"Your Highness!" Lvluo suddenly emerged from the crowd, bypassed the officers and soldiers, and trotted all the way to Chu Qing.
"Your Highness! What on earth... happened!" Lvluo was a bit flustered. Not long after her mistress left today, Wang Zhi, the deputy commander guarding the capital city, led his troops to surround the prince's mansion. They said nothing but just surrounded the entrance, as if waiting for someone. Even Steward Wei was locked up by these people. Although she was the maid beside the princess, perhaps because they thought she couldn't stir up any trouble, no one bothered her.
It wasn't until their princess returned that Wang Zhi stepped forward to surround her.
And Wang Zhi was the one who had just spoken rudely to Chu Qing.
"Someone is framing the prince." Chu Qing's voice was neither cold nor warm, but Lvluo could still detect the suppressed anger in it.
Lvluo understood that her mistress was speaking to her like this because she was worried about implicating them.
Chu Qing just walked silently. Suddenly, she remembered something.
"What about Xu Xin? With such a commotion, is she still locked up?" Chu Qing sneered coldly.
Speaking of this, Lvluo frowned and replied, "Your Highness, just now this maid heard that Concubine Xu secretly returned to the Xu Mansion last night!"
"Returned to the mansion?" Hearing this, Chu Qing also frowned slightly.
So she managed to run back?
Did she catch wind of something? And it was precisely last night!
Ignoring the rules of the mansion and the prince, and leaving the mansion without permission, Xu Xin really had a lot of nerve!
...
Last night, Xu Xin sneaked out because she received a secret letter from the Xu Mansion.
The letter told her to find a way to return to the Xu Mansion, saying that something bad was going to happen to the Ning Prince's Mansion, and the prince might...
Go to prison.
Xu Xin was extremely shocked. Why would the Prince of Ning go to prison out of the blue! Her father and mother told her to go back. They must have a plan to help the prince get through this crisis smoothly!
Thinking of this, Xu Xin immediately prepared to return to the Xu Mansion!
When she reached the entrance, the guards who were originally standing there were gone. Only then did Xu Xin feel the sense of an impending storm.
It wasn't particularly difficult to leave the mansion. After returning to the Xu Mansion, Xu Xin couldn't wait to see her father and mother.
However, just as she reached the door of the front hall, Xu Xin saw that the door of the front hall was tightly closed, and her mother's personal maid was waiting outside.
When the little maid saw Xu Xin approaching, she immediately wanted to say something, but Xu Xin gave her a fierce glare and then walked towards the door.
The little maid timidly closed her mouth.
At this moment, Xu Xin wanted to listen to the commotion inside the door.
Because she suddenly had a bad feeling...
...
"My lord, are those things of yours really ready?" Wang's voice was a bit trembling.
"Do you still not trust my work?" Xu Han still sounded confident.
"Will the emperor notice any clues..."
"It doesn't matter. Even if the clues are discovered later, I can naturally extricate myself from it. After all, it's better to take precautions! As long as we can make the emperor wary of the Prince of Ning, this matter will be much easier. By the way, did you write the letter to Xin'er as I told you? Don't let her know about this for the time being." When Xu Han said this, there was a hint of helplessness in his tone.
"Why can't I know!" Xu Xin, who had already heard some of it, pushed the door open forcefully and loudly questioned.
Seeing this, Xu Han frowned and asked, "You heard it all?"
"Humph! I didn't expect! Father is actually such a person. Father is actually treating Xin'er's husband like this!" Xu Xin was already blinded by anger at this moment.
"Husband?" Xu Han gave Xu Xin a cold look and then said sternly, "You regard him as your husband, but has he treated you well! Didn't you just write a letter saying that he had confined you these days! You actually dare to talk back to your father because of him!"
Xu Xin was hit where it hurt. Her eyes were a bit red, and her voice became a bit hysterical: "He was just bewitched by that slut Chu Qing! Later, he will change his mind!"
Even though Xu Xin knew it in her heart, there were some things she didn't want to say clearly.
Seeing his daughter so infatuated, Xu Han's face was also very gloomy: "Do you think your father is trying to harm the Prince of Ning for no reason?"
Xu Xin snorted and didn't say a word.
In Xu Xin's eyes now, her father wasn't trying to frame the Prince of Ning for no reason.
Xu Han's voice was extremely cold at this moment, and his eyes were as sharp as Xu Xin had never seen before: "Do you know! The Prince of Ning may have grasped some... secrets of your father! These secrets are enough to cost your father, your mother, and your lives! Even if you've married into the Ning Prince's Mansion, do you think you can escape?"
Hearing this, Xu Xin was first a bit surprised, and then still stubbornly said, "Didn't father also say that it's just a possibility! Maybe! The Prince of Ning doesn't have them!"
"I think you won't shed a tear until you see the coffin! Could it be that! Your father still has to wait for him to reveal this secret! We must strike first to save our whole family's lives!"
"But..."
"But what!" Xu Han sneered: "Do you think why he insisted on marrying you back then! Isn't it because he wanted to use you to get close to your father!"
Use her...
Xu Xin was stunned for a moment, and then because she couldn't stand steadily, she took a few steps back in disbelief.
It's impossible!
She always thought that when the Prince of Ning married her at first, he liked her to some extent.
Now that it was said so bluntly, Xu Xin only felt as if her heart was being stabbed by a knife.
"If it weren't for him wanting to use you, how could he have married you! Even when he married that slut Chu Qing, he had his own motives! Do you think the Prince of Ning is a good person!"
"I won't allow you to say that!" Xu Xin screamed frantically.
Seeing this, Xu Han still looked gloomy.
He didn't expect that his precious daughter was so deeply in love with the Prince of Ning!
Wang, who had been silent all along, walked up to Xu Xin, reached out and hugged the trembling and crying Chu Qing, and comforted her, "There are plenty of good men in the world. Your father will surely let you get out of this unscathed. Xin'er, you have to be obedient."
"Xin'er is so unwilling!" Xu Xin cried out of control.
She hated so much! Hated why things had to be like this!
"You should try to persuade her first. I'm going to rest. Tomorrow... I still have to be energetic." Xu Han said to Wang indifferently. After saying that, he looked at Xu Xin disappointedly and then left.