Palace.

The emperor and the empress and his party were the palaces they arrived at yesterday. This palace was not the one built by the Empress Dowager in the Central Plains by huge sums of money, but a farm built for himself when Emperor Taizong was the crown prince. Later, after he ascended the throne, he expanded it into a palace here.

This place is composed of four small lakes, surrounded by green water. The palace is built in the middle of the lake. Emperor Taizong was born among the people when he was young and was very watery. After becoming the prince, he lost a lot of fun. Taizu loved the eldest son of his first wife very much and responded to him. He was allowed to build a place outside the capital. Later, this place became a place where all the princes of the Great Wei Dynasty learned to swim.

The emperor came here when he was a teenager. The queen didn't want to bring him with him at first, but he insisted on coming. The queen had no choice but to go with him.

The emperor not only wanted to commemorate his youth, but also wanted to give the prince an opportunity to handle the government independently.

Moreover, this palace is only a hundred miles away from the capital. Even if the prince asks the emperor for advice if he has something to do, he will not waste too much time on the road.

This time, the emperor and empress came with three princes, two princesses, as well as princesses and princesses, prince Duan and little princesses, the princess’ son and daughter, and the family of several nobles and important officials.

The old lady of the Lu family and Miss Lu Si, Mrs. Su and Miss Wu Jiu, the old lady of Shunyi and the eldest granddaughter of Miss Cui, Mrs. Ping'an Hou and the second daughter of Miss Wen Er, and several other wives and girls. Yan Xuehuai was meeting for the first time. No need to ask more, these are the candidates for Princess Zhuang in the queen's mind.

After settling down, Yan Xuehuai said to Chai Yan: "Miss Lu Si and Miss Wu Jiu don't believe in Buddhism, so I don't know the others."

Chai Yan had only known that officials and families were following him. It was not until he came to the palace that he realized that these so-called officials and families all had daughters of appropriate age, and there were no royal relatives among them. Like the Duke's Mansion, the Crown Princess's family, the Princess Duan's family, and the princess's family were not invited.

In fact, except for the Duke of Dingguo Mansion, the other three families have daughters of appropriate age, but Princess Zhuang will not choose among these families, nor will she choose between the Jiang family and the Meng family. She will only marry the royal family once in recent years, and there will not be a second time.

Chai Yan smiled and said, "I don't know others, I only know that Lu Si is here to make up the numbers. That year, my second brother shaved his head. Every time Lu Si saw him, he would call him Erdan. The second brother hated her very much. He ran to Mr. Lu to complain. Lu Si was punished to copy books and could not visit our mansion on the Dragon Boat Festival."

Yan Xuehuai... King Zhuang is ten years older than Miss Lu Si, and even went to complain for a nickname. This man deserves to be lonely.

Chai Yan said again: "Besides, the old master of the Lu family expressed his attitude twenty years ago that their family would not marry the royal family. The only one who mother wanted to invite was the old lady of the Lu family. Lu Si must have come here by himself."

Yan Xuehuai smiled. It was really possible. She was not familiar with Miss Lu Si before, but when she got married, Miss Lu Si still came to be a sister who gave her a marriage.

However, she likes this lively and cheerful little girl very much.

If Lu Si became Princess Zhuang... I'd better forget it.

The eunuch came with him to pass the imperial edict. He just arrived today and everyone was tired and had their own meals.

Chai Yan and Yan Xuehuai had dinner at their residence, and King Duan and King Zhuang came over. The three brothers went swimming together. Princess Duan sent someone to invite Yan Xuehuai over. Yan Xuehuai only realized that the princess and the eldest daughter were there. Seeing Yan Xuehuai, Princess Duan smiled and said, "There are all people coming, start fighting!"

What to play? Of course it is the Ye Zi brand.

Yan Xuehuai can play Ye Zi card, but she didn't expect that the princess' eldest daughter Zou Meien, a twelve-year-old girl, was actually a master of Ye Zi card masters.

On the first night, Yan Xuehuai lost twenty-two taels, the princess lost ten taels, Princess Duan lost fifteen taels, and Miss Zou Meien won a great victory.

When she returned to her residence, Chai Yan had already returned. She had just taken a shower and laid on Yan Xuehuai's legs with a wet hair: "Madam, how much have you lost?"

"Hey, how did you know I would lose?" Yan Xuehuai knocked on Chai Yan's forehead.

"Mien, that girl is here, you will definitely lose, you will all lose. He is a card master. He can beat a bunch of old ladies to the point of losing their money when he is eight years old."

Yan Xuehuai actually heard pride from Chai Yan's tone.

Yan Xuehuai sighed, rubbed Chai Yan's hair, and said quietly: "I want to swim too. The last time I swim was on the way from Pingcheng to Beijing."

Chai Yan's eyes lit up and he sat up: "Then let's go now?"

"Is it really OK? This is the palace." Yan Xuehuai hesitated a little.

"Why can't you? Let's hold a watch from the side, and you can go into the water quietly." Chai Yan said.

Yan Xuehuai reached out and pulled him back to his legs: "It's useless to not go, it's not interesting to be sneaky. There is also a lake in our mansion, and it's not that it's impossible to do it here."

Chai Yan wanted to say that it was interesting to be sneaky, but then he thought that if the mother and the ladies knew about it, they would not think that this was his idea, but would only think that Princess Rui would act willful and arbitrary.

"Sister Huai, I didn't think it through. When we return to the capital, I will swim with you."

"Okay." Yan Xuehuai lowered her head and kissed Chai Yan's forehead.

The next day, Chai Yan sent an eunuch who could ride a horse back to the capital. There were fish and lotus flowers in the lake in Prince Rui's mansion. It can be imagined that it was not a good place to swim, and it must be cleaned up in advance.

Yan Xuehuai didn't know that Chai Yan had sent someone back, so she didn't care about these things now, because early in the morning, she received a 600-mile rush from the pearls.

This was the first time the post soldier who sent the letter came to the palace. He was very nervous, afraid that he would hit someone with dust.

Dill took the letter, sniffed, frowned and asked the eunuch to take the post soldiers to wash and eat. He also specifically reminded him: "Let him wash it well with fragrant panicles. The sweat smell of his body smelled so bad that the letter was smelly."

Dill handed the letter to Yan Xuehuai. Yan Xuehuai quickly finished reading the letter, his eyebrows were deeply locked.

She said to Dill, "Go and ask where your highness is now?"

Dill went out and came back soon, saying, "If you go back to the princess, your highness is fishing with the Tian family now, and His Highness Zhuang and His Highness Duan are also there."

Yan Xuehuai thought for a while and said, "You find an eunuch and ask your highness to come back, and it is said that Pearl has sent a letter to someone."

The emperor and the prince will know about the fact that Pearl and Zhou Saochen left Shifeng sooner or later, maybe they will already know at this time.

From the fact that Zhou Hong had a private mine, Yan Xuehuai didn't dare to underestimate the prince's intelligence website. He could find private mines far away in the north, not to mention the Rui Palace under his nose.

Besides, Yan Xuehuai didn't want to hide it from it.

If you want Chai Yanan to be a rich prince, there will be no secrets in front of the emperor and the future emperor.

After about a cup of tea, Chai Yan strode back and asked, "Where is your faith?"

Pearl must have written very important content in the letter, and it was something that Huai Jie'er could not solve by herself, otherwise Huai Jie'er would not call him out of the emperor.

Yan Xuehuai looked serious and handed the letter to him, saying, "The post soldier is still waiting. It's urgent. I want to reply to Pearl now."

Chai Yan finished reading the letter with one look, pursed his lips, and walked back and forth around the house for a few times.

In the letter, Zhenzhu said that Mr. Du’s wife’s surname is Yang, and she is a sister from the same clan as Yang Suyun.

When Yang Suyun was still in the capital, she brought a letter to Yang through Uncle Yang, asking Yang to find ways to reveal the news about Li Qiniang and his daughter to Yan Zhaoshi and his wife.

After learning about the private meeting between Wu Yuanwai and Tian Zhenzhen, Mr. Yang felt that it was profitable, so Uncle Yang and Mr. Du took Wu Yuanwai to do business together. The next step was to win over Yan Zhaoshi through Tian Zhenzhen.

If Yan Zhaoshi had not come back in the countryside, Mr. Du and Uncle Yang might have been guests of the Yan family. If they were more courageous, Mr. Wu might have also been talking to Yan Zhaoshi.

By chance, Yan Zhaoshi returned to the city, and Pearl and the others arrived at Shifeng, so they would never have a chance.

In addition, Zhenzhu also wrote that he suspected that the person living in Xiangyun Temple was Chai Shu.

First, Chai Shu liked to live in a nunnery in Pingcheng; second, the mysterious woman he learned from his investigation was also very similar to Chai Shu.

Someone brought more than 200 people with him, who had been in contact with Chai Shu where he was. Chai Shu might be helping those people. Otherwise, with her just a pampered woman, she would have been able to gain a foothold in a place where the barbarians gathered with him, even with Mr. Wu, even if Wu was helping him, it would be difficult to gain a foothold in a place where the barbarians gathered in Shifeng.

The man who left with two hundred people did not dare to write his name, but Pearl drew a simple map.

Chai Yan only took a look and understood where the arrow pointed at the picture.

The fief of King Qing!

When Renzong ascended the throne, he transferred his two emperor brothers from the prince to the prince and replaced the fiefdom that was originally close to the capital with a remote place.

The fief of King Qing is more than 800 miles away from Shifeng County.

Because they were not very close, at the beginning, whether it was Yan Xuehuai or Pearl, when it was mentioned in Shi Fengshi, he did not think of King Qing.

For the royal family, it is better to trust some things than to trust nothing.

Chai Yan said: "Brother is not here, so it's best to tell my father about this matter. Tell Pearl not to alert the snake, handle the matter in Shifeng County completely and keep a close eye on Chai Shu."

"Okay, go and talk, I'll write a letter now." Yan Xuehuai said happily.

Chai Yan stretched out a hand, touched Yan Xuehuai's face, and said with a smile: "My wife is so neat in doing things."

Yan Xuehuai opened his hand and sat in front of the desk. Since she had become acquainted with Hong, she rarely writes with her pen, but she will write this letter.

As soon as she finished writing the letter, Chai Yan came back. Yan Xuehuai didn't expect his movements to be so fast and asked, "Did Father have any instructions?"

Seeing that there was only Yan Xuehuai in the house, not even a maid, Chai Yan said, "The father will not let us care about that matter. Let Zhenzhu and Zhou Sauchen finish the work and come back immediately, and don't alarm the snake. In addition, the father said that Chai Shu is already a civilian and has nothing to do with the royal family, and her life and death have nothing to do with the royal family."

Yan Xuehuai let out a long sigh. Because of Chai Shu's identity, neither Chai Yan nor her, nor even Duke Ding, dared not take it rashly.

Now that the emperor's words are said, Yan Xuehuai knows what to do.

She thought for a moment, discarded the letter she had just written, and spread a piece of paper to rewritten it.

After writing the letter, Yan Xuehuai said to Chai Yan: "This letter is too important and cannot be sent by the post soldiers. If you are robbed along the way, it will be troublesome. Let's send someone to go with you."

Chai Yan also had this intention and immediately ordered four guards to go with the post soldiers.

Yan Xuehuai asked someone to call the post soldier over. The post soldier was dark and thin. Although he had washed up, he couldn't see it clean. It was obvious that the wind and sun had been exposed for too long.

Yan Xuehuai asked, "Are you from Zifang Post or from Jingshi Post?"

Zifang Post is closest to the palace, and as the name suggests, it is the official post in the capital.

The post soldier didn't even dare to raise his head. When he was brought in just now, the eunuch said that the noble man in the room was Princess Rui, so he told him to abide by the rules so that he would not bump into the princess.

"A villain, villain, villain is, Shifeng, Shifeng's post." said the post soldier.

Shifengyi?

Did this post soldier come from Shi Feng?

Twenty miles a post station, and urgent letters are sent to the post station. The post soldiers will forward the letter to the next post station. The post soldiers from the next post station will then send the letter to the next official post. Every time they arrive at the official post, they will change people and horses, and will deliver them to the destination day and night.

The slowest letter is delivered 180 miles a day, and the letter with the word "extended immediately" is 300 miles a day. In addition, there are 600 miles a day and 800 miles a day. The sender of the 600 miles a day must hold the official seal. However, ordinary officials are not particularly urgent and will not easily use 600 miles a day. If 800 miles a day, there is only a war report.

Therefore, Yan Xuehuai thought that this post soldier was from Zifang Post or Jingshi Post.

"You are Shifengyi? You are the only one?" Yan Xuehuai looked at the post soldier kneeling on the ground in disbelief.

"Yes, it's a villain alone. That master said that this letter is of great importance and will lose its head. You can't make any mistakes on the way. The villain dared not hand over the letter to others, so he sent it himself." The post soldier said.

The master was from Prince Rui's Mansion. There were other post soldiers in the post station at that time, but the master fell in love with him at a glance and said that he looked honest.

That man is Pearl.

When Pearl went out to do a job, she was carrying a waist-baring card from the Rui Palace. She was worried that no one would recognize the goods in the small place. Before leaving Beijing, he asked the chief of the royal palace to write a certificate of identity for him and stamped the seal of the Rui Palace to prove that this person was from the Rui Palace and was not a liar.

However, this identity certificate was sewn in the clothes, and he had never taken it out and used it. His waist card was enough.

"You sent you here for 600 miles every day and night? You are the only one person and one horse?" Yan Xuehuai felt incredible. Shi Feng was more than 2,000 miles away from the capital. This man stayed on the horse for four or five days?

"The villain will change horses every time he arrives at an inn, so the villain has many horses." The post soldier said seriously.
Chapter completed!