The Minister of Honglu Temple recognized Mei Ji, who was the master who appeared next to Mr. Zhuge.
Emperor Jingxuan had already reminded Mr. Zhuge about his visit to southern Xinjiang before he left.
"I wonder where the Second Prince and General Wei Ting are?" asked the Minister of the Ministry of Rites.
The group set out together. Logically, since Princess Hui'an had met them, she should have known each other's whereabouts.
"I don't know." Princess Hui'an calmed down and said calmly, "I just ran into Meiji on the street."
The Minister of Honglu Temple looked at Meiji again.
Mei Ji said fiercely, "Why are you looking at me? My master got separated from the princes and generals of your Great Zhou a long time ago! Who knows where they went? I wanted to ask you something! When we left Beijing, we agreed that my master would take care of the inspections on the road, and you people of the Great Zhou would escort my master, but as soon as we arrived in Southern Xinjiang, you all packed up and left! Humph!"
This skill of putting the blame on someone else is flawless.
The Minister of the Ministry of Rites was unable to tell the truth from the false and had no choice but to believe her.
Princess Hui'an asked again, "Why did Lord Wang come to Southern Xinjiang?"
The Minister of the Honglu Temple bowed and said, "Your Majesty sent me as an envoy to the southern border to discuss the marriage between the two countries. I left first, and the marriage team was three days late, but they are also on the way. But I have one thing I don't understand, why did the princess leave the marriage team without permission and enter the capital ahead of time?"
"You don't know that I..."
The Minister of Rites looked at her strangely.
Princess Hui'an changed the subject: "Can't you stay idle in the carriage?"
Her escape was not discovered. Could it be that the Empress Dowager covered it up for her?
But if the marriage team goes to the temple to pick her up, it will definitely be exposed.
Even if the Empress Dowager could temporarily find someone to impersonate her, she couldn't do it forever.
Once there is physical contact during the wedding, everything will be exposed.
In a flash, countless thoughts flashed through Princess Hui'an's mind.
She wouldn't have thought so much in the past.
I have grown up along the way.
Even the Minister of Rites noticed that the carefree princess now had a look of worry on her brow.
The Minister of the Ministry of Rites sighed and asked, "Your Highness, where are you living now? Where are your concubines?"
“We got separated.”
Princess Hui'an looked like she didn't want to talk about it any more.
After all, the Minister of the Ministry of Rites was a minister and did not dare to interrogate Princess Hui'an.
He said: "For the safety of Your Highness, please allow me to escort Your Highness into the palace."
The King of Southern Xinjiang attached great importance to this marriage. Instead of having the envoys stay in an inn or a palace, he arranged accommodation for them directly in the Qianyu Hall of the royal palace.
Mei Ji suddenly grabbed Princess Hui'an's hand, pointed at the opposite side and shouted, "Huh? Your Highness Prince Rui!"
The Minister of the Ministry of Rites and the guards all turned around.
Meiji took Huian and left.
Princess Hui'an stopped her and shook her head slightly: "Meiji, I can't leave."
She could escape to the capital and let her father figure out how to deal with the aftermath.
But she was recognized on the street in the capital of Southern Xinjiang. If she ran away again, it would be a slap in the face of the royal family of Southern Xinjiang and might implicate all the people of the Great Zhou in the capital.
She can't do that.
"But...I said I would protect you."
"You protected me well, but I... am not destined to be free."
Princess Hui'an said this, and gently let go of Meiji's hand, and said to the Minister of the Ministry of Rites, "Go into the palace."
…
"Xiao Xiao! Xiao Xiao!"
Mei Ji used her Qinggong skills to return to Elder Lou's residence.
Su Xiaoxiao was preparing medicine for Su Li's wound in the yard.
Su Xuan helped her.
Su Xiaoxiao raised her eyes to look at her: "Why did you come back alone? Where's Huanhuan?"
Mei Ji said self-reproachfully, "Huanhuan has been kidnapped!"
Su Xiaoxiao paused while holding Sanqi: "By whom?"
Mei Ji said bitterly, "The Minister of the Honglu Temple of the Great Zhou!"
Su Xiaoxiao glanced at Su Xuan.
Su Xuan put down the herbs in his hand.
Su Xiaoxiao retracted her gaze and asked Mei Ji, "When did the Minister of the Ministry of Rites come to the capital of Southern Xinjiang? I didn't hear any news."
Meiji carefully recalled the dusty appearance of the Minister of the Ministry of Rites and the guards, and speculated, "From the looks of it, he has just arrived. It is said that he is here for the marriage. The marriage team is on the way, and he thought that Huanhuan couldn't sit still, so he left the marriage team behind and entered the capital first."
Su Xiaoxiao said: "Tell us what happened again in detail."
"Um!"
Mei Ji started from the moment she and Princess Hui'an went out together, explaining every detail, including how many times she hiccuped along the way.
"The target of this marriage is the third prince of Southern Xinjiang."
This is no longer a secret; they had already found out about it.
Mei Ji continued, "The third prince is not a good person. I heard that he has a quirk and loves to torture people in his bedroom. His first two princesses were tortured to death by him! If Huanhuan marries him, won't her fate be miserable?"
In southern Xinjiang, people value the legitimate wife and choose the eldest son as the heir instead of the eldest son.
Although the third prince has a bad reputation, since he is the queen's only legitimate son, it is no surprise that he will be the next King of Southern Xinjiang.
The King of Southern Xinjiang's move was not only to find a powerful backer to balance the eight major tribes and the royal family, but also a step to compete for the Central Plains.
The two countries will eventually go to war, and Princess Hui'an will become a complete victim.
Su Xiaoxiao said sternly, "The Third Prince of Southern Xinjiang is not a good match. Even if she is, she cannot marry him. Southern Xinjiang is a pit of fire. Once you jump in, you can never get out. It seems that we have to hurry up with our plan."
"What plan?" Mei Ji asked.
Su Xiaoxiao said: "The plan to deal with the King of Southern Xinjiang and the Saint Girl is to undermine their ambition to support the previous dynasty and unify the world."
Only in this way can we save Princess Hui'an, Wei Xu, the Su family army, and everyone.
Su Xiaoxiao set out to find Wei Ting to discuss a strategy.
Mei Ji stayed behind to pack Princess Hui'an's things and see if she could send them to the palace later.
Su Xuan sat quietly under the big tree, and no one knew what he was thinking.
He was holding a large box of freshly baked osmanthus cake.
He came to the yard and saw that his son seemed to be worried. He walked around and went to the house to look for someone else.
When he pushed open Princess Hui'an's door, he only saw Mei Ji packing her things.
He tilted his head, looking confused, as if asking where is my daughter-in-law?
He mistook Su Xuan for Wei Qing, and incidentally mistook Princess Hui'an for Li Wan.
Meiji didn't understand the whole meaning, but she knew that he was looking for someone.
Mei Ji said sadly: "You can't see her anymore. She was captured by bad guys and taken to the palace."
Wei Xu looked at the empty bed, then at his son who was silent in the courtyard, and seemed to understand something in a trance.
His face darkened, he put down the osmanthus cake, and used his lightness skills to jump onto the roof. -The Minister of the Honglu Temple gave his carriage to Princess Hui'an, and he rode along on horseback.
He was still in good health, but he could hardly bear the bumpy ride.
The guards were also exhausted.
Therefore, the team did not move fast.
It took a full half hour to finally arrive at the Southern Xinjiang Palace.
Just as he was negotiating with the Southern Frontier guards, a tall and mighty figure approached the carriage silently.
He quietly lifted the curtain, carried Princess Hui'an, who had fallen asleep from crying herself tired, onto his shoulders, and ran away chirping!
When the Minister of the Ministry of Rites finished the negotiations and came to ask Princess Hui'an to get off the carriage, there was no movement inside the carriage.
"Your Highness, please get out of the car."
Still no response.
"Your Highness, I have overstepped my bounds."
The Minister of the Ministry of Rites dared to lift the curtain to see if something had happened to His Highness, but there was no sign of Princess Hui'an in the carriage. "Someone, come! The princess is missing!"
The Minister of the Ministry of Rites shouted.
The guards of Da Zhou became alert instantly.
Having traveled a long distance, they were indeed a little slack. Perhaps only Wei Xu could avoid everyone's sight in broad daylight.
Wei Xu ran very fast with his long legs! Since there was no shelter on the road, the Minister of the Honglu Temple spotted him and said, "Over there!"
The guards hurriedly rode their horses to chase after him.
The imperial guards in southern Xinjiang also dispatched a group of experts to encircle and suppress Wei Xu.
There were no houses or big trees along the way, which was not conducive to the display of Qinggong, but instead created a great advantage for the cavalry.
Wei Xu was caught up.
The crowd surrounded him.
The leading guard of the Great Zhou Dynasty said, "Let go of the princess! Otherwise, you will be killed without a complete body!"
Boom! Wei Xu kicked him off his horse.
When Wei Xu tried to grab the horse, a wave of arrows shot at him.
He carried Princess Hui'an and dodged on tiptoe.
Ma was not so lucky and fell under the arrows of the Southern Xinjiang Royal Guards.
The Honglu Temple Minister's face changed drastically: "Don't hurt the princess!"
With Wei Xu's protection, they probably can't hurt Princess Hui'an.
But it was not so easy for Wei Xu to get rid of them.
Fighting alone, none of them could be a match for Wei Xu.
But no matter how powerful a person is, he can never easily defeat an army.
Wei Xu was entangled.
Xie Jinnian had just gone outside the palace to do some errands and was riding in a carriage back to the palace when he unexpectedly ran into this fight.
"What happened?" he asked.
The driver stopped the carriage, went around to ask, and came back to report: "Reply to Eunuch Jin, the envoys from the Great Zhou have arrived. The assassins who came from nowhere suddenly kidnapped the princess of the Great Zhou."
The five tigers flew out.
An arrow nearly hit it by mistake.
The five tiger birds' feathers puffed up: "Chia!"
Xie Jinnian frowned and said, "Ruyi! Come back!"
The Five Tigers did not come back, and it shuttled through the rain of arrows.
In order to get back this troublesome little parrot, Xie Jinnian had to step forward to stop the vicious fight.
"Stop it!"
He shouted.
Although he was a eunuch, he had an extraordinary aura. When he said this, it carried a heavy sense of oppression, which made the Imperial Guards and the guards of the Great Zhou all stunned.
The Royal Guards recognized the popular man in front of the King of Southern Xinjiang, and no one wanted to offend him, so they stopped for the time being.
When the guards of the Great Zhou saw that they had stopped fighting, they also stopped for a moment.
Wei Xu carried Princess Hui'an and confronted the two armies.
Xie Jinnian looked at Wei Xu and felt like he had seen this face somewhere before.
He asked suspiciously, "Who sent you here?"
Wei Xu's ears moved, and he heard a voice a hundred steps away: "Saint, there seems to be a fight ahead, let me go and see what happened!"
Wei Xu rolled his eyes and said innocently, "Saint, Lady."
Everyone was shocked.
It was during this moment of shock that Wei Xu suddenly struck out with his palm, sending the Imperial Guards who were blocking the way flying.
He carried Princess Hui'an on his back, stole a horse and disappeared!
Su Mo is born with no brains and doesn't understand love, while Su Xuan is heartless and has no love.
Wei Xu: Son, don’t be sad, I have found your daughter-in-law for you~ Daddy Wei deserves praise today.
(End of this chapter)
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