After giving up being the wife of a powerful official, Ling Yunlu became a concubine

At this time, a servant outside the door reported that King Rui had arrived.

The prince's eyes flashed with murderous intent, "He came quickly."

As soon as he finished speaking, King Rui hurried in from outside the door.

"Brother, I heard that there are snakes in your house? It's so cold, how could there be snakes?"

The Crown Prince turned around and looked at the Fourth Prince with an uncertain expression.

"Has there been any snakes in Fourth Brother's house?"

The fourth prince shook his head, "No."

"Brother, have you checked? Is there a snake den somewhere in the Prince's Mansion? Did the servants disturb the snakes?"

The fourth prince looked concerned.

"A snake has also entered my palace." The princess said in a sarcastic tone.

The Fourth Prince's expression changed. "Snakes have also entered your Princess Mansion?"

The princess nodded. The Fourth Prince saw that the princess and the prince were both looking at him, and he felt strange.

"Old Four, if you have nothing else to do, you can go back first. I am still busy here."

The prince issued an order to expel the guest.

King Rui couldn't stay any longer, so he had to say goodbye and leave.

After he walked out of the Prince's Mansion, he suddenly realized where the strange feeling just now came from.

Both the prince and the princess began to doubt him!

His heart sank and he quickly returned home.

As soon as he entered Prince Rui's palace, he called his staff to discuss countermeasures.

The restored prince was extremely vicious and he saw with his own eyes the prince executing those who betrayed him.

The staff suggested that he should talk to the prince about it.

Prince Rui shook his head. The current crown prince would rather kill a thousand people by mistake than let one go.

But why would the prince only suspect him?

He suddenly thought of something, "Someone come."

A guard walked to the door and said, "Go check how many families had snakes enter the mansion last night?"

The guards took the order and left. Prince Rui paced anxiously in the study.

What happened last night caused quite a stir, and the guards quickly found out.

"Your Highness, last night, snakes broke into three houses. The Prince's House, the Princess's House, and the Prince Qi's House."

Prince Rui clapped his hands and said, "Why would the prince suspect him?"

It is estimated that my sixth brother, the virtuous king, are also suspects.

Among the brothers in Beijing, only he and his sixth brother's houses had no snakes. If he were in their place, he would also be suspicious.

"Have you found any other abnormalities?" he asked the guard again.

"The eldest son of the King of Qi was frightened by a snake and lost his soul. He specially invited a monk to chant sutras to call back his soul."

There is only one woman in charge of the Prince of Qi's Mansion now. It is normal for her to be at a loss when encountering such a thing.

"Is there any movement in Prince Xian's Mansion?" He changed his mind and asked again.

"The gates of the Xianwang Mansion were tightly closed. Even the servant who usually bought groceries did not go out."

"Prince Rui's Palace is also closed to visitors. No one is allowed to leave the palace without permission."

"Also, starting today, patrols will be stepped up in the palace." Prince Rui felt a little uneasy.

Not long after the guards left, Princess Rui hurried over.

"Your Majesty, what has happened that you want to close your house to visitors? I have an appointment with the Prime Minister's wife to have tea today."

Prince Rui looked at the princess with a very bad expression.

"Something big happened in the capital, and you didn't even know about it. How did you, the Princess Rui, do it?"

Princess Rui was confused. What big event had happened in the capital recently? How could she not have heard about it?

"Hurry up and send the post to the Prime Minister's Mansion and reject it."

After King Rui finished speaking, he turned around and continued to discuss countermeasures with his staff.

Princess Rui became more and more frightened the more she listened.

She hurried out, called her personal maid, and asked her to take the letter to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

"Just say that something happened in the mansion, and I will personally come to apologize to her someday, and you should go and come back quickly."

After watching the maid walk away quickly, Princess Rui stood under the window and eavesdropped again.

Prince Rui is analyzing with his staff who would attack the Prince's Palace, the Princess' Palace and Prince Qi's Palace at the same time?

But he and the virtuous king were the only ones spared. Why?

"Could it be that time did not allow it, or that someone had discovered it, so they didn't do it?" the staff analyzed.

King Rui nodded, and his thoughts turned to another place.

"Could it be that someone wants to sow discord? Is it intentional?"

"Your Highness is right." The staff also agreed with this conjecture.

Prince Xian's mansion immediately closed its doors to visitors, and Prince Rui couldn't help but become suspicious of his sixth brother.

"Come here, send someone to keep an eye on Prince Xian's mansion. If there is any unusual movement, report it immediately."

Soon, night fell.

Prince Rui was in a really bad mood today, so he rested in the study.

In the middle of the night, he heard the sound of "Fire, fire!"

He put on his coat, went out to the porch, and saw that the fire was starting in the courtyard of his favorite concubine.

"Go and see what's going on?" he ordered the guards around him.

The guard quickly came back and said, "Your Highness, they said that the candle fell over in the middle of the night and set the curtain on fire."

"Where is she?" He thought of his pretty concubine.

"It's gone. The fire was too big and no one escaped."

Princess Rui also received the news and rushed over.

She pulled Prince Rui up and down and looked him over, "Prince, are you okay?"

King Rui pulled her hand away, "What will happen to me?"

Princess Rui was relieved to see that Prince Rui was indeed fine.

"How did Your Majesty escape from such a big fire? When I heard that there was a fire, I was almost scared to death."

"The study room I slept in last night had such a big fire that I couldn't escape even if I had wings."

When King Rui said this, his heart skipped a beat.

He usually rested there, and besides Princess Rui, the only person there was the Crown Prince.

Could this be the work of the prince?

If he had not been feeling irritable tonight and rested in the outer study, he might have been burned into a mummy by now.

Princess Rui saw Prince Rui's face suddenly turn pale and realized the seriousness of the situation.

"Your Majesty?" she called out anxiously.

"Is there anything unusual in Prince Xian's mansion?" He called the guards.

"Your Highness, there is no movement in the Xianwang Mansion. It seems that there is no one inside."

"Bring someone to the house after daybreak and find a reason to avoid going into the mansion to see what's going on."

King Rui instructed Princess Rui, and Princess Rui nodded.

She also smelled a hint of something unusual.

As soon as the sun rose, Princess Rui took her people out.

The maid knocked on the door of Prince Xian's mansion for a long time, but no one answered.

Princess Rui hesitated. Could something really have happened?

She took her people and hurried back to the palace.

When King Rui heard this, he was also surprised.

He called the guards and said, "Take this invitation from the king and go to the prefectural governor in the capital. Tell him that today Princess Rui went to the Xianwang Mansion, but there was no one inside. I wonder if something happened. Ask the prefect to bring someone to check on the situation."

"Also, when the time is right, tell the prefect about the incident of snakes entering the Prince's and Princess' mansions the night before."

When the prefect of the capital heard from the guards that Princess Rui went to Prince Xian's mansion and no one opened the door, he couldn't help but wonder if there was a rift between Prince Xian and Prince Rui's mansion, and now they wanted him to be a scapegoat?