The person he had been searching for for many years was naturally of great significance to him, but there was no need to tell Ye Zhen about it.

Ye Zhen rolled her eyes inwardly. He wasn't feeling well, so he made her go to the kitchen.

“There’s a nunnery near Zhuangzi that I often visit. After seeing it so many times, I naturally learned how to do it.”

Such vegetarian meals are commonly prepared by temples. If you like, brother, you can visit the temple more often on the first and fifteenth of the lunar month.

Xie Tingzhou shook his head, "The taste is different, this one smells better."

Ye Zhen thought for a moment, "The temple you visited before, brother, was it in the north?"

Xie Tingzhou nodded.

"Perhaps it's because the oil used is different. Mushrooms are abundant in the south, and mushroom oil is widely used. I grew up in the south, and out of habit, I saw mushroom oil in the kitchen and used some."

Ye Zhen smiled, but the smile didn't reach his eyes.

She recalled that many years ago, she disguised herself and went to the border, where she rescued a seriously injured man.

The assassins were relentless in their pursuit, each possessing exceptional martial arts skills. Ye Zhen had no choice but to hide the man in a storeroom of the temple.

She used her vegetarian cooking skills to get a job in the temple kitchen, and when it was quiet at night, she would deliver a bowl of vegetarian crab roe to the man.

The two spent more than half a month together, and the young woman began to fall in love. However, the man quietly left, leaving behind the vegetarian crab roe as evidence.

This caused her to be hunted by assassins for more than two months until Yin Yue arrived with her men and together they wiped out all the assassins who knew about her rescue, finally giving her peace.

However, the man also received his just deserts; Ye Zhen witnessed his body being burned.

The budding affection was tragically betrayed.

For Ye Zhen, it was definitely not a good memory.

Therefore, he did not want to think about it further and brought up his important matter again, "Brother, are you now able to tell me about He's future?"

Xie Tingzhou thought that mushroom oil was indeed popular in the south, and perhaps that girl was from the south back then, so he made up his mind to have someone go south to look for it.

He verbally responded to Ye Zhen's words.

"He Ming, twenty-one, lives in the suburbs of the capital. He has a fiancée, but it is said that she coveted wealth and became the concubine of a sixty-year-old wealthy man, causing him to die of a stroke and being drowned by his wife."

Ye Zhen's hand tightened under his sleeve.

It matches up.

He really is a general.

No wonder Xie Jinyao was afraid, no wonder the Lady Hou didn't hesitate to silence her.

The so-called "wind-up on horseback" must have been orchestrated by Lady Hou to cover up the truth.

After a moment's thought, she told Xie Tingzhou about it.

Xie Tingzhou's eyes were icy cold. "Is this true?"

Ye Zhen nodded.

At first, she noticed Xie Tingzhou's coldness towards Liu Shi and Xie Jinyao and thought he was deliberately acting like a real prince.

Since seeing how realistically he painted the portrait of the heir, no one in the manor has doubted Xie Tingzhou's identity.

She knew that the two had a close relationship. Xie Tingzhou was very familiar with the real prince, which was why he was able to impersonate him so perfectly.

Having grasped this understanding, and after further considering Xie Tingzhou's attitude towards Liu and her daughter, Ye Zhen reached her own conclusion.

Xie Tingzhou hated Liu and her daughter, and thus allowed Ye Zhen to take revenge.

The reason is not hard to guess: how could someone like Liu possibly treat her stepson with genuine sincerity?

Xie Tingzhou was indignant on behalf of the true heir, which further proves that the two had a good relationship.

Therefore, she was not afraid to tell him about it.

Xie Tingzhou, observing Ye Zhen's expression, knew that his feelings for Liu and her daughter had been exposed.

He couldn't help but feel a little wary; Ye Zhen was even more intelligent than he had thought.

But he took a liking to his comrades in the army, temporarily setting aside his own affairs, and asked, "What do you want to do?"