On the night of the broken engagement, the paranoid prince came to me crying and asking for my statu

Yi Zhi whispered something in Yi Fan's ear.

Yi Fan's expression suddenly became extremely interesting.

Finally, he sighed, "Oh my god, I didn't expect the master would have kept such a trick up his sleeve!!"

Use the two Night Furies from the Dark Guard Battalion to exchange for the Twelve Light Shadows to protect Miss Su.

By then, even if the prince knew about this, he would not argue with the prince for the sake of the princess.

It was clear at once how he abused his power for personal gain.

...

At the end of Xu Shi.

The hustle and bustle of the daytime had long gone from the Changping Marquis' Mansion.

Hong, who should have gone to bed long ago, was now extremely anxious and ordered everyone to conduct a carpet search of the mansion.

A servant came to report, "Madam, the people from the second house left Luojing in the evening and went to a three-story house on the outskirts of the city."

"I am here to look for the young master, why are you telling me all this nonsense?"

Hong cursed angrily.

Now, for her, even if all the members of the second branch died, it had nothing to do with her. She just wanted to find her son back.

Nanny Dai immediately ordered the servants, "Why don't you drag this ignorant guy away and beat him to death with sticks?"

The servant's screams suddenly resounded throughout the mansion.

Not long after, the servant in charge of the execution reported back, "Madam, the boy is no longer alive."

Hong's scalp tightened and her forehead ached, and she waved casually at the servants.

Nanny Dai asked, "Has the Marquis returned?"

The servant paused, as if recalling what he had seen and heard, and shook his head after a long while, "No."

"Please go back." Nanny Dai waved her hands repeatedly, fearing that the servant would be a step late and cause Hong's displeasure again.

Over time.

The night grew thicker and thicker, and the sound seemed to be trapped in the thick night, and there was silence all around.

From outside came the sound of the night watchman striking his gong.

Two "knocks" sounded like they were hitting Hong's body.

"It's already the second watch," Madam Hong looked at Madam Dai, her eyes full of hope, "Madam, where do you think Hao'er will go to play?"

Nanny Dai looked embarrassed.

From the end of the Wei hour when the young master was discovered missing to the beginning of the Hai hour, a full three hours have passed.

The Hou Mansion was searched again and again...

No, there is still one place I haven't found.

Thinking of this, Nanny Dai seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw and comforted Hong, "Madam, don't worry. Maybe the young master is naughty and saw that the second family left, so he wanted to hide in the empty yard and play hide-and-seek with us."

"Madam, you're right." Madam Dai's words seemed to give Mrs. Hong endless vitality. Mrs. Hong, who was listless and unwilling to speak just a moment ago, immediately stood up. "Hao'er is very active. He must have avoided those things that he didn't care about and secretly ran off to play hide-and-seek by himself."

By the time they got to the latter part of the conversation, Mrs. Hong had already stood up and took the hand of Nanny Dai.

"Mammy, tell everyone to light up all the lights in the mansion. I want to go to the second house and take a look myself."

Nanny Dai responded repeatedly.

He quickly instructed his efficient servants to arrange for the lighting of the lamps in the mansion.

When Hong left Fuyao Hall, she could clearly see that the courtyard, which had originally looked gloomy due to the dim lighting, suddenly seemed to be full of life.

Just then, the doorman stumbled in from outside.

"Madam, I found the young master..."

The doorman's breathing was unstable, and the dim lights in the mansion made his pale face look dim.

Hong was blinded by the sudden ecstasy and did not notice that the doorman's eyes were red. She did not wait for the doorman to finish speaking and strode in the direction he had just pointed.

Having been immersed in the imperial palace for many years, Nanny Dai felt something was wrong when she saw the doorman's demeanor. But before she could ask anything, Hong had already walked towards the front hall by herself, holding up her skirt, completely lacking the dignity of a marquis's wife in the past.

Su Jinhao was indeed found.

However, when seeing Su Jinhao being found, Hong went "crazy".

In the front hall of the Changping Marquis Mansion, there was a simple stretcher, and on the stretcher, a small body in disheveled clothes was lying quietly.

The little face was pale and colorless, the eyes were closed, and even the lips were bloodless.

The small body was only roughly covered with a tattered piece of clothing that did not even cover the lower body, revealing the hideous and bloody gaping hole in the lower half of the body.

Hong tugged at the collar of the leading servant like crazy, her face grim, "You lowly slaves are talking nonsense. My son has been staying in the Changping Marquis's Mansion. How could he appear in a mass grave at this time? You killed my child, and you are afraid that I will find out, so you are crying thief, right?"

"You all die, all of you."

Several servants kept shouting that they were innocent and did not dare to fight back. Nanny Dai and several old women were afraid to use too much force when pulling Hong away, and they all fell to the ground.

The front hall of Changping Marquis's Mansion was in chaos...

...

Compared with the "lively" Changping Marquis Mansion.

Duke Gu’s Mansion has always been deserted.

At this time, it was inside the Songzhu Hall of Duke Gu’s Mansion.

Old Madam Gu, Mrs. Nian, was kneeling in the small Buddhist temple behind Songzhu Hall, twisting the sandalwood Buddhist beads in her hands with a pious look on her face and muttering scriptures in front of the Bodhisattva.

The Buddhist hall was filled with sandalwood smoke, making it feel like a dream.

Outside the Buddhist hall, an old woman and a gray-clothed servant walked to the door with their heads lowered.

"Madam, Lai Fu came to report that he had found the young master, but... the young master is now in Cuihong Garden, accompanied by the Twelve Golden Flowers..."

Cuihong Garden?

Twelve Golden Flowers?

Nian's hand, which was gently twisting the sandalwood Buddhist beads, paused.

A pair of cloudy eyes slowly opened, and there was sarcasm in them.

"What is the current situation of Changping Marquis Mansion?"

A question without any emotion, but full of oppression.

The servant swallowed hard.

"I heard that there were quite a lot of things going on today. Several beggars were beaten to death at the Marquis of Changping's mansion..."

The candle flames in the Buddhist hall flickered, and a candle flower burst open, jumping with the candle flame, reflecting Nian's old face flickering.

"Let's all go back."

She closed her eyes again.

The two people who were guarding outside the small Buddhist temple and reporting the news heard that there was no blame or reward in Nian's tone, so they did not dare to ask for more reward and left after apologizing repeatedly.

Wait until all the noise outside dies down.

Nian then said to the empty space in the Buddhist temple, "Kill him."

The candle flame flickered slightly.

The thick night buried countless lives and sins.

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