After I became a widow

There are many people who can freely enter and leave the imperial palace, but not many who can freely enter and exit the harem, especially those who can quietly bring a living person out of the palace from the palace of the imperial concubine, there are only a handful of people who can do this step.

Now he doesn't know the identity of the man in black, but something happened to Jingyang, he has a reason to return to the capital, and after returning to the palace to check, Su Jingqing believes that he can find out a lot of things.

Even if he couldn't cut off all the black hands behind the scenes with the man in black, he could make them break several.

After contacting them a few times, Su Jingqing also figured out their motives - wanting to change the dynasty.

This kind of treasonous crime, until the situation is completely under control, they only dare to hide in the dark like mice in the gutter, not daring to see the light.

So compared to Su Jingqing's leisurely look at the moment, the black-robed man restrained his hands and feet. He wanted to strangle Jingyang several times but held back several times, only seeing Su Jingqing's eyes as if poisoned.

"Su Jingqing, if you are against me today, aren't you afraid that you will have to collect the corpses of your Su family when you return to the capital?"

Su Jingqing asked back: "Could it be that if I don't fight against you today, you will let my family go?"

"If it wasn't for you not knowing how to flatter and support Xiao Beihuai, no one would touch your Su family," even looked down upon.

"Unfortunately, Xiao Beihuai is my man, and I am willing to support him." Su Jingqing played with the dagger he took out from his sleeve, very leisurely.

"Then your Su family must die!" The man in black suddenly became angry, raised his hand and threw out the powder, and took Jingyang away while everyone was dazzled.

They all started to use this kind of escape method, Su Jingqing felt that he had a little high opinion of this person before, or was this just a pawn?

Su Jingqing was a little uncertain.

The battle situation ahead was clear, Su Jingqing had transferred soldiers from the camp in the suburbs of Beijing, so there was no way that so many people could not keep the man in black under his command.

And Ye Xiao had already led Liangzhou Wei into the forest to chase the man in black.

The black-robed people appeared here again and again, and disappeared from here every time. Even if they couldn't catch anyone today, they could still take their lair hidden in the forest, and the trip would not be in vain.

Si Yan asked Su Jingqing for instructions, "My lord, do you want to go first?"

Su Jingqing shook his head, "No rush, wait for Guard Ye to come back."

Find the people or things hidden in the forest, and wait for Ye Xiao to return to the city before he can enter the palace to meet the emperor. Before he leaves, he has to bite those people hard, so that he can truly feel at ease.

But they waited for a long time, and Ye Xiao didn't show up until dark, with injuries on his body.

Ye Xiao: "Princess, there is a secret road in the forest, that secret road can actually lead to the city, and there are many traps, if you are not careful, you will be buried in it."

Ye Xiao only brought two people there, and he walked very carefully, but he was still injured.

Su Jingqing looked at the blood-stained part of his shoulder, and said hard, and then asked about the specific situation of the secret passage, "Aside from leading to the inside and outside of the city, what else did you find?"

Ye Xiao said: "Some bones, and then there are the axle marks. The bones look like fugitives who were shot dead by the police, and the axle marks are heavy objects that have been transported. There are no other traces or smells left on the ground. Judging temporarily Nothing to deliver."

I didn't do much business, but I didn't dig the secret road less.

"Where's the man in black?" Su Jingqing asked.

Ye Xiao shook his head, "He is familiar with the mechanism of the secret path, and led Princess Jingyang into the city first, but the officials did not catch up."

Su Jingqing was not surprised at all, after all, it seemed that the matter was too simple for someone to be caught and broken so easily.

But today's encounter was not fruitless, Su Jingqing told Ye Xiao, "Take people back to the city, and report the secret road and Jingyang being taken out of the palace, and someone will investigate at that time."

Few emperors would allow someone to provoke him under their noses, especially if the emperor still had the ability to deal with those people.

Apart from other things, this secret passage is useless, and the palace will also undergo a major change.

Those people were busy finishing the aftermath, so they didn't have so much time to trouble the Su family.

Su Jingqing turned the horse's head and galloped towards the other side. Now he was going to see his lord.

……

I don't know if I was frightened by my "showing great power" when I first left Beijing, but the journey from Kyoto to Mizhou went smoothly.

The situation in Mizhou is not good. The fields, mountains and forests are green, and there is life everywhere, but the people are skinny, their eyes are numb and lifeless, as if they can't see any hope.

This is not right. Xiao Beihuai sent a letter back to the capital. Su Jingqing knew that the snow disaster in Mizhou was over, so he redistributed the land to the people and distributed the seeds. With food and clothing, why do these people look like this?

Su Jingqing looked at Siyan, "Go down and ask."

Siyan took two guards to the field to talk to the people. When the farmers saw their unfamiliar faces, they backed away in fright.

The people clenched the hoes in their hands, but they didn't dare to wave them out. Apart from begging for mercy, they didn't even have the courage to resist.

Si Yan frowned, trying to make herself look like a cute little girl, "Old man, we are passers-by from Kyoto, we just came to ask for directions, we won't arrest you, don't be afraid."

Hearing that the person came from the capital, the old farmer reacted even more violently, turned around and ran, scrambling, and shouted as he ran, "Run, everyone, people are coming from Kyoto, they are going to burn us to death, run, everyone!" ah."

A group of ragged people stumbled forward, completely neglecting the hoes and crops, looking full of horror, and at the same time, there was only one thought left, which was to survive.

After a while, people ran into the woods or hid somewhere and disappeared.

Si Yan and the two guards looked blankly, and Si Yan touched her face, "Do we look like bad guys that much?"

The guard refused to admit this, and Wang Tian pretended not to hear Si Yan's words.

When she walked back to report to Su Jingqing, Siyan was still struggling with this question, "My lord, do I really look so scary?"

Su Jingqing immediately said, "Who dares to say that our Siyan girl is scary, our Siyan girl is the most beautiful."

Si Yan was happy, and asked with her face held together, "How about comparing with the prince?"

Su Jingqing changed his face on the spot, "Except for me, who can be prettier than the prince?"

Siyan sticks out her tongue, the young master is really thick-skinned!

Su Jingqing said back to business, "Let someone find out what happened." No matter how people came from the capital, and why they were going to be burned to death, it sounded unusual.

The guards led the people away, and Su Jingqing and others continued to move forward and entered Mizhou City.

The guards coming and going at the gate of the city are patrolling. The gate is open, but no one enters or exits. There is no one outside the city, and there is no noise in the city. If the guards are not still walking, just looking at the silence, you will feel that the city is like a dead city.

Xiang Yu walked up to Su Jingqing with a sad face, "Princess, didn't you say that the epidemic has been brought under control?"

They met a messenger on the road and got a letter from the prince to Kyoto, saying that the epidemic was under control and did not continue to spread. There were also medicinal materials and rice grains sent from various places. There was no shortage of medicinal materials for food and clothing. With the prescription to cure the epidemic, the prince will be able to return to Beijing.

But now this battle doesn't look like the epidemic is under control.

"Who?!" The guard at the door suddenly shouted, and a group of guards came forward with spears and surrounded Su Jingqing.

"The city gate is an important place, idlers are not allowed to enter, leave quickly!"

Su Jingqing was observing these people. Judging from the armor patterns on their bodies and the weapons in their hands, they were not brought by Xiao Beihuai from the capital, but most likely the local garrison in Mizhou.

Su Jingqing asked, "Why can't you enter?"

"You shouldn't ask less questions, hurry up, or you will be arrested and sent to prison." The guards were very fierce in both tone and attitude, and they were very displeased with them.

Su Jingqing was about to test a few more words, when one of them suddenly raised a spear and shot down Su Jingqing's horse. Su Jingqing was startled, and hurriedly reined in his horse to avoid it, but the man who started it shouted: "Grab him, he is Huai!" princess!"

The people around Su Jingqing were all on alert, Siyan took out a long stick from her waist and danced twice, "Who dares to step forward?!"

Su Jingqing remembered that Wang Quan, the commander of the Mizhou garrison, was Tang Xicheng's disciple.

The Tang family was in trouble, and as a disciple, Wang Quan always had to show something.

This grudge is on his prince's head.

"The higher-ups said, whoever captures Princess Huai will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver, come on!"

Someone shouted more emphatically, and the guards surrounding Su Jingqing were ready to move.

Siyan shouted from the side, "If you take the money, you have to spend your life. My son came to Mizhou to visit the people on the order of the emperor. If he loses a hair, none of you will be able to escape."

"If you want to blame it, you can only blame Princess Huai for her bad luck. When you come to Mizhou where the epidemic is rampant, Princess Huai can rest assured that someone will explain your death to the emperor."

After the speaker finished speaking, he took the lead in attacking Su Jingqing, and Siyan and others immediately fought.

Su Jingqing brought people, but there were also many guards, and the two sides fought hard.

Su Jingqing stepped aside and looked around carefully, as if there were murderous intentions lurking everywhere.

So what exactly happened in this city that allowed Xiao Beihuai to allow these people to make trouble at the gate of the city, Su Jingqing guessed that the fearful reaction of the people outside Mizhou City might have something to do with Wang Quan.

Do you want to keep him and Xiao Beihuai in Mizhou, or do you want to destroy the whole Mizhou?

Siyan danced vigorously with a stick. She had great strength, and she had someone to help. After a stick of incense, the Mizhou guards were defeated.

Siyan asked Su Jingqing for instructions, "My lord, what should we do now?"

Su Jingqing looked at the group of people who had been knocked to the ground, most of them had expressions of fear and fear on their faces, only a few showed resentment, as if someone had robbed them of their hundred taels of silver.

"Go find a rope and tie it up. Before going into the city, sit down and talk to them."

Su Jingqing was very curious about what happened in the city, and his prince is not useless.

The stool on the carriage was moved down, and there was a small table and hot tea beside it. Su Jingqing sat down comfortably, drinking tea while looking at the group of tied people, regretting that the mung bean cake was finished on the way.

"Say!" Siyan couldn't hold back her fiery temper, and went up to kick the instigating guard in front, "To be honest, I'll save your life, if you're not honest, I'll throw you into the river and feed the fish."

The people brought by Su Jingqing guarded Su Jingqing tightly, carefully guarding against the people around him who would shoot in the back.

The guard who spoke vigorously just now became mute, and only stared at Su Jingqing with unwillingness in his eyes.

Su Jingqing said: "Since the tongue is useless, let's cut it off."

Siyan immediately pinched the guard's mouth and was about to do it. A guard from Duke Huai's mansion nearby advised her, "Miss Siyan, let us do this kind of dirty work."

"Oh," Siyan let go of her hand, she was used to being the first one to rush forward when carrying out the young master's orders, so she didn't react for a while.

The guard sacrificed the dagger in place of Si Yan, and screamed, the guard lost his tongue, and rolled over and over on the ground in pain.

The faces of the other guards around were pale with fright. This princess looked like a frail person, but she was actually a ruthless person.

"Is there anything you want to say?" Su Jingqing asked the guard for the bloody dagger, and played with it in a circle.

"If you don't take the initiative, ask one by one, and if you don't want to talk, don't talk anymore."

As soon as Su Jingqing opened his mouth, someone would naturally step forward to carry it out, one or two, and finally someone couldn't stand it anymore, "Say, I'll say, I'll say anything, please don't kill us, princess, I'll say everything. "

It's just that as soon as this remark came out, someone immediately criticized it.

"Liu Shuanzi, don't drag us together if you want to die, don't forget where your mother is."

"The show is not good, so keep cutting if you don't want to talk about it." The tea in his hand was cold, Su Jingqing felt a little cold, and wanted to go to the city quickly.

"I said!" Liu Shuanzi got excited and stood up straight away, "Wangfei, His Highness Duke Huai contracted the disease, that's why Commander Wang ordered the city to be closed. He wants us to capture Wangfei alive and make her pay for the life of Young Master Tang! "

Su Jingqing noticed that other people showed ashen expressions after Liu Shuanzi finished speaking.

"And then? How did Commander Wang threaten you?" Su Jingqing changed his posture.

Liu Shuanzi said with a serious face: "He arrested our family members and locked them in the same place. He said that if the concubine is not caught, he will let a person infected with the disease into the house, so that none of our family members will survive."

Su Jingqing nodded, that was the case, but he didn't believe it.

If it was true what Liu Shuanzi said, then there would be no temptation of just 100 taels of silver, but instead, he would rush forward to arrest him with a sullen head.

Su Jingqing thought for a while, "Roll up their sleeves and have a look."

Almost everyone knew the symptoms of the epidemic. The guards reacted and immediately blocked Su Jingqing. Siyan also came to pull Su Jingqing, "Young master?"

Su Jingqing shook his head, "It's fine."

He got up and stepped forward, "I guess, you are all infected with the disease. Wang Quan promised to take care of your family, so you stopped me at the gate of the city, trying to pass the disease to me."

"And the prince is not in the city at all right now, right? You want to control Mizhou City before the prince returns, and then use me as a threat, so as to coerce the prince into arresting him without a fight."

As Su Jingqing finished speaking, the sound of horseshoes came from behind him.

Su Jingqing turned his head and saw a group of people rushing from afar. The leader was the person in his dream who he thought about day and night several times.

The horse approached, raised its front hooves and neighed. Su Jingqing could clearly see the calm and handsome face of the man on the horseback.

Xiao Beihuai got off his horse neatly and walked towards him, Su Jingqing smiled, he could only have room for this one person.

When embraced by Xiao Beihuai, Su Jingqing said: "I knew that my prince is not useless."

The author has something to say:

I'm really sorry to stop updating for a few days, and I will resume updating from today.

My cold will be fine as soon as I hear that I am going to work...