At the beginning of the Yin hour (3 a.m.), Xiao Yanchu suddenly opened his eyes, glanced at A Jin beside him, who was still fast asleep.
He quietly lifted the covers, got up, and went to the window.
An Yi was already waiting outside. When he saw the prince come out, he bowed and said, "Your Highness, Lin Zhengshan has not come out since he returned to his courtyard. At midnight, someone came to the door and Lin Zhengshan gave that person something. It is this."
An Yi took out a piece of paper.
Xiao Yanchu opened it and his eyes turned icy cold. "Where is that person?"
"That person went back to the inn to sleep after getting this. I stole it from him," An Yi replied. With the medicine that the princess had prepared for them before, doing this couldn't be easier.
"Wait."
Xiao Yanchu turned and walked towards the study. After a while, he came out and handed An Yi an identical piece of paper, saying, "Put it back."
"Yes." An nodded and left again.
Back in the room, Xiao Yanchu gently went back to bed. Seeing that A Jin hadn't been woken up, she breathed a sigh of relief and tucked the blanket around her.
As if sensing something, Su Ruojin turned around and snuggled into Xiao Yanchu's arms. Xiao Yanchu smiled, gently held her, and they fell asleep in each other's arms.
Early the next morning.
Su Ruojin looked at the paper in her hand and smiled coldly, "What a Lin Zhengshan!"
Xiao Yanchu handed the porridge to Su Ruojin, "Ajin, don't get angry over people like that, it's not worth it. Here, have some porridge. Anyway, I've already had An Yi change the food, and I've also had someone keep an eye on them."
Su Ruojin wasn't particularly angry, since she had expected it beforehand.
She was just a little puzzled, "Yanchu, you said Lin Zhengshan and Zhao Jiao fainted after entering the Su residence, how did they get this thing?"
“I remember my mother-in-law saying that Lin Zhengshan wasn’t unconscious at the beginning, maybe it was around that time,” Xiao Yanchu guessed.
Su Ruojin looked at the military deployment map of the entire Great Chu territory in her hand and shook her head. "Impossible. My mother settled them in a side courtyard. She might not even know where my father's study is. How could she have stolen the deployment map in such a short time?"
Su Yunfeng is the Grand General of the Great Chu, so it is normal for him to control the military deployment of the Great Chu.
When the Su family encountered trouble before, it was an emergency, and no one could replace him for the time being, so the defenses were not changed.
After the Su family was exonerated, the defense map naturally remained in Su Yunfeng's possession.
Su Ruojin never expected that Lin Zhengshan would be so bold as to enter the general's mansion under the pretext of illness to steal the defense map, and that he would actually succeed.
As for why Lin Zhengshan and Zhao Jiao wanted to steal the defense map, Su Ruojin and Xiao Yanchu never discussed it, because there was no need.
They have a daughter who is both a queen and a goddess in the Northern Li Kingdom, so what is there to be confused about?
"Why does Lin Wanqing need the defense map of Great Chu? Great Chu's territory is much larger than that of Northern Li. She can't possibly wage war against Great Chu across the entire territory."
Su Ruojin was somewhat puzzled. If Bei Li wanted Mo Han's defense map, that would make sense. It was understandable that Bei Li wanted to use Mo Han as a breakthrough point to tear open the border defense of Da Chu.
However, it is impossible for Bei Li's forces to contend with the entire territory of the Great Chu.
Or perhaps they wanted to use this defense map to find the weakest point in the Great Chu's defenses and attack it.
However, the Great Chu had no weak points in its border control over the Northern Li, and frankly speaking, both sides were well aware of the strength of each other along the border.
The most important aspect of this map of the entire territory is not the borders, but the troop deployment across the entire territory of the Great Chu.
Bei Li wants this map unless Bei Li is confident that it can completely conquer Da Chu.
"No matter what, Lin Zhengshan and Zhao Jiao cannot be allowed to live after betraying the Great Chu," Xiao Yanchu said.
Su Ruojin chuckled, "They think that by helping Lin Wanqing, they can rise to prominence through her daughter. Yanchu, let's go and meet them."
Lin Zhengshan and Zhao Jiao were so anxious that they couldn't sleep all night.
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