After confirming that the seal was not a fake, Su Lin finally believed it completely. The woman in front of him was the Crown Princess recognized by His Highness, and their future mistress!
He immediately prostrated himself before Xue Huan and bowed deeply, "Your Majesty, your humble servant greets you."
Seeing this scene, the cat in Xue Huan's arms showed a look of satisfaction in its eyes.
Xue Huan, however, was furious at being called "Mrs." and used her free hand to help him up. "Manager Su, please get up quickly. You should just call me Miss Xue."
Su Lin stood up, but still half-bowed, his posture respectful, "Yes."
After gaining Su Lin's trust, Xue Huan's previous question was answered.
"Four days ago, after receiving your letter, His Highness was about to prepare his horse to leave the palace. Unexpectedly, just as he reached the gate, he suddenly collapsed. To protect His Highness's safety, I had a secret guard disguise himself as His Highness and lie in bed, to prevent anyone from taking advantage of the opportunity to attack His Highness. I then quietly transferred His Highness to another courtyard and asked the imperial physician to come and diagnose him. However, the imperial physician couldn't tell what was wrong with His Highness, as there was nothing wrong with his health."
Su Lin's tone was heavy.
Xue Huan said, "Pei Ji's soul has left his body."
The cat in her arms suddenly looked up at her, its eyes bright with surprise and pride.
Su Lin exclaimed in surprise: "Soul separation?"
"That's right, Pei Ji's soul is not in his body now. Once a living soul leaves the body for more than seven days, it will be very dangerous. It has been four days now. We must find his soul as soon as possible."
She did not tell anyone that she had sneaked into the villa to summon Pei Ji's soul. After all, it was unsuccessful, and telling him would only increase Su Lin's worries.
Xue Huan took out a stack of talismans and handed them to Su Lin. "This is the soul-calling talisman I made. Chief Steward Su, take it and give one to each of the secret guards. When you use it, burn the talisman along with something contaminated with Pei Ji's aura. The talisman will then lead the way and take you to find Pei Ji's soul."
Su Lin took it with surprise and said, "I'll go right away."
Xue Huan frowned, because she wasn't sure if she could find Pei Ji's soul this way. After all, her previous necromancy had failed, and his soul might have met with something unexpected...
My chin got wet.
The cat in her arms licked her.
Xue Huan felt warm at heart when she saw the comfort in its eyes. This cat was really smart and actually knew how to comfort people.
She rubbed the cat's head against it.
At this moment, the cat jumped out of her arms, leaped onto the desk, and pointed at the inkstone with its claws.
Xue Huan was confused. Seeing that she didn't understand what he meant, Mao'er pointed at the brush in the pen holder.
Xue Huan suddenly realized, "You want me to grind ink for you?"
The cat actually nodded, and its behavior was just like that of a human being!
Xue Huan ground the ink, the cat dipped its paw in the ink, and then started "writing" on the paper!
Xue Huan was increasingly surprised. Could it be that this cat had truly become a spirit? Could it even write?
Of course, cat's paws are not convenient for writing. When they fall on rice paper, they become a black mass and the strokes are completely invisible.
The cat wrote for a long time, but in the end, only cat paw prints were left on the paper.
The cat clapped its paws angrily, and the paper got stained even more.
Xue Huan burst out laughing, and the cat looked over with a rather resentful look in its eyes.
This look...why does it look so much like Pei Ji?
Xue Huan was startled, but when she looked again, the cat had already withdrawn its gaze and was staring at its own paw in a daze.
She said softly, "How about this, I hold your paw and write it?"
The cat's eyes lit up and it nodded at her.
Xue Huan washed its paws clean, held its paw with one hand, held the brush in the palm of her hand, and supported it with the other hand so that it could stand on the table.
The cat pressed its claws hard, and Xue Huan's hand moved along with its force, and the brush left ink marks on the rice paper.
At the beginning, the man and the cat did not cooperate well, and the words they wrote were completely unformed. But after writing for a while, they had a tacit understanding and successfully wrote the first word.
It was a crooked character "婳".
Xue Huan looked at the cat in her arms and was horrified. How could it know her name?
Maoer pushed her hand and continued writing. Finally, a line of words appeared on the paper from right to left: Huanhuan, it's me.
The cat looked up at her, its eyes filled with anticipation and a bit of trepidation.
Xue Huan took a deep breath, and a vague thought in her mind became a reality: "Pei Ji?"
The cat nodded.
I see!
No wonder she couldn’t call his soul back, no wonder it was so human-like, it turned out that Pei Ji’s soul had entered the cat’s body!
Now that his soul had a body, it was no longer free and could not be recalled. But now he had turned into a cat, unable to speak and unable to tell his subordinates his identity.
Fortunately, she came, and fortunately, she did not drive it away because she thought it was dirty, otherwise she would have missed the opportunity to recognize him.
However, Xue Huan still found it a little hard to believe. How could she know that the cat wasn't being controlled by someone and doing these actions on purpose?
So she wanted to confirm it.
She held the cat's paw and asked, "Where did we first meet?"
Mao'er, also known as Pei Ji, knew that she could not completely trust him yet, but he did not think there was anything wrong with it. Instead, he appreciated her caution.
He used her hand to write on the paper: Lingyun Mountain, small house.
Xue Huan asked a few more questions, all of which were questions only she and Pei Ji knew, and Mao'er answered them all.
"Pei Ji, it's really you!" She hugged him tightly, rubbing her chin on his furry head. All her anxiety and worry disappeared at this moment.
Pei Ji: “Meow~”
Xue Huan immediately laughed, let him go, and looked at him with a curious and playful look. She hooked her finger under his chin and asked with a smile, "How does it feel to be a cat?"
Pei Ji bit her hand, but of course the force was very light.
Xue Huan laughed out loud, "How did you get into the cat's body?"
Pei Ji shook his head, indicating that he didn't know either. He suddenly lost consciousness that night and when he woke up he became a dirty stray cat. He immediately rushed to the mansion.
The moment he saw her, his heart was at peace.
Xue Huan pinched his paw and played with it, "I will have a good rest tonight and recuperate. Tomorrow I will cast a spell to return your soul to its place." In fact, she took the opportunity to rest to ask Zi Gu how to let Pei Ji's soul leave the cat body.
Pei Ji nodded and licked her palm. With her by his side, he was not in a hurry to go back. It was also good to stay by her side as a cat. At least he could follow her wherever she went and be close to her openly.
The next morning, Xue Huan asked the maid to invite Manager Su over.
Su Lin strode in and was about to address her as "Miss Xue." But upon seeing her expression, he quickly changed his tone and said, "Young Master Zhao."
Xue Huan took him into the study: "Steward Su, I have found Pei Ji's whereabouts."
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