Hongli raised the fan in his hand and said, "No courtesy." Then he asked Lin Yutong, "Empress, where is this place?"

Lin Yutong did not answer, only said: "Follow me."

After entering the courtyard, he walked three steps to one post, five steps to one sentry post, and Hongli's heart suddenly aroused. It seemed that this matter today was far from being as simple as a family matter.

The door to the main hall was pushed open, and several powerful eunuchs stepped out one after another.

Hongli took Fucha and followed Lin Yutong inside.

The space inside is not large. There are three chairs at the top. The chair in the middle has a fox fur cushion, and the chairs on both sides are covered with old scarlet felt.

Lin Yutong sat down in the middle, and Hongli and Fucha sat down next to Lin Yutong.

As soon as I sat down, I saw a man with a black cloth cover on his head being escorted in from the outside, and he was pressed directly on the chair, with no intention of loosening the bonds. The men in black who were escorting the prisoners behind were also masked.

Yes, Hongli thought to himself, the identities of these people are probably not simple. Otherwise, they would not hide their faces like this when meeting people. Is it because they have one layer of identity secretly and another layer of identity on the surface.

Does that mean that if there is such a person around him, he may not notice it. Thinking of this possibility, the sweat on his head started to drop. He looked carefully at the queen who was above him.

His expressions and eyes just make people feel unfathomable.

Ever since I was a child, why have I always felt that the current Queen and the former Fujin were a fool?

It's all because E Niang was misled.

I couldn't think of anything else at this moment, because the Queen spoke, "Take the hood."

When the hood was removed, the face of a middle-aged man in his forties was revealed. He had no obvious features, and it was hard to spot him in the crowd.

Because Lin Yutong doesn't like the Fourth Master to have a beard, mainly because the Fourth Master himself is a little annoyed about having a beard.

Beards are actually hard to take care of. When some old people dare to come over to see their driver in the middle of winter, their beards are still covered in white frost, and all the breath they exhale is frosted on their beards. Looking from a distance,

Wearing it is just like having snot hanging on your beard. You need to pick it up more and more. Because the fourth master doesn’t grow a beard, most people also stop growing it. This can be regarded as setting a trend. Lin Yutong actually also

The sisters-in-law complained. For example, the third and fifth masters of Sanfujin and Wufujin had beards originally and had been growing them for many years. Now they suddenly came back and shaved off their beards, but they didn’t look good. Four.

The master is different from them, why? The fourth master looks younger, and he looks even younger without the beard. This makes people feel less awkward. But the third master and the fifth master are similar in age to the fourth master, and the look on his face

The frown has long appeared. Even if they are pampered, but none of them have the heart to live in leisurely life, they look quite old. Such an old face has no beard, and the house is full of wealthy people.

The kind who are qualified to be served by eunuchs. Take a quick look and compare them with the old eunuchs serving them. Yes! There is really not much difference.

People say that the King of Chu had such a slim waist that he often starved to death in the palace. This is still the case today. He is not the kind who is really old, and those courtiers actually follow the preferences of the fourth master.

Even the third and fifth masters are not exceptions, but Lin Ping is an exception.

If you don’t think deeply about it, it’s nothing, but if you think about it carefully, someone like him who doesn’t care about the emperor’s preferences can be said to be unflattering, but it can also be said that he actually lacks the most basic understanding of the fourth master in his heart.

Awe-inspiring.

This is something in people's subconscious mind, and external factors cannot change it much.

So when Lin Yutong looked at this person, he looked at him more carefully.

Lin Ping first squinted his eyes, as if he was adapting to the light, then slowly raised his head and looked at the three people sitting at the top, and then showed a look of astonishment. Then he looked frightened and made a whining sound.

Lin Yutong waved his hand, "Tell him to speak."

The white cotton stuffed in his mouth was pulled out at this time. He took two deep breaths and struggled twice before he could get away. When he saw that there was no intention to let him go, he said: "Kowtow to the Queen,

I’ve seen Fourth Prince Si Fujin.”

A trace of doubt flashed in Hongli's eyes. He didn't know who this person was. Hearing him call himself a minister, which prisoner was responsible for this? It really had nothing to do with him. He looked at Lin Yutong uncertainly.

Lin Yutong looked at Lin Ping, "You have good eyesight."

Lin Ping glanced at Hongli and said, "Although I have never seen the Queen's golden face, I have seen the fourth elder brother from a distance several times. To be able to sit on top of the fourth elder brother and with such magnanimity, I am so proud of you."

No matter how stupid you are, you still know that it’s the Queen who is in front of you, and you don’t deserve the Queen’s praise.”

Lin Yutong felt that this Lin Ping was not as ordinary as Dong Xiaowan had found out. In this situation, he didn't panic or ask too many questions, and he could still think clearly and talk. This is not something that everyone can do. At least with this kind of psychological quality.

, rare.

Lin Yutong chuckled, "Do you know why I brought you here?"

Lin Ping shook his head and said, "I don't know." Then his head hung down, with no intention of asking any more questions.

"Aren't you curious?" Lin Yutong looked at Lin Ping, smelling it in his mouth, but staring at him with his eyes, not missing every tiny movement of his body. As expected, his toes were straightened. If I guessed correctly,

At this time, his toes must be firmly pressed against the ground to relieve tension.

Lin Ping's calm voice came, "Thunder, rain and dew are all your kindness. I don't dare!"

Hongli's eyes narrowed, this person is wrong! No matter who it is, they will be frightened and nervous when they know that the person sitting on top is the queen and the person sitting next to him is the emperor's brother. Like him,

It just shows that he has something in mind! He knows why he was brought here.

"Empress Huang..." Hongli looked at Lin Yutong, wanting to ask who this was. At least he had to know who this person was. Otherwise, what was he talking about in the clouds?

Lin Yutong didn't wait for him to finish asking, and directly named his identity, "Lin Ping. Lin Ping, the father of the maid Honghua next to the Gao family next to you, is the young master of Zhan Shifu!"

Hongli's heart skipped a beat as he thought of the girl with the bright rouge mole between her eyebrows. He felt slightly uncomfortable on his face.

Lin Ping looked at his nose and heart, and when he mentioned the name Honghua, his face was not moved at all.

Lin Yutong chuckled lightly, "...What? You think it was done so perfectly that no one can know what you did secretly?"

Lin Ping lowered his head and buried his face in his chest to prevent others from seeing the expression on his face clearly. His voice was a bit stiff, "I don't understand what the queen means. My daughter suffered a disaster and I was sent away in vain."

Black-haired man, I am the master of suffering. Why did I listen to your Majesty’s wishes and become my own? In addition, with all due respect, I am an official of the imperial court, and my arrest and interrogation are not matters that My Majesty can interfere with..."

The criminal general returned with an army.

Lin Yutong really laughed at this time, "It seems that you are just a little person. You can bear it mentally well, but you are too unruly, or you have been transformed too well..." He has no respect for the royal family, and the person who trained him

The brainwashing given to him is considered successful. He has reached the point where he is not afraid of death.

She said with a bit of joking: "I'm really disappointed for the people behind you. Do you know how difficult it is to arrange for you to have such a clean and innocent identity? You have successfully entered the officialdom after ten years of hard work, and I think you were also

You have high hopes. In more than ten years, you have successfully reached the fourth level. Step by step, there are countless people working hard to get you to your current position. And there is this young man who is considered useless in the eyes of others.

I'm afraid that this incident was something you worked hard for. What you're thinking about is not the present, but the future. Do you know what you've ruined after working so hard to get you to where you are today?"

Lin Ping raised his head suddenly, then lowered it suddenly, keeping his head down without saying a word.

Lin Yutong stopped talking nonsense, "Shut his mouth..." and then pointed behind the screen.

Behind the screen was an inner room. Lin Ping didn't know what it meant. He raised his head and looked at Lin Yutong. Before he got the answer, his eyesight went dark, and a black cloth cover came down from top to bottom, covering him tightly.

After being pulled down, Dong Xiaowan walked out without Lin Yutong's instructions. Another person was escorted up right after him. It looked like she was a woman, and she was crying in a low voice. When the black cloth cover was brought, her face was revealed.

At that moment, Mrs. Fucha showed a real expression. Isn't this the Fang family? No matter how stupid you are, you can already guess what the Empress said just now. The identities of these people are not simple. Isn't that right?

It means that the maid named Honghua also has a problem. Why do these people sneak into her father's side? Thinking of the gold of unknown origin that she just got back two days ago, Fucha's hands are sweating.

Fang's performance was much more impressive than Lin Ping's. She was afraid at first, then shocked when she saw Lin Yutong and Fucha, then surprised, then confused, and finally with a bit of fear and dismay.

Xie looked at Lin Yutong timidly, with a somewhat tentative tone in his voice, "Empress? Is that you?"

She struggled for a few times, but when she couldn't get away, she hurriedly asked, "Empress, what did I do wrong?" After saying that, she showed a bit of realization, "Yes! I am guilty! I plead guilty!"

I shouldn’t have asked my daughter to enter the palace, I shouldn’t have...shouldn’t have made a fuss at the palace banquet without caring about it. This is all my fault and has nothing to do with our master. He doesn’t know this...

"

Lin Yutong looked Fang up and down with great interest, "I feel wronged by assigning you to Lin Ping."

After saying this, Lin Yutong knew, "You have met your brother, and the other one is probably your mother who is sold to who knows where?"

That’s right!

Fang's tears suddenly fell down, "Originally, I was hating, and I was thinking of a thousand and ten thousand ways to escape from their control. But the moment I saw my brother clinging to my mother, I was holding her in my mother's mouth."

When I called my baby name with tears choked up in my eyes, I knew that I could not escape, and could never escape again..."

It’s not that I can’t escape, it’s that I don’t dare to escape at all!
Chapter completed!