Tea house.

Liao Qiubai sat on the opposite side of Rong Ting, looking at his face, his heart was obviously filled with anger, "There is obviously someone more suitable than His Highness Ninth Highness, who can't be found, Xi Zimo, the bald man, has to name you? The emperor agreed. ?"

"The emperor's decree is really strange. Without discussing it with the courtiers, he immediately responded to Xi Zimo's proposal. If it is said that the war in Huaizhou is urgent and waiting for his order, it does not look like that. How much he relied on Xi Zimo, the sage's suspicion was not low, and the military power was 70%, for fear that it would fall into the hands of one person to raise tigers, Xi Zimo had the fewest soldiers, and this does not show the sage's reliance on him."

Liao Qiubai frowned and said, "It's weird."

Rong Ting was not in a hurry, his fingers rubbed the tea cup with the lotus tangled branches on the white porcelain color bottom, his face was indifferent, "I don't care if I live or die, he just wants to know if Xi Zimo will affect his country and society. .I am his son and his pawn."

Liao Qiubai: "Doubt Xi Zimo?"

Rong Ting: "It was General Xi and the people behind him who were anxious and exposed."

Liao Qiubai was a little confused.

Rong Ting said: "Yesterday, the emperor called me into the palace and told me to go to Huaizhou. While pacifying the epidemic and quelling the chaos, find out which officials Xi Zimo has contact with in Beijing."

Liao Qiubai was so excited that he almost didn't sit still, "Your Highness is waiting, isn't this the time?"

This time, Emperor Zhaowu sent him to investigate, which was different from taking the initiative to impeach.

If it was impeached, in the eyes of outsiders, Rong Ting was bitten by Empress Jiahe after being raised by Empress Jiahe. Even if Empress Jiahe could be found in the end, it would be considered a righteous extermination of relatives, and she would be charged with unfilial piety.

But if Emperor Zhaowu himself asked him to investigate, it would be very different.

Rong Ting looked very cold.

Liao Qiubai was so cold that he immediately remembered what kind of place Huaizhou is today.

If you go this trip, you may not be able to come back. What is the timing?

His face turned pale, "Ninth Highness must go?"

"Go." Rong Ting put down the tea cup, "If I go to Huaizhou, you are in Beijing, help me do these things."

Rong Ting raised his hand and motioned Wu Que to hand over a letter to Liao Qiubai.

Liao Qiubai took the letter and saw that he had already arranged everything, but in the end he didn't say the unfortunate words "what if I don't come back".

If you don't enter a tiger's den, you can't get a tiger's son.

He glanced at Rong Ting's leg, "Your leg injury, how long will you be hiding it?"

"General Ruoxi is really Xu Guozhang's henchman. If you go to Huaizhou, you will be exposed sooner or later." Liao Qiubai was a little worried.

"Exposed, exposed."

"Since the day I borrowed your horse, I never imagined how long I would be able to hide it."

Jiang Rao already knew that his leg injury was healed, and he could no longer use this flaw to show pity in front of her.

Pretending that his leg injury was not healed, he just wanted to let his opponent relax his vigilance and steal a few moments of respite.

But now the movements he made in the sixth series... even if he kept it on, it would be useless.

Before leaving the teahouse, Liao Qiubai frowned and asked one last time, "This time, Huaizhou is only available. How confident is your Highness that he will come back?"

Rong Ting did not give him a clear answer, his eyes were as black as ink, full of ill-will, "The queen won't kill me so easily."

...

The night wind blew off the leaves from the plane trees, and the twilight was a little deep. When Jiang Rao returned from the Shuxiang Palace of Concubine Yun Gui, Jiang Qin frequently looked out the window and asked frowningly, "Why can't we change it every year? return?"

Jiang Xingzhou seemed to have expected it early, and lightly placed his hand on Jiang Qinshi's shoulder and patted it twice, "I know where Nian Nian has been. Let's have dinner first, you don't have to wait for her."

He knew where his daughter had gone.

In the end, it is the child that she raised by herself, and she knows her root and bone temperament best.

Jiang Qin looked back at her husband's sullen expression and asked, "You mean, go to the Ninth Highness every year?"

"Well." Jiang Xingzhou moved his chopsticks first, "Before she entered the palace, I instructed her maid, that if Nian Nian is unhappy about the news that Rong Ting is going to Huaizhou, I will take her to see him. "

Jiang Qin was a little surprised.

When he heard that his daughter went to see Rong Ting, he was so angry that he jumped, how could it be today...

"Three months before marriage, meeting in private... will be criticized."

"His Royal Highness is going to Huaizhou, and the wedding is bound to be postponed." Jiang Xingzhou lifted his eyelids, glanced at Jiang Qinshi, and said with a cold face, "It's okay to be criticized, whoever dares to criticize me will shut up. I can't change the Holy Order, and I don't understand the trick of chasing the gods. Instead, I have the ability to deal with some broken-mouthed people. Children and grandchildren will have their own children and grandchildren, and this is what you often tell me."

Jiang Qinshi watched him block her with what she often said, and his attitude was completely different from the previous one, and finally asked the doubts in his heart, "Go to His Highness Ninth every year, why are you not angry this time?"

"I would be annoyed if I saw him." Jiang Xingzhou refused to admit it, "but I can distinguish between big and small matters."

Jiang Xingzhou looked worried, "I stopped her this time. If something happened to that kid in Huaizhou, I don't know how much she resented me."

"Don't say such unfortunate words." Jiang Qin frowned angrily, "Good things take a long time to come, and your Ninth Highness will be fine in the end."

"I'm not talking about bad luck, I'm also worried to death." Jiang Xingzhou rubbed his eyebrows, "I hope it's fine."

...

When he returned to the mansion, the dark guard arranged by Rong Ting next to Jiang Rao reported to him that Jiang Rao entered the palace today. for what.

He was going to Huaizhou to let her know.

My heart became heavy.

As soon as he returned to the mansion, Rong Ting stopped at the gatekeeper, "If the four girls come over, stop her."

When she came, she would probably persuade him not to go to Huaizhou, but he would not agree.

He just wanted to make her feel that he was obedient to her, and he didn't want her to remember his bad.

When returning to Beishen Courtyard, Rong Ting stopped under the corridor.

Looking at the palace lanterns under the corridor.

The glazed sheep horn lamp illuminated the still green autumn trees in the bonsai placed in the courtyard, and illuminated the shadows brightly. He looked down, and his gloomy eyes became peaceful.

After Jiang Rao found someone to bring in the palace lantern, he never changed it again.

From then on, the whole yard will become bright and warm. The bonsai this summer were lush and the camellias bloomed beautifully, and the yard was not as lifeless as any place he had lived before.

There was a commotion from behind.

"Girl, don't push yourself hard."

"Today, His Highness Ninth is really unable to meet the guests, you can come back another day."

"I'll never see him again if I come back another day."

Rong Ting turned back.

Jiang Rao was standing at the hanging flower door with a lantern in his hand. There was only one person, a petite figure, standing under the hanging flower door, standing in the twilight lit by the lantern, looking a little annoyed, and his forehead was full of sweat. His face was flushed.

He strode towards her.

Jiang Rao raised her head, her eyes seemed to be covered with a mist of water, she came in a hurry, her hair was unkempt by the wind, she didn't ask him about finding someone to stop her, she asked bluntly, "Huaizhou, you Is it necessary to go?"

She wanted to find a way to take revenge on the queen, but her top priority was to stop him from going to Huaizhou first.

Rong Ting fell silent.

He wanted to hide the news from her.

"Father has made an order."

"Do you have to go?" Jiang Rao swept the wheelchair behind him, and it was clear that in the eyes of others, he was a person who could never stand up. Why should he go to such a far and messy place in Huaizhou?

Rong Ting

Silent again.

Huaizhou is the only way to go, not a dead end.

Just not much life.

The abyss is in front, and the jackal is behind.

The epidemic is spreading from person to person; Xi Zimo is a dog of the Xu family, and he has hundreds of thousands of soldiers in his hands.

He himself didn't know how dangerous the road ahead would be, but he was so used to living like this that he even forgot what it was like to be afraid.

From a few years old, if he took a wrong step, he would be dead. Since he can live until now, he can continue to live in exchange.

It's just that today has more weaknesses than before, not afraid of death, afraid of never seeing her again.

He dragged Jiang Rao to the study, and after closing the door, he didn't go in. He stood by the door and looked at her calmly, "If this trip can quell the epidemic and take away the military power in Xi Zimo's hands, I will not agree with you. Now he is being shackled by the queen everywhere like this."

He knew what she wanted, and she valued the rise and fall of Ning Anbo's mansion, just as he valued whether she belonged to him alone.

"Your father's being framed will never happen again." He stretched out his slender fingers and tidied up her messy sideburns. There was no trace of panic on his face. He slowly blinked his eyes. People's hearts, the tone is sweet and tender, "You wait for me to come back."

Jiang Rao looked at him in a panic.

She had always been looking forward to him becoming her golden thigh.

But she wasn't happy at all, not at all.

"But you may die." She panicked even more, clutching his sleeve tightly, "Go and tell the emperor that your leg injury has not healed, and you can't go that far."

The circles of her eyes were red, and the tears were hanging in the corners of her eyes.

Rong Ting sighed.

Huaizhou and his party, he has what he wants, and he is bound to take this trip.

"If you change to someone else, you will also die."

Knowing her weakness, he said slowly: "The disease in Huaizhou is mostly young children. If they get sick, if they don't get cured in three days, they won't be able to get back to heaven. In addition to the bandits and barbarians..."

When the wild cats and dogs and cats on the road died in front of her eyes, she would be saddened, let alone people.

His voice and face became cold, "The streets are full of corpses, except for crying and screaming, there is no other sound."

The little hand that was holding his sleeves was loosened, and Rong Ting hooked his lips, "If the news you heard first was the war and the epidemic in Huaizhou, you must have hoped that the imperial court would send someone there quickly, right? "

"But you heard first that I was going there, so you didn't want to."

He smiled lightly, and his deep eyes looked up, bitter and lingering.

Looking at her appearance, he knew that she had him in her heart.

I just don't know how much weight it holds in her heart.

If he really can't come back, can she shed more tears for him than the wild cats and dogs on the roadside?

A little more is fine.

"Huaizhou is the only way, it's inevitable." Rong Ting looked at her and took a few breaths as if she had been stabbed in the soft underbelly. The sound of breathing sounded like crying, but the tears were in his eyes, as if they were about to be caught. With heavy sadness bursting out of his eyes, he hurriedly stretched out his hand to hold her face, put calloused fingers in the corner of her eyes, and coaxed her earnestly, "What you worry about will not happen."

"But if..." Jiang Rao's chest heaved and she choked.

Rong Ting gently wiped away the tears from the corner of her eyes, her voice was light, and then she continued, "If there is no if, I will not die."

"Even if I die..."

He looked at her red eyes, his eyes sank, his eyes were cruel, his fingers moved to her wrists, and he couldn't help leaving a red mark on her white and greasy skin, "Even if I If you die, you have to marry my tablet. You can't, you can't marry someone else."