Consort Yun, Zheng Shi, frowned. “At the beginning of the year, when the Emperor summoned your father, he mentioned that your second uncle had a daughter in the immortal Yuan continent, but he didn’t say anything else.
Your father thought that the emperor was hinting at him to bring that country bumpkin back, so he sent people to prepare to head to the immortal Yuan continent. Who would have thought that those people would be killed on the way?”
“What? killed? No wonder the guards who looked familiar disappeared. So they are dead. Mother, who did it?”Princess Xi Yue asked in surprise.
Zheng Shi shook her head. “Your father sent people to investigate, but they didn’t find anything. Your father felt that there should be someone who didn’t want that country bumpkin to come back. Anyway, we didn’t want that country bumpkin to come back, so your father put this matter aside.