"When was it discovered?" Emperor Jingzhang asked Xiao Dezi.

Xiao Dezi knelt beside him and said, "Your Majesty, a quarter of an hour ago, I heard that a maid named Qinglian was missing. After all, she was brought into the palace by Princess Heng, so she must have been trusted by Princess Heng, so I helped to look for her."

"Bixi Palace is the only way to get back to Qiyun Palace from Huayang. When I passed by, the palace door was open, so I wondered if she was inside. But when I looked, I saw a pair of palace maid shoes next to the dry well."

Xiao Dezi raised his head and glanced at Li Shuangwan who had been standing silently beside him, then suddenly turned around and kowtowed to her several times.

"Princess Heng, although Ke Xia is not your maid, she followed you out to look for someone. Now both of them have died inexplicably, and they died in the palace. Princess Heng, please make a decision for them. Their lives are also lives."

Li Shuangwan bowed to Emperor Jingzhang and said, "Father, I ask you to hand over the deaths of Kexia and Qinglian to General Zheng for investigation."

"Princess Heng, this is your maid. Do you really not care about her and just hand her over to Commander Zheng?" Xiao Dezi bravely asked before Emperor Jingzhang opened his mouth.

Li Shuangwan was too lazy to pay attention to a little eunuch with ulterior motives, and remained firmly in the posture of possessing Emperor Jingzhang.

Emperor Jingzhang glanced from Li Shuangwan to Xiao Dezi, then to Zheng Xinjiang, and said, "Alright. Investigate both cases together."

"Yes."

Xiao Dezi looked at Li Shuangwan in disbelief: "Princess Heng, you, you really don't care?"

Li Shuangwan glanced at Xiao Dezi calmly: "You want me to disobey your order and interfere in the affairs of the palace?"

Xiao Dezi was shocked and kowtowed to beg for mercy. His back was already soaked in the winter, but there was nothing he could do. If he didn't do what his master had asked him to do, even his own family would die.

"I dare not, I just feel that..."

"What do you think?" Li Shuangwan said coldly, "You think Qinglian was brought into the palace by me, but Xia followed me out of Qiyun Palace, so I have to be responsible for their deaths? It's okay even if I disobey your order, right?"

Xiao Dezi looked at her in panic, then looked at Concubine Wan Shu.

Concubine Wan Shu's face was distorted with anger, so she didn't care about a servant at all.

Emperor Jingzhang snorted coldly, flicked his sleeves and walked out of Bixi Palace, and everyone followed him away.

Li Shuangwan passed by the green-calyx plum tree, reached out his hand and brushed it, and a petal caught his hand. He flicked it lightly and it landed on Xiao Dezi's slightly damp socks.

A green-calyx plum petal could not prove that he was the murderer, but it could attract Zheng Xinjiang's attention and lead him to discover the petal hidden in his hair.

Since Li Shuangwan had been ruled out as a suspect in terms of time, and she was also the princess of a royal family, Zheng Xinjiang naturally did not dare to detain her after asking a few questions.

Xiao Dezi was taken away.

The considerate palace maid brought a cloak to Li Shuangwan.

Ling Heng seemed to have just remembered that Li Shuangwan was still in a mess, so he hurriedly stepped forward, untied his cloak and tried to put it on Li Shuangwan.

Li Shuangwan took the cloak from the maid before him and put it on himself, then said to Ling Heng calmly, "Let's go."

Ling Heng felt a little embarrassed and wanted to explain, but then he thought, as a prince, why should he be so humble to a woman?

Besides, even if I ignore her, Li Shuangwan will still stick to me. She is so cheap, so why bother?

Thinking of this, Ling Heng deliberately accumulated his anger, strode ahead, and walked towards the palace gate without even looking back.

Li Shuangwan walked neither fast nor slow.

Thinking that Concubine Wan Shu didn't succeed today, she wondered how angry she would be and whether she would come up with some evil plan again.

……

Wow~~

The eunuchs and palace maids in Huayang Palace were kneeling on the ground. Concubine Wan Shu was so angry that she swept everything on the table to the ground.

The finest porcelain and jade cups were shattered all over the floor.

"How could Li Shuangwan be so stupid that she couldn't even see the problem when her own maid was killed? Is she so cold-blooded? She ruined all the good plans!"

Ling Yan walked over, helped Concubine Wan Shu to sit aside, and waved his hand for the palace servants to leave.

There were only mother and son left in the hall.

"Why is mother so angry? If this time doesn't work, we can just look for another opportunity. Sooner or later, father will know about what happened between little uncle Wang and Concubine Duan."

Concubine Wan Shu was so angry that her chest rose and fell violently: "We have already alerted the enemy today. How easy will it be to find such an opportunity in the future?"

"Yan'er, Xiao Dezi is from our Huayang Palace after all. Do you think Prince Gong would think that we were the ones who did this?"

Ling Yan slowly rubbed the jade ring on his hand: "Mother, Xiao Dezi can't stay." Concubine Wan Shu sighed and shook her head: "Zheng Xinjiang took the person away. It's not that easy to kill him. This Zheng Xinjiang, no matter how many times I bribe him, he won't budge!"

Ling Yan poured a cup of tea and handed it to Concubine Wan Shu: "Leave it to Yang Zhifang, he will take care of it."

Yang Zhifang was the young commander of the imperial guards just now.

Concubine Wan Shu nodded, took the tea and took a sip: "It was all because of that bitch Li Shuangwan that ruined my life!"

After saying that, he placed the teacup in his hand heavily on the table.

Thinking of Li Shuangwan, she suddenly recalled the playful look Prince Gong gave her.

Li Shuangwan was tall and slender, with skin as white as cream and beautiful facial features. Although she had lost her martial arts skills, she still had the heroic spirit of a female general who had been tempered in the blood and corpses on the battlefield. She also had the noble air she had grown up in a wealthy family's mansion, and the beauty mole between her eyebrows made her even more charming and seductive. These were all fatal temptations for Prince Gong.

She also knew that Prince Gong was inhumane, and when faced with a beauty that he could see but not eat, his beast-like desire would distort his psychology, and he would think of all kinds of ways to torture her.

Countless women died at his hands in the backyard of Prince Gong's mansion.

If Li Shuangwan fell into his hands, I don’t know how long she could last in his hands.

When Concubine Wan Shu thought of this, her mood immediately improved, and a vicious plan was slowly growing in her mind.

However, this has just happened. If we take action now, it would be bad if the emperor finds out.

It's almost the end of the year, and there will be plenty of opportunities like this after the New Year.

Li Shuangwan, who was being plotted against, and Ling Heng had just walked to the palace gate and boarded the carriage back to Prince Heng's Palace.

Inside the carriage, the two sat opposite each other. Li Shuangwan turned his head away, lifted the curtain at a corner of the carriage, and looked out the window quietly.

Ling Heng stared at her coldly. Why, since he didn't say anything, did she not plan to speak either?

Before the wedding, she was always flattering him, but on the second day of the wedding, she dared to give him a cold shoulder.

Oh, didn't I just forget to put a piece of clothing on her? Why did Li Shuangwan get so angry?

He did not blame her for making a fool of herself in the palace as a princess. She fell down like that. It was already forgiving of her to save his face, but she still dared to give him the cold shoulder.

As expected, he relies on the General’s Mansion to be arrogant and unreasonable!

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