Go to the capital, the Fourth Master’s Mansion.

The Fourth Master's Mansion, which was extremely lively some time ago, is a bit inappropriate to describe it as a deserted door. It is extremely deserted, and the vermilion gate is closed. The huge mansion is like a nanny, with no sign of anger or a sound.

A pot of charcoal fire was lit in the lobby. Xinmei hugged her daughters and snuggled together. In front of them was Cui Yifu, who was gray-faced.

What does it mean to lose? This is called lose. And it seems that there is no day to turn over. Their only hope for turning over is to put it on the fourth prince Li Xiao, but Li Xiao is already in Weizhou, and his itinerary is not a secret.

, there are daily reports from the court.

"Mr. Cui, can you send someone to inform the Fourth Master quickly and ask him to return to Taizhou immediately?" Although he knew there was no hope, Xinmei still couldn't help asking.

Cui Yifu shook his head slowly: "It's impossible. Now we can't send anyone out. Shangjing has been closed down. Moreover, we all know that the Fourth Master will return to Taizhou and join the army before he can get a way out. How could Li Jian not

I know, I'm afraid that the envoy who went to capture the Fourth Master was already on the way."

Xinmei's face was pale, "Is there really no way to do it?"

"Currently, I can only leave my fate!" Cui Yifu stood up staggeringly. "As a fourth master's adviser, Cui is now defeated so much, and he is really ashamed." He bowed deeply to Xinmei, and his steps were staggering.

He walked out. Xinmei was so confused that she hugged her daughters, but she didn't notice the strangeness on Cui Yifu's face.

Both daughters are sensible. Children born in the royal family always know how to give birth very early, although one is only seven years old and the other is only five years old, snuggling in the mother's arms, quietly and without sending a single one.

Word.

"Empress, Empress!" Li Zhien, the chief manager of the royal palace, ran in with a strange look.

"What happened?" Xinmei raised her head. At this time, she could no longer see any abnormality from her face. Now she is the head of the family, and even if she is afraid, she cannot show it on her face.

Although his body was still trembling slightly, from now on, there were any possibility that the guards, eunuchs, or the imperial envoys in the palace would break into the door. In the hundreds of years since the Dayue Dynasty, no emperor has passed the abnormal situation.

If the means are superior, once this precedent is set, there will be too many precedents to break, for example, the precedent that the winner never kills all the losers.

"I just sent another cargo of charcoal to the shopkeeper who was providing charcoal in the mansion." Li Zhien said.

Xinmei frowned slightly, looked at Li Zhien, waiting for his next sentence. Li Zhien always held serious, not the kind of person who didn't know the importance of it. He shouldn't disturb her such a trivial matter at this time.

"But he quietly stuffed this to us!" He took out a note of finger-wide. "It was sent back by Concubine Yun."

Xinmei was excited. Among the women in the Fourth Master's Mansion, Nianyun was the one with the most propositions. Yes, why did she forget her? Nianyun had already left the city, and she might have known the facts of the change in the capital before she could be better than herself.

With her outside, you should think of notifying the Fourth Master so that the Fourth Master can avoid this great disaster.

"Hurry up and give it to me!" Xinmei couldn't wait to reach out her hand.

The words on the note are very sloppy, obviously written in a hurry. "I have everything, wait quietly!" This is indeed Xinmei's handwriting.

Xinmei breathed a long sigh. Looking at the randomly torn note and sloppy handwriting, it was obviously not optimistic, but at least compared to before, there was a glimmer of hope for the Fourth Master's Mansion.

Now it is entrusted to Nian Yun who has left the city.

I get the melons and the beans and the beans are so lucky in Xinmei. Thanks to my soft heart for a while, I did not listen to Mr. Cui's words and killed Nianyun. Otherwise, I would have implicated the Fourth Master now.

"Main the business, hurry up and inform Mr. Cui, and say that Princess Nianyun has already started to take action outside, and the Fourth Master should be fine." Xinmei said happily.

"Yes!" Li Zhien also became excited and ran out happily.

After a while, Li Zhien ran back with a pale face, "Empress, Empress!"

"Where is Mr. Cui?"

"Mr. Cui, he..." Li Zhien stuttered and said for a while: "Mr. Cui committed suicide by hanging a beam in the room."

"What did you say?" Xinmei shook her body.

"Mr. Cui committed suicide. These things were everywhere in his room." Li Zhien picked up a thick stack of paper, and each piece of paper read: "I misled the Fourth Master!"

"Mr. Cui!" Xinmei moaned in a low voice, "Why are you doing this?"

Heavy snow was flying, and the bitter north wind blew the treetops, making a whimpering sound. Even Zhongwen ran away from his horse, and he didn't care that under such weather, it was very likely that the horse would lose its front hooves and cause injuries or even die.

, He must now race against the enemy. According to Princess Nianyun's inference, after Li Jian completely controlled Shangjing, the first thing he did was to deal with the Fourth Master. Then, to infer the itinerary, the opponent should be ahead of him at this time.

He even prayed that the wind and snow would be heavier and the weather would be worse. In this way, the enemy would probably stop rushing to avoid the wind and snow. In this way, he might have time.

"Catch the Fourth Master and let the Fourth Master escape back to Taizhou immediately." Nian Yun's order was like this. Lian Zhongwen noticed that what Princess Nian Yun said was to escape, not return.

Nian Yun stayed in Meiping, a small county in Weizhou. After she restarted the intelligence agency, a large amount of intelligence gathered in front of her. Li Jian had just controlled the court and had no time to deal with them. Nian Yun flipped through the information.

The information reported to Li Xiaoxiancheng was released, and the others were pushed aside. Based on this information, the place where Li Xiao stopped was roughly inferred, and then he issued two orders, one of which was to Lian Zhongwen, asking him to hurry up.

When he arrived at Ba County in Weizhou and stopped Li Xiao, he ordered all the personnel in Shangjing to immediately lurk. Without orders, no activities were allowed.

One day and one night, Lian Zhongwen ran and killed two horses. Finally, he arrived at Ba County on the third day when the lights were on. Seeing that the flying flags were not covered with white banners on the top of the city, Lian Zhongwen

After a long breath, he finally arrived at the forefront of time. The personnel sent by Shangjing had not had time to arrive here. In other words, everyone in Ba County did not know that the emperor had passed away and Li Jian had already taken office.

In other words, people here will still regard the Fourth Master as the most popular candidate for the throne, and they must be flattering and will not be detrimental to the Fourth Master.

The city gate was closed, and Lian Zhongwen took a roll of rope with anchor hooks from the remaining horse, ran to the city, threw out the anchor hook, hooked the battlements, and quickly climbed up the city wall.

.After clarifying the direction, and in a moment, he disappeared into the darkness.

The fourth prince visited this small place in Ba County, with hundreds of cavalry guards accompanying him, with a great target. Lian Zhongwen quickly found Li Xiao's headquarters, the only inn in Ba County.

The inn was heavily guarded, and the defense on the city walls of Ba County was extremely loose, as if no one was guarding them. However, here, dozens of yamen runners were cruising outside the door, almost surrounding the small inn.

At that time, he didn't care too much and rushed straight through.

"Who? Stop!" With the shouting, more than a dozen yamen runners surrounded him. They held the hilt of the knife in their hands and looked nervously at the guy who was obviously not good at coming. This guy was wearing a knife in his waist.

Yes, looking at that body, it is almost half a head taller than the tallest yamen runner here.

"I am from the Fourth Master's Mansion in Shangjing. I will report it quickly and say that I have important matters to ask to see the Fourth Master!" Lian Zhongwen shouted in a low voice.

The leading yamen runner was startled at first, and then his face was filled with smiles, "It turns out it's the Fourth Master's family, I've been looking back for a long time!" He glanced at Lian Zhongwen and suddenly realized, "It's not right, the city gate has been closed at this time, you

How did you enter the city?" The yamen runner knew very well what the morals of the city gate army guarding the city in Ba County were. With such heavy wind and snow, I was afraid that I had already closed the door and slept hard, so how could I get out of the hot bed?

Open the city gate and put an unknown person into the city.

Lian Zhongwen was anxious, and he was able to explain to him, and he pushed him arrogantly, "Get out!" He came from the Fourth Master's Mansion, and he usually saw high officials and nobles, and he saw a yamen runner who was inferior to Liu.

With this push, the yamen runner was in a hurry and fell to the ground. Many head-catching yamen runners were immediately in an uproar. A steel knife was unsheathed, and the sound of the chain shaking sounded, and some even shouted loudly.

"There are assassins!"

Lian Zhongwen was angry and anxious to see Li Xiao. He had time to explain, so he pulled out the sword from his waist with a choke, swung the knife and rushed in.

How good is Lian Zhongwen? If he is a little worse, he will not be able to enter the palace, nor will he become Nian Yun's servant. How could a few heads stop him? In the blink of an eye, Lian Zhongwen had already entered the inn

Inside.

"Stop!" A sudden shout rang out.

Lian Zhongwen immediately saw that the lights in the room had stopped, and at the door, four crossbow arrows were aimed at him. Two left and right in the yard, several soldiers each holding their waist knives and pressing them up silently.

These people are not comparable to those yamen runners outside the door. Just the murderous aura that could almost smell, you know that these are the elite soldiers of a hundred battles brought back from the frontier by the Fourth Master.

Lian Zhongwen immediately threw down the knife in his hand, raised his hands high, and shouted: "I am from the Fourth Master's Mansion, from Shangjing. I have something urgent to see the Fourth Master!"

Seeing the opponent throwing down his weapon, the soldiers around him immediately rushed up and pressed Lian Zhongwen to the ground. They didn't know the family of the Fourth Master's Mansion, and it was even more impossible for them to believe the other party with just one word, and Lian Zhong

The text was tied tightly, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

"I want to see the Fourth Master. I am Lian Zhongwen, the Fourth Master, the Fourth Master!"
Chapter completed!