Use a substitute on your wedding night to scatter the ashes of your entire family

Fear reached its peak. The Crown Princess knelt before Emperor Jingzhang and cried, "Father, Your Highness wants to kill me, Father..."

"Take the Crown Princess down to rest."

Seeing the black and purple marks on her neck and the mess on the ground, Emperor Jingzhang sighed deeply and made a secret decision in his heart.

It is now the end of the year and the funeral ceremony for the ancestor emperor is imminent, so it is not advisable to make trouble.

After the New Year, if by February the prince's hand is really disabled, he will have to consider changing the crown prince.

Emperor Jingzhang went over his sons in his mind.

Even Qiao Shun couldn't cure the prince's hand, so he was driven out of the palace. There would never be another person in the world who could cure his hand.

Ling Ji is useless.

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Lexiaoyuan

Yizhu and Luoman were about to go back to the house when Zhou Caiyao heard that she was back and hurried over with her maid Xueer.

Seeing Li Shuangwan, her eyes immediately turned red, and she stepped forward to grab Li Shuangwan's hand: "Sister, you are back. I live alone in Prince Heng's Mansion, and I miss you every day, and look forward to your early return. Sister, you and His Highness are husband and wife, so don't get angry with His Highness because of two servants. After all, His Highness is a prince. What if this happens? Alas, I am also thinking about you."

After not seeing her for more than ten days, Roman almost forgot about this person. Hearing her bitchy words, he couldn't help but roll his eyes again.

Li Shuangwan looked at her with a faint smile. In just over ten days, Zhou Caiyao seemed to have been reborn. She was no longer as timid as when she first entered the mansion.

Today, she was wearing a light lotus-colored warm jacket with a golden shoulder and a double-breasted front, and a red crabapple-colored brocade skirt with a twined pattern. She was wearing a light pink floor-length cape, with fluffy fox fur and white edges gently wrapping her slender white neck, making her face, which was very similar to her, look extremely beautiful.

But no matter how she dressed up, her eyes were not clear. Since she came in, she had been looking around everywhere.

"Ayao is here? What have you been doing these days?"

Zhou Caiyao sat next to Li Shuangwan. "I just arrived in Shengjing, and I don't know many people. I only know Princess Jianing, and she has been taking me around these past few days."

Li Shuangwan looked at her solemnly: "Oh, the princess is quite warm to A Yao, what did you play? Who were you playing with? What did you talk about when you were together?"

Zhou Caiyao felt guilty when she looked at her. She let go of Li Shuangwan's hand and casually tidied up her hair.

"Nothing much was said, just playing mahjong, drinking tea, listening to music or something. The princess was kind-hearted and said that I had just arrived in Shengjing and my sister was in charge of the huge mansion of Prince Heng, so she didn't have time to introduce my sister to the noble circles in Beijing, so she took my sister to meet some people."

Li Shuangwan took a sip of tea and said, "Princess Jianing is really warm-hearted."

"Are you blaming me, sister?" Her eyes turned red. "I, I just came to Shengjing and I don't know anyone. Sister has been at the farm for more than ten days. I, I..."

Luo Man couldn't stand her pretentious look. "Before the princess went to the manor, it seems that she invited Miss Yao to go with her, right? You said that, as if our princess left you alone in the palace."

"Oh, that's not right. Why is he alone? The princess is not here, so isn't His Highness also in the mansion?"

Zhou Caiyao was so angry that her face turned red. "If Roman doesn't like me, just say it directly. Why is he being so mean to me? I live in the backyard of Prince Heng's mansion. His Highness does come back every day, but His Highness lives in the front yard. The two yards are far apart. I can count the number of times I have seen His Highness in the past ten days on one hand."

"Tsk, are you blaming His Highness for not giving you the opportunity to get close to him?"

"You, you! Sister, she's gone too far. Are you going to let a little maid treat your own sister like this?"

Li Shuangwan: "Roman, stop talking nonsense."

Roman pursed his lips.

Chen Ping came with a serious look on his face. When he saw someone in the yard, he just stood far away.

Zhou Caiyao knew that Li Shuangwan didn't trust her, so she stood up and said, "Sister, I'll go back first. You should have a good rest."

"Yes. Ah Rong, please see Miss Yao off."

"Yes, princess."

Chen Rong sent Zhou Caiyao out.

Zhou Caiyao saw Chen Ping striding up to Li Shuangwan, looking back several times, and his pace obviously slowed down. She wondered what this man named Chen Ping was doing for Li Shuangwan.

There is actually such a servant by the side of a lady of the house. I wonder if His Royal Highness Prince Heng knows about it.

Chen Rong blocked Zhou Caiyao's sight and said, "Miss Yao, I will take you back to Yunmeng Courtyard."

Zhou Caiyao then left reluctantly.

Chen Ping: "Princess, Prime Minister Hu's family was abducted yesterday in the Liangshan Pass area."

Li Shuangwan was shocked. More than 20 days ago, the charges against Hu Zhenfang's family were determined and all the male members of the family were sentenced to exile to Wushan Pass. The police took them away that day.

Just like in the previous life, all the women in the house were left behind.

The case was tried by the Sixth Prince Ling Xian, and it was Ling Xian himself who escorted the exiled male members of the Hu family out of the city.

After Ling Xian left, she asked Chen Ping to secretly deliver some silver to the officials more than fifty miles outside the city, asking them to take good care of the Hu family on the road, at least to prevent so many people from dying on the road like in the previous life.

But I never expected that robbers would rob people.

There was no such thing in my previous life.

Could it be that, because of her rebirth, the affair between Concubine Duan and Prince Gong was not exposed, the Sixth Prince Ling Xian is still alive and well, and Prime Minister Hu's grandson Hu Shuyi was also saved by her, which changed many things, so could this matter have changed as well?

She said anxiously, "Tell me in detail."

"Yes, but I know only a limited amount. The news was delivered early this morning. Yesterday afternoon, the officials took Prime Minister Hu and his family into the Liangshan Pass area. Princess, you also know that the area has always been uneasy."

Li Shuangwan nodded. There was a group of bandits in this place. The imperial court sent troops to suppress them several times. However, the Liangshan where they lived was easy to defend but difficult to attack. The bandits were also very cunning and had many strongholds, so they had never been able to be taken down.

"As soon as they entered Liangshan Pass, they were surrounded."

"Where are the officials?"

"All dead."

"Prime Minister Hu's family has fifty people, where are the five people?" Hu Shuyi was rescued, so there is one less person than in the previous life.

"It is said that more than a dozen people died, but the remaining 40 or so were kidnapped by bandits and taken to Liangshan."

How come this was the same as in the previous life, the dozen or so people could never reach Wushan Pass.

Li Shuangwan was in doubt and thought of Hu Shuyi. He thought that he wouldn't be like him in his previous life and would eventually die.

But why did the bandits rob people? If they wanted to help Prime Minister Hu's family, why did they kill so many members of the Hu family?

"Do the women of the Hu family know this news?"

Chen Ping shook his head: "I don't think he knows. I just overheard it by chance. The emperor has temporarily suppressed the matter and ordered the governor of Liangzhou to take one month to uncover the bandit's den."

Li Shuangwan's mind started working quickly. Why did Emperor Jingzhang suppress this matter?