"You have two things to do. First, send your trusted people to Yi County to investigate Zhang Guohao's father, Mr. Zhang, to see if he had done anything to harm Qin Nian.
The second thing is that you go and investigate the princess and the minister of the imperial court yourself to see if they are doing anything secretly.
If they really did something, with our people and means, it shouldn't be difficult to find out."
"yes."
Mo Yue agreed and turned to leave. The princes were fighting for the throne, and each prince had many capable people under his command.
It is for this reason that King Xuan dared to say this.
At the same time, in Prince Xuan’s Mansion, the back house.
Princess Ji Haitang sat reclining on the beauty couch, closing her eyes, thinking quietly.
After Prince Xuan came back from Yi County, he never stayed overnight in her room. This was not a good sign.
As for the women in the palace, she could turn a blind eye and let Prince Xuan indulge himself every night.
But if he falls in love with a woman, that won't do. Absolutely not. The woman will have no other choice but death.
Her maid Zi Fu massaged her legs with the right amount of force, not too light or too heavy.
Ji Haitang suddenly felt like crying. She had parents, a husband, and children.
But for the benefit of the family, her parents made her marry King Xuan and use her as a pawn.
My husband is surrounded by many beautiful women, like spring flowers, which is one thing, but now he has fallen in love with a village girl.
He was her husband, but he didn't care about her sadness at all.
The children are too young.
Looking around, Zi Fu was the only one who was genuinely kind to her. How could she not be sad?
A maid walked in lightly, as if floating in, and no sound of footsteps could be heard at all.
"What is it?"
Ji Haitang, with her eyes closed, knew exactly what was going on when the maid came in.
The maid whispered: "Reporting to the queen, Mo Yue is back and has been taken to the prince's study first.
I stayed inside for more than half an hour, and no one dared to approach me. I don't know what they said.
Mo Yue just left."
Ji Haitang pushed Zi Fu's hand away and slowly sat up, with frosty skin, a straight nose, and small lips.
There is no place that is not beautiful, extremely beautiful.
"Zi Fu, have you said everything you should say in front of my father?"
"Don't worry, Princess. I have said it three times."
Ji Haitang was a little uneasy: "Zihuan, go to the Ji Mansion again and pass on a message to my father.
Chen Tong can’t stay.”
"yes."
Zihuan agreed, took a few steps back, and when she turned to leave, Ji Haitang said again:
"Take two of the snacks that the Queen just sent and say they are what my mother likes. This will not arouse suspicion from others."
"yes."
The little maid agreed again, picked up the two food boxes on the table, turned and left.
Ji Haitang was a little uneasy.
Zi Fu hurriedly poured a cup of tea and handed it to her: "Princess, have a drink of hot tea."
Before she had finished her cup of tea, the news that she had sent Zihuan to the Zhongshu Ling Mansion reached King Xuan's ears.
Prince Xuan snorted coldly. If the princess was the one who burned down Qin Nian's house, he would never let her off easily.
But what puzzled King Xuan was that if it was Ji Haitang who sent people to set the fire, why didn't they burn the house?
She didn't want Qin Nian's life, but just didn't want Qin Nian to make money? This didn't make sense.
In less than an hour, Zihuan returned in a carriage.
When he returned to the back house, he said in an urgent tone, "Reporting to the princess, Chen Tong has escaped."
"Escaped?"
Ji Haitang was stunned: "When did it happen?"
The Minister of the Central Secretariat said, "Chen Tong came back and said that when he set the fire, he also poured kerosene on Qin Nian's house.
But as soon as the fire started, Qin Nian and the others woke up and ran out, leaving only the greenhouse burned.
The Minister of the Central Secretariat sent people to check again and again, and found that the house was intact, only the shed where strawberries were grown was burned down.
I knew in my heart that Chen Tong did not follow the order. When I looked for him again, he was gone. I didn't know when he escaped."
Ji Haitang's face turned even paler due to anger, like a delicate white porcelain vase.
Chen Tong, 28 years old, is nominally the bodyguard of Zhongshu Ling Ji Lin, but in fact he is a professional killer.
Kill for Ji Lin.
A while ago, after Ji Haitang was driven back from Yi County by King Xuan, she knew that King Xuan had fallen in love with Qin Nian, so she and her father decided to kill him.
But King Xuan was in Yi County at the time, and they knew that King Xuan had too many capable people under his command, so they did not dare to take action.
After Prince Xuan returned to the capital, the situation remained stable for a few days. Ji Lin then sent Chen Tong to set fire to the place without using a knife.
Burn that family to death and push the blame onto the Minister of War Zhang Guohao.
Anyway, Zhang Guohao stood on the side of the eldest prince, and his reasons were valid for opposing King Xuan.
Chen Tong, in disguise, went to Yi County.
This time he was puzzled. That Miss Qin was the one that King Xuan liked. Just for this reason, he set fire to her whole family?
I am a killer and my hands are stained with blood.
But almost all of the people who were killed had killed someone directly or indirectly, unlike this time, when an ordinary family was killed by setting fire to them.
Isn’t this a sin?
Once his conscience was awakened, he hesitated to act. After arriving in Yi County, he first went to observe the area near Qin Nian's home.
I met Qin Nian, as well as Li Pozi and Ye Meizi. I saw them busying around, working with smiles on their faces.
Such smiles are very contagious. Chen Tong sighed that they live such a fulfilling life.
That evening he came with kerosene.
But the smiling faces of Qin Nian and the others always appear in front of my eyes, with such clear eyes, as clean as white clouds.
How simple.
Chen Tong couldn't bring himself to do it, so he picked up the kerosene, walked to the back wall of the picking shed, and poured most of the kerosene on it.
Pour the remaining half onto the pile of firewood.
"I hope you can be awakened by the fire. This is all I can do to help you."
After Chen Tong set fire to the picking garden and firewood pile, he quickly fled the scene.
The next day, I went under the overpass to listen for any noise and learned that no one was killed in the fire the night before.
He was very pleased and rode back to Beijing to report.
When he returned to the Zhongshu Ling Mansion, he began to feel uneasy. He did not follow the Zhongshu Ling's instructions, and sooner or later he would be found out.
The consequences of disobeying orders are more painful than being burned to death.
Fortunately, his parents are both dead, he has no wife or children, so he can escape.
The world is so big, and he has excellent kung fu skills. I believe he can't find a place to hide.
The Minister of the Central Secretariat supported Prince Xuan, but for the sake of his daughter, he did not allow Prince Xuan to fall in love with other women.
If he keeps doing things like this, sooner or later he will anger King Xuan, and both father and daughter will be deposed by King Xuan.
He would be safe then.
Thinking of this, Chen Tong took advantage of his resting time to escape. On the third day of his escape, Ji Haitang and his daughter both wanted to kill him.
Escaping was the right move.
At dusk that day, the news that one of the Zhongshu Ling's guards had escaped reached King Xuan's ears.
King Xuan was smart. He put the whole thing together and guessed the general idea.
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