Chapter 226 Catching the "Thief" Under the Table!

Was Yan Yan's injury caused by someone deliberately hitting her with a stone?

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That night, Li Manyan's tent finally quieted down after Consort Jing and many of her close girlfriends came to visit.

Li Manyan has not yet woken up. Doctor Zhang said that she was hit suddenly, which caused a bruise on the back of her head. She will only wake up after the bruise dissipates.

The maid who was taking care of Li Manyan wiped her body and then left, leaving Li Manyan alone.

The tent was completely silent, and Li Manyan's breathing could be heard clearly.

No one noticed that under the table in the corner, covered with a long tablecloth, two children were constantly crawling on the ground.

That's right, these two children are Sheng Sheng and Xie Yunqi.

Sheng Sheng led Xie Yunqi to hide under the table. The long tablecloth dragged on the ground, completely blocking the two children's figures, and the view under the table was completely hidden.

If it weren't for the two children whispering together with their heads close together, occasionally letting out a few sounds, you would never know there were people there.

Sheng Sheng squatted down, and Xie Yunqi lay down. The two children peeked around under the table for a while, then lifted a corner of the tablecloth and tried hard to see what was going on.

The table wasn't big, and Xie Yunqi felt uncomfortable lying on it, so he could only stick his butt out underneath it.

"Little sister, what are we doing here?" Xie Yunqi wiggled her bottom, shifting her stiff posture, and said, "My butt is about to freeze. Is it really appropriate for us to be doing this in a young lady's bedchamber so late at night?"

Sheng Sheng strained to peek through the tiny gap between the tablecloth and the floor, making a gesture to his lips: "Shh, Fifth Brother, keep your voice down. We're not here to play around; we have a very, very important mission!"

"A mission? What mission?"

"Hehe, you'll find out in a little while."

Xie Yunqi was confused. A quarter of an hour ago, he was pulled over by Shengsheng. At that time, the maid who was taking care of Li Manyan had just gone out to fetch water, and there was no one in the tent. Without saying a word, Shengsheng pulled him to crawl under the table.

Before Xie Yunqi could even process what was happening, her body obediently followed the sounds and crawled inside.

There's a bonfire party tonight. Judging by the time, it's still banquet time, and Father should be speaking right now.

The bonfire party will be here soon. Sheng Sheng said this morning that she wanted to go to the bonfire party together, but now she's dragging the two of them under the table like they're hiding from everyone.

Xie Yunqi was a little confused, but since his sister had dragged him here, he decided to just treat it as playing a game with his sister.

Thinking this, Xie Yunqi tried to sit up and stretch, but he stood up too abruptly and his head hit the table with a loud thud.

Xie Yunqi said dejectedly, "Ouch, that hurts."

"Oh, Fifth Brother, are you alright?"

Sheng Sheng immediately covered his head with concern, her face full of heartache. Xie Yunqi misunderstood that she was worried about him hitting his head. He had just comforted himself when he heard Sheng Sheng say in a breathy voice, her voice filled with anguish.

"Fifth Brother, could you please keep your noise down when you bang on the table? Someone's going to hear you!"

Xie Yunqi: "..."

He's not depressed anymore, and he feels like he wants Yu Yu.

"Little sister, how much longer are we going to wait here? Didn't you say you wanted to go to the bonfire party? Are we not going?"

Sheng Sheng waved his hand dismissively: "Playing is nothing compared to my sister Yan Yan. Fifth brother, keep your voice down. We must stay alert and not whisper anymore."

The reason why Sheng Sheng didn't go to the banquet for dinner, but instead dragged Xie Yunqi to Li Manyan's tent to squat, was certainly not because she had nothing better to do, nor because she was a psychopath who liked to sneak into the room of a pretty older sister late at night.

It was her intuition that told her the person who hurt Sister Yan Yan would come again tonight.

Why do I say that?

First, after that person secretly knocked out Sister Yan Yan, he didn't do anything further.

This situation could be because she genuinely hit the object by accident, panicked afterward, and didn't know what to do, so she secretly hid until the Imperial Guards' search of the mountain startled him.

Or perhaps it's because that person wanted to do something but hadn't had a chance to, and felt guilty about the Imperial Guards' search of the mountain, so they came out early.

In either case, once Sister Yan Yan wakes up, she will definitely tell us what happened, which could very well put the perpetrator in a dangerous situation.

Since the perpetrator did not come forward to admit his wrongdoing at the time of the incident, it is even less likely that he would wait for someone to find him.

Therefore, Sheng Sheng felt that this person would definitely take some tricks before Sister Yan Yan woke up.

Sheng Sheng didn't know what kind of trick it was, but what she was sure of was that it was a way to make Sister Yan Yan unable to tell the truth about what happened at the time.

Bringing Xie Yunqi along was also because if she really caught someone, with Xie Yunqi there, no one with ulterior motives would say that she fabricated and slandered them. With two witnesses, a princess and a prince, there shouldn't be any problems.

If that person dares to come, we'll make sure they can't escape today.

"Hmph, tonight I'll make sure you have nowhere to escape!"

The little dumpling said firmly.

"Oh..." Xie Yunqi scratched his head, not understanding but respectful, and muttered, "But I also made an appointment with Lu Chi to have a dance competition at the bonfire party."

Sheng Sheng thought Xie Yunqi meant "martial arts contest," and looked at him with great curiosity: "Martial arts contest? What kind of contest? Fifth Brother, don't you know martial arts?"

"Oh, it's not this martial arts competition, it's..."

Xie Yunqi was about to explain to her when he suddenly heard the sound of the tent flap being lifted.

Xie Yunqi and Shengsheng were instantly frozen in place, as if a pause button had been pressed. One of them was bent over with her buttocks sticking out, while the other covered Xie Yunqi's head with her hand. The two of them remained in that position, holding their breath and concentrating.

A moment later, the sound of the curtain being lowered was heard again, followed by the approaching sound of footsteps.

Sheng Sheng and Xie Yunqi exchanged a glance, silently retracting their movements and slowly pressing their entire bodies to the ground. Then, together, they pulled the tablecloth and peered out through the small gap, about half the size of a fingernail.

Sheng Sheng was small and had a better view of the outside world than Xie Yunqi.

She saw a pair of embroidered shoes carefully moving step by step from the doorway toward Li Manyan, who was still unconscious and unaware of anything.

Sheng Sheng scratched her head. She felt like she had seen the flower pattern on the embroidered shoes somewhere before.