"I'll take you home." Xiao Huayong said after eating and drinking.
"Your Highness..."
"Let Tianyuan say that I have woken up, but my eyes are very uncomfortable. I want to go back to the palace and take you home." Xiao Huayong made a decision, "It's not that I look down on Youyou's ability, but I will feel uneasy if I don't see Youyou return home with my own eyes."
Since he had made the arrangements, Shen Xihe did not argue with him. Xiao Huayong brought the large number of people left by the emperor back to the palace, bypassed Shen Xihe's princess residence, and personally sent Shen Xihe to the door of her house. Only after seeing the housekeeper Shen Qing and Mo Yuan receive her into the mansion did he continue on his journey.
"Be careful these days." Shen Xihe reminded when he returned home.
Regardless of what she guessed or what Xiao Huayong thought, the possibility of it being unfavorable to her is very high.
"Princess, I will sleep with you at night." Mo Yu said.
Shen Xihe did not act rashly and nodded. Not only did she let Mo Yu place a sleeping couch in front of her bed, she also carried Short-Ming to the room. Short-Ming was even more alert at night than Mo Yu, Mo Yuan and others.
"Have all the people from the clinic evacuated?" Shen Xihe asked again.
The clinic that Princess Yangling and Munuha were tricked into entering was the one that was bought a month ago. The original owner was not good at medicine, so the clinic had no skilled doctors and could only sell some medicinal materials, which was not enough to make ends meet. It was easy to buy it from him.
It’s just that I have been guarding the family property all these years and have not actively put it up for sale, which is why no one is interested.
"The matter of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince gave them enough time. They have already left the city and the government cannot track them down." Zhenzhu replied.
To buy and sell a pharmacy, one needs to transfer ownership and sign a deed, which requires the use of household registration and travel permit. The owner of this travel permit and household registration is also theirs. He did come to buy the clinic a month ago, but he never opened it for business. He returned to his hometown early, and there are witnesses there to prove that he was not in Kyoto during this period.
Another reason is that the clinic had been closed for more than half a month, and had not been open at all during this period. There was a polo match that day, and the people who had free time went to watch the game. It was unlikely that the people who did not have free time would pass by the remote clinic.
Mo Yuan and others were also extremely careful. No one should have seen the clinic open. Even if Munuha was arrested, the mention of the clinic would not match, which could only prove that he was lying and further confirmed that he killed Princess Yangling.
"Your Majesty has sent people to guard the Turkic envoys at the Honglu Guesthouse," Zhenzhu added.
Although Munuha is now suspected of being on the run, the matter has not been investigated to a final conclusion, and Emperor Youning still shows some respect to the envoy. He only places him under house arrest in the Honglu Guesthouse instead of putting him directly in jail.
"Princess, why did Munuha run away?" Biyu couldn't understand. "Doesn't his escape prove that he committed murder and escaped?"
"With his keen sense, when he fainted from my spices, he should have realized that he couldn't escape from this trap just by wanting to." Shen Xihe said as he walked slowly towards his own courtyard, "When he woke up, he was witnessed by others killing Princess Yangling. He couldn't defend himself. If he stayed, he would just sit and wait for death. If someone helped him, he would definitely escape, and if he escaped, it would be an unsolved case.
The Turks insisted that Munuha was killed by Emperor Youning, and that’s why they said he disappeared. It’s hard to say who was right or wrong in this matter. In this way, it’s very likely that the war between the two countries will be avoided, and both sides will tacitly agree that one life pays one life.”