"This can't be blamed on them." Wei Hanzhang frowned and said, "The matter of the insect powder has not been investigated yet. It is hard to prevent. As for the poison..."

Thinking of the damn poison that made their relationship so awkward, Wei Hanzhang was also a little angry, but she was not the kind of person to vent her anger on others, so she said, "If you want to blame someone, blame me. It was me who kept Wei Hansu by my side and gave her the opportunity to cast the poison. It has nothing to do with the aunts."

Xiao Junzhan shook his head slightly. How could he blame her?

The little girl had just come of age, and had grown up in a honey pot. She might not have even seen the secrets of the royal family. How could she understand the wickedness of human nature? How could she have thought that her half-sister, who treated her sincerely, would harm her?

He said in a gentle voice, "Ran Ran is young and too sincere to others, so she easily trusts others. But they are different. They are all old people in the inner court. They have seen many tricks in the inner court, which is enough for them to practice the art of judging people. They are also familiar with the rules of the palace. I sent them to your side so that they can distinguish the loyal and treacherous around you as a reminder when you are not able to judge people well."

Wei Hanzhang knew that these four female officials were of high rank and were definitely not ordinary people. He thought that he had sent them here to prevent Wei Ping and Liu from embarrassing her in the name of their elders before she got married. He never expected that there was another intention.

...Every aspect was really arranged for her.

It’s really strange, does this person really regard himself as his father?

He was worried that she would get hurt, that the Wei family would wrong her, and that she would be deceived by the people around her.

Her heart skipped a beat and her mouth opened subconsciously, but in the end she just looked at him quietly, unable to speak.

Xiao Junzhan thought that the girl was still dissatisfied with his treatment of her people, so he said patiently: "They were not serious about their duties. They couldn't even detect whether a little concubine had any ill will towards her master. How can I forgive Ranran?"

He never keeps useless people around him, so the same should be true for her.

If the same thing happened to him, the bowl of poisoned green plum soup would never have the chance to reach him.

Wei Hanzhang just felt that this man was indeed eloquent, and she was actually convinced by him.

The thinking of the superiors is that they are never wrong, right? Even if they are wrong, the servants should remind them, otherwise what is the use of them? "Let's not talk about this," Xiao Junzhan saw that she was not in a good mood, frowned and said, "You had a hangover last night, Ranran should get some sleep."

"Can you tell me how they were dealt with?" Wei Hanzhang thought of the punishment he used on Wei Hansu, "skinning and pulling out the bones", and asked unconsciously: "Are they still alive?"

As soon as these words fell, Xiao Junzhan's face darkened, "In Ranran's eyes, am I a tyrant who takes people's lives at will?"

How could he allow himself to be such an image in her mind?

“No…” Wei Hanzhang also realized that he had misunderstood, and whispered: “I don’t think you are a tyrant.”

Xiao Junzhan glanced at her and said without comment, "They are not doing their job well, and they are not wrongly guilty of dereliction of duty. You can't keep them by your side. They will be demoted from the third rank to the fifth rank. There are places for fifth-rank female officials in the inner court to go."

After hearing this, Wei Hanzhang felt that being demoted two ranks was a bit too harsh a punishment, but he did not plead for mercy.

He is the prince and the punishment has already been given. It is indeed inappropriate for her to plead for mercy.

Thinking that the other person was considerate of him in every aspect and that he had just misunderstood him, Wei Hanzhang attentively poured him a cup of tea and said, "You drank a lot last night, are you feeling uncomfortable? Have a cup of tea to wake you up."

She just discovered that today's tea can help sober people up.

After drinking two cups of tea, the hangover headache was relieved a lot.

Xiao Junzhan took the round fan she had placed on the table and fanned it gently for her. With his other hand, he picked up the teacup and drank it all, saying, "You think everyone is the same as you, and you are not afraid of anything."

Wei Hanzhang blinked. It was really strange. Could this man be really angry?

How rare it is to hear such sarcastic words from him.

She poured him tea again, and asked with a little dissatisfaction: "Can you drink well?"

"It's OK." Xiao Junzhan glanced at her and said, "If you are used as a reference, then it's very good."

"...How much can you drink?" Wei Hanzhang felt unhappy. She put down the teapot and looked at him with dissatisfaction: "I drank the whole pot of wine yesterday, and you still say I am not restrained."

Xiao Junzhan smiled slightly and said, "We have a long way to go, you will have a chance to know."

Thinking of how this man had forced him to drink yesterday, Wei Hanzhang felt a blockage in his heart. He was afraid that he would fall into his provocation if he wasn't careful, so he quickly held his forehead and said, "I have a headache. I'm going to rest."

Xiao Junzhan believed it and stood up to hug her, but Wei Hanzhang called Luzhu and Lulan in to support her first.

Moreover, in front of the two maids, she said to him: "Your Highness has not yet been married, so you must not act recklessly like you did yesterday."

Knowing that this girl was not easy to get along with, Xiao Junzhan didn't mind and watched her quietly go to the inner room to rest.

After a long while, he called Ning Hai in and ordered, "From today onwards, until we return to Beijing, you are not allowed to feed the Liu family a single grain of rice on the way."

Ning Hai was stunned for a moment, carefully glanced at his prince's expression, and hurriedly responded in a low voice.

...This was the first time he saw his own prince personally ordering the torture of prisoners, prisoners who had not yet been sentenced.

There are still two days left on the journey back to Beijing. If I don't give him any food during these two days, it might seem a bit mean to others if they see me like that.

As for water, it was because the escorting guards were afraid of trouble, so they only fed him half a bowl of water when he was released from the prison car at night yesterday. It was not Xiao Junzhan's order.

However, thinking of what the Liu family had done, His Highness's hatred for the Liu family would probably deepen every time he spent with Miss Wei.

…………

During the rest of the journey, Xiao Junzhan was no longer the frivolous person who had lost his sense of propriety like he was that day in the hot spring tent.

Even when holding her hand, he was extremely restrained, and they no longer stayed in the same room together when resting at night.

He knew how to keep his distance, so she forced herself to get used to being alone in the carriage during the day.

Until the day he returned to Beijing, Wei Hanzhang looked at the scenery outside the car and felt really happy. Finally, he didn't have to live with him day and night and could live a quiet life.

He was so happy in his heart that he couldn't hide it on his face, and Xiao Junzhan could see it at a glance.

He stared at the joyful girl opposite him and said, "I'll go back to find you."

???

Wei Hanzhang looked up in a daze: "What did you say?"

"We are separated by a wall. If Ranran doesn't come, I will go find you." Xiao Junzhan held her hand, squeezed it gently, and said gently, "Yanwang Mansion Villa, will you come?"

…Will you come?

She had already made up her mind to stay away from him after returning to Beijing, so it would be strange if she went! Xiao Junzhan obviously understood this, so he chuckled and said, "It's okay if Ranran doesn't come. I'll come to find you after I finish my government affairs."

The prince's carriage stopped outside the Duke of Weiguo's mansion.

When Wei Hanzhang got off the car, he was still confused.

...Why don't you give me a chance to breathe?

Doesn't he know that she has been poisoned by the love poison and that it is very uncomfortable for her to be with him?

Jiang and Wei Heng were waiting for her at the gate. When they saw their daughter looking dazed after getting off the car, they were secretly shocked. They thought she was harmed by the Liu family and was really hurt.

There were many people outside, so the family of three entered the house.

Wei Hanzhang went to the main courtyard with his parents. The family hadn't seen each other for a few days, so they had something to talk about.

People outside only knew that the Duke of Anguo's Mansion had attempted to murder the Crown Princess but failed, and they were unaware that Wei Hanzhang had been poisoned.

Hearing Jiang's concerned question, Wei Hanzhang cut off the beginning and the end, and concealed the matter of the love poison, saying: "There is no physical injury. Seventh sister and Liu Wanning wanted to poison me, but they didn't succeed."

Her complexion has been rosy and shiny these days, and she doesn't look sick. When Jiang saw this, she was completely relieved.

Then he could not help but curse again: "That black-hearted thing, no matter how good I treat her, I don't know what's good for her. She seems to be quiet, but she is so bold to harm my son."

"She has already paid the price, mother, please don't be angry anymore." Thinking of the girl who came to thank her in the morning light with a food box, Wei Hanzhang sighed, "It's all because of male beauty that people are misled."

Wei Heng and his wife already knew that the concubine's daughter was infatuated with the son of Duke Chen. When they heard that she had colluded with outsiders to murder their daughter, they guessed that it must be because of this.

Now that it was confirmed, Jiang was immediately annoyed and said, "You shameless thing. I've seen people trying to get married, but I've never seen someone who wants to harm her own sisters if she can't get married. Does she think that if she harms you, Prince Chen will marry her?"

"Liu Wanning got the news from somewhere that Chen Zishu had proposed to me, and told her..." Wei Hanzhang said, "She was too jealous, so she wanted to harm me."

"Your grandfather has already issued a gag order on this matter, but the Liu family actually knew about it." Wei Heng frowned and said, "The people serving in the main courtyard are all family-born children, how did the news leak out?"

"So what if he's a family-born child? Who doesn't have a few spies in the backyard?" Jiang said, "Besides, it's not just the Wei family that knows about this. Since Prince Chen has come to propose marriage, how could the Duke of Chen's Mansion not know about it? And there's also the Marquis of Yongle..."

She counted them one by one and found that there were indeed many people who knew about this matter. Even if the news leaked out accidentally, there would be no way to investigate.

Wei Heng said, "No matter what, I have to tell my parents. Things are different now. There is also the matter of the worm powder. I sent a letter back to Beijing before, and I don't know if my father has found any clues."

...My grandfather, who couldn't even find any evidence of the mastermind behind the major case that shocked the capital city when Wei Hanyue was humiliated and taken away for a night, it would be strange if he could find this insect powder that had passed through countless hands.

Wei Hanzhang was secretly complaining in his heart, but he looked calm on the surface and did not express any opinion.

Wei Heng glanced at her and said, "I have been away from Beijing for more than a month. Now that I am back, I must go to the ancestral home to pay respects to the elders. Ranran must go with your parents."

Before Wei Hanzhang could answer, Jiang glanced at Wei Heng and said indifferently, "As a father, Ranran was already frightened and had to rush back to the capital. You didn't even ask the court doctor to come and see her and tell her to have a good rest, but you also asked her to go with you to pay respects."

Hearing this, Wei Heng smiled bitterly. He just wanted to improve the relationship between his daughter and her parents.

We are all family...

Before he could say anything else, he heard the servant's report coming from outside the door.

Speak of Cao Cao, here comes Wei Ping and Liu.

Also coming were Crown Prince Wei Huan and his wife Qian.

They had not accompanied the emperor to the temporary palace to escape the summer heat, and among the nobles who were left behind in the capital, the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery's Mansion was the most shameful.

After all, there was a crown princess in the family, but they were not allowed to accompany the emperor. You can imagine what others would think.

It just so happens that there has been no peace at home during the past month.

First, the matter of the insect powder came from the palace. Wei Ping was furious when he heard the news. It was three hundred years since the founding of the country that their Wei family had its first crown princess, and she was almost bitten by a snake. How could he tolerate this?

Even if this little granddaughter is not very close to the family, as long as her surname is Wei, she is a member of the Wei family.

As long as she is the Crown Princess, the Wei family will never decline.

When the prince ascends the throne in the future, the Wei family will be the royal family. If Wei Hanzhang gives birth to a son to inherit the throne, the Wei family will be the emperor's maternal family.

The royal bloodline was mixed with the Wei bloodline.

For a family like the Wei family that has been passed down for hundreds of years, this is tantamount to a golden ticket to immunity from death.

Wei Ping would never allow anything to happen to his little granddaughter, so he started an investigation as soon as he received the news.

However, the one who was faster than him was Xie Li, the Marquis of Changmen, who was sent back by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, so it was not his turn to take action.

Xie Li was a man of extraordinary ability. In his early years, he was demoted to serve as a prefect. After returning, he worked in the Ministry of Justice for some time. Wei Ping was confident in his methods of trying cases.

As a result, before he could let go of this worry for long, a few days ago, the commander of the Eastern Palace Guard, Li Yue, suddenly returned to the capital ahead of schedule. As soon as he came back, he led his troops to surround the Anguo Mansion overnight.

Hundreds of people from the Liu Mansion were all taken to the prison in a mighty manner. The commotion was so loud that the northern city, where the noble families gathered, was brightly lit that night.

——All of them were alarmed nobles.

The century-old Duke's Mansion collapsed at any time, which was frightening to look at.

In response, Li Yue gave the reason that the Liu family intended to murder the Crown Princess.

Murdering the Crown Princess! Who is the Crown Princess? She is from his Wei family.

Wei Ping's good mood of watching his enemy fall was completely extinguished. He immediately went to ask Li Yue for details, wanting to find out whether the Liu family's murder plan was successful or not, and whether his granddaughter was still alive.

But since Li Yue had become Xiao Junzhan's confidant, he had to keep his mouth shut. He also knew that the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery did not have the respect of His Highness, so he only said one sentence, "Your Highness has ordered that no one is allowed to inquire into the case," and he refused to say another word.

Now even the Crown Prince Wei Huan was worried.

I’m afraid of hearing bad news.

Today, upon hearing that his second son and his family had returned, Wei Ping could no longer put on his airs as the head of the family and immediately brought his direct descendants to visit them.

Inside the hall, Wei Heng stopped talking immediately after hearing the report and stood up to greet him.

No matter how dissatisfied Jiang was with her parents-in-law, she could not be criticized for her face. However, when she stood up, she specifically told her youngest daughter: "If my son is not feeling well, he can go back to his own courtyard to rest."

She knew the distance between her daughter and the two elders, so she naturally didn't want to force her to follow the etiquette of a junior and go to greet them.

Her Ranran is now of noble status and no longer needs to be controlled by the 'elders' in the mansion.

Wei Hanzhang was not feeling unwell, but she knew that this was an excuse her mother gave her. She certainly had no intention of competing with Wei Ping and Liu and the others, so she just agreed.

He got up and took Luzhu and Lulan back to Yuxuan Pavilion.

On this side, Wei Ping and Liu waited in the main hall for a long time, but only their son and daughter-in-law showed up. His face changed slightly, and he asked anxiously, "How is the queen?"

...Mother? Wei Heng was really stunned. He asked in confusion, "Dad is talking about Ranran?"

"Of course it's Ranran." Liu's usual loving and dignified expression disappeared, and her face was sweating in the cold room. She grabbed her daughter-in-law's hand and asked, "Is our Ranran okay? Where is she injured?"

Jiang smiled slightly and said politely, "Ran Ran is fine, she is just tired from the journey and the shock she had earlier, so she is a little tired. She has returned to her yard to rest and has not come to see you. Please don't blame me."

Upon hearing this, Wei Ping breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't mind that his granddaughter, who was already half a royal family member, did not come to pay him respects.

In Wei Ping's eyes, since his granddaughter has entered the royal family, she should indeed uphold the dignity of a royal family and not let others look down on her.

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