Prince Jing smiled and touched Yun Shang's hair, narrowing his eyes slightly, "I know, don't worry. Since I promised you that you will be well, I will definitely come back well."
After a pause, he continued, "You must be careful in Jincheng. The secret guards must not leave you when you go out."
Yun Shang chuckled softly after hearing this and couldn't stop, "It seems that we are about to separate. The prince will not leave for half a month."
Prince Jing couldn't help but laugh. He pressed her forehead and sighed softly, "You."
When he returned to the palace, he saw the steward waiting anxiously at the door. Seeing his expression, Yun Shang knew that something must have happened, so she quickly got out of the carriage, frowned and said, "But what happened?"
The manager looked around and then said softly to Yun Shang and Luo, "The prince and princess should go back to the house first. I have something to report."
Yun Shang and Luo Qingyan looked at each other, followed the manager into the house, and said after returning to the courtyard, "What's the matter? You look a little pale."
The steward was silent for a moment, then lowered his voice and said, "Today, when the servant was cleaning the study, he found a stuffed doll with His Majesty's birthday written on it in the dark room. It was covered with silver needles. The servant who was cleaning it found
After discovering it, he did not report it to the old slave, but told others. When the old slave knew about it, the servant had died violently and the puppet had disappeared."
Yun Shang's face turned pale all of a sudden, and Luo Qingyan's face was also a little ugly. No matter which dynasty or country it was, the art of witchcraft was forbidden, and the birth dates of everyone in the royal family were also different.
It is top secret. If it is involved with witchcraft, it will be a serious crime of genocide.
"After you discovered what happened, has anyone left the house?" Yun Shang asked quickly.
The manager quickly shook his head, "The old servant immediately ordered people to close all the doors, and discussed with Luo Yi, asking them to send secret guards to watch the whereabouts of everyone in the mansion. However, the door has been closed and no one is allowed to come in or out.
This is not a long-term solution. All food and drink supplies in the palace need to be purchased..."
Yun Shang paced back and forth in the room for a long time before saying, "Then we will close the door for the night. We only have one night. We must search out this witchcraft doll tonight."
"Searching the house?" The manager pondered for a moment, "It's just that we have some old servants from the time when the former prince was here. If we rashly search the house, I'm afraid someone will be suspicious."
"Just find an excuse." Luo Qingyan frowned and said calmly, "Then he said that the jade pendant worn by the princess was missing in the palace. For fear of being robbed by a thief, no one is allowed to enter or leave the palace today, and everyone must accept it one by one.
search."
The steward responded quickly and hurried down.
Yun Shang and Luo Qingyan looked at each other and sat down in the room. Qianyin quickly served tea. Yun Shang picked up the tea and said, "There are many people in the house who are confused. It is also my fault. There was no one when I entered the house before."
Dismiss all the servants in the former prince's residence."
Luo Qingyan shook his head, "So what if we are dismissed, what should happen will still happen after all. We only brought so many people here. If we don't want to expose the strength lurking in the dark, we can only go outside to find some
When servants enter the house and someone else wants to put someone in there, we can't take precautions. Before, we just thought that as long as we didn't let other people enter our yard, we would be safe, but we forgot that now
Every inch of land in Prince Rui's Mansion is related to me. If others want to tamper with it, they don't have to do it in this courtyard."
Both of them fell silent.
Time passed little by little, and it was almost midnight.
There were faint voices outside, and the tea in front of Yun Shang had been refilled three times.
"Stop, stop! Where to run?" There was a noise outside. Yun Shang stood up suddenly and walked out the door. She saw the servant holding a torch and seemed to be chasing someone.
Yun Shang winked at Qianyin, Qianyin clapped his hands, and then two shadows rushed towards the figure running at the front, and after a while, they brought that person over.
Yun Shang frowned and looked over, and saw that it was a man in his thirties, with an unattractive appearance and a somewhat erratic look in his eyes, as if he was very guilty.
"Why are you running?" The secret guard suddenly threw the man to the ground, causing the man's face to wrinkle in pain.
The steward came over and said, "Reporting to the prince, this man's name is Zhou Yi, and he is responsible for carrying water in the big kitchen. When we searched the yard where he lived, we saw him digging soil in the yard furtively.
I was going to bury something. As soon as I saw the servants passing by, I hurriedly tried to run out of the house. I found that the back door was also guarded by guards, so I turned back."
Yun Shang glanced over lightly and saw a bulge in his arms. She frowned and said, "Take out the things in his arms."
The secret guard responded, then stepped forward and kicked Zhou Yi to the ground. When Zhou Yi saw that the secret guard seemed to be trying to grab something in his arms, he quickly hugged himself into a ball to prevent the secret guard from getting close.
The two secret guards swarmed up and kicked him on the back. The pain caused the man to loosen up slightly. The other man took the opportunity to break open his hand that was holding his knees, and together they removed the things in his arms.
came out.
It is a pink bellyband embroidered with azaleas.
Yun Shang frowned, "What is this?"
Zhou Yi frowned in pain. When he saw that the thing had been taken out and exposed in front of everyone, he quickly turned over and knelt down, lying on the ground and said, "Princess, please forgive me, Princess, please forgive me. I shouldn't be hooking up with the maids in the mansion."
, I have an affair, I beg the princess to spare my life."
Yun Shang sighed and said without looking at the man, "Take him down and deal with him as you should."
Yun Shang did not expect that such a search would also reveal many shady things among the servants. It was common for servants under the same roof to steal other people's jewelry and steal the property of the house.
However, the witchcraft doll was still not found.
Yun Shang frowned and looked at Luo Qingyan. After a moment of silence, she said, "Your Majesty, more than an hour has passed, but there are still no clues. Now we must make two plans."
Luo Qingyan was silent for a moment and nodded, "What does Chang'er think we should do?"
"Rather than just sit back and wait for death, it's better to take the initiative." Yun Shang said calmly, her expression no longer as anxious as before, "The birth date written on the witchcraft doll belongs to the emperor. It suddenly occurred to me that, in fact, what exactly is the witchcraft doll in this mansion?
Whether it was sent out or not is not the key at all. The first look shows that someone did it deliberately. The person who arranged this plan does not need to get the witchcraft doll. He only needs to prepare another one, and then go to the palace to find the emperor and say that it is
It's enough to find it in the palace. Then the emperor came to the palace to investigate the matter. The secretaries he arranged in the palace only had to come out and testify, saying that it was indeed found in the palace, and that just now we searched behind closed doors, but it was the one who was hit.
That man’s plan is up to him. When the time comes, the Emperor will know with just one question that we are indeed looking for something, and then we will have a hard time defending ourselves.”
"At this hour, the emperor must have rested. For the current plan, we must prepare the car immediately, enter the palace immediately, and see the emperor." Yun Shang thought, and hurriedly asked Qianyin to let the secret guard report to Ning Qian.
As a signal, I just hope that your Majesty will order Ning Qian to sleep with you today.
Luo Qingyan frowned and nodded, "I'll go to the palace first, and you can stay in the palace."
Yun Shang shook her head, "The prince is in the palace and I am entering the palace. At this hour, the prince will definitely not be able to enter the harem. He still needs to wait in the meeting hall to be informed."
After hearing this, Luo Qingyan was silent for a long time and then said, "I asked the housekeeper, Qian Yin, and Luo Yi to stay in the house to continue the search, and I will accompany you into the palace."
Yun Shang knew that he was worried about her. After pondering for a moment, she finally nodded, ordered the butler to prepare the horse, and rode straight to the palace.
The palace has been locked. When the palace guard saw that it was Luo Qingyan, he was stunned and then said, "My lord and princess are so late, what's the rush to enter the palace?"
"There is something urgent that needs to be reported to His Majesty immediately. Please open the door." Luo Qingyan showed the token to the guard. The guard took it and looked at it, then nodded, opened the palace door, and let the two of them into the palace.
Luo Qingyan couldn't enter the harem, so he could only wait in the meeting hall. Yun Shang asked the chamberlain. Fortunately, as Yun Shang wished, the person Xia Huanyu wanted to sleep with today was none other than Ning Qian.
Yun Shang went straight to Xiangzhu Hall.
Although it was already late at night, someone was already waiting outside the Xiangzhu Hall. Yun Shang frowned, but she never thought that the person was Princess Tai'an. Yun Shang pondered for a moment, then hid in a tree aside.
Then, look towards the front of Xiangzhu Hall.
"How dare you, this princess wants to meet the emperor brother, how can you stop me? Be careful, I will go to the emperor brother tomorrow to talk to you, be careful with your heads!" came the scolding voice of Princess Tai'an.
The palace guard guarding the palace gate quickly said, "Princess, please calm down. It's really not that the servants don't want the princess to see your majesty. It's just that your majesty has given instructions before and no one is allowed to disturb you. The servants really don't dare to disobey your majesty's will."
ah."
Princess Tai'an snorted coldly.
The maid who was following her quickly advised, "Princess, let's come early tomorrow morning. We have been waiting for more than an hour. Princess, you don't know the emperor's temper. If you make the emperor angry, you may lose more than you gain."
"
Princess Tai'an didn't speak. She stood there for a while, then shook her sleeves and said, "Let's go back to the princess mansion."
Seeing the two people leaving, Yun Shang walked out from behind the tree where she was hiding, walked to the front of Xiangzhu Palace, looked at the palace guards guarding the door, and said with a smile, "Princess Rui has something to ask to see Your Majesty and Xiang Noble Concubine.
Madam, please report this to the father-in-laws."
The palace attendants looked at each other and then quickly said with flattering faces, "Princess, please come in. The master has given instructions before. If the princess comes, just go in. There are already people waiting inside." (To be continued)
