This incident quickly alarmed Xiao Langyan, who was working in Qinzheng Hall.
He rushed back to Yuzhang Palace. Chunxi and others looked anxious: "Your Majesty, the master is missing!"
Xiao Langyan strode into the house where Shen Dingzhu lived and saw her favorite red jade hairpin still in the makeup box.
His dark and cold eyes were slightly condensed: "When did she leave?"
Shen Bi was the last person to see Shen Dingzhu and hurriedly replied: "After noon, the master just woke up and said he wanted to go out for a walk. The slave wanted to follow, but she said no."
Xiao Langyan's tone was filled with anger: "She said no, so you won't follow her?"
Shen Bi, Chun Xi, and Xiu Cui hurriedly knelt on the ground to admit their mistake.
Xiao Langyan took a deep breath and closed his eyes: "I heard that Qinghe's confession in the violent room kept saying that she had met Shen Dingzhu in the afternoon, and it was Shen Dingzhu who asked her to come to the palace to try on clothes. This matter Is it true? Which of you knows?"
The three of them shook their heads at the same time, not even knowing.
Xiao Langyan's slender palms resting on his knees gradually clenched into fists.
He immediately called Xu Shou in: "Pass the order to find someone for me. The entire Sixth Palace will dig three feet into the ground to find Shen Dingzhu."
At the end, he lowered his voice and added coldly: "Those who want to compete with the Queen must find her first."
Xu Shou hurriedly went to do it.
Shen Bi and Chun Xi also want to go out and search together.
Xiao Langyan did not object. They usually spent a lot of time with Shen Dingzhu, so they should know where she liked to go before.
He got up by himself and went to search in the direction of the East Palace.
While no one was paying attention, Xiucui quietly took a piece of Shen Dingzhu's clothes and went out.
The queen was sitting in the East Palace, watching Su Wenhua drink medicine.
However, the palace attendants hurriedly came to report: "Mother, Aunt Shen from Yuzhang Palace is missing."
Xiao Xuanke suddenly stood up: "Missing?"
He decisively walked outside. When Su Wenhua saw that he was leaving, he pitifully shouted twice: "Your Highness, Your Highness?"
The queen pursed her lips, glanced at Xiao Xuanke's back with phoenix eyes, and understood in her heart.
She asked the palace attendant: "How could such a good living person disappear? Could it be that she knew she was in trouble and hid in advance?"
The palace man shook his head and said he didn't know: "His Royal Highness Prince Ning is also anxious and has sent many people to search around the Sixth Palace."
The queen sneered: "Prince Ning really spent a lot of money for a guilty minister."
Thinking of her son Xiao Xuanke's reaction to Shen Dingzhu, the queen gritted her teeth and added: "Hu Meizi."
Su Wenhua looked at the murderous intent in the queen's eyes and felt uneasy, feeling that something big was about to happen.
When Xiao Xuanke rushed back to the East Palace, he found that Xiao Langyan had just arrived.
The two of them looked at each other with cold eyes.
Xiao Langyan's thin lips parted slightly: "Your Highness, please hand over this person."
The prince was startled and laughed sarcastically: "Do you think Gu hid Shen Dingzhu? It's not that Gu didn't think about it, it's just that she lost it before she had time to do it. It's because you have no ability and don't look down on your woman. What’s the use of coming to find an orphan?”
Xiao Langyan didn't talk nonsense to him, tilted his head slightly, and ordered the guards behind him: "Go in and search."
The prince frowned and said sternly: "Who dares? Gu is the crown prince, and the East Palace is the crown prince's residence. If you force your way in without Gu's permission, I can sue you for treason!"
Xiao Langyan raised his head, his eyes as dark as two balls of dark ink. He seemed to be smiling but not smiling, and his eyes were full of coldness.
"My father promised me to supervise the imperial army. If Shen Dingzhu's disappearance is linked to an assassin, wouldn't it threaten my father's safety? Therefore, I want to investigate and find you, and you can't stop me."
After that, he took the lead into the East Palace, and the guards filed in holding torches.
The prince clenched his fists, his eyes burning with vicious anger.
The medicine given before was too light, it should have blinded Xiao Langyan directly!
However, the search in the East Palace didn't take long when Chunxi hurriedly ran over, her voice full of tears: "My lord, I found it. I found the master's clothes, soaking in Taiye Lake!"
Xiao Langyan and the prince looked at him at the same time, one shocked and the other surprised.
When they rushed to the Taiye Pond one after another, drizzle was falling in the sky, the night was deep, and the wind on the lake was blowing the rain, making it a bit cold.
A row of guards and imperial troops were standing on the shore, and several eunuchs were commanding from the southeast and northwest.
Shen Bi and Xiucui, on the other hand, knelt beside their wet clothes, sobbing.
Xiao Langyan had a handsome face as cold as ice and walked quickly to them. He bent down and picked up his sleeves to examine them carefully.
The goose-yellow robe, embroidered with two plum blossoms, is Shen Dingzhu's clothes.
Shen Bi burst into tears and suddenly stood up, turned around and ran towards Taiye Lake: "Master, wait for me, slave."
Xiao Langyan's eyes were gloomy: "Hold her down."
Chunxi, with quick eyesight and quick hands, grabbed Shen Bi and threw the two of them to the ground. He said anxiously: "My good sister, what are you doing? The master hasn't been found yet, so you can't rush to seek death!"
"They all said that there were slipping footprints by the lake. The master might have fallen into the lake. She doesn't know how to swim," Shen Bi knelt by the lake and kept crying. "Master, where are you?"
Prince Xiao Xuanke walked to the lake step by step, his eyes a little dazed. The lake was deep and rippled by the raindrops.
Shen Dingzhu’s character wouldn’t seek death, right?
Xiao Langyan had come to his senses, asked Xu Shou to find a boat, and ordered the guards to salvage near the moat, the terminal of Taiye Lake.
He looked at the dark night. The tall figure was like a cold mountain, exuding an intimidating pressure.
"You need to see the person in life, you need to see the corpse in death. Shen Dingzhu is my king's person. No matter life or death, we must find her." Xiao Langyan gave an order, and everyone hurriedly continued to salvage.
Just like that, the whole night passed.
The sky was twilight, and a fish-belly white color appeared in the east. The drizzle stopped at some point, revealing a sky as soft and lustrous as green blue cloth.
Xiao Langyan salvaged it himself in the first half of the night, and rushed back to Qinzheng Hall to handle government affairs in the second half of the night.
He was planning to search around Taiye Lake after the morning meeting. However, during a period of exhaustion, he rested his head on his hands and accidentally fell asleep.
When he woke up again, it was Xu Shou who hurriedly entered: "Your Highness, Aunt Shen has been found."
Xiao Langyan suddenly woke up and immediately stood up and walked out: "Where is she? How is she?"
Xu Shou picked up the thin shawl on the shelf and chased after Xiao Langyan: "Aunt Shen seemed a little tired and her clothes were thin. She was forcibly taken away by the Queen's people just after she returned to Yuzhang Palace."
A cold light flashed deep in Xiao Langyan's eyes.
He turned around and headed straight to the Queen's Fengyi Palace.
At this time, Shen Dingzhu was kneeling in front of the queen. It seemed that she had not slept all night. Her pretty face was fairer, with a pair of sparkling black eyes and snow-skinned red lips. She was still incredibly beautiful.
The queen asked coldly: "What on earth did you do last night? Did you know that you did something wrong, so you hid in advance?"
Otherwise, why would I search the entire Sixth Palace and still not find her.
Shen Dingzhu licked his dry lips: "Concubine..."
