At the door of the study.
"You wait at the door."
Zhao Ying ordered Hou Zhu and Ling Yu to guard the door, and she went into Shangguan Shu's study and closed the door.
Then he took out a piece of mud, the shape and pattern of which were exactly the same as the jade pendant that Shangguan Shu carried with him.
Last night, while Shangguan Shu was bathing, she secretly made a mold. When she woke up early in the morning, time was running out and she didn't have time to find someone to carve it out, so she had to stuff some hard clay into it.
She had a premonition that there must be evidence of Shangguan Shu's rebellion hidden inside.
Zhao Ying lifted the blanket, took a deep breath, and then stuffed the mud into the groove without hesitation.
The next second, she seemed to hear a faint sound, as if something was moving.
She looked up, her pupils shrinking slightly.
The originally tightly packed bookshelves slowly moved from the middle to both sides... revealing a stone door of medium height.
There is indeed a mechanism!
Zhao Ying stepped forward and twisted the stone lock, and the stone door slowly opened.
It was pitch black inside, but with the scattered light I could see that it was a secret room leading to the underground.
She was not too surprised. It was not uncommon to have secret rooms in the mansions of princes and ministers.
Zhao Ying took out the prepared tinderbox and walked in.
The surroundings were stone walls, carved with some ordinary wall patterns. It was dark, damp and cold, and the further Zhao Ying walked in, the more uneasy she became.
Nothing particularly outrageous has been found so far... just gold, silver, jewelry, antique deeds, and so on.
Book!
Zhao Ying's eyes flashed slightly. There were books and letters in the stone chamber in front.
There were boxes stacked on the ground, with locks on them.
Zhao Ying casually took out a hairpin and opened the lock easily.
She learned it when she was young and traveled around the country with her second uncle.
When the box was opened, it was full of letters!
A chill suddenly ran up Zhao Ying's spine, and her heart sank to the bottom.
She gritted her teeth and reached for the envelope.
I picked it up and took a look... Hmm? How's Princess Chengqian?
Is it for her?
Zhao Ying quickly opened the letter and saw its contents clearly in the dim light.
"Sister Ying, I recently saw my second uncle. He's been doing business outside these years and seems quite happy. I heard from him that he's taken in a new concubine. He said she was pretty and graceful. I was curious, so I found an excuse to go over and take a look. Alas, her complexion was darker than black. At night, with the lights off, I'm afraid only her teeth could be seen... Sister Ying, don't worry. Your cousin is very kind. - Wei Fu."
Why is the letter from her cousin here?
Zhao Ying quickly opened another letter. "Sister Ying, are you still alive? If so, why didn't you reply? Well, I've been feeling poetic lately, so I wrote a poem and I'd like to share it with you."
"The wind rises and the clouds fly, after the battle, the iron pot is full of fat intestines."
"The aroma suddenly attracted several wolves, and the wolf intestines were even more fragrant than pig intestines."
Zhao Ying: ...
She asked why Wei Fu never wrote her a letter, and it turned out that Shangguan Shu intercepted it!
Anger rushed into his mind, and Zhao Ying suppressed his anger and rummaged through the box again.
Haha...a whole box of them.
Zhao Ying closed the box, busied himself looking for evidence of Shangguan Shu's rebellion, and opened the next box.
An ordinary box of books.
Zhao Ying turned over dozens of boxes in a row. By the last one, she was exhausted. She estimated that Shangguan Shu would soon leave the court, so she had to speed up.
Zhao Ying opened the last box. There was a layer of books on the top. Zhao Ying reached in and flipped through it. The next second, his body stiffened.
The feel is wrong, there is something soft and silky inside, like fabric.
Zhao Ying quickly took the book away, and in the dim light he finally saw what was hidden at the bottom of the box.
Immediately afterwards, Zhao Ying fell to the ground as if exhausted.
Bright yellow, dragon pattern...
What Yue'er said is true...
…
Dry Garden.
"Your Highness, the young lady is here!"
"Your Highness?"
"Your Highness?"
"Ah?" Zhao Ying came to her senses, looked at the delicate little baby in front of her, stood up and picked her up.
【Mother! 】
The little guy hugged Zhao Ying's neck tightly, not noticing Zhao Ying's distraught expression.
After a while, a man who looked like a young eunuch walked in.
"Your servant Fuchun pays homage to His Highness!"
Zhao Ying raised her hand, "Get up!"
Zhao Ying took a deep look at the little one in her arms, then said to Fuchun, "Fuchun, how is Zhongcui Palace doing now?"
"Reporting to Your Highness, the young prince is still unconscious. Although he is still holding on to his breath, Master Wufa also said that the young prince has great fortune and there is a chance of survival. But in my opinion, I am afraid that there is no way to save him."
"How do you know?"
"The young prince's face was black. I saw him once and he looked like he was about to die. I'm afraid... the masters of Zhongcui Palace are too sad and unwilling to believe..."
[Humph, Zhao Ziyin is the only one who can't die! He's the heroine's younger brother, one of her lickers! The main theme is a dark and creepy orthopedic love! ]
[There's also the lickspittle enemy nation proton, Zhao Zihua's first love. Later, due to the scheme of the vicious female supporting role, the vicious female supporting role became pregnant with Proton's child. The lickspittle proton was fired, so Proton kicked the vicious female supporting role's child away in anger. Well, the vicious female supporting role is my heartless big sister.]
[The third licker, hahaha, it's my second brother, a long-lasting secret crush! ]
After listening to the little guy's thoughts, Zhao Ying narrowed his eyes slightly and sighed.
"I do have a life-saving golden elixir in my hand that I think could save Ziyin's life...but the prince refused. He thought I was still concerned about his past relationship with Huai'an and worried that I would feel resentful. But he was being overly suspicious. I'm not that petty."
"Since the Crown Prince cares so much about Your Highness, the spirit of the late Queen should rest in peace."
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