Houmen's concubine

Xie Yuheng dug out the secret documents with outsiders from Zhu Yanshen's secret room.

Several of the letters were sent from the capital, but the handwriting has not yet revealed who they are.

However, from the letter, it is vaguely known that this person must be a senior member of the court.

No wonder Zhu Yanshen was so daring, so this time, the prison van only escorted Zhu's father and son and a few housekeeper-level slaves to the capital.

The rest of the women, children, and children were settled on the spot in Qinzhou, and the local officials were responsible for whether they should be sent to Jiaosifang or sold.

Otherwise, he and Emperor Mingzheng would have caught up with the prison carts of the Zhu family and left them behind.

"My lord, there is someone robbing the prison car ahead. Zhu Yanshen was stabbed with a sword by the gangster who robbed the prison car, and there was poison on the sword."

"what?"

Is this okay?

Could it be that this gangster ate the gall of a leopard!
Dare to hijack the prison van?

Xie Yuheng happened to be sitting in the emperor's carriage, and the monarch and ministers were discussing matters. Hearing the noise outside, Xie Yuheng naturally stood in front of the emperor, and asked in a low voice, "What's going on outside?"

Wu Zhi answered from outside the carriage: "Reporting to Mr. Xiao, Mr. Xie, the prison car encountered criminals in front, the prisoner was stabbed by the criminals, and his life and death are unknown."

When Xie Yuheng heard it, he said in his heart: No!

Xie Yuheng turned his head and met Emperor Mingzheng's eyes. Needless to say, it was similar to what the monarchs and ministers had guessed before. Destroying Zhu Yanshen to the capital must have caused the people behind him to panic and wanted to get rid of him before he arrived in the capital. quick.

Otherwise, who would want to assassinate a prisoner for nothing?
Want to assassinate with a poisoned sword?

Xie Yuheng turned to Emperor Mingzheng and said, "Your Majesty, I'd better ask my minister to go and see what's going on."

Emperor Mingzheng nodded his head and said: "Well, it's hard work for Aiqing to go through."

Although the emperor's carriage had a lot of space, Xie Yuheng's tall body could not stand upright, so he bowed and raised his hand to the emperor, opened the curtain of the carriage and jumped down.

"You guard the master carefully, Ma Taiyi will follow me, and An Liu will lead the way."

An Liu raised his hands to Xie Yuheng and said, "Yes."

Xie Yuheng took the reins of the horse handed over by Huang Yu, immediately got on the horse, clamped the horse's belly with both legs, and raised the whip: "Drive!"

The horse under the crotch ran forward in an instant like Li Xuan's arrow...
Xie Yuheng and his group had just left for more than an hour, when there was a faint sound of thunder in the dark clouds in the sky, and occasionally lightning illuminated the young man's stern face with piercing eyes as cold as jade.

Huang Yu quickly galloped forward, half a horse away from Xie Yuheng and asked loudly: "Master, find a place to shelter from the rain!"

They had just left in a hurry and didn't bring rain gear. They didn't expect that the sun was still hanging in the sky, and soon the dark clouds rolled in and changed the sky.

"Ah."

Xie Yuheng agreed, but at this moment, there is no way to go to the village or back to this shop, where is there a place to hide from the rain?
The heavy rain poured down, and the world seemed to be plunged into a tumbling ocean. The thunder roared, and the horseshoes stepped on the puddles, splashing a piece of crackling mud.

Summer rains flood, autumn rains.

Less than half an hour after the torrential rain, the clouds stopped and the rain stopped, and the sun showed a smile in an instant.

It's just that this smiling face is too hot, so enthusiastic that people can't stand it.

Xie Yuheng and the others had just been drenched by the big raindrops, and now they were overwhelmed by the scorching sun.

The whole body is steaming, I don't know if it is rain or sweat...
When Xie Yuheng hurried to the scene, Zhu Yanshen had already died of poison.

Physician Ma opened Zhu Yanshen's eyes, inspected his wound, and knew it clearly.

The assassin used the kind of poison that seals the throat when it sees blood. It is said that this poison was spread to the capital from the Persians.

The man behind this scene is neither cunning nor simple.

Xie Yuheng knew that the main culprit Zhu Yanshen was dead, the eldest son Zhu Qikun should be in touch with the inside story, but the second son Zhu Qian may not be sure.

It might be difficult for the other bastards to get a glimpse of the inside story.

Therefore, Xie Yuheng asked them to keep a close watch on Zhu Qikun's prison car, and someone handed him a letter to Ming Zhengdi.

A few days ago, Xie Yuheng was worried because of Wang Tong'er's affairs. In addition, he didn't have a good rest along the way. He kept discussing with the emperor about the establishment of maritime tariffs, and he was even more exhausted. With the emperor here, he had to be vigilant all the time not to make any mistakes. , so the spirit is highly tense.

Now it was raining again, and when I arrived at the post station at night, I developed a high fever.

Xie Yuheng felt that the high fever this time was more menacing than the high fever that came back from the rebirth.

In the groggy state, I was still thinking in my heart: Is it possible that I will be reborn this time?
If he was reborn this time, he would definitely not let the little girl leave him half a step away!

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It was already ten days before Xie Yuheng returned to Zhongyonghou Mansion.

This morning, when Mrs. Hou's Madam Rong saw Xie Yuheng's message to her, she was so excited that she wished she could go to the gate of Hou's mansion to welcome her son back.

It's just that the etiquette doesn't allow it!

Counting the days, I haven't seen my son for nearly two months.

Other people's sons are not in front of them, and there are daughters who are filial in front of them. Thinking of Rong's family, Xie Yuheng is an only seedling, and he is always too busy to go home.

The man in my family can't even meet a few times a month. Every time he meets, it is because of his concubine's troubles that he needs to take the lead, so he condescends to come to her Huijuyuan reluctantly.

One can imagine how lonely Rong is.

However, she still asked Steward Xie to meet her son at the gate of Hou Mansion.

"Ma'am, the prince has arrived!"

Qiaoer, who had been watching at the gate of Huiju Garden, saw Xie Yuheng from afar, and immediately let people in to inform Rong.

Qiao'er also bowed to the approaching Xie Yuheng with a smile all over her face: "My servant has seen my son."

"Ah."

Xie Yuheng agreed to Qiao'er in a warm voice, stepped into the threshold of the courtyard gate, looked up and saw the women and girls waiting under the eaves of the corridor, each of them was well-behaved, holding their breath and waiting with their eyes downcast.

Xie Yuheng went down from the long corridor by himself and went up the steps of Huiju Garden.

Walking along a zigzag-shaped hallway, he came to the corridor of Rong's dining room. When he looked up, he saw that his mother was standing at the gate waiting for him.

"Mother!" Xie Yuheng strode over and stretched out his arms to support her,
"Heng'er, you've lost weight!"

Every time Rong saw Xie Yuheng coming back from other places, he would say such an opening remark.However, there was never a time like this time when the eyes were red with distress.

It's no wonder that Rong felt sorry for his son, this time Xie Yuheng really lost a lot of weight, and his mental state was not as full as when he came back from the previous case.

"Heng'er, why did you hide your illness from your mother?" Rong also asked from Huang Yu the day before yesterday.