However, at this moment, I heard him threaten a princess who had real power behind the family.
Jiang Nianjiao couldn't help but sigh that this little Zheng Hou was really secretive.
And because Xiao Zheng Hou did not go to the court to seek an official position, Jiang Nianjiao did not know who the other party was for a while.
Jiang Nianjiao was still thinking about the person behind Little Zheng Hou. She didn't want Xu Zhilan to suddenly prepare to climb the fence after being in a daze.
Judging from the situation, she seemed to be clearly about to jump into the cold lake.
Jiang Nianjiao and Prince Jin could not let her go, so when she was about to jump off, Prince Jin only signaled a secret guard to rescue Xu Zhilan.
Xu Zhilan didn't want to be rescued, so she just struggled.
However, her little struggle was no match for the secret guards, and soon she was brought to Jiang Nianjiao and Prince Jin by the secret guards.
She raised her head and glanced at Zhao Yanzhen, then at Jiang Nianjiao and said, "Why did you save me? Don't you know that I ordered someone to do what happened at the hunting ground last time?"
Xu Zhilan admitted the bad things she had done in the past as soon as she opened her mouth.
However, Jiang Nianjiao whispered, "Of course I can't watch you die like this. After all, I still don't know how you got involved with little Zheng Hou. What did you guys cooperate with?"
Xu Zhilan originally thought Jiang Nianjiao would say something else, but her words contained no polite words.
When Xu Zhilan felt like she was being choked, she just said slowly, "Why should I tell you."
However, Jiang Nianjiao whispered, "If you don't tell me, then I can only ask Little Zhenghou directly."
Upon hearing this, Xu Zhilan immediately said loudly, "You dare!"
"Do you think I dare? After all, I don't have any reason for Little Zheng Hou to catch me." Jiang Nianjiao poked at Xu Zhilan's pain point as soon as she opened her mouth.
But this was something Xu Zhilan couldn't deal with. She couldn't help but ask in a low voice, "Do you know something?"
Jiang Nianjiao felt like she wanted to play a guessing game with him to the end.
"What do you think?"
Xu Zhilan's concern was obviously the little Marquis Zheng, so she only whispered, "I can tell you whatever you want to know, but before that, I ask His Highness the Crown Prince to come with you."
Hearing Xu Zhilan's request, Jiang Nianjiao did not immediately agree to her, but turned to look at Zhao Yanzhen.
Zhao Yanzhen said in a low voice, "Of course there is no problem. Anyway, I have to tell my second brother about this matter sooner or later. It makes no difference whether he knows it earlier or later."
After hearing what Zhao Yanzhen said, Xu Zhilan said, "I'll wait for you in Yunrui Palace."
After saying this, Xu Zhilan left directly, and Zhao Yanzhen immediately motioned to the secret guards around him to follow Xu Zhilan.
However, after the secret guard followed quietly, he knocked Xu Zhilan unconscious with a knife. Then the secret guard quickly got up and disappeared into the Lishan Villa with Xu Zhilan in his arms.
After watching Xu Zhilan leave for a long time, Zhao Yanzhen did not leave immediately. He only signaled another attendant to throw a female corpse with an obscured face but dressed exactly like Xu Zhilan directly into the Taihu stone pool.
After doing this, he took Jiang Nianjiao to the main hall. At this time, he only saw people drinking wine and drinking wine, which was the highest point of the banquet. .
No one in the field knew who had left and who was still here.
However, the young Marquis Zheng had been pretending to be drunk and reveling, but his eyes were looking at all directions warily from time to time.
Naturally, Jiang Nianjiao and Zhao Yanzhen were also under his gaze.
However, after he saw the two of them coming back, they had been sitting where they were, so he no longer had any worries.
On the contrary, the prince who had been hosting the banquet found that the princess beside him said that she had gone out for some fresh air, but had not come back. He was a little worried in his heart. After all, what Xu Zhilan said to him yesterday was also strange, so he only asked his chamberlain to look for her. Looking for the Crown Princess.
However, the waiter searched around and found no one. Until evening, Xu Zhilan's figure was nowhere to be found.
At this time, not to mention Zhao Nianze, even the Xu family felt something was wrong.
It was only Xu's mother who had quarreled with her daughter, and she couldn't stop her at this time.
Because of her face, she had been reluctant to go over and ask. However, Xu Yong did not have a calm temper. Seeing that the banquet was coming to an end.
He immediately found Zhao Nianze and said, "Your Highness, I wonder where the Crown Princess has gone? Why is it that the banquet is almost over but there is still no one there?"
He was anxious, so why wasn't Zhao Nianze anxious?
He sighed and said, "I also sent people everywhere to look for her. She just said it was too stuffy indoors and wanted to go out to breathe, so I let her go out. I just don't want to see her come back until now."
"Then didn't she leave with her maid?" Xu Yong asked.
"I did. The two maids beside me said that they had only reached the outer hall, so Zhilan didn't allow them to follow them anymore."
Hearing Zhao Nianze's words, Xu Yong's eyes turned red immediately. He clenched his fists and cursed, "These two idiots! What a mistake!"
After saying this, he said directly, "I'm going to find Alan!"
After a group of people searched and searched, the female body that sank into the Taihu Rock was found just before nightfall.
And because she had been immersed in the water for too long, the woman's body shape and appearance had changed beyond recognition. However, the woman's clothes and makeup were still instantly recognizable as Xu Zhilan's clothes.
As soon as Xu Yong saw the female corpse, he immediately felt sad.
He hugged the female body and cried loudly, "Alan!"
On the other side, Xu's mother, who came with Xu Yong, felt dizzy after seeing her daughter's body. If the lady beside her hadn't had quick eyesight and quick hands to support her, she might have been able to push her over on the spot.
Upon seeing this situation, even though Zhao Nianze didn't actually have much feelings for Xu Zhilan, he still felt a little guilty and annoyed at this moment.
Although it is not yet known whether Xu Zhilan committed suicide or was murdered.
But he always felt that he knew clearly that Xu Zhilan seemed to have something on his mind, but why did he ignore the other person's worries at that time? And if he could have asked people to keep an eye on her when she was breathing, all this would not have happened.
At this time, Zhao Nianze only said in a deep voice, "Someone, seal off the scene and let people from Zongzheng Temple come over to investigate the scene."
After saying this, Zhao Nianze only said to Xu Yong, "General Xu, I don't know what's going on with Alan at this moment. Please let her go first."
When Xu Yong saw Zhao Nianze, he immediately glared at Zhao Nianze and cursed, "You bastard! If I had known that you were treating Alan like this, I shouldn't have let my sister marry you!"
After the words fell, Xu Yong felt sad. He slapped himself hard again, "But why am I not a bastard? Alan, it's my brother who is sorry for you!"
After hearing Xu Yong's words and seeing that Xu Yong finally let go of Xu Zhilan, Zhao Nianze immediately asked his attendants to pull Xu Yong away.
"Major General Xu, don't worry, I will find out the truth about Alan falling into the water. I will not let him leave without knowing anything." Zhao Nianze only apologized.
When he apologized, people from Zongzheng Temple who inspected the scene and the body soon came over.
However, because the inspection took time, Zhao Nianze could not get the answer immediately.
In addition, it was getting late and the curfew was about to begin, so Zhao Nianze asked everyone who had not left to go back.
It's just that although everyone else left, Mrs. Xu who woke up refused to leave at any cost. After she woke up, she cried heartbrokenly beside Xu Zhilan's body. When others saw her like this, they could only silently come forward to persuade her.
In the end, it was Xu Yong who persuaded Xu's mother to leave.
After sending off Xu's mother and Xu Yong, Zhao Nianze was ready to go back.
But he had just left the Lishan Palace when he saw an attendant suddenly walking up to him and saying to him, "Our master would like to invite you to come with us."
Hearing this, Zhao Nianze couldn't help but ask, "Who is your master?"
The guard had a dumb relationship with Zhao Nianze, "You will know when you go there."
Zhao Nianze thought for a while, although he felt that following the guard might be a bit dangerous. But compared with the danger, the person in front of him obviously aroused his curiosity more.
So after hesitating for a moment, he only responded in a low voice.
Then the guard led him to a large carriage covered by a curtain and with a spacious carriage.
When the driver outside the carriage saw him coming, he immediately put down his horse stool and only invited him to go inside to talk.
Although he was curious about who was sitting in the carriage, he was already here, so there was no need to rush to find out the identity of that person.
After he got on the carriage, he directly opened the curtain.
Then he saw a woman who looked like a luxurious and elegant double chrysanthemum sitting in the car curtain. He remembered that when she was fished out from the bottom of Taishi Lake, she was still unrecognizable and bloated.
But at this moment, her appearance was clear and she looked at herself calmly.
If Zhao Nianze hadn't been a non-theistic believer, he might have thought he had seen a ghost.
After a long while, he called the other party "Zhilan?" with some uncertainty.
Xu Zhilan responded with a cooperative yes.
Hearing Xu Zhilan's voice, Zhao Nianze also knew that the person in front of him was most likely Xu Zhilan. He just didn't understand the meaning of Xu Zhilan pretending to be dead like this?
And Xu Zhilan saw Zhao Nianze looking at her with a straight face, as if she knew what Zhao Nianze was thinking, "Is Your Highness wondering why I am here?"
Hearing Xu Zhilan's words, Zhao Nianze nodded.
Xu Zhilan only stretched out her hand and said, "Your Highness, please take a seat first, and I will tell Your Highness what will happen next in detail."
Zhao Nianze had already thought of settling down as he came, so when he arrived next to Xu Zhilan, he sat down peacefully.
After he sat down, only two more people got on the car.
As soon as the two men opened the curtain, Zhao Nianze was even more surprised.
