In order to find out about Chen Xu's past as soon as possible, Ye Wanqing asked everyone in the mansion indirectly and gained a general understanding of the people and things around Chen Xu.
Chen Xu is quite busy on weekdays. Apart from occasionally dating Ye Xueruo and helping to bully a few young ladies that Ye Xueruo dislikes, he basically stays in the Marquis' Mansion reading, practicing calligraphy, and studying military strategies and blueprints.
Ye Wanqing learned from A Rao that apart from Murong Yan, Chen Xu's only friends were Jiang Yu, the Minister of Works, and Miss Lin from the Northwest.
Jiang Yu would occasionally come to the Marquis' Mansion, but he recently took leave to return to his hometown to worship his ancestors. It seems that he will not be back until after Qingming Festival.
Miss Lin was the daughter of General Lin of the Northwest Army and was stationed in the Northwest. They usually only communicated through letters and occasionally sent each other gifts.
What Chen Xu sent her was basically the cosmetics and silk dress that A Rao had confiscated.
As for Shen Xu's relatives, his father, Lord Shen, was often away at war, and the days he spent in the capital were very few.
Her mother, Mrs. Fu, would only visit her when she came to inspect business in Beijing, and sometimes she would only see her once or twice a year.
The eldest brother Fu Yi came back when he wanted to beat her up.
The family was rarely together, and the few times they met were few and far between. Murong Yan was probably not as familiar with the bricks and tiles of the Marquis's mansion as he was with them.
Not to mention her aunt, Concubine Shen. Since the death of Murong Yan's biological mother, Queen Ling, she has become the Queen Mother of the West Palace, assisting in the management of the harem.
Sometimes the empress dowager wants to worship Buddha, sometimes the concubine wants to hold a banquet. She has to host the banquet, contact envoys, and take care of the birthday flower banquets in the harem, all big and small matters. If you want to see her, you have to make an appointment in advance.
In short, the power of the Shen Hou family is all due to being busy.
Murong Yan had been giving her lessons for several days in a row, all of which were about rituals, music, books and mathematics, very boring content.
In addition to these regular subjects, the princes of Yanyang Kingdom also learn some poetry, lyrics and songs.
These were exactly what she was interested in, but the prince refused to talk about them.
He said that instead of spending time singing about the wind and the moon, it would be better to learn more about astronomy and geography.
No wonder Murong Yan was criticized for not being good at music and prose, not understanding elegance, and being neither good at literature nor martial arts.
Ye Wanqing was writing the homework he assigned with great anxiety, forcing herself to put on a mask of pain. Looking at the thick pile of books on the table that she had to memorize, she sighed and lamented that studying was really too painful.
A Rao came in and whispered that the hot water was ready, and that the prince could take a bath first if he felt tired.
Ye Wanqing nodded, finished the last line of her homework, stretched, and muttered to herself, "I wonder how Murong Yan's investigation is going. He's watching me do my homework every day. Does he really have the time to investigate?"
A Rao dismissed her attendants and left her alone in the room.
Ye Wanqing then took off her clothes, removed her fake breasts and the binding bra straps, and breathed a long sigh of relief.
This tense state, coupled with the heavy workload of the past few days, made her physically and mentally exhausted, and she suddenly felt sympathetic.
She was a girl like herself, but she had to do so much homework every day, wear such a tight bra, and disguise herself as a young man anytime and anywhere. She was even afraid to take a bath.
However, since he had promised the prince and made up his mind to protect Shen Xu's body and keep her alive.
Ye Wanqing had no choice but to try her best to pretend to be who she was and do what she had always done.
Make yourself as "like" a Shenxu as possible.
Looking at the face with dark circles under the eyes on the water surface, Ye Wanqing was slightly dazed. Would she become Shen Xu from now on and could never be Ye Wanqing again? She would find the murderer, take revenge, and then what?
Will I live forever as a neither male nor female, unable to marry, unable to wear whatever I want, unable to bathe in front of others?
Uh, this really doesn't seem possible...
However, if Shen Xu died, he would be unable to do anything. Compared to her, he was extremely lucky.
Ye Wanqing finished her shower. A Rao was wiping her dripping hair. She suddenly asked A Rao, "Am I going to have to be like this forever? Does she, my mother, require me to pretend to be a man forever?"
"Prince." A Rao paused while wiping her hair and said angrily, "You want to wear women's clothes again?"
"No, no!" Ye Wanqing quickly denied it, fearing that she would tell Madam Jiang about it and deduct her pocket money. "I'm just wondering, is there any point in my mother asking me to do this? Will there really be a future for me like this?"
"Madam must have her own considerations for doing this, so don't think too much about it."
A Rao persuaded him, thinking that the prince had suddenly had a lot of homework these days, which must be quite tiring, so she said, "If you really want to wear women's clothes, then you can do it secretly for once, but only this time, and only in your room, and no one else can see you."
When Ye Wanqing heard A Rao let her wear women's clothes, she asked, "What if someone sees me?"
"Then I can only kill him to silence him."
Ye Wanqing gasped, she knew that this maid had been trained as a personal bodyguard since she was young, she had strong principles and great martial arts skills, her actions and decisions were never influenced by personal emotions, and that letting her wear women's clothes was already a concession.
If they were discovered, they would be killed to silence them.
That day, she stabbed Chen Xu with an arrow. After being yelled at by Chen Xu, A Rao immediately went to receive the punishment for failing to guard properly, which accidentally allowed Murong Yan to break in.
Fortunately, she didn't know what Murong Yan saw that day, so it's better not to let her know forever.
"Arao, I don't want to wear women's clothes. I just want to relax and practice martial arts. I'm in the mansion, wearing men's clothes."
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