The third prince who had just returned to the palace went out again in a few days.

According to the empress's meaning, it is not known whether the crown prince is dead or not, and she can't reveal it to the outside world. Therefore, he couldn't greet Yuanzhi and had to sneak into his territory quietly, and sneaking in quietly must not let people know, otherwise it will cause misunderstanding.

So a group of people sneaked over the mountains and mountains to avoid the fishermen on the border.

However, after searching for a few days at the location where the prince fell, he found that the prince's body could not be found, and the third prince immediately panicked. It was clear that there were no signs of life after confirming that day, why was the body missing today?

Just as he was thinking, a guard suddenly ran to his side and said, "Prince, I found a faint bloodstain here. ”

When he heard this, he hurriedly followed. Sure enough, not far from the foot of the cliff, there was a small river so wide that the two of them had set up, and it was so thick and earthy yellow at the moment, and the riverbed had risen a few meters higher.

I saw the guard squatting on the ground and pointing to a road, saying, "Prince, look carefully, there is a bloodstain here, which has been almost washed." ”

When the third prince heard this, he looked over, and at first glance it was nothing, but when he looked closely, there was really a faint trace of blood that had disappeared into the river. Along the direction is the place where the prince was originally lying, but the blood stains on the place where the prince was lying seemed to have been washed away, and he said with some curiosity: "Why are there blood stains here?" ”

"Prince, slave boldly guessed, it seems to have been raining heavily frequently these days, and the riverbed has risen a lot. Could it be that the heavy rain washed the body of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince into the river, and the blood stains on his body were ground on the ground, but the heavy rain also washed away the bloodstains. ”

When he heard this, he realized that there might be this possibility, and he firmly believed that the prince was indeed dead, and the dead could not get up and walk on their own, right? Therefore, it is only possible to be washed into the river by rainwater.

He waved his hand and hurriedly said, "Let's go, go downstream and take a look, maybe you have been washed down, try your best to find the body." ”

However, everyone found it until it was almost dark, but they didn't see the prince. The third prince searched around the river, guessing that it might have sunk to the bottom of the river, this small river seems to be small, but it is quite deep. What's more, the river is so turbulent after the rain, even if it is not nearby, it may not be able to tell where it has rushed into.

He was thinking about whether to send someone into the water to look for him, but suddenly an exclamation came from a distance: "You ......"

The third prince was startled, and turned his head to see that there were four or five woodcutters carrying a large stack of chopped firewood on their backs, and looked at them in surprise. It wasn't until they all turned their heads that the woodcutter saw clearly that these individuals were wearing the costumes of Southern Jiangsu, and they looked like they were Sun, as if they were still an army.

Several people's minds instantly turned the idea that these people would not come to make any small moves, and they thought that they were mere woodcutters, and if they didn't run quickly, they would definitely die, so following the order of one of them, everyone began to turn around and run.

The third prince reacted at this time, and hurriedly ordered: "Kill!" Not a single living mouth is allowed to be left! "If they sneak in and get out, things won't be good.

The guards obeyed the order and immediately chased after them, and soon there were bursts of terrible screams between the valleys. The man whom the third prince had caught up with stumbled far away, and he was worried that the woodcutter would not be easy to deal with when he went down the mountain, so he shot a sword from a distance, and the man immediately fell to the ground.

After everything was settled, he instructed the people: "When I go back, tell the whereabouts of the crown prince is unknown, probably because he has lost his life, and you must not say anything about these woodcutters, otherwise you will inevitably be punished!" ”

It is true that this is the case, they quickly stepped up, and they repented overnight that Su Nanguo only said that the prince's whereabouts were unknown, but it was absolutely unlikely that he would live according to the clues. thought that after saying this, she would at least set up another prince first based on the overall situation, but she didn't know if she wanted to leave this position first and wait for the prince to come back.

The third prince was all in vain, but he didn't expect to say it to the prince, the empress didn't want to make anyone the prince at all, and there was only one candidate from beginning to end.

If she knew that his whereabouts were unknown, the empress would have kept him in mind, and it would have been better not to kill him, but now she can only wait for the empress to slowly accept the fact that the crown prince is dead. Anyway, he knew that this person was indeed dead, and now he was patiently waiting for the day when he became the prince.

But he didn't know how much trouble he had caused by killing the woodcutter.

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However, in half a month, the news immediately spread to the capital and was known to Yuanzhi. The following person said that the people of southern Jiangsu secretly infiltrated the territory and killed five woodcutters, and the evidence is the arrow used by the prince of southern Jiangsu.

"Simply bold! What do you want to do when you sneak into the country? How dare you kill my people?! Yuan Zhi was furious above the court, and the matter immediately spread in the capital.

According to everyone's advice, Yuanzhi first ordered someone to take this arrow into the southern country of Jiangsu to ask the empress what was going on, and also to have a solution, so he couldn't let his people die for no reason, so how can he be popular?

However, the empress invited the third prince to ask, but he firmly denied it, so she chose to believe that the third prince responded according to his words, thinking that someone deliberately wronged Sunanguo, and they were unwilling to bear any responsibility.

Such a perfunctory attitude is just that, what is even more infuriating is that the empress listened to the slander of the third prince and thought that Yuanzhi sent someone to kill the prince, and now she wants to capture her own country by biting back, so she alludes to Yuanzhi killing the prince and wronging herself.

Yuanzhi was furious, but he felt ridiculous, if he thought that he killed the prince, how many months has the prince returned to the dynasty according to the itinerary, and now he has nothing to do with this account? In his eyes, the southern kingdom of Jiangsu is what they say they are. As time went by, the contradictions between the two countries became bigger and bigger, and for a time they became hostile countries.

Yuanzhi put the people first, and he knew what the facts were, so he felt unfair when he saw the attitude of southern Jiangsu, and finally issued a war letter to southern Jiangsu.

The empress didn't want to believe that the crown prince had died, but the third prince and the ministers kept mentioning it in her ears, and she had already buried the pain of losing her son in her heart, and now she knew that the country's power was inferior to others, but she was not to be outdone, and she was proud to respond to this battle. Just because she thought that the prince had passed away, her attitude towards Yeli had also changed, that is, she did not listen to her persuasion.

In Yeli's opinion, she only felt that she had lost her mind, but she had no choice but to inquire about the whereabouts of the prince alone.

Unconsciously, the summer heat is coming, but it's a pity that this year's Yuanzhi is not in the mood to escape the heat.