The villain's daily corpse collection

Prince Xian’s Palace, Lingyun Pavilion.

This is Du Ye's study. The books on the simple bookshelf are mostly military books and strategies. The rest of the place is filled with various weapons and illustrations, which looks like an armory.

Jiang Fan was slightly surprised by the furnishings of this "study", but he continued to face the arrogant prince with an attitude of neither servility nor arrogance.

"Have you found out who it is?" Du Ye didn't waste time talking.

"Your Highness, I and your guards have been searching for the people with the Yang Fire Fate in the south of the palace. We found eight of them. They were able to prove on that day that they had never been to the place where the fire broke out. With the palace guards here, they dare not lie."

"You mean you can't find it?" Du Ye has never been patient. He stabbed the dagger in his hand into the rosewood table in front of him.

"I came here this time to ask the prince how to find out if someone has changed their birth date. I have an idea. If someone's birth date has been changed, then it will naturally be impossible to find out."

Anyone who has changed their birth date? Du Ye thought about whether there were any special cases like this among the people around him.

The captain of the guards suddenly remembered something and hesitated: "Your Highness, I remembered someone, but I don't know if I should tell you." He glanced at Jiang Fan beside him, worried that there were outsiders around. So this person's name...

Du Ye said, "It's okay to tell me, Mr. Jiang can also help verify it."

"It's the seventh emperor's daughter Du Ximiao." The captain of the guards gritted his teeth and said the name.

"What?" Du Ye seemed incredulous. "When did she change?" The captain of the guards was also quite surprised: "I thought the prince knew about this..."

"When did this happen?" Du Ye suppressed his anger, "How dare this little bitch betray me!"

Jiang Fan said, "Your Highness, I just cast a fortune and it is true that the horoscope has been changed. If there is nothing else, I will take my leave first." Du Ye waved his hand to signal him to leave.

"At first, the prince was planning to plant one of our people in the An family. The Seventh Princess volunteered to be an undercover agent and made an engagement with the An family. It caused a lot of uproar at the time, and His Majesty was furious. In order to make the matter impossible to resolve, the Seventh Princess let people see that she and the young master of the An family... had already done something. The prince was very satisfied at the time." The captain of the guards recalled carefully.

"I now remember that my sister is indeed extraordinary."

Du Ye smiled, remembering that when Du Ximiao first came to him to surrender, she was still a skinny, sallow-faced little girl. Later, she turned out to be so stunningly beautiful. It was a very prestigious thing to have a beauty by your side. The key point was that she was not only pleasing to the eye, but also very useful. He became more confident in his own judgment.

"Then what's the meaning of her changing her birth date?" he asked puzzled.

"The Seventh Princess found a master who calculated her horoscope and found that it conflicted with Young Master An's horoscope, which was not conducive to her helping the prince to go undercover, so she secretly changed her horoscope. I asked the princess whether she had obtained the prince's consent, and she said she would tell you, so I didn't say anything more."

"She is really thoughtful," Du Ye praised. "Among the retainers who died in the fire, there was a spy of my second brother. Do you think she betrayed me this time?"

The captain of the guards was sweating profusely: "I don't know..."

"Whether she betrays me or not is not important. What's important is that she is still a very useful chess piece. Let her play a role one last time." Du Ye sneered.

*

Prince Qian's Mansion is located in the most prosperous area of ​​Yangyue City in Yangdu.

This is not only the main residence of the Yangyue An family, but also the highest-standard place in the entire Yangdu except for the imperial palace. Even the four major palaces of the Di family cannot compare with it.

In the eyes of the world, this is not only a royal palace, but also the most dazzling pearl in Yangdu.

The once magnificent mansion was now covered with a large and heavy white silk mourning curtain, which hung in silence and indifference everywhere in the palace. Siyin paper fell on the streets of Yangyue City like snowflakes, but it would not melt and disappear, just like the dead would not be resurrected. The golden bell in the hall was low and solemn, and the sound of the bell spread and echoed throughout the palace.

The coffin was safely placed in the house on the west side of the main hall. There was no body in the coffin, only the deceased's clothes, as well as many precious gold and pottery burial objects.

The area was crowded with people, including many relatives of the An family, noble families who had connections with the An family, monks from the Lin'an Palace who were on good terms with An Zhongyan, and some court officials who were close friends with the An family.

Everyone mourned deeply for An Zhongyan. No matter what their relationship was before or whether they had met before, it didn't matter. They came with a purpose, whether they wanted to continue to maintain the relationship or to see the joke, the door of An's was open today.

Du Ximiao was at the front of the crowd, she was crying and sobbing, she was even more sad than An Zhongyan's immediate family. When everyone saw this scene, they talked about it.

"It's too much for Her Royal Highness, the Princess, to be so sad!"

"Well, I heard that she had sex with An Zhongyan before marriage, and now the engagement is over, so it's all in vain."

"Yeah, in the end, I got nothing. Bai Xia is so good-looking, but it seems he has no brains."

"What kind of princess is she? She just came from the cold palace. I don't know whose child she is. Otherwise, she would have to hold on to the big ship of An family. And she is not in good condition here," the man pointed to his head, "I heard that she is crazy."

Ni Yun became angry when she heard this and wanted to rush up to argue with the rumormonger, but Yuan Xiang advised her not to act rashly, although he also hid his clenched fists in his sleeves.

Du Ximiao sobbed and choked, her heart was full of sneers. She cried half-truthfully, the truth was that her hope of using the An family to gradually gain power was dashed, she was so angry that she was venting her emotions now. Needless to say, the false part was that she never cared about An Zhong's opinions.

At this moment, a burst of hurried horse hooves sounded from outside the door, interrupting the mourning atmosphere.

"Long live His Royal Highness Prince Xian." Everyone saluted.

"Du Ximiao! How dare you deceive me! It was you who killed An Zhongyan!" Du Ye, wearing a black python robe, strode into the funeral scene from outside the mansion.

Everyone was in an uproar, and Du Ximiao looked even more confused.

Manager An went forward to greet Du Ye, but Du Ye ignored him and walked into the hall like a gust of wind. He walked straight to Du Ximiao and picked her up from the ground. Yuan Xiang rushed over to support Du Ximiao.

"Du Ximiao, tell me, what is this thing?" A Geng Tie was slapped hard on her face, leaving a red mark on her cheek.

Du Ximiao picked it up and looked at it. Her palm-sized face suddenly turned pale. Written on it was her real birth date. She had been exposed for tampering with her birth date two years ago!

"I, I don't understand what my brother the emperor means?" Du Ximiao pretended to be calm.

"You are not allowed to change the horoscope. This is stealing the heaven and changing the fate! Your original horoscope conflicts with the horoscope of my cousin An Zhongyan. It is you who killed him!"

Everyone watched indifferently and whispered.

Du Ximiao was horrified. She defended herself, "No, I didn't. I didn't change my fate. I didn't bring bad luck to him!"

Du Ye snorted coldly, "It is well known that you came from the cold palace and your life experience is miserable. I felt sorry for you, so I usually stayed close to you. I thought you were a good girl, so I proposed marriage for you, but I never thought you would be like this."

"No! It's not like that, Brother Di, I treat you sincerely, why do you treat me like this!" Du Ximiao fell to the ground, she grabbed Du Ye's clothes, her expression was out of control and extremely desperate.

Du Ye kicked her away without mercy: "You have played me around like a snake! You are such a vicious person! Don't you know what you did to get into Yangyue An's family earlier? You drugged my cousin and made him sleep with you, which forced my father to agree to this marriage!"

Everyone was so shocked that they almost forgot they were here to attend a funeral.

"Now, I will definitely sacrifice my relatives for the greater good. You were going to marry my cousin anyway, so why not bury you together? That way, you won't be alone on your way to the underworld."

"Brother Emperor, why are you slandering me like this? I know that I am of low status and all of you look down on me. I will never forget your kindness in giving me a meal, but that doesn't mean I have no dignity. It's not your turn to decide my fate. After all, I am the daughter of the emperor of Yangdu, how can I be buried with the son of an aristocratic family..." Du Ximiao cried in a heavy voice, but her crying appearance was still moving, making her look even more pitiful, which made people feel pity.

"It's really not his turn to have the final say."

A sharp voice cut through the noise and everyone looked outside curiously.

The person who came turned out to be the eunuch Zheng, the chief eunuch of the imperial palace!

Following behind him were the first-class royal guards - the Panlong Army.

"Eunuch Zheng, Yangdu is some distance away from Yangyue City. You have come here from so far away and must be exhausted from the journey. Please come in quickly." Chief Steward An bowed first.

"Yes." Eunuch Zheng nodded, "Please accept my condolences. In addition to sending Young Master An off on behalf of His Majesty, we have another thing to do today."

"What is it? Eunuch Zheng, please speak up. An is willing to help His Majesty solve his problems."

"It's her!"

Eunuch Zheng pointed at Du Ximiao who was lying on the ground with a sad face. Du Ximiao looked confused and a little frightened.

"Long live His Royal Highness Prince Xian, and long live His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince." Eunuch Zheng called out as a greeting and a salute.

Du Ye was already unhappy to see Eunuch Zheng coming, as this eunuch usually disliked him in the palace.

Eunuch Zheng is a true master and the closest person to Emperor Du. Sometimes he is like the incarnation of Emperor Du, and his attitude is the same as Emperor Du's attitude towards himself.

"What does Eunuch Zheng mean by pointing at the Seventh Prince?" Du Ye asked.

"Your Majesty has a message, an imperial decree."

Everyone in the hall knelt to listen to the order, and Du Ye also knelt slowly.

"Your Majesty has spoken. The An family once built a kingdom for Yangdu. The late emperor will never forget it, and neither will I. Now that the An family's children have suffered, I feel deeply sorry. I have approved An Zhongyan's funeral to be completed according to the funeral standards of the royal family's children, and granted the royal family burial objects according to the rites of the prince."

"Thank you for your kindness, Your Majesty."

"Eunuch Zheng, what about the Seventh Prince?" Butler An glanced at Du Ye and asked.