Otoharu

"Your Majesty... there is one more thing... I want to report to you..." Xu Fu looked at the old emperor's expression, and said cautiously.

The old emperor glanced at him, and said dissatisfiedly: "If you have something to say, what do you hesitate to do?"

Then Xu Fu replied in a low voice: "The little princess of the imperial concubine...is gone."

The old emperor frowned, and his eyes instantly became sharp, "What do you mean by missing?"

Xu Fu began to sweat on his forehead, and continued to bite the bullet: "Your Majesty, she just disappeared. The nanny in charge of taking care of the little princess said that the little princess disappeared suddenly, and the people of Kunhe Palace have been looking for it for a long time in the palace. , but no one was found."

"Could it be that the imperial concubine hid the child?" The old emperor frowned even more and said again.

"The imperial concubine didn't have time to take the little princess away when she ran away. The little princess was still there at that time. She was arranged by the Song family in the Kunhe Palace, but she suddenly disappeared that night."

The old emperor was silent for a moment, and then asked with an ugly face: "Have everyone around Mrs. Song been interrogated? Especially the nurse next to her?"

Xu Fu replied: "His Royal Highness, the concubine of the palace, has already been sent to the prison department, and she also confessed that she really thought about using the little princess to lure the imperial concubine, but before they took action, the little princess had already disappeared. gone."

The old emperor snorted heavily after hearing this, and said solemnly: "That bitch of the Song family, I really shouldn't have promised to spare her life."

The old emperor had few heirs. Although there were more princesses than princes, there were only five princesses who lived to adulthood.

After Jiang Shanqing's incident, she treated the emperor's heirs more and more, no matter whether they were princes or princesses.

Xu Fu stood aside with his head bowed, he didn't dare to say a word.

After the old emperor got angry, he ordered again in a deep voice: "Let the prison department investigate and find the little princess."

Xu Fu immediately took the order, thinking that the palace people in Kunhe Palace would suffer disaster. His Majesty personally issued the order, and the executioners of the prison department will not stop until they peel off their skins. .

Compared with the turmoil inside the palace, the outside of the palace is much calmer. The common people don't even know that their emperor has passed through the gate of hell, and they still live their own lives.

As for the members of the Li family, they still don't know what happened in the palace, they just waited for a long time for Li Meier to return to the Biezhuang, so they inevitably panicked.

Li Yan still went to the Imperial Academy to go to the court as usual, but he was only a small scholar, and he could not get much information. He wanted to go to Jiang Yanzhi, but he hadn't seen him for two days. Some bad premonition rose in his heart.

This day, when he went back to Xu's other courtyard, Mrs. Jiang and Mrs. Li immediately surrounded him and asked, "How is it? Any news about Shan Qing and Mei Meier?"

"Do you know where Memeer is? Why don't you come here?"

Li Yan was surrounded by his wives, but he didn't know what to say for a while, so he could only shake his head in frustration, "I don't know, the palace ban has not been lifted yet, except for those high officials in the court, no one knows what's going on in the palace now."

"In other words? He doesn't know? Didn't he make friends with many officials in the court?" Jiang asked again.

Li Yan sighed, and replied: "I haven't seen Yan Zhi in the Imperial Academy for the past few days. I asked You Zhi, and he said that Yan Zhi hadn't returned home for two days, and the sister of the Zhou family was also very worried about him."

Jiang Shi's expression changed when she heard the words, and she said in a trembling voice, "It can't be... something happened?"

Mrs. Li was calmer than Mrs. Jiang, she frowned and scolded: "Don't talk nonsense, I guess he just went to help with errands. He is a sixth-rank official of the Imperial Academy, what can happen!"

Jiang Shi didn't speak any more, but her face turned even paler.

"How about... Let's ask the Xu family. They have been helping Shan Qing secretly, so they must know what is going on with him now." Li Yan said hesitantly.

Mrs. Li thought for a moment, then suddenly said: "A Lin and I will go home and have a look, maybe we can get some news."

"No! It's too dangerous. If you want to go back, I will go back. Mother, you can stay in the other courtyard at ease." Jiang Shi immediately objected.

Mrs. Li waved her hand, and said in a tone that could not be questioned: "My old lady is getting old, so it doesn't matter if something happens. Besides, isn't everything in the city quite peaceful recently, and I haven't listened to the old emperor's orders?" I will quietly go back and check if there is any news, it’s all right.”

Mrs. Jiang wanted to say something more, but Li Yan took her hand and said softly, "Yingying, I've made up my mind. Let's go back together. We won't hide anymore. Let's go home and wait for the mountain together." Qing and Mei Meier are back."

A trace of surprise flashed across Jiang's face, but soon she nodded firmly and said, "Okay, let's go back together."

The Li family packed up their things and prepared to go home, but they were stopped by the hidden guards before they went out.

"Old lady, madam, the young master has a destiny with us, we must wait for him to come back, otherwise you and the others cannot leave the other courtyard." The leader of the hidden guard said to Old Lady Li and the others very respectfully.

"Little brother, we are going home by ourselves. When Shanqing asks, I'll go and tell him. I won't blame you." Mrs. Li also knew that these hidden guards were all for them. For the sake of safety, he said in a very polite tone.

The leader still shook his head, "Old lady, I really can't let you go, you guys go back to the house."

Mrs. Li frowned, and the aggressiveness of the rural old lady came out immediately.

"Little brother, if you don't let the old woman go out, the old woman will force her way in. If something happens to me, I'm an old man, don't say I'm relying on you!" The old lady flicked her sleeves and rushed out the door.

The leader of the dark guards didn't expect Mrs. Li to do something like this, but he didn't realize it for a while, and let her rush out from under him.Fortunately, the dark guards behind him had quick eyesight and quick hands, and stopped Mrs. Li in one go.

Mrs. Li sat down on the ground very unceremoniously, and yelled, "Hey~~ How can there be such a thing, I won't let you go back at home!"

Li Yan and Mrs. Jiang saw that their mother was sitting on the ground, and hurriedly led the children up.

The two younger ones hugged Mrs. Li's thigh and cried loudly.

For a while, this clean other courtyard was as lively as the vegetable market in the east gate.

The hidden guards were at a loss for a moment, they didn't move, they didn't move, a dozen big men looked at each other, sweating.

"Old lady, what are you doing?" Suddenly, a voice not knowing whether to laugh or cry came to mind.

Mrs. Li's crying stopped abruptly, and she looked at the visitor blankly.