CHAPTER 1990: CHAPTER 1992: THE METALLIC GLEAM

"Is she alone? Did the heir accompany her?"

"She’s alone, but Madam Tong and her son are in the carriage."

Yang Chuxia frowned when she heard this. Does this woman have any sense? Knowing that this period is not safe, how could she bring her child?

Didn’t you see that the children of the State Duke Tong’s family weren’t brought out?

"In that case, let’s play it by ear," Yang Chuxia said. "If necessary, just protect the child."

Yang Chuxia thought that, as for the woman, forget it. Protecting Prince Zhuang’s bloodline is far more useful to Prince An’s Mansion than protecting Prince Zhuang’s woman.

"I understand."

Just as they finished whispering, commotion began in the front. "Who are you? What do you want?"

Madam of Prime Minister coldly questioned the leader, but he ignored her and shouted, "Ask one more question, and I’ll send you to meet King Yan. Who are you? Aren’t you just the wife of that old scoundrel, the Prime Minister?"

"Cut the crap, all of you get down from the carriage, now!" he shouted. "Anyone who dares disobey, kill without mercy!"

"Yes!"

A deafening sound boomed around the carriage, scaring the timid into sobbing incessantly.

"Hurry up, all of you, hurry up!"

In twos and threes, armed with large knives, they approached the carriage, and Yang Chuxia and Ming Lan disembarked too.

However, a miss of a concubine’s daughter from the old prince’s family refused to get off the carriage.

The old prince’s carriage was behind Yang Chuxia’s. This miss considered herself a member of the royal family, and even though a concubine’s daughter, her status was more noble than ordinary misses.

When someone went to knock on her carriage, she immediately cursed, "Are you blind? Is this miss’s carriage also something you dare to stop?"

"Who’s your master? Just wait until I report to my grandfather!"

"Bah!" The approaching soldier dismissed her. "We even stopped the carriages of the Eldest Princess and the Second Princess, let alone a minor concubine’s daughter like you. What do you amount to?"

This soldier wasn’t a mere ordinary soldier; he was aware of the trapped people’s status, especially with characters engraved on the carriage.

"You, you!" The miss was furious. "Who is your chief? You damned bastard dare insult me..."

But before she finished speaking, a dagger plunged into her chest, piercing her completely.

"Did you really think you were important?" The soldier sneered. "Now, you are all prisoners under our prince. Anyone else who dares act out will meet the same fate as this wench!"

At this point, most here were the elderly, weak, women, and children. Even if each family had some guards, they couldn’t stand up to so many soldiers. Each was intimidated by the soldier’s ruthlessness, and no more noise came from the rear carriages.

"Follow along!"

Abandoning the carriages, Yang Chuxia and the others didn’t know where they were being taken, so they could only follow.

She hadn’t anticipated Prince Le’s madness, the kind of madness that didn’t fear exposure, as he herded them all into Prince Le’s Mansion.

Once everyone was inside, the main door shut from the outside.

Without the soldiers’ restraint, chaos erupted inside again.

Yang Chuxia was the first to find Princess Consort Zhuang.

"Cousin!"

"Xiaxia, what are we going to do?"

"Cousin, this is not the place to talk." Yang Chuxia had intended to take Princess Consort Zhuang to the harem but found all the doors to the harem locked; they were trapped in this courtyard.

Looking up and around, she vaguely noticed the glint of metal.