Liao Yongheng left the imperial capital for only half a month, and the prefect of Jiangnan Fucheng, who was escorted back to the imperial capital by the Jinqi guard, was killed on the way.

At that time, the team of the Jinqi Guard encountered an all-out ambush by dozens of good men in the wilderness where there was no village in front and no store behind. Being in the wilderness and inconvenient to hide their whereabouts, the dozens of people went straight to take the prefect's life.

When the prefect of Jiangnan Mansion City was stripped of his official uniform and escorted by the Jinqi Guard on the road to the imperial capital, his whole person seemed to have lost his soul, and he was driven forward by the Jinqiwei like a living dead.

When the pennant guards were struggling to resist, he was protected in the middle of the ground and listened to the sound of swords clashing in his ears, and suddenly came back to his senses. In the gray night, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he saw a familiar face among the ambushers.

He suddenly laughed wildly, stood up suddenly, and rushed out of the circle of guards of the pennant, the pennant guards had already resisted hard, and no one thought that he would suddenly think that he would rush out like crazy when he had been quiet so far.

The ambusher quickly seized this rare opportunity, and several of them immediately gave up the fight with the pennant guard in front of them, and turned their heads to rush at him with long knives in hand.

Soon, a long knife pierced his shirt and skin, through his flesh and heart.

He stopped, stunned and looked down at the long knife that had pierced his body.

The successful ambusher was similarly stunned, but quickly came to his senses, and pulled the long knife out of his body, spurting a stream of scarlet blood.

Blood quickly gushed out of the wound, and he couldn't hold it anymore and collapsed.

The ambusher succeeded, and with a whistle, everyone immediately retreated and fled.

Two of the pennant guards were left to check on his injuries, leaving the others to chase down the fleeing ambushers.

He leaned over the ground, feeling the temperature on his body clean up with the loss of blood, he tried to keep his eyes open, and after a moment the light in his eyes dissipated, gradually becoming dim, and finally his breath was cut off.

Seeing this, the two pennant guards who were left behind hurriedly reached out to test his snort, and pressed the side of his neck again to make sure that he was out of breath.

Soon after, the pennant who went to pursue also turned back.

It turned out that as they pursued them, they followed the fleeing ambushers all the way to a nearby cliff. They surrounded the ambushers and drove them to the edge of the cliff, but they saw that the ambushers did not look panicked at all, and did not wait for them to arrest them.

The ambushers put their blood-stained knives to their necks, slashed them one by one, and fell backwards into the cliffs behind them.

Soon, the sound of flesh and blood crashing against the boulder at the bottom of the cliff could be heard from the bottom of the cliff.

The pennant guards hurried to the edge of the cliff and looked down, all the ambushers first killed themselves, and then fell to the bottom of the cliff, and the whole bottom of the cliff was already dead silent.

The people of the Jinqi Guard were unable to do so, so they had to send two people who were slightly injured in the ambush to rush back to the imperial capital to deliver the message, and the rest of the people took the corpse of the prefect of Jiangnan Mansion to the back.

Emperor Chu, who learned the news, stood for a long time before waving his hand to let the pennant guard who came to report the news retreat.

After the prefect of Jiangnan died violently on the way, several murders occurred in Jiangnan, and all the people who had been involved with the prefect in the local area did not leave a single living mouth.

"Your Majesty." Wu Chuan saw that the tea on Emperor Chu's desk was bright, so he changed it to a hot one.

"Stand down, let me be quiet." Emperor Chu said with a somewhat tired look.

"Yes, the minion will step aside." Wu Chuan gently placed the teacup in his hand on Emperor Chu's desk, and then retreated.

Emperor Chu sighed and was speechless for a long time.

This matter quickly spread in the imperial capital, and Mrs. Yongchangbo, who learned the news, couldn't help but be overjoyed, and Yongchangbo stood up silently.

Mrs. Yongchangbo didn't bother to pay attention to him, and sent someone to deliver a message to her daughter in the second prince's mansion.

Yongchangbo waved away the subordinates who were waiting around him and went to the ancestral hall alone.

"Father, mother." Yongchangbo lit a bouquet of incense, inserted it in the incense burner in front of his parents' tablet, and slowly knelt down. "The son was unfilial, he failed the wishes of his father and mother before his death, and he didn't even take good care of his younger brother, so much so that he wanted to take his life to protect the Yongchang Earl's Palace."

No one in the ancestral hall would respond to Yongchangbo's self-talk, and the smoke of the incense burner and sandalwood coiled in the air.

Yongchangbo kowtowed three times to his parents' tablet.

Emperor Chu sent someone to summon the second prince Xiao Jin into the palace, Xiao Jin was uneasy in his heart, but he had to enter the palace to face the saint.

Xiao Jinqiang followed Wu Chuan into the Lingyun Palace, he stood in the center of the hall, and looked up at Emperor Chu.

Emperor Chu glanced at him and waved his hand, and Wu Chuan immediately retreated with everyone in the hall.

But a quarter of an hour later, there was a sound of a heavy object falling to the ground in the hall, and the little chamberlain beside Wu Chuan was frightened.

Wu Chuan didn't look surprised, pressed the little chamberlain who was almost frightened, and motioned for him to be silent.

After another quarter of an hour, the closed door of the Lingyun Hall opened from the inside, and the second prince, Xiao Jin, who raised his sleeves to cover half of his face, stumbled out and left in a hurry.

"Wu Chuan." After Xiao Jin left, the voice of Emperor Chu came from the hall.

Wu Chuan went in and found a bloodstained inkstone on the ground in the hall, and Emperor Chu gasped with an obscure face.

"Your Majesty, but what are your orders?" Wu Chuan asked respectfully.

"Dispose of that inkstone, just treat it as if the second prince has never entered the palace today." Emperor Chu said in a deep voice.

"The slave knows." Wu Chuan responded, took out a white handkerchief from his arms, took a few steps forward and unfolded the handkerchief to cover the inkstone, wrapping the inkstone entirely.

In the second prince's mansion, Hu was embroidering in his house.

Xiangdong got the news and hurried over as soon as possible.

"The princess, Your Highness returned to the house a moment ago, but he entered the house through the side door to avoid people."

"He is the master of the house, why should he avoid people and return to the house through the side door?" Hu couldn't help but pause as he divided the embroidery thread in his hand. "What else have you heard?"

"The slave maid also heard that His Highness had entered the palace for a trip, and it seemed that there was an injury on his head." The Hu family has controlled the inner courtyard of the second prince for many years, and Xiangdong, the most useful under her subordinates, naturally installed people next to the second prince, but they are the most eye-catching people around the second prince. "His Highness went back to the house avoiding people, and a basin of blood poured out of his hand."

"Huh." Hu Shi sneered when he heard this. "You deserve it. It seems that His Royal Highness has been punished by His Majesty when he enters the palace, and it is better than him continuing to offend His Majesty without knowing the sky. ”

"The princess, now that the people involved in the Jiangnan case have not left a single living mouth." Xiangdong said in a low voice. "The little masters should be able to take it back, right?"

"Don't rush yet." Hu Shi put down the ball of embroidery thread in his hand and said. "Wait a few days, Your Majesty will make a decision, and then I will personally pick up the children back."

The next day, Emperor Chu issued an order to canonize the eldest prince Xiao Yu, the fourth prince Xiao Rui, the fifth prince Xiao Lang, and the sixth prince Xiao Jun as princes.

However, Xiao Jin, the adopted son of the queen's knees, only crowned one king of Jinjun.

Emperor Chu decreed, and there was an uproar in the imperial capital.

After that, the flow of people who went to the palace of the four newly promoted princes to congratulate them did not disperse for several days, but only the newly baked palace of the prince of Jinjun was very quiet.

Hu Shi looked at the princess's clothes sent by the Internal Affairs Office, and motioned to Xiangdong to stuff the silver tickets for the people from the Internal Affairs Office.

Xiangdong sent the people from the Internal Affairs Office away.

"The Princess."

As soon as Xiang Dong spoke, he was immediately interrupted by the Hu family.

"Don't call me the princess in the future, it's time to call me the princess of the county." Hu still had a smile on his face.

"Yes, the slave has written it down."

"By the way, how is our new King Jinjun doing these days?" Hu's slender fingers stroked the princess's clothes in front of him, and raised his eyebrows and asked.

"I heard that the king of the county killed several of the staff in the palace, and if one of the people around him was not careful, he would be punished with a cane." Xiangdong replied. "I heard that even Concubine Liao went to talk to the king of the county, but she was slapped twice and kicked out."

"Hahaha, okay." When Hu Shi heard this, he was very satisfied in his heart, and couldn't help laughing. "The Liao family is really stupid, he dares to send it to the door at this time."

"Princess Jun, don't you have anything else in mind?" Xiangdong said suspiciously, she has served by the Hu family since she was a child, and she knows that the Hu family is the most proud. "Now your four concubines are all princesses, and their grades are one level higher than yours, if they meet outside or in the palace in the future, the princess of the county will have to salute and greet them."

"He caused such a thing, His Majesty thought of flesh and blood, and did not ask him about the crime, and also named him the king of the county, which is already very lenient." Although Hu is proud, he is not an unreasonable person. "To be honest, it is already very unexpected for me to be able to keep a county throne."

"It's best if the princess thinks about it."

"That's nature." Hu smiled and got up. "I heard that the queen mother is seriously ill in the palace, tomorrow you will accompany me to pick up the children, and then enter the palace to visit the queen mother, and thank Your Majesty by the way."

"Yes."

Although the Jiangnan case, Emperor Chu has not yet officially closed the case.

Emperor Liu's concubine can't take care of this matter anymore, her two sons have been crowned princes this time, and the female dependents who have entered the palace to congratulate her have come wave after wave, and she has been very busy entertaining all day long.

Even the ladies of the family and clan who came to meet Xiao Xuan increased, and Xiao Xuan's hall was also very lively.

Emperor Liu's concubine heard that after the queen knew the will of Emperor Chu, she vomited blood on the spot after pulling someone to confirm it repeatedly, and now she is lying in Zhaoyang Palace so sick that she can't get up.

This piece of good news made Emperor Liu's concubine feel very good, her whole face was radiant, and her already delicate face was a few points better than before.