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 distant 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 placed on the fourth prince Li Xiao, but Li Xiao is already in Weizhou, and his itinerary is not a secret. There are reports from the court every day.

"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 have a way out before returning to Taizhou to join the army. How could Li Jian not know? I'm afraid that the special 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?"

"You can only leave the will of fate now!" Cui Yifu stood up shakingly. "As a fourth master's adviser, Cui is now defeated, and he is really ashamed." He bowed deeply to Xinmei and walked out staggeringly. Xinmei was in a mess. She hugged her daughters, but she didn't notice the strangeness on Cui Yifu's face.

Both daughters are at the age of being 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 five years old, snuggling in the mother's arms, quietly and without saying a 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. Even if she is afraid, she cannot show it on her face. Although her body is still trembling slightly, from now on, there is a possibility that the guards, eunuchs, or the imperial envoys who are ordered to break into the door. In the hundreds of years since the Great Yue Dynasty, no emperor has taken office through abnormal means. Once this precedent is set, there will be too many precedents that can be broken, 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, Nian Yun was the one with the most propositions. Yes, why did she forget her? Nian Yun had already left the city, and she might know the facts of the change in the capital before herself. With her outside, she should be able to notify the Fourth Master so that the Fourth Master could 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 look. The glimmer of vitality in the Fourth Master's Mansion is now placed on Nian Yun who was leaving 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?"

The snow was flying, and the bitter north wind blew the treetops, making a whimpering sound. Even Zhongwen ran away from his horse, and he was very likely to lose his horse and get injured or even die in such weather. He now has to race against the enemy. According to Princess Nianyun's inference, after Li Jian completely controlled Shangjing, the first thing he did after Li Jian was to deal with the Fourth Master. Then, infer the itinerary, the opponent should still be in front of him. He even prayed that the snow was stronger and the weather was 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 not had time to deal with them. Nian Yun found out the information that reported to Li Xiao in the first place, and pushed the others aside. Based on this information, he roughly deduced the location where Li Xiao stopped, and then issued two orders, one was to give Lian Zhongwen, asking him to hurry to Ba County in Weizhou to stop Li Xiao, and the other was to order all the personnel in the capital to immediately enter the lurking place. Without orders, no activities were allowed.

One day and one night, Lian Zhongwen ran and killed two horses. Finally, he arrived at Ba County at the moment when the lights were on the third day. Seeing that the flying flags on the top of the city wall of Ba County were not covered with white banners, Lian Zhongwen breathed a long sigh of relief. 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 the throne. In other words, people here would still regard the Fourth Master as the most popular candidate for the throne, and they would definitely be flattering and would not be detrimental to the Fourth Master.

The city gate was closed. Lian Zhongwen did not hesitate and took a 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. He made a clear direction, and within 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 swimming outside the door, almost surrounding the small inn. At this 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 had a knife on his waist. Judging from his body, he was 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 and then his face was filled with smiles, "So it's the Fourth Master's family, I've been looking back for a long time!" After looking at Lian Zhongwen, he suddenly realized, "No, the city gate has been closed at this time. How did you enter the city?" The yamen runner knew the virtues of the city gate army guarding the city in Ba County. With such heavy wind and snow, I was afraid that I had already closed the door and slept hard. How could I get out of the hot bed and open the city gate and let an unknown person enter the city.

Lian Zhongwen was anxious, and he could explain to him, and he pushed him arrogantly, "Get out!" He came from the Fourth Master's Mansion. 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 a state of great shock. A steel knife was unsheathed, and the sound of iron chains shaking sounded, and some even opened their throats and shouted, "There is an assassin!"

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 captains stop him? In the blink of an eye, Lian Zhongwen had already entered the inn.

"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 any family members of the Fourth Master's Mansion, and it was even more impossible for them to believe the other party with just one word, and tied Lian Zhongwen to death, and then they breathed a sigh of relief.

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

The door was pushed open with a creaking sound, and Li Xiao appeared at the door, "Liang Zhongwen, why did you get here? Bring him in!" (To be continued!~!
Chapter completed!