It's getting light.

Ning Ziqing felt a figure shaking in front of the bed.

But she couldn't wake up.

She moved her fingers, trying to wake her up.

At this moment, she suddenly heard the sound of fighting.

But soon, the sound stopped suddenly and the surrounding area became quiet.

Ning Ziqing wanted to see clearly what happened.

She struggled to open her eyes, the surrounding light was dim.

Only the back of a woman and a few blurry figures could be seen vaguely.

She looked past the woman and landed on a man opposite her who felt a little familiar to her.

The man gasped in pain, and there was the sound of blood dripping on the ground.

Ning Ziqing wanted to get closer and take a closer look, but she felt something was blocking her, preventing her from passing through.

Then, she heard the man ask the woman sadly.

"Do you really...hate me so much?"

"So, you want to kill me?"

The woman opposite didn't respond.

The man held the woman's hand and begged.

"Can you... give me another chance... to make it up to you?"

Ning Ziqing watched this scene intently, and for some reason, her heart suddenly ached.

At this time, a call came from my ears: "Little beauty, wake up!"

Ning Ziqing suddenly came back to her senses and realized that she was still asleep.

She wanted to take a look at the situation over there, but a huge force dragged her out.

Finally, she clearly saw the man's face, which turned out to be Su Yanqi.

Ning Ziqing was stunned and looked at him blankly.

She wanted to call him, but the scene in front of her disappeared instantly, leaving only the screams echoing in the darkness.

Ning Ziqing felt inexplicably panicked. She kept running, trying to escape from here.

But the shouts kept ringing in her ears.

She closed her eyes in fear, covered her ears and squatted on the ground shivering.

After a few crisp ringtones.

A bright light came.

Ning Ziqing opened his eyes again. Not far away, there was a tomb looming.

Su Yanqi, dressed in black clothes, stood in front of the tombstone holding a jade pendant with a sad look on his face.

The sound of Buddha lingers.

Ning Ziqing woke up completely in bed.

Her pupils contracted and she stared blankly at Yaoyao's face.

My heart is full of confusion and doubts.

Yaoyao pushed Ning Ziqing gently and asked her strangely.

"I've been calling you for a long time, but why are you ignoring me? Are you very drunk?"

Ning Ziqing sat up in despair, looked around with a splitting headache, and asked in confusion, "Where is this?"

"The Fourth Highness's residence."

Ning Ziqing patted her forehead suddenly, lifted the quilt and started to get dressed.

"Why did we come here?"

She immediately recalled what happened last night, her hand movements froze, she took a breath and asked in surprise: "Did His Highness the Fourth Prince bring us back from the brothel?"

Yaoyao nodded.

Ning Ziqing became anxious and blamed her: "It's all your fault, he must be very angry!"

Yaoyao quickly comforted him: "What are you afraid of? If he dares to hurt you, I will tell him all about visiting brothels!"

When Ning Ziqing heard this, his expression relaxed, he quickly put on his clothes and went out to find Huo Yunjue.

Unexpectedly, I learned from Wei Yu that Huo Yunjue had gone to the post house half an hour ago to send envoys from various countries back home.

Ning Ziqing was slightly disappointed. She actually wanted to meet Huo Yunjue and ask him what happened in the palace.

After Jiang Quhan woke up, they had breakfast together and prepared to return to Fu Mansion.

As soon as he walked out of the gate, he saw Helian waiting aside with his horse.

"Young prince, I have something to report to you due to my humble position!"

Jiang Quhan motioned to Ning Ziqing and the others to get on the carriage first, and then called Helian aside to ask questions.

Before Yaoyao got into the car, she stared at Jiang Quhan's back for a long time.

It wasn't until Ning Ziqing called her that Yaoyao stepped onto the carriage.

As soon as she sat down, Ning Ziqing laughed at her: "Why do you always look at him? Are you really obsessed with him?"

Yaoyao looked away and immediately denied: "How could I? I just didn't understand."

Ning Ziqing moved closer.

"tell me the story."

Yaoyao hesitated for a moment and whispered: "I took the initiative last night and he didn't react at all. Am I so charming?"

Ning Ziqing thought for a while and continued to encourage her: "You shouldn't. Try flirting with him again? Maybe he is just cold on the outside and hot on the inside, a sultry type."

Yaoyao still had some doubts: "Does he not like me who is so domineering and cool, but likes you who are gentle and watery?"

Ning Ziqing didn't agree.

"He has been living in the world of mortals for so many years. He has never seen any beautiful women in the world. I think he just can't let go. He needs a passionate beauty like you to open his heart!"

"Look, you kissed him last night and he didn't even reject you!"

After hearing this, Yaoyao felt hope again.

However, on second thought, when Jiang Quhan was forcibly kissed last night, his reaction seemed to be indifferent.

Yaoyao couldn't help but wonder: "Tell me, he hasn't been married for so many years, and he doesn't have a concubine or maid to serve him. Is there something wrong with him? Is it because he's not good at that?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Quhan suddenly opened the car curtain, stared at Yaoyao with a livid face and shouted: "You can't do it, your whole family can't do it!"

The roar of anger nearly tore off the roof of the car.

Yaoyao straightened her face and explained seriously: "I am the only one left in my family, so I have to find you to carry on the family lineage. Before you leave, we have to get this matter done quickly to avoid long nights and nightmares."

There was a "thud" sound outside the car, as if something fell to the ground.

Jiang Quhan's eyes darkened, and he was so angry that he almost lost his breath.

Why is this woman so shameless!

He thought he was thick-skinned enough, but he didn't expect anyone to be thicker than him.

Gritting his teeth, Jiang Quhan suppressed his anger, looked at Ning Ziqing and said urgently: "I have to go to the post house, you go back to Fu Mansion first!"

After saying that, he turned around and jumped out of the carriage as if he was running away.

He made up his mind to stay away from this crazy woman Yaoyao as soon as possible!

Jiang Quhan cursed in his heart and called Helian and Fang Yu to ride to the post house.

Helian limped to the front of the horse.

Jiang Quhan asked him: "What's wrong with you?"

Helian climbed onto the horse's back with great difficulty.

"I wasn't paying attention just now and tripped over a pebble on the ground."

He and Fang Yu looked at each other.

Fang Yu quietly made a gesture of sewing his mouth.

Helian nodded understandingly.

Not long after Ning Ziqing returned to Fu Mansion, Kui Ying and Haoran rushed back to resume their lives.

They told Ning Ziqing: Li Bin, the second son of the Li family, was taken away by Jing Zhaoyin's officials last night on the charge of "homicide."

A year ago, when Li Bin went out to play in the city, he molested a civilian girl and had a dispute with the woman's family. In the chaos, he accidentally beat the woman's father to death.

Afterwards, he forcibly dragged the woman away and defiled her, causing the woman to commit suicide by drowning in a river.

Out of grief and anger, the woman's mother went to the government to sue Li Bin, but was suppressed and bribed by the Li government, causing the matter to be forcibly covered up.

For many years, Li Bin relied on his father's high position and the power of the Xu family to do evil and tyranny, with several lives on his hands.

Ning Ziqing decided that she could no longer let Li Bin go unpunished. She ordered Haoran and the others to find the woman's mother, prepare a new complaint to seek justice for the unjust death of the civilian daughter, and find witnesses from that year to come forward to testify.

At the same time, Ning Ziqing also had evidence of some officials who had been bribed by the Li Mansion.

In this way, these officials are forced to make public Li Bin's crimes of harming good people and seek justice for the victims!

In addition, the couple who sneaked into the Lin Mansion to steal confessed that they were ordered by the Li Mansion.

In order to reduce their culpability, they also exposed Mrs. Li's private use of loan sharks at high interest rates to obtain ill-gotten gains.

The revelation of these crimes instantly made the Li Mansion the focus of public opinion in Kyoto.

Mr. Li was so worried that he visited Huo Yunhong overnight and asked him to help.

Huo Yunhong was too busy taking care of himself because of Xu Zheng's affairs, so he had no intention of intervening in the affairs of the Li Mansion.

Desperate, Mr. Li, in order to save his only son Li Bin, did not hesitate to expose Huo Yunhong's secret of selling illegal salt to threaten him.

Huo Yunhong warned him that if he wanted to save the families of Li Mansion and Xu Mansion, he must give up Li Bin. Otherwise, they will face the serious crime of killing the Nine Clan.

Mr. Li knew that the situation was over and he had no choice but to accept his fate.

He returned to his home sadly.

Soon, Yushitai and Dali Temple sent officials to search.

In the end, the Li family suffered the consequences and deserved it, and they were reviled by people.

However, one wave has not settled, and one wave has risen again.

After noon, an imperial edict came from the palace, shocking everyone!

Emperor Yao insisted on deposing the prince and demoting him to King Xuanping. He ordered him to go to the fiefdom immediately. He was not allowed to return to Kyoto without an edict!

As a result, it was only with the support of the courtiers that the prince was spared the fate of being imprisoned in a prison until death.

As soon as this incident came out, the whole of Kyoto was in an uproar!

People speculated on what serious crime the prince had committed.

After the dispersion of the dynasty, Emperor Yao went to the Ancestral Temple alone, shut himself in, and did not allow anyone to disturb him.

The content of the imperial edict is even more ambiguous: "The prince is unwilling to make progress, disobeys the imperial authority, deviates from the right path, and goes against the aspirations of the late emperor. It is really difficult to inherit the throne. Therefore, I issue an edict to depose the prince!"

When the news reached Ning Ziqing's ears, she was leaning on the couch in front of the window, staring blankly at the two pots of begonias on the windowsill.

Yaoyao took a wool blanket and put it on her body and asked.

"With the crown prince deposed, I'm afraid the position in the East Palace will not be vacant for long. Is the Fourth Highness going to take action?"

Ning Ziqing looked indifferent: "The more it is at this time, the more important it is to stabilize our position. His Highness the Fourth Highness will not act rashly."

Yaoyao was worried: "What about the second prince? Aren't you worried that he will compete for the position of the East Palace first?"

Ning Ziqing had a lot of things going on in her mind, but she still remained calm: "What qualifications does he have to fight now? The illegal salt case is about to be convicted, and the matter of Xu Zheng and Li's house will be enough to give him a headache for a while."

"He can't rely on Qian Yeguo now, so there's no need to worry about him causing trouble!"

Yaoyao pondered for a while and then asked tentatively: "Why do I feel like you already knew that the crown prince was going to be deposed? Is there something you and His Highness are hiding from us?"

Ning Ziqing's eyes paused and his eyes dodge unconsciously.

She turned slightly to the side and denied: "How can I predict the future? Don't make blind guesses!"

Yaoyao still didn't give up and continued to ask: "Then tell me, do you have any feelings towards Ah Qi when you reject Ah Qi so much? It's impossible for you not to be able to tell what he is thinking about you, so why did you deliberately do it in front of him? playing dumb!"

Ning Ziqing's eyes were filled with sadness, she curled her fingers tightly and said frankly: "I want to be a queen, and only the Fourth Highness can help me realize this wish. Since I have chosen him, I will naturally go with him to the end!"

"A man as gentle as Qi Langjun should be worthy of a better woman."

Hearing what she said, Yaoyao fell silent.

It seems that the entanglement between these three people has to be solved by themselves after all.

Tuffling her hair, Yaoyao turned around and left, and finally gave another warning.

"You'd better explain it to Ah Qi next time. I'm afraid he will never forget you."

Ning Ziqing hummed slightly and sighed helplessly.

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