After being struck by lightning and being in the world of women

But her feeling of uneasiness was so strong that she couldn't sleep.

Zhong Ruhuang simply didn't want to sleep and walked out of the room.

The yard was quiet.

A full moon hangs in the night sky.

Zhong Ruhuang looked up at the full moon above her head and her ears twitched slightly.

Her face turned cold.

Her mother's birthday banquet just ended yesterday, and already someone can't hold back?

It is said that the assassins who escaped were not caught.

The wind is blowing in Chaotian City.

Zhong Ruhuang's figure flashed and she came to the wall of Prince Wu's Mansion, where she saw dozens of men in black climbing over the wall.

When these men in black saw Zhong Ruhuang suddenly appear, they all had cold looks in their eyes, raised their long swords, and rushed over to kill her.

I have to say, those who secretly wanted to kill her were quite willing to do so. They were all first-rate masters.

If Zhong Ruhuang was a first-rate master, he would have to fight with these people for a while.

Unfortunately, she is not.

She flicked her sleeves and powerful innate internal energy burst out of her body, instantly knocking the men in black away and causing them to fall heavily against the wall with a loud noise.

In the palace, the patrolling guards heard the noise and rushed over.

Fan Yu has always been a light sleeper. When he heard the sound, he woke up instantly and rushed over as fast as he could.

Over the years, and with Zhong Ruhuang occasionally guiding Fan Yu in his martial arts, Fan Yu has become a first-rate master, and is just one step away from a breakthrough to the half-step innate realm.

When he saw Zhong Ruhuang and the half-dead man in black not far away, Fan Yu realized something.

"Your Highness."

Zhong Ruhuang looked at the men in black with cold eyes.

"Fan Yu, take them away and interrogate them thoroughly."

She wanted to see who was doing the thing to her.

These men in black were only seriously injured by Zhong Ruhuang, but they were not dead yet and were not unconscious.

When they heard Zhong Ruhuang's words and looked at the guards who were coming over to arrest them, they all gritted their teeth at the same time.

In an instant, the poison sac in the mouth burst, killing the person instantly.

"Your Highness, they committed suicide by taking poison."

As the deputy commander of Zhong Ruhuang's guards, Fang Anran was the first to discover the problem.

After hearing this, Zhong Ruhuang looked at the men in black with black blood oozing from their mouths, and her expression became even colder.

Obviously, these men in black came prepared.

"Search them and see if there are any clues."

She also forgot that killers would always hide poison on their bodies.

Over the years, she had a very leisurely life in Chaotian Pass. No one came to assassinate her and they had forgotten the characteristics of a killer.

Fang Anran and the others searched but found nothing on the man in black.

"Throw it in a mass grave."

Now that the killers are dead, the clues are naturally gone.

However, Zhong Ruhuang also had his own guesses in his mind.

Either it was her sisters who did it, or it was that yellow-haired girl Zhong Huaiqi who did it.

Fang Anran and the others dealt with the men in black quickly.

Zhong Ruhuang returned to the main courtyard and entered the study with a frown.

"Fan Yu, go contact the spies in Chaotian City and get some information."

"Yes, Your Highness."

When it gets light, she will go and say goodbye to her mother.

Once she returns to Chaotian Pass, she will be ready to rebel if anything happens to her mother.

She couldn't submit to Zhong Huaiqi.

For the remaining two hours, Zhong Ruhuang sat in the study until dawn.

The spies did not bring back any useful information for Zhong Ruhuang.

Only Emperor Showa knew that Zhong Chengfeng had left Chaotian City.

When the golden morning sun casts a ray of golden light.

when!

when!

when!

...

...

when!

Nine times exactly.

When Zhong Ruhuang heard the sound of the death knell, her expression changed.

"Nine times."

It was Emperor Showa.

Emperor Showa was the supreme ruler, so only when she died would the funeral bell toll nine times.

Her mother passed away?

How can it be?

When she met Emperor Showa yesterday, although she did not look well, she did not look like she would die soon.

How come he was gone in just one night?

Zhong Ruhuang stood up and walked out of the study, looking towards the direction of the imperial palace.

Fan Yu had already arranged for people to remove the festive decorations in the mansion and hang up white silk and white lanterns, and also sent people to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to get mourning clothes.

"Your Highness."

Fan Yu looked at Zhong Ruhuang with some concern, thinking that she was very sad.

In fact, she was just a little sad, but more shocked.

She and Emperor Showa had no mother-daughter relationship and were not close. At most, she was just sad that her mother was gone.

"My king is fine. Please change your clothes. I want to go to the palace to take a look."

"Send a message to Chaotian Pass, strictly guard Chaotian Pass. Do not let anyone in Chaotian Pass without my order. Anyone who dares to force their way in will be killed without mercy."

"Yes, the captive servant knows."

The person who went to get the mourning clothes just came back.

Fan Yu changed Zhong Ruhuang into a plain white mourning dress, took off all her jewelry, and tied her hair up with a large plain white hairpin.

Zhong Ruhuang put on mourning clothes, arranged things in the mansion, asked Fang Anran and the others to be on guard, and at the same time contacted Fang Yuehua outside the city to ask her to be prepared as well. Then she rode into the palace.

Outside the palace, when Zhong Ruhuang arrived, the other princesses also arrived.

There are also a number of civil and military ministers.

The eldest princess wore a half-phoenix mask and also wore snow-white mourning clothes.

Led by her, a group of princesses walked into the palace in order of age.

Emperor Showa's coffin has been placed in the mausoleum at Xuanzheng Gate.

Xuanzheng Gate is located at the junction of the front court and the harem, and has always been the place where the bodies of successive empresses were placed.

In the back hall of the mourning hall, the men from the harem who had come to mourn were already kneeling on the ground crying.

As the highest-ranking man in the harem, Huang Guifu Xiaojin, along with four other husbands, including Sun Guifu and Zhang Xianfu, and several men with children, knelt in front of the coffin.

Zhong Ruhuang and the others entered the mourning hall, first knelt down and kowtowed to Emperor Showa, then burned incense, and then stood up.

Until now, they still don’t know how Emperor Showa died.

The entire palace was under the control of Zhong Huaiqi.

Moreover, Hou Songlin, who used to be inseparable from Emperor Showa, was nowhere to be seen.

Zhong Ruhuang frowned slightly.

Not right.

Something is wrong.

The seventh princess, Zhong Feihuang, quietly approached Zhong Ruhuang and gently tugged at her sleeve.

"Fifth sister, something is wrong."

Zhong Ruhuang nodded slightly, "I also feel something is wrong."

Logically speaking, as daughters, they were qualified to see Emperor Showa for the last time.

As a result, when they arrived, the coffins were already placed in place and the caskets were sealed.

The Seventh Princess looked around and said, "I noticed that Servant Yan didn't come."

Yan Shijun is the biological father of the eighth princess Zhong Zhenhuang, so he should come to mourn.

Zhong Ruhuang nodded, then glanced at Fan Yu who was not far behind her.

When Fan Yu received Zhong Ruhuang's gaze, he quietly retreated.

There is a problem if Hou Songlin is not here.

Moreover, Yan Shijun was not here either.

Zhong Ruhuang also felt that the problem was serious.

Zhong Chengfeng was not in the palace.

This made it impossible for her to find anyone to ask.

The eldest princess and the others also had serious expressions.

The third princess and the sixth princess were also talking about something, their eyes were very serious.

Just then, a communication sounded.

"The Crown Prince's granddaughter has arrived."

Zhong Huaiqi, dressed in plain white mourning clothes, walked in with a serious look in his eyes.