Mountains and rivers pray for peace

Chapter 120
The hijacking of Huo Qi's carriage occurred on Guankou Street, and a fight between the guards of the Cui Mansion and the kidnappers was quite loud. The news soon spread back to Duke Ning's Mansion.

The understatement of the young servant who returned to report the letter made the Huo family tremble with fear.All the guards of Cui's mansion were slaughtered. Although Tingyu and Lefeng who were carried back to the mansion were only slightly injured, they still didn't wake up.

As soon as he received the news, Huo Ruhai took the seal and instructed the people in the city defense battalion to search the whole city.But now the people who witnessed the scene were dead and fainted. Even if so many people were sent to search, it was just a group of headless chickens wandering around.

In the main hall of the main courtyard of Duke Ningguo's mansion, the boy from the city defense camp who came to report the news on time bowed his hands and said: "My lord, the whereabouts of your daughter's daughter is still unknown..."

Huo Ruhai was lying in his heart when he said he wasn't worried, but he had been in the officialdom for decades and his psychological quality was definitely top-notch.Even if he heard bad news, he never lost his composure. He just ordered in a cold voice: "It's not more than two hours before the incident happened, and they can't run too far. He told Admiral Yang that with Guankou Street as the center, it's sixty miles away. Don’t leave any part untouched.”

Huo Ruhai was born with a kind and refined face, and he deliberately hid his sharpness these years. Almost everyone almost forgot the arrogance of this Duke when he was young.Now his face darkened, and the coercion of the powerful minister was inadvertently revealed. The boy who reported the letter was so shocked that he broke out in a cold sweat, and went back to deliver the letter in three steps at a time.

After the little boy ran away, Huo Ruhai reluctantly said to Huo Xian who was at the bottom: "These desperadoes are willing to take such a big risk and price to snatch people from the Cui family. How many things have happened in a few months? All of them are aimed at Qiqi. But she is just a young lady who has not left the cabinet, who can she offend? In the end, it is still aimed at Huo's family. "

Huo Xian's eyes were heavy. In Huo Ruhai's eyes, Huo Qi was an innocent and good-natured daughter. He used to think so too.But after the incident at Baotan Temple, he understood that although Huo Qi's skin had not changed at all, the inside had long been reborn.

Thinking of the secret letter delivered by Lefeng last night, Huo Xian subconsciously clenched his fists.He made up his mind and said: "Dad, the longer my sister is found, the more dangerous she will be. As for the current plan, it is better for me to take my brothers to find my sister's whereabouts."

Huo Ruhai pondered for a moment, then waved his hands: "Go ahead, if something happens, I'll make a memorial for my father and tell His Majesty the whole story in person. Your mother is not in good health, and your father will always protect you."

Now except Yang Qian and Cui Xin, the commanders of the city defense camp, no one has the power to mobilize troops and search for people at the emperor's feet.Although Huo Xian was granted the title of General Pingbei, he did not have the military talisman in his hand.If he mobilized troops privately, he would be suspected of overstepping his bounds and might make Emperor Xiaowen suspicious of the Huo family.

According to Huo Ruhai's principle of carefully sailing a thousand-year ship, he would not agree to this matter.But now that Huo Qi's whereabouts are unknown and his daughter can't be protected, why is he still afraid of this?
Huo Xian quickly went to the camp in the west of Beijing to mobilize troops and searched for people in the city with great fanfare, causing the whole capital to know that Duke Ning's legitimate daughter had been lost.But the strange thing is that Huo Xian only spent a token amount of time searching for a cup of tea in the city before he left the city with a hundred elite soldiers and headed straight for the outskirts of Beijing.

But on the other side, Huo Qi has woken up.She slowly raised her heavy eyelids, and what caught her eyes was the pink tulle pouring down from the four corners of the eaves of the bed.Subconsciously, she wanted to touch the tulle with her hands, but found that her limbs were tied up with hemp rope, and she couldn't move at all.

Looking sideways to the right side of the body, there is only a wooden table in the room, and a purple gold carved incense burner stands on the table, and the smoke is escaping from it, adding a bit of ambiguity to the room.

Compared with the cave in Longyang Peak last time, the environment of this elegant room is much more comfortable.But instead of relaxing, Huo Qi's whole body became more tense.Often the more calm things appear on the surface, the more turbulent and treacherous they are behind the scenes.

As if to test her intuition, someone soon pushed the door open and entered.That person had a pair of iconic eagle eyes, who else could there be besides the second highness in the palace who was famous for his virtue?
Shen Yu walked to the bed and saw that Huo Qi had woken up. He was startled for a moment, and then a malicious smile appeared on his face: "So you're already awake? It's good to wake up."

"It's you again. In total, this is the third time His Highness has tied me up, but he has only heard a few words about it?" Huo Qi frowned coldly, without the slightest surprise in his tone.

After all, you have already broken up, so why are you pretending?
Shen Yuxing raised the corners of his lips, nodded thoughtfully, and then leaned against the side of the bed, pinched Huo Qi's chin and looked at it, as if he was complacently sizing up the caught prey.

He smiled and said: "Of course I have heard of it. It's true that you can't do anything wrong, because... you can never go back."

"What do you mean?" Huo Qi looked at each other calmly.

Shen Yuxing laughed loudly, and then breathed maliciously into Huo Qi's ear: "You are so smart, can't you guess it? Of course, I want to keep you as a concubine for life, and love you well."

It's one thing for Huo Qi to guess Shen Yuxing's plan, but another to hear him admit it.Her eyes sank slightly, and she quickly thought about it.After all the calculations, if the delay was less than half an hour at most, Cui Xin and Huo Xian should have arrived.For the current plan, the only way to protect himself is to distract Shen Yuxing by talking more.

"If my father and brother knew about it, they would definitely not let you go." Huo Qi said quietly.

Huo Qi's words were like scratching an itch, and Shen Yuxing couldn't help but chuckled: "The daughter of the Huo family was robbed because the Cui family's guards and the city defense battalion were not doing well. What does it have to do with this king? Duke Ning is full of strange things, and he can't help it." No wonder it's on my king's head."

"Oh? What if someone finds out about this Zhuangzi?" Huo Qi said calmly.

Shen Yuxing didn't seem to expect that Huo Qi would ask such a stupid question, and he couldn't help feeling regretful, feeling that he might have overestimated Huo Qi's mind.But a person who has always been smart showed his stupid side in front of him, which just rightly pleased him, and he couldn't help but say a few more words.

He said indifferently: "Even if we find out here, this Zhuangzi does not belong to my king in name, and my king is innocent."

Huo Qi sneered: "Your Majesty, why do you want to be with me, a humble woman? Is it because I rejected His Highness's overtures?"

"It's just because you rejected me, but you shamelessly hooked up with Shen Yuning!" Shen Yuxing put his finger on Huo Qi's chin and rubbed it gently, but there was a change in his eyes.As if he wanted to hide something, he added: "Oh, I was smart enough to meet Huixuan again at Baotan Temple."

In fact, the matter of Huixuan in Baotan Temple didn't completely touch his bottom line, Huo Qi should never have to, and he shouldn't have gotten together with Shen Yuning at all.It almost reminded him of the past that he was least willing to face.

Before he left the palace to open the mansion, he had sincerely admired Princess Qingyuan, the daughter of King Jingyuan, but at that time Princess Qingyuan loved Shen Yuning wholeheartedly and turned a blind eye to him.The same is the prince, why can Shen Yuning win the hearts of so many women easily, but he still can't get them after all his efforts?

Princess Qingyuan had been turned into flower mud without anyone noticing, and he thought that the pain had been wiped away.But Huo Qi's appearance almost made history repeat itself, how could he not hate it?How can you not be jealous?Even though he didn't really like Huo Qi, a woman, even though Huo Qi was just an image he couldn't ask for.

Huo Qi was not at all irritated by Shen Yuxing, but turned his head impatiently: "Since you know that I have seen Huixuan, you must know that he gave me something with his own hands before he died. Are you not afraid that I will hand it over to His Majesty? Rubble, I don't know who is broken."

Shen Yuxing regained some sense, and smiled again: "As long as you never appear in front of the world again, what can that thing prove?" Shen Yuxing didn't care much, and wiped Huo Qi's arm maliciously, "As for porcelain Well, seeing that your skin is smooth, this king deserves the reputation of porcelain, hahaha."

Huo Qi almost felt sick, and just when he was about to retort, he suddenly felt dizzy at his temples, and a feeling of emptiness suddenly rose in his abdomen.

She subconsciously looked at the purple and gold engraved incense burner on the table.

(End of this chapter)