Chapter 826 Choosing a Puppet as Emperor

The woman looked to be in her twenties and she had managed to calm herself down.

She said a little embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, this is the cold palace. No one has been here for a long time. Suddenly someone fell from the sky and scared me."

Su Nuan's eyes widened, and she asked in astonishment, "Is this the cold palace?"

The woman nodded and said, "Yes, my name is Liang Fei, I am a palace maid. I refused to sleep with you, so I was banished to the cold palace."

"He originally wanted to torture me into submission, but the guards kept coming to harass me, so I cut my cheek."

Su Nuan looked at her wound, which was caused by a hairpin or other blunt object. The wound was rough, and although it had healed now, it was still very scary.

She asked, "Then I will heal your face and let you out of the palace. Do you have anywhere to go?"

The woman shook her head. "It's impossible to cure it. I have nowhere to go if I leave the palace. I might as well stay here."

Su Nuan frowned and asked, "What do you eat?"

The woman smiled and said, "There's a dog hole over there. I can get through. There are some wild vegetables growing in it, and I can occasionally catch birds to eat."

Su Nuan looked at the woman's clothes. They were neither new nor old, but they were washed clean. It was obvious that she had not suffered much and was too optimistic.

"Your stay here is not a long-term solution. The old emperor is dead, and no one will watch over you."

The woman was stunned. "He's dead?"

Su Nuan nodded, "If you die, you will be free."

The woman was only surprised for a moment, but soon recovered as usual. "Let him die, then die. I can still have something to eat if I stay here. If I go out, won't I starve to death?"

Su Nuan was silent. This was a smart person. "Then you can choose a house to live in instead of here."

The woman nodded and said, "Thank you. I'll go find a house to live in."

Su Nuan took out the scar removal ointment and handed it to her, "Here, apply it once in the morning and once at night. In three months, the scar will be almost invisible."

The woman grabbed the ointment and pursed her lips. "Thank you. I'll wait for you."

Su Nuan looked at her suspiciously. Could she have anything else to give her?

Soon, the woman handed a basket to Su Nuan, "Here, this is for you."

Su Nuan took the basket, which contained seals of various sizes. "What's the use of this?"

The woman smiled and said, "These are the seals of the ladies in the palace. Although they are relics, the jade is good. You can take them out and sell them."

Su Nuan didn't know what these seals were used for, but she didn't refuse. She took out a box from the space and placed it on the ground.

"Okay, I'm leaving now."

She summoned Feixue and left the alley.

The space spirit asked, "What did you give her?"

Su Nuan smiled and said, "She wouldn't dare to exchange small change or the jade seal for money, and the guards wouldn't dare to accept it either. Silver is not as reliable as this."

The space spirit nodded, "Okay, but these seals are useless!"

Su Nuan thought for a moment and said, "Let's go to the imperial study first."

Snow fell in the courtyard of the imperial study, and Su Nuan ran in happily carrying a basket.

"Xiaoyun..."

She noticed that there were red bloodshot in Ling Yun's eyes and his brows were furrowed so tightly that they could kill a fly. How long had it been since he closed his eyes?

Su Nuan asked with some guilt: "Are you very tired? Take a rest."

She put the basket on the table.

Ling Yun took a quick glance, reached out and picked up the seal in the basket and asked, "What is this?"

Su Nuan smiled and said, "I know someone in the cold palace. She gave it to me and said it was a relic of the former concubines."

Ling Yun poured out all the seals, checked them one by one, and then divided the seals into three parts.

Su Nuan didn't say anything, but she felt Ling Yun's brows relax and a smile appeared on his face. Could these seals be useful?

After a moment, Ling Yun smiled and said, "Nuan Nuan, you have helped me a lot."

Su Nuan asked in confusion: "Are these...useful?"

Ling Yun nodded and said with a relaxed smile: "These ministers are asking me to find my daughter, and they said they will help me once I find her."

"Although I have other ways to make them surrender, I'm afraid that using too harsh a method will backfire."

"These seals can prove that the daughters of most families are dead. As for the rest... we'll talk about it later."

Su Nuan pursed her lips and asked, "Do you... like it here?"

Ling Yun didn't understand why Su Nuan asked this, so he answered truthfully: "It's okay. Once I sort out the network of relationships, I can choose a puppet to be the emperor."

Su Nuan nodded, "Okay, I still like the North."

After a pause, she continued, "But don't get too tired. Rest when you need to."

Ling Yun heard the distress in Su Nuan's tone, and instantly smiled happily: "Okay, I'll listen to you."

Su Nuan was touched by the deep affection in Ling Yun's eyes, and she quickly turned her face away.

"Well, I'll... go for another walk."

Ling Yun really wanted to remind Su Nuan to run slower, but he swallowed the words back when they came to his lips. Nuan Nuan hated being watched the most.

He stared at Su Nuan's back in a daze. She was still jumping around like a little child, but her figure was extremely cute in Ling Yun's eyes.

Just when Ling Yun could no longer see Su Nuan's back, Hai Lan appeared in the house.

Ling Yun saw Hai Lan and asked, "Is there something wrong?"

Hailan nodded, "Lanxing needs you to go."

Ling Yun frowned and asked, "Why? Isn't that warm?"

Hai Lan nodded, "But you are the child's father. She has already been there, and you need to go too, otherwise the yin and yang of heaven and earth cannot be established."

Although Ling Yun didn't understand these things, he would never refuse anything related to Su Nuan.

"Okay, just tell me what you need me to do."

Hailan nodded and said without hesitation, "You need to finish the things at hand, and on your way back to the Northland, just go to Blue Star with Nuannuan to stay for a day."

Ling Yun didn't think much about it and nodded: "Okay, I'll do it as soon as possible."

Hai Lan didn't say anything more and went straight back to the space.

Ling Yun was busy for more than ten days. Just after Su Nuan sent another batch of grain to the capital, he finally designated a descendant of the former queen's maternal sister as emperor.

The ministers had no objection to this. After all, he was a native of the capital and a descendant of the queen's mother's family. This was much better than letting Ling Yun, an outsider, become emperor.

Ling Yun arranged matters in the capital and set off on the return journey with Su Nuan.

That night they landed and when they entered the space to rest, Hai Lan came to find them.

He asked, "Are you going to Blue Star now or will you wait until you reach the Northland?"

Su Nuan asked in surprise: "We can go again so soon? How is Chao Wu?"

Hai Lan smiled slightly, "You'll know for yourself when you see it. From now on, you can go there one day out of ten, or you can save your energy and go there three days a month."

Su Nuan nodded excitedly, "Yeah, yeah, I'll go now..."

Wait, she seemed to have heard the word "you guys" just now. Could Ling Yun also go? Why could he go?

Hai Lan saw the confusion in Su Nuan's eyes and said with a smile: "I'll send you there, just as a vacation, and let him be your bodyguard."

Su Nuan looked at Ling Yun and asked in confusion, "Is it because he can enter the space that he can go to Blue Star with me? Or is there another reason?"