She Rebuilt Her Fallen Country With Storage Space-Chapter 177: Who Stole the 20,000 Weapons?

Tao Xue clutched her head and heaved a sigh of relief.

"Not for nothing is she the Princess, with this we won’t fear their obstacles."

Xiang Ying asked Tao Xue to call Lin Lingxiang from the next room over: "Let’s eat something first; it’s almost time for lunch anyway."

When Lin Lingxiang arrived, Xiang Ying divided the food.

Each person got a piece of marinated beef, two vegetable-filled pastries, and a water bladder to go with it.

The marinated beef was spicy, fragrant, and tasty. The three of them slurped noisily, unable to stop eating.

Xiang Ying, out of the corner of her eye, saw Lin Lingxiang take only a few bites and kept looking outside instead.

"Lingxiang, don’t worry. They are deliberately starving us, they won’t send anyone over," Xiang Ying said.

But Lin Lingxiang lowered her head: "Mmm... I’m just thinking, if they’re troubling the Princess this way, would they do the same to the Crown Prince? I wonder if the Crown Prince has anything to drink, anything to eat."

Her face grew paler as she spoke.

Xiang Ying thought for a moment: "When it gets dark, I’ll go bring big brother some food."

Lin Lingxiang was startled: "How can you do that? If you’re caught by the Sixth Prince’s men, they’ll have something to write about."

"What do I fear him for? I’ve lost my country already; the barefooted fear not the shod."

Besides, Xiang Ying was confident in her own abilities.

Hearing Xiang Ying speak like that, Lin Lingxiang felt a bit more appetite.

At this moment, Xiang Qianqian in the next room was already holding her stomach, pacing back and forth in the courtyard.

Seventh Princess Xiang Rongrong, who had been assigned to live with her in the same yard, was already irritated and wanted to sleep, but couldn’t because Xiang Qianqian kept turning around in the courtyard, mumbling non-stop.

Unable to bear it anymore, Xiang Rongrong sat up, pushed open the window, and shouted: "Fifth Sister, if you find the ground too hot to stand on, go back inside!"

"Why are you pacing around here? Didn’t they just say we can’t leave? Are you trying to irritate me?"

Xiang Qianqian turned her head, her pale face visible under the sunlight, her eyes like black pools set deeply in her face, her gaze filled with blame.

"Seventh Sister, if you’re not worried, fine, but how can you not understand me? I’m worried for both of us. Didn’t you notice that the maid just left us water and no food?"

"We must be suffering because of elder Sister; the Sixth Prince suddenly called her to stay, there must be a problem. Now we have to starve with elder Sister as well, what a mess."

The more she spoke, the sweat on her forehead slid down more profusely, the scorching weather drying her mouth and throat.

It was almost the end of summer and it was still so hot, all because of the natural disasters!

Xiang Rongrong leaned on the window sill and sneered: "Now you say we’re suffering because of elder Sister? Why didn’t you say that when you were begging her for food earlier?"

"Furthermore, if you’re unwilling, why didn’t you refuse just now? I saw how eagerly you followed her in here, you seemed pretty happy at the time."

Xiang Qianqian’s face changed: "I can’t be bothered to argue with you! Just don’t cry when you have no food to eat later."

She turned and went back to her room, slamming the door shut.

"Humph, I have elder Sister, why should I fear you." Xiang Rongrong rolled her eyes, closed the window, and lay back down to sleep.

At this moment.

The Sixth Prince was leading his men on the way to the cave storing weapons.

The heat was too intense along the way, and he and his guards stopped to drink water scooped from a stream by the roadside.

A staff member, wiping sweat, said: "Your Highness, allow me to extend my congratulations in advance. With those weapons, we can pin the crime of rebellion and conspiracy on Jie Chen’s head, eliminate Jie Chen, and Your Highness’s major worries will be gone. It’s time for Your Highness to unfold his grand ambitions."

The Sixth Prince squinted his eyes, looking over a cracked and dry field.

His narrow eyes were filled with chilling, dark intent as he sinisterly smiled, "It’s too early to celebrate, even though Jie Chen has been undercover in Xizhou for many years, Father harbors a bit of guilt in his heart towards him. If we cannot solidify his guilt in colluding with the remnants of Xizhou’s forces, Father will surely help him launch a thorough investigation."

"So, apart from those weapons that can prove to be looted by Jie Chen from Xizhou, we need another key piece of evidence."

Staff pondered, "Your Highness means to suggest..."

"Have you heard that Xiang Ying is on close terms with Jie Chen? Along the way, they have been as intimate as husband and wife. If Father learns that Xiang Ying has given the Jade Seal to Jie Chen, can you guess whether Father’s imperial suspicion will fall upon Jie Chen?"

Speaking thus, the Sixth Prince laughed, his eyes radiating the confidence of a winning bet: "No amount of guilt can outweigh an emperor’s suspicions."

This time, he was determined to have Jie Chen executed by the Emperor himself!

Staff bowed and said, "Your Highness is wise! Among the many princes of the Emperor, only you are fit for this great responsibility."

The Sixth Prince smiled and mounted his horse: "Let’s go!"

They galloped all the way to a cave.

However, the Sixth Prince, filled with excitement and joy, was stunned upon seeing the empty cave.

"Where are the weapons?!" The Sixth Prince grabbed a staff member by the collar, "The twenty thousand weapons I ordered you to prepare here, where are they?!"

The staff member trembled, frantically waving his hands: "Your Highness, please calm your anger. They were still here when I checked last time; they couldn’t have just disappeared all of a sudden!"

A guard nearby asked uncertainly, "Could they have been stolen?"

"Impossible," the staff member refuted, "Only I and Cao Ming knew of this place."

The Sixth Prince’s eyes turned icy cold as he pushed the staff member to the ground and pointed his long sword at him.

"Then it’s you who have betrayed and lost the weapons."

Seeing the murderous intent in the Sixth Prince’s eyes, the staff member hurriedly shook his head: "No, not me! Your Highness, I am utterly loyal to you, how could I possibly betray you?"

During his moment of panic, he had a stroke of insight.

"It must have been stolen by Jie Chen! He must have found out about our plan in advance."

The Sixth Prince’s long sword paused slightly: "Go on."

With a cold sweat on his forehead, the staff member analyzed, shakily speaking, "Along the way, every agent we placed near Jie Chen has been removed by him, it’s possible he already knew about Your Highness’s plan."

"Besides, when Jie Chen’s Exile Team passed this way, they stopped here to rest. Surely, it was he who led people to take away the weapons!"

The Sixth Prince narrowed his eyes: "You realize, those were twenty thousand weapons. Even if he had to hide them, he would need a place!"

"I’ll give you three days to find out where these weapons are. If you can’t, don’t bother coming back alive to Capital City."

With that, the Sixth Prince angrily left with his men, leaving the staff member, who had narrowly escaped death, collapsed on the ground, completely drained.

So many weapons would take time to move; if someone had done so, they couldn’t have gone unnoticed by the Sixth Prince.

But who could have taken them without anyone being the wiser?

As Xiang Ying had anticipated, the little maid did not come again that day to bring even a drop of water or a grain of rice.

Fortunately, Xiang Ying had a space at hand, or else she really would have to endure hunger with the children. novelbuddy.cσ๓

Jie Chen, caught up in some trivial matter, also had not shown up.

As darkness fell, Governor’s Mansion was engulfed in silence.

After Xiang Ying tucked the three little ones into bed and turned out the light, she prepared to begin her actions.