MTL - The Fugitive White Moonlight of a Powerful Minister-Chapter 172 Exploration

  In Yichun's view, Wen Ning is married to Pei You, and this matter was undoubtedly discussed by the two of them back then.

   It was nothing more than the fact that Pei You had just been admitted back to the Duke's mansion at that time, and it was inconvenient to come forward.

  Otherwise, for a little girl like Wen Ning, the price is four thousand taels, where did the money come from? !

   But after he finished speaking, under the dim candlelight, the prince's eyelids twitched violently.

   "What did you say?" His black eyes suddenly became deep, and he stared at him for a moment, as if he didn't know anything about it.

  It was only then that Yichun realized that he might have made a mistake in his calculations, but he said everything, this... Husband and wife are a family, so it doesn't count as him revealing the privacy of the guests, right? !

"Four thousand taels saved the lives of the master and servant of the king's house." Yichun quickly convinced himself, and made it clear, "After the matter is completed, he will be sent away from the capital, and he will not be allowed to return to the capital for a year. It's just the Wang couple, so I sent them away, and returned Mrs. Wang's pair of jasper earrings as a token. You go back and ask her about this, there is absolutely no lie!"

   A gust of wind passed by, and the already dim candlelight flickered in the dark cell, making the complexion of the person on the grand master's chair even more gloomy.

  Yichun looked at him with a pair of eyes that seemed to be completely calm and without waves, but also seemed to be brewing stormy waves under that superficial calm. After a while, he spoke, his voice was a little hoarse: "When did it happen?"

  Yichun didn't even need to think about it: "In April of the 14th year of Jiahe, you were there that day, drinking downstairs, and the two of you had a fight because of it."

  Although he doesn't care much about the affairs of the men and women in the building, Wen Ning is his guest, and Yichun is deeply impressed by this.

  Pei You was silent for a while, and asked, "What else?"

   "What else?" Yichun said bluntly.

But seeing the corners of Pei You's pursed lips, she hesitated again, and hurriedly said: "At that time, Mrs. Zun didn't seem to be sure whether the royal residence would catch fire. After the incident, I have a message that I want to sell it to her for five thousand taels. Too expensive and refused."

   After all, he is a person who is used to "business", Yichun immediately said: "This news is worth five thousand taels, it is definitely not a scam! My son, if I tell you for free, you let me go?"

  Pei You twitched the corners of his mouth expressionlessly: "Is it up to you now?"

  Yichun never expected that the gentle and elegant champion riding on a high horse when parading the streets back then had such a cold and surly side. In the Jianghu... wouldn't he be a big devil?

He shivered, and felt that he could no longer negotiate the terms desperately: "My son's hands and eyes are open to the sky, I must have found out by myself now. The fire in the Wang's house that night was man-made. People who went to work that night saw a few masked men." They rushed in to set the fire, the few people probably didn’t expect that someone was guarding nearby, they didn’t pretend too much, and they all had Fubingwei’s badges on their waists.”

   There was a moment of silence in the dark cell.

Yichun rubbed the goosebumps on his body, and said bitterly: "Master Pei, who knows every detail, I really only met Mrs. Zun twice! The first time was when she used money to find me to do something, and the second time was when I asked She went to Yichun Garden to get a token, I don't even remember what she looks like, really didn't..."

   "Where's Yingyao?" Pei You suddenly looked at him, "Xichenyan, Yingyao, explain clearly."

  Yichun looked at Pei You in astonishment: "What cleansing banquet? Yingyao? Your Madam also knows Yingyao?"

  The cold dark prison fell into silence again, the lamps and candles were flickering, and there was no sound at all.

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   "Hush!"

With a sudden slap on the shoulder, Wen Ning's three souls went to the seven souls, and the people behind him also knew that he had frightened her, so they gave a soft "shh" with their index fingers, and then took Wen Ning's hand to the side Walk.

  Wen Ning turned her head, just in time to catch a glimpse of Pei Guogong coming out of it, and walked away quickly, without even looking at something falling out of his sleeve.

"I'm really sorry, I was in the courtyard just now, and I didn't hear you coming in." Princess Zhaohe smiled, looking very friendly, "Chaoyang Palace is my aunt's former residence, and today is my aunt's birthday. I want to come to my uncle. If you celebrate her birthday with her, you should..."

  She tilted her head and looked at Wen Ning with her clear eyes, "Didn't you hear anything you shouldn't have heard?"

  Wen Ning's heart was in a mess, her mind was full of the conversation between Princess Caichang and Duke Pei, when Princess Zhaohe asked this question, she moved her lips in a daze, but did not make a sound.

   "You should be hungry?" Princess Showa laughed again, "I'll take you to eat."

  Wen Ning followed Princess Showa subconsciously, and had to separate her mind from her chaotic mind to deal with the current situation.

  Princess Showa is holding a icy pine branch in her hand. There is snow in her hair and the bottom of her skirt is wet. It looks like she was enjoying the rime in the yard just now.

  She smiled so innocently, it didn't look like she was deliberately leading her to listen to the conversation between the eldest princess and Pei Guogong.

  But she appeared so coincidentally...

  If she lured her here on purpose, what was the purpose?

  Wen Ning's mind was even more confused, but fortunately Linglan supported her all the time, and she just walked forward with Linglan's steps.

"Wen... oh no, now it's time to call you cousin." When she was about to reach Chaolu Palace, Princess Zhaohe turned her head and handed a pine branch wrapped in ice to Wen Ning, "Cousin, look at this, does it look good?" ?”

  Wen Ning has somewhat recovered, glanced at the crystal clear pine branches, and smiled slightly: "It's pretty."

   "It's a pity." Princess Showa sighed, "It only shines brightly because of the ice, but when it enters the palace and the ice melts, it will be nothing."

   As he spoke, he threw the pine branch directly to the ground.

   "Let's go, cousin, Zhaohe has been looking forward to you for a long time." Enthusiastically pulled Wen Ning into Chaolu Palace.

   This time in Chaolu Palace, Wen Ning was naturally not as talkative as when she first came here.

   Firstly, she still remembers the conversation between Princess Chang and Duke Pei, secondly, her identity is different now, and her state of mind is even more different. Thirdly, it is only the third time she has met Princess Zhaohe, so she is really not familiar with her.

  Princess Showa talked more this time than last time, and she only talked about Pei You.

"Speaking of which, it's a bit of a disadvantage for me to call you cousin sister-in-law." Princess Zhaohe kept smiling, "The son is only three days older than me. At that time, the father and the emperor entrusted the mother to the aunt. He is dishonest, the month is younger than me, and he came out early, so that when the empress gave birth, there was not even a capable person around her."

"The year the son was found, the father was very happy." She ate the meal leisurely, smiling while eating, "The reward for the son was too generous at that time, which made the second and fourth brothers dissatisfied. You came to me and wanted me to persuade father and emperor. I dare not, and mother and queen have not been able to persuade me, how can I persuade you?"

"What happened to the second younger brother a few days ago made the father sad and angry. Recently, the fourth younger brother has frequently acted in the court, which also made the father unhappy. Hey..." Princess Zhaohe sighed, "If I Like the son, he is a man who is both capable and responsible, and it would be great if he can relieve father's worries."

  Wen Ning became more and more biased when she heard this, and was about to stop her, but Princess Zhaohe stopped her words in time: "In this way, the emperor father and the queen mother will not quarrel."

  She looked at Wen Ning and smiled. Wen Ning couldn't tell whether the smile was real or not.

   Fortunately, after that, she didn't mention Pei You any more, Wen Ning was determined to eat dinner quickly so that she could leave the table and go home.

   "Although there is a lot of noise outside, saying that the eldest son has raised an outer room, how can he love you so much." Before leaving, Princess Zhaohe held Wen Ning's hand, "But I still feel that you are the only one he cares about."

  Showa smiled: "I saw the New Year's Eve dinner last time, the way he looked at you."

"It's cold after winter, and it's boring to think about my cousin staying at home." She took out a book and stuffed it directly into Wen Ning's hands, "This is a Buddhist scripture that my mother hand-copied when she was still ill. If you have time, why not?" Also copy the scriptures and pray for the son."

  Wen Ning only felt that Princess Zhaohe's behavior tonight was very strange. On the carriage back home, she turned the scriptures back and forth, and it was indeed just a scripture.

"Girl, what do I think... Princess Zhaohe is acting strange tonight." Even Linglan sensed that something was wrong, "Could it be that the empress has lost her power, she felt that she was not relied on, and then she remembered the time when you married my son-in-law, Mingli I'm talking about uncle in private..."

  The sky was already dark, probably already past the time of Haishi, and fine snow particles began to float in the sky again. The heater that Wen Ning carried with her was already completely cold, and she just felt the cold wind blowing towards her heart, making her extremely uneasy.

   "Linglan, tell the carriage to go faster."

  At this moment in the dark prison, no one has spoken for half an hour.

  Yichun was so cold that she didn't know which posture to use to shiver. Gu Fei and Tu Bai had already exchanged a lot of winks.

  Just after asking Xichenyan and Yingyao, the prince spoke half a sentence.

  The reason why it is a half sentence is because Shizi seemed to realize that it was unnecessary in the middle of the sentence and stopped.

  He said: "The Toon Street..."

   It was Yichun who saw him only half-spoken and didn't give a damn, and couldn't hold back: "What Xiangton Street? I haven't been to Xiangton Street with Mrs. Zun!"

   After that, Shizi fell silent.

  The dim candlelight flickered slightly, his eyebrows and eyes were lowered slightly, the crow feathers lightly covered his eyelids, and he was as silent as a long-lasting ancient painting, only the small mole on the side of his nose showed a vivid red color under the candlelight.

  Gu Fei immediately went to see Pei You's hand.

   On the thumb of Pei You's right hand, there is a white jade finger ring. Gu Fei knows that it was given to him by his wife. He likes it very much. When thinking about things, he likes to rub the finger ring lightly.

   Sure enough, although he didn't move at this moment, he put his hand on the finger and stroked it very gently.

   It's just that no one can guess what he found out from Mr. Yi's few words.

   Moreover, this time he spent a lot of time thinking about it.

   "Let him go." Just when Gu Fei thought Pei You would sit here for an hour, Pei You finally spoke.

  He didn't look at Mr. Yi again, got up and strode out.

  Gu Fei gave Tu Bai a wink, and asked him to take care of Mr. Yi's affairs, and follow Pei You by himself.

  It's snowing outside, and the wind is blowing.

   "Where's Madam?" Pei You asked after leaving the prison.

  Princess Zhaohe's carriage went to pick up Wen Ning, it was the time when Pei You was on duty, and then they went into the dark prison and never came out again, so Gu Fei didn't know about Wen Ning's entry into the palace.

   "Should be waiting for the prince in Qinghui Hall."

  He knew that the relationship between the husband and wife could not be better recently, and Wen Ning would turn on the lights in Qinghui Hall every night to wait for the eldest son to go back.

  Pei You walked faster.

  The dark prison does not come in and out directly from the mansion, but the exit is not far from the Guogong mansion.

  Pei You walked quickly and arrived at the entrance of the mansion in a short time, and Wen Ning's carriage was also at the main entrance at this time.

  As soon as Wen Ning got out of the carriage, she saw Pei You walking quickly in the night; Pei You was all about Qinghui Hall, when she looked up, she saw someone in front of her, and she hurriedly got out of the carriage when she saw him.

  Wen Ning dragged her cloak and walked towards Pei You quickly. Pei You, dressed in an official uniform, also walked towards Wen Ning quickly.

  Seeing that there was only a short distance away, the two of them stopped at the same time.

  Snow particles fluttered under the light of the candles and fell between the two of them.

  Obviously the person who only said goodbye in the morning, it was only a day, like a long time separation, countless words swimming in the Yingying water that looked at each other.

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