Han Jiang nodded, "What do you want to do? I'll do it for you. You go to the palace and make sure His Highness is safe."

"Miss Shen asked me to pass on a message..."

Wuying glanced upstairs and briefly explained the situation. "You go and tell them. I'll go into the palace to take a look. Also, Shen San has moved in next door. You keep an eye on him."

Before Wuying went upstairs, he stuffed five hundred taels of silver notes into the shopkeeper's pocket and asked him to take good care of Shen Ruyi and pay more attention to the movements upstairs. Therefore, he knew exactly who lived upstairs.

Han Jiang nodded and went upstairs.

Wuying went to the palace.

…

At this time, in the imperial study.

The prince walked out of the door with a smile on his face.

The smile was very complicated, like happiness, but also like fear and nervousness.

Especially when seeing the Second Prince and Rong Yan, the feeling became even more complicated.

"Brother Royal is out? What did Father say to you?"

The third prince stepped forward quickly and stood in front of him.

"You will know when the third brother goes in later." The prince did not say much, but just looked at Rong Yan, as if he wanted to say something but stopped.

Finally, he said, "I wonder if I can have a drink with my ninth brother when he comes out from the imperial study room later?"

Rong Yan pondered his expression, frowning, "Okay."

What made the prince so happy?

A feeling of uneasiness surged in his heart, and Rong Yan looked towards the dark door of the imperial study.

But the chief eunuch came out and looked at the third prince.

"Third Prince, the Emperor invites you in."

The third prince glanced at the crown prince, the second prince and the ninth prince, then turned and went into the house.

"Looks like we'll have to wait a while."

The Second Prince felt uneasy and subconsciously glanced at Rong Yan. It was freezing cold and the sable fur coat he was wearing could no longer keep him warm. Now he felt his bones shivering with cold.

Rong Yan ignored him.

Suddenly, there was a sound of hurried footsteps behind me.

When I turned around, I saw Shen Cangyun staggering towards me.

When meeting Rong Yan's gaze, Shen Cangyun suddenly choked, "I pay my respects to Her Majesty the Concubine Li, the Second Prince, and the Ninth Prince!"

He didn't expect that the Second Prince and the Ninth Prince were still outside the door. How long would he have to wait?

Even if he was a fool, he could feel the emperor's anger.

Instead of seeing her, he called her over and just stood there in the cold wind. What was the difference between this and his attitude towards Shen Ruyi at that time?

It is an undisguised punishment.

Suddenly thinking of Shen Ruyi, Shen Cangyun's heart trembled, as if he was hit hard by something -

Oh, by the way, she abandoned the Prime Minister’s Mansion tonight and went out alone!

But his relationship with the emperor is different from that between Shen Ruyi and him.

He was not qualified to abandon the emperor.

Shen Cangyun could only kneel on the ground and wait outside the imperial study.

He wanted to ask the person in front of him how long he had been waiting and what the emperor's attitude was, but the three people in front of him seemed to have become his enemies overnight, and there was no one to ask him any questions.

The look in Concubine Li's eyes when she looked at him was as if filled with poison.

The Second Prince didn't even glance at him, as if the two had never known each other. All the assistance from the Shen family over the years was wasted overnight.

The ninth prince Rong Yan had a look of disdain in his eyes, and it was clear that he looked down on him at all.

Shen Cangyun has been the prime minister for so many years, second only to the emperor and above everyone else, but he has never been in such a miserable situation. It's no different from being abandoned by pigs and dogs...

When I thought of this, I felt that it was all Shen Ruyi's fault.

If it weren't for her...

But no matter what, things have come to this point and he has to get through the emperor first.

Shen Cangyun knelt on the ground and clenched his fists.

…

In the imperial study.

The emperor looked at the third prince with an extremely ugly expression.

The first question he asked was very sharp, "The Gu family is the second son's maternal grandfather's family, what does it have to do with you?"

"Why did you go to Gu's house today?"

His eyes were fixed on the Second Prince's face, and the imperial power was unstoppable.

Cold sweat broke out on the third prince's forehead.

But he already had the answer to this question, so he knelt down and said, "Reporting to the emperor, I didn't want to go today, but when I heard that the Crown Prince was going and the Ninth Prince was also going, I got excited and went too."

"Are you afraid of falling?"

The emperor sneered, "What are you fighting for? The support of the Gu family? Or the lucky star Ziwei? The second son wants to marry, do you want to marry too?"

The third prince was trembling all over.

He wanted to marry her, but who could have expected the emperor's reaction to be so strong?

Finally, he could only shake his head and said, "Father, I have no intention of marrying her. Her marriage is up to you. Besides, I already have an engagement and will not do anything to betray you."

I thought that after saying this, the emperor would just scold him a few words and then let him go.

Unexpectedly, the emperor suddenly changed the subject, stared at him and suddenly attacked, "You got that beggar in there, didn't you?"

"!"

The third prince's brain exploded with a "boom"!

Shen Jiaojiao asked Mother Yuan to help find a beggar to ruin Shen Ruyi's reputation. He took the opportunity to disguise himself as a beggar, bribed the gatekeeper of the Gu family, and let the beggar in. This led to the subsequent good show.

I thought that since he was not personally involved in this matter, no one would know about it.

But he didn't expect that the emperor would point it out directly.

He didn't know how much the emperor knew about this, and he didn't dare to answer casually. He could only deny it, "Father, that beggar seemed to be brought by the second daughter of the Shen family. He has nothing to do with me."

The emperor narrowed his eyes and asked, "How do you know that it was the second young lady of the Shen family who sent for him?"

“…”

The third prince choked.

Finally, he could only say, "According to your observation, Miss Shen was the only one at the banquet who had a motive, and it was indeed she who first threw dirty water on Miss Shen."

"But," the emperor snorted, "Didn't the Shen family try their best to help Shen Ruyi and the second son get together?"

"Shen Jiaojiao is Shen Cangyun's darling. Is she stupid or harboring evil intentions to make a decision that is totally against the interests of the Prime Minister's Mansion?"

It's winter, and the house isn't very hot.

The third prince's back was soaked with cold sweat. He finally didn't dare to look up and speak, and finally could only shake his head.

"I don't know, maybe the second young lady of the Shen family doesn't understand the situation in the capital at all, and she has little experience coming from the countryside..."

He originally thought that such a little trick would not be discovered by anyone.

Unexpectedly, this did not escape his father's eyes at all. The Third Prince was trembling all over, with his forehead almost touching the ground.

The emperor stared at the back of his head and said nothing for a long time.

There was silence in the imperial study. Such silence was like a mountain pressing down on one's head, so overwhelming and suffocating.

The emperor didn't speak until the third prince was about to collapse.

"I have noticed that Yingchun Tower is harboring evil intentions. There is a spy named Song Yingchun sent by Nanyan. The entire Yingchun Tower is actually in her hands. You take people to raid Yingchun Tower and bring Song Yingchun to see me!"

"What? How is this possible?"

The third prince looked up in horror and looked at the emperor in disbelief.

Who gave him this news?

Why did he directly mention Song Yingchun?

"Just do it when I tell you to. If you can't do it well, you should go to the Northern Frontier for three years to hone your skills."

The emperor's hidden gaze fell on his face.