The prince went to the palace in confusion.

Jin Ge, the chief maid of the Central Palace, knelt down sadly and greeted her, saying, "Your Highness, please go and see the Empress."

What's going on? His father asked him to look at his mother, and his aunt Jinge also asked him to look at her.

What happened to mother?

He strode to the queen's palace and saw that the queen's face was pale and her temples, which had been black, were now gray.

"Mother, what's wrong with you?"

"It's okay." Seeing him coming back, the queen put a handkerchief to the corner of her mouth and coughed for a while, then asked in a hoarse voice, "When did you come back?"

"I arrived at noon. Mother, why are you so ill? What did the imperial physician say?"

"It's okay, mother. I just feel sad." The queen burst into tears again, "My grandson..."

"Grandson?" The prince was stunned. "Mother, what's going on?"

When he returned to the court, many people had strange looks on their faces, and his father, for the first time ever, did not scold him. Could it be that his son (the emperor's eldest grandson Zhou Wenrang) had an accident?

"Rang'er, Fen'er, both are gone. They got smallpox and didn't survive..."

The queen was crying, and the prince was stunned after hearing it.

"Mother, what did you say?"

"My grandson..." The Queen burst into tears.

"All gone?" The prince roared, "Why are you crying? You're just going to help me look after the house while I'm away? You're the queen, but you can't even protect two grandchildren. How dare you cry?"

The queen was stunned for a moment by his roar and looked at him with tears in her eyes.

The prince has been doted on by the Wei family since he was young. His Majesty is neither good nor bad to the prince. He has everything a prince should have.

The prince had lived too smoothly and got things too easily, so without having experienced any setbacks, he couldn't even deal with the riots of the people in Zhongzhou.

The sudden death of his two sons was such a huge loss for him, the first time in his life.

He can't accept it!

Seeing the queen crying, the prince ignored her and stood up and left.

Shi Xiu had been waiting for him and was about to ask him a question with a smile when he saw that the prince's face was no longer expressionless as usual, but was filled with anger, sadness and gloominess.

Shi Xiu hurriedly brought the horse over. The prince said nothing, rode a fast horse at the palace gate and hurried back to the palace.

Shi Xiu also hurried to follow.

Along the way, the prince whipped his horse again and again. The horse disturbed the people and trampled on their stalls, but he didn't care and returned to the prince's mansion in one breath.

There was nothing unusual at the gate of the Prince's Mansion, but once you entered, you saw that the whole mansion was filled with sadness.

He ignored everyone who came to greet him and ran all the way to the Crown Princess's courtyard. He saw that Crown Princess Shi Yingying looked haggard and her eyes were dull. She didn't even react when the Crown Prince came back.

"Crown Princess, what's going on?" The prince walked over, grabbed Shi Yingying and shook her hard.

Shi Yingying seemed to be frightened. She stared with wide eyes and looked for a while. After confirming that it was the prince who had returned, she knelt on the ground and murmured, "Your Highness, you are finally back."

He fainted as soon as he finished speaking.

The prince was furious and grabbed a pot of cold tea on the table and poured it directly on her face.

Shi Yingying was awakened by the cold water.

The prince grabbed her neck and said viciously, "Don't play dumb or I'll kill your entire family! Tell me what's going on. If you can't explain it clearly, you'll die!"

Shi Yingying was frightened by his cruelty and he grabbed her neck. Her whole body was shaking and her face turned blue.

Shi Yingying's personal maid knelt down and kowtowed to beg the prince: "Your Highness, please let the Crown Princess go first..."

The prince let go and shouted, "Tell me what happened. If you can't tell me clearly, I will bury you alive."

Shi Yingying was coughing so hard that she beat her chest and lungs. The prince was so annoyed that he kicked her and called her a "waste". He said to the maid, "You, speak!"

The trembling maid told the prince in detail how Zhou Wenrang and Zhou Wenfen contracted smallpox and what happened before and after their death.

The prince's hands were clenched so tightly that they made a crackling sound. The maid was so frightened that she lay on the ground and dared not move.

"So even though Rang'er and Fen'er are dead, father didn't order an investigation into who infected them? And he didn't hold the Imperial Medical Bureau responsible?"

"I don't know what's going on here."

The Crown Prince walked out of the Crown Princess's courtyard, called the housekeeper, and summoned all the servants in the mansion, his personal nanny, several concubines, and so on.

He hadn't said anything yet, but he was already crying.

"Shut up!" The prince said viciously, and no one dared to cry anymore.

Wei Chuchu said nothing, her face naturally looked sad, but she didn't cry like the others.

The prince said, "Chu Chu, you speak."

Wei Chuchu didn't act pretentiously, nor did she try to please the Crown Princess. She narrated what had happened calmly and clearly.

"There was nothing unusual about the two little grandchildren before they went to the academy; there was nothing unusual about the eating utensils in the academy."

"The disease broke out suddenly. On the day the child was diagnosed with smallpox, the two young eunuchs who accompanied the child also developed high fevers. The imperial physician also diagnosed it as smallpox, and the two young eunuchs had already died."

"The day before yesterday, four maids who served the emperor's grandson contracted smallpox one after another and have died."

"The child is gone. His Majesty and the Queen are extremely distressed. They both came to the palace. His Majesty was sad and cried. After returning to the palace, the director of the Imperial Medical Bureau was sentenced to death."

After Wei Chuchu finished speaking, the prince was speechless for a long while.

So, the child died of a serious illness?

But why were all the infected people the servants in the Prince’s Mansion, and why were none of the children in the academy infected?

The housekeeper said, "Duke Cheng'en and the Empress investigated. After the two little grandchildren fell ill, the entire academy was closed for the holiday. The entire academy was sprayed with pesticides for disinfection, and all the children were treated for smallpox."

Because the two imperial grandchildren had different identities, they were taught separately in the academy, so they did not infect other children.

This makes sense.

The prince felt very aggrieved and dizzy.

The child died, but there is no one to hold accountable? Can we only blame ourselves for our bad luck?

"Prepare the car, I'm going to Duke Cheng'en's Mansion." He struggled to get up. He couldn't just let his two sons die. Someone had to be held responsible for this.

The butler immediately helped him to harness the carriage.

The prince's carriage went to Duke Cheng'en's mansion, and no one dared to stop it along the way. The white snow on the low bushes on both sides set off the prince's luxurious carriage and reflected the cold wealth of the most honorable prince of Daqian.

A very ordinary little horse-drawn carriage was coming towards us, and the horse's hooves were slipping a little on the road.

"Crown Prince, please get out of the way!"

The prince's guards rode on horseback in front, holding ceremonial swords to lead the way.

The little carriage was not very scared. It moved slightly to the side of the road, and the curtain opened, revealing Guan Yingying's wanton face.

"Your Highness, are you all right?"

She greeted him generously, but the prince ignored her and continued to drive forward.

"Tsk, why are you pretending!" She lowered the car curtain and muttered.

Nian Ke and Yan Ke were almost scared to death.

"Madam, that's His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. How can you stop him like this? Why don't you kneel? You will be beaten to death!"

"Beat to death? Do you think I was beaten to death?" Guan Yingying curled her lips, "Men can only be..."

Several people went to a shop on the street and first bought a batch of exquisite small porcelain bottles, and then customized a batch of iron boxes.

She put the small porcelain bottle in the carriage, rubbed her hands vigorously, and rubbed her face again. The winter in ancient times was really cold!

The prince is back and her plan can begin.

The disaster relief made the people revolt, this is also a talent! Look at that black face that looks like he has eaten shit, he must have been oppressed in the palace!

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