"I was tricked..." No matter how dull Yun Xi was, she knew that she had been tricked by Yu Chen.

From the moment Yuchen's true identity was revealed, she was planning how to avoid being escorted to the Criminal Department and being tortured to extract a confession.

Everyone knew that Lu Qingfan was good at torture, so Yuchen simply used Yun Xi to kill himself: he first feinted a move to target the imperial concubine, but in fact he was planning Yun Xi's hidden arrow.

"Are you okay Yun Xi?" Zhuyue, Tianxing, and the imperial concubine immediately rushed to the stunned Yun Xi, with a few drops of blood stained on her smart and beautiful face.

The imperial concubine kept checking whether the little girl was injured.

After confirming that she was unharmed, the imperial concubine immediately put Yun Xi's sleeve arrows back into her sleeves, her phoenix eyes said worriedly: "You kid, what's wrong..."

How could he sneak into the palace with weapons?

Yun Xi was still immersed in the shame and annoyance of being plotted, and couldn't help but murmured: "How could she know that I have a hidden arrow in my hand?"

It was hard for anyone to imagine that an ordinary widow would enter the palace without a weapon to remove her armor. In addition, knowing that she was a doctor, the imperial guards did not search her body.

"Don't be afraid, it's okay." The imperial concubine held Yun Xi's cold little hand and winked at Zhu Yue, who immediately ordered people to drag Yu Chen's body out.

"Mother, the daughter of the people killed someone." Yun Xi held the hot tea in her hand for a long time before she came back to her senses from the incident. There was a hint of anger in her eyes: "They planned it, and there was no one left alive.

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"She is bent on using you to seek death, how can she stop her?" The imperial concubine sighed: "Thank you for reporting her in time, otherwise I would have been infected by cholera by the people around me."

After following the imperial concubine for several years, Yuchen never exposed his wild ambitions.

"This bitch has been dormant for too long!" The imperial concubine became angrier and more frightened as she thought about it. She did not forget to comfort Yun Xi that she was just protecting herself and could not count as murder.

Yun Xi thought of Yu Chen's determined eyes, and secretly had the answer in her heart: This woman is a dead soldier.

She had the same look in her eyes as Lord Luo and the others, looking at death as if they were home.

"Yun Xi, you saved me once again. I will definitely reward you for your merits." The imperial concubine pulled Yun Xi and said in a deep voice: "Yu Chen is an enemy spy, and the outside world will definitely take action against the prince at the same time.

I am in the deep palace, beyond the reach of the whip. I hope you and Mr. Lu will protect the crown prince."

Yun Xi wiped her cheeks and revealed her pretty little face again, with a hint of aloofness in her resolute eyes. She agreed in a deep voice, then said goodbye and left the palace.

Let's say that Lu Qingfan rushed to the prince's residence first, and found that everyone in the residence was ready, and there was some doubt in his eyes.

When he saw His Highness the Crown Prince sitting at the table, in full military uniform, Lu Qingfan couldn't help but ask: "What does Your Highness want to do?"

"Shilang Lu came just in time."

When the prince saw Lu Qingfan, his expression was overjoyed. He stood up and strode over and said, "I have received a tip-off that someone in my father's palace is afraid of trouble, so I ordered the people in the palace to be on standby and ready to enter the palace to protect him at any time."

His eyes were shining brightly, as if he had seen the beautiful scene of his father regaining his trust and respect after rescuing him, and the father and son getting back on good terms.

Lu Qingfan frowned even more when he heard this: "Where did your Highness get the information? Who can prove that there may be changes in the palace?"

In this sensitive period, he couldn't help but think too much.

"Don't bother to investigate the origin of this letter. We will just see the result." The prince swept away the decadence of the past few days and his high-spirited appearance was really inspiring.

If it were anyone else, he might have been moved by the prince's appearance, and he might have followed him to look forward to a better future.

But now it was Lu Qingfan who faced him.

"His Royal Highness is too optimistic."

Lu Qingfan said in a deep voice: "Bao Youchun paid for the murder of Niu Shufeng, the only son of Niu Jingyuan, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy. This man was convicted by the Holy Spirit and died on the road to exile."

He took a step forward, looked at the prince whose expression suddenly changed, and asked in a deep voice: "Whether it was Bao Youchun or not, your highness, guess who will be blamed by the emperor for such disobedient behavior?"

Don't say that initiating a palace coup to cause trouble may be a pretense. Even if someone does initiate a palace coup, the person escorting him should not be the prince who has lost military power.

"You..." The prince's expression changed for a while after what Lu Qingfan said. Then he sat back on the chair and asked, "Maybe it's a cover?"

"Yes." Lu Qingfan said calmly: "Everything in the palace is normal. Your Highness, even if there are things that violate the peace and palace changes, the emperor has royal guards inside and imperial guards outside... You can only protect yourself by not moving."

If the prince dares to make the slightest move, he will be punished by death and fall into the trap of a traitor.

The prince, who had always been noble and cold, his handsome face turned red at this moment, and he finally managed to say: "Lu Qingfan, it's difficult for me."

Without Wu Quan, Tai Yuan, and the number one master Luo Jiutian in one conspiracy or another, there is no one trustworthy around the prince.

"Father has been alive for too long."

He had tortured a deposed prince to death, and now he was on pins and needles.

Secretly, the prince really hopes that there will be such a palace change.

But he was not a reckless person. After hearing what Lu Qingfan said, he knew that a trap was just around the corner.

"I am isolated and helpless, and this Prince's Mansion has become a waste of money... Now only an upright person like you is willing to come and have a look." The Prince clenched the sword in his hand and gritted his teeth and said: "You

Don’t worry and catch the culprit, I... just won’t move.”

"Your Highness is wise." Lu Qingfan did not comment on the prince's words of advice.

He was never a pretentious, talkative person who just strode away.

The prince looked at Lu Qingfan's back and clenched his fists again: "I hope everything you said is true."

Let's talk about Yun Xi coming out of the palace, and Lu Qingfan also returned to the Ministry of Justice from the prince's residence.

The two met and described the affairs in the palace and the prince's residence one by one in front of other members of the Criminal Department.

When they heard that there were reports of changes in the palace, everyone's first reaction was the same as Lu Qingfan's: the news was a trap.

"I have told the prince to be patient. Now we must find the swordsman A-Shan who hired the murderer to prove that this matter is a private feud between the two families and was not authorized by the imperial concubine and the prince, so as to dispel the emperor's doubts."

As he spoke, Lu Qingfan tapped his finger on the table and said to Yun Xi: "Yuchen is a dead soldier. They are in a hurry."

The chess pieces exposed by the "Ming Master" in the dark are getting deeper and more important, which shows that they have begun to be wary of Lu Qingfan and his party's tendency to advance the situation.

"Miss Yuchen has always been trusted by the imperial concubine, and she is already in the position of grand palace maid. She should not expose her identity just because of the death of Bao Youchun's son."

Ren Danqing marked his name on the portrait of "Swordsman Ah Shan", then looked at Lu Qingfan and Yun Xi and said, "Unless she was originally reserved for this purpose."

Yeah?

Yun Xi tilted her head, thinking of Miss Yuchen's provocative look before she died, which was clearly premeditated.

"My master, I don't understand what I'm saying. If it's about this hammer, how can we guarantee that Niu Shufeng and Bao Meng have a long-standing rift that will eventually turn into murder to vent their anger?"

Qingguo blinked: "They have to wait until these two grow up and have different opinions on the compilation of history books, and then extrapolate to today... This situation is too difficult to accurately control."

Not to mention doing it, just thinking about it made Qingguo's head feel painful.

We have to ensure that Niu Shufeng or Bao Meng takes action, and we have to ensure that there is a death sentence between the two, and then we take action to eradicate it, so that the crime of "disobedience" can be successfully framed on the prince's head.

"Perhaps... we just happened to catch up with this perfect opportunity to take advantage of Yuchen?" Yun Xi turned to look at Lu Qingfan and said, "This is a more suitable time than ever to abolish the reserve."

The point is not who is scheming, but the opportunity to drag the prince into trouble.

It’s difficult to explain the small things, but the purpose remains unchanged after focusing on the big things, which is in line with the behavior of the people behind the scenes.

Lu Qingfan nodded, "That makes sense."

Everyone deliberated for a while and decided to divide the troops into two groups: Yun Xi and others did not know martial arts and were left in the Yamen to prepare for interrogation of Bao Youchun; the Leng brothers immediately issued a reward order.

Swordsman A-Shan has "Tracking Butterfly" powder on his body, so he will definitely act during the day and hide at night. The government is searching openly and secret guards are investigating, so we must capture him as soon as possible.

As for Lu Qingfan, he wanted to go find out some information on his own to see who conveyed the news of the "Palace Change" to His Highness the Crown Prince.
Chapter completed!