Chapter 181 The Past
The second prince seemed to be crazy, with red eyes, clenched fists, and tears and anger as he yelled at the people in the room.
He just asked Qin Wanru to go to Xiangzheng's mansion to find out the whereabouts of Su Jinghe.
The person who was still alive in the morning now turned into a corpse with a black face.
"Who! Who on earth is it?!"
When his question received no response, he lost control and smashed everything in the room. Finally, he rushed to Qin Wanru's body, picked her up as if to vent his anger, and kissed her desperately.
It was as if this person would wake up after a wild, intense, and forceful kiss.
If an outsider saw this scene, watching a person do this to a corpse, he would probably vomit on the spot.
But after a brief moment of shock, the people standing around all had red eyes.
Qin Wanru's personal maid was startled, wiped the tears from her eyes, and stepped forward and said, "Your Highness, please make the queen feel more comfortable. It's too tight."
The second prince ignored her and went crazy for a while. Finally, he panted heavily, picked up the person horizontally, and walked out in a daze, "I'll take her home."
Qin Wanru's maid quickly glanced at the yard. In the yard, Jixiang was standing under a tree, looking over here vaguely. Meeting this quick glance, Jixiang nodded at her, turned around and walked out.
Qin Wanru's maid quickly retracted her gaze and followed the Second Prince away, crying all the way.
As soon as they left, Su Qingqing and Jixiang also left.
Su Jinghe's body was found in Xiang Zheng's mansion. The case itself was unusual, and now a prince's wife had died there. The case was directly classified as the highest level of serious crime. All the people at the scene were taken to the Heavenly Prison by Wang Yu himself.
But in a blink of an eye, the bustling residence of the Minister of War became an empty shell.
Huang Zhaozhong was the presiding judge of the case. He was so busy that he almost never left the ground and even slept in the Tianlao.
Qin Wanru did not die of natural causes. She died of poisoning, which could be considered an unexpected death. According to royal rules, such a person could not be buried in the imperial mausoleum. However, the second prince knelt in front of the imperial study and insisted on burying Qin Wanru in the imperial mausoleum.
Prince's Mansion.
Su Qingqing stood in the corridor in a trance. Jixiang put a cloak on her and sighed, "Master, what should we do? We have made thousands of plans, but we didn't expect that the Second Prince would have such feelings for Miss Qin."
Qin Wanru tried to leave the Second Prince several times, and her plans were successful every time, but she just couldn't leave.
She lost her patience, so she took this opportunity to cooperate with Su Qingqing to, on the one hand, bring down Xiang Zheng and involve Rong'an Marquis Mansion, and on the other hand, fulfill her own wish.
suspended animation.
According to the royal rules, concubines who died suddenly were not worthy of being buried in the imperial mausoleum, and could only be buried in another Feng Shui location.
Moreover, the funeral cannot last more than seven days.
They had prepared everything, but the accident of the Second Prince happened.
Now the second prince knelt in front of the imperial study, asking the emperor to agree to bury Qin Wanru in the imperial mausoleum and keep her body there for 49 days.
The emperor has always liked Qin Wanru. In addition, Qin Wanru's father held a high position in the court. It was only a matter of time before the emperor agreed.
The reason why he hasn't nodded yet is just because he wants the Second Prince to kneel again due to the ancestral rules, so that the Second Prince can have a good reputation.
Forty-nine days...
The fake death turned into real death.
Qin Wanru's maid has been extremely anxious these days and has sent people to Su Qingqing several times to urge her to make a decision quickly.
It's really sad.
Their queen was a native of Kyoto. Now that she was in a life-and-death situation, the only person she could trust was a man from Zhao State.
…
It started snowing again.
The heavy snow fell heavily, and the ground was soon covered with white. Su Qingqing retracted her gaze and slowly exhaled, "Let's do it tonight. Make some noise in the mourning hall and change the body."
Qin Wanru’s fake death can’t be delayed any longer.
"Are we going to do it at night? His Highness kneels in the imperial study during the day and stays by the mourning hall at night. If we really want to do it, it would be more convenient during the day."
Su Qingqing shook her head. "We'll do it at night. You should prepare for it later."
…
On a snowy night, the sky glowed a depressing orange.
In the mourning hall, fragrant agarwood melted into gold and green smoke rose into the air.
The second prince, with an untidy beard and a haggard look on his face, sat beside the coffin, his eyes staring blankly at the snow still flying outside.
"Wanru, do you still remember that heavy snow? You were coming back from Qingquan Temple, and your carriage lost control halfway, and you almost fell off a cliff.
I happened to be going up the mountain.
That was the first time we met."
The Second Prince muttered about the past. Qin Wanru's maid looked up in astonishment and looked at the Second Prince with shock in her eyes, "That time, was it His Highness who saved our young lady?"
Qin Wanru and the second prince have had a bad relationship in recent years. Qin Wanru's maids sometimes call her Miss instead of Madam, but only in private.
Now she was so shocked that she blurted out the wrong thing.
Just as he was about to correct himself, the Second Prince spoke again indifferently, his eyes still fixed outside with no focus, a wry smile on his face, "If it's not me, who do you think it is?"
Qin Wanru's maid lowered her eyes.
They always thought it was the third prince.
The second prince did not look at the maid, but if he had taken a closer look, he would have noticed some clues on the maid's face.
"It snowed heavily that day. I tried my best to hold your carriage but failed. Instead, I was dragged down the mountain with you.
It was fortunate that we were not destined to die. Who would have thought that there would be a branch that stretched out to catch us.
You were thrown out of the carriage, and I held you on the branch and we rolled down the hill together.
At that time, there was really no one to help.
I went up the mountain alone, and you only brought a little maid down with you. You fell and were covered in wounds, and I was not much better off. Fortunately, there was a cave at the foot of the mountain, otherwise the two of us injured people would have frozen to death.
How many days did we stay in that cave?
Three days.
You have a fever and my ankle is swollen like a steamed bun."
As the second prince spoke, he sighed deeply.
"Wanru, you know, in the days after we got married, I often thought of those three days of hunger and cold in the cave. They were probably the happiest three days of my life.
It’s a pity that you were so cruel. When you saw me again later, you pretended not to know me.
Wanru, I regret it so much. At the beginning, I thought that you had just reached the age of marriage. If people knew that you spent three days and nights in the cave with a man from another world, I don’t know how rampant the rumors would be. So when my people came, I didn’t take you away with me. Instead, I left someone to guard you and leaked the news to your house.
If I had known you were so cruel, I should have taken you away with me.
What rumors? I would rather the world be filled with rumors about the two of us than to be in a relationship of respect with you for so many years."
