Seeing Xiao Yao’s movement, Song Wan Yue lowered her eyes.
Song Si froze in disbelief.
Song Wan Yue pulled out the letter written by the old man and handed it to Song Si, “The Third Prince has already returned to the capital ahead of me, Grand Great Grandfather was afraid that he would be evil and wrote these letters for you to deliver them to the address on them.”
Song Si took them mechanically and looked at the skeleton on the table. More than half a month ago, Gu Yi had been talking and laughing to him, but now he was a pile of burnt bones.
His lips trembled as he tried to say something, but found he could not utter a single word.
“Please, big brother.”
Song Si turned to walk out, and because he was in such a hurry, his body hit the door frame with a thud.
Song Wangyue even felt the pain and tried to help, Song Si stumbled out as if he didn’t notice the pain.
Song Wangyue followed.
There was no longer a carriage outside the door.
When the two postmen saw Song Si coming out, they were just about to go up to meet him when Song Si had already stumbled and ran past them.
“Please bother the two of you.”
Song Wangyue said and ran past them as well.
The two postmen looked at each other for a while.
The girl had just rushed out and urged the coachman to leave before she even got on the coach, and these two were in such a hurry!
Song Si stumbled and ran to the door of the mansion over there and ordered the coach to be prepared.
The carriage was quickly prepared and the two of them got on.
Song Si’s whole body was trembling.
“Big brother.”
Song Wangyue called out to him in a soft voice.
Song Si heard it and tried to calm himself down, but he couldn’t, it was over a hundred lives.
Bang!
He raised his hand and smashed it hard against the wall of the cart, the driver jumped in fright, “My lord!”
“No matter.”
Song Wangyue said.
The coachman let out a sigh of relief, after following Song Si for so long, it was the first time he had seen such anger in Song Si.
Song Wangyue’s voice was low, “Big brother, it’s up to you whether you can bring down the Third Prince, you have to be calm.”
Song Si closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths, suppressing the fire burning in his heart before opening his eyes, shaking his hands and laying out the three letters one by one, reading the addresses on them, they were Zhu Zhihong, the Grand Master of the Cabinet, Wan Yanming, the Imperial Historian, and Hu Yang, the Young Secretary of the Da Lisi.
“Go to the imperial historian’s house first, at ……”
Song Si stated the address, “Quickly!”
The coachman knew something must have happened and drove the carriage as fast as he could, stopping in front of the Wan House a quarter of an hour later.
Song Si had completely calmed down, he told Song Wan Yue to stay in the carriage, after he went down himself, he straightened his clothes and walked to the door, “I’m here to deliver a letter for Old Mr Xu, please go and report it.”
The watchman darted in to report, and returned a short while later to lead him in.
Wan Yanming was sitting in the parlour, he was also a favourite pupil of the old gentleman. He was also one of Mr. Lao’s favoured pupils, but after entering the officialdom, he deliberately did not get very close to Mr. Lao in order to avoid suspicion.
When news of the old gentleman’s poisoning reached the capital, he almost couldn’t resist going to Qingping County, but he was relieved when the news came that the old gentleman had woken up.
“Doctor Wan.”
Song Si entered the door and saluted.
Song Si was also considered a disciple of the old gentleman, or this year’s top scholar, and Wan Yanming revealed a kind smile, “Song Hanlin has worked hard.”
Song Si handed him the letter.
He opened it in front of him, and after reading only one line, his face changed dramatically, “Someone, prepare the carriage, I want to go to the palace!”
Song Si went to Zhu Zhihong’s house again. After reading it, Zhu Zhihong reacted the same way as Wan Yanming, and immediately ordered someone to prepare a carriage to go to the palace.
The reaction of Hu Yang, the Young Secretary of the Da Lisi, was different; after reading it, he immediately called for people to come and tell them to publicize what the Third Prince and the Duke of Qi had done in Qingping County, instructing, “Be quick, let everyone in the capital know within an hour.”
……
Without waiting for the carriage to stop, Xiao Yao couldn’t wait to get off the carriage and run towards the house, carrying her skirt.
It was the first time the underlings had seen her lose her composure and they speculated what had happened.
“Grandfather, grandmother ……”
Xiao Yao ran into the main courtyard in one breath.
The Duke of Ding and his wife were talking when they heard her urgent shout, the Lady of Ding froze, Yao’er had always been of a steady nature, to make her so eager, it must be something big.
Xiao Yao’s face was pale as she ran into the house, waving her hand haphazardly for the subordinates to retreat, she closed the door herself, turned and walked quickly to the two men, “Grandfather, grandmother, cousin he …… he has been killed!”
A boom went through the Ding Guofu’s head.
The Duke of Ding could not believe his ears, “What did you say?”
Xiao Yao’s eyes were red, “Yue’er’s sister is here, she said that all one hundred and thirteen members of the Gu family were killed by the Third Prince and the Duke of Qi’s men, and, also set fire to the Gu family.”
“How is that possible?”
Duke Ding Guo’s eyes were rounded, unwilling to believe.
The Lady of the State of Determination’s body shook.
The door was opened and Xiao Zheng walked in.
He and Xiao Yao entered the house backwards and forwards, just in time to hear the subordinates discussing Xiao Yao’s disorder, and thought that something had happened to Song Si and she had come to the house to ask for help, “Yao’er, what’s out ……”
Halfway through the question, he saw the reaction of the Duke and Princess Ding and paused.
“Father ……”
Xiao Yao’s voice choked.
For some reason, Xiao Zheng’s heart stuttered, “What, what happened?”
“All one hundred and thirteen members of cousin’s family have been killed!”
Xiao Zheng froze in place in shock.
Inside the palace.
The third prince knelt before the emperor and cried out in tears, “My son wanted to wait until his identity was confirmed before reporting to father, but who knew that they were so cunning as to take this opportunity to hide in death!”
As he sped all the way back, the Third Prince realized that Gu Yi was not dead, but had taken this opportunity to disappear.
The emperor stared at him grimly.
All these years he had been sending people around secretly to find out the whereabouts of that child, but he had not expected it to be right under his nose.
“Grandfather’s death was also moved by them, I still ask Father to get a public …… for Grandfather.”
The emperor copied the tealight and smashed it over.
The third prince’s forehead was smashed. Fresh blood flowed down his cheek.
The Third Prince raised his hand to touch it in horror.
“How come you didn’t die there!”
The Emperor gritted his teeth.
The boy was not to be feared, what was to be feared was the elite army that King Ruqin had led back then, which was trained by King Ruqin, and was invincible in battle.
The third prince felt real fear, he couldn’t care less about the blood on his face, he knocked his head heavily on the ground, “Father forgive me, it’s my son’s fault, father forgive me ……”
“Get out and kneel, kneel until you die!”
The third prince went to kneel outside the study with weak hands and feet.
The Emperor was so angry that he swept all the things on the table to the floor.
Ever since that elite army had disappeared, he had not had peace of mind in the past ten years, lest one day it would suddenly appear and take over his throne.
“Your Majesty ……”
Eunuch Huang entered with trepidation, “Imperial Historian Wan Yanming requests an audience!”