It looks dilapidated from the outside, but the inside of the carriage is complete. The brazier has been lit long ago, the comfortable seats are padded, and a blanket is neatly folded aside. It should be used to keep Qi warm in the cold night.The bumpy road finally made Qi Ping regain some sense of reality, and rubbed his brows vigorously to sort out his messy thoughts.

Because the incident happened suddenly, she didn't even know where Wei Bingcheng was going to take her, whether he was hiding in the mountains and seas isolated from the world or seeking refuge with powerful officials and dignitaries. How could the former Chu Ping minions spread all over the world easily? The latter is even more delusional.

Now besides Qi Xiao, the most powerful person in Dayu is Chu Ping, who dares to disobey Chu Ping and hide Qi Ping privately.

But even though the way forward is unclear and the whole story is only vague, Qi Ping still chooses to believe in Wei Bingcheng. If he wants to say why, it is because of his trust for more than ten years.

It is true that there is a heart in the face. Some people shy away at the first sight, like Mr. Liu, while others are bold and righteous but not full of wealth, such as Pan Wenxuan, the son of the treasurer Pan. Wei Bingcheng's elegant appearance gives people a kind of A well-informed and trustworthy person, with a peaceful face, can easily give people a sense of honesty and reliability, and he is indeed a humble and good son.

Just as he was thinking about it, the other party just lifted the curtain of the car and walked in. Because of the difference between men and women and the distinction between high and low, Wei Bingcheng sat upright at the place farthest from Qi Ping. His gentle eyes reminded people of the time when he was by the lake. The boy who earnestly taught her how to read and write.

Even if time has left traces on his face, and the youthful romance has long since faded, he is still a trustworthy person.

In order to bring out the topic to be discussed, Wei Bingcheng distractedly fiddled with the charcoal in the stove with tongs, and sparks floated from the flicked charcoal, like the fireworks lit that night.

Averting his eyes from the charcoal, when he raised his eyes, Qi Zhe looked at the burning brazier with a calm expression. His defenseless posture showed that the other party trusted him extremely. In a big blue-gray coat, her face was worried and worried, like a young lady who had left her hometown in distress.

Wei Bingcheng frowned, he didn't know whether to comfort him first or go straight to the point.

"Master Wei, you said earlier that the king intends to be the husband of the emperor? Is there any basis?"

When he was still hesitating, Qi Bing raised the topic first, and Wei Bingcheng retracted his thoughts and nodded: "It's a long story." Qi Bing was ready to listen attentively, sat upright, and waited for Wei Bingcheng's next words.

It turned out that after the Tianshou Festival that day, it was still harmonious on the surface. Although the three treasure seals made the atmosphere tense for a while, when the fireworks were ignited at the end, all the grievances and hatreds really seemed to be burnt out together.

But just after the banquet was over, he was going to Lanyue Palace, Qi Xiao didn't know what he saw or learned, his face suddenly turned cold, making the ministers puzzled, and finally changed his way back to the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

On the second day, that is, the morning after the Tianshou Festival, Qi Xiao actually listed eight major crimes and wanted to send Eunuch Liu to the prison to be interrogated by the third division. The most appalling of the eight major crimes was the murder of royal blood.

In fact, after Xiao Anzi told the herbal medicine that genkwa was added, Qi Xiaoming did not take any action, and secretly sent someone to investigate. However, the person involved must have destroyed the criminal evidence after learning about the Dongchuang incident, but there is no impenetrable wall in the world, even if it is destroyed in the palace. The criminal evidence, the clues left outside the palace, were soon found out.

The herbal medicines in the Shangyao Bureau are strictly managed, and all medicines need to be registered for use. Moreover, Daphne genkwa is slightly poisonous, so we should be more careful when consuming it. It must be brought in from outside the palace in advance.

After careful investigation, the other party was of course very cautious. He did not buy daphne from a fixed pharmacy. He searched all major pharmacies in the capital and found no suspicious person. Finally, he accidentally found clues from the guards at the palace gate.

It should be one day in mid-September, when Zhou Wu's imperial physician from Shangyao Bureau scattered a bag of medicinal herbs from his arms when he entered the palace, the precious medicinal materials in the pharmacy. It was the first time for the medicinal materials from outside to be brought in, which made the guard pay more attention, and made him even more surprised that they were scattered and covered with dust, and Zhou Wu was so anxious that he picked them up and put them into his arms.

Adhering to the fact that more things are worse than less things, the guards guessed that they probably wanted to bring second-class medicinal materials from outside into the palace to fill their own pockets, so they talked about it while drinking with their brothers, and then left it behind. Remember.

The speaker had no intention of listening, and the listener was interested. After the incident of Qi Zhe, someone with good intentions secretly reported the matter. Anbu drew a portrait of Zhou Wu overnight and went out of the palace to inquire. Although not many shopkeepers recognized the person in the painting, and The purchase was indeed Daphne, if you want to say why you still remember him, it is because you come and go in a hurry and spend a lot of money.

It should be because of a guilty conscience, so I wanted to make a quick decision, but I didn't expect it to deepen the impression.

That night, Anbu arrested Zhou Wu and wanted to torture him to extract a confession. Before the arrest was made, the other party fainted as soon as he rolled his eyes. After splashing water and pressing him down, he finally recovered and fell to the ground. Ten of them gave everything.

When the ins and outs of the matter are found out, it will be the day of Tianshou Festival. Originally, Anbu didn't intend to cause trouble for Qi Xiao on this day, but Qi Xiao had an order before to investigate the matter thoroughly and report back immediately if he found something.

So when everyone raised their heads to watch the fireworks, Anbu sent the note that had been prepared into Qi Xiao's hands.

Speaking of this, Wei Bingcheng paused, licked his lips, and swallowed as if to cheer himself up, "Then Zhou Wu probably wanted to make up for his past mistakes, and even confessed the poisoning sequence 20 years ago."

Qi Yi leaned back. If he hadn't been sitting down, he would have collapsed. Wei Bingcheng glanced at him worriedly, and exhaled heavily: "Back then, Zhou Wu was just offering medicine, following an imperial physician as a follower. It was at that time that I knew the trick, but I respected my status, and the amount of Daphne Flowers I put in every day was very small for fear of being noticed, so it took four years for the poison to enter the marrow."

"So... who is it?" Qi Ting asked in a daze, as if she was listening to a story that had nothing to do with her, without sadness or anger, just as if the listener was asking about the final ending of the story.

In fact, the two already knew who they were, and Wei Bingcheng nodded to confirm Qi Ji's guess, "Instructions for Eunuch Liu." After speaking, he shook his head again, "Actually, he is just an eagle dog, the person behind the scenes..."

Quietly stopped talking, Qi Zhe was not in a hurry, and everyone knew what was left unsaid, and the mission that was not revealed, but Qi Zhe was still in a trance of shock from the shocking truth before.

"Mother's queen..." Her lips trembled and she muttered to herself. Wei Bingcheng thought that Qi Yi would cry uncontrollably, but after a short and short breath, she gritted her teeth and asked, "Then after that, how about beating Eunuch Liu?" After entering the prison?"

"The first person who raised objections was King Jian, who said that there might be something hidden in it. Someone deliberately framed Eunuch Liu, and wanted to resend Zhou Wu to the Ministry of Criminal Justice for torture, and even asked Xiao Anzi to be held accountable. In fact, it was obvious that King Jian was afraid of Eunuch Liu. If he keeps interrogating, too many people will be implicated, and his actions are nothing more than delaying time."

The subsequent development of things revolved around this. Qi Xiao's official seal of punishing evil and punishing crimes was in Qi Xiao's hands. An imperial edict left no room for Chu Ping to maneuver, and Chu Ping realized that Qi Xiao wanted to use this matter to eradicate His henchmen even overthrew his influence.

That night, the [-] troops received a military order to surround the capital layer by layer, and Chu Ping sent twelve soldiers around him to guard Qi Xiao on the pretext that he hadn't caught the thief.

The hanging heads and the shadow guards are both similar and different. They are both personal guards, and the shadow guards are secret guards. The hanging heads are just like their names, they hang their heads, and they are willing to sacrifice their heads anytime, anywhere. Said to protect Qi Xiao, the solemn and expressionless guards looked more like Rakshasa who came to ask for his life.

At this point, Qi Xiao's actions were restricted, and when Chu Ping proposed, with no shame on his face, to let Qi Xiaonafu be the candidate a few days later, Qi Xiao, who was sitting in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, just let out a cold chuckle.

For the next few days, Chu Ping used the excuse that Qi Xiao was ill and could not go to court early, so he trapped Qi Xiao in the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Of course, Wei Bingcheng also couldn't see Qi Xiao, and when he didn't know what to do, a letterhead was delivered to him, and he stayed with Qi Xiao as an attendant all the time, and immediately recognized Qi Xiao's handwriting.

The content of the letter was very simple, asking Wei Bingcheng to protect Qi Zhi's safety and also said a secret way that only the royal family knew, but on her own side, she just used the words "I have my own plan" and vaguely perfunctory.

In the next few days, Wei Bingcheng was worried about how to protect Qi Bing, the palace was full of dangers, and that hard-won letter, from the beginning to the end, only Qi Xiao was deeply worried about Qi Bing, and he didn't even see anything about himself or the future. A reminder of the situation.

Wei Bingcheng had long known the position of the princess in the empress's heart, but when he saw that she was imprisoned and still put Qi Ping first, even he felt a heavy burden on him.

If there is a mistake, what will happen?

What immediately came to mind was a year ago, Qi Xiao's eyes were bloodshot and painful, and she would never want to see her like that again in her lifetime.

After thinking about it for a while, it was a desperate move to take him away from Qi Zhi and flee to the end of the world.

It's too early to say that they are in exile. They are rushing all the way without stopping, just to get to a safe place as soon as possible.

But that destination...

Wei Bingcheng stopped talking, hesitated for a moment, and said: "It won't be long before the king will notice the anomaly and will definitely send people to search it. The official road is impassable. After that, we all need to bypass the official road and take a small road."

Speaking of this, Wei Bingcheng opened the curtains of the carriage, the sky had just turned fish belly white, and the night of chasing from night to dawn finally came to an end. Tiredly rubbing his sore eyes, Wei Bingcheng put down the curtains and looked back: "Your Highness has not slept all night. , I must be tired, after that we will have to travel day and night, please be patient, Your Highness."

He handed over his hand and was about to get out of the carriage. Just when he stood up, he realized that he was the one talking all the way. On the contrary, Qi Ping, who was the person involved, was silent and only asked one or two questions, whether he believed in himself or something else My own opinion.

"Your Highness." Bending slightly, Wei Bingcheng asked cautiously, "Do you have any questions?"

Qi Ping didn't avoid Wei Bingcheng's probing eyes, and forced himself to straighten his back again and replied, "When will Mr. Wei tell me, where are we going?"

Wei Bingcheng immediately showed a troubled expression, and Qi Ping couldn't help frowning, since he had already left the palace, why did he hide his direction? The only thing he could guess was that even Wei Bingcheng himself was not fully sure that he could reach the predetermined place.

After a brief silence, Wei Bingcheng could only sigh softly: "Xiping County."

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