Mrs. Xu still didn't wake up.
There wasn't even any sign of waking up.
The whole person seemed to have turned into a living dead.
Even Chen Yan had no way to pin the assassination in the forest on General Sang at this time.
No one would believe that a man who couldn't even take care of his first wife could plan such an elaborate assassination.
Moreover, General Sang has been living under the emperor's close surveillance during this period of time. The emperor must be unaware of what he is going to do.
Chen Yan's attack on the emperor this time was completely different from the time at the palace banquet.
She was more trying to frame someone at the palace banquet, but this time, she really wanted to kill the emperor.
That's why she used a deer to attract the emperor's attention and led him alone into the remote forest.
But they didn't expect that Cheng Yaojin would appear halfway, and Sang Liwan and the others actually walked into the dense forest by chance.
Thinking that he had failed again, Chen Yan clenched his fists tightly.
She is now just a small female official, and the resources at her disposal are limited. Arranging two assassinations is already the limit.
What's more, most of her men have been lost.
Thinking of this, Chen Yan felt his heart bleeding.
She suddenly felt that ever since she started targeting Sang Liwan, she had always failed.
Chen Yan couldn't tell whether there was something wrong with his plan or whether Sang Liwan was born to be incompatible with him.
Otherwise, why would there be problems with my well-arranged plan?
The series of failures forced Chen Yan to think more.
"Sang Liwan..."
She kept repeating the name in her mind and made a decision in her heart.
On the other side, Sang Liwan, who was about to follow Jun Moyi back to the tent, suddenly sneezed several times in a row.
The tip of her nose was red, and she looked at Jun Moyi blankly and asked, "Did someone scold me?"
Jun Moyi, who was originally worried that she had caught a cold, felt a little amused after hearing her words.
However, he thought of Sang Liwan's mouth and said in a half-truthful tone, "Just based on the princess's mouth, there are probably many people who curse you behind your back."
Sang Liwan said this originally to make Jun Moyi care about her, but unexpectedly, he laughed at her.
Sang Liwan frowned and looked at him, "This will only tarnish your reputation as a prince."
Hearing this, Jun Moyi immediately raised his eyebrows and looked at her, as if he didn't understand why she suddenly came to such a conclusion.
"She is clearly a perfect match for this king."
They had not walked a few steps when a young man in an official robe came towards them. When he saw them, he bowed politely and greeted them.
"I greet Prince An and Princess An."
Jun Moyi glanced at the person who came, put away the smile on his face, and turned back into the ice-cold prince in the eyes of outsiders.
"It's Master Zhou. Master Zhou is in such a hurry. What are you going to do?"
Zhou Li replied calmly, "Your Highness, Prince An, the Emperor has ordered a thorough investigation into today's assassination. I am about to interrogate the assassins."
Today in the forest, neither Jun Moyi, Sang Liwan, nor Gu Huaizhi really killed them. After all, if they really killed everyone in this kind of situation, there would be no evidence.
Therefore, several people deliberately left a few people alive in order to interrogate the mastermind behind the scenes.
Zhou Li was in a hurry now, which meant he was eager to interrogate these people. Although he knew that he might not be able to get anything useful out of them, Zhou Li naturally had his own way.
Jun Moyi nodded. He knew that the emperor had arranged someone to thoroughly investigate the matter, but he didn't expect that the person arranged would be Zhou Li.
Zhou Li was only a fifth-rank official and had not been in the court for long, but the emperor entrusted him with such an important matter. He must have valued him very much.
Just as Jun Moyi was about to leave, he saw Sang Liwan looking at Zhou Li's face thoughtfully.
He remembered that Sang Liwan probably didn't know Zhou Li, so he took the initiative to explain: "This is Lord Zhou Li."
"Zhou Li?" As expected, Sang Liwan's expression changed. He stared at Zhou Li for a long while, then asked tentatively, "But is it the Zhou in Zhou Gong, and the Li in Liyue?"
Zhou Li didn't expect that Princess An had also heard of his name, and a flash of surprise passed through his eyes.
"Princess An has heard of me?"
Sang Liwan smiled and did not respond to Zhou Li's words. Instead, he said meaningfully, "Master Zhou is really a young and promising man."
Zhou Li was a little confused by this sentence. He just thought that Sang Liwan was praising him, so he saluted the two of them again and hurried to interrogate the assassin.
Jun Moyi also felt that Sang Liwan's attitude was a bit strange, so he asked the same question as Zhou Li.
"Wanwan knows Mr. Zhou?"
Sang Liwan shook his head and said, "I've heard of it."
【This Zhou Li is quite a character. 】
[Although he was only a fifth-rank official, the fact that Chen Yan's plan was able to proceed so smoothly was entirely due to Zhou Li.]
[I need to think about how to get him to join this camp...]
Jun Moyi narrowed his eyes imperceptibly, his gaze fixed on the direction Zhou Li left. He pursed his lips, not knowing what he was thinking.
Because of the assassination, the emperor was in no mood to continue his winter hunting, so he decided to return to Beijing without even waiting for Xu's condition to improve.
Until the moment she returned to Beijing, Xu was still unconscious.
Now, even Sang Liwan felt a little strange. She had been frowning since she came back from visiting Xu.
Until Jun Moyi couldn't bear it anymore, he reached out and rubbed her eyebrows with his fingertips.
This suddenly woke up Sang Liwan who was still lost in thought.
She came back to her senses and looked at Jun Moyi, asking silently.
Seeing this, Jun Moyi sighed silently. Looking at her expression, he knew that she probably didn't hear a word he had just said.
"What are you thinking about so intently? You can't even hear what your husband is saying?"
He pronounced the word "husband" in a very affectionate tone, which made Sang Liwan blush.
She couldn't help but whispered back, "What nonsense are you talking about."
"Nonsense?" Jun Moyi raised his eyebrows slightly. He suddenly moved closer to Sang Liwan, his voice low and dangerous, "Could it be that Wanwan has other ideas?"
Sang Liwan would not accept such a big hat.
She crossed her arms across her chest, indicating that she totally rejected his accusation.
"I didn't say that, don't try to frame me."
Seeing her so full of energy, Jun Moyi immediately felt relieved. He chuckled and said, "Why don't you tell me, Wanwan, what are you thinking about so seriously?"
"Nothing, I just feel that there's something wrong with my mother's illness."
Sang Liwan couldn't tell exactly what was wrong, but he just felt something was odd.
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