In the evening, darkness falls.
Song Shuwan woke up from her drowsiness. After a brief wash, she saw Pei Huan and Zhen Yuan appear together. After saying hello, she asked Baicao to prepare dinner, and then asked casually.
"Have the prince and Miss Zhen had dinner?"
"No."
Pei Huan and Zhen Yuan answered at the same time, and then looked at each other. Their expressions changed slightly, but they quickly moved away and said no more.
Song Shuwan looked at the two people and murmured in her heart, did the two people quarrel? Why is the atmosphere between the two not quite right?
Just as he was thinking about it, Qinglian came in holding a package.
"I have met the crown prince and the crown prince's concubine."
Song Shuwan lowered her gaze and asked, "What is that in your hand?"
Qinglian put down the package: "This is what Mr. Wen sent back. It is said to be an apology from the eldest princess to the princess."
"The apology given to me by the eldest princess?"
Song Shuwan repeated, surprise flashed across her face, but she quickly concealed the change and opened the package casually, revealing a box inside.
The next moment, Pei Huan grabbed her wrist: "Don't open this box."
Song Shuwan turned her head and was about to ask, when she suddenly smelled the smell of blood on the tip of her nose, and her eyes immediately focused on the box.
"In this box..."
As she spoke, she withdrew her hand and opened the box directly. She saw three hands inside, and the cloth underneath was extremely dark.
Qinglian said: "These three hands are all men's hands."
Song Shuwan looked ugly: "What does this mean, Princess? Are you sure this is an apology?"
Qinglian coughed lightly: "The person who sent this box was Mr. Wen."
Song Shuwan was silent.
Pei Huan closed the box and said in a cold tone: "It's just a few hands. It's not an apology. Tell the eldest princess that if you can't pay sincerely, I will get it myself."
Qinglian bowed and left, taking the box with her, but even so, the atmosphere in the room became a little more stagnant.
Fortunately, it didn't take long for Baicao and his guards to deliver dinner, which broke the stagnation. However, Zhen Yuan didn't want to let this matter go by just like that. He asked casually while picking up the food.
"You can send such ridiculous apology, Prince Pei can't scare the eldest princess at all."
Pei Huan glanced at her and sneered: "After the accident, I was indeed a little unable to control people, but compared to Miss Zhen, my small problem seems not enough. After all, Bowen has been following a woman for several months. .”
Zhen Yuan could barely keep the indifference on his face: "The prince is joking, Mr. Wen and I just met by chance. Who is he chasing, and what does it have to do with me?"
"Really? But when I look at it, Miss Zhen doesn't seem as indifferent as she seems on the surface? Yes, after all, it happened a few years ago. The pulling back and forth can't make up for the passage of time. In the end... I can't leave. We’ve arrived at a place.”
Pei Huan was also aroused. Zhen Yuan had been irritating him since he entered the inn. Wouldn't he be too kind if he didn't dismiss all kinds of comments?
Zhen Yuan slapped the table and stood up. The angry words were still stuck in his mouth, but in the end he swallowed them alive.
After a while, she left silently, without even saying hello to Song Shuwan.
In the silence, Song Shuwan clenched the chopsticks in her hands and looked at Pei Huan with eyes full of surprise and confusion.
"Your Majesty, you..."
She paused and suddenly realized that she didn't know what to say. She had never seen Pei Huan today before. He was a completely different person.
Pei Huan gave her some food calmly: "Don't think too much. Just go and rest for a while after dinner. Come with me to meet someone tomorrow."
Hearing this, Song Shuwan stopped talking and rested again after dinner.
At dawn the next day, after breakfast, she followed Pei Huan and left the inn, accompanied by Zhen Yuan.
Compared to yesterday, Zhen Yuan's face today was very dark, and when his gaze occasionally glanced at Pei Huan, it was even more murderous.
Song Shuwan was afraid that she would make a move, so she simply used her body to block her sight: "Is there anything going on lately, Miss Zhen?"
Zhen Yuan saw the meaning of her behavior and said calmly: "It's nothing."
"In that case, I will follow Miss Zhen when I get back. I heard that Miss Zhen has spent some time in Ningyuan City, so she must have some knowledge of Ningyuan City."
Zhen Yuan: "..."
After a short silence, she asked in surprise: "Have you never been to Ningyuan City?"
Song Shuwan thought about it for a moment, shook her head and said, "There were a lot of things going on before, and I didn't have the chance to change things."
The two of them were talking, and not long after, the carriage stopped.
After Song Shuwan got off the carriage, she realized that the place they were arriving was actually the government office in Ningyuan City. She had been to this place before, but not many times, and she had only been in prison cells.
Thinking about it, she looked at Pei Huan: "But you want me to meet someone in the cell?"
Pei Huan nodded and added: "It's two people."
After a while, several people entered the cell.
Song Shuwan saw King Yong and the fifth prince covered in blood. She looked at them and her expression gradually changed.
At this moment, the fifth prince raised his head and spit out a mouthful of blood before he could speak.
Pei Huan glanced at him: "Fifth Prince, please stop showing off. The situation outside is already clear and you can't change anything."
The fifth prince's eyes widened angrily: "Pei Huan, you are just calculating in your head but not intentionally. If so, if..."
Pei Huan patted him on the shoulder: "There is no such thing as the truth. Fifth prince, you know who wins and loses."
The fifth prince clenched his hands and suddenly spat on Pei Huan's face: "Don't talk nonsense here, you'd better kill me, otherwise I will never be done with you if I get the chance."
Pei Huan smiled, took the handkerchief from An San, and slowly wiped the blood on his face: "The fifth prince is joking, I am just a minister, how dare I do anything to His Highness? Don't worry, wait for Ning Yuancheng It’s up to you, I will send the fifth prince back to Beijing.”
At this time, King Yong sneered: "It's full of nonsense. If you really knew how to let him go, you wouldn't beat him like this. Pei Huan, you are really hypocritical."
Pei Huan said lightly: "You can't compare to Prince Yong. You have done so much, but you still pretend to be innocent. When you wake up in the middle of the night, aren't you afraid that the soldiers who died on the battlefield will seek revenge from you?"
King Yong said coldly: "Why should I be afraid of things I have never done? Prince Pei, on the other hand, how can I still believe in the stories of ghosts and gods?"
As soon as he finished speaking, his sharp eyes suddenly pointed at Song Shuwan.
"Song Shuwan, do you want to know what's hidden behind the Song family case?"
Song Shuwan had been listening silently and was not surprised when her name was suddenly called. She just took a step forward.
"I naturally want to know about things related to the Song family case, but judging from the appearance of Prince Yong, what I want to say should be related to the crown prince. In the past, I might have doubted it, but now, Prince Yong's words are of no use to me. , please Lord Yong, please stop wasting your saliva."
King Yong raised his eyebrows: "Really? But what I want to say has nothing to do with Pei Huan."
Song Shuwan's face changed slightly: "What do you mean?"
