Shu Blossoms

Chapter 278 Xiao Yucheng's Guilt
Facing Emperor Zhou's questioning, no one answered for a while.

Everyone has felt the unrest in Jiankang City in recent days.

What's even more strange is that there are too many Jiang Hu people in Jiankang City recently, which makes it even more difficult to do everything in detail.

If Wang Can was here, he would have dared to argue a few words, but there are no adversaries among the people kneeling today, no matter how many opinions they have in their hearts, they dare not speak out, they can only bow their heads and confess!
But the cause of this matter cannot be found out for a while, and the most urgent task is whether the decisive battle of martial arts tomorrow will be held as usual.

Among the people here, Liu Xin is the oldest and the most upright, so he can only ask about this matter.Liu Xin thought about it and finally asked directly.

Unexpectedly, Emperor Zhou was not angry, he just pondered for a moment and looked up at the crowd to give his order, "Tomorrow, the martial arts competition will continue as usual, and if Princess Danyang is injured, there is no need to participate."

Everyone took orders, Emperor Zhou waved his hands and said a little tiredly: "Your Excellencies, go back! Qingwei and Jingzhaofu will do their best to thoroughly investigate today's assassination!"

Mu Wu and Li Zemin quickly took orders, Mu Wu carefully looked up at Gao Han, Gao Han nodded to them, and then they left with the others.

After leaving Xianyang Palace, the cool autumn wind hit, and everyone felt that the clothes on their backs were wet, and they couldn't help shivering when the cold wind blew.

Although Emperor Zhou was not furious about what happened today, but for some reason, he always felt that His Majesty today was different from other times, not being angry and arrogant made them feel cold.

Han Shidi looked back at the Yang Palace, and then asked Mu Wu with a smile on his face as usual, "I heard that King Ling is going to Beijing."

Mu Wu's eyes suddenly sharpened, looked at Han Shidi and said coldly: "General Xiao Han is so well informed!"

Although Han Shidi has no real military power now, he is still a third-rank Xuanwei general, so Mu Wu is not wrong to call him General Xiaohan!

Just listening to this casual official title, Han Shidi felt harsh, and the faint smile on his face became colder and colder, "Lord Mu, don't worry, I just have some personal friendship with His Highness King Ling, and I just received a letter from King Ling this morning. .”

"His Royal Highness sent a letter to General Xiao Han before he entered Beijing. I'm afraid it's not as simple as a personal relationship?"

Mu Wu was a little aggressive.

"He just wants to ask for something from me!"

Han Shidi suddenly lost interest in bickering with Mu Wu, and took the lead to leave.

Left alone, Xiao Yucheng and Liu Xin looked at each other, not understanding why Han Shidi was suddenly angry, and Mu Wu did not exchange greetings with everyone, and left.

Now that Li Zemin has an errand, he still wants to ask Mu Wu to chase him away, leaving only Xiao Yucheng and Liu Xin.

"General Xiao is going back home?" Liu Xin asked as he walked.

"Today the princess is not clearly injured, I am worried and want to go and have a look." Xiao Yucheng didn't hide it, and directly revealed his thoughts.

Liu Xin smiled when he heard the words, "The courage of the young man is commendable, but if you go like this, you may not see the princess. At least I have the name of mentor and apprentice with the princess. I think the eldest princess will allow me to enter the mansion, otherwise I would help you?"

"Thank you sir!"

Xiao Yucheng also occasionally gave lectures at Taixue, he was said to be of the same generation as Liu Xin, but on weekdays Liu Xin would also teach him Kung Fu, so naturally he treated him with the courtesy of a gentleman.

Liu Xin accepted Xiao Yucheng's salute frankly, and laughed out loud at him.

The two came to the Zheng residence, Zheng Ye was the only one receiving them in the Zheng family, he frowned obviously because he was worried about his daughter, Master Zheng had been unwell for the past two days, the old lady took care of him at home, the two of them still didn't know about Zheng Wei's injury.So Zheng Ye apologized and explained to the two that Liu Xin and Xiao Yucheng hurriedly said that they were worried about Princess Danyang's injury, so they came so abruptly!
Afterwards, Liu Xin was in charge of dealing with Zheng Ye, and Xiao Yucheng left the main hall on the pretext of looking for Zheng Heng.

Liu Xin is usually a martial arts idiot, and rarely socializes with others. Today, he was a little embarrassed to face Zheng Ye alone. Fortunately, Zheng Ye had something on his mind and didn't pay too much attention to it. Instead, he pulled Liu Xin to ask about today's martial arts academy.

Although Liu Xin was upright, but firstly he felt guilty when he came, and secondly, looking at Zheng Ye's thin body, he was afraid of scaring him, so he avoided the seriousness and talked about today's affairs.

This is not the first time for Xiao Yucheng to come to Zheng's mansion, he and He Bamu had visited Zheng's mansion at night before, going to Zheng Wei's courtyard by familiar ways.

Thanks to the simplicity of the Zheng Mansion as always, there were not many servants in the mansion. At this time, most of the servants were serving in the Zhengwei Courtyard, so he was able to walk outside the Zhengwei Courtyard so smoothly.

Walking outside the courtyard and listening to the urging and anxious voices coming from inside from time to time, Xiao Yucheng realized that he really cared about him, and at this moment he couldn't see her even if he was only separated by a wall.

It just so happened that Zheng Heng came out from inside with a gloomy expression. He was surprised when he saw Xiao Yucheng, but still with a hint of anger, he said coldly: "What is General Xiao doing here?"

Xiao Yucheng could understand his mood at this moment, not to mention Zheng Heng, he was also blaming himself, hating himself for being incompetent and negligent, for letting Zheng Wei get hurt in front of him!

Therefore, not only was Xiao Yucheng not angry, but he solemnly bowed to Zheng Heng, "It's my fault, I didn't protect the princess well!"

Seeing that Xiao Yucheng apologized sincerely, Zheng Heng also knew that his anger was unreasonable, so he took a deep breath, calmed down and pulled Xiao Yucheng up, saying: "I don't blame you, I just lost my temper and vented my anger on you!"

"It's my fault!" Xiao Yucheng still felt uneasy.

Seeing his uneasy appearance, Zheng Heng suddenly dissipated a lot of his anger, and said with a smile on his face: "Maybe it's because I know your thoughts and don't treat you as an outsider that I will vent my anger on you!"

Xiao Yucheng was stunned for a moment before he understood the meaning of Zheng Heng's words, his cold and solemn face suddenly burned, but fortunately his complexion was not white and the sky was dark, Zheng Heng did not see his embarrassment.

"I don't know how the princess is doing now?"

Xiao Yucheng asked hesitantly.

"Fortunately, the wound is not deep, and the meridians and vital organs are not injured, just take care of it for a while!" Zheng Heng said boldly and patted Xiao Yucheng on the shoulder, jokingly said: "I'm afraid you won't see him when you go in today. As far as Wei'er, now my aunt is disciplining her disobedient daughter, if it wasn't for Awan's persuasion, when Wei'er said that she would go to the Martial Academy tomorrow, my aunt would have to make a big fuss in Xianyang Palace today."

Xiao Yucheng only grinned when he heard the words, the future mother-in-law taught the future daughter-in-law that he had no right to comment, so he could only say: "Your Majesty has decreed that the Princess will not participate in the martial arts competition tomorrow."

Zheng Heng heard the words and sighed, "Although I knew this result a long time ago, I still feel a little regretful after hearing it at this time."

Although I practiced martial arts a few years earlier than my sister, my talent is not as good as my sister's. Now I am no longer her opponent. He regretted losing in the competition yesterday.

He had something to do today so he didn't go with them to the Martial Arts Academy, but something happened today, and Zheng Heng felt guilty when he said it.

Knowing the result, Zheng Wei didn't make a fuss, but pulled Wu Ling'er and said: "You fight hard, and try to get the top leader, so that self-righteous people can't hold their heads up!"

It wasn't until the dead of night when everyone left that Zheng Wei got up, sat on the couch and waited quietly.

After a quarter of an hour, the window lattice was knocked lightly, Ah Luo hurriedly opened the window lattice, and led Zhao Bei and Miao Er into the room.

Xiao Yucheng who went back and forth saw a man enter Zheng Wei's boudoir, his face was as dark as iron!
(End of this chapter)