When Shi Yi thinks about Xianyu, someone always comes to disturb her.

Oh! No need to ask, everyone knows that it has indeed brought great benefits to the Fourth Prince:

Brought him more than 400,000 taels of gold!

Now all those have been confiscated into the national treasury.

Su Ranche is also an old acquaintance.

It was he who led the troops to intercept and kill Lu Zhiang and his team. After Lu Zhiang escaped and returned to the capital to report the incident, the emperor ordered him to be beheaded.

Many Yongzhou generals were also implicated and were beheaded or exiled.

Chen Jin sighed as he thought about this. In order to use Su Ranche, the Ninth Prince and the Fourth Prince had really schemed to the bone.

I just don't know whether Su Ranche was deceived or knew the truth but took the opportunity to curry favor with the powerful.

Now that he is dead, there is no way to verify these questions.

The origin of this mineral vein map is also strange.

Chen Jin: "When did he give you the mineral vein map?"

Su Lanxiang entangled a strand of hair with her fingers and said coquettishly, "It happened so long ago, I can't remember it."

Chen Jin frowned, slammed the gavel hard, and warned:

"Su, you'd better remember, or I'll have someone torture you. The torture instruments in the Dali Temple are not for show."

I don't dare to punish the prince, so I dare not punish you, my concubine!

The yamen runners on both sides finally had a chance to show their skills. They beat the water sticks, making a "thump thump" sound, intimidating the prisoners being tried.

Su Lanxiang shrank her neck in fear, put down her fingers that were wrapped around her hair and stood properly. She swallowed and recalled nervously:

"Let me think about it! Hmm... it should have been the summer about three years ago.

At that time, I accidentally broke the princess' favorite vase, which angered the princess, and she punished me by making me kneel in the yard for an hour on a rainy day.

I was not in good health at the time, and I was caught in the rain, so I was sick for several days. My brother... Su Ranche finally came to the mansion to see me. When he learned that I was punished, he gave me this picture.

He said that this map was our ancestral heirloom, and he also told me to present it to the Fourth Prince, and my situation would definitely be much better in the future.

As expected, after I presented this picture to the prince, I got lucky.

The prince then doted on me for a long time, gave me many rewards, and the princess did not dare to trouble me anymore."

Everyone: Did they accidentally overhear the internal struggle in the Fourth Prince's family? Everyone loves to watch the drama of the wife fighting the concubine. If it weren't for the wrong occasion, they would really like to listen carefully.

Unfortunately, this melon is destined to not be eaten.

Mr. Chen was still reliable and his questions didn't go off track:

"Did Su Ranche give you anything later? Or did he ask you to do anything?"

Su Lanxiang: "He later went to serve as a general in another place, so he couldn't come back often, but he did send me some local specialties.

He never asked me to do anything for him, but instead told me to give birth to children for the prince as soon as possible so that he would have hope in the future.

Unfortunately, I was not able to conceive, and I still don’t have a child.”

Su Lanxiang glanced at the Fourth Prince with resentment.

After saying this, she wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief sadly. It was unclear whether she was truly sad or just pretending to be sad for the Fourth Prince to see.

Chen Jin thought: Maybe it’s a good thing not to have children. If the Fourth Prince is convicted, his family will definitely be implicated, and it’s hard to say whether he can survive.

King of Dongshan: Could it be that Su Ranche really thinks this woman is his sister?

Seeing that he could not get any other useful clues from Su Lanxiang, Chen Jin had her sent back and continued to be imprisoned in the mansion.

The fourth prince finally noticed something unusual this time. He asked:

"Were all these things arranged by Lao Jiu?" He wants to harm me?

Everyone rolled their eyes. Your reaction speed is really worrying!

King Dongshan stood up, straightened his wrinkled sleeves, and said:

"I'm leaving now. Send me a message if there's any new developments."

Chen Jin stood up, respectfully escorted the Twelfth Prince out of the hall door, and then bowed to say goodbye.

Today, thanks to the support of King Dongshan, otherwise the Fourth Prince would definitely not have cooperated so well.

Lord Chen found a doctor to treat the Fourth Prince's injuries and to set his fingers.

After all, he is a prince, and he should live well until he is convicted.

Lord Chen also took the trouble to warn the jailer of the Dali Temple. If anything happens to this gentleman at this time, the jailer will go with him.

Prison boss: I didn’t offend anyone.

Prince Dongshan returned to his palace. His palace was located in a very remote place. It was because he did not receive the favor of his father in the first place!

There are still many unfinished courtyards in his palace, which looks quite desolate.

He was too lazy to care about it. No one lived there anyway, so it would just be empty.

Although the main courtyard where I live now is a completed building, there are no exquisite furnishings or beautiful flowers and plants to decorate it.

The yard seemed empty, just like King Dongshan's current mood.

He returned to the study, and before he could even sit down, he heard a servant come to report that someone wanted to see him.

It turned out to be Lu Zhiang!

Thinking back to the time, he and I were sent by the emperor to mobilize troops.

However, as fate would have it, the two teams that acted separately were both ambushed and killed.

The battle on King Dongshan's side was particularly brutal, and he was the only one who survived.

The team that Lu Zhiang was in was relatively lucky. Although they also encountered unexpected events, many people still survived.

I heard that they were able to survive thanks to the help of a noble person, and the only male member of the Lu family almost lost his life. Several second-generation officials from prominent family backgrounds were also seriously injured and almost died.

In this case, they are really the unlucky ones who have gone through life and death tests in order to complete this mission!

We are both fallen people from the end of the world.

King Dongshan asked his servants to bring Lu Zhiang and others to the study.

He sat in the main seat and waited.

Lu Zhiang, Lu Zi, Lu Zisheng, and Cheng Yichen walked into the study of the palace one after another. They felt mixed emotions when they saw the King of Dongshan, whom they had not seen since their last separation.

The four of them paid their respects to King Dongshan, who raised his hand nonchalantly, exempting them from the formalities and directly inviting them to take a seat.

Lu Ziang got straight to the point and said, "Master Twelve, I heard that you went to the Dali Temple today to serve as a jury. Did you gain anything?"

King Dongshan nodded: "I have heard some clues, but not all. The whole situation is still unknown."

Lu Ziang glanced at his brothers and said:

"Master Twelve, most of our brothers died in the last incident, and the culprit has not been brought to justice. We brothers are unwilling to accept this, so we went to investigate the Fourth Prince and the Ninth Prince. Please see if this information can help with the trial of this case."

As soon as he finished speaking, Luozi took out a stack of papers from his arms, all of which they had collected over the past few days.

Some criminal evidence about the Fourth Prince and the Ninth Prince.