Chapter 109 It's Not Her
The palace maids left in an instant, leaving only three people in the room.
Pei Jing walked around the screen. Wei Ciying had already sat up leaning against a soft pillow, but her face was still a little pale.
"Your Highness, I'm sorry for being so rude as to not be able to get up." Wei Ciying bowed slightly while sitting on the bed.
"That's all right." Pei Jing stood by the window, looking back and saying, "I have a few questions that I want you to answer truthfully."
"I will certainly tell you everything I know."
Pei Jing asked, "Are you the biological son of Marquis Dingyuan?"
The other two people in the room were stunned, as if they had not expected him to ask this question.
"Your Highness..." Wei Ciying's fingertips quietly clenched a corner of the quilt, "Your Highness is naturally the biological daughter. Why did Your Highness suddenly ask this?"
Pei Jing's gaze swept across her face like a sharp blade. "Then who is this Ah Nian you're talking about?"
"Anian..." Wei Ciying's face showed a hint of confusion, "Is this the name I'm called again? Actually, I don't know who he is either."
Pei Jing's pupils shrank slightly. "I wonder why you called out that name?"
Wei Ciying said, "When I was young, I had a high fever and have forgotten many things. I only occasionally call out this name, as if it were a mysterious reminder. Previously, at Jinglian Temple, Your Highness asked me if there was anyone I could not forget. I said no, because I truly had forgotten who he was and only remembered this name. If I have offended Your Highness, please forgive me."
"What about the grass sprouts?"
Wei Ciying thought for a moment and shook her head, "I don't remember either."
Duan Jiu saw the prince looking at the scenery outside the window, and suddenly a smile appeared on his face. The smile was extremely strange, like disappointment, but also with some sense of relief.
"In that case, I have no more questions to ask."
Wei Ciying's heart suddenly skipped a beat. Could it be that she gave the wrong answer?
She had thought of all these things beforehand. Since Jiang Rufei had forgotten the past, it was actually a good thing for her. Then, besides Pei Jing herself, the only person in the world who knew about A Nian and Cao Ya was her, the reborn person.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t know what happened in the first place. Amnesia is the best shield, but as long as you reveal a little bit, such an ambiguous answer will make people more convinced.
Wei Ciying was feeling anxious when she saw Pei Jing turn around with a smile on his face. He said gently, "I'll send someone to take you back to the palace. You should take good care of yourself. If anything happens, send someone to the palace to inform me."
Wei Ciying's heart finally settled down. She tried her best to suppress the joy in her heart and remained calm on the surface. "How can I trouble Your Majesty?"
"No problem." Pei Jing said, "You and this king... do have some connection."
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The night spread over the palace walls like ink, and the iron horses on the eaves made tiny noises in the evening breeze passing through the corridor.
Pei Jing did not ride in a sedan chair, but walked slowly on the palace road.
Duan Jiu followed nervously, "What choice will the prince make?"
Pei Jing was pondering something when he heard the voice and asked in confusion, "What choice should I make?"
"The prince once said that if Caoya didn't abandon him intentionally, he would keep his promise."
"That's right." Pei Jing said, "I did say that if she abandons me, I will kill her. If not, I will do everything I promised her."
"Then, what did the prince promise?" Duan Jiu couldn't help but ask.
Pei Jing's tone was unusually cheerful. "I promised to open a shop for her, let her be a businesswoman, make her very rich, and never abandon her."
"Well, between Miss Jiang and Miss Wei, who will Your Majesty choose? Or do you want both?"
This is a bit greedy, isn't it? Besides, didn't you say before that you wouldn't take concubines? Duan Jiu was a little confused.
Pei Jing stopped and looked at him suspiciously, "What on earth are you talking about?"
Duan Jiu wanted to ask what the prince was talking about, why the two people's conversation seemed to be inconsistent.
"Didn't the prince say he would never leave or abandon me?"
"Childish." Pei Jing suddenly sneered. "A ten-year-old child doesn't understand what love is. He only understands what it means to depend on each other, and that means never leaving each other."
Duan Jiu breathed a sigh of relief, and then thought of the scene that had made him laugh all night. He asked tentatively, "Then, Your Highness, at what age do you think people need to understand love? Do you understand now, Your Highness?"
I don't know what he thought of, but a blush instantly spread to Pei Jing's ears. He said coldly: "Are you snooping into my private affairs?"
"I dare not." Duan Jiu said quickly.
Pei Jing snorted coldly and said, "Send someone to keep an eye on the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion, especially Wei Ciying."
"Are you sending someone to protect Miss Wei?"
Pei Jing stopped and felt that his patience had reached its limit. How come the most capable guard around him suddenly became stupid?
"When did the king say he would send someone to watch her? When did he say he would protect her?"
Duan Jiu was even more confused, so he could only say, "I obey your command."
The two of them walked out of the palace. Duan Jiu thought about it over and over again, and felt that he seemed to have missed some important information.
"It seems that we can no longer get the truth about her departure that the prince wants to know. So what is the prince going to do?"
"If she doesn't know, then ask someone who knows." Pei Jing said.
Duan Jiu pondered for a moment, as if suddenly enlightened, as if at this moment he suddenly realized why his conversations with the prince had always been inconsistent.
"Your Highness means..."
"She is not." Pei Jing said it before Duan Jiu finished speaking.
Duan Jiu suddenly stopped in his tracks and looked at his prince's back in shock. "Prince, are you saying that Miss Wei isn't the person you're looking for? Then why did you..."
"Why are you so kind to her? As if you're sure she's the one I'm looking for?" Pei Jing smiled coldly. "Since she can tell me that information, maybe she can lead me to the person I'm looking for."
Duan Jiu could only sigh that as long as the prince didn't meet Miss Jiang Er, his brain was still sufficient and few people could keep up with his thinking.
How come he becomes a different person the moment he meets Miss Jiang Er? Could it be that Miss Jiang Er has practiced some soul-sucking technique or cast some black magic on him?
"Your Highness seems to be very relaxed at the moment." Otherwise, he wouldn't have the leisure to stroll out of the palace.
Pei Jing did not answer. He looked at the shadows on the ground that were getting longer and shorter due to the whirlwind lantern. It was hard to describe his feelings at that moment.
When he heard Wei Ciying call out Anian, he was frightened at that moment. Later, he confirmed that she was not the person he was looking for. The relief he felt even outweighed the disappointment of not finding her.
He had been wondering how the little girl who would steal steamed buns to feed him could grow up to be so scheming. Fortunately, fortunately, she was not the person he was looking for.
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Frogs appeared from somewhere in the yard and kept croaking noisily.
The windows and doors were wide open, but the room was still a bit stuffy.
Hearing the creaking sound of Jiang Fei tossing and turning frequently, Jiu Tao asked, "Miss, are you too hot to sleep?"
Jiang Fei lay flat on the bed. It was not because she was too hot to sleep, but because she couldn't sleep when she thought about the fact that she had kissed Pei Jing.
Fortunately, Pei Jing didn’t say it directly at that time. It was quite embarrassing. What should I do if we meet next time?
"Nine Peaches."
"Ah, Miss." Jiutao turned over and faced the bed.
There were only two rooms in their yard. Jiutao's room was moved to Wenzhu, so she came to squeeze in with Jiang Fei.
"Have you delivered the fan I bought to the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion?"
Jiu Tao said, "Miss, have you forgotten? When you bought it, you asked the store to deliver it directly to the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion."
Jiang Fei then remembered why her brain was becoming less and less efficient recently. It must be because of Pei Jing, that crazy guy with a bad brain, who infected her with his problem, maybe even through kissing.
It couldn't take it anymore. Her cheeks started burning again, and Jiang Fei rolled over and got up.
Jiutao quickly stood up and lit the candle, and saw Jiang Fei had already gotten out of bed, took out a pile of clothes from the closet and threw them on the bed.
"Miss, what are you doing?"
Jiang Fei gathered her clothes together in a mess, found a pair of pants and tied them together casually, then said in a loud voice, "Let's set off at dawn. Your young lady and I will go to Jinglian Temple to practice asceticism!"
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