After reading my mind, Daddy, why don't you smile?

Jinghui Temple is located on a mountain called Kanshan in the suburbs of Gyeonggi Province.

Princess Huai'an chose it to build a temple for meditation simply because of its excellent geographical location for future use.

It overlooks the capital from the east and controls all the movements of Weidu Prefecture from the south. It is also located at the pass, shaped like a gourd mouth. Once the capital is in chaos, it can stop a hundred thousand troops from coming to support the king.

This is a strategic pass. If a nunnery was not built in the name of the princess, no matter how incompetent the emperor was, he would have sent troops to guard it.

Even so, there are 3,000 soldiers stored here, which is not a big deal and is located at the West Peak.

Jinghui Temple stands on the South Peak, and the North Peak is inhabited by a group of desperate bandits.

The three peaks form a horn shape.

There is no doubt that this is a good mountain, but for Jinghui Temple tonight, it is simply fatal.

Once the fire started, it was winter and the wells were frozen. When strong winds blew, the fire spread rapidly and fiercely. Unfortunately, the South Peak was very steep, and it was extremely difficult to transport water from the foot of the mountain to put out the fire.

But it’s not impossible.

If the fire had been put out in time, the three thousand soldiers of Xifeng could have put it out in an hour.

However, no one expected that the fire would burn for half the night, and the fire burned the entire camp, with three non-adjacent mountains all burned.

The fire lit up half of the capital city, and the chickens nearby crowed early.

This kind of situation is rare in a century and is beyond comprehension.

In simple terms, it's just bad luck!

The bad thing is that the bandits in Beifeng are a group of real men, a group of single and warm-hearted real men.

Seeing the fire on the South Peak, the bandits finally found an opportunity to take action. They went down the North Peak in a mighty procession with wooden buckets and ladles, and went up the South Peak in groups.

It didn't matter that they went up, but the 3,000 soldiers on the West Peak were terrified, thinking that these bandits had gone crazy and were going to attack the mountain!

There is the emperor’s princess on the mountain!

How could they afford to take responsibility if anything goes wrong?

The soldiers almost immediately picked up their weapons and rushed to rescue the princess and the little nuns.

Just like that, they went up the mountain to rescue the emperor. Even if there were misunderstandings between the two parties, they were resolved when they met, and there was no need to make such a big fuss.

As a result, there was one more soldier who was well-educated and knew military tactics.

The bandits have already gone up the mountain. If they go up again, won’t they be trapped? The bandits are on high ground, so it’s easy to defend but difficult to attack. This won’t do!

The soldiers discussed it again and came up with a plan to make a feint to the east and attack in the west!

The soldiers were divided into two groups, one team went up the mountain to fetch water to rescue the princess, and the other team went to the North Peak to set fire to the bandits' lair.

When the bandits see their lair on fire, they will be unable to take care of both ends!

The bandits were putting out a fire here, and when they looked up, they found that their own house was on fire as well.

The bandit leader was fed up with this, so he took his men and wanted to go back to put out his own fire. As luck would have it, he ran into the soldiers who had returned from setting the fire.

How could the bandit leader not understand?

Haha, who is the thief who set fire to the mountain?

The bandit leader thought, "You do it on the first day and I will do it on the fifteenth day." While everyone was shouting and pushing at the soldiers, he would sneak up to the West Peak and set the military camp on fire!

Now everything is messed up.

Who cares about a group of delicate little nuns in Nanfeng?

After Shangguan Shu led his men up the mountain to put out the fire, the three peaks became small bald bumps, and the sky above the entire mountain was shrouded in black fog.

Zhao Yao was protected by the little nuns and barely survived!

Even so, his jet-black hair was burned bald.

At that time, she requested an imperial decree to build a nunnery to pray for blessings. The emperor took pity on her and allowed her to practice Buddhism without any hair. She repeatedly refused, thinking that this was insincere, and only agreed out of desperation.

That’s great! I got what I wanted.

Shangguan Shu first asked about Zhao Yao's whereabouts, "Where is Princess Huai'an?"

"Woo... Woo... Woo..." A group of women in Jinghui Temple were frightened. A little nun who still had some rationality pointed to the dry well in the middle of the yard.

Shangguan Shu understood and immediately arranged to rescue the person from the well.

Next to them, Shangguan Zhu and Shangguan Dan, who came with them, all sighed that Princess Huai'an had suffered...

The soldiers lit torches and dropped a rope into the dry well. They quickly pulled someone up, but it was not Zhao Yao, but the little nun who served her.

"The princess is down there, don't worry, Prince, the princess is fine!"

Shangguan Shu looked at the little nun in front of him, whose face was so dark that he couldn't see clearly, and whose head was shiny black... He really didn't believe what she said. How could she be safe?

Shangguan Zhu also complained to Shangguan Dan, "Why are you all like bald quails..."

The soldiers continued to pull people up, and another black egg came up. Shangguan Shu became a little anxious, walked to the well, and shouted at the well mouth: "Princess Huai'an! Huai'an!"

As he was shouting, a trembling voice sounded from beside him.

Shangguan Shu’s body stiffened.

"Runzhi... I'm here..."

Shangguan Shu turned around and saw a shiny black egg.

……

Shangguan Shu did not return home all night.

Zhao Ying didn't sleep well after listening to Shangguan Qingyue's thoughts.

As soon as I got up in the morning, I heard a letter from the palace saying that Jinghui Temple had suffered a disaster last night. The fire was quite big and the entire Kanshan Mountain was burned down.

Princess Huai'an was frightened and was in the palace at the time, asking the imperial physician to take her pulse.

Zhao Ying didn't want to think too much about it, but since she knew that Shangguan Shu and Huai'an always met in private, she couldn't help but wonder if Shangguan Shu went to rescue Huai'an last night.

Zhao Ying felt like there was a huge stone stuck in his heart and had no appetite. After he had taken a few bites of his breakfast, Shangguan Bailin ran in.

"Mother, where's my sister?"

"Your sister asked me to take you back to Qingyu Pavilion last night."

While the little guy was sleeping, he suddenly started clamoring for the clay doll. She had no choice but to ask Nanny Li to wrap the child in a small quilt and send him back to Qingyu Pavilion.

Shangguan Bailin heard this and said, "Mother, the Imperial College is closed today. Can I take my sister to the garden to play for a while?"

"go Go!"

Zhao Ying waved to Shangguan Bailin with a heavy heart, planning to go to her deceased son's study later.

Nothing you do will leave no traces.

What’s more, it is a big thing like rebellion?

If she could find the letters between these rebels, she wouldn't have to be so suspicious.

She could still enter and leave Shangguan Shu's study freely.

Shangguan Shu did not send any guards to guard the place.

Zhao Ying asked Hou Zhu and Ling Yu to guard the door.

"No one can come in without my order!"

"If the prince comes back, just call me loudly and I will know."

Zhao Ying entered the study, closed the door, and began to search the room. However, after searching for half an hour, he found nothing.

Zhao Ying began to breathe a sigh of relief.

The prince is loyal to the emperor and patriotic, so how could he rebel?

Zhao Ying was a little tired from rummaging through things, so he simply sat on a chair and rested for a while.

Then she realized that there seemed to be something wrong with the floor tiles under her feet, so she squatted down and lifted the blanket.

Sure enough, the gap around the floor tile was large, and it looked like it was often turned over.

Zhao Ying took a deep breath, swallowed his saliva, turned over the floor tiles with a pale face.

There was indeed something underneath—a stone trough!

The shape of the stone trough seemed very familiar to her.

That’s right! It’s the jade pendant that Shangguan Shu always wears!

Zhao Ying restored the floor tiles and then sat on the chair in a daze.

He really was hiding something from her...

No one knew how Zhao Ying walked out of the study, but her expression was so ugly that the two maids were silent.

Although it is winter, the sun is shining brightly today. She is wearing a lot of clothes, but she still feels chilly all over.

If Shangguan Shu really wanted to rebel, what should she do?

What she couldn't accept even more than the fact that he always cared about Huai'an was that he wanted to rebel!

She would not allow anyone to hurt her father and brother, not even Shangguan Shu!

Zhao Ying seemed to have made up his mind, and his eyes gradually became firmer.

"Prepare the carriage, I want to enter the palace!"