Chapter 577: She is the female official beside Aunt Yu
No one had sat on the bench for a long time and it was covered with a thick layer of dust.
Xie Yingmian gently wiped the dust off the stool with his sleeve and sat down.
Yan Lingyue said: "You mentioned Yan Qing just now."
"You, know him?"
"Who are you?"
"How's that kid Yanqing doing?"
Xie Yingmian said, "I am Xie Yingmian, the wife of His Royal Highness Prince Ling. Yan Qing is the housekeeper in Prince Ling's mansion. He is a very good man."
Yan Lingyue was stunned: "He, didn't go back to the Yan family?"
Xie Yingmian: "No, he has been looking for you all these years."
"After you disappeared, he left the Yan family and traveled all over the place looking for you. After searching for a long time without finding any clues, he settled down in Prince Ling's mansion."
"We discovered Xiaoyao Island a while ago. We want to crack the mechanism of Xiaoyao Island, so we asked Yanqing to help."
"After Yan Qing arrived at Xiaoyao Island, he discovered that the island's mechanism was yours. He also found the corner mechanism in the treasury."
Yan Lingyue's hands trembled with excitement: "Then, then..."
"Did he, he, see the letter I left for him?"
Xie Yingmian: "I see."
Yan Lingyue: "Does he hate me? He must hate me very much. I've been gone for so many years and abandoned him for so many years. It's normal for him to hate me."
"I'm sorry for him."
Yan Lingyue covered his face with his hands, his voice choked with sobs.
Xie Yingmian: "I don't know whether he hates you or not."
"When we opened the corner mechanism, we found a skeleton inside. The skeleton was lying on a small bed. It had six fingers and its clothes also bore the Yan family's emblem."
"When Yan Qing saw the body, he wept bitterly and could not stop. No one could comfort him."
Yan Lingyue slowly moved his hand away.
He wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes: "Yan Qing thought that was me?"
Xie Yingmian nodded. "Later, we found your letter in the inkstone and confirmed that you were still alive. Only then did Yan Qing recover from his grief."
"I think Yan Qing doesn't hate you. He misses you very much."
Yan Lingyue's tears fell uncontrollably.
He calmed down for a while before asking, "Whose bones are they?"
Xie Yingmian: "Gongshu Yun's father."
Yan Lingyue was surprised, but not surprised.
The only people who could crack his corner mechanism, apart from his son, were his old rivals.
"Why would that old man go to Xiaoyao Island?"
Xie Yingmian said, "After you disappeared, the huge underground mechanism was left unattended, so the emperor invited Gongshu Yun's father to come."
"Gongshu Yun's father discovered the corner mechanism you left behind. While trying to decipher it, he was trapped by a pile of gold and eventually died there."
Yan Lingyue was speechless for a long time.
After a long while, he sighed deeply and said, "I killed him."
"That corner mechanism is my hiding place."
"In order to avoid the emperor's pursuit, extremely complex mechanisms were set up in every place."
With that old man's ability, he must have seen the complexity of those mechanisms long ago.
The old man was determined to compete with him, and finally died in the pursuit of dominance.
Isn't this just fate?
Xie Yingmian said, "It's your turn."
"Yan Qing said that the Yan family has an ancestral headache. The older you get, the more severe the attacks become. When they occur, it's worse than death. You need to take medication to control it. If you want to stay alive, you need to be close to a pharmacy."
"We didn't find you in the pharmacy or the guard hall. Is that because you've been hiding here?"
Yan Lingyue shook his head: "At the beginning, I did sneak into the Imperial Pharmacy."
"I took advantage of the opportunity to deliver medicine to various palaces and secretly set up some traps and Qimen Dunjia techniques in each palace."
"With these mechanisms and the Qimen Dunjia technique, I opened up a path that leads to most places in the palace."
"In the imperial palace, human life is the least valuable. If I stay to work in the imperial pharmacy, I might get caught up in the fights among the concubines one day."
"After the construction of the mechanism was completed, I pretended to be dead and hid in this secret courtyard."
"This small courtyard is full of traps. Even the imperial palace's strict guards can't investigate. I'm going to stay here for the next ten years."
Xie Yingmian asked, "Why do you possess the Phantom Mist Gu?"
"Why do you put up couplets like that at the door?"
Yan Lingyue said: "This is what I will say next."
"One night, when I was out setting up a trap, I discovered a palace maid who had been executed."
"It's completely normal for someone to die in the palace. I see dead bodies almost every day. The dead are thrown into the river, thrown into the well, buried under the tree... Too many, too many."
"It's also a coincidence."
"The mechanism I set up was right under that tree. The body buried there was in the way, so I dug it out first."
"After I set up the mechanism and wanted to bury the body, it suddenly coughed."
"She was lucky and survived."
"If I bury her back, she will surely die."
"If I leave her there, my mechanism might be discovered, and she will die."
"I finally couldn't bear it, so I took the risk and brought her to my courtyard. I used the precious herbs from the imperial pharmacy to revive her."
"Since then, the maid has lived here."
"She is deaf and dumb, and I can't understand her writing. I can't communicate with her."
"It was only much later that I realized she wasn't just an ordinary palace maid, she was a lady-in-waiting to Madam Yu."
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