The prince stepped on me to get to the top, I angrily flirted with the enemy's hostage

Su Rou only understood one thing, that Xie Yuan deliberately fell off his horse in order to frame them because of what happened just now.

Wherever Xie Yuan appears, nothing good happens. This is absolutely true.

Su Rou held Su Wan back, "Father, don't panic. If Xie Yuan sees this, he'll definitely push it further."

Xie Yuan probably wanted the emperor to blame him.

Su Wan said, "Arou, would you like to go with Dad and take a look?"

This time Su Wan didn't ask her to stay here obediently.

The two troubles that Xie Yuan had caused in a row were both related to her, so it would be a good idea for her to go and take a look. Xie Yuan didn't dare to completely break off relations with the General's Mansion yet.

No matter who the General's Mansion gets close to in the future, it will be disadvantageous to Xie Yuan.

When Su Rou walked over, she saw Xie Yuan slumped on the ground, with two soldiers lying under him serving as cushions.

There were several soldiers standing around silently. If you looked closely, you could see that their faces were bruised and swollen.

The soldier who had just gone over to report the news was also injured. People like Xie Yuan were obviously incompetent and could only act wildly in places like this to demonstrate his power that came from being high above.

Su Rou asked Xie Yuan, "Where did you fall when you fell off your horse just now?"

Xie Yuan's attitude towards her was still somewhat gentle. "Arou, I fell and hurt my leg. Look, my injury is minor, but if my father sees it when I return to the palace, General Su will have a hard time explaining himself..."

Threaten her?

Xie Yuan looked at Su Rou and Su Wan with pride.

Su Rou, however, still looked calm and indifferent. If Xie Yuan wanted to play, then she would play with him. However, she didn't know how the emperor would look at Xie Yuan after he returned to the palace.

Her voice became tense, and she leaned down, placing her soft hand on Xie Yuan's forehead. "Did you break your leg? Are you okay? If you hadn't told me, I would have thought Your Highness had hit his head. My father will send someone to take you back to the palace later. I hope Your Highness won't tell the Emperor."

Xie Yuan didn't realize she was just pretending to be nervous, nor did he hear the insult in her words. He smiled and said, "Arou, if you can, you might as well go to the palace more often these days and walk around. My leg is injured, and I can't leave the palace. If I miss Arou, I can only stay in the palace all day looking at things and thinking about her."

Su Wan heard Xie Yuan teasing her like this in the middle of the night in front of a barracks full of men, "Prince..."

Just as he was about to speak, he was stopped by Su Rou.

Su Rou nodded and said softly, "Don't worry, Your Highness. I will definitely go to the palace to visit you."

Xie Yuan was a bit smart. If she frequently went in and out of the palace, the rumor that he was kicked out of the general's mansion a while ago would be self-defeating.

These words sounded very sincere, which was also a trick Xie Yuan was good at.

He confessed his love to her in front of others. Everyone who saw him would think that the Crown Prince was deeply in love with her...

If she had not been deceived by Xie Yuan in her previous life, she would probably still foolishly believe his nonsense.

Su Rou and Su Wan watched Xie Yuan being carried into the sedan chair and left.

Su Wan looked at her, "Don't you dislike the prince? Why were you like that just now..."

Su Rou said, "Father, gather the soldiers who were beaten by Xie Yuan today and tell them not to go back and apply medicine yet. You will know in a few days."

When they returned home at night, the entire general's mansion was silent, except for the occasional chirping of katydids coming from a haystack somewhere.

She leaned against Su Wan, half asleep and half awake.

Such a peaceful life made her feel very comfortable, and only when she held her father by her side could she truly feel that the general's mansion was still doing well.

Su Wan gently shook Su Rou's shoulders, "Arou, Arou, wake up, we're here."

Su Rou rubbed her eyes, opened them and jumped off the horse.

Suddenly there was a scream from inside the door.

"Something terrible has happened! Quickly inform the general, the Madam... the Madam has been scratched!"

The silent night was broken by this scream.

Su Rou was no longer sleepy and immediately became energetic.

Wow, how long had she and Dad been gone? And Jiang was up to something again.

Su Wan said, "Arou, if you feel sleepy, go back to the yard and rest first."

Su Rou shook her head. She was no longer sleepy after seeing Jiang make a fool of herself.

"Father, I'm not sleepy. Can I go with you to see the eldest lady?"

Jiang's courtyard is relatively large, after all, it is a symbol of the mistress of a mansion.

When Su Rou and Su Wan entered Jiang's room, they saw Jiang lying on the bed crying.

Seeing Su Wan coming, Jiang Shi became even more unscrupulous. "General, there was an assassin in the mansion who scratched my arm. If I leave a scar, will you dislike me?"

Su Rou said, "You probably weren't stabbed in the room. Your shoes by the bed are still covered in the soil we dug from the garden today. Look, there are flower petals on them."

Su Wan stood by the bed and asked Jiang to hold her. He stroked Jiang's back again and again, soothing her, "How on earth were you assassinated?"

Jiang's eyes were blurred with tears. "General, I really was in the room. I didn't go out the whole night!"

Su Rou narrowed her eyes. Jiang lied, and it seemed that she was assassinated when she went to the garden to have a secret meeting with the groom.

Is the other party coming for the Jiang family?

No, perhaps Jiang and the groom happened to see the assassin taking action in the mansion, which led to this series of events.

Su Rou did not expose her and let Jiang continue to act pitiful in front of Su Wan.

Just as she was about to leave, she heard Jiang say behind her, "General, this is the badge I desperately pulled off the assassin's body when I escaped death. Maybe it can help us catch the murderer."

Jiang took out a jade token from her bosom. Su Rou turned her head to look at it. There was a waist token with the word "Palace" engraved on it.

宫？

Could the murderer be Gong Yu again?

The assassin was coming for him.

Could the person behind this be Gong Yu?

Are people from the South already lurking here?

She was full of thoughts and walked back to the yard in a daze.

At dawn, Xie Yuan couldn't wait to send someone to bring her into the palace.

Xie Yuan is so impatient that he can't wait to prove himself to everyone. He is not willing to spend any extra time on it.

Su Rou said that she caught a cold on the training ground last night, so she turned down Xie Yuan's offer.

For several days in a row, Xie Yuan kept sending people over, but Su Rou kept finding various reasons to refuse.

Xie Yuan's brain finally realized that something was wrong. The person who came to the general's mansion to summon her into the palace that day was replaced by someone sent by the emperor.

Su Rou knew that Xie Yuan realized that he had been tricked and told the emperor to let her go to the palace to confront him.

As Su Rou stepped into the threshold of the side hall, a teacup hit her. She could have dodged it, but she didn't.

Su Wan stood in front of her, and the teacup hit his stomach, bounced, and fell to the ground.

"Bang" the teacup fell to the ground and broke into pieces. The crisp sound made the heavy and depressing atmosphere in the side hall seem particularly depressing.

The emperor's solemn voice came, "Humph! Su Rou, you are so brave."

Su Rou lowered her eyes to glance at the cup, then glanced at Xie Yuan who was sitting beside her.

The cup was thrown by Xie Yuan. Look at Xie Yuan's scarlet eyes. Tsk tsk...

That's all Xie Yuan has.

Looking at the emperor's attitude, he also condoned Xie Yuan's behavior of hitting her with the cup.

Su Rou knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, I don't know what heinous crime I have committed to make Your Majesty so angry."

Xie Yuan roared, "Can't you see my legs? That day on the training grounds, I just wanted to ride a horse, but General Su's soldiers stopped my horse and I fell like this."

Xie Yuan's leg had been treated by people from the Imperial Hospital, but what Su Rou saw that day was obviously not as badly bandaged as it is now.

Su Rou glanced at him. Why didn't he mention asking her to come to the palace to visit him?

Don’t you dare mention it in front of the emperor?

No... The emperor probably thought this matter was related to her, so he asked her to come to the palace with her father.

Su Wan bowed respectfully, "Your Majesty, it was indeed my fault that the Crown Prince fell off his horse on the parade ground that day. However, the Crown Prince couldn't ride a horse, and it was the Crown Prince who forced the horse over... By the time I realized it, it was too late."

The emperor was still furious. "Yuan'er can't ride a horse, and you're just going to watch him lead the horse over?!"

Su Rou frowned slightly. What else?

Who would dare to disobey the prince so harshly in public?

Su Rou interrupted, "Your Majesty, the Crown Prince injured many of my father's soldiers on the parade ground that day. So, according to Your Majesty, should the soldiers resist the Crown Prince and take back the horse from him?"

emperor:"……"

The anger on the emperor's face faded a little.

This matter was Xie Yuan's fault from the very beginning. If the emperor wanted to protect Xie Yuan, he had to see who was right.

The emperor looked at Xie Yuan, "Is this really true?"

Xie Yuan was arrogant and domineering in his daily life, and the emperor couldn't have been unaware of this. He asked this question just to give himself a way out.

Xie Yuan was stunned. "Father...don't believe her! How could I do such a thing?!"

Su Rou remained calm. "If Your Majesty doesn't believe me, you can send someone to investigate the military camp. Our Northern Kingdom's soldiers are brave and skilled in battle. If it weren't for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, how could my father abuse these people who have followed him through thick and thin?"

The emperor knew one thing: whoever wins the hearts of the people will win the world.

The soldiers in the barracks were fighting for the northern country, so the emperor naturally didn't dare to give up so easily.

The emperor was also afraid that the soldiers in the barracks would rebel.