I was immediately extremely excited.

"Lord Shi, that person in front of the carriage is Lord Shi!"

Ignoring the trampling of the horses, the prostitutes excitedly shouted, "Lord Shi! Lord Shi!"

They didn't know Shi Xiu's name; they only heard Steward Ma call him Lord Shi.

Shi Xiu turned to look at the group of women and suddenly remembered the hairdressers in Wancheng. His face turned cold. Who brought these prostitutes to the capital?

He couldn't make any move, so he could only pretend not to hear or recognize the person.

"Lord Shi, oh Lord Shi, I am Xiao Taohong!" The prostitutes were frantic, following behind in a panic, shouting, "Lord Shi, you've taken the wrong box!"

Shi Xiu: What box was taken by mistake?

The prince's entourage continued into the city. The prostitutes became anxious and shouted, "Lord Shi, your trunks are with us! You're taking our silver storage boxes!"

Shi Xiu knew that the box he carried back that day was full of silver notes and jewelry, each worth tens of thousands of taels of silver, almost ten million.

What's right or wrong? Taking it back is considered an offering to the Crown Prince.

Want to go back? Impossible. All those silver notes have been used to support the army; how could they possibly be returned?

Shi Xiu continued to feign deafness and muteness, leaving the prostitutes with no choice but to follow him closely, all the way to the main road leading into the palace.

Suddenly, one of the Crown Prince's accomplices approached Shi Xiu and whispered, "Do you know these prostitutes? They've filed a complaint with the Dali Temple, saying there's a letter in that box they left behind..."

Upon hearing this, Shi Xiu didn't hesitate and shouted, "Your Highness the Crown Prince has been disturbed! Seize him!"

The prince's guards killed the pursuing prostitutes with a single sword stroke.

The poor prostitutes, who had traveled thousands of miles to the capital to retrieve their lost property, ended up losing everything and their lives in a foreign land!

Shi Xiu whispered to the Crown Prince's guard, "Immediately send someone to Wancheng, the pleasure boat..."

He quietly made a throat-slitting motion.

When the Crown Prince returned to the capital, he first went into the palace to report to the Emperor. Emperor Hui listened absentmindedly to his account of the disaster in the affected areas and said expressionlessly, "Go and see your grandmother and your mother."

The crown prince breathed a sigh of relief. He was prepared to be reprimanded and had a plan to deal with it. He had even found a scapegoat.

But why doesn't his father ask him questions or scold him?