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Ever since Baili Hongyuan resigned from his position as the Supervisor of the Supervisory Office, he could no longer openly call on secret guards to protect Qin Yousi.
In addition, with Duan Weiming's fall, there was no one in the capital who could threaten her safety, so in the small courtyard of Yuan's Medical Clinic, apart from the guards sent by Jiufeng Bank, only the newly recruited Tianying could be used.
The masters of the Nine Sects were so ghostly that the guards didn't even know when Qin Yousi was kidnapped. Fortunately, Tianying, who had been highly valued by Duan Zheng, was a little stronger and was able to detect the movement.
Tianying saw the man's skills and knew that he could not defeat him head-on, and was afraid of hurting Qin Yousi, so he had to follow him secretly. He did not see the man in black locking Qin Yousi in a gambling house on the outskirts of the city until he hurried back to report the news.
Qin Yousi was slightly startled, but when she saw that the people who kidnapped her had some martial arts skills, she had an idea in her mind.
Sure enough, after she waited for a while in the dark room of the gambling house, Xia Lieyun appeared.
Qin Yousi spoke first, "Master Xia, inviting people like this is not a cooperative attitude."
When he saw Xia Lieyun again, he was no longer the excited and impulsive man he was when they first met. He had a heavy face, and the look he gave Qin Yousi was particularly heavy.
He slammed the letter Qin Yousi left for him on the table and asked, "Is what you said in the letter true?"
Qin Yousi raised his eyes and stared at him, saying, "Sect Master Xia has been in Beijing for some time. I'm sure he's already made some progress on the things he needs to investigate. If he didn't believe me, he would have killed me and my family long ago. Why would he say such probing words?"
The letter Qin Yousi left for him was two pages long and contained rich content.
It describes in detail how his brother Xia Rongyun grew up and became a successful person under the training of Old Master Qin, and how he became the director of the Imperial Medical Service.
The fact that Xia Rongyun had an affair with the fourth aunt of the Qin family and secretly gave birth to a boy was also what Xia Lieyun was most concerned about.
After reading the letter, Xia Lieyun carefully checked the identity of "Sang Youzhi". When he learned that she was the daughter of Qin Sangu, he believed it.
Strictly speaking, Xia Rongyun is Sang Youzhi's fourth uncle, and she can even call Xia Lieyun aunt uncle.
Seeing that he was indecisive, Qin Yousi urged him, "Let's get down to business quickly. If we delay any longer, the people looking for me will come."
Xia Lieyun said, "Your letter only said that the child is in the capital. Where is he exactly?"
Qin Yousi smiled and said, "It's not that I don't want to tell you, I'm just worried that if the letter falls into the hands of others, it will only cause more trouble. I thought I would tell you in person after Sect Master Xia shows his sincerity."
Xia Lieyun said with a dark face, "Ke Xian'er is already dead, what kind of sincerity do you still expect! You little brat, don't push your luck!"
Qin Yousi said: "Don't be angry, now that we meet, of course I will tell you."
"explain!"
Qin Yousi pointed to the east and said, "The nephew you worry about day and night is now in the palace."
Xia Lieyun was startled again and asked, "How could a man like him be in the palace? What is his status?"
The more I think about it, the more frightened I become. Could it be that he has become a eunuch?
Qin Yousi was unaware of his thoughts and said, "There's one important thing I can't tell you in my letter. Your brother, Xia Yuanshi, died in the winter of ten years ago. There are many suspicious circumstances surrounding his death. Along with him, a number of imperial guards and eunuchs also died. He must have been implicated in a harem lawsuit and murdered. I've discovered that before his death, he sent a group of young eunuchs into the palace, and his son was among them, disguised as a real one. He must have known he was going to die soon, and since the child was illegitimate and wouldn't be tolerated by the Qin family, he had no choice but to send him to the palace to protect him."
Xia Lieyun thought for a long time. Although he was the head of a family, he didn't know much about the affairs of the imperial palace. Now, everything was just the empty talk of the little girl in front of him, and it was hard to tell whether it was true or not!
"I want to see him!" As long as he sees the person, he can tell whether he is a descendant of the Xia family!
Qin Yousi nodded: "I can tell you his current alias and where he works. You can go and see him yourself."
Xia Lieyun was furious. Was the Imperial Palace a place where he could come and go as he pleased? She was clearly deliberately provoking him to beg her!
Today he secretly observed that this girl could actually talk to the princess of the current dynasty. It seemed that it would not be difficult for her to bring out a eunuch from the inner court.
So, he endured it again and again, and said in a gentle voice: "If you help me see my nephew, I can do something for you!"
Qin Yousi smiled with satisfaction, but was in no hurry to give any orders. He just kept him in suspense and said, "I can handle ordinary things myself, but asking Sect Master Xia for help is obviously not an easy task. Have you thought it through?"
This was the capital after all, so Xia Lieyun didn't dare to take on too many responsibilities. He simply said, "Tell me what you think!"
Qin Yousi said, "On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Queen Mother will leave the palace to watch the lanterns and pray for blessings. I want you to help me poison the prayer incense."
Xia Lieyun stood up in shock and almost slammed the table in anger.
Although he is a man of the world, it doesn't mean he dares to do anything!
"W-What do you want to do!?"
Qin Yousi glanced at him with disdain and said, "How can Sect Leader Xia be so incapable of this? The Queen Mother has the lives of many people from the Jiuyou Sect on her hands. Even if she wants you to kill her, it's to avenge your family. Besides, I don't intend to take her life."
Xia Lieyun gradually calmed down and asked, "So what did you want to do by poisoning me?"
Qin Yousi said, "You can investigate some past events yourself. Before the Qin family was confiscated, besides Consort Shu, there was also my eldest cousin, who were implicated in the poisoning of the imperial heir and died unjustly. I just wanted to make a splash and let the harem investigate the case again!"
Xia Lieyun hesitated and did not answer. Qin Yousi wanted to give him some more time to think about it, but suddenly there was a loud sound of fighting outside the gambling house.
"Oh, the people who are looking for me are here. Tell me quickly, will you do it or not?"
Xia Lieyun gritted his teeth and promised, "I promise you! If you dare to lie to me, I will kill everyone around you without a single survivor!"
Qin Yousi sneered and said, "Deal."
When Qin Yousi walked out of the gambling house on his own, he was shocked by the scene outside.
The small gambling house was surrounded by the city defense camp. Dozens of gamblers didn't know what they had done wrong and were so scared that they knelt in the snow and begged for mercy. The torches in the hands of the surrounding soldiers were like the hellfire of hell, making the soldiers' faces look gloomy and terrifying.
Baili Hongyuan, who was sitting on a tall horse in front of the formation, had a very bad expression on his face. When he saw Qin Yousi walking out by herself, he knew in his heart that she was using herself as a chess piece in another game.
When Qin Yousi approached with a flattering smile, he lifted him onto his horse without saying a word, whipped his horse, and headed back to the city.
The next day, all the government offices in the capital heard of a strange incident: a gambling house was raided on the outskirts of the city, and even the troops of the city defense camp were dispatched. No one knew what was hidden in the gambling house that caused such a big stir.
Qin Yousi looked outside the clinic worriedly. Yesterday, after Baili Hongyuan brought her back to the clinic, he just said that he was going to clean up the mess and left without looking back, so she didn't even have a chance to explain to him.
She asked Tianying to deliver several messages, asking Baili Hongyuan to come over and talk, but there has been no response so far.
It seems that he is very angry.
Although Qin Yousi knew he was wrong, he still felt confused and asked Tianying, "When you found out I was kidnapped, what did you tell His Highness?"
Tianying broke out in a cold sweat and knelt down immediately.
He came here for help because he was afraid that something might happen to Qin Yousi and Baili Hongyuan would blame him. Not only would he lose his life, but Duan Zheng, who was in exile, would also be implicated.
So when he reported the news, he sounded a little more serious.
He didn't dare to hide it, so he said, "I followed your captors into the gambling house. After they locked you up, they said some very disrespectful things. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to save the girl in time, so I told His Royal Highness Prince Ning the truth in a hurry..."
The "disrespectful" words used by people in the underworld are nothing more than dirty language used to tease women.
The people under the Nine Sects didn't know the relationship between Xia Lieyun and her, so naturally they wouldn't treat her with respect. It was not surprising that they said these things.
Qin Yousi's headache got worse, but she understood Baili Hongyuan better.
It was her fault for not thinking enough. Although she was completely confident in Xia Lieyun, she ignored these small fry. If she met a bold one, she would really be in danger!
Thinking of this, she felt even more guilty. She went into the kitchen, cooked a pot of health-preserving porridge, and hurried to the princess's mansion.
Princess Linglong was very surprised to hear that Qin Yousi came to give her health-preserving porridge, but she also heard a little about the commotion Baili Hongyuan made last night, so she guessed the purpose of Qin Yousi's visit.
She instructed those around her, "Go and invite the prince back to his mansion for dinner, and tell him I have something important to tell him."
Baili Hongyuan recently spent a day hanging around the city defense camp, interrogating several disciples of the Nine Sects who were captured.
Although he knew that the Nine Sects did not come to the capital to harm Qin Yousi, he did not want to let these outlaws go easily. He had to let them know that the capital was not a place for people like them to do whatever they wanted.
What's more, Qin Yousi did things without considering his own safety and didn't like to discuss things with him, which really made him feel suffocated.
He didn't want to care about her. When the Qin family was not in trouble, she was just a person who refused to be controlled. Now that there was something she had to do, she would naturally not listen to him.
But he really couldn't bear to see her risking her life like this.
He couldn't control it, and he couldn't bear to yell at it, which really made him depressed! He didn't realize that there were such difficult things in the world!
Seeing him lingering in the yamen, the head instructor of the Beijing army, Wei Chong, jokingly said, "The prince is trying to steal my job."
Wei Chong and Baili Hongyuan had a close relationship, and he often worked with the Supervisory Office. Although Baili Hongyuan no longer held an official position, Wei Chong was a man of clear mindedness, and he would continue to serve where he was supposed to.
Baili Hongyuan glanced at him unhappily and said, "These bandits are kidnapping people in broad daylight in the capital's busy streets. You really don't need to be the head coach of the Beijing Army anymore."
Wei Chong offered him some hot tea and said with a smile, "Since Sang Liuniang hasn't even filed a complaint, this must be a misunderstanding."
This sentence left Baili Hongyuan speechless.
Wei Chong took the opportunity to say, "The servant next to Sang Liuniang has been waiting for you outside all day. Now that he's done, would you like to meet her, Your Highness?"
Baili Hongyuan remained silent.
A soldier came in and delivered a message that someone from the Princess's Mansion was looking for Prince Ning.
Princess Linglong would not easily look for Baili Hongyuan. He thought it was something important, so he stood up and left angrily.
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