Chapter 25 Chapter 25 I didn’t expect that Your Highness would be so anxious…
The spider knew that Yin Jinglong was a cunning and suspicious person, and she didn't know whether he believed her words. When Yin Jinglong left, she quickly put the gold foil in a teacup, placed the teacup on a candle, and burned it back and forth to melt the gold foil.
The melted gold foil flowed like liquid. She poured the liquid onto the ground carefully bit by bit. The liquid flowed in an orderly manner as if it was trapped in a vat. As time went by, it re-formed a piece of text from southern Xinjiang.
The spider carefully pondered the letter conveyed to her by her master. This letter explained why Min Hanyu's body showed abnormalities after the outbreak of Zi Gu. All this was because she was a member of the Snow Mountain Tomb Guardian Clan, and that power was obtained from the long-term influence of the goddess statue.
"Everyone says the goddess possesses extraordinary powers, and her statue is said to possess the power to stun the soul. But the statue isn't in the palace. Where does she get the statue's power from?"
She put away the gold foil that had cooled and reshaped, and fell into deep thought.
The next day was the three-day deadline. Yin Jinglong came to the door of Zhu's room early in the morning. Seeing that there was no movement in her room, he ordered his attendant, Manager Xu, to push the door open directly.
Steward Xu hesitated and asked, "This... isn't a good idea, is it? If Miss Min knew that Your Highness had entered another woman's room, wouldn't it cause unnecessary misunderstandings?"
"What does it have to do with her?"
Yin Jinglong pushed Manager Xu to the door with a big push and ordered, "I can enter anyone's room in my own house as I please. Is it her turn to interfere?"
"Oh, oh, oh, okay. But that spider girl has a bad temper, and those spiders on her body look terrifying. If she blames me, I will say that it was you, Your Highness, who ordered it."
Manager Xu closed his eyes and pushed hard with both hands, pushing open the spider's door.
But the spider was not inside at this time, and the bedding on the bed was neatly made, as if no one had slept there last night.
"Damn it! Could this witch have fled for fear of punishment?"
Yin Jinglong swung his fist and banged on the door angrily. Just as he was about to send someone to catch the spider, he heard the spider's hearty laughter coming from not far away.
"Hahahaha~ I didn't expect you to be so anxious, Your Highness, to come and accuse me so early in the morning. It seems you didn't sleep a wink last night because of this?"
"Stop talking nonsense! The three-day deadline is up. If you can't give me a satisfactory answer, then pack up and return to your Southern Xinjiang drug den!"
The spider was not in the least bit afraid of his threats and frankly explained, "I received a reply from my master in Southern Xinjiang. To understand Miss Min's background, I went to the prince's study to look through some books. Since this was a last-minute decision in the middle of the night, I didn't consult your Highness beforehand. I hope your forgiveness will be appreciated."
"You! You! You! The prince's study is a forbidden area in the palace. It involves many court secrets. How dare you trespass? Miss Zhu, don't you want to leave the palace alive?" Manager Xu couldn't help but exclaimed.
The spider laughed secretly and argued: "Oh? Really? Then why was Min Hanyu allowed in? I heard that the prince did something to her in the forbidden area of the study that night..."
Manager Xu said without thinking, "Going in voluntarily or passively, how can it be the same?"
A few red clouds appeared on Yin Jinglong's angry face. These two people said this in public on purpose to anger him to death. He kicked Manager Xu with his left foot and kicked him far away.
He scolded, "You disobedient old thing! Who told you to spread such obscene words? I think you don't want to live anymore."
"Your Majesty, please spare my life! I beg Your Majesty to forgive my unintentional words!"
Manager Xu, who was kicked to the ground, didn't even bother to brush the dust off his buttocks. He kowtowed and confessed his guilt, but was still laughed at by the spider.
Yin Jinglong ignored him and grabbed the spider by the collar, threatening: "Do you think I dare not touch you?"
"Your Highness, please calm down. It was my fault for not consulting you first, but I have already investigated Zi Gu's situation. Perhaps that can offset my faults?"
Yin Jinglong couldn't do anything with her for the time being, so he had to take her into the reception room, dismiss everyone else, and listen to her explain what she had found out last night.
According to what the spider said, she received guidance from a master in southern Xinjiang and learned that the reason why the sub-Gu in Hanyu's body mutated might be related to the Snow Mountain Goddess.
In order to understand Hanyu's life experience, she tried to sneak into the study of the palace to read relevant books, because she guessed that Yin Jinglong must have investigated Hanyu's life experience clearly before bringing her back to the Central Plains.
Sure enough, she found a secret document about the Snow Mountain Goddess in a pile of boring historical books. Unfortunately, she was not from the Central Plains and did not know Chinese characters, so she had to take out the secret document and give it to Yin Jinglong to translate it.
Yin Jinglong couldn't help but laugh at her. "So you've been struggling for three days, and you were so close to finding the answer, but you failed miserably on a Chinese character book? Didn't your all-knowing master ever teach you how to read Chinese characters?"
The spider lowered its head and said nothing.
Seeing that she remained silent for a long time, Yin Jinglong had to put aside his joking tone and read the secret document about the Snow Mountain Goddess to her.
Halfway through reading, she suddenly interrupted, "Wait! You just said that the gold and stone used to cast the goddess's true body statue was a giant stone that fell from the snowy mountains a hundred years ago? Then the problem must lie with this giant stone."
Yin Jinglong nodded and said, "Indeed, I have long suspected that the so-called goddess's power is actually the power of this golden stone. According to historical records, the golden stone is a huge golden rock that accidentally landed on the top of a snowy mountain one night a hundred years ago. Because its appearance resembles gold, and the Tomb Guardians were planning to rebuild the goddess' statue, they didn't have enough money to buy real gold, so they used this fake 'golden stone' to cast a new goddess statue."
In this way, the power of the goddess does not lie in the goddess herself, but in the gold and stone used to cast the goddess' statue. It is precisely because of this that Princess Chaoyang is willing to go to great lengths to obtain the statue.
But what does this have to do with the sub-Gu in Min Hanyu's body?
Yin Jinglong continued reading, and when he read about the inheritance and mission of the Snow Mountain Tomb Guardians, he mentioned that on that day in front of the Snow Mountain Temple, his soldiers showed symptoms of madness as soon as they approached the temple half a step.
Although he did not show the same symptoms as the soldiers, he could vaguely feel some unspeakable discomfort, but Hanyu was able to approach the statue unharmed.
"My master said that the power of the metal stone varies from person to person. Some people just feel dizzy and uncomfortable with chest tightness; some will go crazy due to unbearable pain all over their body; some will become confused and even lose their memory; some will experience blocked meridians in their limbs, and over time, their martial arts skills will be completely destroyed. There are also some people who are not affected by the metal stone. I guess Miss Hanyu is one of them."
The spider's words further confirmed why the soldiers on the snowy mountain at that time had undergone such changes.
"Then why is Hanyu unaffected by the statue? Does this have something to do with the blood in her body?"
"This...maybe we need to ask her in person," the spider pondered. "If it's really due to blood, then the mutation of Zi Gu can be explained."
These days, Hanyu has not left the house. Apart from letting the maid go in to bring some food, she doesn't see anyone else.
Three nights ago, after being drugged by the spider, she saw someone who looked very similar to A Jiang in a trance. But when she woke up, there was no one around her and everything returned to reality. She just thought it was a dream, a dream she had imagined because she missed A Jiang too much.
When Na Zhu and Yin Jinglong came to see her again, this time she did not refuse them entry. After she opened the door, she saw Na Zhu's evil smile, while Yin Jinglong stood sideways with his hands behind his back, not saying a word and not daring to look her in the eye.
It was surprising that she would take the initiative to open the door and meet people.
"How have you been recuperating these past few days, Miss Hanyu? How about I take your pulse and see how you're recovering?"
Hanyu pushed aside Na Zhu who was about to step into the door and said coldly to Yin Jinglong who was standing behind her without saying a word, "I want to talk to you alone."
The spider heard these words just as she stepped into the threshold. She had to retract her front paw awkwardly and winked at Yin Jinglong.
"Since Miss Hanyu wants to talk to the prince alone, I will wisely withdraw."
Before she left, she flicked her index finger and secretly threw the gray spider hidden in her sleeve into the collar of Yin Jinglong's back.
However, Yin Jinglong was completely unaware of this. After he entered the room and sat opposite Hanyu, the scene of the night when the love poison attacked unconsciously emerged in his mind, and he felt a little embarrassed to face it.
Hanyu brewed a cup of Longjing tea for him, and the fragrance of the tea lingered between the two of them.
"How are you?"
"What are you doing here?"
The two asked the question almost at the same time, and they fell into a brief silence again.
"This king... is here to visit you."
Yin Jinglong picked up the teacup and took a sip, secretly glancing at Hanyu's expression out of the corner of his eyes. Her face was indifferent, showing no emotion at all.
She suddenly asked, "Who...are you? That night, the man in the white robe who looked so similar to A Jiang, was you?"
Hanyu couldn't deceive herself after all. She knew that she was not dreaming, and the person in the dream was not Ajiang, whom she was thinking about all the time.
"It seems that I overlooked the depth of your affection for my brother, and you recognized it."
"What did you mean by that sentence when you were feeding me medicine that night? What is 'before'? You and I have only known each other for a little over a month, and there is no other connection between us except A Jiang. What exactly did you mean by that sentence?"
Yin Jinglong was speechless. He had never expected that his casual words would be remembered by Hanyu, who was still in a coma at the time.
He simply gave a perfunctory explanation: "You must have misheard me! If I said anything that caused you to misunderstand, please don't think too much about it."
"Okay, I'll trust you again. Then tell me, do you really not know where A Jiang is?"
Yin Jinglong nodded and looked at her with an extremely determined look.
"I promise you that if I find my brother's whereabouts, I will tell you as soon as possible."
"No, I don't think I need to stay here any longer."
Hanyu stood up and began to pack her bags. The reason she followed Yin Jinglong to the Central Plains was to find the missing Ajiang.
Her husband in the previous life died tragically because of his conspiracy. In this life, she wanted to avenge her husband, but she found that the development of things was completely different from the previous life. Her husband was not in Yin Jinglong's hands at all, so there was no way to avenge him.
But the hatred from her previous life was like a big tree with deep roots. Even if the trunk was cut off, the roots that grew wildly could not be pulled out. She seemed to have long been accustomed to hating him. Killing him for revenge and finding her husband had become her only remaining goals in this life.
But she didn't have the ability to kill him, yet she didn't want to face him again, so she could only choose to leave and stay away from this place of trouble that made her suffer.
Seeing this, Yin Jinglong didn't care about the difference between men and women. He suddenly stepped forward and put his arms around her waist from behind, whispering softly in her ear: "If I became him, would you still leave?"
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