The lady is reborn? The crazy villain kisses her forcefully and won't let go!

"Your Majesty praised it immediately," Cao Mang bowed his body with a slight smile on his lips.

The queen turned her eyes to him, slowly stood up and asked, "How is the Mu family's affairs going?"

Cao Mang stretched out a hand, supported the queen, and said, "Don't worry, your majesty, everything is under control. The captain of the East Factory is a traitor. If he dies, there will be no way to trace it back to your majesty."

The queen sat down beside the couch. After all, this was a tent, so she didn't say anything more.

Cao Mang seemed to be hesitant to speak.

The Queen said, "Just say whatever you want to say."

Cao Mang thought for a moment and said in confusion, "Don't you think it's a pity that Your Majesty gave up this big move of the Mu family?"

"If you can't be used by me, no matter how big a chess piece is, it will be useless."

The Queen gently stroked Dan Kou's fingertips, her eyes looking into the distance, and after a while she said, "Do you think that just based on the Emperor's recent change in attitude towards the Crown Prince, you can really keep Zheng'er's position as the Crown Prince?"

The corners of her mouth curled up in a mocking arc, "How could I not know the weight of my son? He played some tricks in secret, which is always not presentable. I will protect him as long as I can. Miss Mu of the family is not going to be my daughter-in-law, so I can't let others get away with it."

Cao Mang lowered his eyes, with some shock in his eyes.

It turns out that the queen knows everything.

In the bamboo house, Jiang Xia looked around and found nothing unusual.

The room was quiet and silent. There was a candlestick on the table and fluorescent light flickered from time to time outside the window. That was the light that was faintly seen just now.

Jiang Xia was afraid of causing trouble, so he did not light the candle.

After finally reaching the enclosure, they would be able to see the Fourth Prince soon.

But his mind was still tense, without a single bit of relaxation.

He wanted to sit on the chair and wait, but just after he sat down for a while, the wind blew through the bamboo forest outside the window, making a rustling sound. He immediately stood up again, hid at the window sill, and glanced out the window vigilantly.

Having experienced many intrigues and schemes, Jiang Xia is certainly no ordinary person to have reached the position of a captain of the East Depot today.

From the time he discovered the whereabouts of the Nineteenth Prince until now, he has never felt at peace.

The nineteenth prince is hiding in the East Palace. Given the fourth prince's fear of him, he is definitely not just trying to be a small adviser to the crown prince.

But what puzzled him even more was the killer hiding in the closet.

When the Nineteenth Prince discovered him, he had already quietly bypassed the East Palace guards and returned to the main room.

The time interval was so short that the Nineteenth Prince did not even see his face clearly, so it was impossible for someone to have planted a killer in his room in advance.

Who else in the palace wants to kill him?

Could it be a mountain beggar?

But he had no grudges against Shanqi. He worked diligently and never gave Shanqi any chance to hold any power over him.

Jiang Xia's thoughts turned over in his mind, and he suddenly thought of the prince who had transferred him to Yangcheng some time ago.

When he was summoned by the prince that day, he happened to meet Cao Mang, the governor of the Western Factory, who was also there.

Could it be...

Jiang Xia suddenly felt a chill climbing up his spine.

In fact, the idea of ​​letting him go to Yangcheng was not from the prince, but from Cao Mang.

After the prince called him to Yunguang Palace, he returned to his bedroom.

It was Cao Mang who ordered him to go to Yangcheng to deal with a batch of timber for canal construction.

The construction of the Lingqu Canal required a large amount of wood, but Cao Mang did not let him cut wood. Instead, he ordered people to core most of the wood that was cut down.

If such hollow wood is used to build a canal, all the people downstream will die after the valve is opened.

He didn't know why Cao Mang did this at that time.

But Cao Mang's official position was higher than his, and the Western Factory had always stood on the side of the prince, so he didn't think much about it.

It was not until I returned to the capital that I found out that the person who was subsequently sent to Yangcheng to supervise the work was actually Zuo Hou Wei Muluoheng.

Human life is of paramount importance. There are not many people in Yangcheng, but there are more than a hundred households whose ancestors have lived there for generations.

Hundreds of lives were lost overnight. It was impossible for the imperial court not to conduct a thorough investigation.

As the chief inspector of this inspection, Mu Luoheng has an unshirkable responsibility.

Mu Luoheng's accident foreshadowed the future of the General's Mansion.

It seems that the Western Factory has long wanted to take action against the General's Mansion.

Why send him if it's just a trap like this?

unless……

Cao Mang already knew that the person he was truly loyal to was not the Crown Prince, but the Fourth Prince.

Therefore, when the fourth prince was assassinated for the third time, he was deliberately sent away, allowing him to become an accomplice of the Mu family in harming the people.

If the matter is exposed at that time, Cao Mang can directly put the blame on him.

But by then I would probably have been a cold corpse.

There is no evidence after death, what a good trick!

He can only place all his hopes on the Fourth Prince to have a chance of survival.

As I made up my mind, I saw a figure outside the window approaching the door.

Jiang Xia immediately collected his thoughts, quickly hid behind the door, and slowly drew out the sword from his waist.

There was a squeak.

The door was pushed open, and a faint silver light shone through the crack in the door and poured into the room.

The visitor looked around and walked in.

Just as he stepped over the threshold, the sharp blade behind the door suddenly attacked him.

With the help of a little light, Jiang Xia saw the face of the person coming, and in a flash, the sword in his hand just landed on his neck.

Jiang Xia paused, and quickly retracted the sword and put it behind his back.

He pulled down the long scarf that was halfway around his chin, revealing his true face, and respectfully called out, "Fourth Prince!"

"You've become so powerful that you dare to point a sword at me."

Jun Zhiling swept his cold gaze over him and walked into the house.

Jiang Xia's eyes flashed with panic, and he knelt down to explain: "Your Highness has misunderstood. It was my poor eyesight that nearly hurt Your Highness. However, I came to the hunting ground after a narrow escape, and I do have something important to report to Your Highness."

When Jun Zhiling heard him say "a narrow escape from death", his expression changed slightly.

There were obvious marks of sword scratches on Jiang Xia's robe.

Swords and knives have no eyes, but he still survived.

I thought he was here to look for the prince, but I didn't expect that he was here to look for me.

He wanted to see how else he could prove his loyalty to himself.

Jun Zhiling said in a deep voice: "Tell me, why did you take the risk to come to me?"

Jiang Xia raised his eyes and said, "I have found out the identity of the adviser beside the prince. He is..."

"Tonight the wind is clear and the air is bright. Although the moonlight is faint, I have to say it is a rare good day."

Outside the door, Jun Qizheng came to the bamboo house with a lantern in his hand, his eyes full of lustful anticipation.

When he raised his eyes, his body suddenly froze.

The light and shadows flickered, and the candlelight clearly illuminated the two figures in the room.

Jun Qizheng and Jiang Xia, who was kneeling on the ground, were caught off guard by this sudden scene.

Neither of them expected to see the prince here.

Jun Zhiling's eyes were dark and he suddenly looked at Jiang Xia, thinking that Jiang Xia had deliberately led him here.

Jun Qi was frowning, his gaze lingering over the two of them, finally landing on Jiang Xia.