Qin Zongzhi ordered someone to bring a thick cloak and personally put it on Zhao Yunzhu carefully.
The carriage at the back door was already ready.
Qin Zongzhi took her into the carriage.
In the Dali Temple's prison, all those on duty tonight are Qin Zongzhi's men.
Seeing him coming, the officer stepped forward to greet him respectfully, "Your Highness, everything has been arranged."
Qin Zongzhi nodded slightly and responded lightly.
He took Zhao Yunzhu into the prison.
Zhao Yunzhu wore a silver-gray veil hat and followed Qin Zongzhi closely all the way.
They just waited until they reached the prison where the prince was imprisoned.
The officers behind him retreated voluntarily.
The prince, dressed in prison clothes, with messy hair, haggard face and unshaven beard, leaned against the wall and looked up at the iron window with empty and lifeless eyes.
How glorious and bright His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was in the past.
Now he is like a beggar walking dead in a dilapidated temple.
The cell door was opened with a bang, and he just took a glance.
Then he continued to fall into a daze.
"Your Highness, it's me."
Zhao Yunzhu took off her veil and looked at the Crown Prince in front of her who looked like a dead ash, her heart filled with sorrow.
When he was young, he saw a young man with a divine appearance in the backyard of Zhao's mansion.
Now it has lost its former charm.
The deposed crown prince cast a stiff gaze at him, his eyes full of confusion.
"Your Highness, I am Zhao Yunzhu."
The last time she met the deposed crown prince, she was only ten years old.
Now she is eighteen, and her appearance has changed dramatically.
A faint light gradually appeared in the empty eyes of the deposed prince.
"Is it you?"
His voice trembled and his eyes were full of disbelief.
Seeing Zhao Yunzhu nod, he burst into tears of joy, suddenly stood up and walked forward.
The next second, Qin Zongzhi blocked his way.
"Brother Crown Prince, please don't scare Yunzhu."
He said these words with concern, but what he really meant was that he didn't want anyone else to get close to Zhao Yunzhu.
"Yunzhu? She's not the Yong'an Marquis's Crown Prince's Consort... Why is she with you?"
The prince spoke blankly, then remembered that his Zhao family was implicated.
I heard that the entire Zhao family was beheaded a few days ago. Although Zhao Yunzhu, who married out, escaped the disaster, how could the Yong'an Marquis Mansion tolerate her, the daughter of a criminal, in the current situation?
Then he thought of Du Ming'an, the prince of Yong'an Marquisate.
At that time, Du Ming'an knelt down before him and begged for Zhao Yunzhu's hand in marriage.
I think she shouldn't suffer...
"Did Ming'an come back?"
The deposed crown prince looked at Zhao Yunzhu and asked.
Zhao Yunzhu forced a wry smile and shook her head.
His eyes were filled with grievance. "A few days ago, Prince Du died in battle, and I was divorced by Old Madam Du. Now I have no connection with the Yong'an Marquisate anymore."
Zhao Yunzhu tried her best to suppress her emotions and keep her tone as calm as possible.
The deposed prince froze in silence, he was unaware of this.
"Your Highness, I'm here to see you off on behalf of my father."
Zhao Yunzhu took out the wine jug he brought, poured a cup, and offered it with both hands.
The deposed crown prince took it with a wry smile, thought of everything that had happened recently, sighed, then raised his head and drank it all in one gulp.
"Sister Zhao, I've let the Zhao family down. If there's an afterlife, I'll definitely repay you."
The deposed prince was filled with regret.
But the situation now is irreversible. After saying this, he took out a white jade pendant carved with twin lotus flowers from his arms.
Hand it to Zhao Yunzhu.
"This was given to me by Prime Minister Zhao twenty years ago. Now, I am returning this jade pendant to its original owner."
Zhao Yunzhu took the jade pendant and took a look at it. The material and style of the jade pendant were ordinary, and it looked to be worth only fifty or sixty taels.
How could her father give such a thing to the prince?
How could the prince have kept this thing on his body for twenty years?
"Your Highness, do you know that this jade pendant..."
The deposed prince shook his head. "I don't know either. But Prime Minister Zhao told me to keep this jade pendant carefully."
Qin Zongzhi glanced at the jade pendant and frowned.
But it was just an ordinary object, not worth his time and effort.
Zhao Yunzhu put the things away and said, "Your Highness, take care."
She slowly bowed to the prince, fearing that they would never have any contact again after today's farewell.
The prince agreed with a smile and waved goodbye to her.
But when he was about to leave, the prince's eyes were always on the ninth prince Qin Zongzhi.
Zhao Yunzhu took in all these subtle details.
After getting on the carriage, Qin Zongzhi took Zhao Yunzhu into his broad arms.
He rubbed his chin against Zhao Yunzhu's neck and said in an ambiguous tone, "I think the Crown Prince seems to like you."
Zhao Yunzhu was shocked, "Your Highness really knows how to joke."
Qin Zongzhi snorted lightly and did not continue to bring up the topic.
"I once heard my father mention that the deposed Crown Prince refused to marry a Crown Princess because of the young lady from the Ye family."
"I heard that the young lady of the Ye family was heroic and beautiful, and had a deep relationship with the prince since childhood. Back then, all the women in the Ye family committed suicide overnight."
"The once cheerful deposed prince suddenly became cautious and stern."
"Father also said that in this world, apart from the young lady of the Ye family, no one is worthy of the deposed crown prince."
When she was young and just beginning to fall in love, she saw the deposed prince standing alone and gloomy beside the bamboo forest. She thought that when she grew up, it would be a wonderful thing if she could have the good fortune to be by his side.
Her mother had already seen through her thoughts.
But her mother told her earnestly that the prince was not a good match because he already had someone in his heart.
No one else in this world can live here.
Being young and full of vigor, he naturally did not believe it.
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