When Jin Xin hurried over to report to Sheng Nanzhi, Sheng Nanzhi was picking jasmine flowers in the house. While picking, she chatted with Xueyi: "I quite like the fragrance of these jasmine flowers. I'll pick some and you can put them directly in my clothes cabinet so that my clothes can be stained with the scent of jasmine."

Xue Yi nodded: "Do you want to dry it before putting it in the sun?"

Sheng Nanzhi shook her head: "No, I think jasmine flowers have a strange smell after being dried. It's not very pleasant."

"Just put fresh ones in, and replace them if they wilt the next day."

As soon as she finished speaking, Jin Xin walked in quickly, her face pale and still breathing heavily: "Princess, it's bad, the Royal Guards found something from the main courtyard."

Sheng Nanzhi was a little confused: "We found something from the main courtyard? What was it?"

"Why do you say it's bad? Is it something bad?"

Jin Xin pursed her lips and shook her head: "I don't know."

"I only heard about it. Ever since the Imperial Guards moved in, the main courtyard has been sealed off by them."

"But it should be something bad. It might be detrimental to the prince and our Prince Yi's Mansion."

Sheng Nanzhi looked bewildered: "What is this? Is it bad for us?"

"Come on, I'll take a look."

Sheng Nanzhi took Jinxin to the main courtyard. As soon as they reached the main courtyard gate, they were stopped: "Princess, the Royal Guards are investigating inside. Princess, you cannot go in. If you go in and destroy the evidence inside, we will not be able to explain it."

Sheng Nanzhi nodded, but saw the commander of the Royal Guards walking out with a sullen face.

Sheng Nanzhi smiled, his eyes clear: "Commander Lin!"

Commander Lin paused, then quickened his pace and walked up to Sheng Nanzhi, looking at her gravely: "Why is the princess here?"

Sheng Nanzhi looked at him with burning eyes. "I heard that Commander Lin discovered something in the main courtyard, so I rushed over. Did he find any clues related to the fire in the main courtyard?"

"Have you found out who set the fire?"

"We've been investigating for so many days, there should be some results, right?"

Commander Lin lowered his eyes. "We did find some clues, but they may not be related to the fire."

"Hmm?" Sheng Nanzhi's face was filled with confusion. "We found some clues? But they have nothing to do with the fire? Then what does it have to do with?"

Commander Lin gave Sheng Nanzhi a deep look and said, "I have already sent someone to the palace to report to His Majesty. The princess will know soon."

Sheng Nanzhi nodded: "Is it a very important clue? Do you still need to report it to His Majesty?"

As she asked, she turned to Jinxin and said, "In that case, Jinxin, please have someone bring me a chair. I'll wait here so I don't have to run back and forth."

Jin Xin glanced at Commander Lin. Unlike Sheng Nanzhi's ignorant look, Jin Xin's face was full of worry.

But even so, she still agreed to Sheng Nanzhi's request, turned around and ordered the servants to move the chair.

The chair had not been moved in yet, and Sheng Nanzhi curiously stuck his head out of the yard gate and looked into the yard.

"The fire that day was really huge."

"It's such a shame that the main courtyard was burned down like this."

"If we want to renovate it and restore it to its original appearance, it will probably cost a lot of money."

Commander Lin looked at Sheng Nanzhi with a thoughtful expression. Sheng Nanzhi didn't look like he was pretending.

Combined with everything he found out about Sheng Nanzhi, Sheng Nanzhi's behavior did not seem abrupt.

Sheng Nanzhi didn't seem to notice his gaze. She turned to Jinxin and said, "We have to wait anyway. Waiting is boring. Bring me the accounts. Let's calculate together how much the shops and farms in the mansion have earned recently. Is it enough to rebuild the main courtyard?"

Jin Xin pursed her lips, wanting to say something but stopping herself.

"Okay, I'll ask someone to bring it over."

After asking someone to bring the account book, Sheng Nanzhi really started to calculate the accounts.

The abacus clattered, but Sheng Nanzhi's expression grew increasingly grim. "How come there's only a little over ten thousand taels left in the account? Is this enough to rebuild the main courtyard?"

"Look at my recent expenses. I've spent a lot of money on medicine."

She sighed softly, "But the prince can't stop giving me this medicine..."

"It can't be interrupted." A low voice came from behind. Sheng Nanzhi was stunned and stood up hurriedly: "The daughter-in-law pays respects to the emperor. Long live the emperor."

The person who came was the emperor.

The emperor responded, "What are you calculating?"

Sheng Nanzhi pursed her lips and said, "I saw that the main courtyard was almost completely burned down, so I wanted to calculate how much money it would take to rebuild it and see if the money on the books is enough."

Sheng Nanzhi put away the account book as if nothing had happened. "Just now I heard that Commander Lin found an important clue in the main courtyard. I thought it might be a clue about the fire in the main courtyard, so I came to take a look."

"But Commander Lin said it wasn't the main courtyard fire, and he kept me in suspense."

"Since Father is here, this must be an extremely important clue. Father, has something happened?"

The emperor's gaze fell on Sheng Nanzhi's face, then turned away as if nothing had happened: "Since Princess Yi is so curious, let's go in and take a look together."

"Okay."

Sheng Nanzhi followed the emperor and the imperial guards into the courtyard gate.

Although the fire had happened several days ago, the entire main courtyard was still charred black, and it was almost impossible to tell what it was like before.

Commander Lin winked at the imperial guards standing by, and someone quickly brought out a box from the house, the outside of which was also burnt black.

Commander Lin opened the box directly, revealing a square jade seal inside.

At just one glance, Sheng Nanzhi recognized it; it was the jade seal.

Sheng Nanzhi's eyelashes trembled: "What is this? Is the jade this big? The quality is quite good."

The emperor's expression was cold and indifferent, and he could not tell if he was happy or angry. "This is the imperial seal of my Canglan Kingdom."

"The Imperial Seal?" Sheng Nanzhi was increasingly surprised and puzzled. "Why would the Imperial Seal appear in our Prince Yi's Mansion?"

"Yes, why did you appear in Prince Yi's Mansion?"

Commander Lin immediately said, "Your Majesty, we also discovered that there seems to be something else hidden under this house."

"There are several places in the house where you can hear hollow sounds when you knock on them."

"But I dare not act rashly. I ask Your Majesty to make the decision."

The emperor pursed his lips and said, "Dig."

"Yes."

Commander Lin quickly walked into the inner room, and Sheng Nanzhi followed him in.

The emperor looked around and said, "This should be Huaizhi's bedroom, right?"

"Yes, it's the prince's bedroom."

Commander Lin immediately greeted

The Royal Guards knocked on the ground and heard hollow sounds in several places. He immediately ordered the Royal Guards to start digging.

Soon, the ground was hollowed out, revealing what was inside...

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