Duke Qi sat in the living room of Wenfu. After listening to the servant's report, he had no intention of drinking tea and put the tea cup on the table.

They set up a chain of tasks. If Song Wanyue and Gu Yi were caught by the people last night, someone would send the letter to the Duke Dingguo Mansion. If they were not caught, the people would also sue them to Jingzhao Mansion. Then Song Wanyue and Gu Yi would also be passed on to the court. The purpose of setting up such a big task was to see the reaction of the Duke Dingguo Mansion after hearing Gu Yi's accident.

But now Duke Ding has not come forward at all, only Xiao Zheng and Xiao Yao have gone, which does not mean that Gu Yi is the son of the king.

"There's another person."

The Duke of Qi looked at Wen Zhong.

"If Gu Yi was really the son of the King, she should know it too."

Duke Ding narrowed his eyes.

After a while, he called the close servant in and gave a few instructions. The servant quickly left the Wen Mansion.

...

Jingzhao Mansion Lobby.

After some thought, the prefect of Jingzhao turned to Song Wanyue's remarks. They had no grudges and no grudges with the deceased, so why did they kill him? It was obvious that someone set a trap and wanted to blame them, or wanted to blackmail them.

Thinking of this, he slapped the gavel and asked the man, "Let me ask you, are you sure that the deceased had been killed when you heard the sound?"

"No, not sure."

Sweat broke out on the man's head.

"Since you are uncertain, why don't you rush in and save people as soon as possible? Is it the trap you set up to blackmail their money, as the defendant said? "

"No, absolutely not."

The man waved his hands in panic, and the people kneeling beside him also denied it.

"Then you explain to me that since you have been neighbors for many years, why don't you rush in and save people as soon as possible?"

"I, we..."

The man's sweat dripped on the ground.

"We were thinking about it at that time that we couldn't let them run away. Don't, nothing else, nothing else, I didn't think about it, I remembered it."

"All talk nonsense, come on, take it down and punish it."

"No, sir, I'll do it all. Someone gave me money. After hearing the sound of the house collapse, I rushed out and stopped the person. If I couldn't stop him, I would shout loudly."

...

Kunli Palace.

Two palace maids "whispered" in the yard, "Have you heard that? Xu Qingwan's daughter killed someone with her fiancé last night in order to investigate the incident that year and was taken to Jingzhao Mansion this morning."

Concubine Xiao Xian could hear it clearly, and her hand was shaking, and the needle was pierced on her fingers, and bright red blood beads emerged.

"Empress."

Mama Liu exclaimed and wrapped it in with a veil.

"I'm fine, you go..."

He stopped halfway through his words.

"What does the Empress want to say?"

"Nothing happens."

Concubine Xiao Xian signaled her to take the handkerchief away, and signaled the palace maid to bring the basin of water to her, wash her hands, and continue to embroider the flowers.

After a while, one of the palace maids quietly left Kunli Palace.

...

"Yue'er, is it okay."

As soon as she walked out of Jingzhao Mansion, Xiao Yao came up and looked at her carefully.

"It's okay, thanks to Uncle Shen."

With Shen Yan here, Jingzhao Prefecture Prefecture was inclined to them, otherwise he would not have been punished so quickly.

"But I was scared and ran back to my house and called my dad over. You're fine, you're fine."

"Brother Xiao."

Shen Yan spoke first.

The two were both princes and had played together before. Later, due to the matter of serving the king, Duke Ding was implicated. Duke Ding himself asked the emperor to accept Xiao Zheng's position as prince. Shen Yan was stationed at the border for many years and had very few opportunities to meet.

"Crown Prince Shen."

Chen Yan didn't mind his name, "I happened to have time today, can I ask Brother Xiao for a drink?"

Xiao Zheng thought about his purpose of asking him to drink, and said, "I will naturally be disrespectful to Prince Shen invites you."

"please."

The two left.

Song Wanyue said, "Gu Yi and I have to go back to the house, should Sister Xiao go to Nancheng or home?"

"I feel a little uncomfortable, go home first and then go to Nancheng in the afternoon."

"Touch your hand out and I'll take your lower pulse."

Xiao Yao helped her to make up the hairpin on her head, "No, I was just scared by you, just go back and lie down. After you go back, you will carefully tell your aunt, don't worry her."

Song Wanyue responded, got on the carriage with Gu Yi, and waved to see Xiao Yao goodbye.

Xiao Yao smiled and waved her hands. When their carriage left, she turned around and ordered the coachman to return to the Duke Dingguo Mansion.

...

The carriage stopped in front of the Xu Mansion. As soon as Song Wanyue and Gu Yi got down, they heard a burst of rapid footsteps coming from inside. Then Xu Yan, Xu and Song Lin appeared at the door. Seeing them, the three of them quickly came forward. Xu asked anxiously, "Yue'er, Yi'er, what happened?"

The servant who had just gone out to buy vegetables ran back to the mansion in panic, saying that they were arrested and went to Jingzhao Mansion, and the three of them were about to go over.

"We're careless."

Song Wanyue didn't want to hide it, but the door was not the place to speak, "Let's go into the mansion and talk."

Everyone went to the old man's house.

The matter has already happened, and I can't hide it even if I want to. Instead of worrying the old man, it's better to tell him the truth.

Song Wanyue told the story

Everyone in the house was scared. If Song Wanyue did not ask Xiao Si to send messages to Chen Yan in advance, if they were arrested last night, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"At first, I thought they wanted to arrest me to negotiate terms with my family, but I thought about it all night last night. Wen Zhong was not a scheming person. He could not have been distracted without evidence from the Xu family and kidnapped me to negotiate terms with his family. In addition to what happened in the lobby of Jingzhao Mansion today, I felt that he seemed to be testing something."

Gu Yi sat aside, listening to Song Wanyue's words, his eyebrows were calm, but he thought of the greatest possibility in his heart. All of this was for him. They used him to force the Duke's Mansion to take action to prove his identity. Wen Zhong should join forces with Duke Qi.

Duke of Qi?

Gu Yi thought of Zhang Huai.

"What do they want to test?"

Song Lin asked anxiously.

Song Wanyue shook her head, this was something she couldn't understand.

The old man and Xu Yan also fell into deep thought.

...

In the restaurant room.

Chen Yan and Xiao Zheng had already drunk a few glasses of wine, but the dishes on the table were almost not moving.

Chen Yan put down the cup and said quietly, "That day, Wan'er remembered the truth of that year. Brother Xu told me that I was going to take Wen Zhong's life immediately, but I was stopped by one person..."

Without hearing what he said below, Xiao Zheng also put down his wine glass and was a little curious, "There are not many people in the world who can stop Prince Shen."

Chen Yan leaned lazily on the back of the chair, but his sharp eyes stared at Xiao Zheng, "Yes, I didn't expect a boy in his early 10s to have such high martial arts skills, and I am still very familiar with his martial arts skills."

Xiao Zheng's heart suddenly sank, and his face tightened.

Chen Yan saw it clearly and his guess was confirmed. He poured himself a glass of wine without sucking, but instead wrote a few words on the table with his fingers.

Xiao Zheng's face changed drastically.
Chapter completed!