"Your Majesty has gone to bed. Mr. Lu, please come back."
In front of the second door, a servant came to answer the question.
Lu Chongyuan's expression was almost unbearable: "I have something very important to see your Majesty, I cannot delay..."
The chamberlain standing in front of him only lowered his head: "Your Majesty ordered that no one be seen."
"But……"
"Ling Lu, please come back."
Lu Chongyuan opened his mouth, wanting to say that seeing His Majesty was related to the safety of the Holy Emperor, and he wanted to force his way into the palace like before. However, when he looked up and saw the guards with swords and heavy armor standing behind the chamberlain, all his words were stopped. Throat.
The dimly lit palace was like a giant beast with its mouth wide open to devour people's hearts. The heavily guarded Forbidden Palace was not something he could enter as he had promised.
He was no longer the powerful Zhongshu Ling in the past, who could enter the palace without an imperial edict to meet the emperor. Emperor An's cold treatment of him caused people in the palace to praise him and look down on him.
Now that the emperor is missing, if he dares to trespass even half a step, he may get blood splattered on the spot.
The chamberlain remembered Eunuch Feng's instructions and turned around and went back to the palace after passing on the message. Lu Chongyuan looked through the palace door and watched the figures disappear on the corridor inside, and then led the man who was holding a lantern beside him and hesitated to speak. Xilin leaves.
"Master Lang, didn't we ask to see His Majesty and just leave like this?" Xilin asked in a low voice.
Lu Chongyuan said solemnly: "Then Feng Lai is staying in front of His Majesty. I won't be able to see Your Majesty tonight."
How could he have forgotten that Eunuch Feng, who was serving the saint, personally took people to Jiuyun Lane? Logically, he should have known that Xiao Yan was no longer in the capital, but until now, there was no news, and Emperor An didn't know anything about it. , obviously someone was covering it up.
He always thought that he had high enough regard for Xiao Yan, but he never expected that he could bribe even the people in the palace. When the palace was purged earlier, all the spies of the Lu family were removed, and they were finally sent in. But those in the palace could not get close to Emperor An at all.
Xilin was shocked: "Then what should we do now?"
Lu Chongyuan looked at the night and whispered: "Go back first and wait for tomorrow morning."
Feng Lai could stop him, but he couldn't stop all the courtiers.
He didn't believe that Emperor An could still sit still if he knew what Xiao Yan was doing out of the capital!
Lu Chongyuan was banned from going to court by Emperor An's decree. He wrote a letter overnight and had it sent to the residences of several courtiers, asking them to see Emperor An to deliver a message to him the next day. However, he planned well and went to court early the next day. However, news came out in the palace that Emperor An had a headache and had to miss the court for three days.
Matters in the court were temporarily left to Grand Master Liang and Cao Dejiang and other court officials to handle. Emperor An stayed at Yulongtai to recuperate. Not to mention that Lu Chongyuan could not see Emperor An, and even the court ministers' requests to see him were blocked by the palace.
Lu Chongyuan had no choice but to find Grand Master Liang, but the letter he sent was returned intact.
Lu Chongyuan held the letter: "You said, Grand Master Liang didn't see you?"
The servant who delivered the message lowered his head: "No, after I went there, I asked to see the Grand Master and explained my purpose of coming. The Liang family welcomed me into the house. They only said that Grand Master Liang was entertaining guests and would not be able to see me until later. .”
"I was waiting outside, but who would have thought that it didn't take long for the Liang family to come out and return the letter sent by Master Lang intact, and said that Grand Master Liang was busy with important things today and couldn't spare the time. , saying that he would find time to come over to visit Master Lang after he is done with his work over there."
Lu Chongyuan's face was extremely ugly. He didn't write anything important in his letter. He just wanted Taishi Liang to find a way for him to meet Emperor An. Now Emperor An had a headache and couldn't see anyone. Only Taishi Liang and Cao Dejiang could occasionally come into the palace to reply. .
Grand Master Liang has always relied on him in the past, and he cares most about the interests of the family. He shouldn't refuse such a simple thing.
But now...
Seeing that the letter was crumpled into a ball by Lu Chongyuan, the servant whispered: "I felt something was wrong at the time. I didn't come back directly after leaving the Liang family. I hid outside the Liang family and waited for a while, and then I saw Mr. Cao leaving the Liang family. Come out home."
Among the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, only Cao Dejiang could be called "Cao Gong".
Lu Chongyuan's veins popped out on his forehead: "Cao Dejiang, that old man!"
Seeing Lu Chongyuan getting angry, Xilin quickly waved his hand to ward off all the people in the room. After only two people were left in the room, he couldn't help but be anxious: "Master Lang, Cao Dejiang has always been at odds with people from the aristocratic family, how could he follow Are the Liang family involved?"
"What else could it be for? That old man named Cao actually helped Xiao Yan!"
Lu Chongyuan was no longer as calm as before, his whole body was filled with anger, and the things on the table were smashed to the ground by him.
His eyes were red like a trapped animal, and he was gasping for breath as he stood in front of the table with his hands on his hands.
"Cao Dejiang has always prided himself on being a noble person, and feels that he is above all. He always thinks that the family's methods are clumsy and that profit comes first, and the officials are colluding to protect each other. But now, he, a censor doctor, actually colluded with Xiao Yan, that castrated dog, to help He deceived the superiors and deceived the inferiors."
"You're a pretentious old man, so shameless!!"
Lu Chongyuan was so angry that he wished he could tear Xiao Yan to pieces. When did he become so capable? Not only did he win over Feng Lai, but even Cao Dejiang, who never got involved in such things, secretly defended him!
Obviously, as long as he meets Emperor An, he can reveal that Xiao Yan is not in the capital, and with Emperor An's power, Xiao Yan can die without a burial place, but everyone is against him.
For three whole days, he was trapped in the Lu family, unable to go anywhere. The Jingzhao Mansion, the Ministry of Punishment, and the Dali Temple went in and out of the Lu family every day in the name of investigating the case. The people among them kept a close eye on them, and Xiao Yan's Bian Dingran had already gotten the news and rushed back to the capital.
If he doesn't take action, after he returns to Beijing, not to mention those old things in the Southland, just one incident involving Queen Lu will make the Lu family die without a burial place!
"We can't sit still and wait for death."
Lu Chongyuan gritted his teeth and walked back and forth like a trapped animal. After a while, he suddenly stopped: "Go and call Nighthawk over!"
"Master Lang?" Xilin was shocked.
Lu Chongyuan clutched the corner of the table: "Since they are not willing to let me see your Majesty, I will force your Majesty to see him. As long as it is revealed that Xiao Yan is not in the capital and your Majesty knows that he has gone to the south, your Majesty will not let him go!"
Everything he is doing now, Emperor An could understand before the incident in Nandi.
…
The sun sets over the mountain, the sunset glow disappears, and the sky becomes darker a little bit.
Tang Ning has not gone to the academy in the past few days, and only stays here in Hexi Hall every day.
Xue Ru already knew that Xiao Yan was not in the capital. When her sister left the academy early that day, she told Hang Li and the others to let her lie with Mr. Academy. Later, someone from the palace came to ask her when her sister left the academy, and Xue Ru already noticed something was wrong.
After returning home and seeing the worried Rongyue and Gu Helian, and hearing about the incident outside, the already smart Xue Ru guessed the truth.
She arrived at the Leap Carp Terrace with her dinner, and saw Tang Ning curled up on the imperial concubine's bed, who was lost in thought, and said softly:
"Sister."
