To be honest, the reason why Li Xin chose to face the four auxiliary ministers was largely because he wanted to make a ruthless posture that he couldn't suffer the slightest grievance, otherwise he would have to fight you to the end, so that no matter who was doing this auxiliary minister, no matter what the outcome of this matter was, no one would dare to fight the Jing'an Hou Mansion or the right camp of the forbidden army afterwards.

But if you just want to achieve this goal, it is enough to directly sue several auxiliary ministers for bad intentions, there is no need to pull the matter to the extent that the Son of Heaven is in charge in advance, and the reason why Li Xin did this is naturally to pull the little emperor along.

Today's Yuan Zhao Tianzi, since he was five or six years old, was watched by Li Xin to grow up, he also chased behind Li Xin when he was a child, an uncle, shouting very diligently, over the years, Li Xin regarded him as a junior. At this time, I naturally want to help him.

But it's a pity that this kindness did not gain goodwill, but it was this "junior" who personally vetoed Li Xin's proposal.

It's impossible to say that you are not disappointed at all.

However, since Yuan Zhao Tianzi has ascended the throne and sat in that position, he is not the same as His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in the past, he needs to think from the position of the emperor, so although Li Xin is a little disappointed in his performance, he can still understand it.

But for him, these court battles are all trivial, and he is too lazy to fight with those old men, otherwise he just needs to send Shen Gang or someone from Tianmu Prison to check the old bottoms of these old men, and ensure that none of them are clean, and there is shit on all the buttocks.

And he, Mrs. Li, has been an official for more than ten years, and he is as innocent as water, and he is born invincible in the court battle.

At the moment, Li Xin is not interested in fighting with those old men anymore, for him, the most important thing is to save Lin Hu and ensure that he doesn't have an accident.

Lin Hu is the son of Lin Lihu, ten years ago Li Xin returned to his hometown, it was Lin Lihu who entrusted this son to Li Xin, and now Lin Hu is still unmarried because he was arranged by Li Xin to be in charge of Tianlei's affairs, if he is so gone, Li Xin really has no face to see Uncle Lin again.

The carriage of the Marquis of Jing'an walked slowly on the official road in the south of the city for two days.

On the evening of the third day, after the sky was completely dark, and the group stayed in a small town, Li Xin got up in the middle of the night and gently pushed the sleeping Nine Princesses beside him.

The ninth princess opened her eyes sleepily, rubbed her eyes, and saw Li Xin, who was already neatly dressed,

"What's wrong? What's wrong? ”

After all, she was from the royal family, and she was not as flustered as ordinary women, so she just opened her mouth to ask.

Li Xin sighed slowly.

"Huzi has been arrested, I have to rush to the southwest as soon as possible to try to rescue him."

The two of them have been married for ten years, and the ninth princess naturally knows who the "tiger" in Li Xin's mouth is, and she also understands the importance of the matter, so she just frowned and nodded in agreement.

She turned her head to look at the dark sky outside and sighed, "Are you leaving at this time?" ”

Li Xin nodded.

"Shen Gang is already waiting for me outside, I will go to the southwest with him, madam, you take the people of the Hou Mansion, continue to hurry, and wait for me in Yongzhou."

Speaking of this, Li Xin paused.

"There will be people staring at our family along the road, Madame should be careful, try to pretend that I am still in the carriage, and at least hide it for a day or two."

The Ninth Princess nodded, stretched out her hand to wrap her hand around Li Xin's neck, and sighed softly: "You have been running around alone all these years, and I can't help you with anything." ”

Marquis Jing'an shook his head with a smile.

"Madame helps me take care of this home, so that I have no worries, which is the biggest help."

The husband and wife hugged for a while, and Li Xin left.

Before leaving, he also went to the next room to look at the sleeping children, and covered the eldest daughter who was not sleeping honestly.

At this point, it's already midnight.

Shen Gang took a dozen people, leading Li Xin's ink horse, and was waiting outside, when he saw Li Xin in black coming over, he immediately lowered his head and said in a deep voice: "Master Hou!" ”

Li Xin's face was expressionless.

"Let's go."

There were more than a dozen behind Shen Gang, all of whom bowed their heads respectfully.

"Yes!"

Li Xin turned over and got on the horse, glanced at Shen Gang after getting on the horse, and then said, "How many people are there who went out of Beijing together?" ”

Shen Gang also got on the horse at this time, and he replied: "About two hundred and seventy people, all of them have followed their subordinates out of Beijing. ”

"Except for more than a dozen of us, all the others stayed to secretly protect Madame, as well as the Hou family."

"Yes!"

After saying this, Li Xin shook the reins, and the ink horse neighed with a long neck, and rode in the lead, galloping towards the southwest.

Shen Gang and the others sighed, and they all pulled the reins separately, just following behind Li Xin.

This time, it was their ineffective protection of Lin Hu that led to Li Xin personally going to the southwest to wipe their buttocks, although Li Xin had not had time to punish Shen Gang and the others, but their old subordinates could see that their own Hou Ye was angry.

And calculate the time, at this time, it has been almost half a month since Lin Hu was arrested, and it will take seven or eight days to rush to Jincheng from here, even if it is not sleepless, and it is impossible for people and horses to stay sleepless, and when they arrive in Jincheng, it will be ten days later at the earliest.

Ten days later, that Mr. Lin Hu had already been arrested for a month, and if the enemy really had bad intentions, it would be basically difficult to survive in a month's time.

If Lin Hu really died in Jincheng, those of them who were responsible for protecting Lin Hu might have to resist the thunderous anger of their own marquis.

Shen Gang was the first batch, and even the first person to follow Li Xin, after more than ten years, he knew very well what kind of ruthless person his Hou Ye, who looked harmless to humans and animals on weekdays, was in his bones!

Along the way, Li Xin basically didn't say a word.

The group traveled day and night, drove for eight days, and finally arrived at Jincheng on the morning of the ninth day.

There are also people from the Jing'an Hou Mansion in Jincheng, and they notified Mu Ying and Zhao Jia early, and when they arrived in Jincheng, these two people had been waiting at the city gate for a long time.

Li Xin, who jumped off the ink horse, was slightly embarrassed.

In the past eight days, in addition to eating and sleeping, he has been in a hurry for the rest of the time, and he has not even had time to wash his face, his hair is already a little messy, his face is not very clean, and he looks tired.

Not only him, but even the ink horse, who claims to be able to travel thousands of miles a day, is also showing fatigue at this time.

Zhao Jia and Mu Ying surrounded each other and bowed their heads to Li Xin in unison.

"I've seen Master Hou."

The two of them can be regarded as Li Xin's friends, and when they meet on weekdays, they are all smiling, but this time, both of them have lost their smiles on their faces and have serious faces.

Li Houye was also expressionless.

"Any clues?"

Mu Ying was ashamed, bowed her head and said: "Back to Master Hou, in the past month, almost all over Jincheng has been searched, and I haven't seen Brother Lin..."

"The woman who is good friends with Brother Lin is a Qing man in a Qinglou in Jincheng, and we have also checked this Qinglou, but we still haven't found any clues about Brother Lin, he seems to be ...... Disappeared out of thin air. ”

Zhao Jia, who was on the side, looked at Li Xin, who was full of exhaustion, and let out a long sigh.

"It's my dereliction of duty and hard work."