The atmosphere in the room suddenly quieted down, with an eerie silence.
Rong Qingqing felt extremely uncomfortable.
After a moment, she coughed softly, about to break the silence, when Xie Jingrun suddenly tossed the cloth in his hand into hers, saying, "It's almost dry."
Rong Qingqing clutched the cloth and blurted out, "Thank you, Lord Marquis." After saying that, she felt an urge to cover her face. She didn't think she'd asked him to help dry her hair, and besides, a man helping a woman dry her hair... it just didn't feel right, it was far too intimate...
Xie Jingrun raised an eyebrow and glanced at her, then paused, noticing the conflicted and embarrassed expression on her face.
He coughed lightly, suddenly feeling a little awkward. He turned and sat down on the couch by the window, saying in a deep voice, "Didn't you just say you had something to discuss with me? Speak quickly!"
Rong Qingqing then remembered, and quickly suppressed her unease. She stepped forward, frowned, and said, "My lord, on the way here today, when we rested, I went to relieve myself and accidentally saw Granny Hong and a little eunuch whispering to each other. I don't know what they were saying."
At the time, I didn't know that the old woman was Granny Hong, who served the Empress, so I didn't pay much attention to her. It wasn't until Granny Hong came to invite me that I realized she was the Empress's person. As for the little eunuch, I initially thought he was just an ordinary little eunuch, but in the evening at the gate of the villa, I heard Eunuch Hai instructing him to move a stool for the Emperor, and that's when I realized he was the one who served the Emperor.
"I just find it a bit strange that the people around the Empress would be so close to the people around the Emperor. After all, the Empress and the Emperor's relationship..." She paused here. It was no secret in the court that the Empress and the Emperor had a bad relationship, and she believed Xie Jingrun understood what she meant.
She deliberately fabricated the story of encountering Granny Hong and the young eunuch in secret conversation on the way, instead of directly revealing that Xiangzi was the Empress's man and was about to poison Emperor Zhaojing, in order not to arouse Xie Jingrun's suspicion.
If she told him directly, Xie Jingrun would definitely become suspicious of her, and she wouldn't be able to explain how she knew.
She fabricated this story, and with Xie Jingrun's intelligence, he would surely make some connection to it. Next, he would definitely send someone to monitor Xiangzi so that he would have no chance to poison him again.
In this way, Emperor Zhaojing's danger should be temporarily relieved, at least he won't die so quickly due to poisoning.
However, as soon as she finished speaking, Xie Jingrun looked at her with a scrutinizing gaze.
Rong Qingqing's heart skipped a beat, but she asked calmly, "My lord, is there a problem?"
Xie Jingrun withdrew his gaze, lowered his eyes and pondered for a moment, then suddenly stood up and walked to her, reaching out to pinch her chin. His voice was slightly low, "Rong Qingqing, you seem to know many things that others don't. Actually, I've wanted to ask you for a long time, how do you know about my background?"
Upon hearing this, Rong Qingqing's heart sank.
She had long expected Xie Jingrun to ask about this matter, but she didn't expect that he would not ask for so long, but suddenly bring it up again today.
With Xie Jingrun's keen senses, he must have felt that there was something fishy about what she said. Combined with the fact that she had told him before that she knew about his background, he must have suspected something.
"Xie Jingrun, there are many things I really can't explain to you, but I promise you, I'm on your side, and I would never harm you," she said firmly.
Xie Jingrun's unfathomable eyes were fixed on her, sharp and dangerous. "Just what is your background?"
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