From noon to dark, Shen Lexin chased his horse all the way to the junction of Jiangdong and Lingbei. Although his speed was very fast, he was no match for those powerful soldiers and horses of the Southern Kingdom court. When he caught up, he only saw The people who died all over the place, in the half-collapsed carriage, was Xu Chongqing's dead body with eyes wide open. Around him, all the cronies who fled with him, and the secret agents sent by Ling Qiyou to protect Xiao Mantou were all fallen. Wei, all of them also lay down in a pool of blood.

Shen Lexin took a deep breath, and was extremely surprised by the scene in front of him. Among these corpses, there was not a single person from the southern country. Presumably, even if there were casualties, they were all taken away by their people. In the end, Father Stone was found out from the crowd, who was seriously injured and had his last breath left.

"Your Highness... Your Highness was taken away by the Nanman people... Uncle Guo... Uncle Guo colluded with those Nanman people... kidnapped His Highness... The Nanman people killed all the uncle's people... and took His Highness away... ...quick...quickly save His Highness..."

After saying the last sentence, Eunuch Shi took his last breath and closed his eyes.

Shen Le was startled, and after realizing what happened, she immediately got on her horse and hurried back to Jiangdong.

At this moment, martial law has been enforced inside and outside Jiangdong City, and even at night, the lights are still brightly lit, and the streets and alleys are full of officers and soldiers searching from house to house. Steamed bun, Xiao Chuqian who was almost murderous with the cold air all over his body.

There was undisguised anxiety and worry in the eyes of the man holding the sword. He was yelling at those incompetent subordinates who kept coming to report that they hadn't found it. Shen Lexin jumped off his horse and stepped forward to stop him: "Don't search again Let's go to the palace, Xiao Mantou is no longer in the city, he was taken away by the people of the Southern Kingdom, and he hastened to report to His Majesty the imperial decree to close all the gates leading to the Southern Kingdom."

Xiao Chuqian stared at him in astonishment: "Little steamed bun is in the hands of the Nanman?!"

Shen Lexin nodded.

In Prince Xuan's mansion, Ling Qiyou was restless and wished he could go out and take someone to look for him himself. When he heard that Xiao Chuqian had returned, he immediately stood up, went up to meet him, and grabbed his sleeve with all his strength: "Where's Xiao Mantou? Did you find the little bun?"

Looking at Ling Qiyou's panicked and red eyes, Xiao Chuqian felt so uncomfortable that his heart felt like a needle prick, and he could hardly speak. After a long while, he shook his head silently.

Ling Qiyou was stunned, and then shouted angrily: "Then what are you doing running back?! Look for it again!"

"Your Majesty, please calm down," Shen Lexin stepped forward and pressed his shoulder: "Don't worry, the little bun is in the hands of the southerners..."

"How could he be in the hands of the southerners?!" Ling Qiyou's eyes widened in shock: "What happened?! How could he be in the hands of the southerners?!"

Shen Lexin quickly explained: "After noon, I saw a group of disguised Southern soldiers fleeing outside the city and chased them all the way to Lingbei. I found that Xu Chongqing and the people around him were dead. Your Majesty's The hidden guards were also killed by them, only the father-in-law Shi Shi, who was serving the prince, was left with his last breath. He must have sneaked into Xu Chongqing's team secretly. He told me that Xu Chongqing hitched up with the southerners and robbed the prince... "

Ling Qiyou was completely dumbfounded. He originally thought that Xu Chongqing took the little mantou away, but he just wanted to use the little mantou to threaten him to compromise with him, but he never thought that he would go with the Nanman people to cooperate with the enemy and treason the country. Now the little mantou fell into the Nanman In the hands of others, he hardly dared to think about how much he would suffer...

Xiao Chuqian first recovered from the shock, and reminded Ling Qiyou: "Hurry up and issue an imperial decree, first guard the pass, and they must not be allowed to escape back to Nanman."

Ling Qiyou's body was trembling, almost on the verge of falling, Xiao Chuqian stretched out his hand to hug him, and pressed it to his ear to comfort him in a deep voice: "Calm down, calm down, Xiao Mantou can come back, he will definitely come back..."

An imperial decree was issued overnight to expedite the delivery by [-] miles to each pass leading to the southern country. After finishing these, Ling Qiyou almost collapsed, let Xiao Chuqian hold him in a daze, unable to utter a single word.

After Shen Lexin chased the southerners and ran away, she returned to the city first and led troops out to search around. Ling Jing heard the news and hurried back to the palace. Hearing Shen Lexin's story, she frowned. Eyebrow, asked Ling Qiyou: "How did Xu Chongqing hook up with the people from the Southern Kingdom? Didn't your Majesty hear any rumors before?"

Ling Qiyou was completely numb, holding Xiao Mantou's favorite toy in a daze, motionless and silent, Xiao Chuqian sighed softly, and answered for him: "Your Majesty asked someone to stare at him. I really didn't find anything unusual about him. It's really hard to say when he hooked up with the Nanman people, but he is so old and cunning, it's not like his style to just sit and wait for death, but we all thought that the Xu family had a relationship with the Nanman people. A world feud, he should not be collaborating with the enemy and treason, it is our negligence."

He regrets it very much now, if he knew that he should have persuaded Ling Qiyou in the first place, and took it directly when he was in Beijing, he shouldn't be given another chance, or he wouldn't have gotten the land he is now.

Shen Lexin curled her lips: "Maybe it was connected through Lin Tan who was executed before, the old cunning and cunning were sold out in the end, those people should be Yuwen Minhao's men, where are people like Yuwen Minhao? There is even a little bit of honesty at all, Xu Chongqing actually believed him."

"Probably because he was desperate and jumped over the wall..."

If there is a choice, several people believe that Xu Chongqing will not resort to military tactics to have an affair with the Nanman people, but in the current situation, he can only make a last-ditch effort to rob them of the crown prince as requested by the Nanman people, and then let them borrow it. The soldiers helped him to raise troops to achieve great things, but he obviously didn't know what kind of character Yuwen Minhao was who was dishonest and plotting. He was mercilessly killed directly.

Ling Jing hesitated for a moment, and said to Shen Lexin: "There is one thing, I have never told you, and I begged His Majesty not to tell you before, the palace coup happened in the southern country, the old emperor has passed away, Yuwen Minhao killed you Your third uncle, Yuwen Minxu, has ascended the throne, and your adoptive father's family has been implicated, and almost all the families have been executed..."

Shen Le was stunned, and stared at him in disbelief. After a long while, she said, "Third Uncle... is dead?"

Yuwen Minxu and Shen Lexin's father, Yuwen Minxi, are the same mother and compatriot. They have always had a good relationship with Shen Lexin. They also know Shen Lexin's true identity. Shen Lexin's adoptive father's family also supports him, but now Ling Jing told him that his third uncle was killed. The adoptive father's family was also ransacked and beheaded. Even though his adoptive father had died before he fought, there were many people in the family, but Yuwen Minhao ruthlessly killed them all.

Ling Jing nodded helplessly. The reason why he didn't say anything was because he knew that even though Shen Lexin said that he would not bother about Nanguo's affairs, if he knew that his third uncle and adoptive father's family were killed by Yuwen Minhao, he would definitely want to go back and find that Yuwen Minhao settles the score.

And sure enough, the person in front of him was completely stunned when he heard what he said.

"There is still no news after dawn tomorrow morning, so I will go to southern Xinjiang."

Ling Qiyou, who had been silent all this time, suddenly opened his mouth, raised his red eyes, and looked at the few people in front of him: "No matter what method is used, I will definitely get the little man back safely."

Even if Xiao Mantou was really taken to the Nanman Kingdom, as long as he could save his son, he would not hesitate to risk his life.

"I'll go with you!" Shen Lexin answered loudly, her eyes were also red: "Even if Your Majesty wants to go to the southern country to look for it, I will go with Your Majesty!"

Ling Jing frowned slightly, and pulled Shen Lexin, who was a little crazy, straight away.

After only the two of them were left in the room, Ling Qiyou fell silent again, still holding the toy of Xiaomantou in his hand, without saying a word.

Xiao Chuqian stretched out his hand, grabbed the things and threw them aside, bent down and picked up Ling Qiyou, who was trembling unconsciously, and put him on the bed: "Go to sleep first, and I will help you watch the things outside. , I will accompany you to southern Xinjiang tomorrow morning."

However, Ling Qiyou suddenly stretched out his hand, and grabbed the front of Xiao Chuqian who stood up and wanted to leave. Tears in his red eyes had already slid down the corners of his eyes into the quilt beneath him. He choked up: "I'm not a good father. I wanted to kill Xiao Mantou before he was born. When he was just born, I wanted to strangle him several times..."

Xiao Chuqian's heart ached, he lowered his head and kissed his forehead: "No, you are a good father, you treat Xiao Mantou very well..."

"I'm not nice to him, not at all..." Ling Qiyou's eyes opened and closed, tears wet his dark eyelashes: "I take him as a shame, I don't want to look at him more...he's been crying, I even gave him to others to raise... I knew he couldn't leave me, but I always ignored him... He was born to me, how could I treat him like that..."

Xiao Chuqian leaned down and hugged him tightly, his eyes were also red: "It's my fault, it's all my fault, it's because I made you distrust, that's why you offended Xiao Mantou, it has nothing to do with you, if you want to blame, you can blame me... ..."

"If something happens to Xiao Mantou, I don't want to live...I..."

"No way!" Xiao Chuqian interrupted him loudly: "Little Mantou can come back, he will definitely come back safely, don't think about it, no matter what, I will accompany you..."

Ling Qiyou hugged him tightly with his back, from choking at the beginning to almost crying out loud later, for the first time, he vented his emotions that he didn't want to hide on purpose in his arms.

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