Chapter 128: Suicide out of fear of punishment
Nan Yan put her hands over her neck, still trembling uncontrollably, and said softly, "It seems so."
Ran Xiaoyu wanted to help her up, but Nan Yan's legs were shaking, and even her voice was trembling. She said, "I, I really can't stand up."
"Then you can sit here."
Ran Xiaoyu put her hand on her back to help her breathe, then said, "What's going on? Why did that nanny come to take the money from under your bed?"
"Did you see her?"
"certainly."
"Where is she?"
"I followed her here. She seems to be going to the imperial kitchen to get a steamed bun."
"Oh, that still takes a while," Nan Yan nodded gently. At this time, she finally calmed down a little and said to Ran Xiaoyu: "I, I might be in trouble."
Ran Xiaoyu said: "I saw it."
Someone is about to kill someone. If this isn't trouble, what is?
Ran Xiaoyu asked, "What happened? Didn't you go to Shou'an Palace to recuperate?"
Nan Yan panted and told her roughly what happened today. The more Ran Xiaoyu listened, the tighter her brows frowned. At the end, she said, "So, that bracelet belongs to Xia Yunting. Was it left with you?"
Nan Yan shook her head: "No."
"No? Whose is it?"
"It's mine."
"What?!"
Ran Xiaoyu looked at her with wide eyes, as if she couldn't believe her ears: "You, how come you have the things that the emperor gave them?"
Nan Yan took a deep breath and said, "This matter is a bit complicated, and I can't explain it clearly right now. Xiaoyu, I deliberately asked the nanny to get my money, firstly so that I could eat, and secondly to lure you here. Thank you for taking care of me."
Ran Xiaoyu said with a cold face: "You just rely on me, right?"
Nan Yan smiled awkwardly with a bitter face.
Ran Xiaoyu said unhappily: "Forget it, now that I'm here, what else can I say. But you have to tell me what your plans are."
Nan Yan finally managed to muster a little strength. She tried to stand up, but Ran Xiaoyu quickly supported her arm and helped her stand. Nan Yan took a breath and then said, "I want to ask you to help me check something."
"What are you checking?"
"Find out who entered Chunxi Palace at noon today and turned over my dressing table."
"This..." Ran Xiaoyu's brows twisted into a knot: "Isn't this too difficult? I don't have a third eye."
Nan Yan said: "Yes, I also know that this is not an easy thing."
"Then you still—"
"But now, there are clues."
"What clues?"
Nan Yan slowly raised one hand, and Ran Xiaoyu saw that she was holding a piece of teacup fragment in her hand, and there was a little blood on the sharp edge of the fragment.
Her eyes widened suddenly: "This is——"
Nan Yan said, "I was strangled so hard that I could barely see, but I barely remember that the man was injured on the right side of his forehead."
“…”
"When you walk around the palace, pay attention to which eunuch has a new wound on his face."
“…”
Ran Xiaoyu looked into her calm eyes for a long while before she said softly, “I used to think you were weak, but now it seems that you are cunning and sly.”
Nan Yan smiled bitterly: "If I wasn't cunning, with that move just now, everyone might have only seen me hanging from the beams, 'committing suicide out of fear of punishment'."
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