"Oh, it's Mammy Chen!" Chushi Weiming looked up as he heard Mammy Chen speaking.

Then he continued to flirt with his beauties.

He asked, "What are you coming for?"

Since Yang Zijin went back to the mansion of Duke Mu, Li Mingzi's every plot had failed!

She always let him down.

"Your Highness, Madam asked me to hand this to you in person!" Mammy Chen took out the note from her sleeves.

Chushi Weiming didn't even lift his head, "Hand it over!"

Mammy Chen walked to Chushi Weiming's side and held the note in front of him.

Chushi Weiming took the note impatiently. Then he unfolded it to have a look.

He bounced from the chair, excited.

Meier and Laner pulled Chushi Weiming's sleeves, "What's wrong with it, Your Highness?"

Chushi Weiming paid no attention to them, He said, "Back off!"

"Your Highness." Meier kept pulling his sleeve and acting coquettishly.

Chushi Weiming lost his patience. He shook Meier's hands off his arm, "Scram! Are you deaf?"

Apparently, Meier didn't expect that Chushi Weiming would suddenly lose his temper. She stumbled and walked away with Laner, pouting.

After Meier and Laner were gone, Chushi Weiming said to Mammy Chen, "Well done. Go and tell your madam, I've known this."

"Yes, Your Highness." Mammy Chen left quickly.

She didn't know what happened, but judging from Chushi Weiming's reaction, it must be something good.

After Mammy Chen left, Chushi Weiming looked at the note and spoke loudly, "All things come to those who wait!"

Now that he knew where the card was, he would steal it from Yang Zijin!

His mother said he messed things up all the time, but this time, if he got the card, his mother would look at him in a different light!

His wedding with Liu Yiyi was two days later, and they were a heaven-made match!

Chushi Weiming put the note away and came into the room. He started to plan how to get the card.

After pondering for a while, he decided to ask Zhu Mu, the guard leader who had never appeared in public, to grab the card. Zhu Mu must be able to make it.

Chushi Weiming went in front of a picture and opened the secret compartment behind. He took out the signal shell that was specifically used for contacting the secret guards.

He went out of the room to launch a flare into the sky and waited for the secret guards to come.

In imperial concubine Xiao's palace.

Imperial concubine Xiao was having tea when she heard the maid in the doorway said, "Your Majesty."

What brought His Majesty here? Imperial concubine Xiao hurried to stand up and tidied herself, and then she came to greet the Emperor at the door.

She smiled, "What brings you here, Your Majesty?"

Chushi Youtian waved his hands, a gesture telling the servants to leave, then he was going straight to the chief chair in the room.

Imperial concubine Xiao's smile froze on her face.

After all the maids backed off, Chushi Youtian asked, "You were so eager to unite with the mansion of the Grand Mentor Liu by marriage, Imperial concubine Xiao. What do you want?"

"I don't know what you mean, Your Majesty." Imperial concubine Xiao tensed up as she heard Chushi Youtian's question. As she had expected, even Empress Dowager didn't dispel his doubt!

Chushi Youtian snorted and spoke loudly, "Then how did Empress Dowager know Minger's thought?"

"I don't know what you mean by that, Your Majesty. Days before, I came to visit mother with Minger and met Sister Consort Hui and the Fifth Prince there. Mother asked if Minger had someone of his heart. Minger told us he was only making conversation. Minger had said that since the country was not in peace, there was no need for him to rush to marriage. However, mother took this seriously." Imperial concubine Xiao quickly explained.

Chushi Youtian kept asking, "Then how did he met with Grand Mentor Liu's daughter?"

"Your Majesty, I've asked Minger about it. He told me he had taken a liking to Grand Mentor Liu's daughter at the first sight on the birthday feast of the old lady of Mansion of Grand Preceptor.＂Imperial concubine Xiao explained.

She knew Chushi Youtian's style. She must convince him.

"I hope so. Don't try to do anything that you're not supposed to do!" Chushi Youtian gazed at imperial concubine Xiao, iron-faced.

Then he raised from the chair, tossed his sleeves, and went outward.

Imperial concubine Xiao saluted, "Your Majesty, take care."

Although he listened to imperial concubine Xiao's reason and he knew that Empress Dowager was keen on spawning marriages of the Princes, he had to beware of it.

When he found that imperial concubine Xiao secretly contacted people to ambush Princesses Royal in Shuyang, he wanted to stop her, but the temptation of the dispatch card was too strong that, as an Emperor, he couldn't refuse the power of uniting the world.

He had intended to take advantage of them, but at last, he gained nothing.

When imperial concubine Xiao turned over a gang of bandit as the scapegoats, he executed all of them in order to reduce the trouble.

After that, imperial concubine Xiao's taking no action which let down his guard, but now she asked her son to marry Grand Mentor Liu's daughter, which arose his doubt that imperial concubine Xiao was ambitious for the dragon throne.

So he came over to test her.

After Chushi Youtian left, imperial concubine Xiao was nervous. She thought the Emperor must have suspected them when he said that.

It seemed that she couldn't do anything for a while.

In the mansion of Marquis Shuo.

The letter Shuo Ling received was from Mo Li.

The letter stated that the flood had a reason. Official Xu Qing was a clean-fingered official who was very famous in the local area. He received the official silver ingots to build the dam and knew they were exploited by the officials at each rank. However, as a county magistrate, he could do nothing but sigh.

He spent the rest of the silver ingots to reinforce the dam, but the dam didn't withstand the flood.

Mo Li heard from Xu Qing that the amount of precipitation this year was less than that of last year, and the dam had been reinforced in spring, so he couldn't believe the flood had made such huge damage.

Then he came to the dam to inspect the condition. He found wormholes and dead larvas in the dam.

After then Xu Qing began to write memorials to the throne, but each time his memorial was detained by superior officials.

Looking at the corpse all over the destroyed villages, Xu Qing organized the survived victims to go to the Jing City.

For them, they would rather go into exile than stayed and starved to death. At least the former choice gave them hope of survival.

Shuo Ling's face was very cold. Although it was not wise for Xu Qing to do so, that was his only choice.

Shuo Ling began to worry about military supplies, which would be needed in two months. If the supplies there were cut off, where could he find so many supplies then?

The running out of supplies would sap the morale of the army, and Xiling might loot the burning house-Dongling's border.

Thinking of this, Shuo Ling wrote a note. He went to the window and blew a whistle to the sky. A pigeon flew over and settled on the sill within five minutes.

Shuo Ling plugged the note into the mail tube.

After the pigeon flew away, Shuo Ling went to the desk and sat down.

He had just sent the letter to Bai Zhanfei, ordering him to assemble part of the grains of their grain shop to the branches in the frontier fortress.

The urgent need should be solved first. Then he would take time to find solutions to other problems.

...

Zhu Mu, who had received the signal, came into the Third Prince's room when it got dark.

Chushi Weiming heard the noise he made and quickly raised from his bed, "Zhu Mu, is that you?"

"Yes, Your Majesty. What can I do for you?" Zhu Mu's voice was as ghastly as his character. In his opinion, only a merciless man could train the best dark guards.

Chushi Weiming recognized Zhu Mu's sound and hurriedly got off the bed. He went to Zhu Mu, "I have a very important task for you today."

"Please speak, Your Majesty!" Zhu Mu's voice was still cold.

Chushi Weiming said, "I need you to steal a thing for me."

"What is it?" Zhu Mu frowned slightly.

Chushi Weiming let out a simple phrase, "The card!"

"The card? You mean the card left by Princess Royal?" Zhu Mu was intrigued.

Chushi Weiming nodded, "That’s right."

"Where it is? I promise I will take it back intactly!" Getting an affirmative answer, Zhu Mu went on asking.

Although he and his men were dark guards, they nearly hadn't received any tasks ever since the ambush against Princess Royal.

Chushi Weiming told Zhu Mu in a low voice, "It was with the Infanta Qingcheng who has just returned to the mansion of the Duke Mu."

"Yes, I'm going." Zhu Mu got the address and skipped into the dark night.

Watching Zhu Mu disappearing in the darkness, Chushi Weiming smiled.

Since it was Zhu Mu, the card was in the bag.

...

In the mansion of the Duke Mu.

Yang Zijin came back to her room after dinner.

She took out the blank parchment scroll and the card and put them under her pillow. Then she lied on the bed, contemplating the contacts between the scroll and the card.

She fell into sleep unknowingly.

At this time Zhu Mu, who was in black and veiled, arrived at the outside of the mansion of the Duke Mu. He was seen by Zhou Ji in the dark when he was going to jump into the backyard.

Zhou Ji jumped to Zhu Mu's back from the tree.

Zhu Mu heard the sound and turned around, pulling out his sword to prepare for the fight.

Zhou Ji laughed, "It's not a gentleman's behavior to climb over the wall. Why not going back to sleep?"

"Cut the crap! Go away!" Zhu Mu replied coldly.

Zhou Ji continued, "What if I don't go away?"

"Humph! Then I'll treat you with my sword..." Zhu Mu thrust the sword to Zhou Ji, threateningly.

Zhou Ji dodged this thrust.

Then he pulled out his sword to fight with Zhu Mu.

Sparks flew out from the impact sites of the swords that were struck in the darkness.

Zhou Ji was no match for Zhu Mu. After several movements, he could only parry Zhu Mu's attacks and spared no time to fight back.

However, he knew that Zhu Mu hadn't used his full strength.

As he was lost in thought, Zhu Mu gave him a blow that beat him back a few meters.

Zhu Mu snorted, "Since I have another fish to fry, I won't waste time on you anymore. If I didn't have this task, I would have already killed you!"

He jumped into the backyard of the mansion of the Duke Mu after his words finished.

Zhou Ji pressed on his chest and staggered to his feet. A gulp of blood gushed from his mouth with a cough.

Zhou Ji ferreted the signal shell and launched it to the sky to inform Marquis Shuo.

That man was skillful at martial art and Zhou Ji didn't find out what that task was. He hoped Shuo Ling would come over as soon as possible.

Shuo Ling had just gone out of his study when he saw the signal in the direction of the mansion of the Duke Mu.

"Damn it." He thought. He rushed to the mansion of the Duke Mu, wishing that he would arrive there in time.

After Zhu Mu sneaked into the backyard, he began to look for Yang Zijin's residence.

There were so many rooms in this mansion that Zhu Mu didn't know where to go. At this time, he saw a servant on his way to a latrine.

The servant saw Zhu Mu and asked, "Who are you?"

Zhu Mu's sword had touched his throat before he finished his words.

The servant trembled with fear.

Zhu Mu asked coldly, "Where's the residence of Infanta Qingcheng?"