"It's okay." Concubine Lan said softly, "Okay, don't mention it again in the future. Jingxi, I can't have children in my life. What's the use of spoiling me?"

Jingxi's eyes turned red and she said, "Empress, Jingxi serves you all her life."

Concubine Lan smiled slightly, picked up the wick with a silver stick and said, "Okay."

When Chu Xiuming sent Shen Jin to the village, he talked about his purpose. Shen Jin still asked, "Will you come safely to meet with me and go back to the border town?"

"Yes." Chu Xiuming still answered like this, so Shen Jin nodded and asked someone to pack up his things and go to the farm. Chu Xiuming would come to visit her every other day and then rush back that day.

Emperor Cheng asked someone to strengthen Duo Chu Xiuming's surveillance, and Li Fu also confirmed that there was indeed a temple near the village, and every morning, Shen Jin's personal maid would go to the temple for an hour, no matter the wind and rain, it would never stop.

After more than ten days, not to mention the people sent by Emperor Cheng to monitor, even Emperor Cheng gradually relaxed his surveillance of Zhuangzi. He had to ask every day and only asked when he remembered it now.

Soon when the news came from Shu, Emperor Cheng couldn't believe it and asked sternly, "Say it again." In fact, it was not only Emperor Cheng, but also the ministers in the court who were unwilling to believe it.

"The second prince was captured... the Tianqi defeated..." The man kneeling in the middle of the hall lowered his head, holding a letter in his hands, "This is the request made by those anti-civilians..."

In fact, the second prince was captured, but it can only be said that the second prince deserved it. In order to compete with his brothers for military merit, he led his troops to pursue those people directly, and did not listen to anyone's dissuasion. Who would have thought that the weak anti-civilians who were originally weak were deliberately tempted by the defeats some days ago. When the rescue troops arrived, it was too late. The soldiers brought by the second prince were killed, and the second prince was captured and taken away. He took the second prince. These anti-civilians demanded a lot of food and supplies. Even if the other princes wished that the second prince would die quickly, they would not dare to show it openly. They could only send all the things that those people wanted and then write to Emperor Cheng.

Those anti-publics also wrote letters and made many requests for Emperor Cheng to exchange for the second prince.

In fact, even if the second prince was arrested, these people did not take those anti-civilians seriously. They just thought that the second prince was careless.

The second prince was born by the queen. Although he was not the eldest son, he was the legitimate son... They just hope that these people could accidentally kill the second prince.

King Rui lowered his head and felt ashamed when he thought of Chu Xiuming's words a few days ago. He didn't know what happened to his eldest son-in-law. He didn't want his daughter to be widowed at a young age.

Emperor Cheng no longer had the heart to care about Shen Jin's affairs, and asked sternly, "How did those people protect my son!" After disassembling the anti-civilian letter, he saw that these people's requests were not excessive. He only asked Emperor Cheng not to pursue their responsibilities, to deal with the officials in Shu, and then publicly apologize.

Without saying anything else, he would not agree with the last one. He threw the letter to the ground and said, "Impossible. Go back and tell Gaochang that if my son is injured at all, I will take his life and let him rescue my son safely!"

King Rui felt that this was difficult, but he had no feelings for that nephew. His eldest son was sent back with blood after going out with this nephew. Thinking of his eldest son who is still in Fujian, King Rui felt that his son was indeed better than Emperor Cheng's son.

Because of the matter in Shuzhong, Emperor Cheng was in a bad mood. After retiring from the court, King Rui returned to the mansion and told Princess Rui about the matter. Princess Rui lowered his eyes slightly and did not speak. Instead, he was thinking about Shen Jin's residence in Zhuangzi, and contacted the matter in Shuzhong. Suddenly his face turned pale and he said, "Go down."

King Rui was startled by Princess Rui's voice and turned his head to look at Princess Rui. However, he saw that Princess Rui's face looked very ugly. King Rui asked carefully, "Princess... What's wrong with you?"

After confirming that there was no one in the house, Princess Rui said, "Prince, do you think there are really only some anti-civilians in Shu?"

"What else can I do besides anti-publicism?" King Rui asked back.

Princess Rui spoke, "The prince thinks that anti-civilians can do this?"

"Didn't it mean that the second prince was careless?" King Rui looked at Princess Rui and was a little confused about what Princess Rui meant.

Princess Rui dipped her fingers in tea and said she wrote three words, namely the prince and Ying. Emperor Cheng has not appointed a prince yet, so the prince is referring to who the prince is referring to, and King Rui understood just after a moment of frost. That Ying... could only be King Ying. King Rui's face turned pale and said, "It's impossible."

"I don't know." Princess Rui said, "There are only less than a thousand anti-civilians and the 50,000 troops sent by His Majesty..."

King Rui shook his head, "Impossible." Although he said so, he believed it in his heart. In King Rui's heart, the people were foolish. If it weren't for someone behind him, even if the second prince was reckless, he would not have been captured so simply. "What should I do?"

"Prince, at least it's safe in the capital now." Princess Rui calmed down and said softly, "What's more, this is just my guess." If it weren't for Chu Xiuming's attitude, Princess Rui wouldn't have thought of it. Moreover, Princess Rui felt that it was probably King Ying who was in it. Although Chu Xiuming didn't understand and told them clearly, she did not hide her taboos towards Shuzhong. There were only a few things left to make Chu Xiuming like this.

King Rui gritted his teeth and said, "Send Xier to Xuan'er."

Princess Rui said, "Prince, I want Xier to follow Yongning to the border town."

"Ah?" King Rui looked at Princess Rui.

Princess Rui said, "Didn't we agree to it?"

"But it's different now." King Rui said in a low voice, "Don't you know that the Chu family was left to... by my father."

Princess Rui just looked at King Rui and said, "No matter what happens, we will always have to save a son."

King Rui was stunned, and then looked at Princess Rui for a long time and said, "You are right, so you can't let Chu Xiuming stay in the capital again. If he doesn't go back to the border city, the border city will be too dangerous..." Although Emperor Cheng and King Rui are brothers, King Rui prefers the prince's brother, but unfortunately... The prince is particularly kind to their younger brothers. King Rui still remembers that the prince taught him to learn calligraphy and draw bows by himself, but he has no ability to interfere in the later incident. In fact, sometimes King Rui will think about it. If the prince is still there... he wouldn't be like this now.

"Prince, if you interfere..." Princess Rui didn't expect Prince Rui to say such words, and asked with some concern, and Princess Rui was also worried that Prince Rui would do something bad.

King Rui thought for a while and said, "Don't worry."

Princess Rui looked at Prince Rui and became more worried and asked, "What does the prince want to do?"

"I'll go beg for my mother." King Rui said.

Princess Rui didn't know what to say, so she asked, "Please beg the Queen Mother?"

King Rui nodded, Princess Rui looked at King Rui's serious expression and said, "Prince should not talk to the Queen Mother about the matter in Shu. You have received the news that it was done by the descendants of the King of Ying."

"But I have no news." King Rui said.

Princess Rui lowered her eyes slightly and said, "The Empress Dowager asked, you only said that you were punished for the earthquake in Shu. She was unwilling to send someone to pay attention to it. She accidentally got the news and met the barbarians..."

King Rui asked, "If Your Majesty asks and knows this, I'm afraid I won't be able to end up losing it."

"So the prince can only talk to the queen mother." Princess Rui said, "The queen mother is the prince's mother, so she will naturally protect the prince. Remember to mention the earth moving in Shu. At that time, the queen mother will understand why the prince wants to talk to her, not to his Majesty."

King Rui also understood and nodded and said, "Then I will enter the palace now."

Princess Rui responded, and personally served King Rui's change clothes to send him out, then looked at Cuixi and said, "Learn what I just said to Bo Yongning."

"Yes." Cuixi responded congratulations.

If King Rui had the help of him, Uncle Yongning would not need to leave the capital secretly. Instead, he could get the order openly. However, Princess Rui did not expect that King Rui would be willing to help this.

Princess Rui was surprised by Prince Rui's decision, let alone Chu Xiuming. After hearing Cui Xi's words, she just nodded and said, "Tell the princess, I will take good care of my wife's brother-in-law."

Cuixi responded and hurried back to Prince Rui's Mansion.

It was a surprise that King Rui was willing to help them like this, but Chu Xiuming did not go to pick up Chen Jin. After all, it is still unknown what the situation is now. The Zhuangzi has been planning for a long time. If there is really a change, it will be the same if he takes the person back. However, Princess Rui is a desperate bet? Princess Rui is afraid that he will never be able to escape the relationship after this matter. Chu Xiuming narrowed his eyes. Could it be... In that case, how could Emperor Cheng offend Princess Rui, the woman?

Chu Xiuming thought of Madam Zhao's evaluation of Princess Rui, saying that it is a pity for a person like Princess Rui to be in his current position.

The Empress Dowager had two sons, Emperor Cheng and King Rui, and King Rui was her youngest son. Even if he didn't show it, he still had a preference for this son. So when he heard that King Rui came, he came out of the Buddhist temple and asked someone to prepare the pastries that King Rui liked.

King Rui's face was a little bad. The Empress Dowager also knew about the news from Shuzhong. She thought she was worried about his eldest son-in-law, so she said, "I told Your Majesty that I will let Prince Yongle come back first."

"My mother, this is not the case." King Rui said, "I want to tell my mother about something."

The Empress Dowager looked at King Rui's expression and sent out all the people in the house. Even Madam Zhen did not stay. King Rui lay in the empress dowager's ear and said, "My mother, you also know that the earth in Shu was moving on the day of my birthday. The emperor also asked someone to beat me and lock me up."

"It's all my brothers." The Empress Dowager knew that Emperor Cheng was not authentic, but there was no way. After all, the eldest son was the emperor.

"I know." King Rui said quickly, "I'm not here because of this." Thinking of Princess Rui's words, "I just felt uncomfortable and sent someone to Shuzhong to pay attention to the earth movements, and also wanted to secretly get something to serve as a cough cough..."

Without needing to explain it clearly, the Empress Dowager already understood what the King of Rui means, and wanted to find something to serve as auspicious things. The Empress Dowager gently patted the King of Rui's hand, but he had no intention of blaming him. After all, doing so would not only wash away the sewage on his body, but also give an explanation to Emperor Cheng.

"But I don't want so many things to happen, and all the people I sent lost contact." King Rui would choose to lie in the empress dowager's ear and talk, because he was afraid that the empress dowager would see that his face was wrong. "I thought they were all killed by anti-civilians, but I didn't expect that someone would escape and send a letter."

The Queen Mother knew something was wrong and asked, "What's going on?"

"Those people found out... the things in Shuzhong seemed to be Ying's descendants... and they also saw two barbarians..." King Rui said hesitantly.

The Empress Dowager's face changed, and King Rui continued, "What should I do if my mother?"

"Where is the person?" asked the Queen Mother.

King Rui said, "I have someone kill him..."

The queen mother breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It was your princess who asked you to come to me?"

"Yeah." King Rui said, "I originally wanted to find the emperor's brother, but the princess asked me to come to find my mother first."

The empress dowager's eyebrows then relaxed, "You just don't know about this."

"But..." King Rui asked hesitantly, "I'm quite scared by my mother."

The Queen Mother didn't mean to blame King Rui, but just reminded him, "I will pretend that I don't know anything after I go back."

King Rui asked, "Where is the emperor?"

"I'll make arrangements." The empress dowager knew that her eldest son was the most suspicious, and the younger son was a little... If Emperor Cheng knew that it was discovered by King Rui, he would probably suspect that King Rui was planning to make a mistake or was dissatisfied with him, which would have no benefit to King Rui. I'm afraid that because of this, Princess Rui would ask Prince Rui to come to find him, and it was also thanks to Prince Rui stopped him. If Princess Rui really went directly to find Emperor Cheng, I'm afraid that the first person Emperor Cheng would deal with was King Rui.

King Rui hesitated and said, "What if the mother is really Ying...? Is the capital safe?"

"Is there any safer place than the capital?" the queen mother asked back.

King Rui said a little embarrassedly, "I want to send Xier to Ruyang."

The Empress Dowager frowned and King Rui said, "I... Ru Yang will definitely take good care of Xi'er."

"Okay." The Empress Dowager said, "But don't hurry."

King Rui looked at the Empress Dowager in confusion, but the Empress Dowager didn't say anything else and drove King Rui away directly. However, he kept thinking about King Rui's words in his heart. The Empress Dowager never thought that King Rui would lie to him. Thinking of what King Ying did at the beginning, the Empress Dowager felt cold in his heart. Despite this, he did not send anyone to call Emperor Cheng immediately. Instead, he called Madam Zhen over and made other arrangements.

There was no news for three days, and King Rui was a little restless, but Princess Rui's expression did not change at all. Even Chu Xiuming went to the village every other day to accompany Shen Jin and the children, and told Shen Jin about King Rui. Shen Jin was also surprised and said, "How could the father..."

Chu Xiuming shook his head and said, "I don't know either."

Shen Jin thought for a while and said, "I'm afraid it's for Shen Xuan and Shen Xi."

King Rui attached great importance to these two legitimate sons. When Shen Jin thought about it, he felt that it was possible. "What did King Ying do at the beginning?" She felt that besides the sake of the two sons, King Ying might have scared King Rui because he was too cruel. He felt that the capital was not safe, so he arranged a place for his sons early, and in order to let Chu Xiuming work hard to protect his son, he was willing to take the risk.

Chu Xiuming gently touched his son's face and said, "Too many."

When Shen Jin heard this, he stopped asking. Chu Xiuming looked at Madam Zhao and asked, "Madam, do you know what Princess Rui had to do with the Crown Princess?"
Chapter completed!