"Your Highness, you see..." The old woman was waiting for his reply.
"Let's leave it at that for now. If there's any more news in the future, we'll talk about it later!" Prince Qi Lie finally spoke, meaning that he didn't intend to get involved in Madam Liu's affairs.
"Yes, I understand." The old woman retreated and went to arrange everything. For the time being, she would just wait and see whether there was anything going on with Madam Liu. If there was no need, it would be best not to contact her.
"Second brother, I want to go out for a walk too." Princess Qia stood up and wanted to go out too.
Prince Qilie stopped her and said, "Where are you going? Your injury hasn't healed yet. It's not safe to go out like this."
"I'm just taking a walk, nothing will happen. Nothing happened before, and no one will dare to do anything to me after this. Those who want to deal with me are those princesses and the like. They don't have the courage to do such things again and again, not to mention that I'm at the center of the storm now." Princess Qia said.
She made an appointment and wanted to go and see it in person.
"No!" Prince Qi Lie rejected it outright. "You also know that we are in the cusp of a storm right now. It's inconvenient to go anywhere. Why do you want to sneak out to meet someone at this time?"
Prince Qi Lie was fully aware of his sister's actions.
"Second brother." Princess Qia stomped her feet hard, very dissatisfied.
"Okay, don't be unhappy. Who are you and who is that person? Do you need to go out to see her at this time? Just send a servant, and you accompany me to the Ling Anbo Mansion." Prince Qi Lie said disapprovingly.
"Going to Ling Anbo's Mansion? I want to go too?" Princess Qia pointed at her nose.
"There are many women in the Ling Anbo Mansion, so naturally you have to go. It's no use for me to go alone. We are from the Northern Frontier, and especially at a time like this, it's easy for something to go wrong no matter where we go."
Prince Qi Lie said with a serious face.
Princess Qia nodded helplessly: "Okay, then I will go with my second brother."
Seeing that his sister was relieved and sat down again, Prince Qilie asked again: "How is your investigation going? Why is there no news?"
Princess Qia frowned when talking about this. "I don't know either. I don't know what went wrong. It's impossible that there has been no one here all this time. Even if there is no news about my elder brother, there should be news about my elder sister. When she arrived in the Great Zhou Dynasty, it's impossible that she didn't make clothes or wear new jewelry."
The noble ladies of the Northern Frontier admire the clothing materials and jewelry of the Jiangnan area in a way that is incomparable to the young ladies from the aristocratic families in the Great Zhou.
Even if the eldest princess had fled here in the first place, she would still buy what she needed. When they left, they took away a lot of valuables.
"Could it be that something happened to her?" Prince Qi Lie frowned. He was also investigating, but there was still no news after such a long time, and his sister's method was useless.
If he was guessing that something had happened to his elder brother, he was still willing to do so. A princess was really nothing to Prince Qilie. It didn't matter whether she was dead or alive, as long as the prince could be implicated.
Huheya was poisoned at the beginning. Although the poison did not kill him immediately, there is no guarantee that there will be no problems later.
"That's possible!" Princess Qiya was happy and in a good mood. "If Huheya is really dead, then I will be the only princess in Northern Xinjiang. Not to mention the Princess of Jing, I can even be the Crown Princess."
"Be careful with your words." Prince Qilie's face darkened again when he heard Princess Qiya's words.
"Second brother, this is nothing. I was just rescued by someone before, and I didn't do anything. Why can't I marry the prince? Compared to this unfavored princess, maybe I am more favored and more favored by the prince." Qiya stretched out her hand and pressed her temples, saying with disapproval.
"Nonsense!" Prince Qilie scolded.
"Okay, second brother, I know. I won't really go find the crown prince of the Great Zhou Kingdom. I heard that he is incompetent and not as good as King Jing. At least King Jing's biological mother is favored in the palace. He has his own strength, plus the strength of the General's Mansion... It is very likely that he will be able to succeed in the future."
Princess Qia chuckled, with a fierce look in her eyes.
As a princess married to a foreign king, she was destined to be sacrificed, but she didn't want to. Even if she was a daughter, so what? She could still fight for herself.
She doesn't want to marry an idle prince, but she is willing to marry a useless prince
At present, she was not in a hurry. She had to wait and see for a while. At least there had to be a final conclusion. Before she left, her father repeatedly told her that she didn't have to marry the crown prince. She could marry anyone except the crown prince because the crown princess was Madam Liu's daughter...
But, is it useful
Royal Palace
"Are you going to pay homage to Ling Anbo?" Pei Yuanjun asked lazily.
"That's what he said. He said he admired Ling Anbo very much and wanted to go and pay his respects to him." Ji Hai reported with a smile.
"What do they say over there?" Pei Yuanjun asked.
"The government office thinks it's not a big deal. It's okay. The assassination attempt just happened. The matter raised by the envoy from Northern Frontier is not a big deal. It's nothing. There is nothing taboo in the mansion of Marquis Ling'an right now. There's nothing wrong with taking a look." Ji Hai told the news he had heard before one by one.
"Admire me? Admire Ling Anbo's heroism for killing so many people from the Northern Frontier?" Pei Yuanjun curled the corners of his lips in disapproval.
"Maybe they have other intentions." Ji Hai thought for a moment and said frankly.
Pei Yuanjun smiled, his voice sounded gentle but a little cold: "The people of Northern Frontier are really self-righteous. Just when something like this happened, they want us to compensate them and let them do whatever they want. Go and tell them what I want, and say that it is inconvenient."
"Yes, I'll go now." Ji Hai responded.
"Let me reveal one more thing. I didn't agree to this matter because of my interference." Pei Yuanjun said disapprovingly.
"Okay, I'll arrange it right away. There is one more thing, Master, what should we do about Madam Liu?" Ji Hai asked.
Pei Yuanjun tapped his hand gently on the chair rail, "Since the princess is willing to take care of this matter, there is no need to touch her for now."
"But isn't the thing that the old Duke sent before more effective?" Ji Hai asked puzzledly. In his opinion, this was more direct and faster.
If the prince takes action, wouldn't it be faster than the princess
"The princess will make her own decision on this matter." Pei Yuanjun said lazily, with the corners of his lips slightly raised, a faint and doting smile, "If the princess thinks this is a good idea, then let's do it this way."
"The princess is because of the old Duke!" Ji Hai sighed...
Prince Qi Lie was already preparing to travel, but he received news that he was not allowed to go to the Ling Anbo Mansion.
"Why not? Wasn't it agreed upon before?" Prince Qilie asked. Standing in the hall was Mr. Xiao, an aide sent by the general who supported the country. He had escorted the envoys from Northern Frontier to the capital and had followed the Northern Frontier delegation afterwards, so that the two sides could communicate conveniently if there was anything.
Mr. Xiao frowned, also confused, "It was originally agreed upon, and it has been completed before. I also told the people in Ling Anbo's mansion..."
"Go and find out who is behind this." Prince Qi Lie understood.
Mr. Xiao nodded and hurried down. Although he was not in Beijing, he knew a lot about many things and had his own channels to investigate the matter.
The final answer was so great that Prince Qilie and Mr. Xiao could hardly believe their ears.
"The King of England?"
"I heard that it was spread by someone close to the King of England." Mr. Xiao frowned, "Your Highness, this matter is very difficult to handle."
"It has to be done even if it's difficult. At the beginning... you promised me something like this." Prince Qi Lie said worriedly. If this happened to someone else, he wouldn't be so worried.
Now that Pei Yuanjun is here, things that were originally not difficult have become difficult.
If there is one person that Prince Qi Lie has always been unable to see through and cannot control, it is no one other than the King of England.
He even sent his own woman to the King of England, just because he heard that the King of England was deeply in love with this woman and never married because of her. Even if he married her now, it was only because of the fate of the King of England's wife, and he did not really care about her.
But what is happening now
"Why didn't you explain clearly what the reason was?" Prince Qilie asked again.
"He just said something vaguely... I don't know if it's true." Mr. Xiao had a strange look on his face.
"What is it? Tell me?" Prince Qilie shook his hand.
"It seems... it has something to do with a woman. I don't know if it's true. It seems that a woman said something about Your Highness in front of the King of England. The King of England was annoyed with Your Highness because of this. When Your Highness wanted to pay homage to the Ling Anbo Mansion, he deliberately disagreed. It was originally to make Your Highness look bad."
Mr. Xiao said vaguely.
A woman
A woman who is by the side of the King of England and has a relationship with Prince Qilie.
The answer is actually not that difficult to guess.
"Tong Yuzhen?" Prince Qilie uttered a name.
Mr. Xiao shook his head, indicating that he didn't understand either, but it sounded somewhat similar.
"That woman won't let me go?" Prince Qi Lie had a new question. Could it be that Tong Yuzhen had other ideas about him? "Did Mr. Xiao find her?"
"We can't find her. No one in that place knew that Miss Tong was missing. They only said that they had seen Miss Tong before, and that a maid came to see her secretly. She should be the maid from Prince Ying's palace, but no one was seen after that, and Miss Tong also disappeared suddenly." Mr. Xiao said.
"How come he disappeared all of a sudden?" Prince Qilie said to himself, "What are the chances of him entering the Prince of Ying's palace?"
"Nine out of ten." Mr. Xiao gave an answer.
"That means it's in the Prince of England's palace. Does this matter have anything to do with her? Did the King of England discover her relationship with me? Or did she... have other thoughts?" Prince Qi Lie said in a low voice, with a grim look on his face.
The plan to pay homage to the Ling'an Marquis' Mansion had been prepared long ago. When he was at the border, he had mentioned it to the General Fuguo. The General Fuguo said that it was not a big deal and there was nothing that the Ling'an Marquis' Mansion could not afford to see. The Ling'an Marquis' Mansion had already fallen into decline, and he, the prince of the Northern Frontier, still gave face to the Ling'an Marquis' Mansion by going there.
The two countries are on good terms, so past ups and downs are nothing and can be understood. Even if the two countries were enemies at the time, they should now put aside their hatred and seek peace and prosperity for the country and the people.
Mr. Xiao didn't dare to respond to Prince Qi Lie's words. He smacked his lips helplessly and said, "This matter...maybe Your Highness will have to figure it out on your own."