Wei Fu yawned, rubbed his eyes, and patted Tingyu's shoulder: "Don't worry, big brother and cousin will take care of it. Fu'er is going back to sleep~~~"

Tingyu carried Wei Fu out because she was worried that the fire would spread to their side. Now that Wei Fu said it was okay, Tingyu was no longer worried. She carried Wei Fu into the house and tucked her back into the quilt. Wei Fu turned over and fell asleep.

Tingyu looked at her with pity, thinking that Wei Fu must have been tired these days, so he was so sleepy when he had some free time today.

She had asked the maids who had originally worked in the prefectural government office. She had learned that it sometimes took the prefect a long time to solve a case. Simple cases were handled quickly, but they were either because there were witnesses and evidence, or because the person who did the bad thing was too stupid.

But no matter which one, if the prefect is very busy at the yamen that day, he will not have the energy to take care of the old lady and the prefect's wife when he comes back.

Things like what the princess encountered would probably take a lot of effort.

So Tingyu feels very sad.

The fire was indeed extinguished quickly wherever it occurred.

After a while of noise, the entire yamen returned to silence again.

Wei Fu slept until dawn. When he sat down at the dinner table, he asked uncertainly, "Was there a fire last night?"

Su Cheng smiled and said, "It's on fire."

"I thought the princess would come over to join in the fun."

The prince was indeed poisoned. Although the coffin lid helped him absorb the poison, the toxin spread wildly throughout his body, so even after the detoxification, his vitality was greatly damaged.

His current condition is that he feels weak all over, and his hands and feet are soft.

So he did not eat with Wei Fu and the others, and it was Su Cheng who answered Wei Fu's questions.

Wei Fu blinked and asked, "Have you caught the bad guys?"

"The bad guy leader hasn't been caught, but they should be even more panicked now."

At this moment, General Mao and Zhou Xi were indeed more panicked. Zhou Xi, who had originally planned to leave this morning, did not leave. He actually wanted to leave, but General Mao did not give him the chance.

Last night, Zhou Xi sent people to set a fire. The fire was set, but after they went over to put out the fire, they saw that there were no bandits in the place where the bandits were imprisoned. It was empty inside, and the bandits had been moved away at some point in time.

And several people he sent to set the fire were caught.

What else did Zhou Xi and General Mao not understand? The prince and the others saw clearly what they wanted to do, but they knew it but did not point it out directly, just to make them lose their composure.

The prince succeeded.

After the prince learned that someone was going to poison those bandits, he had them secretly transferred away.

General Mao asked Zhou Xi: "What should we do next?"

Zhou Xi tried hard to suppress the feeling of being teased. "We were too hasty this time. The prince hasn't recovered from the poison yet, so we definitely wouldn't ask you to lead the troops to suppress the bandits at this time. By the time he recovers, all my people will have been relocated. Even if the captured people confess, the prince will only see an empty mountain. You can just say they are lying and slandering you."

"As long as my people aren't discovered, even if they say you're colluding with bandits, and the bandits haven't seen anything, they can't say you have a problem or are guilty."

"It's just that this will definitely offend the Crown Prince, but it doesn't matter anymore. After I capture Su Rui, I will be the son-in-law of the Su family. I will protect you."

"The Crown Prince has a grudge against us. We will definitely suffer after he ascends the throne. So we can turn to the Second Prince and support him to ascend the throne. Together we can achieve the feat of following the Dragon."

Of course, after he got Su Rui, the most important thing was to get Su Rui to help her get Wei Fu's magic weapon.

With such a powerful magical weapon, wouldn't he be able to get whatever he wants?

General Mao thought to himself, "You're thinking quite well." Although he shared some of the same thoughts, he would never let Zhou Xi leave at this moment. He pondered, "What if the prince directly ordered me to suppress the bandits, and he doesn't go with me?"

Zhou Xi said, "Isn't this better? If you say the bandits were eliminated, then it's eliminated. If you say there are no bandits, then there are no bandits. They didn't go, so how can we say that? Isn't it our decision?"

General Mao always felt that Zhou Xi's words were too simple, and the prince was not so easily fooled.

"Instead of waiting to see the prince's attitude, I will go and ask him about the bandit suppression. You wait for now." General Mao said and left without waiting for Zhou Xi to refuse.

Zhou Xi was right. When a person didn't know something, he could say whatever he wanted. No matter what the prince said when he went to see him, he would tell Zhou Xi that the prince would send people to help him suppress the bandits.

This way, he would have an excuse to keep Zhou Xi and let his son have more contact with Su Rui.

The initial idea of ​​letting Zhou Xi seduce Su Rui was because Zhou Xi was good-looking and scheming. Another reason was that I knew Su Rui liked to travel around in the past, which was a little different from ordinary girls.

Changzhou is neither far nor distant from Jingzhou, but the Su family has always been his focus. He cannot let the people from the Su family who travel to and from the capital discover his problems, so he has to arrange for those bandits to avoid the Su family, and cannot let any news about the bandits here reach the ears of the Su family.

Therefore, he knew that the Su family had arranged for Su Rui to meet many young men from aristocratic families who were well-matched with her, but Su Rui looked down on them all. He had previously suspected that the Su family had deliberately spread such rumors to confuse others.

Because he felt that the Su family must want to marry Su Rui to the prince, but he couldn't say it directly, otherwise it would seem that their Su family was too ambitious.

The queen originally had the most power in the palace.

He didn't know what the Su family meant, but he knew that Su Rui didn't like those weak princesses, and he also knew that Su Rui often went out.

He thought that girls in the boudoir would like the knights and knights outside, so he asked Zhou Xi to dress up as a knight and come to save the girl.

Su Rui's attitude towards Zhou Xi also confirmed his guess. Girls like Su Rui who were spoiled were actually very rebellious in their hearts and didn't want to listen to their elders.

He knew what Su Rui was thinking. Since Zhou Xi had won Su Rui's eye, he naturally knew how to win Su Rui's eye as well. However, this would definitely take some time, because his son was not as good-looking as Zhou Xi, and he did not have Zhou Xi's unrestrained aura of a man of the world.

The fact that it doesn’t look good is a flaw, but everything else can be fixed.

When the prince heard the purpose of General Mao's visit, he smiled and said, "I was just about to go find the general."

"Tomorrow I will have my cousin and Young Master Long accompany the general to suppress the bandits. I'll have to trouble you this time."