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"What are you doing?" A high-pitched voice suddenly rang out from the pavilion, catching everyone off guard.

The first to react were Lin Chenghui and Yang Zhao, who were seated at the outermost area. When they saw that it was the crown prince, Xiao Ruizhao's most popular attendant, Chang De Hai, they knew that Xiao Ruizhao was not far away.

Thus, they respectfully bowed down and said in unison, "Welcome, Your Highness!"

The rest of the group followed, bowing as well, leaving Ginger alone.

Seeing Xiao Rui Zhao walk over, Jiang Yu's eyes were filled with tears. With a sorrowful face, he turned around and called out: "Your Highness the Crown Prince."

Her slightly plump body swayed left and right, as if she had suffered a huge blow and would faint at any moment.

The Crown Prince Xiao Rui Zhao looked at her and asked curiously: "When did you grieve like that?"

Jiang Yu said with a sad face, "My sister …" "My sister, she …"

She couldn't even say two sentences before she started to cry in a low voice.

At this moment, someone from the crowd kneeling in the pavilion suddenly shouted, "Ghosts!"

Everyone was shocked and turned their heads to look at the person who screamed.

Wang mama, who was standing next to Cui Liandi, was currently sitting on the ground with her eyes wide open. She pointed outside the pavilion with a trembling hand and muttered to herself with a frightened expression, "Ghost …" "Ghost …"

A few of them brazenly looked at Wang mama's hand.

A woman who looked like Jiang Wan stood outside the water pavilion with a pale and ethereal body, wrapped in a dark cloak. Water grasses hung on her head, and her long hair was messily wrapped around her waist. She was still dripping wet, like a ghost that had just crawled out of the water.

Everyone was frightened into a panic.

Just now, when Xiao Rui Zhao heard someone call out ghosts, he was already displeased. Now that everyone in the pavilion was in a panic, he was even more displeased.

Furthermore, the strange power within the palace walls was a taboo. Avoid!

He frowned, "Men, drag that old fart who's full of nonsense out and kill him!"

"Yes sir!" Some of the bodyguards answered her and prepared to slip away to drag her out.

Cui Yingying, who had been watching the show with a face full of interest a moment ago, suddenly panicked.

She grabbed Wang mama and knelt on the ground, begging for mercy. "Your Highness, the imperial concubine of the palace specially bestowed upon me to take care of the child in my womb. Just now, she was just being a bit hasty with her old eyes, but in reality, she meant no harm! If you don't want to look at the Buddhist Sangha, just let her go this time? "

With a cold expression on his face, Xiao Rui Zhao looked at the trembling Wang mama, and said after a while, "We can avoid death, but we can't avoid living, so we'll drag him out and beat the crap out of him!"

When Wang mama heard that, she wanted to beat him up fifteen times. Her entire body trembled as she looked pleadingly at Cui Yingying, but was forcibly dragged away by the expressionless guard.

Cui Yingying glanced worriedly at Wang mama, who had been dragged away, and thought to herself: It's just fifteen years of age. Everyone in the household knows that Wang mama is someone Imperial Concubine Cui gave her.

Thinking of this, Cui Yingying ignored the bulging stomach, kneeling down respectfully with a face full of courtesy, saying in a soft voice, "Thank you, Your Highness, for your grace!"

The sound was as melodious as the cry of an oriole bird.

As soon as Xiao Rui Zhao heard this, his serious expression relaxed a bit.

Seeing this, Cui Yingying finally let out a sigh of relief.

She stealthily glanced at Jiang Wan, thinking to herself, She wasn't actually killed in the water? And you are so lucky to have followed the Crown Prince back? She looked over at Jiang Shu, who was lying motionless on the grass, and thought to herself, could the people she sent really not have done such a small thing well?

"Sister Wan, is that you?" With the help of the palace maid, Cui Yingying stood up with her big belly and walked towards Jiang Wan with a look of concern on her face.

"In reply to the Empress, it's me!" Jiang Wan blessed Cui Yingying's body, her expression gentle yet distant.

All the way here, she kept thinking, who exactly was the one that wanted to do this to her?

Today, it was Lin Chenghui who first proposed the boat, and it was she who took the initiative as a lobbyist to persuade Ginger to open the locks and release the boat.

Yang Zhao and Chen Baolin knew from the very beginning that they could row today.

The last to arrive was Cui Liandi, but she had asked for the boat race as soon as she arrived, and had even offered a piece of jade as a prize to distract her from the matter of rowing.

Just like Jiang Yu, she did not enter the water and only sent two palace maids to face the challenge. To a large extent, she avoided being accidentally injured.

In other words, Cui Yajie was the most suspicious one!

However, what Jiang Wan didn't understand was, what was there for her to spend so much effort on? This morning, she still acted as if she wanted to get on good terms with him.

"Thank God for the Bodhisattva's blessings!" Cui Yingying placed her hands together and said uncertainly, "How are you …"

How did he escape with his life?

Jiang Wan sneered in her heart, but didn't show it on her face. She replied respectfully: "I'm not sure about that, I only know that I choked and fainted after falling into the water, and when I woke up, I was already lying on the grass …"

"That is truly great fortune and great fortune!" Hearing that, Cui Yingying smiled, as if she was truly happy for Jiang Wan.

Whereas the other people in the pavilion had different expressions.

"My Sis Shu …" Suddenly, outside of the pavilion, there was a burst of tears. A woman ran towards them in a flurry, not even realizing that her shoes had run away.

In one breath, she ran into the water pavilion and directly ran to Jiang Shu's side, kneeling down with a plop.

"My son …" "My Sis Shu'er …" She had just been drinking tea and playing with birds in the Youlan Palace when she heard a report from a small palace maid that the two misses had accidentally fallen into the water while swimming. The fourth miss, Jiang Wan, had disappeared, and the fifth miss, Jiang Shu, had been fished out, but had only been unable to breathe.

When née Qin heard this, she immediately panicked. Throwing away the bamboo stick she was playing with the bird, she ran out crazily.

When she saw Jiang Zhuzhe lying motionless on the grass, she was on the verge of collapse.

"My Sis Shu'er …" "My Sis Shu'er …" The Qin family sat down on the ground with their eyes closed and wailed. They did not see the crown prince Xiao Rui Zhao and the ashen-faced Jiang Yu at the side.

The Qin family was making a ruckus like a village woman. If it was in normal times, they would have long been dragged out by the crown prince and beaten to death.

And today, the Crown Prince was holding himself back?

Jiang Yu didn't dare to think too much about it.

Chang Deshai's shrill voice could be heard shouting at the mama and palace maids beside him, "Hurry up and help him up. What a shame to be crying like this!"

When the mama and palace maids heard this, they hurriedly stepped forward to console née Qin, secretly reminding her that the crown prince was still here!

The Qin family shuddered, and started searching with tears all over their faces. Indeed, by Jiang Yu's side, they saw Xiao Rui Zhao in his military uniform.

She was so frightened that she crawled back down, trembling. With a trembling voice, she said, "This humble woman, Jiang Qin, pays her respects to the Crown Prince."

"Exempt!" Xiao Rui Zhao looked coldly at née Qin, then said to Jiang Yu, "It's better if we invite an imperial physician to take a look …"