The people sent by Ye Tinghua to look for Lin Qingyao came back soon. At this time, Ye Tinghua was painting at the desk. The figure of Lin Qingye was always lingering in his mind, so he wanted to pick up the pen and paint her.

"Your Highness, Miss Lin said that the food has been prepared and that Your Highness need not worry. Now 100,000 dan of food is stored in a cellar in the city."

Ye Tinghua frowned and asked, "You mean you didn't see the food in the cellar with your own eyes? But you heard it from Lin Qingyao?"

The secret guard kneeling on the ground was also panicking at this time. He realized that he was careless. He knew the importance of this matter to his highness, so he kowtowed and said, "I understand. I will do it right away!"

At this moment, Ye Tinghua suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart. He suddenly realized that this thing might fail. He immediately put down the pen in his hand and said to Du Song beside him, "Prepare the horse!"

Soon, Ye Tinghua brought several secret guards to the so-called cellar of Lin Qingyao, which was really filled with sacks, densely packed and neatly arranged.

Du Song laughed happily, "That's great, Your Majesty. I will send someone to transport it to the city gate right away."

Ye Tinghua waved his hand seriously and said, "Qie Man, Du Song, go check it out."

After hearing this, Du Song immediately drew out his sword and randomly stabbed two sacks. Immediately, white rice scattered all over the ground. Du Song stabbed four or five more sacks in succession, and white rice grains still fell out. Du Song immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

"Your Highness, it looks like there's no problem. I'll go right away..."

Before Du Song could finish his words, Ye Tinghua took the sword from his hand, leaped up to the middle, and swung the sword down, causing gravel to fall out.

Du Song's face turned pale instantly. The secret guards beside him also picked up their swords and stabbed at the sacks. As expected, the sacks at the back were filled with gravel.

Du Song panicked, and looked at Ye Tinghua anxiously, "Your Highness, what should we do?"

Ye Tinghua closed his eyes, took a deep breath and said, "Go and kill all the people related to Li County immediately. Don't leave any alive."

Ye Tinghua immediately understood that the matter of Li County must have been known to someone, and he hoped that there was still time to silence the witness.

After everyone left, Ye Tinghua slowly opened his eyes, sighed heavily and said, "Du Song, I am worried about you going there in person, so make sure you don't leave anyone behind."

No one would have thought that Du Song, the servant who served Ye Tinghua every day, would be the famous killer Wan Liang Jin in the underworld. As the name suggests, Wan Liang Jin charges 10,000 taels of gold for killing someone, hence the name Wan Liang Jin in the underworld.

Wan Liang Jin always killed people without asking why, and he never failed. He always wore a mask with a ghost face, and no one had ever seen his true face. It was said that there was no one that Wan Liang Jin could not kill. Later, the rumors became more and more outrageous, saying that Wan Liang Jin could even kill the emperor.

This matter soon reached the ears of the emperor. Although he knew that the rumor was exaggerated, the emperor did not care about it. He could not allow such a person to exist in his country.

Soon the emperor sent out the Jinyiwei to search the whole country for Wan Liang Jin's whereabouts. Notices offering a reward for Wan Liang Jin were posted all over the streets overnight. In an instant, Wan Liang Jin went from being a top killer feared by everyone in the underworld to a wanted criminal of the imperial court who had to hide from place to place.

Later, Wan Liang Jin was trapped by the men of the Sixth Prince Ye Tingxuan. Although he finally fought alone against a hundred people and desperately broke out of the siege, he was still seriously injured.

At that time, the dying Wan Liang Jin happened to be rescued by Ye Tinghua. From then on, the Third Prince had a servant named Du Song by his side. Outsiders saw Du Song as a coward. He was beaten and scolded by the Third Prince all day long, but he still had a frivolous look on his face.

So no one could have imagined that this cowardly servant Du Song would be a well-known figure in the underworld at that time.

Du Song put on the mask with a serious face, and immediately murderous intent filled his body. He immediately transformed from a timid servant into the Wan Liang Jin who scared everyone at that time.

After Du Song left, Ye Tinghua finally put down his worries temporarily. He smiled helplessly and said to himself, "I don't want to do that either."

But this bitter smile was quickly wiped away, and then a strong murderous intent appeared on Ye Tinghua's face, and his eyes gradually became extremely cold.

Ye Tinghua did not stay for long. He quickly rode back to his house, changed to a carriage and headed for the city gate. He knew that in less than two hours, tens of thousands of victims would flock to the city gate before dawn.

These disaster victims were collected from all over the place by him at great expense and effort, and they had been detained in Li County all this time just for this day.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly. He had been planning for so long, but in the end he failed. He came here today just to see who he was working for.

Ye Tinghua was lying alone in the carriage, with darkness all around him. A sense of powerlessness gradually rose in his heart. Since he was a child, he had been the one with the weakest sense of existence among many princes.

His biological mother was just a palace maid. One day, she was favored by the drunk emperor in the imperial garden. After the imperial physician found out that she was pregnant, the emperor casually appointed her as a concubine and gave her a palace next to the cold palace to live in. There was only one nanny who delivered meals to her every day, and the food she brought was all the food for the palace servants.

Ye Tinghua's mother had always been a concubine after giving birth to Ye Tinghua, so he was not liked by his father when he was a child. His father never came to see him after he was born, and didn't even give him a name. He had always been called the third prince.

The name Yetinghua was given to him by his tutor after he started school, and he had the good fortune to study with the tutor because his mother asked the empress dowager for the opportunity. It was not until the tutor mentioned it to the emperor that the emperor remembered that he had such a son.

Therefore, Ye Tinghua studied very hard since he was a child, just to make his father see him among the many princes. Before he came of age, he lived a cautious life in the palace.

He got up before dawn every day to practice martial arts and calligraphy. After his continuous efforts, his father finally noticed him, and he and his mother walked out from the crowd.

Although he is a prince, he has to fight for everything he has. Since he was a child, he has learned all the intrigues and schemes in the palace. He must keep climbing up, because if he stops, he will start to fall.

Ye Tinghua rubbed the corners of his eyes which felt a little sore. His eyes were cold and without any warmth, and the aura around him was like a pool of stagnant water that had been still for a long time.

Suddenly, the secret guard beside him knocked on the carriage window and whispered, "Your Highness, a woman came to see you."

"woman?"

Yetinghua murmured to himself, and couldn't help but think of the white color at the entrance of the Jinsi Embroidery Workshop during the day.

After Ye Tinghua agreed, the secret guard quickly brought the person over. Ye Tinghua lifted the heavy curtain of the carriage, took out a fire starter from his arms, and blew it gently.

In the dim firelight, I could barely see the woman in front of me. She was wearing a bright red hooded cloak with a circle of white fox fur sewn around the brim.

The woman's round face was slightly red from the cold. She smiled at Ye Tinghua, revealing two deep dimples on her face, looking sweet and lovely.

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