Chapter 136 He Only Loves Beauty, Not the Country

For the first time, Jiang Jiu felt the power of Kung Fu.

With Zhao Zhuoxi holding her waist, she landed gently on the snow, leaving no footprints.

I followed the man in black all the way to the back mountain.

Sure enough, there was a tree beside the stream. As for what kind of tree it was, the leaves had fallen off and only the trunk remained, so Jiang Jiu couldn't tell.

The main thing is that there is only a grave under that tree.

Zhou Min's body was right beside them, and when the man in black came under the tree, Jiang Jiu saw Zhou Min's maid Xiaoqing kneeling down to him in a charming manner.

Jiang Jiu was stunned and his eyes widened.

The man in black was obviously Ye Guzhou, why would Xiaoqing kneel down to him?

Zhao Zhuoxi

He stared blankly without saying a word. After a while, a few men in black appeared and dug up the grave under the tree.

Zhao Zhuoxi took Jiang Jiu to change the angle and found that there was no corpse in the grave at all. It was an empty grave.

Now that Zhou Min's body has been placed inside, the tomb is no longer empty.

Wait until all these things are done.

Xiaoqing left with Ye Guzhou.

Zhao Zhuoxi and Jiang Jiu were stunned by what they saw.

But as soon as Ye Guzhou left, Zhao Zhuoxi seemed to suddenly understand something and rushed over with Jiang Jiu.

"Third brother, you are not Ye Guzhou, in fact, you are the third brother, right?"

Ye Guzhou suddenly stopped, turned his head to look at Zhao Zhuoxi, and slowly peeled off the mask on his face, revealing his true face.

It is indeed the late former crown prince, the third prince.

"Xiaojiu, go back. It's time for me to go too. Dust rises and dust falls. Everything is over."

Zhao Zhuoxi was very confused.

"Third brother, you abandoned your position as the crown prince and actually had an affair with a woman. Now the corrupt officials are in control of the government and have sidelined your eldest brother. Don't you feel bad?"

The third prince said, "It doesn't matter who becomes the emperor. Daning will not be destroyed, but without me, Yao'er will die..."

There was a tremor in Zhao Zhuoxi's angry voice.

"For a woman... Third Brother..."

He couldn't understand why the prince he respected the most would give up the world for a woman.

The third prince groaned for a moment and said, "Anyone can be the ruler of the world, but Yao'er's man can only be me... Xiaojiu, you will understand after you experience it."

After saying this, the Third Prince left with Xiao Qing and his men.

Jiang Jiu also found it unbelievable. Men would ignore everything for their careers, but the Third Prince was an exception. He was the Crown Prince's man, and for the sake of a woman, he would rather fake his own death.

It can be seen that the affairs of the third prince had a great impact on Zhao Zhuoxi.

The next day, news came from the capital.

It was said that the Third Prince's wife had committed suicide for the Third Prince, and the Emperor specially awarded her a commendation and rewarded the Zhou family with a chastity archway.

In order to handle the funeral, Shen has to take a few people back to Zhou's house.

After returning to Zhou's house and seeing Nishang again, Jiang Jiu finally understood the real cause of Zhou Min's death.

It's a coincidence indeed.

Chu Yu wanted to study poison, so she stole the poison from Chang Pingping and also stole Xiaoqing's antidote.

Who knew that Zhou Min also had poison on him.

Moreover, Zhou Min knew that Chang Pingping wanted to poison Jiang Jiu, so she asked Chang Pingping to make snacks, sprinkled poison on the snacks, and asked Chang Tingting to give the snacks to Jiang Jiu.

This is why Chang Tingting wanted to send snacks to Jiang Jiu and Zhao Zhuoxi when they were being affectionate in the house.

But all of this was seen by Ye Guzhou who was hiding in the house.

He secretly replaced the two plates of snacks without making any noise.

He actually didn't want to poison Zhou Min, but he didn't expect Xiaoqing's antidote to be ineffective.

It was not until Zhou Min was poisoned that he discovered that the poison Zhou Min was poisoned with was the same as the poison Jiang Yao was poisoned with.

The antidote that Ye Guzhou had been looking for was actually in Zhou Min's hands.

It was Zhou Min who poisoned Jiang Yao back then.

When the truth was revealed, Ye Guzhou was deeply traumatized.

You have to know that it was Jiang Yao who was poisoned that caused him to be mistaken by Jiang Yao as the murderer, and he was shot by Jiang Yao for no reason.

Later, in order to detoxify, Ye Guzhou searched all over the country, but he didn't expect that the antidote was just around the corner.

So, he showed up and questioned Zhou Min whether she was the one who poisoned Jiang Yao back then.

Zhou Min was already dying at that time, but she didn't expect that Ye Guzhou would rather stay with Jiang Yao's soul for more than ten years than be with her.

Her heart died and she told the truth.

It was she who borrowed the poison from the Third Prince's men.

After she died, the Third Prince did not want her to be buried in the imperial mausoleum, so he asked Xiaoqing to bury her under the peach tree.

The grudges between the three people are now understood.

Jiang Jiu also understood that Ye Guzhou was the Third Prince, and the Third Prince was Ye Guzhou.

Ye Guzhou is Jiang Yao's servant and the person who loves Jiang Yao the most.

After some time, news came from Suzhou that Ye Guzhou had passed away.

Jiang Jiu received a handwritten letter from Ye Guzhou, which was exactly what she had guessed.

At the end of the letter, Ye Guzhou pointed out that Jiang Yao had indeed started to make cannons and had already made them, but they were sealed because of their great power.

Ye Guzhou said that if Zhao Zhuoxi felt that the eldest prince was not fit to be the emperor, he could fight for it himself. In short, the world could be in the hands of their Zhao family, but not the Zhou family.

In February, Wu Yuan received a letter from Beiqiang, saying that he had found the iron mine and dug out a lot of iron. He also found a famous local blacksmith to smelt it.

Along with his letter came the carless iron ore.

Jiang Jiu asked Xiao Yimo to hand it over to the old man to see if he could fire the cannon again.

After the Chinese New Year, misfortunes continued to happen to the Zhou family, and Prime Minister Zhou became a little panicked. Old Mrs. Zhou moved directly to the Guanyin Temple to pray for the Zhou family.

The Chang sisters and Jiang Jiu still live in Zhou's house.

Their marriage was put on hold because of the series of deaths.

The most abnormal one was the ninth prince Zhao Zhuoxi. He had originally planned to leave after the Chinese New Year, but he had been staying in the capital until February and there was no sign of him leaving.

Instead, he ran to the palace all day long.

The Queen's bedroom.

Zhou Hou's sisters all died unexpectedly, forcing her to suspect that someone had done something to them.

But she searched for a long time and still had no clue.

Coupled with the disappearance of Zhou Min's maid Xiaoqing, things became even more confusing.

"Your Majesty, the Emperor has summoned the Ninth Prince to play chess in the palace again. Ever since the Ninth Prince presented one or two beauties to the Emperor, Your Majesty has either stayed in the bedroom or summoned the Ninth Prince to play chess. It's fine if you don't come to visit Your Majesty, but you don't even care about the Crown Prince."

Aunt Xiang, who served Empress Zhou, couldn't help but complain about the emperor's coldness.

Queen Zhou remained silent, and a young eunuch hurried over.

"Your Majesty, the Prime Minister learned that your health was not good, so he specially sent you a thousand-year-old snow ginseng to help you recover."

Whenever Prime Minister Zhou sent something over, no one would check it.

There must be important news in it.

Aunt Xiang took the box, put it in Queen Zhou's hand, and opened it. In addition to a snow-white ginseng, there was also a letter underneath.

After Zhou Hou read it carefully, he threw it directly into the heater in the house.

All of a sudden, a cloud of ash flew up and fell down again, leaving no trace of the letter.