Chapter 88 I Killed
After hearing this, Ye Lanzhou felt her face flush so red it looked like blood was about to drip out. Fortunately, it was dark, so Xie Chengyan couldn't see the embarrassment in her eyes.
She didn't say anything, turned around as if she didn't hear, and walked straight out.
Xie Chengyan looked at the man in front of her as if nothing had happened, with a smile in her eyes. She was the one who took the initiative, but now she felt embarrassed. In fact, apart from the fact that Ye Lanzhou had had physical contact with him in order to save his life, she was actually a shy person.
Back then, he was willing to do anything to survive, always displaying a vulgar demeanor that made people feel frivolous. Now that he's settled, his true self has finally been revealed.
Turn right from the side room and you'll find the main courtyard, the largest area in the palace. This is where the two of them just walked in. Turn left and you'll find the backyard. People usually plant flowers and plants in the backyard, which is pleasant to look at. Ye Lanzhou used to plant flowers and plants in the backyard of the Ye Mansion when he was a child.
But the backyard of Prince Rui's Mansion was surprisingly deserted. It didn't look deserted at all. The marble floor tiles and bluestone walls showed its nobility, but it was not very popular.
She only glanced inside when she heard Xie Chengyan ask beside her, "Go take a look?"
It can be said that Xie Chengyan's mansion is not that poor. After all, it is a prince's mansion, which is much better than Ye's mansion. But the backyard is so desolate. When Ye Lanzhou was staying in the prince's mansion before, he was only arranged to stay in a side room and had no chance to walk around. Naturally, he didn't know that the backyard of Rui Wang Mansion was like this.
Xie Chengyan took her to the backyard. A chilling smell came from there, making Ye Lanzhou shiver unconsciously. The smell here was not pleasant. There was a smell of dust that had not been swept for years, and a faint smell of rot.
As soon as Ye Lanzhou entered, he saw a shrine-like object in the middle of the yard, with a long sword placed inside. The sword was very long and had no scabbard. The silver sword body came into view, shining strangely in the dark night.
Behind the shrine was a coffin-like object. Ye Lanzhou found the source of the foul smell, which must have come from this coffin. She suddenly remembered that Xie Chengyan was indeed looking for a corpse, the corpse of the late emperor.
Could it be that this is...
She was standing there in a daze, but Xie Chengyan had already walked towards the coffin, raised his hand to open it, and said, "Hong Luo has been away these days. She went to Nanyang to deal with this matter. She just sent this. I have many spies in my house, and only the backyard is safe from everyone's attention, so I can only put it here for now."
It turned out to be in Nanyang. Her calculations were correct, but she herself hadn't expected it to be so far south. Besides, how could the emperor's body be left out there? No wonder Xie Chengyan didn't force her to find the body in the Ye Mansion; it turned out he had already found it.
I saw Yin Ning lying in the coffin with his eyes closed and his body stiff, but it had not rotted after all these days. Apart from the very faint stench of corpse, there was nothing unusual.
Ye Lanzhou lowered his eyes and took a closer look, and found that there seemed to be something stuck in Yin Ning's seven orifices. Something must have been injected into the body to delay the decay.
Remembering that Xie Chengyan had said he would help her, it shouldn't be too much for her to ask two questions. Now that he dared to bring her to see something like this, it meant that the two of them were already allies.
She asked, "Why is the late emperor's body lying around? And why is the prince so anxious to find it?"
"Because I killed him."
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