Who put the yellow robe on me?

"There's an ambush!" Zhong Xiaodan shouted, and Jiang Chen and others quickly looked for cover. Zhong Xiao held a spear in one hand and protected the Thirteenth Princess Jiang Sirou.

"Retreat quickly!" Zhong Xiaodan led Jiang Sirou to fight and retreat, with Jiang Chen and Dianzhang following closely behind.

The rain of arrows was dense, making a whistling sound when hitting the tree trunks and the ground.

When everyone hid in a safe place, they found that Jiang Kuanglei had been hit by several arrows.

Dianzhang was furious and wanted to chase after him with his sword, but was pulled down by Zhong Xiaodan.

Zhong Xiaodan shook his head: "Don't chase them. The bandits have already left, and we are too weak. We need to ensure the safety of Princess Rou and His Highness the Sixteenth."

Jiang Chen looked at Jiang Kuanglei's body, and waves surged in his heart.

Killing people directly to silence them, so hateful!

After everyone returned to the capital, Jiang Chen immediately rushed to the Ministry of Personnel. A terrifying thought kept lingering in his mind.

He remembered that when Jiang Kuanglei confessed, he mentioned that Yan'er's maid could solve other problems.

Then Cheng Yueyan's maid must be in the palace and is closely related to this matter.

After arriving at the Ministry of Personnel, he checked the archives and found the palace maid who had come to Beijing from Fengcheng after Cheng Yueyan's death.

The lights were dim and the paper rolls gave off a stale smell, but Jiang Chen personally read through the files of the Ministry of Personnel over and over again.

He carefully screened every record and found three people who fit this profile, but one of them caught Jiang Chen's attention - Cui'e from Ningbo Palace.

Cui'e is from Fengcheng? This information gave Jiang Chen a flash of inspiration.

He remembered that when the Ministry of Justice was investigating the Ningbo Palace, Cui'e and Cuilu claimed that they had trouble sleeping and used sleeping incense.

He didn't believe it was a coincidence.

Cui'e, Xiao Guangzi, a big fire at midnight, Imperial Hospital.

If it really was her, then everything would make sense.

So he hurried back to Ningbo Palace and decided to torture Cui'e.

"Your Highness! What are you doing? You're hurting Cui'e..."

When Cui'e was taken to a separate, closed room by Jiang Chen, she seemed a little flustered.

But she still pretended to be calm, trying her best to make her eyes show innocence and grievance.

Jiang Chen looked at her, his eyes sharp as a knife, and said slowly: "Jiang Kuanglei has confessed, why don't you tell us who is behind you?"

Cui'e bit her lips tightly, her hands trembling slightly: "Your Highness, what are you talking about? I am Cui'e, the Cui'e who always serves you."

Jiang Chen sneered slightly: "Oh? You still don't tell me? Then let me guess what happened that night."

"You told Cuilu that you often couldn't sleep well at night, so you lit sleeping incense in your room every night. That night, you secretly increased the dosage of the sleeping incense."

"Xiao Guangzi went to the toilet at midnight to relieve himself. At the same time, you also got up and told Cuilu that you were going to relieve yourself."

"Then you helped Xiao Guangzi leave Ningbo Palace and sent him to the Imperial Hospital to set it on fire."

Cui'e's face began to turn pale, but she still refused to confess.

"Then you disguise yourself as Xiao Guangzi, go back to Xiao Anzi's room and pretend to be Xiao Guangzi and go to sleep."

"Since Xiao Anzi was half asleep and the lights were dim, she mistook you for Xiao Guangzi and didn't take it seriously."

"When the Imperial Hospital caught fire, the Thirteenth Princess sent someone to knock on the door, and you quickly stood up and opened it."

"After opening the door, ask Xiao Anzi to inform me that the Imperial Hospital is on fire."

"After I leave Ningbo Palace, you will take off your eunuch clothes and go back to the Cuilv room to continue sleeping." Jiang Chen pressed on.

"Cui Lu saw you coming back in a daze and thought you had just come back from peeing, so she didn't pay much attention to it."

"But at this moment, Xiao Guangzi disappeared from the room."

Cui'e finally could no longer remain calm, and a trace of fear and despair flashed in her eyes.

But she still said stubbornly: "Your Highness, I am just a little maid of yours. I don't know what you are talking about."

Jiang Chen stared at her coldly, his voice low and powerful: "Oh? Really, Cui'e? Oh, no, it should be Cheng Yueyan's maid!"

Cui'e suddenly yelled like crazy: "You rapist, I want to avenge my lady!"

She rushed towards Jiang Chen suddenly, a cold light flashed in her hand, and a pair of scissors appeared in her hand.

Jiang Chen was prepared and dodged quickly, kicking Cui'e down and snatching the scissors from her hand.

Cui'e fell to the ground, her eyes filled with hatred and anger. She screamed, "Slut! You killed the young lady! I'm going to kill you!"

At this moment, Xiong Zhiheng, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice, had arrived in time with his men. It turned out that Jiang Chen had already notified the Ministry of Justice to arrest people before he came.

Officials from the Ministry of Justice pushed Cui'e to the ground and tied her up.

"Your Highness the Sixteenth Prince is truly a god. You have easily solved a case that the Ministry of Justice could not." Xiong Zhiheng saluted respectfully.

Jiang Chen returned the greeting: "Master Xiong, please, you must bring this man to justice! His Majesty has given us three days to solve the Xiao Guangzi arson case, and now there is only one day left."

"Yes! Sixteenth Prince!"

After Cui'e was taken away, the Ministry of Justice immediately subjected her to various tortures.

The next afternoon, the Ministry of Justice sent someone to report. Cui'e could not bear the torture and confessed everything.

The result was almost exactly what Jiang Chen had imagined, and it also expressed some of Jiang Chen's doubts.

Cui'e has been betraying herself in recent days and having sex with Xiao Guangzi, which made Xiao Guangzi willingly go to the Imperial Hospital to set fire.

and……

The day before Cui'e caught fire in the Imperial Hospital, Jiang Kuanglei told her that he had stored some things in the warehouse of the inn at the north gate of the capital.

It was something that could allow Cui'e to protect herself even if Cheng Jingde's crime was exposed, but Cui'e never knew what it was.

Jiang Chen looked confused, but he had a hunch that it was related to the person behind Cheng Jingde, so he decided to go to the inn in person to check it out.

When he left the palace, he found Han Qingsong rushing to the pharmacy.

"Han Qingsong, what's the rush?" Jiang Chen stopped him.

Han Qingsong panted and said, "Sir, this is bad. A large number of refugees outside the city have been infected with the plague. There are no Sichuan papayas left in the entire capital. I came to this pharmacy to try my luck."

Jiang Chen followed Han Qingsong to the refugee gathering place and saw refugees infected with the plague falling down in groups.

"Qingsong! Don't panic. First, disperse all the refugees infected with the plague! I'll go get some Sichuan papayas."

Jiang Chen decided to go to the inn at the north gate of the capital to retrieve the "self-protection items" first, and then go to the Thirteenth Princess to see if she could get the Sichuan papaya.

As night fell, Jiang Chen sneaked into the vicinity of the inn alone and found a man in night clothes sneaking into the inn.

Jiang Chen followed quietly, but was discovered by the other party.

"Sixteenth Prince! You shouldn't have come here. I'm sorry!"

After saying that, two men in black quickly appeared, drew their swords and stabbed at Jiang Chen. Jiang Chen drew his dagger and blocked it while running.

There was no way to escape, and Jiang Chen was finally forced into a dead end by the three men. At this time, Jiang Chen had been stabbed by several swords and was covered in blood.

Just when Jiang Chen's life was hanging by a thread, he saw several children about the same age as Han Qingsong falling from the sky...