As soon as he saw Xuan Yuanhan and Cheng Liang finally appear at the street corner in front of the Qin Prince's Mansion, Yi Sanshao, who had never left and had been pacing back and forth anxiously, waiting for the search results, chased after them and kept asking questions.
"How about it?"
"Has it been found?"
"Have you found the girl?"
Xuanyuan Han naturally didn't want to say anything more to him, and simply headed straight for the gate of the Qin Prince's Mansion.
Cheng Liang followed closely behind, scolding and warning him as he walked.
"Young Master Yi, there is only an old woman with silver hair living in Plum Garden. There is no Princess Yongle as you mentioned."
"If you dare to spread false information again, don't blame me for being ruthless!"
Young Master Yi frowned upon hearing this, deeply surprised.
"No?"
"How could there not be?"
"It's impossible that it doesn't exist!"
"That night, the servant clearly said that the owner of Plum Garden was Princess Yongle, Mei Xiyuan. How could it not exist?"
"That's impossible!"
Seeing that he was still not giving up, Cheng Liang stopped and asked him seriously, "Then let me ask you, did you see Princess Yongle in person?"
Young Master Yi shook his head.
Cheng Liang said, "That's it then. Since you didn't see it with your own eyes, perhaps you misheard or you were hallucinating?"
Without even thinking, Young Master Yi immediately denied it, saying, "That's impossible!"
Cheng Liang didn't want to say anything more, so he said, "If you don't believe me, there's nothing I can do. You can go and investigate for yourself!"
This is the eastern part of the city, a crucial part of the security system of the Western Qin Imperial City. If he had any other means, he wouldn't bother to ask Xuan Yuanhan for help.
But to his surprise, it was completely useless. At this moment, Young Master Yi was extremely annoyed.
He got angry, but then hesitated and said, "If I were..."
After a moment's thought, he said, "Xuanyuan Han, if even a single hair on your head is missing in the area under your jurisdiction, I will spare no effort to show you what kind of person I really am!"
He then snorted coldly, flicked his sleeves, turned around, and strode away without looking back.
Having finally gotten rid of Young Master Yi, Xuan Yuanhan breathed a sigh of relief and stopped walking.
He then instructed Cheng Liang: "Mei Xiyuan and Lu Tianjiao will definitely meet again soon. Make sure to keep a close eye on their every move!"
Cheng Liang accepted the order: "Yes!"
However, he is still quite worried: "Your Highness, have you thought about how to deal with the 200,000-strong vanguard troops mobilized by Mei Zhixuan?"
Xuanyuan Han did not speak, but his expression became even more somber. He paused for a moment, then lifted the hem of his robe and continued to step onto the stone steps.
Seeing this, Cheng Liang looked melancholy and quickened his pace to follow.
One morning three days later.
Upon receiving the message, Lu Tianjiao indeed left home early.
Guided by the letter, they arrived at a secluded waterfront silver shop in the eastern part of the city, where they had arranged to meet Mei Xiyuan.
This two-story silver shop built on the water is called "Tianzhenfang".
As the end of the year draws closer, the weather is getting colder and colder.
Lu Tianjiao frowned, but as soon as he entered Tianzhenfang, he was deeply attracted by the magnificent silver building in front of him, which looked nothing special from the outside, but was actually full of wonders inside.
The entire silver building is decorated with carved beams and painted rafters. Except for the roof tiles, the main components, even the openwork carvings on the doors and windows, are all decorated with gold leaf.
It looked particularly bright under the sunlight.
Suddenly, the slight irritation I had felt before coming seemed to ease considerably because of the scenery before me.
So, without realizing it, I started wandering around as I walked further in.
He couldn't help but mutter to himself in admiration: "This silver shop opened by Mei Xiyuan doesn't look particularly eye-catching from the outside. But the decorations inside, and the numerous gold and silver jewelry pieces displayed on the counters, each with a unique and novel design, are unlike anything I've ever seen before. They are truly unique!"
She paused, her gaze fixed on a gold bracelet inlaid with gemstones.
The surface is covered with gemstones, exquisite openwork patterns, and countless rubies and sapphires inlaid together.
The craftsmanship appears extremely complex, yet it is exceptionally exquisite.
Just when she seemed unable to move any further, a shop assistant came over and woke her up.
"Your Highness, please come upstairs. Our master has been waiting for you for quite some time!"
Only then did Lu Tianjiao come to his senses.
But she still managed to look away with difficulty, and as she walked, she muttered unconsciously, "Oh, okay!"
Soon, Lu Tianjiao was led into the innermost room on the second floor.
Here, Mei Xiyuan sat calmly to the side, sipping tea.
Seeing Lu Tianjiao enter, she smiled and asked, "Sister, you're here! What do you think of my Tianzhenfang? Does it meet your standards?"
Lu Tianjiao then snapped out of his reverie, came to his senses, and asked in a serious tone, "Why did you ask me to come out in such a hurry?"
Mei Xiyuan stood up and slowly walked to the side of a servant who was holding a wooden tray.
She stopped and smiled, saying, "We are, after all, sisters. My sister is overjoyed, and I, as the princess, should naturally prepare a small gift to express my gratitude! I hope my sister will not refuse!"
As he spoke, he reached out and lifted the red silk covering the wooden tray.
In an instant, a whole wooden tray filled with a dazzling array of gold and silver jewelry appeared before my eyes, and among it was the bracelet that I had just admired.
Lu Tianjiao was stunned by this.
After regaining his senses, he asked, "What are you doing?"
Mei Xiyuan said, "As I just said, sister, please consider this as an additional dowry from your older sister!"
Lu Tianjiao knew perfectly well that Mei Xiyuan wouldn't be so kind: "You can't accept something for nothing. What exactly do you want?"
Finally, Mei Xiyuan began to inquire: "Has my sister found that bitch in the manor?"
Lu Tianjiao thought for a moment, then said helplessly, "Not yet!"
Upon hearing this, Mei Xiyuan panicked: "Aren't you already a concubine? Three days have passed, how come you can't find a single person in the manor?"
Lu Tianjiao, not to be outdone, retorted, "But you were once his queen, weren't you? In the end, you were returned to him unharmed!"
"you……"
Upon hearing this, Mei Xiyuan could no longer suppress her emotions.
But after thinking it over, she realized that a small act of impatience could ruin a great plan, so she restrained herself and said, "You should not take this opportunity to mock me! I think you should know that as long as that bitch is around, neither of us will have an easy time!"
Lu Tianjiao said fiercely, "You don't need to tell me that. If she falls into my hands again, I will personally kill her the moment she falls into my hands!"
Upon hearing this, Mei Xiyuan cried out in panic, "No! You can't kill her!"
Lu Tianjiao couldn't understand why she was so agitated when she heard that Lu Tianjiao also hated her to the bone, so she questioned her: "Why can't I kill her?"
Mei Xiyuan suddenly felt guilty after being asked that question.
After a while, once she had calmed down, she said, "I just feel that she has caused us so much suffering. If we only kill her, it would be too merciful to her!"
Lu Tianjiao asked doubtfully, "Do you have a better way than killing her?"
Mei Xiyuan gritted her teeth and said, "Believe me, my hatred for her is far deeper than yours! But first and foremost, we must do everything we can to find her as soon as possible!"
At this point, both of them fell into the same deep thought: "Where else could she go?"
Little did they know, their meeting had been secretly followed.
The Prince of Qin's Mansion.
Cheng Liang hurried into Chenghua Palace and reported: "Your Highness, just as you predicted. This morning, the gatekeepers deliberately let the concubine out of the mansion. After leaving the mansion, the concubine indeed met Princess Yongle in Tianzhenfang."
"Tianzhenfang!" Xuanyuan Han was pondering.
Cheng Liang continued, "However, judging from what the two of them said, it seems they really don't know where the Princess Consort went after that night!"
Xuanyuan Han was genuinely surprised by this outcome.
He couldn't help but think to himself, "That night, from beginning to end, was only a very short time. Moreover, from the moment I stepped into the Star Moon Pavilion that night until I woke up in the Cloud Water Pavilion the next day and Lu Tianjiao caused a scene, apart from the usual few people who went out early in the morning, no one else left the manor..."
As he pondered, he suddenly seemed to make a significant discovery: "Could it be that Yun'er, ever since she entered the manor that night, has never left?"
Upon realizing this, he immediately issued the order.
"Search the entire manor thoroughly again, leaving no corner unchecked. She may never have left the manor at all. You must find her!"
"yes!"
After receiving the order, Cheng Liang immediately went to make the arrangements.
Meanwhile, inside the Xinglin Pavilion.
Yi Shangyun had just finished administering acupuncture to Dingxiang.
Dingxiang intuitively felt that in the past few days, she felt refreshed and her body was almost the same as before she was poisoned, and she had not fallen ill again.
So she sat up and said with great gratitude, "Thank goodness I met you, otherwise I really don't know what would have become of me?"
Yi Shangyun was extremely apologetic: "Don't say that. The reason you've become like this is all my fault. It's all my fault. I should really feel fortunate that it was in time. For my sake, the Second Prince is already dead. If anything were to happen to you..."
Recalling the painful memories of the past, Yi Shangyun became sad again: "Then I..."
"I really don't know what to do?"
Dingxiang smiled and comforted her, saying, "Although my memory has not yet returned, based on everything you've said these past few days, I'm certain that if the Second Prince were alive, he would be comforted to see you doing well now."
Although Yi Shangyun spoke of everything so casually, Dingxiang still felt a little regretful.
"I never expected that His Highness the Prince of Qin would marry someone else!"
Yi Shangyun's emotions were complicated. After thinking for a moment, she said, "Miss Lu, she and Prince Qin were childhood sweethearts, and now the two of them have finally gotten what they wanted!"
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