After the killing, he took out the rope that had been prepared long ago and tied it up, and ordered people to send it back to the palace of Wu Guo, and the people who took off were immediately imprisoned. If there are no other accidents, the next person who will take off will exchange the prince for the one who took off, and the royal family of Wu has changed from passive to active.

After everyone left, Chu Yaocen was still a little afraid, and checked Qingdi up and down, and only breathed a sigh of relief after seeing that Qingdi was fine, and said: "We started to follow the detachment, and then it seemed that he found out, and he threw us away." He did take you out of the inn at first, and he took us around a corner. Later, he realized that except for the post house, any place in Jianye was unsafe for Toto, so he guessed that he should still hide the prince in the post house. As a result, he really brought you back, and almost hurt you. ”

Qingdi knew that Chu Yaocen was still worried about her, so she quickly shook her head: "I'm fine, have you seen the prince?" ”

Chu Yaocen pinched Qingdi's face, and there was a little helplessness in his tone, and said, "Why are you okay?" If I'm too late to finish today, you'll be hurt by that Tokhtar. How much do you remember what I taught you? If you don't remember, do you want me to teach you from the beginning? ”

Qingdi was a little weak-hearted...... When she was in the Li Kingdom Palace, there were guards sent by Feng Lingchen and Yin Sheng to protect her from being contacted by the outside world, plus such an absolutely useful and reliable personal guard after killing, where did she still need to think about how to protect herself every day? Therefore, some of the self-defense tricks that Chu Yaocen gave her before were indeed wasted......

Chu Yaocen was distressed and angry, and originally wanted to say a few words about her, but when he saw her like this, he couldn't bear to say it, so he could only sigh and say, "Solve these things about the prince first, and then I will teach you slowly in the future, and then give you some poisons and drugs for self-defense." I can't protect you all the time, you have to know how to defend yourself. If I hadn't reacted fairly quickly today, and I had found Xiaohu in time to borrow some people, you really ......"

"Don't talk about me, okay?" Qingdi Chu Chu looked at Chu Yaocen pitifully, holding his hands, looking like he knew his mistake. It's all about pleasing him now, otherwise I don't know how long he's going to talk about it for a while. She didn't want to give Chu Yaocen any more chance to speak, so she raised her head and kissed him on the cheek, and said obediently: "You're right, I used to rely too much on you and kill him, and in the future, I will definitely practice diligently and become a peerless master, so that no one will have a chance to hurt me." ”

Chu Yaocen lowered his eyes and looked at her for a while, then suddenly hooked the corners of his mouth and smiled, and asked, "Do you think this is okay?" ”

Qingdi suddenly felt a chill, and was silent for a moment before asking him, "Then what do you want?" ”

Chu Yaocen didn't speak, lowered his head and bit her lips punitively, it took a long time for the two of them to realize that now was not the time to do this, Chu Yaocen let go of the green flute and said, "Let's go find the prince, he should still be locked up here." ”

Qingdi nodded, and when he went out, he saw that the people who had taken off were all controlled by the soldiers of Wu State, so he asked someone to interrogate them about the whereabouts of the prince, but these people didn't seem to speak Wu Guo, and they didn't know what they were talking about.

Chu Yaocen looked at them the same and said: "I don't believe that none of the people sent by Bei Zhai to envoy Wu Guo can speak Wu Guo, you must be pretending to be stupid, it seems that you will not tell the whereabouts of the prince without some means." ”

As soon as Chu Yaocen finished speaking, Qingdi knew what he was going to do, and she ordered the soldiers of Wu Guo to torture them to extract confessions, but an hour passed, and it didn't seem to have any effect.

Qingdi thought about it now, and suddenly felt that something was not quite right. At the beginning, Tokhtar obviously promised to show them the prince, why did he suddenly regret it and be impatient to make a move on her? Could it be because they can't invite the prince at all, that is, the prince is dead?

The more Qingdi thought about it, the more he felt that it was very possible, and hurriedly said to the soldiers: "The prince may have had an accident, don't ask them about the whereabouts of the prince again, just look for it, the post house is so big, and the surrounding area is blocked, they definitely can't take the prince anywhere." Now, even if the post house is turned upside down, you have to find the prince! ”

The soldiers received the order and hurriedly began to search, and after half an hour, someone ran out in a panic and said to Qingdi: "County Lord, something is wrong, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has died, and the body is being frozen in the firewood room." ”

"What?" Qingdi and Chu Yaocen glanced at each other, and said with their eyebrows: "What's going on with this detachment?" He actually killed the prince? ”

"The subordinates just wanted to determine whether His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had really died, so they stepped forward to check on it at the risk of disrespect, and the prince's body was full of scars, all of which were injured by abuse and beating." The guard at the head reminded again.

"It's so hateful, not only to mutilate the prince's life, but also to humiliate him like this!" Qingdi gritted his teeth and said, looked at Chu Yaocen again, and asked, "Shall we go and check what the prince died first?" ”

Chu Yaocen thought for a moment, shook his head, and whispered in Qingdi's ear: "Don't do too much than you shouldn't bear, so as not to drag you into the water and put all the blame on your head." Now let's inform the queen of this. ”

Qingdi nodded, and asked someone to quickly tell the queen about the death of the prince. Now that the emperor is sick in bed, he may die at any time, and it is up to the queen to decide whether to tell him about this matter.

How do you know that when the queen heard the news of the death of the crown prince, she immediately fainted, the second prince and the third prince were also a mess, the second prince shouted that he wanted to avenge the killing of his brother with a thousand knives, but the third prince always felt that all their behaviors were inappropriate now, and it was also inappropriate to catch and take off, which was not conducive to the overall situation.

Xiaohu almost dried up her tears in the past two days, she watched in silence at the dispute between her two elder brothers, at the busy mess of palace people, at the imperial doctors who hurriedly helped the queen to rest and diagnose the queen's pulse, and finally fixed her eyes on Qingdi, she walked over and said in a cold voice: "Cousin, what should I do now?" ”

Qingdi looked at the helplessness in the depths of Xiaohu's eyes, and really felt a little uncomfortable in his heart...... She originally thought that Xiaohu should be a delicate girl for the rest of her life, and she thought that Xiaohu should be able to accomplish things that she couldn't do, but now Xiaohu has to accept such a change.

Qingdi should have listened to Chu Yaocen's words and didn't care about these things, but now that Xiaohu asked her like this, she pinned all her hopes on her, how could she not be moved? How can we sit idly by? Qingdi quickly twisted his brows, even if he caused trouble, Qingdi planned to help a group of little tigers.

"Let's send someone to find out the cause of the prince's death first, I think Tokhtar has reached this point, we really can't continue to swallow our anger, if we find out the cause of Tokhtar's death, we can justify it in asking him for trouble." Qingdi paused for a moment, stepped forward and said to the two princes: "Second prince, third prince, now that Your Majesty is seriously ill in bed, I don't think you want him to continue to be exhausted to deal with the affairs of Wu Guo and the affairs between him and Bei Zhai, so I hope you can stop arguing anymore, you should quickly think about how to make the people of Wu State feel at ease, so that Wu State will not have more difficult to control things." ”

A series of things that Qingdi did in Li State before, such as desperately saving the emperor who was almost assassinated by Toto, such as taking the initiative to marry Totoku instead of Xiaohu when the crown prince was kidnapped, so that she already had some status in the hearts of these two princes, and the two princes were still very convinced of her words.

The third prince looked at Qingdi and said, "Cousin, I believe that you are indeed more courageous than us, what can you do to solve these things now?" Tell us and we'll work with you. ”

"I can only try to advise you on what to do, the big decisions must be decided by you and the queen mother." Qingdi thought for a moment and said, "If I'm not mistaken, after Your Majesty fell ill, he should have accumulated some government in the past two days, right?" This kind of thing is accumulating more and more, and if it is not dealt with in time, the country will also be in turmoil. The second prince, the third prince, you should have also helped the prince deal with government affairs before, right? Now you have to stand in the main position and move on. The news of His Majesty's illness should only be known to us and several ministers of the DPRK and China, and it is better to continue to block this news for the time being, so as not to let those who have a heart take advantage of the situation. ”

The second prince nodded and said, "What my cousin said makes sense, but what should I do with this person?" If I let him go on like this, I really can't swallow this breath! ”

"I have just said, first find out the cause of the prince's death, let's take the cause of death and ask Tokhtar about the crime, otherwise he will take the handle, what if he doesn't kill the person?" Qingdi analyzed this with them, looked at the reactions of the two princes, and asked: "Now that the royal family is in turmoil, we must unite." Do you think Zhang Xiuhe can use it? ”

As soon as the second prince heard Zhang Xiuhe's name, he frowned and said: "If it weren't for the matter between him and Toto, the eldest brother wouldn't have gone to Totoku to explain, and he wouldn't have fallen into Toto's hands, let alone a series of things that followed, and now you still want him to help us?" Hmph, I wonder if he and Totoku should be in harmony with the outside and kill the eldest brother! ”

"Second Emperor Brother, you can't say that, although my cousin has done something unruly in this matter, but for so many years, he has been honest and responsible, and now we are employing people again, and now we use him, it's better than one more enemy, right?" The third prince persuaded.

Qingdi also nodded and said: "I think what the third prince said makes sense, Zhang Xiuhe's role in the Wu State is probably the same as the role of our Chu family in the Li State, they are all people who control most of the country's business, and if they become enemies, it will always be a major loss." ”

The second prince had no choice but to agree to do so, so he immediately sent someone to invite Zhang Xiuhe into the palace. However, before this, Chu Yaocen had already gone to see Zhang Xiuhe.