Spring comes to the desperate place

Fearing he might really anger someone to death, Song Chunlin also prepared blood pressure medication and nitroglycerin pills, thinking of offering help if necessary. You see, he is such a kind-hearted person.

At first, the old prince was unaware that his private treasury had also been looted. It was Song Chunlin who, fearing that the looters would not discover it, deliberately vandalized the path leading from the entrance of the warehouse to the outside. The servants sweeping the garden quickly noticed the anomaly. By the time the steward arrived with his men, the warehouse was completely empty, not even a piece of wood to prop up a table had been left for the Prince of Pingnan.

When the Prince of Pingnan learned that his secret stash of money was gone, his already agitated mind went blank, and his heart began to ache. He clutched his head and chest, then everything went black, and he fainted.

Song Chunlin quickly used his mental power to shield the crowd and gave the old prince a quick-acting heart medicine. The Prince of Pingnan collapsed amidst the exclamations of the crowd, and then slowly woke up amidst a series of calls.

Upon waking up, the Prince of Pingnan immediately summoned all his secret guards and ordered them to search for Song Chunlin with all their might.

The guards were puzzled, but they did as instructed. Of course, there was a portrait of Song Chunlin in the Pingnan Prince's Mansion. After all, he was an uncertain and dangerous person, and it was important to know oneself and one's enemy.

Song Chunlin stayed hidden to the side, wondering why the old man had thought of targeting him. So, out of curiosity, he stayed to listen, and was immediately speechless after hearing what he heard.

Well, he thought there was a traitor in their army, but it turned out to be a rumor spread by the barbarians and the Jurchens, saying that in any battle involving Song Chunlin, there would definitely be theft of military supplies. In addition, the spies that the Prince of Pingnan had planted in the capital, and the rumors that the Gu family fought against the Li family and all the grain merchants when the Li family raised grain prices, were also spread back to the south.

The fact that the grain merchants had lost so much grain and even complained to the Jingzhao Prefecture naturally made it known to the Prince of Pingnan. Over time, he came to the conclusion that Song Chunlin could use a trick to make a large amount of grain disappear right under everyone's noses.

Now that the thefts in the capital, among the barbarians, and in the Jin Kingdom have been connected, the Prince of Pingnan, looking at his several empty storehouses, understood everything perfectly well.

He immediately ordered a city-wide manhunt for Song Chunlin. That bastard had stolen his food, weapons, and even money. He vowed to tear him to pieces!

Song Chunlin rubbed his arms, feeling that being remembered by such a person wasn't a good thing.

To avoid being caught, Song Chunlin decided to stay in the Prince's mansion for the time being. He looked around and finally settled on the old prince's study. The place was spacious, and behind the desk was a smaller room with a soft couch, presumably for the master to rest in. The Prince of Pingnan was quite angry and didn't have time to come to the study for the time being, so this place became Song Chunlin's territory.

During the day, he would stroll around the mansion and occasionally have a meal in the small kitchen of the Pingnan Prince's mansion. Putting aside everything else, the chefs in the mansion were really good at cooking. Since those people didn't know him, after he changed into a brand new brocade robe, they all thought he was a guest of the mansion.

As for the guests in the manor, it doesn't matter whose guests they are, they all have to be served well. As long as the masters' meals are not affected, these cooks are very easy to talk to, and they can basically make the dishes that Song Chunlin orders.

They stayed there for three or four days, enjoying good food and drink. Every inch of the city was searched up by the secret guards, but they found nothing. Instead, they discovered that one of the concubines in the mansion was having an affair with her lover in an outside house. When the Prince of Pingnan found out, he was so angry that his eyes turned red.

That concubine was also pitiful. In the prime of her life, she was given to an old man to be his concubine. Unfortunately, this old man was career-minded and didn't care about women; he was focused on rebellion. She was not favored in the mansion, and being young and easily fooled, she was completely bewitched by the man outside. Not only did she give him her body and soul, but she also secretly took valuable items from the mansion for him every now and then.

In order to meet her lover in secret, the concubine even gave the man money to rent a small house outside. She used to say that she was going out shopping, but in fact she came here to meet her lover.

It was their bad luck that they happened to run into the secret guards searching Song Chunlin during their secret rendezvous today, and thus the two of them were caught in bed together.

After the affair was exposed, the lover immediately distanced himself from the affair, insisting that the concubine had seduced him first.

The King of Pingnan was already green with envy. He didn't care who seduced whom first; anyone who betrayed him had to die.

The concubine, kneeling on the ground, looked utterly desperate, while the adulterer trembled like a leaf, constantly trying to justify himself and clear his name.

However, the Prince of Pingnan simply uttered two words with an icy gaze: "Bury him."

The two men were quickly dragged down to the mass grave, a pit was dug, and they were thrown in. They cried and screamed, but the guards kept working. As the soil was gradually filled into the pit, the sounds inside gradually faded and eventually disappeared.

Having just dealt with his concubine and her lover, the Prince of Pingnan clutched his chest, feeling an even greater pain in his heart. He berated the head of his secret guards, and the ordeal ended with the royal physicians rushing to his aid in a chaotic frenzy.

Song Chunlin was engrossed in reading in the study. He wondered if the Prince of Pingnan was truly furious this time, or if he had relapsed before fully recovering from the previous illness. This time, his condition was more serious, and the physicians of the palace were busy administering acupuncture and herbal medicine for a long time before the Prince of Pingnan finally woke up from his coma.

Although the person woke up, half of their body was unable to move, and their mouth was crooked, with saliva drooling from the corner of their mouth that could not be closed.

Song Chunlin was somewhat surprised. He was so angry that he had a stroke?

He's already had a stroke, so why send troops?

It's probably not going to be released anymore, and it's impossible to release it now. The Prince of Pingnan is in such a state that he can't even get out of bed without help, let alone rebel. He's practically a cripple.

Meanwhile, the Crown Prince and his wife stayed by the bedside of the Prince of Pingnan all night to attend to his illness. The Princess of Pingnan was busy helping her son to consolidate power in the household, lest it be taken away by those vixens' bastard children.