Chapter 96 I want to ask the prince to tell the truth
Ji Yan gritted his teeth and said, “Don’t worry, I’m not into Long Yang and incest yet.”
Jing Ye ignored him and just drank his tea. At the end, he asked, "Have you finished what I asked you to do?"
Ji Yan showed an indignant look and said, "I have already drawn the blueprint and sent it to Chu to find a craftsman to make it. It will be returned around the end of next month."
Jing Ye only said "hmm" faintly, and then said: "Hold on tighter."
"I think you really value women over friendship," Ji Yan said, "I haven't seen you give me anything for so many years, but you care so much about that girl. Just that hairpin - the blade material inside is worth a million gold, but you sold it for fifty cents."
Jing Ye did not answer, his expression turned a little colder.
Ji Yan kept on talking: "You really don't hate her? If it were me, I would kill her three times and still not feel relieved. But you are so eager to send her this and that, even sending out the shadow guards to her."
"Kill her?" Jing Ye said coldly, "It's too easy. Instead of killing her, why not let her suffer more pain than death?"
"Tsk," Ji Yan rolled his eyes at him and said, "You have the toughest mouth in the whole body. If you really want to make her feel uncomfortable, why don't you just throw her into the quagmire of Gu Mansion? You are eager to help her check and find weapons for her to defend herself. You are obviously - ah, I am too lazy to say a word to you."
Jing Ye lowered his eyes.
He asked himself, was it really just because he was soft-hearted?
No, it's not.
He just wanted to know how she would react if she found out the truth one day.
Will he be more painful and desperate than he was back then?
Suddenly a bird fluttered into the hall, landed on the table next to Jing Ye, and pushed the note in its claws in front of him.
Jing Ye's eyebrows jumped and he immediately picked up the note and took a look at it.
"If you have nothing else to do, go and choose a place to open your Qinlou and Chuguan." Jing Ye stood up, folded the note and put it in his sleeve, and said coldly to Ji Yan, "Hurry up and find out the things I want you to investigate."
After saying that, he walked out of the door, displayed his lightness skills, and flew away from the roof.
Ji Yan was left screaming and screaming there.
"Do you have any humanity left? I am your brother after all, right? You keep working like a donkey, doing this and that every day. Do you think I can live like this?"
Less than half an hour after Jiang Xue released Banban, Jing Ye arrived.
Jiang Xue had just woken up from a nap and was taking her clothes to change when she suddenly turned around and saw Jing Ye sitting at the table. She almost screamed out loud.
"Prince, are you idle all day long?" Jiang Xue said in surprise as she put on her outer robe. "I thought you would arrive at night, how come you came so quickly?"
Jing Ye said succinctly, "Why are you looking for me?"
After saying that, his eyes stayed on her loose neckline, then moved away in an instant.
Jiang Xue's face suddenly flushed. She quickly turned around to tidy up her clothes, calmed herself down, and then walked over to sit down opposite Jing Ye.
Jiang Xue raised her hand and poured him a cup of tea.
"I want to confess something to the prince, and I also want the prince to tell me the truth."
Jiang Xue raised her eyebrows, smiled brightly, and reached into her sleeve to take out the small piece of paper with the seal printed on it.
"I did not ask my brother to investigate this matter."
Jing Ye looked at her with an indescribable dark look in his eyes.
Jiang Xue smiled and said, "At first, I thought about telling my brother directly about this, but——"
"Later, I calmed down and thought about it. Up to now, I have no evidence except the prince's one-sided statement. If this piece of paper is brought to my royal brother, given his trust in me, I am afraid that the court of Ji State will stir up a big storm."
Jiang Xue carefully observed the expression in Jing Ye's eyes under the mask, and seeing that he did not seem angry, she continued:
"It's not that I don't trust His Majesty. Since I have agreed to cooperate with His Majesty, I will certainly help you. However, this matter is of great importance. Before there is a concrete result, I don't want to stir up any disputes in the court."
"After all, if this matter is really investigated openly, it will inevitably implicate the relevant officials. This matter is unknown now, so it will only interfere with Ji's internal troubles, but if the Ministry of Personnel investigates it, then it will directly shake the court of Ji."
Jing Ye didn't say anything, but just picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea.
"This is the truth I want to tell the prince." Jiang Xue said with a smile, "Next, this is the truth I hope the prince will tell me."
Jiang Xue's palms were slightly sweaty. She couldn't help but clench her fingers and said with courage:
"Did the prince hide something from me about this matter? Is it," she whispered, "did he want to use me to make the turmoil in the court of Ji Dynasty start in Gan State first?"
After saying this, Jiang Xue swallowed nervously.
She had seen Jing Ye's skills before. Although she was wearing the hairpin at the moment, if he really attacked her, taking her life would be easier than crushing an ant. She would probably die before her hand touched the hairpin.
She is gambling.
She bet that Jingye would take her identity as a princess into consideration, and that she would still be useful to Jingye.
There is also a slight hint - betting that Jingye still cares about her a little.
She didn't dare to imagine that Jing Ye had any feelings for her, but just because he was willing to give her the token to command the Feather Guards, she could at least be sure that she had some weight in Jing Ye's heart. No matter where this weight came from, at least he would not kill her now.
After a long while, Jing Ye laughed softly.
"Half and half," he said.
"That was my original plan," he said, "but I didn't expect it would take the princess so long to react."
"This matter is not trivial. I do intend to guide you and ask your royal brother to investigate."
"But I also know you won't," Jing Ye glanced at her with a hint of disdain in his eyes, and said, "After all, you value your family more than your life. How can you be willing to let your brother get involved if I, a foreigner, say something without verification?"
Jiang Xue asked softly, "So you showed me the letter on purpose and asked me to identify the handwriting and seal, just to make me more suspicious of Gu Lintan?"
Jing Ye said calmly: "Not only that, I also want to see what you, as a Ji countryman, will do when you find out that someone in Ji country is colluding with foreigners to rebel."
"My Lord, are you satisfied with my actions?" Jiang Xue asked through gritted teeth.
Was he testing her sincerity and her brains?
"Not bad." Jing Ye said, "Not too stupid, but not too smart either. You are obviously a princess, and if you really want to investigate, you don't have to go through your brother. Don't you have any friends in the court in all these years?"
"......" Jiang Xue was a little choked by these words, and said: "You may not believe it, but there really isn't any."
She looked up at Jing Ye and felt that his reaction was too calm.
She couldn't help but express her original thoughts, wanting to see if he was still so calm.
"I have a guess, Your Majesty, why don't you listen to it?"
"In fact, the prince has already found out who the owner of this seal is, right?"
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