My Lord, the princess doesn't want you anymore.

"There's more?" Mei Xue'er's attention was immediately diverted when she heard that there was a girl waiting for Wen Bing. "So the reason you threw me out was to save that girl?"

"It's not like that..." Wen Bing really couldn't even cry, but he didn't know how to explain that the girl was still waiting outside the door.

He tried to chase her away several times early in the morning, but she refused to leave and kept relying on him.

"Is there such a thing?" Nan Xing was furious when he heard it, "I'll chase her away!"

As he was about to rush out, he slapped Wen Bing on the head as he walked, "Okay, you look quite honest, but you dare, dare..."

After saying "how dare you" for a long time, there was no follow-up.

Nanxing pointed at Wen Bing and said "how dare you" several times again. She continued to rush out, turned around and pointed at him again, glaring at him.

"What's wrong with Nanxing? Why is he so angry?" An Ran was so shocked that she couldn't even eat melon seeds.

"Why don't you go and watch her?" Mei Xue'er rubbed her forehead, "I'm worried that she won't be able to beat that girl and will suffer."

An Ran said "Oh" and hurriedly followed.

"I'll go help too!" the others said at the same time, and then they ran away without a trace.

Except for Wen Bing, who was squatting on the ground feeling guilty.

"Oh——" Mei Xueer felt like there seemed to be something she hadn't asked clearly.

She looked down and saw a pile of little turtles under the table.

Since returning from Minister An's residence on New Year's Day, Jixuexuan has had a bunch of pets.

She counted them; there were thirty-five in all.

Including the previous "Dog Prince", there are thirty-six turtles in this yard, which is several times more than the number of people.

During the first few days, she and Nanxing found it interesting and fun. They provided him with delicious food and drinks every day, and played with him in their free time to kill time.

But after a long time, the side effects began to appear.

First of all, Nanxing got up early and worked late every day to prepare food for these little ancestors, and the earthworms in the yard were almost extinct.

Secondly, the little turtle was crawling everywhere. Once, Mei Xueer was awakened in the middle of the night and found that a turtle had crawled onto her face.

Another time, a turtle fell into the toilet, and Wen Jia rolled up his sleeves and dug for a long time before he finally got it out.

Mei Xueer felt that she really couldn't support so many little ancestors, but these were gifts from Madam An, and she couldn't just take them out and throw them away in front of An Ran.

At this moment, Wen Bing was squatting on the ground teasing the little turtle that had just been used as a hidden weapon.

Mei Xueer saw that he was having a lot of fun and looked a little heartless, and suddenly an idea popped into her mind.

A quick way to get rid of this mess under the table.

Just as he was planning this, Nanxing came back angrily.

She threw the stick in her hand to the ground.

The "bang" sound scared Wen Bing, who was squatting on the ground, so much that he jumped up.

He looked at Nanxing guiltily, wanting to ask "Did you chase him away?" but he didn't dare to ask.

"Has he been chased away?" Mei Xueer asked for him.

Nan Xing glared at Wen Bing. "She left, but you can't guarantee she'll come back. I've never seen such a shameless woman. She told me she fell in love with Wen Bing. What else did she say? She said he looked so majestic when he saved people, and he flew around like the wind..."

Mei Xueer glanced at Wen Bing, who was looking listless, and threw the turtle in her hand away in disdain: "Nanxing, why are you so angry?"

"I didn't..." Nan Xing was speechless for a moment.

"Nanxing, don't be angry." Wen Bing mustered up the courage to walk over, tried to pull Nanxing's sleeve, lowered his head, and said carefully, "I, I really didn't save her. I really didn't throw the princess away to save her. I don't even know her name!"

"What? You still want to ask her name? Go ahead! Just ask her now!" Nan Xing pushed his hand away. "Besides, whether you save her or not is none of my business?! I, I... I'm just mad at you for throwing the lady away like a ball."

Wen Bing was so scared that he immediately hugged his head and ran to a corner far away and squatted down.

He covered his face with his hands, and from time to time an eye appeared from between his fingers, glancing timidly at Nanxing.

He was a little confused as to why Nanxing was so angry.

Didn't he just throw the princess? The princess wasn't angry, so why would she be angry?

Looking at Nanxing's angry look, he remembered the day when Nanxing chased him around the yard and beat him, holding the pink bellyband in her hand.

"Oh my God!" Wen Bing felt his face getting hot and quickly covered it with his hands again.

Nanxing: It seems that the matter of finding a wife for Wen Bing should be put on the agenda as soon as possible, so as to avoid some unscrupulous people from always keeping an eye on him.

What does that saying mean? Yes, we are not afraid of thieves stealing, but we are afraid of thieves thinking about it.

***

On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, the first day of court opening after the New Year, in the imperial palace.

Cui Qimo listened quietly to the report about the fire on the pleasure boat on Xiangxi River last night.

Standing in front of him was the newly appointed Jingzhao Prefecture Governor Xiang Qingshan.

Today is his first day in office, and he didn't expect to encounter such a thing.

He hadn't officially taken office last night, but he rushed to the scene overnight.

I didn't sleep all night, I was investigating this matter.

The flower boat caught fire, which directly burned down the entire camp and destroyed seven boats. Eleven people were burned to death on the spot, eight people were drowned, and twenty-two people were trampled to death on the shore.

A total of 41 people died, of whom 40 have been identified and their bodies have been taken away by their families.

There was only one body that no one claimed.

The body had been burned beyond recognition, but one could vaguely tell it was a man in his twenties.

After examination by the coroner, the man was found to have wounds all over his body, even his penis had been cut off, as if he had been tortured and had his throat cut by a knife.

There was a jade pendant on the body.

At this moment, Xiang Qingshan was presenting the jade pendant to the emperor. "This jade pendant is of extraordinary workmanship. It doesn't look like something that ordinary people can wear."

Cui Qimo took a glance and his pupils constricted. He took the jade again, looked at it again and again, and his expression changed.

"I recognize this jade! It is a personal belonging of the Prince of Changguo." He remembered that when he was still the prince, he was invited to attend the coronation ceremony of the Emperor of Changguo on behalf of the previous emperor.

The newly-appointed emperor of Changguo named the prince a crown prince after his coronation ceremony and gave him a jade pendant.

He was sure that it was the one in his hand!

After checking the age, height and other characteristics, he was almost certain that the body was that of the Prince of Changguo.

What was the purpose of the Changguo Prince sneaking to Dazhen? Did the Changguo Emperor know?

Why did he go to the flower boat? Why did he die tragically on the boat?

Who killed him?

But this person died in the territory of Dazhen after all, and this matter might provoke a war between the two countries.

After the fall of the Hengdu Empire, it split into four countries: Zhen, Chang, Xiling, and Dongbin.

Among them, Changguo had the strongest national power and the most powerful military force, and had always wanted to annex the other three countries and establish a new empire.

Over the years, if it weren't for the checks and balances among the countries, I'm afraid the three countries would have been swallowed up one by one by Changguo.

Now that the Crown Prince of Changguo has died in the capital of Dazhen, Cui Qimo is in a state of panic.

"Who started the fire? Have you figured it out?"

Xiang Qingshan: "Your Majesty, we have found out that it was the girl on the boat who found the body. She was so frightened that she dropped the lamp on the ground, causing a fire. The wood of the boat is flammable, so the fire spread quickly."

Cui Qimo was silent for a moment, "This matter cannot be leaked for the time being."

"I understand." Xiang Qingshan wiped the sweat from his forehead. He knew that this matter concerned the diplomatic relations between the two countries and he dared not be careless. "I will take care of this corpse first."

"This is the only way for now. Let's check immediately to see which suspicious people boarded the ship before the incident yesterday." The emperor thought to himself, the man was tortured like that, and the jade pendant representing the identity of the Prince of Changguo was still on the body. The murderer obviously did it on purpose, just to let people know that the deceased was the Prince of Changguo, and deliberately to provoke discord between the two countries.

It's simply despicable!