I married the crippled queen and became the most favored queen in the capital

Hearing this, Jinyu's face turned pale with fright.

But she suppressed her fear and grinned again.

"Uncle, you are trying to scare me. At your age, your child must be about the same age as mine. When you see me, it's like seeing your own child. How could you have the heart to kill me?"

Her words once again made him feel guilty.

He raised his hand to touch his forehead, then smiled bitterly.

"Have you eaten?"

"I ate it, but the bun was so hard that I had to swallow it with water."

"Just bear with it for a few days. I locked you up here to protect you. Do you believe me?"

"Believe."

Jinyu nodded without thinking.

"Uncle, I believe what you say, so can you give me some softer buns? This one is too hard, and it hurts my teeth when I bite it."

Looking at the innocent and lovely appearance of the little girl, Leng Yifei pushed the short knife in his sleeve into his sleeve and smiled bitterly.

"Okay, I'll get you some soft buns later, but you have to be good and obedient, okay?"

Jinyu blinked her big eyes and nodded.

"Okay, I'll listen to my uncle and be a good boy here."

Seeing that she agreed, Leng Yifei turned around and walked towards the door.

Seeing him pass the door in front, Jin Yu hurriedly got down barefoot, and then looked through the crack in the door towards the other door.

But she only saw a crack in the wall opposite. Leng Yifei walked out, and she didn't see how he opened the wall.

She shook her head helplessly and walked towards the bed, muttering,

"Mom, Jinyu is missing. Are you worried sick? Don't worry, I will take good care of myself."

"Mom, this place is so hidden, you won't be able to find me, but it doesn't matter, I will find a way to escape by myself, please don't worry!"

At this point, she came to the bed, lay down on it, and began to cry.

"Mom, I miss you. I don't know where I am, and I don't know when I can see you again. I really miss you."

She cried and sobbed until her tears soaked the pillow, but she didn't stop.

……

Everyone in Prince Yan's Mansion searched Chang'an City for a whole night, turning over every place that had not been searched before, but they could not find any trace of Jinyu.

Luo Nianxi felt as if her heart was hollowed out, and she sat there drooping like a deflated balloon.

Leng Yiyan was also very tired these days. He hadn't rested for two days and two nights.

He came to Luo Nianxi, held her in his arms, and comforted her softly:

"Don't worry, my lady. Jinyu will come back."

"But we have searched all over Chang'an City, how come we can't find it? What should we do? What should we do?"

At this time, Leng Yiyan didn't know what to do.

He was never afraid to go to the battlefield and kill the enemy.

But at this moment, he was actually scared.

He was afraid that something might happen to Jinyu and that they would never find her again.

His eyes also began to turn red at this time.

But looking at his wife crying in his arms, he knew that he couldn't cry and he had to hold on.

In the following period of time, the people in Prince Yan's Mansion expanded their search targets to outside the city of Chang'an, and even posted reward notices all over the country. However, more than ten days have passed since the notices were sent out, and Jinyu seemed to have evaporated from the face of the earth, and there is still no news.

This made Luo Nianxi and Leng Yiyan very anxious.

Tomorrow is the day of the enthronement ceremony. The two of them stood under the sycamore tree in the yard, feeling uneasy.

"My wife, I will go and tell my father that the enthronement ceremony will be temporarily cancelled."

“It cannot be cancelled.”

There was determination in her eyes.

"If we haven't found Jinyu yet, we can continue to look for her. This has nothing to do with you being the crown prince. If you cancel tomorrow's enthronement ceremony, Leng Yifei will have the opportunity to take advantage of you."

"But I'm worried... tomorrow's enthronement ceremony won't go smoothly, or someone took Jinyu away before this, just to threaten me tomorrow."

She looked up at the dense sycamore leaves above her head and breathed a sigh of relief.

"If Jinyu can show up tomorrow, I think it's a good thing. At least we'll know why she was kidnapped. It's much better than having no information at all like now!"

He raised his hand, placed it on her shoulder, and whispered to her in comfort:

"It's all my fault. I failed to protect Jinyu. I'm sorry..."

"It's not your fault. I was careless. If I had asked Bai Lan or Hong Yan to follow the three of them, this wouldn't have happened. It's my fault. I failed to protect Jin Yu."

When she said this, her eyes began to turn red and tears couldn't stop falling.

He raised his hand, held her in his arms, and looked up with her, staring at the dense leaves above their heads in a daze, with indescribable feelings in his heart.

……

Prince Duan's Mansion

Tomorrow is the day that Leng Yiyan will be crowned the crown prince. Leng Yifei has been waiting for this day for too long.

Sun Quan stood before him, bowed and replied:

"Your Majesty, everything is ready. We just need to start tomorrow."

There was a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, but his eyes were filled with hatred.

"Okay, Steward Deng, send someone to the palace to find out. Once you get the news that the emperor has passed away, report it immediately."

After receiving the order, Butler Deng left in a hurry.

He looked at Sun Quan again.

"I couldn't bear to kill that little girl. If we wait until tonight to hear the news of the emperor's death and our people cannot wipe out Prince Yan's Mansion in one fell swoop, we can wait until tomorrow and take her as a hostage!"

"Your Majesty..."

Sun Quan raised his head and looked at him with disbelief.

"How can you still be soft-hearted at this point?"

Thinking of Jinyu's lovely big eyes and her trust in him, he shook his head helplessly.

"I don't know either. Every time before I went to see her, I was determined to kill her. But every time after I saw her, I couldn't bear to do it. It's not that I'm soft-hearted, it's really... it's really that little girl is too lovable."

At this point, he thought of Jinyu's big eyes, rubbed his fingers, and suddenly smiled bitterly.

"No matter what, I am her uncle and her elder. How could I bear to do that to her?"

Sun Quan still looked at him in confusion.

"Your Majesty, from what I know of you, you are not a soft-hearted person. I advise you that if you want to achieve great things, you must not be soft-hearted. Rather than using her to threaten Leng Yiyan tomorrow and being pointed at by thousands of people, it is better to kill her tonight and throw her body into Prince Yan's mansion. See how they can still hold the canonization ceremony tomorrow? When they see the body of the little girl, they will surely have a mental breakdown. Then we will take advantage of the opportunity and get rid of them tonight. In this way, tomorrow will not be the day he is canonized as the prince, but the day you ascend the throne as the emperor."

Sun Quan's words made Leng Yifei stunned for a moment.

He was right. Using Jinyu to threaten Leng Yiyan was a despicable act and would be condemned by everyone.

If she were to be killed quietly tonight, Leng Yiyan and Luo Nianxi's plans would be disrupted, and their spirits would be on the verge of collapse. Then they could take the opportunity to encircle and suppress Prince Yan's Mansion. Perhaps, they could easily destroy Prince Yan's Mansion, and then everything would be fine.