In ancient times, she gave birth to seven daughters and was divorced by her husband's family.

The human heart is so complex.

The emperor may like himself very much because Zhao Bingyu is his mother, but he also likes benefits.

Bai Lu frowned and said to the emperor with some disgust: "Your Majesty, if there is nothing else, I will take my leave."

"If you ask me to return to the Bai family, I will be disobeying your order."

"Even if it means killing all nine generations of our clan, we still have to resist. After all, this is such a disgusting family! Whoever wants to go back can go back."

The emperor was stunned.

Then Bai Lu continued, "Your Majesty's Concubine Liang has been married to the palace for a long time... I heard that Concubine Liang also served in the bed a few days ago, and called for water several times at night. It is estimated that after a while, she will be able to give Bai Yansong a granddaughter."

She turned her head and looked at Bai Yansong with a sarcastic look on her face, "When the time comes, I'm sure my father and aunt will be happy."

"..."

The emperor's face turned green.

He looked embarrassed and was about to say something when the prince rushed in.

"Prince, why are you in such a hurry? You didn't even announce yourself when you came in!"

The emperor immediately found an excuse and successfully shifted the topic to the prince.

The prince's face darkened, and he said directly to the emperor: "Father, I came to talk to my cousin Bai Lu about something."

When the emperor heard that they were looking for Bai Lu, he nodded and said, "Then both of you can go down."

It was a good opportunity to find a reason to send Bai Lu away. It was impossible for me to serve this great god Bai Lu in a short time.

Alas, I originally wanted to mediate the relationship between Bai Lu and Bai Yansong, but I didn't expect that after my intervention, my relationship with Bai Lu would become worse than before.

Bai Lu was obviously angry...

The emperor felt a little guilty.

At this moment...to be honest, I really feel a little regretful.

Why do you have to persevere in helping Bai Lu and Bai Yansong reconcile their relationship?

If I had known this earlier, I would have ignored this matter. Anyway, Bai Lu and Bai Yansong have a bad relationship, not with me, so why should I make things so awkward with her? !

The emperor watched Bai Lu and the prince leave, then turned around and angrily scolded Bai Yansong: "This is all your fault!"

"If it weren't for you, how could Bai Lu and I have such a strained relationship?"

Bai Yansong felt a little wronged at this time, and said: "But Your Majesty, didn't you promise to help mediate before?"

"If you don't agree, why would you speak?"

The two of them quarreled with each other again.

......

After the prince took Bai Lu out, he quickly said to her, "Don't panic. He... just isn't thinking straight. You mustn't take it personally with your father."

Bai Lu nodded and said to the prince, "Your Highness, you are joking. Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven and has a noble status. How could I possibly use the word 'calculate'?"

The prince was silent for a while, then said to Bai Lu: "Alas, don't bother with your father's nonsense in the future... After all, he and my mother are family, and they still need to rely on the Bai family to conquer the world, so they have to listen to the Bai family more or less."

Bai Lu nodded and said to the Crown Prince, "Your Highness, I understand everything. I don't have any grudge against Your Majesty because of this. From now on, our relationship will remain as good as it is now. I am not the kind of person who can't figure things out. Your Highness, don't worry."

When the prince heard this, he was happy.

He smiled confidently at Bai Lu and said, "I don't mean anything else. What I mean is that it doesn't matter if you don't have a bad relationship with my father. Anyway... just don't have a bad relationship with me."

Bai Lu was silent. So this is what he meant.

She nodded, and as they were talking, they saw another annoying person coming not far away.

Pei Huizhou appeared again at some point and smiled at the two of them.

However, this time, Pei Huizhou did not look for Bai Lu and the prince, but went directly into the imperial study, probably to talk to the emperor about something.

Seeing Pei Huizhou swaggering into the emperor's study, Bai Lu narrowed her eyes slightly, and suddenly an idea flashed in her mind.

She turned to the Crown Prince and asked, "Your Highness, Pei Huizhou...has he always been like this?"

The prince was stunned, and then he was a little confused: "What do you mean?"

"Every time Pei Huizhou wants to enter His Majesty's imperial study, does he go straight in?"

The prince nodded and said to Bai Lu with a smile, "Yes, Pei Huizhou has always been favored by the emperor. Didn't I tell you before? In the heart of the emperor, Pei Huizhou is like his own son. Even many less favored princes may not be as respected as Pei Huizhou in front of the emperor."

Bai Lu nodded, "So... every time he wants to enter the imperial study, he doesn't have to knock on the door? This is against the rules. Your Majesty doesn't blame him?"

The prince nodded: "He has always been like this."

"Although it's not very reasonable, if Father doesn't think there's anything wrong, then even if others think there's something wrong, they can't say it in front of Father."

"Although, this is indeed not in accordance with the rules."

Bai Lu touched her chin and smiled at the prince.

"It seems that Pei Huizhou is deeply favored by His Majesty, and it seems that he is even doted on without limit."

"Is this unlimited pampering?"

The prince laughed, "If he really doted on Pei Huizhou without limits, why didn't he adopt Pei Huizhou as his adopted son? He just treated him as a son in his heart."

"In the final analysis, it's because Pei Huizhou is more capable that he is spoiled. Don't think too much about it. Father, you still like us the most, and Bailu."

Bai Lu nodded after hearing this and said to the prince: "I seem to understand...why the evidence we left behind disappeared."

"What do you unserstand?"

The prince looked bewildered.

He looked at Bai Lu and saw bottomless darkness in Bai Lu's eyes.

"... Let's go call Master Xi and have him follow us to General Shi's mansion again."

......

Inside General Shi's mansion,

The system circled around here, and then said to Bai Lu and the prince with certainty: "This was done by humans, and it was done by someone who was very quick and had very strong martial arts skills. He used his internal energy to flatten the soil of the entire garden."

"So there's no trace of footprints on it. And it's not that fast to use your feet, but it's much faster to use your hands."

"Someone with such high internal strength... should be rare."

Bai Lu and the prince nodded.

Bai Lu then asked, "Mr. Xi, do you think it was just one person or many people?"

The system thought for a moment, and then said seriously: "The soil here is a bit hard, so if you want to use your internal force to flatten the soil here and raze the entire area to the ground, you will need a lot of people, at least 5 or 10 people."

"Personally, I think 10 people is a reasonable number. Take a closer look."

The system took them to the edge of the garden and said to them, "There is another fingerprint here. They were in a hurry, so they didn't have time to erase all the traces here."

It's a fingerprint after all...

The prince's face gradually became ugly.

For a moment, he couldn't think of who could have been able to wipe out all traces here under the hands of his father's secret guards, and it was a group of people.

Bai Lu smiled and said to the prince, "Where are your majesty's secret guards now?"

The prince was stunned: "Do you want to call the secret guard out for questioning?"

"Yes, and Manager Zhang, I also want to call him out for questioning."

"it is good."

The prince nodded, and asked his men to call over Chief Steward Zhang and the emperor's secret guards.

Originally the prince thought that it would be smooth sailing if he asked someone to come over, but he didn't expect that Zhang Zongguan would pass on a message saying that it was the emperor's order and they were now fully responsible for the matter and the prince didn't have to worry about it.

When the prince heard the eunuch say this, he couldn't believe it. "Did you tell Zhang Zongguan that Marquis Anguo and I have found some clues?"

The young eunuch repeated, "Manager Zhang is very firm in his attitude."

"I naturally told Butler Zhang, but he still drove me out. He seemed to be very busy."