"Drink some soup first!" Chu Feiyan took a small bowl and poured some broth for him.

She and Gong Beixuan had known each other for almost three months, but this was the first time they had eaten together.

"I can do it myself. You've been busy all day and must be hungry." Gong Beixuan sat down and helped her serve a bowl of rice.

“Let’s eat!”

The two smiled at each other, picked up their chopsticks, and ate quietly.

An hour later, Ji Song and Liang Ying brought the boiled medicine and poured it into a large bathtub.

Chu Feiyan instructed Xia An on some things and asked them to arrange a large number of people in the city tonight to monitor all movements in the city. If anyone showed up during curfew, they should be arrested immediately.

When she returned to the room, she saw Gong Beixuan already soaking in the bucket of medicine.

She blew out the candle, took off all her clothes and sat in the medicinal bath.

The two men placed their palms together, closed their eyes slightly, and began to practice their skills.

The poison in Gong Beixuan's body had indeed not subsided yet. Waves of cold and hot air flowed from Chu Feiyan's palm to his arm, and were digested by her bit by bit. Then, her profound skills flowed into his limbs and bones, helping him suppress the toxins in his body.

After two hours, Gong Beixuan's poison was gradually suppressed. Although Chu Feiyan consumed a lot of physical strength, his skills were greatly enhanced.

"It's already midnight, can you please not leave?" Gong Beixuan rubbed her head with his chin and said weakly, "I feel a little cold."

When Chu Feiyan heard that he was cold, her heart softened. She pulled the quilt over, and the two of them lay down together, sleeping in each other's arms.

She hadn't slept well the previous night. She had fought a battle in the middle of the night and had been running around all day searching for the assassin. She was really tired and didn't want to move.

Gong Beixuan raised the corners of his mouth slightly, hugged her tightly, and they both fell asleep quickly.

The next day, it was almost Si time when Chu Feiyan left the palace and went directly to the jail cell of Jingzhao Prefecture.

All the suspects they arrested yesterday were detained here. Qiu Ling, the prefect of Jingzhao, and people from the three departments interrogated these people overnight.

Seeing her coming, everyone stood up to greet her.

"Meet Princess Allergan!"

"No need to be polite! You've worked hard!" Chu Feiyan nodded to them and asked, "How is the situation?"

Qiu Ling took out some documents from the desk and gave them to her. "Princess, we arrested more than 120 people yesterday, and the identities of more than 70 people have been verified. Eight years ago, there was a flood in the south, which submerged many houses and fields. They followed their parents or followed the refugee groups. Some of them lost their parents on the way and became orphans. Later, they sneaked into the city to beg.

Over time, these people became illegal residents, and some of them even forgot where they were from.

Some shop owners targeted these children and forced them to work in their shops, only giving them food to eat after a hard day's work, but no wages. We went to the shop owners and they all acknowledged the identities of these people. "

Chu Feiyan flipped through the information, and his face became more gloomy the more he looked.

So, they worked in vain yesterday and gained nothing?

Sure enough, this was a premeditated assassination. Regardless of whether the assassination was successful or not, these assassins had already planned a retreat. They might have been hidden by someone, perhaps by the guards in a mansion. How could they possibly find out?

"There are more than forty people who were bought from human traffickers by their employers at the lowest price. They don't have indentures. Although they are registered in the property books of these employers, no contracts have been signed between them." Qiu Ling continued.

"Since there is no contract, these people are not their private property."

Chu Feiyan sneered and said to the Jingzhao prefect, "Find out where these forty-odd people came from. If their employers have violated the law, they will be severely punished!"

Although the Longyuan Kingdom allowed human trafficking, it was also subject to legal restrictions and regulations, which stipulated that private employment of slaves had to go through formal human trafficking agencies, sign contracts with the government, and clearly define the employment period and remuneration.

"Yes, sir!" The prefect of Jingzhao bowed and accepted the order.

"Princess, these people dare to openly traffic in human beings. There must be someone protecting them behind the scenes." Qiu Ling whispered in her ear.

Chu Feiyan was also thinking about this matter, and she thought of the fact that Long Shiling raised private soldiers.

One hundred thousand private soldiers is a huge number and it is definitely not something that can be raised overnight.

There are many political parties in the court, but they also play a role of mutual supervision. It is impossible for Long Shiling to withdraw people from the regular army, so he can only buy people from the black market or kidnap people from various places.

After looking through the information, Chu Feiyan confirmed that these people had nothing to do with the killer from the previous night, and took Qiu Ling back home!

As for the more than one hundred illegal households, they were handed over to the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Households for processing and to re-register these people.

"Qiu Ling, you've worked hard all day and night, go down and have a rest first!" Chu Feiyan asked Qiu Ling to go down and have a rest, while he went to the study.

On that day, she sent more than a dozen secret letters, ordering the heads of the various branches of Yueying Pavilion to vigorously investigate the disappearance of people in various places and the matter of King Rui raising private soldiers.

Prince Rui's Mansion.

Han Zhiyu finally had a few days of peace.

Because of the assassination of Gong Beixuan and the failure to catch the escaped assassin, the emperor was so angry that his condition worsened. Long Shiling was in the palace taking care of him every day and had no time to cause trouble for her!

Thinking of what Xiao Changchuan had said to her, she decided to take a look around Long Shiling's study.

When she was walking halfway with her maid Qiaoling, she was stopped by a dozen women.

Han Zhiyu recognized these women. They were all women in Long Shiling's backyard. One of them was a concubine. Not only did they not greet her, they also looked at her with sneer on their faces.

"Oh! Isn't this our noble princess? Our prince is not here today, so she is finally able to come out to the yard!" said a woman with pearls and jade on her head.

"How dare you!" Qiao Ling pointed at the women and shouted, "You are just a concubine, how dare you be rude to the princess?"

"Hahaha!!"

These women seemed to have heard a joke and laughed with their handkerchiefs covering their mouths.

Another concubine raised the handkerchief in her hand and sneered, "So what if I am a concubine? At least before I married the prince, my body was pure and my heart was small. I could only think of the prince. I am not as unruly as the princess before marriage. Her heart was big and I don't know how many lovers she had."

"You lowly slaves, you actually slandered the princess..." Qiaoling was so angry that she was about to curse again, but was stopped by Han Zhiyu. She knew that these women were deliberately provoking her.

If she punished these women, Long Shiling would find out and use this as an excuse to torture her even more.

"Qiaoling, let's go!" Han Zhiyu remembered these women. When the day comes to overthrow King Rui, she will strip these women naked and sell them to brothels!

Seeing her defeated and leaving, these women became even more proud.

"Bah! She is nothing but a fallen woman! She became the princess only because of her good family background. She is not favored by the prince. So what if she is the legal wife? She is worse than a concubine like us!"

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