The banquet was nearing the end, and Emperor Qian was about to get up and go back to the palace to rest, but he saw Yan Xi striding into the hall with a cold face.

"Why are you back again?" Emperor Qiandi frowned slightly, and his intuition was that something was wrong.

When Yan Xi passed by the fourth prince, he glanced at him lightly, snorted coldly in his heart, and his face became even colder, "Your Majesty, Weichen and the prince went out of the palace to return to the mansion together, and when they were about to arrive at the mansion, someone was setting off artillery on the side of the road, so the horse was shocked, Weichen was fine, but the prince was gone." ”

This means that someone deliberately targeted the crown prince.

Emperor Qian's face sank, his eyes narrowed, and the first thing that came to his mind was the four princes.

If you want to say that you are bold, Emperor Qiandi would not have thought of the four princes before, but as the hole cards of the four princes were dug up one by one, Emperor Qiandi also understood that even if the other princes were added together, they were not as bold as the four princes.

The crown prince disappeared on Chinese New Year's Eve, and still premeditated.

Not to mention that Chen Wangqing, Wang Jingning, and Wang Jingning all changed their faces after hearing this, and they were nervous, but the courtiers also changed their faces, and the first thing they suspected was the princes and princes, who let the prince disappear, and it was these princes who benefited the most.

It's just that which prince it is, the ministers are not easy to guess, it's just that the prince is missing, and the matter is big, not to mention that the prince is newly established, and the canonization ceremony has not yet been held, and the person is gone.

"Weichen has already asked the people from the patrol battalion to search, but those gangsters are carefully deployed, and they must not be able to find it for a while." Yan Xi's words can be described as heart-piercing.

"Go and spread my message, and let the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division check door to door!" Emperor Qian's voice was a little ruthless.

The four princes have created enough sins, and now with the assassination of the prince, it is already an unforgivable crime, and the father-son relationship in Emperor Qian's heart has completely disappeared in the ambition of the four princes' increasingly dissatisfied.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, which was supposed to be a day of family reunion and joy, many soldiers suddenly appeared on the quiet and empty streets, going from house to house to search.

I don't know who revealed it, the news of the prince's disappearance, and the people's dissatisfaction finally had an outlet.

For the people, it doesn't matter who is the emperor, as long as the wind and rain are smooth, it is enough to live and work in peace and contentment.

The fact that the third prince was named the crown prince was once the most concerned news in the New Year.

Even if it is a flat-headed common man, once it is involved at the feet of the Son of Heaven in the capital, it is always a little different, the difference between the three princes and other princes, just ask the people in the capital, and they can say a few words.

After all, he is a prince who has been a monk, and he is not in the capital all the year round, and he can still be named the crown prince, which shows that this is the emperor's favorite and most valued son.

Even ordinary people, there are also things that earn money for the family property, let alone royal brothers?

The people didn't understand, it was precisely because they understood a little bit that they faintly felt that the disappearance of the prince was not only not simple, but also had something to do with other princes, so they were all quiet, and the soldiers wanted to search and search, and they did not hesitate to ask or answer.

Time passed little by little, and seeing that the time was about to pass, the prince had not yet had a trace, not to mention Emperor Qiandi and Yanxi, even the ministers, all of whom were already in a hurry.

The longer it drags on, the less likely it is that the prince will be safe.

Everyone understands this truth, so I am even more worried.

If the prince really has three long and two short, with the character of Emperor Qian, I am afraid that he will be investigated to the end, and in the end, I don't know how many people and things will be implicated.

The palace banquet that was supposed to be dispersed, because of the disappearance of the prince, no one left until the time of the prince, and the ones who were more anxious than the ministers were a few princes.

Fools know that the prince is missing, and the first to be suspected should be a few of them.

King Jingning knew more than King Chen Wangqing, and he was also suspicious of the four princes at the first time, and then secretly observed the calm and deliberate attitude of the four princes, and King Jingning was even more sure that it was the four princes who started tonight.

It's just that King Jingning suspected the matter of the four princes, but he couldn't say it, and he said it in front of so many ministers without evidence, but he was afraid that he wouldn't let the four princes do anything, but he was going to make a commotion.

King Jingning looked at Emperor Qian, and then at Yan Xi, thinking of the news he easily found, and suspected that Yan Xi had done it, after all, Yan Xi had been powerful since he was a child, and he had been crushing their cousins, not to mention that he had the best relationship with the crown prince, but now he was also sitting peacefully......

"Huh."

King Jingning sneered in his heart, and glanced at the four princes without a trace, thinking that he was only afraid that he would be planted this time, Yan Xi's appearance was clearly confident, maybe he deliberately dug a pit and waited for the four princes.

Thinking about it like this, King Jingning was not in a hurry, he couldn't find him horizontally and vertically, and he was worried about something.

In fact, King Jingning really thinks too much, Yan Xi is calm because he has always been like this when he encounters things, and he rarely panics, not to mention that the third prince is not an ignorant child, and he can more or less guarantee his own comfort.

The two guessed that the fourth prince would do something on Chinese New Year's Eve, and naturally they were on guard, but they didn't expect the fourth prince to be so rampant and dare to kidnap people not far from the palace gate.

The time had passed, and Emperor Qian rubbed his eyebrows and said, "Let's go back to the house." ”

As he spoke, he got up and left, and glanced at the four princes without a trace as he left.

Yan Xi noticed Emperor Qian's demeanor, snorted softly, turned around and strode out of the palace, and only when he left the palace gate did he see Mo Yi coming from a horse.

After the two left the palace gate, Yan Xicai asked, "How?" ”

"Young master, my subordinates suspect that the crown prince is hiding in the mansion of the fourth prince." Mo Yi said in a low voice: "My subordinates have paid attention to the vicinity of the alley where the carriage was discarded, although it is still some distance away from the Four Princes' Mansion, but there is a small road, and after passing through, it is only a few steps away from the back door of the Four Princes' Mansion. ”

"The alley is not very hidden, but the carriage was abandoned there, probably because they wanted to pass by the path and send people to the Four Princes' Mansion."

Mo paused for a moment, and then said: "The subordinates tried to sneak into the Four Princes' Mansion to find the prince, but when they entered, they found that there were many secret guards guarding the palace in the dark, almost five steps and one sentry, and ten steps and one post, so the subordinates had more reason to suspect that the prince was hiding in the Four Princes' Mansion." ”

Mo Yi had also infiltrated the Four Princes' mansions before, but he had never been so heavily guarded as he was today, and it could be said that there might not be such a strict palace in the palace.

"Got it."

The most dangerous place is the safest place, the crown prince is hidden in the mansion of the four princes, it is not impossible, but suddenly there is a forest in the mansion, and Yan Xi is a little suspicious.

Yan Xi narrowed his eyes and said, "Let's go over and have a look first." ”