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Mrs. Jiang and her entourage hurried back to Chu's house. She missed her daughter eagerly, and ignored the embarrassment on her body, so she went directly to the yard where the coffin of "Jiang Yanyi" was parked.

Jiang Yangui also went there together, but his feet were still wrapped in gauze, and he didn't have a wheelchair, so he had to be carried away on a stretcher by his servants.

The two elders of the Chu family were all in the yard. Mrs. Chu was getting old, and the white-haired man sent the black-haired man. In the middle of the night, when Chu Changping returned home with the coffin, she fainted once from crying. The old lady Chu was afraid that she would be too sad, so he didn’t dare to let her go. She went to see what had become of her granddaughter in the coffin.

He wanted to see it for himself, but was stopped by Chu Changping, who told "Jiang Yanyi" to change into clothes and straighten his face before looking at it.

Although the words were cryptic, the old man Chu knew where his granddaughter was sent to. Now that his son said that again, he knew that his granddaughter might not even have a piece of clothing before she died, so he shed a lot of tears.

The crutch in his hand leaned hard on the ground, cursing: "Foolish king! No way, stupid king!"

When Mrs. Jiang entered the yard crying, the second child saw her in such a state of distress, and when he learned about Mrs. Jiang's life in the Jiang family, he burst into tears again.

"My son! Mother shouldn't have agreed with you to marry that bastard surnamed Jiang!"

"You are his first wife, how could he treat you like this? Ah Yi's child is wrong in every possible way, she is also his flesh and blood! How can this person be so cruel?"

Mrs. Chu hugged her daughter, crying so much that she almost fainted.

If they could get the news that their granddaughter was assigned to be a "prostitute" at the frontier earlier, they would be able to rob people if they were robbed halfway.

However, Shangshu Jiang blocked the news, and it was too late when the news reached their ears.

Mrs. Jiang hugged her mother and shed endless tears: "Mother, my daughter is having a hard time... and my poor Ah Yi..."

Thinking of her daughter, Mrs. Jiang wiped her tears indiscriminately, got up and went directly to the room where the coffin was placed.

The person died for more than ten days, and it was autumn when the weather turned cold, so the rancid smell was not so strong. Except for close and familiar people, others could not recognize whether this was the cousin who died in the family.

A few elderly servants were wiping the faces of the people in the coffin with water, and a set of silk silk clothes worn in the earth was placed beside them.

Mrs. Jiang pushed aside a few servants, weeping to see her dead daughter for the last time, but was stunned when she saw the face of the woman in the coffin covered with corpse spots.

It's not that this woman's death is terrifying, but... this is not my daughter at all!

Mrs. Jiang cried for a while, thinking that Chu Changping had misidentified the person when collecting the body.Thinking of her daughter being outside the customs and unable to bury her bones, she felt sad and angry for a moment, and shouted: "This is not my Ayi!"

At this time, the servant woman beside her also put a shroud on the woman in the coffin, thinking that she was too sad and could not accept this fact, so she comforted her: "Madam, let's be sad."

Mrs. Jiang ignored them, turned her head and walked out of the house: "Third brother, what did you bring back is Ah Yi!"

Chu Changping was stunned by Mrs. Jiang's question, "Isn't Ah Yi inside?"

Mrs. Jiang said with red eyes: "My own daughter, that is a piece of meat that fell from my body, how can I not recognize it?"

At this time, several servants in the house also said that the people inside had sorted out the remains.

Chu Changping has been traveling day and night these days, and being yelled at by Mrs. Jiang like this, his already drowsy mind feels a little swollen and painful.

He went into the house to see it for himself, and the two elders of the Chu family also followed.

Jiang Yangui wanted to go in, but Mrs. Jiang held her down: "You have bad legs and feet, don't go in, it's not your sister inside."

Mrs. Jiang was distressed that her daughter might not be able to rest in peace in the wilderness in a different place, but Jiang Yangui's empty and dead eyes were full of waves.

It wasn't his elder sister that my uncle brought back. Does that mean that his elder sister might still be alive?

In the room, after the two elders of the Chu family saw the people in the coffin clearly, the old man Chu was so angry that he slapped his son twice.

"How did you become an uncle? Can my niece admit her mistake?"

Chu Changping hasn't had a good rest these days, and the stubble has grown on his face. At this moment, he only feels a dull pain in his head.

Mrs. Chu felt sorry for her son, and when Mrs. Chu wanted to do something, she was stopped by Mrs. Chu: "Stop beating! Changping is also suffering."

Chu Changping murmured: "Impossible, I found out that A Yi was buried there. The king of Liaonan learned of her accident and gave her a coffin for burial. This coffin was given by the king of Liaonan..."

At this time, there was another servant outside who sent a message: "Master, I have a letter from you!"

He knew that there were not many servants of Chu Changping returning home, and they were all loyal servants of the Chu family.

The guy who called him Master was naturally calling him Old Master Chu.

The old man Chu was in a state of confusion, he didn't want to read the letter, so he immediately said: "Put it in the study, I'll read it later!"

The servant outside took a look at the seal on the letter, and said in trepidation, "Master, this is a letter from the Liaonan Prince's Mansion."

Liaonan Palace?

Old Master Chu and Mrs. Chu looked at each other in blank dismay. Their Chu family had nothing to do with the King of Liaonan who was known for his brutality in the ruling and opposition circles.

Chu Changping's heart shuddered when he heard the words "Liaonan Prince's Mansion", and he walked out of the room quickly, grabbed the letter from the servant and opened it.

Inside the envelope with the great seal of the King of Liaonan, there is a piece of letter paper and another small envelope.

Chu Changping quickly read the page of the letter, almost ecstatically said: "Ah Yi is still alive!"

The two elders of the Chu family hurried out of the room upon hearing the words, Madam Jiang snatched the letter paper from Chu Changping's hand, and after reading it, she didn't know whether it was sadness or joy.

Hi?I am glad that my daughter is still alive.But the emperor is going to deal with the Chu family soon, this is a catastrophe!

She is a woman in the inner house, and she has never thought of such a disaster before, and now she is already panicked, and she can only look at her elder brother who is a compatriot, "Third brother, Your Majesty wants you to leave your post without permission, your intentions How can I arrest you for treason?"

At this time, the cronies who came back with Chu Changping also got the news from the street, and rushed to tell: "Third Master, a group of forbidden troops left Xuanwu Gate and came to Duhe Avenue, probably aimed at us. Come!"

Mrs. Chu just found out that her granddaughter was still alive, she was too late to be happy, and suddenly learned that this might be a disaster for her family, she didn't recover from her breath, and passed out directly.

"Old lady!"

"lady!"

"Mother!"

For a while, the small yard was in chaos again.

Chu Changping woke up Mrs. Chu by choking on the crowd.

Mrs. Chu looked at her most proud son with tears in her eyes, unable to control her grief: "My son..."

Mrs. Jiang cried and slapped herself twice: "Blame me, blame me! If I had taught Ah Yi well and didn't get used to her, how would she have the audacity to use such low-handed methods to deal with the concubine Xi in the palace? ? It’s all the evil fruit I planted. It’s because I once treated Madam Xibi harshly. I kowtowed to her in front of the palace gate and begged her to let the Chu family live. I will give her life if she wants me…”

Chu Changping handed the small envelope to Mrs. Jiang: "Don't say such stupid things at this time, even if Ah Yi is at fault, it is not enough! This is a foolish king! Even if you kneel to death in front of the palace gate, he will not be so innocent. It won't be taken back. No matter if you mother and son don't return to the Jiang family, no matter how bad the Chu family is, they can still support you mother and son. Jiang Jing'an is afraid of getting into trouble, so he will write a letter to you in the near future. This is Ah Yi Please take care of the letter you sent, I can no longer stay at home..."

When he said this, Chu Changping took another look at the two elders of the Chu family, and then said to Mrs. Jiang: "If I'm not here, you can honor my parents for me."

With just one sentence, the eyes of the whole family were red.

Jiang Yangui was sitting on the stretcher, never had he hated his useless legs like this for a moment, he was holding on to the poles of the stretcher tightly with both hands, his eyes were red: "Uncle!"

Chu Changping touched Jiang Yangui's head: "You have half the blood of the Chu family on your body, so you can be regarded as a man of the Chu family. Don't give up on yourself. In the future, your mother and your sister will still rely on you. If you don't stand up, Who do they rely on?"

What Jiang Yangui said broke down in tears: "Yangui remembered..."

Then Chu Changping turned his head and knelt down, kowtowing twice to the two elders of the Chu family: "Father, mother, the child is unfilial, and has brought such a big trouble to the family."

The two elders of the Chu family hurried forward to help him up.

Old Master Chu read the letter written to him by the King of Liaonan, and knew that the King of Liaonan would send someone to meet Chu Changping. As long as he left the capital, the emperor would not be able to touch him.He said: "Get out of the city quickly! Stay later to avoid any accidents!"

As long as Chu Changping was not in the mansion, even if the forbidden army searched the mansion and couldn't find Chu Changping, the charge would not be deducted.

Madam Chu also shed tears and said, "Go!"

Chu Changping took one more look at the old parents at home, gritted his teeth, turned and left.

Then the old master Chu ordered the servants in the mansion: "Carry the coffin down. If the imperial army enters the mansion and finds out soon, they will say that it was a relative of Steward He's family who came to the mansion in an accident. After the limelight passes, find a good Feng Shui Bury this girl in the place where they are all hard-fated people..."

**

When the imperial army walked to Duhe Avenue, they suddenly bumped into the same group of luxurious chariots.

The imperial army is used to domineering, so the young man in front said: "Get out of the way! The imperial army is doing business! Don't get in the way!"

The golden gauze curtain on the carriage was lifted by a pair of jade hands painted with bright red cardamom. The woman in the carriage was graceful and charming, with a sneer on her lips: "You imperial army, you are so courageous, even dare to ram the princess's carriage !"

When they saw that the person in the car was Princess Wen Shu, the guards who had just spoken were silent.

Princess Wenshu is the most beloved daughter of the first emperor, and the aunt of the Holy Majesty today. What she says in front of the Majesty is more effective than the Empress Dowager.

The commander of the imperial army noticed the strangeness ahead, and hurriedly rushed forward. After learning the whole story, he raised his whip and threw it on the imperial army.

The commander of the forbidden army clasped his fists at the eldest princess: "The people under his command don't have eyes, and they offended the eldest princess. Xiao Mou will accompany you on behalf of him."

The eldest princess snorted coldly: "This princess thought she had lost her sacred heart. Any dog ​​would dare to bark in front of this princess!"

The commander of the imperial army lowered his waist even lower: "How dare you! Xiao still has the emperor's life, so I won't talk too much with the eldest princess, and I will come to the door to plead guilty in person some other day."

The face of the eldest princess changed, because she was well maintained, she didn't look old at all, and a person in her 30s looked similar to that little girl in her early twenties.She said: "I haven't seen the sincerity of Commander Xiao's apology, but I don't see it at all. Do you still want to use the emperor's life to suppress this princess?"

She ordered the coachman to drive the carriage forward, and blocked the road of Duhe Street tightly, and then looked at the commander of the imperial army and said: "My princess's car is parked here today, Commander Xiao will take you Detour, or...just make amends to this princess."

The commander of the imperial army always knew that this aunt was not easy to mess with, so it was such a coincidence that she happened to be the one to offend her.

It is impossible to take a detour. The Chu family is in the middle of Duhe Street. If you go there late and tell Chu Changping to run away on hearing the news, he will have no fruit to eat in front of His Majesty.

The commander of the imperial army said: "Princess, don't make things difficult for me."

If it hadn't been for the eldest princess who had formed a dispute with the Chu family in the marriage, he would have suspected that the eldest princess deliberately made things difficult here in order to help Chu Changping get out of trouble.

The eldest princess obviously has no intention of giving up at all: "Commander Xiao feels that this princess is embarrassing you, then let's talk to His Majesty!"

The commander of the forbidden army got off his horse and made a big gift to the eldest princess: "The subordinates in the humble position are not effective enough to offend the eldest princess. I hope that the eldest princess will not remember the faults of villains. Don't be as knowledgeable as this scorpion!"

The eldest princess snorted coldly, and then put down the curtain of the car: "My princess's car has passed, so I will go."

The luxurious convoy slowly crosses Duhe Avenue.

The commander of the imperial army saw that there were seven or eight carriages behind the eldest princess's carriage, and suddenly became angry.

Just as he showed an angry expression, a carriage that was passing by suddenly lifted the curtain, and inside was a young man with red lips and white teeth, his eyes were full of charm: "I see that Commander Xiao still has a lot of dissatisfaction with Her Highness the Princess."

The commander of the forbidden army hurriedly cupped his fists: "Don't dare."

This person is the most favored male favorite around the eldest princess, and there is really no excuse.

Some people in the carriages behind also opened the curtains one after another. They were some handsome or flirtatious young gentlemen, muttering why the carriage had been parked here for so long.

It was almost a quarter of an hour after the princess's convoy passed by, and the commander of the Imperial Army quickly got on his horse and prepared to go to the Chu Mansion to raid the house.

Behind him came another Xiao Huangmen on horseback, and shouted from a long distance: "Commander Xiao, stay a step!"

The commander of the forbidden army had no choice but to stop at the spot and wait for Xiaohuangmen to approach.

Xiao Huangmen came to the front, reined in the reins and said: "The sage ordered Xiao Qian, the commander of the imperial army, to go to the gates of the city immediately to arrest Chu Changping!"

For some reason, within half an hour, the commander of the imperial army changed the imperial edict, and he said, "Then the Chu family still copied it?"

Xiao Huangmen said: "Of course I won't copy it."

The commander of the imperial army was even more angry, but he didn't dare to show it on his face, he just said: "The humble post takes orders!"

***

Royal Palace.

All the vases and jades that could be smashed in the Imperial Study Room were smashed clean by the one on the dragon chair. I dare not wipe the blood with my hands.

"Trash! Everything is trash!" The new emperor swept all the memorials of the dragon case to the ground.

"How did I explain to Fan Wei? It would be better for him to send him to his barracks, and save him for my good uncle!" The new emperor laughed angrily.

The chief eunuch clinked a cup of hot tea and handed it over, "Your Majesty, drink some tea to calm down..."

He waved it away, "Get out!"

The hot tea was poured all over the body, but the chief eunuch didn't dare to say anything.

The new emperor put his hands on the dragon case, his eyes were full of anger: "Call Jiang Jing'an to me!"

Jiang Shangshu, who had just exited the imperial study, was called in again by the little eunuch.

As soon as he entered the door, a booklet was thrown on his face.

The new emperor was furious: "Didn't you say that you locked up the mother and child in the mansion? Why are they in the Chu family again?"

Jiang Shangshu was startled, and quickly knelt down: "I...frightened."

Mrs. Jiang's mother and son left the house, but he really didn't know about it.

The veins on Xindi's forehead were twitching, and his brain was throbbing with pain. He rubbed his eyebrows with one hand and said, "Your prostitute is not dead."

When these words fell into Jiang Shangshu's ears, he was only surprised, not happy.

The new emperor said cruelly: "She is now in the hands of the King of Liaonan, and the King of Liaonan is probably waiting to use her to make a big fuss! If I move the Chu family at this time, it will be exactly what he wants!"

If there is only one Jiang Yanyi in the hands of the King of Liaonan, then it will not be a big deal. As long as Jiang Shangshu bites her to death and says that she is not his daughter, a "slander" can be exposed.

But now that Mrs. Jiang's mother and son have returned to the Chu family, with them as witnesses, what will the world think of him once it is revealed that he sent the prostitute of the aristocratic family to the border to work as a "prostitute"?

The king has no virtue, so it's just an opportunity for his good uncle to take advantage of?

When the new emperor was in a state of desperation, another palace official came to report outside the imperial study: "Your Majesty, something is wrong!"

The new emperor grabbed the inkstone on the dragon case and threw it over: "Say!"

The little eunuch was beaten to the point of bleeding, knelt on the ground and cried, "Little General Fan lost his manners after drinking, and he made contemptuous concubine Xi..."

The new emperor only felt his blood surge, he lifted the Longquan sword hanging aside and went to the harem.

Jiang Shangshu knelt on the ground and his whole body trembled, his face turned pale instantly.

***

At this time, in Xizhou, thousands of miles away, Feng Shuo was sitting in the gazebo in the west courtyard, and across the wall was the sound of cooking in the little cook's kitchen.

The black and white pawns on the stone table in front of him were fighting, he dropped a black pawn with his left hand, followed by a white pawn with his right hand.

What is surging in the clear and phoenix eyes is the current situation in the capital.

"Nephew, you can't break this game."