Chapter 5 Everyone Loves Beauty

Later, she was imprisoned in the palace by Qi Yunzhou and had no chance to know the situation of her fiancé.

Zhong Danyue panicked.

Brother Ming and she were childhood sweethearts. Knowing that she was trapped in the palace by the tyrant, he would definitely try his best to save her.

How come there is no news?

Qi Yunzhou is a notorious tyrant. He often threatens her with his fiancé. Could it be that he has... killed her fiancé?

Zhong Danyue told Shen Xun her guess, but Shen Xun was not too sure.

Her tyrant son might actually do that.

Shen Xun comforted her, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. I'll ask Zhou'er tomorrow."

Although she knew all the plot details, there were some errors in the story and she was not sure where the hero had gone.

Zhong Danyue nodded nervously.

She wanted Shen Xun to ask now, but she also knew that now was not the time. It was late at night and they were still exiling prisoners. If they alerted the officials, no one would be happy.

This is the first night of exile. Some people are worried about the future and toss and turn; some people are heartless and sleep soundly.

Inside the palace, Prince Su's eyes were red as he shouted angrily, "All gone? The palace was emptied?!"

The subordinate knelt on the ground and replied tremblingly: "Your Majesty, it is true that everything is gone."

"The furniture in the house, the rice, flour, oil and grain in the imperial kitchen, even the flowers and plants on the rockery and the tiles on the roof... all disappeared..."

Facing the bloodthirsty gaze of King Su, the voices of his subordinates became lower and lower. He wished a crack would appear in front of his eyes so that he could quickly hide in it.

After seeing off Qi Yunzhou and his party, Prince Su was in high spirits and couldn't wait to see his future palace.

But when he entered the imperial study, he found it was empty!

A roof and four walls, that's what he saw.

Prince Su, who had lived a life of wealth and luxury for half his life, experienced for the first time the desolation of having nothing at home.

"Get out! Get out of here!"

Prince Su kicked over the only table in the room, and not satisfied, he kicked the chair he was sitting on until it broke into pieces.

He wanted to smash something to vent his anger, but found that there was nothing in the room. The only table and chairs were temporarily brought in by his subordinates.

so……

Prince Su raised his head and howled: What use is there for me in having this empty shell of a palace?!

…

Early the next morning, Zhong Danyue couldn't wait to pull Shen Xun out of the carriage.

"I don't know," Qi Yunzhou shook his head. "At that time, I was only thinking about how to coax Yue'er to stay in the palace. Jiang Xinming didn't appear in front of me, and I didn't want to dirty my hands."

"You're talking nonsense!"

Zhong Danyue was anxious and said without thinking:

"You always threaten me with Brother Ming. How come you don't know where he is? Did you..."

Thinking of that possibility, Zhong Danyue covered her mouth with her hands, tears welling up in her eyes, "I did everything you asked me to do, why didn't you let Brother Ming go!"

Qi Yunzhou's expression turned cold.

Yue'er actually quarreled with him because of other men!

Zhong Danyue stared at him unconvincedly, her eyes full of stubbornness.

The tension between the two was high and they were about to quarrel.

Chen Xun held his forehead helplessly, "Stop, stop, stop! We are on the road to exile. If you want to argue, you can do it later."

Qi Yunzhou had no choice but to suppress his anger. Zhong Danyue was about to say something when Xie Lan, who was walking behind the three of them, suddenly said:

"Axun, the Jiang Xinming you're talking about is the son of Jiang Kaicheng, the Minister of Rites?"

Shen Xun looked at Xie Lan, "Do you know him?"

Xie Lan nodded, "I've heard some rumors before."

He glanced at Qi Yunzhou and said meaningfully, "That rumor has something to do with Your Highness."

"Tell me quickly," Shen Xun asked, "What's the rumor?"

Xie Lan quietly squeezed in between Shen Xun and Qi Yunzhou and said, "I heard someone say that Minister Jiang heard that his son's fiancée had been taken to the palace by His Highness. He was worried about being targeted by His Highness, so he immediately took his son to the Zhong family to cancel the engagement."

"Jiang Xinming was the Jiang family's illegitimate son. Unlike the legitimate son, he didn't need to inherit the family business, so he was sent away."

"And the interesting thing is," Xie Lan kept it a secret, "Axun, do you know where Jiang Xinming was sent?"

Shen Xun said angrily: "How would I know? Tell me!"

The more she interacted with Xie Lan, the more certain she became that Xie Lan was her husband Qi Lan.

This frivolous look is exactly the same.

Seeing the two of them getting along like this, Qi Yunzhou was standing aside and was very cold, which made Zhong Danyue look at him several times.

Are Qi Yunzhou and Shen Xun really related by blood?

How could he recognize someone of the same age as him as his stepmother?

Xie Lan pouted, "He was sent to Qinghe."

Qinghe?

Shen Xun didn't know where this place was. She only knew that Qi Yunzhou and Zhong Danyue's expressions changed at the same time.

"Why," Shen Xun asked, "is that place dangerous?"

Why do you have such an expression?

Xie Lan explained for her: "Qinghe is a well-known prosperous place in Daxia. It's not dangerous at all, but..."

Qi Yunzhou took over the conversation, "That's my sister's fiefdom."

Shen Xun was completely bewildered, "And then?"

Qi Yunzhou took a deep breath, pondered for a while, and then said, "Everyone loves beauty, and my sister... is no exception."

This sentence was not difficult to understand. Shen Xun was silent for a moment and asked, "Is Jiang Xinming handsome?"

Xie Lan nodded playfully, "One of the four great young masters of the capital~"

All right.

Chen Xun looked at Zhong Danyue, "Look at the bright side, your fiancé is at least... still alive?"

Zhong Danyue: “…”

But Shen Xun was right, Brother Ming was still alive, and the exile team was also going to Qinghe.

Zhong Danyue cheered up and thought to herself that after finding Jiang Xinming, they would find a chance to escape from the exile team.

By then, the world will be so big that there will be a place for us to stay.

With a plan in mind, Zhong Danyue became indifferent again, and tried to stay as far away from Qiyunzhou as possible while traveling.

As for why not getting on the carriage...

Qi Yunzhou angrily looked at the broken carriage and the horse lying on the ground foaming at the mouth, and cursed Prince Su for being a beast.

The carriage was broken and the horse had been fed poison. It was considered good enough that it had survived from yesterday until now.

After traveling for a whole morning, it was almost noon and they still hadn't come across any village or town, so the officers decided to find a place to rest.

They took out their food and ate their fill first, then struck the gong and served the prisoners their meal.

After last night's experience, especially after King Hu received those whippings, the prisoners did not dare to make any demands and ate whatever was given.

The officers sneered, laughing at the fact that these powerful people who had fallen on hard times were nothing more than this.

Chen Dexi originally wanted to go get food, because they had eaten the buns given by Shen Xun yesterday, and he thought they were gone.

"Madam and His Highness, please wait. I will go get the food."

Chen Dexi pinched a hard object in his sleeve and whispered, "I have some silver here, which should be able to be exchanged for some good food."

It doesn't matter if he eats hard bread, but the two masters must not suffer.

"No need," Shen Xun took out an oil-paper bag like a magic trick, "I have food here."