Chapter 56 Hiding It From Him
Ye Lanzhou felt that this thing looked familiar, but he had no idea where he had seen it. Just as he was thinking about it, Deng suddenly kowtowed to Ye Lanzhou, and her forehead hit the stone brick hard, making a muffled sound.
The last time Deng kowtowed like this was when she first entered the Ye Mansion. Unaware of the proper etiquette, she had offended the eldest mistress and nearly faced punishment under family law. It was Qin who dissuaded her. She trusted Ye Lanzhou. Someone who had been nearly forced to be buried alive had somehow escaped the royal mausoleum alive and returned to the Ye Mansion unharmed. Such a person was truly remarkable. She felt Ye Lanzhou had a solution.
Besides, she really had nowhere else to go.
Ye Lanzhou had never received such a generous gift before. She had no intention of interfering. Firstly, this was an inner court struggle, and she didn't want to get involved. Secondly, she already knew what Deng had said. But Deng took out the gift her mother had left her, and this made her waver.
Deng then continued, "Fourth Miss, An Yun was your best friend when they were little. Back then, you and Qin Xiaoniang were still living in the backyard. An Yun keeps clamoring to find you. Please, for the sake of your childhood friendship, help her!"
Seeing Deng's anxious look, Ye Lanzhou thought of Qin. Back then in Nanyang, she accidentally killed a butcher at the entrance of the village. The government soon came to her house. Qin kowtowed several times, begging the government to let Ye Lanzhou go.
Finally, the old temple keeper, the only eyewitness at the scene, said that the butcher tripped and fell by himself.
The butcher was rampant in the village, and the government knew about it. He thought such a man deserved death, so they did not pursue the matter and closed the case hastily.
Mrs. Deng looked exactly like her mother.
After thinking it over, Ye Lanzhou agreed.
She asked Deng to go back to her room first, then turned to Hong Luo and said, "I know that Xie Chengyan's men can find Ye Anyun's whereabouts. Go and tell him that if Ye Anyun can't be found, I won't have peace in the Ye Mansion..."
I wanted to add: "Then I won't be able to help him."
But since the last time Xie Chengyan choked her neck after a disagreement, almost killing her, she could only bite back the threatening words that followed.
Hong Luo shook his head after hearing this and said, "Master, if you want to investigate someone, I will go and investigate directly."
Ye Lanzhou was puzzled: "Don't you need to tell him?"
"If I tell him, it would be like my master owing the prince another favor. If he doesn't know, he won't find out even if I investigate quietly like this."
If these words came from Wangshu, she would have believed them. Unfortunately, Wangshu had the intention but not the ability. However, Hongluo was clearly the opposite. She had the ability but not the intention. It was hard for Ye Lanzhou not to suspect that she was using this to bring them closer.
"Are you thinking about me? Are Xie Chengyan's people so easy to turn against you?"
Hong Luo raised his eyes, staring at Ye Lanzhou with his round eyes, and said, "I won't switch sides, but I should help the master this time, because..."
"Master, you saved my sister." Tears welled up in Hong Luo's eyes, and Ye Lanzhou was completely overwhelmed. He quickly raised his hand and wiped away the tears that were slowly falling from her eyes. She then continued, "Eight years ago, a man and a woman went to an old temple near the south gate of Nanyang to recuperate. Master, do you remember?"
Ye Lanzhou was stunned for a moment, as if this was indeed the case. At that time, she was playing in the mountains near the South City Gate and happened to meet a man covered in blood and unconscious on the side of the road.
When she got closer, she realized it was a girl, about seventeen or eighteen years old. The armor on her body was soaked with blood and had lost its original shape.
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