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Chapter One Hundred and Seventy Sixth

Jiang Changning sat in a soft sedan and returned to Rujing Courtyard. Before he reached the door of the courtyard, he saw two people walking around the door. When he looked closely, he saw that it was Chen Yi and her personal maid.

"This is midnight, Mrs. Chen is not resting in the yard, what are you doing here?" Jiang Changning asked.

"I have met the princess, and I want to pay my respects to the princess." Chen Yi bowed and saluted.

"No need to be polite, tell me, what are you doing here?" Jiang Changning repeated the question.

"Replying to the princess, I heard a loud noise outside the house and was worried that something would happen, so I came over to see what the princess had ordered." Chen Yi said.

"Mrs. Chen is interested. I don't have any instructions. You should stay in the yard. If there is chaos outside, the house must not be chaotic." Jiang Changning said calmly.

"Yes, I will go back right now." Chen Yi bowed and helped the maid away.

Fu Cui spat at the retreating figure, "The weasel is giving New Year greetings to the chicken."

Back at Rujingyuan, Jiang Changning couldn't sleep, and that night, no one in the capital fell asleep. The roar of cannons was deafening.

After finally waiting until dawn, several doors of Prince Jin's Mansion were still closed.

Chunlai and Xiaochun came to report: "Princess, there were three people who tried to sneak out of the house last night and were caught."

"Lock him up and interrogate him carefully. There was so much chaos outside last night. Why did they sneak out of the house?" Jiang Changning thought that there would be someone in the house who couldn't control himself, so he had already been on guard.

She also arranged for reliable people to go out and inquire about the situation outside.

An hour later, the person who inquired about the information reported back: "Princess, the west side of the city is in ruins. There are dead people everywhere, corpses are everywhere, and blood is flowing in rivers."

"Were the cannons fired yesterday by officers and soldiers, or by the victims?" Jiang Changning asked.

"It was General Xiong who ordered the cannon fire. The muzzles of the cannon are always pointed outside the city. This time, the cannon was fired into the city without moving the people away in advance, resulting in heavy casualties."

Jiang Changning clenched his fists. This man named Xiong should be cut into pieces. He suppressed his anger and continued to ask: "There should be an explanation for firing cannons on innocent people, right?"

"They say there is a bandit leader hiding inside."

"The bandit leader?" Xiulan was extremely angry, "Those are poor victims of the disaster."

"Now General Xiong is still arresting people on the street with his officers and soldiers. If we hadn't carried the Jin Prince's Mansion sign, we would have been arrested too."

Xiulan frowned, "Will the court just let him arrest people randomly like this?"

"He claimed to the outside world that he had arrested all the gangsters who were dispersed last night."

"Is Xizhimen now occupied by disaster victims or officers and soldiers?" Jiang Changning asked.

"Although the victims are still occupied, the officers and soldiers are guarding the city wall and preventing the victims from coming down. Now the victims have become trapped soldiers and will surrender within a short time."

"Since the victims of the disaster have become trapped soldiers, why are we still firing?" Fu Cui asked.

"Pa" Shu Fei patted her, "Don't ask stupid questions."

"I asked, why is it a stupid question?" Fu Cui pouted unhappily.

The person who inquired about the news said: "Miss Fu Cui, the victims occupied the vicinity of Xizhimen and pushed into the city step by step. Seeing that they were getting bigger, General Xiong opened fire to force them into the tower."

The situation in the west of the city was already known, Jiang Changning said: "Thank you for your hard work, Xiulan."

Xiulan gave the prepared rewards to the three people.

"Thank you, Princess, for the reward." The three of them saluted and left.

After a while, Chang Youzhong came back and said, "Princess, the prince is in the palace now and can't come back for the time being. Nothing happened. Please don't worry."

"Okay, it's fine." Jiang Changning still had to go to the Liuxuan Courtyard to tell the concubine the news.

Knowing that King Jin was well, the concubine was relieved, "When did Yu'er say he could come back?"

"Your Majesty will come back after finishing his work." Jiang Changning replied.

The concubine was quite dissatisfied with this answer, "How do you behave as a wife? You don't care about your husband at all, you care about him!"

Jiang Changning asked coldly: "Does the concubine want me to go to the palace now and drag the prince back to the house?"

The concubine slapped the kang table and said, "When did I ask you to go to the palace to drag people around? Don't mess around."

"It turns out that the concubine also knows the word "wandering around", Jiang Changning said with a smile.

"Ms. Jiang, I am your mother-in-law, how did you talk to me?"

"Have you forgotten what I said before? If I respect you, you are my mother-in-law. If I don't respect you, you are nothing."

Under the angry look of the concubine, Jiang Changning said fearlessly: "Who is whispering in the concubine's ear? The concubine has always been looking for faults in me these days.

As he said that, Jiang Changning glanced at the screen. It seemed that the maid next to the concubine was no longer good at just beating, and had to be replaced.

"Who, who is looking for you? I, the mother-in-law, am teaching you." There was a hint of guilt in the princess's eyes.

"Taifei, you and I have been mother-in-law and daughter-in-law for a short time, but I have always respected you. If you really despise me as your daughter-in-law, tell your son to make peace with me and marry you again."

Yi's daughter-in-law, the title of King Jin will eventually be inherited by his legitimate son."

"You also know that the title must be inherited by the legitimate son, but it has been more than a year since you married into the palace, and I haven't seen any movement in your stomach." The concubine said angrily.

It turned out that it was because of this that Jiang Changning didn't want to discuss the birth of a child with the concubine, so he pulled King Jin out to block the matter, "The concubine should ask the prince about the birth of a child."

"You don't need to tell me, I will ask him of course." The concubine said angrily.

"If the concubine is fine, I will go back first." Jiang Changning bowed and saluted, turned around and left without waiting for the concubine's consent.

"I haven't let you go yet." The concubine shouted sternly.

Jiang Changning turned a deaf ear, walked around the screen, and took a special look. He saw a faint water mark on the side of the screen, and sneered. The concubine was getting older, and the rules in this courtyard were becoming more and more loose.

After coming out of Liuxuan Courtyard, Jiang Changning went to see Princess Kangren, "Were you scared last night?"

"I'm not scared. I just didn't sleep for half the night. I'm so sleepy now." Princess Kangren suppressed the desire to yawn.

"Go to sleep when you are tired. There is no rush to learn at this time." Jiang Changning called his maid in and helped Princess Kangren to sleep before returning to Rujing Courtyard.

Returning to Rujingyuan, Jiang Changning said to Xiulan: "Let me find out who has been gossiping in front of the concubine in the past half month."

"Yes, Princess." When Xiulan heard this, she knew that the Princess was embarrassing Jiang Changning again. She felt angry and went to do this immediately.

In the afternoon, when Jiang Changning took a nap, Xiulan came in and reported: "Princess, it's Mrs. Wei. Mrs. Wei's little daughter-in-law is pregnant again."

Jiang Changning knew that Mrs. Wei was a member of the Qiao family, but since the Qiao family was dead, she became a rootless duckweed.

Logically speaking, she should be honest and honest, not to attract Jiang Changning's attention, so that Jiang Changning would not remember to settle old scores, but why did she dance even more happily?

"Don't touch her in a hurry. You and Xiao Chun will check who else is behind her?" Jiang Changning said.
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