This is the seventh day.

Shen Yuerong looked at the scene outside, feeling cold in her heart.

"There are more and more guards in this courtyard. It seems that they are really worried about you and me. Now they don't allow you and me to go out without permission."

Shen Yuerong didn't have much to do. At most, she helped a few injured men treat their wounds. Now she was enjoying herself.

Chi Mu leaned back in his chair, looking somewhat worried. "Seven days have passed, and there has been no news from the scriptures. It seems that Yu Hou really did not hand over the letter you gave him to His Majesty."

"I believe in him, he will help me."

Shen Yuerong believes in Yu Hou, but...

"Perhaps the prince is biting his people right now, so he doesn't have any time to pay attention to you and me."

"How did you..."

If the prince found out that they knew the secret here, he would never just let them indulge in their freedom and do nothing else.

"This is not the first time you have fought the prince. You should be very clear about how the prince behaves. You and I now know exactly what he is doing. If he had the will, he would have eliminated you and me long ago."

The prince has always believed that only death can keep secrets.

As a result, over the years, anyone who knew the prince's secret was almost killed without a burial place.

Even though their identities were different, with the prince's methods, there was no way they could survive these seven days.

…

Yucheng.

Yu Hou looked at the bodies of his former colleagues that were sent back one by one with a gloomy look, but the prince's envoy was still standing in front of him.

"Yu Hou, you are a smart person. The prince said that it's okay to be stupid for a while, but you must not sacrifice yourself for people you shouldn't care about."

He suppressed his grief, and said to him, "I understand. Please tell the prince what to do next. I know it very well."

The envoy left happily with a cunning look on his face.

"Bury these brothers properly, and give some money to their families. They must be well taken care of."

"yes."

After the butler counted the number of people, he suddenly found something wrong, "My Lord, Brother Li is not among them."

"What did you say?"

He originally thought that the prince would wipe out his entire army, but he did not expect that one person would escape.

"The Marquis sent out a total of twelve brothers, but there are only the bodies of eleven brothers here. Brother Li has always been the smartest. He must have seen the danger coming, so he hid himself in order to properly handle the matter entrusted by the Marquis."

Yu Hou was very happy.

"I knew this kid was smart. I hope he can evade the Crown Prince's pursuit and bring this letter to your Majesty."

The thirteenth day.

Chi Mu met several adults whom he had not seen for a long time. The respect in their expressions was no longer there, but instead they were a bit arrogant.

"Your Majesty is really capable of causing trouble for this humble official."

Shen Yuerong sat aside with a few books in front of her, watching them talk.

Chi Mu didn't say anything.

"If Your Majesty does not want to hear what I have to say, I will not embarrass Your Majesty. But Your Majesty, please do not forget that this land belongs to me, and the one who is in charge of all matters in Jiangnan is the Crown Prince."

"If you have something to say, just say it."

Chi Mu was too lazy to listen to their roundabout way.

"The prince spoke up for those lowly people, but now he doesn't care about his own status at all? Originally, we didn't want the prince to get hurt, so we sent people to watch over the prince and his loved ones, but we didn't expect the prince to think of borrowing the way of Yuhou. It's a pity for those brothers who lost their lives for irrelevant people and things."

"You killed someone?"

Shen Yuerong stood up and looked at the adults in disbelief. She didn't expect that they could do such a thing as murder.

"Why is Miss Shen so surprised? We are extremely vicious people. Moreover, if Miss Shen and the prince had not insisted on spreading this news to the capital, those brothers would naturally not have been worried about their lives, and we would not have met until today."

Shen Yuerong clenched her fists. Most of the people around Yu Hou were descendants of the brothers who had fought together back then.

But now they have passed away one after another because of this letter.

"Miss Shen, Jiangnan is in a state of disrepair, so it's naturally not as rich and prosperous as the capital. If there is some hardship, you should bear it well."

Her heart was filled with guilt. If she had not asked Yu Hou for help at the beginning, those innocent people would not have died in vain.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince already knows what you two want to do. I have also told you that the matter in Jiangnan will never fall into that person's ears, but you insist on doing the opposite. Don't blame me for being shameless."

Although the prince has been slow to issue orders to deal with the two of them, keeping them in custody is not the best option.

"You two, in Jiangnan, the most common thing nowadays is that people die every day, whether they starve to death or freeze to death. This is just a normal disaster. So even if you two die in Jiangnan, I will have the opportunity to appeal to the capital."

Seeing that the adult didn't seem to be joking, Shen Yuerong stood up straight with some nervousness.

"There is no need to scare this king with these words."

He stood up straight, walked to Shen Yuerong's side, and hugged her in his arms.

"If I really lose my life in Jiangnan, even if you are eloquent and can make up a story about my death, His Majesty will never forgive you easily. I just don't know if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will protect you like you protected him today."

His eyes fell on the adults in front of him.

"Even if you are my subordinates, there is no way to tell His Majesty everything here, but this matter will always fall on my shoulders. Unless you can trap me to death for the rest of my life, I will tell His Majesty about this sooner or later, and let everyone in the world know what you are doing."

It was obvious that the man was here to negotiate peace today. I didn't expect the man to be so stubborn.

"I originally thought that the prince would be a clear-headed person who should understand what can be done and what cannot be done, but now it seems that he is just a fool. Since the prince has not figured it out, I would like to trouble the prince to stay for a few more days."

The adult shook his sleeves and turned away without giving him any face.

He reached out and helped Shen Yuerong sit down, looking at her with some distress, “Were you scared by what those beasts said?”

She shook her head. "I'm just a little worried about those brothers. They are all..."