Chapter 19 Princess (18)
At the same time, Pei Shiyu in the palace also received a report from his secret guards. His eyes were gloomy, without any trace of the youthfulness he showed in front of Yan Qing, and there was a strong sense of hostility between his eyebrows.
"Still haven't found anyone?"
It was just a simple sentence, but Ying Yi, who was kneeling on the ground to report, felt the invisible pressure coming towards him, and cold sweat dripped down his forehead.
He didn't dare to look at Pei Shiyu's expression any more, and bowed his head to apologize: "I have done a bad job, please punish me, Your Majesty."
Pei Shiyu said nothing, his cold eyes passed over him and cast on a certain point in the void. No one knew what he was thinking about. The atmosphere in the imperial study became increasingly cold.
After Jiang Huaixu returned to Beijing, Pei Shiyu also sent his confidants to keep an eye on the Zhenbei Palace, looking for an opportunity to get rid of him.
Therefore, when Jiang Huaixu left the city, his men followed him to see what Jiang Huaixu was doing in the suburbs of Beijing at this time.
Originally, he had not planned to do anything, but when Ying saw the rain of arrows heading towards Jiang Huaixu, he immediately realized that someone was ambushing Jiang Huaixu.
Moreover, Jiang Huaixu only brought two guards with him, so this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Ying Yi first sent a secret guard back to report to His Majesty, while he led his men to wait and see what would happen.
It was not until Jiang Huaixu was about to leave the range of the rain of arrows that Yingyi decisively took action to help intercept them.
However, they did not expect that the ambusher would be so cruel and did not care about them at all. It seemed that he wanted to bury them here together.
In desperation, Ying Yi could only give the orders to stop and resist the rain of arrows. While they were busy resisting the rain of arrows, Jiang Huaixu escaped from the encirclement and entered the grove.
The rain of arrows stopped after Jiang Huaixu entered the grove. Yingyi and several other secret guards went to chase him but still lost him.
Those people who had ambushed in the grove in advance had not shown up yet, and until now Yingyi still didn't know which side they were from.
Pei Shiyu's question just now was also a double entendre, asking whether Jiang Huaixu had been found yet, and also whether the person in ambush had been found yet.
After a while, a sneer broke the silence in the room, and Yingyi felt his scalp tingling.
"A bunch of trash."
Pei Shiyu had a sinister look on his face and his voice was chilling.
"Send someone to continue looking for King Zhenbei, and then go and receive the punishment after this matter is over."
Ying Yi heaved a sigh of relief and said respectfully, "I obey your order."
When he was about to step out of the imperial study, Pei Shiyu suddenly said, "Wait..."
Yingyi's body suddenly stiffened and he turned around, waiting for instructions.
"There is no need to search for those who lie in ambush."
Ying Yi was a little surprised when he heard this. His Majesty was very suspicious, and this unstable factor must be thoroughly investigated before being taken into his own hands.
But he didn't dare to ask, he just kept the doubt in his heart and lowered his head and answered: "Yes."
After Yingyi left, Pei Shiyu's expression became gloomy. He murmured softly, "Jianyu...Auntie, is that you?"
According to Ying Yi, there were several waves of rain of arrows, and a lot of arrows must have been consumed. Arrows are not something that ordinary people can forge, so the people who were ambushing there must be related to the barracks.
In and outside the capital, the only person he could think of who could mobilize weapons without alerting him was his aunt.
Moreover, those people were able to ambush there in advance, so they must be aware of Jiang Huaixu's movements clearly. Only my aunt could make Jiang Huaixu let down his guard.
Thinking of this, Pei Shiyu's eyes flickered, and finally he smiled with a boyish smile, as satisfied as a child who had received his favorite candy.
Is it because of what he said to his aunt before that his aunt decided to take action against King Zhenbei?
It turns out that my aunt cares about him more.
It was just that Yingyi acted hastily. Since he could guess that it was his aunt who sent people to ambush King Zhenbei, his aunt might also be able to guess that Yingyi was his man.
The smile on Pei Shiyu's face disappeared. He always pretended to be innocent and well-behaved in front of his aunt, and even his behavior was in accordance with his father's.
Now that his aunt knows that he is not simple, what will she think of him?
Would you think that his methods are too cruel and dislike him?
Thinking of this, Pei Shiyu became a little anxious again...
Time flies, and two days have passed in the blink of an eye.
In the court, Prince Zhenbei took leave for two consecutive days and did not attend court.
Jiang Huaixu was assassinated and is now missing. The matter has been suppressed by the tacit cooperation of several forces, who have begun to secretly search for his whereabouts, some to save him and some to kill him.
Everyone in the court thought that Jiang Huaixu was deliberately not coming to save face for the young emperor, and this did not arouse suspicion from others.
It was not until the third day that Jiang Huaixu showed up at the court meeting. There was no clue on his face, as if he had not encountered an ambush at all.
But his style of doing things became more aggressive, and he had several rounds of fighting with Pei Shiyu, both openly and secretly.
At the same time, there was a new cousin in the Zhenbei Palace. It was said that she was a distant relative from his mother's family who came to seek refuge, but no one cared about it for the time being.
After being anxious for a few days, Pei Shiyu began to give up and showed his true colors. For a while, the two of them seemed to be in a stalemate and neither of them gained the upper hand.
When Yan Qing realized that Pei Shiyu was not as naive as she thought, she let him go and started the game with Jiang Huaixu.
He took the medicine prepared by Lin Huaigu to balance the toxins in the princess's mansion, on the grounds that the imperial physician said that he had suffered serious damage from the cold and needed to rest.
Someone was also sent to Pei Shiyu to explain the reason why Lin Huaigu stayed, and no one suspected anything.
The tense situation in the capital was not broken until the long-delayed army escorted Avna, who came to marry, to the capital.
Pei Shiyu had a dinner prepared in the palace. One was to celebrate the victory of Jiang Huaixu and others, and the other was to welcome Afuna, who was going to marry the Huns.
Jiang Huaixu won a great victory at the Xiongnu royal court where Afuna was. Pei Shiyu's sinister intentions were evident by combining the two banquets into one.
Yan Qing was not surprised that the army would return now. The heroine had traveled through time and met the hero, so the plot naturally began to develop rapidly.
As for the extra cousin in the Zhenbei Palace, she should be the heroine, Luo Tang, who saved Jiang Huaixu in the suburbs of Beijing.
Yan Qing had been paying close attention since Luo Tang entered the Zhenbei Palace. Although the plot was still progressing, the order was a bit messed up.
Some plot points need to be filled in bit by bit by humans, and this banquet happened to be a collision of several plot points, merging into a new plot point.
Yan Qing had to go and watch it, especially since she had a role to play in it.
Yan Qing put aside her complicated thoughts, closed the book she was reading, and her complexion recovered a little after the treatment over the past few days.
She raised her hand and summoned Fuyun, smiling and saying, "It's rare for the palace to be so lively. I should go take a look."
Fu Yun was slightly stunned. With Yan Qing's identity, he was naturally qualified to directly attend the celebration banquet tonight.
But one doesn't have to think about how complicated the interests involved in tonight's banquet are. He doesn't want Yan Qing to worry about the little emperor anymore.
The more you worry, the easier it is for toxins to become unbalanced, this is what Lin Huaigu said.
But he also knew that His Highness would not listen to him, so he could only quickly ask someone to prepare a carriage to the palace.