Concubine's true colors

Chapter 608
Xiao Jinxuan is not a stingy person, she can even tolerate things that others cannot tolerate.

But now she is going south with all her heart, and in order to avoid trouble in this juggling troupe, she rarely even talks to anyone.

He taught a few girls in the team how to read, but it actually aroused the jealousy of Xiao Mudan, and even asked her to drive him away.

Xiao Jinxuan's business was almost delayed, so she naturally wouldn't sit still.

Therefore, the entire Qingde troupe, ignoring Little Peony's still cursing and crying, the convoy drove away.

As for Xiao Jinxuan in the carriage, because the door was wide open, she blew a cold wind for a while, and now she couldn't help coughing.

On the way, every time Xiao Jinxuan had a headache and cough, or felt too hard, she would take off the worry-free hairpin from her hair and hold it in her hand.

Because seeing this hairpin, she seemed to be seeing Zhou Xianyu, and she felt that she could bear it even when she was suffering and tired.

Now that the little peony in the carriage left, the rest of the girls were much more relaxed.

Seeing Xiao Jinxuan take off the hairpin from her head again, she held it in her hand and stared blankly.

Therefore, in the juggling troupe, a girl named Xia Ling who was about the same age as Xiao Jinxuan couldn't help asking curiously:
"Miss Xiao, I see that you are always staring at this hairpin in a daze, sometimes all afternoon. This hairpin must be very important to you, maybe it was left by your lost family members."

Hearing these words, Xiao Jinxuan couldn't help shaking her head and chuckling.

"This hairpin has nothing to do with my family, it was given to me by my husband. Now we are far apart, every time I see this hairpin, I will think that he is fine."

Xiao Jinxuan belongs to the kind of people who don't ask, she will never talk much.

But if someone talks to her, on the premise of not revealing her identity, generally she will seldom lie.

And when she heard that Xiao Jinxuan was already married, she was even a wife.

Although the little girl who was in the same car immediately wanted to ask Xiao Jinxuan curiously, why did the other party travel so dangerously alone.

But such an abrupt question was immediately stopped by Xia Ling, an older girl, and then she smiled apologetically at Xiao Jinxuan.

Xiao Jinxuan, who didn't care, let alone get annoyed by such a trivial matter, also smiled back at the other party.

Then she was silent, she couldn't help holding the worry-free hairpin in her hand, but her eyes looked out through the car window.

But in Xiao Jinxuan's heart, her thoughts drifted far away, and she was silently thinking about where Zhou Xianyu was now, and whether she had heard the news that she had fled the palace.

Don't look at Xiao Jinxuan's current situation, compared with the past in the capital, it is not an exaggeration to describe it as miserable.

But what worried her most in her heart was not herself, but Zhou Xianyu.

Because Xiao Jinxuan understood the character of the other party, Zhou Xianyu was smart, but he was also irritable and impulsive.

Especially when the evil spirit of blood is out of control, it is easier to lose normalcy.

But now Empress Chen's mother and son, as well as Ji Lingfeng behind them, have already controlled the court, and are faintly connected with the Xiao family, the commander-in-chief's mansion with great military power.

Therefore, in the current situation, it is the most beneficial choice to focus on stability, and first to break down the differences one by one.

But Xiao Jinxuan was really worried. She was afraid that Zhou Xianyu's bloody aura would explode, so she lost her mind and lost her way of doing things.

She was even more afraid that Empress Chen would not care about the relationship between mother and child for many years, and that Xiangping would join forces to deal with Zhou Xianyu regardless of the brother and sister's righteousness, but she was not by his side, this was what Xiao Jinxuan was most worried about.

With a long sigh, Xiao Jinxuan couldn't help handing the worry-free hairpin to her eyes, but she was wondering where Zhou Xianyu was and whether everything was all right.

Xiao Jinxuan, who has been south for more than a month, has actually calculated in her heart. According to the time, she thinks that Zhou Xianyu should be on his way back to Beijing now.

But people are not as good as heaven, how could she have imagined that when Zhou Xianyu arrived in Gansu, he realized that Zhou Xianrui had told him that there was doubt about Yaoyin.

Therefore, feeling that something was wrong, Zhou Xianyu was worried about Xiao Jinxuan, so he went straight back to Beijing ahead of schedule.

So I was worried about Zhou Xianyu in my heart, lest the other party return to the capital, Xiao Jinxuan would lose her composure when she learned of the turmoil in the capital.

How could she have imagined that Zhou Xianyu, who was thousands of miles away, not only returned to Beijing, but now he has arrived under the city gate.

Standing on the horseback, looking at the white silk hanging in front of the city gate, Zhou Xianyu's eyes were full of shock.

In fact, when the emperor passed away, this kind of national commemoration must be notified to the prefectures and counties across the country. Therefore, in the current Da Zhou, it can be said that everyone knows about Zhou Xianrui's death.

And Zhou Xianyu heard the news when he was on his way back.

But he couldn't believe it at all, let alone accept it, until now he saw the white silk hanging on the city wall with his own eyes.

At this moment, even though Zhou Xianyu couldn't accept it in his heart, the dear brothers who separated only a few months ago.

In the blink of an eye, he had to say goodbye to him forever. Although it was quite painful, he had to bear this reality.

Thinking back to the last time he led the army to go out, after he escaped from death, what he saw was the red silk wedding curtain hung on the city gate, and that day was the day when Xiao Jinxuan married Zhou Xianrui as his concubine.

But now that the city is full of white silks, and his siblings have passed away, Zhou Xianyu resisted his pain and couldn't help but drive his horse into the city, and then immediately went to the palace to see how Xiao Jinxuan was doing.

No wonder Zhou Xianyu didn't know that something unexpected happened to Xiao Jinxuan until now.

After all, the emperor was murdered and poisoned to death by his concubine. This is not something to show his face.

So at the beginning, Empress Chen did issue a notice to announce Xiao Jinxuan's crimes to the public, in order to use the power of everyone in the capital to catch the other party.

But later, after Guo Yi was reused by the other party, he immediately helped Xiao Jinxuan secretly, telling Queen Chen that doing so would be harmful but not beneficial.

Not only did it damage Zhou Xianrui's reputation, but it also made people feel that he, an emperor, died at the hands of a woman in the end, which really degraded his status.

Another reason is that under such a big fanfare, the imperial court even asked Xiao Jinxuan to escape. If it is spread out, it will inevitably be criticized and ridiculed.

Therefore, under Guo Yi's suggestion, the clear investigation turned into a secret search, and all the previous notices were replaced.

He only said that the murderer who hurt Zhou Xianrui had been arrested and was executed, so as to save the royal family's face.

Therefore, after Xiao Jinxuan poisoned Zhou Xianrui, whether she was sentenced to death or not has been the most debated matter among the people in the capital for more than a month.

As for the prefectures and counties other than the capital, because they are far away, there is no notice that Xiao Jinxuan poisoned the king of a country.

Therefore, even though the local people in Dazhou knew that Zhou Xianrui was dead, the news about Xiao Jinxuan was not heard in other places except the one in the capital, which was widely circulated.

It was also thanks to Guo Yi's painstaking help in the capital, so after Xiao Jinxuan left the capital.

It was because the court only secretly investigated and arrested her, so the local government was not notified in time, so she was able to follow the juggling troupe so smoothly, otherwise she would have been arrested long ago.

So Zhou Xianyu didn't even know that something happened to Xiao Jinxuan until now.

But once Zhou Xianrui died, he also guessed that Xiao Jinxuan would definitely be affected.

After all, the other party has been at odds with Empress Chen for a long time, so now, he is really eager to go to the palace to meet the other party so that he can feel at ease.

But the more anxious this person is, the harder it is to escape.

Just like Zhou Xianyu now, seeing the city gates that were originally unobstructed, now they are now heavily guarded and interrogating passers-by.

As a prince, he naturally has royal privileges, so he didn't need to line up. After revealing his identity, he thought he could enter the city immediately.

But how could Zhou Xianyu expect it, it would be fine if he didn't mention his identity.

After finding out who he was, more than 20 troops of the Forbidden Army sent by the imperial palace under the city gate pulled out their weapons one after another.

And the leaders of these Forbidden Army will point at Zhou Xianyu with a knife in an extremely rude manner, and then shouted in an arrogant tone:

"His Royal Highness, please get off your horse and hand over your weapons. Lord Mo has ordered you to have a close relationship with the deposed concubine Xiao, so you are inseparable from the suspicion of the late emperor's murder. Therefore, please go to the Ministry of Criminal Justice with me first, Commit yourself to stay in the sky prison for a few days, and when you are sure that there is no suspicion, the Duke will naturally release you."

Although Zhou Xianyu was still immersed in pain and memory because of Zhou Xianrui's death.

But when the abolished concubine Xiao Shi, Duke Mo, and the prison are awaiting trial, these words are connected together.

Zhou Xianyu was not a dull person, so he couldn't tell that something might have happened to Xiao Jinxuan.

Immediately after that, the people under the city gate felt their eyes dim for a moment, and they didn't wait for everyone to see clearly what was going on.

The captain of the imperial army who was arrogant and rude just now, even wanted to arrest Zhou Xianyu and put him in the sky prison, this meeting is really a bit worrying.

It can be seen that Zhou Xianyu's lightness kung fu was used to the extreme, not only jumped off the horse and came to the opponent, but even picked up the team leader with his clothes.

Zhou Xianyu, whose eyes were already slightly red, had a wicked smile on the corner of his mouth, and said lazily with a chill:

"Repeat what you just said, did something happen to Concubine Xiao, who is that Dugong Mo, and how exactly did my brother die."

The Imperial Army is now under the control of Ji Lingfeng, so Dugong Mo, because he is afraid of Zhou Xianyu, has already issued an order that as soon as the other party returns to Beijing, he will first take him into the prison.

After all, Ji Lingfeng also knew that Zhou Xianyu was not easy to deal with, and when Zhou Xianrui just married Xiao Jinxuan, the other party almost strangled his brother to death at the foot of the imperial city.

Now Xiao Jinxuan is not married, she has been persecuted almost to death, and her whereabouts are still unknown.

Ji Lingfeng didn't even dare to think, if Zhou Xianyu knew that all of this was done by Empress Chen's mother and son, would the other party tear him apart to vent his anger.

So Ji Lingfeng had no choice but to be lucky, and planned to take advantage of Zhou Xianyu's return to Beijing to see if he could be detained in the dungeon before the current situation was clarified.

As long as the war king of the Great Zhou was captured, it would be much easier to deal with.

But Ji Lingfeng's idea of ​​catching the opponent by surprise is very good, but that also requires Zhou Xianyu to be willing to cooperate with him.

But obviously, even though Zhou Xianyu had been away from the barracks for a long time, and he was in court before, helping Zhou Xianrui handle official documents, his mind was indeed much calmer.

But now it was heard that something might have happened to Xiao Jinxuan, and his side of a warrior on the battlefield was completely revealed again.

(End of this chapter)