Can't sit down

The sky was overcast and the palace gates were solemnly closed.

Suddenly, the horse was startled and braked suddenly. Gui Yao in the carriage lost her balance and suddenly fell into the arms of the man in black.

What happened?

Her eyes were filled with sorrow.

The car curtain was lifted by a feather fan, revealing a pair of beautiful peach blossom eyes. The feeling this person brought was familiar, yet indeed strange.

"Madam Gui, let me introduce myself again. I am Xiaojiu, Xiaojiu from the capital."

Raindrops dripped down his brows. The man in red narrowed his eyes and saw that the woman in the carriage was held tightly by the tall man in black, with his broad palm resting steadily on her waist.

The lady's almond-shaped eyes are moist and beautiful.

His face suddenly felt a little hot, and he coughed as he put away the fan and put the curtain back.

"Feel sorry……"

"Hey, don't go!"

Gui Yao glared at Ren Beixi behind the mask and said, "You're so quick! He was trying to hug her while putting on the mask."

A faint cold light flashed across her cuffs.

Outside the carriage, Xiao Hui was held at arm's elbow with a long knife.

When Xiaojiu was being pressed forward by Guiyao and walked out, there was also a sharp dagger in front of his slender white neck.

The white neck is slightly raised at this moment.

With a "hiss", blood beads appeared from the shallow knife edge.

Xiao Jiu was helpless: "No matter how strict my mouth is or what my character is, my lady knows that I have been working for the Imperial Master for many years, so she will understand."

Gui Yao just smiled lightly.

"Then why did you stop us?"

Raindrops fell from the thin chin into the white jade bricks. On the dark long bridge, the lively lights of the people in the past were no longer there.

Gui Yao's eyes were sharp.

I only heard someone say, "It's not that they're trying to stop me. Now that the people in the palace can't find General Ren, they're going to look for you. The Imperial Master has ordered me to protect my wife's safety."

Understood.

Gui Yao pulled the sleeve of Ren Beixi who stood up with a headache. It turned out that Jiuchong said that the substitute national master was trustworthy, but he did not tell the substitute national master that Jiuchong was not trustworthy.

Xiao Jiu lowered his eyes and said, "Your Majesty's decree has not yet been announced from the palace. The imperial edict is in the hands of Prime Minister Qiu, and a group of people are on their way to the prison."

"Do you know that they can't find Ren Beixi?" Gui Yao said.

A sound of "nature" stopped in the rain.

Perhaps because of some secret he had just uncovered, the young Jiuchong substitute didn't dare look at her or the black-clad man behind her. Gui Yao pondered, "If I insist on returning to the palace, how will you protect me?"

Ren Hui, who had already defeated the man, clapped his hands.

Ren Beixi said calmly: "Tied up."

So Xiaojiu now had Guiyao sitting on his left and Ren Beixi sitting on his right. Guiyao pinched his chin and showed the face under the mask to them both.

Guiyao: "Actually, they are quite similar."

Ren Beixi: "There is nothing wrong with your posture."

Gui Yao: "Is your white hair dyed?"

Ren Beixi: "It's hard to say."

Xiaojiu, whose mouth was blocked, struggled for a while and then stopped. Guiyao found him funny, and in this situation, she could only sigh softly.

Thanks to the badge on the Imperial Master's waist, the carriage entered the palace gate with confidence.

If the time is correct, the gentlemen should have come out of the prison by now and noticed that the guilty general Ren is no longer in prison.

Why?

It's a good thing to make people think deeply. Gui Yao slightly lifted the carriage curtain, and Xiao Hui in front said in a deep voice: "Madam, there is someone in the rain."

Who is it?

The rain curtain fell from the sky like a silk thread peeling off a cocoon, and the water splashed in the ripples created by being trampled on the ground. Only a faint voice could be heard.

"Guiyao, don't go any further."

The sound of rain is heavy.

Gui Yao looked up and her hand that was holding the curtain suddenly slipped down. When she managed to stand up, she saw Li Jiao's thin shoulders huddled in the paper umbrella that was blown off course by the rain, and his long eyelashes trembling.

…

Gui Yao didn't care about the other people in the car. She stood up, biting her lip, picked up her hat and rushed into the rain. When she held Li Jiao's hand, she felt her skin was extremely cold.

"Jiaojiao, why did you come here?" Guiyao looked at her pale face and cried anxiously.

Li Jiao tightened his grip on the umbrella.

Her eyes were red. "His Majesty fainted. I heard from the maids what he did before he fainted. I knew you and the general would suffer, so I wanted to... I wanted to come find you. You must be going back to the palace, and this is the only way."

Perhaps it was because Guiyao's voice was too urgent, she couldn't help but wonder whether this would make Guiyao suffer more.

But after a while, she saw the worried eyes of her sister Guiyao.

Li Jiao just twisted her hair behind her ears with his hands.

"Yaoyao, when His Majesty fainted and refused to let me take care of him, I knew it was a setup, but I refused to let you be implicated in these matters."

"Don't go any further."

Guiyao failed to hold her hand.

When her forehead was gently stroked, he could only stare at her in a daze.

Tears rolled down her cheeks and mixed with the rain. She just wanted to take her to a place where they could shelter from the rain and tell her that everything was going according to plan. But this way, Li Jiao would also be "involved".

But looking at Li Jiao's worried look.

Guiyao suddenly didn't understand whether this was a good thing or a bad thing.

Why did she walk into this rain?

If there was no main quest of the mind-reading notebook, if she really knew nothing, would she still resolutely go out in the rain?

Guiyao suddenly thought of the sunrise in Wuhua City.

The only person beside him was Ren Beixi.

But now the rain has fallen all over the capital. If only Ren Beixi and His Majesty were to hold the knife, wouldn't the blood fall on everyone's neck?

Li Jiao held her hand in return. When Gui Yao looked at her, she resolutely decided to pick up the helpless duckweed.

Raindrops dripped from my cuffs.

There was one more person in the carriage.

Li Jiao was almost soaked. When he got into the carriage, he was startled by Xiaojiu in the carriage. Xiaojiu was also naturally startled when she saw the queen, but now they didn't recognize each other because of their identities.

Gui Yao was wearing a blanket. She handed the new blanket that Ren Beixi had prepared in the carriage to Li Jiao.

Li Jiao didn't know why, but the first time he saw Gui Yao, he wanted to tell her everything about himself. Now, he had finally gotten on this stolen car as he wished.

With a "bang", there was a sound of something heavy falling from the top of the carriage.

Ren Beixi told Gui Yao not to move. He only saw Ren Hui's movements through the gap in the carriage curtain. Ren Hui paused and said, "Madam, here comes a bunch of...what is this?"

"What is that! It's me!" The little bluebird shook its wings fiercely.

Wet by the rain, Shen Yuan jumped into the carriage happily and was shocked by the number of people in the carriage. However, when he saw Gui Yao reaching out her hand, his round, chirping eyes were filled with surprise and longing, just like the day they met again.

The little bluebird flapped its wings and flew into Guiyao's arms!

"Wow, it's raining so hard, Yaoyao."

The drowned chicken rubbed its wet body against Guiyao's palm, and Guiyao shook, feeling very uncomfortable.

She had just called out in her mind that the system should give Shen Xiaoyuan a basic buff that would protect her from colds, when the carriage suddenly braked, even more urgently than when Xiaojiu first appeared.

Ren Hui's voice came from outside, this time sounding a little aggrieved: "Auntie, there's no room left."

Guiyao stuck her head out and saw Pinyue, who was riding a horse, frowning at Xiaohui: "I don't need you."

"Where's my wife?"

Ren Hui pointed inside the carriage.

Pin Yue passed a bottle into the carriage window curtain: "This is Mr. Qiu's regular medicine, take a look."

Gui Yao took it, turned around and handed it to Ren Beixi. Ren Beixi smelled it, his eyes were deep and silent, he only raised his thin lips and said two words.

Antidote. Antidote for what?

The antidote to the strange poison of the northern barbarians used by Lu Qingshan.

Pinyue said: "Jiu Chong gave it to me."

"He asked me to bring it to you."

She exchanged a glance with Gui Yao, but her eyes involuntarily looked towards the carriage behind her that "could not accommodate" anyone.

He spoke after a while.

"I won't be going back to the mansion. Jiuchong is using this opportunity to get rid of me, but it's all in vain." Pinyue looked away, put on the mask Jiuchong handed her before leaving, and said calmly, "I'll ride by your side and protect you."

Gui Yao nodded, feeling that there were quite a lot of masks in the team today. When she withdrew her hand, the rain slowly soaked through the scar on her palm.

"lady."

"They are coming."

Her palms closed instantly, and Gui Yao glanced at the three people in the carriage. One was the substitute imperial teacher, one was the current queen, and the other was a fugitive general who had attempted treason and assassination but failed.

Gui Yao thought, they wouldn’t come to search the car, would they?

She pulled her hat down slightly and walked out slowly from the front of the carriage curtain. She saw her aunt and two maids standing in the rain.

“…This is what happened.”

Gui Yao dismounted and let the carriage move forward slowly. Just as she was about to ask her aunt to take Li Jiao back first, she saw her aunt frowning and slightly tightening the umbrella in her hand.

Gui Yao heard from her inner voice first: "Prime Minister Qiu wants me to trick you out of the car."

When the umbrella covered the two of them, Gui Yao suddenly turned her head and looked at the person on the palace wall who was silently watching everything.

Gao Shun.

He was wearing a bright yellow dragon robe, with his hands behind his back in the heavy rain, and a flash of admiration flashed in his narrow, almond-shaped eyes.

The distance was too far, and Gui Yao had no time to react before she saw a group of people walking slowly in the rain behind her aunt. Leading the group was Old Qiu, and standing beside him was Lu Qingshan, whose hand was held up. At the same time, Censor Li followed slowly behind him, and with them was the female official whom Gui Yao had met once at the banquet.

The female official bowed slightly.

"Madam Gui, please come with us."

Gui Yao moved closer to the carriage, and suddenly a warm palm pressed against her lower back, followed by two fingers pinching the back of her neck, and a sword was held at her throat.

The man in black spoke in a deep voice.

"Stand back."

Gui Yao looked at Prime Minister Qiu from beneath her long eyelashes, his brows furrowed. Censor Li simply asked, "Who are you?"

As she finished speaking, the rain began to flow along the sword into Gui Yao's clothes. She swallowed and asked Ren Beixi in a low voice if she could escape by force.

Ren Beixi did not move and shook his head.

Gui Yao just wished that Lu Fuyin couldn't see it, otherwise he would have seen the appearance of Xiao Hei beside her.

"Please, Prime Minister, take this man away with you," Lu Qingshan said hoarsely, "His voice sounds quite familiar to me."

Guiyao didn't care and was thinking of the worst plan.

There are quite a few people in and outside their carriage now. Compared to the fluctuation method, they are more worried that the true identities of these people will be revealed. The chaos at that time will only be detrimental to the current situation of the monsters.

"Don't do that."

Guiyao said in a deep voice.

The female official said frankly: "Yes, now we have the imperial guards here, do you still think you are General Ren and can kill your way out of the palace with a single sword?"

At the hour of Xu, the long night is approaching, and the darkness in the rain is no longer just because it is cloudy.

"I can take you to find Ren Beixi, but please release all irrelevant people." Gui Yao gently took away Ren Beixi's sword. Although there are many black swords in the world, she is not afraid that someone with ulterior motives will recognize that this is the sword of General Ren.

The scabbard closed.

Gui Yao returned the sword to the man in black.

She curled her eyes and said, "However, I am not only the general's wife, but also the wife of the Gui family, a relative of the Li and Xu families, and the empress's sister-in-law. Therefore, please allow this black-clad guard to accompany you."

"Wrong."

Before she finished speaking, the female official curled her lips.

"Who said we want you to find General Ren?"

"His Majesty has decreed that you, the person next to you, Madam Xu, the coachman, and the people in the carriage.

—Take them all away.”