My Lord, please respect yourself. I am the wife of a marquis.

Chapter 204: I am quite optimistic about the Sixth Prince. He is strategic and scheming.

Prince Huaiyang was forced by Su Muxi to go to the capital. He even wanted to arrange someone to kill Su Muxi on the way. However, Su Muxi was too cunning. She followed him everywhere, not even caring about the difference between men and women, and she said she was protecting him.

What kind of protection is that? She was just afraid that he wouldn't go to the capital, so she kept him on the edge of his seat. She was also afraid that he would send someone to harm her, so she stayed by his side all the time. She was afraid that as long as he sent someone, she would immediately arrest him and use him as a shield.

Why is Su Muxi so difficult to deal with? No wonder she can become the emperor's new favorite.

Su Muxi spent two days leisurely in the army, got to know the people around Prince Huaiyang thoroughly, and finally met up with the people arranged by the emperor.

"Sister Mu, thank you for your hard work."

It was beyond Su Muxi's expectation that the person who came to pick them up was the Sixth Prince. After all, in her opinion, He Yuncheng should not give up this opportunity.

Su Muxi handed over the work to the Sixth Prince, then left the group and went to meet Qiu Shi and the others. The rest of the matters were no longer her responsibility.

After Su Muxi met up with her mother, they rushed to the capital. Her sister-in-law fell ill on the way and recuperated in Su Muxi's luxurious carriage. Su Muxi took Su Chen for a horseback ride.

They rode at full speed and traveled overnight. When they arrived in the capital, they actually caught up with Prince Huaiyang.

The people in front lined the streets to welcome them, it was very lively and the city gate was blocked.

Su Muxi and his companions had traveled thousands of miles to attend a funeral. How could they drive amidst all the laughter and joy? Su Muxi asked them to change the route and enter Beijing from another city gate.

That's how it is, on the same day some people get married and some people have funerals.

Prince Huaiyang deliberately delayed his trip to the capital today just to make Su Muxi unhappy. Unexpectedly, he waited for a whole day but no one showed up. Finally, his servants reported that Su Muxi had changed the city gate to enter the capital. Only then did Prince Huaiyang feel relieved and returned to Prince Jin's Mansion.

The detour was naturally longer, and Su Muxi and his party arrived at the Duke of Anguo's Mansion half a day late, with only two days left before the funeral on the fifteenth.

An Min was the granddaughter of Old Lady An. She dragged her frail body all the way from the city gate to the Anguo Mansion to mourn.

At the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion, everyone except the Duke was present. An Min was heartbroken and cried while clinging to the coffin. She said she was seeing her father for the last time, but in fact, she did not get to see him for the last time. It had been thirteen days, and even though there was ice in the mourning hall, the corpse had begun to rot and had a smell.

An Yutang had sealed the coffin two days ago. Su Muxi knew that Old Lady An did not die suddenly from an acute illness. She wanted to check it out, but apart from taking a look at Old Lady An's remains that day, she never found another chance to check.

An Yutang was guarding the funeral hall very strictly, so Su Muxi couldn't find any opportunity. Even for a professional coroner, it would be difficult to tell the cause of death by looking at the face, let alone Su Muxi, an amateur. So this clue was temporarily broken.

If Su Muxi wanted to find out the deal between Duke Anguo and Marquis Yongan, she had to find another way.

Because of An Min's arrival, the Anguo Mansion was filled with crying all night long.

On the second day, before dawn, everyone knelt on the ground to receive the emperor's decree to posthumously confer the title on Old Lady An. It was finally read out on the day of her funeral.

This was like a weather vane, proving that the Emperor still cared about the Duke's family and even canceled today's court meeting just to allow court officials to attend the funeral of Old Lady An.

The white sails fluttered in the cold snow, and the white paper money blended into the flying snowflakes, as if even the snowflakes were seeing off Old Lady An.

An Min cried until she fainted, and Su Muxi supported her. It snowed heavily today, and the cold was doubly cold. The female members of the Anguo Mansion had been enduring for several days and their bodies could not bear it anymore.

Su Muxi supported her sister-in-law with one hand and pulled Madam Zhenguo to her side with the other hand. "Mother, please support my sister-in-law. It's too cold. I need to make some arrangements."

Madam Zhenguo had also been traveling for several days and was physically exhausted, but she was not as heartbroken as An Min. After all, she was just a relative, and if she really fainted from crying, she would be laughed at.

"Go ahead! Leave this to me." Madam Zhenguo helped An Min along and urged Su Muxi to go quickly. Su Muxi had given her a shot of prevention on the way here, as she knew that someone might take the opportunity to cause trouble today.

Tuanzi, Yuanzi, Chunhua, Qiushi, and Yingge were all scattered among the women in order to deal with any unexpected situations.

Su Muxi gave Qiushi a look. Both of them were wearing linen clothes and had similar body shapes. They changed positions silently.

Before anyone knew it, Su Muxi disappeared into the team.

Today, the old lady An was buried, and more than half of the ministers who were supposed to attend the funeral have come. For safety reasons and to prevent any accidents, An Yutang has mobilized several hundred runners from the Dali Temple.

The mausoleums were all outside the city, and after this huge funeral procession left the city gate, the capital seemed a little empty.

Su Muxi emerged from the crowd, changed out of her linen clothes, and returned to the capital quietly.

Just as Su Muxi expected, Xiao Yunxiu took advantage of the funeral of Old Lady An to launch a mutiny and attack the city. Marquis Jian'an attacked the city from the north gate and joined forces with Xiao Yunxiu to besiege the imperial city.

When all this happened, Su Muxi wanted to sneak into the palace and protect the emperor first. She had already made arrangements for the Fangzheng Border Defense Camp, and by then it would also be a plan of internal and external cooperation.

But Xiao Yunjin intercepted Su Muxi and forcefully brought him to the Yong'an Marquis Mansion. Cang Jue had already returned and he had found out who was behind Linglang Pavilion.

"Sixth Prince, this is impossible," Su Muxi's first reaction after hearing Xiao Yunjin's words was to refute, "If the Sixth Prince was the master of Linglang Pavilion, how could he have been defeated by you in his previous life?"

"It's really the Sixth Prince," Xiao Yunjin was also helpless. Su Muxi opened his mouth to suppress him, "It was luck that I was able to win in the last life. I used the 500,000 elite troops of the King of Huaiyang to intercept General Weiyuan."

Su Muxi was silent. At that time, her health was already bad, and Xiao Yunjin had crippled her martial arts. "That's right. We still have 300,000 elite soldiers from the Su family, surrounding us from top to bottom. Not to mention General Weiyuan, we can even crush the Imperial City."

As soon as Xiao Yunjin said this, he knew something bad was going to happen. "Princess, we are discussing things now. The grudges from the last life will be settled in the future. I will let you deal with it."

Su Muxi ignored Xiao Yunjin and sat down behind the desk, pondering the direction of this matter, "You want to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight."

Seeing that Su Muxi did not pursue the matter, Xiao Yunjin heaved a sigh of relief, "It's not like you're just sitting on the mountain and watching the fight between tigers. Since you all covet that position, you should show your strength and speak with your ability. It's not gentlemanly to hide your head and show your tail like this."

"Xiao Yunjin, you said it so openly, do you think I will help you seize the throne?"

Xiao Yunjin's eyelids twitched slightly, his voice was hoarse for a moment, and he became depressed. "I don't dare to hope that I can help the princess choose whoever she wants."

"Really?" Su Muxi looked at Xiao Yunjin with interest. "I'm quite optimistic about the Sixth Prince. He has strategy and scheming."

Xiao Yunjin's face suddenly turned into a palette of colors. "It's not impossible, but after I die, Princess, you must be buried with me a hundred years later."