Song Shumin stood up, bowed to her and thanked her.
Zhao Yunzhu ordered the carriage of Prince An's Mansion to stop at the back door of Prince Xian's Mansion.
"Your Highness, I told the driver to stop the carriage at the back door."
Prince An looked at her suspiciously.
Until he saw the missing steward knocked unconscious in the carriage.
He didn't ask any more questions and told the driver to drive directly back to Prince An's Mansion.
When the carriage returned to Prince An's Mansion, he watched Zhao Yunzhu get off the carriage and walk into Prince An's Mansion.
Prince An called a servant and ordered him to send the man directly outside the city and hide him.
After everything was settled, he walked back to the house with a serious look on his face. "What did Song Shumin say to you?"
Zhao Yunzhu told him what happened today.
"Yunzhu, please don't interfere in this matter anymore. Empress Dowager Liu is not a good person."
Prince An was instinctively worried about Zhao Yunzhu.
How could she not know?
"Okay, I understand."
…
Chang'an was no longer peaceful.
The little princess of Prince Xian's mansion is gone, and the prince has been missing for many days.
This has become the hottest topic in Chang'an City recently.
The former Princess Xian eventually found out about this. She rushed into the Xian Palace and had a fight with Song Shumin.
Eventually, the police were alarmed.
After the virtuous prince returned home, he ordered his men to tie up the former virtuous princess. However, in the chaos, the former virtuous princess hit herself against a pillar and died. Before her death, she denounced the virtuous prince for murdering his two children for Song Shumin.
This incident once again caused a stir in the court.
The Queen Mother was furious and, taking into consideration the pain of the virtuous prince for losing his daughter, ordered the virtuous prince to reflect on his mistakes in seclusion in the virtuous prince's mansion for three months.
As the mighty guards surrounded Prince Xian's mansion, Prime Minister Liu led his men to search Prince Xian's mansion personally.
But they did not find the missing chief steward in Empress Dowager Liu's palace.
In Prince An's Mansion.
Zhao Yunzhu was drinking the ginseng soup brought by Aunt Hua.
Linglong squatted aside and told the news she had heard.
Thinking of the former princess, although we only met once, such a weak woman ended her life in such a spectacular and tragic way, all for her own two children.
"Miss, how could someone as intelligent as the virtuous princess take such an extreme path?"
Zhao Yunzhu pursed her lips and frowned, "I think someone forced her to do this."
"Who would force someone who is no longer a virtuous princess? The former virtuous princess has no use to her."
Linglong muttered.
A terrifying thought flashed through Zhao Yunzhu's mind, "Is it——"
She suddenly turned her head and looked at Linglong and said, "Linglong, secretly send someone to investigate and find out who leaked the information to her."
Linglong's words just now completely woke Zhao Yunzhu up.
I'm afraid this matter is not simple.
In the evening, some clues were indeed found.
Someone from the Liu family secretly delivered the news to the former Princess Xian, that the prince of the Xian Palace, Qin Yihuai, was in the Liu family. That person asked the former Princess Xian to go to the Xian Palace and commit suicide, otherwise he would wait to collect Qin Yihuai's body.
The former princess entrusted her son to her cousin who lived in Xiangshan Villa.
But in the end, the Liu family did not send Qin Yihuai back.
The former Princess Xian did not know that the visitor was from the Liu family. Her cousin asked to go to the Xianwang Mansion to tell the Xianwang about this matter.
After several days of entanglement, he didn't even see the wise king.
He also severely beat the servants of Prince Xian's mansion and threw them out of Chang'an City.
After hearing this, Zhao Yunzhu secretly ordered someone to send the young man back to Xiangshan Villa.
Prince An seemed to be extremely busy these days. He came back very late at night. "Your Highness."
Zhao Yunzhu did not go to bed. She was sitting on the chaise longue, waiting to return home.
"Why aren't you asleep yet?"
The virtuous king took off his coat and hung it on the rack. He warmed his hands on the charcoal fire before stepping forward. "There's been a lot going on these days. You should go to bed early and don't wait for me."
Zhao Yunzhu put the book in her hand on the table and said, "I have something to discuss with the prince, so I am waiting for him."
"oh?"
"The Crown Prince of Xianwang Mansion is in the hands of Lord Liu. Your Majesty, should we send this news to the Xianwang?"
"No, the wise king is busy these days."
Prince An sat next to Zhao Yunzhu and asked, "What are you looking at?"
After saying that, he picked up the booklet on the desk and saw that it mostly recorded things about raising children. "That's good."
Looking at her belly which was now becoming more and more bulging, Qin Zongzhi's heart was full of anticipation.
"What is the virtuous prince busy with? The prince seems to be quite busy these days."
Zhao Yunzhu asked curiously.
"Empress Dowager Liu is secretly dealing with the spies that Prince Xian had planted in the palace. Prince Xian is now trapped in Chang'an and cannot move. One of his children is missing, and the other is dead. He has now been punished by the Empress Dowager to confine himself to self-reflection for three months. He seems to be leisurely in the mansion all day, but in fact he is secretly planning and contacting his own forces, hoping to break out of Chang'an."
"Isn't that a rebellion?"
Zhao Yunzhu was surprised. Although this guess had already taken root in her mind, she was actually a little surprised when she really faced it.
Qin Zongzhi didn't even raise his head, his large palm gently caressing her gradually bulging belly, "Well, he wanted to rebel, but now that his wife and children are gone, he has nothing to worry about."
Prince An really thought that what Queen Mother Liu and the Liu family did was stupid.
He originally wanted to use this to threaten the virtuous king, but unexpectedly, it forced the virtuous king into a desperate situation.
Why not just fight to the death, maybe you can turn things around?
After all, the virtuous king is fond of martial arts and has fought with the army for many years, making great military achievements. The virtuous king originally had great prestige in the army. Although he has lost his military power now, if he is asked to contact his former subordinates.
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