The Grand Prince walked out of the palace door covered in blood, and his personal attendants immediately stepped forward to hold him in panic, “Go get the Imperial Doctor!”
The Grand Prince’s eyes were blackened.
The blow from his father had really used force, in just half an hour or so, he felt like all the blood in his body was going to drain out, he struggled to hold on, “Go back to the palace first.”
The attendants helped him back to the carriage.
The coachman gave the horse a fierce whip and the horse hissed, spreading its hooves and running wildly towards the Grand Prince’s residence.
It was already dark and there were no pedestrians on the road.
The carriage stopped at the entrance of the palace, and before the attendants could help the Grand Prince down, the Grand Prince’s Concubine came out from the palace with her people to welcome her. When she saw the Grand Prince covered in blood and in a mess, she was grateful and heartbroken.
She was glad that the Grand Prince was all right, but distressed that he had been so badly injured.
When she helped him into the palace, the Imperial Doctor came over and carefully treated the wound.
“The wound is deep, Your Highness should remember not to get water on the wound for a few days, and eat a light diet, especially at night, and always keep an eye out for fever.”
The Grand Imperial Concubine took note of them all and had the reward of silver sent out to the Imperial Doctor. She wet a handkerchief and gently wiped the blood from the Grand Prince’s cheeks, unable to hold back the tears that fell from her eyes.
The Grand Prince was in no mood to comfort the Imperial Consort.
The Grand Prince only had three days, and if he could not find the person who had spread the rumour within three days, he would really have no chance of being crowned prince, “Change your clothes for me, I want to go to the study.”
His Majesty’s face was very pale and he looked like he could faint at any moment, he should be resting at this time, but she had known the Grand Prince for many years, if it was not a serious matter he would not disregard his body.
The first thing you should do is to take care of your own health.
“I know.”
After saying that, the Grand Prince went to the study with large strides.
Inside the study, several staff members were already waiting, “Your Highness.”
The Grand Prince walked over and sat down, a little weak, “Father has asked me to find out who is spreading the rumours within three days, where do you all think we should start?”
As the Grand Prince entered the palace, the hearts of several of the staff members had been hanging in the air until the moment they heard that the Grand Prince had returned before they fell back. At this moment, seeing the wound on the Grand Prince’s forehead, they knew that the Emperor was truly shaken with anger.
One of them cautiously asked, “Can Your Majesty tell from His Majesty’s reaction whether the rumours outside are true or not?”
The Grand Prince was silent.
As the saying goes, there is no better way to know a son than his father, and by the same token, there is no better way to know a father than his son. His father’s behaviour today showed that the rumours outside were true, that his father had really done something worse than a beast.
His silence was the answer.
The only person who could possibly know about such secret information would be the recently deceased Imperial Concubine. We guess that the Emperor has always favoured the Imperial Concubine and favoured the Third Prince for the same reason. Before her death, the Imperial Consort should have told the Wu family to save their lives.”
The Grand Prince narrowed his eyes, “You mean that the rumours were spread by the Wu family.”
“Yes, Your Highness, don’t forget that Wu Jin even set you up before he died.”
If it wasn’t for Wu Jin saying that Song Yin was Chu Yunxiao, the Grand Prince wouldn’t have rushed into the palace to claim credit in front of the emperor and annoyed him first.
“As for who the people behind the Wu family are, Your Highness secretly sent someone to interrogate them.”
Even if they all thought it was the second prince, then they would still have to have a statement from the Wu family.
The First Prince couldn’t figure it out, “Why would the Wu family do this?”
He hadn’t done anything to the Wu family, and hadn’t even crossed paths with them before they died.
“It should be that Your Highness helped to recover the soap that made the Wu family hold a grudge, the Wu family counted the murder of the third prince on Song Wan Yue’s head, Your Highness helped, the Wu family decided that you would take sides with the Xu family and casually held a grudge and repeatedly set traps for you, Your Highness might want to think carefully if this is the case.”
The Grand Prince closed his eyes and thought carefully about everything, and the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became. If it was true as the handlers said, then from the moment he had people come to his door to invite Wu Jin, the Wu family had set a trap for him to put him in a deadly position.
He snapped his eyes open, “Send someone to the Wu family ……”
……
The Ding Guo Mansion was unusually quiet today.
The people in the government who went out to buy today also heard the rumors outside and were so shocked that they threw their baskets away and ran all the way home to the old lady to tell her.
After hearing the rumours, the Lady of the Ding Country fainted on the spot.
The people who were waiting for her were terrified, pinching and calling for Song Wangyue to come over, making a mess.
The Duke of Ding, who was always gentle, lost his temper and punished the buyers, and ordered everyone in the house not to say anything about the incident.
At this moment, the Lady of the Ding State was half lying in bed, still shedding tears.
The Duke of Ding sat in front of the bed, holding a handkerchief to help her wipe, and softly advised, “Your eyes are already bad, don’t cry anymore.”
The Duke of Ding’s wife could not hold back. That was her eldest daughter, the child she had pampered to the core of her heart, the daughter she had raised until she was seventeen years old before she was willing to marry her off!
Her daughter should have been the happiest person in the world – with a husband who loved her with all his heart, with lovely children, and with a happy and fulfilling life.
But all of this was ruined by that beast.
And yet they could not avenge her daughter’s death, leaving her to die in peace for so many years.
“This might be another one of his trials, let’s not fall for his tricks.”
The Lady of Ding knew who this “he” was, and over the years, there had been many explicit and implicit temptations. She lifted her teary eyes, “What good would it do him?”
The Duke of Ding moved more and more gently, “He should have sensed something and is forcing our hand, Madam should hold on, we have more than just one daughter.”
The Lady of the Ding Country burst into tears again, she did have more than one daughter, but her other daughter had also gone to the palace to avenge her sister’s death.
After a few more moments of persuasion, the Duchess stopped her tears and fell into a deep sleep, the Duchess instructed her personal mothers to take care of her and went to her study.
Xiao Zheng, Xiao Qian, Song Wan Yue and Song Yin were waiting there.
Duke Ding sat down.
Xiao Zheng said, “Although that one looked hard-handed, he didn’t actually do anything to the Grand Prince, I guess he might have given the Grand Prince a secret order to find out who was behind it.”
Xiao Qian nodded his head, “Father is right, it’s just that the first person to strike the Grand Prince ……”
“The Wu family.”
Song Yin looked at several people, “The first person he’ll strike will be the Wu family.”
Xiao Zheng’s heart flinched, although he hated the Wu family, he did not want to implicate the innocent, Wu Jin and Wu Sheng were already dead and only some women, children and underlings were left in the Wu family.
Song Wan Yue obviously guessed his thoughts, “We cannot take action in this matter, I will send someone to send a letter to the Second Prince.”