Start in exile and use the space to pamper the yandere regent.

Tao Jinyu obviously remembered something, and quickly asked people to find the Duke of Zhen and his eldest brother Tao Jinyan. Naturally, this incident quickly alarmed Xiao Jinren.

Xiao Jinren accidentally got tricked because she ate chicken stewed with mushrooms the night before. With the "help" of Zhen Guogong, she vomited out the chicken stewed mushrooms with added ingredients, and then went through Chen Guo's "help". The imperial doctor's diagnosis and treatment meant that there was no serious problem for the time being. It's just that the whole person doesn't seem to be in very good spirits.

Xu Yixuan felt that for a long time in the future, Xiao Jinren would not want to recall this period of dark history.

After learning that the Duke of Renzhen's wife and Tao Wan'er were missing, Xiao Jinren had no doubts. He even immediately ordered Bai Qi to take a dozen of his officials to search near Taoyuan Village.

The Tao clan members even spontaneously formed groups of three to five, searching for people like a carpet.

This search didn't matter, there were dozens more people missing from the exile team that already had more than 700 people left. Most of them are women's families, and they rested in the surrounding families last night.

Logically speaking, it shouldn't be like this. After all, during these days of exile, there were escort officers on duty to keep an eye on him, and the Tao clan members also had people on guard. The main reason was that he had been attacked by long snakes and assassinated by masked men in black before. Every time he stayed in this wilderness at night, he had to be extremely vigilant.

"It seems that this Taoyuan Village..." Xiao Jinren half-squinted his eyes, looked at the mountain forest behind Taoyuan Village, and snorted coldly.

Muramasa of Taoyuan Village, because he was severely punished by Xiao Jinren, had only half his life left at the moment, and he fainted in bed and couldn't get up at all.

But Muramasa's mother-in-law should have been fine, but when Bai Qi and his men spent some effort to find her, they didn't expect that this person had his neck broken, his eyes were wide open, and he was abandoned in the woodshed.

Bai Qi stepped forward for a brief inspection and found that Mrs. Muramasa's body was stiff and she had obviously been dead for several hours. This person was deliberately covered up with firewood. In addition, when Shang Xiao Jinren fell ill and fell into hallucination last night, the scene was a bit chaotic, so he was not able to notice that something was wrong at the first time.

Strictly speaking, both Xiao Jinren and Zhen Guogong were a little careless in this matter.

"Are there other villagers in this village?" Tao Jinyan asked softly, suppressing the discomfort in his chest and coughing.

"No villagers were found." Bai Qi replied.

"I'm feeling a little unwell. Bai Qi, it's up to you to lead the people to find him!" Xiao Jinren rubbed his aching head and said with some lethargy, "Two days at most!"

"Yes!" Bai Qi responded, cupping his fists.

The Duke of Zhen who happened to be on the side saw that Xiao Jinren did not immediately give the order to leave Taoyuan Village, so his eldest son Tao Jinyan looked at each other.

In the bamboo shed at the entrance of the village on the other side, Mrs. Tao Wang and Aunt Fang, who had gone to wash clothes at the well in front, hurried back. Before Xu Yixuan could speak, Mrs. Tao took the initiative to comfort her: "Brother and sister, mother and Wan'er... I believe that auspicious people will have their own destiny and nothing will happen to them."

Xu Yixuan frowned slightly, and then glanced in Tao Jinyu's direction out of habit. Seeing that Tao Jinyu was calm and calm, looking at her with piercing eyes, Xu Yixuan was obviously stunned and avoided looking at Tao Jinyu.

Xu Yixuan couldn't say anything, she just felt that the whole thing was a little weird. But no matter what, it won't be a failure.

Otherwise, Xu Yixuan's intuition is sometimes accurate. But to say that it's about taking advantage of the situation, it's actually more like a blind cat encountering a dead mouse, and it's such a coincidence that it catches up.

Last night, Xiao Jinren was fooled by the chicken stew with mushrooms that had been added with ingredients. As a result, I accidentally let it slip because I was caught in a hallucination.

In fact, as early as the first few days of exile, anyone with some brains would vaguely guess that during his exile in the northwest, Emperor Qi Hui would secretly signal Xiao Jinren to think of a way to make everyone in the Zhenguo Palace happen. It's a bit of an accident, it's better to be seriously injured and die immediately.

Who would have thought that he would be so lucky, whether he was besieged by long snakes, assassinated by masked assassins in black, or even floods, landslides, and post-flood epidemics. Although nearly a thousand members of the Tao clan and the family members of the deputy generals lost more than 300 people, the only three people in the Zhenguo Palace who lost their lives were Sister Qi and cousin Jiang Ruyi.

The nobles far away in the capital were naturally dissatisfied with this result.

No, the commander-in-chief had come over to look for Xiao Jinren in order to provide disaster relief, and he had brought Emperor Qi Hui's secret decree. The superior once again signaled Xiao Jinren to take action quickly!

I don't know what Xiao Jinren was thinking, but he actually thought of killing people with a borrowed knife. He sent people ahead to find the bandit who had fallen into the trap, hoping to cooperate.

It was just this person who was dispatched in the front, and it was still unclear whether they could cooperate, so Xiao Jinren let the news slip.