But Lu Wenzheng was discussing Ying Chuanlin's affairs with Xu Zhi, and suddenly he heard that the scholar Rong'er came to report: Prince Jinling came with many guards in a menacing manner, saying that he had something urgent to see him, and he couldn't help but be stunned.
He had no contact with the Prince of Jinling, Zhao Fu, but the Prince of Jinling suddenly paid a visit today. Why did he come?
He didn't have time to think too much, so he stood up quickly, straightened his clothes, and went out with Xu Zhi.
Outside the gate of Shangshu's Mansion of the Ministry of Punishment, Prince Jinling's face was as sinking as water. Zhao Wei and Zhao Yang stood on both sides. The servants and guards were in bright uniforms and lined up neatly and solemnly.
Lu Wenzheng was even more surprised when he saw this. He hurriedly stepped forward, bowed and saluted: "Your Majesty, I am truly honored to have you here. I would like to invite you to speak to me in the hall!"
Prince Jinling snorted coldly, his eyes were stern, and his expression was so arrogant that everyone couldn't help but wonder: Prince Jinling has always been courteous to Lu Wenzheng, what happened today?
After entering the hall, we sat down to have tea, exchanged a few words, and got back to business.
Lu Wenzheng said: "Your Majesty is here. What advice can you give me?"
Prince Jinling said: "Then I will get straight to the point: there were some accidents in the mansion a few days ago, and the little girl was abducted. It is said that she is in Mr. Lu's house, so I have no choice but to be shy and trouble Mr. Lu. Got it!"
Lu Wenzheng was startled and said: "How is this possible? I am not boasting. The mansion has always been disciplined and managed strictly, and there are strict registration procedures for people entering and leaving..."
The Prince of Jinling said: "So, the information that I have obtained is wrong? Zhao Yang——" He turned his face to the close family members around him.
Zhao Yang hurriedly stepped forward, saluted Prince Jinling and Lu Wenzheng, and said: "That day, brothers Li Xuan and Li Wu, the martial arts masters of our palace, saw with their own eyes in a bun shop in the city. The princess and..."
At this point, he stopped and looked at Prince Jinling hesitantly.
Prince Jinling said: "You don't have to have any scruples, just say it."
After Zhao Yang received the prince's approval, he became more courageous and continued: "Together with Commander Ling of your mansion..."
"Ling Yun?..." Lu Wenzheng was stunned for a moment.
Xu Zhi said: "Did you see it wrong?"
Zhao Yang said: "One person may have made a mistake, but could both of them have made a mistake?"
Lu Wenzheng and Xu Zhan looked at each other in confusion and didn't speak for a long time.
Prince Jinling said: "I would like to meet Commander Ling so that I can find out the whole story."
Xu Zhi said: "Commander Ling has gone out to do some business and will be back soon."
Lu Wenzheng said: "Yuan Ping, go ahead and urge me."
Yuan Ping responded and went out quickly.
The prince of Jinling said: "I still want to see my little girl, so I can bring her back by the way."
Lu Wenzheng said: "Has the prince already found out that the princess is still in my mansion?"
Prince Jinling said: "If I am not mistaken, my daughter should still be living with Mrs. Ruan in Baiyunxuan."
Lu Wenzheng and others looked a little confused. People have already inquired about this matter in such detail, what else can they say?
But Huanyu said that the movement in front had already alarmed her. When she learned that her father had come to arrest her in person, she couldn't help but feel flustered.
Now she has only one thought: run! Leave this place of wrong immediately!
She didn't even have time to pack a piece of clothing, so she hurried out of Baiyunxuan's courtyard, not daring to disturb Mrs. Ruan, and ran to the back garden in panic.
The back door was locked and she didn't have the key. She found a place where the wall was slightly lower, her body floated, she climbed up the wall, and jumped out of the garden.
After walking a few steps, I heard a deep voice behind me saying: "Princess, please stay!"
Huanyu's heart trembled, and she ran forward.
The man turned over like a kite and landed in front of her. It was Li Xuan who was "following like a shadow".
"Princess Princess, please follow me back to your mansion!" Li Xuan saluted her.
Huanyu raised her face and said, "I won't go back!"
Li Xuan said coldly: "Princess Princess, don't force your subordinates to use force!"
Miss Huanyu's temper got worse. She raised her eyebrows and scolded, "How dare you!"
Li Xuan didn't pay attention to Huan Yu's arrogance. He shot like lightning and hit Huan Yu's sleeping point.
Li Xuan helped Huan Yu who fainted and walked a few steps when he saw his younger brother Li Wu coming up to him.
So, the two of them helped Princess Huanyu go to see Prince Jinling.
Here, Prince Jinling, Lu Wenzheng, Xu Zhi, Zhao Wei, Zhao Yang and others have arrived at Baiyunxuan.
Prince Jinling, Lu Wenzheng and others are talking with Mrs. Ruan.
Mrs. Ruan was very displeased when she heard that Prince Jinling came here to look for Princess Huanyu. She said with a sullen face: "How dare we keep a phoenix in a chicken coop? How can we have a princess and princess in this humble house?"
Just as they were talking, Li Xuan and Li Wu helped Princess Huanyu back.
Upon seeing this, Zhao Wei and Zhao Yang hurried forward to greet her and ordered their servants to help the princess onto the sedan chair.
Mrs. Ruan was stunned for a moment: "Linglong?..."
Li Xuan said coldly: "Mrs. Ruan, this is our princess." Then he turned to Prince Jinling and asked: "Your Majesty, are we leaving now?"
Prince Jinling nodded, and Li Xuan shouted: "Get up the sedan!"
A group of people from the Jinling Prince's Mansion walked toward the gate; they ignored Lu Wenzheng, Mrs. Ruan and others.
When everyone walked to the door of the mansion, they met Yuan Ping, Yang Zhen and Ling Yun rushing back.
When the three of them saw Prince Jinling, they quickly stood aside, lowering their heads and waiting for Prince Jinling to pass by first.
Unexpectedly, Prince Jinling stopped in front of Ling Yun.
He looked Ling Yun up and down, and said coldly with a mocking tone: "Commander Ling, thank you for taking care of my little girl these days!"
Ling Yun already knew the whole story and couldn't help but feel confused.
Never in his wildest dreams would he have thought that the Linglong girl he spent time with, laughing and playing with all day long, would actually be Princess Huanyu of the Jinling Palace!
He just stood there, listening numbly to the sarcasm and ridicule of Prince Jinling, and watched with dismay as the large group of people from Prince Jinling's Mansion passed by him and disappeared from his sight.
If it weren't for Yuan Ping and Yang Zhen's reminder, he didn't know how long he would have stood there blankly...
In the study room, when Lu Wenzheng asked Ling Yun sternly what was going on, he also responded word by word. The article was wrong and the answer was wrong.
At this moment, he just felt that his mind was in chaos, and he didn't know what he said.
Mrs. Ruan, on the other hand, told the whole story in a nutshell, and took all the responsibility on herself, saying that it was all her fault for not paying attention to letting the princess of the Jinling Palace commit herself to the palace and Mo Zhijue. Just blame her.
Lu Wenzheng shook his head with a heavy heart and said, "I'm afraid things won't be that simple..."
That night, Ling Yun tossed and turned, unable to sleep alone.
He thought about this matter over and over again and felt extremely depressed.
Another woman cheated on him! He once claimed to be smart and wise, but he was deceived again and again, making him dare not trust women anymore.
Yes, it’s okay for Lian Nanchun to keep it secret; as for Linglong, no—it should be Princess Huanyu. She is unruly and willful, charming and cute. Could it be that she is also that kind of unpredictable person?
He suddenly wanted to see her immediately and ask her in person. But, it was impossible, he might never have the chance to see her again. Thinking of this, he felt extremely sad.
At the same time, he also thought: Prince Jinling personally came to capture Princess Huanyu at Shangshu's Mansion of the Ministry of Punishment; he was so arrogant that other people in the mansion might not be able to escape the crime of abducting the princess and bullying the emperor.
It would be fine if he, Ling Yun, were convicted, but if Master Lu was implicated because of this... how would he be punished?
The more he thought about it, the more confused he became, and he simply sat up from the bed.
At this time, he suddenly heard the window lattice banging. He was startled and asked in a deep voice: "Who?"
No one answered, and the window lattice banged twice more.
Ling Yun couldn't help but wonder, he put on his clothes and went to the ground, put on his boots, took the sword, went out of the room, and looked around.
Under the watery blue sky, a nimble figure swayed on the eaves, and Ling Yun hurriedly chased after him.
The two of them seemed to be playing hide and seek, and in a blink of an eye they were out of the Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of Punishment.
Ling Yun saw that the person was as light as a swallow and fell to the ground silently. He seemed to have excellent light skills. However, his body shape and movements were not familiar to him. Moreover, his face was covered with a black scarf and he was wearing black clothes and black trousers. He could not tell who this person was.
Ling Yun was filled with doubts. He didn't know what this person was looking for in the middle of the night.
He wanted to catch up and ask for information, but the man was always at a distance from him and could not get close.
Objectively speaking, it was because the moon was dark that night and the wind was high, and the roads in the capital were crisscrossed and the terrain was complex.
Therefore, when he chased him to an intersection, looking at the twists and turns of the street, there was no sign of the man in black.
Let’s go back to Princess Huanyu. She was forcibly taken back to the Jinling Palace, but she showed no sign of remorse.
When her mother, Princess Wei, saw her daughter, her original anger and resentment had long been forgotten. She staggered forward and kept saying good things to Prince Jinling for her daughter:
"Your Majesty, please don't be angry. My child, although he is a little willful, just change it. Don't make this matter any bigger. It would be bad if it makes the Ding family unhappy!"
Huan Yu said displeasedly: "Mother, please don't mention that Ding Mansion again, okay?"
Princess Wei said: "How can you not mention it? A few days ago, the Ding family has come to ask for your Gengxin invitation. Your wedding will be held about a year ago. Huanyu, you are not a little girl anymore. Don't do this in the future. It’s so willful!”
Huan Yu felt cold and said, "I will never marry that playboy!"
Princess Wei said: "You are willful again, aren't you? Stop acting like a child! Xiangyun, Jiaoxing, you two serve the princess first and go back to rest." She ordered the two girls who originally served Huanyu.
The two men bowed their eyebrows and walked over.
Huanyu stood still, her eyes looked at her mother, and she said firmly: "Mother, I am not willful at all, and everything I say now is the truth. From the bottom of my heart, I don't like that Young Master Ding at all. I won't marry him at all!..."
Princess Wei was stunned for a moment. She turned back and looked at Prince Jinling.
Prince Jinling said angrily: "Why are you still saying such crazy things now? Xiangyun, Jiaoxing, take her down immediately!"
The two girls walked to Huanyu and wanted to help her.
Huanyu pushed Xiangyun away, rushed to her father in a few steps, fell to her knees, tears streaming down her face, and said in a trembling voice: "Dad, if you really want your daughter to marry that playboy, you might as well give her a gift." My daughter is a white damask! My daughter would rather die than..."
Prince Jinling was so angry that he was shaking all over: "What kind of ecstasy did you drink to make you say such nonsense!"
Huan Yu also gave up at this time and gritted her teeth and said: "My daughter already has a heart and likes another person! In fact, you should also know who this person is..."
Prince Jinling felt his head buzzing and said sternly: "Xiangyun, Jiaoxing, why are you still standing there, why don't you help the princess back immediately!"
Seeing that the prince was angry, the two girls hurriedly stepped forward and dragged Huanyu down without any explanation.
Princess Wei's face was pale at this time and her body was shaky, thanks to her personal maid Wan'er holding her up.
She stayed for a long time and murmured: "This damn girl is really fascinated. How could she...how could she have such thoughts?..."
Prince Jinling also said in annoyance: "Oh! What evil did I, Zhao Fu, do in my last life? How could I give birth to such a daughter who doesn't know etiquette?"
Princess Wei said: "Actually, we can't blame our daughter entirely. If it weren't for the people from the Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of Punishment seducing her..."
"Stop talking!" Prince Jinling waved his sleeves and left angrily.
