On Xu Yin's side, the family returned to Prince Zhao's Mansion quietly.
Princess Zhao was in a bad mood, so she made a hasty explanation and went back to the house.
Yan Cheng was worried and didn't know what he was thinking.
Before Xie left, she thanked Xu Yin. Although she had been prepared, she didn't expect Mrs. Liu to be so ruthless. If Xu Yin hadn't set a trap first, she might have succeeded.
When Xu Yin returned, the first thing he did was to clean up the aftermath. The crime that the young master committed had nothing to do with the law, so he simply let him go. The person who released the snake will naturally be punished. He is not the mastermind, and he has no intention of killing. There is a high probability that he just did it.
Several years of hard labor. As for the coachman Lao Peng, he was so easy to kill and silence, I am afraid that there is more than one murder case in his hands, and it is impossible to get out alive.
Finally, there is Liu Xier.
"The promise I made to you before remains true, but don't stay in the capital, go to other places. I will give you an identity, continue to be an official lady, and let your 'parents' arrange a good marriage for you. Of course,
It is impossible to compare with General Du."
Liu Xi'er was not too disappointed. After all, Du Ming was an uncle. He couldn't marry whoever he was asked to do like ordinary guards. And with Mrs. Liu's behavior, there would always be rumors leaking out in the future. How could she stay in the capital?
Marry into a wealthy family?
"When should I leave?" she asked.
"I'll make arrangements in a few days."
Liu Xi'er nodded: "I want to see the crown prince alone."
Xu Yin raised his eyebrows: "You don't really have any interest in the crown prince, do you?"
Liu Xi'er was silent for a moment and said: "The person I'm most sorry for in this matter is the Crown Prince. I haven't apologized to him in person yet."
Xu Yin nodded. Even though she said that, she still didn't tell her the real reason.
"I can tell you something. It won't be easy to say whether the prince sees you or not."
Liu Xi'er bowed her head and saluted: "Thank you very much, Princess."
Xu Yin asked someone to send her out, feeling very emotional.
In the previous life, my sister and Liu Xi'er fought to the death, but I didn't expect it to end like this in this life. It's okay, even though they are enemies, the revenge that needs to be avenged has been avenged in the previous life.
"I always feel that there is something missing." Xu Yin thought for a while and suddenly said.
Miss Qi raised her head: "Which one is the princess referring to?"
"Concubine Liu! She sent Liu Xi'er to Prince Zhao's Mansion mainly to pave the way for herself. But look at the appearance of the princess and the prince, is there any loophole that she can take advantage of?"
Miss Qi thought for a while: "Even after the prince... there will be many young and fresh beauties. Why does Mrs. Liu have that?"
"Yes, that's it!" Xu Yin stroked his hands, "Flies don't stare at seamless eggs. There must be loopholes to exploit, right? That's why she would come up with such an idea, right? Speaking of which, while we were away, Princess Liu and Princess Liu
What did you say alone?"
"Only they themselves know this."
Yes, the princess made it clear that she didn't want people to know, and it was hard for her to ask.
Xu Yin shook his head and warned: "Over at Taiyuan Palace, we still have eyeliners to keep an eye on you - don't be too tight, lest the princess misunderstands that I want to pry into some privacy."
"yes."
After handling this matter, Xu Yin gathered his thoughts and continued to focus on the battle on the front line.
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In the main courtyard, Princess Zhao was sitting by the window, her face gloomy.
Aunt Zhuang advised: "Why should the princess feel sorry for such a person? She chose her own path, and she deserves this fate today."
Princess Zhao sighed: "I don't feel sorry for her, I just remembered some past events. Sister Liu is such a good person, why is her younger sister..."
Aunt Zhuang could only say: "Sisters are quite different from each other, don't you think? It is not uncommon for a family to have both good and evil. When we were in the capital, it was not uncommon for sisters to fight secretly?"
That's true, but Princess Zhao couldn't help but feel sad for her old friend.
"Time flies so fast, I can't even remember what Sister Liu looked like. If she hadn't entered the palace, maybe she would look different now? I don't know where she would end up."
Aunt Zhuang was not happy to hear this: "Princess, this is fate. You must not listen to Liu Wuniang's nonsense and feel that you owe the Liu family something."
Princess Zhao smiled: "I didn't think so, but I do feel sorry for Sister Liu. Aunty, do you know that before the Liu family, our family had discussed marriage with the Duke of Zhao?"
Aunt Zhuang was startled: "This..."
"You haven't heard of it either? I don't know if Ashu lied to me..."
Aunt Zhuang hurriedly asked: "What did the prince say to you? Since we had already discussed the marriage, why did we go to Liu's house later? Could it be that the prince refused at that time?"
As she said this, Aunt Zhuang's face turned ugly. Even though they had been married for more than twenty years and had eldest children, she couldn't help but get angry when she thought of her young lady suffering such injustice.
"No, he agreed." Princess Zhao said.
Now Aunt Zhuang was even more confused: "Then later..."
"Then something happened." Princess Zhao whispered, do you still remember the autumn hunt that year? The emperor's grace was so great that all the ladies from all the families went there in order to choose a concubine for the prince."
Aunt Zhuang nodded: "In the Xishan paddock, right? The prince was still the prince of Zhaoguo at that time, and he seemed to have drank too much and offended Long Yan."
"Yes, it was that time. I don't know who drugged the prince, but asked Ashu to drink the glass of wine. When he went back to rest, Sister Liu wanted to ask him about the whereabouts of the eldest brother of the Liu family, but..."
Aunt Zhuang was shocked: "This..." After a long while, she said, "Didn't it say that the prince and Miss Liu were childhood sweethearts, and the two families just discussed the marriage? They were also preparing to discuss the marriage, so this happened accidentally."
Because of this matter back then, she often complained about her young lady. After marrying into the Yan family, she had always had a prejudice against her uncle in her heart. It took several years to slowly let go of it. She just thought that he was young and impulsive and made mistakes.
Princess Zhao laughed miserably: "In short, this incident caused them both suffering. The two families had to start discussing marriage, and Ashu was determined to take responsibility. As you know later, just a month later, the then-Prince
The late emperor fell in love with Sister Liu again and asked for an imperial edict. Ashu wanted to enter the palace to ask His Majesty to take back the imperial order. At that time, the Zhaoguo Duke's palace was in an embarrassing situation. Sister Liu was afraid that he would offend His Majesty, so she told him that she had decided to enter the palace."
Aunt Zhuang knew what happened next. The Liu family received the imperial edict and Miss Liu was preparing to get married. At that time, Mrs. Zhao Guogong quickly hired Miss Dong from the Dong family for her son and returned to Tongyang to get married.
"I didn't expect it to be like this..." She murmured, "Who is responsible for it? All three of you have suffered from it, and it still doesn't stop to this day."
"So Ashu has always felt sorry for her. If it hadn't been for that accident, there wouldn't have been A Cheng, and Sister Liu wouldn't have died a few years after entering the palace because of her premature birth..."
I think back when we just got married, the two of us couldn't get over this matter, so we always dealt with each other politely. It was like this for half a year before we slowly let go of our feelings and started to have feelings for each other. It just happened that at this time, the child was sent to us again.
Already.
When Princess Zhao recalled her ordeal, she couldn't help but feel like God was playing tricks on her.
After returning to the capital after a long absence, she really wanted to find out who was the person who drugged him in the first place. Unfortunately, time had changed and the high-ranking officials back then had long since changed, so there was no way to find out.