The confidant waited until Prince Shou had vented his anger before entering and respectfully asking, "Master, why are you doing this?"
Prince Shou had a gloomy face and did not answer him. Instead, he asked, "Cheng Qian went to the Ministry of Justice Prison. What did he find out?"
The confidant shook his head.
"Did you get anything?"
"It is said that a copper lock was taken from a person..."
As soon as he heard the word "copper lock", Prince Shou understood what was going on.
It really is Zhao Ying!
As soon as he heard the captain report the "bronze lock," he became suspicious. He knew the bronze lock, as it was a gift from the five brothers. But how did the bronze lock end up in Side's mansion, and who took it away...
Now it's clear.
Prince Shou's brows furrowed into the shape of the Chinese character "川" (Chuan), and he murmured softly, "If that's the case, how did she use a copper lock to discover that I was the one behind her assassination? She killed Side specifically to warn me..."
Upon hearing this, the confidant's pupils trembled, and he hurriedly lifted his robe and knelt, "Reporting to the prince, those people did not reveal the slightest bit. Now they have been killed by Princess Cheng Qian, and there is no chance for them to leak out. I hope the prince will understand!"
Prince Shou was silent for a moment, then raised his hand to let him stand up. "This prince knows that you handled this matter very well. Although you didn't kill Cheng Qian, you almost killed Shangguan Shu, which can be regarded as a help in getting rid of Zhao Ying."
Prince Shou sighed, his emotions clearly calming down. "I don't blame you. It's my niece who's too shrewd. She appears to be noncompetitive, tolerant, and peaceful, but if you provoke her, she'll be much more ruthless than her brother, the Crown Prince!"
The confidant was a little worried, "What will the prince do if Princess Chengqian finds out?"
Prince Shou pondered for a long moment, then shook his head. "I guess... she has no evidence to prove that I am the one behind this. What's more, I think she might not even know who this person is. Otherwise, she would have complained to the Emperor and asked him to take action on her behalf. She has always disliked bloodshed..." Prince Shou analyzed the situation and then sneered, "Is she trying to trick the murderer?"
Zhao Ying left this bronze lock behind. If someone used this as evidence to point out that it was Zhao Ying who killed Si De, then Zhao Ying would be able to find out who knew the bronze lock, who knew she had taken it from the killer, who had ill intentions towards her, and who was closely connected to this group of killers...
If this is true, he said, he would expose himself. If he doesn't tell others, Si De would have died in vain.
No, even if he said it, Zhao Ying could deny it, saying that the copper lock was taken from the killer's body by someone else, and that the group of killers had been silenced by her... Did she have such an intention in killing those people?
When he first heard about it, he thought those people had framed Shangguan Shu, and Zhao Ying had killed people to vent her anger in order to exonerate Shangguan Shu, silence him, or to prevent the murderer from being found...
Prince Shou’s expression became increasingly ugly.
Seeing this, the confidant grew increasingly worried. "The prince previously sent several people to assassinate Wei Yuan in an attempt to frame Wei Ju. The prince is well aware of the discord within the Wei family and wants to kill two birds with one stone. He can use Wei Fu to kill Wei Ju and, through the emperor, depose Wei Fu. This way, Princess Chengqian will have lost a leg!"
"Who would have thought that the plan would change! This assassination attempt was clearly aimed at Princess Cheng Qian. If Princess Cheng Qian could connect these two events, she might be able to guess the murderer..."
Prince Shou snorted heavily, "So what if she knows me? She's safe, and it's a group of farmers who died. Can the Emperor still slaughter his royal brothers for a group of farmers? She doesn't understand the Emperor. Even for his posthumous reputation, the Emperor wouldn't do that! He's already killed one of the previous Emperor's legitimate sons, he won't kill me, the last of the previous Emperor's legitimate sons!"
"I'll just wait and see what Cheng Qian is capable of. She wants to deceive me, but I won't take the bait! What else can she do?!"
"I will take the challenge!"
That same night, not only the Shou Prince's Mansion was in chaos, but also the Xian Prince's Mansion.
Princess Xian truly loves every woman she is close to.
Although she lied and deceived everyone, it was out of love.
She lied to Princess Side and told her that she was the reincarnation of her first love, a monk named Yu Ming.
He lied to Zhou Wangshi, saying that they were destined to be together for three lifetimes, but she was born in the wrong female womb. However, Buddhists often say that everything external is empty, and only the love in her heart for her is real.
Liu, the concubine of Duke Dingguo who was often bullied by his wives and was not favored, said, "I see from your appearance that you must be an extremely strong-willed person, but you don't have to be strong in the future. Your strength is coming."
The little concubine who was troubled by the ban said that she was the source of her inspiration. She wrote a song for her in foreign language: Monkey Sister Monkey Sister! You are so great! The mountains of the
element can't hold you down popped up a Sun walker……
Monkey brother, you are really amazing. The Five Elements Mountain can't suppress you and Sun Xingzhe pops out.
When Xiao Feifei asked her about the meaning of the lyrics, she replied: "Cute girl, cute girl, cute girl, cute girl! We all learn from you to be the most outstanding cute girl. You are a mountain elf, and you can count on five fingers your cute girls as bright as the sun..."
Xiao Feifei was so moved that she burst into tears.
Princess Xian was drinking the pregnancy medicine that Princess Side had gotten from Zhao Ying in the palace. She had been drinking it for a long time but there was no pregnancy. She was really anxious!
It's not that she is in a hurry to give birth to children for that stinky man, the Xian Wang, but she wants to use this opportunity to lift the house confinement and go out of the house to meet her beloved ones.
They haven't seen each other for a long time, and they must miss her very much.
Especially Xiao Shen. The man in the family was cold to her and favored the concubine. She was a woman who longed for comfort. After she fell in love with her, she naturally became clingy. When she learned that she was under house arrest, she immediately asked someone to get one of her personal belongings to keep as a memory.
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