At dawn the next day, the fire in Xishan Villa was completely extinguished, and all the houses were burned down, leaving the ruins and broken walls scorched black.

When Nangong You and Ye Xiaoyan came here, Hurricane, Liu Yu and others had already gone in to check and found the body of the person guarding the house, looking at his death at that time, he should have been dead before the fire.

Nangong You looked at the ruins in front of him, his eyes were slightly deep.

Besides, after the banquet in Guangjulou that day, Zeng Jingxuan returned to the mansion and told her father that the goddess was the wife of the third prince.

Zeng Mingyi exclaimed: "Impossible! You must be reading it wrong. ”

Zeng Jingxuan said: "I have seen the goddess. The woman brought by the three princes is a goddess. It's just that she's wearing a mask. The Lu family brothers and sisters, Jian Xiuneng, and Sun Wenbin were all there that day, and later they sent someone to follow, saying that they had seen the third prince and the goddess enter the Limin Medical Hall. Isn't the goddess at the Limin Medical Center these days? ”

Zeng Mingyi's brows furrowed. How is this possible? If the so-called lady of the third prince is really a goddess, then isn't he...... Zeng Mingyi couldn't believe it, and immediately sent someone to investigate.

Lord Shangshu's subordinates are still very capable, and the news that came back is that after the third prince buried Princess Xuan, he left the Xuanwang Mansion and lived in the Xishan Villa, where he is said to have raised an outer room, and no one knows who the woman is.

After Lu Junjie returned home, he also said the same thing as his father. Lu Zhiyuan was shocked when he heard this, and immediately sent someone to investigate, and the news he found was similar to what Zeng Mingyi sent to find out. But there is one more: more than a month ago, the third prince went to Baiwei Building with a woman wearing a veil.

That's a bit wrong. The goddess entered Beijing for less than a month, but before the goddess entered Beijing, someone had seen the three princes and the veil woman appear together. He felt that there must be something strange in this.

Lu Zhiyuan was originally inclined to the second prince, but since the emperor intended to marry him and let the fourth prince marry his daughter, Lu Zhiyuan thought about the emperor wholeheartedly.

Last night, the Xishan villa caught fire, burning all night, and everyone in the capital saw it. Even if you can't see the fire from a distance, you can see billowing smoke.

The emperor in the palace naturally saw it. At first, he thought it was a fire on the west mountain, but later someone checked the report and said that it was a house on fire, not on the mountain. The emperor didn't know that the mansion belonged to the third prince, because Ye Fusheng gave the mansion to the third prince within a few months. At that time, he also said casually: "Whose house is so big?" The fire can also be seen by the whole capital. ”

After the morning of this day, Lu Zhiyuan, the head of the household, stayed. Seeing that the emperor went to the imperial study, he asked Gonggong Gao to ask for a meeting.

"Lu Aiqing, did you have anything else you didn't say just now?" The emperor thought it was a matter of the court.

"Your Majesty, Weichen has some private matters that he wants to report."

"What?"

"Last night, a fire broke out in a house at the foot of the West Mountain, and it burned all night, I don't know if the emperor knows about it?"

"I saw it. I don't know which house it is, it must be a heavy loss! The emperor also sighed.

"Your Majesty, as far as Wei Chen knows, that mansion belongs to the third prince."

"What?" The emperor was shocked. But then he thought that Nangong Youyou lived in the Xuanwang Mansion, even if the mansion burned down, he himself should be fine, so he was relieved again.

Lu Zhiyuan said: "As far as Weichen knows, after burying his deceased wife, the third prince moved to live in the house at the foot of Xishan, and only occasionally returned to the Xuanwang Mansion......"

The emperor was shocked, interrupted and asked, "Could it be that the third prince is ......?" ”

"The emperor can rest assured, the third prince is fine. When the fire caught fire last night, Weichen called someone to go and check, and the man came back to report that he saw the third prince safe and sound in front of the house. At that time, the four princes were also there. said that he saw that many people were ready to fight the fire, but the fire was too big, and the third prince gave up fighting the fire. ”

The emperor was relieved and said, "Lu Aiqing has a heart!" ”

I went to fight the fire last night, and I saw the excitement, Ye Xiaoyan alone and their own people went to more than eighty, plus others, and there were many people in front of Xishan Villa at that time.

The emperor thought that Lu Zhiyuan was going to tell him this, and he didn't ask anymore when he heard this. He knew that You'er loved Ye Xiaoyan deeply, and that day in the Queen Mother's palace, You'er almost killed Xu Zishu. You'er didn't want to see her, so it made sense to move to another courtyard.

Lu Zhiyuan continued: "Your Majesty, it is reported that the third prince was with a woman, and the third prince claimed that the woman was his wife. ”

The emperor sighed: "I know about this. ”

Last time, the emperor asked Nangong You if he was like glue with a folk woman, and Nangong You admitted that he said yes. It's just that he didn't expect that he would declare the woman to be his wife. The emperor felt indebted to Nangong You in the matter of Ye Xiaoyan's death, so he didn't want to pursue his claim to his wife. Anyway, his current status is a civilian, and it doesn't matter what he declares. In the end, whether it was a lady or a concubine, in the end, it was only with the nod of his emperor.

"The emperor knows?" Lu Zhiyuan was taken aback by this.

"You'er lost his beloved wife, and I don't want to criticize him. It's rare to have a woman he loves, so let him go! The emperor sighed.

"Your Majesty," Lu Zhiyuan said hurriedly, "A few days ago, the dog saw that woman in Guangju Building, and it is said that her appearance is the same as that of a goddess. ”

At this moment, the emperor was surprised: "Really? ”

Lu Zhiyuan told him what he knew.

The emperor was silent for a long time after hearing this. He had the same doubts as Lu Zhiyuan, the woman was with Nangong You before the goddess entered Beijing, so it stands to reason that she should not be a goddess. But Nangong You's temperament, the emperor knew that if she was just an ordinary woman, how could Nangong You be so infatuated.

The emperor himself couldn't think of a clue, so he told Lu Zhiyuan not to mention this matter to others, and to wait until he investigated it clearly.

Lu Zhiyuan retired.

The emperor summoned the four princes. He knew that the two brothers, Chen'er and You'er, were relatively close.

"Meet my father!" Nangong Chen bowed his head and saluted.

The emperor asked, "Last night, your third emperor's brother's courtyard was on fire, and I heard that you were also there?" ”

"Yes."

"There is a woman next to your third emperor brother, and he claims to be his wife. Have you seen this woman? ”

"Yes."

"This woman is a goddess?"

Nangong Chen raised his head suspiciously, and said, "Mrs. Yan and the goddess do look seven or eight points alike, but Erchen can be sure that Mrs. Yan is by no means a goddess. ”

"Mrs. Yeon?" The emperor was puzzled, but then he thought that Nangong You said that the woman's name also had the word Yan in it.

The emperor asked, "What is so strange about this woman that can make your third emperor brother fascinated by her?" ”

Nangong Chen thought for a while and said, "Mrs. Yan's personality and behavior are very similar to the three imperial sisters-in-law. She is also good at food and is good at business. Mrs. Yeon has opened ten shops on Sandao Street in the south of the city, all of which are dealing in snacks, and they will open the day after tomorrow. ”