Yu Chuan looked unhappy, "Your Majesty, I have been looking for it, but I haven't found anyone..."

Chu Youyang has a headache.

Yu Chuan thought for a long time, "Your Majesty, how about...telling the Queen Mother that Gu Rui has resigned?"

"Then do you think that my mother would think that I was ungrateful and secretly killed Gu Rui?" Chu Youyang looked distressed. "My mother is very kind. If she knew, I'm afraid she wouldn't be able to eat or sleep..."

This method won't work! Yu Chuan suddenly had an idea, "Your Majesty, isn't Prince Jingnan very close to Gu Rui? Why not go through him to find him? Who knows, maybe they have some private contact?"

Chu Youyang's eyes suddenly lit up! This is a good idea! He quickly called Cheng Shi over.

Although they have been good friends for many years, they still have to be polite. Cheng Shi had to bow to Chu Youyang as soon as he entered the door. But Chu Youyang needed something from him now, so he hurriedly said, "We are all good friends, no need to be polite!"

"What does the emperor want me to do?" Cheng Shi was still grateful to Chu Youyang. After all, he and Su'er were married because of Chu Youyang's arrangement.

Chu Youyang chuckled, "I want to ask you if you know where Gu Rui is."

Cheng Shi suddenly became alert, "This... How dare I hide him? I don't know, I don't know!"

Who would dare to secretly hide the emperor's criminal, no matter how close the relationship is, since he only has one head?

Chu Youyang hurriedly said: "It's like this, my mother wants him to bless my younger sister, so I must find him..."

In fact, his eyes were quite sincere, but the logic was not very coherent. Why did Queen Mother Mei look for Gu Rui? Why didn't she look for him earlier or later, but had to look for him after he ran away? What had she done for several months before? Was she sealed?

So Cheng Shi felt that Chu Youyang was lying with his eyes open. So he said perfunctorily: "Oh! This is a big deal. I will do my best to find him!"

"Oh? That's great! You two have a good relationship, you will definitely find it. It all depends on you!" Chu Youyang trusted Cheng Shi very much.

"Your Majesty, rest assured!" Cheng Shi nodded heavily. "There is just one thing. Recently, I found that the emperor has sent many people to look for him, and the guards at the city gates have been strengthened. I am afraid that we will alert the enemy. Otherwise... let's keep a low profile?"

“Okay, okay!” Chu Youyang nodded, “You alone can defeat hundreds of them! Look carefully! If you find me, I’ll give you something!”

Cheng Shi agreed and turned to leave.

He went straight out of Prince Jingnan's Palace.

Su'er was about to get married to him, so it was not appropriate for her to live in his yard. So when he learned that Yue's house had been raided, he bought it out for a small sum of money. Now Yue's house has been renamed Su's House.

He went to Su's house.

With his skills, he naturally didn't notice that there were several people following him, and these people followed him into the Su residence.

Cheng Shi had no idea. As soon as he entered the room, he couldn't wait to tell Su'er something. However, he saw a figure coming out of the window...

The people sent by Chu Youyang immediately chased after the man.

Cheng Shi was about to get angry with Su'er, but unexpectedly Su'er breathed a sigh of relief, "Luckily you arrived in time!"

"What's going on?!" Cheng Shi suddenly widened his eyes and looked Su'er up and down.

"That bastard Tan Xuan actually used force to force me to hand over the antidote. If you had come a little later, he would have strangled me to death!"

Only then did Cheng Shi notice that there was a circle of red marks on Su'er's neck.

Misunderstanding cleared up.

"I have to send a few secret guards to you!" Cheng Shi hugged her lovingly.

Su Er sighed heavily, "If only my inner strength was still there, he wouldn't be able to control me so effortlessly..."

Cheng Shi said angrily, "Don't worry, I will study martial arts diligently from now on, and I will definitely beat him and protect you in the future!"

A sweet smell filled the room.

After a while, Cheng Shi finally remembered the purpose of his visit. "Oh, right! The emperor asked me to find Gu Rui. Find a way to tell him and let him run!"

"Well! That guy is really possessed! He actually dared to set his sights on the Queen Mother!"

"That's right! I really want to beat him up!"

The two chatted for a few words and Su'er hurried out.

In order to avoid being seen, Cheng Shi sat in Su's house for a while.

The secret guards sent by Chu Youyang thought that Tan Xuan was Gu Rui they were looking for, so they chased him all the way out of the city.

The two sides were evenly matched. Tan Xuan was chased to the point of being out of breath, and the people behind him were not much better off, so they just kept a safe distance.

"Hey! Don't run! We won't kill you!" the secret guard panted.

Tan Xuan turned his head, panting heavily, "Are you guys coaxing the child?"

As soon as he turned his head, the secret guards recognized that he was not Tan Xuan. The leader cursed: "Damn it! We are chasing the wrong person! Go back!"

After saying that, the group turned around and left.

Tan Xuan cursed inwardly: What's wrong with you! I thought it was someone Cheng Shi sent to protect Tan Yan!

Looking at the secret guards gradually going away, Tan Xuan suddenly fell down.

Oh no! The poison has come back again! I have to crawl back! Climbing back is such a long process...

He felt like he was going to die on the road...

Fortunately, a person appeared in front of him, looked down at him for a long time, and then said...

"Please be kind! Give me some food..."

Tan Xuan spat out a mouthful of blood.

The secret guards had no idea that Tan Xuan was poisoned, nor did they care who he was. They only cared about Tan Xuan's whereabouts. However, when they returned to Su's house, only Cheng Shi was left sitting in the hall.

Just wait, what else can you do? While they were waiting foolishly, Su'er had already arrived at a dilapidated house. Gu Rui had been hiding here for the past few days, basically not going out, relying entirely on the dry food Su'er brought him.

Who made Cheng Shi and him close friends? "Sir!" Su'er said anxiously, "The prince asked me to tell you that the emperor is looking for you, you'd better leave quickly!"

How could Gu Rui not know that Chu Youyang was looking for him? The whole city had probably been searched eight times? If he hadn't known so many formations and had avoided several searches with the invisibility formation, he would have been killed long ago.

It’s a pity that he knows formations but not martial arts!

"I can't leave! The city gate is heavily guarded. I'm afraid I'll be shot to death by arrows before I even get out..." Gu Rui said dimly.

Su Er suddenly had an idea. "How about this? I heard that Prince Su and his wife will be returning to Beijing in the next few days. You can find a way to follow their team out of the city and then leave."

This is a good idea! Anyway, Gu Rui looks pretty good in women's clothing, so it's no problem for him to pretend to be a maid.

"Okay! Then please tell the prince that I am grateful for your kindness and we will meet again in the future!" Gu Rui clasped his fists.

Su'er gave him some change as travel expenses, and also specifically reminded him: "Sir, you must stay as far away from the capital as possible!"

Gu Rui thought so too. Even if he missed Empress Dowager Mei, he knew that he had to keep his life in order to have a future.

But he didn't expect that he would follow Chu Younan and his group back to Beijing by mistake...