"It seems to be the same as you guessed."

The princess couldn't help but turned her head to look at Ruyi, "That direction should be the cliff at the back mountain."

"There are still wheel tracks, fresh dirt, and someone is digging underneath!"

Ruyi glanced at the ground, frowning, "If we go over now, we'll be easily discovered. But if we don't go down, we won't know where they've dug to."

Jing San thought for a moment and said, "I'm going down, you guys don't have to follow me."

I don't know the exact situation below, it's too dangerous.

Ruyi hesitated, not because she was worried about Jing San, but because she was worried that Jing San might overlook something. Finally, she thought of a solution and said, "Let's go back to the house first and change into the clothes of those who were caught up there before coming down."

"That's fine. They are in the same group."

Jing San nodded, and in the light of the torch, he glanced at Ruyi.

He felt that although Ruyi's martial arts skills were average now, her brain was indeed very useful.

When the three of them returned, they saw a group of people digging the soil in front of them. Ruyi was a little surprised and asked Mu Rushuang, "Sister Mu, what do you want them to do?"

"Someone died."

Mu Rushuang's expression was a little solemn. "The original people here have been replaced. I suspect that after they killed someone, they buried him directly under this mound of earth."

“…”

Ruyi understood as soon as she heard it.

"You found out? Whose man is he?"

She looked at those people with a frown on her face.

In fact, I already had some guesses in my mind, because there are really not many people who can do all this, have this motivation, and jump out at this moment.

Mu Rushuang's eyes were filled with anger, "It's Cao Zhizhang."

“…”

Ruyi took a deep breath and said, "They are quite brave."

"Well, let three of them come up. I need the clothes they are wearing."

Ruyi glanced at the people who were busy.

Then he said, "I will go to the main hall of the priest's palace first to get some things."

Inside the main hall of the Priest's Temple, there are things left by Li Xiangyi that can be used to disguise themselves. They still need to process them a little before they can go down and get away with it.

Having said that, she went upstairs.

Jing San followed behind.

The princess looked at the people digging the frozen soil below, her face slightly pale, "How long has the Cao family been planning this?"

"At least four years."

Mu Rushuang clenched her fists. Sooner or later, she would avenge her grandfather.

The eldest princess was stunned and didn't know what to say.

Only at this moment did he realize that if the prince wanted to ascend the throne, he had no other choice but to listen carefully to the emperor.

Because the second prince is backed by the Gu family and the Shen family, and the third prince is backed by the Cao family, and everyone has someone behind them giving them advice, and they have been planning for so many years.

Logically speaking, the Crown Prince's back is stronger than the Second and Third Princes—

Because he is the emperor.

But the bad thing is that under the empress dowager's favoritism over the years, she and the prince's brother and sister neither listen to the emperor.

There is always a prejudice against the emperor——

The emperor likes Ying and the imperial concubine, and he will not really stand up for her and the prince, two people who have no backing.

Standing here at this moment, following Mu Rushuang and Ruyi in solving the case, she realized that in her father's heart, he had never treated them harshly.

In fact, I had high hopes for the two of them.

Because long before Rong Yan, the emperor had proposed that the prince and her, the eldest princess, should serve him in the imperial study during the day and afternoon and study with him.

But the prince thought the emperor was too strict and preferred the empress dowager and his study companions, so he refused and said that he would just study with the prince's tutor.

As for herself...

It is even more difficult to describe in words.

A few years later, Rong Yan entered the Prajna Hall and followed his father from time to time.

Over time, it has come to this point today.

But people are not born sensible.

When they were young, she, the prince, and Shen Ruyi were all like all the children in the world. They were all ignorant and liked people who made them feel comfortable and safe, and liked to hear nice words.

If you stay with someone for a long time, you will become what that person wants you to be.

Shen Ruyi became a toy for the Shen family father and son to play with, and she and the prince were no different from the queen mother...

The Royal Grandmother...

When the princess thought of this, she suddenly felt a pang of pain in her heart.

For a very long time, she always felt that she was a child raised by the Royal Grandmother, and that the Royal Grandmother was the best to her.

Even if the world betrayed her, the Empress Dowager would not.

At this moment, my heart felt a little cold.

Also felt creepy.

Wrong!

They are all wrong!

The Imperial Grandmother’s niece is Concubine Nian, and the Fourth Prince is the person closest to the Imperial Grandmother. Even if the Imperial Grandmother wants to make a plan, she will not support her and the Crown Prince, but the Fourth Prince!

If the Fourth Prince wants to go up, the Crown Prince must die!

So, this is flattery!

When these two words came out, the eldest princess almost staggered and couldn't stand steadily.

"What’s wrong with you?"

Mu Rushuang glanced at her, somewhat surprised.

It's not because of concern, it's because of fear of something happening -

After all, the eldest princess is a member of the royal family. If anything happens to her and Ruyi, they will be held responsible.

The princess could sense Mu Rushuang's subtle attitude towards her. She felt sad and shook her head gently, "It's okay, I just remembered something."

Under the guidance of the Queen Mother, the Prince was eager for quick success and instant benefits, but she despised him and abandoned him.

Now, the prince is dead.

She was left alone to go to Xiqin.

The eldest princess was no longer in the mood to argue with anyone. She felt sad about her fate, but there was nothing she could do about it.

Ruyi came down from the priest's hall with a bag of things, "Princess, if you still want to go down, come in and change your appearance."

"good."

The eldest princess came back to her senses and looked at Ruyi.

Only at this moment did she realize that Ruyi was the only person in the world who did not have such a strong prejudice against her.

"You... don't even think I'm annoying."

She followed Ruyi into the room and felt a little strange.

Ruyi was stunned, and while packing up her disguise items, she sighed, "I am also an ordinary person. I am not without flaws along the way. I don't even have the qualifications to look down on an ordinary person, let alone you."

No one is perfect.

What's more, how a person grows up is not something she can decide by herself. By the time a person can decide for herself, she has already been shaped by others into what they want her to be.

Lucky people get good guidance.

Therefore, they don’t need to shed a layer of skin to find their true self when they are halfway grown.

Unfortunate people...

Like her, she even sacrificed her life to clean that layer of dirt.

The emperor is busy with all kinds of affairs, the eldest princess has no mother, and the empress dowager is not her biological grandmother. How can things be good?

Ruyi felt that although she was in the Prime Minister's Mansion, it was as if she had crawled up from the bottom of this world. At this moment, she could empathize with the hardships of anyone in the world.

She disguised the princess and said, "But fortunately, you and I are both young, and we still have a long way to go in the future."

Be yourself in the future.

"Will it?"

The eldest princess looked up at her, and for some reason she felt like crying, so her eyes were red.

It was not until today that she realized that she had gone to Xi Qin and did not even have a palace maid who could truly accompany her.

The most painful scar in his heart was actually revealed to Ruyi, the person he once hated.

The sadness and suffering in the world is ultimately nothing more than this.