While on the road the next day, Yan Ruozhen glanced at Han Yida who was still following her. She didn't know why he followed her. Shouldn't he be looking for Lan Lan? Maybe he was heading in the wrong direction.
The two of them walked in tandem, and in less than half an hour, they finally arrived at the inn with a carriage.
Yan Ruocheng couldn't wait to find the horseman to calculate the price, and prepared to take the carriage directly to Huangcheng.
However, there happened to be a businessman on the road who competed with her for the carriage. The businessman offered double the price for all the carriages, so the coachman naturally acted based on money.
"Sir, I see you don't have much goods. Can you bring one out? I have something very important and I'm in a hurry to get back to the city." Yan Ruocheng wanted to argue with him.
"Go, go away, you're a village girl, why should I give you one? Don't block me from moving my goods." The businessman waved his hand in annoyance, asking her to go away.
Han Yida came over and threw the businessman and the groom away with one hand. He snatched the carriage directly. After helping Yan Ruocheng get into the carriage, he drove it himself and set off.
"Han Yida, do you know that I am going to Huangcheng? Don't drive the carriage towards Fengli City in the northern suburbs of Jiujiang?" Yan Ruozhen gestured towards him, fearing that he would drive in the wrong direction.
Han Yida thought she was annoying, so he knocked her out with a palm and pushed her into the carriage.
He wanted to take Yan Ruocheng back to Huangcheng and ask her husband, the eldest prince, for a favor and send shadow guards to find Lan Lan. It would be too troublesome for him to find her by himself, but with the help of the eldest prince's people,
It was much easier, so he followed Yan Ruocheng.
As soon as the carriage entered the city, they met the people sent by the imperial city. They immediately recognized the woman in the carriage as the eldest princess Yan Ruocheng.
In this way, Yan Ruocheng was sent back to the imperial city. Han Yida made a great contribution by accident. Huang Chenling fulfilled his wish and sent someone to help find Lanlan.
Yan Ruocheng opened his eyes and was already in a certain palace in the palace.
"You're awake!" Huang Fengmo hugged her impatiently.
"Husband, that's great, I knew you were fine." Yan Ruocheng also hugged him.
"Why are you alone, Xiaoling?" Huang Fengmo asked.
"Xiao Ling was captured by the Western soldiers. I have been separated from him for half a month. Send someone to catch him quickly!" Yan Ruozhen said anxiously.
"Actually, I have been sending people around to look for you, but there is no news. There is no movement at all from the Westerners. The shadow guards who were assigned came back to report that the Westerners have returned to the big ship and are ready to go to sea at any time. I
I'm afraid that Xiaoling will also be taken on board by them." Huang Fengmo told her the latest news.
"Then why don't you send people to their ship to look for people?" Yan Ruocheng said.
"Already sent." Huang Chenling had already come in, heard their conversation, and said.
"Chen Ling, I'm sorry, I didn't protect Xiao Ling well." Yan Ruocheng said guiltily.
"The fault is not yours, it's my fault. It was me who allowed the Westerners to enter our country and let them arrest our people in the Central Plains unscrupulously. I will make them pay the price." Huang Chenling said seriously.
"After Xiaoling and I were arrested, they once asked women like me to grow a poisonous plant called aphrodisiac, which is an addictive and harmful plant. They planned to use it to add tobacco to make it. If it flows into the
It would be unimaginable inside the city," Yan Ruocheng said.
"I won't let them succeed. We just need to find all the people who were captured, and then beat them all away and drive them out of the Central Plains. The most important thing now is to find Xiao Ling. You take good care of yourself first, and the other things will be taken care of."
Give it to me, don't worry. You will find it soon." Huang Chenling said.
"Well, I believe you." Yan Ruocheng nodded and said.
In Huang Guiyuan's mansion, Huan Jing rested for a short period of time. Before he fully recovered from his injuries, he was eager to go on a mission.
Yun Xi pushed her back to the bed and said, "Where are you going in a hurry? You can't even move your arms. What task are you in a hurry for?"
Huan said hurriedly: "I just received the news that Xiao Ling may have been taken to the ship. If Xiao Ling is missing, I will definitely be very anxious. How can I rest here?"
"If you don't rest here, are you going to die over there? We have sent other shadow guards to look for him. What does it matter if you are missing? Lie down!" Yunxi pushed him back.
"How can I end up going to find someone? Really, none of the other shadow guards have the characteristics that I am so familiar with Xiao Ling. I have to go. Don't stop me." Huan just wanted to get out of bed forcefully.
Yunxi directly pricked his dizzy point, Huan pointed at her and said: "You, why did you prick me?" Then he fainted.
"If I don't prick you, how can you lie down and rest obediently? I ask you to take risks every time. You don't owe the official anything, so why do you have to work so hard? You are my man. Apart from me,
No one is more important than me." Yun Xi covered him with a quilt and went out.
Huang Guiyuan was discussing with an important minister about some cooperative business between Central Plains merchants and Westerners.
"Your Majesty, we have begun to attack the Westerners. If we do this, it will affect the cooperative relationship between the merchants. Not all Westerners are bad. It's just that those Western soldiers are arresting people, and it has nothing to do with the Western merchants. The Second Emperor
Master, please go and persuade the Holy One not to take things so one-sided," the important minister said.
"Okay, I will talk to the Holy One."
"There is one more thing, I don't know whether I should say it or not?" The minister hesitated for a moment and said.
"Say it."
"It's a rumor about the Holy Emperor's illegitimate child. Someone in the palace spread that there was an affair between the Holy Emperor and the eldest princess, saying that Westerners had kidnapped his child. If this is true, I'm afraid the Queen's status will be in jeopardy."
The minister told him in a low voice.
After hearing this, Huang Guiyuan's face darkened and he said: "How can we take the rumors seriously? They should be the petty actions of those concubines who were left out in the harem. Xiulin's status as queen, as long as I am here, no one can touch it.
Her position. I will send someone to find out about this matter. You go back and tell the merchants first not to worry, the business of the Westerners will not be affected. Even if there is a war, it will only target the Western soldiers and will not affect the merchants.
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"Okay. I will take my leave first." The important minister left on his own.
Yun Xi was eavesdropping outside the window, while Huang Guiyuan picked up the cup and threw it towards her location.
Bang! The cup hit her head easily.
"If you haven't come out yet, do you need me to throw a second cup?" Huang Guiyuan said with a chuckle.
Yun Xi touched the top of his head, climbed in and said, "You know I'm outside, but you still throw the cup. Do you want me to come in and beat you?"
"Do you dare to beat me?" Huang Guiyuan sat down, poured a cup himself, and drank slowly.
Yun Xi walked to him, sat down, and said, "Are you also going to deal with that kid? He has been captured by Western soldiers, and his life or death is uncertain."
"You know a lot of things. No wonder it spread out in the palace. It seems that things can't be covered up." Huang Guiyuan said with a sigh.
"What are you going to do?" Yun Xi asked. "I don't want them to find the child. Once the child is found, it means that the queen's status is threatened. However, these are all my previous thoughts. Now let it go.
." Huang Guiyuan continued to drink tea slowly.
"Your Majesty, you seem to have looked away." Yun Xi held her cheek and said with a smile.
"Follow you a lot. I can't be so selfish anymore. I asked my adopted daughter to marry the Holy Lord and make her a queen. I thought I would help her arrange the safest and happiest path. However, in the past few years,
, but she has never been truly liked by the Holy Emperor. I feel that I have done something wrong." Huang Guiyuan said angrily.
"It's not that you did anything wrong, it was because your adopted daughter was too willful back then. I heard Yan Ruocheng say how she was bullied by your adopted daughter back then. If it were me, I would have beaten your adopted daughter into a pig's head.
Looks like this. It's my fault that you are too kind as a foster father, but a kind father often loses his daughter." Yun Xi took the cup of tea from him, drank it himself, and said.
"You have never been a parent, so you can talk so easily." Huang Guiyuan said.
"So I never want to be that person. It's annoying. It's better to be alone and free. Yes, I want Huan to rest for a few more days. Those shadow guards always come to report the situation to him. It's very annoying.
, can you just ask them to report to you, don't go to him." Yun Xi said.
"He is the leader of the Shadow Guards. It is your duty to report to him. You said that my adopted daughter is willful. I think you are several times more willful than her now." Huang Guiyuan was not willing to help.
"He's still injured. If I hadn't stung him just now, he would have gone on a mission. There are so many Shadow Guards, and one of them without him won't die. Just help, or send someone else.
He has become the leader. Anyway, I want him to recover from his injuries!" Yun Xi said arrogantly.
"Second Emperor, I haven't seen you for so many years, and I never thought that such a arrogant maid would dare to talk to you like this." Yan Yiyan walked out from behind the screen and said.
"Come here, Yiyan." Huang Guiyuan had already made arrangements to call back Yan Yiyan, the former leader of the Shadow Guards.
Yan Yiyan has retired since he got married to A Qiu.
Recently, I received a secret edict from Huang Guiyuan. He mentioned that Huan was seriously injured and needed his help, so he came here again.
"I'm not a maid. Who is this?" Yun Xi asked.
"He is the former leader of the Shadow Guards, his name is Yan Yiyan. Huan Ye was once his subordinate," Huang Guiyuan introduced.
"Second Emperor, how is he doing now?" Yan Yiyan asked.
"If you can't die, you are seriously injured and can't move your arms. Since you are the former leader, I will leave all tasks to you." Yun Xi said.
Yan Yiyan ignored Yun Xi and asked: "Second Emperor, who is she? How come she doesn't speak big or small?"
Yun Xi walked up to Huang Guiyuan, hugged his arm personally, leaned her head on his shoulder, and said, "You should know who I am in your master's eyes by looking like this, right?"
Yan Yiyan took a few steps back in horror and stuttered, "Second Emperor, is this true?"
Although Yun Xi was too rude and impolite with her words, he still doted on her.
"Really. No need to be surprised. I fell in love with her. She is not a bad person, but she has a bad mouth and easily offends people. Her name is Yun Xi. You can call her Miss Yun. She is good at various medical skills." Huang
Guiyuan said helplessly.
Yun Xi smiled at Yan Yiyan. Yan Yiyan's first impression of her was not very good, so even if Huang Guiyuan said this, he still had reservations.