The Duke's Daughter is Reborn

If you don’t want people to hear, the best thing is not to speak; if you don’t want people to know, the best thing is not to do.

Although the connection between the Bai Mansion and the Yongyi Marquis Mansion was kept secret and covered up by the superficial friendship among the female relatives, some clues were still revealed after Yuan Ruiyuan's careful screening.

After Peilin received Yuan Ruiyuan's order, he asked the deputy leader Pei Er to take his place temporarily, while he himself stayed in Bai Xiang's mansion and kept an eye on it at all times.

As a powerful official of the Tianyuan Dynasty, Bai Xiang's mansion is heavily guarded and has many servants as bodyguards, but these superficial skills can only scare ordinary thieves. For a martial arts master like Peilin, it is not a big problem to enter quietly.

The biggest trouble was Bai Xiang's study. Peilin noticed on the first day he entered the mansion that Bai Xiang's study was inaccessible. In the study, there were eight highly skilled secret guards standing guard in the four directions of the east, west, south and north all day long, and countless ambushes were lying in wait. Once someone approached the study, these secret guards would react immediately.

Fearing that he would be exposed, Peilin could only observe from a distance in the study. However, there was nothing unusual about the people coming in and out of Bai Xiang's study. Peilin knew that there would be little gain if he continued to guard here. The only way was to enter the study and check!

In order to get into the study to check, Peilin mobilized the secret agent of Bai Xiangfu, dressed himself up as a servant of Bai Xiangfu, and entered the house as a cleaning staff to investigate.

Originally, the people who cleaned Bai Xiang's study had been chosen. Peilin put something in one of them's food, causing him to have diarrhea, and then he successfully took over the shift.

There were only three cleaning staff, and Perrin was responsible for cleaning the house.

After entering the study, Peilin intentionally closed the door a little, leaving some blind spots to prevent the hidden people outside the house from seeing him at any time.

A shrewd man like Bai Xiang must have more than one secret room in his study, but His Highness has reminded Peilin that the most important items are most likely hidden in common but overlooked places, and those secret compartments that have been discovered at great cost may not necessarily contain what Yuan Ruiyuan wants.

As the first secret guard of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Peilin felt something was wrong when he entered the room. He turned the Kirin ornament on the second shelf of the bookshelf, and a secret compartment popped out below. Peilin took a look and found that it was evidence of corruption and bribery by some ministers in the court, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince also had a copy of it.

Peilin looked around the room again. There were several paintings placed behind the prime minister's chair. Thinking about what the Crown Prince had said, Peilin flipped through the most ordinary one. Sure enough, there was a secret compartment behind the painting.

If you don't observe carefully, you won't notice these details even if you open the painting. Peilin opened the secret compartment and found an imperial edict inside! After reading the contents inside, Peilin forgot to breathe and couldn't move.

"A Shun, are you ready?" The servant outside had already cleaned up.

Ah Shun was Peilin's alias in Bai Xiangfu. Hearing the noise outside, Peilin quickly copied the contents of the imperial edict on the paper he brought with him with a charcoal pencil and calmed his voice: "It will be ready soon."

After quickly replicating it, Peilin put the imperial edict back into the secret compartment as it was, put everything back in its original state, and then left the mansion.

After leaving Bai Xiang's study, Peilin and the real A Shun reviewed the cleaning process and returned to the East Palace. Bai Xiang's residence did have a servant named A Shun, who was arranged by the prince. Peilin replaced A Shun by disguising himself, so that he could avoid Bai Xiang's interrogation.

When they arrived at the East Palace, Peilin's steps were a little frivolous, and he was not as calm as usual when he entered the study.

Yuan Ruiyuan sensed Peilin's abnormality at the first time and closed the book: "What did you find out?" Peilin has always been efficient in his work. After being delayed in Bai Xiangfu for so long this time, he must have gained something.

Peilin handed the copied paper to Yuan Ruiyuan with both hands: "Your Highness, this is the imperial edict I found behind a painting in Bai Xiang's study."

Yuan Ruiyuan frowned. His father actually gave Prime Minister Bai a secret decree. After taking the paper from Peilin, Yuan Ruiyuan suddenly widened his eyes, paused for breath, and the blood rushed to his brain. He was a little unsteady for a moment and had to support the table with his hand.

The imperial edict in Prime Minister Bai’s study turned out to be an edict to depose the crown prince!

"Crown Prince Ruiyuan, the eldest son of the family, holds a high position, but he is wicked and eccentric, alienating upright people. I have chosen famous and virtuous people as my mentors and upright people as my palace officials, hoping that he can be a man of average character, and that he can be tolerant. He has been suffering from chronic illness for a long time, and is worried about being deposed. He accepts heresy and disobeys my orders, harbors heresy and doubts his brothers, which not only damages the etiquette, but also shocks the audience. How can he inherit the throne and bear the heavy responsibility of the seven temples? He has been deposed as a commoner for a temporary measure, and now he is stripped of his title as crown prince."

Yuan Ruiyuan looked at the imperial edict over and over again, his eyes filled with bloodthirsty hatred.

So that's how it is. I always thought that my opponents were my fifth brother Yuan Ruiyin and the Nian family, but I didn't expect that the biggest enemy was the current emperor - my father.

No wonder Bai Xiang has been undecided. It turns out that his father has already chosen the team for him. Bai Shuo is actually the biggest member of the Five Princes’ party!

It seems that the emperor has long been unable to tolerate himself and his mother, or rather, he has been unable to tolerate his uncle, General Huo, the Duke of England.

Yuan Ruiyuan took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down, and said to Peilin who was kneeling on the ground: "Back off."

Peilin knew Yuan Ruiyuan's state of mind. Peilin grew up with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince since he was a child, and later experienced those inhuman things. In Peilin's heart, no matter Yuan Ruiyuan was the Crown Prince or not, he was still his master!

Peilin knew that he shouldn't say too much at this time, but he was extremely worried that His Highness would disagree. After hesitating for a while, he still spoke: "Your Highness, in the eyes of the Emperor, it really doesn't matter whether you and the Duke of England are opposites. What matters is that as long as you are opposite, you can be opposite."

After saying this, Peilin paused and said, "Your Highness, Peilin knows that he has said too much. He will go down and receive the punishment now."

Peilin's words were cold and icy. Yuan Ruiyuan knew that this was the fact, a fact that everyone around him was avoiding, but it was the fact that his father was most afraid of.

Yuan Ruiyuan felt a little dizzy. He sat on the chair and leaned against the back. His hands and feet were extremely cold. The father didn't know the son, and the son didn't know the father. It was a joke, a huge joke.

Yuan Ruiyuan knew from a young age that there were no fathers and sons in the royal family, only monarchs and ministers. But now, Yuan Ruiyuan truly felt the coldness and ruthlessness of being in the royal family.

Close your eyes. Although Yuan Ruiyuan was not favored by the emperor since childhood, he was also smooth sailing. He was canonized as the crown prince at birth. Later, because his uncle, the Duke of Ying, controlled one-third of the Tianyuan Dynasty's military forces, his position as the crown prince was even more stable. Although his uncle only accounted for one-third of the military forces in terms of numbers, the strongest troops of the Tianyuan Dynasty were under his uncle's command. If they really fought, his uncle would have a greater chance of winning.