Even though he had a thousand doubts, Xuan Tianyan still chose to go to the Crystal Court to see Feng Fendai first. After all, no matter how big the incident was in the capital, it was not his turn to take care of it. All of his brothers were more promising and more powerful than him. He was just an idle prince, who was only good at talking about love all day in the eyes of outsiders. What qualifications did he have to take care of the safety of Dashun? What's more, didn't Xuan Tianming and Feng Yuheng return to the capital in advance? The sixth brother also returned to the capital. With them in charge, the capital would not be in chaos.
Xuan Tianyan completely shirked his responsibilities. He was not willing to care about anything related to the government. At this moment, he was only thinking about whether Feng Fendai was safe and whether Xiaobao had returned to the Crystal Villa.
There was a knock on the door, and the doorman came to open it quickly. When he saw Xuan Tianyan, he knelt down and saluted. However, Xuan Tianyan didn't have the time to deal with these servants, so he went straight to Feng Fendai's yard and walked in.
The servants did not try to stop him, but could only guess in their hearts what had happened to cause the Fifth Prince to be so flustered.
At this time, Feng Fendai was still awake, leaning on the bed and thinking about things. She kept thinking about what Yu Qianyin said to someone beside her before she left. The other person said: I can still remember what the third young lady of the Feng family looks like. Although there is not much time, I am still confident that I can get 60% to 70% of the image. The rest, I will improve it bit by bit!
Fendai couldn't figure out what that meant. What did he mean by 60% to 70%? What did he mean by perfecting it bit by bit? Yu Qianyin was really weird. Everything he did and said was weird.
As she was thinking about this, she heard Dongying shouting outside: "Fifth Prince? Why are you here at this hour? Our young lady has already gone to bed."
Xuan Tianyan's voice followed, "She's asleep? So, she's in the mansion?"
"Yes! The young lady is sleeping in the room!"
She heard Xuan Tianyan's obvious relief and said, "That's good, that's good, I'm really afraid of her... Never mind, let's not talk about this, just open the door and I'll just take a look at her."
Feng Fendai frowned when she heard this. She was not surprised that Xuan Tianyan suddenly came back from the enclosure. After all, Xiaobao was missing, and Xuan Tianyan would be worried. But why did she feel relieved when she heard that she was in the mansion?
She got up and opened the door without waiting for Dongying to open it. She asked coldly, "Why are you back? What are you doing here in the middle of the night?"
When Xuan Tianyan saw her, he first looked her up and down, and then he really let out a long sigh in front of Fendai and said, "Luckily you're back, I was really worried that something might happen to you. You didn't know that there were traces of fighting on the road from the enclosure to the capital, and I chased all the way back because I was worried that you would come out. Now that I see that you are safe, I am relieved."
Xuan Tianyan was really scared. He almost didn't dare to imagine what he would do if Feng Fendai got into trouble. After so many years, he finally found such a spiritual sustenance. He didn't want to go back to the muddle-headed days of the past. He didn't want to keep countless women in Prince Li's mansion just because those women were a little bit like the man in the past. He wanted to take good care of Feng Fendai. Even if this girl often committed suicide, as long as he was there, he could always protect her. God knows what he felt when he saw the traces of fighting on the road. Once the terrifying feeling of loss came, it was hard to let go.
Feng Fendai frowned when she heard this. It would be a lie to say that she was not moved. She was not made of stone. She could see that the Fifth Prince treated her well, but she was too awkward to admit it. Just like now, she clearly felt it, but what she said was: "Now you see, I am safe, you can go back."
"But..." Xuan Tianyan took a step forward and asked anxiously, "Did Xiaobao come back with you?"
When she heard him asking about Xiaobao, Dongying was startled and almost exposed herself. If the Fifth Prince's attention had not been focused on Fendai, Dongying's reaction would have been almost fatal.
But compared to Dongying, Feng Fendai was much calmer. She immediately asked Xuan Tianyan, "Xiaobao? Why did he come back with me? Wasn't he with you when I left? We agreed that you would take him to play in the paddock for a few more days!"
Upon hearing this, Xuan Tianyan's mind exploded with a buzzing sound. Xiaobao didn't come back! Xiaobao didn't come back! What does that mean? Such a young child was sitting alone in a carriage, and there were signs of fighting on the road, which meant that the child was in trouble!
He was a little flustered, and Feng Fendai couldn't bear seeing his panic. She knew that a man was sincere to her, but she was always awkward and causing trouble for him. This prince who seemed so high and mighty in the past, whom she tried her best to curry favor with, had gradually become looked down upon by her over the years. But even though she looked down upon him, she felt guilty about this matter. When things came to this point, she couldn't tell the truth and could only continue to pretend to be cold and said, "What's wrong with you? What happened? Where's Xiaobao?"
Now it was Feng Fendai who asked him for someone! Xuan Tianyan was in a dilemma. He knew that he couldn't stay here any longer. The longer he stayed, the more danger Xiaobao would be in. The most urgent thing was to find someone. So he said to Fendai, "Something happened, but don't worry. Don't worry. In three days, at most three days, I will definitely send Xiaobao back to you." After saying that, he turned around and left.
Feng Fendai stood there and watched his receding figure, her nose suddenly filled with a bit of sourness. She sniffed and forced back the sourness, then glared at Dong Ying and warned: "Remember what I just said, if the Fifth Prince asks again in the future, just say what I said. He lost the young master, and it has nothing to do with us." After saying that, she was afraid that Dong Ying would not be able to think straight, so she added: "Originally, the child chased after him on his own. If Xuan Tianyan had kept a close eye on him, how could he have escaped at such a young age? So, this matter is still his fault."
Dong Ying quickly agreed, and sighed in her heart: Indeed! If the Fifth Prince had kept a close eye on the child, the child would not have been able to escape from the enclosure. This must be fate!
Seeing that Dongying agreed and seemed to have thought it through, Fendai went back to the house. Although she didn't show her anxiety on her face, she was already boiling inside. When Xiaobao was still alive, she either beat him or scolded him, but now that he was in Yu Qianyin's hands, she was so worried that she would rather exchange him for Feng Xiangrong. When she thought of Feng Xiangrong, Fendai became anxious again. Now that he was still in the enclosure, she didn't know when he would come back. She really hoped that Feng Xiangrong would return to Beijing immediately. She would do everything she could to send him to Yu Qianyin in exchange for her brother.
The Fifth Prince did not sleep all night, but he did not know where to start looking. He mobilized nearly twenty people from Prince Li's Palace to go out of the city overnight to search the scene of the accident with all their might, but they did not find any results until dawn.
His actions naturally did not escape the eyes of Xuan Tianming and Feng Yuheng. The two thought that he was just causing trouble, but after asking around, they found out that Xiaobao was in trouble, so Feng Yuheng reluctantly sent his own people to search for him. However, they did not know that Xiaobao was imprisoned with the eighth prince Xuan Tianmo at this time, and someone had drawn an outline on Xuan Tianmo's face with ink. Yu Qianyin said, follow this outline to take the skin and start tonight.
Xuan Tianmo completely collapsed and went crazy. He screamed meaninglessly all day and all night long. His lower body was rotten like a ghost, and Xiaobao was scared to tears.
Meanwhile, in the enclosure outside the capital, the princes left one by one, even Feng Yuheng and Feng Fendai left, and Emperor Tianwu was a little unhappy. He slept in a daze for a day and a night, and when he woke up, he heard Zhang Yuan tell him about this, and then saw Yao Xian sitting by his bed and drinking tea, and couldn't help asking, "What's the matter? Are you here to treat me again?"
Yao Xian shook his head, "I just woke up." Then he casually handed the remaining bowl of tea to Emperor Tianwu: "Here, it's for sobering up. Your headache will go away after you drink it."
Emperor Tianwu did not despise him, he took it and drank it, then handed the bowl to Zhang Yuan and said to Yao Xian: "Tell me, what's the point of raising these guys? I finally said I would go out hunting for a few days, but they went back one after another. Didn't I just drink a little more wine and sleep for two more days? Why can't they wait?"
Yao Xian advised him, "Why think so much? After all, most of them stay. How could there be no one in the capital to rule such a big city like Dashun? They all came out for fun. What if something happens? The Sixth Prince is a bit of a scholar, so it would be a good thing for him to have a military general to rule the capital."△≧△≧△≧△≧
"A military commander is stationed in the capital? Then the ninth one can go back, but why is the fifth one joining in the fun?" Emperor Tianwu still looked unhappy and kept scolding Xuan Tianyan: "You are not good at anything, not even joining in the fun."
Zhang Yuan quickly explained, "I heard that the Fifth Prince had a little quarrel with the Fourth Miss of the Feng family. The Fourth Miss Feng got angry and left, and the Fifth Prince had no choice but to chase after her!"
Emperor Tianwu was very interested in this gossip topic, and immediately pulled Zhang Yuan and Yao Xian to talk about the matter between his fifth son and the fourth daughter of the Feng family. He ignored the previous topic and said whoever wanted to go could go! Anyway, he just wanted to relieve his boredom.
The boredom lasted for seven or eight days. Perhaps after learning that Xuan Tianming had returned to Beijing, the old emperor and his ministers had a clue in their minds, so no one mentioned going back first. They really had a good time. After returning to Beijing, Emperor Tianwu did not receive any news about the Eighth Prince being rescued. Xuan Tianming deliberately concealed it, fearing that he would get anxious and angry. His already weak body, if he couldn't breathe, would be a disaster.
As for the Sixth Prince, he was still handling the government affairs steadily. He already knew about the Eighth Prince's disappearance, but he pretended to be nothing. However, he secretly sent many people to assist Xuantian Mingfeng Yuheng in the search. At the same time, he immediately sent people to the East Realm to inquire about the news brought by Li Kun, the prince of Zong Sui, in order to get further news from Zong Sui.
Over at Jingci Palace, the Queen had been looking for Sun Qi since she was in the enclosure, but she never saw him again until she returned to the capital. It was as if he had evaporated from the face of the earth and could not be found again.
The head of the Imperial Hospital reported the disappearance, but the Queen felt that the crisis had already come. She told Fangyi: "Go and tell the Sixth Prince to be careful of Duanmu Anguo. I'm afraid that another crisis for Dashun is about to come..."
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