The assassin had followed him for years and had silently understood his meaning.
What a pity for that girl. I'll apologize to her in my next life.
A clap of thunder and the sound of a sword being swung rang out simultaneously. Xin Jiuwei abruptly closed her eyes and cried out urgently:
"The miracle doctor didn't go to sea; he's been in Yuncheng the whole time!"
"Blue Kite".
After Xin Jiuwei shouted those words, Jueming stopped the assassin's movements, and the tip of the sword stopped just between Xin Jiuwei's eyebrows.
Qingyuan looked at Jueming in shock, wondering how this weak and useless girl knew the whereabouts of the divine doctor.
Xin Jiuwei, having narrowly escaped death, gasped for breath but dared not relax. Her hands unconsciously gripped her sleeves as she forced herself to look at Jueming.
Jueming was still wearing his white monk's robes, but he no longer had the noble and otherworldly appearance of a holy monk from the daytime.
At this moment, he is Xiao Xun, the cold and sinister sixth prince.
He stood before Xin Jiuwei, his already tall figure casting an endless shadow that enveloped her in danger.
"How much did you hear?"
He wasn't in a hurry to ask about the whereabouts of the miracle doctor, nor did he say whether he believed it or not.
Xin Jiuwei tried to calm her breathing. "Can I...can I stand up first...can you lend me a hand?"
Qingyuan said coldly, "If you don't talk, you're doomed."
"But what if I tell you? Do you even believe me?" Xin Jiuwei still managed to stand up by leaning against the wall. "No matter how much I tell you or how much I've heard, you...you're all going to kill me, aren't you?"
Jueming said calmly, "I do not kill innocent people indiscriminately."
Xin Jiuwei glanced at him secretly and muttered, "Liar."
"What did you say?" Qingyuan snapped, raising her sword again.
"Your Highness, look at him!" Xin Jiuwei cried out in fright.
Silence fell all around again.
Qingyuan drew her sword again this time, "She really heard everything!"
Xin Jiuwei no longer hesitated and knelt down with a thud. She looked up at Jueming and said, "Your Highness, you have been looking in the wrong direction all along to find the divine physician to get the antidote. In order to escape the pursuit, he has been leaving clues to lead everyone to believe that he is heading east. You think he went to Danzhou because he left a hint that he was going to sea, and the only way to go to sea is from Danzhou."
She spoke very quickly, as if afraid that Qingyuan would chop off her head before she could finish.
"But all of this was intentional on his part. It's like the darkest place is under the lamp. In reality, he's been in the capital for over ten years, and only recently went to Yuncheng, which is right next to Yingzhou! My information is absolutely correct, without a doubt!"
As soon as she finished speaking, she stared at Jueming, her body trembling slightly.
With a very slight creak, two figures appeared in the darkness. It was Aunt Liu and Liu Ya who quietly came out and stood in the courtyard, one behind Xin Jiuwei.
She had nowhere to run.
Jueming stared at him for a long time before saying, "I didn't expect that the Xin family also knew about the secrets of the royal family."
Xin Jiuwei suddenly raised her head. "Only I know about this. No one else in the Xin family knows anything about it."
"How could a weak woman like you know these things?" Qingyuan said coldly. "Stop trying to deceive us."
“It’s absolutely true!” Xin Jiuwei didn’t look at Qing Yuan, but stared at Jueming. “Your Highness, it’s true that I’m in a difficult situation at home. My father wants to marry me off to Qi Huaiyu. He just thinks I’m stupid. If he really knew these things, why would he be willing to tell me?”
Jueming looked at her calmly, "Given your difficult situation, how did you learn about the divine physician?"
“I…” Xin Jiuwei picked at her fingers hard. “I have a cousin on my maternal grandfather’s side. He has always longed to travel the world since he was a child. As a result, he knows a lot of talented people. My father… my father and my maternal grandfather do not have a good relationship. The two families have not been in contact for many years. But I have been communicating with my cousin in secret. Therefore, I know some things that my father does not know. I mean, the whereabouts of the divine doctor.”
Jueming remained silent, making it impossible to tell whether he believed or not.
Qingyuan said, "Your cousin is incredibly powerful; he even knows His Highness's secrets?"
"Cousin, you don't know!" Xin Jiuwei quickly said, "Your Highness, do you still remember Yao Niang?"
Jueming's gaze darkened.
Seeing Xin Jiuwei staring at him nervously, he slowly spoke, "Speak."
Xin Jiuwei secretly breathed a sigh of relief, slowed down, and spoke while quickly thinking.
"Back then, Yao Niang was ordered by the Emperor to bring you to Yingzhou City..."
Today, Xin Jiuwei is taking a gamble. The reason she chose to discover Xiao Xun's secret is that she is betting that she can offer her own chips.
And this bargaining chip is her memories from her past life.
For people today, this is a secret that cannot be known to others.
In his previous life, the emperor's other sons all died in the struggle. In order to repay Xiao Xun for winning the hearts of the people, the late emperor announced this secret that the whole world would soon know before his death.
The current emperor actually has nine sons. When the sixth prince, Xiao Xun, was born, an unusual phenomenon occurred in the sky, which had never happened before, and no one was sure what it meant.
Back then, the Empress bribed the Imperial Advisor, claiming it was an ominous sign that the Sixth Prince was born with a cursed bloodline and should be disposed of before he grew up in order to ensure the long-term prosperity of the country.
But the sixth prince's birth mother was the emperor's lover before he ascended the throne. How could he bear to kill the child of the woman he loved most?
After weighing the options, the Emperor secretly ordered that the Sixth Prince be falsely declared dead, but in reality, he secretly ordered someone to send him to Yingzhou and entrust him to the abbot of Lingyin Temple to raise.
The Emperor knew the Empress well and knew that she knew him just as well. He was worried that if the Empress knew that the Sixth Prince was not dead, she would do something to him on the way. So the Emperor ordered someone to find a strange doctor, who then provided the Emperor with something.
Those were a pair of poisonous insects.
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