In charge

Before Yue Yingxi fell down, someone reached out to support her arm and stuffed a pill into her mouth.

The pill was pungent and pungent, and Yue Yingxi instantly regained her spirits.She stood up straight and opened her eyes to see that it was a blood silkworm.

"You made all these people unconscious?"

The blood silkworm nodded.Passed a bottle of medicine to her, "Let them take it all, and come out with me."

There are still a large number of guards outside the yard, but no one dares to do anything.When a group of people came to the main courtyard, they saw that Sheng Ci was still dressed normally, but the momentum was different.At this time, she was not the fourth young lady of the Sheng family who was weak, but the prime minister of the Yin Kingdom.

Standing beside Sheng Ci were two men, a young man in his 20s, wearing a white boa robe and a jade crown, with a very unfriendly expression on his face.Another middle-aged man, wearing a red official uniform and an official hat, seemed to be an official like the local magistrate.

"Prime Minister, everyone has been rescued." In front of outsiders, the title of Blood Silkworm will also be changed.

At this moment, Yue Yingxi, Hua Yihong and the others were all ashamed, choked to tears by the smoke, really embarrassed.Sheng Ci frowned, "My lord, how do these women explain it?"

The young man in the white python robe is Shu Xinpeng, the son of Prince Qin Yang.He sneered and said, "Prime Minister Sheng, these women are all concubines in the palace, and I locked them up because they disobeyed the rules. Isn't this breaking the law?"

Sheng Ci was not angry at all because of the other party's arrogant attitude, "Is it concubine Ji, the prince will always show evidence."

"What do you mean?" Shu Xinpeng said angrily.

"I am in the law, and the concubine in the mansion must have documents to prove it. Even if it is a gift from others, it must be handwritten to prove it. Since the son said that he is a concubine, please provide the corresponding documents in the mansion." This kind of official face As for matters above, whether it be Blood Silkworm, Yue Yingxi and Hua Yihong, they are basically out of their hands.

Shu Xinpeng's face became more and more serious. "Prime Minister Sheng, this is my father's territory after all. Even if the emperor comes down, he should give my father some face. It's just a few women. Why should Prime Minister Sheng be so serious?" The threat in these words Already thick.

Sheng Ci nodded, seemingly admiring the other party's point of view. "The prince is right. The prince is His Majesty's cousin, so His Majesty naturally wants to show some respect. As a subject, he should advance and retreat with His Majesty. But now the prince has not come forward, has he?"

"You...don't go too far! You clearly know that my father was left in the capital by His Majesty." Shu Xinpeng didn't expect Sheng Ci to be soft and hard.

In fact, he doesn't know much about Sheng Ci.Sheng Ci is different from Shu Yunci.Shu Yunci has always disdained to play with those twists and turns, she almost relied on her own strength to crush her.But Shengci is completely different.She has been weak and sick since she was a child, she looks docile and harmless, but she is actually black and scheming.She was not favored in the first place, so her words certainly didn't carry much weight.So in order to achieve her own goals, she often followed the logic of the other party when she spoke, and then slowly turned her position to her side.If you follow her logic, you will find that you have fallen into a pit as you walk.

"My lord is far away in the capital, so my son should strictly abide by his duty in doing things. Although Qinyang is located in a remote place, no matter how remote it is, it is also the territory of the Yin Kingdom, and it should abide by the laws of the Yin Kingdom. Do you think so?"

Shu Xinpeng wanted to speak, but was stopped by an old man beside him. "Your Majesty, please calm down. What the prime minister said is that you should follow the prime minister's wishes and release all these women."

Shu Xinpeng didn't refute again, although he looked displeased, he still waved his hand to signal to let him go.

Sheng Ci looked at the old man, but didn't ask much. "Master Li."

The middle-aged man in official uniform stepped forward and said, "Prime Minister."

"Bring these women to your government office so that they can be settled. Before the truth is ascertained, they are not allowed to leave, let alone any mistakes."

"Yes." Lord Li immediately sent someone to bring these women back to the government office.

Sheng Ci had already turned around to leave, but Yue Yingxi kept staring at Shu Xinpeng, as if she still had something to say.

"Master Yue, what do you want to say?

say? "Although Yue Yingxi is a bit of a dick, she is a serious female officer of the executive department, and she has an official position. Shengci pointed out Yue Yingxi's identity at this moment, and also hoped that the Qinyang Palace would be a little more modest in doing things.

"Back to the Prime Minister, there is a girl named Shu Rui in Fengyi Building, and I haven't found it yet."

Sheng Ci faced Shu Xinpeng again, "My lord, is Miss Shurui at your house?"

Shu Xinpeng looked confused, "I don't know."

Judging from Shu Xinpeng's reaction, Sheng Ci believed that he was telling the truth.Instead, her eyes now fell on the old man who had just advised Shu Xinpeng.

"What's your name for this old gentleman?" When he asked this sentence, even the blood silkworm beside him could see that Shu Xinpeng was a little nervous.

The old man bowed and saluted, "Prime Minister, the old man Xia Qing is just an ordinary person, an ordinary servant who is responsible for taking care of the prince in the palace."

Sheng Ci nodded slightly. "Mr. Xia used two words in a row to emphasize his ordinaryness, which shows that you are afraid that the truth will find out that you are not ordinary."

Xia Qing and Shu Xinpeng looked at each other and silently did not answer.

"Xia Qing, have you seen Shu Rui?" Sheng Ci asked seriously.

Xia Qing shook his head, "Back to the prime minister, I have never seen it before."

Sheng Ci didn't bother too much, "Master Li."

The magistrate immediately came over, "What is the prime minister's order?"

"Search the house."

"How dare you!" Shu Xinpeng quit. "Prime Minister Sheng, don't forget, this is Prince Qinyang's mansion, not a place that anyone can search for."

"Really?" Sheng Ci was still not in a hurry, he stretched out his hand to the side, and a maid beside him handed over something, everyone looked carefully, it turned out to be an imperial decree.The bright yellow imperial silk is absolutely unmistakable.

"The emperor's decree is for this, and the truth is decreed to thoroughly investigate the Qinyang Palace and Chengyejiao. No matter who dares to block, you can kill first and then play." Sheng Ci's expression was stern, and no one would doubt it now. Every word spoken by such a weak woman.

"My lord, if you don't want to search the house for the truth, then hand over Shurui, otherwise, no one can stop you today." Her words were obviously deceitful.Saying that without being sure that Shu Rui is still in the palace is actually a difficult task.But this is the little trap Sheng Ci set for Shu Xinpeng.As long as Shu Xinpeng gets angry, Shu Rui's whereabouts will be revealed.

Hua Yihong stood watching from the side, thinking that the Fourth Miss of the Sheng family was really interesting.Digging traps for people everywhere, you are a good digger!

"How does this son know who Shu Rui is? If there is no such person, there is no such person. I have paid so many women, and you are still missing one?" Shu Xinpeng said irritably.

Sheng Ci nodded, "Then why not do a search?"

Hua Yihong raised her eyebrows, wonderful!It's fun to be stuck at both ends.

"You..." Shu Xinpeng was about to explode but was stopped by Xia Qing again.Shu Xinpeng listened to Xia Qing's words very much, gritted his teeth and endured it.

Li Zhifu was ordered to send people to search the palace to find Shu Rui.Yue Yingxi walked to Sheng Ci's side, "Prime Minister, I want to meet the servants and guards of the palace."

Sheng Ci turned to look at her, seeing that she didn't intend to mess around at all, he nodded in agreement.

All the servants and guards of the palace were called over, and Yue Yingxi accurately found the servant she had questioned earlier.She walked over and asked, "You said you saw two guards leaving with a girl. Which two guards were they?"

The little servant didn't dare to look up at all, "Master... my lord, the little one doesn't remember."

Yue Yingxi smiled, "You raise your head."

The boy looked up, and then his brain stopped listening to his command.Yue Yingxi soon got the two names she wanted.

The guards were pulled out, and the two fell under Yue Yingxi's illusion without much struggle, and revealed that they had sent a woman's body out to bury them.

As soon as Yue Yingxi heard the word "corpse", Yue Yingxi's heart trembled.She grabbed one of the guards and walked out.

Hua Yihong turned to look at Sheng Ci, Sheng Ci nodded slightly to her, and Hua Yihong also followed out.

Shu Xinpeng secretly glanced back at Xia Qing with a very displeased expression.

"Let's stop here today." Sheng Ci stepped forward and said, "My lord, today's incident involves a lot of people, so, until the matter is clarified, the people in the family are not allowed to go out for the time being."

Shu Xinpeng was about to get angry again, Sheng Ci lifted up the imperial decree in his hand, Shu Xinpeng's face turned from red to white, he could only grit his teeth and shut up.

Yue Yingxi grabbed the guards and came to the place where they dumped the corpse, which was a cliff outside the city.She threw away the guards and wanted to go down to search, but was stopped by Hua Yihong who followed.

"Are you going to work so hard? You said you didn't like her little girl." Hua Yihong was very dissatisfied.

Just as Yue Yingxi was about to explain, the red shadow flashed, and Hua Yihong had already jumped down.

Yue Yingxi was so frightened that she almost cried out, but after a closer look, she found that the soul yarn in Hua Yihong's hand was still wrapped around a big tree by the mountain.At such a dangerous time, she didn't dare to shout, for fear of scaring the people below the cliff.

She stood on the edge of the cliff and waited for a while, when she suddenly heard a cry from below: "Hurry up and pull me up!"

Yue Yingxi hurriedly pulled the soul yarn, and only after pulling it did she realize why it was so heavy?Could it be that Hua Yihong has a weighty physique?She finally pulled Hua Yihong up, she was so tired that she almost stuck out her tongue.

After Hua Yihong came up, she untied the person who was tied up with another soul veil.Yue Yingxi saw that it was Shu Rui.

"She..." Yue Yingxi subconsciously tested Shu Rui's breath, and was surprised to find that she was still breathing weakly. "She's not dead yet!"

Huayi gave her a red and white look, "Of course she's not dead, otherwise why would I carry her up here? But you'd better find someone who understands to heal her, I think she's not far from death."

As soon as Yue Yingxi heard this, she immediately put Shurui on her back and ran away.Hua Yihong took a deep breath, "If I didn't die, I was tossed to death by you!" She got up and patted the dirt on her body, and strolled back to the city.

Sheng Ci took the blood silkworm back to his house.As soon as he returned to his room, Sheng Ci's calm demeanor disappeared.Xue Cang helped her to the bed with half support and half hug, helped her remove her coat and shoes and socks, and let her lie down to rest.

"The north wind is blowing today, it's really hard for you." Xue Cang grabbed her wrist to check her pulse, but Sheng Ci grabbed her hand and shook his head.

"I'll just lie down for a while, it's not that serious." Sheng Ci said so, still feeling the biting cold in the northwest.She felt that her heart was always constricted, unable to relax, and even breathing was difficult.

The blood silkworm lit a little Junyixiang, and the smoke rose up, which could soothe people's nerves.Sheng Ci gradually warmed up, and people relaxed.

"Let's deal with things here as soon as possible, and return to Beijing before the snow falls. You are not used to the climate here. When it snows, not only will the weather be colder, but the road will also be more difficult."

"it is good."

The two are tenderly affectionate, and even the air in the room smells sweet.At this time, there was a sudden "boom" in the yard, and then Yue Yingxi shouted: "Blood Silkworm, come and save me!"

Xue Cang went out to see that Yue Yingxi was sitting on the ground with a woman on her back, calling her. "Send me to your room, I'll be right there." Xue Cang didn't want anyone to disturb Sheng Ci's rest, so she went back to her room to get her medicine box, told Sheng Ci to take a good rest and went to Dongkuayuan.

Yue Yingxi just put Shu Rui on her bed. There were very obvious strangulation marks on Shu Rui's neck. It was obvious that she was either strangled to death or hanged herself.As for why she didn't die, that can only be said later.

Seeing this situation, Xue Cang immediately stretched out her hand to touch several big acupuncture points of Shu Rui, and then stretched out her hand to let Yue Yingxi drag Shu Rui's neck to help her up. Shu Rui put it down, she took out the golden needle from the medicine box, pricked a few needles on Shu Rui's head first, and then began to diagnose the pulse.

"How is it? Is there any help?" Yue Yingxi only had time to wipe the sweat off her face at this time.

"I can't die." The blood silkworm took out the golden needles after taking the pulse, and this time pierced Shu Rui's head and body with more than twenty needles in one go.

Yue Yingxi was in pain just looking at it, everyone was tied up like a hedgehog, even good people were tied up to death.

The blood silkworm withdrew his hand and let out a sigh of relief. "You watch her, I'll make some medicine." As soon as she went out, she saw Hua Yihong standing at the door grabbing the few chrysanthemums that hadn't frozen to death in the corner of the yard.

"Hua girl, why don't you go in?"

Hua Yihong turned her head, "How is that girl?"

"It's a serious injury, but my life can still be saved." Xue Cang pouted towards the room, "Miss Yue is taking care of her."

"It's good if the person is rescued. I'll go back first." She said and left.

The blood silkworm looked at the chrysanthemum petals all over the ground, shook his head, and felt sorry for these flowers.She prepared some medicine and fed it to Shu Rui. While waiting for Shu Rui's reaction, she heard what happened from Yue Yingxi.

Shu Rui's condition finally stabilized after her treatment, Yue Yingxi was worried about being taken care of by others, and insisted on taking care of herself, Xue Cang didn't say much.

Back in the room of Sheng Ci, Xue Cang recounted what he had learned and the Sheng Ci.

After hearing the speech, he said, "Do you have any doubts about Shu Rui?"

Xue Cang was stunned, "Why do you think so?"

"Although you are not a very enthusiastic person, you are still very active in saving people. As for this girl Shurui, you seldom mention her situation." She coughed lightly, "In addition, a girl is Being strangled and thrown under the cliff, not only did she not fall to her death, but she was also rescued by Hua Yihong..." Sheng Ci smiled, "Isn't this too strange?"

Xue Cang nodded, sat down on the side of the bed and explained: "There is no sign of any internal force in her body. But my Yuehua Jue can sense the occasional internal force fluctuations in her body. I think, she probably practiced a kind of energy that can A martial art that conceals internal strength."

Sheng Ci naturally leaned his body on her shoulder, although his face looked tired, but there was a smile on his face. "Actually, if you think about it carefully, this matter is really strange. Why did Chengyejiao pop up by itself before we investigated Chengyejiao? It seems that we are afraid that we will not be able to find them."

"What do you think?" Xue Cang leaned back on the soft pillow, letting Sheng Ci rest on her lap.

"It's just one game." Sheng Ci said.

In the palace, Jiang Fengmin just stepped into the bedroom holding the fish balls, when he felt that the temperature in the palace was surprisingly high.

"Have you closed the brazier?" She knew that Shu Yunci didn't like fireworks, even in winter, she didn't close the brazier.It's not winter yet.

"No, I just practiced Soul Flame, and the effect is good." Shu Yunci took the stack of letters sent by the silk bottle and opened them carefully one by one.

When it comes to this, Jiang Fengmin feels a little depressed.Shu Yunci's martial arts is already so high, but he is still not satisfied.During this period of time, I had a little free time, and went to the Ancient Juan Pavilion to find out a secret book of martial arts for refining soul flames.As soon as you hear it, you know that this is a set of Yanyang exercises.

Because Shu Yunci's physical development period is quite different from other children, her stomach hurts when she comes to the monthly letter.As long as Jiang Fengmin was by her side, he would hug her and coax her all night long.But seeing how she fell asleep with great difficulty and woke up again after a short while, Jiang Fengmin's heart ached, but he couldn't help her at all.

Blood Silkworm once prescribed a prescription to regulate Shu Yunci's body, and it seems to have some effect, but it is not obvious.

Shu Yunci is a person who does not allow himself to have weaknesses.Recently she practiced Soul Flame and felt much better.At least she didn't wake up from the pain after falling asleep last month.

"You've been doing well recently, but the weather is cold. If you start practicing in summer, this room will become a furnace." Jiang Fengmin said as usual.

Shu Yunci didn't care about her either, he had already read the third letter in his hand.As the king of a country, there are always many letters between the emperors of various countries.When Shu Yunci came to the throne, Yinguo was a poor and warlike country, so many countries on the mainland were unwilling to associate with Yinguo.The surrounding countries are all staring at each other. In the final analysis, the strength is too weak.It's useless to have a warlike reputation in the air, you can't fight all the way, right?Besides, the national strength of the hidden country is not enough to support the huge expenditure of the war.

In the past few years of Shu Yunci's reign, he has made great efforts to govern and reformed the

Reform, foreign service to neighboring countries, construction of water conservancy, and persuasion to teach agriculture and mulberry, finally provided Yin with a good internal and external environment.With the prosperity of the people and the strengthening of the national power, countries are paying more and more attention to the Yin Kingdom. If there is any important matter to be discussed among the countries, the invitation letter sent by the host country finally has the name of the Yin Kingdom.

Right now, Shu Yunci has an invitation letter from Xingguo in his hand.The Kingdom of Xing is located in the middle of the mainland, bordering the Kingdom of Ryu to the west. In this way, it is actually only separated by the Kingdom of Ryu from the Kingdom of Yin, which is not too far away.

Jian Mingyou, Emperor of Xing Kingdom, was a good peacemaker.The Kingdom of Qing and the Kingdom of Liu in the north had some conflicts because of the border issue, and they probably wanted to win over the Kingdom of Xing to help them.Jian Mingyou didn't want to get involved in this matter, so he took advantage of the chance that Xingguo discovered a huge flawless jadeite, and invited the emperors of the two countries to come over to make peace with him by the way.

Jian Mingyou felt that the intention of only inviting the emperors of the two countries was too obvious, so the emperors of these surrounding countries were invited, and everyone had a lively gathering.

"Will you go?" Jiang Fengmin asked.

Shu Yunci thought for a while, "Let's go and have a look. The Yin Kingdom can't just rely on wars to survive. Go and see who these monarchs are, and I will know when I encounter disputes in the future." seek well-being.Shu Yunci knew that she had a bad temper, and she didn't care, but Yinguo couldn't follow her to get a reputation for being brave and ruthless.

When carrying a country on her shoulders, even if she is as arrogant and proud as she is, she has to make some compromises and concessions.For a moment, she became bored with the throne.

"When are you going to leave?" Seeing that she was lost in thought, Jiang Fengmin took the letter from her hand and put it aside, and took the fish ball with the other hand and stuffed it into her arms.

Yu Wan lay down in Shu Yunci's arms with a dazed expression, stretched out her small claws to grab Shu Yunci's bright yellow dragon robe, "Meow..."

Shu Yunci lowered his head and grabbed the back of the fish ball, lifted it up and looked at himself, "If you dare to scratch my dragon robe, I will stew you."

The small claws that Yu Wan was waving immediately put down, hanging obediently.

Shu Yunci still likes this little black cat very much, but she has a feeling that she has raised this cat more and more stupidly, and the aura she had when she first met her has completely disappeared.She put the fishball back on her lap and stretched out her hand to stroke the hair. "Don't worry, the party is next month, we have to wait for Sheng Ci to come back. Just give me an answer now."

Yu Wan didn't know if he understood her words, or felt her aura, in short, he put away his paws and lay on Shu Yunci's lap to lick.

Speaking of grand speeches, Jiang Fengmin remembered that there was still a relative of the emperor imprisoned in the prison.During this period of time, because of King Qin Yang's imprisonment, countless people wrote to plead for mercy. From the clan alone, several princes from Shu Yunci's grandfather's generation came, and each of them was dying. Jiang Fengmin felt that these old men could pass by at any time while talking .

Shu Yunci has clearly stated that King Qin Yang sent assassins to assassinate, it is a crime of treason, these old men still hope that Shu Yunci can release them as soon as possible on the grounds of family relationship and blood relationship.

How can Shu Yunci be such an easy compromise person?When the old men came to lobby for the second time, she disappeared with an excuse.I found a few court ladies who could talk, and chatted with these old princes for a day, and finally they couldn't sit still before leaving.

They came again after a while, and they couldn't even enter the gate of the palace.The old men never imagined that Shu Yunci would do such a terrible thing, so they went to Shangde Palace to find Emperor Yuanming to file a complaint in a fit of anger.

Emperor Yuanming had limited talent, but he was a sensible person.The emperor for so many years is not in vain.He took the time to explain the truth to the old princes, but found that these people had no intention of leaving at all.This is deliberately embarrassing Emperor Yuanming.

Emperor Yuanming was also unequivocal, following his own daughter's example, he has been avoiding these people since then, and secretly sent letters to the palace.Shu Yunci sent someone over to pick up the old princes and hand them over to the family to take care of them.

She will not send any letters from the court about this matter.This situation naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of the courtiers, until one day, Shu Yunci announced in the court hall that King Qinyang had seven crimes, including treason, embezzlement of land, and murder by his son, all of which were serious crimes.