven Xiang'er away Go, he will not encounter any accidents! It's all my fault!"
While crying, she beat her chest and stomped her feet. She pulled out the gold hairpin from her head and was about to scratch her wrists, but Mama Mama grabbed her desperately.
"Hurry up, go to Shen's house and get the third lady back! Hurry up!" She urged Wanqiu several times, and finally whispered in the old lady's ear, "Old lady, how could this be your fault? Master Kuhai Having said that, the fates of his brother and sister are inseparable, if they live under the same roof, only one can survive. Lord Hou was not killed by you, but by the lone evil star of that day!"
In order to dissuade the old lady from wanting to die, she did not hesitate to blame Yu Miaoqi for all her faults.