Wishful Things

"Actually, they didn't catch me..." Xu Mingshi's tone was a bit complicated when he mentioned this matter: "It was I who accidentally broke into the exit of the secret passage they dug."

Cui was quite surprised to hear that.

The co-author was delivered to the door by himself?

This is also strange and unexpected.

"Secret passage?" Thinking that the three people in the cave were fleeing in the opposite direction to the entrance of the cave covered by the boulder, and presumably it was the exit of the secret passage that Mingshi said, Xu Mingyi couldn't help asking: "Since it is the exit of the secret passage, it must not be the exit of the cave. It will be easy to be discovered, how did you break in by mistake?"

Zhen Guogong, who was sitting at the top, also looked at his grandson.

"I was chasing a hare at the time, and I followed the hare round and round, passing through a bush and approached by chance. At that time, there was a man guarding the entrance, presumably keeping an eye out for the hunt. ——Seeing that I found him, that person probably feared that I would attract the Forbidden Army in the mountains, so he immediately dragged me into the secret passage." Xu Mingshi roughly explained what happened.

But he didn't tell the whole story.

He has always been cautious. After passing through the bushes, he saw that the surrounding area was very remote and there was not a single path. It seemed that even the imperial guards would not set foot there.

But he didn't expect Tianmu to be so strong--

Perhaps it was because the inherent nature of a bird of prey was rarely aroused. The third eye chased the rabbit and refused to turn back. Chasing the rabbit was not enough, and even grabbed the head of the sneaky man who had been hiding behind the thorn bushes.

Once caught, the man couldn't hide it even if he wanted to.

It is obviously impossible for him to pretend to be invisible.

So, what happened next...

But he couldn't tell the role of Tianmu in this matter. Tianmu is still young, and he didn't have intentions, so he shouldn't be blamed.

What's more, Tianmu has already blamed himself.

Xu Mingshi quietly glanced at the big bird crouching at Xu Mingyi's feet with its wings folded and its head curled up - look, Tianmu didn't even sit on a chair.

"It's quite unlucky to run into something like this. After you go back, you have to let Mr. Yao take a good look at it..." Cui sighed lightly, looked at her son and said, "But you are really a child, a It’s just a rabbit, you don’t eat wild game, and you don’t want to get rewards, why bother chasing all the way to that kind of place?”

"While hunting, when you see prey, you naturally want to hunt it... Just like mother playing a horse-sling, does mother want to win for money?" Xu Mingshi gave an example.

Cui blurted out: "Yes, what else?"

It's not for winning money, who just sits around for a long time?

As we all know, she never plays horses that don't play for money.

Looking at his mother's appearance of "I just want to win money", Xu Mingshi forcibly concluded: "...the mother's reason is not the money, but the satisfaction of winning money."

He said this in order to prevent his family members from suspecting Tianmu, so he continued: "But this time, my son was indeed reckless, he didn't pay attention to the surrounding situation carefully, there will definitely not be a second time."

"It's all because of a long memory." Zhen Guogong looked at his grandson and asked, "In the cave, have you ever heard them say anything worthy of attention?"

"The grandson heard that they mentioned their plan to assassinate the emperor."

Xu Mingshi lowered his voice, and said seriously: "They originally planned to wait for the emperor to go hunting in the mountains and attack when the guards around him were weak. However, since the emperor didn't go into the mountains today, they planned to postpone the plan until tomorrow—"

But his appearance disrupted all this again.

"Today I disappeared in the mountains. My grandfather led people to search around in the mountains, and they began to worry that the hiding place would be exposed. And because of such things, the hunt would be canceled tomorrow, so they decided to venture into the palace at night. Assassinate the holy driver."

After all, he added another sentence: "From their conversation, we can see that for this operation, they entered the mountain a few months ago, and have been hiding in the cave, waiting for the holy driver to come here on the day of spring hunting."

Xu Mingyi asked: "Do they have internal support in the palace?"

This assassination can be said to have been prepared for a long time, but these people's luck is really not good enough. Even if they didn't disrupt their plan tomorrow, they obviously didn't succeed in the assassination in the last life, and they didn't even cause any disturbances——in the last life, she In Yangzhou, no one has heard of the assassination of Chunshou Shengjia.

But how did this group of more than ten people get into Quanhe Mountain in the first place, and how did they sneak into the emperor's residence in the palace tonight?

"Neiying..." Xu Mingshi shook his head, "I haven't heard of that."

And for a long period of time, he was knocked out by someone—but because it was too embarrassing, he didn't plan to mention it.

Lord Zhen Guo asked some more questions, and Xu Mingshi answered them all.

After hearing this, Zhen Guogong said: "Since there are no useful and important clues, then there is no need to mention to outsiders that you fell into the hands of these people."

This outsider naturally refers to the emperor.

Although he didn't do much to find his grandson, once he knew that he really rescued his grandson from those people, the other party must have a lot of shit.

If the answer is slightly dissatisfied, I am afraid that I will be suspected of having ulterior motives, deliberately covering up assassins and traitors.

To deal with such a foolish emperor, let's do as little as possible.

Hearing his grandfather's explanation, Xu Mingshi was a little confused, so he subconsciously looked at Xu Mingyi.

Xu Mingyi nodded slightly towards him.

The grandfather, who had always acted straightforwardly, would choose to do this, obviously because he really gave up on the emperor.

In her view, this is a good thing.

Seeing his sister nodding, Xu Mingshi replied "Yes".

Mrs. Cui didn't ask too much about the old man's decision, and when she saw that she had roughly understood what had happened, she ordered the servant girl to prepare the meals.

I have been busy looking for people, and most of the day I didn't have time to taste half a sip of tea. At this time, everyone was relieved, and they all felt hungry.

"Can you prepare some more food?" Xu Mingyi asked Qing Ying, the eldest maid beside Cui Shi.

Qingying nodded: "Girl, there are still many in the kitchen."

Qin Wushu and the others should also prepare meals together, and all the men who practice martial arts are masters of cooking, so of course they need to prepare more.

Xu Mingyi said: "Then ask someone to send some to Wu Shisun. If he has already used it, then give the food to Xiaoqi and the others."

Ordinarily, they should invite people to have dinner together, but under the eyes of the emperor, it is inappropriate to get too close.

Even so, Qing Ying was slightly taken aback when she heard it.

Why did she inexplicably feel... the girl's tone was too calm and natural?

And who is Xiaoqi?

It should be Wu Shisun's entourage, right?

The girls seem to be very familiar...

Qingying nodded, thinking a little dazedly: Why does this feel like Wu Shisun... is her uncle?