"Empress!"
Tang Wei stopped the carriage and jumped down from the shaft. "Your Highness, the prince has sent a secret letter from Yanjing. In addition, the guards of the East Depot in Xijing City have also received a secret document of great urgency."
Since Xia Yu left Kyoto, Tang Wei has been specifically responsible for receiving and delivering secret letters from the Black Dragon Guards and the East Factory Guards to Shen Yuyao.
But when Tang Wei appeared in front of Shen Yuyao dressed as a coachman, she still felt a little strange.
Shen Yuyao took the secret letter from Tang Wei, read it quickly, and then turned around and handed it back to Tang Wei, "Burn it."
Tang Wei answered yes, took out a fire stick and burned the secret letters one by one.
"I want to go for a while, you drive back home first." Shen Yuyao said lightly when the last flame went out.
It is late autumn and there is always wind blowing at night.
Waves of cool air blew across her face, and Shen Yuyao wanted to take the opportunity to clear her mind.
Tang Wei parked the carriage by the roadside and hurried forward with Shen Yuyao.
"Your Majesty, it's cold at night. You'd better take the carriage back to the palace." Tang Wei whispered, "There is a curfew in Kyoto City nowadays."
Shen Yuyao looked at Tang Wei. He rarely spoke so much to her on weekdays. At this moment, she felt that Tang Wei was a little different.
Tang Wei tilted his head towards the carriage parked on the side of the road, and signaled her with his eyes, "Princess, the prince has a letter."
Shen Yuyao suddenly understood. She looked around and saw nothing special, so she walked quickly towards the carriage.
He got in the car, quickly lifted the curtain, and slipped inside.
"Mother...mother..."
Tang Wei was about to follow to the carriage, but as if he suddenly remembered something, he stopped seven or eight steps away from the carriage.
"Yuyao!"
It was Xia Yu who was in the car. He looked at Shen Yuyao with a smile in his eyes, "You guessed it was me, right?"
The curtains were very thick and covered very tightly, so no light could be seen from outside the carriage.
The interior of the car was unusually bright.
Xia Yu sat on the couch, with several pieces of letter paper placed on the small square table.
"What's the matter, Your Highness, that makes you risk returning to the capital?" Shen Yuyao walked gently to Xia Yu's side and sat down, looking up and asked.
"I'm a little worried."
After not seeing each other for a few months, Xia Yu's handsome face looked even thinner.
Since returning to Yanjing, he missed the Ning Palace, his princess, and his children all the time.
He risked his life to return to Beijing, because for half a month, no news about Shen Yuyao had been reported back to Yanjing.
So he panicked a little.
It just so happened that he ran into the Qin Wang Mansion in Xijing, and the spy left by Xia Yu suddenly had no news for half a month, so he hurried back to Kyoto quietly.
Risking punishment from the emperor.
Shen Yuyao didn't want to accept his kindness today, so she just replied calmly, "Your Highness, don't worry about me."
Xia Yu knew that she was somewhat blaming him for taking the risk of returning to the capital, so he changed the subject and asked, "Did something big happen in the Prince Qin's Mansion?"
"Yeah." Shen Yuyao frowned and nodded, saying, "I just received the secret report as well."
It turned out that the prince died suddenly after returning from Xijing, the vassal state of the King of Qin.
In addition to his grief, the Emperor of Daxia first sent the Black Dragon Guards to secretly bring the Qin King's concubine Deng, who had always done many evil things, to the capital city.
Then, despite the King of Qin's pleading, he had Deng executed by slow slicing.
The emperor's original intention was to execute the King of Qin's favorite concubine so that the King of Qin would repent.
However, after the King of Qin learned that his favorite concubine had been tortured to death by slicing, he not only did not restrain himself, but became even more tyrannical and cruel.
In the end, the three old ladies serving in the Prince of Qin's palace could no longer tolerate his tyranny and poisoned his favorite dish, "Cherry Pan-fried Dish".
The King of Qin died.
Shen Yuyao calculated that the news about the King of Qin's death at the hands of a servant should have just reached the palace.
"Father just suffered the pain of losing his son, and now, just a few months later, he's gone through it again..." Shen Yuyao sighed. "The guards at the East Depot have also reported that the three servants who poisoned the King of Qin seem to have some connection to the Lü family of the Eastern Palace."
"Mrs. Lu? The Crown Princess?" Xia Yu asked in surprise, "Could it be that Mrs. Lu suspected that the Crown Prince had died at the hands of the King of Qin, and so this was revenge?"
Shen Yuyao stared into Xia Yu's eyes. He didn't know yet about Lu's absolute forbearance and sinister cruelty.
"The prince did not die at the hands of the King of Qin, but was poisoned by the Lu family over the years." Shen Yuyao finally told Xia Yu the truth about the real cause of the prince's death and the Lu family's methods and strategies.
"How... is this possible?" Xia Yu was horrified. He still had some doubts. "She is already the Crown Princess and will be the mother of the country in the near future. How could it be..."
Xia Yu couldn't figure out why a woman who was about to become the queen would take such a risky move!
Originally, Shen Yuyao had been thinking hard but to no avail. Now, looking at Xia Yu, someone suddenly came to her mind.
Ling Xiangxiang!
An idea suddenly struck her, "I might know the reason."
After saying that, he lifted the curtain and jumped out of the carriage.
"Where are you going?" Xia Yu was about to pull her over to ask.
Shen Yuyao turned around and said, "Go find Xu Yunxuan."
"Didn't you just come out of Zuixianlou?" Xia Yu was a little confused, but still let go of Shen Yuyao.
Through the gap in the carriage curtain, he saw Shen Yuyao return to Zuixianlou. In just half an hour, she got on the carriage again.
"Do you know the reason?" Xia Yu asked.
"Yes." Shen Yuyao finally showed some relief on her face, "Thank goodness you reminded me of Ling Xiangxiang."
Xia Yu blushed all of a sudden, "Why are you thinking of her again? I have nothing to do with her anymore."
"Why not?" Shen Yuyao said with a mischievous smile, "The relationship between me and the Lu family is just like the relationship between you and Ling Xiangxiang."
Shen Yuyao remembered asking Xu Yunxuan just now whether there were any special records about the Lu family in the book.
Xu Yunxuan said that the current King of Jin is Lu's white moonlight!
If Lu's father had not been trying to curry favor with the rich and powerful, he would not have married Lu to the prince as a concubine.
Originally, she could have become the principal wife of Prince Jin.
When Lu was a young girl, the Emperor of Daxia wanted to arrange marriages for his princes with women of the Lu family in order to win over the Lu family, a century-old family.
Originally, the marriage was to be granted to Prince Jin as his principal wife, because Prince Jin and Lu had long been in love with each other, and Prince Jin also asked the emperor to grant the marriage.
However, Lu's father believed that only the prince's lineage could bring true glory to the Lu family, so he personally went to ask the emperor to grant him a marriage with the prince.
In fact, Lu would rather be a concubine.
"Are you saying that Mrs. Lu did so much for my third brother?" Xia Yu was a little unbelievable, "How dare she..."
"What's there for a woman to be afraid of for love?" Shen Yuyao glanced at Xia Yu.
"This is really beyond my expectations!" Xia Yu said.
"Father will soon issue an edict to confer the title of Crown Prince on Xia Chongwen," Shen Yuyao looked up at Xia Yu, "is this unexpected to you?"
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