Priceless: A widow with a baby asks the prince to marry again

"Send the order, surround the Heguang Academy."

"Yes!"

The general clasped his fists to Prince Duan, then turned around to deploy his troops. They had fought against the Burmese army, which was good at jungle warfare, so a small hill would not be a problem for them.

Chu Shiyu looked at the much wider mountain village road, pondered for a moment and asked: "Did Qin Hao go to Heguang Academy?"

"The first seven days... Seven days after the fake funeral, Qin Hao left for Heguang Academy." Sun Zhizhao has recently been responsible for integrating the intelligence handed over by the old spies.

"Where are your uncle and aunt?"

"They are in the village, busy with the cattle farm and the chicken coop."

Chu Shiyu glanced at the dozens of people behind him, hesitated for a few breaths and said, "Let's go around and climb the mountain from the back to the Qin Family Tomb."

"Okay, so as not to upset my uncle and aunt."

Sun Zhizhao agreed... In fact, he was against the prince's encirclement of Heguang Academy, but the prince was stubborn and wanted to see Madam Liu, and believed that if he didn't encircle her, Madam Liu would definitely run away.

In the mountains, taking a detour means walking through wild grass, thorns, rocks and trees.

Fortunately, all the men in the group were strong and healthy. After half an hour, they reached the mountain behind Qin's tomb.

"Ah!" A guard suddenly howled in pain!

Everyone immediately drew their swords and stood guard!

But looking closely, it was found that the man had stepped on a trap, and the huge iron clamp covered by weeds had clamped his calf!

Doctor Ma, who came with him, immediately went forward to check. After a quick inspection, he sighed and said, "The tendons and bones are all broken. The leg cannot be saved..."

"According to the pension for death in the line of duty." Chu Shiyu said calmly.

The pale-faced guard looked better now. The martyr's pension was enough to allow him to live a life of luxury. He had only lost a leg, not really died in the line of duty.

Chu Shiyu indicated that they should deal with the aftermath as quickly as possible and continue on their journey.

Several guards stepped forward and tried to pry open the iron clamp, but the wooden sticks they found didn't work, so they used knives, but they all bent it and the iron clamp didn't budge at all!

"What is such a powerful trap for? It's two times bigger than the one set by the Burmese army!" complained a guard.

"Catch the bear." Jia Yi spit out the judgment, then paused and looked at his master's expression.

As expected, the prince's expression turned gloomy, and he said in a cold voice: "If it breaks, just cut it off! Don't worry about the trap!"

"Yes!"

The guard with the broken leg immediately picked up the scabbard and bit it, and with one swing of the knife, he almost cut off his calf!

The trap closed with a "clang" and the broken leg fell off!

One of them took off his outer robe and wrapped the severed limb, and Doctor Ma quickly stopped the bleeding and bandaged it.

After a moment, the group continued to climb the mountain. Even though two people were assigned to support the injured, it did not affect their travel speed.

But suddenly!

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

Upon hearing the sound, the battle-hardened guards rushed to Prince Duan's side! Their movements were extremely fast!

Jia Yi even stood in front of Prince Duan and swung his sword, knocking down several bamboo spears!

After a few breaths, the danger was resolved. There were seven bamboo spears in total, almost all of them were aimed at Prince Duan!

"Is there an ambush?"

The guards surrounded their master, even the guard with a disabled leg drew his knife out of habit and leaned against a tree to be on guard!

"The bamboo spears are covered in mold and must have been laid out for a long time."

Jiayi found a rope in the bushes. Maybe someone had hooked it just now. The rope was almost rotten and might break by itself in the near future, triggering the trap...

"Another animal trap?"

"Such a cruel trap. Are there many ferocious beasts in this mountain?"

Ruifeng's eyes were full of jealousy and hostility!

Is it haunting?

So what if it was?! Why would a dead person fight with him?!

"Be on full alert! One group in front, holding long poles to clear the way!"

The guards immediately cut down suitable bamboo poles and used them to hit and sweep away the weeds and thorns in front of them.

This kind of vigilance is indeed necessary! It is obviously a small hill, but it is full of traps of all sizes! However, many of the traps are already old and will be triggered by the slightest touch of the bamboo pole, and they no longer work.

But when the group climbed over the ridge and reached the front of the mountain, there were suddenly no traps at all, and it was as peaceful and calm as an ordinary mountain.

Passing by a cave, the guards went in to explore in case someone was hiding, and found many things used to set traps inside, as well as some wild animal skeletons, proving that the traps that had been set were indeed the remains of hunters catching animals.

“Is this a tiger skull?!”

"No wonder there are so many vicious traps..."

"Put your things down and follow me!" Jiawu scolded. Guards should put their masters first. Can't you see that the master is very unhappy?

There is a path after the cave.

We walked smoothly and soon saw three graves.

Walking to the newest grave, Chu Shiyu looked stern and raised his hand to signal to start digging the grave!

"Dig from the side." It's not easy to see the difference when repairing from the side. After all, digging a grave is something that is easy to be hated. He hopes to keep it secret from her as much as possible...

As the soil was flying, Chu Shiyu suddenly looked at the new tombstone with anger.

"What's wrong, Your Majesty?"

"When Qin Hao burst into tears that day, he was lying here, right?" Chu Shiyu's eyes were gloomy.

Sun Zhizhao looked at where the prince was looking. There were the dates of Qin Lie's birth and death, but Madam Liu's only had her date of birth written on it...

Sun Zhizhao suddenly felt a headache. He didn't think it was a good thing for the prince to hate Madam Liu's son! He glanced around and happened to see the tombstone of another grave. He immediately persuaded: "Maybe it's normal? Prince, look, Qin Zhong in that grave doesn't have the date of death written on it!"

"That is because he never returned after serving in the army, and his date of death is unknown."

Chu Shiyu's expression was a little complicated. Living people can also build tombs, but it is taboo to carve the date of death. She was able to dismember her "own body". Facing this huge flaw, she would not be taboo to fill in the date. It is very likely that Qin Hao did not want her to violate this taboo...

Rui Feng's eyes stared at the words Qin Lie on the tombstone and said coldly, "You should be thankful that Qin Hao is Ru Si's child, otherwise I would have killed him."

The guards nearby began to unload the grave bricks...

"bass!"

Jiayi suddenly drew his sword!

At the same time, there was a loud "bang!" and the corner of the tomb collapsed! Several guards who were unloading bricks were caught off guard and fell in!

"bump!"

But one of them bumped his head against the hardwood corner! His head was broken and bleeding! He fainted!

The surroundings were quiet for a few moments.

Except for Doctor Ma and Sun Zhizhao who were a little confused, all the martial artists were on high alert. The guards just now vaguely sensed a murderous intent!

Chu Shiyu chuckled. It turned out that the ghost was still lingering. However, it was obvious that the Yin and Yang were separated, and the dead could only influence the affairs of the human world through accidental coincidences.

He strode towards the collapsed entrance, but Jia Yi went in first with a knife to clear the way.

Perhaps it was the work of the dead, as there was silence again, with only two coffins, one new and one old, placed side by side in the small tomb chamber.

The big hand slapped the old coffin lightly.

"Watch carefully, she will be mine." A deep voice fell in the tomb.

The tomb was not big, so the injured and unconscious people were helped out, and most people stayed outside to guard.

Only Doctor Ma and four guards followed Prince Duan into the palace.

Chu Shiyu's attention quickly focused on the new coffin...

"Open the coffin?" asked the guard.

"and many more…"

He was filled with panic and felt it was too much to bear. When he saw what he thought were her body parts...

No matter how much I prepared myself mentally for a while, it wasn't enough.

"That's not Rusi! That's not her!" He then read it out loud...

After a long breath...

"Open the coffin!"

The guards began to pry open the coffin nails.

The seven coffin nails were soon removed...

However, when the guards opened the coffin, Chu Shiyu closed his eyes...

"When you examine it...tell me the result..." He said this to Doctor Ma.

With my eyes closed, I still have other perceptions. Over the past few days, the minced meat inside has rotted and is emitting a foul odor...

"It's not her, it's not her, it's not her..." He kept muttering to himself.

Although the sound was small, everyone in the small tomb could hear it. However, everyone here was Prince Duan's subordinates, so no one would show disrespect...

"There are only broken pieces of the skull... This is not normal. The human skull is very hard. No matter how strong the black bear is, it is difficult to smash the skull like this. Moreover, there is still a lot of meat here. It is unlikely that it will only chew on the hard bones."

Doctor Ma gave a specific guess while examining the patient. The prince had to resolve this knot in his heart as soon as possible, otherwise it would be disastrous if it affected him when he led the troops in battle in the future.

Hearing this, Chu Shiyu tried her best to put aside her emotions and think... It was very likely that she couldn't find a suitable skull replacement, so she could only do this...

"The pelvis, finger bones, and leg bones are also very damaged, and it is impossible to tell whether they are human..."

Chu Shiyu didn't want to spread the news, so he didn't find a professional coroner. Doctor Ma had been to the front line with him and knew more about the human body than other doctors, but he had never performed a dissection on a human body, so he soon began to have difficulties...

"The rest of the bones and flesh look like they're normal... but they look a little weird... They're so shredded that I can't even find the complete parts."

Chu Shiyu was completely relieved. How could it be such a coincidence that the black bear just happened to chew all the bones that could distinguish whether they were human or not? And it was so scattered, probably to make it difficult to distinguish.

This time he finally had enough confidence and opened his eyes...

A bunch of long hair covered in filth still made his whole body tense up instantly!

But in order to overcome this nightmare, Chu Shiyu stared at the handful of hair and said to himself: "You can get hair anywhere."

The people around naturally knew that the prince was not talking to them.

Chu Shiyu gradually calmed himself down, and after making sure he could look at the long hair with a normal mind, he turned to look at the other debris...

Just as Dr. Ma said, those bones with obvious human characteristics were missing.

Observing these seemingly ambiguous fragments, he slowly adjusted his mindset...

Suddenly, the pupils shrank again! There were a few pieces of flesh and bones with skin left, white and delicate...very much like a woman's skin...

"Those pieces of skin...are they human?" Chu Shiyu asked breathlessly. He had to dispel all the doubts here!

Doctor Ma immediately used the bamboo tongs in his hand to look through the pieces of flesh and bones, and then guessed, "I think it looks more like sheepskin with the wool removed than human skin."

The shadow in my heart finally dissipated completely.

"Your Highness, should we clear these out?" One guard felt uncomfortable. It felt weird to mix a pile of animal skeletons with human corpses.

"No need, seal the coffin."

Chu Shiyu smiled teasingly, patted the old coffin as he walked out and said, "Let this pile of things she put together accompany you."

...

It is surrounded by sparsely populated green hills.

The usually quiet and elegant Heguang Academy is always leisurely and contented on the mountainside.

But early this morning, tens of thousands of soldiers came in with great momentum, suddenly disturbing the picturesque atmosphere here.

People from the academy had asked and learned that these soldiers would only surround and restrict people from entering and leaving, and would not go up the mountain to fight and kill... However, such a large-scale battle still made many teachers and students in the academy feel uneasy and unable to carry out normal classes and studies.

Chu Shiyu mounted his horse at the foot of the mountain and slowly walked up the winding stone steps. He secretly rehearsed what he was going to say next.

The situation of surrounding the mountain with troops was a last resort, but it cannot go on like this, we have to find a way to change their current tit-for-tat situation... Let her go back to Dongshan Village first, and then step by step improve the impression we left on her.

"Your Majesty, there's no need for so many people to go in, right?"

Sun Zhizhao glanced at the hundreds of strong guards behind him. With such a posture, the prince said he was not asking for punishment? Was he asking for an apology?

"She will probably be hiding. We need to find her first and then let her out."

Chu Shiyu was also a little embarrassed. If she was hiding and refused to show up, he had to find her before he could discuss it...

After turning the stone steps, you can clearly see the Heguang Academy reflected in the afternoon sun. At this time, the gate of the courtyard is wide open, and on the stone steps outside the gate stand two scholars, an old and a young, with their backs straight like pine and bamboo.

"I, Yue Qianzhang, and my son Yue Ziqian, would like to greet Prince Duan." The old man took a step forward, and the two men bowed, their movements being meticulous and proper.

"You should know why I came here."

Chu Shiyu didn't blame Heguang Academy at all, and was even a little grateful that there was a Heguang Academy that could take her in. He didn't think that Liu Rusi wouldn't run away if she had nowhere to go. If she ran to the wilderness to hide, something might really happen...

"I know, but I'm afraid Your Highness won't be able to fulfill your wish."

Yue Qianzhang looked up, his white hair shining in the sunlight, and his wrinkled face told of the ruthlessness of time.

The face on the other side is similar but younger, with regular and handsome features. Only a few scars ruin the perfection, which makes people feel regretful.

"Search."

Chu Shiyu raised his head and signaled the guards behind him to go in and search.

The father and son of the Yue family immediately looked at each other coldly and tried to stop him! Yue Ziqian bluntly rebuked: "How can His Royal Highness Prince Duan be so arrogant and unreasonable?!"

"Do no harm."

Chu Shiyu was still giving instructions, and the guards pulled the father and son apart with a respectful attitude, and then filed in!

He was too lazy to argue with the father and son. What he did was unreasonable in itself, and Yue Qianzhang was a man of letters who was eloquent and well-known for his stubbornness.

The Yue family is a great family with a nearly thousand-year heritage. Their ancestors had military generals who were famous in history. During the decades when the previous dynasty was powerful, the Yue family lived in seclusion. When the previous dynasty declined, many talented people emerged to assist the Zhongyuan clan forces to fight against the previous dynasty. After the establishment of the Daxia Dynasty, they spontaneously pledged allegiance.

Among the three main clans of the Yue family, Yue Qianzhang's lineage is more literary. Yue Qianzhang's late father was the prime minister when Taizu of Daxia founded the country.

Yue Qianzhang had the talent to be a minister, but he was obsessed with the issue of establishing a crown prince. The emperor was annoyed with him but also valued his talent, so he kept him as a third-rank censor. However, Yue Qianzhang was stubborn and became a target of the late empress. He even rammed his head against the pillar in the hall, but was fortunately stopped by the imperial guards.

But how could the emperor back down under threats? So he took ruthless action and framed Yue Qianzhang with the crime of selling official positions and titles, which made Yue Qianzhang feel disheartened and he resigned and retired.

"My Lord... I found it..."

The guard who had just entered came out hurriedly to report.

Chu Shiyu was stunned and looked inside the courtyard gate...

I saw a woman in white walking out from behind the stone-carved screen wall facing the courtyard gate. Her steps were slow and heavy...

But before Chu Shiyu could be happy, he felt as if long nails were piercing his heart through his eyes!

Her hair! It was cut off behind her ears!