Li Qihuan put down his hand and looked at the Crown Princess calmly, "What did you do? Tell me quickly."

The Crown Princess coughed a few more times before she said, "The ones I changed out of... are in my room."

"Pingting, go to the Crown Princess's room and bring the things over to Xiaowu. Xiaowu, take it upstairs and look for it..." He whispered a few instructions.

Qi Wu nodded: "How is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?"

Li Qihuan shook his head: "This time... I'm afraid he can't come over..." After he finished speaking, his heart ached and tears flowed like a river.

Just as he finished speaking, a eunuch came running in, "Your Highness, the Emperor is getting off the carriage."

Li Qihuan's eyebrows raised and his eyes flashed with ferocity. At this moment, he really had the urge to kill everything.

Qi Wu quickly hugged him and said, "Your Highness, as long as the prince is alive, you must not act rashly!"

Li Qihuan closed his eyes and said, "I know, you guys go quickly! Xiaowu, you have urgent things to do, don't rush back!"

Jiang Pingting walked out and turned back: "Your Highness..." She glanced at the Crown Princess.

The Crown Princess saw this and was both scared and angry. What did this bitch want to do? Li Qihuan nodded and slapped the Crown Princess on the back of her neck...

…

Qi Wu took the things given by the concubine and turned to leave.

The concubine called him back and said, "There is a Mr. Dong Zhan in front. I feel something is wrong. His house is in the second courtyard on the right side of Mianyang Hutong. After you finish this matter, you'd better go and take a look."

Qi Wu nodded in agreement.

He flew out of the house and rushed to the palace gate. As the crown prince said, he found someone to lead the way. He knocked two people unconscious and sneaked into the room where the memorial was kept. He found the prince's mansion... Fortunately, it was just reported and there was no time to transfer to the imperial study.

He changed the things carefully. On weekdays, he rarely complained, but today, he couldn't help but blame the Crown Princess: This woman is really a lunatic! He checked again angrily.

He put the things he had taken off on his back. After leaving the palace, he went to the teahouse first, put the things away, and told someone to keep an eye on them. Then he rode his horse back to Mianyang Hutong.

The streets were quiet and deserted... He encountered several patrol officers and was stopped. He showed his badge before passing through.

I arrived at Sheep Alley and entered the yard. It was quiet...

After a while, he found the main house. The front part was the study and the back part was the bedroom.

I opened the door and went in. It was pitch black inside. There was no movement at all. I stayed still for a while to adjust... before I calmed down and looked around...

The study in the front was empty. Then I went to the bedroom in the back. As soon as I entered, I found that there was a pillar in the middle of the small room. The position was very awkward. I thought about it again, it's not right!

I touched the oil lamp on the table, turned it on slightly, and suddenly found that there was a hanging person...

He was neatly dressed and looked like a scholar. Dong Zhanshi? Did he commit suicide or was he silenced?! Qi Wu squinted his eyes and searched around the room. There was a thick letter on the table... He sneered in his heart and knew what it meant without even thinking about it. He grabbed it and stuffed it into his clothes.

...Was there anything else? He poured the oil from the oil lamp onto the bed, then went to the study, where there was also an oil lamp, and poured the oil onto the table and cabinet, lighting both places.

He flew out of the yard and saw the fire was blazing. It lit up the whole yard and made a whirring sound, but the yard was dead silent and no one came out...

After a while, the fire reached the roof, and he shouted, "The fire is coming!"

Then he turned around and rode away.

By the time the neighbors heard the noise and came out to put out the fire, he had already disappeared.

…

The emperor is here.

The old man was in casual clothes, looking at his son on the bed, with a trace of pain and distress in his eyes.

"How did it become like this?" he asked in a deep voice.

The prince knelt at his feet, "It was just diarrhea at first, but it got worse and worse."

The emperor turned to look at his grandson and saw that he looked listless, obviously he hadn't slept for a long time. His voice was hoarse and his eyes were red and swollen. There was a dead air...

Satisfied in his heart: "Where is your mother?"

"My mother has fainted from crying several times... and has been unable to come and pay respects to my grandfather."

"We're family, why be so polite? Yang Lin, what do you say?" He asked the imperial physician.

The emperor sighed, sat next to the prince, waved his hand, and everyone left.

The emperor didn't have much affection for his family, but he had some affection for the prince. He held the prince's hand and sighed, "You have suffered a lot these years! I know you are open-minded and don't care about life and death. If you weren't worried about dying first and letting your father die, you wouldn't have been so miserable... Alas, if you care about your father, just grit your teeth and hold on. If you really can't bear it... just go with peace of mind! I will care about Huan'er."

Under these circumstances, perhaps what he said really came from his heart.

…

Qi Wu did not go home, but went directly to Shiwu and asked him to send someone to follow up on the incident in Mianyang Hutong and not to cause any more trouble. At dawn, he went to find Zhang Jiangqing again, asked him to come forward as well, and gave him instructions for a long time.

Then she went to a teahouse, changed her clothes and appearance, and waited at the agreed place outside the East Palace.

It was not until the evening that the crown prince had someone lead him in.

"Your Highness, how is it?"

The grandson was so tired that his eyes looked like a panda. He answered irrelevantly, "Today is New Year's Eve... Grandfather came to visit Father. I wonder how many people will be happy and how many will be sad at the palace banquet tonight..."

"Your Highness, please listen to me..." Qi Wu told everything and took out the letter.

The grandson listened quietly, then took the letter. It was sealed, so he tore it open and read...

When he saw a certain paragraph, his eyes widened... and he quickly glanced at Qi Wu.

Qi Wu didn't know what was going on, and his clear eyes were also looking at him.

Li Qihuan didn't blink for a long time. Qi Wu knew that he saw something terrible, but it was not as crazy as yesterday. Instead, it was... a kind of brutality that could destroy the world.

Then, he lowered his eyes and read those few sentences carefully over and over again...

Finally, he bent over and started vomiting.

Qi Wu was shocked and wanted to go over to help, but Li Qihuan waved his hand and vomited out the two pieces of snacks and a cup of tea he had just eaten.

Tears and snot were running down his face. He lay on the table, his body shaking, but he didn't make a sound...

After a long while, he stood up and calmed down: "Qi Wu, you did a good job. Leave the document in the teahouse. I will take a look at it when I have time. This letter was discovered at a very timely moment. Dong Zhanshi said that the Crown Princess had asked him for a medicine a long time ago.

He didn't know what to do with it, so he bought it outside and gave it to the Crown Princess. This time, he also did something under the instruction of the Crown Princess. So, when he heard that the Crown Prince was ill and the one he prepared was submitted to the Emperor, he was afraid, so he chose to die to apologize. "

Qi Wu nodded: "When I went there, he was already dead, so I couldn't investigate what happened behind the scenes. I set the fire just because I was afraid of missing someone. I asked Shiwu and Zhang Jiangqing to follow, one in the open and one in the dark."

"Good, very thoughtful!" Li Qihuan nodded.

Qi Wu was also worried: "If the emperor knew that the Crown Princess poisoned the crown prince, and that the East Palace was unclear about public and private matters, it was obvious that the crown prince was incompetent. Even if he survived this disaster, I'm afraid..."

"Yeah, isn't it funny?!" Li Qihuan smiled bitterly.

"No matter what, the health of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is the most important. How is he now?"

Li Qihuan shook his head: "My father may be worried about me and is still holding on. I really feel sorry for him... I don't want him to be so uncomfortable. But, I can't bear to leave him... What should I do?"

Qi Wu was also speechless.

After a while, someone came in and said, "Your Highness, the eunuch Liu who is with the emperor has arrived."

Li Qihuan said: "Go back! I will find you later!"

"Your Highness, now is the most difficult time. You have to..."

"I know...I know."

When Qi Wu returned home, the Qi family was decorated with lights and preparing for the New Year's Eve dinner.

Wen Yu saw him coming back in a depressed mood, so she asked, "What happened?"

He didn't say anything, just sat there in a daze. Wen Yu poured a cup of tea and sat next to him obediently. "If you have any difficulties, tell me. Look at me, can I help you solve it?"

Qi Wu rarely saw his wife being so gentle and well-behaved. He couldn't help but choke up a little: "Ayu, I'm afraid you don't understand why I am so close to the crown prince, why I risk my life for him, and why I follow him without any second thoughts, right?"

Wen Yu nodded when she heard it: "I don't quite understand..."

She thought to herself: That man looks mean, acts mean, and is weird. His sister doesn't even say he's good! With Qi Wu's status, it's fine for him to do his own thing. Why does he have to follow him? "Now, let me tell you... That was when I was twelve years old..."