shock!After dressing up as a vicious stepmother, I spoiled the villain

That is to say, while Yu Wei was expanding the production area, the third prince and Xu Shiyu's people discovered something was wrong with the mine at the same time.

The mountains are still there, but the mines are gone.

The third prince lost his wife and troops, and began to retaliate crazily.

Although Xu Shiyu was confused, he had backup in the capital and was not helpless.

The harm this incident brought to Yu Wei was that Li Zheng disappeared.

"What do you mean by missing? Suddenly disappeared?"

Facing the wife's question, Lao Li, who was kneeling in the hall, could not answer.

"It rained the day before yesterday, and the fields and ravines were flooded. I was braving the rain to go see it, but I never came back."

Yu Wei didn't understand the twists and turns of farming, she only knew that people were gone.

"I've searched all over, and I haven't seen anyone for dozens of miles."

Now, if we couldn't find anyone, and many things in the fields required Li Zheng to make decisions, we had to find Madam.

"The Li Zheng family wants Madam to help and see if they can find Li Zheng."

Yu Wei extracted the key points: "What did they find?"

Lao Li then repeated the words of an old man in the village.

Yu Wei raised his eyebrows slightly: "You mean, there is another monster?"

Lao Li was a little frightened: "Although the description of the man was unreal, the honest man disappeared. Although Miss Qiu He controlled the old man, she couldn't hold it for a long time, and people were panicked."

After all, Zhoujiakou has a criminal record. Not only Zhoujiakou, but also a bunch of nearby villages all have criminal records.

Old Li has a lot of sorrow in his heart. Under such a premise, let alone the working villagers, even he has some troubles every day.

Yu Wei pondered and decided to let Ah Jiu go take a look.

If there are still monsters, if you can't save them all, you will have to go to the Qintian Prison.

Li is an important figure in stabilizing the Zhoujiakou Mountain Col, and we must also look for him.

After Lao Li left, Yu Wei immediately asked Ah Jiu to check.

Before the investigation, she gave Ah Jiu 1000 taels in silver notes.

Ah Jiu didn't want it at first, but finally accepted it at her insistence.

A short-handed manipulator and a soft-spoken manipulator, Ah Jiu repeatedly said that even without the 1000 taels, he would do his best to serve his wife.

Yu Wei naturally nodded repeatedly. She believed in Ah Jiu. After being together for so long, she felt like a master and servant, but she felt more at ease if he gave her some money.

You can't just ask people to work for nothing.

Xu Shiyu arranged for someone to protect her, and she wanted to use someone, so this was the extra price.

Speaking of which, she also planned to use money to corrupt Ah Jiu, not just to draw people under her command, but at least to corrupt him a little bit.

It didn't take long. At night, Ah Jiu came back and told her that Li Zheng was not captured by the monster, but by the third prince's people.

In another case, the saltpeter mine disappeared overnight.

"So the third prince took the person away because he wanted to make some accusations?"

Ah Jiu nodded.

Yu Wei had known for a long time that the matter was complicated. She had some guesses about the prince, but she said: "What does it mean that the saltpeter mine disappeared overnight? Was it mined by people other than the third prince?"

For this era, some non-human means are very normal. It is just a few small mines. It is not difficult for the superiors to spend all they have.

Ah Jiu stood with his head bowed and answered her: "Three days ago, the general's people found that the things in the mine were empty. They thought it was the third prince who did it, but later they discovered that the third prince was also looking for that thing."

So there is another force, and this force should not be underestimated.

"Now the third prince suspects that the general took the things away. He can't move the general's people, but Li Zheng can. Li Zheng was probably captured by the third prince's people."

Yu Wei thought for a while and asked, "Do you know who took the things?"

Ah Jiu shook his head: "I don't know, I'm still checking. This thing slipped away from the general. No matter what, the general must at least know the whole story."

Yu Wei was just asking. In fact, she couldn't intervene and there was no need to intervene.If Xu Shiyu couldn't handle it, what else could she do?

"You handle this matter yourself, but Li Zheng is going to save him."

Ah Jiu frowned in embarrassment: "Take someone from the hands of the third prince..."

"Sooner rather than later, let's think of something together. What is the third prince like? What kind of character is he?"

Ah Jiu felt that Madam was somewhat contradictory. Sometimes she was extremely cruel to others, and sometimes she was extremely soft-hearted for a servant.

But the lady gave her orders, and he had to obey her orders, not to mention that in front of 1000 taels of silver, he had almost no room to resist.

The two discussed together for an hour. Yu Wei learned about the specific characteristics of the third prince and his party, and formulated a plan to rescue Li Zheng in a short time.

Ah Jiu is the executor.

That night, Ah Jiu left the General's Mansion and went straight to Pingyang Uncle's Mansion.

Pingyang Bo is the eldest prince's maternal ancestor. Ah Jiu left a note informing Pingyang Bo about the third prince's hoarding of saltpeter mines.

Pingyang Bo woke up the next day and saw the note. He sent people to check the saltpeter mine and told the eldest prince about it.

Just when the eldest prince asked about the authenticity of the matter, the investigating secret guard came back.

Although Yu Wei's purchase of Shantou is low-key, it is not impossible to investigate.

The secret guard informed the eldest prince's party that the saltpeter mine was now under the name of the general's wife. It was ownerless before, but there was a big monster sitting in the mountain, but now this monster was removed by Qin Tianjian.

Fruit trees were originally going to be planted on the mountain, but the secret guards asked about it. They bought a batch of fruit seedlings and planted them at the foot of the mountain, ready to be transplanted up at any time.

The reason why it hasn't been moved is because of the saltpeter mine.

"It seems that General Zhenbei also realized that something was wrong."

The eldest prince played with the jade pendant. It was different from the last one. This time it was a piece of white jade.

"General Zhenbei sent someone to contact the third prince. It's unclear what humble position was discussed, but the third prince has remained unmoved. Since the meeting, the relationship between the two parties has not eased, and they are still on guard against each other."

Uncle Pingyang breathed a sigh of relief: "It seems that General Zhenbei has not yet joined the Third Prince's camp."

If the third prince gets help from General Zhenbei, he will take the lead in seizing the throne in the future.

The eldest prince said quietly: "Grandpa, who did you think gave you that note?"

Pingyang Hou really thought about it carefully: "The third prince cannot cheat himself. There are very few people who can stand outside of His Highness. Your Majesty counts one, the Prince counts one, and General Zhenbei who participated in this matter also Count it as one.”

Among these people, His Majesty is the least likely.

It's possible for the prince.

"If it is the prince, then his purpose is to have me and my third brother fight. One of us will be injured. This outcome will be very good for him."

Everyone ignored the most unlikely answer, and Pingyang Bo asked, "What if it's a general?"

The eldest prince laughed when he heard this: "Then what you want is even more complicated."

There is no fool among the descendants of the Tian family who want to leap over the dragon gate.

The eldest prince is very smart, otherwise he would not be one of the potential stocks, and his every word and deed would attract much attention.

In many things, the eldest prince, as the leader of the party, is in a situation that is not much better than that of the third prince.