Ding Bao lowered his eyes, looked at the black diamond in his hand, and finally put it in his pocket.

"The women in the palace are all long-billed crows, princess, you'd better keep a little distance from the eldest prince."

The servant behind him reminded.

She had been personally selected by Madame Vitana to take care of Ding Bao, and she was old and experienced, and she began to frown when she saw the eldest prince approaching.

Ding Bao didn't react much when he heard her say this, but nodded lightly.

"I'm just friends with him."

"We know, but not everyone knows, and they will distort the facts, affecting your reputation, and it will affect the reputation of Your Highness."

Ding Bao subconsciously grabbed the black diamond in his pocket, was silent for a while, and finally whispered.

"I'll leave this to His Highness at night."

"That's right, Princess, so that Your Highness will not be suspicious of you."

That night, Si Yin did not return all night.

Madame Vitana heard the news and accompanied her.

"I just sent someone to the front hall to ask, saying that it was a banquet for the Great Sect Master, so His Highness should not come back tonight."

"It seems that the king attaches great importance to the Grand Master."

When Madame Vitana heard this, she snorted coldly.

"Now there are more and more believers in the entire empire, and the previous king was also a devout believer, and he deliberately set up the position of the grand sect leader, which has a high status. It was okay before, after all, religion did not rise in the country, and now religious believers account for more than half of the empire, and the status of the great sect leader is getting higher and higher, almost on an equal footing with the king, and a person who controls his people with his thoughts is very terrifying. The king's rights were slowly being eroded, which is why he did not allow the royal family to be religious. So, you'd better throw those things out of your way as soon as possible. ”

Madame Vitana was also a noble lady, intelligent and powerful, and she might have married a politician if she hadn't married a baron.

Ding Bao is just a little girl living in a remote township, so naturally she can't understand the power dispute here.

"But my faith is not the Great Master, but the ......"

"I don't care who your faith is, in the empire, in front of power, even Allah and Father in your mouth are just a pawn, who cares if your faith is true or not, they only need rights. I ask you, if the Great Sect Master spreads his thoughts under the guise of Allah's coming, will you doubt it? ”

Ding Bao was silent.

In my heart, I secretly felt that this Lady Vitana was a smart person.

"I'm your mother, I won't harm you, throw those things away as soon as possible!"

——

By the end of the feast, it was already dark, and the Grand Master was the first to leave to rest, and the queen prepared rooms for the princes so that they could stay in the front hall.

Si Yin offered to leave.

The queen couldn't keep him, so she could only order a few people to accompany Si Yin back when the night was still very thick.

Walking around the lake to the path in the woods, it was already pitch black, except for the dim glow of the two lamps in the servant's hand.

There seemed to be a figure standing on the shore of the lake not far away, and Si Yin ignored it and continued to walk forward.

"Second Highness, can I take up a little of your time? I have something to tell you. ”

The servant approached with a lamp, and the person standing by the lake looked a little familiar, and Si Yin's face was cold, and he only listened to the other party's continuation.

"I am the person next to the eldest prince, and I once took care of the second princess for a while."

"What's the matter?"

Si Yin was impatient, he hadn't seen Ding Bao for a day and a night, and he wanted to go back, wondering what she was doing now.

"Do you know that the second prince is in the racecourse today, the eldest prince and the second princess talked a lot about religion, and he also gave the princess a precious gem, and the princess gladly accepted it, do you know this?"

In the dim light, An'er's face flickered, and her eyes flashed with a low light, mixed with a touch of unwillingness and jealousy.

——

The next day, news came from the palace.

The Grand Master of the Empire has been imprisoned by the king.

The reason is that the Grand Patriarch is trying to proclaim himself pope and leap above the king.

And this news quickly spread throughout the country, and it also made the believers extremely angry in disbelief.

That night, Madame Vitana rushed into Ding Bao's lodgings with the baron, and the first thing she did when she entered the door was to shout at the servants behind her.

"Drag out all these things related to the cultists in the princess's palace and burn them, and leave nothing behind!"

As Ding Bao was about to wash up and go to bed, he heard a chaotic sound of footsteps rushing towards her, and the door of her room was pushed open by Madame Vitana, and three or four maids walked in, stood beside the bed and saluted her.

Ding Bao's expression was flustered, his pupils fluttered, and he walked down from the bed barefoot and stopped in front of Mrs. Vitana.

"Mother, what are you going to do? Mother ......"

"I can't help you this time."

With that, Lady Vitana beckoned to the servants behind her.

"Take out everything in the cupboard, and burn it without leaving it."

"Mother! Don't burn, don't burn them! ”

Ding Bao desperately wanted to rush over to protect his things, but was stopped by Mrs. Vitana, in the chaos, Ding Bao only felt a pain in his neck, looked down, the pendant that was originally hanging on his neck did not know when it was torn off by the other party.

"Ding Bao, if you keep these things, let alone the position of the princess, you won't even be able to save your life!"

Ding Bao looked at her in a daze, his eyes widened, and his voice trembled.

"Mother's ......"

"The Great Sect Master has already threatened the king's dominance, and he can't tolerate this kind of thing in the palace, you know? You're going to hurt yourself! ”

After speaking, only to hear the sound of "hiss", Ding Bao suddenly raised his head and watched the portrait hanging on the wall being torn off without hesitation.

The books and clothes she entrusted the eldest prince brought from home were all turned out, one was dragged aside, and on the messy ground, the portrait of Allah that was torn in half was trampled by a pair of feet, and Ding Bao desperately pushed away Mrs. Vitana and rushed over, threw herself on the ground and picked up the portrait, and gently brushed off the dust on it with trembling hands.

"Don't tear it up, please, mother, leave it to me."

Ding Bao knelt on the ground and cried desperately with the torn portrait in her hands, her white nightgown was spread on the ground, and under her messy long brown hair was a pale and helpless face, she looked at the people around her at a loss, staring at their eyes and pleading one by one.

"Don't take everything, please, I'll hide it well, I'll hide, I beg you to ......"

All the servants stopped what they were doing, looking at the desperate crying woman in front of them, and their hearts were haunted by unbearability and sympathy.

A devout believer who regards Allah as his life, and who is willing to give everything they have to worship Allah, is a belief that transcends everything and is a great power.