The official who came back to report had a bitter face and knelt down at the desk trembling.

It's so unlucky! I thought it was a good job and I could make some money, but in the end I got myself into trouble.

The prince consort actually left nothing behind. There was a secret room in the Xiao Mansion, but it was empty and very clean!

The official spat in his heart and secretly cursed Chang Bei for deserving to be put to death.

"No, no, how could there be no?"

King Nanliang stroked his forehead, his eyes filled with darkness, and his already pale face looked even more embarrassed.

He kicked away the beautiful women surrounding him. He took a few breaths, then picked up the inkstone on the table and smashed it down.

With a muffled groan, the official bent his waist even lower, and the place where he was hit felt a burning pain.

He secretly raised his head and glanced in front of him, and happened to run into the King of Nanliang who was blowing his beard, his eyes bulging with anger. The official who was hit immediately stayed still, not daring to make a sound.

"Your Majesty, Lord Chang has always been loyal and upright, and he will never deceive you. Think about it, when he said there was a gold mine in Lishan, there really is a gold mine in Lishan. There are also rare treasures in Zhanglin area, and I think..." The Left Prime Minister stopped and looked at the dumbfounded official on the ground with a hint of meaning.

The Prince of Nanliang, whose head was already a mess of mud, immediately stopped cursing and followed the left prime minister's gaze to look at the man.

"Unjust, Your Majesty, if you trust me, I will never dare to do such a treasonous thing."

"Chang Hui would never deceive me." The eyes of the King of Nanliang were filled with deep suspicion, and he looked at the trembling man grimly.

The official was really regretting it at this moment.

Showing loyalty with tears in eyes.

"Your Majesty, I swear on the lives of my entire clan that I have no other intentions!"

Suddenly, he had an idea and thought of a rumor!

It can't even be called a rumor.

Two years ago, Princess Guangning was assassinated by Prince Consort Chang's childhood fiancée. His fiancée had an affair with a barbaric foreigner. When she returned to her hometown to visit her relatives, she found a fire in her home and later blamed it on Prince Consort Chang and Princess Guangning.

The scene was tragic. Prince Chang was captured, Princess Guangning and the culprit both died, and the foreign man escaped.

He rolled his eyes and crawled forward excitedly, "Your Majesty, the Xiao family girl is the only legitimate daughter of the Xiao family master. She must have known about this secret vault. She must have told her foreign husband about it, and then her foreign husband moved all the treasures in the secret vault, so he released Master Chang back."

He clapped his hands excitedly and his saliva was flying with excitement.

After hearing this, the King of Southern Liang slowly looked towards the Left Prime Minister, who was also pregnant and lowered his head as if thinking.

"I think there is some truth in Lord Song's reasoning."

The man called Lord Song wiped his sweat, his back was almost wet.

The King of Nanliang waved his sleeves and sat down. "He stole from the national treasury. Prime Minister, you must find this man and settle all the old and new grudges for me. As for this..."

His cloudy eyes rolled around, and he glanced at Lord Song, "He should investigate too. I cannot tolerate corrupt people."

"The minister obeys the order!"

The left prime minister raised the corner of his mouth and smiled slightly.

……

The cold winter wind blew against Xiao Linglang's face. She sneezed, her eyes rolled around, and she made a gesture to the maid beside her to keep quiet.

The maid nodded in understanding and agreed not to report the matter for the time being.

Xiao Linglang turned around and rubbed her red nose, stomped off the snow on her feet, and continued walking forward with her maid on the snow.

In the Battle of Suizhou in Nanliang, Mobei, regardless of whether Chang Bei was there or not, the officials defending the city still abandoned the city, leaving only some soldiers and poor people.

When Xiao Linglang entered the city, she saw those people wearing thin clothes, with pale faces and thin bodies, and eating snow to fill their stomachs. Her heart ached.

On the street, corpses lay under the snow.

Xiao Linglang pursed her lips and let them have some hot food first.

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