"So much!" Bai Lu decisively abandoned Wu Ying behind her and stepped forward with delight. She carefully examined Hu Ji's harvest with her hands and smiled with great satisfaction: "That's enough, that's enough. Please help me take it to the kitchen, brother. I'll go and prepare it in a bit. The princess said she wants to do it herself."

"Then we're in for a treat today," Hu Ji said with a smile, walking forward with Bai Lu.

Wuying, who was left behind by the two, was speechless.

I feel like I'm in a pretty bad situation.

There's a kind of relationship that's "over before it even begins."

At Gao Chengwei's request, Shang Xiye and Ji Fengyao sped up their march.

Hu Ji then led the secret guards who had accompanied them to Mangshan back and clashed with Gao Chengwei and the Imperial Guards.

Apart from Gao Chengwei and a few imperial guards around him, no one else knew about it.

They wanted to fight Hu Ji and the others to the death, but they found that they couldn't even touch the hem of their clothes. Before anyone could react, they all had their hands or legs broken and were rendered unable to fight.

Dikanlong stayed in the palace all day, hoping to recover his strength as soon as possible.

But with only 60% of his strength restored, Gao Chengwei led a group of injured and sick patients back to Beijing.

Seeing Gao Chengwei wrapped in blood-stained bandages from head to toe, Di Kanlong was furious and almost rushed up to strangle Gao Chengwei: "A bunch of useless trash! I didn't expect you to kill the Ninth Prince. If you could at least delay him for a little longer, that would be good. You collapsed so quickly. What use are you trash to me!"

"Your Majesty, the Ninth Prince and Princess Chonghe have arrived in Cangzhou very quickly. We have done our best. The soldiers are all seriously injured, and we have sent them home to recuperate," Gao Chengwei said numbly, his heart turning cold as he listened to Shang Xiche's insults.

Dikanlong didn't take Gao Chengwei, a mere mortal, seriously at all.

These ordinary people, once injured, are practically useless!

If it weren't for the fact that his good-for-nothing son still needed someone to support him, he would have liked to chop up all these useless people to vent his anger!

"Get out! A bunch of good-for-nothing trash!" Di Kanlong slammed a scroll in his hand onto Gao Chengwei's forehead, cursing angrily.

Gao Chengwei and his subordinates were all scolded and looked at each other with hatred in their eyes, but none of them dared to show it in front of Di Kanlong. They all swallowed their anger and left the imperial study.

"Commander..." One of the subordinates came out and looked at Gao Chengwei, seemingly wanting to say something but then stopping himself.

Gao Chengwei shook his head at him, signaling him not to say anything.

The subordinates all pursed their lips and followed Gao Chengwei with resentful expressions.

Dikanlong has also learned a bit about Cangzhou in the past two days:

I know that Cangzhou is a place of dangerous mountains and treacherous waters.

If the Ninth Prince goes there and hides with Princess Chonghe in any mountain, and sets up several layers of formations outside, even if His Majesty goes there, it will take a lot of effort to find him.

When His Majesty returns and learns that he drove Princess Chonghe out of the capital as soon as he arrived, and that he has also lost track of her, he will surely be furious.

Now is not the time to save face. He is still recovering from his serious injury and must ask Jianyou for help.

Otherwise, he might not be able to withstand the wrath of the Emperor!

Dikanlong stood up and pointed to his sleeve, preparing to go and discuss a plan with Xiaojianzi.

The eunuch, who had been exhausted from the past few days, was dozing off nearby. He vaguely saw Di Kanlong get up, and he woke up with a start. Clutching his whisk, he habitually followed behind Di Kanlong.